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.

Diabetes

Pretty sure that 18:6 intermittent fasting would cure type 2 diabetes. The 6 hours of ketosis you would get from that would give your beta cells a compete rest, and they would start to restore themselves.

Just 3 to 6 months of 18:6 should do the trick, especially if your diet is nutritious and at a reasonable level of calories.

There has been a lot of research concerning beta cell regeneration because they know that that would basically cure diabetes, but so far, that’s a complete failure. Diabetes happens when the beta cells die, so that the pancreas cannot produce adequate levels of insulin.

Beta cells work the opposite of muscles. When you really work muscle, it gets stronger, but when you overwork a beta cell, it dies.

I don’t think you need a ketogenic diet with 18:6 intermittent fasting because you get the ketosis from the fasting, but a diet that’s moderate in carbohydrates and somewhat higher in fat would be a good choice. You don’t want excessive carbohydrates, which would spike insulin, but fat has no impact on spiking insulin.

Not A Dope

How To Extend Ketosis

For those of you who are doing intermittent fasting, there is an easy way to really extend ketosis after one day of intermittent fasting.

I do 19:5 intermittent fasting. It is just the way I eat now, and don’t even have to think about doing it. But that means beginning at the 12th hour of my 19 hour fast, only then does ketosis begin with ketone production by the liver. So I regularly get just 7 hours of increasing ketosis, and then, when I eat, it stops abruptly.

The question is how to extend that ketosis the next day without doing an additional 24 hour fast? I’ve discovered a trick to do that with what I’m calling a “Keto day”.

I really don’t believe in the Keto diet because the long term results are not at all healthy with the most serious consequence being increased probability of heart disease. The body just isn’t designed to be socked on a daily basis with that huge quantify of fat in the diet.

But my Keto day is different, as it is just a single day. And here is the secret — fat doesn’t spike insulin at all — nothing, and with a Keto day, you get so little carbohydrates, it isn’t going to restore your glycogen levels at all.

So what happens is that, with me, at that hour that I eat, there is no insulin response for another 24 hours. So instead of getting just 7 hours of ketosis over the 48 hours, I will get 31 hours of ketosis — without having to do an additional 24 hour fast the second day. Pretty cool trick, no?

Health

Functional Medicine Roadblock

The roadblock to functional medicine is that it isn’t covered by traditional health insurance, so you can’t take claims out for visits and tests.

That’s what keeps traditional medicine firmly in place despite the fact that traditional medicine is so weak on telling you how to live for wellness and what tests it can provide that really miss so many important aspects of one’s health.

Traditional medicine is kind of a joke in a way — all about pills and surgery and nothing about lifestyle — whereas functional medicine is clearly the future, but being held back because of this roadblock.

Perhaps Kennedy can do something about this.

Food Order

Ukraine Election

There should be a presidential election in Ukraine to see if the country still supports this proxy war against Russia.

During the American Civil War, in 1864 there was still a presidential election with Lincoln pitted against the peace candidate McClelland. Lincoln won and the war continued, but I don’t think that would be the case in Ukraine.

I think the Ukranian people have a right to say whether they want the proxy war against Russia to continue. Americans were given that right in 1864, even at the height of our civil war. That’s called democracy.

Russia’s Concern