Category: Health Tips

(Tom: This is an article well worth reading before you reach for the pill bottle.)

Every day, millions of Americans reach for medications they believe are harmless – a Tylenol for a headache, Benadryl for allergies, Prilosec for heartburn. What they don’t know is that with each dose, they may be systematically dismantling the neurobiological substrate that make us human.

Common over-the-counter and prescription medications that millions take daily are silently rewiring our brains, with acetaminophen (Tylenol) measurably blunting empathy¹, antihistamines increasing dementia risk by 54%², and proton pump inhibitors doubling depression rates³ – yet most users and even many doctors remain unaware of these profound neurological effects. Research involving millions of patients reveals that 10% of dementia cases may be directly attributable to anticholinergic medications like Benadryl⁴, while 52 million Americans taking weekly acetaminophen experience measurable reductions in their ability to feel others’ pain⁵. These findings expose a massive gap between public perception of medication safety and the mounting scientific evidence of harm, particularly as 54% of elderly Americans now take four or more medications simultaneously (aka poly-pharmacy)⁶, creating dangerous cumulative effects on brain function. The magnitude of this hidden epidemic is staggering: medications marketed as harmless are fundamentally altering how we think, feel, and connect with others.

Finish reading: https://open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/p/the-mind-thieves-how-6-common-medications

Have you – or someone you love – faced pregnancy loss, early labor, or complications like preeclampsia or gestational diabetes? I have, and I endured months of fear, anxiety, and worry for myself and my baby because of it. I know many others who have, and I can almost guarantee that you do as well.

Much of this could be very easily avoided – and the change is urgently needed now. In fact, it was needed years ago when we already had the clinical evidence, but inaction and blind eyes kept this knowledge out of the hands of our care providers – as it still does for most women.

I don’t like to say “I wish I knew then what I know now” – but in this case, it’s most definitely true. It wasn’t until I began working for GrassrootsHealth that my eyes were opened to the world of evidence surrounding vitamin D, especially for prenatal health. I had been a health practitioner and nutritionist for years already, helping other women as a fertility and prenatal health specialist.  During my own pregnancy, I ate incredibly healthy and took prenatal vitamins along with other supplements I knew would support a healthy pregnancy and baby.  Never once did concern for vitamin D for myself or my patients cross my radar.

https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/this-is-personal

Was agriculture “the worst mistake in the history of the human race”? Skeletal analysis shows that early farming communities were shorter-lived and sicker than their hunter-gatherer predecessors – height dropped by 5-6 inches, life expectancy fell by seven years. Studies of prehistoric skeletons reveal a nearly 50% increase in signs of malnutrition (like enamel defects in teeth) and a fourfold rise in iron-deficiency anemia when agriculture took over.

The dark side of wheat is a story about listening – listening to our bodies, to the lessons of history, and to the emerging science that challenges nutritional orthodoxies. It urges us to reconsider the comforting narrative that has placed wheat on a pedestal. Yes, wheat nurtured civilizations and fills bellies in a hungry world. But it may also underlie a great deal of the chronic illness that plagues those very civilizations in the modern era.

https://open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/p/beyond-the-gluten-free-fad-the-unchanged

Its not a smart watch its a death watch .

https://x.com/karma44921039/status/1954962204999958544

Older adults who move earlier in the day and stick to a consistent activity schedule have better heart and lung fitness and walk more efficiently

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/home-family-pets/daily-activity-timing-helps-improve-fitness-and-support-healthy-aging/

I had a discussion with a supplier on the subject of powders vs extracts and while I do respect the role of extracts in providing large quantities of a given nutrient that is often more advantageous in remediation of acute conditions, there is another side to the story in general purpose nutrition that I thought you may care to read.

G’day Annie,

Thank you for the lovely acknowledgement!

In my top products I mix over 200 ingredients of the over 400 I stock.
That means in a 6.45 kg batch for a great many of those ingredients I use 10 grams or less.
To use a 10:1 extract means for comparison of the specific nutrient in that extract I need to use only 1 gram in a 6.45 kilo mix.
A 6.45 kilo mix yields 16 x 400 gram tubs, each of 40 serves.
That is 640 individual 10 gram serves per batch.
So there is a strong chance that, despite my best mixing efforts, most individual serves would contain zero of the extract.

The other point I take into consideration is that we presently know so little about our primary food sources that if we use an extract rather than the raw plant we are most likely missing out on a great many nutrients we as yet know nothing about. For instance do you know there are over 40,000 phytochemicals in foods? Of which we know something about 10,00 of them! So just there that means there is more we do not know than there is that we do know!

Then there is the synergistic effect of nutrient combinations. For instance antioxidants taken in combination have a multiplicative beneficial effect on the body.

And lastly, there is the extraction process itself. That may leave chemical residues in the extract.

Hope that helps.

“We’re scanning every corner of the health care system for hidden incentives that corrupt medical judgment. What we’re finding is alarming. Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate. They’re pressured to follow the money, not the science.

We’ve recently uncovered that more than 36,000 doctors had their Medicare reimbursements altered based upon childhood vaccination rates. That’s not medicine. That’s coercion. It’s immoral. It has no place in a constitutional democracy or in a system that claims to protect children.

Medical decisions should be made based upon one thing and one thing only. The well being of the patient. Never on a financial bonus or a government mandate. Patients deserve honest, uncorrupted advice from their doctors. Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training and to follow the science and speak the truth without fear of punishment.

Doctors should be guided by medical judgment and their Hippocratic oath, not by financial incentives or government mandates. That’s what this policy change is about. And it’s just the beginning.“

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1954500724005769697