Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
Just as the diets of your grandparents and parents affected their health, it also affects yours. And what you eat today affects your children and grandchildren too.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/07/12/diet-influence-genetic-health.aspx
Another look at the Blue Zones and some of the reasons for the better health outcomes found there. Blue Zones are areas on Earth where people live longer (up to 15 years longer) and with better health (88% less likely to die from prostate cancer and 85% less from breast cancer) than other places.
Key takeaways:
Exercise Regularly
Don’t Smoke
Don’t drink alcohol to excess
Keep weight in a healthy range
Eat a diet rich in fruit and vegetables and legumes
https://longevity.foodrevolution.org/masterclass/watch/
Heavily slanted towards being a vegetarian (which is, according to many observations reported to me, unsustainable).
“My feelings of being in the wrong body started when I was a toddler. I hated girl toys and I only wanted to play with boys, I had short hair and dressed myself like a boy. I didn’t understand other girls my age so I felt out of place.
When someone would mistake me for a boy I would feel so good, much to the chagrin of my older sister who would quickly correct them and exclaim, “that’s my SISTER.” At 4 I worked up the courage to ask my mom, “Does God make mistakes, because I think I was supposed to be born a boy?” My mother replied, “No God doesn’t ever make mistakes, he made you exactly the way you’re supposed to be, a beautiful little girl.”
And that was that. I didn’t have any more delusions because my mom cleared it up for me right then and there. Don’t get me wrong I still didn’t like my body and dreaded growing breasts one day, but I didn’t have to question if there was something wrong with me. I was allowed time to grow up, and once I hit puberty I not only felt like I was in the right body, but I became a girly girl!
If I was born in our society today I know I would have been “affirmed” by my teachers and started on a cascade of interventions that would have left me infertile, mutilated and without the husband and two beautiful children that I have today.
Our kids don’t need to be socially or medically transitioned. They need to be left alone, and they need time to grow up.” ~ Brittany Traynor
The labeling of normal child behaviours as needing medication is insane.
Good call Mary, good call! To my readers, I wish this for you. More awareness, more intelligence, more competence. For you and yours.
Homemade beef bone broth is a budget-friendly and nutritious dietary cornerstone, rich in collagen, healthy fats, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur, trace minerals, chondroitin and glucosamine.
Bone broth helps “heal and seal” the gut lining, which is important for optimal health and disease prevention.
Abundant in collagen, bone broth supports tissue integrity, muscle repair and overall longevity, surpassing costly supplements.
Harnessing the convenience of a pressure cooker like the Instant Pot streamlines bone broth preparation, ensuring safety and efficiency.
From sipping it warm for comfort to enhancing soups, stews and sauces to reviving leftovers, bone broth elevates dishes with rich flavor and nutritional value.
Finish reading: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/08/benefits-of-bone-broth.aspx
This is an extremely technical article. I struggled with it. Lots of words I had to look up. The key datum from the whole thing? Keep your fat intake low to best fuel your mitochindria, the energy production units of your cells.
How to Become a More Efficient Glucose Burner
One of the key take-homes from this is that if you want to be optimally healthy, you want to burn glucose in your electron transport chain of your mitochondria, and one of the best ways to ensure that is to increase carbs and lower your fat intake.
As explained by Marshall, when you eat a meal, insulin is released. When you consume a meal that generates a lot of insulin, it suppresses the release of free fatty acids from your fat cells. Those free fatty acids are what cells import and burn in the mitochondria.
“Essentially, what the insulin is doing is it’s kind of telling the fat to get out of the way because you can’t efficiently burn fat and glucose at the same time because of the Randle cycle. The burning of fat will displace your ability to burn glucose,” Marshall explains.
“So, insulin lowers the amount of fat that can enter the mitochondria. Interestingly, it also lowers the amount of branched-chain amino acids that are circulating.”
Marshall struggled with elevated blood glucose in the mornings and, as an experiment, he swapped muscle meat and protein from grains for bone broth and pork rinds.
“Papers have shown there’s this competition between branched-chain amino acids that are high in muscle meats and grains, and glycine that is high in connective tissues, collagen, gelatin,” he says.
Within about two weeks, his fasting blood glucose was reliably right around 80, which is optimal. He was consuming about 600 grams of mostly starch and some sugars, primarily sucrose from whole fruit.
Finish reading: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/07/reductive-stress.aspx
Journalists such as Michael Shellenburger, Matt Taibbi and myself continue to expose the corruption, censorship, and fraud.
Musk has confirmed that the following text, as well as the video (above) from Michael Shellenberger, is all true:
The totalitarianism we warned of is happening. The European Union is at this moment forcing big tech companies to secretly engage in mass censorship. Google and Facebook are, apparently, going along with it.
Only Elon Musk’s X, among the major platforms, is resisting.
A few hours ago, Musk said, “The European Commission offered ?? an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. ?? did not.”
And so now, the EU is preparing to punish X with massive fines — up to 6% of total global revenue.
I can’t imagine a more egregious form of foreign interference in our domestic affairs than foreign governments demanding mass secret censorship for ideological and political purposes.
Most terrifying is the apparently direct involvement of government intelligence and security agencies, and their intermediaries, in demanding censorship.
This is all happening at the very moment that the same governments, including our own, warn of Russian disinformation through spam accounts that hardly anybody ever sees.
Don’t be fooled by what is happening. Governments and former intelligence officials in Europe, Australia, Israel, Brazil, and Ukraine and other nations are not only demanding censorship but also often spreading their own disinformation. For example, the EU claims that there is more false information on X than on other platforms, and more censorship would reduce it.
This is false. Only X has the open-source Community Notes system, which allows for real-time corrections to false information. A recent study in JAMA, the Journal of American Medicine, found that 97.5% of the Community Notes were entirely accurate, 2%, partially accurate, and 0.5%, inaccurate.
It’s not perfect. I myself sometimes disagree with them. And of course, science is never standing still, so what appears accurate today might not be accurate in the future.
However, X’s Community Notes uses more speech, not censorship, to provide context to controversial content. You can still agree or disagree with the content, even with a Community Note attached.
What the EU wants is for its committees of experts, not Community Notes, to secretly decide what we can read and say online. This is unethical and unconstitutional.
Another key part of the EU’s disinformation is that “researchers” should have access to X’s internal data, which Musk cut off when he bought Twitter. But those people who want the data aren’t researchers. They’re censorship activists, many of whom have deep relationships with governments in general and intelligence agencies in particular.
If the EU succeeds in censoring X, Facebook, Google, and every other major Internet platform, then there is no free speech. There is only government-controlled speech.
Many people rightly worry about the implications of a single man, Elon Musk, being all that stands between us and foreign governments’ totalitarian censorship plans. I worry about that, too. Our speech is inalienable. It is not something governments give to us.
We need to fight back. While we should be grateful to Musk for standing up to the totalitarians in Europe, Brazil, and Australia, we must build a citizen’s movement to fight back.
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https://www.malone.news/p/big-brother-is-watching-you-so-where
Some studies, including analyses from NHANES data, have stirred up fears about choline and its alleged link to an increased risk of prostate cancer. This fear causes people to avoid one of the most important nutrients to their health.
As your guide to deciphering the complexities of health and nutrition, I feel it’s imperative to address these concerns and explain why the fear surrounding choline intake, particularly from eggs, is not only misplaced but may also deter you from enjoying one of nature’s most nutrient-dense foods.
First, let’s understand what choline is. Choline, initially discovered in 1862,2 was officially recognized as an essential nutrient for human health by the Institute of Medicine in 1998.3 It plays a critical role in many physiological processes…
Finish reading: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/04/12/choline-prostate-cancer.aspx