Hello friends. Greetings from Dallas. No local weather report other than it has sucked every day since I wrote last Thursday. To make matters even worse, today at the store the bus-tub buffet was bare. While MD shops, I always hit the aisle with bulk storage of nuts, seeds, etc. and run a savage burn on the little catch basins under the dispensers. Usually I come up with a few pecans, walnuts, almonds, and even the occasional chocolate-covered almond or three left by customers who have missed their sacks while loading up. The people who work at the store do not put these back in the containers—they throw them away—so they’re there for the foraging. But, alas, today the cupboard was bare.
Regarding Bret Weinstein. I find him to be a more academic type of Bill Maher, who once the full consequences of his ideas become manifest in the culture, expresses shock at the results. The progressive left for at least 150 years has tried to substitute Brilliance for Experience. Having succeeded they now surprised and dismayed at what is happening around them, asserting that this is not what they advocated. But what is happening is a direct and inevitable consequence of their ideas. In the West they have broken and destroyed the institutions of Experience that have sustained us for millennium, and that can't be fixed. Our hope lies with those more traditional cultures who value Experience over Brilliance.
Nonetheless, chastened Progressives often have interesting observations to make from their time being part of the Select. But I wouldn't trust them to understand how we got here and how to fix it.
Yesterday was a bad day for me as our cat of 12 years was diagnosed with a stomach tumour so I needed something to smile about. I will preface my comment by saying that there are few people I admire more than you and your commitment to producing a weekly round up of information that has been invaluable. I am often mind boggled by the time you have devoted to this. However I am often amused by how difficult allopathic medicine approaches illness that natural medicine often has a cheap and effective answer to. With a fairly good understanding of natural medicine and health the whole CV scam was absurd from the start. The reaction to it was far more scary. So to my amusement. I can well understand how the idea of 5G causing CV symptoms is at the opposite end of reasonable for most people. The idea would probably rate at the very top of a list of ridiculous ‘conspiracy theories’ for anyone not familiar with a completely different understanding of energy. A starting point might be homeopathy. My daughter trained as a nurse and always considered many of the things I believed in as ‘Mum’s thing’. That was until something prompted her to train as a homeopath. She phoned me in a panic one day to tell me that she could never become a practitioner because she was frightened of how powerful it was. I have always believed that the suppression of homeopathy is a massive crime against humanity and it is in that vein I have no difficulty understanding the physical symptoms of 5G and a whole range of other things. Spanish flu was a whole different ball game. As trust in Bigpharma and the criminality and corruption laid bare in the last four years becomes more obvious I believe a whole range of therapies presently consider ‘woo’ will become known.
I would like to hear your thoughts/commentary on the so called “Iranian formula” for calculating total cholesterol. As I understand it, this alternative calculation is much more accurate when applied to individuals who have low triglycerides. Since the diet you advocate often results in low triglycerides, many would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Another great read! More so since you addressed some things I've been thinking about lately.
You mentioned that you need "plenty of fat" in order to make ketones (along with low insulin levels and carnitine), and that eating a lot of protein won't cause BG and insulin levels to spiral out of control. It's what I thought, but good to have that explained clearly.
So, here's an opinion that I read about all the time and I'd like your take on it. Some people say that if you want to lose body fat, you need to keep your carbs low (duh), your protein high (duh), and your fat LOW. Their reasoning is that you can *either* burn your body fat or the fat you ingest. Even Dr. Eric Westman wrote this in a recent email notification for an upcoming video.
So a specie that can make a nuclear bomb, and have zillion virology scientists(all major armies in the world) working on viruses becoming more deadly and transmissive, managed for C19 to get leaked which caused NO pandemic per Nick Hudson. And same Nick Hudson says neither it will EVER produce pandemic.
Strange wouldn't you say Doc.
Btw, how is your Ponny Tail Guy doing with his Ukranine winnning prediction? Must be eating some crow by now
"Insulin and triiodothyronine (T3) increase the binding of LDL to liver cells, whereas glucocorticoids (e.g., dexamethasone, CORTISOL) have the opposite effect. The precise mechanism for these effects is unclear but may be mediated through the regulation of apoB degradation. The effects of insulin and T3 on hepatic LDL binding may explain the hypercholesterolemia and increased risk of atherosclerosis that have been shown to be associated with uncontrolled diabetes or hypothyroidism"
So, reintroducing insulin in the context of low-carb i.e. low-insulin environment, the number of receptors in the liver increases. Look analoguous to glut4 reseptors being invited to cell surface by insulin.
This should go both ways, explaining the high-responders rise of ldl when going to keto.
Note that while on Crestor, Nick added extra exercise and boosted his ldl by 50 points. Now I know one reason why my ldl looks really bad...I go for bloodwork after fasted workouts. I am also low carb and a LMHR.
I don't know why the cardiologists and lipidologists are all in a knot over the LMHR stuff. Talk about lacking imagination and living inside a box. If there are paradoxes, or data that doesn't fit your model...it means your model has to change. Oh, the sacred cows!
OK, sorry if I got a little hot-headed, but this stumps me. You know that the published science on the diet-heart hypothesis is just a house of cards, with sincere researchers believing that somewhere along the line, decades ago, somebody had proven that saturated fat clogs the arteries - when that was never the case. And the same goes for viruses. You've had all those years of medical experience and I haven't, but I can't see how an experience can prove that the cause of symptom X was a virus and not some other combination of circumstances. I thought you'd mentioned that you were reading "Dissolving Illusions". OK, you listened to Cowan and Kaufman, I'm glad, but I just wish you would go to the source material! Just one virologist, Stefan Lanka, performed the usual virology experiments only in the form of the crucial control experiment - the same methods but without the supposedly infected material. And he got the same results as those showing a 'virus'. This must be looked into by serious people! I hope you'll come back to this issue from time to time. And there is no one 'alternative theory', just as there is not, I believe, on the causes of heart disease...
Bert Weinstein doesn't understand the basic problem: active, organized communist subversion starting under Lenin in 1922 and NOT ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Economic Marxism gave way to Cultural Marxism which has now taken control of our institutions.
After 1991 the former conservative anti-communists in the US became anti-anti-communists, presumably to weaken forces opposing trade with the former bloc countries and China, etc.
Putin wants to reestablish the old Russian Empire (including Alaska) in a melding of Nationalism and Communism.
Great job Doc! Here’s the part I liked the best! Blah, blah, blah, 12 Oreos a day dropped ldl, blah, blah, blah! I’m on it!! 🙂.
Something I was hoping you could clarify for me regarding blood sugar (it’s pretty basic, and if you’ve already done so in the past, please direct me to the issue). Over the past 6 months, (2 visits to my doc) I’ve had low blood sugar, 66 one time, 69 the next. I realize this is just a little below the norm, so I’m not overly concerned, but I dug around a little online to see some of the ramifications with low BS. Doesn’t seem that much better than high BS. I am ketogenic, grain free (for the most part, with occasional visits to the “dark side”), and rarely eat any sugar. Not looking for medical advice, just a better understanding on the whole blood sugar thing.
A disappointing section on viruses. I thought you, Dr Eades, as someone who is intelligent and scientifically-minded, would have based your view on the validity of the scientific evidence for the existence of viruses, rather than on your dislike of an alternative theory posed by some folk. "The Science" needs to be examined as it can be bought, as you surely know when it comes to saturated fat. And it is not necessary to prove a counter-theory in order to disprove a pseudo-scientific myth.
Drs Tom Cowan and Andrew Kaufman take ‘lay people’ like me step-by-step through the papers which purport to show the isolation of viruses and demonstrate their complete lack of scientific validity – with errors including but not limited to lack of independent variables, lack of control experiments, circular reasoning and fraudulent conclusions. If you could set aside your prejudices (“these folk must be mad”) you could whip through such papers in ten minutes without any hand-holding and I don’t believe you could come out of that without seeing the fraud.
I have a suggestion to increase "public safety" and "restore trust in experts" (sarc), pass a law that every mask must have the product warning "Not a respirator, no COVID-19 protection" printed in large letters on the front. Let's see how many mask fanatics go out in public with that on their face!
Where were the aerosol experts during the covid nonsense? Were they hiding?
I am not going to pay even $5 to name a cockroach, but if I did, its first name would be Anthony.
Regarding Bret Weinstein. I find him to be a more academic type of Bill Maher, who once the full consequences of his ideas become manifest in the culture, expresses shock at the results. The progressive left for at least 150 years has tried to substitute Brilliance for Experience. Having succeeded they now surprised and dismayed at what is happening around them, asserting that this is not what they advocated. But what is happening is a direct and inevitable consequence of their ideas. In the West they have broken and destroyed the institutions of Experience that have sustained us for millennium, and that can't be fixed. Our hope lies with those more traditional cultures who value Experience over Brilliance.
Nonetheless, chastened Progressives often have interesting observations to make from their time being part of the Select. But I wouldn't trust them to understand how we got here and how to fix it.
Yesterday was a bad day for me as our cat of 12 years was diagnosed with a stomach tumour so I needed something to smile about. I will preface my comment by saying that there are few people I admire more than you and your commitment to producing a weekly round up of information that has been invaluable. I am often mind boggled by the time you have devoted to this. However I am often amused by how difficult allopathic medicine approaches illness that natural medicine often has a cheap and effective answer to. With a fairly good understanding of natural medicine and health the whole CV scam was absurd from the start. The reaction to it was far more scary. So to my amusement. I can well understand how the idea of 5G causing CV symptoms is at the opposite end of reasonable for most people. The idea would probably rate at the very top of a list of ridiculous ‘conspiracy theories’ for anyone not familiar with a completely different understanding of energy. A starting point might be homeopathy. My daughter trained as a nurse and always considered many of the things I believed in as ‘Mum’s thing’. That was until something prompted her to train as a homeopath. She phoned me in a panic one day to tell me that she could never become a practitioner because she was frightened of how powerful it was. I have always believed that the suppression of homeopathy is a massive crime against humanity and it is in that vein I have no difficulty understanding the physical symptoms of 5G and a whole range of other things. Spanish flu was a whole different ball game. As trust in Bigpharma and the criminality and corruption laid bare in the last four years becomes more obvious I believe a whole range of therapies presently consider ‘woo’ will become known.
I would like to hear your thoughts/commentary on the so called “Iranian formula” for calculating total cholesterol. As I understand it, this alternative calculation is much more accurate when applied to individuals who have low triglycerides. Since the diet you advocate often results in low triglycerides, many would appreciate your thoughts on this.
Another great read! More so since you addressed some things I've been thinking about lately.
You mentioned that you need "plenty of fat" in order to make ketones (along with low insulin levels and carnitine), and that eating a lot of protein won't cause BG and insulin levels to spiral out of control. It's what I thought, but good to have that explained clearly.
So, here's an opinion that I read about all the time and I'd like your take on it. Some people say that if you want to lose body fat, you need to keep your carbs low (duh), your protein high (duh), and your fat LOW. Their reasoning is that you can *either* burn your body fat or the fat you ingest. Even Dr. Eric Westman wrote this in a recent email notification for an upcoming video.
Can you clarify, please?
So a specie that can make a nuclear bomb, and have zillion virology scientists(all major armies in the world) working on viruses becoming more deadly and transmissive, managed for C19 to get leaked which caused NO pandemic per Nick Hudson. And same Nick Hudson says neither it will EVER produce pandemic.
Strange wouldn't you say Doc.
Btw, how is your Ponny Tail Guy doing with his Ukranine winnning prediction? Must be eating some crow by now
Hi, some additional info to oreo magic:
"Insulin and triiodothyronine (T3) increase the binding of LDL to liver cells, whereas glucocorticoids (e.g., dexamethasone, CORTISOL) have the opposite effect. The precise mechanism for these effects is unclear but may be mediated through the regulation of apoB degradation. The effects of insulin and T3 on hepatic LDL binding may explain the hypercholesterolemia and increased risk of atherosclerosis that have been shown to be associated with uncontrolled diabetes or hypothyroidism"
https://themedicalbiochemistrypage.org/lipoproteins-blood-lipids-and-lipoprotein-metabolism/#:~:text=Insulin%20and%C2%A0triiodothyronine,uncontrolled%20diabetes%20or%20hypothyroidism
So, reintroducing insulin in the context of low-carb i.e. low-insulin environment, the number of receptors in the liver increases. Look analoguous to glut4 reseptors being invited to cell surface by insulin.
This should go both ways, explaining the high-responders rise of ldl when going to keto.
JR
Note that while on Crestor, Nick added extra exercise and boosted his ldl by 50 points. Now I know one reason why my ldl looks really bad...I go for bloodwork after fasted workouts. I am also low carb and a LMHR.
I don't know why the cardiologists and lipidologists are all in a knot over the LMHR stuff. Talk about lacking imagination and living inside a box. If there are paradoxes, or data that doesn't fit your model...it means your model has to change. Oh, the sacred cows!
OK, sorry if I got a little hot-headed, but this stumps me. You know that the published science on the diet-heart hypothesis is just a house of cards, with sincere researchers believing that somewhere along the line, decades ago, somebody had proven that saturated fat clogs the arteries - when that was never the case. And the same goes for viruses. You've had all those years of medical experience and I haven't, but I can't see how an experience can prove that the cause of symptom X was a virus and not some other combination of circumstances. I thought you'd mentioned that you were reading "Dissolving Illusions". OK, you listened to Cowan and Kaufman, I'm glad, but I just wish you would go to the source material! Just one virologist, Stefan Lanka, performed the usual virology experiments only in the form of the crucial control experiment - the same methods but without the supposedly infected material. And he got the same results as those showing a 'virus'. This must be looked into by serious people! I hope you'll come back to this issue from time to time. And there is no one 'alternative theory', just as there is not, I believe, on the causes of heart disease...
Bert Weinstein doesn't understand the basic problem: active, organized communist subversion starting under Lenin in 1922 and NOT ending with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Economic Marxism gave way to Cultural Marxism which has now taken control of our institutions.
After 1991 the former conservative anti-communists in the US became anti-anti-communists, presumably to weaken forces opposing trade with the former bloc countries and China, etc.
Putin wants to reestablish the old Russian Empire (including Alaska) in a melding of Nationalism and Communism.
Great job Doc! Here’s the part I liked the best! Blah, blah, blah, 12 Oreos a day dropped ldl, blah, blah, blah! I’m on it!! 🙂.
Something I was hoping you could clarify for me regarding blood sugar (it’s pretty basic, and if you’ve already done so in the past, please direct me to the issue). Over the past 6 months, (2 visits to my doc) I’ve had low blood sugar, 66 one time, 69 the next. I realize this is just a little below the norm, so I’m not overly concerned, but I dug around a little online to see some of the ramifications with low BS. Doesn’t seem that much better than high BS. I am ketogenic, grain free (for the most part, with occasional visits to the “dark side”), and rarely eat any sugar. Not looking for medical advice, just a better understanding on the whole blood sugar thing.
Thanks, as always! Keep doing what you do!
What a laugh fest—-from Oreo cookies to playing the white balloon!
Last week was also good. I, too, am a borderer, which explains a lot!
A disappointing section on viruses. I thought you, Dr Eades, as someone who is intelligent and scientifically-minded, would have based your view on the validity of the scientific evidence for the existence of viruses, rather than on your dislike of an alternative theory posed by some folk. "The Science" needs to be examined as it can be bought, as you surely know when it comes to saturated fat. And it is not necessary to prove a counter-theory in order to disprove a pseudo-scientific myth.
Drs Tom Cowan and Andrew Kaufman take ‘lay people’ like me step-by-step through the papers which purport to show the isolation of viruses and demonstrate their complete lack of scientific validity – with errors including but not limited to lack of independent variables, lack of control experiments, circular reasoning and fraudulent conclusions. If you could set aside your prejudices (“these folk must be mad”) you could whip through such papers in ten minutes without any hand-holding and I don’t believe you could come out of that without seeing the fraud.
I have a suggestion to increase "public safety" and "restore trust in experts" (sarc), pass a law that every mask must have the product warning "Not a respirator, no COVID-19 protection" printed in large letters on the front. Let's see how many mask fanatics go out in public with that on their face!
Looks like the Pharma-ganda machine is running at full steam... ugh
https://gizmodo.com/wegovy-ozempic-regain-weight-after-stopping-1851196543
Chris in San Diego