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Statins
These are only my observations and recommendations to friends and family. This is a really interesting subject to me because only 50 years ago there was very little obesity and diabetes but now heart disease has become the biggest killer on the planet. Please feel free to talk to you doctor about the information here. This does not constitute advice.
Statins
Statins are the most lucrative drug in history but the most ineffectual, even damaging, with catastrophic side effects. The original pre-2006 medical trials were over-stating their efficacy but after new guidelines were introduced post 2006 they ceased to show any benefits. Some of the most eminent doctors in the world warn about the dangers:-
Zoe Harcombe, Aseem Malhotra (cardiologist often seen on BBC), Prof Tim Noakes, Stephen Phinney, Peter Attia MD, Gary Taubes, Gary Fettke, Dr Eric Westman (author of Atkins 2nd Revolution), Dr Robert Lustig (Sugar: The Bitter Truth), Nina Teicholz (journalist and author of The Big Fat Surprise) and literally thousands of epidemiologists, oncologists, doctors, dieticians have been trying to get the message across to the public in face of huge lobbying by the fake foods industry (coca cola, Kellogg, Nestle, Kraft, Monsanto etc) who promote cheap carbohydrate products full of sugar and fried in vegetable oil, instead of quality meat and dairy which humans have been eating for 3 million years.
Now I know all this seems unbelievable because why would doctors still prescribe statins for people with high cholesterol? Well, 28% of doctors do not, and that number is growing. The mainstream of the medical industry has been slow to catch up with the outlying specialist groups like diabetes, cancer, heart disease, epilepsy and many others. See diabetes.org for example.
Whats the problem with statins?
As you get older you find that you can suffer from high blood pressure (hypertension) which is caused by narrowing of the blood vessels and this is called atherosclerosis or cardio vascular disease. It can also lead to heart disease and heart attack. It is brought about by plaques of cholesterol and so it was thought that lowering cholesterol would alleviate it. Statins stop the liver producing cholesterol. The problem is cholesterol is only there because it is repairing the endothelium (blood vessel wall) because something is damaging them. We now know that insulin is the major cause of damage to the blood vessels. Unfortunately statins lower a particular type of cholesterol so although your total cholesterol goes down, it is not the right cholesterol. There is this concept if good and bad cholesterol Im sure youve heard. Youre supposed to be high with the good one and low with the bad. However, research has proven that actually the low levels of bad cholesterol have no bearing on the outcomes of heart disease. Statins then go on to damage other areas of your body, such as muscles and joints, see the documentation that came with your statins for a full list. Statins also have a strong link with an increase in type 2 diabetes.
The proper way to fix your metabolic diseases (which can include hypertension, CVD, CHD, diabetes, pre-diabetes, obesity, atherosclerosis, cancer, dementia, leaky gut, hyperglycaemia, high HbA1C, high triglycerides) is to lower insulin*.
*Insulin is a hormone which processes the sugar in your blood, either moving it into your muscles or liver, or turning it into fat as a way of storing energy for later use. Sugar cannot stay in your blood (hyperglycaemia) as it will damage the blood vessels (atherosclerosis) and many other cells in your body. The average person must only carry about a teaspoon of sugar (glucose) in the blood, 3 teaspoons and you are dead. Type 1 diabetics must inject insulin to process the sugar in the blood otherwise they will die. Very often they are hyperglycaemic and the sugar damages the very small capillaries in the back of the eye, toes, etc and they sometimes go blind or need amputations. Type 2 diabetics are completely different, they have too much insulin and require even more to process the sugar in the blood because they have stopped responding to the level they produce. High levels of insulin are responsible for the diabetes and obesity and linked to all of the diseases of metabolic syndrome.
So how can you lower insulin?
Stop eating sugar, fizzy drinks, cereals, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes immediately and then watch your body dysfunctions decrease. Watch your hunger decrease. Eat eggs and bacon for breakfast, avocados, butter, cream, cheese, nuts, olives, steak, pork, lamb, low starch veg like broccoli, cabbage, spinach. Keep away from processed food like margarine (including Flora), crisps, tins of anything like baked beans, packets of anything like chicken kievs, cottage pies, lasagnes. Add some of these back in as a treat after you have healed yourself.
Supporting research:
136,000 Americans were tested after an MI (Myocardial Infarction/Heart attack). 70% had BELOW average LDL cholesterol. Show this to your doctor! By the way, n=136,000 is a huge sample size, very rare to find such conclusive evidence.
When the USDA introduced the dietary guidelines to eat more carbs, obesity increased dramatically and is still rising today. Not to mention heart disease which is the worlds biggest killer, and diabetes which costs the US more than the UKs entire NHS budget.
Chart from the WHO showing the higher your cholesterol the LESS chance you have of dying (men).
Even more striking for women. So you need to get your cholesterol up.
Are Flora and Benecol type products OK to eat? No, they are not. They are a highly processed food which is basically a chemical sludge with added colour and flavour. They are produced under intense heat and pressure and use a metallic catalyst to solidify the sludge. They contains at least 15 ingredients, including:-
PLANT STEROL ESTERS: Cholesterol-lowering additive.
Interferes with absorption of some fat-soluble vitamins, principally carotenes. Potential hormone disrupters. Not proven safe for children or pregnant women.
VEGETABLE OIL: Basic ingredient. The description on the label, “including sunflower oil” suggests that Flora is a mix of different oils. This mix can change from batch to batch according to the market price of the various oils. Most vegetable oils in processed foods are based on corn or sunflower oil, high in omega-6 fatty acids. Over-consumption of omega-6 is linked to cancer, immune system damage, hormone imbalance, heart disease and stroke.
MONO- AND DI-GLYCERIDES OF FATTY ACIDS (E471), SUNFLOWER LECITHIN: Emulsifiers. This spread is a mixture of oil and water. Emulsifiers hold the mix together. Fatty acid esters are also commonly used in junk foods to keep them from getting stale. Flora’s use of sunflower lecithin is in response to consumer worries about the GM status of the world’s soya. Sunflower products tend to be GM-free.
MODIFIED TAPIOCA STARCH: Thickener, stabiliser. Modified food starch is a starch that has been treated physically or chemically to modify one or more of its properties. This all-purpose thickener is derived from cassava root or yucca plants and is at home in spreads as it is in adhesives, explosives, paper manufacture, and textile finishings. It is not a substance found in nature, it adds no nutritional value and there is no information on its health effects.
FLAVOURINGS: Adds taste. Flavourings can be mixes of several synthetic chemicals. Essentially perfumes by another name, they will be derived from petrochemicals and contain the same range of neurotoxins, carcinogens and allergens as found in all perfumes.
Ingredients of Butter:
Butter
(try Kerrygold - grass-fed)
A good video to watch is Robert Lustigs - Sugar: The Bitter Truth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&t=1801s
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Banting / Keto in 50 words:
Eat vegetables, meat, nuts, seeds, little fruit and minimal starch. Eat real fats. Avoid sugar,
grains, seed oils and processed food. Taste new dishes. Protect your gut. Eat when hungry.
Drink when thirsty. Fast occasionally. Sleep well. Exercise. Relax. Socialise. Listen to your body.
Escape routine. Seek adventure. Keep improving.
Eating plan ideas:
Beginner Banting Meal Plan – Restoration Phase
MONDAY
Daily Total: Carbs (g) 46 – 52 | Protein (g) 91 – 110 | Fat (g) 133 – 152
Breakfast
2 – 3 egg Omelette / fried eggs in butter with cheese, red pepper, tomato and sauteed onion
Lunch
1/2 – 2/3 tin tuna in brine with 2 – 3 Tbsp Banting mayo, 1/2 – 3/4 avo, 1/4
mango diced (optional), diced cucumber, with salad dressed with olive oil and apple cider
vinegar / apple vinaigrette
Dinner
1/2 – 1 cup Banting mince (made with onion, tomato paste/ tinned tomatoes, seasonings and
green listed veg) and 1/2 – 1 cup cauli-mash and minimum 1 cup broccoli
Drinks for the day
2 black coffees a day or 4 cups of black tea. Unlimited water or herbal teas. *can add cream to
coffee and tea
Snacks
Smoothie made with 1/4 cup coconut milk, 1/4 cup yoghurt/kefir, 1/4 cup blueberries, 1/2 tsp
xylitol (optional)
Tips
Make a batch of mayo on Sunday for the week. Save some mince, caulimash and broccoli for
tomorrow’s lunch. Make a batch of granola for the week
TUESDAY
Daily Total: Carbs (g) 57 – 58 | Protein (g) 99 – 118 | Fat (g) 128 – 143
Breakfast
1/4 cup Banting granola (toast a mixture of nuts and seeds with some spices) with 1 cup
yoghurt/kefir, 1/4 papaya and 1 – 2 boiled eggs
Lunch
Left over 1/2 – 1 cup Banting mince (made with onion, tomato paste/ tinned tomatoes,
seasonings and green listed veg) and 1/2 – 1 cup cauli-mash and minimum 1 cup broccoli
Dinner
100g – 120g Portion grilled / roast chicken with 1/2 cup roasted pumpkin, 1/2 cup green beans
1/4 sweet potato roasted, and gravy made from pan juices (reduce with a dollop of cream and
butter)
Drinks for the day
2 black coffees a day or 4 cups of black tea. Unlimited water or herbal teas.
Snacks
1/2 cup kombucha (replace one of your drinks for the day with this) and 30g – 40g macadamia
nuts
Tips
Save some chicken for tomorrow’s lunch. Make broth from chicken bones
WEDNESDAY
Daily Total: Carbs (g) 40 – 42 | Protein (g) 86 – 104 | Fat (g) 137 – 157
Breakfast
2 egg Omelette with filling of 1 bacon rasher, swiss chard, cheese, broccoli and mushrooms with
a rocket and tomato salad
Lunch
Salad with 50g – 70g left over chicken, brined pickles, 1/2 cup asparagus, boiled egg and 2 – 3
Tbsp Banting mayo
Dinner
100g – 120g salmon fillet with 1/2 cup sweet potato, 1 cup green-list veg with a homemade
creamy-lemon butter sauce (make a lemon butter and then add a dollop of cream to finish), with
capers (optional)
Drinks for the day
2 black coffees a day or 4 cups of black tea. Unlimited water or herbal teas.
Snacks
1 cup chicken bone broth and 30g macadamia nuts
Tips
Make a batch of seed crackers
THURSDAY
Daily Total: Carbs (g) 58 – 60 | Protein (g) 113 – 121 | Fat (g) 129 – 149
Breakfast
1/4 cup Banting granola (toast a mixture of nuts and seeds with some spices) with 1 cup
yoghurt/kefir, 1/4 mango and 1 – 2 boiled eggs
Lunch
Tuna/egg mayo (1/2 tin tuna/2 boiled eggs), 2 Tbsp Banting mayo, with 1/2 – 1 avo, radishes,
brined pickles watercress and seed crackers
Dinner
Crispy grilled pork chop with a mixture of sauteed onion, fennel and apple, 1/2 cup cauli-mash
and 1/4 cup sauerkraut, with a gravy made from pan juices and chicken stock
Drinks for the day
2 black coffees a day or 4 cups of black tea. Unlimited water or herbal teas.
Snacks
1 cup Bone broth with handful fatty biltong
Tips
Save some supper for tomorrow’s lunch
FRIDAY
Daily Total: Carbs (g) 62 – 72 | Protein (g) 110 – 129 | Fat (g) 113 – 128
Breakfast
2 – 3 fried eggs with 1/2 avo, grilled tomato and grated cheese
Lunch
Left over Crispy grilled pork chop with a mixture of sauteed onion, fennel and apple, 1/2 cup
cauli-mash and 1/4 cup sauerkraut, with a gravy made from pan juices and chicken stock
Dinner
Grilled white fish fillet (100g – 120g) with a few sweet potato wedges, 1/2 cup peas and 1/4 cup
sauerkraut/kimchi
Drinks for the day
2 black coffees a day or 4 cups of black tea. Unlimited water or herbal teas.
Snacks
30g macadamia nuts
Tips
Save some fish for tomorrow
SATURDAY
Daily Total: Carbs (g) 46 – 48 | Protein (g) 114 – 138 | Fat (g) 158 – 189
Breakfast
2 – 3 eggs scrambled with 1 – 2 pork/beef sausages (no fillers) with sauteed spinach and grated
cheese
Lunch
2 fish cakes made with leftover fish and mayo on crunchy salad of spinach, red cabbage, grated
carrot and radish with an olive oil and apple cider dressing / apple vinaigrette
Dinner
1 – 2 Low carb pancakes filled with spicy Banting mince, with 1/2 smashed avo, 1 – 2 Tbsp sour
cream/ kefired sour cream and grated cheese
Drinks for the day
1/2 cup kombucha (replace one of your drinks with this)
Snacks
1/2 cup kombucha (replace one of your drinks with this)
Tips
Make sure the sausages you use don’t contain gluten. Save some mince, etc for tomorrow’s
lunch. Make extra pancakes for breakfast and store in fridge
SUNDAY
Daily Total: Carbs (g) 63 – 87 | Protein (g) 91 – 99 | Fat (g) 117 – 125
Breakfast
2-3 Low carb pancakes with 1 – 1.5 small bananas, 2 – 3 Tbsp nut butter, cinnamon and a dollop
of yoghurt with 2 rashers crispy bacon
Lunch
Left over spicy Banting mince on 1/2 – 1 buttered sweet potato with 1/2 smashed avo, 1 – 2 Tbsp
sour cream/ kefired sour cream and grated cheese
Dinner
100g – 120g Grilled chicken breast, with sauteed mushrooms and peppers on a bed of courgette
noodles with a squeeze of lemon and a pat of butter
Drinks for the day
2 black coffees a day or 4 cups of black tea. Unlimited water or herbal teas
Snacks
Bone broth
Tips
Plan for next week
Keto recipes:
https://www.thespruceeats.com/best-keto-recipes-4778659
https://www.lowcarbmaven.com/fudgy-keto-brownies/
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STILL NOT CLUED UP ON DIET – PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND
18 Mar 2018
UNBELIEVABLE…Public Health England are still in the 70s when it comes to recommendations about food/calories/portion sizes, they must be sponsored by Papa John’s! These people are responsible for our nation’s health! Let’s take a look at the idiotic statements heard today on LBC’s Nick Ferrari show:
PHE says children eat up to 500 too many calories a day — equivalent to an extra meal WRONG
A HEALTHY diet does not offset the harm of too much salt, say experts. It raises blood pressure which is linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke WRONG
PUBLIC Health England wants people to regulate their diet by eating 400 calories for breakfast, 600 for lunch and 600 for dinner — that’s 1,600 a day WRONG
Snacks and drinks should take the amount up to a daily total of 2,000 calories for women and 2,500 for men WRONG
I’m very surprised they didn’t mention low fat substitues and exercise to complete this debacle! They must have a vested interest in keeping the population eating carbohydrates, otherwise the lid would be blown off by now. Obesity, diabetes and metabolic diseases are NOT caused by excessive calorie intake but by hormones, otherwise nobody would enter puberty as a teen. Did you start eating more and exercising less one day when you were 13 in order to gain body mass? Of course not, and it’s the same in adulthood, hormones (this time insulin) is responsible for weight gain and, don’t forget, it’s completely normal for your body to pack on the pounds if you are eating a “summer” diet rich in carbs and sugar, fattening up for winter.
However, you must at some point start the opposite and regulatory process of eating a “winter” diet. It matters not how much you eat and how much you exercise, but what you eat and when. Your current Western diet of carbs, soda, sweets and fruit is perfect for your “fattening up” phase, but you can’t eat that all year round and expect to remain slim and healthy, you must at some point enter the “hibernation” phase where carbs are slim pickings and you need to shoot a rabbit or dear to survive.
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GLASSES OFF TO READ?
Found this intersting article about people who suffer from BOTH myopia (short-sightedness) and presbyopia (long-sightedness) and what the options are.
After age 40, the single pair of glasses or contact lenses you previously wore generally will no longer give you clear vision at all distances — or at least not without some compromises. These vision problems are caused by presbyopia, which affects all of us beginning in middle age and reduces our ability to see at all distances. Many vision correction options are available, such as presbyopia surgery and multifocal contact lenses or eyeglasses. If you need cataract surgery, you also have the option of choosing multifocal intraocular lenses to restore your ability to see at all distances. In some cases, however, you may need to consider a combination of options to fully address problems caused by presbyopia.
If you are nearsighted, you have an advantage when you reach your 40s. Once presbyopia occurs, nearsighted eyes still see well up-close — if you remove your eyeglasses. Of course, with your glasses removed, distance vision is blurred. So you will need to put your glasses back on to see clearly across the room. Beginning at around age 40, you’ll find that the usual glasses or contacts you always wore will not correct focusing problems caused by presbyopia.The amount of nearsightedness you have determines how close or far you need to hold an item to see it clearly without your glasses on. If you are mildly nearsighted (with a prescription of -1.50 or -2.00 D, for example) you will see very well at a normal reading distance of 14 to 16 inches from your face. But if you’re highly nearsighted (let’s say -5.00 D or higher), you’ll have to bring items much closer to your eyes to see them clearly. If that’s the case, you may want to consider the next option.
http://www.allaboutvision.com/over40/presbyopia-options.htm
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NEVER, EVER BUY A NAS DRIVE! – HERE ARE THE REASONS:
9 May 2018
Network Attached Storage “seems” like a great idea, a nice, neat, little box sitting in the office whirring away storing your office files and not taking up too much room or power. BUT little do you know how dangerous these devices are to your files, in so many ways:
They contain a mirrored pair of hard drives so that if one drive fails the other carries on, but there is no warning because no one is monitoring it, and believe me, it WILL fail eventually.
They run Linux, so unless you know your way around it expertly, you are gonna eventually hit trouble.
You can’t hook up a monitor to it, so if you can’t access it via the network port you are stuffed.
In the event of failure, if you take it apart, remove the drives and hook them up to a PC you *might* be lucky to see the data.
My colleague was asked to help set up a NAS for a new customer, “Throw it in the bin now,” was his advice. “But it’s got two drives”, “Ok, throw both of them in the bin now!”
A NAS drive earlier today, before losing all your data.
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BEFORE YOU REINSTALL WINDOWS
3 Jun 2018
*Here to assume that disk 0 is a booting device.
a) After you boot your computer using Windows 8 DVD or System Repair Disc, a black screen
appears with gray text “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD“. Press any key.
b) Select the correct time and Keyboard type.
c) Click Repair your computer in the lower left corner.
d) Select Troubleshoot from Choose an optionscreen.
e) Click Advanced options in Troubleshootscreen.
f) Click on Command Prompt.
g) Type these following commands and hit enter after each line of command:
“#” is an instruction comment so not to type it 😉
# to execute diskpart program
diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk 0
DISKPART> list volume
# find your system partition with fat32 file system. Here to assume it as volume 2.
DISKPART> select volume 2
# To assign drive letter.
# If you want to remove drive letter, use remove command.
DISKPART> assign letter=b:
# To terminate diskpart command.
DISKPART> exit
# Now, you sould move to b:EFIMicrosoftBoot, as windows stores BCD in this folder.
cd /d b:EFIMicrosoftBoot
# this is not necessary.
ren BCD BCD.bak
# To write a new bootsector on your system partition.
bootrec /fixboot
# If your windows running, you should do from here.
# To create BCD store. “/f ALL” is to update BIOS setting including UEFI firmware/NVRAM.
# Replace “ja-JP” with your language or remove “/l” option if you use English, of course.
# It might be sense only typing “bcdboot c:Windows“.
bcdboot c:Windows /l ja-JP /s b: /f ALL
That’s that. Booting information of your PC has been written over.
Let’s reboot and see whether it go fine or not!”
A couple things to note. First, when using command select disk, this is referring to your Windows 10 boot/repair media located in your CD or USB drive. Second, at the final step I was a little confused by the wording when addressing the language. The command I used was bcdboot c:Windows /l en-US /s b: /f All. That’s about it! I was just about ready to wipe everything out and do a fresh install, so I’m incredibly glad I found this post.
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THE NO. 1 MOST EFFICACIOUS DRUG IS…VITAMIN D
21 Jul 2018
Some recent studies are revealing that Vitamin D is the most important element in the body to fight cancer and a whole raft of other diseases. Vitamin D, or rather a steroid hormone substrate, is produced on exposure to the UVb light from the sun and circulates through the blood system enabling your immune system to respond where necessary.
Unfortunately, over the last few decades we’ve been told to fear the sun, and worse, to stay indoors or use sunscreen whenever we venture outside. But getting proper levels of Vitamin D helps your body fight cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, ms, diabetes and flu. The common cold is mainly active during winter, when exposure to the sun is at it’s year round lowest, and the more northerly people live, the more likely they are to catch a cold.
https://www.creighton.edu/creightonmagazine/2017smrfeaturevitamind/
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OIL DOESN’T COME FROM DEAD CREATURES
9 Jan 2020
“Oil is generated deep in the core of the Earth, it’s like a gigantic oven, and through the enormous temperature and pressure it’s forced up through the granite mantle through fissures and cracks into various reservoirs. It’s basically calcium carbonate and iron. No dead dinosaurs involved.”
This is a really interesting piece because although you can get oil from dead plants and marine organisms, you can also get it a-biotically. NASA’s Cassini probe has discovered what is most probably hydrocarbons on Titan, one of Saturn’s moons and which amounts to more than all the oil on Earth. Since there has never been biogenic life on Titan it must be a-biotic. A-biotic “oil” has also been created in the lab as well, so we know it’s certainly possible.
The next step is to create hydrocarbon fuel from carbon in the atmosphere, using the power of the sun to knock out oxygen atoms of the donor carbon material, water (H2O) is converted into hydrogen (H2), and carbon dioxide (CO2) turns into carbon monoxide (CO), which can be used to produce fuel: specifically, gaseous or fluid hydrocarbons such as methane, petrol and diesel.
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KETO DIET…STRANGE OUTCOMES
9 Jan 2020
After another alcohol and chocolate fuelled Xmas, I believe I am still feeling the benefits of my Ketogenic diet experiment of May to July. The keto diet is 75% fat, 20% protein and just 5% carbs which has the effect of switching the body into burning ketones for fuel instead of the normal Western source, sugar. At one time, people in the northern or southern hemispheres would have entered ketosis during the winter months, living off stored fat from a carb-filled summer and mainly eating livestock or game. Of course, these days, a supermarket on every corner takes away this important, annual, physiological process. But switching to a keto diet by force teaches your body about this process again and it doesn’t forget about it easily! I am virtually incapable of gaining weight, even after several blowouts of gigantic proportions along with booze, chocolates and mince pies.
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