Liver Supporting Foods
20 Cheat Codes
One of the best lists I have seen.
How to Dissolve Plaque and Unclog Arteries
Apart from reducing sugar and other inflammatory foods, something I have been taking about for years, systemic enzymes.
Click to view the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pcag6L9Qzg
Dr. Thomas Seyfried
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death in the United States, with thousands of lives lost each day. Researchers widely agree that healthy lifestyle choices including avoiding tobacco, maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, limiting alcohol, protecting against excessive sun exposure, and following recommended cancer screenings reduce the risk of many cancers.
Some scientists, including Dr. Thomas Seyfried, have proposed that disruptions in cellular metabolism play an important role in cancer development and have explored metabolic therapies, such as ketogenic diets, fasting, and other approaches, as potential areas of research. While this work has generated scientific interest, unfortunately the broader medical community continues to view cancer as a complex group of diseases involving interactions among genetic mutations, metabolism, environmental exposures, lifestyle factors, and the immune system.
Standard treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and hormone therapy are claimed to have improved survival rates for many types of cancer and remain the treatments of choice.
Ongoing research aims to better understand cancer biology and develop more effective, personalized treatments while emphasizing prevention through healthy lifestyle choices and early detection.
Fact: According to leading cancer organizations, an estimated 30–50% of cancers may be preventable by reducing known risk factors and participating in recommended screening programs.
The WHO estimate 90%+ of cancer risk is diet and lifestyle, not genetic.
The blame on genetics fails to account for the fact that diet, exercise and environmental factors (like toxins), labelled epigenetics (Dfn. epi above’ genetics), have ability to ‘turn on’ or ‘turn off’ gene expression.
Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only. Claims that any single diet, supplement, or metabolic therapy can prevent or cure cancer are not supported for all cancers, and treatment decisions should always be made in conjunction with someone who has a proven track record of helping the body recover from cancer.
Great News! Fungi vs PFAS Chemicals
The “forever chemical” met something older.
PFAS — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are the most stubborn pollutants humans have invented. They don’t break down in sunlight, water, soil, or human bodies. They accumulate in blood, in liver tissue, in groundwater, and they stay there for decades. Maine’s farm soils were contaminated by sludge spreading, firefighting foam, and industrial discharge. The state had thousands of acres where PFAS levels exceeded safety thresholds, and conventional remediation was a joke. You can’t filter what doesn’t degrade. You can’t dig up what has already spread through the soil profile.
Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection funded a project using wood-rot fungi mycelium to biologically break down PFAS. The mechanism is enzymatic. White-rot fungi — species like Phanerochaete chrysosporium — evolved to decompose lignin, one of the most complex and resistant organic polymers on Earth. Their enzymes, called laccases and peroxidases, cleave carbon-fluorine bonds that other organisms can’t touch. The mycelium in this photo, spreading through mulch in a contaminated Aroostook County field, is literally digesting PFAS molecules and converting them into harmless byproducts.
The turkey in the background, foraging in the mist, is the proof. Before the mycelium treatment, this soil was too contaminated for agricultural use. Wildlife avoided it. The fungi broke down the PFAS over 18 months of managed treatment, and the soil now tests below detection thresholds for the most common PFAS variants. The turkey doesn’t know about enzymatic degradation. It just knows the ground is safe to scratch again.
The second-order effect is agricultural. Maine’s dairy industry was devastated by PFAS contamination in feed crops grown on sludge-amended soils. Farmers faced bankruptcy, herd culling, and permanent land loss. The mycelium treatment offers a path to recovery. It’s not fast — it takes one to two growing seasons — but it’s permanent. The fungi don’t just bind PFAS. They destroy it. And the byproduct is improved soil structure, increased organic matter, and restored microbial diversity.
Other states are watching because Maine proved that the oldest technology on Earth — fungal decomposition — might be the only one capable of undoing our newest mistake.
Food As Medicine
I well recall reading in a book from an Alaskan doctor how his average patient only ate 20 different foods in a week. And my own doctor telling me in the early 1990s to get as wide a variety of foods into your body as you could. Here are 23 foods with specific identified benefits.
Your Diet Is Not Only What You Eat
Maxine Pye on Collagen
Maxine Pye posts:
Do not listen to me.
I have no idea what I am doing here.
But I do know that there is no such thing as vegan collagen. It only exists in animals.
Why does that matter?
Because collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body. It’s in your skin, your tendons, your ligaments, your cartilage, your blood vessels and throughout your connective tissue.
Collagen is rich in glycine, one of the most important amino acids in the body.
Your body needs glycine to make glutathione, one of your main antioxidants.
You need it to make bile so you can digest fat and absorb vitamins A, D, E and K.
You need it to make haemoglobin, the protein that carries oxygen around your body.
You need it to make creatine for your muscles and your brain.
It helps calm the nervous system and has been linked to better sleep.
The richest sources come from animal foods, especially the skin, cartilage, connective tissue, broth and slow cooked cuts.
Humans used to eat the whole animal before mainstream nutrition guidelines told us to trim the fat, remove the skin and throw away the bones.
Dietitians rarely talk about glycine. It has no RDA, no routine test and no deficiency disease attached to it. And it certainly doesn’t fit a vegan narrative.
Maybe that is why the people eating the most animal foods have the best skin?
One of Maxine’s friends elaborated:
It is not an essential amino acid. We produce just over 1g a day. It is a lot more important than you describe. To estimate an RDA. A trial was run in young people measuring protein in and protein out. Lets take a 100kg person as standard weight for ease of calculation The trials led to a 0.8 factor. A 100kg person needs 80g of protein a day. If they eat less they are degrading. These were young people. In older people now its considered that the factor needs to be 1.2g at 60 Up to 1.6g per kg for older people. Glycine is 13 percent of our total amino acids. a 100kg 70 year old needs 160g of protein a day. 21g of glycine. If they get protein from plant material its more difficult to digest. 1 in 5 people have a genetic enzyme problem etc etc. An uncompromised vegan needs to eat nearly a kilogram of tofu a day. A meat eater only needs 80g of colagen.
(Tom: I repeat what I often share:
Every Spirit/Mind/Body combination is unique.
There are probably 8 billion ‘Best’ diets on the planet, one for each of us.
You need to become your own health researcher to discover the best one for your combination.
I have heard (and my observations support it) that 80% of peope who try a vegan diet (even intelligently) revert as they find it unsustainable.
Yet I have two gorgeous women I know, both my side of 60, who a vegetarian and look fabulous!)
Rhodiola Rosea
Surviving the Arctic mountains of Siberia isn’t just a physical challenge; it is a brutal psychological test. When the body is exposed to extreme freezing temperatures and exhaustion, the brain panics, flooding the system with immense, toxic levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) until the heart simply gives out.
To prevent this biological burnout, ancient Siberian hunters chewed the raw root of Rhodiola Rosea, known as the “Golden Root.” They believed it gave them the endurance of wolves.
They were absolutely right.
Modern endocrinology classifies Rhodiola as a top-tier adaptogen. When the active compounds (rosavins and salidrosides) enter the bloodstream, they cross the blood-brain barrier and physically intercept the stress response. The root literally blocks the overproduction of cortisol and prevents the depletion of dopamine and serotonin. It forces the nervous system to remain calm and highly functional, even when the environment is trying to kill you.
Today, millions of people suffer from chronic burnout, relying on heavy caffeine and synthetic anxiety meds to get through their workday, completely unaware of the ancient Arctic root designed to fix the exact same problem.