The Gut Balancer

Herbs vs Drugs

You wake up with that heaviness that just won’t go away, a bloating that seems regardless of what you eat and the feeling that something inside you isn’t right. You might notice your energy dropping after lunch or your digestion just feels slow, like an invisible process is slowing down. If you feel this daily, chances are the balance of your internal ecosystem is compromised.

It’s not just bad digestion; it’s an imbalance in the inhabitants of your gut. The mackerel contains a compound called ascaridol, a powerful modulator that acts as a selective filter. Unlike aggressive drugs, this essential oil neutralizes proteolytic bacteria (those that generate inflammation and gases) without touching the butyrate-producing bacteria, which are responsible for sealing and protecting your intestinal wall.

In 2021, UNAM researchers put this ancient wisdom to the test against metronidazole in cases of dysbacteriosis. The result was overwhelming: the botanical extract not only matched the effectiveness, but surpassed the drug in preserving beneficial flora. While the medicine sweeps everything in its stride, the natural compound of paico respects the ecosystem that keeps you healthy and strong.

Modern gastroenterology is beginning to look towards these natural neuromodulators with greater respect. It’s not just about cleaning, it’s about educating the gut immune system to recognize what should stay and what should come out, a capacity that synthetic pharmacology is still trying to emulate without generating side effects or bacterial resistance.

What today Mexican science validated with microscopes, your grandparents knew it by pure observation. In courtyards throughout Latin America, the paico (or epazote) has been the silent guardian against parasites and stomachache, a living pharmacy that grows between the cracks of concrete and today reclaims its place in precision medicine.

The Ritual: The Gut Stamp:
Infuse three to four fresh papaya leaves in a cup of hot water for about ten minutes, keeping the container covered so as not to lose essential oils. Take it warm, preferably during fasting, allowing the ascaridol to come into direct contact with the mucosa. Within a few weeks, you’ll notice how lightness returns and that persistent swelling disappears.

Study Garcia-Zermeño KR et al., 2025(PMID 41800366)

Krill Oil Eases Osteoarthritis Pain and Boosts Muscle Strength in Older Adults

Krill Oil Osteoarthritis

Cheap, oxidized fish oils and diets high in seed oils worsen inflammation and interfere with healthy cellular energy production, making it harder for your joints and muscles to recover.

Older adults taking krill oil for six months improved grip strength, knee strength, and muscle thickness, which helps protect against falls, weakness, and loss of independence with age.

Krill oil delivers omega-3 fats in a phospholipid form that blends efficiently into your cell membranes, while its natural astaxanthin content helps protect the oil from oxidation and inflammatory damage.

Pairing krill oil or omega-3-rich seafood with regular movement, stable dietary fats, and enough protein creates a stronger foundation for preserving cartilage, muscle function, and long-term mobility.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2026/06/22/krill-oil-osteoarthritis.aspx

Brain Shrinkage

Brain Shrinkage

Your brain starts shrinking after 50. Not slowly. 1 to 2% every single year. But one specific type of exercise does not just stop it. It actually grows your brain back.

After 50 the hippocampus shrinks 1 to 2% every year. The region responsible for learning and memory. Most people accept this as inevitable. It is not.

A landmark study took sedentary adults in their 60s. The stretching group lost 1 to 2% of hippocampal volume in one year. The aerobic exercise group grew theirs by 1 to 2%.

The mechanism is lactate. Exercise produces lactate. Lactate activates BDNF in the brain. Miracle grow for your brain. It grows new neurons and strengthens existing connections.

Women with the highest cardiorespiratory fitness were 80% less likely to develop dementia than those with the lowest. And that fitness responds directly to exercise.

40% of people doing moderate exercise for two and a half hours per week get zero cardiorespiratory benefit. The exercise that grows the hippocampus is vigorous intensity. The kind where you cannot hold a conversation.

Three times per week. Thirty minutes. Vigorous intensity. Your brain is waiting for the signal. Give it the signal.

REFERENCES

Erickson, K. I., et al. (2011). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(7), 3017 3022.

Horder, H., et al. (2018). Neurology, 90(15), e1298 e1305.

DISCLAIMER

For educational purposes only. Not medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare professional before beginning a new exercise program particularly if you have existing cardiovascular health conditions or are currently sedentary.

Eggs vs Alzheimer’s

Eggs vs Alzheimer's

90% of Adults Are Silently Starving Their Brains — Choline Deficiency Is Fueling the Alzheimer’s Epidemic!

A groundbreaking study confirmed: Eating more eggs can slash your Alzheimer’s risk by up to 50%!

The Study followed adults for ~7 years. Those eating just 1–2 eggs per week had a 47–50% lower risk of Alzheimer’s dementia. ~40% of the benefit was directly linked to choline from the eggs.

Choline & Acetylcholine Explained
Choline is an essential nutrient & the direct precursor to acetylcholine — the master neurotransmitter for memory, learning, focus, attention & mood. It also builds healthy cell membranes and protects your liver.

The Choline Crisis
90% of today’s adults are deficient — most getting under 260 mg/day, far below the 425–550 mg minimum.
Optimal intake for brain protection: ~1,000 mg daily.

Choline Deficiency Symptoms
• Brain fog & memory problems
• Mood issues (anxiety, depression, irritability)
• Fatigue
• Fatty liver
• Muscle aches/weakness
• Long-term: accelerated dementia risk

Top Animal-Sourced Choline Foods (mg per serving)
• 3 large eggs: ~450 mg
• 3 oz beef liver: ~300–350 mg
• 6 oz wild salmon: ~350–370 mg
• 6 oz beef: ~230 mg
• 6 oz poultry: ~140 mg

The #1 Best Source: Pastured Local Eggs
Pasture-raised eggs from local farms (chickens eating bugs, grass & natural forage — NOT GMO corn/soy feed) are far superior. Higher choline, omega-3s, lutein, zeaxanthin & overall nutrients.

Bottom line: Most people are unknowingly sabotaging their brain health by avoiding eggs.

The fix is simple & delicious: Eat at least 2–3+ high-quality pastured eggs daily (yolks included).

Protect your memory. Eat real eggs from happy chickens. Your future self will thank you.

Vaccinate Or Lose Money

Vaccinate Or Lose Money

So I asked Perplexity.com, “Are American doctors incentivized by Blue Cross/Blue Shield to have a certain percentage of the patients vaccinated?”

It replied, “Generally, no: Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies do not pay doctors a simple bonus just for hitting a fixed vaccination percentage or quota across all patients. Fact-checks and BCBS statements say any incentives are typically part of broader value-based contracts that reward multiple quality measures, not vaccination alone.

There are, however, some specific programs where an independent Blue Cross Blue Shield plan has offered vaccination-related incentives tied to thresholds. For example, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid in Kentucky offered a 2021 COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Incentive program that paid bonuses when a practice reached set percentages of vaccinated members, with payments ranging from $20 to $250 per vaccinated member depending on the threshold.”

The hardest thing for most people to confront is evil. Especially when it wears a white coat and you are trained to believe it has your best health interests at heart. A $250 incentive to give you a shot, over and above the consultation fee, across several hundred patients, adds up quickly.

It is hard to convince a man of a truth when his income is dependent on him believing a lie.

It takes a high level of awareness and courage to face the possibility that what ‘experts’ in their field have told you for years might be based on false data they have been given and the fact that their income depends on them believing that false data.

That is why I greatly respect medical professionals who do their own research and speak out with truth against the medical establishment’s vaccine propaganda. I have shared a few of their stories on my ‘Vaccination Data And References’ blog post. https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=3835

Vanished Civilizations That Left Technology We Still Can’t Replicate

Indus Valley Mystery

10 civilizations. All of them gone. All of them leaving behind things we still can’t explain.

The Great Pyramid’s granite sarcophagus shows drill marks requiring 500 times the pressure of modern diamond core drills. The craftsmen who made it had copper chisels. Copper is a 3 on the hardness scale. Granite is a 7. Copper does not cut granite. After the Fourth Dynasty, pyramid construction quality collapsed instantly and permanently, the knowledge didn’t erode, it vanished between one pharaoh’s reign and the next. The Olmecs were vulcanizing rubber 2,800 years before Goodyear patented the process. Vulcanization requires precise sulfur ratios and controlled temperature ranges. It is not discovered by accident. It requires understanding polymer chemistry. The Indus Valley built tidal-lock docking systems 3,500 years before Dutch engineers independently developed the same technology, and left a script used across 500,000 square miles that no one has ever deciphered. Not one word.

The pattern across all ten is the same. A civilization appears with knowledge that shouldn’t exist yet. It builds things we struggle to replicate now. Then it vanishes, sometimes violently, sometimes deliberately, and takes the explanation with it.

The technology is still here. The people who made it are gone. And no one has explained where it came from.

Click to view the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7g3qrZ05LI