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Doctors are often sincere and try to help, but they are totally ignorant of nutritional science. There is about 1 hour of schooling in medical school to cover nutrition, and once they enter residency, the senior Docs tell them to ignore nutrition and get down to treating with drugs and procedures. Our Western medical system is the allopathic system: Use chemicals to treat symptoms. Rarely do drugs cure the underlying disease. The best example of that is diabetes. Injecting insulin lowers spiking blood sugar but does nothing to cure the reason blood sugar is spiking which is "insulin resistance" and fatty liver disease from eating far too many carbs and too much sugar.
About ten years ago, when my weight had gotten quite high, and I was eating tons of processed food, my A1C jumped to about 6.1 - referred to as "pre-diabetes." A very good doc I was seeing simply prescribed Metformin and said absolutely nothing, zilch, nada, about my weight or my diet! That's typical, and it's insanely ignorant. All I had to do is change my food intake and reduce my weight (which I eventually learned how to do).
I think it was Aristotle who said, "Food is medicine, and medicine is food."
From a cultural POV, society is awash in the promotion of "industrially processed food," which jams the grocery aisles. All carbs, no fiber, and tons of added sugars. And because they scientifically manipulate the flavors and sensations of the food, it becomes addictive. Hell, who doesn't like the taste of that stuff? Industrial food is one of our core industries, right along with - not coincidentally - pharmaceuticals and health care.
Dave? How ya doing?
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1 minute ago, babadono said:
yes I was born with it too....but 30 to 40 years of lowfat/high fiber diet took it away.
Oh that reminds me....Toss all that Low Fat nonsense out the window - - 1970s propaganda posing as science. The body MUST HAVE saturated fat to live. Seed Oil is the most dangerous food in the grocery after sugar. EAT FAT TO GROW THIN AND HEALTHY!
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2 minutes ago, babadono said:
Knock on wood...I'm on nothing at 68...
And "eat no salt" ..there is another absolute BS doctor non sense..you have high blood pressure because you have low/bad electrolyte balance in your body. You need potassium..a lot of it
Right! The human body is absolutely rigorous in its biological system of salt regulation. Eat salt, your body knows what to do!
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I should add a couple of other things.....
Alcohol is 100% bad news...
The latest book by the reknown professor Dr. Lustig is out. It is called "Metabolic." It will probably become the "bible" for millions of people trying to regain their health. We just got it, but I';m letting wife read it first, since she has needed a bit more convincing about the horrors of SUGAR!
Cheers guys!
Mark
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6 minutes ago, babadono said:
I used to live on that Ezekiel bread... that and other "high Fiber" items tore my gut apart. Got diagnosed with microscopic colitis. Now avoid lectin containing foods almost 100% of the time and gut is recovering somewhat. Doc says there is no cure, just have to deal with it.
Understood. My wife has a "tender gut" and has to also be cautious. I was born with a cast iron gut - the one thing Nature got right for me!
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I have also been on a crusade to eliminate pharmaceuticals. Over the time since I turned 65, my doctors (pill pushers) have slowly gotten me onto the pharma gravy train. First it was anti-GIRD medication, then medication for arthritis, then of course high blood pressure and then Statins. I've spent my life being a compliant patient. "Gee, if doc says I need that, I better take it." No more!
As I improved my eating plan, I slowly began to eliminate medications. Every time I got off one, I felt better. Eventually, I eliminated 6 meds and I am not down to ONE, and I hope to titrate that down and eliminate it soon.
Along that journey, I discovered that the GIRD was easily eliminated by eating right. I discovered that statins were being described to half the country now because the CDC, and NIH, and the medical-pharma-regulatory-complex is operating on faulty 1970 science which assumes "cholesterol cause heart disease". 100% bogus science brought to the USDA by the huckster Ancel Keys, who sold the US government on FRAUDULENT science he had performed. Cholesterol and triglicerides have almost nothing to do with cardio disease. Except in the rare cases where someone has a very high number of apo-B particles in the blood. Rare. Everyone else is on the Statin Gravy Train.
And so on it goes....
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9 minutes ago, babadono said:
I too am OMAD Monday through Friday then I splurge to 2 times a day on the weekend. But both meals in 6 to 8 hours.
@RealMarkDeneen absolutely no carbs? I'm not there yet...tons less than I used to eat and no sugar/processed foods. And almost no fruit. Only grains we eat are millet and sorghum because they contain no lectins.
Fabulous! I kind of alternate between OMAD and TMAD. Now that my BMI is 19, I have added back some carbs. I eat berrries for the anti-oxident power, and I eat "Ezekial 4:19" Bread because it is sprouted grains and has great fiber to carb ratio of 5.
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51 minutes ago, Dave1291 said:
@RealMarkDeneen sounds interesting my liver could use a rest! Nah, diabetic and fightin it every day. Talk to me and don't be afraid to skool. My sister does nothing but keto and she'd preach but Imma not listening to her. lol Gimme, gimme oh wise one! lol
Hi Dave,,,
Well, don't say you didn't ask for it!! LOL
I've been doing a deep dive on "metabolic disorder" for a couple of years. I have radically altered my eating plan (notice I don't use the word "diet" because this is permanent, not temporary. It was VERY hard at 73 years old to radically change, but I wanted to stop hurting my chances to live longer, so I stuck with it. Now, it is easy as pie - but it took almost a year to get comfortable eating nothing but meat, eggs, butter, and fat!
Here's some bullet points to summarize my lernin'
*Metabolic disorders are killing the country because the food industry is creating unhealthful food.
*It begins with eating too many carbs and soon one is overweight. That soon turns into fatty liver disease, which progresses to Insulin resistance, which progresses to diabetes, which progresses to cardio vascular disease which progresses to Alzheimers.
* Humans only need TWO FOOD GROUPS to live: Protein and Fat - end of story. There is no biological requirement to eat ANY carbohydrates of any kind. Carbs are simply "fun foods" but when eaten as we do in the USA, they become toxic to our system because it generates way to much sugar intake, spiking our insulin, which causes Insulin resistance - the step right before diabetes.
* Sugar is a toxin - full stop. Doesn't matter if it is table sugar, honey, or high fructose corn syrup. It's a toxin.
* Nearly ALL Type II diabetes can be cured with a radical change in eating plan. Relying upon insulin or metformin will not sure the underlying disease, but the right FOOD WILL!
* Most people need to start with full-on weight loss using strict Keto principles. It works because you won't be starving yourself like most fad diets, AND while you are eating full Keto you will be CURING fatty liver and insulin resistance, AND you will simple "Fell better".
*The first goal should be a BMI of under 25. It might take a year, or more depending on current BMI.
* You of course need a blood sugar test kit, and a Keto test kit. For Keto, I recommend "KetoMojo" kit. WOrks well, reasonable price. It is 100% necessary in order to learn and know when you are in ketosis and when you are not. In the beginning on Keto, it's easy to ASSUME you are in ketosis, but you may not be.
*After you get under BMI 25 or so (lower is better) you should begin to stabilize your insulin system back to a normal response, and ultimately, at some point, diabetes will be gone (check with your doctor of course).
*But then, you must enter permanent maintenance. Which means you have changed your eating plan for life. Otherwise...........rebound city! You don't want that.
But once you have lost the weight, cured the liver, and cured diabetes, you can add back small amounts of carbs - like no more than 10% of your daily caloric input, but stick with APPROVED CARBS: Real Whole grains (not fake Kellog whole grains), and berries - black, blue, raspberries etc. Avoid ALL FRUIT JUICE, and all "added sugar.
See what you think of that, and ask questions. Also, follow the "Carb Addiction Doc" on youtube:
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Thanks J. Always nice to hear that one of them is still working! 😁
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23 minutes ago, the real Duke Spinner said:
UpState New York is going to be a shock to your system. 😀
I dunno.......the travel brochure pictures look nice.
(BTW, I was born in Buffalo and lived their until I was 12)
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Grand Tetons
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I have a lot of cassette decks. This is my everyday deck in the office—a Nakamichi. I have some Tascam pro decks and a Tandberg. I like the sound of cassette tape. I have lots of opera on cassette because the voices sound so relaxed and natural (on good ones). It's not a high-tech sound, but very listenable. And, being an old fart, I still enjoy making my own mix tapes.
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"Cocktails & Cigarettes" - circa 1972 Instamatic
I love collecting these when I run into them. There's a story in there....
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5 hours ago, the real Duke Spinner said:
Used to be my view....
Before the ex wife. 🙄
Where is this? Nice view!
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16 hours ago, JohnJ said:
BTW that tbird pic... the chrome bumper, the patina on the trunk, the big round taillight complete with fin... that's a prize winner there. To me at least!
Thanks! I liked it so much I painted it from the photo too. Hangs in my guitar-office-mancave.
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50 minutes ago, JohnJ said:
@RealMarkDeneen That banner if true would be so nice, and good for all us "little people at home"!
Clothes on those three could be from the 70s up until now, stroller more like 80's to now.
We all know the years that there wasn't a freakin war are scant in the last five decades!
You're very perceptive. That pic was taken on October 31, 2008 in Eureka, Ca. Humboldt county has always had a large contingent of what I might loosely call hippies and such clothes as you mention there were pretty common. Not a lot of "suits and ties" in Humboldt!
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That's definitely amazing progress. From a 46 to a 36 - Holy Moly! 100 lbs? Fantastic. It definitely gets easier the longer you stay with it. You sort of "uncondition" yourself to the old eating habits. You should be able to get all the way to your goal if you have come this far. Man, I'm impressed.