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March 20, 2022 Meat and Scurvy “If you only eat meat, (Animal Products), you will not get the vitamins you need. You will die of scurvy. (Vitamin C deficiency)” was what was said to Stefansson and Anderson when they returned from living with the Inuit for 5 years. Well, they hadn’t died. They came back… Continue reading Meat and Scurvy

March 13, 2022 The Fat We Eat Has Changed for the Worse Fat isn’t just fat. There are important differences between types of fat. Last week we learned that humans were apex predators by measuring Paleolithic bones and finding very high levels of Nitrogen-15, an isotope that gets concentrated up the food chain. And the… Continue reading Our Dietary Fats Have Changed for the Worse

March 06, 2022 Nitrogen in Your Bones Will Tell You How Much Meat You Have Eaten What we call modern civilization is the historically recent phenomenon of the industrial revolution wealth imposed on agrarian populations that have moved into large cities. This has all happened in the last 150-200 years. Our grandparents, or at least… Continue reading Nitrogen in Your Bones Reveals How Much Meat You Eat

February 27, 2022 Waist to Hip Ratio Gets it Right If it isn’t one humiliation after another? But as we get older, we get saggy in all the wrong places and start to put on tummy fat. It’s a very expensive test to do a body fat measurement with a DEXA scan. And the BMI… Continue reading Waist to Hip Ratio Gets it Right

February 20, 2022 NAC and Your Brain NAC, N-acetyl cysteine, is one of the most studied supplements today. PUBMED registers some 900 citations a year on it. You should know about NAC too because it has a huge benefit on the aging brain. There is some controversy about what its exact mechanism of benefit is, because it… Continue reading NAC and Your Aging Brain

February 13, 2022 Alkali Therapy for Viral Infections In 1918 and 1919, during the Great Influenza Pandemic, it was brought to the attention of the US Public Health Service those who naturally took bicarbonate of soda rarely contracted the disease, and if they did, had only mild cases. It wasn’t until 1990 that the effect of pH… Continue reading Alkali Therapy for Viral Infections

February 06, 2022 Does COVID Trigger Diabetes – The Chicken or the Egg? I smell a rat. COVID-19 isn’t just a nasty cold. Once you have recovered from your loss of smell or taste, long-term follow-up may show that you have become diabetic. The CDC just published a study showing that for people under age 18, their… Continue reading Does Covid-19 Trigger Diabetes – Which is the Chicken and Which is the Egg?

January 30, 2022 Is Your Crohn’s disease from Your Milk? There is something rotten about Crohn’s Disease. Its prevalence has been steadily increasing in the USA and Great Britain. Since the year 1999, the prevalence has increased from 0.9 % to today at 1.3%. That’s close to a 50% increase. That was close to the same… Continue reading Is Your Crohn’s Disease Caused by Your Milk

January 23, 2022 Our Diet Has Become Acidic Mountain gorillas have a urinary pH of 8.5. They are almost exclusively vegan. Chimpanzees will eat meat, and their urinary pH ranges from 5.5 to 9.0, depending on whether they have recently eaten a captured animal. If vegan, pH 8.5-9.0 and if eating meat, 5.5. You will have the… Continue reading Our Diet has Become Acidic

January 16, 2022 Does Your Plumbing and Your Vitamin Pill Cause Alzheimer’s? In America, 30% of folks show cognitive decline in their 80s. Did you know that in rural India the incidence is 1.07% for those over age 65?   In Nigeria, the rate is 0.52% for those aged 75-84. That’s fact 1. Fact 2 is that Alzheimer’s is a recent… Continue reading Does Your Home’s Plumbing and Your Vitamin Pill Cause Alzheimer’s