Narcissism - The Undoing of Our Species?

 A Psychiatrist speaking about malignant narcissism in the context of Trump's intractable malignant narcissism. He doesn't mention Trump by name, but psychologically aware people have been forced to contemplate the painfully obvious cult-like adulation of Trump by approximately half the population in this country.

It's been frustrating, and very difficult to understand. Perhaps this brief 10 minute contemplation will shed light on the dangerous phenomenon of malignant narcissism.

https://youtu.be/x3zaA6BA_ls

A Rational Conversation About the Costs of Pandemic Policy

 

The Critical Senses

Let's start by establishing that our senses were "built" in prehistoric times. Anatomically "modern" senses arrived with anatomically modern humans, some 100,000 years ago. Compare that with the advent of sensory technology, the first lenses were invented about 700 years ago, the first microphones about 175 years ago. Does that mean "nature technology" is way way ahead of homo sapient technology? Yep.

It's interesting that our more critical senses are clustered in a tight group on our head. Look in a mirror sometime and notice that the distance from the eyes to the nostrils is only about 2-3 inches, with the ears right in the center of that narrow range. And all are extremely close to the brain. I think Wall Street would call that a high frequency collocated server lol. And Daniel Kahneman would call it "thinking fast". Which simply means it's an eternity in survival terms before conscious thought occurs in a danger situation, meanwhile our senses, brain, and nervous system automatically leap into defensive action in "nano" seconds.

So it's not a leap to say the primary function of our senses is survival. Romance, art, and beauty come after we can begin to relax a little on the survival front, and the senses are involved in those lovely things too.

But what does any of this have to do with traveling the health highway? Well, assuming you're not about to be food for a predator, the next order of business is to make sure you don't put a toxin in your mouth and swallow. Our sense of taste and smell are excellent in the discrimination between toxin and nutrient.

Or at least they used to be. These days more people die from the consumption of toxic substances than any other reason. Even during the Covid-19 pandemic? Yep, as of this writing, about one year into the pandemic, according to the CDC, 317,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 infection. And 655,00 die every year of heart disease on a continuing rolling basis, year after year. And the number increases every year.

So what happened? When and why did our senses suddenly stop working? Well actually they didn't, but (so called) "food science" discovered you can make a shit load more money selling Mars Bars than food fit for human consumption. It turns out our anatomically modern instinctual blueprint, also 100,000 years old, combined with our senses, are easily fooled into "fast" thinking that toxins are food.

Why is that? Well it's actually very simple, in nature, 100,000 years ago, calories were scarce, and we had to hunt and gather them in wild conditions. (Whole Foods Market came later:) So when we found them we were happy to live another day, and ate until we were satisfied. If we ate "modern" industrial "food like" substances until satisfied we would have, well, exactly what we do have now, the vast majority of "modern" humans being diseased, crippled, and killed by toxic "food like" substances.

Now use this search term in google: "when did medical science recognize heart disease is a diet caused condition?" Crickets. It hasn't happened yet.

Instead we are lulled into thinking stents, statins, beta blockers, vasodilators, and bypass surgery is going to fix us up. It doesn't. At best these slow progression a bit, they certainly don't halt progression. And the dirty little secret is that a simple change of diet reverses heart disease. Let me say that again in case you missed it: reverses heart disease. And if that weren't news worthy enough, the same diet reverses a number of other diseases also, most notably diabetes, which is responsible for 1.6 million deaths yearly. In addition, this diet reduces likelihood of the many cancers by significant levels, and significantly improves or reverses the many autoimmune conditions.

What is this magic diet? Well, it's the one promoted and taught by an activist group in Washington DC called "The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine". These are doctors, clinicians, and researchers fighting an uphill battle against the corrupt and corrosive forces generating huge (and I do mean huge) profits on the development and production of all these "senses fooling" toxic substances, and all the medications, treatments, and procedures that do little to nothing to heal diseases caused by said substances.

Look up PCRM, they are not hard to find:

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

I also want to thank all the other teachers and promoters of what I have come to call The Disease Reversal Diet, fighting the good fight, boots on the ground, one audience, one individual at a time. In particular my primary mentor Dr. Douglas Graham.

Prevention and Reversal of Cancer

Chris Wark is the indefatigable cancer warrior. He works tirelessly to bring to his readers the exponentially increasing level of disease research focused on the efficacies of a whole food plant based diet.

And here he goes again, speaking with Wamidh H. Talib, PhD, a Professor of Cancer Biology at Applied Science Private University in Amman, Jordan.

Enjoy.

The Study

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318233593_Consumption_of_garlic_and_lemon_aqueous_extracts_combination_reduce_tumor_burden_by_angiogenesis_inhibition_apoptosis_induction_and_immune_system_modulation

The garlic lemon juice recipe 

https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/the-anticancer-power-of-lemon-and-garlic-extracts/

The interview with Researcher Dr. Wamidh Talib

https://youtu.be/FENd_tMNuQY

Letter to a friend

 In our conversation toward the end you asked a question and I didn't give a complete answer. Many people do not have to resort to extreme diets to avoid diabetes and other problems of dietary excess. They don't have to go on diets to lose weight. Why some and not others? There's an overarching issue, and aspects of that issue. Basically it comes down to quality of calories, and how many calories are consumed vs burned. It's not a mystery, but in the modern world we are mystified, and as a result many of us develop health problems that are dietary in origin. These health problems can take many forms, collectively they are known as "metabolic syndrome". Here's the Mayo Clinic page for metabolic syndrome https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/metabolic-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20351916

Ironically allopathic medicine isn't very good at treating this condition. I base that on the fact the vast majority of people with the condition end up in doctors offices and are given medications that are not really helpful. The only real fix is dietary, and doctors are not in the business of teaching lifestyle change. For people in that situation lifestyle change is typically difficult, we unconsciously associate survival with early dietary patterns. We really need a psychotherapy focused on lifestyle change, but current psychotherapy doesn't do that. Meanwhile current conventional treatment is not effective for the most part.

That is the reason movements like paleo and whole food plant based spring up, grass roots solutions that can be very effective. These provide cultural support for new dietary patterns, which helps with the unconscious survival association problem. Without some kind of support along these lines, most find losing weight nearly impossible, the yo-yo diet problem. "Diets don't work" for a variety of reasons, one of them is we tend to think of them as a fix as opposed to a permanent change of lifestyle. Permanence requires underlying cultural support.

Vegan and paleo are pretty vague terms, hostess twinkies, basically just a metabolic poison, are "vegan". The better term is whole food. As a plant based person I frequently send people who would be receptive to the plant based approach to The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in DC for information and perspective. https://www.pcrm.org/ They have been effective in holding the FDA's feet to the fire in various ways, one is the influence they've had on the Dietary Guidelines Committee who update recommendations every 5 years. The Physicians Committee has been effective in countering the influence on the recommendations process from industrial groups with big DC lobby organizations.

Most people are not receptive to the plant based approach, although that is changing rapidly at this point, and for them paleo will be the "accessible" solution.

To summarize, some people do not have to think very much about eating more healthfully because they were raised that way, and are more resistant to the processed food industry's tidal wave of toxic "food like" substances deliberately engineered to be addictive. In addition to manufactured addictive "foods" are other factors: the fast food restaurant industry, our overall inability to stem the tide of toxins disguised as food, and conventional medicine's inability to address the problem. The combination of these factors has produced a developed world health disaster that is particularly pernicious in the US.

Consider one statistic alone: Covid related mortality in the US from the beginning of this epidemic, about 9 months now, is currently at 250.000. In any nine month rolling period US heart disease mortality runs at 600,000. But heart disease is reversed with a whole foods plant based diet, and rather quickly at that. 

http://www.dresselstyn.com/site/books/prevent-reverse/about-the-book/

Part of government resistance to supporting this is "former patients" who reverse metabolic (diet caused) health conditions will no longer "need" the variety pack of medications the pharmaceutical industry produces for metabolic conditions. In fact continuing these medications after conditions are cleared becomes dangerous to health. The combined revenue from these medications is probably where most of the profit is produced by the pharma industry (fact checking that angle of inquiry is not all that easy). Revenues lost by a whole cloth adaptation of whole food diets, especially a more plant based diet, would have sizeable negative impact on GDP, producing an economic problem at a point in time when developed world economies are laden with debt and already very fragile.

So we have a large scale health and economic conundrum on our hands, with no quick and easy solution. Meanwhile individuals can reverse all these metabolic syndrome conditions if they are lucky enough to bump into the right information, and motivated enough to make those changes.

Did they Get This Wrong About COVID?

I'm not going to say too much about this one, it's very controversial, but if you want to at least see a cogent introduction to the other side of the story I can suggest a look at this conversation.

https://youtu.be/yF3i_-2Bids

Performance, immunity, and longevity

This is one of the best interviews of Dr. Joel Fuhrman I've seen. Dr. Fuhrman is famous for coining the term "Nutritarian Diet", which is basically just a plant based diet with a high nutrient to calorie ratio, the exact opposite of the "empty calorie" standard American diet that is making us sick and killing us prematurely.

The Nutritarian Diet is not complicated, confusing, or hard to do. More of us should know about it!

Watch this if you have 1) athletic aspirations, 2) would like to have the strongest immune system possible, or 3) would like to be healthy, strong, and lucid right into your 80's and 90's.

Or all of the above!

https://youtu.be/5_Qc1r3DikU