On Health

[Catfish]

^ all quite interesting.

Vitamin D update though - have been taking very high doses of Vitamin D, around 10,000/week for more than a year. Talking to several doctors (one of the MHH Hannover) they advised to immedately reduce the quantity now. Vitamin D is not harmless in a way that you can take as much as you want – it is not only about Calcium levels.

It is better to get the blood levels, stage up the D-level until the fat reservoirs are filled up with Vit. D again, and then stop.
Also better to take Vitamin D in the winter, since UV radiation during summer boosts the Vit. D level and can lead (together with pills) to an overdosage with resulting kidney insufficiency, and even failure.

Vitamin D is "good for you", but do not use too high doses over time, it can indeed lead to kidney failure and the need for regular dialysis.

[Skybird]

Catfish, traditional doctors raised by the classic, industry-influenced paradigm at university all warn of how dangerous supplements are in general. The food and pharmaceutical industry pay over 95% of all medical studies underttaken! There lobbyists are in politics, media and educaiton, and they influence massively the training curriculae at unversities. That is as classical a conflict of interests as "classical" can mean.

I said a lot about Vit-D in the past 12 months, and all what I said I quote from academic, medical, practioner sources, nothing of it has grown on my own intellectual property. In the Wuhan virus thread I mentioned it repeatedly as well. I have three thick books just on vitamine D on my shelves now, two of them by the Einstein of Vitamine D research, Michael Hollick, he is the driving force behind it since 50 years.

Thate doctors who warned you, most likely told you BS, due to his own limited understanding of it (nutrition and prevention play almost no role in studying medicine at university). Especialyl in germany,l the generla atottude ion nutrient supplementation is extrneely phobic, and oriented towards mininmalist doses that do not even cover the minimum biological needs. Endless German concerns, concerns, and more concerns. If you really want to blow up in anger, just read the garbage released be the DGE(German Food Association), it really gets me fuming nowadays. Dubious, obscure, suspicious, I would even call it almost criminal, but its Am erican counterpart is not any better, what they still publish on "healthy"fats and limiting salt and grains and cereals, kills people by the many thousands every year via karciovascular deseased, hypertension, strokes, obesity, and diabetes. THEY MAKE PEOPLE ILL.

At 10.000 iE of Vit-D daily, and assuming you are blessed with non-ill organs, you must not fear problems. There are still the old myths floating around sometimes, namely the risk of hypercalcemia, and yes, Vitamine D can effect other variables as well in the metabolism, in the blood fats, the glucose metabolism. Heck, what else to expect, it is a bloody steroid-hormone, it is of omnipotent relevance! I have written so often now on why taking higher doses and why these still are safe to take, that I do not repeat it all another time here once again. I have linked to videos by Dr. Serheult (last tiem he was asked he said he takes 5 or 6 thousand units although living in some sunshine place: he had low calcidiol levels nevertehless, he said) and I think I listed some others in the Wuhan thread. I gave a head-up on this book (in German): https://www.amazon.de/Vitamin-Heilkr...s&sr=1-3-spell. The authors are not just any unknowns from outer space, they are luminaries in their branches. Hollick was the Big Bang of Vitamine D research in modern time.Severla of the key discoveries sinc the 780s, have been booked by him and his team.


I just say this (again): the body is prepared by nature to handle 20.000 IE per day. taking more is safe, but most likely useless (costs more money for nothing). A growing risk is not to be expected below up to 40.000 IE per day over any months, or as one-time-doses of 100-150 thousand IE in one day (fully reversible symptoms in case of the latter). Vitamine D must be combined with Magnesium, the storage form of it that you swallow in a pill or produce via the sun can metabolically not be used, must be activated before that, and for that Magnesium is a must. Vitamine K2 helps additionally, but is, at these doses, not really essential. Its maximum dose beyond which K2 turns poisonous is still not knowm, but the ylooked very high already, and did not yet find the limit, so you risk nothing there except a few pennies. It helps to keepo the Calcium mint he biones, and get Calcium in the blood transported into the bones (and teeth). But it is not the only but essential actor for this.

And I also say this: if you want to be safe, then do not speculate, but measure. A Vitamine-D test can be asked for easily, can even be ordered for use at home, at the doc it costs around 25-30 Euros. My dentist offers it as well, that relevant he considers good Calcidiol levels! Wer wissen will, muß messen. . Many Vitamine-D doctors say they want Calcidiol levels of at least 40-60 ngr/ml, and your daily dose to reach that depends on your ammount of body fattness, and metabolic rate. I have taken since long time 10,000-15,000 IE per day, on average 12500 over the past 6 months or so, and this March, as I reported in the Wuhan thread I think, I had a robust Calcidiol level of 73 ng/ml, which is a bombastically good value: it is above the mere academically wanted minimums of 40-60, and still significantly below threat levels that according to some sources are starting to become a valid concern from 100 on, others say 120 or even 150.

If your doctor tells you taking 10.000 IE per day is a rik for you but he does not give you a valid diagnosis for any health conditions of yours that organically put you at risk, then do like I did early this year: say him farewell and find yourselfelf a new doctor. Dogmatical defenders of outdated paradigms and business lobbies designed to protect the profit interests of industry, are not a benefit for your health. Doctors are only humans, you know. They can err, and they can not know something. Absolutely possible.

Avoid Calcidiol levels of 30 or deeper at all cost. They should be seen as very serious health risks.

I aimed at 70-80, and with 73 I landed right on the mark: 12500 IE per day, metabolically usable Magnesium ca. 800 mg, Vit-K2 200 mcgr, I am male, age 54, 177cm, weight back then was 87 kg (slightly overweight at that time, now am at 76 and falling ), abdominal girth 104 cm (back then). This gives you an idea.

I do not worry about calcidiol levels up to 80-90, at worse I produce expensive urine. The body by nature is made to handle 20.000 IE per day, this is established knoweldge and verified in practice, and this is what correpspnds with the Calcidiol levels in primtive tribes beign exposed to high-UV light all day long while walkign around almost naked. I probably reduce to 10000 any time soon, due to my no longer existent fat reserves.

Never forget one thing: if you are healthy, the industry cannot make economic profit from you. And vitamines and minerals cannot be patented, cannot be used to make fortunes with. They want to sell expensive drugs with long lists of health risks and side effects. At your expense.

Dont worry, dont be so easily intimidated. Use your reason, get some education on the matter, and then add 1 and 1 together.

Nutrition, food, nutrients, supplementation is a wide field. University and medical paradigms do not even get close to adequatly reflect their relevance. Prevention and healing and maintaining health is not high on the agenda, the big money lies in endlessly treating symptoms only - while leaving the causes untouched. That maintains the customer base.



Check your Calcidiol level once a year. Thats how I do it now. He who wants to know, must measure.

[Skybird]

Heck, I just realised you did not write "10000 units per day", but "10000 units PER WEEK".



What the hell are you even worrying about...??? 1500 IE per day - That is nothing!

P.S. Fauci, when asked said he takes 5000 per day. The German DGE, idiots that they are, still stick to 800 per day (I thoguht they had raised it to 2000 meanwhile...) : and since your dose, catfish, is twice as much than that, your doctor believes in the official recommendationsand takes them as ultimate truth because they are precious always trustworthy official recommendations and so must be right. And so he hits your alarm button.

Do not believe him. (I say this assuming there are no inherent health conditinsn or deseases in your system that indeed could recommend limiting several nutrients. cancer patients for exmapelk wpould nto nwant to take all nutrient that strengthen cell health, since they woudl also strenghten cancers vcells when taking them).

Get up and have a Calcidiol test in your blood serum. If you have less than 60 ng/ml, raise your daily dose.


Vitmaine D doe snot directla affect the kidney, only indirectly via the calcium in a hypercalcem ia. So, if you think you are sufferinbg from Vitamine D intoxication , then you would need to have extrenely, very extremely high elvels, anmd then it wpould affect your calcium metabolsim becasue then the Vitmaine D would extract much more calciuum form the food you digest. So an altenative is - and I have that form adoctor, not just my imagination - check not or not only you Calcidiol level, but your calcium level as well. Its cheap. If you calcium is fine, then there is no chance that Vitamine D affects your kidneys negatively (kidney stones, kidney inflammation).



Down the street where i live there is a man who won the lottery last summer. I heard he takes Vitamine D. Other people get kidney problems, and also took Vitamine D. - So...?

The health system is not about healt, but making money. Healthy people are a n annoyance for that task.

[Skybird]

Catfish,

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30294301/

Note that they say quite the same like I do. They assume, as I did, a vitamine D toxicity (VDT) from levels of 150 ngr/ml of Calcidiol in serum upwards, that is far, far above what I recommend as safe.

I bet money on that with 10,000 IE in seven days you are a lightyear away form such levels. You cannot reach that levels this way. Not even with my daily dose, I take your weekly dose in one day! Its just not possible if your organs work normally and you are not ill.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition...he-bottom-line

The whole text is kind of vague in describing what levels the studies they refer to have been run with. Still, I tend to not disagree with them that much. They are just not precise enough, imo.

Although a vitamin D level of 30 ngr/ml (75 nmol/l) is typically considered adequate, the Vitamin D Council recommends maintaining levels of 40–80 ng/ml (100–200 nmol/l) and states that anything over 100 ng/ml (250 nmol/l) may be harmful.

40-80, there you have it again, I said 60-80, and probably even safe until 100-150.

Levels below 30 ngr/ml are dangerously low. Below 20 you are in need of immediate health measures to get your calcidiol up. In case of a Covid 19 infeciton, your risks would be multiplied by many factors below 30 ngr/ml. So why just jangign aroudn at minimums? Have some reserves, build some more. Why wanting just 40 if you can have 80?

I do not deny that it becomes toxic from some level on, and I rated it to be the case from exceeding daily doses of 40,000 IE (they say even 50,000 IE) over severla months, or a single once-in-a-lifetime dose of over 100-150 thousand. However, there are therapeutical protocols in clinical context using up to 500 thousand IE, and more! Everything becomes toxic if you take too much, think of Paracelsus. Even O2. Even H2O. The question is where to set these treshhold levels. Conventional medical paradigms set it way too low - as with practially every micronutrient. All vitamines and minerals and trace elements they mention - they always, always always seem to systrmatcally underdose them by factors, apparently in a bid to keep you from taking them at all, and if you do, then at least in non-therapeuticla doses so low that they will not help you from benefitting them. Many studies on Omega 3 recently were done, and were it was hailed some years ago, since some years they all suddenly mysteriously claim: it doe snot work, save your money, Omega 3 does niothiugn for you. It is mysteriously only as long as you do not look up the studies. I did with some of these. The doses by which Omega 3 from low levels was papmperd upwards, were hilariously lowl while confoudnign variable like mutliple times as high O,mega 6 slevekls were left uncontrolled, unaltered. If you have lets say 20 tinmes miore Omega 6 than Omega 3, and then add 5% of Omega 3 consumption to your diat and leave the Omega 6 were they are - then you MUST find that it makes no difference and that Om,ega 3 "doie snot anything for you". Its wanted methodolocial bull to keep peopopel from caring for this issue,. They should buy precious healthy plant oils from corn, soy, and sunflower instead! Their Omega-6 levels will kill you over the years, slowly, but until then you serve as a productive financial source of money income for the industry running those monumental monocultures... Doesnt this add a valuable meaning to your life?

They spread fear by exaggerating the risks. Do not fall for that !

Be sick, pay much money for meds, and be a financially fertile and economically valuable patient. That is what the real name of the game is. Healthy you are of no economical use for the industry.

Edit:
There are quite some books helping you to get cured form your belief your doctor i8s infallible. This is one I happen to know. The author - is a doctor himself. He is not right with everything - hear hear! - but with most what he writes there. His comments on fibres however I would take with a grain of salt. I see fibres as disputed battleground, the debate is still open.



https://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Docto.../dp/162860378X

[Skybird]

From the American Amazon shop:





Look at the dose. 50,000 I.E.


Indeed, in the US, Netherlands, the UK, Vitamine D is freely sold at doses of up to 50,000 I.E. per pill. No prescription needed. To my knowledge, problems and scandals have not been reported with using such doses. As I said, however, I think taking higher doses than 20,000 per day only creates expensive urine, the body apparently is made tometabolize 20,000 per day - but not more. Beyond that level, a negative feedback loop gets activated that reduces Vitamine D production in the skin dramatically - and kills equal ammounts of Vitmaine D in existing fatcell reserves. As I see it you have no benefits from taking more than 20,000 per day (if you have no health conditions needing severla hundred thosuand units to actually get at least a small benefit from taking Vit-D.
This is a Swiss doctor specialising in Vitamine D high dose therapy in clinical contexts, I know a bit about him in a different context as well, I trust him. Its in German, sorry. Maybe subtitles and auto-translation does the job, I have not checked it.



The highest dose i can find at German amazon, is 20,000. I have a remaining stock of these, from my flooding phase last year. Will consume them over the next winter.

[Skybird]

On Cholesterol and Carbohydrate Reduction:




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/

Things are a bit different than just "high cholesterol cloggs your arteries". From some age on, higher cholesterol levels are even associated with smaller risks for death, whereas low levels that were considered "healthy " until some years ago seem to increase the risk for certain types of cancer and heart attacks.

If you want to check with your doctor, do not be satisfied with just learning total cholesterol levels, but ask for a specialised analysis of how your LDL is composed: how much small density LDL (sdLDL) and oxidated LDL (oxLDL) do you have (you want them to be low), and how is your HDL level (you want it to be rather high)? Big larticle LDL is not so much a cocnern, and that is what usually gets raised by cionsuming keto fatty diats and MCTs. sdLDL and oxLDL are the more relevant data.


Worth to remember: if you fast, or eat keto style and thus more healthy fats/oils, your LDL MUST rise, and it is wanted, because all the fat and lipids and keton bodies must get transported from the liver to the parts of the body where they are needed. Thats what the LDL does, whereas HDL works the other way around, collecting unused components and transporting them back to the liver for recycling. Think of it like christmas time. People raise the amounts of parcels due to the gifts and presents they sent, and so the mail and logistics services are more present with their vans on the street, they even do additonal shifts: you see more vans on the streets. Its just logical.

[Skybird]

Hope for celiac desease patients:


https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032441


In Germany, around 1 in 100 is affected. Just years ago, it were 1 in 500. A new generation of technical encymes used in industrial bread-baking, helping to reduce the fermentation times and thus not doing the job anymore that fermentation (and that means necessarily: time) is meant to do, has entered the industrial baking factories. I see at least a timely correlation with the increase in numbers of people being affected by celiac desease (and claimed Gluten sensitivity, which however is over-diagnosed by a factor of around 30) and digestive problems after having eaten such bread. These encymes are so incredibly potent that they must be dosed with a precision in the range of 1-2 mg per 1 ton of flour. Imagine what they do in your body if they are not properly mixed and evenly distributed, but reach your system accidentally in an even just marginally concentrated form.

Many people do not know that EVERY consummation of wheat leads to inflammatory events in the guts, every single bite of wheat. Its just that in the healthy person and with wheat in a properly treated form (long fermentation), these inflammations usually stay below a treshhold level (above which we indeed would notice them in form of pain in the guts).

Eat less cereals. I eat a loaf of bread, am done with it after 2 or 3 days - and then do not eat any bread for the coming 10 days or so. I love the taste of good, fresh bread, I will not completely abandon it therefore - but I have reduced the consummation levels, its no longer a daily food of mine (even more reocmmended sinc I aolos eat pizza... ). And if you do, eat cereals in a fermented form, and that means: longer fermentation times (doughs!) is better than short ones. Industry bread I would avoid, ready baking mixtures from the supermarket shelves for home baking I would avoid as well.



Thats one of the two reasons why I let my pizza doughs rest for 2-3 days (the other is improved elasticity and consistency of the dough, and a bit more of arome and a reduction of yeast and its unwanted taste). Its also the reason why after 3, 4 years of laziness I am moving back to baking my bread myself (which I did for over 25 years already, almost 30 years). I do not tolerate the baker's bread too well. Oh, it tastes good, some of them at least, but since I eat them, I have again and again ininflammatory events in my guts, pain that lasts for 1-3 days. When I do not eat this short-time-fermented bread, which happens a lot over the past 12+ months, I have no problems at all. And its not the gluten. I use lots of gluten for my own baking, since it improves the dough when I grind my own flour freshly: bread or pizza, you cannot get an elastic, soft, juicy dough without gluten). I use a household bread baking machine where you put in the ingredients and the rest does the machine. The problem is that its programmes has the bread ready 4-5 hours later - super short fermentation time, that means. Therefore, I interrupt the process, I let it work the dough and mix it for the initial 20 minutes or so - and then switch the machine off. I come back to it 18-24 hours later, and then activate directly the baking program. 25 hours this way, 4-5 hours the automatic program's way. Go figure.


In the old days, the use of sour dough was right about this: long fermentation times, and having the chemical agents and molecules by which the grain defends itself against its enemies eating it (us), getting neutrlaised. Toda,y this tiem is not invested anykore sinstea dhighly aggressiove encymes get used to skip it, and these encymes enter your system. Bon appetite, dont complain.

[Skybird]

Blaming those extra pounds on a slowing metabolism as you age? Not so fast.
A new international study counters the common belief that our metabolism inevitably declines during our adult lives. Well, not until we’re in our 60s, anyway.
Researchers found that metabolism peaks around age 1, when babies burn calories 50 percent faster than adults, and then gradually declines roughly 3 percent a year until around age 20. From there, metabolism plateaus until about age 60, when it starts to slowly decline again, by less than 1 percent annually, according to findings published Thursday in the journal Science.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...finds-n1276650


https://science.sciencemag.org/content/373/6556/808

[Skybird]

A prominent health issue: Cancer.

I just finished the latest book by Dr. Jason Fung, and it was probably the best I have red on the topic so far. British Amazon thus has it at 4.8 of 5.0 stars with over 700 filed reviews. Its really a very good view with a very reasonable though kind of "unusual" perspective. His arguments are, as always, solid and convincing. I give the link. Its available in German, too.

Good to learn that there are reallyreally good doctors out there as well.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cancer-Code...ps%2C66&sr=8-2

[Skybird]

A 40 minute give-and-take dialogue on the need and worth of nutrition supplements, between a former German radiologist and hospital chief physician who now specialises in preventive medicine and nutrition medicine, and a high-profile research pharmacologist. Its in German, sorry, you can see to what degree Youtube's English translation subtitles (in the options) do helpful magic for you.

[Skybird]

10 minute lecture by Dr. Brownstein:

Does Iodine Cause, Worsen, Treat or Improve Autoimmune Thyroid

[Skybird]

Today's Ioday.
Some more on Iodine again. The text has many aspects covered, some historical facts (you would not believe how high doses before WW2 were, used as daily standards!).


Interesting especially are the readers' comments at the bottom, becasue many, the majority of comments there seem to come from practicing doctors.





https://drprevent.com/iodine-its-a-biggie/

[Skybird]

OMEGA 6

Do you think you have 200 seconds of your precious time free? Then see this. It explains wonderfully brief and compact why I called and still call seed oils poisonous and health hazards and unsuited for human consumation.



heck, how much I owe to this man. All what I know about salt and fats and oils and fatty acids , I first learned from him. And my health says Thankyousir!

Note: oils from seeds, and fresh seeds are not the same, since fresh seeds include many plant sterols, flavonoids, secondary things, and so many more antioxidants and additonal things that the oil does not have. Also,oils oxidate, from oxygene, light, pressure, heat. If you think about taking oil from flaxseed - don't, but instead take a teaspoon of flaxseeds and crush them fresh in a mixer and eat them and swallow them with one or two sips of water, coffee, or in your yogurt or whatever. Same is true for sunflower seeds and the likes. Never the oils, alway prefer the full seeds, freshly crushed.


What to use for cooking, frying in the pan, you ask? Coconut oil. Butter ghee. For low temperature cooking: certain types of olive oils extra vergine are suitable for that, too, but you have to search them out, not every olive oil extra vergine can deal with the heat, the manufacturer usually advertises with the ability of the oil to deal higher temperatures, since most olive oils extra vergine cannot. Never use refined olive oils. If you like the taste: lard (Schweineschmalz), tallow (Rindertalg).


Note: coconut oil looses its coconut flavor when getting heated up, it becomes neutral in taste! No need to fear the strong taste of coconut.


And this man, unknown to me until today: could seed oils be the primary cause of civilizational deseases? Yes, you bet!

[Skybird]

SALT


And my other "hero", Dr. Jason Fung, on low salt diets, or better: the strong and unfortunately very influential publication bias. I am not shy on salt - and my cardiovascular variables went from "drug-supported" to "healthy". I had reduced my hypertension meds over the last years and almost reduced them - and since three weeks I am completely off - with normal blood pressure slightly below 120/80 and heart rate at rest down from 110+ for most of my life to now below 70! That was an 18 month process. My old doc, but the new one alike, find it hard to believe. But its real, and its results that hold.



So much, so very much speaks against the salt-hypertension theory, and this is known since decades. We have seen many nutrition paradigms come and go over the past 100 years, some of them got busted and revealed as wrong myths, but some still stay strong in place, unfortunately the low salt regime is one of them. But I call it one of the worst, even criminal nutrition policies ever, having done serious health damage to millions and millions over millions in the past decades, and having caused unimaginable financial costs in the health sector. And they still preach this lethal nonsense because some academics' great ego cannot stand to admit that for decades they have preached the wrong truths - or that they were bought by the industry.

The book you want to read is "The Salt Fix" by James DiNicolantonio. Until then: let the salt shaker dance on your table as you pleases! use a smuch as you find tasty. Feel no guilt. There are many wrongs in modern industrialised highly processed food products: bad fats, sugar, white flour and high carbo hydraztes - the salt content is none fo them. Its not about the salt - but the bad stuff you eat your salt with!

P.S. Most people seem to prefer, by mere taste, a daily dose around 7-16 grams of salt per day. But before we had refrigerators, people ate up to 80, 100, 120 grams of salt per day, in some places in North America and Europe up to 200 grams! And we have no historic reports about this having caused any form of "pandemic" cardiovascular problems. People had to drink more, and that was all! A healthy kidney is made for and is capable of processing several hundred times as much salt as modern man eats today, that is absolutely no problem! When refrigertos started their conquest of the households and electricty became widely distrubuted, salt consumation came down - and simultaneously the rate of cardiovascular desaeas and hypertzensioon went up, and steeply so! Why? Because the new tool in the kitchen allowed new eating habits and new food products. The cooling came in, the salt (from the brining) went out, the cardiovascular deaseases went up like a ballon.

Its not the salt - its what you eat the salt with!

I also say this: if you save on salt, you always pay a price in your health. The body reacts to it by reducing blood volume, the water then goes from the blood into the tissue, the periphery vascular tone increases, the heart has to work harder to get the now more viscous blood circulating through the now narrower blood vessels - your heart rate goes up, the heart has to pump heavier and more often. I saw it in my own life. I am down from unhealthy HR 110+ at rest for most of my life down to now very relaxed and healthy 70 and below. And that effect set in on the very same day I started to eat much more salt, the reaction followed within 10 hours or so! Having two eggs rolled in 6-7 grams of salt now is part of my late breakfast - additionally to the salt I eat over the day. Thats what I actually eat two eggs for - to get the extra dose of salt into my body.

[Skybird]

Depression, thyroid and iodine

7 minutes of insight. See this as a heads-up on that mental and mood problems and psychological issues not necessarily must or should be "tackled" by psychopharmaceuticals and heavily abused anti-depressants, but then also not only by endless talking therapoies and behavioural therapies, but - food, and nutrition. If I would still work as a ps<chologist today, I would not be a psychologist and therapist anymore, but most likely as a general counselor (to avoid legal probelksm with the law and health insurrances) with a strong focus also on nutrition (and Buddhist models of the human mind and consciousness). In New Zealand they have a "mental asylum" were they seem to treat patients not so much with drugs and medications, but with nutrition and supplements, and I do not talk just about neurosis and bad moods, but schizophrenia and worse. That is fascinating and amazing.