An MD Physician in Boston explains the cancer problem beautifully

Dr. Daniel Witkowski in a 3 minute vid that is the most succinct presentation of the methionine restriction idea I've seen.

I've written a blog or two previously on the NORI protocol, an approach to cancer treatment that restricts dietary levels of methionine more aggressively than this, and adds a cocktail of "nutraceuticals" that have been shown in various studies to trigger apoptosis (cell death) in cancer cells only, with no harmful effect on the trillions of healthy cells that comprise the body.

The diet Dr. Witkowski recommends here, a standard whole foods plant based diet, is thought to be cancer preventative, while the NORI Protocol is designed to treat cancers that are already malignant.

I was curious about Dr Witkowski so I looked for the web site he mentions here. It appears to have morphed into a different web site, where I found his "my story" page. It's just really great to see more and more MDs railing against the crap that passes for for medical wisdom these days. See if you agree, here's Dr. Witkowski in a 5 minute vid (click anywhere on the picture):

https://www.danielwitkowskimd.com/mystory.html

Finally, and best of all, a 50 minute podcast featuring Dr. Witkowski speaking about his approach to preventing and reversing disease in more detail:

https://secure-hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/a/c/2/ac25b021064c2c88/drdanfinal.mp3?c_id=20642622&cs_id=20642622&destination_id=536607&expiration=1537929238&hwt=fe7c91eb9e9e424d91cc8447fbe22977

I Thought I Ate Healthy. Then I Was Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes

A story on Forks Over Knives website that reflects the fact people still don't know how easy it is to reverse common chronic conditions...because no one they trust (authority figures) is telling them.


https://www.forksoverknives.com/i-thought-i-ate-healthy-then-i-was-diagnosed-with-type-2-diabetes/?utm_source=AC&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=Joseph+Binning+Success+Story&utm_campaign=Veggie+Slaw+GC9%2F25#gs.6GIWHOc

Is it safe to feed children (and ourselves) a lot of fruit??

Kevin "Cosmo" Rogers, an expert on the 80/10/10 lifestyle, explains to potential skeptics how feeding his children a lot of fruit (and vegetables) is actually healthy! WHO KNEW?? Well, me. I didn't know for most of my life. Better late than never!!

Kevin is also an ultramarathon runner. Here's his perspective on that particular activity:

I’ve met several doctors that say 'there’s no such thing as a healthy vegan'

I came across an anecdotal story today I thought worth a blog post.

This story is extremely commonplace, we whole food plant based vegans hear a lot of these. So many continue to be unaware that a WFPB vegan diet can not only be healthy, but even moreso than any other.

Cultural resistance remains strong! For now that is... The truth will out, eventually.


From this link:

https://www.quora.com/I%E2%80%99ve-met-several-doctors-that-say-%E2%80%9Cthere%E2%80%99s-no-such-thing-as-a-healthy-vegan%E2%80%9D-One-of-them-a-surgeon-refuses-to-perform-surgeries-on-vegans-They-are-okay-with-vegetarianism-but-not-veganism-Is-this-true/answer/Mark-Burgett-1?share=99354ef4&srid=2Vrhb

Have Some Graham with your McDougall, Fuhrman, Barnard

It is my considered opinion that those of us lucky enough to have found our way to an SOS free (sugar, oil, salt) Whole Food Plant Based diet are missing the best source of nutrition available by not incorporating Dr. Doug Graham's perspective into the mix. After all, you're already doing an 80/10/10 calonutrient ratio and therefore have no need to fear insulin resistance (the sole reason for the "consume fruit with moderation" meme).

You may recall Dr. Graham is a raw food vegan, and also SOS free. His basic approach is to have a large fruit meal for a midday "break fast", and a large raw vegetable meal for dinner, with a handful of nuts/seeds daily.

Drs. McDougall, Fuhrman, Barnard have no restriction on cooked vegetables, including potatoes and legumes. They also have no particular restrictions on fruit, but one gets the impression neither do they take full advantage of it's rich nutritional benefit, not to mention the much more pleasurable diet in the bargain.

And the blend of Graham and McDougall et al makes moving through rocky western societies considerably easier. One learns over time how to do "well enough" being "flexitarian".

If you are SOS free WFPB already do not fear the fruit!

And in honor of the ongoing Woodstock Fruit Festival going on this week you may find this entertaining:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/600-fruitarians-gather-to-eat-sex-organs-at-the-woodstock-fruit-festival-300306833.html

The Corruption of Science and The Negative Impact on Health

Science and technology is so seductive, and therefor imminently subject to corruption...quotes between the red lines from an article published in Kaiser Health News - "Financial Ties That Bind: Studies Often Fall Short On Conflict-Of-Interest Disclosures"

https://khn.org/news/financial-ties-that-bind-studies-often-fall-short-on-conflict-of-interest-disclosures/

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...Nearly two-thirds of the 100 physicians who rake in the most money from 10 device manufacturers failed to disclose a conflict of interest in their academic writing in 2016, according to a study published Wednesday in JAMA Surgery.

...The omission can have real-life impact for patients when their doctors rely on such research to make medical decisions, potentially without knowing the authors’ potential conflicts of interest.

...The issue is anytime there’s a new technology, people get really excited about it.

...The researchers also pinpointed the 10 physicians who received the highest compensation from each company. They then searched for articles published by these physicians between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2016, and reviewed the full text of each article for COI disclosure. According to their findings, those 10 companies paid more than $12 million in 2015 to the 100 doctors included in the study. The median payment to these physicians was $95,993.

...The financial ties between medical device manufacturers and providers go well beyond academic research and ivory towers. As many as 94 percent of doctors, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine, report getting some kind of benefit from the industry.
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The best marketing medium in the 21st century for the "big" food, pharma, and medical industries? "Big science" of course.

Many of these folks are well meaning - my favorite Upton Sinclair quote: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Need proof nutrition is a young science? Read up on Flavonoids.

A few quotes from a paper dated 2013 (link below):

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There has been increasing interest in the research on flavonoids from plant sources because of their versatile health benefits reported in various epidemiological studies. Since flavonoids are directly associated with human dietary ingredients and health, there is need to evaluate structure and function relationship.

Flavonoids ...are known to be synthesized by plants in response to microbial infection.

The number of studies has suggested protective effects of flavonoids against many infectious (bacterial and viral diseases) and degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and other age-related diseases.

Flavonoids are the most common and widely distributed group of plant phenolic compounds, occurring virtually in all plant parts. Flavonoids are an integral part of human and animal diet. Being phytochemicals, flavonoids cannot be synthesized by humans and animals. Thus flavonoids found in animals are of plant origin rather than being biosynthesized in situ.

Flavonoids in food are generally responsible for colour, taste, prevention of fat oxidation, and protection of vitamins and enzymes.

Preparation and processing of food may decrease flavonoid levels depending on the methods used.

Accurate estimation of the average dietary intake of flavonoids is difficult, because of the wide varieties of available flavonoids and the extensive distribution in various plants and also the diverse consumption in humans.

Flavonoids have been consumed by humans since the advent of human life on earth, that is, for about 4 million years. They have extensive biological properties that promote human health and help reduce the risk of diseases.

Flavonoids are also known to influence the quality and stability of foods by acting as flavorants, colorants, and antioxidants.

Intake of antioxidant flavonoids has been inversely related to the risk of incidence of dementia.

Lipid peroxidation is a common consequence of oxidative stress. Flavonoid protect lipids against oxidative damage by various mechanisms.

Antibacterial flavonoids might be having multiple cellular targets, rather than one specific site of action.

The immune system can be modified by diet, pharmacologic agents, environmental pollutants, and naturally occurring food chemicals. Certain members of flavonoids significantly affect the function of the immune system and inflammatory cells.

Dietary factors play an important role in the prevention of cancers. Fruits and vegetables having flavonoids have been reported as cancer chemopreventive agents. The critical relationship of fruit and vegetable intake and cancer prevention has been thoroughly documented. It has been suggested that major public health benefits could be achieved by substantially increasing consumption of these foods.

Naturally occurring flavonoids with antiviral activity have been recognized since the 1940s and many reports on the antiviral activity of various flavonoids are available.

Prevention and cure of diseases using phytochemicals especially flavonoids are well known. Fruits and vegetables are natural sources of flavonoids. Variety of flavonoids found in the nature possesses their own physical, chemical, and physiological properties. Medicinal efficacy of many flavonoids as antibacterial, hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and antiviral agents is well established. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3891543/

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(Me again) How many flavonoids have been discovered to this point? Many thousands and the number is still growing. Now we can wait for the health benefits of fruits and vegetables to be stuffed into pills, but they still won't be in the balances and substrate formats nature intended us to consume. Why wait? Eat your fruits and vegetables now.

Simple prescription for health:
1) skip breakfast extending your natural daily fasting period.
2) break your daily fast with a large fruit meal. (yum!)
3) have a large vegetable meal for dinner.
4) if you need between meal snacks, eat fruit.
5) never cook your fruit, eat many of your vegetables in salads (not cooked).
5) have a handful of nuts and seeds everyday.

In the "Preparation and processing of food" quote section above, not specifically mentioned in this paper is the destructive effect of cooking on flavonoids - 80% reduction in potency is not uncommon!

The "don't eat fruit" meme is propagated by folks who wish to continue consuming an animal heavy diet because it is culturally familiar, and by those who profit from high fat animal food diets. To their credit, "Paleos" have figured out the least harmful way to consume animal products, but it is not optimal for a variety of reasons. One of them is high fat diets cause insulin resistance, which means very moderate consumption of carbs, effectively eliminating fruit as a significant part of the diet...but fruit is one of the two healthiest food groups on the planet.

High fat low carb diets are not optimal...high carb low fat diets comprised of whole plants in variety is optimal.