By the way, the application of what you will see in the video below applies not only to fruits and vegetables, but will also enhance the nutrient and dollar value of making your own herbal tinctures and coconut milk.
The bottom line: more nutrients and less money spent. Great for your health and great for your pocketbook.
hat tip: Rex Harrill
See also: Part 1 and Part 3
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[The introductory text below is the same as part 1, but the video is the second in the series. Note to my email subscribers: you may have to go to the website to see this video]
"You, sir, are a dangerous man" – The Queen of England's physician in a comment to Dr. Richard Schulze after one of his seminars challenging the medical establishment's way of doing things.
Diet and lifestyle changes can't always take care of everything. Sometimes we get sick beyond the ability of our body to heal itself with good food. Sometimes through our prior lifestyles the damage is sufficient enough that we need some outside help. Sometimes through the luck of the draw our genes and individual constitutions conspire in such a way that without the help of someone well versed in the healing arts, whatever their particular title, we just aren't going to reach optimal health no matter what kind of diet or lifestyle we adopt. And frankly, sometimes even the most motivated among us need a kick in the butt to get back on course.
To that end from time to time I will post information from those well versed in the healing arts both now and from the past. Sometimes they will be doctors with prestigious degrees from top of the line universities and other times they will be people who are autodidactic, i.e. self-taught. The common denominator amongst all these people however will not be their back-ground or training but rather their results. Did they actually heal people on the ground with consistent verifible results and can they communicate that information in an effective way to others? By the way I am not talking about run of the mill stuff, but "terminal" diseases that are often considered "incurable" – that is what this series on how to get well is all about.
The world is full of great researchers and highly credentialed folks but I hope to present to you people who are great clinicians. In the end, when your health or the health of a loved is at stake that is all that really matters. So without further adieu, the first up in this series – Dr. Richard Schulze.
Disclaimer: I don't necessarily agree with all the dietary advice offered by Dr. Schulze. Just keep in mind there is a difference between getting well and maintaining health after you have recovered from sickness or debilitating disease. There is no question that a vegan diet as part of a therapeutic course in healing can be one avenue to getting well. Once you are well it is, in my opinion, for most of us, a very different story.
Scurvy has been the great enemy of explorers. When Magellan sailed around the world four hundred years ago many of his crew died from it and most of the others were at times so weakened that they could barely handle the ships. When Scott's party of four went to the South Pole twenty three years ago their strength was sapped by scurvy; they were unable to maintain their travel schedule and died. Nor has scurvy been the nemesis of explorers only. Twenty years ago the British Army in the Near East was seriously handicapped, and last October an American doctor reported a hundred Ethiopian soldiers per day dying of scurvy. The disease worked havoc during the Alaska and Yukon gold rushes following 1896. Scores of miners died and hundred suffered.
Medical profession and laity equally believed for more than a hundred years that they knew exactly how to prevent and cure the disease, yet the method always failed on severe test.
See also: State Science is Bad For Your Health and The Problem With Science
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Thomas Huxley once wrote the oft-quoted adage: "The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
Yet many a hypothesis is able to withstand the brutal onslaughts of countless ugly facts without budging. Why? From whence has come this ugly and monstrous creature — the immortal hypothesis?
Below is the story of one such hypothesis, the apparent widespread corruption of researchers who have upheld it, and the seeming complicity of Big Government in maintaining it.
The Amyloid Hypothesis
In Alzheimer's disease, there is a protein fragment called "beta-amyloid" that is found to aggregate into plaques in the brain. Beta-amyloid is actually an essential brain protein with positive effects, not in itself toxic.
But there persists a hypothesis that refuses to be slain by countless ugly facts: the amyloid hypothesis, which holds that the production and accumulation of this essential brain protein is the "cause" of Alzheimer's disease. I will spare you the scientific details, as it is beside the point, but for a thorough discussion, see my article, Myth: Cholesterol Causes Alzheimer's Disease.
I am a big fan of all things coconut: the milk, meat, water, and oil. Coconut is a prized nutrient dense food in many parts of the world. It is one of the few significant sources of saturated fat in the vegetable kingdom. It is so highly valued by Pacific Islanders (like the Kitavans, who have no measurable heart disease) that it is known as the "Tree of Life." In the days ahead you will see many posts exploring all aspects of the nutritional and medicinal value of the coconut and why it should play a significant role in your diet.
Since I rarely eat gluten grains I have on and off looked for a good substitute for making the occasional bread style item. Face it, bread and other cereal grains are really good as carriers for butter, for sandwiches, for eating with cheese, for cleansing your palate between glasses at a wine tasting 
, and for serving as an appetizer. Right now my best carrier for butter is the smashed baked or boiled sweet potatoes I eat on a regular basis. So it is nice to find a coconut flour recipe that works both taste wise and texture wise. I will be experimenting with making sandwich bread with coconut flour in the near future and I will report back with the results.
I'm not sure why in the video Elana uses grapeseed oil but I would recommend using coconut oil since highly unsaturated fats like grapeseed oil readily break down under high heat. Also ghee alone or in combination with coconut oil works wonderfully as well.
One final note, I would be very leery of using the extremely fructose rich (90%) refined agave syrup as a sweetener. It is not a healthy food. More about that in an upcoming post.
Yes, I confess: I'm a veteran anti-fluoridationist, thereby – not for the first time – risking placing myself in the camp of "right-wing kooks and fanatics." It has always been a bit of mystery to me why left-environmentalists, who shriek in horror at a bit of Alar on apples, who cry "cancer" even more absurdly than the boy cried "Wolf," who hate every chemical additive known to man, still cast their benign approval upon fluoride, a highly toxic and probably carcinogenic substance. And not only let fluoride emissions off the hook, but endorse uncritically the massive and continuing dumping of fluoride into the nation's water supply.
First: the generalized case for and against fluoridation of water. The case for is almost incredibly thin, boiling down to the alleged fact of substantial reductions in dental cavities in kids aged 5 to 9. Period. There are no claimed benefits for anyone older than nine! For this the entire adult population of a fluoridated area must be subjected to mass medication!
The case against, even apart from the specific evils of fluoride, is powerful and overwhelming.
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Butterly yours,
Michael
A Fat Nocebo
See also: Is Your Cholesterol Level High Enough?
Is eating saturated fat bad for your heart? That’s the conventional wisdom, but I shall describe what led to this belief and show that the available evidence does not support it. Then I shall explain how the nocebo effect might override this evidence-based conclusion.
It’s difficult to make a determination of the effect of a nutrient on one of the little rodents kept prisoner in a laboratory. First you must obtain a series of identical subjects by inbreeding or cloning. Then you must compare two individuals (or, better, two groups of individuals) who differ only in whether or not they have received the nutrient in question. You must know where to look for differences and how to measure them (blood tests, growth rates, etc.). And you can be confident of your final result only with respect to these particular subjects and their particular living conditions, which, in the case of the little prisoners, usually include an unstimulating environment and a lack of exercise.
Kitava: Wrapping it Up
See also: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
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There's a lot to be learned from the Kitava study. Kitavans eat a diet of root vegetables, coconut, fruit, vegetables and fish and have undetectable levels of cardiovascular disease (CVD), stroke and overweight. Despite smoking like chimneys. 69% of their calories come from carbohydrate, 21% from fat and 10% from protein. This is essentially a carbohydrate-heavy version of what our paleolithic ancestors ate. They also get lots of sunshine and have a moderately high activity level.
The first thing we can say is that a high intake of carbohydrate is not enough, by itself, to cause overweight or the diseases of civilization. It's also not enough to cause insulin resistance. I sent an e-mail to Dr. Lindeberg asking if his group had measured Kitavans' glucose tolerance. He told me they had not. However, I can only guess they had good glucose control since they suffered from none of the complications of unmanaged diabetes.
The Kitavan diet is low in fat, but most of the fat they eat is saturated because it comes from coconuts. Compared to Americans and Swedes, they have a high intake of saturated fat. So much for the theory that saturated fat causes CVD… They also have a relatively high intake of fish fat, at 4g per day. This gives them a high ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids, with plenty of DHA and EPA.
See also: Part 2 and Part 3
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"You, sir, are a dangerous man" – The Queen of England's physician in a comment to Dr. Richard Schulze after one of his seminars challenging the medical establishment's way of doing things.
Diet and lifestyle changes can't always take care of every-thing. Sometimes we get sick beyond the ability of our body to heal itself with good food. Sometimes through our prior lifestyles the damage is sufficient enough that we need some outside help. Sometimes through the luck of the draw our genes and individual constitutions conspire in such a way that without the help of someone well versed in the healing arts, whatever their particular title, we just aren't going to reach optimal health no matter what kind of diet or lifestyle we adopt. And frankly, sometimes even the most motivated among us need a kick in the butt to get back on course.
To that end from time to time I will post information from those well versed in the healing arts both now and from the past. Sometimes they will be doctors with prestigious degrees from top of the line universities and other times they will be people who are autodidactic, i.e. self-taught. The common denominator amongst all these people however will not be their back-ground or training but rather their results. Did they actually heal people on the ground with consistent verifible results and can they communicate that information in an effective way to others? By the way I am not talking about run of the mill stuff, but "terminal" diseases that are often considered "incurable" – that is what this series on how to get well is all about.
The world is full of great researchers and highly credentialed folks but I hope to present to you people who are great clinicians. In the end, when your health or the health of a loved is at stake that is all that really matters. So without further adieu, the first up in this series – Dr. Richard Schulze.
Disclaimer: I don't necessarily agree with all the dietary advice offered by Dr. Schulze. Just keep in mind there is a difference between getting well and maintaining health after you have recovered from sickness or debilitating disease. There is no question that a vegan diet as part of a therapeutic course in healing can be one avenue to getting well. Once you are well it is, in my opinion, for most of us, a very different story.
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