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In talking about scientific fraud, I wanted to provide as much information as possible in the hope that the overwhelming amount might encourage people to stop and think before blindly following the recommendations of a drug salesman aka doctor.
And then more information showed up so I am going to include that.
What I found significant is:
US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies.
Because we were intentionally targeted. The Brits never gave up their desire to retake the USA.
Despite all the hype about slavery, if you look you can see the fine Italian hand of the Brits and French who were hoping to grab the USA after the ‘colonials’ had exhausted themselves fighting each other. When they were about to make their move the Czar of Russia warned he would attack on behalf of the Americans, thwarting their plans. My reference for that bit of info is long gone but there is this.
…Russian and American interests quickly coalesced around the prevention of French and British interference in the Civil War. The British decision to recognize the belligerency of the Confederacy by declaring neutrality in May 1861 opened the possibility of recognition of the Confederate States of America as an independent nation. “England will take advantage of the first opportunity to recognize seceded states,” Stoeckl warned, “and France will follow her.”…
Czar Alexander-II
After the American Civil War you had the assassinations of Lincoln (April 14, 1865) and the Czar of Russia ( March 13, 1881) Both can be traced to British influence. In 1913 we had a covert overthrow of our government (Federal Reserve Act) and in 1917 the Russian Revolution facilitated by the same bankers. Meanwhile in the middle of all of this the Fabian Society was founded on 4 January 1884 in London. A decade later in 1895 the Fabian Society founded the London School of Economics which has been training world leaders ever since. John Dewey – “father” of progressive education was a member of the American Fabian Society. And helped establish it in 1895.
At that point the switch was made to a gradual destruction of the USA instead of a frontal assault.
I am often asked to name those educators responsible for the change in primary reading instruction which has led to the decline of literacy in America. People ask this because by the time they understand the history of the reading problem and of the dumbing down process that has been going on in our public schools for the past forty years, they recognize that all of this is not the result of a series of accidents but of conscious, deliberate decisions made by our educational leaders.
After twenty-five years of research, I can state with complete confidence that the prime mover in all of this was none other than John Dewey who is usually characterized as the father of progressive education. Yet the change of the teaching of reading is probably Dewey’s greatest contribution to the tranformation of American education from an academically oriented process to a social one.
The progressives were a new breed of educator that came on the scene around the turn of the century. These rejected the religion of the Bible and placed their new faith in science, evolution and psychology. Indeed, men like G. Stanley Hall, James McKeen Cattell, Charles Judd, James Earl Russell traveled to Germany to study the new psychology under Prof. Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig. It was these men who later imposed the new psychology on American education and transformed it permanently from its academic function to one dedicated to behavioral change.
John Dewey got his education in the new psychology under G. Stanley Hall at John Hopkins University. In 1887, at the tender age of 28, Dewey felt that he knew enough about psychology to be able to write a textbook on the subject, entitled fittingly Psychology. In 1894, Dewey was appointed head of the department of philosophy, psychology and education at the University of Chicago which had been established two years earlier by a gift from John D. Rockefeller. In 1896, Dewey created his famous experimental Laboratory School where he could test the effects of the new psychology on real live children.
Dewey’s philosophy had evolved from Hegelian idealism to socialist materialism, and the purpose of the school was to show how education could be changed to produce little socialists and collectivists instead of little capitalists and individualists. It was expected that these little socialists, when they became voting adults, would dutifully change the American economic system into a socialist one.
In order to do so he analyzed the traditional curriculum that sustained the capitalist, individualistic system and found what he believed was the sustaining linchpin — that is, the key element that held the entire system together: high literacy. To Dewey, the greatest obstacle to socialism was the private mind that seeks knowledge in order to exercise its own private judgment and intellectual authority. High literacy gave the individual the means to seek knowledge independently. It gave individuals the means to stand on their own two feet and think for themselves. This was detrimental to the “social spirit” needed to bring about a collectivist society…
The rest of that article is even more damning. Our education system was deliberately poisoned by the Fabians.
Antonio Gramscitook over where John Dewey left off. (H/T to the Q-treeper that brought this to the tree.)
In 1924, it was created as part of Frankfort University, the Institute for Social Research. One of its founders was Max Horkheimer and its director since 1930. They will also be part of this group thinkers such as Adorno, Marcuse and Erich Fromm (who will then distance himself from the school).
The Nazi persecution in 1934 resulted in the transfer of the Institute to Columbia University in New York (Horkheimer, Marcuse and Fromm were of Jewish origin) and although some of its members would return to Frankfort at the end of the war, others, such as Marcuse, will choose to stay in the USA. In this second stage, it will be its directors Adorno and Habermas, who will be the main representative of the school from 1956.
The Institute for Social Research emerges in a clear Marxist line…
The Frankfurt School adopted an interdisciplinary persepective, adding approaches not only from philosophy but also from sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis, Protestant theology and criticism of culture and art. These are, therefore, studies of “social theory”. The works produced by the Frankfort school are known as “Critical Theory”: it is not a system of doctrines but a particular methodological conception.
Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century. Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions. Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.
1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.
2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.
3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own…
And so we have the destruction of the independent thinking mind. Followed by utter crap science such as Global Warming and 72 genders. I kid you not
MedicineNet — How Many Genders Are There? All 72 Genders List“How many genders are there? Besides male and female, here is a list of all 72 other gender identities that a person may belong to. How can I help my child understand gender?” This is actually written by MDs!
From my point of view, I see this as when the government got into using OUR tax dollars to fund THEIR pet projects.
Background Information: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) traces its origins to World War II and the Manhattan Project effort to build the first atomic bomb. As the direct descendent of the Manhattan Engineer District, the organization set up by the Army Corps of Engineers to develop and build the bomb, the Department continues to own and manage the Federal properties at most of the major Manhattan Project sites, including Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico.
In a national survey at the turn of the millennium, both journalists and the public ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb and the end of the Second World War as the top news stories of the twentieth century. The Manhattan Project is the story of some of the most renowned scientists of the century combining with industry, the military, and tens of thousands of ordinary Americans working at sites across the country to translate original scientific discoveries into an entirely new kind of weapon. When the existence of this nationwide, secret project was revealed to the American people following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most were astounded to learn that such a far-flung, government-run, top-secret operation existed, with physical properties, payroll, and a labor force comparable to the automotive industry. At its peak, the project employed 130,000 workers and, by the end of the war, had spent $2.2 billion.
The legacy of the Manhattan Project is immense. The advent of nuclear weapons not only helped bring an end to the Second World War but ushered in the atomic age and determined how the next war, the Cold War, would be fought. In addition, the Manhattan Project became the organizational model behind the remarkable achievements of American “big science” during the second half of the twentieth century. Without the Manhattan Project, DOE, with its national laboratories — the jewels in the crown of the nation’s science establishment, would not exist as it does in its present form…
Did you catch that?
In addition, the Manhattan Project became the organizational model behind the remarkable achievements of American “big science” during the second half of the twentieth century. Without the Manhattan Project, DOE, with its national laboratories — the jewels in the crown of the nation’s science establishment, would not exist as it does in its present form.
(Remember the Frankfurt School moved to Columbia University.)
Universities have come to rely on federal funding to support scientific and medical research. How did we get here?…
Columbia history professor Alma Steingart ’06GS recently provided some answers. From her office in Fayerweather Hall, Steingart, who studies how mathematical thought and computer technology have influenced US electoral politics, explained that government science funding as we know it began in the mid-twentieth century. Before World War II, she said, research money at universities came primarily from donors and private foundations; but during the war, the US Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) began funding research aimed at gaining military advantage. The development of the atomic bomb, known as the Manhattan Project, in which Columbia physicists played a key role, was one major investment.
After the war, Vannevar Bush ’47HON, the former dean of MIT’s engineering school and the head of OSRD, called on the US to fund basic research in the physical and medical sciences in order to ensure American strength and progress. “There was a realization that there was no going back to the previous model,” said Steingart. “The debate was whether federal funds should be used for basic science or applied science. Many scientists felt that developing science around particular goals was limiting, and Bush successfully made the case that it was basic research that led to discoveries and applications that would help the country.”Bush’s advocacy led to the creation of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1950.
Then, in 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. “That was a critical moment,” said Steingart. Within a year, the NSF budget more than tripled, from $40 million to $134 million. Meanwhile, other government agencies, such as the Atomic Energy Commission and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, noting that basic science was already being funded, began to direct money toward applied research.
“With the Cold War came the idea that you needed an army of engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and chemists in order to keep pace with the Soviet Union,” Steingart said. “Remember, the NSF doesn’t just fund research. It also funds postdoctoral fellowships and PhD fellowships. And so in the 1960s, the number of PhDs greatly expanded — which meant that universities expanded, and so did their expenditures.”…
This handout was created for the AHA’s December 11, 2025, Congressional Briefing on the history of federal science funding. Panelists Melinda Baldwin (Univ. of Maryland), Arthur Daemmrich (Arizona State Univ.), and Bhaven Sampat (Johns Hopkins Univ.) discussed the history of the federal government’s approach toward science in public policy, and how the government has supported and funded scientific research and innovation over time.
1790–1900: Building Practical Science and National Capacity
1790 – Congress passes the first US patent act, encouraging invention and creating a new system of intellectual property.
1803 – Congress funds the Lewis & Clark expedition, which maps the West, identifies plant and animal species, and describes unique geologic formations.
1807 – The US Coast Survey becomes the first civilian scientific agency, supporting navigation and defense.
1843 – Congress funds Samuel Morse’s telegraph demonstration line through a $30,000 appropriation, helping launch US telecommunications.
1846 – Congress establishes the Smithsonian Institution as a public-private partnership. It quickly becomes a center for research and public science and later evolves into a museum complex.
1840s–90s – Scientific associations including the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the Geological Society of American (GSA) are founded, strengthening the nation’s scientific community… [Continues with a long list –GC]
Note during the early years it is CONGRESS funding specific projects. Now that duty is handed off to bureaucrats along with buckets of cash.
American Historical Association Congressional Briefing: History of Federal Science Funding (1 hour)
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Sep 24, 2019
“Evidence-based medicine is actually so corrupt as to be useless or harmful,” Marcia Angell wrote in 2009. The statement was less a revelation than something many already knew, but it made waves because of its source. Angell, a medical insider, had spent two decades as the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Jason Fung is also a medical insider who has become wary of scientific research that purports to be “evidence based.” A well-known nephrologist and author, Fung often speaks about Type-2 diabetes reversal and the metabolic effects of intermittent fasting, but in this presentation from Dec. 15, 2018, he turns his focus toward the many ways the foundations of evidence-based medicine have become corrupted by financial conflicts of interest. The first conflicts of interest he highlights pertain to the corruption of doctors. Practicing physicians who accept gifts from Big Pharma are 225-335% more likely to prescribe drugs from the gift-giving company than those who do not, Fung explains.
The corruption of doctors in prestigious universities is even worse, he claims. “There’s a clear correlation: The more prestigious a doctor, the more money they’re getting from the pharmaceutical.” Anecdotally, he says, this means you may be better off seeking medical advice from a family physician than from a Harvard professor; the former probably just accepted a $10 pen from Big Pharma while the latter is on the take for $500,000. “It just is a terrible system,” he says. “Yet, these people are the people that are in the newspaper. They’re the ones that are teaching medical students, are the ones who are teaching the — the dietitians, the pharmacist — everybody.” The most insidious corruption affects the published research on particular drugs. Fung highlights the influence industry can have when it finds a medical journal editor willing to take its money. Another problem arises in the form of industry-funded medical research.
This conflict of interest leads to the selective publication of positive trials, which can skew the science on particular drugs and lead to unnecessary or even dangerous overprescription. Fung notes how statin prescriptions illustrate the scope of this particular problem. “We accept this of drug companies … but the problem is that people die,” Fung says. He later adds: “You can make arguments that sugar is a health food, that opioids are good for you … but it harms patients, and we always have to remember that at the end of the day, this is not why we became doctors. The reason we became doctors was to help people, but we’re not until we kind of set those same rules as everybody else.” (49 minute video)
Investigators from the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector Generalfound that some of the regulator’s employeessurfed erotic websites, hired prostitutes and accepted gifts from bank executives … instead of actually working to help the economy
The Minerals Management Service – the regulator charged with overseeing BP and other oil companies to ensure that oil spills don’t occur – was riddled with “a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity”, which included “sex with industry contacts”
Agents for the Drug Enforcement Agencyhad dozens of sex parties with prostitutes hired by the drug cartels they were supposed to stop (they also received money, giftsand weapons from drug cartel members)
The former chief accountant for the SEC says thatBernanke and Paulson broke the law and should be prosecuted
The governmentknew about mortgage fraud a long time ago. For example, the FBI warned of an “epidemic” of mortgage fraud in 2004. However, the FBI, DOJ and other government agencies then stood down and did nothing. See this and this. For example, the Federal Reserve turned its cheek and allowed massive fraud, and the SEC has repeatedly ignored accounting fraud. Indeed, Alan Greenspan took the position that fraud could never happen…
And it goes on and on. This is the cesspool President Trump waded into in 2017. With that type of bureaucrat in charge of handing out grants, is it any wonder US science is riddled with fraud?
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In talking about scientific fraud, I want to start with a comment made by TheseTruthsLINK.
If you didn’t already have enough reasons to distrust Dr. Anthony Fauci, here’s a new one, and it’s a doozy.
Newly disclosed documents reveal that Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had a formal institutional partnership with the CIA, one that provided cover for the agency’s biological-threat research. This goes well beyond the previously known off-the-books meetings tied to the Wuhan lab origins controversy. Fauci’s ties to American intelligence run far deeper than anyone outside a handful of investigators realized….
Anthony Stephen Fauci (born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022 and as Chief Medical Advisor to the President from 2021 to 2022. He was one of the world’s most frequently cited scientists across all scientific journals from 1983 to 2002.
In 1984 Ronald Reagan was re-elected and his VP was George H. W. Bush of the CIA.
Since the FDA, USDA, EPA and other bureaucracies use ‘The Science ™‘ to validate their regulations I wanted to look at the history of the destruction of science over the last century.
1964 — The Problem-Solving Method They Removed From Every Textbook
In 1964, Richard Feynman was the only person on California’s textbook commission who actually read the textbooks. What he found should have ended careers — publishers sending blank books that still received ratings, first-grade science texts teaching children nothing but empty vocabulary, and an entire system designed to reward memorization over real understanding.This video breaks down Feynman’s forgotten problem-solving framework — the same approach he used to win the Nobel Prize, expose broken education systems from California to Brazil, and coin the term “Cargo Cult Science” in his legendary 1974 Caltech commencement speech.You’ll learn his 12 favorite problems technique (explained by mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota), why estimating before calculating is the single most underrated thinking skill, and how to tell the difference between someone who memorized the answer and someone who actually understands the problem — a distinction that matters more now than ever, because AI can memorize everything, but it can’t think from scratch.
If you’ve ever felt out of step with the system — at school, at work, in a meeting where nobody could answer the question that wasn’t on the slides — this video explains why. And it gives you a method to fix it tonight.🔹 Drop your own “label instead of an explanation” moment in the comments.——————————————————📖
Sources & Further Reading:
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” — Chapters: “Judging Books by Their Covers” & “O Americano, Outra Vez!” (W.W. Norton, 1985) “What is Science?” — Feynman’s Address to the National Science Teachers Association, 1966 “Cargo Cult Science” — Caltech Commencement Address, 1974 “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman” — James Gleick (Pantheon, 1992) Gian-Carlo Rota — “Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught,” Lecture, 1996
I cut the most useful part of Feynman’s method out of this video — it needed pages, not minutes. It’s the test he used to check whether he actually understood something or had only learned its name. Three questions, about 90 seconds, and it fails almost everything most people think they know. That, plus the full 12 Favorite Problems system, is in The Feynman Field Guide to Clear Thinking: https://feynmanarchives.com/
Disclaimer: This video is for educational and informational purposes only. The views expressed are based on publicly available historical sources and the creator’s interpretation. This content does not constitute professional advice in education, career development, or any other field. Always conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals for specific decisions.
Part of the Transcript:
16:37
The reason you always felt out of step with the system is because the system was designed to produce the opposite of you.It produces people who follow the process perfectly right up until reality changes and then they freeze. You’ve seen it in hiring. The candidate with the perfect resume who can’t answer a simple what-if question in the interview. You’ve seen it in leadership. The director who can quote the strategy deck word for word but goes blank when a client throws a curveball.
The system trained them to memorize the runway, not to fly the plane.
Feynman left behind the method the system tried to bury.
— 12 problems always alive.
— Strip every claim down to what you can check.
— Estimate before you calculate.
— Test your understanding by rephrasing the question.
— If you can’t answer it in different words, you never understood it in the first place.
That’s it. That’s what they removed. And now you have it back.
But Feynman’s war on the textbooks exposed something bigger than bad education. He found the same pattern in science, in hiring, in way entire industries collapse when nobody inside them can think from scratch. And when he called it out by name, in front of the most powerful people in the room, they didn’t thank him. [Managed decline anyone? -GC]
The Deal That Reshaped the Market: Maxwell Buys Macmillan and Joins McGraw‑Hill
Robert Maxwell purchased Macmillan Inc. in the late 1980s, a transaction that positioned him as owner of one of the United States’ largest textbook publishers at the time; reporting from the period documents the acquisition and the creation of a joint venture combining Macmillan’s school publishing units with McGraw‑Hill’s to form Macmillan/McGraw‑Hill School Publishing Co. in 1989, a company that became the second‑largest U.S. textbook publisher [1][2]. The joint venture pooled Macmillan imprints like Glencoe and units such as Science Research Associates (SRA) into a single school publishing operation, reflecting Maxwell’s strategy of consolidating academic and educational assets under his Maxwell Communication Corporation umbrella, and contemporary sources note that McGraw‑Hill assumed sole ownership of the joint operation by 1993 after Maxwell’s death, indicating the Maxwell family no longer retained operational control
𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘅𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹, [𝗚𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘅𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝗱] 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 AND DESTROYED IT.
Eye of the Storm Ep. 138 (Badlands)
1:04:20: They show a clip from The Joe Rogan Experience (3 min clip)
ERIC: … Maxwell figured out how to DESTROY SCIENCE and MAKE A FORTUNE. So he diluted the quality of the editorship of the leading journals. This was a high quality informal enterprise. Now most of the destruction of science in terms of how high quality it used to be, has taken place relatively recently. POST ROBERT MAXWELL. Because we now have an enormous number of journals staffed by people who can’t spot publication cartels, where we agree to cite each others work and we agree to publish stuff, you know Pay for Play. ALL the nonsense you see with irreproducible research…
The peer review thing got woven in so that people think that the scientific method and peer review ARE THE SAME THING. Where ONE IS THE UNWANTED INFECTION FROM THE BIOLOGICAL BIOMEDICAL UNIVERSE, which had peer review much longer than anything else…”
From the article:
One of these ideas is what he calls👉the DISC (Distributed Idea Suppression Complex) which explains how disruptive and innovative ideas that challenge the status quo are suppressed.👈 Keeping institutions safe from individuals who create change….
Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, that published scientific and medical books and journals. Originally called Butterworth-Springer, it is now an imprint of Elsevier.
History
The core company, Butterworth-Springer, started in 1948 to bring the “Springer know-how and techniques of aggressive publishing in science”[1] to Britain. Paul Rosbaud was the man with the knowledge. When Maxwell acquired the company in 1951, Rosbaud held a one-quarter share.[1] They changed the house name to Pergamon Press, using a logo that was a reproduction of a Greek coin from Pergamon. Maxwell and Rosbaud worked together growing the company until May 1956, when, according to Joe Haines, Rosbaud was sacked….
Proving that unpaid anonymous review is worth every cent, the 217 year old Wiley science publisher “peer reviewed” 11,300 papers that were fake, and didn’t even notice. It’s not just a scam, it’s an industry. Naked “gobbledygook sandwiches” got past peer review, and the expert reviewers didn’t so much as blink.
Big Government and Big Money has captured science and strangled it. The more money they pour in, the worse it gets. John Wiley and Sons is a US $2 billion dollar machine, but they got used by criminal gangs to launder fake “science” as something real.
Things are so bad, fake scientists pay professional cheating services who use AI to create papers and torture the words so they look “original”. Thus a paper on ‘breast cancer’ becomes a discovery about “bosom peril” and a ‘naïve Bayes’ classifier became a ‘gullible Bayes’. An ant colony was labeled an ‘underground creepy crawly state’.
And what do we make of the flag to clamor ratio? Well, old fashioned scientists might call it ‘signal to noise’. The nonsense never ends….
But this is not really about the recent virus; it goes back a very long time. Scientific fraud — not accident, not error, intentional misrepresentation — has been all over medicine and specifically pharmaceutical trials for decades.
Cuppa
November 2020 — External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results
[I get access denied due to rapid clicks…?? So here is the archived version LINK – GC]
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Here are ‘Peer-Reviewed” studies and comments from medical journal editors. My list is so long I am going to cut it in half and put the rest in my next article. However since this type of information has a tendency to disappear, I want it documented.
US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies.Fraudsters are also more likely to be “repeat offenders,” the study shows.
Summary
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false.The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other studies on the same question, and, importantly, the ratio of true to no relationships among the relationships probed in each scientific field. In this framework, a research finding is less likely to be true when the studies conducted in a field are smaller; when effect sizes are smaller; when there is a greater number and lesser preselection of tested relationships; where there is greater flexibility in designs, definitions, outcomes, and analytical modes; when there is greater financial and other interest and prejudice; and when more teams are involved in a scientific field in chase of statistical significance. Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias…..
….A pooled weightedaverage of 1.97%(N = 7, 95%CI: 0.86–4.45) ofscientists admitted to have fabricated, falsified or modified dataor results at least once –a serious form of misconduct by any standard– and up to33.7% admitted other questionable research practices. In surveysasking about the behaviour of colleagues, admission rates were14.12%< (N = 12, 95% CI: 9.91–19.72)for falsification, and up to 72% for other questionable research practices.Meta-regression showed that self reports surveys, surveys using the words “falsification” or “fabrication”, and mailed surveys yielded lower percentages of misconduct. When these factors were controlled for,misconduct was reported more frequently by medical/pharmacological researchers than others.
Considering that these surveys ask sensitive questions and have other limitations, it appears likely that this is a conservative estimate of the true prevalence of scientific misconduct.
As we said in December, an e-patient essential is sorting out what writings to trust, whether we find them online or in print. There’s an important update on this in the New York Timestoday, an interviewwith Marcia Angell MD, an author we’ve quoted before, and her husband Dr. Arnold Relman – both long-time editors of one of the world’s top journals, the New England Journal of Medicine. It contains some eye-poppers.
In 2009, as I was just starting to get educated about healthcare, I posted A Quote I Won’t Soon Forget, which began:
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Dana Blankenhorn of the ZDNet health blog called it “a bombshell.” I couldn’t agree more. And I must say, with all the smart people in this community, why on earth haven’t we heard more about this??
And how on earth are we supposed to be empowered participatory patients if we can’t trust the world’s leading journal?
It echoed Richard Smith, 25 year editor of another top-tier journal (the British Medical Journal), in the first issue of our Journal of Participatory Medicine:
…most of what appears in peer-reviewed journals is scientifically weak.
This is no small issue in the life of an engaged patient. e-Patients who bring googled articles to their office visits are often lambasted or subjected to eye-rolls by clinicians who say that we should only trust academic medical journals. But can we trust them??
We got a rude update on why published science is shaky in our January 2011 post The Decline Effect: most published studies are never replicated by another lab! That’s absurd – heck, in high school I couldn’t get a science experiment passed if it wasn’t reproducible, but our journals do that??….
Every year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspects several hundred clinical sites performing biomedical research on human participants and occasionally finds evidence of substantial departures from good clinical practice and research misconduct. However, the FDA has no systematic method of communicating these findings to the scientific community, leaving open the possibility that research misconduct detected by a government agency goes unremarked in the peer-reviewed literature….
Objectives
To identify published clinical trials in which an FDA inspection found significant evidence of objectionable conditions or practices, to describe violations, and to determine whether the violations are mentioned in the peer-reviewed literature.
Design and Setting
Cross-sectional analysis of publicly available documents, dated from January 1, 1998, to September 30, 2013, describing FDA inspections of clinical trial sites in which significant evidence of objectionable conditions or practices was found.
Results:Fifty-seven published clinical trials were identified for which an FDA inspection of a trial site had found significant evidence of 1 or more of the following problems:
falsification or submission of false information, 22 trials (39%);
problems with adverse events reporting, 14 trials (25%);
protocol violations, 42 trials (74%);
inadequate or inaccurate recordkeeping, 35 trials (61%);
failure to protect the safety of patients and/or issues with oversight or informed consent, 30 trials (53%);
and violations not otherwise categorized, 20 trials (35%).
Only 3 of the 78 publications (4%) that resulted from trials in which the FDA found significant violations mentioned the objectionable conditions or practices found during the inspection. No corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other comments acknowledging the key issues identified by the inspection were subsequently published.
Conclusions and Relevance
When the FDA finds significant departures from good clinical practice, those findings are seldom reflected in the peer-reviewed literature, even when there is evidence of data fabrication or other forms of research misconduct.
A decade ago, I wrote in another blog “Blogs are now performing the important tasks of scrutinizing papers and conclusions often finding gross mistakes.” That is probably one of the reasons we were shut up during Covid.
Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”. The Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have now put their reputational weight behind an investigation into these questionable research practices. The apparent endemicity [i.e. pervasiveness within the scientific culture] of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of “significance” pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale….
Similarly, the editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell, wrote in 2009:
(Original Article I quote below has vanished… imagine that!)
….It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine….
In fact, in October 2017, Angell went further – she published an article in the New York Review of books entitled,‘Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption.’
This article in The New York Review of Books, by Marcia Angell, details the growing concern over the colonization of the medical profession by pharmaceutical companies
The NY Review article is paywalled. Archived Version can be read.
I am going to stop here and continue next week so you focus on reading the last 3 articles. They are DAMNING especially since Angell, spent two decades as the editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Of interest: Israel Planted a 2,000-Year-Old Seed From an Extinct DatePalmVariety
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Why isn’t our grant money going into cloning these very valuable trees instead of money going to idiotic stuff like, Shrimp on a treadmill[$1.3 million], Robotic squirrel vs. rattlesnakes[$390,000] and aSmart toilet / “analprint” camera system [$7 million]LINKCancel those three and I would think there is plenty of money for cloning.
A children’s book about these trees is available. The Miracle Seed by Martin Lemelman; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdman’s Books for Young Readers (c) 2023; ISBN 9780802-855909; 71 pages; $18.99 on Amazon
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Since I think this is an important point, I want to continue the discussion about Sama Hoole’s tweet. It is a tweet about colon cancer and establishment lies. After I finished uploading this article I realized these has other major ramifications aside from weakening the serf class. Does Vegan/Vegetarian brain shrinkage and malnutrition contribute to left wing hysteria and lack of critical thinking skills especially in the women?
RFK Jr. pointed at the colon cancer figures in young adults this week, and within about four hours the response had arranged itself into the same two instructions we have been issued since 1982. Eat less red meat. Eat more fibre.
I made a one liner explanation to each part in this comment for Scott. Scott responded but I did not see the responses until the next day. Hence this article since my response is a bit long.
RFK Jr. pointed at the colon cancer figures in young adults this week, and within about four hours the response had arranged itself into the same two instructions we have been issued since 1982. Eat less red meat. Eat more fibre.
Translation: we are getting the same crappy advice as always.
Red meat has a scheduling problem. American beef consumption peaked in 1976 and has fallen by roughly a third since. The generation now being diagnosed at thirty-five ate less of it than any generation of the last century, while early-onset colorectal cancer doubled in two decades. A suspect who has been leaving town for fifty years, still in the dock, still not asked to explain himself.
Translation: It can not be beef because beef consumption has dropped since 1976.
Fibre did worse. They ran it properly, twice, in two countries, thousands of people, years of wheat bran and extra fruit and veg, watching for polyps. The polyps came back at exactly the same rate as in the people eating none of it. Nobody withdrew the advice. Nobody ever does.
Translation: Fibre makes ZERO difference and they have the studies to prove it.
Then last year a team sequenced 981 tumours from eleven countries. Certain E. coli strains make
a toxin called colibactin, which snaps both strands of DNA and leaves a signature so distinctive you can read it off a tumour decades later. In patients diagnosed under forty it turns up 3.3 times more often than in patients over seventy.
Translation: They found the culprit, a toxin called colibactin that snaps strands of DNA.
And they could date it. The mutations were laid down in the first ten years of life. So the damage that produces a tumour at thirty-five was done before that person was old enough to buy anything, choose anything or cook anything. Whatever they had for lunch last Tuesday is not in the frame and never was. Colibactin is also pathetically short lived. It only works on contact. The bacterium has to be physically pressed against the colon lining, and it cannot get there, because the inner mucus layer is a sterile exclusion zone that holds the entire microbiome at arm’s length. Something has to take that barrier down.
Translation: The toxin did it’s dirty work in the 1st ten years of life. However there is a mucus lining that SHOULD prevent the toxin from getting next to the colon lining.
Carboxymethylcellulose. Polysorbate 80. Industrial detergents, filed under emulsifiers, because emulsifier sounds like something a chef does. They are in the ice cream, the bread, the sauces, the protein bars and most of what gets handed to a child. Feed carboxymethylcellulose to healthy adults under supervision and you can watch their bacteria move in and take up residence against the wall.
The toxin is thousands of years old. The barrier it has to get through is the thing that changed, it is on the label, and everybody in this argument is busy discussing a steak.
Translation: It is Polysorbate 80, a detergent/emulsifier, a common ingredient in processed food that lets the toxin get pass the mucus barrier and cause cancer.
AND it is NOT being banned from food.
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In one reply to my comment Scott said:
I had no idea what that meant. If the suspected cause of colorectal cancer is beef, and beef consumption has been dropping for 50 years (leaving town), the rest of it I’m not sure about.
If beef is ‘in the dock’, that seems like a court/trial reference, so beef is on trial, but not asked to explain himself?
What is there for beef (the suspect) to explain, if beef isn’t the cause of colorectal cancer?
It’s just confusing (to me!).
I did not realize that Scott was unaware of the constant targeting of beef by the Cabal.
A couple decades ago the Fake News was screaming Red Meat causes cancer!! Then they said Cow Farts (belches) cause Global Warming!!!
The media and blogosphere are abuzz with the latest report from the WHO, which classified cured and processed meats as carcinogens and put them in the same category as asbestos, alcohol, arsenic, and tobacco. But what does the research really tell us about the link between red meat and cancer?
Well, here we go again. Each year, like clockwork, the conventional medical establishment mounts an attack against red meat.
For decades, we were told not to eat it because of the cholesterol and saturated fat it contains. When that argument became less convincing, a new one was offered: we shouldn’t eat red meat because it increases production of a compound called TMAO, which causes heart attacks.
Now we’re being told not to eat red meat—and especially cured and processed meat—because it will give us cancer. In a recent report, the World Health Organization (WHO) ranked bacon, sausage, and other cured and processed meats as “group 1 carcinogens,” which puts them in the same category as tobacco, asbestos, alcohol, and arsenic. It also placed fresh red meat in the “group 2A” category, which suggests that it is “probably carcinogenic” to humans.
Of course, this isn’t a new argument; it’s been around for at least 40 years. As far back as 1975, scientists speculated that the consumption of animal products was linked to cancer. (1)
Note that it is again the magic 1970s decade.
So WHY the targeting? Because a large, Strong, SMART serf class is NOT what the Globalists wantfor their New World Order.
There is overwhelming evidence that we can not be a vegetarian species. In 1972 the publication of two independent investigations confirmed this.[1] [2] They concerned fats. About half our brain and nervous system is composed of complicated, long-chain, fatty acids. These are also used in the walls of our blood vessels. Without them we cannot develop normally. These fatty acids do not occur in plants, although fatty acids in a simpler form do. This is where plant-eating herbivores come in. Over the year, the herbivores convert the simple fatty acids found in grasses and seeds into intermediate, more complicated forms. By eating the herbivores we can convert their stores of these fatty acids into the ones we need…
[long discussion]
Using tests and brain scans on community-dwelling volunteers aged 61 to 87 years without cognitive impairment at enrolment, they measured the size of the participants’ brains. When the volunteers were retested five years later the scientists found those with the lowest levels of vitamin B12 intake were the most likely to have brain shrinkage. Not surprisingly, vegans who eschew all foods of animal origin, suffered the most brain shrinkage. This confirms earlier research showing a link between brain atrophy and low levels of B12.
Vegans are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish.
Confirmation of this was provided the following year by another study by the Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing, the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, UK.[19] Noting that vitamin B-12 deficiency is often associated with cognitive deficits, they reviewed evidence that cognition in the elderly may also be adversely affected at concentrations of vitamin B-12 above the traditional cutoffs for deficiency. Their suggestion is that the elderly in particular should be encouraged to maintain a good, rather than just an adequate, vitamin B-12 status by dietary means.
Conclusion
It is obvious that we need to be eating more, not less, meat and animal-sourced foods.
If vegetarians — and vegans in particular — berate you for ‘murdering’ and eating animals, please be kind to them. They are almost certainly suffering from self-inflicted brain atrophy, and have little recognition of both the damage they are doing to themselves and the harm that are doing to others who follow their advice.
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[They are talking about adults who gave up eating meat, not babies or children. — GC]
Well, this explains a lot. (Just kidding.) There is a theory that eating meat is one reason why human beings developed our bigger brains. Now, credence might be added to that hypothesis with a study that shows non meat eating might actually shrink the brain.
Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage.
Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anaemia and inflammation of the nervous system. Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin.
The link was discovered by Oxford University scientists who used memory tests, physical checks and brain scans to examine 107 people between the ages of 61 and 87.
When the volunteers were retested five years later the medics found those with the lowest levels of vitamin B12 were also the most likely to have brain shrinkage. It confirms earlier research showing a link between brain atrophy and low levels of B12.
Although, as the story states, supplements are available, according to The Vegetarian Society, they have not been proved to be effective...
Birthweights in the US are falling but no one knows why, according to a study of 36.8 million infants born between 1990 and 2005.
A 52-gram drop in the weight of full-term singletons – from an average of 3.441 to 3.389 kilograms – has left Emily Oken’s team at Harvard Medical School scratching their heads. It can’t be accounted for by an increase in caesarean sections or induced labours, which shorten gestation. What’s more, women in the US now smoke less and gain more weight during pregnancy, which should make babies heavier. Oken suggests that unmeasured factors, such as diet or exercise, could explain why babies are being born lighter.
“For your average baby, 50 grams probably makes no difference at all,” she stresses. But those born substantially lighter could be at increased risk of heart disease and diabetes later in life.
Red meat is long established as an important dietary source of protein and essential nutrients including iron, zinc and vitamin B12, yet recent reports that its consumption may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and colon cancer have led to a negative perception of the role of red meat in health. The aim of this paper is to review existing literature for both the risks and benefits of red meat consumption, focusing on case–control and prospective studies. Despite many studies reporting an association between red meat and the risk of CVD and colon cancer, several methodological limitations and inconsistencies were identified which may impact on the validity of their findings.
Overall, there is no strong evidence to support the recent conclusion from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) report that red meat has a convincing role to play in colon cancer. [Well Surprise, Surprise! –GC]
A substantial amount of evidence supports the role of lean red meat as a positive moderator of lipid profiles with recent studies identifying it as a dietary source of the anti-inflammatory long chain (LC) n−3 PUFAs and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). In conclusion, moderate consumption of lean red meat as part of a balanced diet is unlikely to increase risk for CVD or colon cancer, but may positively influence nutrient intakes and fatty acid profiles, thereby impacting positively on long-term health.
In 1968, Dobbing (1) suggested that there were vulnerable periods of neurological development that coincided with times of maximal brain growth. These periods begin during foetal development at around the 25th week of gestation and continue for the first two years of postnatal life. Nutrient deficiencies occurring during these vulnerable periods may well have an impact upon brain growth and, hence, neurological and psychomotor development. (1)
These nutrient deficits have subsequently been shown to result in more functional deficiencies rather than physical abnormalities. Not only is optimal nutrition essential for achieving optimal physical and psychosocial development, but it also appears to have significant disease implications for later in adult life. Barker and his epidemiology group in the UK proposed that not only intrauterine malnutrition, but also poor weight gain in the first year of life, was associated with an increased incidence of cardiovascular disease (particularly in adults aged >50 years), hypertension and glucose intolerance during adulthood. (2) Their retrospective, epidemiological report has been supported by several studies on the Netherlands famine during World War II…
What ten thousand years of bones have been trying to tell us
Consider, for a moment, the humble skeleton.
It cannot be lobbied. It does not receive research grants from the soy industry. It has never appeared on a podcast to promote its new book about plant-based longevity. It just sits there, in its glass case in its museum, holding the shape of a life, and telling you exactly what that life was made of.
Bone is a biological ledger. Every year of growth leaves a record: how much protein was available, how well the body processed it, whether the raw materials were there in sufficient quantity and quality to build a full human being. You cannot retrospectively alter the record. You cannot claim the skeleton would have been taller if only the methodology had been different. The numbers are in the ground. They have been in the ground for thousands of years. And they do not care about your dietary politics.
What follows is their evidence….
Given the continual targeting of red meat over the last five decades the following is important. THE ELITE KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF MEAT!
Medieval English males averaged around 5’5″ to 5’7″. Subsisting primarily on pottage, bread, and whatever could be scavenged from the margins of a feudal food system that had no particular interest in their wellbeing, the peasant population of England sat well below its biological potential for generation after generation. It would be remiss not to note what was happening above their heads while they were shrinking. The ruling class ate differently. They ate beef, venison, pork, game birds, aged cheese, salted fish. The medieval aristocracy was, predictably, taller than the peasantry it governed. The relationship between protein access and physical stature was not invisible to contemporaries; it was simply regarded as the natural order of things. And then someone formalised it. The Forest Laws of Norman England, codified under William I in the 1080s, designated a third of the country’s land as the king’s personal hunting ground. Killing a deer carried the death penalty. Maiming one was punishable by blinding and castration. A peasant could live on the edge of a forest teeming with protein and starve legally while the gamekeeper rode past. You can read the full forensic accounting of that history in Forbidden Flesh. What matters here is the relationship between law and skeleton. The centuries of codified meat restriction left a biological signature in the remains of the people it was applied to. You can measure it. It fits in a museum case. The case has a label.
In 1945, the average Japanese male stood approximately 5’3″. The diet was predominantly plant-based: rice, vegetables, some fish, very little meat, almost no dairy.
Under American occupation, and subsequently through a deliberate government nutritional programme in the 1950s, Japan introduced school milk, increased meat consumption, and began actively encouraging animal protein intake at a population level. The results were not subtle. Between 1950 and 1980, average male height in Japan increased by approximately three inches. The same genetic population, on the same island, in the same climate, eating differently, producing a different skeleton within a single generation.
This is as close to a controlled experiment as human nutritional science ever gets. One variable changed. The height followed.
Contemporary Japan has maintained those gains. The Japanese government did not respond to its population’s growth by suggesting they return to the pre-war dietary pattern on environmental grounds. They noticed what worked, and they kept doing it. There is a lesson here for anyone paying attention, and apparently several governments that are not…
Oh I think the Cabel is paying attention. Sama Koole is assuming they have our best interests at heart. I do not. -GC
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Carboxymethylcellulose and Polysorbate 80.
From Brave AI
Carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and Polysorbate 80 (P80) are widely used synthetic emulsifiers in processed foods, eye drops, and cosmetics, primarily to improve texture and prevent separation.
While regulatory bodies like the FDA classify them as “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS), animal and in vitro studies suggest they may negatively impact gut health by altering the intestinal microbiota and promoting low-grade inflammation. Specifically, P80 has been shown to decrease anti-inflammatory bacterial taxa like Bacteroides dorei, while CMC increases pro-inflammatory species such as Ruminococcus torques.
Mechanism: Both additives can disrupt the protective mucus layer of the gut and increase intestinal permeability, potentially allowing bacteria to cross the epithelial barrier.
Health Risks: These changes are linked to metabolic syndrome, obesity, and the promotion of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in predisposed models.
Human Evidence: While direct human trials are limited, research on human gut microbiota maintained ex vivo confirms that these emulsifiers increase pro-inflammatory potential within days of exposure.
The consumption of dietary emulsifiers, including polysorbate 80 (P80) and sodium carboxymethylcellulose (CMC), has raised safety concerns due to its interaction with the intestinalmicrobiome. This study demonstrated that increasing concentrations of P80 and CMC added to a dynamic four-stagegut microbiotamodel (BFBL gut simulator) altered themicrobiomecomposition and impacted epithelial integrity in a dose-dependent manner.16S rDNA amplicon-based metagenomics analysis revealed that these emulsifiers increased microbial groups with proinflammatory capacities while decreasing microbial taxa known to enhance barrier function.
Increasing doses of P80 significantly decreased Bacteroidesdorei and Akkermansia, taxa associated with anti-inflammatory potential, while increasing doses of CMC were linked to a higher abundance of Ruminococcustorques and Hungatella, which negatively impact barrier function. Both emulsifiers displayed a different impact on epithelial integrity when interacting with the microbiome. On one hand, supernatants from the BFBL simulator fed with P80 disrupted epithelial integrity to a lesser extent than the additive alone. On the other hand, both the microbiota and the supernatants from the BFBL simulator fed with CMC diminished the epithelial integrity, though the additive itself did not. These findings highlight the need to incorporate the gut microbiome in the risk assessment of these additives.
Brave AI had the clearest definition.
Epithelial integrity refers to the structural and functional coherence of epithelial tissues, ensuring they remain organized, sealed, and mechanically stable to function as effective barriers. This integrity is primarily maintained by tight junctions, adherens junctions, and desmosomes that seal adjacent cells, preventing the unregulated leakage of substances and pathogens while allowing selective permeability for essential nutrients and ions.
The gastrointestinal tract is a complex organization of various types of epithelial cells forming a single layer of the mucosal barrier, the host mucosal immune system, and microorganisms termed as gut microbiota inhabiting this area. The mucosal barrier, including physical and chemical factors, spatially segregates gut microbiota and the host immune system preventing the development of immune response directed towards non-pathogenic commensals and dietary antigens. However, for the maintenance of the integrity of the mucosal surfaces, cross-talk between epithelial cells and microbiota is required. The microbiome and the intestinal epithelium developed a complex dependence necessary for sustaining intestinal homeostasis. In this review, we highlight the role of specific epithelial cell subtypes and their role in barrier arrangement, the mechanisms employed by them to control intestinal microbiota as well as the mechanisms utilized by the microbiome to regulate intestinal epithelial function. This review will provide information regarding the development of inflammatory disorders dependent on the loss of intestinal barrier function and composition of the intestinal microbiota.
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I thought I would continue the look at supplements since many are compounds necessary for good heart health, brain function and a healthy immune system. I have increasingly noticed more and more ‘mis-information’ designed to prevent people, especially older people or those vaccine injured, from obtaining the best health they can. Also, as I found out the hard way, Google Advanced has now removed the ability to search a URL (blog) for a key phrase so you can find old comments. Therefore I am trying to put important info from the comments into articles so it can be found later. (Sorry if I do not do a H/T to everyone, though I do try.)
This is a CLASSIC that may or may not be from an actual doctor. Her credentials are Baylor, who kicked out and sued Dr McCulloch and John Hopkins of Event 201 (Plan-demic) fame. She also has the blue checkmark by her name.
HOW I HEALED MYSELF of MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, HYPOTHYROID, GLAUCOMA, FIBROMYALGIA, RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Take a pea-size dose of IVERMECTIN HORSE PASTE (NOT A BIG-PHARMA WATERED DOWN & ALTERED PILL!) every MONDAY & TUESDAY to get your body’s parasites under control!
Lord have mercy. This is the kind of misinformation that lets them kill us.
She says “IVERMECTIN HORSE PASTE is WORMWOOD & HONEY.”
NO, it most certainly is NOT. Good grief.
She says “FENBENDAZOLE is BLACK WALNUT, CLOVES, & HONEY.”
Again, NO, it most certainly is NOT.
People like this frustrate and infuriate me. They sound like crazy people, so when I tell people to use ivermectin or fenbendazole, I get tarred with this brush. It makes me so mad.
This is a sneakier example of the same type of Psy-op. Notice these are attacks on the three most critical ‘NEW’ compounds for fighting the effects of the Covid Vaccine.
Nattokinase
I stumbled across this video and decided to take a look. I did not bother to actually watch it and instead looked at the comments first before I decided whether or not to take the time.
I take NOW Foods (100 mg/ ~2000FU) nattokinase. Thanks to the comments I now know that is way too little to make a difference. The Ultra Spike Detox that I have suggests a serving size of 400 mg and a serving is 4 capsules or approximately 8000FU. This would be on the bare minimum side of the effective dose.
Video: I Stopped Using Nattokinase. Here’s Why.
A couple of the comments that made me decide to write this article.
Saying that 2000 FU of nattokinaise doesn’t work is like saying aspirin doesn’t work for a headache because the people who took half a tablet didn’t get relief. You ignored the study that compares 10,800 FU with 3600 FU. The people who took 3600 FU saw no improvement. The people who took 10,800 FU did see improvement. No wonder the studies with 2000 FU didn’t see any difference! It would be interesting to see you and Dr. Ford Brewer, who taught preventative medicine at Hopkins and is licensed in all 50 states, arm wrestle over this topic. He uses natto and sees plaque REVERSAL, which many doctors say is impossible.
I watched this all the way, I was patient to see the point you wanted to make, and I struggled. A the end of the day, this was a lot of baseless fear mongering about Nattokinase imho. Fundamentally, Natto is food, the safety profile based on ingestion by those who have been eating it for like forever is considerable. This population are also some of the most long lived in the world.
You can’t use 1 data point (Susan) to calibrate studies and or any nutraceutical. I sincerely wish MDs would talk about drugs i.e. pharmaceuticals for which they received training and not nutraceuticals. Natural substances are “smart”, they are able to detect what the issue is and “act” appropriately i.e. if your blood viscosity does not need thinning, most natural substances would go about “doing other things” and not continue to thin your blood. Drugs are manufactured to do one specific thing and are usually blind to other things hence the myriad of negative side effects. The reality is most of the people who take Nattokinase have already given up on allopathic medicine. They will definitely hedge their bets on Nattokinase and other nutraceuticals irrespective of what MDs like yourself think or say.
So much for watching that video!
Now a quick look at the Wellness Company’s “Ultimate Spike Detox” [Take 4 a day = serving]
Per Serving:
Selenium — 75 mg
Tumeric Root extract –500 mg
Bromelian — 500 mg
Natto Seed Extract 400 mg or (Nattokinase — 8,000 FU)
Black Cumin Seed Powder — 100 mg
Dandelion Root — 50 mg
Black Pepper [makes body absorb turmeric better] 5 mg.
Nigella sativa – Wiki: “Nigellasativa (common names, black caraway, blackcumin, nigella, charnushka, or kalonji) “
You can get Black Seed Oil from Walmart. (I think it was Singing Soul who suggested it) I take it some times and it seems to help my mobility.
Brave AI
Black seed oil, derived fromNigella sativa seeds and rich in the active compound thymoquinone, is widely used to support immune function, reduce inflammation, and improve skin health.
Since ancient times, black seed, orNigella sativa, has gained popularity in modern industry and health due to its numerous nutritional and therapeutic applications. Detailed coverage of the botanical description, taxonomy, and phytochemical composition can be seen in this review about the most crucial bioactive compounds, such as thymoquinone, alkaloids, saponins, and fixed oils. This therapeutic plant has undergone numerous studies about its solicitations in treating cancer, its protective effects on the heart, and its antiviral, antibacterial, anti‐inflammatory, antioxidant, and antidiabetic properties. Side by side with its function in conventional medical practices of Ayurveda and Unani, its amalgamation is also specified in the review. This also takes into account the health benefits of black seed, its metabolism, macro‐ and micronutrient composition, and other nutritional considerations. The usages discover the product development potentials within the pharmaceutical and food industries, such as functional foods, health supplements, and cosmetics. Customer attention in natural products has made novel prospects, but side by side with them, there are different concerns about stability, bioavailability, and regulatory problems. To augment the medicinal and economic value ofN. sativa, there is potential for its genetic development, for more progressive cultivation methods, and for biotechnological policies. Thus, the incorporation of N. sativainto current healthcare and industry comprises creative, multidisciplinary investigation.
10,800 FU of nattokinase is approximately equivalent to 540 mg of the enzyme.
This conversion is based on the standard ratio where 2,000 FU corresponds to roughly 100 mg. Therefore, a 10,800 FU dose represents the higher end of clinical study ranges, often used in observational research for atherosclerosis and lipid management, whereas the standard daily dose for general cardiovascular support is typically 2,000 FU (approx. 100 mg).
Market standard: 2,000 FU (5.4x below clinical dose)
3,600 FU/day was tested and found ineffective for lipids and atherosclerotic plaque support
Minimum threshold for modest blood pressure support: 2,000 FU/day
Getting the nattokinase dosage right is the single biggest factor in whether supplementation delivers real results. If you’ve been researching nattokinase, you’ve probably noticed something frustrating: every product seems to list a different dose, and none of them explain why they chose that number…
I discussed this with a researcher in the US who collaborates with Resia who said to titrate up to 4000 FU 2x per day. You can also look up some articles from long COVID PharmDwhose written a lot about nattokinase
She cites a paper that showed safety at 10k+ FU but she suggests 4K twice a day.
Neprinol is 15,000 fus a pill of natto and serra so not sure which fu number is for which enzyme which but they recommend up to 9 pills a day and one to 3 as a starter dose. 9 pills : That’s 135k fus. This stuff won’t kill you it’ll just make you feel like your dying for a few weeks when it’s working. and then it gets better from there on out. I hope. I’m 1.5 weeks in and praying the fates finally cut my life web fully. These clots are no effing joke . Killing them off is hell too. Start low and slow and go up from there and good luck
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Dr. Ford Brewer MD MPH
The ONE Supplement Every Senior Should Take — Co-Q-10 (9 minutes)
First, there is a supplement I always take for cardiovascular health that he [Dr. Ford Brewer ] doesn’t mention. That is hawthorn berry. That is the best herbal I know for general heart health:
Hawthorn berry is a small fruit rich in plant antioxidants that supports heart health, lowers blood pressure, improves blood fats, and helps digestion. [1, 2, 3] Heart and Circulation
Lowers blood pressure: Relaxes blood vessels to improve blood flow.
Aids heart function: May reduce symptoms in people with mild heart failure.
Improves cholesterol: Helps lower bad LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. [1, 2, 3]
Body Wellness
Fights cell damage: High in polyphenols that neutralize harmful free radicals.
Aids digestion: Acts as a prebiotic fiber to support healthy gut bacteria.
Reduces inflammation: Protects organs from oxidative stress.
All learned using alterai.systems to find the sources for this information.
I would take the leaves, flowers/fruit and a branch to the local extension service for a positive ID if you find what you think is a wild tree and would like to use the berries.
This article contains a list of references at the bottom.
…Modified food starch is a common ingredient in processed foods, but concerns about its use have grown due to its potential effects on digestion, metabolic health, and overall food quality.
Here are five reasons you should consider removing modified food starch from your diet.
— Lacks nutrients…
— Linked to metabolic imbalances… may increase the risk of metabolic imbalances, including insulin resistance, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.
— Genetically modified..
— Disrupts microbial gut balance ..
— May be contaminated with chemicals
A short video by the author Dr Berg.
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7 Supplements Every Senior Must Take (Inflammation, Weak Legs, Blood Sugar & More)
I have tried to tighten up the transcript so you get the meat without the fluffy vignettes about fictitious people. The transcript is in italics, my comments & additions are separated out using dots.
Nine out of 10 people don’t get enough of the nutrients that their bodies need. But the good news is the right supplements can help correct these nutrient deficiencies…
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Supplement number one — CoQ10 ( 1 to 200 milligrams per day)
Comparison of CoQ10 and CoQH2 by application. Results are demonstrated as %. Cardiovascular diseases are marked in red. LINK
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…..David is 72… he had a mild heart attack. He would get tired just a few minutes into his walk and
that didn’t used to happen. He needed muscular work. He needed some HIT [high intensity] training.. But we also recommended something else… Several clinical studies have shown this supplement reduces fatigue compared to placebo and it could have significant effects in reducing cardiovascular risk even in people with heart failure. There’s also evidence that shows it can reduce muscle aches when you’re taking statins…. Some people experience mild side effects like nausea, even insomnia or upset stomach, especially at higher doses or when you first start taking it or if you take it later in the day. Now, ..The supplement.. was co-enzyme Q10, better known as CoQ10.
I usually recommend taking 1 to 200 milligrams per day. If you’ve heard about Ubiquinol being more bioavailable, you can take more or you can take Ubiquinol. [A comment said it Ubiquinol is more sensitive to degradating in light.]
Our findings go along with the biochemical description of CoQ10 and CoQH2, recording cardiovascular benefits for CoQ10 and antioxidative and anti-inflammatory properties for CoQH2. Our main outcomes are the following: (I) CoQ10 supplementation reduced cardiovascular death in patients with heart failure. This is not reported for CoQH2. (II) Test concentrations leading to cardiovascular benefits are much lower in CoQ10 studies than in CoQH2 studies. (III) Positive long-term effects reducing cardiovascular mortality are only observed in CoQ10 studies…
Coenzyme Q10 is a redox molecule occurring in the human body in 2 bioactive states, ubiquinone (CoQ10) as oxidised state and ubiquinol (CoQH2) as reduced state [5]. Both redox forms of Coenzyme Q10 are bioactive and important for human health [6]. CoQ10 is essential for cellular adenosine phosphate (ATP) energy production [7] as it shuttles electrons from complexes I and II to complex III of the mitochondrial respiratory chain (Fig. 1). CoQH2 is an important lipid-soluble antioxidant preventing peroxidation of the low-density lipoproteins in the blood circulation [8] with additional anti-inflammatory activity [9]…
Function of CoQ10 in the mitochondrial respiratory chain. CoQ10 is an essential transfer molecule for complex I and complex II at the beginning of the respiratory chain.
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Energy loss is one kind of aging, but some changes are quieter, the kind you don’t feel until the damage is done. Inflammation plays a major role in heart disease, cognitive decline, and even mood.
So, we’ll look at a nutrient that helps put out those fires before they spread.
Supplement number two — omega-3 (1 to 4 grams)
Inflammation builds slowly deep in the body without pain, without any warning… now it’s considered one of the driving forces behind nearly every chronic disease we associate with aging. So, if there was a way to reduce that inflammation before it causes damage, it would be worth paying attention to… a specific supplement that could possibly help… support heart health and brain function and has been studied extensively in older adults. The supplement helps [people] get essential fatty acids, the kind the body can’t make on its own. These fatty acids or fats are found in cell membranes, and they play a role in everything from cardiovascular function to immune response. But what they’re best known for is their ability to reduce inflammation, especially the kind you don’t feel until it becomes a problem. In particular, those fatty acids help lower triglycerides. Several studies show a clear reduction in triglyceride levels among adults who supplement consistently. There’s also evidence that they may help stabilize mood, support memory by promoting healthy brain cell structures, and by reducing neuron-inflammation… Neuro means brain, and inflammation, you know what that means. So, it’s inflammation of the brain. Age- related cognitive decline doesn’t usually happen all at once. It’s gradual. So, having a way to protect brain health while also supporting the heart makes this nutrient uniquely valuable… Like any supplement, it comes with a few cautions. These fatty acids can thin blood slightly, which may increase bleeding risk, especially for people already taking anti-coagulants. High doses can also lead to digestive issues like nausea or loose stools. That’s why dose and quantity matter and quality. The supplement [is] omega-3, especially EPA and DHA. The two active forms are the EPA and DHA. They’re found in fatty fish like salmon and sardines. These are different from the short- chain versions found in plants which aren’t as readily converted by the body…
I recommend 1 to four grams every day. Take the lower end of that dosage if you have atrial fib or if you have you have concerns with episodes of atrial fi atrial fibrillation. I have atrial fib and I take omega-3s. All right.
Let’s turn to the root cause of most chronic problems, metabolism. Because when that starts to slow down or change, the effects show up in your blood sugar, your weight, your long-term risk for chronic disease, your arteries, plaque, cardiovascular risk, and Alzheimer’s risk.
Although the efficacy of standard fish oil has been the subject of research in arthritis, the effect of krill oil in this disease has yet to be investigated. The objective of the present study was to evaluate a standardised preparation of krill oil and fish oil in an animal model for arthritis..
Results
Consumption of krill oil and supplemented diet significantly reduced the arthritis scores and hind paw swelling when compared to a control diet not supplemented with EPA and DHA. However, the arthritis score during the late phase of the study was only significantly reduced after krill oil administration. Furthermore, mice fed the krill oil diet demonstrated lower infiltration of inflammatory cells into the joint and synovial layer hyperplasia, when compared to control. Inclusion of fish oil and krill oil in the diets led to a significant reduction in hyperplasia and total histology score. Krill oil did not modulate the levels of serum cytokines whereas consumption of fish oil increased the levels of IL-1α and IL-13.
Conclusions
The study suggests that krill oil may be a useful intervention strategy against the clinical and histopathological signs of inflammatory arthritis.
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Supplement number three -– Berberine (500 milligrams once or twice a day)
Metabolism is one of the first systems to slow down with your age. You might notice it in your weight, your digestion, or how your body responds to meals. You first start losing your ability to metabolize carbs when you eat them. That raises your insulin. Your higher insulin changes your ability to burn fat.So what started out as a problem with one fuel quickly turns into a problem metabolizing both fuels. Often the earliest signs show up in your blood work. blood sugar begins to creep up, A1C rises, doctors use words like borderline or pre-diabetic or you got a touch of sugar. Then they usually follow it with advice to eat a little bit less and walk a little bit more. And that’s just incomplete advice.
…We recommended a specific supplement. It comes from several different plants, and it’s been used in traditional medicine for centuries. particularly in parts of Asia. But what’s unique about it is how it affects cellular metabolism. It helps activate an enzyme called, again, geek alert, AMK, what the geeks call a phosphocinase. It’s critical to energy metabolism. Sometimes it’s described as the body’s metabolic switch, which plays a key role in how cells use energy, store fat, and manage blood sugar. Evidence backs this up. Several trials have shown that it can lower fasting glucose, improve insulin response, and reduce A1C over time. In some head-to-head comparisons, it’s even shown similar effects to metformin, one of the most commonly prescribed drugs for type 2 diabetes.
But its benefits don’t stop at blood sugar. There’s evidence that it may also support gut health by positively influencing the microbiome. Some studies have found improvements in cholesterol levels, particularly LDL, and triglycerides. The results can vary based on the individual and your metabolism.The supplement[is]berberine, a yellow plant compound with a long history and a growing body of modern research behind it. While it’s generally well tolerated, berberine isn’t free of risks. It can cause digestive issues like cramping, constipation, diarrhea, especially in high doses or on an empty stomach. It may also lower blood sugar more than expected, especially when combined with diabetes medications like metformin, which is why monitoring this supplement is important, especially at the start.
I recommend taking 500 milligrams once or twice a day, although there are some people that can benefit from taking twice that amount. I usually split it into two or three servings with meals. Taking smaller amounts more often can help reduce the risk of side effects and support better absorption.
This article provides an overview of berberine, including its potential mechanisms of action, possible health benefits, potential side effects, and considerations for its use. [Good article – GC]
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Supplement number four — Magnesium (200 to 400 milligrams per day)
Now that we’ve looked at metabolism, let’s go deeper into a different kind of system slowdown. The kind that you feel in your muscles, your recovery, and your physical strength. As you age, your legs cramp at night. Small aches linger longer than they used to, and they can get you to feeling restless, anxious, tense. These issues often come and go, so they’re easy to dismiss. It happens for a few minutes, and then it’s gone, and you forget about it. But for many people, they’re signs of a quiet deficiency. We identified something that over half of people deal with. It’s a specific mineral deficiency. The supplement we recommended is involved in more than 300 enzyme reactions in the body. It helps regulate nerve signals, muscle contractions, heartbeat, and glucose metabolism. Perhaps more important, it also helps regulate melatonin and GABA. G- A B A. These are two key drivers of healthy sleep and stress management. Several studies show that restoring normal levels can improve sleep quality, can help support healthy blood pressure in people with mild high blood pressure problems. The supplement [is] magnesium.
While generally safe and well tolerated, magnesium can cause side effects if taken in large doses, especially in forms that are less easily absorbed. These may include diarrhea, nausea, or abdominal discomfort. [It is used to clean you out before a Colonoscopy. -GC] Most people take between 200 and 400 milligrams per day, often in the evening, due to its calming effect. Certain forms like magnesium glycinate or citrate are better absorbed and gentler on the stomach compared to cheaper forms like magnesium oxide. So, as usual, and is is often the case especially with supplements, you get what you pay for.
Now, for people looking to support cognitive function, Magnesium-Threonate is worth considering. It’s a form that’s been shown to cross the blood- brain barrier and may support working memory, focus, and age related brain health. It’s usually more expensive, but some find the cognitive benefits are worth the investment. And it’s not just cognitive benefits. It is mood as well. It’s a big mental health improvement. With depression and its twin brother or kid brother anxiety, magnesium helps. But again, you got to get that magnesium across the blood-brain barrier. And that’s what magnesium thteonate has demonstrated it can do. Timing and consistency matter. The benefits build gradually, not overnight.
Now, we’re going to shift. We’re going to talk about something that ties it all together. A nutrient that protects strength, focus, and resilience in both the body and the brain.
Supplement number five — creatine (3 to 5 grams per day.)
….we ask for a test that helps us assess muscle and fat. It’s called a DEXA scan, a DEXA metabolic scan to tell us about muscle and fat. [Sometimes] the results suggest [we are] dealing with sarcopenia. Sarco is a Greek word that means flesh or muscle and pineia is also a Greek word that means lack of. So basically sarcopenia is lack of muscle or weak muscles. [Many people have] heard of resistance training and protein intake and high intensity interval training, but most don’t expect the next recommendation. A supplement, a specific supplement that is best known for supporting muscle growth in athletes, but research has shown it can keep older adults strong. Help them retain their strength, maintain independence, and even support cognitive function. This compound is stored in your muscles, and it’s used during short bursts of activity. It’s also used during long, slow activity, too. It helps recycle energy so your muscles can contract and recover more efficiently. Again, back to the geeks and nerds. That ATP when it drops off a phosphorus group, guess where it’s dropping it off? To this supplement. In younger people, the body produces enough on its own for routine living. But with age, these reserves begin to shrink. Multiple clinical trials have shown that supplementing with this compound helps improve muscle mass and strength in older adults, even in those who don’t engage in heavy exercise. But using this supplement and heavy exercise is a great combination. It has been associated with better balance, lower risk of falls, and improved performance in daily activities like climbing stairs or even getting up from a chair. There’s also promising research connecting it to brain health. It plays a role in cellular energy in the brain and may help support memory, focus, and processing speed, especially under physical or cognitive stress. [Some people,] after a few months, [find their] balance was improved. The supplement he used [is] creatine. While generally safe, some people report a little bit of water retention, bloating, mild digestive discomfort when they’ve first began taking it, so give it some time. These effects usually fade with consistent use. I have a full video discussing creatine in more detail. The link is in the description and we’ll put it at the end as well. The typical doses for older adults is 3 to 5 grams per day. It doesn’t need to be cycled on and off like some people do. It can be taken with or without food. Some people choose to load with higher doses initially, but for most, a steady daily intake is a simple and effective way to do this kind of supplementation. A powdered form dissolved in water is the most common way of getting it.
Healthy muscles are more about strength than bulking up. Strong muscles, especially the ones in your legs, become your best safety valve against metabolic disease, insulin resistance. For pre-diabetes and diabetes. So taking care of those leg muscles is critical. There’s one specific vitamin we haven’t discussed yet and it becomes critical to the purposes of healthy aging and that’s coming right now.
Supplement number six. B12 (500 to a 1,000 micrograms )
… forgetting words, leaving sentences incomplete, misplacing things more often than in the past. Again, all of us have some of these things. The question is how often and how serious. ..starting feeling numbness in the fingers making it harder to handle small things like keys. [For these symptoms] I was worried about Alzheimer’s. We talk about the role of metabolic disease in Alzheimer’s and helped people clean up their lifestyle. Some of the key things lowering carbs, the glycemic carbs, improving muscle work like HIT training, strength training, resistance training. But sometimes, after running tests, we decide to try supplementing with a specific vitamin. The body needs very little of it, but it does need it consistently. And with age, it becomes harder and harder to absorb. [Over time even though the] diet has not changed, the ability to absorb the nutrient from food had declined slowly and silently. Often there is no clue until [people] start having symptoms in [their] hand and fingers. That’s when we began to notice it. Low levels of this vitamin are surprisingly common in older adults, especially those over 60 and even more so in those over 70. After cleaning up lifestyle and with the help of the supplement, within a month, the numbness in the fingers [should] start to fade a little bit. He was clear that he was getting better. And the vitamin, the supplement, B12, it’s water soluble.
It’s generally safe even at higher doses. But there is still a few things to know. In some people, especially those with a kidney disease or certain blood disorders, high dose B12 should be used carefully. Mild side effects like nausea, acne, or a slightly racing heart can occasionally occur, but they’re uncommon. The real concern is missing the deficiency entirely, or assuming the symptoms are just part of getting older. Most people take between 500 to a 1,000 micrograms every day. Some take it as part of a B complex, others as a standalone B12 supplement. I usually recommend a methylated B complex supplement, especially for those with methylation issues. And guess what? Over half of us have methylation issues. That’s a long topic…. Cognition is complex and no supplement fixes everything. But correcting a deficiency can made a real difference in how the brain and body feel.
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[I use B-12 sublingual, under the tongue, for contact allergy relief. It works in about 10 minutes, going directly into the blood stream and by-passing the absorption issues. –GC]
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Now, we’ll turn to the next and final supplement in this series. It’s one of the oldest healing agents in the world. Something found in nearly every kitchen. You’ve probably had it in yours, and it has surprising effects on blood sugar, on inflammation, and therefore on aging… Let’s talk about the final supplement.
Supplement number seven. — ceylon cinnamon ( 500 to 1,000 milligrams per day )
To me, metabolic disease, that is insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, diabetes are the real culprits of accelerated aging. Most people are not aware because 75% of doctors don’t know how to diagnose it. Over time, the body becomes less responsive to insulin and even a balanced meal can send glucose higher than it used to….
There’s a spice that has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity and reduce fasting blood sugar. It appears to work by slowing the rate at which food leaves the stomach and enters the bloodstream. This reduces post meal spikes. Some studies have also found improvements in cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Though the results aren’t always consistent and appear to be variable by person. What stands out here is that it appears to mimic part of insulin’s action, helping the body process glucose more efficiently. For people with insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, that kind of support can help the body regain balance before things progress further, and it might just be what your body needs. A little bit of a slowdown in that sugar hitting your bloodstream. ..Within a few weeks, you may notice the post meal energy crashes have stopped. He described it as feeling less up and down and more stable throughout the day… And while that one supplement isn’t a solution to all of the problems on its own, it can be a meaningful positive step, a step in the right direction.
We’re talking about cinnamon, specificallyceylon cinnamon and not the more common cassia variety.Ceylon has much lower levels of a compound called coumarin.LINKCoumarin can be harmful in high doses over time, that’s why you want theceylon cinnamon. That’s why source and quality matter here more than most people realize. While cinnamon is generally safe, it can lower blood sugar more than expected if combined with diabetes medications. So anyone already on treatment should be careful.
Anytime you add berberine or cinnamon or anything else that can impact blood sugar and you’re already taking metformin, just be careful when you start taking it. It can also cause mild digestive upset in some people, especially if taken in high doses or on an empty stomach. Most people take between 500 and 1,000 milligrams per day, a half a gram to a gram in a standardized extract, not the spice that comes out of the spice cabinet. It’s often divided with meals. The powdered form used in cooking isn’t concentrated enough to have a therapeutic effect unless taken in very, very large amounts, which I don’t recommend. Look for supplements that clearly stateceyloncinnamon and list the extract strength.
[People can make]huge progress,bycombined the cinnamon with the most important lifestyle strategies.[Reduce]carb intake, especially the glycemic carbs that changed blood sugar levels.Getthe right amount of calories.Started exercising., improved strength.Doresistance training, the high-intensity interval training. All of those things together[can make]a big big change. So, now that you know the the seven supplements I recommend, especially for s seniors, there’s something else to think about. It’s just as important, in fact, in some ways more important. That’s knowing which supplements to avoid. Take a look at the worst supplements most seniors think are healthy….[Link to another video]
1. Calcium: When taken as a supplement, it can build up in arteries instead of bones, increasing the risk of vascular calcification and heart attacks. It’s better to get calcium from food sources.
2. Fat Burners: These are often loaded with stimulants that can dangerously raise heart rate and blood pressure, increasing the risk of palpitations and even stroke.
3. Meal Replacement Shakes: These highly processed formulas have been linked to liver injury and can cause systemic inflammation. Prioritizing whole, real foods is a safer alternative.
4. Iron: Unnecessary supplementation can lead to an iron overload, which acts as a pro-oxidant, damaging arteries and increasing the risk of plaque buildup. Iron should only be taken if a deficiency is confirmed by a doctor.
5. Supplements with Heavy Metals: Many supplements, especially plant-based powders, can be contaminated with heavy metals like lead and mercury. These toxins can damage blood vessels and increase the risk of heart disease. It’s crucial to choose products that are third-party tested for purity.
[I would worry about mercury in fish oil too, especially if it is sourced from China or India.] — GC
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I Avoided a Heart Attack by Cleaning 20 Years of Clogged Arteries — Dr Ford Brewer MD MPH. (35 minutes)
This is another look at health and in someways compliments yesterday’s article. In both cases both doctors promote a Keto diet and avoiding sugar/starches/carbs. Dr Ford Brewer is more of an establishment physician having worked for years at Johns Hopkins “training the other doctors there in prevention.“
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TRANSCRIPT
Let me tell you a story. It’s about what happened to me. At age 57, this is 11 years ago. I found out I had the arteries of a 73 yr old 16 years older than me. I had no idea. I thought I was like this close to the kind of heart attack [finger & thumb almost touching – GC] You know, [with] heart attacks, 50% of them have no symptoms until boom, you’re dead. And it’s like that really upset me because, I thought I was the picture of health. I ran marathons. I avoided eating fats, which again, both of these things we thought at the time to be the best practices for heart health. And still, that test said I was walking around with a ticking time bomb in my chest. But here’s the thing. I didn’t quit. I fought back. After a year, I turned those arteries into the arteries of a 52 year-old.
Now, look at this. [Shows a CIMT non-invasive ultrasound machine -GC] This is the most advanced heart scan in the world at this point in time and it shows my dangerous plaque is basically gone. [Shows his results for right Coronary Artery – GC] That means my risk for a sudden heart attack right now is practically zero. If you’ve ever been told it’s too late or that you just have to live waiting for a heart attack, that’s not true. This video will prove otherwise. I’ll show you exactly how I reversed decades of arterial plaque, avoided a heart attack, and how you can do that, too, including one element that most people miss.
The carotid is the artery right here. Now, I know that’s a mouthful and it sounds uber technical. It’s actually pretty simple. It’s a quick ultrasound. There’s no radiation and it’s the arteries in the neck that I just pointed to. You can feel that pulse. But it doesn’t just look at how well blood is flowing. It measures how much plaque is hiding inside the artery wall. And if you’re saying, well, you know, that’s your neck, not your chest. We’ll get to that a little bit later. But the short version is 98% of the time, if you have plaque here, you’re going to have it here. And vice versa. If you don’t have plaque here, you’renot going to have it here or anywhere else.
Plaque isn’t really a plumbing problem that only happens in the heart. It’s a metabolic problem. So that’s why if you’ve got plaque in one place, you’ve got it in the others. Metabolic meaning how your body burns fuels. By the way, if you want to take a deep dive into metabolic health, you need to get my e-bookHERE. It’s free.
Now, when that CIMT result came back at 1.2 millimeters. I knew I was in trouble. I was frustrated, like I said, and I was pretty emotional. For context, one millimeter or less is ideal. Over that and you’re in a little bit of a danger zone. But the worst part is based on the amount of plaque detected in my arteries, my arterial age came back at 73 years old, 16 years older than what I actually was. For a couple of weeks, I was frustrated and angry, but mostly just frustrated. Then I thought, maybe I wasn’t doing everything wrong. Despite some of the shortcomings of my lifestyle, and I needed to change some things, but I was still doing better than a lot of folks. It wasn’t like, I had done nothing, I could have weighed 300 lb plus. I could have had a whole bunch of body fat that was creating this problem. At least I had some things going for me.
The other thing that occurred to me is yes, had I not done those lifestyle activities, I could have already had a heart attack. I could already be dead. So, I began to see the other side of this. Once I got past that shock, I knew I had things to do, though. The first thing I did was look for the cause. I ran an oral glucose tolerance test where you drink a a set amount of glucose, either 75 or 100 grams, depending on the the context of the test that you’re doing or the format. You want to see how your blood sugar responds over time. Mine spiked to over 160.
Already it was clear, you get spikes over 160. And those are the times when you can be forming plaque. It meant I had enough pre-diabetes to cause plaque, even though I’d never been told I was diabetic. That was the turning point.
I switched from a low-fat diet to a low carb diet. And I didn’t just lower my carbs. I removed the ones that spiked my blood sugar.
So, for example, fiber-based carbs are carbs, but they don’t mess with my blood sugar. [He shows a photo of bowls of white rice, oats? Chickpeas? And?? — GC] The glycemic carbs are the pastas, the breads, those highly processed carbs are the ones that raise my blood sugar. Grain products, one of the biggest offenders. And I loved bread. I didn’t eat a lot of pasta, but I ate bread all the time. You know, let’s break bread together. I thought that was a great thing. I changed my workouts too from long distance cardio and I still continued to do some of that but I added a lot more short intense bursts and more focused resistance training. So what I was doing with the intense workouts wasworking on my capillaries. That’s where my insulin receptors live.And with the resistance train I was working on my mitochondria in my muscles. That’s what burns the glucose once you get it into your muscles. And speaking of muscles, the reason I focus on my legs is that’s where your real muscle mass is.
I improved my sleep. It was a long saga of many things that I did to improve that sleep. I lowered my stress. And yes, I made a few unpopular choices with supplements and even medications. Within a year, my CIMT showed my arterial age had dropped from 73 to 52, 20 years younger. But that was just the beginning.
Over the years, I kept getting a CIMT basically every year. They keep showing very slow progression of my plaque. But I kept seeing some comments in the channel specifically asking CIMT is okay, but what about your calcium score? We want to see how your heart is. So, I thought I might as well just get a calcium score. Now, here’s the thing. Calcium score won’t show soft plaque, the dangerous type of plaque that can rupture and cause a heart attack. That’s why I went to get CIMT because a CIMT does show the presence of soft plaque which I didn’t have based on my [current] results.
So I decided to do something better than a calcium score. I went straight to the coronary CT Angiogrambut not just any traditional angiogram. I got the newest type of CT angiogram [Cleerly Ct-angiogram] and that it’s the one that uses AI analysis. This is the best available test to identify both soft unstable and hard calcified plaque in the arteries of the heart. I got mine done with a company called Cleerly, but we work with other companies, too.
There’s another one called HeartFlow®as well. Enough talk about the process. You want to see my results? So, when I opened the report, three headlines jumped off the page. First, soft plaque volume.1 millimeter. That was a relief. In practical terms, that means I have virtually no unstable plaque in my heart right now. Second total plaque volume 75.6 cubic mm with stable calcified portion at 31. The rest is higher density non-calcified plaque. It behaves [as if] it’s stable when you manage your metabolism. That may be getting a little bit too technical. Here’s the translation. Very little total plaque and almost none of the dangerous kind. So those are the two key things to remember.
I said three things and there’s always this third thing that the rest of the medical world always wants to focus on and that is stenosis and location of the plaque. Stenosis is a geeky word for whether or not you’ve got obstruction. Most arteries were under 10% obstruction. And the highest narrowing was 17%. And that was in guess which one? The L. That’s the one they called the widowmaker. Ba bum. Everybody’s always so scared when they hear that term.
They come to me and they say, “The doctor said I had calcification and plaque in my widowmaker.” And I’m going, “I understand. If you have plaque in the heart arteries, the first place you’re almost always the first place you’re going to get it is the L.” So, don’t get concerned if somebody tells you you have plaque and it’s in the widowmaker, the L. [left anterior descending (LAD) artery.Dangers of a Widowmaker Heart Attack – GC] Now, if there’s another specific measurement here, it’s called percent atheroma volume. [Coronary Atheroma Burden Is the Main Determinant of Patient Outcome –GC]
And let’s take a look at that. It measures basically how much plaque you have in terms of volume. Mine was 2.5%. In plain English, the plumbing is just wide open. And more importantly, the plaque that matters for sudden events, the soft inflamed stuff is essentially absent. Put together that means my risk for a sudden heart attack is dramatically lower. And it confirms the progress that we saw on the CIMT, not just in the neck, but in the heart as well.
The major problem related to metabolic disease, it causes plaque and inflammation.
After years of doing prevention and treating patients, I’ve come to realize that testing for this can be very difficult. Now, there are some lab tests, OGTT, oral glucose tolerance tests, and insulin response, the amount of insulin required to m for by your body to manage glucose. [Glucose Tolerance Test (GTT): What It Is — GC]
It’s a hard test to do. It’s definitive. It’s old school, but it’s hard because it requires a lot of time and effort and still sometimes the lab goofs it up.
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I would not call the test hard, I would call it tedious and time consuming. Unfortunately I found doctors do NOT want to do it on young people. When I tried to get the test done in the early 1970s, I was told I was too young, to have the problem. Yet it is when you are young where finding you have Hypoglycemia is most important for intervention. Note that even now it is considered rare.Of course if you refuse to test for it in the young, and they constantly eat sugar, it will turn into type 2 diabetes as the pancreas becomes exhausted.
Reactive hypoglycemia means your blood glucose falls quickly after a meal, often within one to four hours. This can happen after a refined carbohydrate heavy meal because insulin surges to clear the sugar.The result is a rapid drop that the brain interprets as an urgent need for quick fuel. Common symptoms include sweating, tremor, anxiety, and an intense urge for fast carbohydrates. Reactive hypoglycemia is an answer to the question “what illness causes sugar cravings?” for many people with post meal cravings. For more clinical context on post-meal low blood sugar and related eating patterns see the research summary here: reactive hypoglycemia and eating behavior.
OK, I will get off my hobby horse, and get back to the transcript.
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Now, if you’re thinking, Ford, congratulations on reversing your plaque. That’s good for you. What I really want to know, though, is how do I do it? I understand. So, let me show you exactly what I changed to get here, step by step, so you can start bringing your own numbers down. The first and most important change was diet.
BLOOD SUGAR SPIKES
I stopped thinking of food as low-fat or low calorie and I started thinking of it in terms of blood sugar impact. I began testing my blood sugar after meals and if it pushed me over 140, it didn’t stay on the menu, no matter how healthy the label claimed it was. So, one of the first big surprises for me was no more oatmeal for breakfast. That jacked my blood sugar. It meant cutting breads mostly. As I said, I didn’t eat a lot of pastas before, but I ate a lot of breads. Rice, I had developed a taste for rice. And as I mentioned, oatmeal. Couldn’t believe it.
But that’s what the blood sugars, that’s what they told me. So instead, I built my meals around foods that kept my blood sugar stable. I replaced those carbs with healthy fats, moderate protein, and plenty of vegetables that didn’t cause a spike.Over time, I experimented with different eating styles. I’ve tried versions of carnivore, keto, paleo, and plant heavy, low carb. No matter the variation, the common theme was always the same. Keep the carbs low and avoid the processed junk, and avoid blood sugar spikes.
For healthy fats, I leaned on things like avocado, extra-virgin olive oil, and fatty fish like salmon and mackerel. I didn’t shy away from natural saturated fats, either. real butter, not margarine, and yes, even bacon. I went back to bacon, which I had not eaten in decades because it was high-fat, butter, too. So, I went back to butter and bacon, and that was nice. A breakfast of eggs fried in butter with avocado on the side. That kept me satisfied for hours, and it didn’t send my glucose up.
I also paid attention to fiber. Now, some people have a problem with fiber. I don’t. Even in a lower carb approach, non-starchy vegetables, and some fermented foods, these gave me the fiber my gut needed. A big salad with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, and salmon was often lunch and dinner sometimes, too. I love Caesar salads, and so when I went out to eat, and I did a lot because I was traveling a lot, a salmon Caesar salad was my go-to dinner.
Others might be grilled chicken with sauteed greens. Sometimes I’d have a fatty cut of beef, but not very often because I tended to gain weight on beef. I developed a a taste for Brussels sprouts, which I had always hated. But you know what? You got to do what’s what you got to do. I even learned to eat kippers, kippered herring. I still cannot learn to eat sardines. I tried it a few times. I just gave up.
Now, here’s something that might surprise people. Once a week about, I’ll have a little bit of ice cream. Usually not the kind loaded with sugar and corn syrup, but usually one sweetened with alulose, stevia, or arythril. It tastes like a treat and it really doesn’t wreck my blood sugar or undo my progress. So that’s important because if your diet feels like punishment, you won’t stick with it. You just have to learn and change the way you eat. When you say, “I’m on a diet,” that implies temporary that’s in your head. I’m going to change back at some point. That’s not what you want. You want a way of eating that you can live with permanently. The point was to eat in a way that kept my blood sugar in the safe zone and made plaque reversal possible while still enjoying my food.
But what if I had a spike? What happens then? Well, for starters, I don’t panic. Just going out for a walk or doing some exercise snack like lunges or calf raises or jumping on the Schwinn Airdyne. You know that 30-year-old Airdyne that I kept around the house, mom kept around her house. And it was great. it will bring bring my blood sugar back down very quickly. That’s because it’s not the spike that drives the problem. It’s how long and how often your glucose stays even over 140. So, if you think about it, some foods might spike your blood sugar 200 or more. And if it’s only a few minutes, that appears to be okay. It’s really time under the curve, the blood sugar curve over 140. So, I’d much rather have a quick spike of 200 and back down to 100 than go up to 160 and just stay there hour after hour after hour.
EXERCISE
Now, all this leads me to the second big change, and that was exercise. I used to think the key to heart health was endless cardio, long runs, marathons, long bike rides, hours and hours of that level two steady state work. I ran half marathons weekly, sometimes twice a week… Here’s the truth I learned. Long-distance cardio isn’t bad. It’s not the most efficient way though to protect your arteries or reverse plaque. What really matters is improving your metabolic health. And the fastest way to do that is by building and using muscles, especially in your legs. Your leg muscles are your largest safety valve against insulin resistance and metabolic disease. When you engage those big muscles, you pull sugar out of your bloodstream and into your muscle cells where it’s safe. You’re lowering your blood sugar and insulin levels quickly.
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[I notice that when I am doing a gig, I can get away with drinking a sugary soda in the middle of the gig without feeling that sugar crash I do when sitting at a desk. . –GC]
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So, I shifted my training. Instead of logging 10 or 15 miles at a time, I started doing short intense bursts, high-intensity interval training, HIT, and a newer variation of this called REHIT, reduced exertion, high-intensity training. With HIT, I’d go all out for 40 to 60 seconds or not all out, but more like 90%. Recover for a minute or two, and then repeat. REHIT is kinder and gentler. You do go all out, but you only go out for like 20 seconds maximum. You do your maximum intensity, but only for 20 seconds, and then you back up.
You do a recovery very slow for 40 to 60 seconds. You do even just two high-intensity intervals in REHIT. And it’s shown to have some really good impact on your health, your arterial health, and your body. And guess what? The reason it’s called reduced exertion, [is] even though you’re going to high intensity, highest level, it’s only for 20 seconds. It’s only twice and you can do it in the morning and you don’t feel burned out the rest of the day. You don’t feel washed out. I could do it on a stationary bike, that Schwinn Airdyne I talked about. I could do it running hill sprints and I do all of those. I even added a rebounder that a friend gave me. You know those trampolines? I thought those were kind of wimpy looking until he gave me that one. And it’s like, oh my gosh, when you hit a flat out sprint on that thing, it will wear you out.
It’s great for calves, hips, and quads. So, I paired that with resistance training. And I’m not talking about hours in the gym. Most days, I did resistance snacks. 5 minutes in the morning, 5 minutes in the evening, even two or three minutes three or four times in the day. Wall squats, prolonged lunges, pull-ups, step squats, one-legged step squats, calf raises, use dumbbells, barbells, body weight moves. Once a week I’ll go to the gym for a longer session, harder workout, and use all those machines. Also once a week I’ll do a longer hit. So, I do three to five REHIT sessions per week and then one session of full hit.
I completely cut out those punishing long distance runs. Well, not completely. There were a few years where I never ran even as far as 5 miles at the time. I’m back to doing a couple of five mile runs. I’ll usually try to get in one once a week. My workouts overall became shorter, more intense, and more targeted. And the results in my labs and the scans speak for themselves.
The key is you don’t have to start at my level. Remember that. I do some fairly intense stuff. And I’ve put some videos out there. A lot of people come to see me and they say, “I’m not starting at that level.” A lot of people are beyond my level, you know, doing some very heavy resistance work.
You start where you are. That’s where you start. Even if you’re just walking right now, start there. Walk daily. Add short bursts of speed. Try getting a 10 or 20 pound weight vest or a 10 or 20 pound weight belt. Start adding some resistance. Start adding some things to what you’re doing. Work toward building muscle and incorporating high-intensity work in small, manageable doses. Over time, you’ll notice not only is your fitness improving, but your blood sugar, your energy, and your risk profile are all changing for the better.
SLEEP
Now, there was another big change that I made in my recovery, and that meant getting serious about sleep and stress management. For years, I treated sleep as optional. .. You’re not conscious. It’s sort of like wasted time, right? I’d stay up late, I’d work, I’d get up early and go run. And I told myself, I was just one of those people who could get by on five or six hours of sleep. Sometimes I’d wake up at 3 in the morning and couldn’t go back to sleep. Now, the truth is, poor sleep is a stressor. It raises your cortisol. It spikes your blood sugar and drives inflammation. They’ll do sleep studies on people and people may say, “Oh, I slept just fine.” But you see some things on the sleep study that said, “It wasn’t perfect.” For the next 48 hours, these people will have increased insulin resistance. So, good sleep is far more important than you might think, and certainly more important than I treated it.
Cortisol. If you don’t get enough good sleep, you’re starting to push your cortisol and that spikes your blood sugar, drives inflammation, all of which feed plaque growth. One problem that I discovered was that I had mild sleep apnea. My high narrow dental arch, crowded my teeth, and more importantly, it pushed my tongue back into my airway while I slept. So, if I was sleeping on my back, my tongue, as I got older, my tongue just started going back there more often. It would wake me up and I wouldn’t even notice it. That meant I was waking up dozens of time in a night without even realizing it. I addressed that with braces, Invisalign braces. They widened my arches and it really helped. But it wasn’t the only thing. I had to train myself to sleep on my side instead of on my back. That was challenging. But that one change improved my oxygen levels, lowered my blood pressure, and left me feeling more rested.
Stress was the other piece. I’d been going full throttle for decades. To me, a high level of stress was a natural thing. I had tried things like meditating and slowing my breath,
and they didn’t really seem to help. So, I just said heck with it. Now, chronic stress keeps you in fight or flight and keeps your body in a low-grade inflammatory state. It keeps that cortisol growing. I needed a way to break that cycle every day. And that’s when I started practicing slow, controlled breathing. Not just taking a deep breath, but actually slowing my breathing rate down to half of normal. You know, the normal 15 to 20 breaths. We’re not talking about going to 12 breaths per minute. We’re talking about going to 7 to 10 perspective.
From a geek perspective, this kind of breathing increases carbon dioxide slightly. That opens up blood vessels in your brain and body and it stimulates your vagus nerve, the switch that turns on your rest and repair mode. Rest and digest, rest and repair.
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Well that seems to be a partial answer to Valerie Curren’s question about the Buteyko Breathing Technique from Sunday. — GC
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Here’s where I learned that really slow breathing rate. A group called RESPeRATE
sent me one of their devices to try. You put a strap around your belly and you have some earplugs in and it coaches you on how quickly you should inhale and how slowly you should exhale and how often to repeat. And that’s when I thought, “Oh my gosh, no wonder my slowed breathing in the past really never helped. I wasn’t slowing it down enough.” You can do this without any kind of BOF feedback gadget like RESPeRATE . Just sit or lie down. Inhale slowly for 4 or 5 seconds. Exhale slowly for 6 to 8 seconds and repeat just doing that same thing for 10 minutes. You’ll feel a big difference just with that alone.
Sleep and stress control don’t just make you feel calmer. They have a measurable impact on your metabolic health. Better sleep lowers your fasting glucose and your blood pressure. Lower stress reduces inflammation markers. These two things alone can take a huge amount of cardiovascular risk right off the table. That’s basically the lifestyle change I did. I know it might sound very simple, but for some people it can be hard to start or even maintain that kind of lifestyle.
Consistency is key here, but as we age, our body doesn’t have the same capacity to respond as quickly as when we were young. And that’s why I want to talk about supplements. I was trained in the traditional way and the folks that I trained with, we all felt like supplements just meant expensive urine. We underestimated the effectiveness. . But after my reality check, I decided to use my prevention experience to do my own research. I did a lot of science work at Hopkins and understood how to analyze science very well. When I started looking at the supplement research, I was surprised.
I started developing opinions about the best types of supplements for prevention. So to me, supplements should fill gaps in your diet that you can’t cover with diet, support your specific needs, and be backed by evidence.
D3 & K2
One of the first supplements I added was vitamin D3. Around 5,000 international units per day. Low vitamin D levels are linked to increased inflammation, higher cardiovascular risk, and poorer immune function. But I didn’t take D3 alone. I took vitamin K2 as well, about 400 micrograms daily because K2 helps direct calcium into bones and teeth, not into artery walls where it can contribute to calcification. But more importantly, it has some role in improving insulin resistance. I predict that’s going to be shown as the research continues. There’s already a couple of studies out there indicating that.
NIACIN
Another supplement that I used to take is niacin, mostly due to low HDL. Niacin is actually the only thing supplement or medication wise that can increase HDL, decrease LDL, decrease triglycerides, and most importantly decrease LP little A.
Prescription niacin raises high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. This is the “good” cholesterol that helps remove low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the “bad” cholesterol, from the blood. Even though niacin may raise HDL cholesterol, research suggests that niacin therapy isn’t linked to lower rates of death, heart attack, or stroke. [Of Course not /sarc-GC]
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I also take magnesium and not just one form of magnesium. I take Magnesium L-threonatewhich is great for brain health LINK and for sleep while magnesium glycinate supports muscle function and relaxation. [Helps you sleep -GC] Magnesium is involved in over 300 processes in the body and it plays a role in blood pressure and insulin sensitivity both critical for keeping plaque stable or preventing plaque entirely.
OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS
KRILL
Now although I eat a lot of fish I do supplement with some additional omega-3 fatty acids. The combination of EPA and DHA, two of the most important omega-3 fatty acids, that combination has proven time and time again to provide significant benefits to lower cardiovascular risk.
Omega-3 fatty acids are well known for supporting heart health and inflammatory balance, but not all omega-3 sources are the same. Fish oil and krill oil both contain EPA and DHA, yet they differ significantly in concentration, research support, sustainability, and cost. In this article, we explain how omega-3s work in the body, compare fish oil and krill oil side by side, and review why fish oil remains the most efficient (and researched) option for most people…
Fish Oil vs. Krill Oil: Not All Omega-3 Sources are the Same
While both fish and krill oil contain omega-3 fatty acids, specifically DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), there are important differences between the two, especially in concentration, absorption, and research support…
Fish oil typically contains higher levels of EPA and DHA than krill oil.… [AND possibly mercury -GC]
…While there’s nothing wrong with fish oil, a growing body of research suggests there’s a smarter source: Krill oil.
Here’s what you need to know about krill oil and what the science shows about its health-enhancing potential…
Though both fish oil and krill oil contain EPA and DHA, the molecular structure of their fatty acids is different in a way that matters. In krill, the omega-3s are in the form of phospholipids, molecules of glycerol, two fatty acids, and the mineral phosphorus. In fish oil, the omega-3s are triglycerides, compounds of glycerol, and three fatty acids.
That slight difference in molecular makeup gives krill oil the advantage in terms of omega-3 bioavailability: The phospholipid form of omega-3 fatty acids in krill was shown to help facilitate the incorporation of omega-3s into tissues faster and more effectively than the triglyceride form in fish. In other words, the omega-3s in krill are easier for the body to absorb, suggesting you can take about 37% lesskrill oil than fish oil to get the same benefit.
2. Krill Oil Phospholipids Offer Critical Benefits That Fish Oil Cannot.
But as we age, our cells’ phospholipid levels naturally decrease…
3. Krill Oil Has Brain-Boosting Choline; Fish Oil Does Not….
Both of these are selling supplements BTW.
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NATOKINASE
There are other supplements I do take, especially from time to time like aged garlic extract and natokinase, both of which have evidence showing impact on arterial plaque.
The next piece of my strategy was, believe it or not, medications. But before I go into what I take, I want to be clear. Medications are not the main driver of plaque reversal or plaque prevention. You cannot out prescribe a bad lifestyle. Let me repeat that. You cannot out prescribe a bad lifestyle. But when medications are used strategically, like supplements, in the right dose at the right time for the right person, they can help stabilize plaque or prevent it and lower risk while your lifestyle changes do the heavy lifting. Now, get ready for what I’m about to tell you because I’ve been criticized for this.
STATINS
Although, I truly believe it’s something that contributed to my results. One of the first I chose to take was a low-dose statin. Yes, I got a lot of haters for that. Not to hammer my LDL. That wasn’t my interest. My LDL or bad cholesterol, I wasn’t looking at trying to ground that into the ground, but I wanted to lower my inflammation and protect myself against recurring inflammation. You see, I knew if I had had plague, I had gone through episodes of developing inflammation. I knew I didn’t feel it. So, I wanted to continue to have a a backup for my lifestyle. I also knew that low-dose statins help with cardiovascular inflammation. So, that was my target. Most importantly, I started taking it after I found out I had plaque. Again, it’s that plaque business, because inflammation is what makes plaque unstable. And the evidence is strong that low doses of certain statins like ruba or previsatin can reduce that inflammation. I avoid the high dose approach and I avoid the more problematic statins. I for example don’t use a tobistan statin for me that meant rubatin 5 milligrams a day or even now two or three times a week.
Some of my patients are on five milligrams a week and that’s been demonstrated to have a positive impact. So you start thinking about weekly total dosages. You know, patients will come to me on 40 milligrams of versastatin a day times 7 days is what? 280 milligrams compared to 5 milligrams once a week. Totally different ballpark. Totally different universe.
ASPIRIN
I also used to take low aspirin. Let’s talk about aspirin for a minute and why I started taking it and why I’m taking something different now. When I started taking aspirin, it was recommended for primary prevention for people 65 or older and some recommendations said 60 or older. Primary prevention means you’ve reached a certain age. They’re not looking to see if you have high blood pressure or plaque or anything else. If you have heart disease, that means plaque. You’re no longer in primary prevention territory. You’re more in secondary prevention. So heart disease means you have documented plaque. If that’s your case, you’re no longer in the primary prevention category. You’re a cardiovascular patient, you’re in secondary prevention, and yes, those same guidelines say, “Yep, aspirin works for secondary prevention.” And even though it was recommended at the time I started it, I wasn’t taking it for primary prevention. I started it at the time that I discovered my own plaque because I said, “Okay, I’ve got plaque. I’m now a cardiovascular patient. I need to have a blood thinner type of impact.” and baby aspirin or aspirin 81 milligrams was what I needed. So, of course, there’s a bleeding risk. So, this is always a discussion to have with your doctor. If you notice, I said I used to take low dose aspirin.
I didn’t change it because it didn’t work or because of side effects. I stopped it for another reason. A few years later, I found out I had atrial fibrillation. It’s the most common heart rhythm problem and it’s associated with clots and therefore strokes. Aspirin just doesn’t protect it. Atrial fib raises your risk of stroke six to eight times. Aspirin does not do away with that extra risk from atrial fib. I had to exchange my aspirin for something else. It’s called NOAC, a novel oral anti-coagulant. So instead of baby aspirin, I took Eloquis. Now it’s interesting. Eloquis has shown a similar protection profile for heart attacks as low dose aspirin but a much much better risk reduction for strokes associated with atrial fib. So that’s why I made the switch in the mid-60s.
I started, well actually in the late 50s I started developing high blood pressure. I started years ago with Ramipril. It’s an ACE inhibitor. And again, you don’t need to remember the term. It’s just a type of blood pressure medicine that doctors were just beginning to use. They had used it quite often, but not so often for frontline high blood pressure management. I eventually switched to Lartin. It’s an RB. It’s similar, but different. And the problem was I was having a cough with the ACE inhibitor. Keeping blood pressure in the optimum range is another way to protect your arteries from damage over time.
I do use a low dose and it has helped me both keep my numbers down and steady and the key thing, protect my kidneys. The point is every one of these medications was added for a very specific reason based on my test results, my risk profile, my examination components like my blood pressure. And I review all these things regularly. If a medication isn’t helping or the numbers improve to the point where it’s no longer needed, I make a change, just like my patients do.
SALES PITCH
Medications are tools. They work best when they’re targeted, monitored, and used for support, not to replace the real drivers of cardiovascular health, your exercise, your sleep, your stress control. So, that’s my story in a nutshell. Remember, I was going to tell you about that one piece of the puzzle most people miss, even more important than lifestyle. But there’s one more thing I like to keep track of. If you’re ready to take prevention seriously, I want you to know you don’t have to keep struggling with a medical system that just pushes pills and doesn’t listen. I see so many people trying to figure this out on their own. And while it’s good to do your own research, we do a lot of stuff like that e-book to help support people who are figuring this out. In fact, if you just leave all the decisions to your doctor, you’re likely to get a lot of unnecessary procedures. It’s good to do your own research, but going solo, completely solo, that can lead to blind spots and mistakes that can put your health at risk. And so, this is where I’ve dedicated my career.
I was formerly trained in prevention and eventually ran the program, as I said, at John’s Hopkins, training the other doctors there in prevention. I know the strengths and the limits of traditional preventive medicine. To make this care more accessible, I’ve personally trained a team of clinical advisers. They take the same approach I do. Listening carefully and looking at the real drivers of heart disease and plaque, inflammation, and insulin resistance, not just the numbers most doctors stop at. And no, we don’t just do an LDL, bad cholesterol, and call it a day. When you call and you get more than an appointment, you’ll get guidance and support designed for your situation, your numbers, your goals.
You’ll finally have somebody in your corner helping you make the right decisions. If you’re ready to move beyond that kind of frustration and get prevention that actually work, here’s what to do now. If you’re interested in working with us, click the link in the description. Or call the number on your screen and one of our people will give you a call. They can or will take the call and can talk this through with you. And like I mentioned before, get your free copy of my seven step heart attack prevention program so that you can learn more about your risk, how to fix your metabolism, and reverse arterial plaque. Just click the link below and there it is.
Purpose. I’ve done videos on that and the videos admittedly are just not that popular. People think, “Oh, that’s just woo woo fishy stuff.” Woo! Purpose is not woo woo fishy stuff. When I got that first CIMT scan and I saw arteries of a 73y old at age 57, for me it scared me. But the truth is fear alone doesn’t keep you going. For me, my purpose was twofold. First, I wanted to be around not just alive, but healthy for the people I love. Second, I wanted to turn my own wake-up call into something that could help other people avoid a heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney disease, erectile dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, the vascular part of cardiovascular disease. That’s why I shared these scans, these numbers, and the steps I took. I know what it feels like to think it’s too late, and I know the relief of realizing it’s not. When you have a clear purpose, the daily choices get easier.
You want a purpose that’s bigger than how I feel today. And a purpose that’s bigger than, well, this is what my doctor told me to do. You know, I think I’ve retired three, four, five times. Maybe more times than I can count. And I always come back to just sharing knowledge. It’s the type of knowledge I think will help people find hope and avoid heart attacks and strokes, make people’s lives better. Your purpose is the anchor that keeps you steady when life gets messy. When you’re tempted to fall back into old habits. If you don’t have that purpose yet, take some time, think about it, it’s the most important thing you can do. Because once you know why you want a longer, healthier life, the how to get there becomes a lot more doable. Finally, I know more about what to eat to reverse arterial plaque. If you want to know more about that, check out this video right here. [Points to link on screen]
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Elizabeth Bright DO, ND, a graduate of Columbia University, is a highly respected American Osteopath and Naturopath living in Italy. She is former Chef-owner of Coppi’s Organic and The Vigorelli Restaurants in Washington, D.C. She is a master in Chau Ka Kung Fu. She has been eating a high-fat carnivore diet and has been using it as a treatment modality since 2016.
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A few tidbits of information relevant to the video I am featuring.
…it is known that bromated flour, which contains bromine, has been used in the USA since 1914. In 1982, researchers in Japan published the first of a series of studies showing that potassium bromate, a food additive used in baking bread, causes cancer in the thyroids, kidneys, and other body parts of rats and mice. As a result of these findings, countries around the world banned the additive, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration held back, in part because the amount of potassium bromate that remains in bread after baking should be negligible.
Hubby, reminds me that King Arthur flour is unbleached & unbromated. I wonder if bromine is NOT listed because it is not in the ‘bread’ just in the flour used to make it AND the FDA held back, in part because the amount of potassium bromate that remains in bread after baking should be negligible.
“…the vast majority of cholesterol in your body was made in your liver. Cholesterol production increases when the body is under stress: emotional stress can cause elevated cholesterol because the stress hormone cortisol is made out of cholesterol. Physical stress on the body can also elevate cholesterol.
Because cholesterol helps to repair and heal your body, you will produce more if there is a great deal of inflammation occurring in your body.So all those factors above that raise inflammation, can raise your cholesterol too…”
[worth reading the entire article. –GC]
33 minute Clip:
The SHOCKING TRUTH About Iodine! (Nobody Shares This) | Dr. Elizabeth Bright
Full Interview (1 hour 18 minutes):
Your Body Is BEGGING for Iodine (How Much You Actually Need) | Dr. Elizabeth Bright
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT of VIDEO.
I know this is very long so I am cutting out parts that do not directly impact the subject of iodine. The parts I think are really important or are novel such as A1 & A2 milk cows and dairy causing inflammation, I will use pulled quotes to highlight to make it easier to skim and get the meat of the article.
The person doing the interviewing is Jesse Chappus, a retired chiropractor. He is questioning Dr Bright. I am not going to go back thru and try to add the attributions. Hopefully the question marks will make it fairly clear.
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“Every single cell in the body needs iodine. Every tissue needs iodine. Iodine is an antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral. It’s a heavy metal chelator. It’s my shield. We use more nutrients when we’re in a state of stress. If your body’s fighting an infection that is a stress state, you need more iodine. It boosts your immune system. Your immune system needs iodine, the substances that interfere with the absorption of iodine. Fluoride, chloride, bromide. So that is really why people need to supplement, because they have been exposed to substances that prevent the absorption of iodine even if they can get in their food source, which they can’t really.
There are places in the world that have too much fluoride in the ground. Certain places in England. Where tea is grown [in] India, China. I don’t think there’s any way you can get away with drinking black tea, white tea, green tea… I lived in China, so I had access to the best teas in the world. I would consider all of them to be poison today.
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WAIT WHAT? My morning tea is full of fluoride? -GC
The fluoride content in tea varies depending on the type of tea and the quality of the leaves used in its production. 135
Black tea has the highest fluoride content among the types of tea. The average fluoride levels in black tea are 1.8 ppm, with the highest recorded levels reaching 4.2 ppm. 1
Green tea also contains fluoride, with average levels of 1.3 ppm, but the highest levels recorded were 3.2 ppm, and the lowest were 0.7 ppm. 1
Oolong tea has fluoride levels that are generally comparable to those recommended for the prevention of dental caries. 2
White tea is likely to have less fluoride than other types of tea, as it is made from the buds and youngest leaves of the tea plant. 23
The fluoride content in tea is not uniform. The plant stores the majority of environmental toxins and minerals in its older, mature leaves, which are used in cheap teas. These leaves are cheap, provide bulk, and produce a dark, strong liquor. However, they also act as a reservoir for fluoride. 3
The origin of tea and environmental factors, such as pollution, groundwater, air, and the soil in which it was grown, affect the amount of fluoride that accumulates in the plants. 5
Excessive fluoride consumption is linked to skeletal fluorosis, a condition that stiffens joints and compromises bone health. 34
“The problem is that nobody’s doing the “Hakala Lab” tests. They’re all going to their local lab and they’re testing radioactive iodine. They’re all looking for Chernobyl. None of these iodine blood tests that you get are testing organic iodine. They’re testing for radioactive iodine.”
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[Discussion about carnivore diet removed]
Not eating enough fat… Actually, women need more fat than males do to make more steroid hormones. …. I’m talking about adding additional fat to that meat because the fat is an anti inflammatory. So people who come to me have inflammation… So if somebody’s cooking up a steak, they’re putting say butter or tallow on top of that at the end. Say it’s ground beef and they’re making burger patties, same kind of thing, adding butter and tallow. …burgers are pre-digested in the sense that the blades that grind the meat have altered the protein somewhat. It’s not horrible. It’s just that the steak is going to have more nutrients. Because when you cook a steak, if you’re doing it medium, I’ve weighed it, when you do it medium rare, there’s 25% of the weight gone. Some of that is fat that stays in the pan or comes down into the grill tray and some of that is water soluble nutrients. So ground beef, you’re going to have fewer. It’s pre-digested in the sense that it has already gone through this process of being ground up.
….you brought seed oils in and you also talked about some of the quote unquote healthy plant fats such as coconut oil… I forget what specifically ones you covered there. But typically in that category would be like avocado oil, olive oil. I want to make sure we have a distinction there between the seed oils and those oils, because the seed oils are in a category of themselves that no matter what diet you’re on are considered toxic.
So seed oil soils are canola, peanut, it’s not even a seed. Those are the oils that we know are trans fats. These fat’s are very, very, very inflammatory.
The olive oil wouldn’t be inflammatory, but it’s not going to give you cholesterol. Avocado and coconut oil are not going to give you cholesterol. And the cholesterol, the molecule only comes from animals. But arguably, if you’re using your volume of food intake and calories with those other fats, you’re taking up valuable space that you could use for healthy animal fats that come along with cholesterol…
…There are some people who are so inflamed — or have an immune system which has turned autoimmune. The tiny amount of milk protein in the butter could be temporarily a source of inflammation for them. They will eventually put the butter back in when they are better because it’s really the dose of the poison. It’s the milk protein that is the issue for the immune system. Just like gluten, …your immune system is looking for proteins. It’s looking for viruses, it’s looking for bacteria. They’re all made out of protein. So if your immune system has become autoimmune because it’s so inflamed, it will mistaken that the small amount of milk protein in the butter [as an enemy] and cause you to be inflamed…
… I know in general you’re not a big fan of supplements, but would that be something you’d ever consider?
….You have to be careful with all supplements because they’re basically very potent, small amounts of things that we’re just supposed to get from our regular diet. As you said, there’s one liver and the rest of it is muscle meat in an animal that you kill.
…But one supplement you’re a huge fan of [is] iodine … I want to come back into that.
Iodine. There’s a lot of detail we can cover within this subject. For people at this point who aren’t supplementing with iodine, talk about the current landscape and what they’re not getting from the diet… and why iodine is so beneficial….The issue today that is more – concerning are the substances that interfere with the absorption of iodine. Fluoride, chloride, bromide. So that is really… why people need to supplement, because they have been – exposed to substances that prevent the absorption of iodine, even if they can get it in their food source, which they can’t really.
You mentioned the other halides and how they can get in the way of absorption of iodine. Where are those typically found?
Your toothpaste, water, if they’ve put fluoride in your water. Chlorine in the pool, bromide in my chair. Probably this fire retardant substances, fabrics, things like that. Car seats. People aren’t licking their car seats. I think it’s more the fluoride that’s in the water and “PFAS” [Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances -GC] which are in our water that we can’t escape. There’s “PFAS” in the Maldives, so where are we going to go? We can’t go anywhere… We shouldn’t be running for the hills. We should be taking iodine to prevent insufficiency.
And as you explain that, I can see this is a double negative where, the other halides are so apparent in today’s modern world, affecting our iodine absorption… And then the one halide that we want to get isn’t readily found in the food anymore. So it’s hitting it from both ends.
That’s correct… Iodine is an essential nutrient. Chloride, bromide and fluoride are absolutely not. Fluoride being the one that is highly touted as something that prevents your teeth from deteriorating. But this is not true. It was never proven. There’s actually evidence to the contrary,that it causes fluorosis and makes your teeth rot. Which is what the fluoride content. And actually natural water sources. Fluoride is a mineral that is in the ground. So there are places in the world that have too much fluoride in the ground. Certain places in England, [places] where tea is grown, India, China, those places, the well water is very, very rich in fluoride. And those are the people, those areas, [have] a lot of congenital hypothyroidism, —– dwarfish, low stature, I think is what you’re supposed to say today. And learning disabilities, and of course, goiter.
Let’s talk more about that tea please.
So the tea leaves are being grown in soil that contains fluoride. So the end product that is dried out and shipped and packaged. You’re getting that, when you steep your tea, you’re getting that put back into the water? Yes, yes. And the cheaper teas have more fluoride than the more expensive teas. They have an actual rating system of how much fluoride is in the tea. Brick tea, loose tea has a lot more fluoride than your more expensive brands. It’s kind of like selenium, Brazil nuts… People think that they’re going to get selenium from Brazil nuts. There are areas that have more selenium in the soil. And those trees, the nuts of those trees will have more selenium in them than the other ones. But tea, it has a certain acidity that people like with tea means there’s more fluoride in it. So they [are] actually augmenting the fluoride by breeding and things like that to have the tea have more fluoride in it, so it has more acidity in the flavor. [And if you think the Chinese are not doing that breeding on purpose I have a bridge for sale. –GC]
All right, so cheaper teas, more of an issue here… How big of a problem is this in general? And is there specific types of tea people can still drink and not worry about this?
No, it’s [tea is] poison. So it’s a huge problem. I actually gave this paper to somebody in the UK. An Irish researcher published a warning to his country because they have mandated fluoride in the water. And the Irish drink a ton of tea. So there’s a huge rate of learning disabilities, fluorosis, fractured bone, osteoporosis, et cetera, et cetera, — everything that fluorosis causes, in Ireland. So I don’t think there’s any way you can get away with drinking black tea, white tea, green tea… I lived in China, so I had this access to the best teas in the world. None of them. I would consider all of them to be poison today.
…For somebody that’s been drinking a lot of tea in the past, is there a way to test to see how much of it’s accumulated in the body?.. And also, can you test teas for somebody that’s in love with their tea right now, doesn’t want to give it up and wants to just see if their particular blend, this is an issue for, even though it’s such a big issue in general. Can we test the tea? Can we test the body?
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You can test the body. You can test the fluoride, bromide and chloride content in your urine and test the iodine. How much iodine is not able to come in because of these halides blocking the absorption of iodine. “Hakala Labs” in the US does that 24 hour urine uptake. You collect your urine for 24 hours, after ingesting 50 milligrams of iodine. You collect the urine, they test it and they give you… the results of how much bromide, the toxicity of halides, [are] in your urine, in your system. The teas, this Irish paper, actually I have found, — all the brands, he went through all the Irish brands that are popular.
… I have a couple of papers from China that did test the fluoride, not in particular teas. Yes, in teas. I actually have, because there’s Anhui province and there’s different provinces that- they did test…
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[So China is well aware of the fluoride problem in the teas and yet they are breeding teas that will increase the uptake of fluoride from the water. –GC]
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Any other plants that are prone to this, taking the fluoride and… concentrating it in the product?
“Tea is the worst one. Yes.
So coffee, not an issue?
Coffee, not an issue.
No other plants people are eating? Well, there are plants that prevent the absorption of iodine… Brassica, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, all those plants, that whole family of plants, they figured that out because the farmer went to check his rabbits and they were all eating cabbage leaves and they all had little goiters… The scientists went there and isolated basically what is in today’s antithyroid medication — from these plants. So it prevents, it is a antithyroid medication. Antithyroid substance because it prevents the absorption of iodine. So in my book, “Good Fat Is Good For Girls, Puberty and Adolescents”, I actually do list more – foods that we eat. Oatmeal is another one that prevent the absorption of iodine.
Any others you can think of off the top of your head?
Flaxseeds.
… Let’s talk about why iodine is so important.
Every single cell in the body needs iodine. Every tissue needs iodine. So your adrenals need iodine, your salivary gland, — the male’s prostate. Not just the thyroid. Female uterus, ovaries, breast tissue. – Every mucus bearing tissue has a ton of iodine in it. So your intestinal [tract]. — The microbiome stuff that people are always talking about. Not going to happen if you don’t have adequate iodine — in your intestinal mucus. Iodine is an antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral. It’s a heavy metal chelator. That’s why I said it’s my shield. The thyroid takes a minimum of 6mg. The breasts in females take 5mg. Can’t remember how much the prostate takes. I would consider any cyst in these tissues, any growth, any inflammation due to iodine deficiency.
And from last time we talked, the ideal dose of “Lugol’s,” as you recommend the “Lugol’s.” For maintenance, was two drops of 5% per day.Is that still correct?
Maintenance after you have. Yes, if you have had. I have women who come to me with swollen lymph glands. – Fibroids in their uterus. I will have them douche with iodine… So you’re actually getting it closer to the tissue that needs the iodine. If you’re taking it orally, that’s why “Lugol’s” is better, because it’s much more easily absorbed. You’re taking it… Everybody’s going to fight about the iodine if you are severely deficient. So sometimes it’s better to just get it. People paint their breasts with iodine.
And when it comes to time of day to take it, does it matter?
Is it better earlier on in the day? With food? just details on to best absorb it.
. I would say earlier in the day we are supposed to peak between 6 and 9. All our hormones kind of peak at that time. So you’re waking up bright eyed and bushy tailed to greet the day. I would take what you need in the morning. There are people who have inflamed thyroids that might react to the two drops that I’m saying you should take. So then you need to see if you’ve got nodules or thyroid antibodies.
Explain that in greater detail. What you’re saying there is if somebody already has a problem in the thyroid, if they activate that by taking “Lugol’s,” they might run into problems because of that. Otherwise iodine isn’t something we need to worry about. The kidneys will remove excess, correct?
Correct. Now imagine the tissue that has been devoid for a long time. So that could be the uterus, that could be the ovaries, that could be, the breast tissue. But usually the thyroid, because the thyroid is all follicular. Every part of the thyroid is working. The follicles are always there to make hormones. So breast tissue is not that way, uterus is not that way, prostate is not that way. So if it hasn’t had the iodine, if it’s kind of hunkered down and it hasn’t been producing adequate thyroid hormone because it doesn’t have enough iodine and it has maybe grown an extra piece, expanding itself trying to get more iodine. That extra piece or that inflamed thyroid will sit up and take notice and scream at you.
And how will somebody know if that’s the case?
Palpitations. They might have hyperthyroid symptoms, but they desperately need the iodine anyway. So then we do a detox.
Okay, so let’s say somebody finds out they have one of these nodules, they need to stop taking the dose you’re recommending here. How do they, or can they go about healing that?
They can definitely go about healing that [nodules]. I always recommend they do the salt loading protocol by taking… a small amount, one drop of iodine in a glass of half teaspoon of salt, and a little glass of water, followed by a whole bigger glass of water until they have to urinate. Because this is the way that the iodine will attack and the salt will pull the other halides out of the system. And so that’s a detox.
Dr Bright
Iodine becomes vapor if it’s attached to salt. Okay, so is that more a protocol for somebody that’s new to iodine?
I was getting at the person that has some kind of growth on the thyroid, and then they’re having a problem taking the iodine.
What you just explained there seems like a flush for anybody that wants to… basically get everything to ground zero. “Mmmhmm.” The part you just explained there, is that for everybody or just somebody with a nodule?
No, I think it’s for everybody, but definitely somebody with a nodule because they are — not able to have, their system is already so — deficient in iodine — that part of — their tissue might react. So it’ll start working. — And just it starting working can possibly make every single organ in the body. The heart is very much. So epinephrine is always telling the heart, the rhythm to beat. Right. And that comes from thyroid hormone. So if all of a sudden there’s more thyroid hormone than your body has ever dealt with, hasn’t dealt with in decades, everybody kind of has to get in line and figure out how to use that hormone again. It’s like resistance.
Okay. So, yes, it is a flush. And what I’m talking about isaddressing also resistance to the hormone that is made. But for somebody with a nodule on the thyroid doing the flush, will that physical nodule dissipate over time?
Over time, but not just with the flush, but definitely over time, you have to remove inflammation. You have to make the autoimmune…
This is an autoimmune state, right?
So the immune system is actually attacking it. There’s a combination of… the thyroid is expanded in order to get more iodine, the thyroid also, has got scabs on its knees. — It’s being attacked by antibodies. You don’t have to have positive antibodies to have an inflamed thyroid. So the inflammation, they could just look at an ultrasound and tell you that you’ve got speckled thyroid tissue. The fact that there it’s hyper-vascularized. That is the definition of inflammation. Your antibodies might be negative, but your thyroid tissue is inflamed so… an anti-inflammatory diet, removing carbohydrates, et cetera will definitely help that too. It’s crucial.
From people you’ve worked with, do you find somebody with a nodule, most cases can remedy that without surgery then?
Yes, absolutely. What is difficult to remedy without surgery, just like somebody who maybe has a foot long fibroid. Right. So there is a point where you can teach the body tissue, anomalous tissue to regress. There is also a point of no return. A very large goiter may need surgery. It’s kind of hard to make that tissue that has become also calcified to some extent to regress. But definitely… all of my patients, goiter is more difficult. A very large softball size goiter is going to be very difficult. But inflamed thyroids, smaller goiters, they’ve all regressed. And nodules, they regress.
Essentially, is a goiter, just a nodule that’s grown out of hand?
Both. It’s also the — thyroid itself enlarges. All the follicular tissue will enlarge. So inflammation. Now “Hashimoto’s” is the lymph tissue in the thyroid is swollen. Okay. So we know if there’s a small nodule, good possibility following… doing flushing and the lifestyle we’re talking about today, they couldreverse it.
If somebody has a full on goiter, can they reverse that naturally or no?
It depends on the size. It really depends on the size. — A very large goiter that has become calcified.
How can you?
You can’t. — — That’s why they do the ecogenic testing. They send sound waves to the thyroid to see how fast the sound wave comes back. If it comes back very fast it’s hard, it’s calcified. If it comes back slowly, it went “voof” into the thyroid which is just a big bloody mass of follicular tissue. So you want it to be a big bloody sponge.
If it’s got hard pieces on it that are calcified, how can you. — You can regress a cystic vascular mass. You can’t regress a hardened piece of tissue. Makes sense. So for somebody in that case where it’s just earlier stages, there’s nodules forming, but they’re small, they’re still in hope that they can reverse. You mentioned that protocol with the salt. Are they doing that daily along with the lifestyle or how often would they do that?
No, they’re just doing that for a week and sometimes they get diarrhea because stuff comes out. I have… many teenagers now who have thyroid nodules. Nobody’s checking kids because they’re just looking at “TSH.” So you can have rheumatism, you can have other autoimmune conditions, and they’re not going to look for it because — they don’t associate… those conditions with thyroid issues like I do. So if you are 70 years old, — it may take more time to – change this tissue that you’ve had… Because most people, most women become hypothyroid because of adolescence, which is what my second book is about.
odine is so necessary to have a healthy puberty, both male and female, but really, really important in female. But by the same token, I have more and more males today as patients. As I said, I have adolescents, pubertal young people who have thyroid issues. If you look at how the body has tried to heal since you were 12 and you’re 70. We’ll do the best we can. But if you have a softball sized goiter, I don’t think that we can make it shrink.
Dr Bright
For somebody right now who is a young adult feeling healthy, but they haven’t been supplementing with iodine to this point. It sounded like, but I want you to confirm doing that flush would be a good idea for them as well? And if so, how many times, if they’re not suffering right now?
I have a lot of people’s kids. — – The flush is… you could do…
My son is going to go to a pool because he hurt his back and mom is an osteopath, but she’s not in Athens. So he’s been given some exercises by an osteopath locally and he’s going to go to a pool. And I said, honey, triple your iodine intake because he’s going to go in the chlorine pool.
So I would say that… it sort of depends on the situation. It depends on your environment. – But what I’m talking about with females is that we are parents are now conscious of precocious puberty. We know that precocious puberty is bad for adulthood. There are mental health implications involved. Iodine supplementation as a child is important to prevent that.
So you gave that example there of your son going into a pool, upping his shield of iodine before going in. I would assume that would translate to any situation where somebody is going to come in contact with a lot of halides, if knowingly they’re going to be doing that, they want to up their iodine beforehand?
Yeah. And I do it when I travel. Any infection… — I have a cold. – Double your iodine. Because iodine, all nutrients… disappear. We use more nutrients when we’re in a state of stress. If your body’s fighting an infection that is a stress state, you need more iodine. And then it’s also an antibacterial, antiviral. So that’s great. It helps. It boost your immune system. Your immune system needs iodine. So, – we regularly travel and when we travel, we take more iodine. And then if somebody has a cold.
I talked to my daughter today, my grandson has a cold and.. she’s nursing him. Honey, it’s not enough for him to get the iodine from your breast milk. Get him to have a couple of drops of iodine. He’s two years old. Okay.
How young can somebody start to take… iodine orally?
Well, I’ll just say my grandson is going to be two in January. He needs iodine. So I want her to somehow get [it into him.]. We were trying to figure [it] out. Brainstorm how to get it in him because he doesn’t drink juice. He’s getting it from her breast milk, but not adequately. — She’s very busy. There’s — stress and – she’s, I don’t know, she can put it on a piece of meat.
Right. But what I’m getting at is you mentioned two and you wanted him to get some. But for a baby, like newborns, should they be supplementing or do they get enough through the breastmilk?
No, no, no, no. – My daughter has been taking a lot of iodine and he’s had enough, Babies who are nursing. but he’s now older and he’s eating more regular foods… So nursing is enough.
So through childhood, say somebody ends breastfeeding at 3, they’re eating solids. The parents are aware of what we’re talking about today and want to make sure they’re getting enough iodine into the kid. We talked about that two drop dose, but that’s for adults… Is that a good dose for kids as well?
I would say one drop. But again, like I said before, highlighting the fact that the kidneys can remove excess.
There is so much fear around iodine.
That’s why I want to get into the nuance here. It is a water soluble nutrient. So it’s not like vitamin D, it’s not like vitamin A. It’s not like, except for selenium. You can be toxic in selenium. That’s why I don’t recommend supplementing. But iodine is a water soluble nutrient. And all my books from the 40s and 50s measured the kidneys. They measured, they checked, they tested people’s urine. So they did all this research for us that tells us that iodine excess comes out in the urine. And the problem is that nobody’s doing the “Hakala Lab” tests.
They’re all doing the local lab and they’re testing radioactive iodine. They’re all looking for Chernobyl. None of these iodine blood tests that you get are testing organic iodine. They’re testing for radioactive iodine.
For somebody like you that’s been on iodine for a long period of time, you’re fully topped up… Do you ever do that salt protocol that you talked about?
I haven’t in years, no. No. I stopped drinking tea. I did it when I. — Years ago, I was drinking a lot of tea. I was going back and forth to China. No, I don’t need to do that.
Okay, so you already talked about a week. If somebody has nodules, they would want to incorporate that. And then for somebody who is a healthy adult about to begin an iodine protocol like you’re talking about here. Would they just want to do that salt protocol one or two times to flush everything out?
I put it on the protocol because most of my patients are drinking, a lot of them are drinking tea. In the US it’s iced tea. They think that it’s healthier than coffee. They write decaf tea. So that’s why I put it on their protocol because we got to get rid of the halides from the tea… I had a patient from Kazakhstan. — The iodine content in the soil of where this person was from. People from Michigan. I’m gonna. Okay, yeah, — maybe you need more. Maybe that’s why. My family’s from Tennessee. The mountains are devoid of iodine. It’s sort of a regular thing that I have people do now. It’s not some people, as I said, they get diarrhea. – – Some people don’t want to do it for a week. One person asked to do it for less because theywere afraid of the salt. You have this whole hypertension fear that also comes with salt. –
A whole other — context. We talked about best time to take it, it sounded like that would be sometime in the morning. What about spreading the dosage out throughout the day?.. 2 drops, say taking one in the morning, one around dinner time. Any advantage there?
I don’t see it.
Any advantage including that in the food of a pet?
Definitely… You know that “J Crow’s” is geared towards animals anyway. They don’t want you to think that they’re selling it to human beings for horses. Right. — We know that there are tons.
Hypothyroidism is huge in pets today, dogs and cats, because of what we’re feeding them. I used to give my dog iodine. For somebody who has… autoimmune thyroid issues, “Hashimoto’s” specifically, there is a lot of fear. There’s already fear about taking iodine in general… And then there’s another additional layer for people in that category.
When you’re working with someone with “Hashimoto’s” is the protocol any different with iodine?
No. And I explain all of this. I go into – – I’ve researched all of this and I explain in my article on my articles page about why there’s this fear today. “Theodor Kocher” won the Nobel Prize in, I don’t know, 1911, and he had a reaction to sodium iodide. He might have also been taking who knows what other kinds of stuff. So he kind of started the anti-iodine thing. He’s the one who associated iodine taking iodine with hyperthyroidism. At the same time, every single physician was giving iodine to their patients. And then they all of a sudden stopped. Because he was a big guy, he just won a Nobel Prize. Everybody thought, oh, and people complained, other, other doctors complained that now iodine has been given a bad rap. And then they started using it again… to calm down patients when they were calmed down. Actually, it’s associated with hyperthyroidism. When they were cutting out people’s goiter, they would give them a ton of iodine to… make the heart not beat too hard. So it came back into favor clinically. But unfortunately, these were surgeons who love cutting stuff out and they were still geared towards cutting out goiters rather than healing them. So we have documentation of somebody like “Krile” saying — people who have… inflamed thyroids, give them iodine and natural desiccated thyroid. And it will shrink. So I have to go into all this. There’s so much… documentation that I have to explain when we talk about this and I do that in my articles.
Dr Bright
Does somebody need to ease into it though more if they have “Hashimoto’s” taking the iodine?
No, no. Your thyroid is inflamed. Remove the carbohydrates, remove the tea. Remove all these things that you’re doing… Maybe you’re running, maybe you’re doing “CrossFit,” maybe you’re all those things that are raising cortisol levels will also cause your immune system not to function properly. It’s not the iodine. Everybody has to take iodine.
Dr Bright
Okay. I just thought there might be some nuance there with dosages and easing in and somebody who is, their thyroid’s under attack and at least has a certain amount of damage at that point.
Some people have symptoms and some people don’t… Some people have positive antibodies and they don’t have. They don’t react to the iodine. I’ve had patients react to the iodine with palpitations who had no antibodies. It really goes with, you have to address each case individually. There’s not a hard and fast rule for people because some people don’t react and some people overreact. And then we do the flush and then we go very slowly because of resistance.
Are there any other supportive nutrients somebody wants to make sure they’re getting with the iodine that complement that as they’re turning their thyroid back on?
No, they’re all in food. So you have this famous co factors of selenium and zinc and “yada,” “yada,” “yada.” I’m sorry, I don’t think any of that’s necessary if you’re eating steak because all of those are more bioavailable in the ruminant meat that you’re eating.
Okay. Important caveat there though, for somebody who is eating the way you’re talking about, which for a lot of people is extreme and won’t be going to that level. “Mmmhmm.” “Mmmhmm.” Which is fine.
ZINC & SELENIUM
Everybody has their own journey. Sure, sure. And yeah, it’s for them to decide. But I just think it’s important we highlight that’s if you’re consuming a carnivore diet, which is heavy in ruminant animals. Well, the thing is that supplements can be toxic. So selenium is very easily toxic. I talk about in my book “Good Fat Is Good For Girls.” — You need a lot less selenium. Selenium it is 200 micrograms is usually what people are taking or told to take, and — that’s too much because selenium is easily toxic and too much selenium actually prevents the thyroid from making hormone. So I just don’t like supplements because you’re getting this huge, — it’s like taking a club to your nutrition rather than allowing your body to decide, I’ll go to the market and say, I’ll have a little bit of this, I’ll have a little bit of that. I’ll need a little bit of this. And it’s in the form that the body recognizes rather than hitting it over the top of the head with – 100 milligrams of zinc. This ties back to what we talked about before with the organs, where if you’re consuming those in supplement form, you might be pushing a lot more in the body than needed.
VITAMIN D
Yes. I wanted to talk about vitamin D. We got into this last time and listening back afterwards, I realized I needed clarification, so I’m sure other people do as well. You’re not a fan of supplementing with it. You don’t feel the sun has anything to do with our level of vitamin D in the body.
Right. Well, let’s start there because it’s an underlying assumption by basically everybody that vitamin D, our main source is sunlight. Talk about where we got that wrong. We got that wrong when they took away our fat. So nobody was making you stand outside getting a half an hour of sun on your skin pre1980s… you can go to “Ngram Viewer” and look up this stuff, see when it started to be written about, when it started. I do that all the time with things. – Inuits don’t have vitamin D deficiencies. They don’t have — illnesses that are associated with low vitamin D because if they don’t go and eat “Pringles” from the store that people brought — they are living on seal and it’s very fatty animal. That vitamin D is a fat soluble nutrient that comes from the food they’re eating. It’s all very new. And the 70 the magic number 70 that I’ve learned in school is not. I don’t think you need that much. Most of you have to remember, most people are coming to me knowing that I’m a thyroid specialist. They probably have thyroid issues. Most of them do. And if you are hypothyroid, you can’t synthesize nutrients anyway… So you need adequate thyroid function to be able to turn that animal fat into vitamin D.
Okay. A lot more I want to get into within this to make sure I fully understand. So are we saying that vitamin D, which I would totally agree with, you can get it through at least certain foods, but are you saying that the sun can’t provide vitamin D or it’s just not what we should rely on?
Okay, so the sun hits the lipids on our skin and that is supposed to turn it into vitamin D3. The synthesis that happens through… lipids. Okay, so, – — it actually doesn’t work that way… It may work that way. It’s sort of a backup plan because nobody’s eating fat. If you’re not eating fat, maybe. I’m in the sun all the time. – If I weren’t in the sun all the time in Scotland, for instance, I’m not going to be eating vitamin D. Most people say, oh, I’m taking vitamin D seasonally because of the sun. I haven’t looked it up recently, but I’m sure if I did a deep dive into it, I could tell you the year just like I did with folate. We don’t need folate either. The year that they started… pushing this through. I’m sure this came after the cholesterol hypothesis, because the only way you can get vitamin D, vitamin A, any fat soluble nutrient, is if you eat that damn cholesterol.
Okay, the way I understood it before talking to you, we can get vitamin D, obviously from a supplement. We can get it through certain foods and then we can get it through the sun. And the way I’ve looked at it is when I’m not getting sunlight here in Ontario in the wintertime, I need to be upping… through supplementation or foods, vitamin D so my body has that. And I’m still a little bit gray here. It sounds like you’re not saying you can’t get vitamin D from the sun. It’s just not our primary source. Do I have that?
Right, it’s not our primary source. Yeah, it’s not as efficient. There are plenty of people who don’t live in the sun who eat a lot of animal fat, who don’t have vitamin D issues. Fluoride causes vitamin D deficiency… You can’t just isolate one factor and blame everything on it. Well, I can. Thyroid, I can blame everything on hypothyroidism, on thyroid dysfunction, but again, it’s a little bit more complicated. And supplements, isn’t it better to get it from your food? — We know that omega-3 — the sardines, the whatever… I don’t trust anybody’s vats and vats of oil… becoming rancid and then put it in these little capsules. I’m suspicious of that. If you can get it from your food I would recommend that.
Dr Bright
Me too… But I just want to make sure people are covered depending on their unique situation. So I think we’re on the same page now where sun can be a factor. And you’re just saying that you lean into the food source. An area I want to dig into a bit more in that, because if you do a “Google” search, foods that are high in vitamin D, it’s going to give you this list. – I’m assuming by the way you responded there, you’re not thinking we need to be that nuanced and search out these specific top foods to get it. You’re just eating your animal fats and that’s gonna cover you.
Absolutely. Because you do a “Google” search, it is predisposed toward the cholesterol hypothesis. You’re never gonna find [anything], unless you do the deep dives that I do in my research. [BOY, Ain’t that the truth! — GC]
On face value [from google], – stay in the sun, avoid animal fat. – So you’re not gonna find… those top foods that you find, it’s a crock. All Italians gravitate to the sun in the summer and they all think they’re getting tons of iodine. And all of my Italian patients that I had when I had a big practice, open practice before “COVID” they were iodine deficient… So, — it’s like that. —
Are you talking about vitamin D or iodine?
I was just mentioning iodine because people think that if you live by the sea, you can absorb the iodine.
Got it. Okay. But given we need to work with where people are at… somebody in Ontario, not getting sun throughout the winter, not eating the way you’re recommending. And even maybe they are eating a lot of animals, it’s just not to the carnivore extreme. Could you see an importance for vitamin D supplementation, if they’re eating say an animal based diet, but still including some carbs and they need that little bump to keep their vitamin D in a good range?
I would question why they need that bump. — I would say — they should eat enough fat because that’s the most bioavailable and healthy source. I’m a bit of a hard ass… But I think that obviously if you can’t eat, if you live in Ontario, I’m going to live in Scotland half the year, the sun is not going to shine very much. I will not consider taking vitamin D because I eat a lot of fat. But I think that you can eat some carbohydrates. I think that then we’re gonna, we might veer off into the Randle effect, [Randle Cycle] I don’t know. But if you have adequate animal fat and you’re taking iodine and you have the ability to make, turn that fat into vitamin D, vitamin A, vitamin K, vitamin E, then there’s no need to supplement. So I don’t know, if you refuse to eat animal fat, definitely you should supplement.
Okay, so for your ideal diet, high in animal fat, moderate protein. No carbohydrates.Talk about the protein piece and how, if it does, how that changes, the amount of that macro people are getting, at different stages of healing.
Initially because fat is anti inflammatory, you gotta make the hormones out of cholesterol… So we know that excess protein turns into glucose. If you can’t metabolize that protein into, I’m not going to show my muscles. But if you get into muscles and into enzymes and all the things that protein is needed for it’s just going to turn into glucose. We can only metabolize glucose or ketones. So I definitely dial down the protein to moderate in a healing state. Because most ill health is inflammation.
Other than diet, what are the biggest areas that in the modern world we’re being impacted negatively by inflammation?
I think that we are… over exercising. – Stress. I think that stress will definitely put a dent in our, it can turn an immune system autoimmune very easily because… cortisol causes inflammation. High cortisol levels cause inflammation. So we can go into all kinds of substances that people take from synthetic hormones to over exercising to foods that trigger inflammation. All of that will affect. So that’s still diet. Sorry. But yeah, stress, definitely over exercising, definitely. Pollution.
What are some of the safeguards, I know you filter your water, but what are some of the things in your environment at home you do to protect against environmental toxins?
Take iodine that’s my shield.
And what dose are you taking daily?
I’m taking six drops of 5% daily. Have been for a long time.
Any specific reason, previous health challenges? Because that’s more than you’re recommending to others.
I want a big shield. Because I don’t run for the hills. I’m falling in the “Adriatic.” Who knows those fishing boats and the crap that their engines are spilling into the water. – Because I know it comes out in my urine, if it’s too much. I take 12 drops when I’m traveling. Last time we got into testing a little bit.
You talked about two tests that you would do with people. One being thyroid, another being salivary cortisol. Let’s talk about a thyroid panel and get into details there because there’s thyroid panels that your doctor will do, and then there’s additional things that can be added. What do you think is really important there?
Free “T3” and free “T4.” And if you have inflammation, the thyroid antibodies. The two… that I recommend are antithyroid peroxidides and antithyroglobulin. Unfortunately, statistically more people have positive antithyroid peroxidase. And I’ve had patients ask for both, and they absolutely refuse to do both, to test both. And they also have a situation where once the antibodies are positive, they won’t test again… because they don’t believe that you can make them go down, you can bring them into remission, which my patients do all the time. You even have labs that say above a thousand in somebody who’s pregnant who needs to get those antibodies down, they don’t know we can’t see them go down. They have to go to a special lab to ask for the actual number. They don’t even bother because they assume that there’s nothing can be done. They can’t be reduced, they can’t go into remission.
Different people you’ve worked with over the years, following what we talked about today, the diet as the base, supplementing with iodine. What different chronic health conditions have you seen or reversed?
Thyroid cancer, — schizophrenia, —– many.
Anything that you found is particularly resistant to all this?
Weight loss. Some people, it takes a long time… I’m not really focused on weight loss. A lot of people are focused on weight loss. I’m more focused on getting the body healthy. So depression will go away for some people, before the 20 pounds that they’re trying to lose.
For the person out there… feeling like I’ve been stuck with weight loss, this sounds interesting, but you’re telling me to consume copious amounts of fat. How am I ever going to burn the fat on my body? Give them some reassurance there.
Well, when I give them a protocol, it’s for their structure so I’m not counting calories. I’m giving them the quantity of protein that they need for their structure and the quantity of fat that they need for their energy. It’s not calories in calories out there is a certain amount of nutrition, energy you would say that you need in adolescence. And somebody who’s six foot tall needs a lot more than somebody who’s five foot tall. But when you are in ketosis, which you will be, you will be burning your own body fat. But if you go out and run a marathon, you’re not going to burn any body fat. Because you can eat nothing and not burn any fat, because your body is holding onto that fat because it thinks you’re in danger.
And for you, the big tool to… provide the input, to calm the body, is this high fat diet.
Yeah, absolutely, [it] reduces stress.
For somebody, again, thinking about heading into what we’re talking about today, but this is a big leap. They’ve been having a more standard type diet and they’re thinking about all the saturated fat they’re gonna consume by eating this way. And they’re thinking conventional, which we’ve all been told saturated fat causes all kinds of heart disease, health complications. Help put their mind to rest.
Well, saturated fat is cholesterol, so we know that, — that’s what I’ve written about in my books. Saturated fat. — Cholesterol prevents depression. Avoiding saturated fat, – people who have low cholesterol levels are more at the risk of depression. They’re more at the risk of mental health issues. – – So, — everything in our body needs – cholesterol. It’s an anti inflammatory, it’s a source of our brain tissue, it’s a source of our nerve tissue, it’s a source of our energy and it’s a source of our steroid hormones. So our entire endocrine system, steroids, hormones are made out of cholesterol. So if you’re avoiding something that you need so much, we are human because we started eating… so much animal fat. Our brain grew bigger because we ate animal fat. More animal fat. This is documented. You kind of have to take a… I don’t want to say a leap of faith, but if it’s only been, I’m 62, it’s only been since 1984… that everybody has told you because it wasn’t until that “Time” cover story with the unhappy face, — the bacon bad and the eggs bad, that everybody started avoiding cholesterol. Before that, it was after “Ancel Keys,” the cholesterol hypothesis, heart disease was supposedly caused by this. But that is really the time if you look at pictures of people at “Jones” beach, on the beaches, that is really the time that you see and you have to think that was only what is it, 60 years ago, that is not history.
Dr Bright
Because this diet is so radically different from what the average person is eating right now. Give us some ideas of meals and what a typical day could look like for somebody.
Well, it depends if you’re six feet tall, but I’m five foot seven and a half. I eat, I have decaf with butter and egg yolk and then I go paddleboarding and then I come back and I do protocols and then I eat, – I don’t know, 150, 200 grams of steak — with some butter on it. And then I work. And then for dinner I have the same thing. So for me, I may have run and have some beef jerky during the day between calls. – But that’s — fine for me. Somebody might want more, somebody might want more chicken. Somebody might want bacon. If I could get bacon, I would eat it. I can’t get bacon. So I like bacon. It’s yummy, but I can’t get it, so I’m not going to bother. – I remember I put together for my height, a pound of meat and 4 ounces of butter just to make it visual.
And because your diet is so limited in diversity, are you still excited about your meals?
Oh yeah, I am. – I am, I am. I don’t think the variety. I love how I feel and I’m hungry when I go eat, so I’m very happy to eat. I love my decaf with a froth of butter this thick in the morning. I may have one again… at 11 if I did 8k like I did yesterday on the paddleboard. So… yeah, I’m definitely excited about my meals. But I’m excited about life. Meals just fuel…
Fuel, so you can live the life? So for you, drink wise, you have your decaf fatty coffee, you filter your water. Any other drinks in there for fun?
Sometimes I’ll have a half a shot of bourbon. Like, this much.
And is that purely for fun or do you think there’s certain benefits or negative side effects?
That’s just for fun. It’s small enough. Oh my God. No benefits at all. – But as I said, it’s such a small amount. If I had more, I’d turn red. — — I would flush. It would cause a vasomotor reaction. It would cause a hot flash because of the cortisol produced by alcohol being a stimulant.
Let’s talk about sleep and how you prioritize that. I’m assuming you must, given the fact, the thesis of — everything you’re working on through diet and lifestyle is to… bring down the sympathetic and bring up the parasympathetic system, the rest and digest. How do you look at sleep and how do you make sure you’re getting best sleep possible?
I go to bed early, go to bed about 9. I read. 8:30, 9:00, latest 9:30… I have fat before I go to sleep so I can tone down. We know that cholesterol actually can increase… parasympathetic tone. As an osteopath, parasympathetic and sympathetic have to be in balance, so that’s very much a part of my training. And the magic of learning how to do it with food, with fat, it was really an epiphany for me, which is what I did when I went into menopause at 52. So I give myself fat. I have obviously, if we’re going to go for a trip or I have something very stressful coming up. If I wake up in the middle of the night, I have fat in my fridge. I just grab it and eat it and I go right back to sleep.
And what will that fat snack look like whether it’s before bed or middle of the night? Just a piece of butter or something simple, I assume.
Piece of butter on a meat cookie or… some of that tallow that I have from the leftover after I’ve given the gelatin to my daughter. There’s that big thing of fat, that’s tallow. Yeah. I’ll salt it and put salt. Yeah, just salt… I’ll freeze it and I’ll cut it into chunks and I’ll just leave it there.
One thing I want to mention too, tying iodine into the sleep piece. You don’t want to have your iodine right before bed. I’ve done that before and it does stimulate you. So you want to be careful. Yeah, it’ll wake up your thyroid… Your thyroid will be like, oh, let’s make hormone, it’s the morning…
Any areas in the last number of years that you’ve really taken a pivot on or changed your mind on things?
DAIRY [This is a whole new rabbit hole! – GC]
I actually republished my “Good Fat is Good for Women: Menopause” book because… the snacks had cheese… And I decided that if people had – menopausal symptoms because of the inflammation and because of their adrenal issues, they definitely had to take out the dairy, which causes inflammation because of the xenomorphins.
Okay, we did talk about dairy last time, but since it’s brought up again, I want to get into it a bit more here. Is this all dairy or just cow dairy?
Not butter. Not butter. — No, not butter, yeah. Oh,”A2,” “A1” you’re talking about. Well, just different… There’s a lot of people in the health space that won’t have cow dairy, but they’ll have sheep or goat. Right. It’s “A2.” There is a lot of variables.
Well, that’s “A2.” But you can also have “A2” of cows milk as well.. There’s a lot of nuance and we got into again some of this last time. But are we talking about all dairy or are there certain details or types within that that we can still have?
I think if you’re on fire, you can’t have any dairy. You can have butter because we know that buttermilk is where all the proteins go. Unless you are so sensitive that you need to make ghee and you see the teeny tiny bit of milk protein and lactose come to the top. None of this has to do with lactose. It’s all about proteins. – So the more inflamed you are,you should not have any kind of dairy. So you can have Guernsey, Jersey. Those places in England, they have the breeds of cows that are”A2.” Senegal… Certain cows, yes, they are “A2,” but there is still a small quantity of casinomorphins in that. So there’s more in the regular, that breed that most cow milk is, but there’s a — smaller amount in the “A2” goat, sheep, Jersey, Guernsey breeds. Now, if you are on fire. I don’t recommend it at least for a certain amount of time, until the fires have been put out.
Did you personally notice a difference in your health when you took dairy out?
I did. My digestion was better, my husband’s breath was better. —– Yeah. And then I read Keith Woodford’s book “Devil in the Milk.”
Talk more about what that brought up for you?
Just reading about how heart disease, diabetes things that we basically, he explains that all chronic, most chronic diseases are because we’re drinking “A1” milk. So he’s an Australian and or actually New Zealand, I don’t know, anyway, but he’s talking mostly about how they actually prevented in Australia, the ability for people to have access to “A2” milk, even though it was so much more documented, so much healthier for people.
Dr Bright
So throughout our conversation, the two big targets that we’re honing in on, cortisol through stress, we want to bring that down. Inflammation. Given the focus in on inflammation, we talked about testing before, do you see any value in doing a test to look at overall inflammation and getting a number there to work from?
No. I recommend doing salivary cortisol, a diurnal salivary cortisol test, because your inflammation, you can do the “CRP,” you can do, it doesn’t matter. Once you fix the cortisol, once you’ve removed obstacles to your healing, all those will come into line. They will come in. —– You have to reduce the inflammation. So I don’t recommend testing. It’s just like, I recommend testing the thyroid and recommend testing salivary cortisol. And when you fix those things, everything else will just kind of come into line. So… there’s no reason to pay all this money for these other tests.
Elizabeth, really enjoyed round two, getting into some details on a lot of things we talked about in the first round. I appreciate you, the work you’re doing. We’re gonna link up your website, your books, everything in the show notes… You’re gonna wanna stick around here and catch this other incredible episode. You don’t wanna miss it. I’ll see you over there.
We’ve tested over 8,000 people in our office, over 97% are deficient in iodine, the vast majority, severely deficient in iodine. All thyroid hormone can’t be made without iodine. Thyroxin, or “T4” is four atoms of iodine attached.
Dr Bright
I do not necessarily agree with all that Dr Bright has said, but it is certainly food for thought. It also makes me even less inclined to trust the medical industry if that is possible. – GC
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I first want to point out a very good discussion over at ChiefIO that clued me in on how important iodine is.
…it [bromine] is also in your food. Deliberately added, despite there being zero use for it biologically and despite it being a known toxin. (This is just the element I’m talking about now, not the hydrocarbon compounds). It is used in bromated flour in commercial bread (makes a smoother texture) and as bromated oil in sodas (especially lemon lime / Mountain Dew types) to carry flavors. So that sandwich and soft drink at the fast food place is loading you up with Bromine…
Iodine Levels and Cancer Risk Iodine levels have significantly dropped due to bromine exposure; declining consumption of iodized salt, eggs, fish, and sea vegetables; and soil depletion. In the U.S. population, there was a 50 percent reduction in urinary iodine excretion between 1970 and 1990...
Fast foods use plain salt not iodized salt so if most of our salt is coming in the processed food then we use less iodized table salt when we don’t go to the effort to cook from scratch. As a result the iodine consumption in the USA has declined.
April 28, 2010 (Boston, Massachusetts) — Only 1 major fast food restaurant — Burger King — consistently uses iodized salt in food preparation, a new study finds. However, the use of iodized salt makes very little difference in levels of urinary iodine among consumers, because iodine levels are generally low in most fast foods, with the exception of some milk and fish products. The findings of the study were presented here at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 19th Annual Meeting…
“There has been a decrease in dietary iodine content, compared with 20 years ago,” Dr. Lee told Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology. Although there is currently no iodine deficiency in the general population in the United States, NHANES III data show a decrease in median urinary iodine content, from 320 μg/L to 145 μg/L, compared with NHANES I findings.
A median urine iodine, μg/L under 100 means Iodine deficiency according to the World Health Organization (WHO)/United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)/International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD)….
In the early 1900s, the Great Lakes, Appalachian, and northwestern regions of the United States were endemic regions for IDD, but since the iodization of salt and other foods in the 1920s, dietary iodine levels generally have been adequate. However, sustaining these iodization programs has become a concern.
Data collected in the United States by National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I (NHANES I) for the years 1971-1974 showed that the median urinary iodine level was 320 mcg/L, reflecting adequate dietary iodine intake. [11] However, by the time of NHANES III (1988-1994), the median urinary iodine value had fallen to 145 mcg/L.
The reduction in US dietary iodine intake since the 1970s has likely been the result of the removal of iodate conditioners in store-bought breads, widely publicized recommendations for reduced salt and egg intake for blood pressure and cholesterol control, the increasing use of noniodized salt in manufactured or premade convenience foods, decreased iodine supplementation of cattle feed, poor education about the medical necessity of using iodized salt, and reduction in the number of meals made at home. [11, 12, 13]
The NHANES surveys of 2001-2002, 2005-2006, 2007-2008, and 2009-2010 showed that US dietary iodine intake has stabilized. [12, 13] Although the most recent NHANES survey reveals adequate iodine intake in the general US population, certain groups have an insufficient intake of iodine, such as pregnant women, who were found to have a median urinary iodine concentration of 125 mcg/L. [14]…
The “bottom line” is that we need about 25 times our present iodine intake here in the USA to have low cancer rates (as the Japanese comparison shows) but instead are getting higher than normal loads of bromine, that competes with our already low iodine levels and causes functional deficit, even when clinically acceptable (if minimal) levels exist. We need to get the Bromine out, and increase our Iodine status.
…The inflammatory cytokines IL-1, Il-6, C-reactive protein (CRP), and TNF-alpha will significantly decrease D1 activity and reduce tissue T3 levels (105-113). Any person with an inflammatory condition — including physical or emotional stress (243-248), obesity (248-252), diabetes (248,249,253), depression (254-257), menopause (surgical or natural) (258), heart disease (248,259,260), autoimmune disease (lupus, Hashimoto’s, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, etc) (114,115,164,265), injury (266), chronic infection (261,262) or cancer (267-269) — will have a decreased T4 to T3 conversion in the body and a relative tissue hypothyroidism. The inflammatory cytokines will, however, increase the activity of D2 and suppress the TSH despite reduced peripheral T3 levels; again, making a normal TSH an unreliable indicator of normal tissue thyroid levels (105-113)…
There is a lot more if you are interested in how the thyroid works.
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I was very surprised to find when I suggested using iodized salt to a neighbor, she considered it to be POISON! WHAAaa?? HUH?? After doing research for this article I now know why.
McGill University has a very nice write up of the history of iodine but the most interesting is the article by Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, June 12, 2017
The entire article is excellent but this section is of great interest since it shows how Big Pharma uses poor science. Originally I was going to put this article at the end but I think it is too important to place it where it might be over looked. Oh and Yandex AI?? It says:
…In the 1920s and 1930s, medicinal treatments, x-rays, and iodine were all used to treat thyroid conditions. In the late 1950s, synthetic thyroid medications became available.
👉Today, synthetic forms of thyroxine are some of the most widely prescribed medications.
Imagine that! Now on to the article
History of iodine usage and “iodophobia”
This subject has been covered in detail by Dr. Guy E. Abraham (8,9,10). The iodine element was discovered in 1811 by B. Courtois. In 1850-53 A. Chatin noted that goiter and cretinism are rare in geological zones rich in iodine and frequent where iodine is in short supply, and that goiter can be prevented by iodine supplementation. In 1895 E. Baumann proposed that iodine is the active element in the thyroid gland.
By the time Bauman identified large concentrations of iodine in the thyroid gland in 1895, pharmaceutical and apothecary preparations containing iodine, excluding thyroid extracts, were widely used as a panacea.
To quote Kelley: (11) “The variety of diseases for which iodine was prescribed in the early years is astonishing – paralysis, chorea, scrofula, lacrimal fistula, deafness, distortions of the spine, hip-joint disease, syphilis, acute inflammation, gout, gangrene, dropsy, carbuncles, whitlow, chilblains, burns, scalds, lupus, croup, catarrh, asthma, ulcers, and bronchitis – to mention only a few. Indeed, tincture of iodine, iodoform, or one of the iodides, was applied to almost every case that resisted the ordinary routine of practice; and between 1820 and 1840 there appeared a remarkable series of essays and monographs testifying to the extraordinary benefits to be achieved by this new and potent remedy.”
Unfortunately, these monographs have virtually disappeared from US medical libraries. In the mid-1800’s, iodine treatments of some diseases called for ingestion of gram (1,000 mg) amounts per day. However, most treatments were from 5 to 50 mg daily. The recommended daily amount of iodine by Dr. G. E. Abraham is 0.1-0.3 ml Lugol containing 12.5-37.5 mg elemental iodine. This is the amount of iodine needed for whole body sufficiency, based on a recently reported iodine/iodide-loading test (12). Thyroid gland sufficiency for iodide is achieved with a lower dose.
The first iodophobic authority emerged in early 1900’s. Prof. T. Kochler reported that he suffered from overactive thyroid following ingestion of iodide (just a single individual case, not a statistical research study!) Despite this, the number of applications grew. In an International Index published in 1956, and devoted exclusively to iodine pharmaceuticals, no less than 1,700 approved iodine-containing products were listed. In 1948 Wolff and Chaikoff published that a serum inorganic iodide level at a concentration of 1 µM blocks (one micromolar) the synthesis of thyroid hormones, resulting in hypothyroidism and goiter in rats. But this conclusion was erroneous as they even did not measure thyroid hormones in the rats studied, and of course, hypothyroidism and goiter were not observed in those rats. Many organic forms of iodinated drugs were quite poisonous. Unfortunately, medical establishment did not make a distinction between organic and inorganic forms of iodine, and iodophobia became more popular.
Decades ago, iodine was added to bread so that one slice contained 150 mcg of iodine (the current recommended daily allowance). In the 1980s, bromine replaced iodine in bread. Since bromide is an antagonist to iodine (it is goitrogenic), it worsened iodine deficiency in the USA. Moreover, a big push to remove salt from our diet (the only grocery item still supplemented with iodine) exacerbated the problem. The only developed nation that resisted iodophobia is Japan, statistically the healthiest and longest living nation on the planet. Their average daily consumption of iodine is around 5 mg, with various reports ranging from 1 to 18 mg. In a study of reported daily iodine intake versus total number of clinical symptoms, an intake of approximately 1 mg per day correlated with the lowest number of reported symptoms, that is, the highest level of health (13). Recent popularization of bromides in our food supplies likely increased this amount.
According to Dr. Abraham, (14) “proper amounts of iodine in the food supply should be considered one of a nation’s greatest assets. Removing iodine from the food supply is a major mistake. Supplying a daily intake of iodine sufficient for the whole body (100-400 times the RDA) gives protection against goitrogens and radioactive iodine/iodide fallout; improves immune functions, resulting in an adequate defense system against infection; decreases singlet oxygen formation which is the major cause of oxidative damage to DNA and macromolecules, resulting in an anticarcinogenic effect in every organ; results in a detoxifying effect by increasing urinary excretion of the toxic metals lead, mercury, cadmium, and aluminum, as well as the goitrogens fluoride and bromide; normalizes hormone receptor functions resulting in improved response to thyroid hormones both endogenous and exogenous; and results in better control of blood sugar in diabetic patients; stabilizes cardiac rhythm, obviating the need for the toxic sustained release form of iodine, amiodarone; and normalizes blood pressure without medication in hypertensive patients. Iodine deficiency is the major cause of cognitive impairment, worldwide.”
Interestingly much of the discussion at Chiefio is now gone. There was an excellent video tying intelligence in children to iodine.
Being overweight has become an epidemic in America. The Standard American Diet (SAD) has caused many of us to be overweight due to the fact that most of our food has been genetically altered and chemicals added. Unfortunately for us it is not real food anymore it has lost most of its nutritional value…
The glands and organs that affect our body shape and where we accumulate fat are the thyroid, adrenals, ovaries and liver. There are only four reasons a person cannot lose weight or cannot keep weight off. They are 1.Sluggish thyroid; 2. Liver dysfunction, 3. Ovaries (hormones out of balance). 4.Adrenal fatigue. Each one of these has their own set of symptoms and area of the body where the weight (fat) will accumulate.
Sluggish Thyroid
A whole book could be written on the “sluggish thyroid” and many have. We are just going to touch on some of the basic facts of the thyroid…
The thyroid regulates the rate at which the body burns food and controls the production of certain body tissues such as nails and hair. The thyroid gland also regulates body temperature, breakdown of carbohydrates, mental clarity and well-being, energy levels and even vitamin absorption, cholesterol levels, hair texture, nail strength, softness or dryness of the skin and sex drive are all greatly influenced by the thyroid. Metabolism refers to the rate or speed at which the body breaks down food and changes it into living tissue and energy. Metabolism is also defined as the release of energy left, (burning of fat) from the cells. The first major consequence of a sluggish thyroid is a slow metabolism…
The history of iodine and the thyroid gland is closely linked. In 1811, a French chemist, Bernard Courtois, discovered iodine by burning seaweed with sulfuric acid. Five years later, iodine was used to treat endemic goiter in England. 2,5
By the early 1900s, it was recognized that the incidence of goiter varied geographically and that the critical feature was the iodine content of the food consumed. Crops grown near the sea had sufficient iodine, but people who subsisted on food grown inland had a high incidence of goiter. 1
In 1895, E. Baumann proposed that iodine is the active element in the thyroid gland. By the time Baumann identified large concentrations of iodine in the thyroid gland, pharmaceutical and apothecary preparations containing iodine, excluding thyroid extracts, were widely used as a panacea. 3
In 1914, Calvin Kendall isolated thyroxin, a thyroid hormone that had four iodine atoms incorporated into its molecular structure. This hormone regulates metabolism, as well as kidney and brain function. 15
In the 1920s and 1930s, medicinal treatments, x-rays, and iodine were all used to treat thyroid conditions. In the late 1950s, synthetic thyroid medications became available. 5
Today, synthetic forms of thyroxine are some of the most widely prescribed medications. 5
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for Iodine is 150 mcg/day. As we learned with boron, this is minimum not optimum.
“Today, synthetic forms of thyroxine are some of the most widely prescribed medications.” Now isn’t that interesting. Is this another Problem – Reaction – Solution big Pharma money maker? After all store brand Iodized salt is less than a buck a pound at Walmart with 1/4 tsp = 67mcg or 45% min requirement of iodine.
Himalayan Pink Salt is $6.53 for a 1lb bag ( negligible amounts of iodine) and Redmond Real Salt is better than Himalayan with a1/4 teaspoon serving providing approximately 18–23 micrograms (mcg) of iodine, which is only about 10–15% according to Brave AI.
Iodized salt was developed during World War I to fix widespread iodine deficiencies.
The iodine in iodized salt isn’t as bioavailable as the iodine in food.
Iodized salt is heavily processed and all the healthy minerals (besides sodium and chloride) are removed.
All salt, including Real Salt, contains some naturally occurring iodine, but not enough to meet your RDA.
You can easily meet the RDA of iodine through iodine-rich foods.
Squid??? How about smoke Hake, available thru Walmart on-line?
Unless you are near the coast, most Americans are going to eat fresh water fish not iodine rich ocean fish. Also after the mercury in fish scare, many people are reluctant to eat ocean fish. A lab I worked for in the 1980s actually did testing for mercury in fish. (I and everyone else ended up with freezers full of fish.)
Brave AI:
Public concern regarding mercury in fish emerged in the 1950swith the identification of Minamata disease in Japan, where industrial discharge caused methylmercury poisoning in coastal communities and their seafood consumers.
The impact of mercury in the environment on human health was found for the first time in relation to the Minamata disease in the 1950s, which caused mass-scale poisoning by methylmercury. It had accumulated in aquatic organisms which were subsequently eaten by humans. A similar case of poisoning by mercury accumulated in fish also took place in Sweden (Zaib et al. 2015).
Apart from spectacular cases of poisoning, the presence of mercury in the environment also affects the human population in a more concealed manner. Every year, Trasande et al. (Trasande et al. 2005) found mercury concentrations exceeding 5.8 μg/L—a level related to IQ loss—in blood samples taken from 316,588–637,233 children. Humans are mainly exposed to methylmercury as a result of their consumption of oceanic fish (Drevnick et al. 2015).
So much for the public getting iodine from ocean based food sources.
“Take a dose of seaweed or burnt sea sponge twice a year!” That was the ancient Chinese remedy for goiter. Almost four thousand years ago Chinese medical writings described the troublesome swelling of the neck we know as goiter and noted the remedy which had somehow been arrived at through trial and error.
Hypothyroidism is a common and well recognized cause of diffuse hair loss. Zinc and other trace elements such as copper and selenium are required for the synthesis of thyroid hormones, and deficiency of these can result in hypothyroidism. Conversely, thyroid hormones are essential for the absorption of zinc, and hence hypothyroidism can result in acquired zinc deficiency. The hair loss attributed to hypothyroidism may not improve with thyroxine unless zinc supplements are added, as demonstrated in our case.
FWIW, since I can not have salt, I take “Terry Naturally” Tri-Iodine. I noticed when I quit taking it for a time, I had four nails within a week tear at the quick.
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I told Wolf that I would capture the information on boron and put it into an article so it was easy to access. I have added other information too. I was already aware of the low soil boron = arthritis correlation and had been taking a Move Free boron supplement for years along with a glucosamine, chondrotin, hyaluronic acid & MSM supplement.
The following article goes into the active suppression of boron for arthritis. In the 1960s Rex Newnham discovered boron ‘cured’ arthritis. This is the same time period when my doctor developed rheumatoid arthritis, went up to Canada and took something that ‘cured’ her pain. She fought tooth & nail with the FDA to get trials run and even went on the Joe Pyne show (1965-68) trying to drum-up public support. So with this new evidence, I think it was a boron supplement that she was taking.
by Walter Last Nexus Newsfeed Wed, 05 Jul 2017 00:01 UTC
You may not be able to imagine that borax, this humble insecticide and laundry detergent, has the potential of singlehandedly bringing down our entire economic system. But you do not need to worry, the danger has been recognised and the necessary steps are already being taken to defuse the situation… [But the FDA sure did! -GC]
👉Formerly boric acid was widely used as a preservative in foods but is now banned for this purpose in most countries, and is also banned from public sale in Australia.
According to conventional medicine it is not known if boron is essential for humans but research shows that we do need it. The reason why it was difficult to answer this question is the presence of boron in all plants and unprocessed foods. Diets with a fair amount of fruit and vegetables provide about 2 to 5 mg of boron per day, but this also depends on the region where the food was grown and how it was grown.
In reality the average intake in developed countries is 1-2 mg of boron per day. Institutionalized patients may receive only 0.25 mg of daily boron. 👉Chemical fertilizers inhibit the uptake of boron from the soil: an organic apple grown in good soil may have 20 mg boron, but if grown with fertilizer it may have only 1 mg of boron. Fertilizers combined with poor food choices have greatly reduced our boron intake compared to 50 or 100 years ago…
The Arthritis Cure of Rex Newnham
In the 1960’s Rex Newnham, Ph.D., D.O., N.D, developed arthritis. At that time he was a soil and plant scientist in Perth, Western Australia. Conventional drugs did not help, so he looked for the cause into the chemistry of plants. He realized that plants in that area were rather mineral deficient. Knowing that boron aids calcium metabolism in plants he decided to try it. He started taking 30 mg of borax a day, and in three weeks all pain, swelling and stiffness had disappeared.
He told public health and medical school authorities about his discovery but they were not interested….
BRAVE AI
Borax is banned from sale to general consumers for household use in the European Union (since 2010) and the United Kingdom (post-Brexit). It is also banned as a food additive in the United States, Australia, China, and Thailand.
In the EU and UK, the ban stems from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) classifying borates as potentially harmful to reproductive health and the unborn child.
Why Ban a Fertility Enhancer and Label It a Reproductive Toxin?
Human Data: No Reproductive Harm, Even at High Occupational Exposure
It’s worth noting that virtually all human research on boron and reproduction has been designed to detect toxicity or harm, not to identify or measure potential fertility benefits. In spite of this, at least one such study reviewed below still picked up an improved fertility trend at moderate exposure levels.
Occupational borax miners are exposed to boron at roughly a tenth to a thirtieth of the dose that causes reproductive harm in animal studies, and even at these real-world exposure levels, they show no reproductive damage.
A small amount of Borax in your coffee every morning is a lot less expensive. However, if you don’t drink coffee, then you have to consider what in your routine works for you. I’m making mocha, adding the Borax and some quality omega-3 rich fish oil, so I’m still spending some $, but it does seem to be helping some things.
Curious has an entire post going into the published (animal) research and giving conversions for human use. I’m going to start with his final conversion chart:
Buried in a peer-reviewed paper on boron’s important roles in biochemistry is a passage most readers would scroll past:
“Administration of boron 5, 10, and 20 mg/kg/d reversed malathion-induced oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, and suppression of antioxidant enzyme activity.
Boron decreased malathion-induced oxidative stress, enhanced antioxidant defense mechanisms, and regenerated damaged liver, kidney, and brain tissues in rats.”
Wolf Moon
…..and regenerated damaged liver, kidney, and brain tissues in rats.
None of the doses in his chart have been found to be unsafe. 👉The human limit was achieved by taking a possible/maybe impactful dose and DIVIDING BY 100 to get their “precautionary” safe dose.👈
Notice in the effects chart that 113mg is the human equivalent dose for effects on wound healing and diabetes.
I started with 1/16 tsp and after his last article I increased to 1/8 tsp in my mocha. Plus adding liquid omega-3.
As I understand it, the combination of the polyphenols in the mocha, the boron and the omega-3 creates complexes that the body can use effectively.
Cocoa [alone] has some great polyphenols. Should still work.
What Boron Actually Does Boron is not classified as an essential nutrient in humans. There is no Recommended Daily Allowance. There is no established deficiency disease with a name. Yet the research literature, accumulated over four decades, led largely by USDA researcher Dr. Forrest Nielsen and colleagues, paints a picture of a mineral with extraordinarily wide metabolic reach.
Boron has been shown in animal and human studies to affect: [2]
Brain electrical activity and cognitive performance, including manual dexterity, attention, short-term memory, and long-term memory [2]
Bone formation, mineralization, and fracture healing [2]
The methylation cycle, specifically SAM-e (S-adenosylmethionine) production and homocysteine regulation [2]
Steroid hormone metabolism including testosterone, estradiol, and vitamin D activation [2, 3]
Mitochondrial function, specifically uncoupling proteins that regulate thermogenesis and oxidative stress [2]
This is not a short list. It spans virtually every major domain of human physiological optimization. And in every single case, the literature carefully reports the effective animal dose in milligrams per kilogram and then stops.
And he gives an explanation of why researchers only talk about animal studies…
Why The Scientists Can’t State What Is Obvious
How is it that we’ve found over 5,000+ planets outside our solar system and we’ve sequenced the entire human genome in the last 25 years, yet we still can’t give boron the essential mineral status it likely deserves?
To understand the significance of the weight-based dosages, you need to understand what prevents researchers from simply stating their implications outright.
First, the regulatory status problem. Establishing essentiality requires proving that one specific enzyme or biochemical reaction depends entirely on a substance which is the equivalent of proving a single missing musician silences an entire orchestra. Orchestra’s do not work that way and neither does boron. It behaves more like a conductor subtly adjusting the tempo across every section of the orchestra at once. No instrument stops playing. No section goes silent. But take the conductor away, and the whole performance noticeably loses its precision. Boron’s actions are broad and pleiotropic. It modulates multiple pathways rather than serving a single defined function. Without essentiality status, no regulatory body will issue a formal recommended intake above minimal amounts. [2]
Second, the GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) and UL problem. The established Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for boron in adults is 20 mg/day, derived from reproductive toxicity studies in rats and rabbits. This regulatory ceiling prevents researchers from recommending or stating higher doses than 20 mg of elemental boron per day could be beneficial. Any researcher who formally recommends human doses near or above it, without controlled human clinical trial data, faces institutional and legal exposure. [4]
Third, the funding problem. Boron cannot be patented. There is no pharmaceutical or commercial engine to fund the large-scale, dose-escalation human trials that would be required to formally establish higher optimal intakes. The research that does exist is largely government-funded and deliberately conservative in its clinical recommendations.
So researchers do something elegant and, once you see it, it’s hard to miss: they publish the animal mg/kg data in full detail, embed it in papers targeted at human nutrition audiences, surround it with mechanistic human-relevance context (SAM-e depletion, homocysteine elevation, brain electrical activity, PSA suppression), and leave the conversion to the attentive reader.
Dr. Nielsen spent a career doing exactly this. His repeated framing of boron as “of more practical nutritional importance than currently acknowledged” is the scientific literature’s equivalent of stating that which is obvious. Boron at higher amounts than the 20 mg per day UL could potentially optimize human health and prevent certain disease processes.[2]
One problem is many soils are boron poor so adding borax to the soil may be a good idea. However it is also a broad leaf weed killer. As a weed killer, http://www.yellowfarmhousegarden.com/?p=2577says:
The problem with this solution is the amount of borax needed to work varies with soil type. Certain soils neutralize boron more efficiently than others.
A Systematic Breakdown of How Much I Am Taking From Now On
Note: This is for educational purposes. This is not medical advice, and I am not telling you what you should do. Every person is or should be in control of their own health in spite of what the current medical establishment would like you to believe.
[This of course also goes for any of our discussions here on the Qtree. GC]
Curious Note: Most vitamin and mineral recommended intakes are set to prevent deficiency, not to optimize health, performance, or longevity. This article addresses boron specifically, and what the research suggests about dosing for optimized human health, rather than for the mere absence of deficiency.
Over the past year, I have spent at least 100 hours trying to build a comprehensive understanding of boron and its effects on human health and disease. The focus of that work has been on elemental boron as provided by borax, and the process has involved reading across a large and scattered literature that spans over 100 years of food science, nutrition, toxicology, endocrinology, bone biology, neurology, immunology, and cancer research…
So Curious, like MidWesternDoctor, has done an extensive study of past research that was bury as ‘inconvenient’ for Big Pharma’s profit maximizing strategy. As E.M. Smith (Chiefio) Said,
Realize that the corporate urge is not toward a competitive market. It’s the very LAST thing any corporate wants. What a corporate wants is a monopoly where they can achieve the profit maximizing price point. Not competition. No “market” with many sellers.
So watch what GE does, as an example. It is always on the hunt for a market it can “dominate”. It uses political leverage to get its products mandated and the competition banned. It doesn’t want a market, it wants a ‘company store’.
Internalize that, and a lot of things “fit” better…
Monsanto pushing legislation to ban private traditional seeds and seed sharing, and promoting GMO products. (Why would a seed company want to ‘destroy’ a seed market? So you must come to the company store…)
EPA is used to forbid all sorts of things that can be done easily and cheaply, and where the alternative is very expensive ….
Once corporations figure out that it is cheaper and easier to get the competition banned and them mandated, than to create new products; and that they can make lots of money as the sole provider of a crappy product but not that much making good products in a competitive market; well, lets just say that the campaign contributions flow…
What Boron Actually Does Boron is not classified as an essential nutrient in humans. There is no Recommended Daily Allowance. There is no established deficiency disease with a name. Yet the research literature, accumulated over four decades, led largely by USDA researcher Dr. Forrest Nielsen and colleagues, paints a picture of a mineral with extraordinarily wide metabolic reach.
Boron has been shown in animal and human studies to affect: [2]
Brain electrical activity and cognitive performance, including manual dexterity, attention, short-term memory, and long-term memory [2]
Bone formation, mineralization, and fracture healing [2]
The methylation cycle, specifically SAM-e (S-adenosylmethionine) production and homocysteine regulation [2]
Steroid hormone metabolism including testosterone, estradiol, and vitamin D activation [2, 3]
Mitochondrial function, specifically uncoupling proteins that regulate thermogenesis and oxidative stress [2]
This is not a short list. It spans virtually every major domain of human physiological optimization. And in every single case, the literature carefully reports the effective animal dose in milligrams per kilogram and then stops.
He gives an explanation of why researchers only talk about animal studies…
Why The Scientists Can’t State What Is Obvious How is it that we’ve found over 5,000+ planets outside our solar system and we’ve sequenced the entire human genome in the last 25 years, yet we still can’t give boron the essential mineral status it likely deserves?
To understand the significance of the weight-based dosages, you need to understand what prevents researchers from simply stating their implications outright.
First, the regulatory status problem. Establishing essentiality requires proving that one specific enzyme or biochemical reaction depends entirely on a substance which is the equivalent of proving a single missing musician silences an entire orchestra. Orchestra’s do not work that way and neither does boron. It behaves more like a conductor subtly adjusting the tempo across every section of the orchestra at once. No instrument stops playing. No section goes silent. But take the conductor away, and the whole performance noticeably loses its precision. Boron’s actions are broad and pleiotropic. It modulates multiple pathways rather than serving a single defined function. Without essentiality status, no regulatory body will issue a formal recommended intake above minimal amounts. [2]
Second, the GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) and UL problem. The established Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for boron in adults is 20 mg/day, derived from reproductive toxicity studies in rats and rabbits. This regulatory ceiling prevents researchers from recommending or stating higher doses than 20 mg of elemental boron per day could be beneficial. Any researcher who formally recommends human doses near or above it, without controlled human clinical trial data, faces institutional and legal exposure. [4]
Third, the funding problem. Boron cannot be patented. There is no pharmaceutical or commercial engine to fund the large-scale, dose-escalation human trials that would be required to formally establish higher optimal intakes. The research that does exist is largely government-funded and deliberately conservative in its clinical recommendations.
So researchers do something elegant and, once you see it, it’s hard to miss: they publish the animal mg/kg data in full detail, embed it in papers targeted at human nutrition audiences, surround it with mechanistic human-relevance context (SAM-e depletion, homocysteine elevation, brain electrical activity, PSA suppression), and leave the conversion to the attentive reader.
Dr. Nielsen spent a career doing exactly this. His repeated framing of boron as “of more practical nutritional importance than currently acknowledged” is the scientific literature’s equivalent of stating that which is obvious. Boron at higher amounts than the 20 mg per day UL could potentially optimize human health and prevent certain disease processes.[2]
Due to their content of boron, borax and boric acid have basically the same health effects, with good antiseptic, antifungal, and antiviral properties but only mild antibacterial action. In plants as well as animals boron is essential for the integrity and function of cell walls, and the way signals are transmitted across membranes.
Boron is distributed throughout the body with the highest concentration in the parathyroid glands, followed by bones and dental enamel.
It is essential for healthy bone and joint function, regulating the absorption and metabolism of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus through its influence on the parathyroid glands. With this boron is for the parathyroids what iodine is for the thyroid.
Boron deficiency causes the parathyroids to become overactive, releasing too much parathyroid hormone which raises the blood level of calcium by releasing calcium from bones and teeth. This then leads to osteoarthritis and other forms of arthritis, osteoporosis and tooth decay. With advancing age high blood levels of calcium lead to calcification of soft tissues causing muscle contractions and stiffness; calcification of endocrine glands, especially the pineal gland and the ovaries; arteriosclerosis, kidney stones, and calcification of the kidneys ultimately leading to kidney failure. Boron deficiency combined with magnesium deficiency is especially damaging to the bones and teeth…
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When I saw Valerie Curren’s comment, I decided to erase my comment full of swear words and post the bits of information I had already gathered from Dr Boyle way back in February 2020. That man saved a lot of lives! Unfortunately he is another who ‘conveniently died’ just like Kary Mullis (PCR test inventor) and Nobel Prize winning French virologist Luc Montagnier.
Dr Luc Montagnier contended that “it is the vaccination that is creating the variants.” They Are Not Vaccines, They are Poisons”: Outspoken Nobel Prize Winner Virologist Luc Montagnier Dies Before Attending Grand Jury Proceeding for Crimes Against Humanity.
Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970 · Aug 2 Just days after Prof. Francis Boyle agreed to testify against Bill Gates & Albert Bourla over the deadly COVID mRNA shots… he was FOUND DEAD.
Boyle authored the U.S. Bioweapons Act & called the mRNA injections ‘Bioweapons & Franken-Shots.’
Where does the Pentagon fit into this?…
Just when you thought you’d heard it all, this resurfaced interview with Prof. Francis Boyle—the man who literally WROTE the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act—will leave you speechless.
He states on record that both SARS-CoV-2 and the mRNA injections were DARPA-funded offensive bioweapons programs from the start. Gain-of-function? That was the cover story.
According to Boyle, the real goal was always “lethal yet vaccinate-able” population reduction technology. He names names: UNC, Wuhan, Fauci, Daszak, Baric…the whole club.
He goes further—calls the shots “synthetic biological weapons of mass destruction” because they trigger autoimmune carnage, prion-like misfolding & turbo cancers.
Boyle filed lawsuits, begged Congress & warned the world. Just 20 days after agreeing to testify for the prosecution, he was found dead. The same pattern we’ve seen with dozens of doctors & whistleblowers since 2020. Pure coincidence?
If a man who drafted the actual law defining bioweapons says we just lived through the biggest biowarfare attack in history…why isn’t every news channel screaming this from the rooftops?
The most chilling part? Boyle predicted exactly what we’re seeing now: myocarditis, strokes, infertility & cancers exploding in the injected.
He said the spike protein itself is the weapon & the lipid nanoparticles were engineered to cross the blood-brain barrier. This wasn’t a mistake. It was a military-grade kill vector dressed up as “public health.”
It is past time for the new Nuremberg-style trials to begin…
Never Forget…
So many still have no idea what Trump already stopped from happening.
It wasn’t supposed to end with temporary lockdowns and a vaccine you could refuse.
So many still have no idea what Trump already stopped from happening. It wasn’t supposed to end with temporary lockdowns and a vaccine you could refuse. Most people who just found out about the NWO in 2020 will never understand.
No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse.
Consider the vaccine passports alone. Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport. It broke. Once the news leaked that the shot didn’t stop infection or transmission, the planners lost public support and the scheme collapsed
It was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide if not worldwide. Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back.
Features of the CDC’s edicts did incredible damage. It imposed the rent moratorium. It decreed the ridiculous “six feet of distance” and mask mandates. It forced Plexiglas as the interface for commercial transactions. It implied thatmail-in balloting must be the norm, which probably flipped the election. It delayed the reopening as long as possible. It was sadistic.
People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be banned from participating in any religious services. The plan included contingencies for preventing suicide. There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel.
The plan’s authors were unnamed but included 26 footnotes. It was completely official. The document was only removed on about March 26, 2023. During the entire intervening time, the plan survived on the CDC’s public site with little to no public notice or controversy.
It was called “Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings.” …
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From my old notes with some modifications:
Professor Dr. Francis A. Boyle has been sounding the alarm so I am going to look at the two papers he points us to and the people involved. Professor Dr. Francis A. Boyle is ”… a leading American expert international law; responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-terrorism Act of 89…”
So he had a major hand in developing the following:
Biological Weapons Convention “was the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons. It currently commits the 170 states which are party to it to prohibit the development, production, and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons. However, the absence of any formal verification regime to monitor compliance has limited the effectiveness of the Convention. As of April 2013, an additional 10 states have signed the BWC but have yet to ratify the treaty.” — https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Biological_Weapons_Convention
CHINA is a signatory as is the USA. (Now we know why there were so many labs set-up outside of the USA.)
This is an interview of Dr Boyle by Alex Jones. Luckily there is a transcript at Natural News on 02/20/2020 by Mike Adams
What follows is one of the most important interviews of the year. Biological warfare expert Prof. Francis Boyle appeared as a guest with Alex Jones on the Alex Jones Show, sharing his “smoking gun” findings about the coronavirus being engineered as a weapon that’s designed, “for efficient spreading in the human population,” according to one of the science papers he references.
We confirmed Prof. Boyle’s findings by purchasing the full PDF of that paper and reviewing it in a detailed article we posted yesterday at this link.
That paper describes the CoVid-19 novel coronavirus as possessing unique “gain-of-function” properties that make it the perfect bioweapon, while confirming these new properties were from artificial origins, not natural viral evolution. (In other words, it was engineered.)
Below, we print the full transcript of the Francis Boyle / Alex Jones interview, along with the video of the full exchange below, via Brighteon.com. (The full show is also posted on Banned.video)
Mike has placed in his BRIGHTEON VIDEOS under the Francis Boyle category not only the initial Francis Boyle / Alex Jones interview (1 hr 15 min), but many, many others. I counted well over 30 InfoWars interviews before giving up. This makes me wonder if those interviews may have played a part in the destruction of InfoWars by the DeepState lawyers. And no I do not like Alex Jones.
PROFESSOR FRANCIS BOYLE, Author of the US 1989 Biological Weapons and Antiterrorism Act:
“THE PENTAGON is behind the mRNA shots… The Pentagon is both sides of the argument, they developed the weapon [SARSCoV2 virus which caused Covid19] and the alleged vaccine.”
Back in February 2020, I found this second , later interview with Dr Boyle from February 22, 2020.
…Professor Boyle believes he has been blackballed by the mainstream media due to blowing the whistle on the Anthrax attacks on the U.S. in the wake of 9/11, stating he believes the Anthrax originated from American BSL-4 (Biosaftey Level 4) labs, which are the highest level of labs that conducts research and development on the most deadly substances known to man…
The first paper Dr Boyle discusses is a French paper . Dr Boyle states they found ‘gain of function’ and ‘ gain of function’ studies are ONLY of use for weaponizing viruses. The Journal Nature, in an editorial refutes this.
In 2019, a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infecting Humans has emerged in Wuhan, China. Its genome has been sequenced and the genomic information promptly released. Despite a high similarity with the genome sequence of SARS-CoV and SARS-like CoVs, we identified a peculiar furin-like cleavage site in the Spike protein of the 2019-nCoV, lacking in the other SARS-like CoVs. In this article, we discuss the possible functional consequences of this cleavage site in the viral cycle, pathogenicity and its potential implication in the development of antivirals.
”….we identified a peculiarfurin-like cleavage site in the Spike protein of the 2019-nCoV, lacking in the other SARS-like CoVs.….”
That is as close as scientists are going to get to saying this virus does not look natural. They are aware of what happen to the Indians who were made to retract their paper and are not about to step over the politically correct line.
They KNEW the vaccine was deadly. 200 members of Congress were treated with Ivermectin during Covid-19.
The Second paper he discusses is the Baric paper out of University of North Carolina.
This is the nitty gritty of the transcript of the first interview by Alex Jones:
“I think I have the definitive evidence where this came from and it came from the BSL-3 biowarfare lab at the University of North Carolina.”
It was Electronically Published on November 8, 2015
And LOOK who funded it! The National Institutes of Health under Fauci AND the State Key Program for Basic Research Grants from the Chinese Ministry of Science. Fauci not only funded the initial research but indicated interest in funding further research.
Abstract
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV underscores the threat of cross-species transmission events leading to outbreaks in humans. Here we examine the disease potential of a SARS-like virus, SHC014-CoV, which is currently circulating in Chinese horseshoe bat populations. Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV.
Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein.
On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.
Most of us, thanks to PAVACA, are very familiar with the above information, however it was all new in February of 2020 and saved lives. I am not going to try and do a bio of Dr Boyle, I am sure others will do a much better job than I can. I only wish Dr Boyle could have witnessed this.
Numerous lines of evidence show Fauci lied to us about the pandemic’s biggest questions — origins, severity, lockdowns, and masks — all of which was just exposed at an explosive hearing.
Rest in well deserved peace Warrior, your job here on earth is done. Others will take it from here.
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I am going to leave Fauci’s Congressional hearing to PAVACA. She is much better equipped for that discussion.
Natalie Winters is one of the best ‘finds’ of Steve Bannon. POTUS has mentioned propaganda from China. I guess you can not get any more direct than this.
The names include:
– Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist – Matthew Yglesias, Vox co-founder – Ronald Brownstein, CNN senior political analyst – Bradford Plumer, New York Times reporter – Marjorie Miller, former Associated Press vice president
– Marilyn Geewax, former NPR senior editor – Kathleen Deveny, former Newsweek editor – Tom Omestad, former U.S. News & World Report correspondent – Steve Chapman, former Chicago Tribune columnist – Bruce Stokes, former National Journal correspondent
– Cristi Kempf, former Chicago Tribune associate managing editor – Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times deputy editorial page editor – Julian Pecquet, former Foreign Affairs reporter
I. Introduction – What Is American Strategy?……………..1
1. How American “Strategy” Went Astray…………………1
2. President Trump’s Necessary, Welcome Correction…… 2
II. What Should the United States Want?……………………… 3
1. What Do We Want Overall?………………………………………. 3
2. What Do We Want In and From the World?……………………..5
III. What Are America’s Available Means to Get What We Want?.. 6
IV. The Strategy………………………………………………………….8
1. Principles………………………………………………………………8
2. Priorities………………………………………………………….. 11
3. The Regions……………………………………………………….15
A. The Western Hemisphere……………………………………….15
B. Asia…………………………………………………………….. 19
C. Europe…………………………………………………………..25
D. The Middle East………………………………………………27
E. Africa………………………………………………………… 29
How American “Strategy” Went Astray
To ensure that America remains the world’s strongest, richest, most powerful, and most successful country for decades to come, our country needs a coherent, focused strategy for how we interact with the world… A “strategy” is a concrete, realistic plan that explains the essential connection between ends and means… A strategy must evaluate, sort, and prioritize. Not every country, region, issue, or cause—however worthy—can be the focus of American strategy…
…the affairs of other countries are our concern only if their activities directly threaten our interests.
The questions before us now are: 1) What should the United States want? 2) What are our available means to get it? and 3) How can we connect ends and means into a viable National Security Strategy?
II. What Should the United States Want?
1. What Do We Want Overall?
First and foremost, we want the continued survival and safety of the United States as an independent, sovereign republic whose government secures the God-given natural rights of its citizens and prioritizes their well-being and interests. We want to protect this country, its people, its territory, its economy, and its way of life…
We want to recruit, train, equip, and field the world’s most powerful, lethal, and technologically advanced military to protect our interests, deter wars, and—if necessary—win them quickly and decisively, with the lowest possible casualties to our forces…. We want the world’s strongest, most dynamic, most innovative, and most advanced economy. The U.S. economy is the bedrock of the American way of life, which promises and delivers widespread and broad-based prosperity…
Cultivating American industrial strength must become the highest priority of national economic policy.
We want the world’s most robust, productive, and innovative energy sector—one capable not just of fueling American economic growth but of being one of America’s leading export industries in its own right. We want to remain the world’s most scientifically and technologically advanced and innovative country, and to build on these strengths. And we want to protect our intellectual property from foreign theft. America’s pioneering spirit is a key pillar of our continued economic dominance and military superiority; it must be preserved… Finally, we want the restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health, without which long-term security is impossible…
2. What Do We Want In and From the World?
• We want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the United States…
• We want to halt and reverse the ongoing damage that foreign actors inflict on the American economy…
• We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity
• We want to prevent an adversarial power from dominating the Middle East…
• We want to ensure that U.S. technology and U.S. standards—particularly in AI, biotech, and quantum computing—drive the world forward.
These are the United States’ core, vital national interests. While we also have others, these are the interests we must focus on above all others, and that we ignore or neglect at our peril.
III. What Are America’s Available Means to Get What We Want?
America retains the world’s most enviable position, with world-leading assets, resources, and advantages, including:
…The world’s single largest and most innovative economy, which both generates wealth we can invest in strategic interests and provides leverage over countries that want access to our markets… The world’s most advanced, most innovative, and most profitable technology sector… An enviable geography with abundant natural resources, no competing powers physically dominant in our Hemisphere, borders at no risk of military invasion, and other great powers separated by vast oceans;..
In addition, through President Trump’s robust domestic agenda, the United States is:
• Re-instilling a culture of competence, rooting out so-called “DEI” and other discriminatory and anti-competitive practices that degrade our institutions and hold us back;
• Unleashing our enormous energy production capacity as a strategic priority to fuel growth and innovation, and to bolster and rebuild the middle class;
• Reindustrializing our economy, again to further support the middle class and control our own supply chains and production capacities;
• Returning economic freedom to our citizens via historic tax cuts and deregulatory efforts, making the United States the premier place to do business and invest capital; and
• Investing in emerging technologies and basic science, to ensure our continued prosperity, competitive advantage, and military dominance for future generations.
The goal of this strategy is to tie together all of these world-leading assets, and others, to strengthen American power and preeminence and make our country even greater than it ever has been…. [Ending at pg 11 in the PDF, page 7 in the document.]
Skip down to page 24 in the PDF page 20 in the document.
Economics: The Ultimate Stakes
Since the Chinese economy reopened to the world in 1979, commercial relations between our two countries have been and remain fundamentally unbalanced. What began as a relationship between a mature, wealthy economy and one of the world’s poorest countries has transformed into one between near-peers, even as, until very recently, America’s posture remained rooted in those past assumptions.
China adapted to the shift in U.S. tariff policy that began in 2017 in part by strengthening its hold on supply chains, especially in the world’s low- and middleincome (i.e., per capita GDP $13,800 or less) countries—among the greatest economic battlegrounds of the coming decades…
To accomplish this, several things are essential.
First, the United States must protect and defend our economy and our people from harm, from any country or source. This means ending (among other things): • Predatory, state-directed subsidies and industrial strategies; • Unfair trading practices; • Job destruction and deindustrialization; • Grand-scale intellectual property theft and industrial espionage; • Threats against our supply chains that risk U.S. access to critical resources, including minerals and rare earth elements; • Exports of fentanyl precursors that fuel America’s opioid epidemic; and • Propaganda, influence operations, and other forms of cultural subversion. Second, the United States must work with our treaty allies and partners—who together add another $35 trillion in economic power to our own $30 trillion national economy (together constituting more than half the world economy)—to counteract predatory economic practices and use our combined economic power to help safeguard our prime position in the world economy and ensure that allied economies do not become subordinate to any competing power. We must continue to improve commercial (and other) relations with India to encourage New Delhi to contribute to Indo-Pacific security, including through continued quadrilateral cooperation with Australia, Japan, and the United States (“the Quad”). Moreover, we will also work to align the actions of our allies and partners with our joint interest in preventing domination by any single competitor nation.
The United States must at the same time invest in research to preserve and advance our advantage in cutting-edge military and dual-use technology, with emphasis on the domains where U.S. advantages are strongest. These include undersea, space, and nuclear, as well as others that will decide the future of military power, such as AI, quantum computing, and autonomous systems, plus the energy necessary to fuel these domains. Additionally, the U.S. Government’s critical relationships with the American private sector help maintain surveillance of persistent threats to U.S. networks, including critical infrastructure. This in turn enables the U.S. Government’s ability to conduct real-time discovery, attribution, and response…
Section 1. Purpose. From the founding of our Republic, scientific discovery and technological innovation have driven American progress and prosperity. Today, America is in a race for global technology dominance in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), an important frontier of scientific discovery and economic growth. To that end, my Administration has taken a number of actions to win that race, including issuing multiple Executive Orders and implementing America’s AI Action Plan, which recognizes the need to invest in AI-enabled science to accelerate scientific advancement. In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was a critical basis for the foundation of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its national laboratories.
This order launches the “Genesis Mission” as a dedicated, coordinated national effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery that can solve the most challenging problems of this century. The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection of such datasets, developed over decades of Federal investments — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs. The Genesis Mission will bring together our Nation’s research and development resources — combining the efforts of brilliant American scientists, including those at our national laboratories, with pioneering American businesses; world-renowned universities; and existing research infrastructure, data repositories, production plants, and national security sites — to achieve dramatic acceleration in AI development and utilization. We will harness for the benefit of our Nation the revolution underway in computing, and build on decades of innovation in semiconductors and high-performance computing. The Genesis Mission will dramatically accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity, and multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development, thereby furthering America’s technological dominance and global strategic leadership.
Sec. 2. Establishment of the Genesis Mission. (a) There is hereby established the Genesis Mission (Mission), a national effort to accelerate the application of AI for transformative scientific discovery focused on pressing national challenges.
(b) The Secretary of Energy (Secretary) shall be responsible for implementing the Mission
Sec. 3. Operation of the American Science and Security Platform. (a) The Secretary shall establish and operate the American Science and Security Platform (Platform) to serve as the infrastructure for the Mission with the purpose of providing, in an integrated manner and to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with law:
(i) high-performance computing resources, including DOE national laboratory supercomputers and secure cloud-based AI computing environments, capable of supporting large-scale model training, simulation, and inference;
(ii) AI modeling and analysis frameworks, including AI agents to explore design spaces, evaluate experimental outcomes, and automate workflows;
(iii) computational tools, including AI-enabled predictive models, simulation models, and design optimization tools;
(iv) domain-specific foundation models across the range of scientific domains covered;
(v) secure access to appropriate datasets, including proprietary, federally curated, and open scientific datasets, in addition to synthetic data generated through DOE computing resources, consistent with applicable law; applicable classification, privacy, and intellectual property protections; and Federal data-access and data-management standards; and
(vi) experimental and production tools to enable autonomous and AI-augmented experimentation and manufacturing in high-impact domains.
(b) The Secretary shall take necessary steps to ensure that the Platform is operated in a manner that meets security requirements consistent with its national security and competitiveness mission, including applicable classification, supply chain security, and Federal cybersecurity standards and best practices…
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For those of us following the destruction of science over the past decades:
Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Over the last 5 years, confidence that scientists act in the best interests of the public has fallen significantly. A majority of researchers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics believe science is facing a reproducibility crisis. The falsification of data by leading researchers has led to high-profile retractions of federally funded research.
Unfortunately, the Federal Government has contributed to this loss of trust. In several notable cases, executive departments and agencies (agencies) have used or promoted scientific information in a highly misleading manner…
Sec. 2. Definitions….
Sec. 3. Restoring Gold Standard Science. (a) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP Director) shall, in consultation with the heads of relevant agencies, issue guidance for agencies on implementation of “Gold Standard Science” in the conduct and management of their respective scientific activities. For the purposes of this order, Gold Standard Science means science conducted in a manner that is: (i) reproducible; (ii) transparent; (iii) communicative of error and uncertainty; (iv) collaborative and interdisciplinary; (v) skeptical of its findings and assumptions; (vi) structured for falsifiability of hypotheses; (vii) subject to unbiased peer review; (viii) accepting of negative results as positive outcomes; and (ix) without conflicts of interest.
Sec. 4. Improving the Use, Interpretation, and Communication of Scientific Data…
Sec. 5. Interim Scientific Integrity Policies. (a) Until the issuance of updated agency scientific integrity policies pursuant to section 3 of this order, and except where required by law: (i) scientific integrity policies in each agency shall be governed by the scientific integrity policies that existed within the executive branch on January 19, 2021, except that in the event of a conflict between such policies and the policies and requirements of this order, the policies and requirements of this order control…
Sec. 6. Scope and Applicability. (a) The policies and rules set forth in this order apply to all employees involved in the generation, use, interpretation, or communication of scientific information, regardless of job classification, and to all agency decision-making, except where precluded by law…
Section 1. Purpose. Artificial intelligence (AI) will play a critical role in how Americans of all ages learn new skills, consume information, and navigate their daily lives. Americans will require reliable outputs from AI, but when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output.
One of the most pervasive and destructive of these ideologies is so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI). In the AI context, DEI includes the suppression or distortion of factual information about race or sex; manipulation of racial or sexual representation in model outputs; incorporation of concepts like critical race theory, transgenderism, unconscious bias, intersectionality, and systemic racism; and discrimination on the basis of race or sex. DEI displaces the commitment to truth in favor of preferred outcomes and, as recent history illustrates, poses an existential threat to reliable AI…
