Month: April 2023

The Recommended Daily Intake )RDI( of nutrients is based on what would prevent 90% of people suffering a clinical deficiency of that nutrient.
Not 100% of people.
Not what is adequate or optimum for a body.
Not what is appropriate for people trying to remedy a deficiency of that nutrient.
Not what is appropriate for larger sized bodies.
Merely what would prevent 90% of people suffering a clinical deficiency.

So, even keeping to the RDI, you have a better than 10% chance of being deficient in that nutrient. Given that 66% of American are overweight or obese )and larger bodies need more nutrients to sustain them( chances are if you only get the minimum RDI you are almost certain to be deficient!

Bear in mind indigenous cultures often have a nutrient intake 5–7 times the RDI.

Also bear in mind the body has a triage function where if you don’t get enough nutrition the body does not say. ’Heart, skip every third beat, lungs, skip every 4th breath, brain, answer every 5th request for data or decisions.” No, just like you do with your time allocation, it defers those functions most easily put off to a later date. Things like cleanup and housekeeping, detoxing and cancer eradication. More at: http://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=25532

I am told our body makes 1,000,000 cancer cells a day and most days it kills that many. The problem occurs when the making outpaces the killing! If you consistently do not get enough nutrition then those housekeeping functions keep getting deferred until you have a monumental mess, or, the condition in which most people over 50 find themselves where they become dependent on 5 or more medications to eke out a very drug dependent and unpleasant existence.

Of course this suits perfectly the current medical paradigm and Big pHarma are rubbing their hands all the way to the bank and Codex Alimentarius continues to push to restrict the availability we have to supplements, Big Ag continues to grow nutrient deficient crops loaded with toxins, the lobbyists continue to push for legislation that allows the scam on our health and everyone smiles. Except we the people. Oh, but they also have a solution to that too! Drugs that make you feel good regardless of your situation. Starting with coffee and alcohol, progressing to recreational drugs and anti-depressants.

So if the paradigm that has entrapped most people does not appeal to you, how do you achieve optimal nutrition?

Start by eliminating empty and destructive calories from your diet – seed oils, sugar, wheat, processed food, artificial colours, artificial sweeteners, artificial flavours and preservatives. )Jack LaLanne, the famous body builder and health advocate said. “If man made it, don’t eat it!” I should not promote that because I make health foods! LOL! But if you had that as a guiding principle then you would be well on the path to optimum health!(

Replace the empty and destructive calories with 5–7 servings of vegetables, 2–4 servings of fruits, some seeds, nuts, herbs, spices and grass fed meat or wild caught fish.

If you want to get more informed on what are the most nutrient dense foods, head on over to http://www.whfoods.com

If you want to know the nutrient content of a particular food or what foods are highest in a particular nutrient, head over to http://www.nutritiondata.self.com

That ends the educational bit, now for the advertisement part. I make health foods. The healthiest I can. If you are time poor and can afford somebody else to do the hard yards for you, check out my bars and powders at raw, genuinely healthy nutrition bars/powders and healthy snacks https://www.healthelicious.com.au

I have also compiled the best health tips from the last 15 years of reading into a book: https://www.howtolivethehealthiestlife.com
PDF or hard copy, take your pick.

Hope that helps.

Tom

Executive Summary:
Jason Grellner, who has 30 years of counternarcotics experience, said in Congressional testimony on March 23 that China is selling drugs that kill us “because they want to kill us.” He said that DEA laboratories recently released information that “48 states have now seen fentanyl laced with a nonreactive agent, a tranquilizer used in veterinary sciences,” that cannot be neutralized by Naloxone, which is the primary antidote to fentanyl poisoning.

“There’s only one reason that they’re selling this poison and it is to destabilize the United States and to kill Americans.”

Grellner drew a distinction between past meth and cocaine epidemics that were about “getting high, having a good time, partying.” He said fentanyl is different. “This is about killing people.”

Written Statement by
Jason Grellner
Executive Board Member Missouri Narcotics Officers’ Association

Before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions

Hearing on
“Follow the Money: The CCP’s Business Model Fueling the Fentanyl Crisis”

March 23, 2023

Chairman Luetkemeyer, esteemed members of the committee thank you for allowing me to testify today regarding the poisoning of nearly 1 million Americans. My name is Jason Grellner, I am a retired 27-year veteran of law enforcement with over 20 years of that time in state and federal narcotics investigations. The last six years has been spent securing one of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States and witnessing first hand the devasting effects of synthetic opioids like fentanyl on Missouri communities.

Opioid and now synthetic opioid poisoning is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States overtaking car accidents a decade ago. But this is no accident. This is a planned attack on the United States by terrorist organizations, Narcos States and world powers bent on destabilizing and weakening the United States. Drug abuse in the United States has always been a factor of one man’s greed praying on another man’s illness with yet another getting rich off the ill-gotten gains. This attack will not be stopped by merely attempting to treat the sick in our own country or from fighting this threat from inside our own borders. This is an immediate threat to our national security and deserves an immediate response.

It is estimated that another 140,000 Americans will die from Fentanyl or one of its many synthetic derivatives in 2023. Synthetic fentanyl that is manufactured in Mexico from ingredients sourced in China. Chinese companies have been supplying the United States with cheap, synthetic drugs across the internet for the past 20 years. Circumventing DEA and FDA regulations by changing the synthetic drugs chemical make up just enough to offer a slightly different experience to the user, while usurping federal law. It should come as no surprise that when China “cracked down” on synthetic fentanyl distribution it made no difference to worldwide synthetic opioid sales. Chinese organized crime under the “watchful eye” of the CCP began selling the components instead of the final product. Both the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartels immediately began manufacturing the poison in multi kilo batches within days.

Cartels easily buy kilos of precursor chemicals from China and now operate with impunity at western Mexican ports to ensure quick delivery. A kilo of Chinese precursors cost $200 but can be sold in New York for $3 to $5 dollars for 2 milligrams of an unknown fentanyl mixture with a profit of $1M dollars. That million dollars is used to pay; dealers, mules, stash houses, security forces, bribes, money laundering, and to buy power and influence. The recent conviction of Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico’s former Public Safety Secretary, shows the height of influence the cartels wield in Mexico.

The question that comes to mind when a Mexican official is indicted in the US is why? If there is enough evidence for charges and conviction in the US, why has the Mexican government not engaged in their own justice seeking? Mexico is a Narcos State open for business with any foreign power or terrorist organization willing to pay for their political influence and US border control.

Cartel control of ports of entry at the US border is the most hotly contested and largest predictor of violence in Mexico. The US border and ports of entry are controlled by individual cartels for drugs and humans moving north and guns and currency moving south. Mexican cartels have long struggled with money laundering and the transfer of US greenbacks converted to pesos. This was made much easier after the partnership with Chinese organized crime.

Through new and innovative schemes cartels who used to do business with Columbia and Nicaraguan money laundering organization now have a new partner with China. These Chinese organizations also use the money to buy influence with rich and powerful members of the CCP. Selling US dollars to Chinese nationals so they can purchase property for cash in the United States. This allows for Yen to be transferred to pesos in a much quicker and less costly manor through the sale of Chinese goods or precursor chemical sales. All of this under the “watchful” eye” of the Chinese government. Adding to this ease in washing money is the multiple states that have defied federal law and indulge in the money grab of state legalized marijuana. These “cash” businesses with less than adequate accounting measures make an easy target for narcotics traffickers looking to move cash into the US banking system. Many banks have used the relaxing of CTR filings when dealing with marijuana businesses allowing cash deposits above $10k. Money entering the legal banking system is converted to yen, pesos, or euros moments later.

With an estimated $60B dollar a year industry thriving on our southern border, no one solution will end this problem which has been brewing since the 1800’s. That kind of money and power also draws other attention. In February of this year, 128,777 individuals were caught crossing the US/Mexico border. Of those, 16 were on the FBI terrorist watch list. Sixteen in one month, and those were just the ones that were caught. Mexico and China do not have the best interest of the United States or its citizens in mind. Let’s put this in perspective; if a country had infiltrated the United States with terrorist agents and released ricin or anthrax that killed 1 million Americans what would our response be?

There is not a single silver bullet to this problem. Just as in any confrontation, the winner is the entity that attacks from as many angles as possible. ONDCP needs to be less one sided in its current approach to this epidemic. We will not rehabilitate our way out of this issue, we have no medical cure for death. We should take a page from our COVID response, we didn’t just wait for people to get sick and treat the ill, we pushed for a vaccine to prevent the virus in the first place. We knew that waiting for people to get sick and setting up “safe COVID administration sites” wasn’t going to end the pandemic. We need strong prevention efforts in schools and community organizations to drive up the perception of harm, while forcing use rates down. We need a renewed commitment to funding state and local drug taskforces. Law enforcement is simple physics, to stop any force there must be an equal and opposing force. The collision of those two forces is friction, friction can be ugly and cause immense amount of heat. Without that opposing force however the driving force does not end and only grows stronger. State and local drug taskforces identify local threat actors with ties to multi-national drug trafficking organizations needed by their federal partners. The federal government must work as hard on identifying terrorist assets with Mexican Drug Cartels as they did with ISIS and Taliban conspirators in the past decades. Freeze assets, restrict business dealings in foreign banks and companies profiting from these organizations. Give federal law enforcement and armed forces the means necessary to go direct to threat with these terrorists’ strong holds no matter where they might be.

In closing, I want to thank the Committee for examining this important topic that’s killing hundreds of individuals daily across our nation. We must not accept another child dying in a school bathroom or a loved one on the street or in their home from a drug poisoning. We must do more and the time to act was yesterday. Thank you, and I look forward to your questions.

Respectfully,
Lieutenant (Retired) Jason J. Grellner

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115542/witnesses/HHRG-118-BA10-Wstate-GrellnerJ-20230323.pdf