WHY I QUIT PALEO KETOGENIC & WENT VEGAN - Dr. Lim

Don't just "manage" your health conditions, reverse them!

Making Health Easier

Transition to the healthiest diet can be difficult...no one you know is eating that way, you can't find it at restaurants, and pretty much every diet related recommendation you see in the media is giving you the opposite advice.

Meanwhile the weight of collective nutritional science going back decades is heavily in favor of a whole food plant based diet. What gives? Well that is quite another topic than this particular post, which is, OK, knowing that everything in the first paragraph is true, how in the world can I possibly do a diet like this ??!!

I found a website and youtube channel by a couple who successfully made the transition. It may help! Check it out:

https://plantbasedcookingshow.com/2017/04/27/plant-based-weight-loss/

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWholeFoodPlantBasedCookingShow

Dr. Gonzalez Dismantles the Ketogenic Diet For Cancer

I want to post a few links to articles I find interesting:

Dr. Gonzalez Dismantles the Ketogenic Diet For Cancer
http://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/dr-gonzalez-dismantles-ketogenic-diet-for-cancer/

and

The Truth About The Weston Price Foundation

http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/07/the-truth-about-the-weston-price-foundation.html

What the Medical Establishment does not Understand Yet, pt 2

In part 1 of "What the Medical Establishment does not Understand Yet" we looked at all the forms of diabetes. According to the CDC almost 10% of people in the US have diabetes, and an additional 33% of adults have prediabetes. That's quite a lot of people, and the medical establishment does not know how to cure diabetes, only manage it with medication. But in fact all types of diabetes except type 1 can be cured easily and quickly, and people with type 1 can be greatly improved with that same method of cure.

In part 2 we are going to look at heart disease, or cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the US, in a presentation titled "Confessions of a Reformed Cardiologist".

What the Medical Establishment does not Understand Yet, pt 1

Who am I to say what highly trained medical doctors do or do not understand? Right? Exactly. So instead of me telling you, let me refer you to some folks with "boots on the ground". Here is a presentation by an organization called "Mastering Diabetes".

And one more presentation by the same person, showing the result produced in a retreat seminar for diabetics.

And another one.

Addiction

Addiction is the hoary chestnut obscuring the path to what I referred to in the previous post as "the rather narrow and relatively simple set of conditions responsible for the creation of health".

People commonly refer to addiction as anything we are drawn to repeatedly. That however is an inaccurate definition: are we addicted to good healthy choices like water? Lack of clarity obstructs understanding. A clear definition of addiction is simply a self destructive behavior repeated compulsively. So let's be clear, in a physiologic sense addiction is one thing only: a metabolic/psychologic dependence on a toxic substance or behavior.

The fact many or most addictions are both metabolic and psychologic goes a long way to explaining why addiction is a complex problem. It is like being gripped by two strong forces instead of just one, it makes it much more difficult to break free.

Addiction obscures the path to "the rather narrow and relatively simple set of conditions responsible for the creation of health" due to the addiction response: a near term gain masking long term loss.

Another confounding factor is the "healing crisis", a near term response induced by nutrition and/or discontinuation of toxic input.

I recommend again a careful read of this brilliant book:

The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force that Undermines Health & Happiness

Mother

She died of CPO, cardiopulmonary obstruction, induced no doubt by a lifetime of smoking. But upon death she also had stage three scleroderma and a prolapsed colon.

The last 20 years of her life were an abject misery.

Ironically, she was a very bright and talented woman. One might wonder how it came to be in this “enlightened” day and age a smart and talented person can be so completely ignorant of the rather narrow and relatively simple set of conditions responsible for the creation of health.

Let me be clear - it wasn’t that she was in possession of this knowledge and simply chose not to act on it. That was not the case. She was ignorant of it.

It rather makes one wonder when it strikes so close to home.

I have not been blogging lately, instead I have been observing my own health, the various quality of "inputs" on a 65 year old body, and consolidating what I have learned and observed about the creation of health over the past several years. Perhaps I have gradually been organizing my thoughts and observations and will begin blogging again, I don’t know.

Meanwhile, if I can be of assistance, I am happy to oblige. Let's take this as a start for now: do 90% of your food shopping in the produce section, and prepare these things as simply as possible before consuming them.