The 'Hunt For Health'

When you consider the history of all the research, their are centuries of evidence that date all the way back to 3,000 BC, around the benefit of minerals. There are also, mountains of scientific, historical, cultural and anthropological evidence demonstrating the benefits of saturated fat and cholesterol on human health; however, like most of the data (even though widely available if you look), it has been surpressed through social media and research companies that have been paid to keep it quiet, or to only publish half of the data. Indeed, people have been destroyed through lack of knowledge, and for the last 100 years minimum, there has been a medical monoply to promote allopathic (known as reductionistic) medicine to literally legislate themselves as the “go-to” people.

It should make you angry to know that there has been thousands of years of research and practices supressed, because the Robber Barons, Doctors, political figures, and pharmaceutical companies want to have more money, recognition and power. In particular, the pharmaceutical companies make anywhere from £billions to £trillions collectively, worldwide. They literally pay congress and other political figures and researchers to supress or hide important fundamental data that could help you and your family recover from “auto-” immune (which it isn’t really) and other diseases, which is why journalists like Gary Taubes, and Nina Teicholz have to interview these people to get the truth out of them, because they’re all fucking liars. Isn’t it a scientist’s duty to always look to challenge their hypothesis?

It also speaks on a cultural level, because if these people are easily bought and paid for, it means they have low moral values and have very little personal standards. Money is fuel, and should NEVER be used as an “end goal”. Let us drop the ‘low-moral and politically-challenged’ nonsense, and look at the true data objectively to gain clarity. It doesn’t matter if the research is old or new, if it’s true, then the age of the data is completely and utterly, irrelevant!

Let’s start with saturated fat and cholesterol, because historically speaking, it has so much anthropological and cultural data to back it up, that it’s insane.

Saturated Fat & Cholesterol

Vilhjalmur Stefansson was the son of Icelandic immigrants to America, and a Harvard-trained Athropologist who chose to live the the Inuit tribe and the Canadian Arctic in 1906. Stefansson documented his time there and was shocked to discover some astounding facts about the Inuit that challenged his beliefs about fats, and that would challenge ours, today. One of those facts was mainly that the Inuit lived primarily off of high-fat-based animals such as Caribou (deer) meat, fish, and eggs. And, it should be noted that this depended on the season. It was Stefansson who wrote, “I might tell you, correctly, that the chief food of a certain group of Eskimos with whom I lived was caribou meat, with perhaps 30 per cent fish, 10 per cent seal meat, and 5 or 10 per cent made up of polar bear, rabbits, birds, and eggs." And what George V. Mann found was no different.

George V. Mann was a doctor and professor of biochemistry, and was born in 1917 in Fort Dodge, Central Iowa. He lived an extensive life producing over 200 articles on the subject of heart disease and cholesterol in his 95 years on earth. Some of these articles he published on cholesterol were counterintuitive because they were showing that cholesterol and fats were actually 'good' for people (Mann, Spoerry et al, 1972). In addition to this, I think you'd be interested to know that in 1949 Mann was an Established investigator for the American Heart Association, and in 1955 Mann became the Associate Director of the Frammingham Heart Study (University of Minnesotta, October 15, 2012).

As well as the above evidence multiple studies have denoted the nonsense around saturated fat. Evidence is evidence, and opinions are not facts . . .

A study published in the 'Journal of Diabetes Research', Walton, Perry et al reported findings on the 'Improvement in Glycemic and Lipid Profiles in Type 2 Diabetics with a 90-Day Ketogenic Diet'. They found that all eleven participants who agreed to take part, 'lost siginifcant weight', and that their blood pressure and blood sugar levels dropped. Other things to note in this particular study were:

⦁ The purpose of reporting those clinical cases was to reveal the meaningful changes over 90 days of a low-carbohydrate and ketogenic dietary intervention in female type 2 diabetics aged 18-45.

⦁ While the reduction in LDL cholesterol was not significant, triglycerides in the blood dropped significantly (p.<0.005), while HDL cholesterol increased (p.<0.005).

⦁ The triglyceride:HDL ratio decreased significantly from 4.6 + 0.8 to 1.6 + 0.2 (p.<0.005).

⦁ And it's important to note that the triglyceride:HDL ratio is a better predictor of heart disease than is LDL cholesterol, and these participants decreased that ratio.

Other studies that have shown significant improvements in peoples' lipid profiles (Unwin, Tobin, Murray et al, 2019), and in their blood sugar (Webster, Murphy, Larmuth et al, 2019; Skytte, Samkani, Peterson et al, 2019; Choi, Jeon, Shin, 2005; Unwin, Khalid, Unwin et al, 2020; McKenzie et al, 2021; Goldenberg et al, 2021; Ahmed, Bellamkonda et al, 2020; and Lim, Hollingsworth et al, 2011) have been cited; so can we finally put an end to this nonsense notion of saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for us? The evidence points in the opposite direction.

MINERALS

The health benefits of minerals, and what forms, ratios and amounts to take, aren’t really taught. However, the consquences of the lack of knowledge around this topic is the difference between health and disease. Minerals are still misunderstood, and some essential for human health, are still perpetuated (mainly by the allopathic MD’s) as toxic, and this is just nonsense!

People who have lived in third-world cultures and other folk who lived in rural areas across the world all had one thing in common, they all put the wood ashes in their gardens as a type of family tradition and ritual - it’s something they were taught by the parents, and it was passed down generation-to-generation. Well little did they know, that habit was keeping them health, because the wood ashes are the minerals after you burn away the csarbon in the wood (Wallach, Lan, 2008).

There are countless studies on the positive effects of minerals (Jugdaohsingh, 2007; Neilsen, 1990; O’Dell, Savage, 1957; Roman, Jitaru et al, 2014; Santi et al, 2017; Starcher, Hill et al, 1980; Wang et al, 2020; Navarro-Alarcon, Cabrera-Vique, 2008; Jacobsen, Jonsen, 1975; Ehligh et al, 1967; Birringer et al, 2002; Baraboĭ, Shestakova, 2004), and the medical profession still try and push the stupid notion that minerals should be approached “cautiously”. People need nutrition at optimal levels and not at the levels in which most doctors recommend. People should be optimally healthy instead of paying attention to the outdated RDA’s. You guys are awesome and deserve the best nutrition at optimal levels and in the correct form.

Thank you for reading everyone! I am always looking to improve and appreciate your feedback. It means a lot to me that you’re engaging so thank you.

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