Dr. Michael Klaper on why some can have issues when adopting a whole foods plant based diet.
I'm not going to say much about this interview of Dr. Klaper except it's excellent, informative, and comprehensive but concise.
And I will also say many (myself included) view Dr. Klaper as one of the heroes of the whole foods disease reversal movement. If you're pressed for time and want to get a sense of why that is so, just watch from 17:33 to 23:35. If you do that I'll bet you'll want to find the time to view the rest of it too.
From 17:33
https://youtu.be/u8YlCOCEUsk?t=1055
From the beginning
https://youtu.be/u8YlCOCEUsk
Friday, February 1, 2019
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Study - Decrease your risk of breast cancer
I'm going to link to the blog post that brought this study to my attention, but first I want to say something about all the articles in the media in the past several years that "low fat diets don't work, Americans are eating less fat and gaining more weight than ever", and "butter is back" etc etc. We've been "carpet bombed" with such articles.
All of these articles were (and continue to be) examples of manipulation of science to show a certain result. Real studies have no agenda, and the "models under test" are carefully designed to prevent the influence of agenda.
Journalists are human, and all of us humans have the same problem - we all love to hear good things about our bad habits. That makes all of us easy prey for the "science as marketing" ploy of large vested interest groups. Who doesn't want to hear high fat diets are healthy, eat all the butter you want!
The butter is back study was funded by the dairy industry. The low fat diets don't work was looking at people who went from one junk food diet to a (slightly) different junk food diet.
Here is the truth that real studies show again and again. Eat whole foods as close to their "alive" condition as possible, in simple combinations, without excessive use of sugars, oils, and salt.
They also show, again and again, the greater the ratio of fruits and vegetables to animal foods in your diet the better are health outcomes over both short and long terms.
I used to think nutrition was complicated because of all the marketing propaganda we are bombarded with. It's not, it's simple: eat whole foods, mostly plants.
Learn how to do this! It is not that difficult, and your body and mind will both thank you. If you are a great cook, get a cookbook that will help you see how to make healthy whole foods tasty. I think this one may be a good start:
Straight-Up-Food-Delicious-Plant-based
If you are into simple food preparation (that would be me:) eat a lot of fruits and have big salads at dinner, couldn't be easier (and yet delicious).
Here is the blog where I learned about this study:
A Low-Fat Diet Increases Breast Cancer Survival
and a direct link to the study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28654363/
All of these articles were (and continue to be) examples of manipulation of science to show a certain result. Real studies have no agenda, and the "models under test" are carefully designed to prevent the influence of agenda.
Journalists are human, and all of us humans have the same problem - we all love to hear good things about our bad habits. That makes all of us easy prey for the "science as marketing" ploy of large vested interest groups. Who doesn't want to hear high fat diets are healthy, eat all the butter you want!
The butter is back study was funded by the dairy industry. The low fat diets don't work was looking at people who went from one junk food diet to a (slightly) different junk food diet.
Here is the truth that real studies show again and again. Eat whole foods as close to their "alive" condition as possible, in simple combinations, without excessive use of sugars, oils, and salt.
They also show, again and again, the greater the ratio of fruits and vegetables to animal foods in your diet the better are health outcomes over both short and long terms.
I used to think nutrition was complicated because of all the marketing propaganda we are bombarded with. It's not, it's simple: eat whole foods, mostly plants.
Learn how to do this! It is not that difficult, and your body and mind will both thank you. If you are a great cook, get a cookbook that will help you see how to make healthy whole foods tasty. I think this one may be a good start:
Straight-Up-Food-Delicious-Plant-based
If you are into simple food preparation (that would be me:) eat a lot of fruits and have big salads at dinner, couldn't be easier (and yet delicious).
Here is the blog where I learned about this study:
A Low-Fat Diet Increases Breast Cancer Survival
and a direct link to the study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28654363/
Thursday, January 17, 2019
the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets
An important study was just published in The Lancet, titled "Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems". It's available for no cost on The Lancet website:
Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
I learned about it from an eight minute vlog by Garth Davis MD posted earlier today:
Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
I learned about it from an eight minute vlog by Garth Davis MD posted earlier today:
Friday, January 11, 2019
Am I falling for an alarmist perspective, or is this really happening?
Zack Bush again, the succinct version.
I (and many others) have been concerned with the national debt, the aggregate total leverage in the global financial system which has only increased since global central banks linked arms and "fixed" the problem. It's a growing problem that is easy to see.
I've been concerned with the collapse of health we see all around us, but I was not aware of the dire acceleration of the statistics Zack Bush shows us in his standard (?) presentation (link below). Or maybe we don't see this all around us, and have come to accept the present state of health as simply a function of getting older..."here you are, you'll need to take these meds the rest of your life, you have bad genes".
The state of inadequate nutrition combined with over in-toxic-ation can only lead to disaster. And we are seeing?
Bush is talking not just about financial collapse, or health collapse, or population collapse, or global collapse, but an everything collapse. The most constructive frame for this POV is nature "correcting" over-industrialization, over reliance on technology to "fix everything" (when it is the very thing that has distanced us from nature), scientific myopia, and human tendency toward hubris (man above nature).
And that POV, if it comes to pass, would be a "natural correction" we simply have not seen heading our way...yet. Nature (including human nature) goes to extremes, then swings in the other direction at some point.
Nature is bipolar? It goes through "happy medians", but it does not stay there? If so, that is an uncomfortable perspective, one we can happily ignore and forget during periods of "happy median".
Nature (everything) occurs as fractals, in the longer fractal durations some of those happy medians will last for generations.
If Bush is correct this particular fractal (the one he's helping us see) is occurring on a scale just slightly beyond the frame of human apprehension (longer than a single generation). And if so most will not begin to "see it" until it's fairly progressed (not quite there yet, getting closer?), and if/when it does become apparent to all many will not understand the simple corrective nature of it.
I (and many others) have been concerned with the national debt, the aggregate total leverage in the global financial system which has only increased since global central banks linked arms and "fixed" the problem. It's a growing problem that is easy to see.
I've been concerned with the collapse of health we see all around us, but I was not aware of the dire acceleration of the statistics Zack Bush shows us in his standard (?) presentation (link below). Or maybe we don't see this all around us, and have come to accept the present state of health as simply a function of getting older..."here you are, you'll need to take these meds the rest of your life, you have bad genes".
The state of inadequate nutrition combined with over in-toxic-ation can only lead to disaster. And we are seeing?
Bush is talking not just about financial collapse, or health collapse, or population collapse, or global collapse, but an everything collapse. The most constructive frame for this POV is nature "correcting" over-industrialization, over reliance on technology to "fix everything" (when it is the very thing that has distanced us from nature), scientific myopia, and human tendency toward hubris (man above nature).
And that POV, if it comes to pass, would be a "natural correction" we simply have not seen heading our way...yet. Nature (including human nature) goes to extremes, then swings in the other direction at some point.
Nature is bipolar? It goes through "happy medians", but it does not stay there? If so, that is an uncomfortable perspective, one we can happily ignore and forget during periods of "happy median".
Nature (everything) occurs as fractals, in the longer fractal durations some of those happy medians will last for generations.
If Bush is correct this particular fractal (the one he's helping us see) is occurring on a scale just slightly beyond the frame of human apprehension (longer than a single generation). And if so most will not begin to "see it" until it's fairly progressed (not quite there yet, getting closer?), and if/when it does become apparent to all many will not understand the simple corrective nature of it.
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And if this does come to pass we (as always) will need our clued in young people to understand and not freak out by what they are seeing, so that they may collectively manage "the big correction" as constructively as possible.
Zack Bush covers a lot of ground in a short space here.
Zack Bush covers a lot of ground in a short space here.
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Food Independence & Planetary Evolution: Zach Bush, MD
Zack Bush, MD, connects the dots as coherently as anyone I've seen. He is, among other things, a triple board certified MD, founder and director of M Clinic, an integrative medicine center in Charlottesville, Virginia, scientist, enlightened philosopher, agricultural activist, educator, film maker. All in all, a very busy human.
Here he is in conversation with Rich Roll, published Jan 8, 2019.
https://youtu.be/X3aOQ0N74PI
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Monsanto (the name) Is No More
The name Monsanto was killed with its acquisition by the German chemical giant Bayer. A smart move considering Monsanto is one of the most hated names in corporate history (and for good reason IMHO).
The article linked below "Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto" begins with the sentence "A cancer victim's surprise court victory over US pesticide maker Monsanto". Huh? Surprise? What fumes was this author inhaling? The musky scent of cranial insertion rectus abdominis?
Who did not see this coming was not paying attention (juries being comprised of actual citizens...still). The proximity of the sale with the impending court decision may be pure coincidence, but is at the very least, curious.
The article
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html
And finally, a price chart of Bayer marked with the relevant points in time (click to enlarge).
The article linked below "Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto" begins with the sentence "A cancer victim's surprise court victory over US pesticide maker Monsanto". Huh? Surprise? What fumes was this author inhaling? The musky scent of cranial insertion rectus abdominis?
Who did not see this coming was not paying attention (juries being comprised of actual citizens...still). The proximity of the sale with the impending court decision may be pure coincidence, but is at the very least, curious.
The article
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-bayer-monsanto.html
And finally, a price chart of Bayer marked with the relevant points in time (click to enlarge).
Sunday, December 30, 2018
Does the body want to be in ketosis?
Dr. Garth Davis, a gastroenterologist who puts patients into ketosis before and after stomach reduction (weight loss) surgery, says no, he thinks the body does not want to be in ketosis. When we think about this question a little it becomes obvious why this is so...the body only "forces" ketosis when we are quite ill or injured. This can also be called "body initiated fasting", where we eat nothing, and drink only water for some period of time determined by the body. This occurs for example when we are so ill that the body reflexively regurgitates any solid foods we consume. Or when we are so injured we cannot move until we recover sufficiently to find food again.
During this period of body initiated fasting, or ketosis, normal energy stores (glycogen) are mostly depleted in 12-16 hours, and completely depleted in a few days. At that point the body goes into an accelerated healing process known as autophagy where the most superfluous tissues begin to be removed from the body. And what are the most superfluous tissues? The pathologic diseased ones. The dysfunctional ones.
Autopsies on people who have starved to death show that the most critical tissues, brain, eyes, and the like, are spared right up to the point of death, and there's a logical natural reason for this: if one is close to death from starvation but does survive, when health is regained all critical facilities remain intact. Showing, in only one of so many ways, our body's innate intelligence knows exactly what it's doing.
Therapeutic water only fasting, BTW, is not starvation, not even close to it. Starvation does not occur until all fat stores are depleted, whereupon proteins (body structure) begin to be converted to fuel. When there is progression from ketosis to starvation any further lack of caloric intake is no longer therapeutic and becomes dangerous.
Fat is consumed for fuel in ketosis because fat is the most plentiful source of stored energy in the body. So pathogenic tissues are removed, new healthy tissues are generated, and fats stored in the body are used as fuel for that process. Glycogen stores are completely depleted in a few days, stored fats in all but the anexoric will provide sufficient energy for the autophagy process to continue for several weeks and even longer.
This is a good point to mention that extended water only fasting should not be done without medical supervision. Intermittent water only fasting is usually OK, up to 24 hours, no more than once a week. The problem with finding medical supervision of water fasting is the number of MDs who have any training (much less practical expertise) in fasting supervision is very limited. More and more MDs are beginning to learn of the immense leverage fasting introduces in health recovery as the studies are coming at a rapid clip recently, but it is not common knowledge yet. And it also bears mentioning widespread fasting expertise among MDs may be a long time coming, as far greater revenues (and with much less effort) can be achieved prescribing minimally effective (or even counterproductive) drugs.
So does the body want to be in ketosis? Probably not until very ill or injured, when there is a lot of healing to be done, and then the body "forces" the condition of ketosis, rather than being "consciously chosen".
In addition, primates (including humans) instinctively chose carbohydrates for foods (when available) over fats. Thus ketosis in not our natural condition, it's the emergency back up survival system. Without which, BTW, we as a species would not still be here...so it is not superfluous, it's just not primary.
Consider if you will a thought experiment to illustrate: you're lost in the woods for a week and really hungry. All the sudden you come across a big fruiting apple tree with low hanging ripe apples and chickens on the ground pecking at the fallen apples. Would you pluck and eat the ripe apples hanging from the branches, or catch a chicken first? If you think "chicken", consider the following: you are freaking hungry! It's takes mere seconds to begin eating all the (incredibly delicious) apples you want, but the chicken you have to catch, then begin eating it...raw? Tearing it's flesh with the claws (you don't have)? Ripping into its muscles and organs with the rows of razor sharp teeth (you also don't have)? Or gather the wood, build a fire, cook the chicken?
Right, you'd eat the frickin apples.
In this brief vid Dr Davis talks a bit about his experience putting patients into ketosis for fat loss surgery, and recommends a few books he's currently reading, one of which sounds very interesting to me: "The Idiot's Guide to Plant Based Nutrition".
https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Based-Nutrition-2E-Idiots-Guides/dp/1465470204/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
And here is Dr. Davis:
During this period of body initiated fasting, or ketosis, normal energy stores (glycogen) are mostly depleted in 12-16 hours, and completely depleted in a few days. At that point the body goes into an accelerated healing process known as autophagy where the most superfluous tissues begin to be removed from the body. And what are the most superfluous tissues? The pathologic diseased ones. The dysfunctional ones.
Autopsies on people who have starved to death show that the most critical tissues, brain, eyes, and the like, are spared right up to the point of death, and there's a logical natural reason for this: if one is close to death from starvation but does survive, when health is regained all critical facilities remain intact. Showing, in only one of so many ways, our body's innate intelligence knows exactly what it's doing.
Therapeutic water only fasting, BTW, is not starvation, not even close to it. Starvation does not occur until all fat stores are depleted, whereupon proteins (body structure) begin to be converted to fuel. When there is progression from ketosis to starvation any further lack of caloric intake is no longer therapeutic and becomes dangerous.
Fat is consumed for fuel in ketosis because fat is the most plentiful source of stored energy in the body. So pathogenic tissues are removed, new healthy tissues are generated, and fats stored in the body are used as fuel for that process. Glycogen stores are completely depleted in a few days, stored fats in all but the anexoric will provide sufficient energy for the autophagy process to continue for several weeks and even longer.
This is a good point to mention that extended water only fasting should not be done without medical supervision. Intermittent water only fasting is usually OK, up to 24 hours, no more than once a week. The problem with finding medical supervision of water fasting is the number of MDs who have any training (much less practical expertise) in fasting supervision is very limited. More and more MDs are beginning to learn of the immense leverage fasting introduces in health recovery as the studies are coming at a rapid clip recently, but it is not common knowledge yet. And it also bears mentioning widespread fasting expertise among MDs may be a long time coming, as far greater revenues (and with much less effort) can be achieved prescribing minimally effective (or even counterproductive) drugs.
So does the body want to be in ketosis? Probably not until very ill or injured, when there is a lot of healing to be done, and then the body "forces" the condition of ketosis, rather than being "consciously chosen".
In addition, primates (including humans) instinctively chose carbohydrates for foods (when available) over fats. Thus ketosis in not our natural condition, it's the emergency back up survival system. Without which, BTW, we as a species would not still be here...so it is not superfluous, it's just not primary.
Consider if you will a thought experiment to illustrate: you're lost in the woods for a week and really hungry. All the sudden you come across a big fruiting apple tree with low hanging ripe apples and chickens on the ground pecking at the fallen apples. Would you pluck and eat the ripe apples hanging from the branches, or catch a chicken first? If you think "chicken", consider the following: you are freaking hungry! It's takes mere seconds to begin eating all the (incredibly delicious) apples you want, but the chicken you have to catch, then begin eating it...raw? Tearing it's flesh with the claws (you don't have)? Ripping into its muscles and organs with the rows of razor sharp teeth (you also don't have)? Or gather the wood, build a fire, cook the chicken?
Right, you'd eat the frickin apples.
In this brief vid Dr Davis talks a bit about his experience putting patients into ketosis for fat loss surgery, and recommends a few books he's currently reading, one of which sounds very interesting to me: "The Idiot's Guide to Plant Based Nutrition".
https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Based-Nutrition-2E-Idiots-Guides/dp/1465470204/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
And here is Dr. Davis:
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