Never say never.
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 Boost/Diversity Your Microbiome
Eat more fermented food. Sauerkraut. Kefir. Plant-based yogurt. Cottage cheese. Goat cheese. Kimchi. Kombucha. Tempera. Tofu. Probiotic pill. Plant-based cream cheese. Miso.
Make a regular probiotic smoothie with many of the above as ingredients — plus a large dollop of fiber.
Serotonin Levels
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.
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.
