FIND VIDEOS ETC ON THE ‘SPECIAL KEY STROKE COMBINATIONS FOR THE LATEST WORD PROCESSING PROGRAMS E.G CTRL+BACKSPACE…I KEEP HITTING RANDOM KEYS…SOME DO ONE WORD, SOME ENTIRE SENTENCES…WILL SPEED UP MY ERROR PRONE TYPING SPEED!MHR TITLE MY BOOK … ‘ACTIVATE YOUR INTERNAL DOCTOR AND INTERNAL PHARMACY’. REVERSE AGING, CURE YOUR DISEASE, LIVE LONGER, AND HEALTHIER, BY CHOOSING WHEN YOU EAT, WHAT YOU EAT, ETC ctivate the ‘internal doctor’ and ‘internal pharmacy’ MHR to reverse damage and aging …
Dr Mark Hyman … body is self-healing system … can reverse almost any disease if know how to activate it… our biology appears adapted to scarcity and starvation … conservation, healing, and repair systems activate during fasting … we have 200 genes adapted to starvation, none to abundance … gene expression controls inflammation, increases anti-oxidant system, improves cognitive function, bone density, growth hormone, cell repair, radically change hormones, cells, and genes…optimise gene expression… gets rid of belly fat, increase muscle, alertness, beneficial hormones, and cell repair…improves production of healthy stem cells…activates mytophagy and autophagy i.e cleaning up and recycling old parts … break down components of mitochrondria and cells and rebuild them with new parts… RENOVATE YOUR BODY NOW… without fasting this is not allowed to occur, and we age … can reverse aging, protect against chronic epidemic diseases … aim of fasting etc strategies is to activate RENOVATION…
kill off zombies cells that do not die unless autophagy activated … senescence… damaged cells … inflammaging … inflammation … bone marrow stem cells that make our white blood cells that are part of our immune system, get damaged, and those stem cells produce damaged cells… we produce a million T cells a minute in our bone marrow…if they are ‘chip cells’ i.e damaged, result in lots of dysfunctions throughout system…
Himalayan tarried? buckwheat helps kill zombie cells… flower not grain…
idea of balancing blood sugar, and need to eat every few hours … but NOT 2-3 hours before sleep as that is how to get fat i.e sumo wrestlers … turned out opposite is true i.e increase metabolism by regular eating Vs now fasting … eat right food and won’t be hungry …
body NEEDS break from food … this is my view … that we never used to eat as we do today… and body spends all energy on digesting food constantly… no break … we got it wrong before …
many ways to activate these systems… intermittent fasting i.e time restricted eating, i.e only eat during single window each day… true imtermittent fasting is 24 to 36 hours fast once a week, or 3 day fast once a month, etc … fasting mimicking diets are calorie restricted Dr Walter Longo wrote ‘longevity diet’… huge study impact … 800 calories a day also
ketogenic diet … we have about 2500 calories of carbs stored in body tissue / muscle as glycogen … body has 30 to 40 000 calories of fat … body hybrid… carbs burn dirty … fat burns clean … burning fat during fasting activates healing mechanisms etc … helps with almost everything imaginable … clinical studies …
animial studies show can extend life by a third, by eating a third less calories … society of such people … but can activate same mechanisms without starving self for life … the fasting methods previously noted
everybody can and should fast at least 12 hours a day e.g eat dinner before 8, and do not eat breakfast until 8 … easiest way to start … benefits include energy, focus, weight loss, increased muscle, decrease belly fat,
most can do 16 hours … true intermittent fasting 2 days to 3 weeks water fast can be very therapeutic thing … can reset system … relief and reverseal for serial chronic illness …
trust your body, but do not LOOK for excuses … hypochondriacs etc … MHR
ketongenic diets really effective for type 2 diabetes, alzheimers, autism, parkinsons… harder to do … but can be effective medical therapy…
number one change… change WHEN you eat … i.e window that closes 2 hours before usually go to bed …
some people lose too much weight if go keto i.e no carbs … i.e carbs clearly weight-gain related… butter and veges and little protein so simple … means to reverse heart problems etc i.e good indicators improve, bad ones decrease … but some people respond differently so ‘smartest doctor in the room is your own body’… everyone responds differently … saturated fats in context of high carb starch sugar diet, it is DEADLY BUT IF ELMINATE OR DRAMATICALLY REDUCE THOSE OTHERS, BODY USUALLY RESPONDS WELL TO SATURATED FATS… BUT SOME PEOPLE HAVE OPPOSITE RESPONSE I.E LDL, SIZE, ETC OF CHOLESTEROL…variablity in population … don’t let your ideology trample over YOUR biology … what good for one not good for some … one side not fits all … so some need to avoid saturated fats… but can enjoy avocadoes, nuts, seeds, i.e unsaturated fats…
sleep and fasting… time restricted eating improves sleep quality on every level / measure … deep sleep is when growth hormone increases i.e repairs tissues, cortisol and blood sugar do down, so better and deeper you sleep the more you heal… in fasting state body functions and sleeps better…
Neurodegenerative disorders like alzheimers driven by sugar … alzheimers diabetes of the brain i.e type 3 diabetes … insulin resistance in the brain … high carb diet of sugar and starch and even grains and beans can increase insulin and damage brain… ketogenic diet i.e brain running on ketones reduces inflammation, oxidative stress, improve mitochondrial function, and reduces insuling resistance in brain… brain is 60% fat mostly DHA, and lots of saturate fats … keto increases brain function i.e NEED to be focussed, alert, etc to find next meal … concentration, memory, learning, retention of learning…
child bearing age women , breast feeding, pregnant, very thin, has adrenal issues from chronic stress, then 12 hour rule is fine for all … not big stress … but cautious about longer fasting i.e preservation of fertility … dangerous to have babies if no food around … can reduce fertility of men and women … women can lose period during extreme fasting … body responds to fasting by shifting hormonal functions to stop menstruation, ovulation, lower testosterone …
high blood pressure a disease of inflammation and oxidative stress… hypertension with no known cause? but we do now know i.e essential in medicine means they do not know why … driven by two main pathways i.e essential (ly we do not know why) hypertension but really we do…low magnesium, heavy metals etc hormonal dysfunction, BUT TWO MAIN DRIVERS ARE insulin resistance / spectrum of poor metabolic health from pre diabetes to type 2 diabetes… and sleep apnoea which can drive ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS IN BODY INCLUDING insulin resistance etc and lead to high blood pressure… all the fasting described will help with this…
Use weight / body fat as indicator … 9 out of ten no problem… if losing TOO MUCH body weight, just increase carbs or eat more …
fasting easier than time after meal … sugar and starch jack up insulin, making you hungry and craving food … any large meal will trigger insulin spike, unless it is pure fat i.e olive oil… protein even turned into sugar and spike insulin, so want to eat more after meal … so AVOID EATING JUST ONE MEAL … EAT A FEW SMALLER MEALS DURING THE WINDOW?
Time restricted eating still helps if make no other changes…but if eat Pegan diet works even better …
as we age, need fasting MORE … we NEED more cleanup, repair… have more inflammation , oxidative stress i.e have built up over lifetime … so need to REVERSE past mistakes and thus our biological age…
pregnant women should not go day without eating… but 12 hours good and should for mother AND baby … Dr’s give women license to eat anything they want … you have to regulate diet MORE while pregnant, as baby needs HIGH QUALITY diet … need more calories, but do not eat crap … overnight 12 hour fast fine …
too much fasting can reduce fertility, but most female infertility caused by too much sugar and starch, and resulting insulin resistance … fertility diet lowers blood sugar to improve fertility … if overweight, have belly fat, have pre-diabetes
most have but not aware of i.e new data 9 out of 10 americans have EITHER high blood sugar, high blood pressure, or abnormal cholesterol all of which are symptoms of insulin resistance …
fat tissue can increase oestrogen to excessively high levels … womens hormones get screwed up by high levels of oestrogen … increases of testosterone connected to that so get hair loss on head but hair on face and acne …
males…belly fat associated with raised oestrogen levels and associated lowering of testosterone levels i.e low sex drive and function … loss of body hair, man-boobs, smooth skin FROM EXCESSIVE STARCH AND SUGAR
pay attention to own body, it is the best doctor in the room
coffee and tea with no calories i.e milk, sugar, etc will not break ketosis … MHR NOTE STOMACH CAN UTILISE SMALL AMOUNTS WITHOUT AFFECTING INSULIN … AND THAT EVEN ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS INCRASE INSULIN LEVELS SLIGHTLY
multi-vitamin beneficial … fish oil and vitamin D … keeps metabolic pathways going i.e need nutrients to carry out the RENOVATIONS i.e clean-up and repair etc …
daily basis time restricted eating best to spread out intake of food over 8 hours i.e not just one big meal… do not try to load all calories into TOO short a window THAT IS BIGGEST RISK OF WINDOW EATING … DO NOT EAT JUST ONE BIG MEAL, SPREAD OUT CALORIES ACROSS THE 8 HOURS ETC
Some people feel better if DO eat main meal in morning i.e AFTER 14 hours fast … if eat starch and sugar i.e desert for breakfast i.e cereal mostly sugar pancakes muffins lattes all full of sugar … eat fat and protein and phytonutrients IF decide to eat during morning-lunch window… try and see what works for YOU…
master control switches for longevity/aging and health … often the genes that regulate how well our body burns food i.e metabolism i.e take oxygen and food and burn in mitochondria … if works well we are healthy … anything that damages their function bad for us i.e everything mitochrondrial disease from loss of energy, heart disease, parkinsons, diabetes, alzheimers…all mitochrondrial diseases… so science of WHEN and WHAT we eat can activate the ‘internal doctor’ and ‘internal pharmacy’ MHR to reverse damage and aging … MITOCHONDRIAL HEALTH IS KEY …
CIRTUINS … David Sinclair … what’s the deal? … sugar messes it all up … sugar and starch causing all genes to be disregulated … so all strategies above reverse harm that sugar has done to our cells … need to TURN THE GOOD SWITCHES ON … black box … ‘FED UP’ documentary … science of addiction … not want, like, but biological addiction i.e clear pathways activated same as with heroine and cocaine … meets criteria of real drug addiction … science … mice … give them cocaine IV so they can hit button to get another hit…they worked 8 times harder to get the sugar hit than the cocaine hit … shocked with electric floor after given sugar, but mice still ate sugar while being shocked … human study took overweight guys in HARVARD peer reviewed study … gave different milkshakes on different days … macro nutrients identical, but one had slowly absorded sugar, other had rapidly absorbed starch or sugar … so they could not tell apart…did all sorts of tests … group with high sugar shakes showed activation of adrenaline, cortisol (both stress hormones), insulin went up, blood sugar went up, bad cholesterol went up, BRAIN IMAGINE FOUND AREA OF BRAIN RESPONSIBLE FOR BIOLOGICAL ADDICTION (heroine, cocaine etc) NUCLEUS ACUMBANCE? LIT UP LIKE XMAS TREE … and participants did not know which shake had drunk i.e all tasted the same… clear BIOLOGICAL response to sugar and starch … typical white flour used in U.S has higher gylcaemic index than table sugar in U.S … WAS NOT QUESTION OF TASTE I.E EMOTIONAL RESPONSE… PURELY BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE… ALL TASTED AS GOOD … a sandwich will raise blood sugar more than two tablespoons of table sugar…
cravings dissappear when re-balance hormones, insulin, and brain chemistry with fasting and correct diet … can ‘kick the sugar habit’ … using science not willpower … 10 day detox diet …
different people respond differently to the same food … e.g blood sugar levels in response to same food different … found that looking at microbiome of gut, could predict different responses … so depends on what going on in the gut … so important to know your OWN body … continuous glucose monitors … patch measures blood sugar all the time … even too much HEALTHY food can lead to increase in blood sugar … spike blood sugar … can use patch to see how YOUR body responds to different foods … might surprise you … some people have blood sugar controlled to threshold i.e body keeps it in control, until doesn’t, which is called diabetes…blood insulin can keep rising over course of your life i.e blood sugar stays normal, but insulin keeps rising… can cause havoc i.e heart attacks, strokes, muscle loss, cancer, inflammation ,belly fat, etc etc even if do not get diabetes … blood sugar alone not indicator… just because blood sugar o.k does not mean you are o.k…
12-14-16 hour fast each day, and once a week 24-36 hour fast, best introductions, and simplest way to accrue the benefits of fasting strategies / techniques … benefit in every way…
plant based nutrition and fasting ‘The Pleasure Trap’ Dr Allan Goldhammer
whole food plant based … most extreme form is SOS … salt, oil, sugar… excluding these i.e added, processed etc
MHR the narrative is that we evolved under conditions of scarcity…but ‘Age of Chronos’ narrative suggests this was recent change… but question of ABUSE of food as ‘purposeful action’ and ‘source of pleasure’ is independent of that…might just as well argue that a loss of REAL community and ‘purposeful action beyond egotistical, selfish, individual (and individual family) i.e PERSONAL gain and pleasure, is what underlies the ABUSE of food, as a REPLACEMENT i.e the ‘other’ ‘Replacement theory’ of ME myself… and also ‘Representation of our will’ to excessive, exceptional, exclusive, focus on our PERSONAL (including sometimes people we ‘love’ BECAUSE they bring US personal pleasure i.e hopefully at least some of our family and close friends, but more often ‘pop and movie stars’ etc and ‘icons’ etc), is what drives this PERSONAL CONSUMPTION … though for some ‘food’ is the way they EXPRESS their love e.g so have ‘fat pets’ and ‘fat children’ … etc etc
BUT BACK TO Alan Goldhammer… note I prefer NOT to use the title ‘Dr’ as it is used like ‘Priest’ these days i.e confers ‘authority’ on people NOT justified…and CONFIDENCE and TRUST definitely NOT justified… NOTE a trained doctor has learned at least 50% of things that are WRONG… first year medical students even WARNED about this… ‘the problem being we do not know WHICH 50% is wrong’. Well we know VIROLOGY is 100% wrong. As is a lot of the ‘fundamental’ narrative taught as ‘biology’. And that the role of EMF interference is almost TOTALLY ignored and dismissed. So it is a BENEFIT NOT TO HAVE LEARNED AT LEAST 50% COMPLETELY WRONG STUFF, OFTEN 100% WRONG (THOUGH MOST DOCTORS DEVOTE VERY LITTLE TIME TO LEARNING THIS 100% DECEPTION
WE need to recognise food addiction as real. We do not like the stigma attached to ‘addiction’. So almost all addictions, like tobacco, and alcohol, were mostly DENIED by most people, to avoid the ‘stigma’ of being labelled, and having to define themselves, as ‘addicts’. There is the chemical addiction, and what I highlighted in my first book, the BEHAVIOURAL addiction. The addiction to the ‘purposeful action’ offered by the substance. The sense of purpose offered by seeking out and finding illegal drugs like marijuana, is definitely part of the ‘attraction’ of the addiction. It gives people ‘something to do with their hands’ so they do not feel self conscious, in social situations. It offers them an accepted way to approach someone, and make contact, ‘Do you have a light?’, ‘Can I borrow a ciggy?’. And yes it can appear elegant. People can appear and feel more confident, having the ‘prop’ of the cigarette to ‘lean on’. And it solved the problem of ‘hunger’. It gave people an ‘excuse’ to ‘take a break’ from something they were doing and not enjoying. The same as the ‘need’ for lunch, or a morning tea, or dinner, offers. A ‘legitimate’ reason to ‘stop doing what was becoming onerous. To have a ‘change’ of scenery for a few minutes. And an excuse to ‘socialise’. Or even, as adolescents, to ‘rebel’ against authority.
People are loathe to admit they do not have free will. Agency. People like to ‘look down on’ ‘drug addicts’. It is a chance to ‘feel superior to someone’. A form of ‘virtue signalling’. So people are reluctant at best to admit they are not the Captain of their own ship. That they are WEAK. Addicted. They have LOST control. They are at the mercy of their addiction. IT controls THEM. They often are only willing to admit this as a last resort. When it has gone beyond their ability to HIDE and PRETEND. Only when they ‘hit rock bottom’ or the consequences of their addiction COST them heavily, even threaten their LIVES, or reduce the VALUE of their lives to a NEGATIVE, with the loss of friends and relationships, that they finally ACCEPT and ADMIT that they HAVE lost control, and the substance or behaviour is not in control of their lives. And thus the COST is too high, compared to the benefits. This is usually later in the game, because the initial benefits, the PLEASURE gained, or other benefits, such as the ability to work long hours etc or be more creative, on speed, and other drugs, or the social benefits of ‘having fun’ and ‘being able to lose inhibitions in public settings’ etc or overcome lack of confidence or fear etc, are often quite high. But HABITUATION means it always takes more of a substance or the behaviour that brings the ‘hit’, e.g even success at something, to attempt to experience the original ‘high’ or ‘euphoria’ or ‘DOPAMINE HIT’. And at some point, it is necessary to consume large amounts of a substance, or have massively high ‘success’ at something, just to feel ‘O.K’ at all. Then the actual COSTS start becoming apparent. Financial, social, employment, career etc
Today it is almost ‘cool’ to be an addict. You will gain social sympathy, rather than abuse, from others. Sufferers of that syndrome where the person harms themselves to gain sympathy, or has babies, or does something similar, might actually find this attractive. But still, most people addicted to sugar, fat, salt, fast food, and the DOPAMINE HIT and Purposeful action of EATING and DRINKING (something other than water), do NOT want to ADMIT they ‘have a problem’. That the food, the source of their pleasure, of their Dopamine hit, is not controlling THEM. That they are NOT in control. That they are weak. That they are addicts.
Just like in the past, where heavy drinking was ‘normalised’ e.g Ernest Hemingway did NOT consider wine at MEALS as alcohol at all…or even beer… todays consumption is ‘normalised’, when it is really excessive, and the result of ADDICTIONS rather than actual biological HUNGER … it has replaced other forms of Purposeful ACtion and pleasure … food and socialisation are as conflated today as alcohol and socialisation was in Hemingway’s days… and non food items e.g derivatives of whole foods processed and eaten without the ‘whole’ they were part of, naturalLy, is as ‘normalised’ as drinking quantities of wine at every meal, with spirits after, along with a ‘smoke’…which of course Hollywood and advertising agencies MADE ‘normal’ … presented as ‘normal’ …
When EVERYONE is addicted to something, the society does NOT define it AS an addiction at all. Just as injecting kids with heavy metals etc has been normalised. the most insane action imaginable! or burning people alive at the stake for arguing the merits of a particular cult dogma … whether ‘The Official Holocaust Narrative’ or ‘The Trinity’
perfectly designed for envirnoment of scarcity…leads to systematic overeating and inflammation and obesity and chronic diseases … you cannot eat as much as you want, and get away with it… and everyone is in the circle jerk offering reach-arounds…66% of people in industrialised nations overweight or obese….
Doctors so unfamiliar with people actually losing and maintaining new weight, the only experience they have of people losing weight and keeping it off, is when they get cancer, develop eating disorder, or developed a drug addiction…Doctors have no expectation people will actually get better, live well, their expecatation is really that patients they will be on drugs rest of life, won’t get well, will be sick forever, not addressing cause/reasons for their problems, … how is doctor to recommend lifestyle choices when THEY Are obese/fat, and have ZERO expectation their clients will adhere to prescribed lifestyle change…
time to see elephant in the room… do not tell acoholics their life sucks because they are drinking too much? REally, wow, I had NO idea, thankyou … we lie to overweight people…. we tell drunks they have a particular vulnerabilyt that does not allow them to drink…you need to come up with a strategy, each and every day, that allows you to not drink…if you can figure out how to do that, you win…if you don’t, you are going to be in trouble… also, analogy works…telling alcoholic to ‘drink moderately’ and ‘just eat a little bit less’… not real… answer is ‘do not drink’ particular liquids i.e chemicals that fool brain into letting you think ‘you can have just a little bit’ and remain in control… fasting from alcohol is only solution for alcoholics…
salt, oil, sugar, are highly fractionated food byproducts, not actualy food i.e removed from their context… some people can have these without becoming addicted…like some can drink reasonably, with no real problems… these stimulate dopamine cascade in brain, make food taste better, and be more interesting to us… some people can have a bit occasionally without becoming a drunk…but if you have become overweight, obese, that is NOT you… YOU are the equivalent of an alcoholic…someone who cannot just ‘have one drink’…
neural cascade associated with any addiction are similar…net effect obvious and devastating around us…hidden ‘pleasure trap’… hidden addiction… when EVERYONE addict, it is ‘normal’ like tobacco used to be… and alcohol too e.g Ernest Hemingway’s generation … need to reframe our relationship to food
behaviour modification hardest in all addictions … social consequences of NOT participating…need to build social interaction NOT around food, alcohol, tobacco, etc
brain heavilty reinforces sex and food with dopamine, the neurochemical associated with pleasure…so the more dopamine, the more pleasure, the better the food tastes (like stoners) … the higher the caloric density, the higher the brain rewards you with pleasure… food industry adds oil, sugar, salt so we ‘like it better’ and get used to eating and habituate,… hyper drug like stimulative effect … takes time to reverse habituation / adaptation i.e at start whole foods have little flavor… body re-establishes a lower baseline for ‘flavor’ and after while can actually enjoy the ‘drab, unappealing foods’… takes about a month to adapt to lower salt diet, with fat takes over 3 months before satiety mechanism adapts and you feel satisfied on lower density foods.. gives people hope… get to point where good food tastes good again… 90 day window magic… for weaning off cravings for drugs, reset system…need to give people confidence it will take only 90 days, and often even quicker … period of discomfort… need to have motivation … and positive expectation of reboot…so no longer held hostage by cravings…
with fasting, MOST smokers who give up tobacco by day 2 to 4 of fasting no longer report craving a smoke…i.e speeds up process dramatically… seems opposite to what we would expect i.e double whammy…some joke the craving for food is masking craving for nicotine, but either way,
oil is highly fractionated food produce, refined carbs cause blood insulin levels to rise, drives sugars lower, fools brain, now you crave sugar again… salt less obvious…Sodium is essential nutrient…but get all salt, sugar, and oil you need to sustain optimal health in whole plant foods diet… adding salt means you eat more before you feel satisfied i.e stimulates more dopamine so will systematically eat more on heavily salted foods….remember salt is preservative…we have trillions of creatures, a thousand of strains, kgs of micro organisms in your gut and body…salt kills micro-organisms… they live, eat, and excrete inside you… what they excrete is decisive…toxic waste from animal foods e.g TMA becomes TMAO if feed bacteria animal products…soluable fibers like horse and cow manure vs pig shit i.e who uses which in garden? roses etc… bacteria etc are like nutrient factories for us…what we put in, determines the balance of bacteria, and what they will output…
body retains fluid when increase salt intake…no calories, but can contribute to excess eating…also try eating most foods WITHOUT the salt… you would NOT eat them for taste… so if take salt out, stops you eating rubbish you crave for the sugar, oil, and salt… cardboard with flavor…you will eat…without, it no longer has your interest…
you feed not just you, but your gut microbiome, …
True North Health (note I only realised TROO NAT NOOR could be read True Natural North i.e like moral compass, long time after started using…
Medical industry in California ‘declared’ that a doctor recommending fasting was gross violation of medication practise, so gross it rose to the level of criminal negligence… he fought in courts and won … Medicare at time only paid for fasting if in run-up to medical procedure…
Longo? research into cancer treatment…rats given chemo… and fasted before, during, and after, all survived with enhanced survival rates to control group of which all died of chemo…
how can fasting treat cancer? why it works? … cancer cells not as well adapted / more vulnerable to chemo during fasting due to differences in cells which put them at disadvantage during fasting vis a vis healthy cells… healthy cells seem stronger during fasting i.e so chemo kills more selectively i.e work better… though does NOT work at all…Ozzie study
act of fasting puts body in condition more conducive to healing independent of any other treatments…
problem for people on meds is need to wean off meds under professional supervision during long fasts…cannot take some meds without eating too…
anecdotal evidence i.e pre clinical trial, with Lymphoma … diet, sleep, exercise … RADICAL …
average person’s last decade of life low quality, … including impotence …
regain control of our mind i.e eliminate cravings… getting people out of pain increases motivation to exercise, live again … overcome addictions… drive … motivation … pain debility and fear of death highly motivating… self-selected participants … 40 DAY WATER FASTING TRADITION E.G MOSES, DAVID, ELIJAH, JESUS, AND HIS PATIENTS FAST 40 DAYS… JEWS, JAINS, MUSLIMS, HINDUS, BUDDHISTS, CHRISTIANS HAVE THIS IN COMMON…TRADITION OF FASTING…AGREE ON THIS IN COMMON… FASTING CHANGES HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF AND THE WORLD AROUND YOU …
FASTING IN ITSELF POSITIVE EXPERIENCE … SOMETHING TO ‘CONSUME’ … PURPOSEFUL ACTION … THAT BRINGS IMMEDIATE BENEFITS …
OVER 2000 PEOPLE HAVE GONE THROUGH TRUE NORTH 40 DAY WATER FASTING, GET MED HISTORY, LAB REPORT, FREE CONSULTATION … TO SCREEN PEOPLE TO SEE IF APPROPRIATE FOR THEM … PHONE COACHING SERVICE… IF APPROPRIATE CANDIDATES FOR FASTING, COME TO CENTER… HAVE TESTS, EXAMS, INIITATE INTO FASTING PROTOCOL… MONITORING… BRAINWASHING… WHAT AND WHY…SOCIAL DYNAMICS I.E 70 PATIENTS AT FACILITY AT ANY TIME, PLUS STAFF AND EDUCATORS… FASTING, THEN RE-FEEDING…LOTS OF SPECIALISTS FOR CHIROPRACTOR ETC … NATUROPATH ETC
MHR GET THOSE ‘TUNING FORKS’ TO TRY EMF TUNING … OR USE LIKE E-METER AS PROP FOR NLP …
SOME PEOPLE NOT GOOD CANDIDATES FOR FASTING… CONDITIONS ASSOICATED WITH DIETARY EXCESS PARTICULARLY RESPONSIVE TO FASTING I.E ULTIMATE IN UNDOING CONSEQUENCES OF EXCESS… HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, DIABETES, AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE…
FASTING STUDIES SHOW SAFE WHEN DONE FOLLOWING PROTOCOLS OF TRUE NORTH HEALTH CENTER… EATING DISORDERS OR OTHER SIDE OF CHEMO WHEN WEIGHT MAINTANCE A PROBLEM CONTRA-INDICATED
MOST MEDS REQUIRE FOOD I.E HAVE TO WEAN OUT I.E UNWIND BEFORE START FASTING… WHEN CHANGE DIET, NEED TO CHANGE MEDS I.E MOST PEOPLE BEING MEDICATED / TREATED FOR THEIR DIET… SO HYPERTENSION EVAPORATES WHEN NORMALISE DIET SO MAKE SURE STOP TAKING BLOOD PRESSURE LOWERING MEDS WHEN START WATER FASTING… LONG TERM DONE UNDER SUPERVISION, NOT AT HOME… SO SAFE AND EFFECTIVE… WALK IN, WALK OUT … MOST MEDS NO LONGER REQUIRED …
SIDE PROBLEM IS NEED TO STAY ON HEALTHY DIET … AS DIET IS THE CAUSE FOR THAT PERSON I.E THAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR BAD DIET FOR THEM… LIKE PUTTING HAND ON HOT STOVE …
INDUSTRY WANTS ‘FASTING MIMICKING DRUGS’ TO AVOID THE DISCIPLINE… WILL MARKET AS SUCH, BUT SIDE EFFECTS OF ALL DRUGS…
DEPRIVATION PROTOCOL … CASCADE OF POSITIVE IMPACTS … LONGO FASTING MIMICKING FOR ME SEEMS HARDER AND BENEFITS ONLY PART OF WATER FASTING… INTERMITTENT FASTING PROTOCOLS TRY TO GAIN SOME OF THE BENEFITS WITHOUT THE RISK PROFILE OF LONG TERM WATER ONLY FASTING… BUT WATER FASTING HAS MORE PROFOUND EFFECTS …E.G LOSE WEIGHT, THEN REGAIN ONLY GLYCOGEN, MUSCLE MASS, AND GUT FIBER, AND WATER… FAT PROFILE CONTINUES TO DROP DURING RE-FEEDING, AS LONG AS CONTINUE WHOLE PLANT FOOD SOS DIET…
WATER FASTING RESULTS IN PREFERENTIAL FAT LOSS I.E 3 TIMES MOBILISATION OF BELLY FAT I.E ABDOMINAL FAT AND FAT AROUND ORGANS VS GENERAL FAT AROUND BODY I.E IDEAL TARGETTED FAT LOSS… MOST COMPROMISING TO HEALTH… I.E PREFERENTIALLY LOSE VISCERAL FAT VERSUS GENERAL ADIPOSE TISSUE…
EXCESS SODIUM EXCRETED DURING START OF WATER ONLY FASTING…BIG DUMP IN FLUIDS…DROPS BLOOD PRESSURE, ALLEVIATES LOTS OF SYMPTOMS OF LOTS OF HEALTH PROBLEMS… TRADITIONAL REASON FOR FASTING WAS DE-TOXING… BREAK DOWN FAT OF HUMAN AND SEE PCBS, MERCURY, DIOXINS, PESTICIDES, ETC I.E RAPID DETOXIFICATION … TOTAL BODY LOAD MEASURES OF TOXINS… ALLOW LIVER AND KIDNEYS TO DO WHAT THEY DO… SELECTIVE AND RAPID MOBILISATION…
IF LOST 10% BODY WEIGHT, BODY PREFERENTIALLY LOSES EVEN cancer TUMOUR I.E 100% OF IN SOME CASES I.E LYMPHOMA…
ENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS TOXINS PREFERENTIALLY MOBILISED AT START OF WATER ONLY DIET…
TRAINED ATHLETES GET BETTER AT MOBILISING GLYCOGEN STORES OVER TIME… INDUCED BY PERSISTENT EXERCISE… ALSO INDUCED DURING FASTING AS BODY NEEDS TO MOBILISE ALL GLYCOGEN STORES … LIKE PHONE LAPTOP ETC BATTERY, THEY TELL YOU TO TOTALLY DRAIN BATTER A FEW TIMES A YEAR…SAME OCCURS WITH GLYCOGEN STORES I.E THEY ARE THE BATTERY THAT GETS REALLY QUICKLY DRAINED, AS OCCURS DURING INTENSE EXERCISE…
RAT WITH EXERCISE WHEEL WILL USE IT, AND DO NOT GET ALZHEIMERS / DEMENTIA … VS CONTROL GROUP…BDNF BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR DRAMATICALLY HIGHER IN RATS THAT GET EXERCISE… PRECURSOR OF BDNF IS BETA HYDROXY BUTORIC ACID, THE FATTY ACID BRAIN PREFERENTIALLY MOBILISES DURING WATER ONLY FASTING…SO BDNF GOES UP WITH WATER FASTING, JUST LIKE WITH EXERCISE… GLYCOGEN MOBILISING ENZYMES GO UP WITH WATER FASTING JUST AS DO WITH EXERCISE… SAME BIO-MARKERS THAT ARE IMPROVED WITH WITH EXERCISE GO UP WITH WATER FASTING… PROTOCOLS DO NOT ALLOW ANY EXERCISE… SO FASTING IS KEY… FASTING INDUCES SAME BIO CHANGES AS EXERCISE… FASTING MIMICKS… BOTH SHARE COMMON BIOLOGICAL BENEFIT…
INSULIN IS HORMONE THAT DRIVES SUGAR FROM BLOODSTREAM INTO CELLS WHERE IT IS ‘BURNED’… INSULIN RESISTANCE I.E RESISTANCE TO INSULIN CARRYING OUT ITS FUNCTION… NO DRUGS WORK FOR INSULIN RESISTANCE… ONLY EXERCISE, WEIGHT LOSS, FASTING… CAN REVERSE DIABETES WITH AGGRESSIVE LIFESTYLE CHANGES OVER TIME I.E CHANGE IN DIET AND EXERCISE …
NEED TO ‘UNWIND’ MEDICATIONS DURING FASTING … NOTE EXPECTATION OF YOUR TREATING PHYSICIAN THAT YOU WILL SUCCEED…
DOCTORS HAVE NO EXPERIENCE OF SUSTAINED WEIGHT LOSS OUTSIDE OF PATHOLOGY … OR OF DIABETES PATIENTS GETTING WELL … LET ALONE REVERSING IT… MOST DOCTORS OVERWEIGHT… NEVER SEEN A DIABETIC GET WELL… NOT A SINGLE PATIENT RECOVERING, STABILISING BLOOD SUGAR, AND GETTING OFF MEDS… DOCTOR DOES NOT BELIEVE IT CAN WORK, LET ALONE HE OR ANYONE ELSE WOULD BE ABLE TO STICK TO DIET AND LIFESTYLE CHANGES REQUIRED… CYNICAL … SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES
HE EXPERIENCED LOTS OF AGRESSIVE NEGATIVITY… I NOTE THAT PEOPLE DO NOT LIKE TO SEE OTHERS SUCCEEDING AT SOMETHING THEY THEMSELVES HAVE GIVEN UP ON … OR NOT WILLING TO DISCIPLINE SELF … BECOME VERY AGRESSIVE TOWARDS THOSE WHO ARE WILLING, ESPECIALLY IF SUCCEED AT IT… MOBBING …
IF HAVE BYPASS, LASTS LONGER THAN STEMS, BUT STILL ONLY TEMPORARY … SEE MY OWN NOTES ABOUT HOW BODY DOES OWN ‘BYPASS’…THAT IS NOT ISSUE…AND BLOCKAGES APPEAR AFTER DEATH, NOT CAUSE OF DEATH, BECAUSE OF THIS NATURAL BYPASS MECHANISM I.E BLOOD VESSELS ADD ‘ALTERNATIVE ROUTES’
CAN AVOID I.E PREVENT MOST HEALTH PROBLEMS, USING WHOLE PLANT BASED DIET, WITH INTERMITTENT FASTING, AND OCCASIONAL LONGER TERM FASTING (WATER ONLY OR WITH COFFEE / TEA I.E JUST NO CALORIES)
INFLAMATION OF GUT FROM FREE RADICALS FROM SMOKING, ALCOHOL, AFFECTS LINING OF BLOOD VESSELS AND STOMACH LINING … 80% OF SMOKERS DO NOT GET LUNG CANCER, DIE FROM HEART ATTACKS BEFORE CAN DEVELOP TUMOURS …
STATISTICS NEVER LIE, BUT LIARS USE STATISTICS
RESPIRATOL, IN RED SKIN OF WINE GRAPES, HAS THINNING EFFECT CAN SAVE FROM CLOTTING STROKE, BUT ALCOHOL INCREASES ODDS OF DIEING FROM HAEMAERAGIC STROKE I.E BLEEDING STROKE, VS CLOTTING STROKE…
FAST AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE, BUT AS LONG AS NECESSARY TO GET BEST RESULTS…UNDER 40 DAYS FEW METABOLIC COMPLICATIONS…60 AND 80 AND 90 DAYS MUCH MORE DELICATE BALANCE OF ELECTROLYTES ETC
ALEK BURTON IN AUSTRALIA USED TO DO 100 DAY WATER FASTS, BUT THEN LOWERED TO 40, AS HE WAS NOT GETTING ENOUGH SLEEP FROM WORRYING ABOUT COMPLICATIONS…40 DAYS NO COMPLICATIONS…NO ELECTROLYTE SUPPLEMENTATION OR ANY SUPPLEMENTS…JUST PURE WATER AND REST… FRACTIONALLY STEAMED DISTILLED WATER… FASTING PATIENTS WILL NOT TOLERATE MAINS WATER…RAINWATER IDEAL IF NO POLLUTION…SUPPLEMENTS CAN KILL E.G …MUST ALLOW SOMETHING TO BE RATE LIMITING NUTRIENT… 3.0 POTASSIUM IS SENSITIVE … RATE LIMITING MINERAL … AS ARBITRARY THRESHOLD IN HIS PROTOCOLS…NOT NECESSARY, CAN PUSH PEOPLE FURTHER, BUT WITH THAT THRESHOLD NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH CLIENTS… WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT DOWNSTREAM CONSEQUENCES OF SUPPLEMENTS MIGHT BE, NO RESEARCH…
BODY IS HOMEOSTATIC…WHEN REDUCE INPUTS, IT REDUCES USE OF, AND EXCRETION OF… JUST MEASURING POTASSIUM AND GIVING POTASSIUM IS MISTAKE, AS WE DO NOT KNOW ENOUGH YET I.E OVER-SIMPLIFYING … IN PAST HAS PROVEN FATAL…
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first few days of fasting are the most difficult,…brain is changing fuels , most difficult…adatping off glucose to fat metabolism i.e burning sugar to largely beta hydroxy buteric acid which comes from ketone bodies of the fat breakdown… minimuse detox by eating fruit and vege diet in run up and thus elminating all the addictive substances and chemicals, unnecessary meds etc i.e first do detox and wean off addictions … before start fasting… THOUGH TONGUE MAY COAT UP AND TASTE LIKE SOMETHING CRAWLED IN THERE AND DIED, MAY GET ACHES, PAINS, SKIN RASHES, MUCOUS DISCHARGES, VIVID DREAMS, ETC BUT THEY GO AWAY, THEN SOMETHING ELSE COMES ALONG, THEN IT GOES AWAY, HEADACHE, THEN GOES AWAY, BODY HEALS SELF…VERY EMPOWERING PSYCHOLOGICALLY… FOR SOME FIRST REAL CHRONIC RELIEF THEY EXPERIENCED IN YEARS …TUMOURS SHRINK… PAIN GOING AWAY … CHRONIC DEBILITATING PROBLEMS START RESOLVING … THINGS FALL OFF OR SHRINK… AFTER 4 OR 5 DAYS BODY ACCLIMATED TO FASTING, NO HUNGER EVEN IF AROUND FOOD ETC NO INTEREST EVEN CAN ENJOY BEING WITH OTHERS AS THEY ARE EATING NORMAL MEALS…AT SOME POINT LIMITING FACTOR LIKE ELECTROLYTE LEVELS, OR ENERGY LEVELS, OR HAVE TO GET BACK TO THEIR WORK ETC EPIPHANY I.E EMPOWERED.. SEE MIRACLES I.E SOMEONE GETS WELL COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED I.E DR HAD TOLD TO LIVE WITH IT, WHAT TO EXPECT AT THEIR AGE ETC, BUT FASTING HAS CURED THIS, SO WHAT ELSE MIGHT IT RESOLVE…
ALSO EMPOWERING AS PERSONAL CHALLENGE…I JUST DID THIS IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE, WHAT NEXT?
WE ARE TAUGHT THAT IF WE FAST WE DIE… BUT 40 DAYS PERFECTLY FINE… OTHERS WERE USING 100 DAY PROTOCOLS, BUT REQUIRED MORE MONITORING… AFTER TIME NOT JUST FASTING AS HAVE TO, BUT BECAUSE LOVE ENGAGING IN THIS CONSISTENT ACTIVITY I.E REALLY GET INTO IT… FEEL GREAT … COST-BENEFIT EXPERIENCE… LIKE EXERCISE BECOMES LUXURY ONCE EXPERIENCE BENEFITS…SAME WITH SLEEP…PRIORITISE…DO NOT COMPROMISE…NOT WILLING TO RETURN TO ‘OLD’ YOU … VALUE BENEFITS SO MUCH…
WAS JIM JONES PRACTISING LONG TERM FASTING? HE REFERS TO ‘NOT BEING LIKE JIM JONES’
HMO’S PRIVATE AMERICAN SYSTEM EQUIVALENT OF NHS I.E have to treat huge numbers of patients, so time time to really interact with… might as well have A.I system scanning, and asking questions, then matching symptoms to meds… in fact way better, as A.I can pretend to care, ask deeper questions, spend more time, sound sympathetic, anywhere, anytime…
‘WHAT THE HEALTH’ DOCO … FIND TORRENT … AND JIM JONES RE FASTING …
whole plant food diet i.e wholey plant based i.e exclusively and exceptionally VEGAN … not based on, but ONLY plant based … most vegans dominant motivation ethical and spiritual and animal rights… some argue wider your net, i.e types of food, more people will catch … but to maximise health, exclusively plant food diet free of SOS is key… some people can eat a little SOS, like some can have a few drinks or lines of coke… but if YOU are overweight, etc etc, or addict, YOU can NOT ‘limit yourself to a little / few drinks’… have to be HONEST … do not PRETEND … go as far as YOU can with compliance … if you can modify SOS a little, and still stay in your desired range of outcomes, then go for it…
lower sodium intake i.e about one g of sodium in his diet, and water fasting, only two elements of his approach that still rejected by mainstream
what is good for short term weight loss not good for long term health and maintanence of figure etc… he lives with patients…great long term clinical observation of ‘what works’… people sent to nursing homes, went to him, cost less, and ended up going home… can take months just to get people off their drugs, onto new diet, before can start fasting…
some addicts can successfully quit cold turkey, some need outpatient treatment, some need 30 day programs, some 90 day, some end up in transition facilities and half-way houses i.e continued support… so same with diet …
he has family suites so entire family can accompany … but 149 dollars a day costs of stay … in U.S cheaper than many hotels …
reboot and reframe your relationship to food, salt, sugar, oil, … any place that makes you give up almost everything, is tough sell …
quadruple bypass seems even more extreme than water fasting to his clients …
total disconnect from challenge, stepping outside comfort zones… overhaul of everything doing and thinking i.e entire belief system, routines, habits… people not pushed any more … medal for participation in life … pandered to… who dares offend anyone … push them … coddled … profitable to do this, and weakens society so elites can rule easier … perople now forced and allowed to live in echo chambers ….censorship … ‘offense crimes’ … no ‘shaming’ allowed … even Germany will not ‘shame’ Israel and ‘call it out’ over genocide of palestinians…
weight loss whatever how extreme even gastric bypass only few percent success rates…Drs know this…either disingenously ‘sell’ it to ‘look like authority’ and ‘maintain status etc’, or simply give up, and have no positive expectations … let em be fat … treat exception as ‘new normal’ …
take few still healthy and ensure stay healthy, until death i.e functional, satisfying life… why live longer so can spend last 10 years vegetating in home waiting to have diaper changed …
usually takes huge shock i.e diagnoses / extreme conditions, before willing to make changes … live life to full right up to end … vs wharehousing of old people … healthy life expectancy number of years spend fully functional … n.b for first time life expectancy falling … MHR think of costs to your grandchildren also! most traditional societies respect such thinking.
lucky they finance self as non-profit i.e would not get any public or private foundation funding…totally independent…
Dr Clapper … Dr Campbell (whole plant food diet) … truenorthhealth.com … walter longo programs… the pleasure trap…fasting.org
need to take care of medication complications during fasting…find local plant based doctor to see if you are a better candidate for which program… we are so screwed up by long term complications of meds and diet that often require medical supervision…
MHR MAKE SURE THE BENEFITS OF YOUR CURRENT MEDS ARE REALLY WORTH IT … WHAT BENEFITS ARE YOU REALLY GETTING? … AT WHAT COSTS? … TRUST OWN BODY MORE THAN DOCTOR WHO SPEND A FEW MINUTES WITH YOU, TREATING YOU AS A GENERIC CLIENT, A STATISTICAL CIPHER …
FIND SUPPORT NETWORK, EVEN ONE FRIEND THAT WILL ‘TOLERATE’ WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO … 70% AMERICANS OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE, AND WILL BE HIGHER TOMORROW… IS IT EMF? NO-ONE BUT FIRSTENBERG EVEN TALKING ABOUT EMF… WITH OVERWHELMING STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS, EVEN ENTIRE NATIONS AS EFFECTIVE CONTROLLED STUDIES I.E BEFORE AND AFTER EMF … GOLDHAMMER HAS HAD OVER 20K SUCCESS STORIES…
cortisol produced in adrenal glands… when it remains over the usual up and down cyclic threshold, body goes into survival mode…triggers a cascade of different hormones… which are inflammatory…stores fat for future use in belly fat… healthy response should be a spike that goes up, to adapt to situation, but then go down… stress is contagious i.e cortisol in sweat … women synchronise period within a few months if live together…
to bond with someone, i.e release OXYTOSIN i.e positive hormone…touch, hug, laugh together…take bath rather than shower releases more oxytosin…feels like hug i.e water envelopes… you will be in mode for bonding… rather than shower… shared struggle i.e going through something highly emotional together is bonding i.e bungee jump or skydive…look into their left eye with your right eye…that is how child and mother initially bond i.e as mother keeps right hand free, holds baby in left, and baby looking up to mother with their left eye, focusing on mothers right eye…
stress contagion…sex steroid hormones leak out in sweat i.e particles of hormone travel when interacting personally even if just work next to each other…led by alpha female…that is way to work out who is alpha female…the one the others syncrhonise with…levels of testosterone determines this… claim that alpha male needed to fertilize at least 5 females to ensure one of them would successfully birth and ensure his genes passed on ??? explanation for this ???
the most senior, alpha male stress levels impact all those lower down, rather than their equals i.e peers…with gray backed gorillas… so if CEO or CFO stressed, will be ‘communicated’ i.e ‘shared’ physiologically… cannot hide it…if cortisol there, will be ‘communicated’… stressed out people often immediately get ‘muffin top’ from stress i.e cortisol side effect… so fat stress can also be shared … what got you here, won’t get you there i.e different skills for management / leadership than expertise in their field etc… stressed out people stress out others… most people unaware they are doing this… sleep disruption … cortisol helps us wake up … melatonin helps us go to sleep…indigestion sign of high cortisol, as is irritability and mood changes … is that why I get migraines? not moon? pro-inflammatory therefore dries out skin, skalp, hair etc… can sweat excess cortisol out of body… as does expressing it in words to trusted friend, or journal… get negative thoughts, and the cortisol itself, out of your system…
importance of sleep…we are increasingly lacking good deep sleep…if cortisol in system, it keeps you getting to sleep etc… if you have a choice, here is what to do / not to do … during sleep process emotions, lay down memories, cells regenerate … ideal is 8 hours and 15 minutes… sleeping more can lower mood i.e avoid over 9 hours sleep, but often need to be in bed for 9 hours to get the 8 hours 15 minutes… research 2012 about cleaning of brain over night…glymphatic system… glial cells…active waterway channel, cleansing system of the brain…actual jets of fluid flush out toxins from brain… pathology of dementia diseases are flushed out actively over night…takes 7 to 8 hours to do this…actual sleep…in bed awake not same… lay on side as best position for cleansing process to occur, i.e better than back or front… turn self on side any time aware on back or stomach…spooning for warmth, and more bonding oxytosin…slept on side to keep dominant arm ready for defense…slept on left i.e most vital organ the heart on left side…SHE would never sleep in different bed or room, unless absolutely necessary, as destroying the Oxytosin bond…co-sleeping is fundamental to our survival, spiritually and emotionally…sleeping together…in some cultures entire family slept together…so good for you…skin to skin contact…love, trust, bonding…
finnish tech…HRV monitor on chest…spiked when she got kiss from husband leaving for work, even while she was deeply asleep…cuddling is neuroprotective… even people who think they sleep better on their own…physiological resilience…body can tolerate greater stress / pressure … heart rate variability increases when kissed even while sleeping…making body more resilient…
gut neurons? store memories like brain neurons do… intuition are the not-conscious lessons stored in nervous system… the less conscious you are of them, the deeper they are pushed into the nervous system… neurons that fire together are wired together… wisdom originally in outer cortex into the limbic (emotional system of the brain), into brain stem, into the spinal chord, then into the gut neurons … so now know something, but do not recall HOW and WHERE learned it… ‘gut instinct’… memories and cognition and IQ in brain, but intuition is in brain and gut … all organs ennervated i.e have nerves going into them… from brain … every part of body has nerve pathways i.e brain-body connection i.e bi-directional…constant feedback between… can know days before you are going to get a cold or flu … stressed people do not know, suppress it…then when go on holiday get sick… immune system run down by cortisol…as soon as relax a bit, body takes that time to ‘have a cold/flu’… i.e lowered cortisol …
we are in crisis…anxiety, fear, uncertainty of COVID TERRORISM … MHR terrible crime of denying people contact with loved ones in hospital, care facilities, friends, extended family etc … Indians consider impact of big decisions 7 generations into future i.e tribal leaders…
important to do something outside own self-interest i.e purpose outside self… helping people randomly…doing something that makes you feel like life is worth living, but does not directly improve your own health e.g earn you money etc… insight guy had correct I feel, I had same, that we need to feel the tribe values us, therefore any chance to earn the feeling that WE were not dead weight, that our contribution was valued, is positive to our sense of security…and being denied right to work, or way to earn that FEELING, has massive negative impact on ‘approval and acceptance’ and therefore survival
once a week need to do something creative, experience beauty, etc…please brain aesthetically good for brain… again sense of security … if you can appreciate beauty, implies you have enough to survive already, and security… by association… if running in fear or terrified of death from starvation, unlikely to take time to appreciate art, dance, make music, watch sunset (you cannot eat a sunset)… nature leaves us feeling safe…
N.B Global benefits derive from learning new things e.g language, musical instrument, as get older can improve executive functions i.e regulate emotions better, solve complex problems, think creatively and flexibly, override any prejucides or biases you have, … travel, learning something new, taking different route to work, learning new recipe, i.e INDUCES NEUROPLASTICITY…something that demands your INTENSE attention … doing something DIFFERENT to what you normally do… must be attention intense enough to shift pathways in brain… not just learning facts… has to be a NEW PATHWAY rather than doing what usually do…needs to be new big change…
if have habit to break, need to take baby steps…do something similar to what need to do … try to do it a bit…start building new pathway till it becomes stronger than earlier existing pathway i.e change behavior…note pattern, then attend to costs of it, then set intention for the new you…which you practise as much as possible… when it gets hard, need to hold self accountable… journaling helps hold self accountable… but could be friend / coach … have action board to hold you accountable i.e ‘did I do this what I pinned to board’… teacher can hold you accountable… that is what Rita wants…teacher to do this… low self esteem is an established pathway … we no longer say ‘hard wired’ i.e soft wired i.e Neuro Plasticity… people can work through trauma to become helper for others…some people’s lives run by their past trauma… generational trauma and epigenetics…trauma passed down to you from ancestors…new area…generational trauma is related to specific acts on marginalised groups e.g african amerian slavery, certainly not jewish trauma…psychological spillover
epigenetic trauma…external events changing expression of our genes…genotype is DNA, phenotype is which bits get switched on and off … SHE USED HOLOCAUST AS EXAMPLE FUCKING MORON… but referred to anxiety !!! TERROR OF BEING TOLD THIS HAPPENED… you are born with genes of your parents that were switched around time of YOUR conception, NOT THEIRS, and mothers stress levels during pregnancy… baby can be helped to expressed better genes if you work on your own neuroplasticity… cortisol of mother can switch on certain genes in unborn baby i.e inflammation in unborn baby…
to heal from grief, must go to bottom of hole i.e face it…not avoid it…go there emotionally…with support…must process it…all of it … fully … so can heal … not gloss over it…
Mylenation…repeating something … mylen is fatty substance that coats some neural pathways which then, as a result, become FAST pathways… we have slow and fast… reflex is fast pathway, pain reflex is slow pathway…Mylenation is becoming better at something you are already good at… synatpic connections take time, but if put in effort can change brain i.e neurons connect to form new pathways… around Hippocampus i.e memories neuro-genesis…embryonic nerve cells become fully formed nerve cells, i.e Neurons, and connect up through synaptic connection and maybe get Mylenated… BDNF Brain derived neurotrophic factor is growth factor involved in this process … trophic means growth i.e growth of new neurons… aerobic exercise and eating dark-skinned foods contribute to this process…turnover of cells increases i.e going from embryonic to fully formed cells and then connecting … after period of inactivity and start new aerobic exercise… so aerobic exercise helps you learn and retain memories…weight training not related to neurogenesis, but aerobic exercise is
mind over matter…weight lifters who ONLY imagined lifting weights, sat and visualised doing it, still had 13% increase in muscle mass, vs 40% for those who actually lifted weights… says a lot about NLP and placebo effects…
athletes do both…exercise and visualise perfect performance… positive visualisation primes body to do what want
dark-skinned i.e pigmented food … mostly plant based… choose darker pigmented food i.e higher levels of anti-oxidants called anthrocyanins that contribute to neurogenesis i.e eat blue berries not strawberries, purple broccoli not green broccoli, and good quality coffee, always choose darker option…black beans vs white beans…
physical activity that does NOT spike cortisol i.e gentle rather than high intensity re neuroplasticity
eat 30 different plant products a week, of varying colors … keep hydrated … time restricted eating e.g 12noon and 8pm etc… beneficial for brain… go to bed within an hour of same time every night…
Big Cognitive Challenges that break existing neural pathways e.g ‘THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE’ for anything, to establish new pathways in brain, new neural connections established and strengthened i.e neuro-genesis and improved neuro-plasticity i.e ability of BRAIN to change… learning new skill
self-esteem and confidence…usually particular recurring negative thoughts associated with ‘lack of confidence’… create a counter-active positive affirmation … e.g it must be perfect and it is not going to be perfect … it does not have to be perfect, to be great… what is best possible outcome that could happen here… up to … reverse the narrative NLP style…wear down other pathway, re-establish new pathway… how we think and talk about self is neuroplasticity…in mind or out loud… whichever statement repeated most is one brain will believe RE THE OFFICIAL HOLOCAUST NARRATIVE … start saying it, then start believing it… do not say shallow things… i.e you are beautiful, you will be rich… just say ‘I’m safe, I’m safe, I’m O.K’… do not need huge self-praise … brain does not need to be beautiful and rich, i.e social and parental expectations…brain needs you to be safe, so you can do what need to do to get what want… say it, then do it… manifestation vision board not about action just desire… most people will shut off when hear about manifesting anything by thinking about it, without doing anything… universe will attract it into your life… nice reach around circle jerk… but self-fulfilling prophecy … and instructing brain what you want, and allowing not-conscious mind to trigger what needed to achieve … i..e not-conscious mind will change your BEHAVIOUR to align with… ‘action’board vs mere ‘vision’ board… you must be everything you want in a partner i.e must represent the values and qualities you are looking for in THEM… are YOU those things yet?… really work on self first…you will meet people at level of psychological wounds and evolution you have / are at now… you have to bring something to the party… expectation will motivate CHANGE IN YOU… be what you want partner … when you hire people focussed on what they have to offer, not pay rise… over time life will give you what you deserve, over long term… life drops you to depth of your wounds or height of your values?… work on YOU and what YOU have to offer OTHERS… just wanting i.e DESIRE can raise cortisol vs ‘what can I DO to get it’ raises Oxytosin…second makes your naturally more attractive…
neurodivergence…autism, ADHD, ‘authority defiance’, i.e a-typical brain…dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc… N.B ARE THE SYNDROMES ON THE RISE, OR JUST DIAGNOSED MORE OFTEN TODAY? … autism as form of evolution… allows people certain benefits of focus on specialisations e.g great at math etc, no social skills… in indigenous cultures there was role and place, often elevated, for LGBT gender etc…shaman, witches, transgender holy vs ‘MODERN’ problems with
Humming and changing really beneficial…remember I was humming like didgeridoo when stressed during LSD trip… I BECAME a didgeridoo… good for health and immune system, like cat purring… different types of humming…through nose, and that ‘blowing raspberries’ for tension relief (THE TWO SPECIALISTS ON SHOW DID NOT KNOW WHY, SAID IT ACTIVATED PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM)
Psychological impact on behaviour thus biology i.e aging… what expect in 80s … study…including replicated their 60s life, with their photos on wall, newspapers from that time…and treated as if 60…after one week they were taller, i.e posture improved…had better musculo-skeletal co-ordination than week before…in before and after photos rated as younger by people who did not know them … i.e from living LIKE in their 60s… and just reminiscing had some benefits too, over control group…
she said NO to reading glasses… and deliberately challenged eyes to improve her eyes i.e when it felt it would be easier to bring book further or closer, she said NO, I am going to focus at THIS distance… I note benefit / need to focus OUT and IN during day i.e if keep writing and reading without shifting focus long distance, could barely focus eyes at all…
NLP language very important to brain…words can change our behaviour … by association… tell self ‘I do NOT need coffee’…. and lately ‘I do NOT need this pain’ i.e migraine, telling mind I am aware …. using world ‘need’ implies lack and reduces sense of security / safety… say ‘I am going to treat myself to a coffee’ vs ‘I really NEED a coffee’ … sending not-conscious mind different messages…. MHR I THINK PART OF EYESIGHT IS THAT BODY IS SAYING I HATE READING THIS SHIT, DOING THIS SHIT, AND FEEDBACK TO ‘GET OUT AND DO SOMETHING MORE SATISFYING’ … You do NOT need something… do not say to self ‘I am messy, unorganised, chaotic, stupid, ugly, lazy etc as all has impact…
YES means be very CLEAR about what you DO want … then VISUALISE, FEEL, TASTE, TOUCH I.E FULLY IMMERSE SELF IN THAT HALLUCINATION I.E LIKE ACTOR I.E NLP WHAT YOU WANT, THEN SPEND AT LEAST 5 MINUTES BEING SO GRATEFUL FOR HAVING ALL THAT … I.E AS IF IT WAS ALREADY REAL…MOVING BRAIN FROM FEAR TO TROPHIC STATE WHICH IS GATEWAY TO NEUROPLASTICITY AND CHANGE IN YOUR BEHAVIOUR AND THEN LIFE… N.B LSD TRIP WAS JUST THAT… FIRST WHAT WAS WEIGHING ON ME I.E OPRESSIVE FEELING OF LOCATION, THEN THE THINGS I FEARED I.E AGING, WHITHERING AWAY, THEN WAS EXPERIENCE OF WHAT I WANTED I.E PEOPLE PLAYING MY SONGS AND SOUNDING GREAT AT PARTY … THEN DISSOLUTION OF EGO I.E LIVING DEATH AND RESURRECTION…
guy on podcast got each interviewee at end of their interview, to leave a question for next interviewee, not having any idea who that might be…
what could you choose to change, and feel great about i.e the thing that if you changed, you would feel great about…e.g my dream of music I loved, and others enjoyed …
here English teacher told here she is so good at Drama should study it…they forced her to medical school, then after that you can do what you want… at time no brown people on t.v i.e huger risk at time… now she is happy any time sees someone like here on t.v i.e who made her dream real… parents want security, regular salary, social status, … in one month she invoiced what earning in a year as a doctor i.e over 100k … doing what she does now… MD and PhD…but not what SHE really wanted…reinvent yourself with Dr Tara podcast
Stress is when the load on body or mind is too great for you to manage. Stress on cardio vascular system shows as heart attack. Stress on mental state shows up as pyschosis / depression etc. When system that deals with it is overloaded and cannot deal with it. Brain’s perception has cascade effect on rest of body. Neuroscience. Perception of threat to survival triggers adrenal glands production of cortisol which circulates, crosses ‘blood brain barrier’ and signals brain … pro inflammatory … knock-one effects on cardio-vascular, immunity, gastro-intestinal systems…dehydrating shows up in skin, hair, scalp … ancient survival mechanism stimulates storage of fat in abdominal fat cells… so dry skin, frizzy hair, muffin top that cannot shift, sleep disturbances, digestive problems… physiology of stress response effects every organ system… 80 to 80 % of doctor visits due to stress … mental, physical, emotional…
MHR not so sure current narrative i.e belly fat different, valid… people report weight gain under stress, they cannot shift even with change in diet and exercise… even if eat less, move more, high levels of cortisol still drive saving of fat in belly… not getting fat all over? I think it is just that the ‘belt’ is immediate feedback, cannot miss, whereas rest of body can ‘hide’ it better… but the belt holes unmissable…more slim young women having heart attacks…
MHR CAN EMF TRIGGER SAME RESPONSES I.E MIMICK ‘STRESS’ ETC ?
Once doctors start making money etc on some theme, they stick to it…not like me, constantly looking to find more
Yoga obviously then better exercise than high intensity training (though real yoga can be intense, it is done in calm state of mind) i.e reduce stress vs add stress
TWO WAYS TO EXCRETE CORTISOL IS THROUGH SWEATING IT OUT DURING EXERCISE (N.B I HAVE ITCHY SCALP, THOUGH GREASY HAIR, AND SWEAT LOADS)… SPEAKING ALOUD WITH SOMEONE I.E SOCIAL CONNECTION I.E GET THOUGHTS OUT OF BRAIN BODY SYSTEM I.E EXPRESS IT LITERALLY … GETS CORTISOL OUT OF SYSTEM… CONFIDING IN OTHER PEOPLE REQUIRES CONFIDENCE…MEN AND WOMEN NOW COMPETITIVE… lighten the load mentally and emotionally… being in nature … with people you trust … you’re not alone in issues you are facing
when brain receptors sense high levels of cortisol, they re-route the blood supply to the most crucial things … imminent threat must be faced, focus and resources shifted AWAY from thinking flexibly, regulating emotions, being creative complex problem solving, suppressing biases, being imaginative all ‘bypassed’…blood supplied to OTHER parts of brain i.e REPTILIAN fight or flight, THE BASICS i.e reptilian brain shifting…NORMALLY the pre-frontal cortex regulates emotions coming from the amygdala … that regultation functions less well… during stress state likely to experience emotions like FEAR , anger and shame (i.e manipulate people with fear) i.e negative impact on our decision making power…
Amygdala , the Limbic system, is size and shape of clenched fist, deep inside brain, and cortex is part of brain around that … in that LIMBIC system two almond shaped structures called amygdali … two almond shaped structures which is where all our emotions start from… Limbic and cortex communicate…pre-frontal cortex regulates emotions so not too extreme…but high levels of cortisol mean pre-frontal cortex’s supply of blood and thus oxygen and glucose is reduced, so less able to regulate those emotions …
under stress you become ‘a different person’…chronic stress continues … grinds us down … the pre-frontal cortex managed ‘best version’ of you does not get to shine…
mood impacts appearance … ‘I look terrible’ one day, next ‘Oh, I look great’ i.e negative self-image
meta-cognition is thinking about your thinking… META COGNITION … MHR try to treat self as someone you love i.e how you would respond to someone you care about, thinking about you as you do…
‘woke up on wrong side of bed’ … sleep well and totally different person … grumpy, irritated terrible for stress etc
tell self that what seems like mountain now will not feel that way every day SO PUT OFF UNTIL HAVE THE ENERGY … DO NOT PUSH TOO HARD ON BAD DAYS I.E STATE OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
meta-cognition … thinking about your thoughts … journaling can be powerful tool to improve physical, mental, and emotional well being… BUT ONLY IF YOU READ BACK OVER THEM I.E JUST WRITING IT NOT ENOUGH… IN MOMENT YOU WRITE YOU BELIEVE IT I.E REPRESENTATION OF HOW FEEL AT THAT MOMENT…WHEN READ OVER IT CAN QUESTION WHAT YOU THOUGHT / WROTE I.E THAT IS META-COGNITIVE ACT…IDEALLY WOULD SPEAK OUT LOUD WITH A PERSON … GAIN SELF-AWARENESS BY READING BACK LAST 3 MONTHS TO LOOK FOR PATTERNS, AND SEEING IF SEEMS TRUE FOR YOU NOW…
SELF-AWARENESS FROM OBSERVING ‘PAST SELF’ AS REPRESETNED IN YOUR JOURNAL I.E SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION…EVEN PRACTISING GRATITUDE I.E 10 THINGS I AM GRateful for… did you make decision from intuition rather than logic… practise chanting or drumming… spending time in nature…
spirituality…quadrant exercise…physical, mental, emotional, spiritual…. body, thoughts, feelings, and something not described by those other three, sense of how you are in your spirit or soul … MHR godhead…how you feel your values are being upheld… boundary transgressions hurt deeply i.e your integrity… INTEGRITY and spirituality…lovely … something more than the first 3 exists… perhaps a META binding them all…INTEGRATING them MHR
burnout when not living life in accordance with your values i.e transgress your boundaries … not just work load…it is nature of that actual work…what doing on daily basis… 2 people with same job, one burns out, other doesn’t… can build resilience to stress…tools and practises … can start now… also different thresholds for different people e.g divorce might overwhelm someone to breakdown, other just moves on…we each have different threshold, which we can raise threshold, so can manage more stress better…
what characteristic do you most dislike in others…she claims the opposite is YOUR value… but is it not really the opposite i.e JUNG … projection … shadow of your personality … things you worked out as child that if you did those things you would lose approval and acceptance of primary care givers … BUT SHE STILL INSISTS … might be same thing if think about it…
work out values…see if can align life… when we feel others NOT being generous with us e.g paying back loans, not listening, are they true friend, do I want them around me !!! i.e in my social circle…trust…we operate on trust…contracts pointless…if someone not trustworthy, that is serious boundary transgression for her…i.e intentional choice about who want to be around…controlling what you can control… we gift trust… if they break, we need them out of our life…
note cannot operate from trust under stress… when feel endgangered, cannot trust so easily… but you can CHOOSE to gift trust despite this… the ONLY control you HAVE … what YOU do … if THEY cheat THEY have let themelves down, not you…you can walk away from that…I am not a cheat… but impacts our future ability to trust…must be OUR choice…
TWO HORMONES, TOTALLY DIFFERENT ENDS OF SPECTRUM OF EMOTIONS / FEELINGS …
SURVIAL EMOTIONS CORRELATE WITH STRESS HORMONE CORTISOLE I.E FEAR, DISGUST, ANGER, SHAME, SADNESS
OTHER END OF SPECTRUM JOY, EXCITEMENT, LOVE, TRUST THAT CORRELATE WITH HORMONE OXYTOSIN … EITHER ONE HORMONE OR THE OTHER DOMINANT…CANNOT TRUST SELF, OR OTHER, OR DECISION MAKING, WHEN IN STRESSED STATE… I.E UNDER INFLUENCE OF CORTISOL … REPTILIAN LIMBIC … OVERRIDES, STARVES, FRONTAL CORTEX OF FUEL TO PROCESS DATA I.E MAKE DECISIONS…LIKE COMPUTER CPU DEPRIVED OF ELECTRICITY, WHILE SOME ‘SUB-ROUTINE’ KICKS IN ON A LOOP… A SURVIVAL LOOP
We can feel when decision is coming from a state of trust, or fear… i.e do we do it from fear rather than trust… attend to body i.e feelings i.e calm, relaxed, smiling, PARASYMPATHETIC SYSTEM REST AND RELAX…when feeling agitated, face distorted, thoughts racing more NOT BEST TIME FOR DECISION MAKING I.E OFTEN EVEN REALISE ‘I CANNOT DECIDE RIGHT NOW’… so wait… trust and love state clear i.e you know… think of 3 people you trust, who would have relevant opinion to decision, and ask each of them, PHONE THEM OR MESSAGE THEM, for their decision to inform own…best to wait until in better state… YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS do not need to be real, living people…can be imaginary i.e ask self what you think they WOULD recommend, IF you could ask them… what would Grandma HAVE said? … ‘what would baby jesus do!’… META-COGNITION…get out of own thoughts and feelings…step outside and be objective … step outside of actual self… able to be more objective from another P.O.V …
what would future self recommend? visualise self 7 years from future, stepping back in time to meet you…see her in mind … ‘if only you knew what I knew now’ … good NLP stuff
INTUITION IS wisdom from life lessons we do not consciously remember INTUITION i.e limited memory, but the ‘gist’ remains…pattern formed in sub-conscious … now ‘feel’ intuitively … i.e this matches not-conscious past pattern … so ‘feel’ this is bad, wrong, not for me… a judgement call… non-verbalised … e.g something about them was ‘off’ and so I will not trust this person…not obvious articulatable data, but ‘sense’…based on past experiences…cannot say why, but comes from all past experiences…neural networks… everything that has happened and you have observed…brain forgets nothing…but just no visual or audio or data … just the ‘meta data’… ‘I have been somewhere like this, this situation, several times before, and this is similar…
if based on actual data / facts you can recall, that is not intuition. that is logic, reason, pattern recognition. but when you cannot recall all the facts etc, it expresses itself as intuition…
When relationship is ending but you are clinging on for fear of loneliness etc i.e being single, shame of failure, but everyone else can see it, only they cannot…
MEMORIES STORED IN HIPPOCAMPUS … IN STRESSED STATE AMYGDALA (EMOTIONAL CENTER) CONNECTS WITH HIPPOCAMPUS AND BRINGS UP EVERY EXAMPLE OF WHAT FEAR ETC E.G BEING ALONE, SO IT PREVENTS YOU LEAVING BAD RELATIONSHIP, OUT OF FEAR OF FEELING THAT SAME WAY. mhr so current terrorism propaganda triggers recall of all other moments similar in nature i.e fear, so way more powerful…and if over someones life you repeatedly terrify them e.g war, false-flags, fake shootings etc…
in journal note what logic says, and what intuition says… most people defer to logic when both not aligned… DO EXPERIMENT AND GO WITH INTUITION, AND WRITE DOWN WHAT HAPPENED I.E WITH SOMETHING HARMLESS…learn to trust your intuition… use journal as statistical experiment on self…i.e choose low risk situations to ‘go with intuition’ to learn to trust it … as more powerful than logic… logic is based on assumptions that you can articulate / data you can refer to… need history of success of intuition to fall back on to convince self to over-ride logic… intutition ‘knows’ more than we do i.e WE are what we can express / articulate / pin down … but intuition has vastly greater resources of different nature
AVOID RELIANCE ON EXPERTS…listen to them, then trust own intuition…what is right for me…each person knows own body better than any expert…listen to pros and cons…then listen to intuition…
THE REAL SIXTH SENSE is called INTEROCEPTION, our sense of the physiological state of our own body i.e how we know when we are hungry, tired, need to go to loo…can keep a diary about physiological states, to become more aware of ‘The body keeps a score’ … stress somatised in body i.e posture, aches and pains… need to learn to listen to own body feedback… responses to different foods … situations…people…
practise being silent, and alone…e.g yoga … do something every day… habit…ritual… consistency of practise lets you detect what is different … some days fluid, easy, light…other days tight, tension etc can develop skill of interoception and tune into self i.e also intuition…self-awareness… some days can only lay on mat, not do routines…but even then can be valuable…like a body scan…scan entire body and feel it, then go inside brain, throat, lungs, stomach, bladder…introspection…psychonauting… get back in touch with what body telling you / saying / expressing i.e we have lost touch with our own bodies…with ourselves…
focus on breathing for 5 minutes tells you about your lungs etc
gut microbiome and brain connected biologically… ‘gut feeling’… if gut inflammed or leaky or bloated or deprived of good bacteria, has psychological impact… vagus nerve and other nerves used in both directions…send hormonal signals in both directions, cYtokine messaging via blood between both… so inside of body has big impact on ‘mind’ …
many ways to tune into self… body awareness… focus on parts of body and the feedback they are sending… journal about state of mind…brain-body connection…brain-gut connection…two way streets… focus on both …
PUSH SELF TO OXYTOSIN STATE RATHER THAN CORTISOL STATE I.E INTENTIONALLY STIMULATE HORMONES BY HOW YOU ARE THINKING I.E START FEELING GRATITUDE FOR ALL THE GOOD THINGS… THEN TUNE INTO BODY TRYING TO SENSE TENSION ETC I.E REMAIN IN BODY WHEN WAKING…DO NOT ALLOW THOUGHTS TO INTRUDE OF EXTERNAL WORLD BEYOND SENSATIONS, FEELINGS E.G SOFT PILLOW, SHEETS, THANKFUL FOR… AVOID THINKING / ATTENDING TO OUTSIDE WORLD… HAVE OWN RITUALS / HABITS ONLY TAKES A FEW MINUTES…SET YOUR HORMONE CLOCK TO OXYTOSIN NOT CORTISOL… MAKE TEA AS RITUAL CEREMONY…SACRED MOMENT… AS A FORM OF MEDITATION… CALMING… A RITUAL IS DONE INTENTIONALLY I.E NOT JUST HABIT/ROUTINE DO UNCONSCIOUSLY… REGULAR MEDITATION IS MINDFULNESS BUT MEANS REST OF DAY NOT MINDFUL…SO BRING MOMENTS OF MINDFULNESS THROUGHOUT DAY…SAVOR TEA…SACRED CEREMONY TO INDUCE MINDFULNESS…REPEATED CEREMONIES THROUGHOUT DAY… COOKING IS MINDFULNESS … THANK FOOD AND UNIVERSE FOR THE FOOD, AS PREPARING…MAKE IT A SACRED RITUAL…DO NOT COOK IN STRESSED STATE…AFFECTS FOOD AND YOU… CHANGES QUALITY OF FOOD…LIKE THOSE WATER CONTAINERS WITH DIFFERENT WORDS WRITTEN ON PAPER AND STUCK TO GLASS… HIGH LEVELS OF CORTISOL ACTUALLY LEAKS OUT OF SWEAT INTO ATMOSPHERE AROUND YOU… YOUR ELEVATED CORTISOL LEAKS OUT, PARTICLES / MOLECULES INFEST WORLD AROUND YOU… SOME COOKING FORCES YOU TO BE PATIENT I.E CALM DOWN E.G RISOTTO…CHOP FOOD SLOWLY, ATTEND TO IT…DO EVERY ACT INTENTIONALLY RATHER THAN AGITATED / STRESSED…
‘YOU COULD CUT IT WITH A KNIFE’ I.E PEOPLE FEEL HOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE INTERACTING I.E ENERGY OF ROOM BAD OR GOOD…ALL REAL… CORTISOL LEAKING OUT… OXYTOSIN LEAKING OUT…
QUARTER LIFE OF CAFFEINE I.E QUARTER OF IT STILL IN BRAIN I.E AS IF DRANK QUARTER OF A CUP… CAFFEINE AND SUGAR DRIVE AGITATION… SHE ONLY HAS ONE CUP OF TEA, AND ONLY BEFORE 10AM… STRESS AND COFFEE NOT GOOD COMBINATION…MOST IMPORTANT IS WHEN HAVE LAST CAFFEINE RE QUARTER LIFE…
ALCOHOL SUPPRESSES ABILITY TO REGULATE EMOTIONS I.E SUPPRESSED ACTIVITYU OF PRE-FRONTAL CORTEX, AND NEGATIVELY AFFECTS DECISION MAKING … DOES NOT REDUCE STRESS…KILLS OFF BRAIN CELLS AS NEURO-TOXIN… KILLS BACTERIA IN GUT LIKE ANTI-BIOTICS IN FOOD E.G ANIMAL PRODUCTS … ALSO DAMAGES SLEEP…
HEART-RATE VARIABILITY MONITORING INDICATES THAT EATING CLOSER THAN 2 HOURS BEFORE SLEEP IS AS DISRUPTIVE TO YOUR SLEEP AS DRINKING ALCOHOL BEFORE GOING TO BED… RINGS AND BRACELETS MONITOR HEART RATE, AND ITS VARIABILITY…E.G SOME PEOPLE LIKE METRONOME, WHICH IS UNHEALHTY, WHEREAS VARIABLE HEARTBEAT MUCH HEALTHIER… CORRELATES WITH SYMPATHETIC STATE RATHER THAN FIGHT OR FLIGHT…MORE ADAPTABLE… MONITORS GIVE TRENDS DOWN TO EACH 15 MINS WHETHER IN PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS, RECOVERY, LIGHT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, OR HEAVY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY…
SHE FINISHES EATING BY 8. EATS 12 TO 8. REM STRESS BEFORE DEEP SLEEP. NEED TO HAVE DIGESTED FOOD BEFORE GO TO SLEEP. BETTER TO GO TO SLEEP LATER, AS LONG AS HAVE LEFT 2 HOURS FOR FOOD TO DIGEST, AND GET 7 HOURS SLEEP … POINT IS DEEP SLEEP COMPONENT…
COFFEE BIGGEST SOURCE OF POLYPHENOLS IN AMERICAN DIET I.E GOOD IN THAT CONTEXT
SMALL AMOUNT SEEMS GOOD FOR BRAIN…SO QUESTION OF HOW MUCH, AND WHEN YOU TAKE IT
NEUROAESTHETICS IS science of impact of beauty on our mental health, health, longevity i.e on our brain and phsyiology…making or beholding creative activities good for your health…art, dance, music, both doing it and looking / watching it…singing in shower and listening to music…dance around living room or go to ballet…different benefits of making and beholding…ideally do both… we all exist in nature, so feel sense of beauty in nature, blood pressure, heart rate go down…SOME TREES SECRETE CHEMICALS CALLED PHYTONCIDES THAT BOOST NATURAL KILLER CELLS IN OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM … versus different tastes in music, most agree on beauty of nature…
beauty and creative activities beneficial to us… living in cave we were bare foot, beat drums, chanted, painted walls, viewed the stars, created products of survival…social connection … we all feel good in the forest/ in nature…hard-wired into us… get book ‘Awe’ or ‘the science of Awe’ … lowers stress, improves health on all counts…20 minutes a day of creative activity i.e making / beholding it, or being in nature, is NEUROAESTHETICS recipe…mental health HUGELY benefits from 1 hour walk in nature…physically and mentally…even huge difference between 30 minutes to one hour… and between walking in really beautiful nature versus urban park etc…
even house plants, flowers next to bed, start day with beauty…for me that would be cats…pay attention to any beauty around you…look for it…even viewing fractals lowers stress hormone cortisol…just looking at beautiful picture will lower levels of cortisol a little…not as good as real thing, but can watch nature scapes on computer or phone…mediatation images…
pandemic potentially a mental health crisis? how naive and ignorant. that was an INTENDED outcome of fake pandemic. one of them. economic wrecking. social breakdown.
terminal lucidity…people with brain damage or stroke or dementia, suddenly becoming completely lucid … can consciousness exist outside of physical body i.e damage to brain overcome by direct connection to that consciousness OUTSIDE of the brain / body…
near death experiences…heart stopped and brain starting to decay, but returned to physical life… described experiences… some children appear to remember being someone else before this life… tibetan ‘dark retreats’ … 7 days and nights, for 49 for monks, in total darkness …
mind and brain potentially separatable…brain is filtering down the mind…mind huge, but brain limits overwhelming us…i.e makes us fit for purpose for this material world…bats and dolphins render different things to us i.e wider range of consciousness i.e filters less out… can we do opposite and expand our filters to ‘open the doors of perception’… ancient wisdom…greeks and egyptian seers predicted future etc …
telepathy and extra sensory perception from neuroscience point of view i.e lens of trying to explain it to people in way that might help them… ‘The source’…
thousands of near death experiences reported…changes how they experience the world…make different decisions…new priorities… could explain through lens of visual cortex getting less oxygen i.e focussed white light shuts down periphery of vision i.e like a tunnel…tunneled vision… physiological-biological explanation, but it can be transformative experience subjectively for person who experiences it…
can use cognitive science to explain manifestation and visualisation etc
Neuroplasticity … science continually evolving… we used to believe brain, IQ, creativity, personality was fixed by time stopped growing… now know brain actively grows and changes till 25, and if take on new experiences, can keep changing brain i.e flexible i.e plastic…
FIRST YEAR MEDICAL SCHOOL PROFESSOR…50% OF WHAT YOU LEARN WILL BE SHOWN TO BE UNTRUE, THE PROBLEM IS WE DO NOT KNOW WHICH 50% … GREAT WARNING TO KEEP OPEN MIND I.E ENTERTAIN beliefs rather than dogmatically fix as ‘law’ (which brings death’ i.e LIVING WORD is open to continual change…need to be O.K with NOT ‘knowing’ anything… i.e ENTERTAINING BELIEFS…
MHR THE LIMITS ON OUR CONSCIOUSNESS MUST REMAIN UNTIL WE CAN TRUST OURSELVES, EACH OTHER, NOT TO ABUSE THE POWER WE REALLY HAVE I.E BEING CAUSE… WHO WOULD YOU TRUST TO HAVE SUCH POWER? … HOW SELF-AWARE ARE YOU OF YOUR OWN POOR ETHICS …
we default to verbal communication, but there is so much more to communication i.e what we share, and how we share our feelings and thoughts and connect … we connect in so many other ways… through touch… look at smile on face of cat or person when you caress them… even ‘talk’ to them, when clearly not using same ‘language’, the tone, pitch, INTENTION is communicated…
amazing how little children willing to sacrifice for parents after parents did so much for them i.e leaving them lonely, isolated, in home
consciousness after physical death…cannot prove but strong impression…physical? remember human RENDERING systems… physical…MHR EVERYTHING IS PHYSICAL, INCLUDING THOUGHTS…ALL HAVE A PHYSICAL CORRELATE…I.E OUR MINDS RENDER SOME THINGS AS TOUCH, TASTE, SOUND, ETC … AND OTHERS ARE NOT RENDERED BY MIND…BUT ALL PHYSICAL…
BIG CHALLENGE IS WHETHER THE ONLY REASON WE CANNOT DO SOMETHING, IS WE DO NOT THINK WE CAN I.E L.RON. HUBBARD ‘THE MASTER’ WAS THIS HUGE NLP EXPERIMENT CALLED ‘SCIENTOLOGY’… I WONDER IF ANY SCIENTOLOGIST BROKE THE BARRIERS I.E BY BELIEVING THEY COULD, THEY WERE ALLOWED TO BREAK OUT OF THE DOGMAS WE CALL ‘REALITY’ I.E ‘THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE’…
80% OF New Year’s resolutions fail by february…as too big … demanding … likely to give up… so make small resolutions i.e micro-habits each quarter instead… e.g reduce sweetener to 5 … over year will have a history of small successes, that motivates even more…motivation theory… tiny habits, small changes, sustainable …i.e behaviour change… make positive… positive self-talk… do not bash self when fail at … do not beat yourself up… talk to self as would someone you loved / cared about when ‘fail’ … in any context … what would you tell your child? why be so harsh on self…do not invest any energy in ‘beating yourself up’… masochism… do not have to do something every day … but general practise / habit … can miss days without it being important…main thing is what you tend to do…
hydration so important…always stay properly hydrated… eat healthier for gut microbiome…sleep at regular times and get enough… more recent research on benefits to health, mental, longevity…spending time in nature and having meaningful positive social connections, and having a purpose that transcends yourself…
WHY DO PEOPLE FILM FROM SIDE TO SEE YOU LOOKING AT ANOTHER CAMERA? I.E LIKE OBSERVER RATHER THAN INTERLOCUTOR…
get torrent ‘The body keeps a score’ and get book ‘Awe’ or ‘the science of Awe’ ,,,, ‘The source’
Insulin reduction is key to eradicating 75% of REAL epidemics of disease
Metabolical … book by Dr. Robert Lustig
Protect the liver, feed the gut biome
Metabolical … book by Dr. Robert Lustig
Sugar particularly egregious molecule…transfats put in food as bacteria cannot digest it i.e 20 year old twinkie…but our mitochondria are really refurbished bacteria…energy centers of our cells… so most people avoid transfats now, so sugar NEW public enemy number one… sugar only energy if you are a bomb calorimeter i.e if you explode it get 4 calories per gram… sugar poisons mitochondria … 3 enzymes necessary for mitochondria to do their job… AMP kynase is the fuel guage on the liver cell… ACADL necessary to get fatty acids into the mitochondria so they can be oxidized i.e to create energy, third enzyme involved in shuttling fatty acids into mitochondria …
consuming sugar means generate less ATP, which is what powers cells..i.e so sugar consumption inhibits bodies energy production… like CYANIDE… sugar and cyanide do same thing in principle, just at lower dosages… sugar added to almost all processed foods…which make up 52% UK diet…
all things being equal, processed calories burned less, and add more fat, than whole unprocessed foods.. also inhibits skeletal growth i.e length and width.. sugar feeds cancer cells which hijack growth…
can mitigate almost all chronic disease with real food … if do not change food, no amount of medicine can make a difference … majority of food we buy is ultra processe…tsunami of chronic ill health … but normalised … illness is new normal … and real foodies made into social pariahs…
MHR BUT ‘INVISIBLE RAINBOW’ DATA FROM FIRSTENBERG INDICATES SAME LEVELS OF SUGAR WITH DIFFERENT OUTCOMES I.E PRE AND POST ELECTRIFICATION ETC I.E EXPOSURE TO EMF
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP WAS HALF AS EXPENSIVE AS SUCROSE, STARTED IN 60S… FOOD INDUSTRY REPLACED FAT WITH SUGAR AFTER STUPID ‘AUTHORITIES’ RECOMMENDED LOW FAT DIET …
THERE ARE MANY SCIENTISTS SAYING SUGAR NOT TO BLAME…BUT YOUTUBE NEVER MENTIONS ELECTRIFICATION…
SOCIAL DRINKERS VS ALCOHOLICS … SAME FOR SUGAR JUNKIES … FIRST PASS EFFECT … 60 CALORIES IN ONE BEER OF ALCOHOL…STOMACH AND INTESTINE CAN METABOLISE THAT AMOUNT BEFORE IT HITS THE LIVER … BUT IF REPEAT, DOSE DEPENDENT PHENOMENA… NEXT DRINKS DAMAGE LIVER … BACTERIA IN INTESTINE CAN CONSUME SMALL AMOUNT OF SUGAR AND TURN IT INTO FAT VIA INTESTINAL DENOVOLIPOGENESIS… VLDL… SO DOES NOT GO STRAIGHT TO LIVER…ABOUT 10% OF INITIAL SUGAR INGESTED THUS CONVERTED INTO THIS VLDL AND TRANSFERRED TO BLOODSTREAM…PROTECTS LIVER… IF EXCEED THIS CAPACITY REST OF SUGAR ENDS UP IN SUGAR, PRODUCING EXACTLY SAME PROBLEM ALCOHOL DOES… GYCATION, OXIDATIVE STRESS, MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION, AND DRIVES INSULIN RESISTANCE WHICH IS AT BASE OF VIRTUALLY ALL CRHONIC METABOLIC DISEASES… THEREFORE PANCREAS HAS TO MAKE EXTRA INSULIN TO HELP LIVER DO ITS JOB, SO INSULIN LEVELS RISE ALL OVER BODY…INCREASING RISK FOR VIRTUALLY EVERY CHRONIC METABOLIC DISEASE UNDERLYING ALMOST EVERY ‘MODERN’ (MHR N.B KEY ‘MODERN’ RE ELECTRICITY AND EMF!!!) PANDEMIC DISEASE…FRUCTOSE IS SWEET MOLECULRE IN SUGAR THAT HAS SAME EFFECT AS ALCOHOL…A LITTLE SUGAR THUS O.K…BUT ONCE OVERWHELM BACTERIA IN INTESTINE, DOING DAMAGE…
3 a-ha moments…for Dr. Robert Lustig… child brain tumour survivors became massively obese after being normal weight before the tumour…now massively obese…hypothalamic obesity…1901 ‘discovery’… challenge was to get them to lose weight…diet and exercise was useless… father of obesity research in 1975 fed them 500 calories a day for a month, but their weight went UP… how?… because body adapts to input of calories i.e metabolism of calories had come to virtual stop after the tumor…parents horrified as kids lost interest in everything, just sat and slept… hormone Leptin discovered 1994 at Rockefeller university…trying to clone the hormone out of mice … succeeded in 1994… Lustig considered kids had Leptin resistance, because their hypothalamus was killed by tumor, or surgery, or radiation, so their brain could not see the Leptin…brain thought they were starving… kids made a lot of insulin… animal studies showed that if damage hypothalamus enormous amounts of insulin produced, but could stop that by cutting Vagus nerve from brain to pancreas…then insulin would go down… but too drastic for humans, so found drug to inhibit insulin release…to suppress insulin release…repurposed…gave to kids, and they started losing weight, when never could before… and started exercising spontaneously … very sporty now, when before sat and slept ‘Oh my god, i got my kid back’ ‘first time out of the cloud since the tumour’ had changed their relationship to the world … double blind placebo controlled trial showed the lower they could reduce insulin, the more weight they lost, and more active they were… turns first law of thermodynamics on its head… standard interpretation total energy inside closed system remains constant, cannot be created or destroyed just shifted around… in medical school taught if you eat it, must burn it, or will store it as fat…i.e fat gain secondary to problems of eating and burning i.e gluttony and sloth…so gluttony and sloth problem i.e behaviour is to blame…but in these kids was exactly the opposite… high insulin level leads to obligate weight gain…storage is primary…behaviours secondary result of Leptin resistance i.e become BECOME fat and lazy / slothful BECAUSE of the high insulin levels (which are experienced as weight gain) … so inverse relationship
now focus on getting insulin reduction, rather than weight loss … WOW … which is what fasting does … and eliminating sugars and starches …
29 mins he was asked to give talk on what he thought to be the single most important environmental exposure that leads to obesity and metabolic syndrome … children today get two diseases they never got before … type 2 diabetes and fatty liver disease… before none, now lots of kids get it … origins and causation… in old days before pandemic of chronic diseases started, both those diseases were diseases of alcohol…but kids do not drink…so what are they exposed to that is LIKE alcohol…answer is fructose… fructose and alcohol metabolised virtually identically… think where does alcohol come from …fermentation of fructose…we call it wine… big difference is that in alcohol, yeast performs first step of metabolism i.e glycolosis, wheareas in our system our bodies perform this first step of metabolism, so that whether your body starts from i.e ingests a substrate of ethanol or fructose i.e ingest alcohol or fructose in sugar or fruit juice etc produce same outcomes i.e mitochondria see same product, with same health outcomes … fatty liver disease and type two diabetes… so fructose ingestion effectively as toxic as alcohol …
3rd a-ha was colleagues…studying sugar…looking at paper trail of food industry in 60s, showed that food industry paid off scientists to exonerate sugar and finger fat as ‘bad guy’… follow the money … proved sugar industry put thumb on scale to exonerate their product… data had already been coming out…’pure white and deadly’… people starting to look more closely at sugar…so needed huge PR campagain… corrupted / paid off people to write review articles and take attention from sugar, to blame fat…its all a scam… whole things a put up job…so he wrote METABOLICAL …
my book stated this alcohol-fructose connection…but now can update it and ‘explain why’ etc
40% social drinkers, 10% binge, 10% hard core alcoholics… 40% never drink… probably will end up same with fructose…
medicine ‘treating symptoms’ works too far ‘downstream’ from the sources … so far away cannot see the source, the root cause … need to run insulin reduction clinics, as root cause of 75% chronic disease in the world…could eliminate (ASSUMING IT IS NOT EMF IMPACTING OUR NERVOUS SYSTEMS, HORMONE SYSTEMS, METABOLISM…WHICH ELECTRON TRANSPORT CHAIN UNDERSTANDING ALLOWS YOU TO SEE ‘HOW’ IT COULD…ELECTRICAL INTERFERENCE WITH OUT BIO-ELECTRICAL SYSTEM…
PROTECT THE LIVER, AND FEED THE GUT … BASIS OF YOUR DIET … 40 MINS
MATCHING SYMPTOMS WITH DIAGNOSIS WITH TREATMENT IS TRADITIONAL MEDICAL TRAINING … TREATING SYMPTOMS WITH MEDICATION AND/OR CHEMO…CHRONIC DISEASE DOES NOT FIT INTO THAT… 8 CHRONIC DISEASES HAVE COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER MODERN MEDICINE….
Protect the liver, feed the gut biome
75% of all health care costs spent on these 8 chronic diseases have completely taken over modern medicine…type 2 diabetes, hypertension, fatty liver disease, dyslepodemia, cardio vascular disease, cancer, dementia, polysystic ovarian disease… NONE HAVE A CURE or even real treatment, but all ALL HAVE same PREVENTION… same problem just in different organs…hateful 8…not taught in medical school…Glycation, oxidative stress, insulin resistance, mitochrondrial dysfuntion, membrane instability, inflammation, methylation, authophagy… all normal processes speeded up or slowed down by what you eat… if control all 8 you will be 110 playing tennis…when lose control, 40 year old in wheelchair on dyalysis waiting for stroke… none of these have cure or treatment…only prevention… so Doctors really unable to help most patients…unable to address these 8 root causes…putting bucket under leaking roof … fix the leak… if do not will not have a house… these 8 either produce illness or health… fix chemical leak upstream, rather than use water filter downstream on your tap… these diseases disable people, overwhelming healthcare system… root cause is DIET…AS EVERY PHILOSOHER WHO APPROACHED SUBJECT OF PHYSICAL HEALTH ARGUED THROUGHOUT HISTORY…7 year old with pre-diabetes, was not happening 25 years ago…what is causing this? … did sugar etc consumption go up over last 25 years? or was it 5G, no-one at all talking of manmade EMF… people NOT dying in countries with real food? i.e third world countries had lowest death rates during lockdowns… do they own 5G phones? check mortality rates…only developed nations had ‘high mortality rates’… this guy pushing virus narrative, but still exposing interesting fact (he spins them of course…covid mortality…3 demographics … people of color, obese, pre-existing conditions were top death rates ‘covid’…THEY BOTH FOCUSED ON DIET,… I.E WHETHER OR NOT DIED ‘OF COVID’…obesity rates climbed with introduction of electrical grid etc
!!!!!! VIRUS IS VERY SMART ??? EVERY CELL IN BODY HAS RECEPTOR THAT HELPS REGULATE WATER WITHIN THE CELLS …ACE2 Angiotensin converting Enzyme 2 … ENDOCRINE RECEPTOR…INVOLVED IN WATER TRANSPORT… virus uses that protein as its injector point? high insulin leads to water retention via ACE2… more water means higher risk covid ???
Diabetes high blood glucose crystallises around edges of ACE2, holding them open, so virus can inject its RNA ???
Short chain fatty acids come from fiber digestion in gut… suppress / improves cytakine response…cytakine response is what kills you…nuclear blast affecting all cells when trying to get rid of foreign invader… so fiber is anti-inflammatory and improves insulin sensitivity…fiber removed to increase shelf life of processed foods…
such a joke ‘if you had an existing condition about to kill you, Covid killed you’ … how convenient for official narrative! and how stupid can homo fideo be!
if you think ‘Cheetos’ is food ??? real food is food you can identify every ingredient of just by looking at it…or knowing what YOU put into it… if YOU do not know EXACTLY what is in it, and in what AMOUNTS, it is NOT real food… pretty simple… also includes white sugar, white flour based flours…starch is almost sugar, for health purposes… though potatoes good starch if I recall? …
need to make sure parents can AFFORD real food! and learn how to prepare it so THEY want it, and kids see THEM eat it, they eat it, and friends eat it… see one, do one, teach one … vs just tell people what to do …MODEL for them…see, do, teach others…
would your grandparents recognise it as food? ultra-processed food normalised … just because you can ingest it, like lead, does not make it food! … Real food came out of the ground…you can GROW real food in your garden… NOVA system re degree of processing… what’s been done to the food that matters… turns from food into poison…
class one is apple, class two is apple slices class 3 is apple sauced class 4 is apple pie NOVA system… only the class 4 foods associated with chronic disease … so eat whole apple … once ‘pied’ have added sugar and removed fiber…at heart of problem… adding sugar floods the liver…can only metabolise small amount… similar to amount of alcohol can metabolise…metabolism of sugar and alcohol virtually the same…live cannot handle onslaught so turns extra into fat…enzymes in liver convert sugar into fat…3 enzymes in concert do this … DENOVOLIPOGENESIS…these enzymes driven by excess substrate of fructose then turned into astreocola by glycolisis… goal is protect the liver… liver makes fat which precipitates, so get fatty liver, insulin resistance, and chronic metabolic disease…
feed the gut…microbiome… probiotics try to restore microbiome…microbiome talks to brain…probiotics are bacteria…but does not work…no disease yet has been attentuated, ameliorated, or cured, by administration of a probiotic… probiotics are live cultured bacteria in pill…you swallow…bacteria would have to populate intestine and contribute to microbial diversity…so why do you have to keep taking them? should only need one…not every day… so clearly just pass straight through or die immediately in intestine, for same reason you needed them…the milleu is NOT conducive to their survival and reproduction… any you eat will suffer same fate… unless was temporary shock that killed of previously…which stats suggest was not case i.e probiotics do not work…need to change intestinal millieu first, with PRE-BIOTIC which is food for the bacteria so they CAN Grow…natures perfect pre-biotic is fiber…it is not food for you…food for bacteria…we took fiber out of food to increase shelf-life, so no starving the bacteria of the food they need to live in symbiosis with us…bad bacteria take over, supressing serotonin generation in intestine, reducing antrograde transport of serotonin back to brain a.k.a DEPRESSION …BACTERIA EAT THE MUCIN LAYER OF INTESTINES…leaky gut…inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome, insulin resistance…all because didn’t feed gut… increased intestinal permeability of gut i.e leaky gut, associated with auto immune disease, food allergies, alzheimers, depression all associated with increased intestinal permeablity…
before worry about diet specifics, REMOVE ALL processed foods… Vegan fine, *but don’t make others feel bad about their choices? sell your own slaves, but do not bother other slave owners…lots of pro reasons…but ETHICAL VEGAN can mean unhealthy plant based diet i.e processed vegan foods… ETHICAL AND HEALTH VEGAN means give up processed foods…
insulin blocks lipolysis at the level of the fat cell…
he literally used the most horrific violent language ‘there are many ways to skin this cat’ … not long after his quip that great for you to stop torturing people, but do not go trying to stop your neighbour torturing to their hearts content…does that work for not building radioactive weapons? Good to stop doing it, but do not go round telling others NOT to do it!!! Dr Robert Lustig. I do NOT find him ‘funny’ at all… again, salvaging valuable stuff from general garbage
Apple JUICE is TERRIBLE for you… sometimes they even sweeten apple juice with sugar… Apple in blender? was whole fruit…now not…fiber is NOT one thing… it is TWO things… one is soluable e.g inulin or pectin (plant jelly, hydrogel in cream cheese)… insoluable fiber is string in celery i.e cellulose e.g cardboard… it is the soluable fiber we want…real food has both… when put apple in blender, you shred the insoluable fiber to smitherines so it is no longer functional in gut… a working fishnet catches fish, but kelp, seaweed, can block the wholes…insoluable fiber is like fish net, insoluable fiber is like seaweed… colander with petroleum jelly spread all around inside, water does NOT run through…barrier… if someone cuts fish net no barrier… insoluable fiber forms lattice work on inside of intestine…soluable fiber plug wholes in lattice work, forming whitish gel on inside of intestine… a secondary barrier preventing early absorbption of glucose, fructose, sucrose, simple starches, so do not overwhelm liver … liver stays healthy, not full of fat… blended apple juice has benefit of soluable fiber, but not the protective effect of liver i.e the net…throw a cardinal health benefit in garbage…
sugar sweetened beverages disasterous…quantitation of number of deaths due to softdrinks alone…
diet drinks? no fructose, no calories…??? so ??? studies suggest put something sweet on tongue, brain gets message sugar coming, signals pancreas ‘release the insulin’… but no sugar in blood stream… diet drinks sensitive pancreas to make MORE rather than less insulin… also you will eat more in afternoon and evening if you cut out early due to diet drinks…you make it up later???
certain diet sweeteners alter gut micro biome in way that contributes to leaky gut…sucralose a.k.a slenda…Fat cells i.e adiposites have receptors for diet sweeteners…can cause fat deposition in the fat irrespective of insulin ???
metanalysis…toxicity of one coke equals toxicity of two diet cokes…i.e just half as bad…not good at all…but people drinking diet sodas might tend to drink more of them…
88% of americans have degree of metabolic dysfunction,… metabolic syndrome… thin people think doing fine…think scale speaks the truth…only tells you your weight…who cares…irrelevant… scales lie… there are 3 separate fat depos that contribute differentially to your health… ONE is visible sub-cutaneous fat e.g ‘do I look fat in this?’…subcutaneous fat is cosmetic, but metabolically inert…visible storage of energy for famine…innate expansive capacity up to point… can carry 10kg subcutaneous fat 22 pounds, before you will get into trouble i.e you will have overexpanded those cells which choke off and die, release their will have recruited macrophages to clean up the grease locally, and released cytokines into bloodstream which will go into systemic circulation…requires a lot of grease to produce a large enough concentration of grease to activate cytokine response in liver and produce insulin resistance… that’s 10kg of visible fat before you get sick… depo number 2 is visceral a.k.a ‘beer belly’ fat… fat from STRESS…NOT BEER…belly (visceral) fat is through CORTISOL… STRESS, TERROR, FEAR, ANXIETY… when admit people to hospital for suicidal etc see high cortisol and belly/visceral fat, which drains directly into portal vein, not systemic circulation, so directly into liver, and so a small amount of belly fat will generate enough cytokines for liver to ‘see’ it because concentrated, not diluted over entire volume of distribution of systemic (system wide) circulation… so only 2 to 3kg of belly fat (5 to 6 pounds) is dangerous… EYES TELL TRUTH THIS TIME, NOT SCALE… liver fat is 3rd depo…most eggregious fast…only half a pound of liver fat leads to metabolic dysfuntion and liver resistance…weight scale will NOT reveal this… liver fat result of sugar…i.e mainlining fat directly into organ most suspectible to the problem…and invisible to the eye…does not register on scales… people can be THIN and have metabolic dysfunction…from liver fat, due to sugar or alcohol consumption…doctors ignoring this…
thin on the outside, fat on the inside … typical ‘dad belly’ … where fat exclusively around waist…and this leads to bad health outcomes… TRUST YOUR EYES… shame will save your health … your brain HATES your belly fat, it is FEEDBACK … anyone can see
sugar down regulates receptors on tongue i.e habituation… 20% of children have liver fat unrelated to obesity i.e from auto accident autopsies…not at all fat visibly…
sugar leads to changes in behaviour…inhibits enzyme in brain enzymes in astrocites called glutomein synthatase turns glutomate into glutomaine which goes to GABA which is inhibitory neurotransmitter…glutomate is excitory neuro transmitter…these need to be balanced i.e between excitation and inhibition…sugar breaks that balance…associated with irritability, cognition problems, dementia, violence, prefrontal cortex thickness changes, school behaviour, … associations clear, HOW does i.e causation still yet to be proven… in humans…but in animals yes…
Caprisonne and fruit juices TERRIBLE for kids… kids can look great, but be on way to health problems due to diet…
must address root of problem, not symptoms / manifestations of REAL problem…doctors not TRAINED to do this… just act like AI to match medication to symptom or group of symptoms i.e syndrome
doctors have gone on trial for challenging health system official narratives… require a revolution…30s and 40s antibiotic revolution…pill to treat everything…now realise that was a mistake…need to rethink health and healthcare i.e diet is root of health or disease… last 50 years propaganda must be turned over… re-think all of modern medicine… METABOLICAL … Robert Lustig… many problems with medical training … famous quote … 50% of everything we teach you is wrong, we just do not know WHICH 50% … common statement said to medical students by clinical medical physician… this is the 50% …
Dr Pradip Jamnadas fasting notes
Key benefits of fasting in patients of cardiologist…tried everything…fasting works…weight loss, blood pressure down, diabetes reversed, progression of heart disease falls i.e even surgery does not work… rehospitalisation decreased…mental improvements… patients had stronger muscles, less falls, less hospital visits…less visists to ER with acute heart attacks…
tough sell to patients…and takes time…must get patients to make changes advised…not tools or tablets, they must make effort…need to change way they think…convince them it is worth trying … most Drs too busy…dealing with disease symptoms / processes not prevention… they take a lot of convincing… ask about life, how wake up, how feel , relationships, what is your purpose…all affects diet…fasting about whole life… are you empowered or slave to cravings, advertising, routines, habits… you are not your habits or your body and mind…there is an awareness inside you…need to target it, empower it…empower you… hard for most physicians and dieticians…hard sell… have to motivate…give expectatons ‘you can do it’…
putting stent in heart success dependent on factors patient has no control over…need to put them back in control…patient can be educated, but needs to take personal responsibility…be empowered with tools THEY Can employ… each success builds their empowerment, take back control… fasting opens up aspects of lifestyle they otherwise do not look at… opens up introspection i.e what is driving me to this place… self-control…deeper thinking…living consciously…lucidly… self-awareness… self-imposed scarcity in one area of life i.e self-deprivatoin… MINDFULNESS … food is addiction… instant reward cycle… dopamine centers primed for addiction from young age… addicted society… dopamine nation… book… once slip into one addiction, primed for the next i.e every other… need to look at whole life… other addictions…sugar, caffeine, social media, nicotine, porn…
fasting allows body to enter what were once normal cleansing cycles…but we continue eating… fat from a meal meant to be stored TEMPORARILY for rest of day, to burn then… first stored in liver, then in body tissues… we are adapted to FEEDING AND FASTING CYCLES… but we just eat… it has become habit… insuling levels stay high all the time…stimulating insuline productoin…never gets chance to come down, so body always in storage mode…we eat too frequency…insuline supposed to rise and fall, rise and fall…if stays high, develop insulin resistance…habituation…insensitivity… becoming insulin resistance, and higher and higher insulin levels…
bring insuline levels down and heart patients did so much better… each time after faster body makes less insulin next time eat… reduce insulin resistance / insensitivity…
in medicine ‘essential’ or ‘endopathic’ means we do not clearly know the cause i.e something that just happens… insulin prevents blood vessels from dilating … fasting reduces blood pressure…insulin increases blood pressure…causes nitric oxide depletion in blood vessels…it is the natural vasal dilator, endogenous product that makes blood vessels dilate… walk into cold room blood vessels restrict, go into hot room, they dilate…key to blood pressure regulation…vaso restriction and vaso dilation… Nobel Prize to ‘discoverer’… insulin down and nitric oxide production increases … clear relationship… patients can bring blood pressure down themselves…by fasting… exercise also helps nitric oxide production…
insulin is storage molecule…levels must fall before fat can be burned…i.e fat available for metabolism… fasting lowers insulin, allows fat to burn…do not end up with saggy skin also i.e body consumes the collagen of the unneeded skin too… i.e other methods lead to horrible saggy skin i.e low calorie diet over many meals… i.e snacking terribly wrong in clinical experience…if lose any weight that way always comes back, person miserable, hungry all the time… fasting patients look happy and energetic after 2 days fasting… better than every before, sleeping better…it is empowering too…gives power back to person… self empowered… personal responsibility… back in control… fasting produces BDNF Brain D Neurotropic Factor … when fasting, brain more alert, rejuvenated, can grow new brain cells in prolonged fasting… more wide eyed and busy tailed…happy…either as allowing natural processes to kick in … or could argue it is survival mechanism i.e you NEED to be more alert, vibrant, to ‘find NEXT meal’…
inflammation… CRP blood test for inflammation…microinflammation in blood vessels…inflammatory marker…statins brings some CRP levels…fasting much better…inflammation in joints improves…stomach feels better… less bloating, bowel movements better, less gassy, no post-eating fatigue when do eat… when break fast…
Hormone Dependant Lipase
TIP: we are conditioned to think we must eat regular meals… fasting is GOOD for almost everyone in every measure… your brain / stimulated by gut biome, produces GRELLIN around the times you associate with food, like PAVLOV’s dogs salivating when hear bell…stimulus response conditioning… BUT HUNGER DISSAPPEARS IN AROUND ONE HOUR … SO TRICK IS TO IGNORE, TAKE PERSONAL CONTROL … I AM NOT MY HUNGER I AM ABOVE ALL THIS … ASSERT SELF- CONTROL AND I AM NOT MY URGES ETC … REPLACE THIS PURPOSEFUL ACTION WITH SOMETHING EQUALLY PURPOSEFUL…DISTRACT SELF FROM HUNGER…IT WILL PASS…THIS IS KEY TO ENDURING…KNOWING IT WILL PASS…WITHIN AN HOUR… IT DOES NOT KEEP INCREASING, THE LONGER YOU FAST…THE EXACT OPPOSITE…BODY ACCEPTS, AND GOES INTO KETOSIS I.E YOU ARE NOT THE HUNGER, THE CRAVING, I AM SOMETHING BEYOND MY HUNGER, MY BODY, MY HABITS…I AM IN CHARGE… BODY IS ADAPTED TO SCARCITY… INFREQUENT MEALS WITH LONG TIME BETWEEN… BEFORE FARMING…MOST OF OUR HISTORY PRE-FARMING… IRREGULAR MEALS…
GRELLIN LEVELS STAY UP AROUND AN HOUR, WILL COME BACK DOWN, WAIT IT OUT…DRINK WATER…GO FOR WALK, ENGAGE MIND I.E KEEP BUSY, DO CHORES AT ‘LUNCH’ TIME… TIME USUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH EATING, OR SMOKING ETC, CAN NOW RE-PROGRAM / RE-ASSOCIATE WITH ALTERNATIVE PURPOSEFUL ACTION… FOR ME, MIGHT BE HUNGRY, AND IF I GO OUT SCAVENGING AROUND 1PM *AFTER FASTING SINCE NIGHT BEFORE, ONCE START WALKING, AND GOING THROUGH GARBAGE, NO LONGER FEEL HUNGRY…MIGHT GET BACK HOURS LATER AND DO NOT FEEL HUNGRY EVEN AT THE USUAL 4 TO 5… REALLY NOW I EAT MORE THAN WOULD, BECAUSE I HAVE IT, FROM THE GARBAGE / DUMPSTERS ETC I DO NOT BUY ANY FOOD AT ALL…HAVE NO BOUGHT ANYTHING SINCE LAST MARKED-DOWN PROTEIN POWDER BOUGHT PROBABLY A YEAR AGO NOW…STILL HAVE…HOPEFULLY HAS NOT GONE BAD…
I AM NOT THE HUNGER … EVEN THE BODY … LEARN TO BE THE MASTER, NOT THE SERVANT, OF YOUR CRAVINGS, ETC
CURRENCY OF KETONES SPENT ONLY WHEN CLYCOGEN IN LIVER CONSUMED, THEN WHEN KETONIC, GET SOME EUPHORIA, FEEL GOOD, AFTER RUNNING OR EXERCISING ON EMPTY STOMACH…WE ALL MAKE KETONES… WE EAT SO FREQUENCY TURN KETONES OFF… TERRIBLE FOR HEALTH…2 OR 3 TIMES PER WEEK NEED TO BECOME SIGNIFICANTLY KETONIC…KETOGENESIS IS ADAPTATION… THE LESS CARBS AND SUGARS AND PROCESSED FOODS, SIMPLE STARCHES, BODY WILL START MAKING KETONES EARLIER I.E 15 TO 16 HOURS FAST… THIS IS WHEN ‘FEEL’ IT… DIFFERENT CHEMISTRY IN BODY…MULTIPLE BENEFITS…WHOLE NEW BIOCHEMISTRY ACTIVATED…ANABOLIC (PUTTING ON) VS CLEANING UP, BECOMING EFFICIENT… REPARATIVE PROCESSES KICK IN AT HIGHER LEVEL WHEN FASTING…BLOOD PRESSURE DOWN, BOWELS AND JOINTS BETTER, LOOK BETTER, ALL INDICATORS BETTER, LESS CANCER, LIVE LONGER… aUTHOPHAGY CELLS RECYLE OWN INNER PARTS, AND MITOCHONDRIA DO SAME I.E MITOPHAGY I.E MITOCHRONDRIA EAT SELF… DIGEST SELF… BREAK DOWN AND RECYCLE AND REPLACE…REMEMBER MITOCHONDRIA SELF-CONTAINED BACTERIAL ORGANISM WITHIN OUR CELLS… MHR I GUESS WHAT THEY EXRETE IS WHAT WE CALL ENERGY…THIS WAS NATURAL LIFE CYCLE BEFORE MODERN ABUNDANCE OF FAT, SUGAR, ETC
MY MEMORY IS THAT PHILOSOPHERS ALWAYS DEBUNKED MEDICINE, AND SAW REAL MEDICINE AS DIET…AND SELF-CONTROL / DISCIPLINE, WHICH IS KEY TO FASTING…
IMMUNITY, STEM CELLS, GUT MICROBIOME, FASTING POSITIVE IMPACT ON ALL… STEM CELL MOBILIATION after BREAK FAST…GO INTO CIRCULATION, GO TO PARTS OF BODY…ALREADY TAGGED WITH MESSAGES OF WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO, GO EXACTLY WHERE NEEDED, CREATED NEW CELLS AND REPAIR BODY, REMOVE SENESCENT CELLS…
GROWTH HORMONE PLUMMETS AFTER AGE 30…MUSCLE BUILDING…GROWTH HORMONE SKYROCKETS WHEN FASTING MORE THAN IF TOOK SHOTS…IF EXERCISE IN FASTING STATE PROBABLY PUT ON MORE STATE IN FASTING STATE…EXERCISE WHILE FASTING, SEEMS TO CONTRADICT WATER FASTERS…BUT I GUESS THIS IS SHORT TERM FASTING EACH DAY, NOT LONGER TERM STUFF THAT DOCTOR DOES…
apoptosis, stem cell production, growth hormone, production all activated by fasting…either as this is process eating GETS IN THE WAY OF, or the body responds to the challenge to ensure we are more CAPABLE of FINDING THE NEXT MEAL… sort of motivating body by IRREGULAR REWARD STRUCTURes…SAME WITH PEOPLE IN WORK ETC…
CUT OUT USUAL SUGARS…BEFORE START FASTING… AS OTHERWISE START OF FAST CAN BE UNCOMFORTABLE…WE CONSUME 20 TEASPOONS A DAY IN ONE FORM OR OTHER…SUGAR IS MANUFACTURED…ARTIFIICAL…A POISOIN FOR BODY…ALL PROCESSED FOODS WITH BAR CODE, MADE IN FACTOR, PULVERISED, MADE INTO A POWDER…EAT FOODS IN NATURAL WHOLE FORM…CHANGE DIET TO WHOLE FOODS BEFORE START FASTING…ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET…MUST BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY EVERYTHING ON YOUR PLATE…WHAT IT IS MUST BE OBVIOUS…NO BREAD, BAGLES, PASTRY, PASTA, NOTHING THAT COMES IN BOX…EAT NATURAL DIET…AS MUCH AS YOU WANT OF RIGHT FOOD…FOR 2 TO 3 WEEKS BEFORE START FASTING… THEN WHEN FAST WILL NOT BE UNCOMFORTABLE…STEP TWO IS SKIP MEALS IF FEEL CAN MANAGE… SKIP BREAKFAST ONE DAY, ONE DAY SKIP LUNCH, ONE DAY SKIP DINNER… YOU MANAGED THAT…BIT OF HUNGER, YOU GOT THROUGH IT…SKIP MEALS RANDOMLY… THEN INTRODUCE MEAL WINDOWS I.E 18 HOURS FAST, CAN EAT FOR OTHER 6 HOURS…NO CALORIES…CAN DRINK TEA OR COFFEE WITH NO SWEETENER OR MILK… MOST MEALS EVER ALLOW IS 3… NO SNACKING…LATER 3 DAYS A WEEK EAT JUST ONE MEAL… MOST PATIENTS CAN DO THIS… HIGHER SUCCESS RATE IF GRADUALLY INTRODUCE…THEN FINALLY 3 DAY WATER FAST…
OVER 80% AMERICANS NOT IN GOOD METABOLIC HEALTH… NOTE MOST PEOPLE COMING TO FASTING HAD REAL HEALTH SHOCKS…HIGHLY MOTIVATED BY FEAR OF TERRIBLE HEALTH FATES… HEART ATTACKS, CORONARY HEART DISEASE I.E HIGHLY MOTIVATED… HAVE HAD 2 STENTS ALREADY… BUT MANY ASYMPTOMATIC AND PASS STRESS TEST…A CT SCAN OF CALCIUM BUILDUP IN CORONARY ARTERIES…SCAN REVEALS WHAT STRESS TESTS DO NOT…BLOCKAGE IN ARTERY CAUSED BY CALCIUM MUST BE MORE THAN 70% TO REDUDE THE BLOOD FLOW IN IT…
ASCEMIC HEART DISEASE…
POSITIVE STRESS TEST USES EXERCISE OR CHEMICALS THAT SIMULATE EXERCISE… CAN TELL US CONSEQUENCES OF BLOCKAGE I.E IF IT IS MORE OR LESS THAN 70%… IF OVER 70% CAN REDUCE BLOOD FLOW…PICKED UP ON STRESS TEST… MORE LIKELY TO FEEL EFFECTS OF LACK OF CIRCULATION… YOU CAN PASS STRESS TEST I.E HAVE CALCIUM LADEN BLOCKAGE LESS THAN 70%, AND STILL HAVE NO OTHER SYMPTOMS…BUT STILL GET HEART ATTACK WITHIN ONE OR TWO YEARS… SO LOOK FOR QUANTITIATVE MEASURE OF CALCIUM IN ARTERIES…OVER 100 SIGNIFICANT, OVER 400 CRITICAL I.E LOTS OF CALCIUM IN WALLS OF ARTERIES…ATHEROSCLEROSIS…CORONARY CALCIUM BEST PREDICTOR OF I.E MORE ACCURATETHAN ALL OTHER BLOOD TESTS PUT TOGETHER, OF HEART ATACK, STROKE, DEATH, CORONARY EVENT …. THIS IS STICK TO MOTIVATE CHANGES I.E LEADING TO FASTING…
ATHEROSCLEROSIS IS BUILD UP OF PLAQUE ALONG INTERNAL WALLS … CALCIUM IS SURROGATE FOR THE PLAQUE BUILDUP, CAN NARROW INSIDE OF PIPE AND LACK OF BLOOD FLOW, SO MUSCLE DEPRIVED OF BLOOD, PRODUCING HEAVINESS, TIGHTNESS IN CHEST, CHEST PAIN I.E ANGINA…
mETABOLIC SYNDROME IS DERANGEMENT OF METABOLISM…OVERWEIGHT BMI GREATER THAN 25, WEIGHT IS AROUND BELLY…RATIO OF WAIST TO BELLY…HDL CHOLESTEROL LOW, TRIGLYCERIDES HIGH, BORDERLINE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE…INSULIN IS COMMON FACT THAT LOWERS ALL OF THESE… ABDOMINAL FAT… INSULIN PUTS FAT INTO LIVER, PANCREAS, AND VISCERAL GUT, VERY DIFFERENT TO THE FAT PUT ON AROUND TOTAL BODY…
NOTE NOT NOTE FATS PRODUCED UNDER INFLUENCE ON INSULIN, BY LIVER, DURING NOVOLIPOGENESIS …NEW FATS THAT ARE CREATED…GLUCOSE CONVERTED INTO STORAGE PRODUCT, THAT FAT , IS DEPOSITED IN LIVER, PANCREAS, AND VISCERAL GUT…ITS VERY INFLAMMATORY… ITS COMPOSISION IS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT TO FAT STORED AROUND BODY IN GENERAL…BIOPSY SHOWS INFLAMMATORY CELLS IN IT PRODUCING TONS OF INTERLUKIN 6 AND OTHER TERRIBLE STUFF…METABOLIC SYNDROME BIOCHEMISTRY SHOWS SMALL DENSE LDL PARTICLES INDICATIVE OF INFLAMMATION… ANOTHER MOTIVATION FOR PEOPLE TO ENTER FASTING PROGRAM… WEIGHT IS SIDE EFFECT OF METABOLISM GONE WRONG… LOSE WEIGHT AS SIDE EFFECT OF REBALANCING METABOLISM…
METABOLIC DERANGEMENT… LIKE LUNACY OF CULTS E.G CO2VID CULT, STATE TERRORISM…
CHILDREN WITH METABOLIC DERANGEMENT TODAY…AT AGE 16… CHILDREN NOW HAVE ADULT HEALTH PROBLEMS…EVEN UNDER AGE OF 10 EARLY INDICATORS PRESENT…
RYE BREADS HEALTHIER GLYCAEMIC INDEX I.E DO NOT SPIKE INSULIN AS MUCH I.E LIKE EATING WHITE BREAD TOAST … LIKE SUGAR…
BIG LINK BETWEEN HEART DISEASE, RENAL FAILURE (KIDNEY DISEASE), ALZHEIMERS…REALLY AFFECTS EVERYTHING…ALZHEIMER DEMENTIAL SKYROCKETING…VASCULAR…WHAT IS YOUR ARTERIAL AGE?… BUT OUT BREAD…HARD SELL… OR MOVE TO SOURDOUGH BREAD AT LEAST A BIT BETTER IMPACT ON GUT MICROBIOME…
WHAT YOU DO FOR HEAR, KEEPS EYESIGHT, KIDNEYS, BACK PROBLEMS, JOINT DISEASES…
KEY IS MOTIVATION…BRAIN IN CONTROL… YOU IN CONTROL OF BRAIN…. NEED TO FIND RESONANCES IN OTHERS…IT MUST RESONATE IN THEM… GET THEM OFF INSULIN BIG ACHIEVEMENT… 25 UNITS TWICE A DAY TO NOTHING… SO DIABETES , COME OFF STATTINS I.E CHOLESTEROL DRUG..
REASON FOR THE CHANGE IN DIET BEFORE THE FASTING, IS SO THEY GET OVER THE WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS DURING THE CHANGEOVER TO THE HEALTHY DIET, AND NOT DURING THE FASTING I.E NO POINT GOING COLD TURKEY AND STARTING FASTING AT THE SAME TIME… MOST PEOPLE THINK THE WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS ARE DUE TO THE FASTING, BUT REALLY JUST WITHDRAWAL SYSTEMS FROM SUGAR, CAFFEINE, ETC… AND DETOXING EFFECTS WOULD JUST EXACERBATE… GET 7 HOURS OF SLEEP… GRADUAL WITHDRAWAL FROM SUGAR, STARCH ETC FIRST, THEN ONCE THROUGH THAT, CAN ENJOY FASTING WITHOUT HAVING TO DEAL WITH DOUBLE WHAMMY CHALLENGES…
FIRST BUILD UP WITH NATURAL FOODS, AND ELIMINATION OF ALL NON-FOOD I.E JUNK, INCLUDING PROCESSED ANYTHING, ESPECIALLY ANYTHING WITH ADDED SUGAR…WHITE BREAD, ALL THOSE THINGS HE ELIMINATES, HE FINDS IT WORKS OVER 3 WEEKS WITH MOST PATIENTS…
WITHDRAWAL IS MENTAL I.E PAVLOVIAN REFLEX CONDITIONING…OTHER IS TRUE BIOCHEMICAL ADDICTION AT THE LEVEL OF THE BRAIN…NEED TO CLEAR UP THESE TWO ADDICTIONS… MANY PATIENTS DO FEEL TERRIBLE, SWEATING, INTENSE CRAVINGS, JUST LIKE HEROINE WITHDRAWAL… THAT TAKES 3 WEEKS IN HIS EXPERIENCE…AT END OF 3 WEEKS THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH, AND NOW READY FOR FIRST 18 HOURS FASTING…WITHDRAWALS ARE REAL I.E SUGAR CLEARLY ADDICTIVE, AND ALSO DAIRY PRODUCTS (CASEIOMORPHINE CASEO MORPHINE IN MILK IS ADDICTIVE) SO FOR THESE 3 WEEKS NEED SUPPORT, SLEEP 7 HOURS, KEEP BUSY…
INDIAN WOMEN MORE THAN MEN, AND INDIANS MORE THAN CAUCASIANS I.E CORONARY HEAR DISEASE RATES
NOTE MANY SOUTH ASIANS IN PARTICULAR ARE THIN ON THE OUTSIDE BUT FAT ON THE INSIDE I.E METABOLICALLY DERANGED…SO FASTING NOT JUST FOR WEIGHT LOSS / APPEARANCE…VITAMIN K2
NOT EVERYTHING WORKS FOR EVERYONE ALL THE TIME…NEED TO TWEAK… ASSUMPITON FASTING DOES NOT WORK WITH WOMEN? SOME THRIVE ON FASTING. NO ONE SIDE FITS ALL…FASTING PROBABLY THE MOST UNIVERSALLY SUCCESSFUL MEDICINE…
SOME WOMEN HAVE TOO MUCH STRESS, FINANCIAL PROBLEMS I.E CANNOT AFFORD RIGHT FOOD, RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS, OR SLEEP APNOEA, AND WHEN SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS, CAN THEN FAST… WILLPOWER…WHY NOT? …
SLEEP APNOEA HUGE ISSUE
SO 3 WEEKS OF UNPROCESSING DIET…THEN 18 HOUR FAST…
SOME CONTRA-INDICATIONS I.E SOME TIMES SHOULD NOT FAST…??? MAKE SURE BLOOD PRESSURE MEASURED TWICE A DAY MAKE SURE BLOOD PRESSURE NOT GOING TOO LOW… BLOOD SUGAR IF ON ORAL AGENTS, CONTINUE THEM DURING 18 HOUR AND 24 HOUR FASTS, AND MONITOR BLOOD SUGAR…CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORING ONLY FOR PATIENTS TAKING INSULIN…BUT DOCTOR DROPS DOSAGE BY HALF FIRST, THEN BEYOND 24 HOURS STOP INSULIN COMPLETELY TO AVOID BECOMING HYPOGLYCAEMIC… THEN 36 HOUR FAST ONCE A WEEK… I.E FULL DAY THEN NEXT DAY CAN EAT BREAKFAST I.E NO BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER, THEN SLEEP…ADDS UP TO HIS 36 HOURS… AFTER HAVING GOTTEN USED TO ONE MEAL A DAY…THEN FOR 36 HOUR FAST YOU MISS THAT MEAL, AND WAIT UNTIL BREAKFAST NEXT DAY…SO AFTER USED TO ONE MEAL A DAY, EASY TO SKIP IT, AND LOOK FORWARD TO BREAKFAST…
2 MEAL A DAY IS 6 HOUR EATING WINDOW WITH 18 HOUR FAST, THEN TO ONE MEAL A DAY, 5 DAYS A WEEK, WEEKENDS TWO MEALS, THEN AFTER 2 WEEKS OF ONE MEAL A DAY, NEXT FEW WEEKS, ONE DAY A WEEK, GO TO 36 HOURS I.E MISS THAT ONE MEAL, BUT HAVE BREAKFAST… 24 TO 36 IS GETTING METABOLISM IN ORDER… 24 TO 36 … WHY? BIOCHEMICAL ADVANTAGE BETWEEN 24 AND 36…BY 36 HOURS ALMOST EVERYONE IS IN SOME DEGREE OF KETOGENESIS…HARD TO KNOW WHO STARTS PRODUCING KETONES WHEN… SOME GO INTO KETO PHASE EARLIER AT 16 HOURS…CAN BUY KETOSTICKS TO TEST URINE FROM PHARMACY… AFTER 24 HOURS FAST ALMOS EVERYONE HAS KETONES…PHYSIOLGOICAL BENEFITS AS LISTED ACTIVATED… AT POINT OF 36 HOUR FASTS ONCE A WEEK FOR TWO WEEKS CAN GO TO MORE PROLONGED FAST… 3 DAY WATER FAST HIS FAVORITE…95% OF THEM WHO GRADUATED TO THIS POINT CAN MANAGE IT WITH NO PROBLEM…IF GET CRAMPS, DRINK GLASS OF WATER WITH PINCH OF SALT…MOST ALREADY ADAPTED…
KETO FLU IS TERRIBLE, ACHEY FLU-LIKE SYNDROME SOME GET WHEN JUMP INTO FASTING TOO QUICKLY…SO BUILD UP TO…BUT MAKE SURE DO 3 DAY FASTING AT SOME POINT, WITHIN WEEKS
3 DAY WATER FAST GREAT FOR BREAKING THROUGH WEIGHT LOSS PLATEUS
TRIGGERING EATING DISORDERS BY ASKING TO SKIP MEALS? SOME SAY FASTING CONTRA-INDICATED FOR THEM…
SMART PHONE JUNKIES! NEW ‘HIT’ OF DOPAMINE ETC ADDICTION
CAN YOU BECOME ADDICTED TO FASTING? CAN HAPPEN. REMEMBER I HAD THAT FEAR, THAT WOULD LOSE ALL INTEREST IN FOOD.
WE SLIDE FROM ONE ADDICTION TO ANOTHER…SO NEED TO QUITE ALL ADDICTIONS…FAST FROM ALL THINGS…GAMBLING, SOCIAL MEDIA, SUGAR, STARCH, ETC … ADDICTION TO PROCESSED FOOD CONTENTS I.E VERY ADDICTIVE… NEED TO ELMINATE FROM DIET…
NOTE ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOUR COMPONENT OF SUBSTANCE ADDICTION I.E I ALWAYS ARGUED CIGARETTES ALSO BEHAVIOURAL ADDICTION… AND ALSO EATING SAME … PURPOSEFUL ACTION…
FREEDOM EMPOWERS…FREEDOM THAT YOU DO NOT NEED TO EAT…AND IT WILL BE GOOD FOR YOU… AND DO NOT NEED TOILET TOO… I HAVE HABIT OF FASTING 2 DAYS OR MORE BEFORE ANY TRIP…
NOT I DID ALL THESE THINGS BEFORE I HEARD ABOUT ALL THESE EXPLANATIONS OF WHY IT IS GOOD…IT WAS MY WAY TO MANAGE MY WEIGHT, AND LIFESTYLE…
WHO ARE YOU…WHERE ARE YOU…WHAT ARE YOU…STEP OUTSIDE OF BODY AND TAKE CHARGE…THAT YOU ARE SOMETHING ELSE … I AM… NOT YOUR BODY … YOUR CRAVINGS…SOMETHING EXTRA… AND YOU CAN TAKE CONTROL OF ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE ASSOCIATED WITH I.E BODY, MIND, ETC…
MEDITATION…FOCUS ON BREATHING…IF THOUGHT COMES LET IT GO, DO NOT FOLLOW IT UP…NEXT WILL COME, DO SAME…AND HAVE LONGER AND LONGER PERIODS OF ‘BLANKNESS’…WHICH IS YOU… YOU ARE NOT YOUR THOUGHTS… YOU DO NOT HAVE TO THINK THEM…FREEDOM FROM THINKING…THOUGHT FAST…MEDITATION…FUCKING WOW
PEOPLE NEED TO OWN THE DOCTORS ETC PLAN… HAVE A REASON FOR STICKING TO IT… NOW HAS TO BE THEIR REASON…THEIR CHOICE…BECAUSE I FEEL GOOD WHEN I DO IT…NOT BECAUSE I AM SUPPOSED TO DO IT…SOMEONE TOLD ME TO DO IT…ETC
OVERCOMING CHALLENGES LEAVES US FEELING GREAT, EMPOWERED, BOOSTS SELF-ESTEEM, CONFIDENCE, VERY POWERFUL … FASTING IS ONE OF THOSE CHALLENGES…
RELATIONSHIP WITH MOTHER WILL TELL YOU HOW LONG YOU ARE GOING TO LIVE…RELATIONSHIPS CRUCIAL…HOW MANY VISITORS YOU HAVE AFTER OPEN HEART SURGERY WILL DETERMINES HOW QUICKLY THEY WILL RECOVER…SAME SURGEON… I.E HEALTH OUTCOMES … SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS … WHERE FEEL IN SOCIAL HIERARCHY…SOCAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH KEY … YOU METABOLISE YOUR PSYCHO-SOCIAL BEING INTO YOUR BODY…YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND HOW YOU ARE INTERACTING WITH OTHERS…LOTS OF DATA ON THAT… DR NEIL ORNISH, LOVE AND SURVIVAL !!!
3 DAY WATER FASTS…7 DAY FAST BOSTON RESEARCH LIFETIME CANCER RISK…
EAT ONLY NATURAL FOODS IN THEIR NATURAL STATE, EAT INFREQUENTLY AND ONLY WHEN YOU ARE HUNGRY, SLEEP AT LEAST 7 HOURS A DAY, FIND HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE IN LIFE AND ACTIVITIES…YOUR HEALTH WILL TURN AROUND IMMEDIATELY…
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Data behind fasting so strong…metabolic flexibility…can modulate CCK hormones that make you feel full and Grellin hormones which make you feel hungry…if diet, retain the hunger of your previous weight, so yo yo… can give away your ‘fat pants’… rest hunger point with ketones… brain octane in bullet proof coffee…what?… set point changed based on metabolism and last highest weight… blood levels of ketones above 0.38 and 0.48 i.e mild levels of ketosis … do not eat after sun goes down, skip breakfast, eat a late lunch will bump most people’s ketones up enough i.e above these levels, to reset your hunger / metabolism … will not be hungry…18 hours fast better, 14 hours minimum… almost all humans have endured fasting involuntarily, so we are adapted to it…but media make us think we will die… how many people ever imagined a 70kg person could easily go X days without …. Muffin top dissappears… i.e love handles…dramatic physical profile changes…at first feel like crap, need strategies to get through that…and health and vitality benefits HUGE… ‘diseases of aging’ now affecting children… amount of caffeine in two small cups of coffee will double your ketones … normally need 4 days of fasting to reach that, but caffein gets you there faster…move in and out of ketosis to build flexibility…regular exercise….10,000 steps a day metric came from late 50s pedometer marketer…they just RANDOMLY chose that number… you need to walk, move for 20 mins a day… once or twice a week do some resistance training, 2 fast sprints i.e get heart rate up quickly and down again…high intensity interval training…exercise we HATE…just a few times a week…’throw up exercises’… push self to limit … 15 mins of pain once a week… spin class etc each day do NOT help, but can harm… walk with loved one, such as pet… 7 pillars of aging..one is tissue loss including collagen i.e skin and muscle mass… skin made of collagen..the fascia that hold musxcles and matrix for bones…skin gets thinner as you age, can maintain thickness of skin…thinning of all tissues in body…can change rate of collagen deposition, sunlight, collagen, prevent breakdown with vit C, avoid bad fats…the usual suspects… support reversal of aging…stem cell exhaustion … increase turnover rate…run out of stem cells as age… no wonder injections killed mostly old people (blamed on covid etc)…stem cell total body makeover… same stuff good for everything else great for stem cell production…sleep encourages stem cells and growth hormones… Aura ring to monitor sleep i.e deep sleep…’sleep score’…how much REM and Deep sleep…as age amount of DEEP and REM sleep falls predictably unless do something about it, compared to younger person…get the sleep of a 20 year old, keeps you young…sleep is exact opposite of ‘waste of time’… most granular study ever done shows that people who NEED more than 6.5 hours of sleep die younger…people who are healthy, or sleep better, need only 6.5 hours of sleep… can learn to sleep like 20 year old… epidemic of poor sleep…blue blocker glasses ‘true dark’… eating too late and blue light two worst factors re sleep… meditation…after 2pm do not drink coffee…do not exercise after dinner, do not eat 3 hours before bed…work in way we can measure…phone can record snoring…inflammatory foods make you snore more… note many of the proponents of all this were sick as young, or later, and often dedicated carnivores… blue blockers can double deep sleep, can triple REM sleep with mushroom extract (australian species of lions mane mushroom), … true dark twilight glasses… at least ensure lights in home after sunset are YELLOW/RED spectrum NOT blue… there are daylight blue light glasses too…staring at bright lights can wear brain out… NOTE I HAVE WORN SUNGLASSES EVEN IN HIGH SCHOOL UNDER FLOURESCENTS…bright LED lights and LED screens make you tired and hungry… which glasses when…truedark.com patented biohack…sunset or twilight before bed, and daywalkers for daytime… remain awake, alert, after day in bright lights…strategies for living to 180… need to build relationships…mitochondria in all life forms…omeba or cactus run same order of operations…run from scary things i.e survive…thus anxiety and stress…automated systems … we eat everything i.e cells fear starvation… we want to reproduce … all sources of shame… but last F word is ‘friend’ we are wired to seek support networks…support each other…community…Four Fs i.e fear, feeding, fucking, friends…Japan Okinawa 4 to 5 kids put together at birth and maintain community…like basis of German military i.e team building, powerful feeling of feeling seen, known, connected, loved, approval, acceptance … we have thousands of ‘facebook friends’ but no-one we could call… have friends of different ages… especially if getting older, need younger friends, as your old ones who do not follow your choices will drop off…ask older person you can learn from, what they have learned….learned from THEIR mistakes rather than need to learn the more painful way…old people become invisible sadly in our culture… get older and younger friends…benefits both…but how to build connections and find friends…isolation is often fear based…mitochondria ‘learn’ i.e unconscious / non-conscious ‘fear’ in cells…need to work through… will power comes from electrons that come from mitochondria…build deep connections requires energy…fix biology then fix your friends… toxins and heavy metals and ozone…big topics…animal accumulates toxins over time, accumulate in body…a 100 year old fish will be full of mercury, lead, cadmium, nickel…kids more susceptible to toxins, but have less… N.B KALE, FAVORITE SUPER FOOD, IS FULL OF THALIUM (and arsenic?)… FROM ANYWHERE…NATURES STRONGEST ATTRACTANT OF THALIUM…arsenic another big one… NEED TO TAKE KELATING AGENTS E.G CORELLA WHICH BINDS TO MERCURY IN GUT SO POOP OUT, BUT WILL NOT REMOVE FROM BRAIN… they inhbit mitochondrial function, lower testosterone, cause hair lose, graying, and cancer etc etc … lower exposure, and eliminate from body…chelating agents e.g corella binds to mercury in gut… metals matter…gold standard is urine excretion test and hair test…common to find elevated mercury and lead in people over 40… mercury poisoning very common…probably one of most ignored and underappreciated cause of chronic disease most doctors do not consider, know about, or measure… destroys every system in body…bloating, gut pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, liver, immune system, rashes, sores, cognitive impairment, the to Mark Hyman i.e his symptoms, to become expert at…tens of thousands of his patients…blood is only 90 day measure, urine not so good measure…hair tests for methyl mercury from fish…’challenge test’ you take a chelator as a pill and collect urine for 6 hours… PRETTY SIMPLE TO STOP EATING FISH AND SEAFOOD…NO NEED TO … problem with most tests is measure contemporaneously intaked mercury i.e last few weeks of dietary mercury, rather than that stored in body tissues and brain (IF i UNDERSTOOD CORRECTLY) … inorganic mercury from POLLUtion and fillings ‘quicksilver test’ of blood… dental mercury… long process medically supervised to remove mercury from body… or at least blood!… special forces military e.g blast experts trained and practised indoor with toxic chemicals…all getting sick… toughest guys on planet…not complainers… explosives etc heavy metals… affect everything bad could not want… treatments of these people all successful…total turnaround in health after de-toxing… LEAD levels especially… not seen as problem…acute poisoning yes, but chronic i.e long term poisoning not taken seriously till now… can produce almost any complaint imaginable… functionalmedicine.org or ifn.org … NEED TO DO A COURSE OF CHELATION IF OVER 50 … if want to live to highly functional old age…safe EPA limits for lead have constantly been falling, even down to 1 part to million (from originally 40) cognitive impairment and increased risk of cardio vascular disease so now experts say there is NO safe level of lead…and if over 50, no way you have avoided chronic lead poisoning…almost 40% of population have 2PPM, with consequences WORSE than smoking or bad cholesterol… alzheimers and arsenic, almost any imaginable disease risk i.e death from etc i.e risk of stroke up 89%, heart attack up 150%, death from heart attack up 55%… but cardiologists do not talk about it…
MHR NOTE THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DE-TOXING MOST PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT ‘TOXIC PEOPLE’ AND TOXIC ENVIRNOMENTS…people want you to ‘forget about it’ etc i.e do NOT want to confront people, … I have to confront Tamara etc…tried to confront Rita and Roman but only positive was now get to take Richa when he runs outside anyway, and I have to pick him up anyway, then allowed to take him to my flat for a while…but no food etc…and they let me use router … but expect me to teach Rita English at time worst for me, I expect, and THAT is the only reason…I offered to do for free, in return for ‘cat therapy’, but Rita keeps finding excuses why it is too hard for her…first claimed bad for cats, then admitted she is ‘just too busy’…fuck people, Roma says same, but he has all the time in the world for OTHER things…and always DEFENDS Tamara and makes excuses and overlooks obvious things even HE sees…TOXIC PEOPLE all around…and TOXIC bureacrats… DE-TOXING really means need to find ‘good’ people … but they are so hard to find… and government brainwashing means even harder to keep any ‘friends’ because they are LAZY or TOO SCARED to even entertain the FACTS… etc
33 mins Mark Hyman and Dave Asprey vid (inventor of bulletproof coffee and blue block glasses etc)
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Heavy metals common undiagnosed toxicity…if over 50, need chelation…to remove heavy metals… 40,20,10,5, and now down to 1 ppm lead was official … now no safe level of lead in body… if lead level over 2ppm, within ‘normal’ limits i.e 40% of population, risk of stroke up 89%, heart attach 150%, death from heart attack up 55% i.e risk associated with lead alone…
if chelation not an option, lots of detox options… glutothion is produced from Vit C in body, also selenium, and zinc is natural chelator, pee, poop, perspire… white rind of oranges and lemons modified to bind to heavy metals, but can do bad things to you when young, more appropriate for older people…
nicotine as cure for Alzheimers…i.e not smoking, but nicotine patches etc… tiny amounts i.e 5% of what in one cigaretted, might be advisible… small amounts improve cognitive function…feel better…possibly anti-aging… says do not vape or smoke…use patches, sprays under tongue, etc…
All life runs an algorithm…attention demanding … steals your attention and energy… fight or flight response…FEAR… we also attend to food … and of course Fucking i.e 3 Fs that steal all our attention, focus, mental energy… need to TRAIN self to accept ABUNDANCE… and not worry about food i.e FAMINE fear … so really TWO fears…fear of threats e.g government terrorism…and fear of famine / starvation which were appropriate over duration of our evolution or what we were ‘programmed’ by ‘creators’ or ‘tweaked’ to attend to, to ensure we survived long enough to FUCK…
Body forced by hunger / fasting to elminate any weak etc mitochondria (or whatever produces ‘energy’ in cells etc), and replace them with more efficient ones… same for muscle building, weaker fibers replaced with stronger…
ketones are preferred fuel for neurons in brain…if give neurons option between glucose and ketones, it will prefer ketones… over 2 days of fast…and intermittent fasting…bulletproof diet… when fast old way i.e after about 2 days start making ketones…ketones have more energy than sugar… though parts of body require carbs too… … though during first 2 days can feel hungry, cold, shaky etc… as switch over to ketones… spiritual traditions tend to fast 2 days +, to increase clarity, elminate hunger, feel good and clean and pure… all energy that went into eating and thinking about eating etc now can be focussed on spiritual matters…
stop FEARING starvation / famine … just stop thinking about food… free up time for other stuff…but there is the rub… what purposeful action do most people have other than food and sex ? i.e sources of pleasure
2 small cops of plain black coffee doubles ketone production… slept 8 hours, coffee with no sugar etc, supresses hunger so not distracted by food…get ketones up to at least .5, turns off Grellin, hunger hormone, and turn on CCK, the fullness hormone… first hack fast, second hack 2 cups of coffee … so no insulin spike, no protein digestion, get vast majority of benefits of longer fast without physiological stress… pre-biotic fiber cannot be digested by YOU but makes you feel full…and feeds good bugs in gut, crowd out bad ones (like cancer does with healthy cells)…when stressed we make more fear compounds…NOTE when bacteria in gut starved i.e no ingestion of food, they get hungry and stressed, i.e fear starvation i.e all life has 3 Fs, and produce fear compounds lipo poly saccharides, LPS, which crosses the gut barrier, LPS, a toxin that creates a state of anxiety and hunger, and inflamation, and thus causes weight gain and diabetes…so take pre-biotic fiber that feeds the good guys without raising insulin levels or switching on protein conversion / digestion … get benefits of fasting without the discomfort or potential negative side effects… you end up feeling better than if you had breakfast… and have no real hunger at lunch, so able to make better food choices… time restricted eating with hacks…
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Our biology is optimised for SCARCITY…whether through negative selection, each time a famine or scarcity hit, those NOT adapted to this, died, and only those who were, or could, biologically adapt to it, survived and reproduced…OR in the ANUNAKI version, alients adapted some existing animal and tweaked its genes and DESIGNED us for scarcity i.e a gold mining slave that required as little energy input as possible i.e cost-benefit analysis for slave design…
as we age lose ability to combine oxygen and food … fasting promotes replacement of inefficient mitochondria with more, stronger, mitochondria… pancreas and liver make enzymes that break down food items, and also repair body… once hit maximum enzyme production, cannot make more…so can ensure the maximum enzymes are available for healing / repair, by fasting, so all available enzymes freed up … which normally would be employed breaking down food…
applies to scar tissue too…and blood …ceropeptates and other enzymes break up things that make blood ‘sticky’…first ting morning sea salt or himalyan salt, and magnesium and potassium, …will help keep electrolytes balanced so you feel better… Tom Brady does not drink water without electrolytes… inside of cells only get hydrated is if enough electrolytes present…so if drink water without electrolites really dilute blood so salt in blood so low you get seizures, comas, and deaths, as suffered by long distance runners….MINERAL WATER has calcium, magnesium, potassium…takes load off adrenal glands i.e reduces physiological stress on body… if eat because feeling bad, just avoid carbs… soluable fiber absorbs water and helps you stay hydrated… electrolytes necessary for water to enter cell i.e hydrate cells… FAST THIS WAY … pre-biotic fiber products primary ingredient is Acacia gum, sap from trees, that feed good bacteria in gut… soluable fiber dissolves in water NOT metamucil etc… changes ratio of bacteria in gut… pro-biotics can be taken with pre-biotics… crowd out bad bacteria in gut…
Note at certain times during menstrual cycle women already under enough physiological and mental stress…Most studies on PUBMED done on young white men i.e college student volunteer guinea pigs…fasting different for women… cyclical keto with low toxin plants best for all, but at certain times in cycle O.K to break fast… do fasting on days when you are in pretty good shape…do not do when you are completely wrecked… try 3 or 5 days a week…occasionally have low carb breakfast i.e NEVER breakfast cereals…
we want to turn stress on, and recover…if keep stress high for 6 weeks thyroid and sex hormones impacted in women, men can go longer before same hits them…
We ARE adapted, or WERE adapted (by ANUNAKI etc) or by our own WILL (world as representation of our own will)…
Note school kids almost forced to have snack when not hungry…green apples make you hungry i.e NOT appropriate for breakfast i.e vegans need protein and fat and low carb approach to meals
Our biology optimised when confronted with scarcity… Authophagy is eating own tissues and cells and recycle them…also MYTophagy which is recycling and renewal of mitochondria…
ending first cause of death…book…decades ago… Sid Baker father of clinical functional medicine… fasting increases cognitive function, mental alertness and acuity, as brain focusses on opportunities for finding food … optimises mental and physical ability to find next meal… increases fat burning i.e burns up belly fat, increase muscle mass, reduce inflammation, increase stem cell reproduction, activates anti-oxidant enzymes, … full rehab, repair, and remodel…like getting full detailing and oil change and service and tuning of car… automatically…naturally…in ways only body can manage i.e attempting to ‘make a pill’ to do this is like lizard trying to ‘create’ a human i.e science needs to be much more humble…claims to ‘know’ things does not…over and over ‘confident’ statements DECLARED than later overturned…including ‘safety’ of drugs, pesticides, etc
unit of air + unit of food = X amount of energy … official narrative is that cells contain thousands of bacteria-like organelles *ancient bacteria inside our cells that take food and oxygen and release the energy in the food in this way i.e oxidation i.e metabolism, glucosis see my own notes re ‘invisible rainbow’ i.e end of electron transport chain … even autism related to mitochondrial dysfunction i.e autistic brains mitochondria not working well…if support mitochondrial function in brain they get better… do not make enough energy to filter out noise around you and learn social skills…48% of people over 40 have mitochondrial dysfunction…i.e one unit oxygen plus one unit food does NOT yield full unit of energy…
bacteria have processes for survival i.e algorithms…can tweak / manipulate to your advantage… like tending compost, or brewing alcohol etc …
respiratol from red wine is also a mitochondrial regulator that controls the master genes that affect inflammation, oxidative stress, help produce more energy
things that mess up mitochrondrial efficiency is eating damaged / bad fats…what we CALL the celluar membrane is really a collection of tiny droples of fat…mitochondria held in own bag of such fat drops, and cell itself held in ‘skin’ of fat droplets…
frying i.e heat damages cells…body tries to make ‘membrane’ from these, and so get leaky, faulty, ‘membranes’ around cells and mitochondria…
different DNA can determine which toxins mess with YOU most… mitochondria ONLY come from mother i.e mitochondrial DNA…each individual responds differently to same food…
e.g Nightshade veges e.g potatoes, tomatoes, hot peppers … can lead to some eating just one bite from this deadly nightshade family, which most pepole metabolise O.K, they suffer joint pain, brain fog, muffin top (belly fat)… highly sensitive to it… can eat, but suffer those consequences… 3rd of cases of rheumatoid arthritis due to this deadly nightshade family as have that gene… each person has kryptonite foods that lower mitochondrial dysfunction… ONE TEST: if you eat something and you get massive sugar craving or get massively tired and cannot remember things, that is brain mitochondria dysfunction… i.e bad stress on brain… then it is kryptonite for you
if you eat, especially drink, sugar, metabolic damage to mitochondria result… flour and sugar poison for mitochondria…huge driver… so treat as toxin… like mercury, which can produce chronic fatigue (sydrome), aches and pains…some people more susceptible than others…when burn coal releases mercury into air, which dissolves in water so end up in rain and water most fish and other ‘accumulators’ i.e animals worst for this… mercury and lead poisoning … skin gray from toxins … pseudo hypoxia is where mitochondria cannot USE the air supplied to them from blood…person ends up LOOKING lead-like…pale…backed up metabolism…muscle pain and gray skin…spike and crash of mitochondrial functioning when exposed to sugar damages them…
Aching as muscles deprived of oxygen sort of chronic cramp pain…HYPOXIa is lack of oxygen, pseudo-hypoxia when mitochrondria cannot access / utilise the oxygen … this key to how EMF can affect biological function i.e prevent utilisation even if manage to breathe well with covid burkha…
Morning ? Warm shower…then at end 8 seconds of full cold water on forehead, face and on chest…over days will be able to endure longer…so do it 20 seconds etc then a minute by 4th day…try for a week to see if works for you… mitochrondria respond to the risk that this might be permanent i.e risk of freezing, so body kills off the weaker mitochondria and replaces with new, stronger ones…sort of like muscle training… after 4th day feel invigorated by it i.e does not feel bad at all … 1 minute after 4 days…skin tighter, lose weight, feel good, sleep better, from one minute of cold water … build up to over 4 days to 1 minute…
low tech steam / sauna / hot bath followed by cold shower
2 kinds of exercise that matter for mitochondria..you want healthy young, and MORE, mitochondria, like putting faster, bigger capacity battery on something… move for 20 mins a day i.e no special gear, or exercise…just go for walk…nothing crazy… step one… if want to REALLY benefit grow MORE mitochondria…at least once, maybe twice a week, do something really hard for 10 to 15 minutes…e.g sprinting 400 yards like tiger chasing you…then lay down on back … do that 3 times… exercise far less time, get far more benefit…
In published study one group exercising 30 minutes 3 times but more intensely vs 60 minutes 6 days a week, light exercise, a week were healthier, slimmer, than those who ver excercising bad…constantly stimulating but not giving time to recover…otherwise adrenals shot, can’t sleep, no sex drive, joint pain…need to recover enough or hormones crash, adrenals crash, testosterone falls, women get more monthly hormone problems… need small amounts of targetted stimulation then recovery, sleep, fix emotional stress in life, deal with past trauma, being unhappy stress… jetlag stress… thoughts can change mitochondria i.e they are eavesdropping on your thoughts… stress…you can only do big things if work on happiness first…need belief system that does NOT define everything as THREAT i.e constant fear…mitochrondria in fight or flight mode under stress…neuropeptides signals like preparing to run away from tiger… hard physics…electromagnetic field around heart … WE HAVE PROVEN THAT MITOCHRONDRIA ARE SENSISITVE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS (BUT HE FAILS TO THING ABOUT ALL THE ELECTRICAL DEVICES AND 5G ETC)… HE SAYS THEY ARE LISTENING TO YOUR HEART… so when heartbeat changes for fight or flight i.e preparation, the electromagnetic field around heart changes, and mitochondria tuned into that, so get ready for fight or flight too… if get neuropeptides of stress at same time, mitochrondria fixate / focus on fight or flight, i.e survive this moment, rather than doing the things for your long term health etc… run away from threat or fight back…eat everything…that is mitochondria algorithm…if do not eat will starve, if do not run or fight will be killed… mitochondria driving our actions…so much for free will… NOTE CAN TRAIN MIND NOT TO THINK OF PROCESSED STUFF AS FOOD AT ALL…I.E LIKE REMIND SELF WHAT MILK IS AND THINK OF IT AS MUCOUS WITH BLOOD ETC… SO BRAIN STOPPED ASSOCIATING IT WITH ‘FOOD’ I.E NO ATTRACTION TO WHEN SEE OR THINK ABOUT… NO LONGER DEFINE STUFF NOT GOOD FOR YOU AS FOOD… THINK OF CHOCOLATE BAR ETC AS NOT FOOD…AS BLACK GOOP…MOST FOOD IS NOT REALLY FOOD…TIME TO RE-DEFINE WHAT IS AND WHAT IS NOT FOOD…
MCT OIL specific derivative of coconut oil is super for mitochondria…can produce four times more ketones than usual… coconut oil alone only as effective as 8 hours of fasting re raising ketones
mitochondria can burn sugar, quick easy dirty lot of exhaust i.e oxidative stress and free radicals that cause inflammation and aging i.e dirty fuel for body
can burn protein, but horrible source for fuel i.e metabolic disaster, leaves even more waste than sugar does i.e even dirtier fuel
can burn fat…but as last resort as this is store of energy…fat with sugar is sweet fat deadly…
Atkins diet first modern diet involving ketosis
fasting for spiritual ‘switching on’ and ‘one with universe’… but harder if busy life…
pay attention i.e mindfulness, of how you feel after eating something, or eliminating it from your diet… smartest doctor in room is your own body…listen to it…not the doctor who does not really give a shit about you except as a source of cash
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try fasting from hate, or just people (solitude), or sex , or food… a month of either will not kill you… exercise emotional and spiritual body…things hard to quantify but impact your health and wellbeing…normalise fasting
lectin problem with nitrates e.g potatoes, tomatoes with seed and skin, bell peppers, egg plants produce craving for sugars in 33% of people
fast from anything industrial / processed …
eating better makes you feel better, fasting etc, all makes you nicer to people
60 year olds complaining how devisive american politics has become i.e hate… projection of hatred… disagree nicely, not vilify and hate ? really, being murdered and masked is something you can be ‘nice’ about… fight or flight activated by such REAL threats… frontal lobe disconnect from amygdyla i.e executive functioning, the adult in the room…changes quality of behaviour, emotions, relatioships, fear, hostility…this guy was Biden fan… so supporting whether he did it openly, masking and mass murder by vaxxing…
profound lack of community… connection… guy claiming pushing that, was Biden’s guy to murder us with vaxxes and masks and destroy our economic…total denial of reality these guys… claim good guys…fucking worst of people and WE are projecting our hate on this people promoting MURDER and even worse…fuckers… dave asprey and mark hyman and their youtube buddies incl Biden…connection, empathy and kindness? in removing all your human rights nad murdering you and your famliy?
If you do not have healthy metabolism, blood sugar can crash, and if eat MSG hidden in food under various names, it causes hypo glyceameia and IN RESPONSE BODY RELEASES cortisol and adrenaline stress hormones suppy fighting/ stress energy in respond…THEY WANT TO BLAME MY BLOOD SUGAR FOR HATING PEOPLE WANTING TO MURDER, CRIPPLE, DEBT-ENSLAVE ME, RUIN MY LIFE, STEAL MY LIFE, TAKE MY FREEDOMS…
these guys talk of fasting can be powerful entry point into honesty ??? people who REFUSE to look at facts, OR criminal murderers lying to people to get them murdered, crippled etc…
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replace word ‘need’ with ‘want’ and ‘choice’ … gives you back control … this is way to decrease anxiety and become kinder… less toxic to each other… anxiety toxic … live with integrity…agents of change? just change? not POSITIVE change…quotes ghandi?… fools… when your brain thinks it NEEDS something that it LACKS this produces anxiety etc… mother wanted child to stop eating candy…so ghandi told HER to stop eating candy…integrity… community of life
Maslow’s final need was for transcendence…top need… fear, feed, fuck, friends, freedom, fitting-in…lots of F words… niceness amplifies? one person nice, kind, others smile, it spreads ??? and MY hate crimes? we end up living in caves… fasting F … from ‘facebook’ etc so addictive… for some hardest addiction to quit… anxious wondering IF have emails…for me it is dread OF any mail / emails…most likely something bad…
Dave Asprey so full of love? propagandizing for animal cruelty using FEAR i.e laughing at idea, could not imagine why anyone would imagine going vegetarian would be good for health? fucking hypocrite, the other F
eat before sun goes down, breakfast black coffee or tea unsweetened…no carbs…do not trigger insulin…if ingest any carbs will trigger insulin, and you will feel hungry…
do not do every day… even if just a few times a month benefits…just remember if lose weight quickly get brain fog, thyroid poisoning i.e need to BIND toxins released when burn fat in ketosis…
if fast right do not feel hungry, suffer etc in any way…just need to go shopping for new clothes regularly…46 to 34 and holding from ketosis…NOT work…
can you be a healthy vegan…he claims does not work…despite lead athletes…tries to suggest mitochondrial dysfuntion i.e joint and muscle pain… but he was RAW VEGAN i.e claims 1000s of people made ill by vegan diet… but even admits HIGH protein diet bad for you… he claims need saturated fats … claims our cells made out of… note his focus is selfish… claims should eat Ghee… adding ghee to vegan diet helps you absorb compounds from vegetable…you can honor animals by eating them? integrity? salmon swimming by his house?…cruelty matters?… coconut oil not for cells… be a butter vegan ??? so vegetarian possible… HIS CLAIM CELL MEMBRANES MADE OF DROPLETS OF FAT, …vs gel state of water…he appears to know nothing about this… he does TALK big about kindness, forgiveness, letting go of hate, … energy wasted on NEGATIVE brainwaves…energy from food goes into brain where wasted on negative stuff… can use neuroscience to reverse PTSD and old trauma, and improve IQ, and internal peace… ‘energy from food’? how is meat happiness, gratitude…it is terror, fear, anxiety, slavery, that you are EATING and how can THAT NOT harm YOU…this guy alludes to everyday aches and pains, and inserts IDEA that eating meat will cure you of them…or at least Butter i.e animal products… YOU CANNOT USE THE MOST EXTREME FORM OF SOMETHING I.E RAW VEGAN DIET AS YOUR BASIS FOR JUDGING THE HEALTHIEST VERSION OF IT…I.E NEED TO STEAM AND COOK SOME VEGES OR THEY WILL BE BAD FOR YOU… AND YOUR BRAIN IS GOING TO BE PISSED AT YOU FOR MISSING OUT ON ALL THE LOVELY COOKED VEGAN FOODS…DID HE EVER TRY PURELY VEGAN DIET USING ALL THE AVAILABLE VEGAN FOODS?
Diabetes is metabolic / mitochondrial disease…increases risk of dementia by 400%…your cells cannot use glucose and oxygen to ‘make energy’? raises risk of cancer, heart disease, and alzheimers…connected to metabolic DYSfunction and therefore mitochondrial performance… bodies own repair systems dependent on functioning mitochondria…they are anciet bacteria with own bacteral DNA that are now part of our cells…they drive a lot of our unconscious behaviours e.g reach for cigarette or donut… they are the puppet masters, if you do not keep them happy they mutate easily, damaged…you want to replace damaged with new…happens when exercise, sleep, fast…zombie cells not dead, not alive, makes free radicals, takes up space, adds to metabolic burden i.e senescent cells…want to get rid of… pac man to eat em up… need to stimulate replacement of less-than-perfect cells… we evolved during scarcity or mutated for scarcity i.e slaves, so instinctive priority against fasting, we have to teach body it is O.K i.e NOT worry about feeding… calorie restriction reliably increases life span… time restricted / *often referred to as ‘intermittent fasting’ with eating windon…true intermitten fasting is a day or 2 a week…
cellular aging processes that drive disease and aging….7 pillars of aging…cellular straight jackets..amaloid plaque is symptom of alzhemiers…contributing cause of age…need to manage amaloid…produced by inflammation i.e scar…chronic brain inflammation but can be anywhere in body…half body amaloid plague i.e scar tissue… adress inflamation at root source as cause of everything bad… inflammation is triggered … it is biological reaction to grain, bad fat, fried food, sugar, any grams of fish oil or frying oil bad, a tiny bit of sugar won’t hurt healthy person i.e 3g… teaspoon in normal meal lesser evil… REMEMBER NOT SUGAR YOU ADD, BUT WHICH INDUSTRY HAS ADDED, AND HIDDEN IN YOUR PROCESSED FOOD… soluable fiber is a carb…good gut bacteria need it… inflammatory, mito-chondrial damaging diet is OUR NORMAL DIET… Chinese steamed veges most reliable restaurant if no vegan/vegetarian restaurant…
these people on Youtube do not look any healthier than me…even those younger, other a few years old, look way older…and they are pushing really extreme ideas and expensive products …
my point is some of them have diets CRUEL and HORRIFIC for other earthlings…and they claim they are healthier for this…
grilling veges produces toxic chemicals, same as grilling meat…the sugars and proteins ‘caramelise’ form compound that accelerates ageing i.e called ‘ages’ binds to receptors called ‘rages’… create massive oxidative stress and inflammatory response that damage mitochondria and create aging and disease… we make same products in body when eat sugar i.e looks for proteins to bind to to form same products… caramel can be made from plants that tastes the same…grilling veges creates same toxic chemicals… specify steamed broccoli…he only eats most expensive meat… zip lock in bag, put in hot water??? bag is leaking toxins no?… eat what tastes better, not looks better i.e industrial food…
train self ‘that does NOT look like food’ it is NOT food…condition self like pavlov…think of horrible things in it, and what cruelty went into it, and what it does to body and you will lose all interest in it… no matter what amgydyla or mitochondria say… no need for willpower…rewire brain and hormones so you WANT the healthiest stuff…he wants to live to 180? at expense of other Earthlings? so more bad karma will be somehow good for him? … Dave Asprey got to be New York Times Bestseller telling rich people O.K to eat organic enslaved, murdered, Earthlings…of course mastabartorial stuff…ethic porn, will sell…. that is his SUPER human? … a bridge to WHERE? HELL? circle jerker with reach-around… does not mean can lean valuable things from him, at least entertain what has to say… oldest person alive today is 122 or 120…poor economy, lack of education, and lack of birth certificate best correlation to living longest…partly joke… some claim man died 1930s was over 180… at turn of century plains indians had most centenarians in world..at grass fed buffalo (claimed! i.e fatty hump and liver)…Mayan ruling class had fish run in 200kms from coast, and fed slaves on corn…
this guy talks about spirituality, but laughs at vegan diet, and terrifies people into believing vegan diet not healthy…fucker beyond fuckers…and so ‘spiritual’ and ‘self aware’ and ‘in control’…his entire emoting and expression implied no-one who wants to be healthy could possibly think of going vegan… so self-smugly complacent…negative behaviour? fast from hate? do not say or think one hateful thing… meditate…
see, it is wrong to hate people who are out to enslave, murder, cripple you … deceive you…manipulate you…
world constantly gooing after our Amygdyla…it is easiest to trigger, to get you to BUY STUFF including his B.S and hateful brainwashing…what gets us to buy stuff we do not need /want etc … it is constantly triggered by terror, media, advertising…THESE FUCKERS WORKING FOR BIDEN AND AGAINST VEGANISM…FUCKERS..
get SOCIAL DILEMMA documentary anti free will…we have been psychographically mapped in ways that algorithms target our innermost fears, insecurities, and weaknesses, to drive our behaviour, in ways invisible to us…so we think acting on free will…. THIS TOTAL FUCKERS OBLIVIOUS OR HATEFUL CRIMINALS DELIBERATELY CONTROLLED OPPOSITION
this was 2020…all the things we need for health being DESTROYED by Biden and VAXXERS and lockdowners and facial nappiers etc…and these guys Biden supporters, saying all the right words, but deriding vegan diet and people who rightfully rationally HATE … oh, stop hating your murderer… fast from self-protection… do not get triggered by REAL threats…
fasting is BEING rather than DOING… total fast from everything that disturbs homeostasis i.e physically and mentally…unencumbered…fast from news, social media…all manipulating us … THAT is not conspiracy theory
get THE GREAT HACK AND SOCIAL DILEMMA DOCUMENTARIES… BUT DO NOT QUESTION ALLEGED ‘HEALTH’ AUTHORITIES YOU FUCKERS!!!
BREAK CYCLE AND RE-HUMAN OURSELVES?
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activated charcoal ???
Meat eaters microflora features TMA which becomes TMAO so dominant in meat gut flora…soluable fiber naturally in plant based diet…meat eaters would have to eat extra veges in addition to make up for that lack
Bio-accumulation…means e.g rice, absorb toxins from soil…if rice grown in soil that was used to grow cotton, common to have high ARSENIC content from pesticides used…sucked up into rice more than other things… same for any animals exposed to arsenic…animals, especially CHICKENS, even higher than average animal products…
white rice really just carbs…no fiber, micro-nutrients, just carbs…almost as refined as flour and white sugar… have to buy rice organically grown and not exposed to arsenic, then boil 5 to 1 water to rice and remove water hopefully some of the arsenic
gyphosate has lead more and more consumers to demand organic veges e.g costco and Walmart top sellers of organic veges…dominant source of their produce sales…they listened to customers…who are willing to pay more…
animals naturally biologically accumulate and concentrate toxins from environment…even if can affod most expensive animal products…still naturally accumulate ANY toxins present in our modern world… not to mention seafood and heavy metals like mercury…
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I have an extremely low threshold for vagueness and imprecision. It bugs me not to really ‘grok’ something. I require a precise, holistic, exhaustive, expression of all the available facts, and arguments, before I can feel I have a basis for decision making. Then I can act decisively. I can commit to the action. I can persevere with high motivation, as I understand WHY I am doing something. Or more often, trying to do it. Understanding how important something is, keeps me at even seemingly impossibly tasks.
replace word ‘need’ with ‘want’ and ‘choice’ … gives you back control … this is way to decrease anxiety and become kinder… less toxic to each other… anxiety toxic … live with integrity…agents of change? just change? not POSITIVE change…quotes ghandi?… fools… when your brain thinks it NEEDS something that it LACKS this produces anxiety etc… mother wanted child to stop eating candy…so ghandi told HER to stop eating candy…integrity… community of life
Maslow’s final need was for transcendence…top need… fear, feed, fuck, friends, freedom, fitting-in…lots of F words… niceness amplifies? one person nice, kind, others smile, it spreads ??? and MY hate crimes? we end up living in caves… fasting F … from ‘facebook’ etc so addictive… for some hardest addiction to quit… anxious wondering IF have emails…for me it is dread OF any mail / emails…most likely something bad…
Dave Asprey so full of love? propagandizing for animal cruelty using FEAR i.e laughing at idea, could not imagine why anyone would imagine going vegetarian would be good for health? fucking hypocrite, the other F
eat before sun goes down, breakfast black coffee or tea unsweetened…no carbs…do not trigger insulin…if ingest any carbs will trigger insulin, and you will feel hungry…
do not do every day… even if just a few times a month benefits…just remember if lose weight quickly get brain fog, thyroid poisoning i.e need to BIND toxins released when burn fat in ketosis…
if fast right do not feel hungry, suffer etc in any way…just need to go shopping for new clothes regularly…46 to 34 and holding from ketosis…NOT work…
can you be a healthy vegan…he claims does not work…despite lead athletes…tries to suggest mitochondrial dysfuntion i.e joint and muscle pain… but he was RAW VEGAN i.e claims 1000s of people made ill by vegan diet… but even admits HIGH protein diet bad for you… he claims need saturated fats … claims our cells made out of… note his focus is selfish… claims should eat Ghee… adding ghee to vegan diet helps you absorb compounds from vegetable…you can honor animals by eating them? integrity? salmon swimming by his house?…cruelty matters?… coconut oil not for cells… be a butter vegan ??? so vegetarian possible… HIS CLAIM CELL MEMBRANES MADE OF DROPLETS OF FAT, …vs gel state of water…he appears to know nothing about this… he does TALK big about kindness, forgiveness, letting go of hate, … energy wasted on NEGATIVE brainwaves…energy from food goes into brain where wasted on negative stuff… can use neuroscience to reverse PTSD and old trauma, and improve IQ, and internal peace… ‘energy from food’? how is meat happiness, gratitude…it is terror, fear, anxiety, slavery, that you are EATING and how can THAT NOT harm YOU…this guy alludes to everyday aches and pains, and inserts IDEA that eating meat will cure you of them…or at least Butter i.e animal products… YOU CANNOT USE THE MOST EXTREME FORM OF SOMETHING I.E RAW VEGAN DIET AS YOUR BASIS FOR JUDGING THE HEALTHIEST VERSION OF IT…I.E NEED TO STEAM AND COOK SOME VEGES OR THEY WILL BE BAD FOR YOU… AND YOUR BRAIN IS GOING TO BE PISSED AT YOU FOR MISSING OUT ON ALL THE LOVELY COOKED VEGAN FOODS…DID HE EVER TRY PURELY VEGAN DIET USING ALL THE AVAILABLE VEGAN FOODS?
Diabetes is metabolic / mitochondrial disease…increases risk of dementia by 400%…your cells cannot use glucose and oxygen to ‘make energy’? raises risk of cancer, heart disease, and alzheimers…connected to metabolic DYSfunction and therefore mitochondrial performance… bodies own repair systems dependent on functioning mitochondria…they are anciet bacteria with own bacteral DNA that are now part of our cells…they drive a lot of our unconscious behaviours e.g reach for cigarette or donut… they are the puppet masters, if you do not keep them happy they mutate easily, damaged…you want to replace damaged with new…happens when exercise, sleep, fast…zombie cells not dead, not alive, makes free radicals, takes up space, adds to metabolic burden i.e senescent cells…want to get rid of… pac man to eat em up… need to stimulate replacement of less-than-perfect cells… we evolved during scarcity or mutated for scarcity i.e slaves, so instinctive priority against fasting, we have to teach body it is O.K i.e NOT worry about feeding… calorie restriction reliably increases life span… time restricted / *often referred to as ‘intermittent fasting’ with eating windon…true intermitten fasting is a day or 2 a week…
cellular aging processes that drive disease and aging….7 pillars of aging…cellular straight jackets..amaloid plaque is symptom of alzhemiers…contributing cause of age…need to manage amaloid…produced by inflammation i.e scar…chronic brain inflammation but can be anywhere in body…half body amaloid plague i.e scar tissue… adress inflamation at root source as cause of everything bad… inflammation is triggered … it is biological reaction to grain, bad fat, fried food, sugar, any grams of fish oil or frying oil bad, a tiny bit of sugar won’t hurt healthy person i.e 3g… teaspoon in normal meal lesser evil… REMEMBER NOT SUGAR YOU ADD, BUT WHICH INDUSTRY HAS ADDED, AND HIDDEN IN YOUR PROCESSED FOOD… soluable fiber is a carb…good gut bacteria need it… inflammatory, mito-chondrial damaging diet is OUR NORMAL DIET… Chinese steamed veges most reliable restaurant if no vegan/vegetarian restaurant…
these people on Youtube do not look any healthier than me…even those younger, other a few years old, look way older…and they are pushing really extreme ideas and expensive products …
my point is some of them have diets CRUEL and HORRIFIC for other earthlings…and they claim they are healthier for this…
grilling veges produces toxic chemicals, same as grilling meat…the sugars and proteins ‘caramelise’ form compound that accelerates ageing i.e called ‘ages’ binds to receptors called ‘rages’… create massive oxidative stress and inflammatory response that damage mitochondria and create aging and disease… we make same products in body when eat sugar i.e looks for proteins to bind to to form same products… caramel can be made from plants that tastes the same…grilling veges creates same toxic chemicals… specify steamed broccoli…he only eats most expensive meat… zip lock in bag, put in hot water??? bag is leaking toxins no?… eat what tastes better, not looks better i.e industrial food…
train self ‘that does NOT look like food’ it is NOT food…condition self like pavlov…think of horrible things in it, and what cruelty went into it, and what it does to body and you will lose all interest in it… no matter what amgydyla or mitochondria say… no need for willpower…rewire brain and hormones so you WANT the healthiest stuff…he wants to live to 180? at expense of other Earthlings? so more bad karma will be somehow good for him? … Dave Asprey got to be New York Times Bestseller telling rich people O.K to eat organic enslaved, murdered, Earthlings…of course mastabartorial stuff…ethic porn, will sell….
I write guides about the things that interest me. I write them as reference guides for myself firstly.
I could leave it at that. A guide that satisfies, and speaks to, MY personal needs and ‘representation systems’. Something that ‘works for me’. But I am too conscientious to leave it at that. If the guide is so valuable to me, as a resource, then surely it would be a valuable resource to the community. To others. This is where a lot of the more ‘administrative’ work comes in. I have to proof read more thoroughly. I have to organise the materials for someone who has NOT ‘lived in them’ for at least a year, often several years. I have to present them in the most user-friendly, accessible, manner possible. This adds a lot more work to the exhaustive research, collating, drafting, arranging, and organising of notes I have already invested in my guides.
Then finally I need to take a fresh look at my reference guide. I have to approach it as a first-time reader. I need to feel confident that ANYONE could pick up my guide, and use it. I am the ‘most difficult customer’. The ‘most demanding user’. In German they might call me the ‘Dumbster Anzunehmender Benutzer’. If you design something even the dummest expected user can achieve their objectives with, or which you can achieve the desired outcome from them, with, then you can be sure that the average user will find your guide, your webpage, your form, your directions, your user manual, a positive, rewarding, satisfying, productive, tool. This means following my own instructions, to the letter, to see if they work. If they make sense. To see if maybe there is a simpler or clearer way to explain something. There is a lot of ‘trial and error’, and ‘negative selection’. It is very frustrating and time consuming.
Because I started as a total beginner, I had to learn, and explain to myself, in words, everything. Because I have such a low tolerance for vaguenss and imprecision, and ‘gaps’ in my understanding, everything I do is conscious. Because things do not come ‘intuitively’ to me, I express everything. And have to understand everything. People who ‘can’ do things, almost without thinking about it, never HAVE to think about it, and describe, to themselves, exactly WHAT they are actually doing. They can do, but make terrible teachers. They never had trouble learning. It came too easy to them. It came ‘naturally’. They can demonstrate something by DOING it. But it takes a ‘modeller’ to observe them, and question them, to work out HOW they are doing what they manage to do. The ‘small steps’ they are carrying out, more or less non-consciously, that even THEY are not aware of, let alone performing consciously and deliberately. It is the MODELLER for whom such actions do NOT come naturally, that ‘works out’ the ‘secrets to their success’. That takes the ‘natural talent’ and expressed it in words and images, so that anyone who follows their directions, can replicate the success of the ‘born natural’.
The other problem is that ‘something works for someone’ and they have ‘success’ with it, so they do not look further at the OTHER alternative solutions. Some of which may be superior in many ways. Cheaper. Quicker. Easier. With fewer downstream costs. Fewer side-effects. Fewer costs. Fewer undesirable consequences. Or simply more accessible and appropriate for people different to themselves, or their current clientele. Most people prioritize money and success and recognition and status over ‘finding the optimal solutions’. If what they are doing satisfies THEIR personal motives for WHY they are doing what they do, they have no reason to ‘keep looking’. Once they gain some recognition, and an income stream, they focus on that. As a means to an ends. But for me, providing the optimal solution to my ‘problem’, the reason I started researching some topic, is the end in itself. I write guides for myself. Then, as a teacher, I feel obliged to make the same information available to as many people as possible. Not to profit as much as possible myself, financially or otherwise. But to give others the same benefits I wrote the guide for myself, to gain for myself. If I had been writing to make money, my guides would never be as good as they are. The time and energy I invest in them, and even the risk, and physical suffering often involved, would never be justified by the amount of money I ever stood to earn from them. They are always an expression or manifestation of my vocation as philosopher, and ‘Doctor’, in the original sense of teacher. Not a ‘business proposition’. They would have been terrible business propositions, terrible business models, if that had ever been my intention.
Of course for this reason I have no funds to market my books, or present them to the standard my pride in my work would demand. And so if you are reading this, it is by some stroke of good fortune for you that you stumbled upon it. And decided to ‘give it a chance’ despite its cosmetic, superificial, imperfections.
Mark Hyman MD
damage to mitochondria, gut microbiome, result of lifestyle choices…not automatically associated with age…but this damage produces senescence i.e DAMAGE over time that produce current modern lifestyle chronic inflammatory diseases i.e inflam-aging…factors we have control over , illness, disease associated with chronological time i.e ‘age’ vs ‘aging’) cells trigger immune response i.e inflammation…lack of sleep inflammatory, inflammatory diet, MHR exposure to EMF radiation, lack of excercise is inflammatory, stress is inflammatory when poorly managed, anti-inflammatory Genes activated vs inflammator genes…phytochemicals etc in plant based diets anti-inflammatory while animal products high protein inflammatory…love reduces inflammation vs hate and loneliness etc… can slow down and reverse senescence i.e reduce and eliminate inflammation… downstream effects of inflammation are all the modern chronic diseases you know…diabetes, alzheimers, heart disease, joint diseases,
REAL PANDEMIC IS CHRONIC INFLAMMATION, and bodies response to inflammation … 75% overweight, 42% obese, only 12% of us are metabolically healthy…rest metabolically unhealthy…can be thin on outside and fat on inside i.e look good, but actually overweight…fat in liver etc…
chronic inflammation makes us vulnerable to all other stresses, exposures to toxins, stresses, etc
can slow down senescence i.e damage DONE by aging…
44,000 twin pairs…only 10% of cancer is genetically determined…cancer risk genes not expressed … preventative screening just tells you if you get cancer, earlier…does not reduce risk of it being expressed… genes turned on by external factors…not automatic…bracket (breast cancer gene 75% risk) but data shows 50 years ago was 40% risk i.e same genes, but expressed less 40 years ago… Alzheimers Apoe4 gene 75% increased risk of Alzheimers… functional medicine digs into root causes…nutrition, hormones, gut micro-biome, mitochondria (energy centers of cells), de-toxing from environmental exposure…can stack deck in your favor…focus on creating health, vs treating illness… not just preventing illness, but creating positive health…so host more resilient… less likely to
common to groups that live longest are whole food plant rich diet, colorful nutrient dense foods, active i.e move all day, manage to have fun not stressed all the time…deep connected loving relationships and community … sense of purpose outside of self i.e integral part of community gives meaning and purpose…but largest over 100 population were american indians living off buffalo and berries… and 7th day adventists vegetarian … loneliness one of the biggest killers … just joining a club associated with living longer… love, connection, community VS social distancing, working from home, DIS-connecting from community i.e WEAPONISED ’emergency measures’… not just economic wrecking in the TRILLIONS … but STRESS
aging associated with loss of metabolic resilience…people becoming more insulin resistance over time i.e cannot handle sugar and starch as used to..so end up with higher insulin levels,.increasing inflammation, gut microbiome becomes funky, mitochondria work less efficiently, get lots of loss of muscle and increase in body fat, often NOT belly fat, actually ‘skinny fat’ i.e fat in organs like liver which most people unaware of… insulin response to sugar load important measure of senescence…panel of infllamatory markers, oxidative stress (rusting from too much inflammation i.e wrinkles from sunlight inflammation, rusting like apple or banana …consequences of these forms of inflammation are cancer, diabetes, etc i.e few people connect… signs of aging in young kids… can see what happening in kids blood sugar, cholesterol, heart function, could predict later heart etc problems
telemeres are endcaps on chromosome that shrink as you get older…when get too short, you die…biological age vs chronological age…Nobel prize winning science…can lengthen telemeres and become biologically younger at any age… we have disease care, not health care…functional medicine about increasing organ reserve, improving metabolic resiliency, optimizing biological systems to generate health…regenerative / restorative medicine…even stem cells produced in response to fasting… do not need ‘stem cell therapy’ i.e exogenous…promote your OWN stem cell production… extend HEALTH span to equal life span… i.e longer not automatically better … longer and healthier… HOLOBIOME is idea that the biology of the microbes that live in and on us determine our health at least as much as our own biology…we are ecosystem of organisms / microbes that live on and in us…there are 10 times more cells from microbes/organisms in and on us than we have ‘human’ cells, and 100 times more DNA from other organisms i.e microbes than our own… we are 1% human… a large proportion of material in our blood comes from gut microbiome…microbial metabolised materials 30 to 50% … affects of microbes in brain, heart, cancer, diabetes…dynamic interaction between us and our bugs…future of medicine involves understanding this delicate relationship…to promote health giving bugs, versus ones that age and kill us…we must become HOLOBIOME gardeners…caretakers…even neurochemistry regulated by HOLOBIOME…most conventional medicine ignores all this…takes long time for medical research to become medical practise…took ages before doctors accepted idea of washing hands before surgery! n.b still lot of doctors reject idea, and only wash if forced…not as clear cut as people think…an official narrative…
successful aging is being able to do what you want, no matter your age…write book aged 95, climb mountain…quality of life… so diminished unecessarily by our lifestyles…100 years ago heart attacks rare anomoly…today number one ’cause of death’ in U.S…diet change *LETS SEE IF HE MENTIONS ELECTRIFICATION , EMF ETC AT ALL …salt already added by corporations to make cardboard at all apetising i.e artificial flavors, colors, sugar… replace body movement with gadgets…loneliness and social disconnection biggest risk factor than anything else for predicting early death and disease (which direction though?) stress skyrocketed, disconnection and isolation rampant… risk factor for heart disease, cancer, … alienation…no friends, no intimacy…environmental toxic load i.e air pollution increases heart disease…heavy metals, pesticides lead to obesity and diabetes and heart disease a.k.a Obesicides…perfect storm for inflammation … in susceptible people i.e genetically etc susceptible to particular diseases, leads to different diseases…co-morbities really the actual cause… i.e same root cause… inflammation…lifestyle … glucose-insulin tests … insulin causes belly fat, inflammation, oxidative stress…heart disease is not a plumbing problem, it is an inflammation, oxidative stress, hormone, insulin problem…not about cholesterol blocking arteries (n.b research shows this occurs AFTER death, not cause, but effect…see own notes…)
75% patients coming to ER with heart attack, have normal LDL cholesterol…the very thing being treated with stattin drugs to lower was already normal… but 50% had low HDL, and most of the people had high triglycerides…at least 2/3rds have undiagnosed pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes…focus on LDL is driven by big pharma ‘studies’ that show lowering LDLs reduce heart attack and risk of death,100s of millions spent on studies…but data REALLY show if LDL lowered with stattin, you see a 30% reduction in risk of having heart attack i.e have high cholesterol but have not had a heart attack yet,,,but absolute risk was 3% down to 2% … you would have to treat 89 people with stattin, with potential side effects, for 1 person to benefit… like treating 89 people with penicillin with sore throat, because one of them might have benefitted from it… this is sleight of mouth i.e framing of stats… 3% risk down to 2% risk…like my ‘10% increase in sales tax’ lead to people questioning me…
focus on LDL cholesterol…but profile / pattern of cholesterol that gives highest risk…Athrogenicdyslipodemia… a lot of small, dense LDL particles, even if number low…it is the number of these small dense LDL particles that do the damage… it is these small particles despite low LDL that do damage i.e reason for ER visit for heart attack… high LDL is not whole story…most doctors do not dig deep enough i.e qualitative vs quantitative… there are foods that change the quality of your cholesterol…light and fluffy big vs dense and small damaging LDLs… even where HDL and triglycerides in ‘healthy’ range, and low LDL, if these dense small LDL’s present in higher numbers AT RISK… starch and sugar AND PROCESED FOOD IN DIET determine size and density of LDL particles … NMR nuclear magnetic resonace TEST LETS DETERMINE QUALITY OF CHOLESTEROL … can see quality of … cardio IQ test gives similar feedback…tests doing now antiquated… LDL is important, and genetic conditions can cause high LDL…but most predictive number for heart attack is total cholesterol divided by your HDL, and low HDL caused by starch and sugar i.e high number when HDL lower … starch and sugar in diet and therefore insulin resistance main player in heart disease… if no inflammation, unlikely will get heart disease…Harvard trial on statins and if LDL high and CRP i.e inflammation marker was high, statins reduced risk IF inflammation marker came down…but if had no inflammation, and LDL marker came down with drug, there was no difference… the statins reduced inflammation…. oxidisation means ‘go rancid’ … critical part of biology is cholesterol if not enough die…need right amount in right quality … rancid cholesterol is problem not cholesterol per se…cholesterol pretty harmless unless oxidised i.e rancid…it produces hormones, makes up cell membranes, critical part of our biology… 44 mins
MARK HYMAN MD 3 hour anti-aging vid 44 mins Inflammaging
141 mins+ Mark Hyman
THOUSANDS of markers in blood for inflammation…patterns of inflammation that are highly predictive of disease i.e the drivers of inflammation… free radicals – oxidative stress one indicator … diet, stress, toxins, gut microbiome, pesticides, sugar-starch-processed food… all correlate with inflammation and modern lifestyle diseases… sleep… you do NOT need expensive tests, and can NOT rely on your doctor being ‘up to date’ and ‘having the attitude of health vs treatment of symptoms of poor health… will need to ‘manage’ your own Doctor, if you somehow still trust the medical and pharma profession, and other ‘authorities’ still … can test if producer or hyper absorber of cholesterol i.e produce too much in liver, or absorb too much i.e opposite of insulin resistance i.e cholesterol over-absorption… can test person to see if either apply to you… Science of wellness … food for health vs illness… lifestyle for ease vs dis-ease i.e anxiety, fear, worries… blood vessels need to be fluid, soft, and pliable, not rigid, hard, brittle… can measure vascular health i.e blood vessels…
blood vessel health via eating anti-inflammatory diet, low in starch and sugar, good quality fats from nuts and seeds, lots of vegetables… quality diet…remove flour, sugar, junk i.e treat as ‘treats’ like you used to treat chocolate
sauna can improve heart rate variablity and health of blood vessels, vascular resilience and response…exercise offers enormous benefits for vascular health and function…meditation great to counter oxidative stress, inflammation, blood pressure… nutrients like circumin, vitamin B (D?), anti-oxidants, phyto-chemicals are plant derived compounds that play huge role in vascular health so do not get ‘hear’ disease’
ketogenic, low carb diets… variablity in individual responses to different diets…variable between people… no one size fits all… some people manage starch and sugars better, some manage certain fats worse… lean mass hyper responder i.e fit healthy people when increase certain types of fat in diet goes badly for them… DNA diet…see how respond to fat, carb, different factors, how respond to different foods to optimalise diet for YOU…
Lymphatic system is metabolic waste disposal system i.e waste extruded by cells… no pump on lympathic system i.e only pump is muscles…that is how to move lymph through body back to heart, then to liver, to detox your blood… must exercise regularly … like garbage collector not coming … must do every day…powerful way to stay healthy and vigorous / vital …
Oxidative stress drives inflammation…starch and sugar 2/3rds of all heart attacks due to massive overloading of system with sugar and flour… can lead to different problems in different people … dementia as type 3 diabetes… different genetic vulnerabilities i.e how excess is Expressed dependent on individual, but never good … diabetes in one, heart disease in another, dementia in another etc
Bile duct cancer on rise…bile dumps toxins in gut from liver…pesticides, heavy metals, chemicals … increasing burden of heavy metals, pesticides, petro-chemicals, … mercury, lead from sea food one source… environmentally induced cancers… tobacco products … solid tumour has been growing for 20 or 30 years, and overwhelms immune system in end… big gut and pre-diabetes i.e insuling resistance can produce even lung cancers…and all other cancers… all correlated with obesity…with insulin resistance…the bulk of modern cancers, and reason for dramatic rise in them, is same as reason increase in obesity / over-weight… excess sugar and starch…
Terrain theory…i.e change host, to prevent, and cure
Sugar a key to cancer prevention… studies on mice and other animals reverse cancers like pancreatic and melanoma using ketogenic diet i.e 70% fat and less than 5% carbs…cancer cells love sugar… insulin promotes growth of cancer cells… they need carbs and sugars to grow…cannot grow without… whereas healthy cells capable of ‘switching’ from sugars to ketones…there are no essential carbs…we can live on fat… when we switch FROM carbs, TO processing fats to procesing carbs, this seems to switch on a host of anti-cancer, anti-aging, anti-inflammatory mechanisms…
ketogenic diets now prescribed to cancer patients by informed oncologists… many now believe cancer is 70% diet related…
note TESTING just tells you earlier, i.e early DETECTION, and has you worrying more…does not in itself prevent anything… might help surgeon get to something earlier, but that is no guarantee…
We have potential for ‘science of rejuvenation’… it is diet, excercise, sleep, building positive rewarding interpersonal relationships, MHR cat therapy, microbiome, immune system, health of organism, nutrition, toxic load…optimise these systems to make host i.e you, inhospitable for tumours etc…
Do NOT eat ice cream and drink milk shakes…optimise biology, make it unfriendly for cancer cells to establish and grow…
Protocols for detoxing pesticides and chemicals i.e FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE…sauna…vitamin D plays huge role in risk of getting cancer… biology needs to be able to handle process called which is dependent on B group of vitamins i.e B6, b12 and folate which play huge role in cancer regulation…
doing something pro-active itself empowering…taking control…feeling in control rather than hopeless and victim… FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE IS focus on person who has the disease, rather than the disease the person has…
OUR thoughts can damage our biological systems…we need to activate our natural, in-built, rejuvenation, regeneration, healing, systems… body can fix cells, get rid of damaged cells…
bad stuff and lack of good stuff…phyto-chemicals etc in plants…repair and heal and give metabolic tune-up…
make-up and sun block have lead and other heavy metals, or drinking from plastic bottles with BPA and other toxins in them, that erode health
activate repair with ginger, circumin, etc i.e spices we can cook with and eat to activate repair system
Hormesis fancy word … when you stress a system just a little, it will bounce back better… weight lifting etc damages, tears muscle fibers, so they come back stronger…sprinting etc is a little trauma for your body that increases mitochondria efficiency i.e stresses them so they become more efficient…heat and cold, light, activate repair mechanisms… move from a degrading, declining biology that is becoming senescent and aging, to one that is rejuvenating, repairing, regenerating, producing health…
as age hormones often get out of balance, due to our behaviours… hormones messengers of endocrine system…communication…coordination…sex hormones, adrenal function, melatonin, growth hormone, insulin and blood-sugar regulation … all impacted by lifestyle and diet… as age bio-identical hormone replacement can help MHR i.e SOY is oestrogen-like i.e plant oestrogen… as age most experience slow gradual imperceptible drifting into fatigue, low energy, loss of muscle, low sex drive, trouble sleeping .. we think this is NORMAL but it is NOT normal… it is out-of-balance hormones… progesterone and oestrogen fall in women after menopause… insulin most important hormone of aging…must keep LOW to keep health high…belly fat low and muscle high… hormone changes often driven by sarcopenia is big word for loss of muscle, and as we lose muscle our sex hormones get worse, our adrenal hormones start to get worse because LOW MUSCLE INCREASES STRESS HORMONES LIKE CORTISOL, you get lower growth (repair) hormone, and higher insulin i.e everything moves in wrong direction… need to systematically work on re-tuning hormones as age, to keep muscular, energetic, sexy, etc … often hormones change at same time i.e perfect storm of hormonal imbalance… same for women after menopause… or when life is full of stress so stress hormones screw up insulin, thyroid, sex hormones i.e psychological aspects of stress responses … rythmic living means sleeping and waking at same times i.e regular sleep habits, moderate exercise…not eating starch and sugar which stimulates adrenalin and stress hormone cortisol i.e even if not psychologically stressed, starch and sugar physiologically stresses body even when NOT mentally stressed… Vitamin b5 and ginseng help support adrenal response ot make more stress resilient i.e NASA astronauts take in space… stress hormones and diet e.g gluton, environmental toxins, can disrupt thyroid… reduce inflammatory foods, Thyroid function benefits / supported by seaweed (IODINE), vitamin D, selenium, Zinc…
Herbs and bio-identical oestrogen, progesterone, testosterone applied in drops to skin, can help women after menopause i.e hormone replacement…
belly fat in men, and loss of muscle..accelerates andropause i.e male menopause…less motivated, energetic, focusses, less sexual, can get high levels of oestrogen as it is produced in fat tissues, so lose hair on chest and legs, and get man-boobs…can reverse that trend and fix hormones i.e low T (testosterone syndrome)… the bigger your belly, the more insulin you produce, so get insulin resistance, so get low Testosterone levels… strength training, and good fats, remove starch and sugar from diet, all will increase testosterone and get rid of oestrogen… bio-identical testosterone can help men with sex drive, building muscle etc… but should be optimising hormone balance using diet, exercise, etc…
master hormones are insulin, growth (repair) hormone, thyroid, sex hormones, adrenal hormones, cortisol stress hormones… but lots of others … DHEA and pregnetalone … also decline and for same reasons… so respond to same approach…but DHEA can get really low i.e inversely related to stress…so chronic stress leads to low DHEA if do not counter with anti-stress measures, so feel tired, old, lose sex drive…adding DHEA can be helpful to kickstart…can increase naturally… and be careful, hair loss on head or hair growing on face in women as supplmements can be converted to testosterone… progesterone can reduce back pain… but best to stop hormones becoming imbalanced… and to get them back in balance naturally, rather than use supplements of bio-identical hormones
biggest driver of aging is sarcopenia means muscle (sarco) less of (penia)… sarco penia … biggest driver of all the metabolic catastrophe, the hormonal chaos, that leads to accelerated aging…at any age can build muscle back…it is the reason people decline and become less functional with age is muscle loss… ironic as most people associate gym with young people… we need to work out 3 times a week in our 60s…resistance training and weights… focus on muscle important…most ignored organ in body and most important…when lose muscle you become more insulin resistant, you cannot regulate your blood-sugar levels very well, your insulin levels go up, your blood-sugar levels go up, blood pressure goes up, cholesterol gets messed up, just as result of losing muscle… younger muscles more muscle, older muscles marbled with fat, and be same weight…cascading messing up of hormones, testosterone sex hormone falls, growth (repair hormones) go down, stress hormones like cortisol go up, melatonin goes down…accelerated cascading of aging… need to focus on muscle health, bulk, strength, i.e amount of healthy muscle is key to aging and functioning well… diet and excercise key i.e resistance training…managing stress to lower cortisol…diet plays huge role…we need more protein in diet to build muscle…
?????? science suggests improvements in health from lowering animal protein do not apply in older age…claims protein from plants not equivalent to animal based protein … lentil protein not same as protein from cow? protein from animal protein has higher levels of amino acid Luceine…you cannot build adequate muscle unless eat at least 2.5g of Luceine in a serving of protein…need 20 to 30g protein … LOOK FOR PLANT BASED SOURCES OF LUCEIN … note at least admit only need 20g to 30g of protein to build muscle bulk…
people end up in nursing homes as lose function … 90 year olds can remain strong and functional…potential at any age to improve, but longer you wait the harder it gets, and less muscle you will be able to gain… but 60 year olds can go from 10 to 30 pushups to way more, if train self for strength…when young get away with more…when older, need to input more to system to maintain it… i.e new car vs old car…need more maintenance… so muscle loss i.e sarcopenia can be reversed, and you will reap so many benefits in terms of fixing hormones, metabolism, strenght, functioning, and sex drive
central feature of aging is loss of metabolic resiliency…biggest cause of metabolic dysfunction is insulin resistance, higher insulin, higher blood sugar, and end up with diabetes. This can start up to 40 years before diabetes appears i.e pre-diabetes epidemic…one in 2 have this but most undiagnosed…use to have two names i.e adult onset diabetes vs juvenile, but had to change name to type 2 diabete as kids starting suffering it, until today 25% of teens now have type 2 diabetes… central feature of aging, cancer, heart disease, dementia, all driven by single phenomenon of insulin resistance… expression of genes for driven by insulin resistance … DRIVEN BY SUGAR intake ??? MHR STILL NOONE TALKS ABOUT ELECTRIFICATION, ELECTRO MAGNETIC RADIATION EXPOSURE… SEE ‘THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW’… cutting out sugar makes self insulin sensitive, and activates life exentension genes…big secret to healthy aging is cutting out sugar… insulin sensitive means really good at regulating blood-sugar, no spikes, no roller coaster, no downstream effects no acceleration of aging… diabetes just the worst, most obvious, manifestation of insulin resistance, we call Alzheimers type 3 diabetes, 2/3rds of heart disease caused by pre-diabetes and diabetes, many of modern pandemic cancers manifestations of / caused by insulin resistance. Same mechanism behind Heart disease, Cancer, and dementia top 3 causes of death in modern world… metabolic dysfunction…only 12% of us are metabolically healthy…other 88% not…
natural evolutionary state is to be healthy, vibrant, functional into old age… half people died really old, or really young i.e stupid average lifespan stats resulting i.e 30 or 40… people who survived to 40 survived into very old age… average due to early death before age 7…
140 mins We can avoid so much suffering, disability, economic cost, loss of productivity i.e cost of chronic diseases from metabolic poor health over 25 years is 95 TRILLION dollars in U.S alone…more than world GDP each year… almost totally preventable… IMAGINE A WAR ON AGING , WAR ON FAT, WAR ON DIABETES, ETC I.E PREVENTION…
We can do way more about preventing disease and aging than most realise…we can begin at any age to reverse the trend…become super healthy
Mark Hyman 141 mins +
Use functional medicine and optimising own biology… even late in life… by applying earlier, before sick, will keep you young and vital for as long as you live…reverse biological clock…add years to life and add life to your years…
Regulate cirtuins to activate pathways to health and vitality, including switching on good genes and de-activating bad genes expression……like control switch in metabolism reverse diabetes, reduce inflammation, optimise mitochrondria, reverse oxidative stress, i.e deal with fundamental pathways i.e master switches in genes that promote longevity…diet number one, remove starch and sugar, adding plant rich phyto-nutrient rich diet…specific plant based nutrients like respiratol from grapes (red wine) and other plant nutrients like corsitin…..activate, repair, regeneration, healing, rejuvenation, reversing all biological mechanisms that drive senescence in aging i.e ‘getting old’ … live long vibrant healthy life
AMPK master regulation switch for your metabolism…activate it with exercise, diet, hypoxia (LOW OXYGEN) machines to activate AMPK i.e reduce level of oxygen takes you to 30,000 feet then this low level stress activates AMPK…compounds in food like corsiton in onions, green tea, ginseng, respiritol, burberry, activate AMPK and drive metabolic pathways that activate other pathways that regulate aging… this is the ‘button’ you can ‘hit’ to increase exercise performance, increase muscle and energy, reduce body fat, reverse insulin resistance, make mitochondria improve their function, reduce inflammation, reduce oxidative stress… AMPK…we can control it…activate it for these benefits…with exercise, low sugar starch phyto-nutrient PEGAN diet… MHR ODD THAT LOWER OXYGEN TRIGGERS BENEFITS, VS MICHAEL JACKSON OXYGEN TENT… increase athletic performance… these tools regulate these pathways holistically, together… tailored to your biology…
Rapamicin is EMTOR pathway that helps body reverse all aspects of aging. Autophagy auto self phagy eating like macrophage that eats bacteria i.e pacman bacteria eating old damaged cells and mitochondria…recycles the proteins etc of cells…challenges of finding food stimulate this i.e scarcity puts body in healing mode, conserve energy, repair and heal to optimize…but we have no periods of authophagy, so our metabolism is running all the time … never has chance to repair and clean up mess, and recycle…activating EMTOR is important strategy for longevity…some form of real fasting necessary…restrictive calorie diet is miserable i.e each tiny unsatisfying meals… can achieve same with time restrictive eating i.e window of eating in each day…
16 hours appears a great fast period…activates anti-oxidant enzymes, builds bone, helps build muscle, reduce body fat and inflammation, increases energy, cognitive function, focus, i.e reversal of damage and thus prevention of senescence…eat healthy during window better, but even if change nothing else, still improves metabolism
one longer fast per week from 24 hours…fasting mimicking diets calorie restrict a few days a month
ketogenic diets take out starch and sugar to mimic fasting…carbs burned up quickly…carbs /calories stored in muscles burned up quickly when body running on glucose / sugar …have to metabolism to burn fat instead of sugar, and this process generates ketones, which do the same thing…activate bodies healing mechanisms… … activated by fasting or low carb-sugar diet
those nutrients described earlier like cirtuins also have some effect
Discoveries indicate we can continue creating brain cells right up to point of death…neurogenesis, more connections and functions is called neuroplasticity…we have a lot of control over these processes…molecule in body generated called BDNTF brain derived neuro trophic factor … trophic means to grow, neuro is brain…if activate create new brain cells and new connections between brain cells…can reverse dementia…increase neurogenesis and neuroplasticity… at any age…
dementigens are things that cause dementia i.e damage brain…diet, inflammatory diet number one cause of dementigens…lack of exercise also dementigen…exercise activates BDNTF…lack of sleep means cannot get rid of metabolic waste of brain i.e the mose metabolically active organ of body..glymphatic system active at night … stress is dementigen…cortisol stress hormone literally shrinks your brain… memory center of brain hippocampus … if remove cortisol it grows back, in animal studies… mercury dementigen…usually undiagnosed i.e never tested for or treated doctors not educated…mercury toxicity…all envinromental toxins but lead and mercury worst… lack of relationships, social connections, social interactions … lack of meaning and purpose….biologically active factors… on structure qand fucntion of brain and every other part of body… allergens like gluten or dairy can be dementigen to some…gut microbiome with leaky gut and bad bacteria, produces inflammation and is dementigen… can test for, treat for, measure, identify…can remove all reasons for brain fog, depression, ADD, demential…agressive lifestyle interventions can slow and reverse course of dementia … Alzheimers gene not death sentence…
Lyme disease or mould exposure can cause brain damage i.e looks like dementia, cured with anti-biotics… medical detectives…find dementigens for each person… then how to restore brain function…repair, heal…
Cognoscopy…like colonoscopy…how to evaluate current brain function / dysfunction …
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Brain has more mitochondria (cell energy centers) than any other organ in body (probably all muscles as one organ combined also! … brain gets inflammed like any other cell or organ… mitochondria … oxidative stress e.g free radicals… latent infections … lyme disease, tick infections… look for…often mis-diagnosed…mold exposure to mould toxins… can do tests for brain inflammation…is hippocampus small i.e memory center… spinal tap for cerebral spinal fluid tests for brain inflammation…each persons story suggests particular risks / exposures so can draw road map to recovery for each individual…
Functional medicine is creation of health… pot belly, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammation, insulin resistance, etc etc… methylation regulates brain inflammation and neurotransmitters…b12, b6, folate deficiencies… Pittsburg steel plants use coal to make steel…coal ash settles on fields and roads, so mercury exposure…also mouth full of fillings…thankfully I got mine removed, even if new fillings fell out…
you can have normal thyroid levels but thyroid anti-bodies…
ketogenic diet lets brain run on fat rather than sugar…appears to work on brain disorders, epilepsy, autism, dementia… most expensive illness to take care of…dementia…set to impose massive costs on society…lose your identity…terrifying?…goal of LSD trip etc? … most people identify self with ‘self’ i.e brain, memories, etc…
will never be drug to cure alzheimers…maybe prevent a bit, help with symptoms, but fallacious to think can treat disease with dozens of causes…must treat the causes…underlying pathways to disease…
shifting thinking in dementia…we have categorically misclassification with Aetiological imprecision…we say someone has memory loss due to dementia…circular… Aetiological imprecision refers to cause of i.e imprecise attribution of causes … vs precision medicine i.e functional medicine tailored to individual…future is precise medicine… massive paradigm shift…
MHR NOTE EVOLUTION IS STILL THEORY…ENTERTAIN IT…ALSO ENTERTAIN ‘WORLD AS REPRESENTATION OF OUR WILL’, OR THE WILL OF ALIENS TWEAKING MONKEYS ETC TO MAKE GOOD SLAVES…
Training for centenarian olympics i.e how to train to be functional 100 year old… Cardio vascular fitness important, but other levels of fitness equally important i.e strength, balance, mobility, flexibility. So mix up fitness regime. Do lots of different human movement i.e activity…tennis players live 7 years longer than others? … agility, co-ordination, short sprints, mental acuity, lots of varied movement and activity including mental…yoga (balance), and high intensity interval training…MHR Tai Chi…agility… strengthen all muscles involved in controlling structure to take pressure off joints, especially any damage, to remain pain free and mobile…
we have mental limitations…body way exceeds our expectations…some people need trainer to keep them motivated i.e stick to strength training…extremely positive contribution to all pathways…so do it 3 times a week at least…MHR keep simple exercises, not equipment, can do in normal clothing etc in time that suits you…at home or office…
can start any time in life, no matter how old… many people who never exercised till retired, now strong and fit…
stem cells can turn into anything…embryo one cell, divides over and again…differentiate into organs etc…these cells are pluripotent i.e can become anything…we continue making stem cells in our bone marrow, in our tissues, throughout our whole life…they help us heal and repair and regenerate…growth factors and native healing processes… many things cause stem cells to not function well, to age more rapidly, and so many things can do to activate own stem cells…regenerative medicine… we can harm or help them…so more do to help and less do that harms, better off we are… meditation leads to production of more stem cells, stress reduces stem cell production… diet, exercise, stress, sleep, microbiome, exposure to toxins, all impact stem cells… stem cell therapy expensive i.e suck out bone marrow or fat, painful…new treatments include exosomes…strategy…exosomes are the healing factors in stem cells…stem cells release growth healing repair anti-inflammatory factors…exosomes are all these goodies from stemcells, but without the DNA of the stem cell itself … i.e exosomes … youthful exosomes from placenta where genetic material taken out and only healing factors remain…inject locally and into blood to repair tissue… i.e your own stem cells old…but if remove exosomes from another persons stem cells or placenta i.e brand new stem cells…
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Normal is average…not optimal for YOU … optimal levels for YOUR biology…
colorful fruits and veges…regenerative foods…stimulate stem cell production in bone marrow… drugs only ever MARGINALLY effective and note DEVIL IN THE DETAILS i.e 30% improvement might refer to a change in SOME people from 3 to 2% i.e that is statistically a 30% reduction…but that is not what most people INTERPRET that stat as
wild strawberry is small, but loaded with flavor … incomparable… vs commercial strawberry that looks good and big… phytochemicals help wild strawberries survive i.e response to tough life vs hot-house food not stressed at all, easy living, like domestic humans… we have to mimic stress etc high intensity interval training, weight training, sauna heat therapy, ice bath cold therapy, stress on system creates healing response…light therapies can activate healing response… ozone therapy stresses body short term that stimulates healing responses…used rectally, interavenously, activates anti-oxidant enzymes…Vitamin E and C also good, but body makes own, less as we age unless stress…activates other master regulatory pathways… broccoli, tumeric, red grapes similar affect…activates pathways … increasae own stem cell production… PERSONALLY WOULD AVOID ANYTHING UNNATURAL … i.e fasting, broccoli, red grapes, exercise … hypoxia machines mask lowers oxygen slowly over 20 mins equivalent of altitude change, then go back… therapies stimulate system for regen, rejuv, healing, response…
ensure health-span matches life-span…do not end up regretting being alive still…
body creates energy from air and sugar… combustion…oxidation… ATP is bodies fuel…runs everything…mitochondria produce…as age slow decline in function and number of mitochondria…have to take care of them via diet, exercise, nutrients, etc etc…
MHR people want to buy pills, and people want to sell them…and odd therapies…
energy production cycle with lots of steps … ATP and waste ( Co2 and water, and free radicals) …output of mitochondria…
Parkinson’s mitochondrial disease…brady kinesia, slow movement, muscle dsyfunction, as mitochondria not working well … hawking supplements, some ‘promising’ pills etc
MHR DO YOU REALLY WANT TO LIVE, LET ALONE A LONG TIME? WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LIVE FOR? WHAT DO YOU LOOK FORWARD TO? DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF PURPOSE? DO YOU FEEL YOU BELONG? MOST IMPORTANT RISK FACTOR IS SOCIAL ISOLATION, CONNECTION I.E GREATEST RISK FACTOR FOR LONGEVITY…COMMUNITY…MEANING AND PURPOSE AND BEING AND LIVING…ACCEPTANCE AND APPROVAL I.E LOVE AND SURVIVAL
TELEMERES caps on ends of chromosomes that shrink as get older, and when get too short, you die…you can start lenghtening them at any age…diet, exercise, stress, nutrients, all impact length of our telemeres…diet huge role high phyto-nutrient rich low starch and sugar diet full of quality nutrition , meditation, exercise, multi-vitamins… N.B PHYTO-CHEMICALS LIKE CORSITIN IN PLANT FOODS ONLY… can reverse biological clock…TELEMERE AGE… bio-marker…can show how lifestyle changes etc are working i.e can measure length of telemeres…grow biologically younger as grow chronologically older… PEGAN… PHTYO-NUTRIENTS means PLANTS… Standard American Diet SAD … plant rich, colorful, nutrient dense, full of phyto-chemicals…olive oil, avocadoes, Omega 3 without heavy metals is NUTS i think walnuts?… NO FLOUR AT ALL … JUST EAT WHOLE GRAINS…BLACK RICE, RED RICE, BUCKWHEAT FROM HIMALAYAS SUPERFOOD ANTI-INFLAMMATORY… grass fed animals have phyto-nutrients i.e plant-based compounds usually only found in plants…OF COURSE MORE COMMON THE SHIT THEY EAT YOU EAT WHEN YOU EAT THEM, AND DAIRY, AND EGGS…
No flour on regular basis…no sugar or artificial sweeteners… pesticides, hormones, anti-biotics, artifical anything not FOOD… most modern dairy lot of hormones and inflammatory proteins due to caseine, inflammation and gut issues… heirloom animals have different caseine…todays intensively bred and industrially farmed cows produce casein that is really bad for your health…most people do not realise they are lactose intolerant…
FOOD MOST IMPORTANT MEDICINE FOR HEALTH AND PREVENTION AND HEALING…phyto-nutrient rich compounds in green teen, corsitin in onions, respiratol in red grapes, circumin in curry, … benefits metabolism, decrease body fat, increase muscle mass, reduce inflammation, increase anti-oxidant enzymes, boost mitochondria, improve brain chemistry…FOOD … works any time, at any age, for anybody…
muscle most neglected organ, next is gut…microbiome…holobiome…symboitic relationship between us and our microbes determine almost everything about our health…over time this degrades, loss of funciton, and contents of gut leak and activate immune system causing inflammation… crappy diet low in soluable fiber that feeds good gut organisms…can repair gut by avoiding ‘gut busters’ i.e processed foods, sugar, starch, toxins, anti-biotics, anti-acid tablets destroy biome, steroids, contraceptive pills, advil, allive not good for gut over long term…design gut healthy life…upgrade diet to include PRE BIOTIC FIBERS like artishockes, asparagus, plantains, japanese root used for sheritake noodles… if heat rice and cool becomes resistant starch that helps feed good bugs in gut … PRO BIOTIC foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, tempe, miso, nato, sheep / goat yoghurts, … cultivate your inner garden
Phyto-chemicals like colorful nutrient dense compounds in rainbow foods…e.g cranberry, pomegranate, green tea, feed acromancia bacteria / microbes in gut N.B decline in these associated with diabates, cancer, auto-immune diease… but if feed they grow and you decrease risk…
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metabolic reslience, organ reserves (of what??) there are NO BRAINERS i.e foods identified by recent research that no-one could argue are ‘bad for you’ in any way… that are tasty…nutritious, satisfying, pleasurable (I cannot understand aversion to broccoli)
NMR Nuclear magnetic resonance testing and cardio IQ tests tell you about the nature /quality size of particles, and type of your cholesterol, and measures of blood sugar control, blood sugar levels, fasting insulin levels, Haemoglobin A1C is average blood sugar over 6 weeks, and glucose tolerance test measuring blood sugar and insulin i.e metabolic health indicator… look at cardio CRP inflammation levels, LPa genetic marker influenced by habits, blood thickness and clotting, indirect measures of metabolic health e.g fatty liver test caused by sugar and starch… homosysteine B12, folate and b6 status, F2 oxidized LDL tells if choloesterorl going rancid due to oxidation i.e free radicals… imagine tests ultrasound of carotid glands to check for plaque or blocked arteries…Calcium store high speed CAT scan measures calcium round heart…Calcium is bodies band-aid i.e response to inflammation…goes where there is inflammation i.e calcium buildup good prediction of inflammation and heart disease… measure belly and widest part of hips, and divide waist by hip number…waist:hip ratio greater than 9 is indicator poor metabolic health…8 for women…i.e just looking can see if waist is wider than hips, or even close to equal, you have problem… heart rate variability i.e from beat to beat…if they are too homogenous i.e do not change, this is sign of lack of resilience and flexibilty i.e should be more complex and variable i.e equals health…same as rain forest vs mono-crop … diversity healthy… reduce inflammation and clotting in blood (VAXXING!) … absorption and productoin tests i.e of liver re cholesterol / fat… acromancy on stuhl test i.e grow back acromancia bacteria with green tea, pomegranate, etc
Checking to see if already HAVE cancer not preventative in real sense…too late by time ‘visible’… not true prevention… measure biological TERRAIN rather than tumor i.e soil in which it grows…make it as inhospitable as possible…i.e eliminate sources of inflammation, toxins, gut micro-biome problems, insulin and blood sugar related to cancer and heart disease…toxic load…immune function…inflammation… starve tumours…we all have cancers right now…body has surveillance system to find and get rid of cancer cells…exosomes… sugar carcinogenic …
hormones…usually ingnore until severely off spectrum i.e extreme… need to look for anti-bodies that prevent e.g thyroid hormones actually doing their job… starch and sugar can increase mens oestrogen levels to unhealthy level…saliva testing for cortisol i.e stress hormone levels, for melatonin for people not sleeping, growth hormone related hormones…can measure balance to look for problems well before these produce cancers etc… many different forms of oestrogen, not just one hormone oestrogen…they can be present but not metabolised…some appear to promote breast cancer, others fight it…protect against it… isoflavones from WHOLE SOY, broccoli, flax seeds, green veges, can prevent and reverse some cancers…
If you have, Umm, Ahh, Hmmm…oh yeh, MEMORY problems, check b12, folates, thyroid function, mini-strokes, cardio vascular disease… memory tests, MRI brain scans for volume of brain and hippocampus in particular…plaque in brain… most drugs have very little if any benefit (evidence thereof)… congoscopy indicators of brain function… dementigens… urine measures of mercury and lead… look for hidden tick and lyme infections or mold exposure… body produces thousands and thousands of different molecules…many indicators / markers of patten of inflammation…
MHR IF YOU HAVE UNLIMITED RESOURCES, AND ENJOY SPENDING A LOT OF TIME AND MONEY WITH DOCTORS, GETTING TESTS, AND TRYING SUPPLEMENTS, AND HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH YOUR TIME, THEN YOU CAN. BUT THIS GUIDE IS FOR PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF, STRUGGLING TO FIND THE MONEY AND TIME AND ENERGY TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF OUR LIFE…BUT WHO WANT TO DO THE THINGS THAT ARE MOST LIKELY TO YIELD REAL, IMMEDIATE AND LONG TERM, BENEFITS, WITHOUT ANY NEGATIVE SIDE-EFFECTS. THE SIMPLEST, AND MOST EFFECTIVE THINGS WE CAN INCORPORATE INTO OUR DAILY LIVES, WITHOUT THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL EXPENSES, SPECIAL EQUIPMENTS, ETC AND THAT WE CAN STICK TOO, EASILY. THERE IS NO POINT STARTING SOMETHING WE ARE UNLIKELY TO CONTINUE LONG TERM.
KEY TO THIS IS YOUR EMOTIONAL STATUS. YOUR MOTIVATION. RUTHLESS BRUTAL SELF HONESTY. DO YOU REALLY CARE? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO LIVE A LONG LIFE? DOES YOUR HEALTH REALLY MATTER TO YOU? OR HAVE YOU REALLY GIVEN UP, AND JUST WANT TO GET AS MUCH PLEASURE OUT OF YOUR CURRENT EXISTENCE, FROM THE RELIABLE SOURCES OF PLEASURE E.G JUNK FOOD, ALCOHOL, OTHER DRUGS ETC, AND COMFORT I.E LAZY, LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE…
NOTE THERE IS THE UNSPOKEN PROBLEM HERE THAT YOU ARE BEING FORCED TO PAY FOR THE BAD, IN HEALTH TERMS, CHOICES OF OTHERS, AND BEING TRICKED BY THE MEDICAL INDUSTRIES INTO SUBSIDIZING THE CONSUMPTION OF EXPENSIVE MEDICINES THAT DO LITTLE, IF ANY, POSITIVE HELP, AND ALMOST ALWAYS DO HARM, IATROGENICS ETC
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NOTE NORMAL MEANS AVERAGE OF SICK POPULATION SO HARDLY A GOOD INDICATOR AND FAR FROM OPTIMAL…
MHR THIS GUIDE APPLIES TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE, NO MATTER HOW HEALTHY RIGHT NOW, OR HOW SICK, RIGHT NOW. IT IS A UNIVERSAL GUIDE. I have researched ‘The Official Narratives’…
We are eating ourselves sick. When we could be eating ourselves well. It is understandable that people stop listening to ‘experts’ when they cannot make up their mind. One day something is terrible for you, the next day it is our saviour. Huge corporations invest billions in promoting their products, and this includes by funding any research whose apparent results can be framed and spun to promote their products as health, and their competitors products as unhealthy. The meat and dairy and sugar industries are good examples of the ‘worst’ offenders. Your doctor is NOT trained in preventative medicine. They are NOT trained nutritionists. They are NOT trained dieticians. The original meaning of ‘Doctor’ was ‘Teacher’. Someone who taught you how to become and remain healthy and vital. Todays Doctors focus on Pharmacology. They push pills. etc etc
Dr Sten Ekberg Fiber (roughage) is what WE cannot digest. Soluable fiber is that part of fiber that the gut bacteria, the gut microbiome, CAN digest. So we can feed them.
Processing of foods often removes or destroy the most nutritious part of the food, so it ends up with less fiber (soluable fiber included), fewer vitamins, and makes it much less ‘complex’, so that it now will be converted into blood sugar much faster, producing insulin spikes and blood sugar ‘roller coasters’. A Glucose molecule is a 6 carbon ring molecule i.e Hexagram that gets into the blood-stream and becomes blood sugar / blood glucose… Chains of these glucose molecules linked up in chains of hundreds to tens of thousands of molecules, it is called a starch…same molecule linked together by linkage, but as soon as put in mouth, the enzyme called Amylaze already begins breaking down the chains by dissolving those linkages, in the mouth, so some glucose molecules already ready to be absorbed as soon as you swallow it. So starch should be thought of, in the context of insulin spikes and jacking up blood sugar, as more or less equivalents. Eating starch is like eating sugar, for most intents and purposes.
If insulin dependent diabetic takes too much insulin, or they do not eat enough sugar for a while, their blood sugar can drop to a point at which they become unconscious…and we need to give them something to raise their blood sugar quickly… choose lowest glycemic index food i.e orange juice 48, compared to starchy food or glucose.
Wheat one of the most allergenic foods…food sensitivity to wheat…reaction that creates inflammation and digestive issues…though many people are unaware of that sensitivity… rice , quick oats, grains in general, are mostly STARCH i.e might as well be eating sugar… a few ancient grains like Emmer and Einkorn, Rye, and Oats … but must eat the whole kernel and grind it down to flour or eat the whole kernel e.g oat kernel cut into few pieces called ‘steel cut oats’ ?? vastly different to ‘quick oats steamrolled and flatted ultra thin … difference is surface area of whole kernel is smaller, so converted to glucose and absorbed much slower than the massive surface area exposed, and quickly converted to glucose, of ‘rolled oats’ a.k.a ‘quick oats’… He recommends Gluten free for everyone…i.e eliminate gluten from diet…especially modern repeatedly hybridised wheat grown with glyphosate… need to be certified gluten free OATS i.e any product, might have been processed on same equipment as products containing gluten
fruit juice and sugary cereals are NOT ‘part of a healthy breakfast’. they spike your insulin, lead you on a blood-sugar roller coaster later in day… loaded with sugar and starch (which we have learned now to think of as ‘more or less sugar’). We eat about twice the ideal quanity of carbs for one day, in breakfast alone. that’s for healthy person, but if working on weight, or inflammation, or reversing diabetes, should be even less i.e half of THAT… Fructose in fruit juices contains 6 carbon ring glucose and 5 carbon ring glucose i.e table sugar is ‘added sugar’…more than twice as bad … glucose raises blood sugar, and fructose is added disaster…it is like alcohol…can ONLY be processed through the liver…eat a lot of furctose and overwhelm the liver, produce fatty liver… cultures that live off starch do not develop chronic disease or diabetes…but then ‘added sugar’ i.e table sugar with FRUCTOSE component, begin suffering health affects… white table sugar a.k.a SUCRPSE… roughly 50/50
Note todays ‘compulsory’ health insurance in most nations, and the ‘tax-funded’ nationalised medical systems in Australia and Britain, mean YOU are paying the BILLIONS in health costs for OTHER PEOPLE’s bad choices…
Different individuals have different body fat thresholds at which they deposit excess body weight into their organs at different levels than others , point at which tips into more dangerous areas of liver, pancreas, and heart…belly fat is good marker / indicator of fat deposition in liver and pancreas… reason French cruelly force-feed geese to eat their fat livers as ‘foie gras’…. can determine weight at which type 2 diabetes would dissappear / go into remission… last weight before they became ‘diabetic’… often 10 to 15 kgs …
High intensity training (hits) with a wide range of a-typical movements, to mobilise all muscles… MHR the simpler the better, no need for trainer, special equipment, … some people genetically pre-disposed to responding worse to the things that make us fat and unhealthy, but so many fads and ‘knowledge’ has come and gone, so quickly, … what remains same base line are the simple things…so focus on them… SO STUPID SHOWING PEOPLE WITH PERSONAL TRAINERS USING SPECIALISED EQUIPMENT, DOING ODD EXERCISES…LAST THING PEOPLE NEED TO THINK THEY NEED…
Sleep quality almost as important as diet quality, to health and weight and diabetes etc … ex Navy Seals retaining more body fat than used to, blood work of 80 year old men…pre-diabetic…discovered relationships between how much body fat and how much sleep… seems to be around 10% in decrease every year in average U.S sleep since 1990s, to current 6.2 years (10 years ago was 6.8 hours per night) … 7.5 hours required to ‘thrive’… so another ‘alt’ narrative (like EMF) … sleep affects insulin sensitivity in negative way, affects how store food eat, and overall apetite through other hormones… decreasing sleep by just one hour per night over course of year results in accumulating over 6kg body fat, … decreasing sleep increases risk for all diseases…diabetes, obesity, heart disease, heart attacks, stroke, all auto-immune diseases, suicidal ideation, mood disorders, almost anything you can think of negatively impacted by inadequate sleep
Keep bed for sleep and sex only…do nothing else in bed…including thinking, planning, worrying … require enough bed to move around to relieve pressure, find cool spots on bed…and blackout curtains… ceiling to floor… total darkness so cannot see hand in front of face…keep it cool, get rid of electronics…yellow shooting glasses to block blue light, after sun goes down so artifiical light does not mess with circadian rhythm i.e ability of body to entrain with the sunlight… probably should replace all lights that emit blue, daylight equivalent, with yellow light (have to research technicalities of this)
About ten times more bacteria in gut than human cells i.e we are more microbial than human…control many aspects of our health, help regulate metabolism and immune system, and interaction with brain…microbes living inside us regulate our metabolism, immune system potentially regulate aspects of our mood, … huge complement of our biology directly impacted by gut micro-biome… obese individuals have different microbiome than lean individuals…is it cause or effect of obesity? … took obese microbiome and put in healthy mice, and these gained weight more rapidly than control group mice… if put bacteria from ‘skinny’ mice in fat mice, they can lose fair bit of their body weight… cannot say if results same for humans
Vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, whole grains feed good gut microbiome … no quick fix … no ‘pill’ so can live badly but fix problems… need to change lifestyle…choice is between health and ‘bad eating’… if need to ‘look up’ some content in your food, it is NOT natural and best indicator should avoid eating it…
Some stressed people eat more, some less, when stressed, but all seek out ‘comfort foods’ during this time i.e might be eating less than usual, but will be eating more ‘comfort’ i.e junk food, than when not stressed
IN study, supplementing diet with nuts and olive oil potentially can halve diabetes i.e Mediteranean diet vs traditional American diet recommendations… so if going to eat ‘fats’ and ‘oils’, eat Olive oil and nut oil … ideally actually eat olives and nuts… plant based diets superior … dietary fibre feeds gut microbes, and ensure healthy gut biome… plant foods high in fiber, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals… foods we recognise as ‘healthy’ i.e ‘health foods’… some claim high protein diet helps reduce calories, but ???
REQUIRE STATE INTERVENTION…RAISE TAXES ON JUNK FOOD, AND USE TO IMPROVE DIET I.E MAKE CHEAPEST FOODS THE HEALTHIEST, AND TAX THE MOST UNHEALTHY FOODS THE MOST…
Most ‘information’ like that in this book is sought out only by those already on a healthy trajectory…most people do not seek out such information… just eat for comfort and pleasure … and complain about poor health… and YOU PAY FOR THIS WITH THE CURRENT MASSIVE COSTS OF COMPULSORY HEALTH INSURANCE and higher taxes, and all the people making themselves SICK, consuming all the available health resources, so YOU cannot get the treatment YOU need for problems YOU did not create YOURSELF!
Junk food is no better than alcohol or tobacco products. Mexico taxed soft drinks and lead to 10 to 17% decrease in their consumption… make healthy food cheaper… why supermarket full of DISEASE AND ILLNESS rather than health … why easiest, cheapest, most accessible foods are JUNK and HARMFUL … TOXIC DIET … quantity and timing determines if medicine i.e healthy, or poison , deadly, unhealthy
One cook lost 27 kgs as school chef, when tested new foods on himself, before offering to kids…
grated cauliflower as ‘cauliflower rice’…replace rice with vegetables … similar ‘mouth’ but relatively nutrient dense and calorie low… if cook things well, everyone enjoys … remove sugar from diet … bigger kids have totally different body shapes by end of education i.e exercise not enough…it might build muscle, but does not reduce body fat…
computer simulations indicate taxing unhealthy foods and using tax to subsidize unhealthy foods effective at reducing consumption of unhealthy foods (BUT MHR ALL STUDIES SHORT-TERM I.E INITIAL ‘PRICE ELASTICITY’ I.E SHOCK OF PRICE INCREASE MIGHT WEAR OFF…
INCREASING MUSCLE MASS…MUSCLE HIGHLY METABOLIC…BURNS MORE ENERGY EVEN AT REST …
highly refined vegetable oils in margarine shown to omega 6 oils can be pro-inflammatory i.e increase inflammation
ALL FORMS of refined grains problematic, including REFINED soy… thus my Doctor in Germany (actually the plasma donation doctor) actually did his job i.e TEACHER in original meaning, and TAUGHT me to eat whole soy flour …
refined grains of any sort, or sugar, or processed oils, corn sugar, cheap vege oils all huge contend of junk food and cheapest food… ultra processed…unrecognisable as food it originally was…cereals, biscuits, chocolates do not ‘grow’… massive alterations…heat eliminates vitamin C, additives like sugar, fat, salt, refined oils make energy dense and nutrition low
200 to 300 breakfast cereals just variations of same products…amost pure junk…often same manufacturer makes a number, if not most, of the brands you eat… would NEVER give my kids breakfast cereals, except as a JUNK food i.e make clear it is JUNK food ‘treat’, not actually ‘food’ … like might ‘allow’ exceptions to rule…cannot be part of rule…
UNDERSTAND THIS food pellet that is very similar, but made from REFINED ingredients…might say more or less the same ingredients, but processed, and feed to rats…so relatively same ingredients NOT processed stay healthy, lean, and rats on processed ingredients get obese, get cancers, starting dying…and pissed out sugar i.e became diabetic… fatter rats also dummer !!!
56 names for the sugar in our food…table sugar, sucrose, glucose is metabolised…fructose problematic…associated with fruit…but nasty…eat whole fruit…causes metabolic mayhem in human body… excess fructose beyond a threshold cannot be metabolised by liver, it is overwhelmed, so turns it into liver fat (escape valve) which exported out as triglycerides which can cause heart disease and contribute to obesity, are or it stays in liver and you get non-alcoholic liver disease, start of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, insulin goes up which can drive cancer progression and insulin resistance at the liver is at least associated with, and possibly the cause of, dementia…
I wonder at connection between EMF and LEPTIN…made by fat cells, tells brain ‘you’ve had enough’…worked well until about 30 or 40 years ago..still making enough leptin…actually making too much…but it is no longer getting to the brain, known as leptin resistance…insulin blocks it … insulin bad guy … now going up … we release two to 4 times today than we did 40 years ago… some claim SUGAR is the culprit… n.b second ingredient of most ‘healthy’ breakfast cereals is sugar…after wheat and other cereals… sugar added to almost everything … often products you would never guess…tomato sauce is at least half sugar … good tomatoes super sweet already… 600,000 items in grocery, 74% spiked with sugar… industry knows you buy more like nicotine, addictive to at least some people… i.e nicotine spiking, sugar spiking… we develop tolerance, and get cravings and withdrawal symptoms like irritability, …like some people cannot handle alcohol become addicted, some same with sugar, craving, cannot concentrate, get restless, irritable etc i.e like any other drug… claiming it is ‘natural’ misses point…most original drugs ‘natural’ like opium… damages cells, organs, body, shortens lifespan… sugar energy source, has calories, but it is not nutrition (refined? some natural sugar has nutrients right?)
two molecules…sucrose contains glucose and fructose, in table sugar…
American heart association recommends replacing fat rich snacks with sugared candies !!!! just due to FAT narrative… the base bread cereal rice and pasta group of USDA food pyramid needs to be replaced with the second tier foods, vegetables and whole fruits… due to high GI vs low GI i.e used to recommend very high GI foods i.e base of pyramid… form of food makes huge difference i.e processed vs natural state organic legacy cereals and grains…
Glycaemic Index measures how fast insulin levels spike after eating something…many previously recommended grain foods were very high GI foods… so how fast foods spike our insulin levels … fasting blood glucose measured, before eating anything…drop of blood from prick of finger…tested for glucose for baseline blood sugar reading…then eat food we want to know the GI of… food made of carbs, fat, and protein…in different proportions… carbs make up bulk of most people’s diet…Bergen bread is low GI bread…low GI meals spike insulin levels much more…tool to see how food influencig blood glucose level… high carb foods make up bulk of peoples calorific intake…scale, 0 to 100, above 75 High, lower GI more slowly digested and absorbed i.e slower impact on blood sugar… so no ‘spikes’ in insulin… high GI foods dominate our diet…so constantly high levels of glucose in blood…over time result in major damage to cells in eye, kidney, lining of blood vessels so setting scene for blood clots and hardening of arteries…beta cells produce insulin…when these damaged, they do not produce all the insulin we need, diagnosed as DIABETES…10,000 die every day from diabetes and its complications… THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE is dietary FAT…all resources went into that…but no relationship found… SUGAR appears REAL culprit…American heart association is not going to admit they made a mistake… low fat high carb diets of last 50 years wrong…sorry if someone you loved died… honest mistake… they are not going to do this…
at least half of plate should be veges… get carbs from veges NOT processed grains i.e avoid pasta and rice and bread as energy dense and nutrient void… i.e hits bloodstream almost as fast as sugar… body unable to cope with that if diabetic…so baked potatoe, kumera, cook it, cool it, eat it then and starch changes structure becomes less digestible for YOU, but more digestible for gut bacteria YUM cold baked potatoes… note try whole range of potatoes, not just cheapest, as so many types, all have own flavor…sweet potato my fave…and some varieties of potato amazing flavor
depression linked to unhealthy processed foods…but which direction
Hippocampus centrally involved in learning, memory, and mental disorders, thinking, and remembering…those with poorer diets had smaller hippocampi, healthier diets larger Hippocampi… this has huge implications for SENESCENCE … explained about 60% of age-related decline in older people, with implications across age range… dramatic impact on brain
Claim dietary intervention, large number went into remission i.e became non-depressed…claiming diet influences mental health…note ‘remission’ i.e assume temporary …
elevated risk factors for diabetes, heart disease, obesity, also detrimental to mental health…simple straight forward intervention that could have huge benefits for public health and clinical intervention
Dopamine is motivation and learning chemical, rather than pleasure chemical…brain telling you ‘this is high calory stuff, so get as much of it as you can i.e train brain to seek it out … it is teaching you … junk food as addictive as alcohol and other drugs … people NOT addicted to lentils…but addicted to combinations of chemicals brain is looking for…make you feel emotionally better i.e comfort foods… fat=sugar-carbs … controvery if ‘food addiction’ exists clinically…so far ‘addiction-like relationship to food’… any chemicals that stimulate release of dopamine in brain will reinforce motivation to seek out and consume it… we have no conscious control…cannot directly shut it off…but can avoid the cues that lead to ‘dopamine spikes’… avoid food adds, smells, … longer go without those spike foods, the less and less power those things will have to you over time i.e if not exposing self to regularly,… avoid the cues that predict presence of these foods e.g smells and sights, will lose power over you over time if avoid regular exposure to them… opposite of countless Billions spent by corporations to ensure you ARE constantly exposed, stimulated, triggered, to SPIKE your ‘hunger’ artificially … make foods more ‘compelling’ i.e ‘addiction-LIKE’ relationship with junk food…calorie dense combinations of chemicals that lead to dopamine RELEASE by brain…sadness, stress, tough situation, leads to us seeking relief in ‘comfort’ foods i.e seeking the release of that Dopamine…Dopamine is MOTIVATING hormone i.e MOTIVATES us to do something … provides feelings of emotional relief and comfort… so TERROR propaganda part of problem. Anxiety about job.
I always said advertising should be limited to FACTS about benefits and costs, and availability, of a product…no manipulation…
I would ask people who report on Pacific Islanders, whether it was change in diet, or introduction of Electricity and other forms of EM radiation, or the interaction of both, that is the reason for it…. i.e they ‘got away with it’ before EMF interference with bodies HOMEOSTASIS, so that NOW they MUST be much more careful about their intake …
metabolic disease rates skyrocketed among Australian Aborigines…
THINK about ruling for pubs and bars that ‘the cheapest drink available must be non-alcoholic’ in context of fact that the cheapest and most accessible foods are the worst for our health i.e fat, sugar, carbs, oil. Processed to be even more unhealthy. I myself survived on semolina, and old bread, basically carbs. I ‘managed’ to become overweight eating even such bland foods.
WATER ONLY miracle cure for school kids i.e ban on soft drinks and juice boxes…immediate dramatic sense of calm in classrooms and on playground…positive change in behaviour of all students, everyone seemed happier…2006 N.Z primary school…
Note that using words like ‘normal’ in medicine today is obfuscating, when word intended is ‘healthy’. In the past ‘healthy’ was the norm. Today the majority of people are NOT healthy. The new normal includes a continuing rise from a high base line, of disease and illness, and not just lower life expectancy compared to our parents born around World War Two, but higher rates of senescence i.e all the problems we associate with old age, but which are completely avoidable.
some sort of resistance training i.e several bursts of structured or semi-structured activity resulting in breathlessness, need to be integrated into your day … same goes for brain i.e need to challenge body … same as occurs during challenge known as ‘fasting’ … challenges brain … and spiritually, challenge your WILL to strengthen it by resisting ‘The Pleasure Trap’ i.e fixation on pleasure …
Diabetes is associated with poor circulation, to eyes, limbs, and organs, resulting in blindness, amputations of limbs, and organ failure, e.g kidney failure requiring dialysis. … N.B my tingling and numbness, which was terrible under stress, doing hard labor when volunteering at a Hostel in Tallinn, might be symptoms of diabetes… blood sugar levels… people live with Diabetes, and nothing really bad appears to be happening, but by the time it does e.g need for amputation, too late … cannot reverse by then…but if act early, can manage… blood flow to feet and legs producing intense pain and later amputations, which does not in itself solve the problem…ability to fight infection impaired by diabetes compared to healthy person… one of clearest lifetstyle diseases…diet and exercise…
Intermittent fasting research still underway, but appears to offer many advantages of fasting much easier… meal broken down into glucose which serves as main energy source, st ored as glycogen and fat… when fasting liver converts glycogen back to glucose…can take 10 to 12 hours for inactive person to use up / deplete glycogen stores in liver…after which body taps into adipose tissure stores, converting fats into free fatty acids, converted into additional metabolic fuel a.k.a KETONES in the liver…so now body is fueled by KETONES rather than Glycogen i.e by fats, rather than glucose… insulin is hormone required for driving glucose into cells… insulin secreted after each meal as food broken down into glucose, so this may desensitize body tissues to insulin, resulting in insulin insensitivity, hallmark of pre-diabetes and diabetes type 2…
fasting challenges brain like physical or cognitive exercise…promotes production of neurotrophic factors (growth factors of the nervous system) that support the growth and survival of neurons i.e neurogenesis i.e protects existing neurons and stimulates production of neurons i.e brain cells…
INTRODUCE FOOD AGAIN GRADUALLY RATHER THAN BINGE
The absolute simplest way to fast, is to live as many cultures do, and that is to eat just one, evening, meal per day. I did this in Germany and achieved my ‘underwear model’ figure i.e very clear muscle definition and very lean appearance typical of Hollywood actors
Those of us who enoy food, will tend to ‘extend’ this one meal a bit, and move into the next option, which is pretty much how I have lived for years. Not achieving my ideal weight but remaining within the ‘healthy’ zone. You might be surprised what is defined as ‘Obese’. I was. I have been borderline, and probably occasionally technically ‘obese’, for short periods, when my ‘pride’ motivated me to restrict my diet back a bit, due to the negative feedback from the mirror, and inability to wear my favorite clothing etc
For those unwilling to restrict self to one meal daily, and alternative is daily time-restricted feeding, where you fast for 16 hours, then have a window for eating of the next 8 hours (trying to avoid eating 3 hours before sleep). Then try 18 hour fasting of same style. Then 20 hour fasting, where you only eat during a 4 hour window. This is the method I have lived by for many years, but calling it ‘one evening meal a day’, when really eating over a few hours, rather than one discrete meal, (the first option above)
Actual ‘fasting’ is being promoted more and more, and our inhibitions that were unfounded, are dropping away. So that it now feels healthy and safe and correct to go entire days without food, without worrying if we are ‘hurting’ ourselves in some way. Such as the fear of losing muscle mass. Or making ourselves sick.
Alternate day fasting means you fast one day, eat the next, then fast again, and so on. This is the simplest way to introduce ‘fasting’. Each day you fast you can look forward to eating the next day, normally. But hopefully more healthily. And as your stomach shrinks, you will feel ‘fuller’ quicker than you used to. Another help to weight loss.
the 5:2 method is to fast 2 days a week, so you fast, eat 2 days, fast, eat 3 days, fast, and so on. This requires a bit more organisation, maybe a calender, and might be harder to plan ahead for.
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Matthew Walker like me…off stage shy, introvert, insecure, do not want to be center of attention…but onstage very calm, secure, comfortable at home, i.e become extrovert on stage…off stage radically different person… i.e small group confrontation massively raises heart rate, vs on stage before hundreds…he found similar in many performers i.e musicians etc
Sleep deprivation changes brain neurochemistry … brain arbiter of food decisions … sleep deprivation leads to unhealthy food choices…desire for worst foods increases… deep hedonic / emotional centers / reward / desire centers of brain ramp up in response to more desirable/unhealthy foods i.e lit up when sleep deprived…and impulse control regions at front of brain i.e pre-frontal cortex taken off-line / shut down i.e lose impulse control … sleep deprivation leads to bad dietary choices i.e pizza vs salad… hedonic eating…brain goes into hedonic profile… another chemical in body also responsible…cannabis munchies … vicious hunger … cannabis stimulates apetite … we all have naturally occuring endo-canabonoids in our body (hence response to canabanoids in canabis)…these control hunger…when sleep deprive, these rocket up by over 20% cranking up people’s apetite… so when sleep deprived, waistline expands… if trying to diet / lose weight, if not getting sufficient sleep then 60% of all weight lose will come from lean muscle mass, and not fat… so lose what want to keep / gain, and keep/gain what you want to lose … SLEEP KEY TO ALL THIS
Tips: darken entire home i.e dim, reduce lights by half to two thirds, hour before bedtime…great muscle memory trigger … also cool down ambient temp to around 18 degrees, even if you have to wear warm clothing…need to reduce core body temp around one degree to sleep well … remove clocks from room, as do not help insomnia…if cannot sleep, just rest and relax (probably next thing you will remember is the alarm clock going off)…
REM i.e dream sleep cross-links and associates memories together i.e new solutions to previously inpenetrable problems…informational alchemy… find connections between things i.e knowledge is data, wisdom is undertanding how they relate i.e meaning of … sleep on a problem … NASA napping culture improves productivity and creativiity…overnight therapy… neurochemical profile … dreaming brain takes trauma and strips away emotions from information i.e so can learn from, but not suffer eternally… emotions red flag i.e pain to attract brains attention … dream sleep detoxes the emotion from the memory…strips pain and bitterness from informational content…now have learned from, benefitfed from emotional event, without hte visceral pain / emotion i.e emotion stripped from memory…can recal now, … time during dream sleep that heals all wounds, provides emotional convalescence… if do not go to bed angry with spouse etc, will wake up less angry than otherwise…
reset brain and body health by getting adequate, good quality, sleep. Can deprive you of many things for 24 hours…sleep deprivation will have the greatest negative impact…other than oxygen…
Global sleep loss epidemic…perfect storm…corporations want you either working or consuming…though actually people who get sleep, and power naps, much more productive and creative…Dementia often eats away at sleep centers…measuring brainwave patterns while asleep revealed more about dementia…sleep deprivation potential cause of dementia…what is sleep?…why do we sleep? Is there any physiological system in body that is not enhanced when get enough, or impaired when do not get enough? Nope. All impacted by sleep deprivation. And improve when get adequate, quality, sleep.
some animals sleep half of brain at a time, do not fully sleep like humans … though MHR we are still aware at some level i.e brain is still functioning, we are not totally not-conscious… sleep time most vulnerable to predation? Why positively selected i.e not negatively selected out? It must be essential at most basic biological level..restocks immunse system so more immune robust when wake up, Immunity improved by sleep. Regulates blood sugar, apetite, sex hormones oestrogen and testosterone, de-escalates anxiety, trauma, toxic emotions, sleep fixes memories i.e learning and connections i.e meaning i.e intelligence i.e pattern, sleep cleanses away alzheimers toxic proteins that build up in brain…
tribal life allowed some to sleep while others awake…uni-hemispheric sleep i.e sleep with half brain awake…a few species…dolphins do this… deep non REM sleep one half, other half wide awake…dolphins must keep surfacing for air…birds sleep with one eye open, literally i.e opposite side of brain wide awake, other half asleep… in a flock, birds land on branch, those in middle can sleep with both, those around edge of flock have to sleep with outward eye open i.e other side of brain asleep… 180 degree of circle Left, other right… to ensure both sides get sleep, they stand up and turn around, to sleep other half that was awake…one solution to NEED for sleep… in all animals…so much that this complex system evolved / negatively selected…
humans hard coded for sleep i.e morning type / evening type… in tribe this means different desires for sleep…morning types get up early, after going to bed early, while those who are up to 2am, get up late…so crossover… short period of vulnerability of tribe (though Mohammed defied the ‘honorable’ idea equivalent of a geneva convention at that time, of NOT attacking enemy in their sleep…one of the reasons for his ‘success’ in forcing others to join his cult by VIOLENCe, so typical of Cult of Judah ‘religions’, including Marxism
Sleep issues / problems often cited contributing factor to breakup…at least 1/3rd of break-ups…source of sleep tension is mismatch in this i.e are you a morning type or evening type…clash of types produces conflict… ‘sleep divorce’ is sleeping in separate locations, to avoid this conflict… apparently 25% of people today sleep in different locations… at least wake up in different locations in morning i.e get out of bed and continue sleep in another room… good sleep improves sex hormones … so not sleeping together means more sex … hour of extra sleep for woman increases female libido by 14%, FDA drugs intended to do this claim 24% improvement… so without drugs sleep is female viagra… aphrodesiac…
all objective measures when sleeping separately vs together, suggest sleep worse together… but their subjective ‘satisfaction’ is higher with partner than alone… so still prefer that… safety, security, connection, … but useful experiment…try for 2 weeks… what you miss are the ‘bookends’ of sleep i.e getting into bed and waking up…rest of time asleep… so could set up system of having a kiss and cuddle, say goodnight, then go to own beds …
having 2 beds side by side reduces disruption, but snoring, talking etc still not obviated by this ‘scandinavian method’
There is a conversation about sleep, but little real change in behaviours…rates of insomnia escalating, as are anxiety disorders…intimately intertwined, … modernity makes sleeping harder … ‘how did you sleep last night’ impacted by so many external factors … shaped by modern world…when sleeping not producing or consuming … modern world conspires against healthy sleep…war on sleep… terrorism… we are deprived of darkness required for deep sleep… overheated offices and homes… too much caffeine at wrong times… anxiety…classic roadblocks to sleep…1/3rd of people not getting 7 hours of sleep each night…U.S average sleep 6 hours 29 mins, U.K 6 hours 49, japan 6 hours and 22 mins… average…meaning that most working people probably getting much less…Mexico city almost 8 hours… Governments REFUSE to address issue of sleep deprivation…no public health campaign to promote healthy sleep…eating, smoking, drinking, AIDs etc all public issues…sleep is not… though all connected to sleep.. sleep disruption / deprivation correlated to / pecursor to suicide, predicts ideation, planning, and completion … sleep tide that rises all the other health boats… one ring to rule them all…
34.32 mins Matthew Walker SLEEP vid
RAND CORPORATION inadequate sleep costs most nations about 2% of their GDP e.g 411 Billion in lost profits due to insufficient sleep…Dr residents working 20 to 30 hour shifts (Korean police etc 24 hour shifts) …
Drs given less than 90 minutes education about sleep during entire training…Drs sleep deprived during training… after 30 hour shift Drs 168% more likely to be involved in car accident due to lack of sleep … no education about sleep in school … drugs, sex ed, etc but not sleep
circadian rhythm affected by puberty i.e want to go to bed later i.e midnight, 1a.m…they have biologically wired shift in sleep preferences from childhood… telling kids ‘you are wasting the day’ when ‘sleeping in’ misses point of value of sleep…parents assume teenagers getting enough sleep, but in reallity only 50% getting enough… they are trying to make up sleep deficit …
NASA in 80s … astronauts see 10 to 15 sunrises per 24 hours…dislocating of sleep…strategic napping to improve performance…human is weakest link on mission…can cause catastrophic failure…20 to 60 minute naps increased general alertness by over 50% and work efficiency by 1/3rd, so implemented on ground i.e ‘napping culture’ … google and facebook also promote … increases productivity of workers … not time awake, but quality of that time… Shh rooms for napping…paid to sleep on the job … encouraging it…not out of compassion for workers welfare, but to boost their bottom lines… when workers under sleeping, they will ‘work’ but not on the most demanding/challenging tasks and produce fewer creative solutions when do attempt, i.e will check email, listen to messages, superficially ‘working’ … underslept workers working in teams will ‘social loaf’ i.e ride coat-tails of others hard work, let others do their work, generating resentment … they are more deviant, likely to fudge data, falsely claim reimbursement…lack of sleep of business leader from one night to next, the less charismatic their employees will rate them from day to day i.e adequate sleep pre-requisite for charisma of leaders / bosses / supervisors / management…underslept employees take up to 11 days more sick days per year than those who get enough sleep…80% increase in their utilisation of health care resources…co-morbid diseases like diabetes escalate as underslept employees get more underslept…
takes on average 90 mins to get into restorative state of REM sleep… but napping still benefits…transact benefits lower blood pressure, improve learning and memory, reset emotional north of magnetic compass to de-escalate negative emotions and increase positive emotions… big CAVEAT for naps… to get full cycle of sleep and REM would need 90 minute nap duration to let brain cycle through all the different stages of sleep…each stage performs different functions for brain at different times throughout night…3 and 4 deep REM, 1 and 2 lighter REM… and dream sleep other phase of REM (rapid eye movement) … it is ALL good stuff… though stage one shallow…but rest all have different positive functions, need all of them… but for napping, you can get learning and memory and anxiety benefits up to 20 minutes… can nap as short as 9 minutes for some improvement in alertness and reaction time … so be careful with naps… first try not to nap longer than 20 minutes, as enter deeper stages of non REM sleep…if wake up after 40 or 60 minutes, coming out of deep sleep, rare as we usually wake up out of a lighter sleep stage… you feel miserable waking from deep sleep i.e sleep hangover….brain still in deep sleep state, can take hour to get back up to full performance… do not nap too late in afternoon…if insomniac do NOT nap during day, worst thing you could do … daytime builds up edenosine , sleepy chemical, so builds up, so we are tired and can sleep…and this is cleared up over 7 hours of sleep, so we wake up feeling refreshed and restored…and not even need caffeine to wake up… nap like pressure valve releasing the sleepiness you were building up… healthy to allow to build up to ensure good nights sleep…try not to nap after 2 or 3 pm…it is like snacking before main meal… ????
Caffeine…vs coffee i.e pro-coffee, not pro-caffeine…biologically there are no free lunches…everything has a cost…caffeine can hurt sleep in 3 ways…caffeine has half life of 5 to 6 hours i.e half of it is still in your system, so quarter life of 10 to 12 hours…so cup of coffee drank at noon, means a quarter of it still in brain at midnight…caffeine is stimulant…alertness via adenosine the sleepiness chemical … caffeine latches onto adenosine receptors in brain, forcing away adenosine, hijacking those receptors, inactivating / masking receptor…then caffeine blocks signal of adenosine…MUTES the signal of sleepiness…you do not FEEL sleepy … but adenosine still there, will continue to build and build, so when cafeine metabolised, all the adenosine that built up hits you as a wave of sleepiness i.e ‘the caffeine crash’…Caffeine also creates anxiety…one of greatest enemies of sleep…fight or flight response ratched up…tired but wired…nervous system amped up…physiological state… need opposite to fall asleep…anxiogenic…makes you worry … ruminate… catastrophize everything…will not sleep for next 2 hours… things in darkness at night appear so much bigger than in the brightness of day… we are in reception most of time, and only time reflect is when go to bed, the worst time for it… caffeine also blocks deep sleep … strips away by 15 to 30 % … even if seems like caffeine not harming your sleep, you are not aware of the lack of deep sleep not getting… fell asleep, but next morning reaching for even more coffee i.e sleep was not refreshing and restorative as missed deep sleep… critical for regulation of cardio vasculatory system, immune system replenished, regulates metabolic system i.e controls hormones like insulin that regulate blood-sugar i.e insufficient deep sleep leads to blood-sugar dis-regulation, deep sleep allows memories to be formed i.e consolidates, strengthens, and secures NEW memories and prevent you forgettting them, time when we cleanse brain of metabolic toxins such as those related to Alzheimers disease…
COFFEE
Keep coffee metabolism in mind…can do genetic tests to see if you are a fast or a slow caffeine metaboliser… health benefits from study after study in meta analysis study compellingly immensely undeniable strikinging clear coffee beans i.e drinking coffee good for you…BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CAFFEINE? HE SAYS, BUT DECAF ONLY HAS similar benefits? and he drinks only decaf…shows drinking 2 to 3 cups of coffee per day provide striking, undeniable, health benefits…mainly due to massive anti-oxidant content… and de-caffinated coffee offers similar benefits without the negative effects of caffeine if you are a slow metaboliser … chlorogenicacid the post powerful of the anti-oxidants in the coffee bean… (does instant have it? ground have it still?) … coffee BEAN is our main source of anti-oxidants…so associated with MANY OF THE health benefits of sleeping… timing and dosage make the poison or cure … limit to maximum 3 cups, this is peak benefit, and after this potential downsides…so to get best health benefits, 2 to 3 cups a day… Coffee is where most people get majority of their antioxidants…therefore coffee associated with so many health benefits…decaf only ‘very similar benefits’…so seems decaf process removes some benefits… diminishing marginal returns 2 to 3 then negative marginal returns after that…
data clearly shows metabolic activity e.g training, weight lifting increases after caffeine intake of one shot of coffee… but sleep the best ‘doping’ i.e performance enhancing drug … health coaches and professionals insist a shot of coffee in morning is great for health and performance…
Matthew thinks sleep trumps caffeine totally…and if it reduces your deep sleep etc, so he drinks decaf
Do not try to sleep, like trying to remember name, you just push it further away… if laying in bed for 30 mins, cannot sleep, best to get out of bed, go to different room and do something … do not eat or work…relax…do not check social media… nothing that wakes brain… brain is associative device, so will learn that bed is where I am awake … so break that association of being awake in bed… only return to bed when sleepy…no time limit…relearn association of bed with sleep … dark cold night not inviting, so try meditation in bed if cannot get up and leave bed…meditate before bed for 10 mins…even in middle of night walk self through a relaxing meditation…
meditation apps play ‘sleep stories’ like parent reading child to sleep…(MHR brain-wave entrainment) … Calm is a meditation company that became unicorn company i.e billion dollar valuation on the back of ‘sleep stories’… anything that takes mind off itself… distracts… do not focus on days worries / troubles / self-criticism / replaying day / worrying about future…take mind off itself…allows sleep to return naturally… take self for mental walk…do not count sheep as this increases time takes to fall asleep…instead do hi-fidelity reliving of a walk you have taken, i.e high level of detail…halves time takes to fall asleep… focus mind on DETAIL so no room for other thoughts… descriptive detail… limited bandwidth of cognitive capacity is consumed / saturated with these high details, so our worries and anxieties have no room i.e ‘displaced’… remove all clocks from room i.e so you cannot know what time it is i.e leads to anxiety over ‘I have no slept and I have to wake up in 2 hours’ etc…final option is just accept ‘tonight I am not going to sleep, and focus on resting…so at least get rest, even if mind active…body will get rest… MHR enjoy stretching out, enjoy resting…will usually drift off
Cannot make up for sleep deficit during to week by sleeping in on Saturday…sleep is not like a bank…you cannot accumulate a debt during week then hope to pay it off over the weekend… sleep deficit one day, will sleep longer next day, but only up to 50% of the deficit will be repaid…i.e go into sleep debt…accumulate debt, but when binge you only ‘pay back’ a fraction of that debt…so carry forward sleep debt each week…it accumulates, like compounding interest…no way to pay back … soon exponential growth over long term…
elastic band of sleep deprivation will stretch only so far before it snaps…
short term symptoms of slee deprivation will be drowsy during day…large proportion of car accidents due to ‘micro sleeping’ i.e ‘drowsy driving’ i.e equivalent of microsleep for one or two seconds, long enough to drift into oncoming traffic at 60 miles an hour…negative selection if have not reproduced…MHR i have had way worse ‘microsleeping’ than that … during times I lived in car, and travelled very long distances driving alone…other disruptions include libido, performance, memory, relationships, all negatively impacted
mid term these escalate into disease states in medium term … e.g after one week sleep deprivation i.e limit to 4 or 5 hours sleep per night for one week, your levels of blood sugar so significantly disrupted that your doctor would classify you as pre-diabetic… if male and limit to 4 or 5 hours of sleep for one week drop testosterone levels to someone 10 years older than you… equivalent in female reproduction health in oestrogen and lutenizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormones… blood pressure creeps up, particulary systolic blood pressure, heart rate increases … the progression into obesity, diabetes, cardio-vascular, anxiety, sucide, immune system compromises also short term…with longer term senescence and mortality i.e short sleep predicts all cause mortality…Cancer and Alzheimers long term causal links to insufficient sleep…sleep centers focus on sleep and alzheimers…insufficient sleep seems most significant lifestyle factors in alzheimers, other genetic facts…i.e 6 hours or less sticky toxic Alzheimers proteins escalated as get less and less sleep…insomnia and snoring also associated with alzheimers later in life… single night deprivation even if only of deep sleep shows immediate increase in alzheimer diesease related proteins circulating in blood, and cerebral brain fluid surrounding brain, and in brain itself … correlation vs mechanism…i.e how might this work… stunning discovery brain has cleansing system like body i.e lymphatic system of body vs glymphatic system of brain… cleansing system turns on ONLY during DEEP NON REM SLEEP … in mice so far… two metabolic byproducts that build up in brain over day, are the two bad actors in alzheimers… good night sleep cleanse … if do not get every night … compounding effects the longer you miss sleep…Reagan was short sleeper, as was Thatcher, and both died of Alzheimers…
5 sleep hygiene tips, and some unconventional…1 try these tried and true things first before try supplements…regularity…go to bed and wake up at same time every day…brain loves regularity…2 ensure room dark at night, and hour before sleep dim all lights so still safe to move around, but dim, training association with this with sleep later…trains brain…darkness makes sleepy, and behavioural trigger to tell brain it is time to sleep…3. ambient temperature around 18.5 degrees celcisus i.e cool down core…wear warm clothing, keep ambient temp low, need to lower brain and core body temperature by 1 degree to fall asleep…better too cold than too warm…cold and warm … 4. 30 minute ‘do something different’ than trying to sleep if do not fall asleep after 30 mins…5. alchohol is not a sleep aid, not your friend, it just knocks you out, it is a sedative, it fragments sleep so keep waking up briefly, ruins sleep, makes for miserable, lousy quality sleep (me having to pee so many times?) … alcohol not your friend …it blocks your REM sleep critical to many functions…
NOTE after 9 or 10 hours mortality risk goes up also…too much sleep… correlation to be expected i.e no reason to get up, no job, etc but wonder at what ‘causal’ relationship could be established and how?
blue light from screens impacts on sleep…reading for hour on ipad before bed vs reading book in dim light, means takes people longer to fall asleep, reduces amount of sleep, and reduces amount of melatonin and delays melatonin release by 90 to 120 minutes…the vampire hormone / hormone of darkness…tells brain it is nighttime and thus time to sleep…so if bathed in light, especially blue light from devices, brain is fooled into thinking it is daytime…signals brain to hit breaks on melatonin…melatonin key to health … also when stopped ipad reading sleep disruption continued several days afterwards … not just blue light…these devices intended to capture attention…attention economy…capturing your attention is their currency … stimulates brain…produces sleep procrastination…you COULD fall asleep but decide to check social media, check mail, etc, and time flies…activates cerebral cortex… if you must take phone into bed, only use it standing up…that will keep you aware of time spent…once need to sit down, time to turn it off…
Sleep and weight loss: sleep deprivation related to obesity…well-defined relationship… 3 part story… apetite regulating hormones Leptin and grellin…leptin signals satiety i.e no longer hungry, grellin relased says ‘no, not satisfied, eat more, I am still hungry’… limiting sleep to 4, 5, 6, hours per night…Leptin signal of fullness decreased by 18%, while Grelling, the hunger hormone lept up by 28%, so overall hunger levels rose 26%… lose satiety signal and gain hunger signal, so result is over-eating…or feelings of discomfort from hunger…so 300 to 400 calories were eaten as result of insufficient sleep…also undersleeping leads you to crave the heavy carbs, bread, pasta, pizza, then simple sugary foods sweets and chocolates, then salty foods… brain arbiter of food decisions…8 hours sleep vs limited to 6 etc, and when placed in MRI scanner showed pictures of healthy vs junk food, and asked them to rate how much they wanted each item… told they would be asked to eat it after test…deep hedonic / reward centers ramped up activiity in response to unhealthy foods…lit up more strongly when sleep deprived… and impulse control regions in front, pre frontal cortex shut down, taken off line, lost impulse control … pattern of brain activiity…hedonic desire profile in neuroscience…changes in brain and body…
canabis munchies … stimulates apetite…naturally occuring canabis compounds in brains and bodies endocanabanoids vs exocanabonoids… endoC control apetite and hunger…sleep deprivation rockets these up by over 20% cranking up your apetite… insufficient sleep associated with expansion of waistline
insufficient sleep means 60% all weight lose comes from lean muscle mass, and not fat… dieting and undersleeping you lose what want to keep, and keep what you want to lose…
Dreaming…REM dream sleep…provides physiological benefits…also dreaming provides benefits of creativity…deep sleep shifts memories from short term to long term storage and strengthens the circuit of those memories to future proof them i.e secure memories…during REM dreaming we take all the individual pieces of information and we interconnect and asociate them i.e relate them to our ‘back-catalog’ i.e cross links and associates new memories together… wake up with revised mind web of assocations, so now previously impenetrable problems can be solved… like informational alchemy…fusing things together than normally do not go together but when do lead to marked advances in ingenuity and creativity…productivity…go to sleep with pieces of jigsaw, but wake up with puzzle complete…i.e data vs information…knowleged vs wisdom…function of dreaming… ‘sleep on it’ … dreaming as emotional first aid…overnight therapy of dream sleep during REM…takes traumatic, difficult, emotional experiences and lets us keep the lesson, and discard the pain (LITERALLY WHAT I SAW AS USE OF NLP AND WHAT PROCESSING OF PAIN ENGRAMS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AIMS FOR) … you can keep memory of it, but it has no visceral reaction i.e elegant trick of stripping emotion from memory i.e can be objective now…time during dream sleep provides emotional convalescence…keep lesson learned, and memory of what happened, but it has no power over you, cannot harm you any more… key to psychotherapy..aims of NLP… and necessary to my entire process and method of brutal ruthless honesty…
extravert likes being focus of attention, but many like myself and matthew are extrovert ‘on stage’ in ‘public’ in front of lots of people, but offstage introvert, anxious around a few people, do not want to be center of attention then… only when ‘ON stage’ in whatever sense that means for each person…
Inflammation: red, swollen, painful sore throat clear but silent/hidden inflammation i.e redness, heat, swelling, we cannot see or feel that produces modern chronic diseases … causes of these are hidden inflammation… suprisingly includes depression, high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, alzheimers, auto-immune, allergies, obesity. Inflammation cause of all these chronic diseases. Biggest drivers of inflammation is micro-biome of gut…60 to 70% of immune system in gut…place we are exposed to most foreign materials…identify friend from foe and get rid of bad stuff… we over-work gut bacteria by over-feeding … biome regulates immune system and processes nutrients we need … first line of defence… systemic inflammation is result… must re-balance gut micro-biome…you are what you eat … most of us need to restore balance of micro-biome…if gut not healthy, you are not healthy…if you want to fix disease, focus on the gut… long tradition ignored by most of modern medicine… systemic disease result… Hippocrates quote: ‘health and disease starts in the gut’
Other big source of inflammation is amount of starch and sugar in diet which produces insulin resistance… body must make more and more to regulate blood sugar … presenter claims modern historically unprecedented intake of sugar (invisible rainbow data contradicts all such assumptions!) … leads to production of specific kinds of fat cells that produce adipose psytochymes (brings up covid narrative) … produces systemic inflammation… body on fire… high cholesterol no problem UNLESS inflammation present THEN a problem…
Thousands of ‘markers’ circulating in blood… 4 biomarkers highly predictive of senescence i.e diseases of aging, and modern chronic diseases… insulin resistance inflames belly…
chronic stress (STATE TERRORISM, LOCKDOWNS, WARS, NEWS, HELL, YAHWEH, ECONOMIC FEARS, ECONOMIC WRECKING ETC) is inflammatory…makes you insulin resistant therefore fat i.e cortisol … SOCIOGENOMICS…social factors can be decisive in which genes are expressed, including genes of inflammation.. fear, hate, anxiety… mind most potent pharmacy…YOUR THOUGHTS DRIVE INFLAMMATION I.E IMAGINED TERROR THREATS LIKE VIRUSES, AIDS, COVID, WAR, ECONOMIC STRESS ETC … NEED TO CONTROL THOUGHTS (MASTER OUR MINDS RATHER THAN VICTIMS OF IT…WE TRAIN MUSCLES, FEW TRAIN THE BRAIN TO BE IN CONTROL OF YOUR THOUGHTS… EVEN MINDFUL OF YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS VS REPRESSION
Number one driver of world health etc misery is inflammation… biological, social, political, economic consequences of diet and society that drives inflammation… OPRESSION IS INFLAMMATORY, diet is, social structures are, all increase inflammation… holistic…socio-economic issues… we must address inflammation thus address these issues…conflict, political and social divisiveness, hatred, religious conflict, intolerance, criticises Capitol insurrection…inlfammed brain does not work i.e behavioural disorders…anxiety, mood disorders, drug abuse, RESULT OF INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN …IS CAUSE OF … inflammed brains do not function / work … violence, depression, addiction … driven by inflammation in brain … toxins, C-sections, Glyphosates…DAMAGE GUT MICROBIOME LEAD TO INFLAMMATION
DISCONNECTS (MARK HYMAN ONLY OTHER PERSON THAN MYSELF WHO EXPLAINS THIS)… THE ANCIENT LIMBIC, REPTILIAN, SURVIVAL, FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE FROM THE FRONTAL LOBE, THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTION, THE HIGHER SELF, THE ‘ADULT IN THE ROOM’… CONNECTION BROKEN OR AT LEAST WEAKENED … SIMPLY SWAPPING HEALTHY AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIETS IN PRISON, WITH MULTI-VITAMIN, GET MASSIVE REDUCTIONS IN VIOLENCE AND SUICIDE IN PRISONS AND JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS…100% REDUCTIONS IN SUICIDES, 80% REDUCTION VIOLENT CRIME PRISONS, EVEN HIGHER IN JUVENILE CENTERS… COOLS OFF INFLAMMATION IN BRAIN…REINTRODUCE HIGHER SELF, EXECUTOR FUNCTION…SELF CONTROL…ADULT RETURNS TO THE ROOM… IMPULSE CONTROL… SECOND-THOUGHT…REFLECTION…DIET DISCONNECTS LIMBIC BRAIN FROM FRONTAL LOBE, DRIVING VIOLENT, DISRUPTIVE, DIVISIVE BEHAVIOR…
WHO BENEFITS? FOOD COMPANIES MARKET AND SELL HIGH SUGAR FOODS I.E DRUG DEALERS… NEWS MEDIA DRIVES INFLAMMATORY NEWS… SELL INFLAMMATORY PRODUCTS, THEN INFLAME WITH TERROR … HUGE CORPORATIONS OWN IT ALL…PROFIT FROM IT ALL … A FEW AMASS MASSIVE WEALTH AND POWER … AT EXPENSE OF EVERYONE ELSE… DRAMATIC WEALTH INEQUALITY…
5% TO 40% RATE OF DIABETES OVER LAST 40 YEARS… THINK WHAT ELECTRONIC DEVICES INTRODUCED? MARK HYMAN QUOTES BOOKS ABOUT MY ‘REPTILIAN SHAPE SHIFTING’ BUT NO-ONE MENTIONS DATA AND CORRELATIONS AND COMPELLING ARGUMENTS IN ‘THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW’
THE WORST FOOD GETS THE MOST PROMOTION…
500 Billion adds in one year directed at children, for junkfood, on Facebook alone
embedded in games i.e free games with paid product placements like Hollywood films, and entire model of ‘free to air’ t.v is to ‘get bums in seats’ i.e get people to watch ads
Inflammation a player in almost any disease, including rashes, i.e any chronic condition typically involves inflammation…need to treat the inflammation… cannot treat the symptoms, just manage them… the idea is to address the cause, so these symptoms dissappear… cannot treat alzheimers or cancer, change biology of body to normalise function, reduce inflammation, and as side effect these consequences of these dissappear / go away… root-cause medicine is way forward… but pharma etc industry love ‘repeat’ customers … not cures…
what is root of inflammation… aspirin kills as many people as asthma or AIDS each year, via bleeding in brain, stomach, strokes, haemmorage etc … so more likely to kill you than heart attack, which the industry had pushed aspirin as treatment for… more likely to be harmed than get benefit from aspirin…
anti-inflammator drugs being prescribed for depression, as it is inflammation of brain…50k a year drug…
we know alzheimers is inflammator, so want to give anti-inflammatory drugs…rather than ask ‘why are we inflammed’… it is diet, stress, toxins, micro-biome of gut, allergens
need to reduce inflammation…without drugs… correct food, exercise, meditation, yoga, phyto chemicals, zinc etc can naturally reduce inflammation… for most the basics will be enough …
foods that hurt include (see my book on excess protein and chronic inflammation) … what we eat and fail to eat decisive… definition of ‘healthy’ must address their inflammatory and anti-inflammatory properties … corn, wheat, soy turned into many products including food addittives,
flour highly inflammatory, corn oils, high fructose corn syrup… malto-dextrin byproduct of corn from science product at factor, commodity crops…same 3 ingredients made into all sorts of chemically extruded food like substances… typical processed foods include these 3 … including all the ones you cannot identify… so do not eat them … if you cannot identify them i.e not part of natural food supply, avoid…all highly inflammatory…on average 60% of our calories… 70% of kids calories inflammatory… sugar and starch, food additives, in processed food… gluten products damage gut… things leaking into blood stream from gut that do not belong there …
SLEEP AND INFLAMMATION… SLEEP APNOEA … where you have multiple episodes of stopping breathing during the night… often part of snoring… partner might notice, but you do not… devices i.e apps like ‘sleep cycle’ records your sleep during night i.e breathing and snoring, so you can hear from app… if in denial…if not aware actually stopping breathing during sleep…associated with thick neck, being overweight, structural issues in (narrow) palate / airway, brain can produce, or constricted airway…can lead to craving more sugar and carbs, diabetes, insulin resistance i.e due to lack of sleep… have to address issues of sleep i.e if tired all the time indicator of sleep apnoea even if appear to get 8 hours sleep… sleep apnoea machines can solve…sleep important in regulating metabolism and inflammation…
snoring is choking at night… anyone snoring is choking…lack of oxygen…breathing through mouth at night and not nose also a sign you have mild form of sleep apnoea you need to address, as directly tied to inflammation in the body…
Sedentary lifestyle … sitting is inflammatory… when we don’t move we increasing risk for insulin resistance, chronic inflammation in body… regular moderate exercise can reduce inflammation in body…second biggest factor after diet is exercise or lack thereof…
Chronic stress drivers … lack of purposeful action, relationship problems, why some more resilient than others? … Adverse Childhood Events set of 10 questions that tracks trauma as child, lack of safety, abuse, trauma, incest, felt unsafe… the higher the score, the more likely you are to experience, as an adult, the greater your chronic disease risk, more inflammation risk you have, the more likely you are to have auto-immune diseases and allergies… impacts of childhood trauma… 1 in 4 americans victim of sexual abuse as child…
Mindset huge role in chronic disease…can you regulate your thoughts, not be triggered / activated by environment, develop equanimity, help reduce stress / cortisol in system … that drives inflammation and chronic disease
Need to be vigilant…preventative…exercise, meditate, supplement gut microbiome, healthy diet, build relationships and community … mitigate and discharge stress and inflammation…
hot-cold therapy i.e water therapy discharges stress, resets system i.e sauna and snow… hot springs and ice pool, back and forth … fatigue and stress evaporates … reset system … find what works for you that you can incorporate into life on daily basis
Disrupted / disregulated gut biome one of the key drivers of inflammation
Mercury poisoning…mercury damages gut…binds to enzymes, causes leaky gut, yeast overgrowth, bugs…terrible irritable bowel syndrome etc etc… need to get mercury out, and rebuild gut…
root canal can require anti-biotics for dental infections is biggest cause of a terrible intestinal infection that kills 30,000 people a year…difficult to treat … colitis… inflammatory bowel disease…bloody bowel movements…whole system already screwed up by mold in house, so even specialised antibiotics often do not work… need to find tools to drive body out of stuck inflammatory cycle… Ozone therapy, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, intravenous vitamins and stem cells etc…
Pre-biotics foods and fibres are healthy…fibres in some foods pre-biotic fibers that are great food for micro-biome of gut…seeds good bacteria… pro-biotics promote gut bacteria… general fiber good… importance of phyto-chemicals in food feed the good bacteria in gut… protect intestinal lining so nothing leaks from gut into bloodstream… colorful compounds in fruit, veges, coffee, and tea beloved by gut biome i.e colorful diet important…gut food
Lots of measures of inflammation, but the chronic diseases themselves are the indicators you are inflammed.
Arthritis, migraines, gut issues, can be relieved and eliminated by reducing inflammation… might be gluten sensitive…have bacterial growth in gut…be full of heavy metals … can get complete recovery … all abnormalities dissappeared… forever… including migraines…
a multi-vitamin help reduce inflammation … by activatng enzymes … enzymes convert one molecule i.e chemical into another molecule in your body…they require co-factors i.e helpers i.e co-enzymes i.e vitamins and minerals ,to do this …1/3rd of DNA codes for enzymes… enzymes require co-enzymes i.e helpers i.e vitamins and minerals… over 90% of americans deficient in at least one vitamin or mineral at the minimum level required to prevent scurvy, rickets, etc i.e need much more to be healthy, than just to avoid vitamin or mineral deficiency based diseases
Omega 3 fats (fish oil)
Vitamin D, for example, regulates hundreds of genes that regulate inflammation…
Boost detoxifying compounds in body like glutofion e.g Broccoli family YUM BROCCOLI … Glutofion is being restricted by government! no conspiracy there! get back in your bubble Mark Hyman … one of most powerful anti-inflammatory substances in body…for asthma, lung inflammations,
Those are most important
Bodies designed or negatively selected for scarcity… our genes adapted to scarcity…body enters healing repair state when hungry…scarcity kicks into action sets of mechanisms that reduce inflammation, increase anti-oxidant systems, that build muscle, that burn fat, and help to increase stem cell function, mitochondrial health, clean up waste, stimulate NEW brain cell production… So how to achieve this state?
mitochondrial biogenesis associated with fasting… when fasting you have to rest i.e so most people who hate it is for this reason, not because hard not to eat… 7 days a year is Dr Alan Goldhamer’s regime… if no symptoms after 7 days, spend next 3 days reintroducing food… others have lots of active healing crises DURING FASTING, and should continue fasting after 7 days until these symptoms resolve / dissappear…e.g inflammation, mucious discharge, skin elimination, lumps and bumps fall off, sleep disruptions, headaches, low back pain from referred pain from kidneys…kidneys process most of metabolic products of fasting, visceral somatic referral pain can last 3 to 5 days before goes away …N.B THAT VIDEO OF 50 DAYS RECORD FASTER COMPLAINED OF THIS NEAR END OF FASTING… note a lot of fat lost is visceral rather than adipose tissue i.e the fat people ‘see’ vs the fat in organs, such as the liver, which can be deadly long term i.e non alcoholic fatty liver…
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time restricted eating is eating within one single 8/12 hour window
intermittent fasting is having 24 to 36 hour fast once a week *or more prolonged fast
or calorie restriction to 800 calories a day for 5 days of week i.e fasting mimicking diet
or ketogenic diet restricting carbs (and increases fat?) to stimulate ketosis (by eating more fat?)
Activate bodies healing mechanisms, reduce inflammation, increase stem cell production and bone density and neuroplasticity and brain function i.e all the defences our organism has against starvation…
White flour one of most inflammatory food on planet…but some grains, grown in certain way, can be anti-inflammatory… 90% grains we eat is white flour… even whole wheat bread mostly white flour… real whole-grains healthy… imbalance in micro-biome or leaky gut make grains especially problematic…
Grains are starch…typically we eat huge amounts of grains…drive pre-diabetes insulin resistance blood sugar problems… healthy grains can be O.K dependant on context… ancient grains with phyto-chemicals etc beneficial
Biggest driver of chronic inflamation and even infertility in females, is stress…CORTISOL and ADRENALIN…screws up sex hormones, insulin, BIRTH CONTROL PILL and OESTROGEN RAISE INFLAMMATION in body…need to mitigate effects of them…medications deplete nutrients etc… must offset harm of birth control pill to avoid inflammation i.e mitigate / manage / offset harm – inflammation etc of by taking right nutrients
20,000 Genes, 5 million variations of them, and some predispose us to inflammation…can look for these markers… some people triggered by some things i.e predisposed to inflammation from particular sources … we need anti-oxidants, healthy sleep, more polyphenols, anti-inflammatory diet and exercise and sleep, hot-cold therapies…
granular means precise…
IFN.org can be expensive, insurance does not cover…
Our organism is adapted to scarcity…so abundance interferes with its optimal functioning…no genes help us cope with abundance…bodies kick into action
Pain is brains response to real or imagined threat to its survival … most chronic pain is result of emotional pain i.e brain telling you ‘something is wrong / amiss in your life’… as I have always said…brain is looking for something to blame, so finds weakest thing in your body, or somewhere it felt acute pain i.e from actual physical damage … chronic remains or returns AFTER healing … acute there during healing… almost all chronic (Primary) headaches have no physical source… neuro circuits activated by stress, fear, emotions … vicious cycle of pain, fear of pain, and this fear produces chronic pain… Dr cannot find reason … as it is emotional … psychological … a huge number of people will have a particular physiological status / condition / presentation, but only a few of them will suffer pain ‘from’ it… MHR brain has located some anomaly and decided IT MUST be source of ‘problem’ i.e emotional pain / disturbance… so provides feedback which is FALSE i.e if honest, and ruthless, and become aware of REAL source, brain could RENDER THAT pain differently i.e NOT physically…
BRAIN DECIDES WHAT TO DO WITH SIGNALS SENT BY NERVES TO BRAIN … IT CAN CHOOSE TO RENDER PAIN, OR NOT… SO MANY EXAMPLES OF BRAIN DECIDING NOT TO RENDER PAIN E.G IF BEING CHASED BY TIGER, WILL NOT FEEL PAIN OF TWISTED ANKLE…DRS CANNOT FIND WHAT IS WRONG, AS IT IS EMOTIONAL / PSYCHOLOGICAL AETIOLOGY THAT BRAIN IS RENDERING…NLP ALLOWS TO SWITCH OFF REAL PHYSICAL PAIN, AND LIKE SCIENTOLOGY AND CONVENTIONAL PYSCHO ANALYSIS, SEEK THE REAL SOURCE OF THE PSYCHO-SOMATIC SYMPTOMS I.E PAIN … EVEN PYSIOLOGICAL SYMPTOMS… AND WHEN DOCTORS PRETENT TO OPERATE ON KNEE, THE PATIENT REGAINS FULL USE OF KNEE, AND NO MORE KNEE PAIN… EVEN THOUGH DID NOTHING, OR JUST SUPERFICIAL DONE TO THEM, TO GIVE THEM THE IMPRESSION SURGEON HAS OPERATED ON THEM…
HOW EMOTIONS MATTER…EMERGING NEURO-SCIENCE… brain RENDERS our experiences … it produces what we experience … if we expect to see something, it might render an image of that, positive hallucination … from available light-shadows etc … police often see a gun that is not there, and vice versa… note if wear glasses that invert images, it will appear upside down at first, only for few days, then brain will switch images to be rightside up again… Good morning I’m erica can be heard as ‘good morning america’… brain decides what to do with impulses… to give you experience of pain or not … protection … forces you to pay attention to something…stop something…do something … same for emotional threats / problems i.e brain can convert emotional / stress pain into physical pain … no structural injury present…Drs say ‘its in your head’ and give up… but WHY is it ‘in their head’…emotional injury manifests as emotional pain… early findings of FREUD…
Most TMJ, Primary headaches like Migraine and Tension headaches, mind-body based i.e neuro-circuit, brain generated pain in absences of any structural problem … chronic by definition if lasts more than 3 or 6 months… Usually any structural problem identified is still not source of pain, as most others with same ‘condition’ do not suffer that pain… irritable bowel syndrome… chronic pelvic pain… neuralgia just name to describe chronic pain… study on chronic neck and back pain .. 220 patients of podiatrist determined 88% of them had non-structural pain…chiropractor etc will say ‘degenerative disc disease’, but everyone has those, but most suffer no pain…x-ray will show on most people without any pain…so in itself cannot be cause… brain can produce overwhelming fatigue, eating disorders, ‘Long covid’ …
Everyone has some form of this…e.g diarhhea from stress/fear of new job for months ‘shitting myself’ with fear / stress of making mistake / losing job etc …
Tools of conventional medicine do not work well … education of doctors does not cover … trauma … emotional trauma expressed as auto-immune diseases later in life… Freud dealt with, L Ron Hubbuard stole his ideas, i.e Engrams … trauma stored in body locations
40% of 30 year olds have degenerative disc disease, with no pain, 30% have bulging discs with no pain
80% of 50 year olds have degenerative disc disease, with no pain, 60% have bulding discs with no pain, even 30% have herniated discs with no pain
Such abnormalities go up to 90% after age 60, without the pain attributed to them …i.e most people with these do not experience pain etc … so it seems to be false attribution by industry i.e blame something … appear competent … pure statistical correlation with no real connection… as if wrinkles cause dementia… both statistically correlated, but no ‘causal’ relationship…
So are the MRI scan results / x/rays the reason for the pain? i.e erroneous diagnosis i.e that observed fact NOT cause of their pain… illusion that surgery can fix that by ‘correcting’ what is common… no proof surgery better at managing than other forms of therapy… often results in worsening of pain… the more fearful you are of back pain, the worse it gets over time… negative feedback loop… frustration, worry, anger, fear activates neuro-circuits…
Once given diagnosis, patient acts as if it is true, and focusses all energy on the ‘logical’ responses to that diagnosis i.e does NOT seek alternative treatments to surgery, pain meds etc
Sure, work on posture, etc … but also look at emotions … stress will always activate and re-activate pain … being offered false cure can reduce stress, and purposeful action can too i.e Dr tells you to do ‘this’ and ‘this’ so you feel on path to improvement…and this lowers stress…but once stress returns, you will feel it again… and when REAL source of stress behind it dissappears e.g your parent dies, you can feel instant relief from it…as your dads coffin goes into oven, your back tension and pain suddenly eases off (feel better / live more presenter) … ‘a weight off my shoulders’… ‘a final relief’… on some deep level… had fulfilled obligations… like me 2 years ago feeling no longer responsible for world i.e had done all could, world / people proved they do not WANT to be ‘woken up’… I was literally dancing in my room…girls across in other building watching…danced with me a bit too… like Solzhenitsyn ‘ascension’ after Gulag etc experience… relief of burden…
Pain thus blessing…points us in direction … demands our attention … if life overwhelming … something in life overwhelming… pain will be RENDERED … forcing you to attend to … and make changes …
If ‘break through’ and use pain as teacher, then when reach other side, will see it as ‘best thing that ever happened to you’… for what it taught you…whether Gulag or cancer…chronic pain seen as signal can force us to address REAL source of pain… it will lead us to solution … Brain looks for way to ‘tell you to change something’…pain is the answer-solution it comes up with…signal to STOP…stop and evaluate…stop and think…stop and attend… stop and change …
Look back on own self, in past, and now, and have compassion for ‘that’ person … cry for THAT person… pain can dissappear simply by recognising the situation … or the situation that triggered it … i.e what they do in psycho-therapy, NLP, Scientology, etc
Brain centers have different functions in at least one narrative (though very plastic i.e previous brain center can change function if other damaged etc) … pain is STOP sign … or ACTION sign … DO something e.g remove hand from hotplate… but if you are distracted e.g by fear or excitement you will not ‘feel’ pain i.e one signal overrides other… or brain does not attend to incoming signal…
Danger signal can be activated by memory, stress, etc activate pain even though injury is healed already… often pain goes away after initial healing…if comes back later, probably neuro-circuit re-activated i.e has learned to respond to STRESS this way i.e default pathway even … neuro-circuits can be permanently activated, or come and go, or activated by some thoughts, stress, etc i.e it is NOT the injury now that is ’cause’ of that pain, but neuro-circuits… if pain turns on and off it is not structural i.e goes away when go on holiday but returns when have to go back to work? … clues … signs … make sure first rule out structural problem … and then as in above examples, consider that the structural problem identified is purely co-incidental i.e everyone else with same problem has no pain, so maybe that is NOT source of pain
Irritable bowel syndrome so common… bad symptoms affect quality of life … can rule out other possible causes… need to dig into emotional areas of life … i.e behavioural / emotional not structural
some people have 20 bowel movements a day…ruins life…
Navy seals and endurance runners…when you think you cannot go on, you are not even 40% of the way there…you ‘hit the wall’… the wall is just protecting you from over exertion … self-talk key here … if you tell yourself ‘I cannot do this’ you will NOT be able to do it… brain has power over muscles, sensations, feelings… so learn to control your brain … great athletes push through … ‘I can handle this’…
If had so many therapies, cannot know which physically helped, and which helped mentally / psychologically / emotionally … stress usually trigger … re-activates some memory or feeling or emotion, and this can trigger ‘back pain’ etc … e.g if worry ‘will my back go out now’ produces self-fulfilling narrative / theory / prophecy …
re-frame own narratives i.e so not stressful / anxious … NLP … self-talk of strength, ease, ability, competence, and feel good about what doing…I can do this… unstress self rather than stress self, by way think and ‘self-talk’ …
pain re-processing therapy… listen to their stories…validate them…understand them… exclude structural problems i.e if it moves, turns on and off, shifts, moves, is triggered by innocuous things or stress, is inconsistent etc… then look for emotional trauma in past / present … so identify as neuro-circuit problem… then deal with emotions and neuro-circuit problems … 10 years of pain can be elminated in a month……simply by thinking about self, and back, differently…understanding it is neuro-circuit, thus can be cured, gives hope…learn to feel safe and smile rather than fearful … no longer EXPECT pain i.e danger alarm mechanism is cause of pain… after having excluded physiological cause of pain… simply by changing the narrative… this itself powerful i.e hope / expectation of solution … give them a NEW way to INTERPRET the pain i.e WHAT IS REALLY CAUSING IT… reprograms pain even without addressing trauma that initiated the neuro-circuit loop… so now ‘I do NOT have a back problem, I just have a problem with neuro-circuitry…brain is NEURO PLASTIC … imagine self moving with join…visualisation…imagine self moving with self-talk of safety… NLP… visualisation… re-programming brain that there IS no real structural problem… often quick relief and correction…
Sub 2 hour marathon runner consciously ‘smiles’ when feels most pain i.e re-write narrative … ‘born to run’ book … research shows shoe structure produces pain vs less structured shoes… mental experience powerful… medical push-back massive…they HATE … idea that pain is not real … kids often have physical pain when parents are suffering / dying … then relief when they finally pass…
Major cause of disability worldwide is chronic neck and back pain, headaches, Migraine, anxiety, depression, fiber myalgia, Chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome…
Tim Brown study national data on stress and anxiety after 911 in 2001, mirrored / correlated linearly with / by rise in back pain …both rose over following years, then later rates fell down a bit…. back pain has doubled in last 20 years but our backs have not changed…anxiety and depression soaring…lockdowns and political polarisation… our brain RENDERS TERROR etc as disease / illness…
Lot of research on posture…it matters, but not very much … sore neck…will not cause chronic pain unless something else going on in your life e.g worry about posture, fear of neck pain, stress, etc…all feeds into ‘repetitive strain injury’… epidemic in 80s was not result of change in behaviour…probably result of massive media attention pushing the idea of RSI…once media stopped reporting, ‘rates’ went down again…
Psychogenic illness… different socieites experience different symtpoms as a cultural phenomenons… in our society it is depression and anxiety and back pain, even in youngest people…latest cultural phenomenon… a third of teenagers reporting back pain in survey, but unheard of before…unless some acute injury…people did not have backpain in Iraq or Jordan…they manifest their stress differently…different cultural outlets…
People being treated poorly by management, or each other, in workplace, e.g factory, rather than the nature of their work, i.e how they feel about work, and are being treated, determines which group of workers will report experiencing muscular or skeletal pain
Predictability of how well surgery will help you based on adverse childhood events scale ACE. If zero, 85% likely success. The more adverse ACE’s you had, the less likely surgery would ‘cure’ person of pain…ACEs are powerful… study of Felini in 90s? … 3 or more ACE’s resulted in extremely low 15% likelihood surgery would relieve their pain…back surgery ‘success’… Abuse, neglect, alcholism in family, etc powerful forces affecting us as adults…
Some cultures have no word for indigestion…so mabye emotions manifest with different symptoms i.e brain will not SEEK source of problem in food / diet / stomach … instead look for something else to BLAME on … MHR RUTHLESS SELF-HONESTY AND ACTUALLY ADMITTING HATE SOMEONE FEEL SHOULD LOVE ETC OR SKEPTICAL OF RELIGION SHOULD HAVE FAITH IN, OR EVERYONE ELSE KNOWS AND EVERYONE ELSE TRUSTS AUTHORITY … TERROR OF COMMUNICATING I.E SHARING FEELINGS, INVESTIGATING THEM, TRYING TO SORT THROUGH…PEOPLE WITH POWER LIKE HAMLETS SPEECH UNACCOUNTABLE DO NOT HAVE TO LISTEN / BE HONEST / ADDRESS EVEN SAME FOR PARENTS OVER KIDS, TEACHER OVER KIDS, POLICE OVER CITIZENS, GOVERNMENT OVER CITIZENS, PRIEST OVER FLOCK…
some languages more granular i.e language available for expressing self i.e precise is more granular, vs broad ‘bad’… i.e sharp, rage, contempt, annoyance or just ‘bad’ … ‘hurts’… communication … verbalisation of problems in own mind and trying to share… go to Dr ‘feel bad’… what do you mean? what makes you feel ‘bad’ … Vs granular language might lead to brain RENDERING as something specific ‘heard on t.v’ i.e suggestion …
VALIDATE THAT THE PAIN IS REAL…THE QUESTION IS WHAT IS PRODUCING IT… NOT-CONSCIOUS PARTS OF BRAIN .. I.E EMOTIONAL TRAUMA ACE ETC… NEURO-SCIENCE…of brain… WHY we feel pain and HOW can eliminate… ‘WHEN YOU operate on pain YOU get pain’… LISTEN, EMPATHISE…DO NOT DO SOMETHING JUST TO DO SOMETHING AND FEEL COMPETENT AND RETAIN AUTHORITY … BECAUSE PATIENT EXPECTS YOU TO ‘DO SOMETHING’, RATHER THAN TALK ABOUT IT…
SO WHO SHOULD BE CARING FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC PAIN? BEHAVIOURLIST OR PSYCHIATRIST OR SURGEON? I.E G.P OR SPECIALIST OF BRAIN RENDERING PAIN…SHIFTING, MOVING, MEANS NOT DUE TO THIS… THIS WOULD CAUSE THIS, AND DOES NOT…DURING INITIAL ASSESSMENT… APPS AND ONLINE PROGRAMS AND SPECIALISTS…
PAIN REPROCESSING WORK AND EMOTIONAL PROCESSING WORK… VERY NLP, VERY SCIENTOLOGY, VERY FREUD …
CONSTRUCTION WORKER SHOOTS NAIL THROUGH HAND, NO PAIN AT ALL … NOT ALL INJURIES CAUSE PAIN
WORKER JUMPS OFF SCAFOLD ONTO NAIL, IT COMES UP THROUGH BOOT, HAS SEVERE PAIN, GETS MEDICATED, TAKE BOOT OFF, BUT NAIL WAS BETWEEN TOES I.E NO INJURY AT ALL … HE WAS SCREAMING IN PAIN … GOT IV PAIN MEDS… PAIN WAS REAL…NO INJURY AT ALL… ALL PAIN CREATED BY BRAIN…PREDICTIVE PROCESSING OF BRAIN PREDICTED HE SHOULD HAVE PAIN, SO CREATED PAIN, IT WAS REAL…POWER OF BRAIN TO CREATE SEVERE SYMPTOMS AND FATIGUE AND SEIZURES, … NEUROLOGIST SHOWS NORMAL ECG…DO NOT NEED MEDS… NEED THERAPIES…
GUY IN NAM, HAD PAIN FROM SHRAPNEL…WOUNDS HEALED…PAIN WENT AWAY…20 YEARS LATER HELICOPTER NOISE STARTLES HIM AND TRIGGERS / ACTIVATES THE PAIN IN HIS LEG… HAD NO PAIN FOR 20 YEARS…CAN EXPERIENCE PAIN UNDER SPECIFIC CONDITIONS THEN DISSAPPEAR UNDER OTHER CONDITIONS E.G WHILE TAKING SHOWER FINE, SIT IN BLUE CHAIR BAD, GREEN CHAIR FINE… TEACH PEOPLE POWER OF OWN MIND…BRAIN GENERATES PAIN…WE NEED TO RE-TRAIN THE BRAIN… SO IT RENDERS NO MORE PAIN, BY ASSOCIATION ETC LIKE NLP AND ONE-STEP LEARNING OF PHOBIAS AND ALLERGIES
OVID …WHEN THE MIND IS ILL AT EASE, THE BODY SUFFERS … OVIDDX.COM MOBILE APP…
UNPROCESSED EMOTIONS I.E TRAUMA, STORED IN BODY IF NOT EXPRESSED…SO WE FEAR THEM, WORRY ABOUT THEM, ATTEND PAY ATTENTION TO THEM AND MONITOR THEM AND FIXATE AND FOCUS ON THEM AND, FIGHT BACK PUSHING BACK GIVING THEM POWER, FRUSTRATION WITH THEM COS WE ARE ANGRY AND UPSET, GOING TO ALL SORTS OF SPECIALISTS TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND, AND THEN TRYING TO FIX….THIS ALL FEEDS THE ORIGINAL RESPONSE
FEAR IS MOST IMPORTANT OF SIX F’S FEAR, FOCUS, FIGHT, FRUSTRATION, FIX ABOVE…ALL LEAD TO MORE PAIN BEING RENDERED / EXPRESSED / MANIFESTED BY BRAIN … NEED TO INTERUPT THIS PAIN CYCLE… REPLACE WITH CALMING, SAFE, MESSAGES, I.E PAIN REPROCESSING IS DOING THIS…TECHNIQUES TO DO THIS… CHANGE RELATIONSHIP TO THE SYMPTOMS I.E PAIN ETC … NOTE IT IS IN BRAIN…GAIN RELIEF FROM THIS AWARENESS… THE PENNY DROPS… THIS IS NOT ANYTHING PHYSICAL TO WORRY ABOUT…IT IS ALL IN MY HEAD… AND I CAN SORT THIS OUT… THERE ARE METHODS THAT WORK…THAT I CAN TAKE CONTROL WITH…EMPOWERING … TECHNIQUES…
DR SARNO ‘BASHED’ BY PROFESSION, BUT SO MANY RIGHT IDEAS, AND JUST READING HIS BOOK CAN ‘CURE’ YOU OF PAIN…’THE BOOK …? ‘ALL THE RAGE’ VIDEO … ‘THIS MIGHT HURT’ AND ‘BRAIN PAIN’
jUST KNOWING YOU ARE O.K WILL TURN OFF PAIN DANGER SIGNAL IN MANY PEOPLE… UNDERSTANDING OFTEN JUST ENOUGH…NOW LOWER FEAR REACTION, MOVE AROUND, CHALLENGE TRIGGERS BY SMILING AT THEM…PAIN IS NOT ENEMY, IT IS MESSAGE… IF CHILD FEARFUL, TELL THEM YOU LOVE THEM, YOU’RE O.K, TELL STORY, GET TO LAUGH, RELIEVE FEAR, DISTRACT FROM, AND KID WILL BE FINE
NOTE WHEN KID FALLS OF A BIKE, THEY LOOK AT YOU TO SEE IF THEY SHOULD CRY OR NOT…IF YOU SMILE AND SAY OOPS, THAT WAS FUN, THEY OFTEN DO NOT CRY, BUT IF YOU FREAK OUT, THEY CRY ETC…THIS IS PAIN REPROCESSING…
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION HELPFUL TO ANY AGE…RESEARCH STUDIES SHOW DOES NOT REDUCE CHRONIC PAIN, OR EVEN COGNITIVE THERAPY…THEY FAIL TO DO FIRST STEP OF ASSESSEMENT OF CATEGORIZING PAIN AS NEURO-CIRCUIT PROBLEM RATHER THAN STRUCTURAL I.E YOU STILL FEAR THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH BODY…SO NEED TO REFRAME AND RECATEGORIZE SYMPTOM WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION AS ‘A THOUGHT’… CREATED BY BRAIN…NOW CAN STEP BACK FROM IT AND OBSERVE IT…NOT FIGHT IT OR FEAR IT OR BE FRUSTRATED BY IT…BECOME MINDFUL OF IT… IT MAY GO UP, AND THEN DOWN, OR MOVE…AND SUDDENLY THE PENNY DROPS…YOU GET IT… THAT IT WAS MIND CREATING IT…NOT BODY… YOU ARE RELIEVED OF FEAR …
YOGA, DEEP BREATHING, CAN CHANGE PERCEPTION OF PAIN…FEELING SAFER, CALMER, CALMING AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM…GIVING SENSE OF CONTROL…MOVEMENT OF YOGA …
NEURONS THAT FIRE TOGETHER ARE WIRED TOGETHER…MOVING WITH FEAR REINFORCES…MOVING GENTLY CALMLY WITH JOY OR CONTROL OR PEACE TRAINS BRAIN THAT THESE MOVEMENTS ARE NOT DANGEROUS, AND THESE BECOME ENCODED I.E REWIRING…
LIFE EVENTS AND EMOTIONS NOT PROCESSED OR EXPRESSED ASSOCIATED WITH EARLY ONSET OF SYMPTOMS WHICH SENSITISES BRAIN TO PAIN I.E MAKES IT READILY REACT WITH PAIN TO ANY STRESS ETC
JOURNALING TECHNIQUE FOR EMOTIONAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION THERAPY…SO RECOVER FROM SYMPTOMS, THEN ACTUALLY HEAL SELF I.E REMOVE THE SOURCE…NOT JUST HOW BRAIN RESPONDS TO IT, BUT ACTUALLY ADDRESS THE REASON, THE ‘CAUSE’ …
ACE’S i.e childhood trauma impact on adult life, health, pain, and how triggered i.e defensive mechanisms…what served to protect, can limit … i.e inhibit from really living, loving etc
We are NOT born blank slates…temperament real, people different…genetic…but long term these can change…can be sensitive child, like me, i.e too shy to speak, now teacher etc… … acquired personality traits adaptive…we learn to be ‘people pleaser’ if parent sometimes good guy, sometimes assehole, i.e sometimes super critical and angry, sometimes nice and kind, we live on edge, and become perfectionist, put self last, be good… adaption to childhood situation…anxiety…on edge… worry… but in adult life no longer adaptive … we should be good and kind, but also need to protect self i.e say no… i.e put self first … part of unique individual mixes…
MHR n.b habituation can be seen in this context…brain is RENDERING pain to direct your attention towards what it THINKS could be the problem, so you stop doing something, start doing something, etc, critical at moment… and longer term e.g tooth pain tooth rot…something stuck between teeth, need to clean between teeth etc… but if take pain relief, brain says ‘FUCKING LISTEN, YOU ARE NOT LISTENING I.E ALL CAPS I.E BRAIN STARTS SHOUTING AND SCREAMING, AND YOU KEEP CENSORING IT WITH PAIN KILLS SO IT HAS TO SHOUT LOUDER I.E PAIN GETS WORSE…LOUDER…BECAUSE YOU ARE CENSORING IT / MUTING IT / IGNORING IT, IN CASE OF DRUGS, SILENCING BRAIN…SO IT MUST SEND STRONGER LOUDER SIGNALS I.E SO GIVING PAIN KILLERS DOES NOT KILL PAIN, IT JUST FORCES BRAIN TO RENDER EVEN GREATER PAIN…THUS OBSERVED PHENOMENA WE CALL HABITUATION…
LYME DISEASE PROBABLY THIS SORT OF FATIGUE I.E BRAIN PRODUCED, LIKE PAIN, IN RESPONSE TO SOMETHING…YOU HAVE TO FIND THE SOMETHING YOU ARE TOO GUTLESS TO PROCESS I.E RUTHLESS SELF-HONESTY…IT IS BRUTAL…AND SOMETIMES EVOKES SHAME I.E FEEL GUILTY ABOUT HATING SOMETHING ABOUT SOMEONE YOU ‘ARE SUPPOSED TO’ LOVE… ETC ETC ETC
FUCKER STILL TALKING ABOUT COVID…AND ‘LONG COVID’ I.E PSYCHOLOGICAL… ‘PEOPLE WHO DID HAVE COVID’? WTF…PEOPLE SO ‘COMPARTMENTALISING’… ‘HAD A PATIENT WHO HAD LONG COVID’? LOSS OF TASTE AND SMELL PART OF COVID???
FASTING FOR WEIGHT LOSS, IMPROVED HEALTH ETC
Daily eat nothing 3 hours before go to sleep, and fast 12 to 16 hours in between i.e only eat during window that includes the 3 hours before sleep, for 12 to 16 hours, then stop eating 3 hours before go to sleep…induces and stimulates factors that improve healing, assist weight loss
Then periodic 5 to 40 day water fasting whole food plant based no SOS diet…typically 2 to 4 weeks…most patients for auto-immune diseases, high blood pressure, and diabetes …
Other healthy people fast 5 days… fasting massively mobilizes detox response and kidneys have to process this, so people with kidney problems need to consider this … dry fasting sounds insance as kidneys require it… body mobilizes reserves, mostly fat … dexoscanner … mostly visceral fat … faster than low carb diet … fat soluable materials include toxins…so increased load on liver and kidneys… mostly in urine which processes blood… chemicals accumulate as fat accumulates… 90% of which come from animal foods which biologically concentrate toxins from their environment… so animal products put higher load on fasters…thus many fasts begin with 2 week plant-based diet, and end with 2 weeks plant-based diet…
If fast and excercise, to deplete glycogen sources in liver and muscles, then lose muscle…therefore many recommend RESTING to maximise detox and preserve lean tissue i.e muscle mass… data supports this… whole plant foods SOS water based fasting… so prep, before fasting… do not quit coffee at same time as fasting… if do both at same time sabotage self… detox more and feel worse to get better … medicine just to manage symptoms, Drs do not expect you to get better, just keepy coming back and consuming pharma… lean tissue recovers and fat continues to melt off AFTER faster… fat does not come back after fasting, whereas regain weight from fiber, water, and glycogen, and muscle as start exercising again….fasting produces dehydration, and exercise makes worse … so exercises lose more water weight than resters, but it is not fat they are losing, just dehydrating…fasting effects body chemistry same way as exercise to protect brain… if use their diet, ‘get younger friends’ as you will outlive them all…and not just age but senescence i.e aging vs chronological age…your surviving friends will be in care homes, you will be independent…
70kg male can go 70 days without food… then starvation and death… refeeding syndrome due to electrolyte imbalances etc, so need to refeed for half the period of the fast in a controlled setting…can also get post-fasting odema if eat lots of salt after fasting….up to 5 days not really an issue, just might get belly ache if eat too much food too quickly
some meds cannot be discontinued ‘cold turkey’ as can be deadly… some can get off immediately… but do not want to take during fasting as can do lots of damage, even over the counter meds… downstream complications…also take NO supplements… similar problems with complications long after… identify potential risks … do not continue to work and get dehydrated… drinking too much water can flush out electrolytes and result in water intoxication … rest, maintain appropriate hydration, monitor electrolytes … fasting is biological adaptation…negative selection…late spring would have killed off…chimps do not fast they die in a week…they live with constant supply of food…our brains can burn glucose and ketones…brain uses bulk of glucose… if active muscles burn glucose, and you will lose muscle mass during longer term fasting…
fasting mimicking diets and keto diets reduce carbohydrates to kick in ketosis … ketotic state is hunger free… good for short term weight loss but not best for long term health stability…
healthy, fully functional, life extension…live well, die well… sustained by no salt, no oil, no sugar (SOS) whole food plant based diet… artificial stimulation of hunger … when give up, start to taste plant foods again…good food starts to taste better… you are desensitized by typical diet, and become sensitive again… long term becomes easier…
in healthy people a 3-5 day fast gives all the benefits …
fasting can reduce insulin resistance…as does exercise… get diabetics eating right, and exercising…
markers that improve with exercise also improve with fasting …
Lower leptin levels reduce inflammation, associated with most modern diseases
1000 strains of bacteria live in your gut…what they excrete depends on what you feed them… feed animal based foods get different byproducts associated with increased inflammation… inflamation markers associated with inflamation go down with exercise and fasting…
fasting increases good markers … improve and reduce inflammation… 30 minutes ‘how to reverse your age in 40 days’…
Diabetes refers to high blood sugar. Type one is often genetic. Your pancreas is not producing enough insulin to remove sugar from your bloodstream. You are insulin deficient. You are given insulin. The second type 2 is where insulin is there, but your body is ‘resistant’ to it. Symptoms include damage to eyes, kidneys, heart, blood vessels in brain leading to strokes and partial paralysis, and in hands and feet producing peripheral vascular disease. Can cut 10 to 15 years off life. And massive reduction in the quality of life before that early death. Obesity is most common cause of diabetes, heart disease, and major cause of liver disease and failure i.e more common to need liver transplant from diabetes than from alcoholism. Associated with range of cancers, alzheimers, cognitive decline and impairment, joint diseases, and social problems.
Health costs 15BILLION a year in Australia alone. 80 Billion a year in U.S.A
Life expectancy falling. Quality of life falling. For those born since the 1950s.
‘The invisible rainbow’ data totally ignored by every Youtube video or torrent I have managed to find and watch.
Last 40 years has seen massive increase in Obesity. Soon to overtake smoking related health problems. N.Z 3rd fattest nation. 1 in 3 N.Z adults obese. 2 in 3 males, and 1 in 2 females, in Australia, are obese. 15 Billion dollars a year in estimated direct and indirect costs.
More fat people in world than skinny in world. over last 35 years rates of Obesity have more than doubled. Associated with massive and rapid increase in heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, liver disease, and diabetes. Diabetes virtually non-existent in 19th century i.e 1 in 10,000 vs today 1 in 11. INTRODUCTION OF ELECTRIFICATION AND LATER FORMS OF EM RADIATION! TOTALLY IGNORED BY ALL PRESENTERS. HOW COULD THIS BE, WHEN THE DATA SHOWING CLEAR CORRELATIONS IS AVAILABLE? SEE ‘THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW’ AND MY NOTES AND VIDEOS ON THIS. BLAME CHANGES IN LAST 40 YEARS ON DIET.
Common measure of obesity is BMI Body Mass Index, to determine proportion of body fat of total weight. If your BMI is over 30 you are defined as Obese. 25 is considered ‘normal’. So people who look quite normal, with a bit fat around hte face, chin, and neck, are ‘obese’. I might technically be ‘Obese’, or close to it. Morbid obesity is what most people would define as ‘obese’. I was surprised by this definition. I doubt most people would consider people with 40% body fat ‘looked’ obese. A typical ‘dad’ ‘love handles’ and a bit of a ‘belly’ are already considered ‘risk factors’. It makes me wonder. And having seen the poster of ‘borderline’ obesity, I have to say I probably already would be considered ‘obese’. It comes as a great surprise to me. So no wonder so many people are defined as ‘Obese’.
Official narrative is that a hormone, a signaller of satiety i.e that you have eaten enough, called Leptin that is produced by fat cells, is being blocked by insulin. Seems to have stopped working 40 years ago. Leptin resistance set in. We produce too much Letpin, but it does not reach the brain. Hormone insulin blocks that signal that Leptin represents, getting to brain, to tell you ‘I have eaten enough’. Most of use release 2 to 4 times the amount of insulin today we used to 40 years ago. The official narrative is that it is SUGAR. But ‘The Invisible Rainbow’ data destroy this narrative. Namely that sugar consumption ALONE, without electrification et al, historically did NOT produce this effect! Seems electromagnetic radiation interferes with Leptin reaching the brain, or the brain responding to it.
Official narrative is that body cannot metabolise the ‘sugar-loaded’ processed foods, and fruit juices, that producers began adding to their products 40 years ago. But idea of sugar addiction is controversial. Like alcoholism. Some develop tolerance and crave it.
50 names for sugar in our food. Sucrose has two molecules, glucose, which our body metabolises. Fructose has great Public Relations by association with ‘fresh fruit’, but it causes metabolic mayhem in the human body. We can only metabolise so much fructose…liver cannot burn it fast enough, overwhelmed, so turns it into liver fact, which is exported as triglcyerides, associated with heart disease and obesity, or may stay in liver and produce non-alcolic fatty liver disease, the start of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, insulin climbs, can drive cancer progression, and which is associated with dementia.
Keys study correlated dietary fat intake and heart disease, in 6 countries, produced linear relationship, but when add other nations, the relationship much vaguer, but his demonisation of at defeated the Yudkin narrative that sugar was to blame. So fat was removed, and sugar added to make food palatable. So now same calories, but fat replaced with sugar.
Carbohydrates have about half the calories of fat. The ‘authorities’ recommended low fat, high carb diet. Even Heart foundations recommending eating sugar candies rather than food with fat in it.
U.S dept of Agriculture food pyramid placed carbs at base of pyramid i.e grain foods. No distinction between high G.I and low G.I (Glycemic Index) foods. High G.I foods
25 mins ‘Why are we fat’ …
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Remember if you think of food, you will get hungry. Just like thinking about sex will make you desire sex. Or thinking about all the things you do not have, that someone else has, will make you feel envy. If you do not think about them (despite the BILLIONS spent on advertising food, sex; most products are sold by association with sex: and things you never would have desired, or even ever thought to desire), then you will not desire them. You will not feel any need for them.
The few times that hunger arises naturally, without you having thought about food, especially the food you love most, it will quickly pass if you find some ‘purposeful action’ to replace eating with.
THE NUMBER ONE RULE TO BURNING BODY FAT IS NOT TO SNACK AT ALL ON ANY FOOD THAT STIMULATES INSULIN PRODUCTION. THESE INCLUDE ALL ‘JUNK’ FOOD. IF YOU MUST SNACK, EAT FRESHLY CUT VEGES, OR FRESH VEGETABLE JUICE. WITHIN MINUTES OF PREPARING IT AS SMOOTHIES. EVEN A BITE OF SUGARS, FATS, OR CARBS, WILL ACTIVATE THE PRODUCTION OF INSULING. WHAT YOU WANT IS BE BECOME, AND STAY, KETONIC, AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. THIS IS WHY EATING ONE MEAL A DAY IS OPTIMAL. WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING BETWEEN THESE MEALS. EXCEPT COFFEE AND TEA, OR WATER. COFFEE AND TEA OFFER BENEFICIAL COMPOUNDS THAT KEEP GUT BACTERIA ‘HAPPY’, SO THEY DO NOT EXCRETE SUBSTANCES THAT STIMULATE HUNGER.
How much we eat has much less to do with our dietary needs, than our other needs. For many food is the locus of family life. So find other ‘purposeful family activities’ you can participate in. Such as playing games. Going for walks to the park. Playing with pets. Many parents and pet owners over-feed their children, pets, and guests, as food is a main way for them to express their love and affection and appreciation. So find other ways to express your love, affection, and appreciation. Your pets would probably prefer you take them for a longer walk, especially to somewhere new, or a park. Or simply just play It does not need to be complicated or expensive. For example cats will have as much fun with an empty box you bring home, as with some expensive ‘cat-toy’. And children crave your attention above all else. Your demonstration of your acceptance and approval, your love, and that you truly value them, and are thankful you have them.
We have been conditioned marketing, advertising, public relations, and even well-intended by ignorant ‘professional’ advice about eating, which is demonstrably, using evidence based science, and personal experience, simply wrong. Breakfast is NOT the most important meal of the day. That was a 70s American breakfast cereal company advertising campaign. Skipping meals is healthy. Eating one meal a day is healthy. Eating a completely plant-based diet is healthy. And you will certainly get all the protein you NEED. And avoid the health problems associated with excess protein intake. You will go and remain in ‘Keto’ eating under 15g total protein from all sources, per day. Meaning you will burn up body fat, rather than storing calories as body fat. You will become, and stay, thin. This is just one example of a ‘rational’ protein intake. If you look into it, you will be surprised how much protein there is in the most unexpected of vegetables.
Consider how things would be in ‘nature’. When you are hungry, would you be lazy and dull-minded? Or would your brain recognise that your survival depends on you finding food, and instead would it ensure you were MORE mentally alert, and active, and thus able to seek food. To travel to find it. To scavenge. To gather. Even to hunt, where this is the only way to survive. This ‘hunger’ activates ketogenesis. The switch from burning glucose, and glycogen, to burning fat stores. In a sense we are hybrid engines. Burning different fuels at different times, depending on our intake of fats and sugars.
Ketones are only consumed when you have depleted the glycogen stored in your muscles, and the sugar in your bloodstream. In other words we only ‘burn’ fat if we activate ketogenesis. And become Ketonic. By fasting. And the fewer starches and carbs you have eaten, the quicker ketones are produced. Your thinking will be clearer. You will feel more energetic. In fact you will even build more muscle, if you exercise. In Ketosis the body cleans up, and becomes more efficient. We need to engage this, as it would normally have been engaged ‘in the wild’. Kicking in the reparative processes of the body. Blood pressure comes down. Everything improves. You even look better. And live longer. With less cancer. Cells recycle their inner parts to become more efficient, including the energy centers known in the official narrative as ‘mitochondria’. You even get greater stem cell production, from the bone marrow, which travel around the body, repairing the body by replacing damaged ‘senescent’ cells, including what we call ‘cancer’. Growth hormone production skyrockets during Ketosis also. Even more effectively than injecting growth hormones. Especially important after the age of 30. Immunity also improves during ketosis. This is the stage that ‘modern’ westerners have more or less eliminated, due to constant eating, of high calorific meals, snacks, and drinks. Maintaining and constantly spiking the production of insulin, so that fat is constantly added, and rarely, if ever, burned. So that the most valuable state of Ketosis is rarely, if ever, activated. Fasting is perfect for re-introducing Ketosis back into our lives.
There are many reasons to ‘go without’ food i.e fast. With food prices skyrocketing, and good quality food becoming extremely expensive, and cheap food being not only low in vitamins and minerals, but ‘loaded’ with salt, fat, and sugar. Even supposedly ‘healthy’ foods are today loaded with corn syrup, and other forms of sucrose, or simply sugar. Fruit juice should be rationed as you would alcohol, as it has the same negative effects on your health. I would only give it to children as a rare treat. And consider it no better than giving them a cup of sugar dissolved in cold water! Or even a shot of vodka!
And remember, weight LOSS is a pointless exercise, as almost everyone who focusses on ‘losing’ weight, puts at least as much on, soon after. The focus should be on attaining, then maintaining, YOUR PERSONAL optimal weight. For some this will be slim, to maximise attractiveness and physical performance. Some gain much more pleasure from being slim, than they do from eating.
Other people gain most of their pleasure from food. From eating. So these people might set a target weight based on the best balance between enjoying their food, and maintaining good health. They accept that you cannot both eat as much as you want, and maintain the most flattering figure, aesthetically. They will eat more, and take the limits of the ideal body fat index as their locus, rather than the ‘ideal’ body fat index at which they ‘look their best’. Both approaches are equally valid. It is a choice. Also some people gain greater benefits from being ‘slim’, than others. Some are rewarded financially for being slim. Some gain greater approval and acceptance, being slim. Some have a greater potential for physical beauty than others. These people gain greater positive feedback, and greater motivation to discipline themselves, and sacrifice the pleasure and relief of eating, in return for the health, fitness, and beauty, benefits of being slimmer.
Some people replace the most common addiction, food addiction, for some other form of addiction. Smokers often abuse nicotine to repress their apetites. Some people even abuse ‘speed’ (amphetamines) to repress their apetites. Heroine users are notorious for being slim. ‘Heroine sheik’ was termed to describe the appearance of super models who replaced food with nicotine, heroine, speed, and other drugs. Even alcoholics often replace food with spirits. Thus all sorts of drug users manage to ‘look good’, while destroying their health. But in the short term they gain the benefits of acceptance and approval, sex appeal, and are often financially rewarded for this, and achieve greater worldly, romantic, and sexual, success.
Many people consciously replace the more common food addiction for another addiction, because in the short term they feel better about themselves, and others treat them better. I myself have experienced everyone from old people, to children, treating me differently when I am at my ‘underwear model weight’ as compared to the other extreme of my weight. I have never been seriously obese. However my entire appearance changes with my weight. And the way people respond to me changes. It is clear. When I need to ‘win friends and influence people’, I fast, and reduce my weight down to the weight at which I am most attractive. And people respond way more positively to me. Though of course it also invites some envy too. So it is always a double edged sword. But look at U.S Presidents. Look at business leaders. Look at pop and rock stars at the height of their ‘success’. Consider whose company you prefer.
This is obvious even among children. They respond to me differently. As do old people. And children are the most ruthless in their honesty when it comes to appearances, and body fat index.
LOSING weight through some method you cannot maintain long-term, or would not be happy maintaining, is pointless. You must start as you intend to continue. As you are able to continue. With an approach to eating that will let you achieve the weight that YOU have chosen as the optimal compromise between enjoying food, and being healthy, fit, and attractive.
I promise you that when you reduce your eating, and eat healthier, and find alternative forms of ‘purposeful action’ and pleasure and relief, your interest in food falls away. I have even occasionally feared I would lose interest altogether! And apart from some stomach cramps I occasionally experienced, I have only ever suffered negative side affects when I ate too much, rather than very little. And I mean very little. Like a few tablespoons of whole soy flour a day.
We should entertain idea that body is adapted to ‘feast and famine’. That by eating constantly, we are interfering with the natural mechanisms of the body. So that it cannot perform its natural functions optimally. And this results not just in obesity, but sub-optimal health and performance. Physically, and mentally (psychologically).
Entertain the idea that fasting was ‘the norm’ for most of our evolutionary (or otherwise) history. That we evolved under conditions of ‘feast and famine’. Or were designed / tweaked, to operate and function optimally, on irregular meals. The same way irregular reinforcement can often be more potent for motivation than regular, continual, reinforcment.
Also consider how hunger is how the brain ensures the survival of the individual. Like sex ensures the survival of the species. Entertain the idea that for most of our history, food was scarce. And so the brain released dopamine / pleasure hormones, when we placed food with the highest calories, like sugar and oil, in our mouths. With salt also being rare, and eliciting the same ‘pleasure response’. So that we craved, and ate as much oil, salt, and sugar, as we could find. And this was optimal, given the scarcity of these things.
Insulin is produced to SAVE sugars and fats that are ingested. When you eat high calorie foods like sugars and fats / oils, this triggers a spike in insulin, as the body does its best to STORE as much of the calories as possible, for the future. As long as insulin is present, the body will not burn stored fat.
You need to ‘fast’ for some time, until insulin levels have fallen, before the body will even consider burning the fat you already have. This ‘keto’ stage of fasting, whether regular, intermittent, fasting, such as eating one meal a day, kicks in only in the absence of sugars and other calories means the insulin last released has been used up, storing the last meal as fat and energy in your muscles. So eating regularly means you will never lose weight. Pretty much no matter how little you eat.
The idea of eating a large number of small meals is invalid. This will ensure constant production of insulin. And body fat will never be ‘burned’.
Most of my life I have eaten only one, evening, meal a day. When this is a small meal, I lose weight, and look trim. When it is a reasonably sized meal, I maintain that weight. Only when I eat a LOT, starting at 5 pm or so, do I put on weight.
How much I eat depends on the availability and cost of food, and whether or not my priority is ‘looking good’ or ‘gaining comfort and pleasure from eating’.
The brain RENDERS pleasurable feelings, releasing dopamine, when we eat food high in sugar, and oil, and up to a point, salt. These are calories and electrolytes. We are electrical, so electrolytes are key to survival. Calories are key to the functioning of the electron transport chain that ‘fuels’ our bodies and thoughts.
Note also that the brain also RENDERS unpleasant feelings of SHAME when we see we have become fat. And RENDERS satisying, pleasant, pleasurable feelings of PRIDE in our appearance, when we are fit and trim.
Each individual has different tolerances and weightings for each set of pleasurable sensations. Some value the pleasure of eating more than the pleasure of ‘looking and feeling their best’.
Food is the main source of PLEASURE for an increasing number of people. People who do not have access to the other forms of pleasure, end up focussing on food as their prime source of pleasure. Of relief from stress. Of comfort. Of satisfaction. People who are not so highly rewarded for ‘discipline’ by their mirror reflection, or positive feedback from others, in terms of greater approval, acceptance, love, popularity, success, and so on, find the pleasure and satisfaction offered by food outweighs any benefit they might feel from disciplining their eating, to achieve a slimmer figure. And so they eat themselves into morbid obesity. And focus their ‘pleasure-seeking’ activities on food. Which for most people in the west, was at least until recently, relatively cheap and abundant. The cheapest accessible source of pleasure and comfort and relief available to them. Often even very attractive people find they get more pleasure out of eating, than they did out of being slimmer and more attractive. Hate on me if you like. Deny the fact that each person has an ideal weight at which they ‘look and feel their best’. Telling an obese person that ‘You are beautiful just as you are’ does them no favors. It might represent virtue signalling on your part. An attempt to ‘win friends and influence people’ by making yourself more agreeable to them. But you are not being honest. And you are doing them no favors. Especially given the fact that obesity is mostly reversible. It is not something people have to live with. It is not a ‘Noble lie’ to tell most people they ‘are beautiful just the way they are’. ‘Fat Shaming’, when malicious, is hateful and destructive. But ‘shame’ is one of the FEEDBACKS that the brain RENDERS, in order to MOTIVATE a person to ‘get back on a healthier path’. It has its place. As part of a total support package, in which we help others make better decisions. Support them in their challenges. Offer positive feedback for what they are attempting. And grant them the same respect and dignity all Earthlings are entitled to.
Pride in personal appearance releases dopamine, and is a positive feedback. There is a lot of ‘Skinny insect’ shaming of people who pride themselves more in their appearance, and value this form of satisfaction and pleasure, more than the pleasure gained from eating.
Most men and women must more or less ‘starve’ themselves voluntarily, i.e ‘fast’ i.e ‘do without’ food, to maintain their ideal weight. The weight at which they ‘look their best’. Look at most of the famous Hollywood stars, and rock stars, and pop stars, during their heyday, when they BECAME famous, and gained their stardom. I know from personal experience that to look like any of them, I could only eat a little Soy powder, flavored with a little fruit juice (in hindsight a bad choice, as Fructose is a KILLER on many levels), drinking lots of water and black coffee with artificial sweetener (I have yet to discover any evidence the European type of sweetener is a health risk, but please share what YOU have found if I am ignorant and misinformed on this!). I was getting ripped, but building muscle mass, so that I even ‘disrupted a marching band of girls’ by sitting in the audience (Ask the ‘Hussy’ who was with me, SHE was the one who drew it to my attention, but she was only interested in men to use them, and more interested in women, sexually and romantically!). The only way to get ‘chiselled’ facial features, and an ‘8 pack’, is to drastically reduce calorific intake, while maintaining a minimum, around 30g, of non-inflammatory, ethical, plant based protein like soy. Any problems with soy result from excess protein intake. We are programmed to imagine we need huge amounts of Protein. In fact to burn fat, the ideal level of protein intake is only 15g total from all sources. And most uninformed people will be surprised at how much protein they get, eating just vegetables, and no animal products or protein supplements, or even Soy products. The easiest way to KETO your way to a slim figure, while maintaining ideal protein intake, and getting that ‘underwear model’ and ‘Slim Hollywood Superstar’ (not referring to the body-building type action stars like Schwarzenegger and ‘The Rock’), is to enjoy a plant based diet. And reduce intake of fruit juices, corn syrups, and anything ‘loaded’ with corn sugar, or other forms of fruit sugar i.e Sucrose. But I would never go so far as to exclude good oils, salt, and sugar from my diet. The point with them is that they artificially stimulate apetite, and get you eating MORE than you would. You WANT more of them, simply as sugar and oil, and to a limit salt, trigger pleasure responses in the brain. When you eat whole, nature, lightly ‘improved’ foods, you eat as much as you need. When you eat foods deliberately loaded with oils, fats, sucrose, and salt IN ORDER TO TRICK YOU INTO WANTING MORE THAN YOU OTHERWISE WOULD, that is when you will tend to CRAVE more of them, and overeat.
Overeating would be defined differently depending on your goals. Those who get pleasure from a slim appearance will focus on that positive feedback, and source of pleasure. Others gain little pleasure from their appearance no matter how slim and fit they are, and these will focus on health. Eating as much as they can, enjoying as much eating pleasure as possible, without reaching the threashold where it begins to ruin their health and vitality. Their performance as a parent, lover, employee, employer, and so on.
The most ‘agreeable’ thing for people to do is to offer the ‘reach-around’ of PRETENDING to approve and accept someone, no matter what bad habits they have. No matter what their weight. Food addiction is no less a problem than alcohol and other drug addictions. We are addicted to the pleasure and relief something INITIALLY offers. And then we notice costs creeping in. And rational, disciplined, people, will then ‘cut back’ on the thing that initially brought them pleasure and relief, but now is demonstrating a negative ‘cost-benefit’ relation. That takes discipline. To work through the ‘withdrawal symptoms’. The cravings for a ciggy, or drink, or snack. Just like going ‘cold turkey’ is the best proven way to give up any other addiction, fasting will lead to an initial period of often great discomfort, as the bodies system adapts, after having ‘habituated’ to a high level of external stimulation of the pleasure and relief centers in the brain. It does not matter what you are ‘quitting’, if it was an initial source of pleasure or relief, of stimulation, a ‘crutch’ that ‘got you through something’ and ‘helped you deal with something’, your body and brain chemistry and gut biome will have adapted to it.
Habituation means that you require more and more of the same stimulation to feel the same intitial relief or pleasure or comfort you felt the first time you used that ‘solution’. And at some point you will require the highest levels of the same stimulation, the same drug, whether alcohol, nicotine, heroine, ecstasy, food, or ‘success’, or ‘acceptance and approval’, or ‘sexual stimulation’ i.e more and more extreme forms of sex are required for arousal and ‘completion’, simply to ‘feel normal’. To ‘function normally’. So that the thing that brought your relief and/or pleasure, no longer brings pleasure, but merely relief from ‘withdrawal symptoms’. It is at this point that the cost-benefit analysis is obvious. That this habit or addiction is costing you more than it is ‘benefitting’ you.
To enjoy food for pleasure, consider the ‘marginal returns to calories’. The first few spoons or mouthfulls or sips of something offer the most ‘bang for your buck’. The most pleasure. At the least cost to your nutrition and appearance. Try this. Eat a big bag of something you adore. Note the ‘tastiness’ of each bite. Note how this reduces very quickly. The first chip tasted amazing. Later in the session, you can barely taste anything. You are seeking that original ‘high’ that will not come.
Be aware of my insight regarding ‘purposeful action’. Most ‘successful’ people look back on the days they were beginning their careers. These were much more rewarding and satisfying, and they felt more ‘happy’, than during the peak of their succeses. For this was when they were full of ‘purposeful action’. Motivation theory demonstrates that to have a goal you think will bring you happiness, and a well defined, achievable, means to attain that. This is a reformulation of Nietzsche’s famous ‘A YES AND A STRAIGHT LINE’ formula for happiness, or at least contentment. Offer people this, and they will be highly motivated. And though unaware of it at the time, they will be happier in this stage of their progress than at any other stage of their ‘successful careers’.
We need to find sources of ‘purposeful action’ in our lives. Multiple forms of it. Of course we all wish it to be ‘working my way to super-stardom’ or ‘working my way to my first millions’ or some other socially recognised way to gain ‘acceptance and approval’ and ‘make your enemies envious of you’. This is referred to as ‘being successful’ in whatever possible endeavour available to you. Parents will often push a child to ‘succeed’ at something they happen to have a natural talent for, even though that child would be much ‘happier’ pursuing something that society does not reward so massively with wealth and status.
The forms of ‘purposeful action’ pushed by the media and society all relate to ‘being as wealthy and high status as we can’. But these are not available, by definition, to most people. Only a few can ‘succeed’ in this fashion. Only a few can ‘reach the top’ of their career path, for example. Whether it is sporting, musical, intellectual, political, or academic. So this is not a good ‘role model’ for seeking ‘purposeful action’.
For me ‘purposeful action’ is my scavenging route. Seeking out cans and bottles for their 10 cent refund. Seeking out useable clothing, shoes, toys, and household goods, for myself, and mostly to share with others. To enjoy playing ‘Santa Clause’ with cakes, and other things people enjoy receiving. To have a small child exclaim ‘wow’ and be obviously joyful at receiving something I have scavanged along my route, brings me joy. It is satisfying. It makes my actions purposeful. Even if they bring me very little, personally. And even though people still attack me along my route, or threaten me, for going through their garbage dumpsters.
My purposeful action when I was younger was much more ambitious. But I have to keep reminding myself that ‘If I feel good about something, or feel good doing something, it does not matter if that something is something ‘big’ or ‘small’. The feelings I get are similar. So learn to appreciate the smaller, less obvious, less socially approved of and ‘pushed’ forms of satisfaction. Of purposeful action.
Eating is the top purposeful action in the hierarchy. Numero Uno. If you do not eat for several months (much longer than most people imagine), you will starve to death. So the brain rewards eating to the max.
Our brains are programmed for the survival not just of the individual, but the species. If the individual fails to reach sexual maturity, and reproduce, the species dies. No matter how long the individual might live. So sex is the other ‘most highly rewarded’ ‘purposeful activity’. We can replace that with masturbation. And also become addicted to it, rather than sex. Where sex is unavailable, or we find the costs exceed the benefits.
So what about eating. What can we replace that purposeful action with. Note I am still talking about the action, not the pleasure or relief. They are different things. We actually often eat out of habit. We want to ‘take a break’ from whatever we were doing. We can justify that by eating. Or ‘taking a smoko’. So we need to find other ‘excuses’ for ‘taking a break’. Find activities that engage us, to do, during those periods we would normally have ‘reached for a cigarette’, or ‘taken a meal break’.
Find some other purposeful action to carry out, to keep your mind off food, and give you an excuse to ‘do something different’ to what you were doing all morning. We use ‘meals’ as an excuse to ‘take a break’. We do not need to make this excuse. Just take a break. If you get really hungry at lunchtime, distract yourself by going for a walk. Do some shopping. Take care of chores. DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO WHAT YOU WERE DOING ALL MORNING. A change is as good as a holiday.
Exercising is a great way to replace ‘meal times’. It releases endorphins and other chemicals that bring relief and pleasure, especially after the event. So replacing lunch with a walk, is a great way to fast. To miss a meal. You will NOT ‘miss’ it. After a few times. When this becomes your NEW habit. Go to the park and interact with happy children, animals, and other adults. Even birds. Look for something interesting and you will find it. Lamas in Seven Hills, a typical suburban setting? Yes! Read my other books for inspiration.
Need something to occupy your hands? Learn juggling. Or write friends messages. Text or message your kids or spouse. Just say hi. Remind them you love them.
Set up simple games for your usual ‘work breaks’. Like we did at Sport and Rec camps. Making games up. Using simple things you have to hand. Like kids do. Playing ‘stick ball’ or kicking a ball made of rubbish around. Set up a competition of some silly game. You will be amazed how ‘purposeful action’ and ‘motivation’ and ‘the joy of games’ can be produced with the simplest games. You do not need to be competing for Olympic Gold or World Cup trophy, to feel similar positive feedbacks. Look at how involved kids can get in the silliest of games. Even adults. If you LET yourself ‘get into it’. Forget that you never got to go to the Olympics. Focus on ‘winning’ this silly game. You will be amazed how the brain ‘adapts’. Do not let society and ‘what you are told you SHOULD get excited about’, ruin your fun. Success is success. Whether it wins you 20 cents at a silly game, or a Billion dollars in ‘business’. Getting positive feedback from people around you can be as rewarding as ‘winning an Oscar’. Having someone say ‘thankyou’ and being happy with something you did for them, or gave them, no matter how simple, can be as rewarding as winning a Nobel Prize. Try and see. Stop being angry at the world that you never got to win an Oscar, star in a Hollywood movie, have a chart-topping single or album, or become a ‘successful businessperson’. Start appreciating what you DO have. And ENJOYING it. You WILL enjoy it. As lame as it appears now. As small as the things you CAN do might seem. THAT is the secret to happiness. Purposeful action. Finding something that motivates you to repeat it. No matter how ‘lame’ it seems. Focus on how it makes YOU feel. Not on what society tells you you are SUPPOSED to do or need to ‘be happy’. What they promote does NOT lead to happiness. Ask a super successful person at the height of their success, when they were REALLY happy. It was when they were STRUGGLING. Because then they had purposeful action to wake up to every day. A yes and a straight line. And now they are ‘super successful’, they find it hard to find purposeful action. They feel they have ‘done it all’. They need BILLIONS to feel what their first hundreds made them feel. This is why they become OBSESSED with WORTHLESS things. And die MISERABLE.
The smart ones, like Eric Clapton, realise this early enough to make changes. To start ‘enjoying the simple things in life’. To stop craving ‘more and more’, ‘bigger and bigger’. They often retire from public life, and open animal shelters. They find more satisfaction in the feedback they get from the animals they help, than from being ‘super stars’ with ‘adoring millions of fans’ and huge wealth and status.
Do not let OTHERS tell you what YOUR happiness should ‘look like’. YOU feel it. If working at a cat shelter makes your happier than making millions in a pointless activity (finance), then give up that pointless ‘success’ and ‘follow your happiness’.
I cannot stress this enough. ONLY FEELINGS ARE REAL. Tune into what makes YOU genuinely, authentically, happy, and content. And most people will find it is NOT the empty, shallow ‘success’ the world markets as ‘the secret to happiness’. Not even being your most physically beautiful is going to ‘make’ you happy. Certainly not wealth and fame. That road is littered with suicide. I mean among the MOST successful people. For they achieve ‘what they were told would make them happy’, and ‘what they expected to make them happy and content’, and it does NOT. And they say ‘well, is this all there is?’. And give up the motivation to live. Success does NOT make people happy. Purposeful action is the secret to happiness and contentment.
You might find yourself MORE happy and content, having NONE of the things everyone in the rat race is striving for. Or with a lot less than you are told you NEED to be content. And happy. And especially healthy. Physically and mentally.
We must replace the ‘purposeful action’ and ‘pleasure’ of eating, with alternative ‘purposeful actions’ and sources of ‘pleasure’ and ‘comfort’ and ‘relief’. Food is simply the ‘go-to’ of choice, because it is the most accessible for most obese people. We must make other forms of purposeful action and pleasure and relief available to them. Food is often the only substitute available to obese people. A substitute for pleasurable social activity. For sport. For adventure activities. For personal intimacy. For approval and acceptance and love. For loving relationships. For sex. When we make all these things available to people, it will be easier for them to find HEALTHIER forms of pleasure, satisfaction, and relief.
The way to lose weight, is to trick the body into thinking we are living in scarcity. And avoiding any ‘pattern’ to your fasting. Feast and famine cycles were typical over the time humans evolved, or if you like, have survived. The organism appears set up to save as many calories from the intake as possible, when food is available, as a saftey mechanism for when food would be inevitably scarce. We are hybrid engines. Ketones power our brain and provide energy, and kill hunger, during the times we are looking for food. We would find it, and binge on it. We originally had no way to ‘store’ food. The people who were ‘set up’ this way survived. They survived the long gaps in calorific intake.
The idea of 4 square meals, or breakfast, lunch, and dinner, is a poor match for the way our organism is set up.
Markus: most food is for ‘comfort’ i.e ‘relief’, or ‘pleasure’. We respond immediately to ‘hunger’ that is generated by advertising. If we ate whole foods, without added sugar, salt, or oil, we would lose interest in that food as soon as we met our calorific needs.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day was a breakfast cereal marketing slogan from 70s. Like expectation today of spending 3 months wages on an engagement ring…a decades old DeBeers diamond marketing slogan.
Metabolism: eating more often does not offer weight loss benefits. 6 meals a day has been recommended. But simply WRONG.
Is a calorie of broccoli equal to a calorie of chocolate? The body responds differently to different food. Insuline is a hormone. Hormones are instructions on how the body will react to a specific food. So each sort of food will elicit different hormonal response. So whether a calorie will be stored as fat or not depends on the hormonal response to it. Insulin is called a ‘Nutrient Sensor’. Insulin stops the breakdown of glycogen and body fat, while increasing the synthesis (production) of glycogen and body fat. So it leads to calories being stored in muscles as glycogen, which is good. And as body fat, which for many is bad. And it stops body fat being ‘burned’. Which for those trying to lose weight, is, again, bad. Carbohydrates trigger the production of insulin. So the hormones are at least as important as the calories.
A caloric deficit never exists. Homeostasis means the equation of body fat equals calories in minus calories out, always balances. Changing one variable, the body will adapt the others, to compensate. So if you reduce calorie intake, your body can lower its metabolism, i.e burn less energy, to compensate, and leave the stored fat untouched.
Ancel Keys 1944 study ‘The Biology of Human Starvation’ put people on a low calorie diet of 1570 calories per day, which represented a 40% reduction in the typical calorific intake in 1944, with a diet of mostly starchy, low protein, low fat foods typical of 1944 wartime Europe. The result was a 40% reduction in resting metabolism, a 20% reduction in heart volume, a slowing of the resting heart rate, and a drop in resting body temperatures. The participants reported feeling cold, tired, and generally terrible. 1970s studies reported a 10 to 20% reduction in metabolism. American reality t.v show found that even exercising could not be used to manage metabolism, in the long term. Metaresearch reveals the same thing. Change in calorific intake always reduces metabolic rate between 10 and 20% i.e this is a univeral response … the body adapts to decreased calorific intake by reducing metabolism, so body fat is not reduced.
Recent metastudies of overweight and obese participants indicates that exercising more marginally increased their hunger. re: work up an apetite. After the activity you become hungrier. Mild exercise makes you hungry, and you eat more. It can also decrease your metabolic rate! Until you perform fairly serious exercise. At some point increase in exercise is balanced out by decrease in metabolic rate. So body attempts homeostasis, counteracting your efforts to burn calories with exercise, with a reduced resting metabolic rate. More excercise reduces metabolic rate. So body organs use less energy, to compensate for the energy used by your muscles in exercising.
So eating fewer calories does not necessarily lower body fat. The body might simply reduce resting metabolic rate to compensate. Hormones are the decisive factor. Moving more does same. You might end up eating more. Your resting metabolic rate might fall. No cell receptors for calories. Hormones instruct body and organs what to do. Hormones decisive.
Feeding and fasting about manipulating hormones, more than calories. Feeding stimulates insulin. Insulin prevents the body burning stored body fat. It stimulates storage of calories as sugars / glucose molecules like Glycogen , in the liver, and what the liver does not store, is stored as body fat ( Glycogen synthesis and De Novo Lipogenesis). Or burned during exercise. But you cannot burn stored fat by exercising. Insulin prevents this. The focus is on guaranteeing long term survival by storing as much energy as fat as possible. And preventing stored fat being ‘burned’ as fuel a.k.a inhibiting lipolysis in adipocytes. It also promotes triglyceride storage by decreasing transcription of adipose triglyceride lipase.
Only after insulin levels in the blood fall, does the body begin burning Glycogen, stored in the liver, and when this runs out, the body begins ‘burning’ stored triglycerides i.e body fat. The reason we do not die in our sleep!
fasting is a good way to reduce insulin levels. And kick in Glycolisis and lipolysis i.e burning of Glycogen stored in liver and muscles, and then body fat. When insulin falls, counter regulatory hormones, noradrenaline, growth hormones, and cortisol levels increase, and the sympathetic nervous system (mediated by the vagus nerve) is stimulated, so your metabolic rate remains more stable (does not fall). Only THEN can the body take calories out of storage i.e glycogen and body fat, to use for metabolism.
If you restrict calories, but eat many small meals per day, insulin remains high, and you cannot lose weight. The only response available to the dieter’s body is to reduce its metabolic rate. So there is no loss of body fat. So if you reduce your intake from 2000 calories, by 500 calories, to 1500 calories, but eat 5 small meals, (as many diet specialists will recommend) you will NOT lose weight. Your resting metabolic rate will simply fall.
Periodic fasting reduces insulin levels, allowing the body to acces the stored energy (body fat) to maintain metabolism. You can eat two meals, totalling 1500 calories, and lose body fat, to the tune of the full 500 calories you reduced your intake by.
In controlled studies, increasing insulin levels lead to weight gain even with dieting.
The conclusions is that both calories and hormones (insulin levels) must be managed. So fasting then feasting is a bad strategy. Fasting (skipping meals) plus dieting is a great strategy.
Popularly referenced studies problematic and conclusions not as decisive as publications suggested. If time restricted eating facilitates you eating less, then it is still positive factor. The study fails to consider this positive impact of time restricted eating, claiming it has no statisically significant impact, versus eating the same calories, any time you like. Studies suggest that if you restrict the times that you eat, you will end up eating less overall i.e fewer calories. i.e the time restrictions imposed by fasting make it possible for you to ‘stick to your calorie limit’. You are more likely to limit your calories, long term, by restricting when you eat.
Time restricted eating refers to not eating (i.e fasting) between either 1pm and 7pm, or 3m and 7pm. So it is a bit misleading compared to what most people think ‘fasting’ is. But both, in a recent study, reduced body weight, decreased insulin resistance, decreased oxidative stress, and led to participants eating fewer calories, without being told to i.e enabled a reduction in calorific intake, in adults with obesity.
Eating refined carbohydrates and sugars stimulates insulin production, so most of the calories eaten will be converted almost immediately into fat, and your blood sugar levels will fall, and you will feel ravenously hungry. Only by reducing insulin levels, by fasting, or less effectively, eating a low carb, low sugar, low fat, meal, can you bring insulin levels down. Then the calories you do eat will be available to you for energy, and you will not put on fat. The way to actually reduce body fat is to, in addition to this, also reduce calorific intake overall. So that the deficit in calories is, in the absence of insulin (which blocks this process), made up from stored body fat. And this is when we begin ‘burning’ up excess body fat, and lowering our Body Fat Index.
This video seems to suggest fasting for 16 hours i.e eating just one evening meal, of 1500 calories, will lead to weight loss, as the body makes up the deficit by burning 500 calories of body fat.
We need to address the reasons why we eat over 2000 calories. And why we eat sugary foods. And fat foods. You cannot decide to be less hungry, or your metabolic rate. Hormones drive hunger and satiety.
Note that different foods contain different hormones.
Insulin increases body weight, all other things being equal.
Taking drugs that make your nauseous will stop you eating.
People who stop smoking tend to gain weight. Noradrenaline and Noraanaphredine levels effected. People who smoke not as hungry, and enjoy an increased metabolic rate.
Fasting impacts Ghrelin, a hunger hormone. Most people have 3 spikes, lunch, dinner, and breakfast. If you do not eat lunch Ghrelin levels fall back to base line, and if you wait for the initial hunger to pass, you will feel no more hungry than if you had eaten lunch, because your body will ‘eat’from your fat stores.
Restricting calories makes you hungry i.e if you eat a small meal for lunch, instead of ‘missing’ it.
After 4 days of fasting you burn more 10% more calories at rest, than before. Growth hormones go up. Norepinephrine (Noradrenaline) levels go up after 4 days of fasting. Even after 3 days of no food you burn more energy than on day zero. Opposite of ‘common knowledge’ that fasting reduces metabolic rate.
Dieters lower metabolic date. Alternate daily fasters increase metabolic rate. So dieters restricting their calories will feel more hungry, and be burning fewer calories, and thus will put on body fat.
So we want to decrease hunger, and increase metabolism. Fasting does that. Intermittend fasting and low carb diets most successful. Both things decrease insulin production.
Allegation that decreases in tryptophan, a precursor to serotonin, can leave people dysthymic and prone to eating disorders like bulimia and over-eating disproven by at least two studies of fasting. After even a 36 hour fast does not lead to over-eating when you break-fast.
So fasting makes it easier to eat fewer calories, while reducing insulin.
New York Times claims time restricted eating has no benefits. But by structuring your eating day i.e limiting your eating to a limited time period, works. I have been doing it for years. But also over-eating in the evening. So the results were dependent on whether I ate too much in the evening, or not.
Habits are automatic and do not require as much will power as eating fewer calories, throughout the day. It is the behavioural effect that helps you succeed at eating fewer calories, and the hormonal benefits of fasting that allow you to access stored fat reserves.
Fasting is like any medicine. Too much is dangerous. Too little won’t work.
Fasting can be used with any diet. It reduces your food bill. It saves you time. It frees up the time you would spend thinking about, preparing, and eating a meal, for other activities. Including meditating. Napping. Walking. Meeting friends. It is free. It is the SIMPLIST. Thus easiest to ‘stick to’. It becomes a good habit that requires little discipline or self-control. You adapt to the schedule and do not even think about food, knowing you will not be eating anything until your ‘window’ opens. You can still look forward to THAT, and plan THAT, and enjoy the anticipation of it. And anticipation is often a large part of the total pleasure of eating. You will not be bloated during the day. You can focus on things unrelated to food, as compared to most people who spend around 30% of their time thinking about food.
Whole food plant based keto is great. But hard to implement. Expensive. Will increase your food bill. This method saves you time and money, so anyone can implement it. Sometimes you can ‘break’ with your fasting, and then return back to it, making it flexible. It is NOT a diet. It does not tell you WHAT to eat. Just to take 12, 16, or 20 day breaks from eating. Depending on your health needs. Depending on how much weight you want to lose and how fast. You can increase time, or frequency, of fasting. You simply allow insulin levels to fall, so the body can and will access stored body fat, in association with a reduced calorific intake. You can tailor it to your needs. It costs you zero. Anyone can do it.
Ketones increase our awareness and sensitivitity to color, taste, environmental awareness, spiritual awareness.
Note we go well beyond ‘satisfying our desires’. When we live for our OWN pleasure, we actually artificially stimulate our apetites and desires, in an attempt to maximise our pleasure. It was and is the actual aetiology of the symptoms falsely defined as H.I.V AIDS. The abuse of drugs to artificially stimulate the sex drive, to maximise sexual pleasure. Like old men taking Viagara to increase their libido, well beyond the natural, diminished libido appropriate to their age, when someone who thinks of others pleasure, and empathises with others, at that age, might turn their energies towards their own spiritual evolution, and towards helping others. Instead they spend their retirement trying to recapture their teenage sex drive, and sexual pleasure. Doing things they must surely, or should be, ashamed of. This is not about envy and ageism. If a teenage girl wants to be with a 50 year old man, sure, go for it. But if that man has to take pills, and becomes a sexual predator, requiring every more extreme sexual interactions, to the exclusion of empathy and compassion for others, then it becomes a problem. The same applies to food. We eat even when we are not hungry. We try to artificially increase our apetite. We add ever increasing amounts of fat, sugar, and salt to our food, in order to increase our apetite, to maximise the pleasure we seek from food. When in fact, after fasting, plain bread becomes a delicious treat. And if you have already eaten ‘too much’, no matter what you eat will bring you little, if any, pleasure. It is the law of diminishing marginal returns. The first bite brings great pleasure. And this decreases as our apetite is satiated. And if we pay attention to that satiation, and stop eating when we have ‘had enough’, we avoid over-eating.
When you enter Ketosis, cravings lose their hold on you. You may notice the feeling that ‘I could eat’, but it has no control over you.
There is a narrative in which the gut biome, the bacteria in the stomach, and the character in ‘The Official Narrative’ named ‘Mitochondria’, manipulate us into eating, by excreting chemicals that stimulate our apetite like our own bodies hormones. Recall the famous quote ‘When I lost my sex drive, it felt like I had been unchained from a lunatic’. People who compulsively overeat could relate to that, but with the ‘lunatic’ being their ‘stomach’. Their hunger.
Electrolytes might become unbalanced after 10 days of water, or tea and coffee fasting. But there are many experts who believe there is no need to fast more than 10 days to achieve most, probably all, of the potential benefits of fasting. There is a video of a man water fasting 55 days, and he did not appear at all unhealthy. There was some story that the Guiness book of records refused to add his record, for fear that others would try to beat his record, and suffer health problems as a result. Which is odd, as so many ‘Guinness books of records’ records involve very dangerous activities. So I am skeptical of this narrative.
The two things that break a fast is eating or drinking anything with sugar or carbohydrate, or protein. The first triggers the production of Insulin.
Metabolic / dietary fasting is defined as not raising your insulin. This is the key marker. Apothegy will be maintained when you consume less than 15g of fat a day.
Pre-biotic fiber feeds bacteria in gut so they make less lipopolysaccharide, materials bacteria excrete when they are starved i.e under stress, which turns on hunger in humans, while supporting desirable bacteria.
Best way to heal gut is to not eat anything that stresses bacteria. We want them to rest.
Apothegy is part of the goal. You can eat moderate amounts of fat in diet and stay in Apothegy. You can eat up to 15g of protein per day.
Fasting mimicking diets mimic effects of fasting. 500 calories for 5 days. Turning on apothegy even while eating a little. Some proteins do more harm than others, in terms of benefits of fasting. But by not exceeding 15g of protein from all sources will keep you in apothegy.
You may gain weight faster when you are NOT fasting, if you do it wrong. If the bacteria in gut or Liver excrete too much of a particular compound. Feeding good bacteria can prevent this. Pre-biotics are in tea and coffee compounds, so actually better to drink tea and/or coffee, while fasting. Most ancient traditions include the drinking of tea, or gurana, or coffee.
Intermittent fasting leaves you feeling energised, and more alert.
Apothegy is one benefit. Autopahty is another benefit i.e that when we fast we are no longer exposed to the 5 classes of toxins present in foods: include some lectins (grains and bell peppers make you really hungry), phytic acids reduce ability to absorb minerals like zinc etc (whole grains), hyptomine forms in some food that gives your cravings, and oxalic acid (chards, kale, raw spinach etc), and microtoxins that grow in foods when they are in the field, and in storage. Fasting eliminates these toxins from your system, allowing you to detox.
Inflammation tends to be reduced during fasting. Absence of toxins. Keytones profoundly anti-inflammatory. So avoiding those plant toxins, while producing keytones, acts anti-inflammatorily. For the first few days, and at later stages of more extreme long term fasting, you will feel aches and pains, as the body detoxes and repairs itself.
Metabolic reset occurs during apothegy. Your cells respond by becoming more efficient. They can be lazy when you eat constantly. When you fast, the less effective mitochondria are weeded out and replaced with healthier ones. Just as brain cells can actually be produced during fasting. The weak brain cells are weeded out and replaced. Alzheimers if often called diabetes type 3 of the brain. improved Brain function, alertness, and elimination of inflammation, a ’cause’ of so many modern diseases of affluence, are all benefits. Senescent cells, including brain cells, are replaced, as the body responds and adapts to the lack of food, to promote your ability to FIND food. Or even hunt. To travel to find food. To dig and climb trees. Mental alertness, and even eyesight, are all improved.
Activated charcoal can absord bacterial toxins excreted durinf fasting, to prevent ‘keto flu’ and similar symptoms of discomfort.
Omad is the ‘one meal a day’ fasting approach. Skip first two meals, and only eat dinner. If you eat the right food you will not be hungry a few hours later.
Cortisol and adrenaline are released to breakdown protein in first phase of fasting.
Some claim you can eat as much as you want during your ‘window’. But will get more benefits if only eat good food during that window. Eating crap will leave you hungrier during the fast. Avoid sugar, or seed oil. Next morning you will not wake up hungry. A very liberating feeling. Freedom from hunger by NOT eating.
Burn out adrenal glands, producing sleep problems, then hormonal problems, and hair loss, and lack of erections, from excess cortisol…if do not CYCLE i.e people who fast a week every month…avoid doing the same thing every day… offer pattern for the body to adapt too…body becomes more metabolically flexible…so avoid ‘doing the same thing’ … mix it up … you want body to be able to burn ketones and sugars i.e access body fat, and live off what eat… Ketones occur when your body burns fats instead of sugar IT DOES NOT OCCUR IF YOU EAT EXCESS PROTEIN…NEURONS AND OTHER CELLS LOVE KEYTONES, THOUGH SOME PREFER GLUCOSE…SO 2 OR 3 DAYS FASTING LEADS TO KEYTONES…AND DETOXING OF CELLS AS FAT WHERE THEY ARE IS STORED… METABOLIC ENERGY REQUIRED FOR TRANSFORMATION OF CELLS SO BETTER AT CONSUMING FAT… AND GLUCOSE… CYCLING IN AND OUT OF KETOSIS, AND NOT FASTING SAME WAY EVERY DAY OR WEEK KEEPS BODY OFF BALANCE…DOES NOT SPECIALISE IN EITHER KETONES OR GLUCOSE… SO READILY ‘BURNS’ BOTH…THAT IS METABOLIC FLEXIBILITY… BUT IF YOU OVERLOAD ON CARBS, FATS, ETC, BODY WILL SPECIALISE IN GLUCOSE METABOLISM, AND WILL NOT SWITCH TO KETONE METABOLISM SO READILY… BEST WAY TO OPTIMISE FASTING FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH AND BODY FAT INDEX.
HORMONES and WOMEN
Impact of hormones huge. Drive our ‘desires’ i.e to reproduce i.e sex-drive. And need to survive long enough to reach sexual maturity, find a mate, and for women, to feed the offspring until they can fend for themselves. For species, reproduction priority, as if individual survives to maximum life span, will ultimately die, and species would go extinct.
Reproductive hormones drive apetite in women Oestrogen first half women’s cycle loves fasting and oestrogen thrives, But second half Progesterone requires calories / glucose e.g week before period, craving for carbs that produce oestrogen to shed uterine lining… so need to time to hormones i.e cycle…so stop fasting week before period…
Frist 10 days as oestrogen is building, is ‘power’ stage … you can do everything you want, party longer, work harder, fast, exercise more, learn faster, relate to people better, push self further, handle more stress, unify left and right hemispheres of brain i.e creativity and rationality, greater emotional stability …Oestrogen day 1 to 10 power phase…hormones lowest day 1, we feel at our best, more emotionally stable, can fast more, go into keto more, exercise more…as we enter day 5 or 6 Oestrogen building…this is best time to detox, fast, work harder, exercise more, socialise more, can lean into this power in first 10 days… improves performance
During power phase first 10 days as Oestrogen levels increase from lowest…Estrodile is most powerful form of 3 types of Oestrogen…it is needed to release an egg…can stimulate 5 neurochemicals in brain that make you happy, help you learn information, relate to others, more joyful, dopamine, seratonin, oxytosin, acetocholine, btnf… make you happy, hold onto information, learn new info, make you feel connected to other people…first 10 days of menstrual cycle…joyful and powerful… so find woman at this stage in cycle if you want best interaction … we should time things to take advantage of this … time for PBs (personal bests)… menstrual cycle not just inconvenient… it is a source of power / joy …
Menopause highlights loss of Oestrogen…many women demand Oestrogen therapy..
First ten days…as Oestrogen builds, so does Cholesterol…HDL ‘good’ cholesterol… make sure when testing (though I never would, as pointless) take this into consideration…
20 different nerurochemical changes occur during menstrual cycle… amino acid, mineral and vitamin use change during cycle … e.g need more complete protein in back end of cycle to shed uterine cycle… second 10 days of cycle…
During ovulation Oestrogen peaks, day 10 to 15 ‘manifestation phase’ can manifest baby, … or anything…hormonally loaded for performance … problem solving, conflict resolution, … at our best around day 10… 10 to 15 is when can get pregnant…hormonally locked and loaded for highest performance in any area of your life… do not try to resolve conflict week before period…do it during ovulation…DURING… day 10 to 15… learn cycles of women interact with, or coach, etc … in women Testosterone peaks at this time i.e da 10-15 i.e sex drive, motivation etc … men get it every 15 minutes or so, women get it 5 days out of the month… libido … Testosterone helps women build muscle… so work-outs should be timed to match this 5 day period… work on different muscle groups each day…heavy weights… work with your hormones … record cycle so can plan ahead … get most out of ‘cycle’… find rythm for ALL things, not just contraception/conception… women / girls should be taught this to optimize health and fitness and lifestyle and sex-life and work-life / creativity / rationality etc Everyone around you should be aware of where a woman is in her cycle i.e prepared … MHR IMAGINE A BRACELET OR APP THAT TELLS OTHERS WHERE ANY FEMALE IS IN HER CYCLE…
some women will hate this information…want to be treated as equal to men at all times in all things…but in fact our hormonal profile, male or female, changes, during course of month
Irritability correlates with hormonal profile…you can help understand yourself…Progesterone wants you to keep cortisol down i.e stress hormone, so irritability is through the roof if you expose self to stress during progesterone part of cycle… make a mental note to avoid stress at these times in particular…and to monitor own responses, with this in mind i.e ‘I am more sensitive at this time etc… helps manage own emotions… I seem to feel this during full moon i.e more irritable, sensitive to stress, builds as stress headaches, neck tension, migraines etc
Statistically women have 80 to 90 percent of auto-immune conditions, most Alzheimers and dementia, and women gain weight more than men… women out of balance with own hormonal cycle… PCLS (fast like a girl) is epidemic…number one hormonal problem for women … need to match diet to cycle…infertility on rise i.e 20 to 30 year old females without cycle i.e no period…
After 40 lose Estrodile i.e most potent of 3 forms of Oestrogen
women less hormonally the same every day, hormonal shift
men make testosterone, it goes up into the brain and is converted to Oestrogen, and this is fairly stable, so they are relatively hormonally stable
women sometimes have more testosterone, more Oestrogen, or progesterone…these 3 hormones make women act differently at different times of cycle
As approach day 20 approaches, cut down stresses, workload, etc, so can come back in on ‘full power’ day 1
Apps will suggest how to optimize your cycle … book Dr Mindy Pelz …
Come out of manifestation day 15, and hormones drop again…the second power cycle, can fast as much as want, go low carb, work out, from day 16 up to 20….
then nurture (chill-out) phase from day 20… nurture yourself…progesterone requires high glucose…but if cortisol is high (stress hormone) is present, progesterone is shy ‘does not come out to play’… if you do not have your cycle, most likely progesterone has tanked…cortisol is produced from the PERCEPTION OF STRESS I.E JUST THINKING OR RECALLING STRESSFUL MOMENTS…CORTISOL GOES UP…HORMONE FOR FLIGHT OR FIGHT…ENERGISES… BUT WE GET CORTISOLE SURGES WHICH IS STORED I.E WE DO NOT FIGHT OR FLEE…
CGMs … helps give insight into how body processing nutrients e.g glucose levels at work rise, even without change in diet…spikes due to Cortisol…dumps sugar into blood-stream to fuel ‘fight or flight’… i.e stress of interactions, or just thoughts i.e TERRORISM
Simple reaction to any stress…CGM blood sugar spikes just due to stress, even if have not eaten for days…body releases glucose … spikes… that cortisol and glucose is STORED if it is not used for fight or flight … i.e after stress … so really need to act PHYSICALLY when experiencing stress to replace the ‘fight’ or the ‘flight’ … so avoid peak times when this is going to be
Progesterone makes women more intuitive and introverted inward looking week befor period…so do not force women to be more extrovert / outward looking at this time…leave them to sit on couch… do not try to ‘push on through’…
Need to time fasting, exercising, socialising, and work committments etc to hormone cycle… need to respect this to optimise it… sort of like De Bono’s thinking hats… we might wear different color hat / badge etc to signal to others best times for different activities, and times to be more ‘careful’ around… would increase productivity in all areas of life… even changing work hours and challenges to match when best capable of meeting different demands… like racehorse or soccer player pushed hard, then allowed to relax … same with muscle building…
Spanish menstrual leave…3 days of month… at start of cycle when cycle started… BUT MAYBE MEN TOO GIVEN 3 DAYS, SO CAN CHOOSE SELF
4 day work week and universal basic income ?? What planet do these people live on? Most people barely survive working 7 days. And government forces them to due demeaning, exploitative work… do some research on what is going on ???
Menopause and menstruation in context of hormones…we need to accomodate these cycles to improve life quality and productivity…health, happiness, productivity etc
FASTING 47 MINS
Body detoxes the cells, makes them stronger, gets rid of cancerous cells, when you deprive it of food
When you take food out of equation for period of time, body becomes stronger…noble prize for discovery…
Fasting i.e missing breakfast and lunch i.e 15 hours no food, within a week, can stop you ‘crashing’ around 4pm and needing a ‘nap’…
49 mins MINDY PELZ interview
After a successful treatment, after which breast cancer was no longer present, a 13 hour intermittent fast regime i.e not eating for 13 hours of every day, had 64% less remissions than the control group who did not fast
Ketones end up in brain and hunger goes down… to NOT be hungry ketones kick in after 8 to 12 hours fasting …
Autophagy is body cleaning up senescent cells, recycling cells, damaged cells, self-repair, growth hormones go up they burn fat, microbiome in gut repaired i.e new environment for good bacteria…reset dopamine system and new dopamine receptor sites formed…we reset our entire immune system… the longer you stay the more healing happens… giving gut a rest … growth hormone slows aging and burns fat … create new environment for good bacteria…
meatabolic switching between food / glucose and fasting/ketone can lead to body remaining in repair phase
enjoy complex whole foods as meals and mix up diet i.e eat different foods to feed different gut bacteria … she says most people eat only 100 different foods…wow…for me it has usually been between 1 and 3, and two of them essentially same i.e semolina and bread, and third just tomato sauce… otherwise gut becomes a ‘mono culture’… feed different bacteria by eating something you usually do not… expand the range of foods you eat …
Intermittent fasting i.e 13 to 15 hours each day without food, just water, coffee, tea … can elminate the typical ‘crash’ we experience in afternoon i.e need to nap
Problem with ‘dieting’ is that when ‘finish’ diet i.e calorie restricted diet … changes your SET POINT … when reduce calories and exercise, you change your set point…if you ate 1500 calories, then exercised to burn 500, your set point is 1000
calories…body needs this every day to maintain weight…so if you want to lose weight, you need to get a set point lower than 1000…if eat more than that will gain weight… fasting does not change set point…
eat natural carbs and protein…plant based… fasting drives ketosis…go ketonic… will lose weight long term… but with diet, once ‘finish’ diet weight naturally goes up again… trajectory of weight trends upwards after each diet…
Dip in and out of fasting window, to metabolically switch, and lose weight…
First thing is change 3 food categories…bad fats make you insulin resistant e.g corn, cottonseed, canola oils bad… Olive oil, avocado oil, mct’s etc … get refined carbs out e.g processed breads, pastas, crackers, cookies, cakes replace with potatoes, sweet potatoes, fruit i.e reject man-made, back to nature… move artificial sweeteners, chemicals i.e artificial e.g red food dies,
Start with whatever ‘window’ you can work with i.e push breakfast back 30mins, then hour, then 2 hours i.e slowly compressing ‘eating window’ i.e time period during which you eat… abandon i.e of breakfast, 6 hours then lunch, 6 hours dinner i.e if eat 2 meals during window, within an hour, go for it… within a few weeks you are fasting 15 hours each day… at 17 hours go into apothegy…start detoxing more, 24 hours start repairing gut ,36 hours body goes after stored insulin, 48 hours dopamine kicks in, 72 hours is where we reboot immune system…
MIT study on mice so the above might not be so valid…24 hour fast reboot of intestinal stem cells, which repair inner lining of gut, gets rid of bad bacteria, changes mucosal lining of gut and repairs holes in it stop leaking… microbes de-clump and spread around gut i.e better distribution so get more nutrients out of food…
ideally fast once a week…minimum once a month to reset gut to get most nutrients out of food… do not fast during ‘nurturing phase’ if female of cycle…
note black coffee with no milk or sugar
for many people fast days most productive days for them … supercharges … 5 days fast and best performance ever … mental acuity etc
fasting-mimicking keeps calories and nutrients down to stimulate some of the benefits of real fasting… 5 day program…but harder for many than simply fasting…
wash of ketones kill hunger in fasting so easier to fast than try fasting-mimicking diets … ketones up to 6 after 5 day fast vs 2 for mimicking diet… greater ketosis…
build fasting LIFESTYLE i.e integrate fasting into your lifestyle… introduce slowly … compress eating window gradually… if fasting window open, do not even think about food… 8 to 10 hour eating window can reset metabolic markers even if eat junk food rest of time… i.e put your normal diet i.e food intake, in a compressed window… can lose weight even eating usual diet if eat in compressed window… and keep compressing window i.e fast 15 hours, then window open… and gradually remove worst junk food… gradually move into healthier foods… need a strong WHY e.g stay alive for family… WHY I want to …
note fasting costs nothing…new approach to food addiction… and healthier lifestyle…the results motivate greater compression…need to know WHY… i.e motivation for… and success rewards and increases motivation… adds MOMENTUM … you will get results / reward / positive reinforcement of behavior … frees people from eating disorders… we can enjoy food…but only in window… aim for greater variety of food…
we are finally returning to our original, native, natural state i.e modern 4 square meals breakfast, lunch, tea, etc is not optimal…not natural…
Dopamine fast…researched and phenomenal results … obese people dopamine resistant…like insulin resistance but different…people who are obese often find do not get same enjoyment from food, need to eat more to get same enjoyment another person has SEE IT IS ABOUT ENJOYMENT I.E SATISFACTION … AND TYPICAL HABITUATION I REFERRED TO … DOPAMINE HIGH … LIKE ANY DRUG HIGH… NEED TO CLEAN UP DOPAMINE SYSTEM WITH 48 HOURS WITHOUT FOOD…STUDY CLINICAL… NEW DOPAMINE RECEPTOR SITES EMERGE … D2 RECEPTOR SITES… WHOLE DOPAMINE SYSTEM GETS REBOOT… brain reboots dopamine system to increase motivation to go find food i.e get more satisfaction than previously from same food…greater reward… improve motivation to find more food… pleasure always connected with survival and reproduction…brain manipulates us… even general MOOD DISORDERS BENEFIT IN SIMILAR WAY FROM FASTING … INCREASE NUMBER OF D2 RECEPTORS… MORE SENSITIVE TO GOOD THINGS I.E GREATER PLEASURE…LIKE GETTING NEW CAR OR FALLING IN LOVE…LATER HABITUATED TO… NOW LIKE NEW CAR… BUT IF SEPARATED FOR A FEW WEEKS, RESET MEANS GET SAME DOPAMINE… WE ARE DOPAMINE SATURATED E.G BINGE SERIES, SOCIAL MEDIA, FOOD, ALL FLOODS DOPAMINE…WE NEED DOPAMINE REST I.E GIVE UP ALL SOURCES OF PLEASURE FOR 48 HOURS… REBOOT ALL SENSITIVITY TO PLEASURE I.E HEDONIC ADAPTATION… ABSOLUTE HEDONISM I.E PLEASURE FROM NEW SOURCE, THEN ADAPT TO IT I.E HABITUATION… SO GIVE UP PHONE FOR 2 DAYS, AND WILL NOT BE COMPLAINING ABOUT PHONE RELATED THINGS I.E WILL APPRECIATE IT MORE…REIGNITE OUR APPRECIATION OF THINGS… REST AND RECOVERY… LITERALLY THE MORE PLEASURE, THE UNHAPPIER WE BECOME I.E RESET THRESHOLDS FOR PLEASURE…HABITUATION… WE NEED TIME AWAY TO RESET, HEAL…SO FAST 48 HOURS AND FOOD WILL TASTE BETTER… ONCE YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT, DOPAMINE IS MOLECULE OF MORE, NEVER ENOUGH…WANT MORE… RESET SO CAN ENJOY SIMPLE THINGS MORE… BOREDOM RESETS SYSTEM… LIKE BUSHWALKING, SLEEPING ON HARD GROUND, THEN OWN BED FEELS SO LUXURIOUS … REMOVE ENTERTAINMENT FOR PERIOD, SO APPRECIATE MORE WHEN GET IT BACK… PREVENT HABITUATION… BOREDOM LIKE SILVER SPOON ON PALATE… MOLECULES OF ENOUGH VS DOPAMINE MOLECULE OF ‘NEVER ENOUGH’ I.E ‘MORE’…
TAKE TIME OFF … BOOSTS CREATIVITY … AFTERNOON OFF … SIT IN NATURE AND LET MIND WANDER…
RIGHT NOW IN BETA BRAIN WAVE PATTERN…WHEN GO TO SLEEP GO INTO ALPHA, THEN PHETA, THEN DELTA I.E SLEEPIER BRAINWAVE, IS WHEN CAN REPROGRAM BRAIN I.E LISTEN TO AFFIRMATIONS AS FALLING ASLEEP… SO WHEN GET TO BED TRAIN BRAIN TO THINK ABOUT ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS AND OBSESS ON THEM, AS ENTER DEEP … WHEN WAKE UP GO FROM DELTA, INTO PHETA, INTO ALPHA TO BETA…BEST WRITING TIME IS EARLY IN MORNING WHILE STILL IN THOSE STATES… SO TRUE FOR ME AND MY ‘INSIGHTS’ ALWAYS COME DURING SLEEPY TIMES….
STRESS IS HIGH BETA WORKING FROM MYGDALIN AND DO NOT ACCESS PRE-FRONTAL CORTEX WHERE CREATIVITY HAPPENS… CREATIVITY AND STRESS DO NOT MIX…STAY IN SLEEPY BRAIN STATE…NEVER GET STRESSED…
DO NOT FAST DURING PREGNANCY…OR WHEN NURSING / BREAST FEEDING … DO NOT WANT TO DETOX AS TOXINS GO INTO BREAST MILK… I.E DO NOT FAST LONGER THAN 15 HOURS… AUTOPHAGY IS LIKE TURNING ON INTERNAL DOCTOR… DO NOT WANT TO GO INTO AUTOPHAGY…CELLS WILL BE KILLED DURING LONGER FAST DETOX, WHICH GOES INTO BLOODSTREAM AND RECYCLED OUT OF YOU, EVEN INTO BREASTMILK… EATING DISORDERS REQUIRE MEDICAL SUPERVISION… ADRENAL FATIGUE REQUIRES GENTLER INTRODUCTION TO FASTING…DIABETICS CAN DO THIS I.E ACTUALLY IDEAL FOR THEM, BUT IF TYPE ONE OR 3 MEDICAL SUPERVISION…THYROID PROBLEMS NOTE REQUIRE MINIMUM 1200 CALORIES FOR HEALTHY THYROID FUNCTION…SOME SAY TEENAGEERS AND CHILDREN NO, BUT OTHERS SEE NO PROBLEM…CAN PRODUCE TESTOSTERONE BOOST …
GROWTH HORMONES THE TIDE UPON WHICH ALL OTHER HORMONES RISE … SO 2000% BOOST AFTER 24 HOUR FAST…STUDIES SHOW ALL HORMONES PULLED UP INTO A BALANCED POSITION BY GROWTH HORMONES… MORE ABOUT BALANCE THAN PERCENTAGE INCREASE OF OTHERS… DO NOT JUST WANT AS MUCH TESTOSTERONE AS POSSIBLE, JUST WANT TO PULL IT BACK UP INTO BALANCE…SO IT MIGHT BE ELEVATED OR DECREASED, BUT RESULT IS ALWAYS POSITIVE AS RESULT IS OPTIMAL AMOUNT OF TESTOSTERONE … THE MORE OUT OF BALANCE WAS, THE MORE THE CHANGE WILL BE AFTER 48 HOURS FASTING… NAME OF GAME IS NOT MORE IS BETTER E.G SYNTHTEIC OESTROGEN DOMINANCE LEADS TO BREAST CANCER… BUT FASTING BRINGS IT BACK INTO BALANCE, CAN DETOX SYNTHETIC OESTROGEN OUT OF SYSTEM… HENCE RESULT OF POST-BREAST CANCER TREATMENT STUDIES I.E OVER 60% DECREASE IN RECURRENCE… EACH PERSON BEGINS WITH DIFFERENT IMBALANCE SO CHANGE IS DIFFERENT FOR ALL, BUT RESULT IS BALANCE FOR ALL…
SO GREAT FOR MENOPAUSE TOO. WHATEVER CONDITION IT, FASTING WILL REBALANCE TO OPTIMAL. THAT IS WHY HORMONE RESPONSES SO DIFFERENT FOR EACH STUDY AND INDIVIDUAL.
FASTING BEST WAY TO EMPOWER SELF AND OTHERS…TRANSFORM SELF YOURSELF … NEW MODEL OF HEALTH CARE…TAKE POWER BACK FROM MEDICAL PROFESSION, PHARMA COMPANIES, SUPPLEMENTS, EXPERTS, HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, AND REMOVE SELF FROM THAT SYSTEM… REGAIN HOMEOSTASIS IN BODY … AVOID MODERN DISEASES
bELLY FAT CORTISOL AND OESTROGEN…EVEN FOR MEN…BELLY FAT IS WHERE HORMONES ARE BEING STORED… NEED TO GET UP WITH SUNLIGHT, SEE SUNLIGHT IN DAYLIGHT, GET OUT TO WATCH SUNSET, RESET CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
DURING FAST MAY LOOK LIKE MUSCLES SHRINKING, BUT REALLY RELEASING GLYCOGEN I.E SUGAR STORED IN MUSCLES, AND THIS IS RELEASED INTO BLOODSTREAM, SO CLEANING MUSCLE UP…ADD PROTEIN IN NEXT MEAL…SO WORK OUT IN FASTED STATE, DUMP GLUCOSE OUT OF MUSCLE, THEN EAT PROTEIN TO STIMULATE ‘EMPTOR’ PROCESS TO REBUILD MUSCLE, AS FIRST MEAL AFTER WORKOUT… BREAKDOWN MUSCLE TO BUILD IT BACK STRONGER… FASTING BREAKS DOWN IN DIFFERENT WAY…
SUPPLEMENTS UNDER 24 HOUR FASTING o.k, BUT IF FAST LONGER THAN 24 HOURS, DO NOT TAKE SUPPLEMENTS…LET INNER INTELIGENCE OF BODY TREAT ITSELF…IT IS WISER THAN YOU… WHOLE PRINCIPLE OF FASTING IS TO RETURN CONTROL TO YOUR NOT-CONSCIOUS MIND…
thyroid health requires about 1200 calories minimum… Dr Mindy Pelz … Doctor means ‘to teach’… so I really AM being a Doctor, as some mystical method stated was my life purpose i.e what I needed to do i.e why I was here…
Hormones key to weight loss or obesity… input, storage, output … conventional is calories in, energy burned… insulin is nutrient sensor, so when senses sugar, it stores input as fat… insuling puts body into storage mode… even just giving insulin, it will extract sugar from blood, and you will get both fat, and become hungry, as low blood sugar, … so insulin presence determines if calories you intake are burned as fuel, or stored as fat… can get fat even while eating fewer calories… feel cold, tired, hungry, low energy even after eating … if calorie restriction does not take insulin into consideration…cannot eat processed foods, refined carbs etc which spike insulin… insulin turns off fat burning, and turns on storage…so even eat only 700 calories, body would only burn 500 of them, and store 200 of them i.e keep putting on weight even with such severely low calorific intake… due to presence of insulin… have done studies where they increased insulin levels, and reduced calorific intake by 300 calories, and people put on kgs of fat over longer term… do not snack, do not eat refined carbs i.e opposite of what people told in 80s and 90s… i.e fat free diets… body fat with high insulin levels, like petrol tanker whose own tank is empty, so no matter how much fuel carrying, it stalls, as cannot access that fuel in tank carrying… after few days, if no insulin present, body burns own fat, so no longer physiologically hungry, only psychological hunger i.e if think about or smell or see food, brain will fixate on it…but physiologically no problem, no hunger, as eating self…
if have relatively high salt diet to water with zero salt can lower blood pressure, so feel a bit uncomfortable, so some people will add a bit of salt, same with magnesium…electrolytes…body is self-balancing i.e decrease input, it decreases excretion etc and is more economic with use of it…so homeostasis i.e self-balancing works for most people…
Older, conventional oncological cancer model-paradigm is that cancer is cell that grows too much…that started off as normal cell by mutated, so over-grows and metastasizes i.e spreads…kill will radiation or poison with chemicals…nausea, hair falls out, as idea is to kill the cancer slightly faster than you kill the patient…attempt at selective targetted toxin… up to 60s, then paradigm shift to genes…why are cancer cells growing…answer was genetic mutations that let them grow too much…onco genes, tumour suppressant genes … smoking is non-specific damage to genome, and by chance hit critical genes that allow tumours to grow get cancer… genetic paradigm human genome project…map out genes…look for genetic mutations and find drug to fight it, and cure cancer…promise never materialised…genetic treatments never cured cancer… cancer genome atlas…30,000 cancers genes mapped…did not find one or two mutations, each had 50 or 1000 genetic mutations…each patient has completely different mutations…so cancer treatment slowed to crawl…huge dissappointment… was not random genetic mutation… questoin became WHAT IS DRIVING MUTATATIONS…and shift to cancer paradigm 3 which no-one talks about… clearly genes mutating, but WHY … it was a REGRESSIVE evolutionary process back to more primitive version of cells that were there at the beginning…cancer cells primitive and undifferentiated…like reptilian shape shifting…reversion to more primite version of the cell… questoin is what PROVOKES this regression… we came from unicelluar organisms i.e bacteria and fungi, which undergo evolutionary process back to more primitive, survivalist, single cell organism …whose primary mandate is to COMPETE with other unicellular cells, i.e cellular competition was original state…but multi-cellular organism has mandate of cellular cooperation…genetic instructions added to suppress the competitive urges… if remove those later adaptations, the cells revert back to acting like unicelluar organisms…our immune system identifies and recognises when cells do this i.e as cancer cells…and destroys them… only problem when suppress immune system… we all have the same cells, but some people’s immune system broken / weakened … chronic damage e.g from smoking damages the controlling genes and organisms…atavism… reversion MHR EQUIVALENT OF REPTILIAN SHAPE SHIFTING…lung cancers look the same even though the genetic mutations are different… you are not adding mutations on, you are stripping evolutionary mutations away, leaving the original base cell i.e atavism…all the adaptations added on to manage the original no longer present…unicelluar organism left… which is cancerous i.e uncooperative, not team player, competitive… identified by immune system as equivalent of ‘reptilian psychopath’ MHR… 25 mins
cancer is the selfish unicelluar organism that all other cells and organisms evolved from…what served it then now dooms it to death…modern society…every society it seems… cancer… studies of Nagasaki, Hiroshima could only find ‘a little bit’ of extra cancer, 2 months on average life lost…due to atomic radiation…82 year old… no evidence of extra cancer… no evidence of atom bomb ever used there…
it is chronic exposure to carcinogens…negative selection of surviving cells…which are the most primitive…i.e cancer is negatively selected for… over time…then you have bunch of cancer … i.e chronic exposure… like chronic inflammation vs instances of inflammation…funny they studied native people who were ‘immune to cancer’ who lived FREE FROM ELECTRICITY ETC … but when moved to modern places, or modernised their homes, they got same cancers i.e same genes, but now cancer…but this guy talks about viruses, but never mentions Electro magnetic radiation AT ALL… as usual…only Firstenberg ‘The Invisible Rainbow’ does…and presents HUGE amount of statistical correlations … focus on diet as ‘soil’ for mutations over time that lead to cancer… i.e regression of cells to primitive ‘selfish me me me more more more survivalist mode’ that at first successful for cell, but has forgotten about its ‘host’, like all elites today and forever, and end up destroying the basis for its own existence i.e it is integrated with other cells that MUST cooperate, long term, so it destroyes its host, like elites always do…
SOME OTHER GUYS
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fASTING MOBILIses detox response, can overload kidneys if had weak kidney function already…kidneys excrete toxins…mobilises fat reserves, which contain toxins … so burning this up is detoxing… visceral fat burnt first…then sub-cutaneous fat i.e below skin … I assume visceral means in organs…elminates toxins through urine i.e blood being procesed by kidneys…fasting removes them, will find in urine when test fasters… most come from animal foods … animals naturally biologically concentrate the toxins from their environment so one calorie of animal based foods can have 2 to 1000 times more toxins than one calorie from plant based foods… if start from high animal food diet, fasting more uncomfortable as they have more toxins to de-tox i.e toxins in fat released during fasting and has to be removed from blood by kidneys… fasting deletes glycogen stores after 24 to 48 hours…glucose needed for brain or muscle activity after that must be generated by breaking down muscle tissue i.e breakdown of proteins, glucomenegenesis… if fast and exercise lose lean tissue…if fast and rest you lose visceral fat…so must rest during fasting, to ensure lose more fat than lean tissue, if exercise lose more lean tissue than fat…so must rest to retain lean body mass… REST IS KEY TO FASTING…DO NOT EXCERCISE… detoxing … do not try to quite coffee same time as fast… prep well and fasting easy…can be around people eating etc… RESTING IS HARDER BUT MORE EFFECTIVE…YOU WILL FEEL WORSE BUT GET WELL AS A RESULT…SO REST DURING FASTING…REMAIN MORE PASSIVE…THEN POST FASTING RECOVERY GREAT…GET RID OF INFLAMMATION, JOINT PAIN, CHRONIC INJURIES…RECOVER QUICKLY…LEAN TISSUE RECOVERS BUT FAT CONTINUES TO GO DOWN AFTER FASTING I.E REGAIN WEIGHT I.E GLYCOGEN, WATER, AND FIBER, AND MUSCLE COME BACK AFTER FASTING, BUT FAT DOES NOT I.E DEHYDRATION DURING FASTING (WORSE IF EXERCISE SO LOOK LIKE LOSING MORE WEIGHT, BUT REALLY JUST LOSING WATER FROM CELLS I.E PHSYIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION I.E CONSERVATION OF KEY RESOURCES…SO WEIGH LESS IF EXERCISE, AS LOSE MUSCLE, AND WATER, AND GLYCOGEN, AND AFTER LOOKS LIKE SUDDENTLY PUT WEIGHT BACK ON…BUT IF DO RIGHT, ONLY PUT WATER AND FIBER AND GLYCOGEN AND MUSCLE BACK ON I.E WEIGHT, BUT HEALTHY WEIGHT…RATHER THAN FAT…
70kg man can fast for 70 days, but then relatively quickly move into starvation and death…
longer fast the slower must re-introduce food i.e risk of re-feeding syndrome which can be fatal i.e electrolyte imbalances…so need to refeed for no less than half the period of fasting…this is for longer term fasting… sodium and fluid intake can lead to post fasting odema i.e in processed foods…
but 3 to 5 days not really issue…just maybe belly ache
some medications cannot be discontinued rapidly i.e cold turkey…but do not want to be taking during fasting… have to wean off before begin fast proper… same with supplments…do not take while fasting… so for long term fasting need to prepare…99% have no complications…1% can have serious complications…
do not keep working, exercising etc…drinking too much water can flush electrolytes out and result in water intoxication…solve problem by resting, allowing adequate fluid intake, to give body chance to adapt… every human that could not fast died in past i.e late spring killed off … chimps die within a week i.e need constant supply of food… cannot switch to ketones…ketone bodies…betahydroxbuteric acid…brain main burner…can switch to mostly ketones UNLESS EXERCISE WHICH CONVERTS MUSCLE TO GLUCOSE
MHR THAT GUY WHO WORRIES ‘I AM DIEING’ AND FOCUS IS ON ‘EXTENDING HIS LIFE’….KNOWING HE MUST DIE, CAN ONLY EXTEND A LITTLE…SURELY HE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT SOUL / SPIRIT / NEXT LIVES ??? AND HE HARDLY APPEARED TO BE THE PARAGON OF HUMANS I.E WHAT SO SPECIAL ABOUT HIS CURRENT LIFE THAT HE WOULD WANT TO LIVE IT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE?
people must be made aware that it might be hard at first, but it gets much easier, and the more do it, the easier it gets…i.e light at end of tunnel…expectation the problems are temporary makes it easier to endure…rather than expect it will always be this bad, which is when lose motivation…even access to euthanasia means suffering temporary, more easy to endure, than someone denied this access, who then assumes it will go on, making it pointless to endure…
insulin growth factor goes down with fasting and exercise
inflammation responsible for joint pain, cancer, heart diasease etc…lower leptin levels go down with fasting good for inflammation
fasting to control high blood pressure
microbial load…thousands of strains of bacteria…what they excrete depends on what you feed them i.e soluable fibers vs animal based foods completely different byproducts associated with inflammation. inflammation markers identified go down with exercise and fasting… periodic fasting and regular excercise…
grellin improves and reduce inflammation… fasting increases levels of grellin … adiponectin another marker associated with insulin senseitivy and inflammation
AMPK improves mitochondrial efficiency and goes up with fasting
WHILE FASTING MUST REST… BASIC PROTOCOL IS 7 DAY FAST EACH YEAR…boring…rest, meditate, take 3 days to re-introduce food i.e slowly…
the more toxins you had, the more addictions you had, the more uncomfortable the fasting…keep going until these symptoms resolve…lower back hurts i.e visceral somatic referred pain from kidneys, for 3 to 5 days, then it goes away, as they process metabolic products of fasting, and toxins released during fasting…
can lose 50% visceral fat, 20% adipose tissue, and only 4% of lean tissue, which comes back, but fat continues to drop, if use SOS diet … MHR BEANS SO EXCELLENT…better than carbs…lentils…
todays hybridized fruits not like legacy fruits…very high in sugar and low in fiber … not like wild fruits… ONLY whole fruits or dried or processed fruits…melons, berries… flaxseed, walnuts…steamed veges…10% calories from protein, 10% from fat, rest from potatoes, beans, veges, nuts, seeds… no ADDED salt, oil, or sugar… salt necessary to life but get enough from whole natural foods, same as fat and carbs… get to eat a LOT of food…just right type… if salt food animals will eat more than ‘natural’ i.e stimulates dopamine in brain i.e affects satiety… i.e makes you eat more than would… any highly fractionated food needs ADDED salt and food and oil to add flavor i.e stimulates brain, otherwise you would not eat it… proof it is NOT real food…cardboard…
avacado with pepper and salt…delicious… main problem is passive over-eating but also powerful preservative before refrigeration but 5 pounds of bacteria in gut i.e salt alters micro flora…i.e meat based diet and plant based diet different microflora may be due to salt content… vegan diet not especially healthy, just no animal suffering i.e difference between healthy vegan and vegan processed products… ethical, spiritual, saving planet… too much animal protein definitely detriment, kidney disease, cardio vascular disease… meat highly concentrated, but not necessarily processed i.e try cheese without salt, it is the salt that makes it ‘apetising’…dairly full of sugar and salt… meat without salt also not very appealing…
olive oil way less bad..omega nine, different ratio of fatty acids…need to be fresh pressed i.e no processing, heat, or pressure … fried foods another cascade of problems… people love good news about their bad habits…less bad does not mean good… avocado eaten whole i.e so get the oil in context of rest of whole food… refined oil… one table spoon of olive oil has more calories than entire pound of salad… dressing serving…
WOW COULD LIVE OFF JUST BROWN RICE AND BROCCOLI…2000 calories … 3 cups of brown rice and 4 cups of broccoli offer completely balanced diet i.e all vitamins, minerals, 18 g protein i.e essential amino acids, except b12…get sunshine for D … fecal contamination from bacteria? I thought on ‘dirty’ grass? surely not from factory farmed animal victims… broccoli, chard, kale, low in calories…but have to eat a lot! get normal micro flora in gut… get all the micro nutrients and fiber and satiety and hydration, no constipation, no fissures and haemoroids, no prolapsed uterous and varicose veins… animal rich diets do not feed micro flora in gut, which end up eating intestinal coating… vegetables for soluable fiber
mental clarity of fasting…remove brain fog from high sugar-carb diet… bio chemical individuality… ketosis great for mental clarity… presence of ketones… can buy exogenous ketones to jack up ketones…mental presence…
some travellers LIKE ME fast before travelling…ketones help with stress…gene signalling…protect DNA…cirtuin enzymes, H-DAQs, exercise, fasting, and ketosis ramp up… molecular switches affect bodies preference for fuel i.e sugar vs fat, and affect autophagy and stress response pathways…if occupation stressful or exposure to chemicals ketones help… diet or fast induced ketogenic state upregulates everything positive for stress management pathways… stress response hormones 24 hours into fast, noradrenaline, adrenaline, cortisol, significantly higher than if eating…BUT autonomic central nervous system side of stress response i.e heart rate variability and perisympathetic tone, proxy of autonomic nervious system enjoys improved resilience … higher heart rate variability a good biomarker… NOT just energy balance i.e calories in, calories out i.e short term body composition changes maybe at expense of slowing down resting metabolic rate…as dieting, prolonged calorie restriction, tanks hormones like adrenaline, thyroid hormone, noradrenaline …
some controlled feeding studies show total calories is key, not quality of calories…energy in, energy out… but only short duration studies in controlled environment…
to optimise testosterone and muscle bulk, these short term goals, so ketogenic diet not necessarily superior in short term IF THEY WERE YOUR ONLY OBJECTIVES … but health, vitality, health, etc way more complex objectives… and keto diets superior …
Twinky diet…guy who lived off twinkies…university of Kansas…2011…self-study…Dr Hobbes…you can get lean on that, but study never replicated…what other complications? … is being lean being healthy? many body builders look lean and healthy, and die after competition…or have heart failure, heart attacks etc…6% body fat…
rigid fat taken into cell membranes leaves them more brittle
there are negative ketogenic diet studies too… avoid confirmation bias… be self-aware that is auto-response i.e to confirm existing beliefs…
seasonal eating means eating fresh whole foods in season…optimize mental performance… sweet potatoes, butternut squash as source of carbs… reduce carbs when not doing lots of physical activity and mental activity…
food diversity equals gut biome diversity… but ketones also increase diversity of gut microbiome…stability is resilent and always result of bio diversity…so some shock does not knock out entire system… ginger… microbiome changes with water, exposure to bacteria etc… until recently the oNLY food we had access to was LOCAL… hibernating animals gut microbiome changes with seasons i.e foods available LOCALLY… food is absorbed NOT JUST BY Us but also by our gut microbiome…antibiotics in first year lead to more auto immunity problems, allergies, and obesity later in life… natural vaginal birth and breast feeding vs caesarian and baby formula… but even people on meat only, beef only, have good gut microbiome… i.e carnivore diet…even JUST BEEF and nothing else… either people are lying or it works…guy in interview last 3 weeks just animal products…claims sleep, heart rate variability, ketones, and blood sugar monitored…
some people appear to be thriving on meat only diets…seems to contradict need for soluable fibre for gut microbiome…they are reversing auto-immunity through meat only diet… MHR MIGHT JUST BE WHAT THEY ARE NOW NOT EATING, RATHER THAN WHAT ARE EATING…I.E IT IS THE ‘ONLY’ PART OF THE DIET THAT IS HELPING, INDEPENDENT OF WHAT ‘DO’ EAT I.E IT IS WHAT IS EXCLUDED… not short term fatty acids or soluable fiber i.e things HE wants to ADD to diet, but all the stuff taken OUT of diet by these people on ‘meat ONLY’ diets…it is not the meat that helps, but what now NOT eating any longer…
MHR SEEMS COULD GROW GINGER AND OTHER FRUIT, AND MAKE ‘WINE’ AND ‘GINGER BEER’ I.E FERMENTED SO HEALTHY, ALCOHOLIC SO HAPPY, COULD BE BARTER CROP THAT KEEPS WELL … SOURCE OF ENERGY
LIVER TAKES BRUNT OF METABOLIC BURDEN FIRST I.E KEY METABOLIC SINILY? HUB…SO IF LIVER ENZYMES ARE OUT OF WHACK I.E START TO RISE, GLUCOSE RISING, TRIGLYCERIDES INCREASING, HAEMOGLOGBIN A1C RISING … ONLY THEN CONVERNED ABOUT WHAT GOING ON WITH LDL CHOLESTEROL AND LOW HDL I.E THIS IS CONTEXT
BODY CAN CONVERT PROTEIN VIA GLUCOMIOGENESIS TO GLUCOSE…RED BLOOD CELLS, NEURONS AND OTHER CENTRAL NERVIOUS SYSTEM CELLS, IN BRAIN, ETC NEED GLUCOSE I.E CANNOT BURN FATS OR KETONES, SO THIS OCCURS DURING FASTING…PROTEIN BACK-CONVERTED… LIBERATING STORED BODY FAT … STORED BODY FAT IS TRIGLYCERIDES WITH BACKBONE OF GLYCEROL WHICH IS LIBERATED FOR FRUIT FATTY ACIDS TO MAKE KETONES, THAT GLYCEROL IS CONVERTED TO MAKE GLUCOSE…FOR OBLIGATE GLUCOSE UTILISING CELLS … SO DO NOT NEED CARBS FOR BRAIN / NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION DURING FAST…
ELIMINATION DIET SEEKS TO ELIMINATE ANY POSSIBLE VARIBALES THAT COULD AFFECT IMMUNE SYSTEM…??? ASSUME LAMB AND RICE IS THAT??? WTF??? ANYWAY, MY IDEA VALIDATED BY ‘EXPERTS’ ON THIS… QUESTION OF WHAT NOT EATING RATHER THAN WHAT ARE EATING… YOU CAN ELIMINATE THINGS FROM DIET UNTIL YOUR CONDITION IMPROVES…WOULD SUGGEST IT WAS WHAT YOU JUST ELIMINATED, OR ALL THE THINGS COMBINED YOU ELIMINATED, THAT WORKED… MHR NLP AND FREUD COULD HAVE BEEN ONE STEP LEARNING ASSOCIATION OF THAT ELIMINATED ITEM WITH SOME TRAUMA / DANGER / THREAT WHICH IS TRIGGERING, NOT-CONSCIOUSLY, THE IMMUNE SYSTEM RESPONSE I.E TO THE FEAR / TERROR ASSOCIATED WITH THAT FOOD ITEM…
THIS GUY, ONE HEALTH ISSUE, I’M DYING, HE WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER…HIS FOCUS…LONGEVITY…WOW…WHY THOUGH? IS HIS LIFE SO GREAT? LUCKY GUY… HE DOESN’T CARE HOW FEELS, ETC ETC JUST AS LONG AS CAN EXTEND MISERABLE EXISTENCE JUST A LITTLE LONGER…KNOWING HE CAN NOT LIVE BEYOND 120 ANYWAY ??? SOUNDS LIKE FOOL…FIXATING…EXTENSION AT ANY COST?
MHR DOMINION IS CANCER, LITERALLY…REVERSION TO A BIOLOGICAL STATE IN PART OF THE SYSTEM, WHICH IS ADAPTED TO THAT PRIMAL STATE, BUT MURDEROUS FOR THE CURRENT STATE OF COOPERATION
CHRONIC EMTOR (CRITICAL ENERGY CENSOR) OVER-EXPRESSION ASSOCIATED WITH PREMATURE AGING, DISEASES ETC AND FASTING, EXERCISE, DIET MANIPULATES EMTOR I.E DRASTICALLY LOWERS IT, SO THESE BEHAVIOURS ARE EMTOR INHIBITORS, ABILITY TO MANIPULATE EMTOR… EMTOR LIKE GAS PEDAL ON CELL GROWTH, PROLONGED FASTING MAIN BENEFIT OVER LONGER TERM IS DROPPING EMTOR TO THE FLOOR…ALONG WITH GLUCOSE, INSULIN, AND MITOCHONDRIA FUNCTION… PEOPLE SEEKING CHEMICALS THAT MIMICK PROLONGED FASTING WITH MICRODOSING LSD, RAPMYOCIN, EMTOR INHIBITORS, CALORIE RESTRICTION MIMETICS I.E TRICK BODY INTO THINKING IT IS FASTING…ATTEMPTING TO SIMULATE THE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PROLONGED FASTING…
GUT HORMONES AND GUT MICRO-ORGANISM BIOME
EMTOR IS GROWTH, AMPK IS BREAKDOWN…BOTH SWTICHES … WORK TOGETHER…AMPK AND EMTOR GOVERN AUTHOPHAGY ‘SELF DIGESTION’ I.E DETERMINES WHEN AND WHICH DYSFUNCTIONAL ABERANT DYSFUNCTIONAL AGREGATED PROTEINS, DYSFUNCTIONAL ORGANELLES, I.E WHICH CELLS WILL BE ‘BROKEN DOWN’ AND ‘CLEARED UP’ … COULD BE MITOCHONDRIA, GOJI APPARATI, ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, OR ANY OF THE OTHER ‘OFFICIAL NARRATIVE’ PARTS OF THE CELL (WHICH YOU SHOULD REMEMBER IS AN OFFICIAL NARRATIVE, AND TAKE WITH GRAIN OF SALT I.E NOT FIXATE ON THESE AS IF THEY ARE ‘REAL’ AND ‘PROVEN’ ETC SEE HILLMAN NOTES)…
AUTHOPHAGY MAY EVEN MEDIATE ABILITY TO BREAK DOWN FAT AND GLYCOGEN, AND EVEN RECOVERY FROM EXERCISE…DAMAGED MUSCLE FIBRES REBUILT BACK STRONGER, THE BASIS OF BUILDING MUSCLE MASS AND STRONGER MUSCLES… INTENSE TRAINING FORCES BODY TO ‘DIG DEEP’ AND BREAKDOWN GLYCOGEN FOR THAT WORKOUT I.E ENHANCES AUTOPHAGY
This guy sees it is important to eat at same time every day i.e your ‘eating window’ after fasting should be same every day i.e ‘sets clock’ of body, i.e circadian rhythm… forcing calories into confined window, and same defined window every day, like going to bed same time every day, so entrain brain to associate this time with sleep… consistently….changes EMTOR expression…same window every day… consistently…toxic blue light and when we eat food entrains same clock as blue light i.e daylight … ideally eating earlier better than later… various studies in Alabama and Arkansas University…Early time restricted eating…all sorts of protocols e.g alternate days, or ‘windows’…but 8 to 2 window produced dramatic changes in authophagy changes in hormones, glucose, insulin … ideally do not eat after 7pm… 10 am to 4pm is HIS ideal window…but do what is working for you…
SOMETIMES MORE NOT BETTER i.e prolong fast to increase authophagy, but more not always necessarly better… e.g note fat people have higher rates of authophagy as fat cells full of necrosis i.e necrotic, dying tissue, lots of ‘immune cells’… it is upregulated in obesity…and some cancers utilise autophagy up-regulation to avert the immune system i.e to continue growing and spreading!
PETRUCCI… we have gone through all these fads that now discredited…i.e so inflammatory i.e already rancid by time put in shopping cart i.e containers in which processed foods held are clear, so light oxidizes the oil in the jar, and rancid oil means inflammation… the basic premise of healthy food is avoiding inflammation…eat your butter vs margarine… we cannot do sugar, so went to sweeteners, then move onto stevia … go from meat and potatoes to all meat, that’s not working, try all juice, not working, more paleo, more keto, keto 2.0 and ‘kinda keto’ i.e more fiber needed so eat more carbs…constipatoin and irritability associated with long term keto…i.e needed more soluable movement, and even can lose muscle mass with zero carbs i.e associated with zero fiber… so veges great basis… some people thrive on meat only or 70% meat …
ancestral medicine / nutritition…we work better with some foods… and environment we live in affects digestion and metabolism…
some foods work better with different people dependent on amount of inflammation in body … energy veges vs fibrous veges, good vs bad fats…break down macros…these good proteins, these good fiber veges, these good energy veges and match the good energy veges with your bodies needs to fuel itself…keto same with fats i.e keto was once up to 70% fats, but only works with some people… main idea to give body foods it has known for generations i.e is adapted to… and each person finds only personal ideal…use guidelines but learn to read your own body…
buy highest quality organic fresh grass fed etc food you can afford… some peole operate better on different protein sources… quality … balance green stuff whole for fibre… balanced…protein-fat-carb…some people work best on 25% fat, others 70%…keto gets weight off, improves skin tone… but find own balance that works best with you… once lose weight about sustaining it, and optimizing health and longevity… so have different goals at different stages in diet… more spiritual approach plant based foods people feeling good… AMAZING THAT MANY DIETS EXCLUDED VEGES WTF … NOW REINTRODUCING THEM…HOST ADMITS WHEN LOOKED BEST, FELT SHIT I.E STARVATION DIET… blood test for ketones… 1.0 was defined by ketones in bloodstream, keto 2.0 still fat before carbs, but ratio has changed to allow more carbs…allowing more fiber through carbs i.e vege based carbs… comfort in eating always improves long term results…need to allow comfort … if diet not ‘comfortable’ will not stick to, and will not feel good…people want peace, fulfillment, love self, pain is gain to lets feel better i.e more JOY…people want more joy in life…less grind… note STRESS terrible for everything, and joy and comfort opposite of stress… life can become harder, more stress, the more ‘successful’ you are…stress will take you down every time… everyone has some kind of stress and stress damages cells…need to set boundaries…boundary deficiency i.e burn out…stress…become number per day … have to stop and ask ‘how do I feel’… re-connect to our source…need to be mindful / present … stress tough on body… exercise important…do different types…limbic that allow body to breathe and move, yoga, dance, weights, move body, and then be still, mediattion, breathing…re-connect with self…cannot just be about ‘getting through’ everything in your day…body sends you signals i.e feedback… you must listen… eyes sink and lose life, skin loses vibrance, ‘cortisol tyre’ i.e belly fat from stress…or is it cortisol tire?…need to exit toxic relationships i.e leaking power and energy every day… not until exit toxic situation that even realise how bad it was…how tired you are, aching joints, eyes, skin, how do you feel? must stop and ask…and exit… learn to say NO to lots of things…do not allow people NOT well intended in life again…do not put other people’s needs first, or other people’s mission first… mindset… reset your mind…we are molecules and atoms i.e big ball of energy…harness that energy…do not leak it…keep it in… mediate on this i.e visual image in mind of this…visualisatoin of pulling energy towards self…find physical stillness every day…habitual, regular…just 3 or 4 minutes per day…positive visualisation of what you want for self, as if really happening…visualise as if it is already achieved…see my own books… THEN TAKE ACTION… YOU ARE PRIMING BODY FOR THE ATTAINMENT / MANIFESTATION… MUST KNOW WHAT WANT, DEMAND WHAT YOU WANT FROM SELF, THEN GO AND GET IT…PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS… LOCK IT IN OWN BIOLOGY…YOU WILL SEE IT IN POSTURE, FEARLESS, BOLD, ATTRIBUTES OF A TIGER…DO NOT REGRET…DO IT… DYING PEOPLE OFTEN REGRET NOT SPENDING MORE TIME WITH CHILDREN, OR ‘GOING FOR IT’ I.E REGRET LETTING FEAR STOP THEM REACHING FOR WHAT WANTED…so many people ‘successful’ but desperate search for meaning and purpose remains…mission based drives us…once achieve, what then?… leading leading leading to mission end, but no level of success leads to ‘satisfied’… do not expect that… and do not let drive burn you out… balance between ambition and happiness / health… honor who you really are…failure manifests in destruction of body…live how you want to live… express everything… squeeze every bit of potential out of self, and others… tunnel of aimlessness, lost, numb, unsure…get them to reengage with self…so they are on fire…PURPOSE IS THE KEY….MONEY IS JUST SECURITY, NOT HAPPINESS…NEED PURPOSEFUL ACTION…BODY HAS OWN INTELLIGENCE INNATE GIVES YOU FEEDBACK … YOU WILL KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO…WHERE IS YOUR ATTENTION IN LIBRARY OR BOOKSTORE?…
HEALING THE GUT…protocols… gut based struggle…auto immune problems, etc etc, signs gut needs healing…bone broth for her perfect for healing gut …amino acids upbuidling, minerals, bone marrow, like aloe vera for stomach…collagen heals and seals gut…it works? WHAT CONTROLLED STUDIES? collagen, co-collagen gelatin, minerals, protein, amino acids… these soups boost immune system i.e less cold and flu, and shorter duration…
whole bones better than frozen or powder…evangelicals about this…BUT WHAT WOULD BE VEGAN EQUIVALENT? AND IS IT BROTH TAKEN, OR WHAT NOT TAKEN WHEN DO TAKE IT… RESTORATIVE…so complicated though…gut issues…takes long time and need patience…20 feet of intenstines, so many microbes in body, more than human cells…need to nurture the soil, the right ones, every 21 days when have cellular turnover, improving gut…takes time, but eventually ‘magic’ happens, skin, healing capacity, energy, longevity..??? foundation of beauty and health…ODD THIS WOMAN DR WAS WEARING WHAT SEEMED LIKE HUGE AMOUNTS OF MAKE-UP…FOUNDATOIN LAYED ON THICK… collagen shakes…she was body builder…
she became a tiger? or did she use these ‘goals’ as distractions from REAL problems … focus on ‘how far can I fly’? i.e ambition, burn-out
thoughts instantaneously trigger correlated chemistry responses in body…mind-body connection…
The ‘Rhythm’ method of natural birth control and family planning
November 20, 2017
TROONATNOOR
Edit”The ‘Rhythm’ method of natural birth control and family planning”
The Ogino-Knaus (O.K) Method of family planning and birth control, often referred to as the ‘Rhythm’ method.
Kyusaku Ogino, of Japan, and Hermann Knaus, of Austria, independently arrived at the same conclusions which form the basis for the family planning method named after them. Their work was promoted by Leo Latz, in his 1932 publication of ‘The Rhythm of Sterility and Fertility in Women’.
Pope Pius XII even gave his Catholic (Zombie Jesus Cannibal Vampire Cult) practitioners ‘permission’ to use this method in the 1950s.
This method simply physically prevents viable sperm from being present in the fallopian tubes at the same time as a viable egg, thus preventing fertilization and conception and pregnancy.
Warning: Even if you follow all the rules and keep perfect records, authorities claim that the Knaus-Ogino Rhythm Method is only 91% effective at preventing pregnancy. So the assumption is that 9 in every 100 women using this method as their SOLE means of birth control, will become pregnant (at some point in their lives? Or each year? Or each month? Can anyone clarify this?).
Disclaimer: I am not a specialist on this subject, nor a doctor. So please do your own research to verify anything written here. But as far as I understand, this makes the O.K Rhythm method among the most effective and reliable methods of birth control. More reliable than condoms. Less reliable than ‘The Pill’, but only assuming to follow ALL the rules that come with any contraceptive pill prescription.
Ideally all men would have viable sperm samples harvested at the prime of their lives, BEFORE they begin engaging in penis in vagina sex, and then undergo Vasectomies, to ensure ZERO chance of unplanned pregnancies.
Men who do not wish to become unplanned biological fathers should consider this option. Especially men who already have biological children.
Condoms are NOT reliable enough if you are conscientious about taking your responsibilities seriously.
For many women condoms are not an option. Their partners may refuse to use them, or be unable to buy them for religious, economic, personal, or social reasons. Some men cannot ‘perform’ using them. Some men have ‘allergic’ reactions to the condom materials.
Many women suffer adverse reactions, and experience undesirable, adverse side effects to the contraceptive pill. Even where there are no immediate health problems, the longer term risks of contraceptive pill use may lead to a woman deciding not to avail herself of this option, even assuming it is available to her, that she can afford it, and that her social and religious beliefs and external controls ‘allow’ this option to be exercised.
Further, using this method means that the moment a woman decides she WANTS to become pregnant, she can begin actively realising her wish. Woman ‘coming off’ the pill often have to wait some time before they are once more fertile.
Many women fall pregnant while taking a contraceptive pill, often due to them taking other prescription drugs at the same time, for health reasons. Some even subconsciously ‘forget’ to take the pill, out of a desire to become pregnant. Many just lie about being ‘on the pill’, as they wish to become pregnant.
But given the general beliefs and practices current at this time, for a woman willing and able to take control of her own reproduction, the Rhythm method appears worth considering. Especially for women with zero access to alternative forms, due to economic, health, social, or religious reasons.
So we shall now explain the basis of the method, and how it works in practice, in detail. Please note that I am not a specialist, and you should be sure to do your own research. All information and opinion is offered here on an ‘all care taken, but no legal liability accepted’ basis. I have gleaned this information from many sources, and attempted to present it in the most easily comprehendible format.
The method, and rationale behind it
A healthy, fertile, woman, between the onset of puberty, and the onset of menopause, can only become pregnant during a limited number of days of her ‘menstrual cycle’. This is key information for anyone seeking to become pregnant, or seeking to avoid becoming pregnant.
A woman is most likely to become pregnant if she has penis in vagina sex a few days before, or during, ovulation.
For all our discussion and calculation that follows, the first day of bleeding that occurs after we begin recording is taken as the ‘first’ day of the ‘menstrual cycle’. Day one, is the day of the first bleeding, in terms of our record keeping.
So if we begin recording today, we will wait until the next bleeding occurs, and mark it down on our calendar as ‘day 1’.
It is common for the next bleeding to begin on ‘day 28’.
World Health Organization (WHO) data indicates that around 80% of menstrual cycles ranges from 26 to 32 days
This method is considered reliable for women whose menstrual cycles over the last 6 months have been between 26 and 32 days long, and have not varied by more than 7 days. In other words the difference between the longest cycle and the shortest may not be greater than 7 days. It it is 8 days or more, or any cycle has been longer than 32 days or shorter than 26 days, the woman must continue keeping records, and wait until her menstrual cycles fall within the ranges just described.
Some women have very predictable, consistent menstrual cycles, while others have quite irregular menstrual cycles.
This method is NOT considered reliable for women whose menstrual cycles are irregular, or shorter than 26 days, or longer than 32 days.
In order to determine if this method of family planning is suitable for a particular woman, someone must keep a continuous record of the next 6 months of this woman’s menstrual cycles. To ensure that they fall within the range, and are relatively regular. Only THEN can this method be considered appropriate, and reliable, for her.
A woman is only fertile for a relatively brief interval within their menstrual cycle just before and after ovulation, when the body releases one or more eggs.
The specific day on which you ovulate depends on your cycle length. This is largely controlled by fluctuations in your sex hormone levels.
Ovulation typically occurs 10 to 16 days after ‘day 1’ of any cycle. If conception does not occur, the woman will have her ‘period’ around 14 days after ovulating.
An egg is only viable for 24 to 48 hours after ovulation.
A woman can only get pregnant a few days before, and within 24 to 48 hours of ovulation.
However as sperm can remain viable in the vagina for up to five days, penis in vagina sex occurring 5 days BEFORE ovulation (the egg being released) can result in conception and pregnancy.
So even if we could precisely pinpoint the exact time of ovulation, we would still need to factor a ‘margin of error’ of at least 5 days to account for the sperm’s potential 5 day viability, and 2 days to account for the ovum’s potential 48 hour viability.
Using a 28 day cycle as an example, ovulation should occur on day 14. The middle of her cycle.
But we must remember that menstrual cycles don’t just vary between women. They can also vary for any individual woman, over time. This is due to variations in the presence of sex hormones in the woman’s body. The balance of sex hormones varies more in some women than others, and for the same women, more in some months than others.
So even where a woman tends to have a very regular, predictable menstrual cycle, we must assume that THIS CURRENT cycle might last anywhere from 26 to 32 days. Or even outside those ranges.
This method is ONLY reliable if we assume that the current menstrual cycle MIGHT be anywhere from 26 to 32 days long.
This assumption would then lead us to assume that ovulation could occur, THIS cycle, any time from day 12 to day 19. So we must take into account the variability of the menstrual cycle as well as the viability of sperm after ejaculation, and of ovum, after ovulation.
Remember, while the egg is only viable for 24 to 48 hours, sperm can survive, as viable, up to 5 days after being ejaculated or artificially placed into a woman’s reproductive tract. Note that technically the term ‘vagina’ refers to the female internal sexual organs.
This means that it is possible to get pregnant 5 days after penis in vagina sex. If that sex takes place 5 days before ovulation, the woman can still become pregnant.
So, taking these factors into consideration, our method considers a woman as potentially fertile, and thus able to conceive, and become pregnant, from day one to day seven, and from day 21 to the start of her next bleeding.
To recap, taking into consideration the possible days of ovulation, and the possible viable lifetime of ovum and sperm, we calculate that women with relatively regular 26 to 32 day cycles must abstain from penis in vagina sex from day 8 to day 21.
Remember that the reported 3% to 25% failure rate for this method is not due to the method itself, but the lack of accurate record keeping, and strict adherence to the rules.
Rule one is that you must wait until you have recorded at least 6 consecutive menstrual cycles. The last 6 menstrual cycles.
I would recommend keeping this on paper, on a calendar, but you can also find many ‘apps’ for mobile phones and computers, which will help you record and track you menstrual cycles.
If the variation between the shortest cycle and longest cycle during past six periods is 8 days or more, you may NOT use this method. You must continue keeping records until the menstrual cycles over the last 6 months do NOT vary by more than 7 days. (Do not vary by 8 days or more).
Further, if any menstrual cycle within the last 6 months lasted fewer than 26 days, (was 27 days or shorter) or more than 32 days (was 33 days or longer), you must use other means of contraception, or abstain from penis in vagina sex, until your last 6 months of menstrual cycles DO fall within the 26 to 32 day range.
You must then continue keeping records, and referring to the lasts 6 months of records to ensure that none of your menstrual cycles lasted longer than 32 days, or fewer than 26 days, and that the variation between the shortest and the longest menstrual cycle was never greater than 7 days ( Never 8 days or more).
The actual calculations you will need to make
Subtract 18 from the shortest of the last 6 menstrual cycles, to estimate the first day of fertility.
Then subtract 11 days from longest recorded cycle of the last 6 months, to estimate the last day of fertility.
Consider this example. If the shortest of her your last 6 menstrual cycles was 27 days, 27 – 18 = 9, and so you must abstain from penis in vagina sex starting from day 9.
If the longest of your last 6 cycles was 31 days, 31 – 11 = 20, you can start having penis in vagina sex again on day 21.
In this particular example, based on the recorded menstrual cycle data for the previous 6 months, our Rhythm method practitioner must abstain from penis in vagina sex from day 9 through to day 20 of her current cycle.
She will then record the menstrual cycle data for the current month, updating her running ‘6 month’ menstrual cycle data, and based on this new ‘6 months’ data set, she will calculate the ‘abstinence’ days for her NEXT menstrual cycle.
The process is ongoing, with the most recent menstrual cycle data being added to the previous 5 months, to give a ‘running’, consecutive, 6 month data set.
Alternatively, if our example was actively and deliberately seeking to become pregnant, day 9 to day 20 is the time frame in which she would want to be making the most ‘effort’, and engaging in penis in vagina sex leading to ejaculation, or introducing semen by other means, into her vagina.
Some ‘authorities’ also claim that this method is not suitable for teenagers and women approaching menopause. If you have more precise information on this subject, please let me know. It may be that teenagers and almost-menopausal women’s cycles are more erratic than at other times. It may be a lack of confidence in their record keeping fidelity?
These calculations are also valuable for those of you actively seeking to conceive and become pregnant. Day 8 to day 21, inclusive, of your current menstrual cycle, are the days you are most likely to conceive and become pregnant.
If you want to increase your chances of conception even more, then focus on the days you are most likely to be ovulating, based on your past recorded cycles. This should be around the middle of your current cycle. Have penis in vagina sex on the few days before, and then during, ovulation, to maximize your chances of conceiving, and becoming pregnant.
Women are generally most fertile during the 5 days before ovulation, the day of ovulation, and 12 to 24 hours after ovulation.
You can use the last 6 months of records to predict the day on which you are most likely to ovulate during the current cycle.
Alternatively there are methods of determining, more exactly, if you have actually ovulated, if you want or need to be even more precise, such as when using artificial insemination techniques, or if the sperm donor / biological father is only available for a short ‘window of opportunity’.
You can insert a very sensitive thermometer into your vagina before you get out of bed each morning. Hormonal surges at the time of ovulation will increase your ‘Basal Body Temperature’ right after ovulation. By tracking your BBT this way, every day, you will not fail to note the sudden ‘spike’ in BBT at the time of ovulation.
Further, your cervical mucus becomes thinner when you ovulate. So monitoring the color, thickness, and texture of your cervical mucus can provide another indicator of when you are ovulating, and thus most likely to conceive, and become pregnant.
Using these indicators, along with your last 6 months records, and your knowledge that ovulation occurs in the middle of your menstrual cycle, about 10 to 16 days after ‘day 1’ of any cycle, the first bleeding, can allow you to predict and detect ovulation with a good degree of reliability and accuracy.
This will also allow you to predict when you are likely to have your next ‘period’. This may be valuable in planning certain activities. And this will provide you with an ‘early warning’ for any unplanned or planned pregnancy. A period typically occurs 14 days after ovulation if conception has not occurred. So if you do NOT have your period as expected, there is a good chance you have conceived.
However keep in mind that factors such as sex hormone levels account for fluctuations in menstrual cycles, over time. So if you want to be certain, you will need to use a pregnancy test kit. Your period may just be ‘late’ due to sex hormone fluctuations, or other variables. Some women have very predictable, consistent menstrual cycles, while others have quite irregular menstrual cycles.
Note that men experience a similar phenomenon whereby any sperm that has not been ejaculated for the last month or so, will be ejaculated during a ‘wet’ dream, or heavy physical exertion. Few men ever experience this as adults, as they tend to become sexually excited long before the ‘month’ is up, and if they have no sexual partner, will masturbate and ejaculate the ‘last months’ sperm.
And note that both men and women can experience mood swings, becoming more irritable or easily frustrated, and often more aggressive, and emotionally volatile, corresponding to where they are in their current ‘cycle’.
Note that ejaculation does not mean a man has experienced an orgasm. A man can ejaculate without having an erection, or an orgasm. Internal stimulation of the prostate with fingers or other means, by insertion into the anus, or by external stimulation of the area between the ball sack and anus, can produce ejaculation, often accompanied by orgasm.
Orgasm in the female is also not required for pregnancy, but may provide the optimal conditions for it.
ANY penis in vagina sex, or exposure of the vagina (female internal sex organs) to semen, can result in unplanned pregnancy. Condoms are only a means of reducing the chances of pregnancy, and the transmission of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). Condom use only offers ‘safer’ sex. That is, it improves the odds in your favor. But there is no totally ‘safe’ sex as such. Any sexual interaction carries with it a risk of transmission of body fluids, and thus pregnancy, or transmission of STD’s.
During the ten days or so each month you have calculated as being a time of fertility, you have many other options for sexually gratifying yourself and your partner/s. These include oral sex, hand jobs, fingering, masturbation, mutual masturbation, ‘virtual’ sex with masturbation, anal sex, ‘Spanish’ sex (rubbing a penis between the breasts), or simply ‘abstaining’ in a way that ‘increases the lust’ so that when the time comes, you have very rewarding and satisfying penis in vagina sex. Without the risk of pregnancy.
Note that the relatively long ‘abstinence’ interval takes into account the fact that sperm can survive several days after ejaculation, depending on the conditions within the vagina.
Remember that the term ‘vagina’, technically, refers to the internal sexual organs. In everyday language, it is used to refer to the vulva, which are external parts of the female sex organs. Other external parts include the labia, the inner and outer lips. And of course the ‘clitoris’, which is partly external, and thus visible, but mostly internal, extending into the vaginal walls. Around 2 inches, along the upper inside wall of the vagina, many women will have an area of great sexual sensitivity often referred to as a ‘G’ spot. By pressing upwards / outwards towards the stomach around two inches into the vagina, this area can be stimulated with fingers, penis, or other means.
Similarly, by inserting fingers or other ‘devices’ around 2 inches into the male rectum, and pushing upwards/outwards towards the penis / stomach, you can stimulate the prostate of the man, which often results in strong orgasms and/or ejaculation. This is the equivalent of a male ‘G’ spot. A similar stimulation can often be attained externally, using a vibrator or fingers placed between the anus and ball sack.
In fact by placing pressure on this area with fingers, just before ejaculation, ejaculate, and thus sperm, can be diverted from the vas deferens into the body of the man, so that he does not ejaculate externally, but internally. However this is not recommended as a reliable form of birth control.
The area between the sex organs and anus, in men and women, is as sensitive as the lips of the mouth, and for some people very sexually stimulating.
The skin around the anus, and the entrance to the anus itself, is also experienced as very sexually arousing and stimulating in many women and men. Some enjoy mere ‘rimming’ of the outside, while others prefer shallow to deep penetration.
TROONATNOOR 