Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
Oranges are unknown in the wild. They are a hybrid of tangerines and the pomelo or “Chinese grapefruit” (which is pale green or yellow), and were first cultivated in south-east Asia. They weren’t orange, but green, and Vietnamese oranges and Thai tangerines are still bright green on the outside and orange inside. (Info via QI – BBC)
That makes perfect sense – NOT!
Dr Peter Dingle writes:
This study confirms everything I have been telling you for years about creating a healthy microbiome. It all comes down to your diet. Diet plays an important role in shaping gut microbiota. Eat more plants and eat less processed foods and add fibre.
Microbial diversity was higher in individuals with increased intake of nutrients obtained from plant-food sources, whereas the intake of food groups and nutrients correlated with microbiota structure. Random-forest regressions identified microbial communities associated with different diet components.
Two remarkable results confirmed previous expectations regarding the link between diet and microbiota: communities composed of short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) producers were more prevalent in the microbiota of individuals consuming diets rich in fiber and plant-food sources, such as fruits, vegetables and beans. In contrast, an inflammatory microbiota composed of bile-tolerant and putrefactive microorganisms along with opportunistic pathogens thrived in individuals consuming diets enriched in animal-food sources and of low quality, i.e., enriched in ultraprocessed foods and depleted in dietary fiber. This study expands our understanding of the relationship between dietary intake and gut microbiota. We provide evidence that diet is strongly associated with the gut microbial community and highlight generalizable connections between them.
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/10/2938
The drug’s manufacturer, Marksans Pharma Limited, has expanded a recall initially announced in June to now include an additional 76 unexpired lots of the medication.
The recalled drugs are marketed as “extended-release tablets” under the brand name Time-Cap Labs, Inc.
The recalled product contained an unacceptably high level of N-Nitrosodimethylamine, which is considered a probable human carcinogen.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/09/diabetes-drug-metformin-recalled-due-to-high-level-of-cancer-agent/
Study shows rhubarb supplement prevents obesity and promotes the good bacteria Akkermansia muciniphila (the same one that increases with metformin)
Rhubarb supplementation fully prevented HFHS-induced obesity, diabetes, visceral adiposity, adipose tissue inflammation and liver triglyceride accumulation, without any modification in food intake. By combining sequencing and qPCR methods, we found that all these effects were associated with a blooming of Akkermansia muciniphila, which is strongly correlated with increased expression of Reg3y in the colon.
This data showed that rhubarb supplementation is sufficient to protect against metabolic disorders induced by a diet rich in lipid and carbohydrates in association with an increase in Akkermansia muciniphila.
The main stream media (remember their biggest contributors are drug companies) will have you believing that vitamins are at worst useless or counter-productive and at best that they need more study. Did you know a doctor was curing poli in 1935 with vitamin C and wheat germ oil cures angina?
As countries are furiously stocking food in anticipation of global food shortages, ‘experts’ are now calling COVID-19 a Syndemic “COVID-20,” requiring a ‘social vaccine’ comprising Universal Basic Income & nutrition, free education, huge dietary changes. The technocrats will stop at nothing, including engineered food shortages, to push their Great Reset into global communism and transhumanism. Christian breaks it down.
