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Hmm….Lot of opinions in the comments. So…This isn’t an opinion, it’s just me being a guinea pig and trying to figure out what happened.

A few years ago I had a bad accident that left me in a wheelchair for 3 months after knee surgery on one leg and a boot on the other. I eventually recovered, did some research, and started on specific supplements that helped recovery. Everything has been great for five years. Then all of a sudden, out of the blue my knees were hurting and felt like they were giving out on me. Two weeks of examining everything in my very limited life and asking “what changed?”

(You’ll like this one Yoho). I had recently bought and used an off brand oil, labeled organic for frying. A brand I had never used from a store I rarely shop at. So I quit using the oil and low and behold…my knees recovered in a few days.

Believe me, I played detective for two weeks asking what changed and that fricking oil is the only thing.

So I told this story to friend today and came home to find your timely post.

How cool 😎 and thank you

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Love it

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Thanks for returning to the PUFA takedown. I appreciate it.

Two years ago I stopped eating nuts, the biggest source of PUFAs in my diet. My Omega Quant numbers improved some, mostly in the ratio 3:6, with few other changes which makes me wonder about genetic/epigenetic contributions.

Down the rabbit hole I went. Stumbled on the musing of Brad at Fire in the Bottle. He pointed out that PUFAs, through signaling via SCD1 pathways are the mammalian way of inducing torpor. Also known as getting fat for winter if you are a bear or squirrel. This has led him to muse deeply on human triggers for torpor through heavy seed oil use. And the continued use likely precludes weight loss, instead signaling for fat storage. New meaning to ‘Winter is Coming’….

Eliminating oxalates slowly and steadily from my diet is the phase I am in now, using lion/carnivore as my basic low oxalate eating plan. So far, (2nd month in) I am experiencing well-being and a sense of deep healing of a backlog of stored/sequestered oxalates and probably toxins stashed in my body’s closets. And my body really likes to run on ketones. At 65, this has given me hope that I am respecting the process my body knows and has as its priority.

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Yes. I don’t eat nuts anymore. One reason they bothered my teeth and gums but mostly for the damage to digestive system. I actually don’t like macadamia nuts. I eat ripe fruit. It is both glucose and fructose. The advantage of fruit. I gave up 12 years of low carb keto for the damage it did physically and mentally because of the cortisol and adrenaline stress pathways your body and brain then need to make glucose. Why not just eat it and lower cortisol and adrenaline that this gluconeogenisis just defeats the purpose and ultimately blocks energy production and puts on fat. I was gaining weight because of low carb causing insulin resistance. Works a treat for awhile then not. Lustig makes a lot of money on those mice, which metabolize sugar very differently. I’ve been off seed oils for 12 years. My joints have no pain and I’m 76 this year. I was walking 3 miles six weeks after a hip replacement from a fall—broken probably because I was low on calcium from under eating caused by IF, OMAD and keto. But have been healthy probably because of less seed oils and high vitamin D. There are prices to pay in all these methods (damaged thyroid) along with the sad and frustrating truth that our entire food system is polluted and poisoned. I have lots of local food sources around so I take advantage of them. I have eggs delivered at $4.00 a doz. These chickens roam outside, even in winter if not too cold. I make calcium supplements from these beauties by boiling the shells and then drying them in the oven. I then grind them into powder with a spice/coffee grinder and throw 1/4 teaspoon back with a slug of water. One teaspoon has most of the bioavailable calcium i need. I don’t do well with some dairy, so this works for me. I also cook vegetables and not eat them raw except tomatoes and carrots because of oxolates and other endotoxin promoters in most vegetables. Got sick of salads anyway. Getting off seed oils is probably the best first thing we can do plus raise D levels. Cheers!!

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nice reply and thanks

I'm still carnivore for 6 weeks but may reconsider

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I'm doing reasonably well so far. I've been cheating with macadamia nuts tho. Any ideas about that

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Hi and good day, Dr. Yoho. Unfortunately, even the macadamia nuts according to recent articles that I've read on Dr. Mercola's website, also is cautioning the use of macadamia nuts, and other nuts and seeds as well. From the past, macadamia nuts are okay, but now, even those are to be use sparingly according to Dr. Mercola.

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sorry Mercola is recently captured and I ghosted him

do you have other sources

Never trust a meal—even a gourmet one—with a rotten side dish. Once someone has lied to you, you must ghost them to maintain your integrity and discernment. (To ghost: end all contact, ignore them, and kill their feeds.)

In a short time, on the advice of a fortune teller, Mercola recently fired his top management and supposedly changed his mind about some of his key ideas. I studied one of these, hormone therapy, for a decade and spent a year researching and writing a book about it. The Cartel has opposed it. It is safe and healthy and makes us stronger. Mercola’s new arguments against it are wrong.

I have also extensively studied keto/carnivore diets, another of his about-faces. His new ideas promoting carbohydrate consumption are wrong. More recently, Mercola reversed himself about going barefoot. He had advocated this for “grounding,” but now he says he has a bunion and that shoes are best. He also supposedly quit deep breathing. The same day he did that, he proclaimed, “Lifting weights kills you.” He had been a gym rat for a decade.

Mercola may have had a mental breakdown or succumbed to pressure, but worrying about what happened occupies too much bandwidth for me to bother. Whether bribed or threatened, he changed his mind about telling the truth, so it makes no difference to us. After hanging on his every word for years, I killed my paid subscription and ghosted him. My doubts extend to his business; I now get my supplements elsewhere.

https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/308-the-highest-spiritual-value-is?utm_source=publication-search

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In order to live a long, healthy life, it appears that one must virtually stop eating with nearly every food being poisoned in some manner. You might survive with your own garden, but eventually they will make it illegal to get seeds. Besides, I am not a fruit and veggie person so much. And apartment living provides no home grown garden option.

I look at the list of things that increase the risk of death and most of them are not things I am or do. Being 74 and still relatively healthy, I figure it is hit or miss. Some people can go overboard on living an unhealthy lifestyle and live into their 80's or beyond while the health junky never makes it much past 60.

Health, like most things, is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. I even question the supplements I have been taking as so many of them have extra junk added in. I am weeding these out...not much left. I don't trust the chemicals that even vit-D are made from. There is NO substitute for the sun and prove to me that vit-D is even close to being the same.

Perhaps the greatest factor is mental. Nobody talks much about that. Focusing on not getting this disease or that tends to increase your risk, while focusing more on a healthy body might help that come into being.

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I'm still in the going overboard phase

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I have many friends and relatives who are completely unaware of the dangers of seed oils, they believe their doctors and the mainstream nutritionists and avoid saturated fat. They love restaurant fried chicken, french fries etc. All of them suffer from multiple chronic conditions. When I tell them the dangers of seed oils, they just stare at me. Like most Americans, they judge food by how it tastes, no regard to where it came from or how it was prepared. Most of the world is brainwashed into thinking cholesterol is bad and that vaccines work. It’s a tragedy. Thank you for the long and informative post, a lot more info than I’ve seen previously.

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seed oils are the biggest psy op in history

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Pls don’t forget that the very same autoimmune illnesses such as RA, diabetes, etc also

stem from CHILDHOOD VACCINES. Most if not all of them are written on the vaccine inserts in each box.

If we stop the vaccines and restart butter and even lard, we should all be 95% FINE in no time.

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ghee is better than lard b c the pigs only have one stomach

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Such a great post! I was aware of a lot of it but definitely not as in depth as this goes. As a person who has been health conscious most of my adult life and an avid exercise nut, it’s easy for me to avoid fast food, smoking, drinking, and other unhealthy habits. Although I do have a sweet tooth that I must keep in check. Yet, it was a shock to read about how I’m running afoul with restaurants…although these days eating out is basically a luxury even when it’s Tex-Mex.

Not having any experience with baby formula I was sickened by the ingredients! How anyone, let alone the manufacturer, think the ingredients are beneficial?? Liquid Doritos is so accurate. Of course, after the Plandemic, I believe this is by design.

The next most-worrying piece of information were these words “In other words, soybean oil destroys our ability to love on the neurochemical level.” With all those who rage out of control these days and the apathy I see in 30 something’s and under, I now understand why. How terribly sad.

So much wrong in this world and much of it starts with the food being consumed. And here again I’ll say, it’s all by design.

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You know the lyrics and the melody both

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It might end up similarly like with broccoli (and many other foods): good, not good, good, who knows, no one knows, no one cares… We still don’t know.

I wouldn’t trust their studies, especially after knowing what they did with “Covid science.” Everything in moderation never fails.

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If you carefully read this whole post you should come up with an opinion.

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I guarantee it’s the metals in the vegetable oils that increase risk of Alzheimer’s and dementia. I gave up margarine and cooking oils 20 years ago. Then I developed dementia symptoms after a 2019 surgery which has now been cured by removing metals from the body

Gene mutations play a huge role in health yet seem to be ignored by allopathic medicine. Studies in science always seem to be based on people with no significant gene mutations. Yet those with significant gene mutations are a large part of the population and will react differently just as they react differently to dental work, implants and other foreign objects in the body. The world has been built to be too toxic to those with significant gene mutations and this is why people with these mutations will always react differently. Studies need to start giving different outcomes for those with and those without significant gene mutations because they aren’t fit for purpose unless they do. Metals are seen as an existential threat to the human race as they are the great sensitiser of humans to the environment. This meta study from 2022 is very good reading https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ukG5aNMyhfK3sTl1ZDXFlL0hMkFD7ZMj/view?usp=drivesdk

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Noone has his hands around the whole elephant here.

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And that’s the problem. They ignore gene mutations entirely when these people react completely differently than those with no significant gene mutations. It’s the reason some get sick and some don’t. As a made up example, we may hear that cancer is caused by peanuts in 54% of the population but who is that 54% and why did the 46% have no issues at all with peanuts causing cancer. Surely if peanuts were the cause then all participants would have got cancer. Not just some of them. Looking into why some do and some done get cancer from peanuts is much more revealing.

We all have our own genetics and our own gene mutations and our health is a reflection of how the two interact. That’s what makes everyone different yet most medical science treat everyone the same and this has bastardised medical science. This is why some get implant allergy almost immediately on implantation and why some take 20 years to show symptoms

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Agree with you re different gene status. I seem to have inherited all the genetic ‘static’ and have had to work outside the square ( allopathic medicine) to maintain myself in some semblance of order.

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Same here. Funny thing is, people with gene mutations that make them inefficient at detox are the slight majority of the population but most don’t realise because of things their dr tells them. I wrote about it here https://healthcarenotmedicine.substack.com/p/the-health-system-is-a-tool-of-oppression

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This inspires me to make some ghee at home and to find a reasonably priced quality avocado oil.

As an historical note, I went on my first diet to lose weight in 1963. It was from a book by Dr. Taller, Calories Don’t Count. It pushed pushing down as much safflower oil as you could and casually mentioned that if you could not find safflower oil at the grocery store, you could buy safflower oil pills to get your daily quota. (Maybe Dr. Taller had stock in the safflower oil pill company.) Anyway, the diet worked for me and even though I was consuming many calories, I was losing weight.

I learned from reading this Substack that high inflammation alone from diet alone can cause “autoimmune” “disease”. I have had a “diagnosis ending in the suffix –itis ” of an “autoimmune” “disease” since 2000 and have been taking steroid meds since then. I do not think I can expect to be cured of that condition even if I eliminated all seed oils, though that dietary improvement is good anyway.

Many of us have received so many conflicting dietary recommendations from our doctors and books and various experts on podcasts and it kind of makes one want to throw up one’s hands and say…

Razors pain you; rivers are damp;

acids stain you; and drugs cause cramps.

Guns aren't lawful; nooses give;

gas smells awful; you might as well live.

Resumé by Dorothy Parker

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carnivore may help you see a few posts back

I'm still on it after 6 weeks but my tummy is sour

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i may go keto

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I have a recent history of kidney stones and my urologist said I should not eat large amounts of protein.

I was on Atkins diet in early 70s -- an early forerunner of carnivore diet.? It worked for weight control and hunger control but after a few months i started taking liberties and fell off the wagon.

I have heard that people with Lyme Disease do great on the carnivore diet, along with its weight control ability.

It seems if the goal and motivation is to stave off serious set of a symptoms from a chronic disease, the ability to stay on ketogentic diets for the long term definitely works, but not if the motivation is weight control.

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carnivore and keto work for weight control

motivation always becomes a problem.

You need to read up on any advice a doctor gives you and make your own decision. I do not know whether she was right about the protein, but offhand, it sounds like a coinflip's likelihood of being true.

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I just remembered that there was this X.com shrared video clip (which I forgot to save/bookmark) recently, whereas two lab scientists where testing two lab rats and the long-term effects of the Western diet that it had on one of them in terms of cognitive abilities. They made a container with water on it with a single, circular landing pad on one side and they placed one rat w/o the Western diet versus the rat who ate it. They were testing to see if they can time the rats on how well they can easily find the landing pad on the bucket container. Rat 1 (w/o the Western diet) find it in just over, I think, 3-4 seconds, while Rat 2 (w/ Western diet) took almost approximately 43 seconds. I goes to show how long term effects of eating this way can have an adversely effect on you in the long run.

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This is always the PINNED post on Dr. Mercola's Substack page, and I truly understand why.

https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/linoleic-acid

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I downloaded it thanks

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And yet, I've been able to reverse cataracts in my own 62-year-old eyes, old-age-hazing in my 14-year-old dog's eyes, consuming & feeding pure coconut oil. My neighbor died in his mid-60s of heart disease after a 5-bypass surgery. He followed an extremely strict carnivore diet - zero seed oils. He bought this story hook, line & sinker. If you're a Christian, Scripture describes the perfect diet - fruits, nuts, veggies, grains & legumes. Read Daniel's experience in the Babylonian court. He & his 3 friends were healthier & had better brain power after a 10-day trial period of consuming plants & water because they politely but firmly declined the king's foods. They were allowed to continue their meal plan, & Daniel was soon the king's advisor, all thanks to God & His work. Check out how human lifespans plummeted just a few generations after the flood. What changed? Meat was added because the floodwaters destroyed Earth's vegetation. They took 7 of each clean animal onto the ark for sacrifices & food. It was meant to be temporary. We pay a dreadful price for indulging appetites. If red meat is to be consumed safely, all of the blood needs to be removed. That's where most of the pathogens are found. It's also what makes it tasty. It's almost like our Creator knows what we need. SOME seed oils are not good for us, but we are experts in tossing out the baby with the bathwater.

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coconut oil is only 2 percent linoleic acid and has magical properties

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My Eldest hit 40, jobs were not there. He managed Swiftee's gas stations at the district level. Got fired for firing a Dope Addict, and the higher-ups didn't wait on the drug test. Spent the next few years managing Fast Food. And eating it. by 52 he was a Type 2 diabetic and had a TIA. An 85% Quad artery blockage. He actually had a smart vein Cardio who pulled out, NO Stents. He might have lived 1 year if he was given Stents. Quad Bypass. Followed by balloon Angioplasty in each leg. And a near-vegan diet. Too many drugs to take now. And still on that crap Metformin/Jardiance. He is now 53, with no income as DSSI NO LONGER HAS WORKERS. TENNESSEE HAS 6. State Obamacare, which resets yearly.

How many future GREASY FAST FOOD EATERS WILL FOLLOW THIS PATTERN? OR HAVE ALREADY! BREAD in small portions, I'd grill a steak if I could afford one with just salt and pepper. We had pinto beans and a small square of cornbread last night, my BS was 77 at 10 pm. 111 this morning at 5:45 am. Two small meals a day. No snacks. Gastroparesis is a hard GI disease to deal with, add in Type 2 as you are NOT informed of the correct diet to treat it. Opposing diets to boot.

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wow

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Well done!

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Pretty comprehensive post, thanks. If interested in AHA (IMHO a money laundering outfit) you might want to check out their 990 for 2023. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/135613797/202410799349301221/full

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this is a huge form. Does it shed light on contributors?

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They seldom do. Unless these are redacted - it is hard to see how the government can consolidate tax info. If someone writes off a large contribution to NPO#1 on their taxes yet NPO#1 does not have to list the donors it received money from. So how does the gov. know that you really contributed - or that the org. receive funds they never listed in their total.

It looks like for 2022 the AHA revenue was 925m - gov grants 20.7m, fundraising 277.9m , other contributions gifts and grants 347.4m for 647m - then they have revenue from "get with the guidelines" 24.1m, conference/seminars 15.6m, editorial revenue 6.2m, membership 6.3m and hospital accreditation 4.8m the rest of revenue looks to come from investments, royalties, rents, gaming and sales. They paid out 394m in salaries. The CEO raked in 4.1m. They paid out 183m in grants - those are listed and quite revealing.

I did not find them listed in the Gates Foundation - so my bet is most of their "donations" comes from corporations like food manufacturers and distributors.

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Exactly and not itemized.

the link I supplied had a pie chart without detail, and most of it was "other"

These people are evil and had revenues of at least 25 percent less 3 years ago when I wrote Butchered.

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Hmm. I take ALA tablets and was damn sure this means alpha-lipoic acid - and not the culprit, linoleic acid?

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