They have discovered that women have seriously lower serotonin levels than men. What this means is that women may be much more prone to depression, while men might be much more inclined toward a happy go lucky attitude. Serotonin makes one feel contented.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
How to Beat Diabetes
And even simpler way to beat diabetes is 18:6 intermittent fasting. The last 6 hours of that 18-hour fasting period — because you haven’t eaten any carbohydrates at all — you have extremely low glucose levels, verging on hypoglycemia, and therefore much greater insulin sensitivity, which is the opposite of insulin resistance — the root cause of diabetes.
A month of this regiment and you won’t need to take any Metformin.
But doctors don’t tell you any of this. They just prescribe Metformin. For doctors, “medicine” comes down to pills and prescriptions. Duh.
Overcoming Diabetes
A healthy plant-based diet will turn around pre-diabetic and diabetic conditions in a matter of just weeks. Not resolve these conditions, but seriously improve them, and definitely move the person in the right direction — without drugs. Compex carbohydrates and lots of fiber, not much meat or oil. But this would require no processed food at all.
One would need to go radically from the SAD diet to a healthy plant-based diet overnight. That would be the challenge. And most people don’t have the insight into nutrition to be able to do that, and then there is the issue of having the willpower to do it, which is also problematic.
Mistakes
Amazing how many mistakes one makes in a single day. Most people just ignore minor mistakes and move on, but if you register and keep track of all of them, they add up big time. Of course, there are those people who are much more meticulous and deliberate in their actions, and so make far fewer mistakes, but I think this is a tiny minority. Most of us makes dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of mistakes every day. I think therefore that humanity is actually very mistake prone — perhaps much more mistake prone then is commonly realized.
Useful Question
Why are you eating what you eat?
Antidepressant
I’ve been on an antidepressant now for 15 years, but there was a mix-up in renewing the prescription recently, and I had to be off it for 3 days while my providers sent an emergency supply to me. I was very concerned with harsh withdrawal symptoms. Yet what really annoyed me was being so dependent on others for this drug to get to me in a regular way. I didn’t like that dependency at all.
I was bracing for the withdrawal symptoms, but by the end of the 3rd day, I had felt nothing — nada. So when the pills arrived in the mail, I had a decision to make. Do I go back on the medication or do I quite the antidepressant?
It has now been a month without the antidepressant, and all those terrible withdrawal symptoms that they talk about and warn about — none of them happened.
Makes me wonder whether I’ve been taking this antidepressant for the last few years unnecessarily?
Binders and Toxins
Something new for me — binders. These are substances that can bind with toxins in the body in order to remove them. Chlorella, clay, charcoal, etc. are standard binders. You can get a pill/supplement that has a combination of all the common binders.
Prevailing sentiment these days is that we are all subject to a vast number of toxins in our environment, so that it may be wise to take one of these supplements now and then in order to detox more efficiently.
The one thing you have to watch out for with binders is constipation, which is counterproductive for removing toxins, as bowel movements are a major vehicle for removing toxins. So if you are experiencing constipation, that is a signal that you need to back off your use of binders or lower the dosage.
Health
What gives you health? Nutrition. Sleep. Exercise. Stress management. Pills and surgery don’t.
Food Addiction
Much more common than people realize. Perhaps 75% of the population. Think those particular foods, like donuts, that you know are unhealthy, but you eat them regularly anyway. That’s food addiction.
Not only do you eat unhealthy food, but it creates craving and hunger with insulin spikes.
Conversely, when you become fat adapted, hunger is uncommon, and you seldom feel cravings for food.
Inflexible Diet Regimens
What I find is that people who follow a particular diet too fanatically often rationalize and therefore attempt to dismiss the weaknesses in their diet.
For instance, the followers of the carnivore diet take issue with the idea that saturated fat can produce heart problems or that eating all that much fiber is necessary. Problem is saturated fat has been proven to cause a spike in blood cholesterol, which you don’t want, and everyone now knows that getting plenty of fiber is critical for supporting a healthy microbiome. So instead of being typical deniers of these facts, those who follow a carnivore diet should instead figure out a way to minimize, to the extent possible, their saturated fat intake as well as a way to boost fiber consumption.
Another example would be followers of the vegan diet. Here the problem isn’t what most people think — getting enough protein — but instead getting enough Omega 3 fats DHA and EPA. Everyone knows that the body can be very inefficient in converting ALA to both of these other Omega 3 fats, so that eating a large amount of, say, flax meal isn’t going to correct this deficiency. Yesterday, I listened to an ethical vegan who tried to make the argument that science hadn’t actually proven that getting substantial amounts of DHA and EPA was all that critical — I say, baloney! Here again, what vegans should do instead is admit this shortcoming and perhaps introduce a small amount of wild-caught salmon to their diets to address this serious deficiency.
I think a lot of the confusion about food stems from this inclination of fanatics committed to a certain way of eating who attempt to rationalize and dismiss the shortcomings in their diet. The unfounded assertions they make lead to a lot of confusion, particularly when they say — and they frequently do — that science supports their point of view when in fact it clearly doesn’t.
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