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Dr Karen Mitchell PhD writes on X:

Hey everyone. I am reaching out for support.

I have been chatting on here, respectfully and happily.

Yesterday I tweeted that there are many narcissists/psychopaths/predators in the psychiatric and psychology community based on my PhD research.

The responses from mental health professionals have been nothing short of abusive. I feel judged, character-assassinated, misunderstood, humiliated, disrespected. I feel physically sick.

I am stunned at the maliciousness and demeaning nature of the group bullying from mental health professionals. I am really, really distressed.

Have a look at all the retweet comments on the post below.

For any psychiatrists and psychologists who might like to actually read my work before further attacking me, here is a link…

https://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/file/15436c0d-4d4f-4506-b649-eb1129ab0390/1/karen_mitchell_thesis.pdf#page145

I replied:

If you ever needed the equivalent or better (and without the wait) of a peer review of your work, it was just handed you on a silver platter!

So, well done for being over the target, that’s when you cop the flack! You stand with giants in the field who tried to clean it up..

…Dr Peter Breggin and Dr Thomas Szasz being two that come to mind.
As to immediate help for you personally, take a walk and look at things till you feel better. The only power anti-social personalities have is the power to enturbulate. Disempower them!

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).

The labeling of normal child behaviours as needing medication is insane.

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