Edible plants suffer from oxidative stress from UV light just like humans. The polyphenols they create to protect themselves we take advantage of when we eat them.
Category: Health
Autophagy
I’m wondering whether a 48-hour fast once a month, forever, would keep you safe from all the major diseases. My reasoning is that all the major diseases — heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. — start with oxidative stress that damages cell DNA with a free radical searching for missing electrons. The 48-hour fast would induce a very intense autophagy that would pretty much put a halt to oxidative stress and any chronic inflammation. The fast would also strengthen one’s immune cells.
Processed Foods
Best thing you can do for your diet and health is stop eating processed foods, which is about 85% of what you find in a typical supermarket.
Food companies are not interested in your health; they are interested in making money off of you with highly palatable but unhealthy processed foods.
Instead, learn how to cook with whole foods — real food, not crazy chemicals.
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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.
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.
Health
Is a choice, not an accident.
Best Ever
If you know what you are doing nutritionally and do your own cooking, you can create a diet that is the best ever for your health. Literally, a territory that has never before been explored. Like the Star Trek line: “Where no man has gone before.” An adventure in better health.
Food, Not an Enemy
When you know how to eat for nutrition, food is an ally, not an enemy.
Health
The body heals itself if you give it what it needs. Why nutrition is so important.
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