Avoiding Lectins

Many lectins are proinflammatory, immunotoxic, neurotoxic and cytotoxic. Certain lectins may also increase blood viscosity, interfere with gene expression and disrupt endocrine function

Among the most problematic lectin-containing foods are corn, corn-fed meats, casein A1 milk, peanuts, cashews and unfermented soybeans. These are best avoided altogether

High-lectin foods such as legumes and grains can be made safe to eat by proper soaking and cooking. Sprouting, fermenting and removing skins and seeds will also help reduce lectins in your diet

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Use apple cider vinegar at night ! !

NBC News reported that half the U.S. population suffers from either high blood sugar or full-blown diabetes, and half of them don’t even realize it

Eleven study subjects had a little apple cider vinegar with cheese as a bedtime snack and woke up the next day with significantly lowered blood glucose levels

Apple cider vinegar is useful for a number of health-related conditions, such as balancing your pH, increasing your good gut bacteria and helping to control your weight

ACV uses are various and unexpected; its antibacterial effects help cure athlete’s foot and heal wounds, the acetic acid helps tone your skin and treat dandruff and the same compounds make it useful for cleaning around the house

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Vitamin B12 vital for tissue regeneration

Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is required for healthy nerve function and the synthesis of red blood cells and DNA. B vitamins are also important for healthy immune function, which is your first line of defense against all diseases

According to recent research, vitamin B12 is a key player in cellular regeneration, as it’s the limiting factor for methylation. DNA in cells that need to be repaired require high levels of methylation, hence high amounts of B12 are required to regenerate damaged tissues

Vitamin B12, applied topically, has also been shown to be helpful in the treatment of radiodermatitis, i.e., skin damaged by radiotherapy used in cancer treatment

A deficiency in B12 increases inflammation and oxidative stress by raising homocysteine. B12 deficiency is also associated with many other physical, neurological and psychological symptoms, including migraines, certain respiratory disorders, depression, memory loss and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)

Vitamin B12 is found almost exclusively in animal foods such as beef and beef liver, lamb, snapper, venison, salmon, shrimp, scallops, poultry, eggs and dairy products. If you rarely eat these foods, consider using nutritional yeast, which is high in B12. Sublingual fine mist spray or vitamin B12 injections are also effective

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Hormones you need more of

Four hormones most adults can benefit from are progesterone, thyroid hormone T3, DHEA and pregnenolone

Around the ages of 11 and 12, right before puberty, the hormonal profiles of boys and girls are relatively similar. They produce about the same amounts of pregnenolone and progesterone. This is also the time when thyroid hormone levels are the highest they’ll ever be, and it’s the time in a person’s life cycle when their mortality is the lowest. Most supplementation recommendations are based on these prepubescent levels

To optimize bioavailability, take T3, DHEA and/or pregnenolone orally, after dissolving them in a long-chain fat (14 carbons or more) such as ghee or butter

The normal daily output of DHEA by the adrenal gland is about 20 to 50 milligrams (mg), so for most people, the max DHEA dose would be 50 mg, ideally split into several smaller doses. Human studies have shown that once you take more than 50 mg of DHEA per day, you begin to increase estrogen biomarkers

As a general recommendation, I recommend taking 30 to 50 mg of bioidentical progesterone per a day, taken in the evening before bed, as it can promote sleep. The same dose (30 to 50 mg a day) is recommended for pregnenolone. This is the physiological dose, meaning it’s what you need for full replenishment, assuming you're producing nothing 

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Sabotaging & discrediting VAERS

Because of the government’s commitment to the vaccination program, there have been numerous incidents where the FDA ignored the warnings of its own scientists in order to push a dangerous (and often “emergency”) vaccine onto the market

When the National Vaccine Injury Act was passed in 1986, one of the primary concerns of the parents who fought for it was that no one would let them report vaccine injuries. This mattered because the lack of injuries being reported was used to argue the injuries did not exist 

VAERS in turn was created so the public had a way to both report vaccine injuries and see what injuries were actually being reported

The government never wanted a public database which could expose the harms of it’s vaccines to exist, so ever since VAERS was created, it has done everything it could to undermine and discredit VAERS. In this article, we will review the evidence showing how that behavior has continued to the present day

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Heartburn medication: Zantac or the alternatives ?

Ranitidine heartburn medications, including those commonly known by the brand name Zantac, may contain a cancer-causing chemical called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA)

NDMA is a nitrosamine chemical that was formerly used to make rocket fuel and lubricants

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classifies NDMA as a probable human carcinogen

Past research revealed that exposure to NDMA led to abnormal growths called neoplasms and liver abnormalities in rats, even at low doses

Ranitidine is an H2 (histamine-2) blocker, which is used to prevent and relieve heartburn by decreasing the amount of acid in your stomach, but more often than not, heartburn is the result of insufficient amounts of acid

Eating real food and infusing your gut microbiome with beneficial bacteria from traditionally fermented foods may help resolve heartburn naturally 

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Parkinson's disease starts in the gut

Parkinson’s disease may originate in the gastrointestinal tract

Researchers injected misfolded alpha-synuclein, a protein linked to Parkinson’s disease, into the guts of healthy mice, then tracked it

One month later, it had turned up in the brainstem, while after three months it had traveled to the brain’s amygdala and midbrain; within seven and 10 months, it had turned up in even more regions of the brain

The researchers also injected the misfolded proteins into the guts of mice that had a severed vagus nerve; after seven months, no signs of cell death were present in the mice brains, and it appeared that the proteins were not able to advance to the brain

Problems with memory and anxiety also appeared in the intact vagus nerve mice that received the misfolded proteins in their guts, which were not seen in the other groups of mice 

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