On Health

[Skybird]

I want to bring to your attention a blog that I just discovered when researcing somehting on iodine, and I found some excellent research and writing beign done there. The author is a Dr. Neville Wilson who else is an unknown to me, but that may be different for those of you living in the US, I don'T know.

https://drnevillewilson.com/

So far I took a deep read into his articles on iodine and on fats, and I want to bring these two to your attention. They both supplement what i already had learned before form two books on these matters which I would reocmmend as well, since they provide a comfortable and understandable access to the matter that even non-professionals can easily follow.



On FATS:

https://drnevillewilson.com/2017/07/...or-bad-advice/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40276480-superfuel

https://discover.grasslandbeef.com/b...an-trans-fats/

https://link.springer.com/article/10...08-019-00687-x



On IODINE:

https://drnevillewilson.com/2018/10/...alth-benefits/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6399174-iodine

https://www.optimox.com/iodine-research










On SALT:

https://drnevillewilson.com/2014/08/...ul-or-healthy/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...2-the-salt-fix



You can read online. You can order a book and then read. You can watch and listen to a youtube film. What you cannot is - escape!



On NITRATE and NITRITE:

https://translate.google.com/transla...le_id%3D154545



On CHOLESTEROL:

A very interesting, fascinating explanation why the consummation of saturated fats lead to higher levels of LDL. It might be not so much a sign of a health issue, but a normal adaptation mechanism.

https://sciencenorway.no/cholesterol...ystery/1810159

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://kochketo.de/cholesterin-und-keto/

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://foodpunk.de/alles-ueber-cholesterin/



On OBESITY & DIABETES:


https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...8&postcount=17

https://translate.google.com/transla...r-Ketonkoerper


https://www.dietdoctor.com/does-fasting-burn-muscle




On SWEETENERS:

https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...4&postcount=18

https://translate.google.com/transla...fwechselrisiko

https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/36/9/2530




On FASTING and INTERMITTEND FASTING






https://www.dietdoctor.com/does-fasting-burn-muscle



On OMEGA 3:

https://link.springer.com/article/10...08-019-00687-x



On IMMUNITY:






On WHEAT and all that:


https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://www.apotheken-umschau.de/krankheiten-symptome/magen-und-darmerkrankungen/ati-sensitivitaet-was-ist-das-748581.html

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B07YFS6PTV/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3 %95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=detlef+shed+an&qid=161 9260014&s=books&sr=1-1-fkmr0



INSULINE METABOLIC SYNDROME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpNU72dny2s



On SOY:

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[Jimbuna]

As healthy a lifestyle you lead as you see matters, you've still as much chance as anyone else walking the streets of getting run over by a bad driver

[Skybird]

So make it part of your prophylaxis to make that driver eat unhealthy as long as there still is time! Then he is too dead on the day he wanted to roll over you.

[Skybird]

Effects of dietary fats on blood lipids: a review of direct comparison trials

OpenHeart/British Medical Journal BMJ

https://openheart.bmj.com/content/5/2/e000871

[Commander Wallace]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

As healthy a lifestyle you lead as you see matters, you've still as much chance as anyone else walking the streets of getting run over by a bad driver

Aren't you just a ray of sunshine or in this case, a ray of sunstroke.


* Hides under the bed *


Great article, Sky. Thanks for listing the items you use in your kitchen. We got an air fryer a few years ago and haven't fried anything since. Before that, we might have fried foods maybe once or twice a year.

[Skybird]

So did I, I love the taste of frying oil on chicken wings, calamaris and pommes frites. But no more do I eat it, since I fully understood the rattail of issues with transfats, Omega-6 and all that.

Fats is a topic that really everybody should get some basic education on, like sugar, glucose, corn syrups. The problem is that the mainstream information and paradigms on this and other food topics - are wrong. And have been so since decades and even a century.

Problem also is that even many doctors and medical practitioners and food advisors do not know it.

Not easy. You need luck to get even started, and then a good instinct when plotting your new course for the first steps. Its easy to go wrong.

Today I red that the kernel of avocados, of which many say it also can be eaten and is oh so healthy and a miracle food like the fruit meat, in fact is so poisonous that in Mexico they grate and pulverize it, mix it with cheese and fat and put it out on the street - as mouse and rat poison. Bon Appetit.

[3catcircus]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Si did I, I love the taste of frying opil on chicken nwings, calamaris and pommes frites. But no more do I eat it, since I fully understood the rattail of issues with transfats, Omega-6 and all that.

Fats is a topic that really everybody should get some basic education on, like sugar, glucose, corny syrups. The problem is that the maoinstream ifnormation and paradigms on this and other food topics - are wrong. And have been so since decades and even a century.

Problem also is that even many doctors and medical practitioners and food advisors do not know it.

Not easy. You need luck to get even started, and then a good instinct when plotting your new coarse for the first steps. Its easy to go wrong.

Today I red that the kernel of avocados, of which many say it also can be eaten and is oh so healthy and a miracle food like the fruit meat, in fact is so poisonous that in Mexico they grate and pulverize it, mix it with cheese and fat and put it out on the street - as mouse and rat poison. Bon Appetit.

Re: avocado pits. *Any* fruit with a pit has a strong chance of the pit to contain poisonous substances. Avo pits contain persin and cyanide-producing compounds. But eating one isn't going to harm you. Your have to eat a lot. Pets and livestock, on the other hand, are likely to become poisoned and die.

[Eichhörnchen]

I got the book "The Salt Fix" on Skybird's recommendation and have also read about the benefits of iodine in the diet

Currently our sugar-free diet is still going well; I sweeten my tea and coffee with 'stevia' plant extract and Moira is also able to use this to produce sugar-free cakes and other confections

My wrinkles haven't disappeared yet though

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I got the book "The Salt Fix" on Skybird's recommendation and have also read about the benefits of iodine in the diet

Currently our sugar-free diet is still going well; I sweeten my tea and coffee with 'stevia' plant extract and Moira is also able to use this to produce sugar-free cakes and other confections

Two notes.

I found Stevia to be something that needs to get used to, it has a strong own taste, whose intensity varies with different quality grades of the product.

If you find that to be a concern, too, I would encourage you to also test Ethylit. Google it, it is uncritical regarding any health concerns, and has a more natural taste like sugar, but a "cooling" taste to it. Its sweetness is 65-70% that of sugar, but practically zero calories (othger sweeteners all have calories, just5 not as many as sugar).



Xylit also is a good option, thogh Ethylit imo is even better.



The sweetener that is most closely to sugar imo is Aspartam, but it is being debated if and to what degree it is a health hazard, or not. Just saying, in taste and sweetness Aspartam is the best and I cannot differentiate it form sugar. I do not use it, however.

Second, iodine, I hope you do not just ran into the adventure with closed eyes. As I have said several times, taking Selenium together with it, is a must. Capsules usually have 200-220mcgr, whcih is okay. Daily dose not higher than 400 mcgr, please.

Also you should have checked your tyroid status, to be sure there is no organic deformation already present that indicates you already have problems there. Finally, please start with small doses, and slowly increase them over time. Maybe I exaggerated it, but I went by these steps, each of them taking 7-10 days: 200mcgr, 400 mcgr, 600mcgr, 900 mcgr, 1.2 mg, 1.5 mg, 3 mg, 6 mg, 12 mg, 19 mg. I then jumped to 38 mg for three months exactly, and felt some detoxification issues that I adressed wiht high doses of B2, B3 and Q10 - problem solved wihtin 12 hours, as if a button was pushed. I am now on 25 mg.

Expect your TSH being raised, and T3 and T4 maybe beign chnaged, too, and it will stay that way for quite some time. That is good, but your doctor may frown his eye brows and tell you it isn't. He most likely will be wrong then, it must be like that. It mreans youir NIS symporters ar ebeeing build and your brain has noticed that ther eis more idoine in yoru system now, so it must bring the symporters - the logistic network that disrtibute id9one in your body, in your iorgans, in your cells - into a functional state - it has spend the past decades in hibernaiton and is most likely in a poor state. That the body does this is indicated by higher productiuon of TSH. It must be so! It means" green lights". As long as you do not suffer from any other health issues at least.

Find a health practitioner who a.) knwos the way of the Iodine , and b.) who can arrange an iodine loading test. Not a simple iodine urine test, that has practically no information value, but an iodine loading test, or mayb eoyu clal it exretion test, I am not certain. You take 50 mg, and then see over 24 hours how much idone the body gives away again: the more you pee out again, the better your iodine status already is. Here in Germany, these tests still are not known by most doctors and labs. In the US it is by now clinical standard, I read.

Don'T want to alarm you, really, just want to make sure that although iodine is quite safe to use you you treat it with respect, not with just blindly seeking adventure.

Did you like the salt book? I am really curious to learn what people think of it, when they got the complete picture. Its a history lesson on quite some broken, corrupted science, isn't it.

[Eichhörnchen]

^ No I have no plans to take iodine... I was simply commenting that I've read about it. I haven't read the salt book yet; my wife usually reads these kinds of books first and passes on to me the important points. I will let you know what we think

Thanks for the info about alternatives to Stevia... I am very interested in trying Ethylit, although I do rather enjoy the licorice-like taste of Stevia

We avoid all conventional sweeteners because of the false signals they send to your body, which as I recall mistakenly perceives them as sugar and retains fat in reaction

[Skybird]

That is often claimed, but afaik unproven. And calories not present in your stomach cannot get metabolized.
A more realistic concern with sweeteners is that they may do damage to your guts microbiome. Xylit, Erythrit and Stevia do not belong to these. Guts are today understood to form two thirds of our immune system. High system relevance, I would say!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I got the book "The Salt Fix" on Skybird's recommendation and have also read about the benefits of iodine in the diet

Currently our sugar-free diet is still going well; I sweeten my tea and coffee with 'stevia' plant extract and Moira is also able to use this to produce sugar-free cakes and other confections

My wrinkles haven't disappeared yet though

The only true test of how successful your dietry intake is will be if your hair grows back

[Eichhörnchen]

I gave that idea up years ago

[Skybird]

The Historical Background of the Iodine Project (2005)

https://www.optimox.com/iodine-study-8

The goal of this manuscript is to have, under the same cover, an update on the Iodine Project which started five years ago; an exposé of the Wolff-Chaikoff forgery; and contributions from two clinicians with a combined experience with 4,000 patients using Lugol tablets within the range recommended by pre-World War II physicians. This range of daily intake of iodine is called orthoiodosupplementation because it is the amount of iodine required for whole body sufficiency based on an iodine/iodide loading test recently developed by the author (1).
During the first half of the 20th century, almost every U.S. physician used Lugol solution for iodine supplementation in his/her practice for both hypo- and hyperthyroidism (1), and for many other medical conditions (2). In the old pharmacopeias, Lugol solution was called Liquor Iodi Compositus. The minimum dose called minim, was one drop containing 6.25 mg of elemental iodine, with 40% iodine and 60% iodide as the potassium salt. The recommended daily intake for iodine supplementation was 2 to 6 minims (drops) containing 12.5 to 37.5 mg elemental iodine. During the second half of the 20th century, iodophobic misinformation disseminated progressively and deceitfully among the medical profession resulted in a decreased use of Lugol, with iodized salt becoming the standard for iodine supplementation (1). The bioavailable iodide from iodized salt is only 10% and the daily amount of iodide absorbed from iodized salt is 200 to 500 times less than the amount of iodine/iodide previously recommended by U.S. physicians. After World War II, U.S. physicians were educated early in their medical career to believe that inorganic non-radioactive forms of iodine were toxic. Adverse reactions to radiographic contrast media and other iodine-containing drugs were blamed on iodine. If a patient told his/her physician that he/she could not tolerate seafood, the physician told him/her that he/she was allergic to iodine.

Also, here are a series of papers and studies on Iodine, years 2002-2008. They can be downloaded as free PDFs from their site, I only give a content list below.

I add this link also to the first post in this thread, under "Iodine".

https://www.optimox.com/iodine-research

Abraham, G.E., Flechas, J.D., Hakala, J.C., Optimum Levels of Iodine for Greatest Mental and Physical Health. The Original Internist, 9:5-20, 2002

Abraham, G.E., Flechas, J.D., Hakala, J.C., Orthoiodosupplementation: Iodine Sufficiency Of The Whole Human Body. The Original Internist, 9:30-41,2002

Abraham, G.E., Flechas, J.D., Hakala, J.C., Measurement Of Urinary Iodide Levels By Ion-Selective Electrode: Improved Sensitivity And Specificity By Chromatography On An Ion-Exchange Resin.The Original Internist, 11(4):19-32,2004

Abraham, G.E.,The Wolff-Chaikoff Effect: Crying Wolf? The Original Internist, 12(3):112-118,2005

Abraham, G.E., The safe and effective implementation of orthoiodosupplementation in medical practice. The Original Internist, 11:17-36, 2004

Abraham, G.E., The concept of orthoiodosupplementation and its clinical implications. The Original Internist, 11(2):29-38, 2004

Abraham, G.E., Serum inorganic iodide levels following ingestion of a tablet form of Lugol solution: Evidence for an enterohepatic circulation of iodine. The Original Internist, 11(3):112-118, 2005

Abraham, G.E., The historical background of the iodine project. The Original Internist, 12(2):57-66, 2005

Brownstein, D., Clinical experience with inorganic, non-radioactive iodine/iodide. The Original Internist, 12(3):105-108, 2005

Flechas, J.D., Orthoiodosupplementation in a primary care practice. The Original Internist, 12(2):89-96, 2005.

Abraham, G.E., Brownstein, D., Evidence that the administration of Vitamin C improves a defective cellular transport mechanism for iodine: A case report. The Original Internist, 12(3):125-130, 2005

Abraham, G.E., Brownstein, D., Validation of the orthoiodosupplementation program: A Rebuttal of Dr. Gaby’s Editorial on iodine. The Original Internist, 12(4): 184-194, 2005

Abraham, G.E., Brownstein, D., Flechas, J.D., The saliva/serum iodide ratio as an index of sodium/iodide symporter efficiency. The Original Internist, 12(4): 152-156, 2005.

Abraham, G.E, MD., The History of Iodine in Medicine Part I: From Discovery to Essentiality.The Original Internist, 13: 29-36, Spring 2006

Abraham, G.E.,The History of Iodine in Medicine Part II: The Search for and the Discovery of Thyroid Hormones The Original Internist, 13: 67-70, June 2006

Abraham, G.E.,The History of Iodine in Medicine Part III: Thyroid Fixation and Medical Iodophobia. The Original Internist, 13: 71-78, June 2006

Abraham, G.E, MD, Roxanne C. Handal, BS & John C. Hakala, RPhA Simplified Procedure for the Measurement of Urine Iodide Levels by the Ion-Selective Electrode Assay in a Clinical Setting The Original Internist, Vol 13, No. 3, 125-135, September 2006

Abraham, G.E.,The Combined Measurement of the Four Stable Halides by the Ion-Selective Electrode Procedure Following Their Chromatographic Separation on a Strong Anion Exchanger Resin: Clinical Applications The Original Internist, 171-195, December 2006

Abraham, G.E, MD, and David Brownstein, MD, A Simple Procedure Combining The Evaluation of Whole Body Sufficiency for Iodine with The Efficiency of the Body To Utilize Peripherall Iodide: The Triple Test The Original Internist, Vol. 14, No. 1, 17-23, March 2007

Abraham, G.E, MD, The bioavailability of iodine applied to the skin The Original Internist, Vol. 15, No. 2, pg. 77-79, June 2008

The Iodine/Iodide Loading Test

Abraham, G.E., MD, The Importance of Bioactive Silicates in Human Health

For downloading and reading, click the site link I provided above.

The group around Abraham (+), Brownstein and Flechas are the practical founders of the neo iodine movement amongst American health practitioners, and since over two decades form the spearhead of combining lab stuying and practical experience that is being called the Iodine Project. They base on several tens of thousands of anonymous patient data records now, from laboratories from across all of the US. In result they practically reconnect to the tradition of healing with Iodine as was common until the time around WWII.

The defamation of Iodine however began already in the mid- late 20s, when in 1926 pharmaceutical producer Herring released the first artificial Tyroxin drug and immediately began to aggressively advertize for it. Part of that campaign of course was also the defamation of the much cheaper and more logical alternative and rival, Iodine. After WWII, the Soviet Union and its allies continued to use Iodine in clinical use and were the first to restart research on it again, the Americans came second and the Europeans last. But the Sovjets science done on Iodine was leading. Since this could not be admitted openly in the West, Cold War and rivalling systems and all that, and since one could not just say "Its Sovjet success, so it must be bad success becauses its the Sovjets", one instead reinforced attempts to defame Iodine and to bagatellize it, and by this: rendering the Sovjet success useless.

Tyroxin drugs since those times and until today year after year belong to the three most-sold drugs categories worldwide, I read. Which of course has nothing to do with why Iodine get demonised and med students do not get told much about it at university... Heck, I got the impression the even get told that it is toxic! Absurd. All halogenes like Flourid, Bromide and Chloride are extremely aggressive cellular toxines - and we allow them to be used in water and added to flour, medical drugs and what else. The only non-toxic halogene is Iodine - and this one gets demonised!? Big Food and Big Pharma lobbyism, I tell you.

Do not be angry at your doctor, he is not the one guilty for faulty curriculae and has learned what they demanded him to learn and learned not what they withheld from him. In a way, he is a victim.

But maybe tell him about such things, and if then he refuses to learn what he missed earlier, you maybe do not argue but better start looking for a new doctor.

Thats what I did. The new however is not really that much more in the knowing on these things than the old one, so maybe I need to look again.

Its your health, doctors are humans, training is deficitary (necessarily), and industrial lobby interests additionally poison the medical branch. So retake responsibility for yourself and your health. You only have this one body. Do not just blindly trust somebody with a PhD.

Not even me, without my PhD.

Read. Learn. Teach yourself.

If your doc does not like that, flee from him. Doctors are advisors only, and they owe it to you to be right in most of the questions you raise to them, and to continue to learn new things all their career long. If you find they aren't, then you are dealing with no good doctor. Find another one then. You owe them no blind loyalty.

[Skybird]

On NITRATE and NITRITE


I stumbled over the topic of nitrate durign my latest researchges on ketongenic diat and the socalled Paleo food trend. It seems to be another myth that since some years gets busted: that it is oh so dangerous to our health and that we should avoid it. Personally, I have never cared much for it. BTW, our salvia includes plenty of nitrate - multiple times a smiuch as we eat per day even if we consuke large ammounts of nitrate-including food products, salted and processed meat, bacon and the likes.



The following is by Udo Pollmer, a German food chemist and book author on (mostly) food, he also runs an according institute. He is known for his laconic comments and black-humoured, witty writing style, and often takes uncomfortable, unorthodox positions on topics.

Nitrate - the new brain food. From environmental toxin to therapeutic

By Udo Pollmer



Green salad didn't seem to be one of the favorite dishes of our columnist and food chemist Udo Pollmer. But now Saul seems to have become Paul. Because recently this vegetable is apparently "healthy" for him too. But hear for yourself.

In winter, fresh vegetables have a rather bad reputation. Vegetables are healthy, everyone knows, but with greenhouse goods there are bad nitrate spinners: too little sun - too much fertilizer. Nitrate is also said to promote the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines in the body. However, especially in winter, our immune system does not need artificial fertilizers but “protective vitamins” and “valuable minerals”. Every child learns that today.

And now everything should be very, very different: It is precisely this “bad” nitrate that is developing into a superstar in medicine: the environmental toxin quietly turned into a sought-after therapeutic agent. It has long been known that the body fights pathogens with nitrate or nitrite.

For example, the more nitrite there is in saliva, the less often tooth decay occurs. And the nitrite, our oral flora forms from the nitrate. Vitamin C cannot hold a candle to nitrite: As a lozenge, the vitamin even attacks the teeth and our immune system cannot do much with it either. Recently, the nitrate has even been said to prevent diseases such as stroke and dementia. The background: our body not only forms nitrite from nitrate but also from it the messenger substance nitric oxide. Nitric oxide dilates the blood vessels and thus promotes blood circulation. The amazing thing is that the nitric oxide in the brain works specifically where the blood flow decreases and the supply of oxygen suffers. That's why nitrate lowers the risk of stroke and prevents dementia.

This is the first time that this has been verified directly in humans. And under realistic conditions: The test subjects had to eat products that were particularly rich in nitrates. This finally gives us a reasonable indication of why a slightly lower blood pressure was observed time and again in vegetable eaters. As previously speculated, it is not the potassium that is responsible for this, but the nitrate. This would finally rehabilitate the lettuce from the greenhouse - and for the sake of fairness also the other winter vegetables with their high nitrate levels, i.e. those that we have always been warned about.

So did the environmentalists slaughter the wrong pig by fighting nitrate in drinking water? Not necessarily. Because there have always been studies that have found negative effects in drinking water contaminated with nitrates. But the context is completely different. A lot of nitrate in the water is a sign of overfertilization. In the case of natural manure, it is full of faecal germs. Of course, all kinds of microbes slip through with the manure, namely viruses - and the more manure is distributed in the landscape, the greater the risk.

It is different with artificial fertilizers: it supplies nitrate, but it does not spread viruses. We know from the workers in fertilizer plants that the artificial fertilizer apparently has a completely different effect than is commonly feared. Several studies have dealt with the health status and life expectancy or mortality of people who had to inhale and swallow the nitrate dusts every day in the fertilizer stores. Apparently that didn't hurt them, on the contrary, their life expectancy was even higher than that of the rest of the population. So far you just couldn't explain it. Now we finally know why. Contrary to previous assumptions, nitrate in our food is even beneficial to the health of adults - as long as it comes from a hygienic source.

Enjoy the meal!

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