It's not
about being liberal or conservative anymore y'all. That is a hype offered by the fascist whores who want to confuse the people with lies while they turn this country into an aristocratic police state. Some people will say anything to attain power and money. There is no such thing as the Liberal Media, but the Corporate media is very real.
Doctor Stephen Phinney discusses a randomized controlled study of people with Metabolic syndrome that gave half an LFHC (Low Fat High Carb) diet and half a LCHF (Low Carb High Fat) diet over 3 months. Essentially this is a Low Fat diet versus a Ketogenic diet.
He then discusses another study over 5 years by a Doctor in Indiana who got 252 subjects that had Metabolic syndrome. They were instructed to eat no more than 50 grams of Carbs per day.
Keep in mind that the constituents in these studies already had Metabolic syndrome.
The interesting things I found were ...
Intake of Saturated Fat is not correlated with Saturated Fat in the blood. You don't get more saturated fat in the blood because you eat saturated fat. Low carb actually had a 2 times reduction in Saturated fat in the blood
Inflammation markers in the blood all decreased significantly on a Very Low Carb High Fat diet AND a few of them increased significantly on a Low Fat diet. A few markers take longer than 3 months to stabilize, which explains some plant-based studies that indicated Reactive-C compounds go up on ketogenic diets.
Half of the people (they had type 2 Diabetes) stopped their insulin shots after the first month when doing the Low Carb diet
Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 23h 3m 6s
How to dismiss BS pseudo-science
Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 21h 28m 1s
Dr Ken Berry
Sunday, 10 December 2023 at 18h 54m 35s
Vitamin C and Scurvy
Very interesting.
Human Beings stopped being able to synthesize there own Vitamin C, which means that somewhere along the line there must have been a genetic advantage or reason for our species to have lost this ability.
Professor Bart Kay discusses when this happened at around time stamp 3:20. He says this happened when our ancestors came down from the trees, stopped eating fruit, stood upright and started eating carrion and animals more frequently.
He talks about oxylates. Oxylates are chemical compounds that leafy green plants (like spinach) make to ward off animals from eating them. When ingested, oxylates bind with mostly calcium but also other minerals. The bi-product that results are sharp-edged crystals that float around the body and pierce the outer edges of organs, blood vessels, intestinal lining. They are largely removed by soaking in brine (dumping the water residue that results) and then cooking the leaves.
Hence, eating baby spinach or kale salads will give you a large dose of oxylates. If there is cheese in the salad, the oxylates will bind with the calcium and other minerals, and then mostly pass out through the colon, but some will find their way into the blood, especially if the salad does not have a calcium source.
When calcium is taken with foods that are high in oxalates, oxalic acid in the intestine combines with calcium to form insoluble calcium oxalate crystals that are eliminated in the stool. This form of oxalate cannot be absorbed into the body. When calcium is low in the diet, oxalic acid is soluble in the liquid portion of the contents of the intestine (called chyme) and is readily absorbed from the intestine into the bloodstream. If oxalic acid is very high in the blood being filtered by the kidney, it may combine with calcium to form crystals that may block urine flow and cause severe pain.
In addition to kidney disease, individuals with fibromyalgia and women with vulvar pain (vulvodynia) may suffer from the effects of excess oxalates. Oxalate crystals may also form in the bones, joints, blood vessels, lungs, thyroid, and even the brain, possibly impeding their proper function. In addition, oxalates in the bone may crowd out the bone marrow cells, leading to anemia and immunosuppression.
Oxalate crystals cause pain and damage to various tissues, due to their sharp, physical structure, and may also increase inflammation. Iron oxalate crystals may cause significant oxidative damage and diminish iron stores needed for red blood cell formation. Oxalates may also function as chelating agents and may chelate many toxic metals, such as mercury and lead. Unlike other chelating agents, oxalates trap heavy metals in the tissues, leading to metal toxicity. Oxalates also interfere with the Krebs cycle’s glucose metabolism and can inhibit absorption of essential minerals necessary for optimum health.
Foods especially high in oxalates are often foods thought to be otherwise healthy, including spinach, beets, chocolate, peanuts, wheat bran, tea, cashews, pecans, almonds, berries, and many others. People now frequently consume “green smoothies” in an effort to eat “clean” and get healthy, however, they may actually be sabotaging their health. The most common components of green smoothies are spinach, kale, Swiss chard, and arugula, all of which are loaded with oxalates. These smoothies also often contain berries or almonds, which have high amounts of oxalates as well. Oxalates are not found in meat or fish at significant concentrations. Daily adult oxalate intake is usually 80-120 mg/d. A single green smoothie with two cups of spinach contains about 1,500 mg of oxalate, a potentially lethal dose.
[SOURCE:High Oxalate: A Major Factor in Tissue and Blood Vessel Health | Mosaic Diagnostics | 27 January 2022]
Thursday, 7 December 2023 at 5h 7m 12s
Paleopathology and the Origins of the Low-carb Diet
Really good talk. I like the anthropological point of view.
Thursday, 7 December 2023 at 4h 36m 58s
Actual human digestion
Our biology is a clue to our true ancestral diet. We are supposed to eat animal fats. That is why we have a gall bladder. We do not digest fiber. That is why the length of the small intestine is exceptional compared to the large intestine. We absorb food in the small intestine, and then deal with whatever shows up in the long intestine. We are not relying on bacteria to create fatty acid chains from digesting fiber. Instead, we absorb fat directly.
Sunday, 3 December 2023 at 22h 56m 59s
What ancient humans ate
Very interesting. This is from Michael Eades.
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 at 17h 9m 44s
Eat less calories, burn less calories
The reality is that your body processes food based upon the macronutrients, with weight and calories both being proxies for that prima facie intake of the 3 main macronutrients. Here is Jason Fung translating this truth from the famous Women's Heart Health longitudinal study.
Sunday, 19 November 2023 at 19h 13m 30s
The Keto Diet
Here is Dr. David Harper on a Canadian British Columbia show called "Conversations that Matter".
For 30 years, Dr. David Harper, taught medical students that a low-fat, high-carb diet was the way to eat to prevent chronic disease.
Today, he admits, "I got it wrong."
“We now have 20 years of scientific evidence that a well-formulated ketogenic diet reduces chronic disease.”
A keto diet is high in fats, low in carbs.
But Harper, the co-author of the BioDiet: The Scientifically Proven, Ketogenic Way to Lose Weight and Improve Health and a cancer expert, stresses, “A ketogenic diet is not a cure for cancer. Rather, it is an effective adjunct therapy along with a standard of care.”
Until recently Harper was a visiting scientist in the B.C. Cancer Research Centre's Terry Fox Laboratory.
His research indicates a ketogenic diet has multiple health benefits in cardiovascular disease, diabetes and weight reduction.
“The Axis of Illness”, according to Harper are, “insulin resistance, obesity and inflammation, all of which are fuelled by carbohydrates, leading to chronic disease.”
A keto diet coupled with exercise is an effective way to diminish weight, inflammation and reduce insulin resistance, he says.
Harper joined a Conversation That Matters about food as medicine. Learn More about our guests career at careersthatmatter.ca.