Health bene¦ts of garlic

There are references to garlic in ancient medical texts from Egypt, Greece, China, India and Rome

Hippocrates, regarded as the father of medicine, prescribed it for abdominal and uterine growths, pulmonary problems and as a cleansing agent

Garlic is rich in health-promoting bioactive compounds, such as organic sulfides, saponins, phenolics and polysaccharides

Garlic is a powerful antioxidant with anti-inflammatory, anticancer, antifungal and antibacterial properties

Garlic’s therapeutic properties may act synergistically to support heart health and protect against heart-related events like heart attack

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Should You Wash Your Produce?

The FDA recommends you wash your produce to reduce foodborne pathogens, but has determined washing meat only spreads bacteria and doesn’t remove it from your food

Cooking kills bacteria on meat, but most produce is eaten raw; using vinegar reduces bacterial load on produce, and baking soda reduces your exposure to pesticides

After an 18-month surveillance of imported and locally grown avocados, the U.S. FDA found 17% of the skins of the fruits were contaminated with Listeria; less than 1% was contaminated with Salmonella or the meat of the fruits with Listeria

It is important to keep soaps away from your produce as residue remains, exposing you to toxic chemicals from the soap and pesticides remaining on the fruit

Safer alternatives to using running water is baking soda and water to degrade pesticide residue and a white vinegar and water mixture to kill foodborne pathogens on produce

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Glycine Fights Viruses

Collagen accounts for about 30% of the total protein in your body; 28% of collagen, in turn, is made up of the amino acid glycine

Glycine is the amino acid with the highest concentration in connective tissue. Its bene¦ts go far beyond connective tissue health as glycine has anti-in§ammatory effects, acts as a neurotransmitter, and plays an important role in the epigenetic regulation that drives
the aging process

Glycine helps protect against viruses by reinforcing the extracellular matrix, which acts as a physical barrier to infectious agents such as bacteria, fungi and viruses

Most people need 8.5 to 10 grams more glycine than what their bodies can synthesize in a day

To boost your glycine intake, either eat more collagen or gelatin-rich foods and take a high-quality collagen or gelatin supplement, or supplement with pure glycine, which is available in powder form and tends to be very affordable

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The right exercise volume

If you’re sedentary and begin to exercise, you get a dose-dependent decrease in mortality, diabetes, depression, high blood pressure, coronary disease, osteoporosis, sarcopenia, falls and more

People who are doing the highest volume of vigorous exercise start losing longevity benefits. If you’re doing full distance triathlons when you're in your 40s and 50s, your risk of atrial fibrillation increases by 500% to 800%

In the case of moderate exercise — loosely defined as exercising to the point where you're slightly winded but can still carry on a conversation — there’s clear evidence that more IS better and cannot be overdone

Every 1,000 steps you get on average per day reduces your mortality by 10% to 15%. Benefits plateau around 12,000 steps (6 miles) a day

Strength training adds another 19% reduction in all-cause mortality on top of the 45% reduction that you get from one hour of moderate exercise per day. However, benefits cease once you go beyond one hour per week. The sweet spot is 20 to 40 minutes of strength training, two to three times a week. Above 60 minutes per week, the benefits of strength training are nullified, and you’re worse off than if you did no resistance training at all

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Mistakes Athletes Make

Runners can jeopardize their life by drinking too much water during a long-distance event. An estimated 10% to 20% of people have inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone and retain fluid even though they're overhydrated. As a result, they can lose consciousness and may die unless treated with concentrated salt solutions

The treatment for overhydration is to give a high-saline IV (3% to 5% sodium). The sodium will absorb and help expel the excess water through urination, typically resulting in rapid recovery

For non-athletes who are metabolically inflexible and have insulin resistance, a low-carb diet can help you regain your metabolic flexibility

Dr. Mercola believes that once you’ve regained your metabolic flexibility, scienti¦c evidence suggests a diet higher in carbs (primarily from ripe fruit) and restricting fat to about 30% of calories can optimize energy production and minimize harmful reactive oxygen species (ROS) production
 

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Flight attendants get more cancer !

While previous research has found flight attendants have higher rates of breast cancer and melanoma, research expands that list, finding the same trend for non-melanoma, uterine, cervical, gastrointestinal and thyroid cancers as well

Compared to the general population, female cabin crew report 1.5 times higher rates of breast cancer, over twice the melanoma and four times the rate of non-melanoma skin cancer

Breast cancer rates are also higher among flight attendants with multiple children, which is surprising as childbirth and breastfeeding lower a woman’s risk of breast cancer

Explanations for the elevated cancer risk among flight attendants include circadian rhythm disruptions due to irregular work schedules, exposure to carcinogens such as pesticides, fire retardant chemicals and jet fuel, and exposure to high levels of cosmic ionizing radiation

I describe an inexpensive supplemental strategy to radically lower the damage from exposure to gamma radiation by commercial flying
 

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Lessons from the Smallpox Vaccine

 The smallpox vaccine was an unproven therapy promoted by a conman the medical community was initially skeptical of. However, once doctors were paid to administer it and supported by the state for doing so, they reversed their position

The smallpox vaccine caused a wide range of severe injuries, and rather than prevent smallpox, frequently caused outbreaks. Rather than reconsider the vaccine, governments and doctors covered it up and doubled down on the vaccine — something almost identical to what we saw throughout COVID-19

Increasingly draconian vaccine mandates led to greater and greater public protest, which culminated a century after the vaccine’s invention with the vaccination mandates being overturned — which not long after was followed by the disappearance of smallpox

Physicians who were able to observe the introduction of the vaccine cataloged a remarkable number of health complications develop in their patients. Many of these illnesses have since come to be seen as “normal” and the more severe ones parallel injuries observed with the COVID-19 vaccines
 

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