I have been following these subjects for a while. In an age of media saturation, it is difficult to find near-absolute truth (there is no such thing as absolute truth … only the Sith deal in absolutes, and we all know what a bunch of arseholes the Sith are).
I follow Neal Asher a Sci-fi author in the Space Opera realm,
and he has been using his body as a laboratory for what seems like a couple of
years now. I think the spur for him was the death of his wife way back now in
2014 from colon cancer. Though it is fair to say he had been showing a
burgeoning interest in longevity-semi-immortality for some time prior to that pivotal
event. You can read Neals Blog here:
and here: https://www.nealasher.co.uk/
and follow him here https://www.facebook.com/neal.asher
and various other places on the interweb … of things in the metaverse of
re-inventing the wheel … lookout for random cynical tangents.
Fortunately for those of us that follow Neal, we don’t necessarily
have to go through the sometimes-icky business of using our own carcasses for
the research (caveat below). We can just learn the lessons from the
distillation of Neals experience. This is useful. However, while it is useful,
it is also important to remember that Neal is a Science FICTION author not a
scientist and so one must actually question his results and do one’s own monitoring
and research of self when implementing one’s own plan. What you don’t have to
do so much of is: trawl the web finding all the articles and videos. However, self-monitoring
and research is important, lest one ends up in hospital `properly fucked’. To
make the point. I have been living a fairly awkward life recently (see the earlier
post) and I had to maximise my bang for buck in the absence of cooking
facilities, storage for food etc. So, it seemed like an ideal time to go balls
deep on a low-carbohydrate high-fat, high-protein diet.
I reckon my current fridge is 25 litres maximum (it is
borrowed, inefficient and really not much more than a drinks fridge). So, high
fat, that means fatty meat, nuts seeds etc and trying to avoid too much
processed food, which is difficult when you are living out of packets. However,
if you use your eyes and are prudent and read labels, you would be surprised
how you can maximise your fat and protein, while eating fresh cooked meats from
packets. Fruit, veg, nuts are easy peasy (I recommend Lidl for Nuts and seeds,
Tesco do a range as well, but their pricing is Tesco pricing, and being cynical
and knowing where nuts are grown and by whom, I rather suspect that you’re
paying Tesco for the word Tesco on the bag and not the contents of the bag).
I increased my swimming, I got back to my floor-work (lunges
squats etc), vigorous walks after work and started eating high-fat high-protein,
lots of fresh fruit and veg, homemade kefir,l low carbohydrate. No booze, and
what I thought was good hydration. I had a bought of Keto-flu. If hadn’t known
what it was and why it happened (thanks to Neals experience) I would have
thought I had real flu or Covid. The day it hit, followed a very vigorous exercise
day; the bodies thermostat went crazy, and I hurt all over, predominantly in
the muscle groups I’d been working the day before (Legs). The knock-on effect
was severe back pain, just like I had been suffering for most of 2021. I was
going on a short road trip to my friends in Hillperton and spent the evening at
their place wrapped in blankets shivering, until about two hours after dinner;
burgers and bacon in a bap with chips and Coke. Within two hours I had
stabilised, with a couple of Neurofen to assist recovery, all the back pain
dissipated overnight. Lesson learned, you can keto and the weight falls off,
and you will still have energy in abundance and generally feel “more”. It’s
hard to describe, better is probably a good word. There are issues and there
needs to be some fine-tuning (ideally when I have somewhere to live
permanently), but on basic principles low carbohydrates, lots of meat and fat appears
to be better for the skin, there is less wind, and fatigue. And the fatigue
itself may be different … not gone (I don’t sleep well) but the impacts of
fatigue on cognition seem to be less intrusive. I also went through an odd but
expected process of urinating all the time, demonstrating how much fluid we
carry that we don’t necessarily need.
Al the words above are a preamble to introducing a video. For some time, I’ve known the bare bones of the story of Kellogg, and the fact that for nearly a hundred years a religious whack-job created a cult around his product. I didn’t quite realise how deep it ran, but I did know that because Kellogg stole the march on the narrative and was so good at self-publicity in a religious America; that by dint of the passage of time and the absence of historical context for us as a modern population, we grew up inured or oblivious to the reasons why breakfast cereals and cereal culture carb-culture etc became ingrained.
The video presentation below lifts the lid a lot higher and having had a rummage around the internet on the back of watching this video, you discover for yourself that what the doctors in the video are talking about is solid. It won’t be everything, do your own digging, but be aware the Adventists were there first and their reach is long.
Also appended is an article from JAMA network (Journal of
American Medical Associations (again)). You need to read it all, to realise
that, the article suggests that the Adventist Health Studies results appear
only to be true within the Adventist cohort and that if you measure their
results relative to a non-Adventist cohort that the results are `null’ or put
another way falsifiable (in laymen terms, the Adventist results may be a load
of bollocks, however, a cautious writer, writing in the Journal of American Medical
Associations may be careful of saying exactly that, because underlying all this
corruption for want of a better word, sits the pharmaceutical industry …. again).
That’s enough from me here’s a link to the YouTube interview,
with Dr Brett Scher and Dr Gary Fettke who has been the victim of both the food
and the pharmaceutical industries machinations, to maintain the status quo, or
put another way … to maintain their profits.
Journal of American Medical Associations (full article)
For interests only. This Wikipedia article refers to the Loma Linda University. One of the Universities that conducts the research and is itself a part of the Adventist network. If that isn't bias, then I am a Monkeys Uncle. It also suggests Wikipedia isn't doing its job properly.
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