Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
The ketogenic diet was the most popular diet search on Google in 2018 and has officially reached mega-fad status, but don’t believe the hype.
Numerous studies have shown that low-carb and ketogenic diets do not reverse cancer and they increase your risk of an early death. Yikes.
And they aren’t even the most effective weight loss diets either!
“We could not predict that prolonged fasting would have such a remarkable effect in promoting stem cell-based regeneration of the hematopoietic system…
When you starve, the system tries to save energy, and one of the things it can do to save energy is to recycle a lot of the immune cells that are not needed, especially those that may be damaged.
What we started noticing in both our human work and animal work is that the white blood cell count goes down with prolonged fasting. Then when you re-feed, the blood cells come back. ”
Back in 2007, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a scientific review of numerous studies which examined the effects of fasting, and the multiple human and animal studies have shown that fasting effectively lowers the risk of cancer and heart problems, and provides great effects in the treatment of diabetes.
Research shows cancer patients that forgo treatment live 9 years longer than individuals receiving chemotherapy
Turning to chemotherapy for cancer treatment is a bit like Russian roulette: It could kill the cancer or it could make you sicker and result in the development of new cancers. Though it’s pretty much impossible to locate statistics on chemotherapy-related deaths (because they’re ruled as a result of cancer), some experts assert that chemotherapy has the potential to hasten one’s death, compared to individuals who forgo treatment altogether.
Dr. Hardin B. Jones, a former professor of medical physics and physiology at the University of California, Berkeley, shares this opinion. After studying the life spans of cancer patients for more than 25 years, Jones concluded that chemotherapy simply doesn’t work.
He observed innumerable cancer patients who received chemotherapy and died an unpeaceful death, many of whom met their fate much sooner than those who forwent all treatment. After investigating this further, Dr. Jones found that cancer patients who underwent chemotherapy actually died more quickly, in most cases, than those who followed their doctors’ recommendations by getting the treatment.
“A few number-crunching efforts later and Dr. Jones exposed a fact that the conventional cancer industry doesn’t want the world to know about its multi-billion-dollar cash cow.”
Jones’ findings were published in the journal Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. In it he wrote: “People who refused treatment lived for an average of 12 and a half years. Those who accepted other kinds of treatment lived on an average of only 3 years.”
His discovery also applied to breast cancer patients: Women that forwent traditional treatments including chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, opting for no treatment instead, lived four times longer than those receiving harsh, conventional treatments.
I am looking forward to trying this when I get home. For my vegan grand daughter I will swap out the egg for some inulin and ground flax seeds.
Scientists found a strong relationship between ADHD, Anorexia, OCD and major depression.
This is seriously wrong.
Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria which is effective against four of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, including MRSA.
Antibiotic resistant superbugs could kill up to 1.3 million people in Europe by 2050, according to recent research.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes the problem as “one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today”.
The new strain of bacteria was discovered by a team based in Swansea University Medical School, made up of researchers from Wales, Brazil, Iraq and Northern Ireland.
They have named the new strain Streptomyces sp. myrophorea.
The soil they analysed originated from an area of Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, which is known as the Boho Highlands. It is an area of alkaline grassland and the soil is reputed to have healing properties.
“For an immune system to work properly, it needs to be confronted by an infection in the first year of life,” says Greaves. “Without that confrontation with an infection, the system is left unprimed and will not work properly.”
And this issue is becoming an increasingly worrying problem. Parents, for laudable reasons, are raising children in homes where antiseptic wipes, antibacterial soaps and disinfected floorwashes are the norm. Dirt is banished for the good of the household.
In addition, there is less breast feeding of infants and a tendency for them to have fewer social contacts with other children. Both trends reduce babies’ contact with germs. This has benefits – but also comes with side effects. Because young children are not being exposed to bugs and infections as they once were, their immune systems are not being properly primed.
Do your own homework on this so you have certainty on the data.