Great to see that MDs are researching in this area. Interesting how data trawling can yield such useful information. It's one thing when they were saying in the 1940s that HFCS was 'concentrated poison,' but it's quite another thing to have a data series illustrate it.
You do such an important service as an MD by publicizing this research, which is stigmatized by industrial medicine. A true healer! Major respect!
Proper nutrition has never been taught in allopathic schools of medicine for people or animals. Perhaps out of all this there can be a whole new paradigm of medical schools that actually teach nutrition and supplementation along w herbology, naturopathy, homeopathy, etc.
Sadly, it's not what gets taught at med schools that matters most, but what makes money every day in the world, what gets funding.
Addictive food-like-products make money, and make people sick.
Expensive medicines-under-patent relieve symptoms, and moderate the course of sickness, caused by industrial-food-like-products, alcohol, tobacco and "food additives".
A "Self-Licking-Ice-Cream-Cone" , like the US military, is the result.
Individuals have to choose to do the work of changing themselves and their habits.
Avoiding TV commercials seems to help too. Really. It's been studied.
Just as waking those to world events, Covid debacle included, there has been finally, an earth shaking catalyst here bad as it is, that CAN BE a new start and it's only a start mind you. Those of us who are awake and w so many good Drs. on board, we can make a new beginning. Starting w giving the allopathic Rockefellers a taste of their own medicine by kicking THEM out of positions of authority to monopolize our health and health institutions. We cannot, must not, allow ANY market to thrive on greed! Destroy the satanic and get our world back.
I wish, but I don't think so. 'Alternative medicine' has been popular in SF for the last 25 years. Plenty of healed people. Plenty of statistics and hard medical research to back up. Not embraced by institutional medicine. Even though all these UCSF quacks were wrong (AGAIN!) it has hardly taught them humility. Don't downplay the urban environment and the way stupidity multiplies here.
If science hasn't convinced them over the last 25 years, if COVID managed to get them to renounce their Hippocratic Oath, if being raised on herbal supplements and Emergen-C didn't do it, if anecdotal data that contradicts the statistical model and pops up with anomalous frequency won't do it, then it's hard to believe that institutions will embrace the new paradigm.
If it wasn't for principled doctors like Dr John, we would be on the side of 'pseudoscience.' Doctors like Dr John help keep us free. So long as someone 'respectable' continues to tell the truth, the liars haven't won.
Now what I would like, is for Doctors like Dr John to issue their own diplomas. Fine if it's not AMA certified. It would be Dr John certified. Really, it would need more than one doctor. Like a few dozen. No idea about the legal issues associated. For my whole adult life, I've been waiting for American institutions to start reforming, Not seeming likely. But at this point, I think an MD that had a 'proper' degree, interned at a 'proper' hospital, and then obtained an 'alternative medicine' cert/degree, would be the ideal.
You know the law has gotten twisted when constructive knowledge is banned, because it threatens somebody's power.
It is exciting that more and more people are waking up to the unhealthy aspects of much American food. You write "excess carbohydrate and sugars in the diet, which push people into insulin-resistance (pre-diabetes, metabolic-syndrome and diabetes) lead to 40% of new cancers." Yet our government subsidizes sugar and corn (high fructose corn syrup). Instead of taxing the toxic food we subsidize, I propose we simply remove the subsidies--and perhaps subsidize healthier foods instead! I have been saying for years: "If you don't want cancer, stop giving it to yourself via your dietary choices."
Thanks John. I know you eat right, and thoughtfully so.
I sure agree about restructuring the subsidies that push addictive industrial-food-like-products onto people at the lowest prices, and with the most advertising.
CAT scans show sugar lights up the brain more than cocaine. And eating behaviors can be more addictive even than the substances eaten: people overeat due to stress and alienation, compounded by vaccines and foreign wars, etc. But people also get frustrated trying to eat well because it is all so confusing: imagine trying to quit drinking or smoking and there is nicotine and alcohol in every product around you. To navigate this food/health labyrinth, I highly recommend Joel Salatin and Sina McCullough's book "Beyond Labels." Since food consumption is becoming an adversarial process, it is imperative that people educate themselves about what the industrial adversaries and globalists are doing....
I’ve been eating 100% from my no-till organic gardens and highly researched, pure supplements for about 10 years. Including Melatonin if since I have to be careful about too much Sun exposure.
Zero sugar intake ( and honestly that was a very tough addiction ).
Near zero carbs and a strong Mediterranean leaning diet minus most of the pasta.
I have never purchased compost as I make my own. It’s a very rare event that I have to use fertilizers of any description.
The proteins I ingest are naturally raised & fed, by trusted ranchers, fishers, trappers, bee-keepers, etc.
I take very good care of my cherished flocks of chickens for fresh eggs and I self-taught how to grow out & process enough of their “Littles” to fill my freezers. It’s not always a good year on each of my endeavors, but I do OK and don’t get discouraged if one source falls short for some uncontrollable reason. Diversity of sources takes a while.
Clean water is critical. All living things must have it. Plan that into your successful sustenance activities.
We all really should learn to process, preserve, can, dehydrate, blanch n’ freeze methods of safe food storage. And how to prepare and cook all this bounty so it goes in healthy.
You don’t need huge plots of earth unless you are feeding a family or audience, of say, ten or more. You won’t need acres of land, a tractor, or store bought nitrogen fertilizers and toxic insect killers.
Raised beds + pots + bags of growing potatoes on the porch, foraging the wildness will keep us happy, healthy, alive! Begin this work soon if you are inclined.
It’s a long process. That’s why I encourage “start now” to anyone inclined. You know betta’ than me Doc, feeding yourself and those you love, it’s hard work. Things don’t always go your way. Especially for those of us determined to grow-our-own in Texas!
Thank you so much for ALL your valuable information and insight.
Agree. If kept birds for many years and learn as I go. I built Fort Knox chicken houses that have proven to be quite sturdy, and predator-proof. The occasional rat snake wants an egg or two. I set those out for it. We co-exist with it as long as it doesn’t get inside one of the houses. I’ve relocated a few over the years but tend to like a well-behaved rat snake on the place for a lot of reasons.
I’m home a lot and that truly helps.
They free range during the day (once mature) with a very protective rooster and the GSD/trained stock guard.
Every now and then a hawk murders a hen, maybe two a year for this chicken farm.
It’s true, layers of security are necessary but chickens are so much healthier & happy when free-ranging verses penned up.
Jul 13, 2023·edited Jul 13, 2023Liked by John Day MD
On January 1st I went Carnivore. In the beginning it was difficult because animal products need to be cooked and we're used to that bowl of cereal, a deli meat sandwich, or take out for dinner, etc. Over time my stomach and my appetite shrank. I went to 2 meals a day, then 1. Eventually I swapped to Keto, adding in romaine lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, asparagus, blackberries, strawberries, and avocados, and some nuts. I did that because my digestive system couldn't handle Carnivore, it was like IBS for me.
I love eating this way now. I prepare one meal a day, and I get stuffed. The bonus is that all my bloodwork was great and I've dropped 46 lbs. Oh, and I used to have an alcoholic drink when stressed but I no longer feel stressed so I don't drink.
Nothing. I've used the treadmill occasionally but I've never been into exercise. People would tell me that exercise makes them feel good and energized, but it always made me sleepy. I would have to have coffee after a workout. I have stuck to making other changes to my lifestyle but exercise has been a hurdle I haven't been able to conquer.
Jul 12, 2023·edited Jul 13, 2023Liked by John Day MD
If my memory serves well, which it frequently does not, D3 supplements ought to be complemented with K2 -MK7 or . . . MKUltra . . . just kidding! I think it was to reduce calcium
Your memory serves you properly, Til. that Vitamin K2, and there are multiple polymers of it, like MK7, all useful, but with different half-lives in our bodies, compliments vitamin-D. That is directly addressed in the 146 page download, of which 100 pages is text and graphics, and the rest is footnoted references. They recommend 100 mcg/day, but 200 mcg/day is not too much at all. This is what I take: https://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/item02334/super-k
Make your own natto from soybeans - 24 hour fermenting in same temperature as yoghurt. The bacillus subtilis/natto fermented soybeans contain K2 and also nattokinase. Expensive as supplement, cheap to make. Natto is really an aquired taste, to put it mildly, but reading about its effects has made me a convert to it.
Way back when Sex Pistols invented punk rock, someone commented about their gigs: only about 100 people in audience, but half of them started their own band after seeing them. How can I get others to make natto instead of collecting style-points myself? Or is it just some kind of insecurity in me that makes me hope to convert folks to natto? Whatever, life is good, mct oil is also good whole fasting. Cooling rice and potatoes after cooking makes the starches digest more slowly, ie.lower gycemic index also adding coconut oil while cooking rice does that.
All the above have many books, interviews, youtube videos, etc. They all advocate an organic, unprocessed whole-food plant-based diet, with minor differences.
Also for people who need a jump start and a reboot health/education check out: True North Health Center located in Santa Rose, CA. founded in 1984 by Drs. Alan Goldhamer. https://www.healthpromoting.com/
When I first started my own health journey, these are the doctors that made all the difference.
Also, the Documentary, Forks Over Knives, is a good primer.
I went vegan for a year because of Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. I saw Forks Over Knives, read Dr. Esselstyn's son's stuff, etc. I had my bloodwork taken both before the diet, and after following the diet for a year. I went to a Forks Over Knives event, where I had Dr. Esselstyn sign my book. While he was signing I asked him why my bloodwork was worse, I now had calcium in my blood. He didn't answer me. I went home and threw out all the books and went back to eating meat.
I have since given up processed/prepackaged foods, eating Keto-vore and my bloodwork is better than all those years ago before trying a vegan diet.
Dr. Esselstyn, 89 years, is a cardiologist and had great success with his given-up-to-die patients using the whole food plant-based diet. The sick group of patients never had another cardiac event after following the WFPB diet. He talked about the injury that a meat diet does to the endothelial cells which contributes to heart disease. I never did go see a doctor about any of this, so have no idea about my blood. I found the diet easy to adjust to, so not much change. Never was a restaurant goer which helped. Good you gave up the processed food. That change is a boost to anyone's health.
Pasta is a processed food and one of the things pushed by Esselstyn and his cohorts. Oh, and they had lots of recipes for desserts. Flour is from a plant. How healthy were those patients? It's great that they didn't have a heart attack, but did they have diabetes? Cancer?
I did lose some weight eating vegan, but it was nothing compared to eating keto.
Recall from Forks Over Knives documentary, the experiment of turning off and on cancer growth by the amount of animal protein given in diet. More protein from animal protein triggered cancer growth. Switching back and forth could turn the growth off and on. The people in Esselstyn's study did not have diabetes, or cancer, just heart disease. What has complicated many people's health since December 2020, regardless of diet are the havoc the Covid shots have played on cardiovascular health. I think the variety of desserts were to show people that they could still make good food choices and showed them how to achieve that. The key was teaching how to cook differently with healthful ingredients. The key is cooking with lentils, beans, quinoa, and all the abundance of good foods.
Once again, thank you John - powerful & informative article. Grateful we've been living a healthy lifestyle for 30+ years. FYI, I recently read an article (can't seem to locate it) regarding the packaging on butter containing PFAS's (forever chemicals) Kerrygold was mentioned. I will keep hunting to find. Blessings to you & Jenny ...
That is not actually true about metformin, though when people have significant kidney failure from diabetes they need to reduce their metformin dose, then stop it as the kidneys fail further. Metformin is remarkably safe and life-extending, even for non-diabetics, when used at typical doses of 2000 mg/day or less.
Metformin does not cause renal failure, but must be reduced, then stopped as people slip into renal failure from diabetes.
Sleep!!! Set an alarm to go to bed. Target 8-9 hours of non-negotiable designated sleep time per night. Defend it like Mama Bear defends her cubs. Invest as much as you can to create a sleep sanctuary. The bio-dividends will demolish anything Corporate America will deliver. Read Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. He briefly raises a very interesting hypothesis...Do we live to sleep?
I just don't sleep as much at 65. I'm considering that nightly slow-release melatonin, but I don't usually notice persisting benefit from melatonin in general.
I do get the cellular/mitochondrial melatoning from exposure to warm sunlight during bike rides and gardening. It doesn't make it to my brain, though.
Stress induces the body to produce adrenaline. Adrenaline shuts down body systems (flight reaction) including your immune system. This is why chronic stress increases disease, including cancer. Stress kills.
The stress response is necessary and healthy, but not when chronic. You need to de-stress after the car almost hits you with a "left hook" as you ride your bike down the bike lane, respecting the law.
A car in the oncoming traffic, usually of a 4 lane road, maybe with a turn lane, aims to take a left turn, looks for a gap in their oncoming traffic, which includes me in a bike lane, and they see the gap, but don't see me.
The driver jumps hard into that urgent left turn, aimed directly at me on my bike.
I see. I would probably consider that a head-on. Often major damage. I’ve been hit once like that, fortunately very slow speed for me and him. Hit twice by right hooks, which are pernicious since they are overtaking the cyclist and practically impossible to guard against. One rendered me unconscious with a subarachnoid bleed. Fortunately no long-lasting effects. Thanks for this treatise on cancer prevention. Much appreciated,
Before it was overrun with robots, I would bike SF. The top safety rule for me at least was to get to the front of the cars and accelerate quickly (25mph in 3 seconds), so all the cars see and drive around. The other safety rule, which I imagine doesn't translate in Texas, is convoy intersections with a bus that sees you. Cars might not respect a bike, but they respect a bus!
All serious bicyclists get hit eventually. One should know how to take a hit and not go under the wheels. Must love action to play!
Great to see that MDs are researching in this area. Interesting how data trawling can yield such useful information. It's one thing when they were saying in the 1940s that HFCS was 'concentrated poison,' but it's quite another thing to have a data series illustrate it.
You do such an important service as an MD by publicizing this research, which is stigmatized by industrial medicine. A true healer! Major respect!
Thank You, Aaron. Paul Marik MD is a great physician, kicked out for being a great physician.
Proper nutrition has never been taught in allopathic schools of medicine for people or animals. Perhaps out of all this there can be a whole new paradigm of medical schools that actually teach nutrition and supplementation along w herbology, naturopathy, homeopathy, etc.
Sadly, it's not what gets taught at med schools that matters most, but what makes money every day in the world, what gets funding.
Addictive food-like-products make money, and make people sick.
Expensive medicines-under-patent relieve symptoms, and moderate the course of sickness, caused by industrial-food-like-products, alcohol, tobacco and "food additives".
A "Self-Licking-Ice-Cream-Cone" , like the US military, is the result.
Individuals have to choose to do the work of changing themselves and their habits.
Avoiding TV commercials seems to help too. Really. It's been studied.
Just as waking those to world events, Covid debacle included, there has been finally, an earth shaking catalyst here bad as it is, that CAN BE a new start and it's only a start mind you. Those of us who are awake and w so many good Drs. on board, we can make a new beginning. Starting w giving the allopathic Rockefellers a taste of their own medicine by kicking THEM out of positions of authority to monopolize our health and health institutions. We cannot, must not, allow ANY market to thrive on greed! Destroy the satanic and get our world back.
Yes, seek your own health and "salvation", and be a good neighbor.
:-)
I already have, thank you.
I wish, but I don't think so. 'Alternative medicine' has been popular in SF for the last 25 years. Plenty of healed people. Plenty of statistics and hard medical research to back up. Not embraced by institutional medicine. Even though all these UCSF quacks were wrong (AGAIN!) it has hardly taught them humility. Don't downplay the urban environment and the way stupidity multiplies here.
If science hasn't convinced them over the last 25 years, if COVID managed to get them to renounce their Hippocratic Oath, if being raised on herbal supplements and Emergen-C didn't do it, if anecdotal data that contradicts the statistical model and pops up with anomalous frequency won't do it, then it's hard to believe that institutions will embrace the new paradigm.
If it wasn't for principled doctors like Dr John, we would be on the side of 'pseudoscience.' Doctors like Dr John help keep us free. So long as someone 'respectable' continues to tell the truth, the liars haven't won.
Now what I would like, is for Doctors like Dr John to issue their own diplomas. Fine if it's not AMA certified. It would be Dr John certified. Really, it would need more than one doctor. Like a few dozen. No idea about the legal issues associated. For my whole adult life, I've been waiting for American institutions to start reforming, Not seeming likely. But at this point, I think an MD that had a 'proper' degree, interned at a 'proper' hospital, and then obtained an 'alternative medicine' cert/degree, would be the ideal.
You know the law has gotten twisted when constructive knowledge is banned, because it threatens somebody's power.
It is exciting that more and more people are waking up to the unhealthy aspects of much American food. You write "excess carbohydrate and sugars in the diet, which push people into insulin-resistance (pre-diabetes, metabolic-syndrome and diabetes) lead to 40% of new cancers." Yet our government subsidizes sugar and corn (high fructose corn syrup). Instead of taxing the toxic food we subsidize, I propose we simply remove the subsidies--and perhaps subsidize healthier foods instead! I have been saying for years: "If you don't want cancer, stop giving it to yourself via your dietary choices."
Thanks John. I know you eat right, and thoughtfully so.
I sure agree about restructuring the subsidies that push addictive industrial-food-like-products onto people at the lowest prices, and with the most advertising.
The addictions are now established, though.
;-(
sigh...
CAT scans show sugar lights up the brain more than cocaine. And eating behaviors can be more addictive even than the substances eaten: people overeat due to stress and alienation, compounded by vaccines and foreign wars, etc. But people also get frustrated trying to eat well because it is all so confusing: imagine trying to quit drinking or smoking and there is nicotine and alcohol in every product around you. To navigate this food/health labyrinth, I highly recommend Joel Salatin and Sina McCullough's book "Beyond Labels." Since food consumption is becoming an adversarial process, it is imperative that people educate themselves about what the industrial adversaries and globalists are doing....
Hear, Hear!
Eating healthy is becoming more and more difficult and expensive.
It has been an adversarial conflict for decades: profits are priority over health.
Everything that has any kind of market these days has become a gratuitous financial free for all to the detriment of the consumer.
I’ve been eating 100% from my no-till organic gardens and highly researched, pure supplements for about 10 years. Including Melatonin if since I have to be careful about too much Sun exposure.
Zero sugar intake ( and honestly that was a very tough addiction ).
Near zero carbs and a strong Mediterranean leaning diet minus most of the pasta.
I have never purchased compost as I make my own. It’s a very rare event that I have to use fertilizers of any description.
The proteins I ingest are naturally raised & fed, by trusted ranchers, fishers, trappers, bee-keepers, etc.
I take very good care of my cherished flocks of chickens for fresh eggs and I self-taught how to grow out & process enough of their “Littles” to fill my freezers. It’s not always a good year on each of my endeavors, but I do OK and don’t get discouraged if one source falls short for some uncontrollable reason. Diversity of sources takes a while.
Clean water is critical. All living things must have it. Plan that into your successful sustenance activities.
We all really should learn to process, preserve, can, dehydrate, blanch n’ freeze methods of safe food storage. And how to prepare and cook all this bounty so it goes in healthy.
You don’t need huge plots of earth unless you are feeding a family or audience, of say, ten or more. You won’t need acres of land, a tractor, or store bought nitrogen fertilizers and toxic insect killers.
Raised beds + pots + bags of growing potatoes on the porch, foraging the wildness will keep us happy, healthy, alive! Begin this work soon if you are inclined.
I must say, I have never felt better.
Peace to all ♥️
Exemplary, Beth.
It’s a long process. That’s why I encourage “start now” to anyone inclined. You know betta’ than me Doc, feeding yourself and those you love, it’s hard work. Things don’t always go your way. Especially for those of us determined to grow-our-own in Texas!
Thank you so much for ALL your valuable information and insight.
I admire you having chickens, but I still live in 2 places, so I can't take that responsibility yet. Other critters want to eat chickens.
Agree. If kept birds for many years and learn as I go. I built Fort Knox chicken houses that have proven to be quite sturdy, and predator-proof. The occasional rat snake wants an egg or two. I set those out for it. We co-exist with it as long as it doesn’t get inside one of the houses. I’ve relocated a few over the years but tend to like a well-behaved rat snake on the place for a lot of reasons.
I’m home a lot and that truly helps.
They free range during the day (once mature) with a very protective rooster and the GSD/trained stock guard.
Every now and then a hawk murders a hen, maybe two a year for this chicken farm.
It’s true, layers of security are necessary but chickens are so much healthier & happy when free-ranging verses penned up.
Thank you for this valuable information I will gladly pass it on!
On January 1st I went Carnivore. In the beginning it was difficult because animal products need to be cooked and we're used to that bowl of cereal, a deli meat sandwich, or take out for dinner, etc. Over time my stomach and my appetite shrank. I went to 2 meals a day, then 1. Eventually I swapped to Keto, adding in romaine lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, asparagus, blackberries, strawberries, and avocados, and some nuts. I did that because my digestive system couldn't handle Carnivore, it was like IBS for me.
I love eating this way now. I prepare one meal a day, and I get stuffed. The bonus is that all my bloodwork was great and I've dropped 46 lbs. Oh, and I used to have an alcoholic drink when stressed but I no longer feel stressed so I don't drink.
What are you dong for daily activity?
Nothing. I've used the treadmill occasionally but I've never been into exercise. People would tell me that exercise makes them feel good and energized, but it always made me sleepy. I would have to have coffee after a workout. I have stuck to making other changes to my lifestyle but exercise has been a hurdle I haven't been able to conquer.
Walking and other activity of that level of intensity seem to meet the needs of the body.
If my memory serves well, which it frequently does not, D3 supplements ought to be complemented with K2 -MK7 or . . . MKUltra . . . just kidding! I think it was to reduce calcium
loss?
Your memory serves you properly, Til. that Vitamin K2, and there are multiple polymers of it, like MK7, all useful, but with different half-lives in our bodies, compliments vitamin-D. That is directly addressed in the 146 page download, of which 100 pages is text and graphics, and the rest is footnoted references. They recommend 100 mcg/day, but 200 mcg/day is not too much at all. This is what I take: https://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/item02334/super-k
Make your own natto from soybeans - 24 hour fermenting in same temperature as yoghurt. The bacillus subtilis/natto fermented soybeans contain K2 and also nattokinase. Expensive as supplement, cheap to make. Natto is really an aquired taste, to put it mildly, but reading about its effects has made me a convert to it.
Extra style-points for making your own Natto, Kristiina!
Way back when Sex Pistols invented punk rock, someone commented about their gigs: only about 100 people in audience, but half of them started their own band after seeing them. How can I get others to make natto instead of collecting style-points myself? Or is it just some kind of insecurity in me that makes me hope to convert folks to natto? Whatever, life is good, mct oil is also good whole fasting. Cooling rice and potatoes after cooking makes the starches digest more slowly, ie.lower gycemic index also adding coconut oil while cooking rice does that.
I can't think of what natto tastes like, even though I lived in Japan from 1973-1976, attending high school. I must have eaten some.
A lot of people are too challenged to eat kimche, which is pretty common and available in the US these days.
Some of the leaders in the study and application of Nutrition are:
1) Dr. Colin Campbell (Wrote The China Study, Whole)
2) Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, heart surgeon, bk, Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease
3) Dr. John McDougall,
4) Dr. Neil Barnard, bk. Reversing Diabetes
5. Dr. Dean Ornish, bk, UnDo it
6. Dr. Joel Fuhrman, nutritarian, bk. Eat to Live
7. Dr. Gary Null
8 Dr. Pam Popper
All the above have many books, interviews, youtube videos, etc. They all advocate an organic, unprocessed whole-food plant-based diet, with minor differences.
Also for people who need a jump start and a reboot health/education check out: True North Health Center located in Santa Rose, CA. founded in 1984 by Drs. Alan Goldhamer. https://www.healthpromoting.com/
When I first started my own health journey, these are the doctors that made all the difference.
Also, the Documentary, Forks Over Knives, is a good primer.
Bon Appétit
I went vegan for a year because of Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. I saw Forks Over Knives, read Dr. Esselstyn's son's stuff, etc. I had my bloodwork taken both before the diet, and after following the diet for a year. I went to a Forks Over Knives event, where I had Dr. Esselstyn sign my book. While he was signing I asked him why my bloodwork was worse, I now had calcium in my blood. He didn't answer me. I went home and threw out all the books and went back to eating meat.
I have since given up processed/prepackaged foods, eating Keto-vore and my bloodwork is better than all those years ago before trying a vegan diet.
Everyone has a story.
Dr. Esselstyn, 89 years, is a cardiologist and had great success with his given-up-to-die patients using the whole food plant-based diet. The sick group of patients never had another cardiac event after following the WFPB diet. He talked about the injury that a meat diet does to the endothelial cells which contributes to heart disease. I never did go see a doctor about any of this, so have no idea about my blood. I found the diet easy to adjust to, so not much change. Never was a restaurant goer which helped. Good you gave up the processed food. That change is a boost to anyone's health.
Pasta is a processed food and one of the things pushed by Esselstyn and his cohorts. Oh, and they had lots of recipes for desserts. Flour is from a plant. How healthy were those patients? It's great that they didn't have a heart attack, but did they have diabetes? Cancer?
I did lose some weight eating vegan, but it was nothing compared to eating keto.
Recall from Forks Over Knives documentary, the experiment of turning off and on cancer growth by the amount of animal protein given in diet. More protein from animal protein triggered cancer growth. Switching back and forth could turn the growth off and on. The people in Esselstyn's study did not have diabetes, or cancer, just heart disease. What has complicated many people's health since December 2020, regardless of diet are the havoc the Covid shots have played on cardiovascular health. I think the variety of desserts were to show people that they could still make good food choices and showed them how to achieve that. The key was teaching how to cook differently with healthful ingredients. The key is cooking with lentils, beans, quinoa, and all the abundance of good foods.
Thank you for this constructive contribution to the discussion.
Nailed it!
thanks for this information
You are welcome, Amigo.
:-)
Once again, thank you John - powerful & informative article. Grateful we've been living a healthy lifestyle for 30+ years. FYI, I recently read an article (can't seem to locate it) regarding the packaging on butter containing PFAS's (forever chemicals) Kerrygold was mentioned. I will keep hunting to find. Blessings to you & Jenny ...
Good stuff Doc... Thanks !
You are welcome, Richie.
My cousin, a diabetic, died at 58 of multiple organ failure informed me that long term use of metformin causes kidney damage/failure.
That is not actually true about metformin, though when people have significant kidney failure from diabetes they need to reduce their metformin dose, then stop it as the kidneys fail further. Metformin is remarkably safe and life-extending, even for non-diabetics, when used at typical doses of 2000 mg/day or less.
Metformin does not cause renal failure, but must be reduced, then stopped as people slip into renal failure from diabetes.
Seems like once the horse is out of the barn it's too late.
Kidney failure is one of the later and fatal complications of decades of uncontrolled diabetes.
The horse can be coaxed back to the barn, but don't delay.
Sleep!!! Set an alarm to go to bed. Target 8-9 hours of non-negotiable designated sleep time per night. Defend it like Mama Bear defends her cubs. Invest as much as you can to create a sleep sanctuary. The bio-dividends will demolish anything Corporate America will deliver. Read Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker. He briefly raises a very interesting hypothesis...Do we live to sleep?
I just don't sleep as much at 65. I'm considering that nightly slow-release melatonin, but I don't usually notice persisting benefit from melatonin in general.
I do get the cellular/mitochondrial melatoning from exposure to warm sunlight during bike rides and gardening. It doesn't make it to my brain, though.
Stress induces the body to produce adrenaline. Adrenaline shuts down body systems (flight reaction) including your immune system. This is why chronic stress increases disease, including cancer. Stress kills.
Dr. John, do I have this right?
The stress response is necessary and healthy, but not when chronic. You need to de-stress after the car almost hits you with a "left hook" as you ride your bike down the bike lane, respecting the law.
Unfortunately due to unforseen circumstances I have had chronic stress for many yrs. It's not good.
You are not alone.
Sorry...
Right hook, I believe. Most common form of MV vs. Cycle accident.
"Left hook" is what I have to avoid most often.
A car in the oncoming traffic, usually of a 4 lane road, maybe with a turn lane, aims to take a left turn, looks for a gap in their oncoming traffic, which includes me in a bike lane, and they see the gap, but don't see me.
The driver jumps hard into that urgent left turn, aimed directly at me on my bike.
I see. I would probably consider that a head-on. Often major damage. I’ve been hit once like that, fortunately very slow speed for me and him. Hit twice by right hooks, which are pernicious since they are overtaking the cyclist and practically impossible to guard against. One rendered me unconscious with a subarachnoid bleed. Fortunately no long-lasting effects. Thanks for this treatise on cancer prevention. Much appreciated,
The first time I ever got hit was a right hook, back around 1979. I have been hit 6 times, but have not been hit for about 20 years now.
They were all fairly low speed. I walked away, but a couple of bikes were ruined.
I am now careful to use routes that I know well, and avoid certain intersection areas. I know all the danger spots on my routes.
Fridays before 3 day weekends are especially dangerous. A lot of drivers are pressured AND distracted.
Before it was overrun with robots, I would bike SF. The top safety rule for me at least was to get to the front of the cars and accelerate quickly (25mph in 3 seconds), so all the cars see and drive around. The other safety rule, which I imagine doesn't translate in Texas, is convoy intersections with a bus that sees you. Cars might not respect a bike, but they respect a bus!
All serious bicyclists get hit eventually. One should know how to take a hit and not go under the wheels. Must love action to play!
Thank you for your insights and lived-wisdom, Guido.