Kills all gram positives but many organisms in our gut are gram negative. I'm convinced there isn't one fix for this. I'm convinced microbiome is part of it. Interestingly enough, I've seen more than one person lose substantial weight after taking metronidazole for some parasitic infection. And feel way better so I don't think it was the parasite sucking the life out of the person afterward.

There is a company testing part of this hypothesis; at least the oral antibiotics. Giving oral vancomycin followed by placebo or specific probiotics to people with obesity. Their probiotics have been shown to increase GLP-1 which generally is associated with decreased cravings. See https://pendulumlife.com/pages/research-clinical-trials

Don’t trust anyone. Give more credence to people who give caveats and delineate whether things are theory, anecdotal, or have good reproducible trial data. I’ve occasionally seen patients do well with randomly generated data that chooses from among good options for them. So I think some complete junk science can at times give patients some motivation to follow a good plan that they could have done without the expensive gizmo random data. But then the gizmo gets credit for physical scientific data rather than its role in motivation and mindset. And the people selling the expensive gizmos give great podcast presentations that are quite faulty. Many studies in pubmed have fabricated data. All that being said, two thoughtful individuals outside of NOSTR are John Kempf at advancing eco agriculture and Dan Kittredge at the bionutrient food association. And for the record I don’t condone random data generation and selling it to people as fact.

And then there are people like me who see your post about this and are encouraged to continue stacking sats rather than playing in the casino.

My perception of human health concepts

Where it started: medicine and surgery

Current application : energy, frequency, and vibration

Future: likely quantum, Would be exciting to find something beyond that

Experiencing Bitcoin halving > calendar new year

I often wonder what is the most important fundamental concept in the saying “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

Good for you! In 2011 my medical school cardiology professor convinced me to stop eating butter and start eating vegetable spreads made of seed oil. Wasn’t till 2017 when I finally quit seed oils.

I've been experimenting with cold plunges and it's been quite an interesting journey. 🥶❄️

1/ I’ve been doing daily cold plunges for the prior 2 months, lasting anywhere from 1 to 15 minutes each. I’ve missed 5 days, 4 of which were due to illness. It seems like everyone was getting sick so I don’t think the cold plunges caused the illness.

2/ I decided to use a stock tank I had lying around for other reasons as my cold plunge vessel. It worked surprisingly well, and it was basically free.

3/ To cool the water, I took advantage of the outdoor cold temperature. Nature's freezer, you could say! 😄

4/ Here's the tricky part: The ice sometimes formed a layer to thick to just break up and hop in. I had to add warm water a few times to break the ice. Plan is to get a stock tank heater to keep it above freezing for the winter.

5/ Surprisingly, I've come to crave the way it makes me feel. It makes me feel more even-keeled after a plunge.

6/ Interestingly, I find it easier to tolerate than a cold shower. It's become a unique daily ritual that's helping me maintain a sense of balance. ❄️🌊

7/Best of all, I don’t have the Seasonal affective disorder bother me the way it used to. Maybe it’s because of a relatively warm Fall/Winter so far. Maybe it's because of the cold plunge. We’ll find out.

#ColdPlunges #WellnessJourney #EverydayChill

Listening to a podcast today reminded me of a good resource for women interested in health benefits of fasting. Her interpretation of scientific evidence for benefits of fasting is stretched a bit in my opinion but still a good resource. “Fasting Like a Girl” by Mindy Pelz.

Usually just start with smaller amount of things I commonly eat. Meat, eggs, bone broth, maybe small amounts of veggies. I’d suggest avoiding more processed foods i.e. things in boxes, cans, and bags all the time but especially after fasting.

5 days is longest I’ve done. Day 2 and 3 are hardest. Day 4 and 5 are much easier. Eating ketogenic in the several days to weeks leading up to it makes the fast much easier. When doing it in the summer and sweating a lot from work outside I had to add salt to avoid passing out. So now routinely will eat/drink more salt if fasting. Some vitamins inhibit autophagy so I stop vitamin supplements with fasting. Jason Fung is the person I think has most helpful info on the topic. Depending what meds people are on they may need to decrease/stop them in order to make fasting safe.

I’ve had a number of patients in a mostly Medicaid/uninsured clinic setting do well eating just hamburger and eggs. I tried to present options and let the patient decide.

Reminds me of the quote, “When it comes to fats I trust nature more than scientists.”

Thank you nostr:npub1tftc33ttam85wraffce62cgtvvjrmttquqlv6a0agtfm5nl4vues82xar5 for being instrumental in helping me understand Bitcoin enough to Hodl rather than lose in scams such as Celsius, BlockFi.

Fever isn’t a Tylenol, Motrin, or aspirin deficiency. Those medicines have been shown to increase your risk of dying if you take them for fever. Unless you’re literally a baby or you’re pushing above 40 degrees (104), you’re probably not going to increase your chance of surviving by taking a fever reducing medication. Not medical advice.

Interesting read on whether LDL causes heart disease:

Ravnskov U, de Lorgeril M, Diamond DM, Hama R, Hamazaki T, Hammarskjöld B, Hynes N, Kendrick M, Langsjoen PH, Mascitelli L, McCully KS, Okuyama H, Rosch PJ, Schersten T, Sultan S, Sundberg R. LDL-C does not cause cardiovascular disease: a comprehensive review of the current literature. Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2018 Oct;11(10):959-970. doi: 10.1080/17512433.2018.1519391. Epub 2018 Oct 11. PMID: 30198808.

I keep trying to find the proverbial baby to avoid throwing him out with the bath water. But the bath water is basically gone and I haven’t found a baby.

I’m starting to wonder if any benefits of carnivore diet are related to lower deuterium content compared with SAD?

John Kempf at https://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/ and Dan Kittredge at https://www.bionutrient.org/ have tremendous information on this topic.