Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
According to research published in Vascular Pharmacology, states: Nigella sativa, aka black seed, “strongly binds” to ACE2 receptors in the lungs, and effectively stops coronavirus (Covid-19) from causing inflammation and vascular damage. It’s just one of a growing list of God-given natural plants that bring hope for healing and protection.
https://deeprootsathome.com/black-seed-binds-to-spike-protein-prevents-vascular-damage/
A new article for The Irish Times by Virginia Tech professor Gerard Toal, titled “Ukraine risks being locked into endless war in bid for perfect peace,” contains a very interesting paragraph:
Ordinary Ukrainians on the front lines are divided on a ceasefire and negotiations. My Ukrainian colleague Karina Korostelina and I surveyed the attitudes of both residents and displaced persons in three Ukrainian cities close to the southeast battlefields this summer. Almost half agreed it was imperative to seek a ceasefire to stop Russians killing Ukraine’s young men. Slightly more supported negotiations with Russia on a complete ceasefire, with a quarter totally against and a fifth declaring themselves neutral. Respondents were torn when considering whether saving lives or territorial unity were more important to them. Those most touched by the war, namely the internally displaced, were more likely to prioritise saving lives. Other research reveals that those farthest from the battlefields have the most hawkish attitudes.
It’s the third from the last paragraph in the article, whose overall content cannot be remotely construed as sympathetic toward Moscow, but it’s very important information.
“Those most touched by the war, namely the internally displaced, were more likely to prioritise saving lives. Other research reveals that those farthest from the battlefields have the most hawkish attitudes.”
Those two simple sentences sum up so much of the attitude we are seeing toward this war, and it applies as much to those cheerleading continual escalation and bloodshed from the comfort of their homes on the other side of the world.
https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/geopolitics/the-farther-people-are-from-the-fighting-in-ukraine/
(Snaffled from a friend on FB.)
When I was a middle school science teacher all of the life science texts available to us included a “Lab Manual.” Without fail, every lab manual from major science text publishers walked teachers and students through how to follow a recipe to reword a weak hypothesis, how to follow a poorly written experiment that never accounted for all of the variables, and then how to write vague conclusion built on conjecture from a rubric that told the student how to regurgitate unsupported science verbatim in order to get the most points for the assignment.
As a teacher, I was aware that none of our classroom experiments taught my students how to ask hard questions or how to consider known and unknown variables, or how to isolate those variables. I had a gut feeling that I was really not teaching anything but how to follow the leader. I wrote my own cognitive dissonance off by assuming that these were the in-depth studies that my students would take on later, in more advanced biology classrooms.
As it turns out, biology students by and large never experience any more advanced labs that require them to test the foundational experiments upon which modern biology and medical science are built.
Rockefeller was an incredibly clever bastard.
From my book https://www.howtolivethehealthiestlife.com
The writer and social critic H.L. Mencken once wrote, “For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable and wrong.”
Lie: A high fat diet is bad for you, cutting back on fats will help you lose weight and reduce risk of cardiovascular disease.
Truth: Healthy fats are essential, a reduced carbohydrate intake will lose fat easier than a reduced fat intake.
Truth: “In Framingham, Massachusetts, the more saturated fat one ate, the more cholesterol one ate, the more calories one ate, the lower people’s serum cholesterol… we found that the people who ate the most saturated fat weighed the least and were the most physically active.” (William Castelli, director of The Framingham Study).
Truth: “The diet-heart hypothesis had been repeatedly shown to be wrong, and yet, for complicated reasons of pride, profit and prejudice, the hypothesis continues to be exploited by scientists, fund raising enterprises, food companies and even governmental agencies. The public is being deceived by the greatest health scam of the century.” (George Mann, MD, renowned researcher).
Truth: More Americans die each year from too little fat than die from breast cancer. An estimated 40,000 US women die each year from breast cancer and according to a recent Harvard study, 72,000-96,000 people a year are dying from too little omega 3 fatty acids in their diets.
The facts proclaim loudly that “low fat” is a scam/con/lie. It began with a Russian study in 1908 that fed protein-rich animal foods to rabbits who developed arterial plaques and cardiovascular disease. Researchers then found the same results with chickens, pigs, goats and guinea pigs.
All of these animals are herbivores that evolved eating nothing but plants. They are clearly not designed to eat meat. When fed meat and fat they get sick. That makes perfect sense. That data was then inappropriately extrapolated to humans.
The “fat is bad” lie really began to pick up traction with a 1976 Senate report, titled “Dietary Goals for the United States”. It was written by a journalist with no background in health, who was advised by a Harvard nutritionist who viewed dietary fat as the nutritional equivalent of smoking cigarettes. Very quickly taken up by many health organisations was the simple, if untrue, mantra, “eating fat makes you fat” and they promoted that a low fat diet was the way to prevent disease.
It was thoroughly debunked by 4 independent studies in the early 80’s which found that men on low or high fat diets had no change in weight or coronary risk. Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard is considered by many to be the dean of nutrition and health studies. He states, “the percentage of calories from fat in a diet has not been related to any important health outcome.”
Low fat is continuously promoted by Big Food because it is cheaper to replace with sugar the taste lost when they took out the fat. So we have blooming weight and diabetes problems from increasing consumption of high-fructose corn syrup or cane sugar rather than healthy coconut oil.
The rate of obesity in the US between the 1900’s and the 1960’s was stable at 12-14% of the population. Within 5 years of the “fat is bad” message hitting the press the obesity rate was 20%. Today it is over 25%! Two thirds of Americans are overweight or obese.
Despite everything you’ve been told, all fats are not bad. There are good and bad fats. Good fats are an essential part of a proper diet, bad fats are deadly. The brain particularly needs fat in the diet.
Some good fats are fatty fish like wild salmon, grass fed meat fat, butter, lard, dripping, coconut oil, the oils in nuts, linseed and chia seeds.
Some bad fats are trans fats – hydrogenated vegetable oils, canola etc. and their replacement, intersterified fats. Oils are typically not very stable, they destabilise and go rancid quickly. To solidify them and extend the shelf life of commercial oils, processors add hydrogen. This makes them a trans fat. In a 26 year survey of 87,000 US women, of the group with an underlying coronary heart disease, those who ate the most trans fats were three times as likely to die of a cardiac arrest.
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“When you consume these subpar fats, your cell walls also become subpar. Instead of being flexible and responsive to intercellular communication, cell walls become stiff and rigid. The more rigid the walls, the slower the cell functions and more vulnerable it becomes to inflammation…
Copied from the blood group buddies- looks interesting:
There is an unvaxxed blood transfusion database already up and running for about a month, now. It’s part of My-Medical-Choice.org, which is a service set up to protect from unwanted medical interventions when we’re admitted to hospital – the legal documents (a Living Will and a medical Power of Attorney) that come with membership protect you even if admitted to A&E unconscious or you are heavily sedated and can’t communicate.
The legal documents and your other useful medical information are stored on your private online profile page and can be accessed by emergency responders and A&E through a medical alert login system. The medical alert system notifies your emergency contact(s) that you are in hospital.
The My Medical Choice service includes the Safe Blood system, which is mainly about blood transfusions. Members can add up to 6 private donors on their personal profile page, and also use the national database of donors.
My Medical Choice was set up primarily to protect us in case of emergency – if we’re unconscious or unable to communicate or lack mental capacity for some reason. This is because, unless you have appointed a Medical Guardian (an emergency contact or next-of-kin isn’t enough, unfortunately) to ensure your wishes are followed by the NHS for rejecting certain medical procedures, doctors get to make the decisions. We’re even hearing of doctors ignoring family members who say they have Power of Attorney unless they can produce the document then and there as evidence. With My Medical Choice, you can store copies of your Living Will (known as an Advance Decision Notice) and your medical Power of Attorney (known as a Living Power of Attorney) on your online profile page, which the NHS can access.
Our legal documents come preloaded with the rejection of certain medical treatments and procedures of concern right now, such as blood and blood products (platelets, plasma, etc.), skin and bone grafts, stem cells, and things like vaccines and invasive tests (like the PCR test). We are now advising people to add the rejection of things like DNRs, the use of drugs like remdesivir and midazolam, and the use of ventilators.
In the Welcome Pack, members get some handy documents that help them discuss their healthcare decisions with their family, GP, etc., and a Dealing with NHS Gatekeepers help sheet that they can take with them to hospitals or GP surgeries. The one-page Dealing with NHS Gatekeepers document includes the relevant laws that protect you, as well as the questions you may need to ask NHS staff if they try and stop you accessing treatment or a loved one, and more.
We are also putting together a pack of templates that you can use for prearranged appointments and operations to stop issues before they arise, or to use to deal with NHS staff members that are breaking the law. The complimentary documents are not on the website, as we’ve kept that ’low key’, so that it’s not immediately obvious to government trolls what the purpose of the website is. In fact, to the casual observer, the website look like a medical alert system website.
We have put together a VERY comprehensive FAQs page, so if you would like to know in detail how the service works, then please browse through the various topics.