Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
A Dr Joseph Mercola article includes this gem, “Let’s start with a myth: carbohydrates are inherently fattening and should be removed from your diet if you want to lose weight. This is not true! Carbohydrates can and should be included in a healthy fat loss phase. So in this article let’s talk about why including carbs in your diet is BENEFICIAL for fat loss.”
The article is worth reading:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/09/10/carbohydrates-fat-loss.aspx
Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen:
Strawberries
Spinach
Kale, collard and mustard greens
Grapes
Peaches
Pears
Nectarines
Apples
Bell and hot peppers
Cherries
Blueberries
Green beans
EWG’s Clean Fifteen:
Avocados
Sweet corn
Pineapple
Onions
Papaya
Sweet peas (frozen)
Asparagus
Honeydew melon
Kiwi
Cabbage
Watermelon
Mushrooms
Mangoes
Sweet potatoes
Carrots
Finish reading: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php#clean-fifteen
Fermented foods and beverages have been part of the human diet for centuries. Although history is a little vague as to how the fermentation process was developed and by whom, archaeological findings suggest that the practice has been around since 13,000 B.C. [1]
In fact, archaeologists uncovered evidence of the earliest form of fermentation – specifically beer brewing from cereal grains – when they analyzed stone mortars found in Natufian burial sites. The Natufians were a semi-sedentary, foraging group of people that occupied the Levant region (modern-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) some 15,000 years ago. [2]
The Natufians were not the only ones who enjoyed using fermented products. Historical records show that fermented bread and beer were also diet staples in ancient Egypt. Vinegar, which is made via a two-step fermentation process and whose origins can be traced back to 5,000 B.C. in ancient Babylon, has also been found in ancient Egyptian urns. [3]
In ancient Greece and Italy, freshly harvested grapes were pressed underfoot in large pottery vessels or stone vats and fermented in terracotta jars to make red and white wine. Because the ancient Greeks and Romans were avid drinkers of this fermented beverage, wine became a common everyday drink that was consumed on its own or while having a meal. [4]
Yogurt is another fermented food that was widely consumed in ancient Rome and Greece. But because it was considered by the Greeks as “poor man’s food,” yogurt was only consumed by the peasants, who liked adding a bit of honey to make the sour fermented product more palatable. [5]
The ancient Mesopotamians and nomadic Turks were also great consumers of yogurt. In fact, it is widely believed that the first ever yogurt was created by accident when milk turned sour in the warm temperatures of the desert somewhere in the Middle East.
According to some historians, the earliest known appearance of yogurt was in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) more than 7,000 years ago (around 5,000 B.C.). In Turkish literature, the consumption of yogurt was first mentioned in texts dating back to the 11th century (1100 B.C.). It is also believed that “yogurt” came from the Turkish word “yoğurmak,” which means to thicken, coagulate or curdle.
Two Turkic ethnic groups, namely, the Karachays and the Balkars, who lived in the North Caucasus region, are also credited with developing kefir, a fermented drink whose consistency and flavor are similar to yogurt. Kefir is produced by fermenting milk using kefir grains, a symbiotic culture obtained by fermenting milk in animal skins over a long period of time. [6]
The consumption of fermented foods and beverages was not only widespread in ancient Europe and the Middle East but also in Asia. In countries like Mongolia, India and China in particular, yogurt was considered a medicinal food and consumed for its health-supporting properties.
Genghis Khan, the founder of the first Mongolian Empire, was said to have encouraged his army to drink a type of yogurt made from fermented horse milk called “kumis.” He believed that consuming kumis made his soldiers stronger and braver. [7]
In ancient India, yogurt found a place in the kitchens of Emperor Akbar I, who ruled the Mughal Empire from 1556 to 1605. But even before his reign, Ayurvedic scripts dating from about 6,000 B.C. had been heralding the health benefits of consuming fermented dairy products like yogurt. [8]
Researchers also discovered that around the same time (or even earlier), the ancient Chinese had been fermenting a mixture of rice or millet, honey and fruit to make alcoholic beverages. Records state that in the palace of the Shang emperor, fermented drinks, along with various fermented foods, were stored in bronze vessels and offered as sacrifices to royal ancestors. [9]
China and neighboring countries like Japan and Korea, as well as Indonesia in the south, eventually came up with more fermented food products – such as soy sauce, natto, kimchi, nai lao (Beijing yogurt), miso and tempeh – that are now commonly consumed on their own or used in kitchens worldwide.
Fermented foods from the West like sauerkraut, pickles, cottage cheese and buttermilk have also spread in other parts of the world and are now widely appreciated not only for their unique flavors and versatility, but most especially for their wonderful health benefits.
The first people to make use of fermentation primarily employed the technique for food preservation. But as fermented foods gradually became a part of their diet, the early humans realized that consuming such foods provided many health benefits. In fact, some cultures used fermented foods as a natural remedy.
Yogurt, for instance, was introduced by King Francis I of France to Western Europe in 1542 as a medicinal food. [10] But it wasn’t until the early 20th century that people began to understand what gave yogurt – and fermented foods in general – its health-supporting properties.
In 1905, a Bulgarian microbiologist named Stamen Grigorov discovered the lactic acid bacterium Bacillus bulgaricus (now Lactobacillus bulgaricus), which is still used today to turn milk into yogurt. At the time, yogurt was consumed in large quantities in his home country particularly by peasants, who went on to live very long lives.
This piqued the interest of Russian-born scientist Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1908 for his discovery of phagocytes (a type of immune cell that engulfs microbes) and phagocytosis in 1883. [11] Mechnikov theorized that B. bulgaricus in yogurt was responsible for support the health of Bulgarian peasants.
In 1965, researchers D.M. Lilley and R.H. Stillwell first coined the term “probiotics” to refer to “factors” or substances produced by microorganisms that enhanced the growth of others. But its definition was replaced in1974 by R.B. Parker, who referred to probiotics as “organisms and substances which contribute to intestinal microbial balance.” [12]
As researchers began to explore the importance of intestinal microflora in the maintenance of good overall health, it became clear how probiotics, the main components of fermented foods, can offer health benefits.
Numerous studies have found that gut microbial imbalance, which stems from harmful microbes outgrowing beneficial ones, leads to many health issues. [13] Thankfully, these issues can be relieved with the introduction of probiotics, or “good microbes,” from fermented foods.
According to a study published in the journal Molecules, probiotics can help keep bad gut microbes in check by inhibiting their ability to colonize other parts of the intestine. [14] This is why researchers recommend the consumption of fermented foods as a means of maintaining homeostasis in the gut.
Another good reason to include fermented foods, which are high in fiber, in your diet is that some intestinal microbes produce beneficial chemicals called short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) while fermenting dietary fiber. [15] Aside from having health-supporting activities, some SCFAs like butyrate serve as an energy source for the cells that line the inside your colon. [16]
The health benefits of fermented foods don’t just come from their impact on your gut microflora. The fermentation process itself also contributes to the overall goodness of fermented foods, specifically in terms of stability, taste and nutrition.
Two types of fermentation are used to produce fermented foods. Lactic acid fermentation, considered to be one of the oldest food preservation methods in existence, is facilitated by lactic acid bacteria like L. bulgaricus, which use the lactose in foods to obtain energy.
In return, these bacteria produce a chemical called lactic acid, which inhibits the growth of microorganisms that cause food spoilage. Lactic acid is also responsible for the sourness of fermented foods. [17]
In addition to lactic acid, Lactobacilli are known to produce hydrogen peroxide, another compound that can stop the growth of food-spoiling microbes. Fermented foods that are produced using lactic acid fermentation include sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, yogurt, miso, salami and sourdough bread. [18]
Alcoholic or ethanol fermentation occurs with the active participation of yeasts, fungi or some select bacteria. Instead of lactose, these microorganisms convert natural sugars like fructose and glucose to alcohol (ethanol), carbon dioxide and heat. The compounds generated by this process, including carbon dioxide, can protect foods from mold and other microbes that cause spoilage. [19][20]
During ethanol fermentation, certain enzymes in yeast help increase the levels of beneficial phytonutrients in the fermented products. One example of this is caffeic acid, a powerful antioxidant found in fruits, vegetables, edible herbs and spices. [21]
Caffeic acid is said to be released during fermentation from caftaric acid, a phenolic compound naturally present in grape juice. Red and white wine contain high levels of caffeic acid because of this. [22]
In addition to preventing food spoilage and increasing the phytonutrient content of foods, fermentation also helps destroy non-nutritive food components that can disrupt the activity of digestive enzymes. [23][24]
But what truly makes fermented foods such great foods for supporting good overall health is the fact that fermentation increases the bioavailability of their nutrient content. [25] According to research, the organic acids produced by fermentative microbes can bind to plant-based proteins and minerals to form soluble, easy-to-absorb products.
A study published in the journal Fermentation also reports that during fermentation, an enzyme capable of degrading the anti-nutrient, phytic acid, is formed. [26] This enzyme further helps you enjoy the nutritional benefits of fermented foods by preventing the binding of phytic acid to minerals. Phytic acid greatly reduces the bioavailability of nutrients in your gastrointestinal tract. [27]
Another great thing about fermentation is that, according to studies, fermentative microbes like lactic acid bacteria can synthesize some essential vitamins as well as bioactive compounds with beneficial activities. [28]
Research has found that some probiotic bacteria can produce vitamin K as well as water-soluble B-vitamins, such as biotin (B7), cobalamin (B12), folate (B9), niacin (B3), pantothenic acid (B5), pyridoxine (B6), riboflavin (B2) and thiamine (B1). [29]
Probiotic bacteria can also produce conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and conjugated linolenic acid (CLNA), isomers of the healthy fats, linoleic acid and linolenic acid, respectively. [30] Found only in animal-based foods, CLA and CLNA are linked to significant health benefits.
To recap, here are the 7 benefits of Fermenting Foods:*
https://www.healthrangerstore.com/blogs/natural-health/7-benefits-of-fermenting-food
John Leake writes:
Orwell’s 1946 essay on relationship between bad language and lying is spot-on.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously observed that the hallmark of totalitarianism is that everyone participating in it is in the habit of lying all the time about everything. We often think of lying as a straightforward matter of making statements that are false. However, a far more common and insidious form of lying involves using vague language, slogans, and needless abstractions instead of speaking precisely, concretely, and factually. Another feature of nascent or creeping totalitarianism is that the general enterprise of lying is accompanied by censorship of guys who DO speak and write precisely, concretely, and factually.
Listening to politicians speak is often an unpleasant experience chiefly because the discerning listener will instantly recognize that if they are not lying outright, they are speaking around the truth or omitting it.
When I was a young and aspiring author, my primary model for learning how to write clear English prose was George Orwell, especially his 1946 essay, “Politics and the English Language.” I believe it should be required reading for every high school student in the country. If you are your kids have never read it, it’s not too late! The following are what I believe to be the most relevant passages for understanding the current lamentable state of political speech.
In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be found that the writer is some kind of rebel, expressing his private opinions, and not a ‘party line’. Orthodoxy, of whatever colour, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style. The political dialects to be found in pamphlets, leading articles, manifestos, White Papers and the speeches of Under-Secretaries do, of course, vary from party to party, but they are all alike in that one almost never finds in them a fresh, vivid, home-made turn of speech. When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker’s spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them. And this is not altogether fanciful. A speaker who uses that kind of phraseology has gone some distance toward turning himself into a machine. The appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved as it would be if he were choosing his words for himself. If the speech he is making is one that he is accustomed to make over and over again, he may be almost unconscious of what he is saying, as one is when one utters the responses in church. And this reduced state of consciousness, if not indispensable, is at any rate favourable to political conformity.
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, ‘I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so’. Probably, therefore, he will say something like this:
While freely conceding that the Soviet régime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigours which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/politics-and-the-english-language
The study demonstrates that the negative effects on brain structure are not limited to heavy drinkers but are observable even at low levels of alcohol intake. As consumption increases, so does the severity of these structural changes. This research provides compelling evidence that there may be no “safe” level of alcohol consumption when it comes to brain health.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/09/14/alcohol-consumption-science.aspx
Clinicians and many obesity sufferers have known for a long time that it’s way more complex than just an imbalance between energy input and output. That’s why it’s so refreshing to see a paper suggesting that weight gain and obesity isn’t just about eating too much and exercising too little—the ‘calories in, calories out theory’.
The authors suggest there’s something else that’s a much bigger driver going on. They propose getting fat is more often than not an intrinsic disorder linked to how the body handles energy. This disorder affects how the body partitions fuel, leading to the accumulation of fat. Their views are supported by 80 years of animal obesity research, allowing them to update the fuel partitioning theory. They show that in obese animals, energy is redirected from being burned to being stored as fat, even when their energy intake is the same or less than that of lean animals.
The body is constantly making decisions on whether the fuels you eat are used immediately for energy, stored for future use, or converted into other forms. This process is influenced by various factors, including hormonal signals (like insulin and oestrogen, leptin and ghrelin), the availability of nutrients, and the body’s current energy needs.
In a healthy metabolism, the body efficiently balances the use and storage of these fuels. For example, after eating, insulin levels rise, promoting the storage of excess glucose as glycogen and fat. During fasting or exercise, stored glycogen and fat are mobilised to provide energy. When it all goes wrong, the authors suggest that there is a fundamental problem in the body’s decision-making process. This intrinsic disorder in fuel partitioning means the body is more likely to store fuels (particularly fats) rather than use them for energy. This leads to the accumulation of fat stores and difficulty in mobilising these stores when energy is needed.
The result is a serious energy imbalance where the body’s trapped fat stores are unable to be accessed, leading to a continuous cycle of fat accumulation. Dysfunctional partitioning is proposed as a fundamental cause of obesity, beyond simple lifestyle factors.
https://www.anhinternational.org/news/struggling-with-weightloss-is-your-fat-trapped/
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/09/01/hemal-patel-mitochondria.aspx
I believe one of the biggest issues in modern medicine is that patients often don’t get the opportunity to establish a genuine relationship with their physician and hence often lack the critical voice which is necessary for a therapeutic doctor-patient relationship. Because of this, my goal here was always to be able to correspond with everyone who reached out to me. Unfortunately, due to the traffic I now receive, it’s not possible to do that. For that reason, I decided the best solution was to have a monthly open thread (where people could ask any question they wanted) and link that to a topic I’d wanted to write about but didn’t quite feel merited a full article. In this month’s open thread, I will discuss another facet of the insomnia puzzle—the devices that improve sleep and strategies for sleep friendly housing.
Presently, I believe one of the most important things for health is having restorative sleep which in turn requires having a functional sleep cycle. For example, as I showed in a recent article, some of the critical functions of sleep include:
More importantly, rather than these benefits being abstract, people immediately notice how much worse they feel when they are sleep deprived or they have a condition (e.g., fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue) which prevent them from getting restorative sleep.
Given how critical sleep is for health, it’s remarkable that our society fares so poorly with it and our health authorities do so little to support it. This I believe is due to many different economic interests being opposed to creating the changes necessary for healthy sleep. For example:
•Many industries depend upon having consumers use bright electronic devices at night (which is terrible for the sleep cycle).
•Many industries (e.g., hospitals) depend upon workers having abnormal hours (e.g., periodically working night shifts), something which is highly disruptive to the sleep cycle and thus health (e.g., the WHO classifies shift work as a probable human carcinogen since existing research shows it causes a 33-62% increase in the risk of cancer).
•The pharmaceutical industry (which now exerts significant control over the government) is reliant upon Americans having as many chronic illnesses as possible. Because of this, safe and unpatentable ways to maintain health (e.g., regular outdoor sunlight exposure) are actively disparaged by the medical industry.
•Insomnia is one of the largest drug markets in the United States (e.g., in 2022, 65 billion was spent on sleep aids), so the industry benefits from insomnia being a chronic condition which has a marginal response to the existing medications, in turn requiring the populace to become lifelong consumers of these products. In the case of sleeping pills, this is particularly unfortunate as rather than help you sleep, most of them function as sedatives which block the sleep cycle from occurring once the user is knocked out. Because of this, sleeping pills have many severe side effects (e.g., one large study found, depending on how many sleeping pills were taken, that these pills increased the risk of death by 3.6-5.4 times), and sadly, many other equally disturbing datasets about these medications exist.
Recently I discussed one of the most tragic aspects of this entire story—the fact that a highly effective sleep aid (which completely transformed people’s lives) was buried in the 1990s by the FDA in collusion with the mass media (using a playbook that was remarkably similar to what we saw done to ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine during COVID-19). These events were so egregious that they inspired comedian Jimmy Dore to do a segment on the FDA’s War Against Sleep.
Since sleep is so critical for health, like many, I advocate for ensuring the environment you sleep in is conducive to healthy sleep (since the sleeping process is very sensitive to external stimuli as it is critical for survival to be able to awaken if a potential danger is in the environment). Many of the principles for ensuring a healthy sleeping environment are covered under the umbrella of “sleep hygiene,” an approach which seeks to cultivate a sleeping environment which contains the signals that instruct the body to enter the sleep cycle (e.g., by having it being free of artificial lighting—particularly blue light, not having the room be too hot, avoiding mental activity before bed time and consistently going to bed at the same time).
Note: the principles of sleep hygiene are discussed in more detail here.
Presently, I believe that a healthy sleep environment is so important that when a patient becomes a prospective home buyer, I often advise for them to prioritize how well they sleep in a house they are considering purchasing, to take a quick nap in the bed of the house when they tour it and if possible (while under contract) to be able to sleep for a night in the house. This in part is because I believe in its importance for their health and in part because I periodically see people who end up selling their homes since they cannot sleep in them. Furthermore, while the real estate market is becoming more and more competitive, the “sleepability” of a house is rarely considered, and as a result, if a buyer looks for it, they can normally attain it.
Note: improved sleep is a major benefit of living in rural areas.
When the sleepability of a house is considered, things such as the surrounding noise (e.g., outside traffic, neighbors, airplane traffic), the air quality, and the surrounding light pollution are often taken into consideration.
Note: there has recently been a transition from orange (sodium vapor) streetlights to bright white LED ones (as they are more energy efficient and hence “more environmentally friendly”). I do not support this as the newer lights are quite harmful to wildlife, make it significantly harder to see the stars at night, and make it much harder to sleep (if they are by your window). Furthermore, the dangers are significant enough that even the AMA warned against the health effects of these newer lights in 2016 (along with authoring a detailed report on their dangers).
However, other sleep affecting factors (e.g., toxic chemicals off-gassing from a newly manufactured home) rarely are discussed. Of these, I find the most consistently under-appreciated quality of a home are its electrical qualities.
Since so many things can affect the electrical sleepability of a house and the response individuals experience varies greatly from person to person, I typically advise patients to see how the house works for them rather than trying to give any hard and fast rules to follow (although better quality EMF meters which can detect high frequency microwaves are often helpful in this regard).
Note: many of the sites I’ve found patients had the most rejuvenating experiences with (e.g., particularly healing hot springs) tend to be located in low EMF areas. One of the most interesting anecdotes I ever heard about this came from Dietrich Klinghardt (a well-known integrative physician who places a significant emphasis on the dangers of EMFs), who stated that he found a valley in South America that was an EMF dead zone, and that he would frequently have severe chronic illnesses resolve when patients lived there. Unfortunately, midway through this process a cell phone tower got placed in the valley and the area became unusable for this purpose—which speaks to a broader issues—EMF free areas are becoming harder and harder to find.
Typically, when looking at the electrical qualities of a house, I’ve found the following can matter.
•If the wiring in the house creates concentrated pockets of dirty electricity.
•How much Wifi is present (e.g., from the neighbors).
•How close the house is to cell phone towers (and conversely if there are mountains blocking their signal from reaching the house).
Note: this website is the best resource I have found for evaluating the proximity of cell phone towers to homes, although I have come across cases of towers not being listed in it.
•If the house is in the path of a radar installation (e.g., because its close to an airport).
•If the house is on a geopathic stress line (e.g., it crosses over an underground river).
Note: I’ve also found in some cases the opposite can happen and the underlying geology can make a place work much better to sleep in.
In turn, many find that changing the electrical qualities of a home can significantly improve their sleep. For example, I’ve heard more reports than I can count from (more electrically sensitive) individuals that turning off their house’s circuit breakers at night greatly enhanced their sleep and I’ve also heard many people share that turning off their house’s Wifi at night caused them to have much deeper and more vivid dreams.
Note: this is also a reason why many (myself included) have their house wired with ethernet lines rather than using Wifi.
The link between EMFs and sleep hygiene in turn is somewhat controversial since it lies outside the conventional paradigm and there is not yet a clearly established mechanism which could explain how they disrupt sleep. From my own exploration of this subject, I uncovered a 2019 paper which provided a fascinating clue to this puzzle.
Note: for context, the hippocampus (the part of the brain responsible for learning and storing short term memories into longterm memories—which is also a critical function of sleep) relies upon slow periodic wave activity to accomplish its consolidation of memory.
Briefly, that paper provided the evidence to argue that:
•The slow periodic waves the hippocampus uses to encode memories are not physically transmitted (e.g., through synaptic junctions and neurotransmitters) but rather through coupled electrical fields that can become self-propogating.
•Previously, it was assumed those fields were too weak to matter, but the authors were able to show these faint fields could exert a biological effect.
•The electrical fields the hippocampus uses to encode memories are sensitive to external electrical fields.
•Because of this, an externally applied field could either enhance or cancel out the field being generated by the hippocampus.
In turn, this provides a mechanism to explain why environmental EMFs could affect the sleep process (particularly dreaming).
Note: we frequently advise patients not to charge their cell phones near their beds. This is in part due to the light the phone emits being disruptive to sleep, in part due to the EMFs both it (and the charging process emits) disrupting sleep, and the fact that continually having messages you think about or respond to during the night also being detrimental to sleep.
The biological effects of EMFs are another very controversial issue. This is because:
•The sensitivity to them varies greatly.
•Many industries rely upon EMFs to function (and hence have a vested interest in them being viewed as completely safe).
Note: because EMFs have significant biological effects but that research faces many political obstacles, a significant body of evidence exists showing that EMFs can cause biological harm (e.g., see this book and this book for the links to cancer, palpitations and male infertility) yet much of the more modern research comes from countries like Russia and hence rarely makes it into the Western scientific community.
In my own experience, you typically will encounter individuals who fall into one of the following categories:
•They are extremely sensitive to EMFs and have to live in isolated rural areas to avoid debilitating symptoms (e.g., rapid migraines that lead to convulsions). Unless you directly know people like this, it’s often difficult to believe they exist, but electrically hypersensitive individuals are very much out there.
•Those with chronic illnesses (especially mast cell disorders) who gradually realize their illnesses become significantly worse when they are exposed to EMFs.
•Those who feel EMFs and can tell they aren’t good for them (because the fields feel uncomfortable), but typically aren’t significantly affected by them. This for example is my situation.
•Those who can link minor symptoms to EMF exposures (e.g., a headache from being on the cell phone too long).
•Those who, when you point it out, notice they feel more relaxed and calm and clearheaded in low EMF areas.
•Those who have no discernible reaction to EMFs and cannot wrap their heads around why others do.
Likewise, I find that some people can’t sleep in high EMF housing, some notice they get more restorative sleep in low EMF housing, and many others have no issues being saturated by EMFs and external light while they sleep. This in turn touches upon one of my key principles in medicine—you have to acknowledge that different individuals can have a very different response to the same stimuli, and you cannot generalize one’s experience onto others.
Note: typically the most problematic EMFs are those in the microwave spectrum, such as that emitted from cell phones, radar, and Wifi.
Every now and then, I read a thread about what products or devices someone purchased which most positively transformed their life. What I find fascinating about these lists is that almost of the products inevitably are gotten to improve sleep—which again touches upon how important sleep is for our health and how greatly it is neglected by modern society (a recent Gallup poll found 57% of Americans want more sleep but only 42% get enough).
Note: results like this poll and the fact that Americans spent 65 billion dollars on sleep in 2016 highlight a longstanding problem with our medical system. If the medical system does a poor job of addressing a problem, it typically receives more money to address it, which inevitably results in the industry having a vested interest in never solving the problem and gradually swallowing the national budget.
In the final part of this article (which as mentioned above exists as an open forum for you to ask any questions that have come up over the last month), I will share the best sleep aid products I’ve come across—including one that solves a surprisingly difficult challenge some couples have when one requires a much warmer temperature than the other to sleep and one that is often very helpful for neuro-atypical individuals (e.g., as a result of a vaccine induced brain injury), along with a few of the more innovative approaches I’ve seen for designing a sleep-friendly house. Likewise, I invite you to share the approaches which most helped you on your journey to healthy sleep…
RFK Jr will never reveal these things about vaccines
Aug 26, 2024
(This is Part-3 in a series; for Part-4, click here; for Part-2, click here.)
INTRO
First, I have a few words on the new Trump-Kennedy partnership.
I would characterize the ongoing devastation-by-vaccination as planes overhead dropping bombs. Many, many bombs, which are described by the enemy as packets of extremely healthful nutritional supplements.
Trump and Kennedy know they’re bombs. But neither man has said one effective word about them during this campaign season.
And their silence is something I’m supposed to take as positive? As encouraging? As promising?
—end of intro—
This is VACCINE week here at my Substack. I’m putting all my efforts on the table to expose this horrific fraud.
In the podcast, I’ll blow apart the major myths and fairy tales about vaccination.
MYTH ONE: Vaccination has led to the major decline of childhood diseases.
MYTH TWO: Vaccination produces a high standard of health and well-being.
MYTH THREE: Substances added to vaccines, called adjuvants, add to the positive power of vaccination.
MYTH FOUR: Vaccines are remarkably safe.
These myths are 4 cornerstones of a completely false foundation. I’ll blow all of them to smithereens.
Then I’ll go further. I’ll take on the official gibberish about antibodies, and how that fake science has been used to prop up vaccines for many decades.
And of course I’ll comment on the use of vaccines to prevent disease caused by viruses that don’t exist.
Finally, I’ll explain how the human clinical trials of the RNA COVID vaccines were DESIGNED TO FAIL.
All the myths about vaccines are based on false evidence. I’ll boil down that farce in straightforward terms.
Right now, we’re living in a country where NO Presidential candidate dares to take on vaccines, on the campaign trail, with the kind of courage we need. Why is that?
Join me in this vital podcast.
And thank you for your continuing support of my work.
— Jon Rappoport
(Rappoport Podcasts, Episode 070)
