Category: Health Tips

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I saw an ad for a prostate remedy, checked the web site and ran it past ChatGPT. After a bit of to and fro the summary of what helps was:

So if we are looking for a “prostate supplement” hierarchy…

I wouldn’t rank them, because the evidence isn’t sufficiently comparable to justify saying one is the best. But I’d divide them like this:

Most worth investigating further

Beta-sitosterol
Pygeum africanum
Standardised pumpkin-seed extract

Interesting but evidence presently weaker

Crinum latifolium
Lycopene
Other multi-herb formulations

Evidence generally disappointing

Ordinary saw palmetto

And I’d add one very important caveat: none of these should be presented as preventing prostate cancer or as a substitute for investigation of persistent urinary symptoms. The research above is predominantly about BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia) and LUTS (lower urinary tract symptoms).

Populations with historically low prostate-cancer incidence tend to have dietary patterns based more heavily on plant foods, pulses and traditional staples, with relatively less meat and highly processed food. Some also consume substantial fish or soy, but neither appears necessary to produce a low-incidence population.

And there’s a second, equally important conclusion:

The enormous differences in recorded prostate-cancer incidence between countries cannot be explained by diet alone. Screening, diagnosis, age, genetics, healthcare access and body composition are major confounders.

The full chat: https://chatgpt.com/share/6ab70950-5b10-83ec-a37a-49a8683e24b5

For a lot of people, aging doesn’t happen at a steady pace — it stays gradual for years, then noticeably speeds up during a specific window later in life. In this video, we break down what’s actually happening inside your cells during that shift, from cellular senescence to mitochondrial decline, and the 5 research-backed habits genuinely associated with slower biological aging.

What you’ll learn:

• The difference between your chronological age and your biological age
• The 4 biological processes that compound during this window
• Why “inflammaging” happens and what drives it
• 5 lifestyle factors linked to measurably slower biological aging
• What’s actually worth bringing to your doctor

Click to view the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14btYVULcpE

Whoa! I found the autism onset chart produced by Dr. Bernard Rimland that nobody can explain. Dr. Bernard Rimland, an autism expert who founded the Autism Research Institute, firmly believed vaccines cause autism. I located his original testimony and the graph of the data he cited in Congress.
Steve Kirsch

The officials of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control, and other medical organizations claim that since autism typically starts at about 18 months, when the MMR shot “coincidentally”given, the parents are mistaken in their belief that the MMR caused their child’s autism. To examine this issue, Riniland analyzed the data collected by the Autism Research Institute from many thousands of parents of autistic children since the 1960s. The data reveal that the onset of autism at 18 months is a recent development. Parent reports show that through the 1960s, ’70s and early ’80s children autistic from birth outnumbered by 2 to 1 those with onset at 18 months. Starting in the early-1980s, when the MMR triple vaccine was introduced, the picture has reversed: now the “onset at 18 months” children outnumber the “onset at birth” children by 2 to 1.

Executive summary
Dr. Bernard Rimland studied autism for over 44 years, including about 35 years collecting parent reports. He is the founder of the Autism Research Institute (ARI).

He testified in Congress on April 6, 2000.

You can find his full testimony here starting on page 337 including the chart on the shift of the onset age post MMR vaccine.

In this article, I will summarize his key points:

Vaccines cause autism

Authors of papers disputing this will not show their data. They ignored all data requests.

There was a shift in parent-observed onset age from birth to 18 months that happened post-MMR vaccine introduction. It flipped from 2:1 (birth onset:18 mo onset) to 1:2 which is dramatic. Nobody has ever explained it including the current ARI which is now pro-vaccine!

Starting in 1964, parents started telling Rimland their children were normal until getting a DPT shot, a “triple vaccine.” So in 1967, he started systematically collecting data on the child’s response to the DPT shot.

More recently, before his testimony, he was inundated with parents reporting their child was normal until receiving the MMR, another triple vaccine.

You can see the chart Rimland referenced in his testimony above.

You can also watch the full testimony: Dr. Bernard Rimland, Dr. Michael Goldberg & Dr. Mary Megson – Autism & Childhood Vaccines – April 2000.

Key points

These are the four myths he dispells:

Vaccines are safe

No link between MMR and autism. And Taylor refused to supply his data for re-analysis!

Autism is primarily genetic.

Autism “naturally” occurs at 18 months

Key statement:
As a parent and as a full-time professional researcher, I am bitterly disappointed with the medical establishment’s dismal record with regard to autism over the past 60 years. The medical schools, as well as the governmental agencies, have consistently supported outmoded, unproven and even disproven theories from the very beginning, and have actively opposed the most promising approaches for the treatment of autism.

Tens of millions of dollars have been spent on non-productive lines of research, while virtually no money at all has been given to research on the methods of alternative medicine, which are far more promising in terms of both safety and. efficacy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/whoa-i-found-the-autism-onset-chart

You may never have heard of ergothioneine but your oyster and king bolete mushrooms have and your mitochondria will love you for it.

Click to view the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6emxvltekk

“This drug saved my life. What do you say to that?”
I get this challenge a lot, and my answer surprises people: I believe you. If you are crippled by anxiety or depression and a drug turns the volume down on it, you become more functional, and it can genuinely feel life-saving. The suffering that leads people to these medications is real, and I never deny it.

But here’s what I’ve watched over and over in my practice: there is a life cycle to being on these drugs, and “it saved my life” is usually what the beginning sounds like.

First, understand what the drug is doing. There is no chemical imbalance being corrected. The low-serotonin story is a myth. An SSRI produces a drug effect that masks symptoms, and your body pushes back against it, because serotonin isn’t just mood. It runs your heart, your digestion, your immune system. So the body downregulates receptors and produces less serotonin naturally, and over time the effect wears off.

Then the stages appear. Stage one: it works, where has this been all my life. Stage two: I don’t even know what this drug is doing anymore. Stage three: fatigue, brain fog, no motivation, and a doctor calling it “treatment-resistant depression” when it may be the drug itself. Stage four: after twenty years, the brain has built itself around the medication, and coming off makes life fall apart.

So when someone says these drugs are life-saving, and someone else says they wrecked them, they can both be telling the truth. They’re just at different points on the same road. The question worth asking isn’t whether the drug helped you once. It’s where you are in the life cycle now.

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Cocoa is one of the few foods with a genuinely interesting cardiovascular literature behind it, and most of what is sold has had the relevant compounds removed on purpose.

The compounds are flavanols, a subgroup of flavan-3-ols including epicatechin and the procyanidins built from it. They are what the cocoa research is about. They are also bitter, astringent, and reddish, which puts them in direct conflict with what a manufacturer wants from cocoa powder.

Alkalization solves that problem. Also called Dutch processing, it treats the cocoa with an alkaline solution, raising the pH from its natural 5.3 to 5.8 up to 7.6 or higher. The powder darkens, the harshness softens, and it disperses better in liquid. It is a cosmetic and sensory process. Nobody performs it for a nutritional reason.

The cost was quantified in a survey of commercial cocoa powders, and the relationship turned out to be linear. Untreated natural cocoa averaged 34.6 mg of total flavanols per gram. Lightly alkalized powder, at pH 6.5 to 7.2, averaged 13.8. Medium treatment brought it to 7.8. Heavily alkalized powder, the very dark kind, averaged 3.9 mg per gram. That is a loss of roughly 89 percent from natural, and even the gentlest commercial treatment removed about 60 percent.

Two things make this strange (in my opinion) rather than merely interesting.

The first is that darkness reads as quality. A deep, almost black cocoa looks stronger and more premium, and it is the tier with the least of the compound the marketing is implicitly referencing. The visual signal runs opposite to the chemistry.

The second is disclosure. In the United States, alkalized cocoa must be labelled, and it usually appears as “processed with alkali” or “Dutch process” in the ingredient list. That phrase is accurate and almost entirely uninformative to a shopper. It does not say what was processed out, and no front-of-pack claim is obliged to mention it.

This survey measured composition, not health outcomes, so it establishes what is present rather than what any given powder does in a person. And the work came from a chocolate manufacturer’s own research centre, which is unusual in that the finding runs against the sponsor’s commercial interest. That direction of bias makes it more credible, not less, though it remains an industry publication.

If cocoa is being eaten as a food, none of this matters much. If it is being eaten for the flavanols, the ingredient list decides whether that is happening at all, and the natural, lighter, more bitter powder is the one that still contains them.

Miller et al., J Agric Food Chem 2008. PMID 18710243