Sometimes writing lifts me out of a dark place. Maybe this will remind us of the new light we have after the darkness.
We all go through hard times and it’s in that place that we grow. Sometimes it’s the darkest times that teach us, they make us aware of experiences that have been given to us. They give us perspective.
When I was 17 I really wanted this car my friend was selling. I asked my father if he could help me get the car. He said “sure do you need a ride to pick it up”. I said “no Dad, I mean financially”. He looked at me and said, “ohh, well, if you really want that car, you’re going to have to get a job. Cars cost money, even just to get them on the road”. I remember at that time being so bummed out he wouldn’t just get his check book and buy the car for me, doesn’t that sound like a 17 year old. He never gave me a dime for that car but he did help me. He used my strong desire for that car. and in my fathers ways forced me to get a job. He then co-signed a loan for me. I’ll never forget my first loan, it was a 3 year personal loan. I borrowed 3800 dollars with an 18% interest rate (thanks Jimmy Carter) which cost 138 dollars a month. I got the car and I made every payment with money I worked for. I paid the car off over the 3 years.
Not long after I got the car my father got sick and eventually passed away. It wasn’t until after he was gone I realized what he had given to me. He taught me if I wanted something I had to work for it, and that hard work can get you where you want to go. After my father was gone I couldn’t believe how much I missed his way of pushing me to earn what I get. It was that dark time in my life, losing my father, that engrained that lesson deep inside of me. It made me see the real gift he had given to me that I will never forget.
There are no certainties in life’s path, but I know many kids growing up whose parents did write that check, over and over again, and the child fell on their hypothetical face in life. Their parents never gave them that lesson that they needed, that opportunity was missed to build the character of earning what you get.
We all lived through those 4 very dark years ruled by a man that lived his whole life being paid with money taken from the hands of others hard work. In his whole life it would be hard to find a thing that he built that benefitted anyone more than it benefited himself. He lied to us over and over again to push his tyrannical power grabbing agenda and at his peak of power he called himself Dark Joe. These dark times Joe forced on us made us realize what we were losing. Those dark days toughened us. It brought into the light how fragile our freedom is. It gave us a new strength, a new administration, and a new President that spent his whole life building things. It gave us a President that is trying his hardest to give us back our bill of rights and bring into light the decades and decades of corruption. Those dark times we all suffered through, especially DJT, just might be what saves this country.
It’s like a seed. A seed that is always left out in the light will never reach its potential. It’s in that dark place, under the earth, that the seed grows into the beautiful producing plant it was meant to be.
Happy Friday Everyone, Keep the Faith!! J.Goodrich
When my daughter was in her early 20’s she told me “I’m glad you didn’t give me everything I wanted but you gave me everything I needed”. I count that as a success.
While I did write the check, I also insisted she get her degree. She wanted to become a “beach comber”, to which I replied, ok but you will be an educated beach comber”. On graduation day she thanked me for insisting. She went on to build a successful business and started helping out with my bills
And now we know why the dems and rinos have worked so feverishly to destroy the American family and separate fathers from their children with "no fault" divorces which make lawyers rich and families destroyed. (Present company excepted, Jeff.) Destroyed families lead to destroyed children - look at only one example: transbullshitism.
So, regarding May 17, just as I drove 4 days to be at J6 to use my Constitutional right to free speech and petition the government to address the manipulated election (and watched with my own eyes the deep state operation play out against Trump and us), Jeff, I will meet you on the mall on May 17th to thank God for helping Trump begin to restore the USA. It will be a blessed and wonderful day, although you can bet the criminal elitist dems, rinos, deep state which still exists and the rotten media will be there with their foot soldiers to disrupt and create a hate filled lie, just as they did on J6.
I hope everyone else is coming too. 10 Million people is a nice round number!
No I had worked with my Uncle Ben who was a plumber starting when I was 14, days off and Saturdays. He actually taught me a ton of different trades. I soldered copper pipes, radiators, threaded pipe, removed boilers painted houses with him, even some carpentry which is what I do for a living now. I should have stayed plumbing$$$$
Are you for hire? I’ve found it impossible to find an honest contractor who can even do a half ass job. You see, I was raised the same way, but age has got the best of me. I used to do everything myself.right.the first time. Now, if I find anyone, none seem to take pride in their work and it shows. I have 1/2 finished shed, improperly installed window. Shabby deck construction. 😢😢 and now looking at furnace replacement which scares the heck outta me.
I used to measure once and cut twice until I discovered I couldn't cut longer the 2nd time. Now I measure twice and cut once. It's easier to do it myself than to fix a screwed up job that someone else did.
My parents never gave me money for anything. Hence I worked at Dunkin’ Donuts when I was 14 (looked older, lied about my age..sorry). Walked to work, about 2 miles. Next job was a bus girl in a Greek restaurant….With our five kids, we never gave them a car. They also went to work early and paid for their own cars and insurance….guess what? They thanked us for not handing them everything. They have wonderful work ethics and are all productive members of society. They know how to do their own laundry too!!
Plus GOD warned us in HIS word about being under a ruler who tightens the bough on our necks. Remember when HE tried to get "Israel" not to be like other nations rules by a king. They were to be a nation under GOD'S rule and direction
I have received the same encouragement from my kids who had to do it the old fashioned way (Smith Barney), while their friends where given the new cars and 'cool stuff'. They thank me now, and remind me if I feel guilty at all, they accept Venmo and Zelle...
Having MOSTLY given up bread over ten years ago, I occasionally indulged in a Dave’s killer bagel. Dammit. Good thing we have a cottage sourdough baker in the neighborhood. Just gotta convince her to offer bagels. Her English muffins are amazing!
Dave's has tried to source all organic ingredients since its inception. It is almost impossible to source uncontaminated food in the US and much of the world. It is far better than the old commercial stalwarts.
Grind your own flour and make sourdough. Even those with gluten sensitivity can eat that bread. Watch this video from Bread Beckers about what they have done to wheat to make commercial flour. It certainly opened my eyes to why wheat is so important in our life due to its nutrients that have been removed by the industry and have to be added back into our diet through artificial means.
Promise her that you will make the bread sometimes. There are many men who bake bread and do it well. It's a creative experience. You decide what goes in the loaf of bread and you can choose different seasonings and spices.
I have a Wonder Mill. But do some research because there are many options and price ranges. And do invest in the book by the Beckers, "The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book". It contains all you need to know to get started.
That’s the only flour I buy now. It lasts me forever because we don’t eat many carbs anymore but at least when I do need flour I know it’s healthy and properly grown.
Here are the TWO flour products we analyzed to date that tested safe by all standards when analyzing for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic: #1 tested “non-detect” for all four while #2 tested positive for traces of Arsenic, but at a level that is considered safe by all standards (very low, trace amounts). All of the other flour products we have tested to date tested positive for concerning levels of toxicants:
I haven’t eaten ‘gluten’ for years. I call my choice ‘gluten free’ because that has become the catchphrase, but it’s really a wheat allergy and or more probably a Round Up intolerance/allergy.
I sometimes have trouble with gluten, too, so I've walked this path. I've learned that plenty of gluten-free foods are made from crops also treated with glyphosate (oats, corn, legumes). Simply being gluten-free doesn't necessarily lower glyphosate exposure.
Some reports even claim that gluten-free products have higher glyphosate. (I wish Florida would do some verification/testing on that hypothesis!)
And organic gluten-free products are currently pretty hard to find. That's a pretty niche market and I'm sure the prices would give your average "Nature's Own Butter Bread" customer some serious sticker shock. There's a reason they spray everything with glyphosate: it drives down production costs and risks.
A lot of the problems with oats are that oats are processed on the same equipment as wheat, thus high cross-contamination. And yes glyphosates are a problem too. Luckily I can eat corn products and other gf breads, but try to limit them due to the sugars content.
Everything gluten-free is more expensive, and then add in better oils and non-Gmo you’re really up there. You’re right, organic even worse.
One nuance that’s worth mentioning is that glyphosate is, unfortunately, nearly ubiquitous at this point—even showing up in very small amounts in some organic products. For example, imagine a monocrop field of organic wheat located a quarter mile from a large conventional wheat field. When the conventional farmer applies a glyphosate “burn-down,” some drift is almost inevitable.
Because complete avoidance has become so difficult, a more realistic (and sanity-preserving) approach is minimizing exposure as much as reasonably possible. In that context, I still see Dave’s brand as the lesser of two evils among mainstream grocery-store brands, since the testing suggests it reduces exposure by roughly 94%.
I’m genuinely surprised and impressed that two non-organic brands were able to achieve non-detectable levels. I honestly don’t know how they accomplished that, and it really underscores the value of testing.
Actually, I was surprised that my favorite grocery store bread tested "free" or safe - Sarah Lee Artesano bread - it's white bread, but has real bread taste - you know the good bread taste you get from yeast rolls? THAT is the taste I get from it.
Several years ago I saw a clip of someone saying "It will kill you, it's right in the name ..." unfortunately, we occasionally buy it because it is the lesser of evils when needed.
My BIL farms and they use roundup frequently, especially as a drying agent when he gets ready to harvest wheat corn and soybeans. I’d never eat any of the products that are considered GMO altered.
Where does he farm? Roundup is really expensive. Around here, (Southern Illinois), they just wait for it to dry naturally. I can't imagine any farmer spending the extra money when they could just wait the extra time, unless it's a very wet climate.
Interesting... if this is accurate, looks like should I ever stray from not eating the crap in the 1st place: McDs and Chipotle would be my fast flubs:
Great addition. McDonald's results were surprisingly low. Subway was horrifying, as was the Starbucks Impossible breakfast sandwich. Good to know In-N-Out is low and trace amounts for their basic border and fries.
I'm sad about Dave's Killer. I trusted them. You really can't be sure unless you buy organic flour from a farmer you can actually visit and look in the eye.
Actually, I was surprised that my favorite grocery store bread tested "free" or safe - Sarah Lee Artesano bread - it's white bread, but has real bread taste - you know the good bread taste you get from yeast rolls? THAT is the taste I get from it.
Great instruction from God on our priorities and focus should be. How many could be saved from worry and anxiety and worthless pursuits by this prescription from our Creator? Such simple instruction- O Lord helps us to apply this daily!
Why doesn't TrumpRx have Ivermectin...at Indian prices?
Some data nerd out there should take the list of all TrumpRx drugs and list them by how popular they are, how many annual buyers. Then, list the total dollars saved (for those in Portland, you'd do this by multiplying the number of buyers, actually the number of purchases, by the savings per purchase). Seems simple enough...in fact if Musk were still in DC, he could have a 16 year old do this in 28 seconds.
Next, if this is so impactful for consumers, wouldn't the drug companies' stock prices have tanked? Have they (I'm too lazy to check)?
We use the supplier on the 2nd Smartest Guy in the World substack. Scroll to bottom of every post. $69.00 for 50 12 mg tabs. It’s called Petmectin. Has sales. My hubs has had 3 clear scans for his bladder cancer since diagnosed early in 2o24. Also sells hydrochloriquin and fen Ben (hubs takes that too but from another supplier on Amazon) , doxycycline. Sold as pet meds. It’s worth the money for us.
$69 for 50 at 12mg each is one of the best deals I've seen, outside of India. Might have to give it a go. I have read that the big makers of Ivermectin do have separate factories making human vs animal versions. So, I worry about the "stuff" that might be in the animal versions. Still, as an emergency supply...which is worse, the tiny bit of animal stuff in it vs the respiratory illness I get?
And isn't that fun: in the most technologically advanced world ever, we have to choose between illness and animal meds for something that has been produced dirt cheap worldwide for decades. You can't hate them enough!
I used to purchase by mail 500 mg Metformin (generic) from a Mexican pharmacy, at US$4.62 + shipping. They can no longer mail to the USA.
If I want more, I can either pay TrumpRX $181 for Astra Zenca version, or drive 800 miles to the friendly border town farmacia. A year’s supply at a savings of a little more than $1,000…Hasta la vista.
But if you’ve never watched Contraband Seized at the Border you better find out how much you can bring back. Anything over the allowed amount and you will have to go back across and throw it in the trash can.
I travel to Idaho about once a month. It's not available. OTC is now legal in ID but the pharmaceutical companies aren't packaging it for OTC sale. One step at a time. Although I haven't checked in a few months...I'll try again.
This is where TrumpRx could be even more powerful: offer for sale, things Big Pharma won't.
I order it from an ID company, Idamectin. It may not be the cheapest, but I'm happy to support a local company and get the Ivermectin I want. If it becomes available cheaper through TrumpRX, yay!
I just googled a Compounding Pharmacy near me. I gave the info to my Naturopath and she provided a prescription for the Ivermectin to the pharmacy and they mailed me the pills. I take a pill a day for about ten days when I know I will be around vaccinated people - my siblings and cousins.
Family events are a bit strained, because I am the only one who didn't take the Shot They are polite, but it is clear they don't want me around.
AllDayChemist .com - get the Austro brand. Best price for one of the best quality.
And I sometimes use Kay-biotech .com when I need a bunch of IVM really cheap.
But recently I bought the 00 sized empty capsules on Amazon, and a bunch of the horse paste tubes. I fill the capsules with it to make it easier to take. I use that for when I’m sick because it works best. You need 3x the preventative dose when symptoms are present. The paste is measured for preventative. So if I’m sick I don’t have to try to get dosing for 150 lb, I actually need dosing for 450 lb. An entire tube of paste is preventative for 1000 lbs. I simply squirt the required amount into a pinch bowl, then use small spatula to place inside the empty capsules. You actually could do this for preventative too as the markings are for 50lb each but only lock at 250lb. Still once I figured all that out it became a lot easier to dose out.
I use the human grade tablets for preventative and spike protein detoxes.
It’s been years since I’ve had horses, but the best I remember is that the paste has a dial on the plunger to measure out the amount to be used, but I cannot remember the increments in pounds. You wouldn’t take a whole tube at a time of course.
I have a doc who prescribes and the pharmacy she uses is in PA. It is expensive, about $80 bucks for 30!! I keep thinking of trying the Second Smartest Guy on Substack and his products. Less expensive and same mg. 🤷🏻♀️ Some people use the “horse paste” but I am not good with math (even though many say it’s almost impossible to overdose. I use that paste for around my “dry” eyes and on simple moles. It is on Amazon. Not medical advice!!!)
We use it. No problems with it. 69.00 for 50. 12 mg tabs prophylactic you only really need 1 tab a week. Many can only get the 3 mg elsewhere. Cancer (why my husband uses it) it’s worth the money for ease in receiving the dosages he needs. 3 clear bladder cancer screens since October 2024. Also uses Fenben on Amazon.
I also have a doc who prescribes IVM; the pharmacy he uses is in CA. Cost is ~$3 per 12 mg troche. I buy FenBen from 2nd Smartest Guy; w/ 20% off coupon, cost is $1.33 per 150 mg tab.
I go to the vet store and purchase a 250 ml vial of Ivermectin (Ivermax). It's an injectable for cattle and swine. We squirt a CC in water once a week. Keeps the bugs away! And it's cheap! Of course it says "not for use in humans" but my rancher buddies have been using it for decades and swear by it.
First article is a spot on gem, coming from someone who has researched cancer and health non stop for 4 1/2 years. Only thing he should have added that the infamous Flexner was a school teacher, so , a real expert in medicine, Glad he mentioned JDs dad was a for real snake oil salesman. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Please share with me what the fenbendazole and hydroxychloroquine do - and - how you take them.
I had a NASTY three year fungal sinus infection that became staph infested! (allergies and the masks really made and sustained my issue!)
I had to fly back and forth alot as my Dad was in poor health - the airports and planes were sticklers for the face diaper!)
All my anti fungal meds end in "zole" - Fluconazole, Ketaconazole, Itraconazole - and cause liver damage!
I am currently eating as clean as possible and not taking many supplements as my liver needs time to cleanse and rejuvenate. Anyway - would love to hear what there two supplements are for and how to use with Ivermectin. Thank you!
We had a run of staph infections in our family. Dr. would prescribe antibiotics and 2-3 mths later, it would return. Finally asked a friend at a health food store what might help. He recommended two products from a brand called Dr. Christopher: X-Infx and Vitalerbs. We took them daily for 4 months - totally cleared our systems of staph!
I'm not a medical practitioner, but if you go look for Meryl Nass or 2nd Smartest Guy on the internet, you'll get some very good information about them and Ivermectin. I use Ivermectin when I feel a cold coming on, or just not feeling well. It's wonderful.
I've read that some doctors are using a combination of Ivermectin and Fenbendazole to fight some cancers. Meryl and 2nd Smartest have more information on that.
Moderna down. We need ivermectin otc, and we need it now.pennies to manufacture. Sadly CO’s like the wellness co have made a small fortune selling their emergency, contagion etc kits. Please, please make ivermectin otc throughout our country. Mexico was selling kits with ivermectin, azythromycin and zinc pills five yrs ago, in vending machines. The cost, a few dollars. Why is our country so heavily controlled by big pharma…..I think we all know the answer to that one.
Replying to my own post…again. I might have a problem?
Anyway, lots of good comments here about Ivermectin suppliers, prices, and dosage. I’ve read about dosage between 3mg and 12 mg, or at least those are the common pill sizes. Can anyone point me to a reliable source of information, i.e., not an “expert”, about dose?
I beg to differ, slightly. Though I like your "take what you can get" attitude...it's my attitude about Social Security--get it as soon as you can because it won't be there in 10 years. But I digress...back to your post...
Yes, not as cheap as in India, just like anything. But if Trump used his "bully pulpit" to say the following, I think we'd have it for $0.25 a pill: "You know, I've heard about this Ivermectin. It's been huge everywhere for a long time. But Americans can't get it at "most favored nation" prices. I want that to change. I'm talking to you Drug Companies. We can do it the easy way or the hard way."
I checked Trump Rx last night. I currently use WeShare Christian health share. My husband’s small business was set to have to pay $2500 per month to cover just me. (BCBS KS) Our kids are
grown and he uses the VA medical system. I switched two years ago so don’t have a current price. WeShare is $540 per month. Anyway my thyroid pill is $142/3 month supply with WeShare. Trump rx has it at $45/3 month supply.
I know I often complain about the VA, mostly because they really pushed the covid DeathVax.
However, their Rx system works pretty well. Co-pays for 30-day supply are either, $5, $8, or $11. No co-pays if the drug is for something service-connected. If a veteran has a 50% disability, there are no co-pays at all for drugs. And for those who have co-pays for Rx, there is a cap of $700 annually. Once that is met, no more charges.
My husband was with the VA now for almost 15 years. We never had a big problem with turning down the death vax. They called once and asked him to set up an appointment at some date. He never did and they never bothered him again. I did hate the mask mandates that went on for almost 3 years. And I have always said the VA was good about handing out pharmaceuticals, maybe too good.
Synthetic thyroid pills do nothing for me. I wish they would cover the natural options as these are even pricier than synthetics. Even more disturbing is the move to entirely remove these options here in the US.
I had hyperthyroidism, and my functional doc had no suggestions. He said all of the endocrinologists he knows are unhappy people, and so are their patients. Besides, all they would do was either cut out my thyroid, cut out the 2 problem nodes, or kill the thyroid with radioactive iodine and put me on Levothyroxine (second most prescribed drug, after Lipitor) for life. I did not feel like God made me with any extra body parts. He had cured his son of hypothyroidism, which is incredibly common here, but hyper is rare. I went to Dallas to see the holistic doctor Jerry Tennant. Don't even know what he did, but in 3 months , I was cured.
I weaned myself off of thyroid med about four months ago. Took them for 20 years only to do my research and found that didn't really need it if I did some diet/exercise/life-style changes. In fact, most people don't need to take it. I can tell you iodine is important!
I'm a chemist. So when I read about "elevated levels" of something, I ask, "elevated above what?" If we're talking about something very bad that isn't supposed to be in a given food product, then "elevated" probably means "above the detection limit".
Chemistry Tutorial (don't worry, I tried to write this for Portlanders): detection limit just means that when you measure something in a sample that you KNOW doesn't have any of the substance you still get a number from the measurement. It's a small number, but it ain't zero. So, you repeat the measurement and look at the fluctuations in the data. Then you calculate how big a signal would have to be to be clearly greater than that noise. That's your limit in being able to detect. The statistical methods required are really pretty simple.
Here's the kicker: we have gotten really, really (REALLY!) good at detecting just about anything in anything. Parts per trillion is routine for a lot of stuff. Including stuff that is only toxic at parts per billion. Think about that: we can see bad stuff at levels 1000x lower than any level of concern.
I have worked on methods to detect plutonium in the environment. We can detect attograms (go look that up!).
I have no idea how toxic glyphosate is, but I'd bet my favorite mass spectrometer that we can detect it 1000x lower than that level of concern.
Am I surprised it's in agricultural products when it's main use is in rocket propellant? Oh wait, that's not it, it's used in AGRICULTURE! I'll bet every organic chunk of produce you've ever bought has some amount of some of the bad stuff you think isn't there. Why? Because we've been putting the bad stuff on ALL of our fields for decades. So, the organic stuff might be lower, maybe a lot lower, in the bad stuff but it ain't zero. And that's ok: lower is good!
Anyway, you can see that these discussions about "there's a speck of stuff in my noodles" triggers me.
Last, Jeff: "Another Florida investigation found arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, and pesticides in various brands of baby formula. Some had both lead and mercury!" Spoiler alert: all baby formula has lead and mercury! How do I know this? Because some have measured positive and to me that means the ones that didn't measure positive are just below the detection limit. And the people doing the measurement are likely not world class chemists. I can almost guarantee that if you used a chemical analysis method better than whatever EPA or FDA approved method was used here, your detection limit would be 100x lower and you'd see the lead and mercury everywhere.
Thank you, Greg. That is very interesting and reassuring. Nothing in this present world will ever be perfect. What comes after this life is much more important. Trust Christ!
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that detecting something may or may not mean that the stuff at the level detected is a problem. Am I understanding you correctly?
That is an interesting and important addition to the discussion.
The candy information that I saw included acceptable annual intake, and the candy that was contaminated all exceeded the allowed amount. One Halloween stash would rapidly exceed the annual limit several times over.
And to be fair to the regulators, toxicology science is hard. Like most things biological, at least if you're really dedicated to getting it right. So, we tend to err on the side of caution. I have no problem with that.
Keep in mind that the same mindset and skill sets in the government that came up with and manage the Welfare State are being applied to everything the government does. Incompetence all the way down.
I've never thought about this, but it would be good to figure out how to do it right. By "it" I mean assess how much of various things are bad. Things in the air, water, food, you name it. But don't let the people who think CO2 is a pollutant do the work!
I'm also a chemist, and your words are appreciated. We have also continuously lowered the the acceptable limit to the basically the detection limit. IIRC, it goes something like this: new technology has sub ppt resolution, now every single molecule it can detect must be below ppt to be considered healthy, even though we were just consuming ppb quantities for 50+ years. I agree that it's generally a good thing to have as little pollutants as possible in the stuff we consume, but it also just feels like your standard regulatory capture. I guess it will keep the staff analytical chemists on the pay roll.
This also is an important reminder that we forget about.
As I understand it, some of these heavy metals just exist in the environment (as parts of various minerals in the earth's crust, of course! because that's where they are mined), and humans have been consuming them for millennia, depending on locale and so on.
Of course that doesn't suddenly make arsenic not toxic. But perhaps minute amounts consumed minutely and in the context of a whole foods diet minus the other manufactured toxins are not the horrors that we may otherwise imagine?
Tylenol will kill you, and it ain’t a nice way to go. Fact is that Roundup is bad for you so don’t bathe in it, but it can be washed off of food. Did taking lead out of gasoline increase our IQs or lengthen our lives?
Agree...it's all about dose. A whole bottle of Tylenol or 4 pills every hour?...both bad ideas. A bathtub full of Roundup...good one! Lead in gasoline, agree that was probably a good idea in the 1940s when we didn't know better, but then we fixed it. Along with the air and water in most cities. Still a long way to go.
If you're point is "Greg, why are you against testing and regulating?", I'm not. I just think the criteria by which we judge something to be at too high a level is not very scientific. That's ok, the science is getting better and until we really have something figured out better to be cautious.
But one man's caution is another man's hysteria. It's a political challenge, not a scientific one.
If you've read my posts here, you know I'm snarky, sarcastic, skeptical, etc. But I take your question to be a serious one, after all it involves chocolate!
So, serious answer: I don't know. I've never looked at the chemistry literature on heavy metals in food, let alone chocolate. But the question sounds like fun, so I'll do a little digging and see what I can learn.
In the meantime, my guess is your chocolate does not contain "huge levels", meaning levels that should concern you. Does your chocolate contain levels that can be measured, maybe even easily?...probably.
Because lead can be measured down to parts per trillion when parts per million are the levels of concern. Parts per trillion (pptr) is what a world class measurement lab can do (I'm exaggerating a little, but I think 100 pptr has been done), but even parts per billion should be doable for most labs.
So, at those levels, probably detectable because lead is everywhere. In fact, one of the biggest challenges in measuring it at those per billion or per trillion levels is the "chemistry blank". That's the amount you measure in a clean sample where you know that no lead is present in the sample (or at least below your detection limits). But when you measure the sample you find some lead. Why? because it's in the dust floating in your lab, it's in the chemicals you used to prepare the sample, it's in the glassware, etc., etc. So a little creeps into the sample that you chemically process for the analysis instrument (fun fact: there are almost no sample types that can be analyzed directly, you always have to "prepare" them).
Sorry for the long answer...that's what you get for asking a PhD a question! :)
Karen - i was told by a Naturopathic Doctor that the best Chocolate to eat is single sourced from South America. Most chocolate is sourced from Africa and has more lead in it. YMMV
You have to stop eating more than chocolate to avoid cadmium and lead, potatoes and carrots have these metals in them. They are even passed through in breast milk. Bottom line, eat what you want, eat a variety.
The correct amount of Roundup in wheat is zero. None. As Jeff Childers pointed out, several brands had no detectable levels of Roundup. So it is entirely possible to manufacture food that isn't overtly contaminated with residual pesticides/herbicides.
You spent a lot of text making something simple needlessly complicated. As a Chief Engineer I see this all the time, us scientific types tend to get hyper-focused on the trees and miss the forest. But normal people don't want poison in their foods, period. Handwaving along the lines of "some poison is fine" isn't persuasive.
It is interesting the ambiguity there is in using term "elevated level" when honestly real data is missing - elevated in relation to what - MCL, MDL that OSHA MSDS has?
Big Ag has gmo'd the seeds to be resistant to Roundup, so thar farmers can spray it on the crops and the herbicide won't affect the yield, just the weeds. The end user of the crops, well, and how Roundup ultimately impacts humans is open to interpretation...
For fun, you should discuss everyone's new bogeyman, PFAS detection limits.
This is important to understand. Detectible limits are usually far below levels doing biochemical damage. Also contaminants found are not contaminants absorbed. Much of them are blocked by food's fiber, and from mineral content that form insoluble compounds that pass through us unabsorbed.
The more I read about the keto diet, the more impressed I am with what it can help with. It’s a longtime treatment for epilepsy, for example, and often works when medication hasn’t. It apparently has many studies showing it can put autoimmune diseases in remission. That’s pretty awesome, and is limited to strict keto, not carnivore, and it’s a management thing not a cure. But interesting. If I ever have autoimmune issues, first thing I’m going to do is strict keto for 30 days and see if it helps.
Also, if I may rant… y’all know I’m an orthopedic massage therapist. I have had multiple clients come in having been recently diagnosed with an autoimmune, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, and the FIRST THING the doc does is prescribe them the long term chemo pill. Why on earth are they not having them do keto for a couple of months first? (Also, it’s probably because 90% of people won’t do it, but still). Rant over, thank you for listening to my TED talk.
That’s crazy that doctors are starting with a chemo drug! I’ve had autoimmune disease for decades and my rheumatologists have prescribed hydroxychloroquine. They say it’s the safest drug, safer than aspirin.
Yes. I got Covid. I have Sjogrens and Hashimoto’s, both well controlled. Had them for decades. I also have a genetic issue with my immune system. I had covid twice and did not have to go to the hospital, although the first time I got it in 2021 I was really unwell. The last time I got it was last year and it was nothing.
I remember when all the alternative drugs for covid were being bashed in the media, around the time supposedly Trump said ‘drink bleach’. Another one that was bashed was Hydroxy because it supposedly could create a shortage for Lupus sufferers.
That was when I realized this was all a lie. Hydroxychloroquine is very safe. I was warned there was a shortage. I think they just made it short because they didn’t want people taking it. It’s my opinion that it does help with other illnesses like Covid, although ivermectin is better.
We did paleo for 4.5 years. Honestly, I had zero wheat for that whole time. I also had Hashimoto’s (hypothyroidism with antibodies) and was on Synthroid, 150 mcg. A few months in, I started to have interesting pain around my eyes. Suspecting my thyroid dose might need to be reduced, my doctor ordered a thyroid blood test, including antibodies. The antibodies were gone. Gone. I asked the doctor if that meant I didn’t have an autoimmune disease, and he said that’s exactly what it meant. He said eliminating wheat was most likely doing this, that a molecule in gluten imitated thyroid hormone and told the body to stop producing it. We tried zero Synthroid for a month, but that didn’t keep my thyroid on track. Eventually 75 mcg, half my pre-no-wheat-diet dose, kept me level.
I do have wheat sometimes now, but not every day, and almost always organic, but it seems even organic wheat products are not entirely safe. My antibodies remain gone … but I do think a constant, daily, multiple times a day intake of wheat is what causes the problem. Even people who are “allergic” to a food can sometimes have it occasionally, because the body can process a food quite well unless overloaded by a lot of the food at one time or by constant use of it. And wheat is EVERYWHERE. Stopping it entirely is not for the faint hearted!
Has anyone else noticed gluten, peanut, pick a food, allergies were all but non existent 50 years ago? What changed? Might want to start with the vaccine schedule.
My functional doctor put me on a compounded bioidentocal thyroid hormone. Also on a yeast free diet. Worked great. My antibodies for thyroid and also a blood clotting antibody disappeared.
Tell me more about the compounded bioidentical hormone. Has it worked well? Years ago my grandmother did a diet called The Yeast Connection that really controlled her asthma. I would love to get off of levothyroxine.
Yes it has worked well for me. My understanding is it is derived from plants. We had to adjust the dose a few times. Now I am very stable. The yeast free diet eliminates my asthma.
Does it contain pork? I haven’t tried the Standard Process brand of T4 because it contains pork, but listening to the Instagram docs, lol, I have learned that now there are brands who use bovine ingredients.
I didn’t even think about compounding pharmacies.
I can’t eat wheat/gluten, dairy, pork and now eggs.
Stopping wheat entirely is very difficult, especially while traveling. I also have to watch for cross contamination, shared fryers, etc.
I am super sensitive to it. Daily life around home is easy even though my husband loves bread and eats it all the time. We thicken gravy with cornstarch and I do use gf bread occasionally. The ingredients in gf bread aren’t that great. Crunchmasters makes a great cracker though.
You might want to do some research or watch YouTube videos of Dr. David Brownstein on thryroid issues/iodine. I also read one of his books. He's an MD that does holistic medicine now, along with his two daughters who are also MD's. Good stuff.
I try not to rant because no one listens, but when I get one of these client I make sure to suggest they look up how the keto diet can affect autoimmune and see if that might be an option for them.
Taking your dog off of any store bought kibble may be the answer to epilepsy as well. It was for mine (miniature dachshund which usually have petit mal epilepsy). After six months on all homemade kibble was able to wean him off zonisamide with no resulting seizures. He still had break thru seizures on zonisamide (but rarely) when eating the "best" dog foods. Its lovely to not have to give him that anymore.
kibble is garbage, as is most Purina and the like main stream food. My wife is meticulous about what she feeds our dogs, and in the past 2 years, we lost 1 , our daughter's border collie rescue at 17 1/3, and a small English setter at 16. Prior to her being such a stickle for food, we never had a dog live longer than 14 1/2 . All were in the 40-55 pound range.
My dog has epilepsy. He gets about half kibble, but I use MCT oil daily and that seems to make a difference. He is on meds as well, but has been stable for 3 or 4 years now. He hasn’t had any vaccines in that time, and is now overdue for rabies. I’m going to have to figure out how to get out of that!
I was diagnosed with RA back in 2008. My first rheumatologist put me on methotrexate and told me that drugs were the only way to manage the disease. I had another doctor tell me that food would have no effect. I quickly got off the methotrexate and tried managing my RA through diet and exercise. I didn't know about the ketogenic diet then. I have gone through several diets but unfortunately nothing has put me in remission. But I will continue following my ketogenic diet regardless.
Doctors are a lot like atheists. Atheists claim to know that God does not exist. If you draw a big circle that represents all knowledge and ask them to draw a circle within that circle that represents all their knowledge, if they are honest, they will have to draw a small circle. Hence, they can't possibly know that God doesn't exist. Most doctors act as if they know everything. Anything you may bring up can't possibly exist if they don't know about it. And the reality is, they only know what they know. What they were taught in med school and what the pharmaceutical companies tell them about their drugs in their flashy promotional pamphlets. They don't know what they don't know, and they typically aren't spending their spare time after work doing the research and finding out other treatments and the latest research. If you bring up any research they will usually be insulted. After all, they are the doctor, not you!
This is correct. Big Pharma started many years ago & they designed the model, thus American medical schools teach zero nutrition & lots of pills. Thank God for RFK. Functional Medicine is thankfully rising.
Keto <40 carbs/day changes my joint pain, attitude, bloating, sinus, allergies, BP in just THREE DAYS. It saved my sanity thru the last WW3, Covid. I believe even done short term improved hubs cancer recovery, Mom's heart and stroke and memory recoveries and challenges. Had one Dr say that yes it's a very excellent healthy diet but nobody wants to do it, not even her. She's Indian of course and rice is a 'healthy' staple she said.
After 6 years of cancer and more than a ton of research (results my vary) I think a low carb diet/low glycemic diet is the way to go. Tune it to your body. It doesn't mean you can never have a small (new or something of that size) potato again. It means that you're making conscious choices and you are aware of the impact of your choices on your body. Notice how you feel and eat accordingly.
I’m curious, within your clinic setting, Have you seen any improvements with arthritis? I know that when I stay strict keto, my arthritis doesn’t bother me at all, but the second I touch bread my joints start to ache. Anecdotal, I know, but I’ve heard this from a lot of other people. And don’t forget that it also helps with type two diabetes.
My husband reversed his type 2 (A1C was 9) in less than one month. He is now in excellent health: lost weight, regained muscle as well as zest for life.
Never do Keto for ONLY 30 days and then try to determine its efficacy. You need at least 4-6 weeks just to become fat adapted, sometimes longer, and then 4-6 straight months to see the full benefits of the diet, especially if you’re coming off of a SAD diet (standard American diet).
The reason so many people didn’t think Keto worked for them is because they didn’t give it an adequate amount of time or didn’t stay disciplined with doing it properly.
All my benefits started to happen at the 4 month mark. My mental health did start to improve after 2-3 months. I was off all meds after 6 months. The difference of 6 months vs 30 days is night and day.
If you try the diet, stay true to it for a full six months before judging anything.
Also, people raved how necessary intermittent fasting was and pressured me to add that the first few months. They were right, but I cared more about becoming really good with the diet so I didn’t add fasting until after my first year. Then it was like rocket fuel. I’m glad I held off and focused on one thing at a time.
After the third year I found I often slip into carnivore without trying, but because I’m content with Keto I don’t need to stay there. I just let my body lead me.
Sorry, but this doc is an out and out quack. The very first chemo drug was derived from leftover WWI mustard gas. Chemo is a toxic poison, with NO medical use in a sane world.
The ketogenic diet is typically very low-carb, traditional keto diets were very high in fat (think Atkins). Nowadays, there are a number of different keto diets; while all are low in carbs, they tinker with the amount of protein and fat you get. Carnivore diet is exactly what it sounds like primarily meat; few if any vegetables. Carnivore is primarily recommended for people that have food, digestive issues or autoimmune issues.
Surprisingly it’s not! I thought that would be an issue too but I haven’t had a problem or constipation in four years EXCEPT for when I do have a large amount of fibrous veggies. Lol That’s the only time I have dealt with uncomfortable constipation. 🤷🏼♀️
(My issues actually are for the other way when I have too much of a sugar alcohol, which I avoid as much as possible. Erythritol is the least likely to cause serious digestive upset so long as you don’t exceed 50gm in a single day, so it’s the only one I’ll use. I also use stevia drops or monk fruit.)
So glad to hear it Juju. I know many that tried the diet and had to go off bc of bloating and severe constipation. Happy you are not one of them! Love my monk fruit and coconut sugar!
Carnivore is ONLY meat. Low carb, <150? carb gm intake no matter how you get it but strict keto is very low carb, <50-30, no grains, no starch, no sugars except certain berries in limited amounts. Keto puts your body into ketosis, fat burning mode instead of carb burning.
I saw the video of RFK Jr saying this about keto diet and mental illness, but every article says bizarre and unfound claims. Here's one in case you missed it.
I have a very good friend who has been fighting for her daughter's mental decline for years now and they all say they're morning to help her then she put her in keto and she's LIVING again and not DYING!!
One of the many reasons I adopted a keto/paleo diet years ago was because of the Roundup issue. This isn't Roundup getting into wheat incidentally from weed control, it's much worse than that. Monsanto marketed Roundup to farmers as a desiccant, that is to spray it directly on the wheat right before harvest to dry it out. That made the wheat easier to harvest and process. It really is diabolical when you think about it, to save a few dollars the agriculture industry was deliberately poisoning the crops.
That's why paleo diets encourage grass-fed beef organically raised. Not only to avoid contaminated feed, but it's cattle's natural diet. So the meat's omega 3 to omega 6 distribution is in far healthier ratios than grain-fed cattle.
But besides that, the cow has it's own detoxification system. They eat the contaminated feed, not us. By the time that feed is turned into meat much of the original contamination has been processed and removed by the cow itself. Not great for the cow, but better for us.
So even without going grass-fed, it's inherently cleaner than eating the contaminated feed.
I live there! I see it! Even in my organic garden I can't control the over spray!! We RUN into the house and close it up but that's only when they are right her and we ALL KNOW it's blowing from miles away except not the guys making the money who spray it! 😡
Re: "to save a few dollars the agriculture industry was deliberately poisoning the crops."
Actually, the truth is that to make billions of dollars the chemical companies (Monsanto in particular) deliberately poisoned the crops. And denied the evidence. Marketed that glyphosate was as safe as drinking water.
I’ve done keto and felt great. Now high protein, low nutrient dense carbs. Easy to eliminate bread due to a what-i-thought-was-a-gluten-intolerance. Turns out, it was an I’m-being-poisoned-by-the-food-industry-intolerance.
I now import my flour and make my own bread - whole grain and sourdough - and life is amazing. I also buy glyphosate-free organic wheat berries, sprout my own grains, mill my own flour, and make sprouted whole wheat bread. It’s a process. It’s love. It’s the Little Red Hen coming home to roost. Pure. Wholesome. No bloat. No grain brain. Just a fresh from the oven home baked hug. Highly recommend.
I eat one or two heavenly slices a day. Life. Is. Good.
Create your own line of bread: “Nard’s KillFree Bread” Lol
I may DM you soon. I’m lost with where to begin to learn to make my own sourdough bread. I mean I found instructions online, and apparently I can get “starter” from King Arthur’s, but it’s one of those things I really just need a convo about to learn.
I did Keto for 3 or 4 months. Basically, I cut out sugar, alcohol, and any carbs not in vegetables. In that time I went from 205 to 173 and my digestion stabilized.
Since then I started ballroom dancing and needed to eat more. So I have more carbs through potatoes and occasionally eat ice cream. And allow myself to eat wings. So, I'm back up to 190. But it's mostly muscle.
And ate delicious flesh filled with the blood of animals given all kinds of hormones and antibiotics, and adrenalin, urine and pus. And those grass fed, healthy animals, eating grass with all that same stuff sprayed on grains and such. Yup, pretty funny too, for those who maintain that diet and and down the line find their kidneys starting to fail and finally kill them, like Dr. Atkins, the father of this idiot diet.
Good grief, your overwrought hyperemotional hysterical nonsense doesn't work here. It might impress teenage girls wearing nose rings though. Try TikTok.
These militant vegans really do think the rest of the world are slaves to their emotions just as they are. A reasoned, thoughtful argument is as foreign to them as Swahili.
To remind us of how evil seeps in. To remind us that we beed to be more dogmatic in researching or looking up stuff. To remind us that we can’t trust most?
I don’t know. I was a demo for most of my voting years, however never voted a party ticket. I am somewhat ashamed that I left my name on the rolls for as long as I did.
I emerged from the left around age 30 - after many paychecks of wondering why they took so much! I remember joining the Republican women’s club and they were fascinated and horrified to hear I was a “recovering liberal” No one then (in the late 90s) had ever heard of someone switching sides!! Now some of the biggest voices on the right were former dems (podcasters I mean). Interesting…
To be young and idealistic…then you grow up, start a family, and realize how the world works. At least that’s the way it used to work. Today, we have infanticized AWFULS stuck on replay…
They’re definitely a net negative to society in their current iteration. I wish the middle left in that party would have the balls to stand up to the radicals, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. They’re in a death spiral.
“In a republic a fair degree of equality and prosperity are important goals, but it is liberty that is given priority as the proper end of government. In a democracy these priorities are reversed: the status of men and women as consumers of economic goods is taken to be more significant than their status as participants in the creation of political goods. A republic is what we would call moralistic in its approach to both public and private affairs; a democracy is more easygoing, more permissive, as we now say, even more cynical.” Irving Kristol 1974
Need? About as much as I "need" a bio-weapon injection. They are already the walking dead. After the Demonrat Party loses the mid-terms, they will fold up and cease to exist. The political landscape in the US is evolving into a one-party system. Step back to the twenty thousand foot level and you can see it.
Yay for the new drug site, at least for those who choose to use pharmaceuticals.
Now, fix insurance premiums please. I need catastrophic coverage with an annual deductible that won't clear out my savings and with premiums that don't eat a quarter of my monthly income.
I don't want or need preventative coverage. I'll negotiate cash. I don't need pregnancy coverage. Let me pick what I do need and pay only for that. Thanks.
yes! And make Medicare completely optional (no penalties) for anything other than hospital, and even then, allow for opting out if join membership hospitals.
More important, outlaw all of this check-the-box data entry/tracking/collection stuff associated with Medicare "wellness exams."
Ugh! Yes! Doctors don't even need to TOUCH their patients to complete a so-called wellness exam. It's all a boon to the labs and pharmaceutical companies. Not much benefit to patients except those who naively say "I had my checkup; I'm good." 🙄. As if the white-coat's declaration is adequate and meaningful.
It is widely known now that seed oils are truly a terrible health choice, responsible for much of the obesity and sickness in America and everywhere that consume them.
That said, Crisco makes them look like health food. My British mother always used Crisco to make her pastry. Prepare to be ill reading how they make , and marketed Crisco. Spoiler alert, the American Heart Association helped.
Avacado is probably the best seed oil, but it is still a seed oil. And it needs to be organic and cold pressed. Ghee, butter, extra virgin olive oil (careful. Know your source. Much is cut with canola oil), and coconut oil are the best choices. I also use lard and tallow.
Did not know that about avacado oil. Non virgin olive oil very likely is cut with seed oils, so I never use it. I do routinely use olive oil (EV) to cook, but not above Medium. High heat , I use ghee or coconut oil.
"“Nearly all of the drugs on the site are already widely covered through insurance,” the article complained, having temporary amnesia about co-pays" - whatta you know, maybe we don't need insurance for this. Pondering...
Not just that, but a parallel world view about health itself. The market I'd love to see is a well-care system versus the current sick-care system, and the overall MAGA vibe is trending heavily toward improved health that doesn't require pharmaceuticals to merely survive. I already live in that parallel world, and my daily focus is my overall wellbeing. It's nice over here, everyone is welcome!
I don’t have insurance. It cracks me up when people ask “how do you get away with that?” Get away with WHAT? That’s hilarious. I have direct primary care and a catastrophic policy. I don’t get away with anything. I eat right. I live well. I take care of myself. I don’t take prescription drugs. I use natural remedies when needed. I’ll be 60 this year and everything is A-OK. The world is ridiculous.
You have what's known as a long time preference, i.e., you value the long-term over the short-term, much like one who saves or invests for the future. Most folks have developed a short time preference, valuing immediate needs over the future. Short time preferences justify eating crap and moving little.
With the new revelations about Epstein, who thinks he is still alive? And if so, who switched him out? Some say he is drinking martinis on the beach in Tel Aviv. I prefer to believe he is in protective custody and turned states evidence.
I’ve written extensively about Epstein - I’m coming to see that it’s a lot of talking points but nothing happens. For example Bill Gates is there so often, but nothing will happen. Here’s there Epstein files: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/franklins-epstein-files-a-guide-to
I dont want to go there, I know how easily men with money are influenced and can influence evil. They have chosen money to be their idol. I have heard the deplorable and disgusting rituals mentioned. However, I have a friend who tells me that Trump was involved. Is this true?
No he wasn’t. As soon as he was made aware what Epstein was into he kicked him out of Mar-a-lago and cut all ties with him. He even helped with evidence against him and was one of the few to testify against him I believe. He was the ONLY person Epstein and his posse couldn’t control and who didn’t put himself in a compromising situation that allowed them to have leverage over him. That’s why they tried so hard to ruin him.
I personally hope the demon is dead, stone cold but burning in Hell. He was a sick fuc*, so twisted it causes your head to spin. He deserves torment, forever and ever.
Glyphosate goes on the grain. The grain goes into humans. Humans gradually become accustomed to glyphosate poisoning until they are Roundup Ready. Don't let that happen to you. Go against the grain.
An excellent 47 minutes video on Monsanto and its dirty history and exploitation of farmers, soldiers, and the American people is by Veritasium, a science channel on Youtube. It's called "Exposing Why Farmers Cant Replant Their Own Seeds". Well worth watching. It is a company (and now Bayer) that you can't possibly hate enough. But our politicians love and have been enriched from for decades: https://youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ?si=CU0pGfbxozQ9OS8x
Check out ONe Degree Company. Grains and granola gluten and glyphosate free. You can track the farm the ingredients came from as that info is on the back of the bags.
OK - time to check out FL's food report site. I'm not gonna be _too_ affected because I don't tend to eat too much with grains, but it's good to know. My mom really likes Dave's breads but not surprised that glyphosate shows up in there. More surprised that any breads _don't_ show that these days with our wheat supply. :(
One degree company makes Oatmeal, gluten and glyphosate free. You can trace back to the farm it came from as it is on the back of the bags. They also make organic, glyphosate free delicious granola.
You can find good products like the out there, but you have to look , and you have to read labels. Most people can't be bothered to do either. Convenience, and phone time is all that matters to most.
Sometimes writing lifts me out of a dark place. Maybe this will remind us of the new light we have after the darkness.
We all go through hard times and it’s in that place that we grow. Sometimes it’s the darkest times that teach us, they make us aware of experiences that have been given to us. They give us perspective.
When I was 17 I really wanted this car my friend was selling. I asked my father if he could help me get the car. He said “sure do you need a ride to pick it up”. I said “no Dad, I mean financially”. He looked at me and said, “ohh, well, if you really want that car, you’re going to have to get a job. Cars cost money, even just to get them on the road”. I remember at that time being so bummed out he wouldn’t just get his check book and buy the car for me, doesn’t that sound like a 17 year old. He never gave me a dime for that car but he did help me. He used my strong desire for that car. and in my fathers ways forced me to get a job. He then co-signed a loan for me. I’ll never forget my first loan, it was a 3 year personal loan. I borrowed 3800 dollars with an 18% interest rate (thanks Jimmy Carter) which cost 138 dollars a month. I got the car and I made every payment with money I worked for. I paid the car off over the 3 years.
Not long after I got the car my father got sick and eventually passed away. It wasn’t until after he was gone I realized what he had given to me. He taught me if I wanted something I had to work for it, and that hard work can get you where you want to go. After my father was gone I couldn’t believe how much I missed his way of pushing me to earn what I get. It was that dark time in my life, losing my father, that engrained that lesson deep inside of me. It made me see the real gift he had given to me that I will never forget.
There are no certainties in life’s path, but I know many kids growing up whose parents did write that check, over and over again, and the child fell on their hypothetical face in life. Their parents never gave them that lesson that they needed, that opportunity was missed to build the character of earning what you get.
We all lived through those 4 very dark years ruled by a man that lived his whole life being paid with money taken from the hands of others hard work. In his whole life it would be hard to find a thing that he built that benefitted anyone more than it benefited himself. He lied to us over and over again to push his tyrannical power grabbing agenda and at his peak of power he called himself Dark Joe. These dark times Joe forced on us made us realize what we were losing. Those dark days toughened us. It brought into the light how fragile our freedom is. It gave us a new strength, a new administration, and a new President that spent his whole life building things. It gave us a President that is trying his hardest to give us back our bill of rights and bring into light the decades and decades of corruption. Those dark times we all suffered through, especially DJT, just might be what saves this country.
It’s like a seed. A seed that is always left out in the light will never reach its potential. It’s in that dark place, under the earth, that the seed grows into the beautiful producing plant it was meant to be.
Happy Friday Everyone, Keep the Faith!! J.Goodrich
When my daughter was in her early 20’s she told me “I’m glad you didn’t give me everything I wanted but you gave me everything I needed”. I count that as a success.
While I did write the check, I also insisted she get her degree. She wanted to become a “beach comber”, to which I replied, ok but you will be an educated beach comber”. On graduation day she thanked me for insisting. She went on to build a successful business and started helping out with my bills
Writing is therapeutic - keep writing!
Well said. Thank you for it. Keep writing.
Tears. First thing in the morning…fathers give us life’s greatest lessons.
And now we know why the dems and rinos have worked so feverishly to destroy the American family and separate fathers from their children with "no fault" divorces which make lawyers rich and families destroyed. (Present company excepted, Jeff.) Destroyed families lead to destroyed children - look at only one example: transbullshitism.
So, regarding May 17, just as I drove 4 days to be at J6 to use my Constitutional right to free speech and petition the government to address the manipulated election (and watched with my own eyes the deep state operation play out against Trump and us), Jeff, I will meet you on the mall on May 17th to thank God for helping Trump begin to restore the USA. It will be a blessed and wonderful day, although you can bet the criminal elitist dems, rinos, deep state which still exists and the rotten media will be there with their foot soldiers to disrupt and create a hate filled lie, just as they did on J6.
I hope everyone else is coming too. 10 Million people is a nice round number!
I'll see you there Dan, God willing.
Excellent Red, we will need to establish a meeting point for C&C'ers.
God bless President Trump and his admin.
I have 2 words for libs, leftists, progressives, dems and it aint Happy Birthday.
Your name seems new-ish but I am getting a kick out of your spicy posts 😂 Curious did you change your name?
So wait. Jim, you didn't get your first job until 17? What a laggard you were!
No I had worked with my Uncle Ben who was a plumber starting when I was 14, days off and Saturdays. He actually taught me a ton of different trades. I soldered copper pipes, radiators, threaded pipe, removed boilers painted houses with him, even some carpentry which is what I do for a living now. I should have stayed plumbing$$$$
Are you for hire? I’ve found it impossible to find an honest contractor who can even do a half ass job. You see, I was raised the same way, but age has got the best of me. I used to do everything myself.right.the first time. Now, if I find anyone, none seem to take pride in their work and it shows. I have 1/2 finished shed, improperly installed window. Shabby deck construction. 😢😢 and now looking at furnace replacement which scares the heck outta me.
I used to measure once and cut twice until I discovered I couldn't cut longer the 2nd time. Now I measure twice and cut once. It's easier to do it myself than to fix a screwed up job that someone else did.
Are you in Michigan? I know a great hvac company.
Oh my life skills that I am sure have come in handy fixing your own home
OMG!! comedy is timing!! LMAO
Yeah he was burning daylight.
My parents never gave me money for anything. Hence I worked at Dunkin’ Donuts when I was 14 (looked older, lied about my age..sorry). Walked to work, about 2 miles. Next job was a bus girl in a Greek restaurant….With our five kids, we never gave them a car. They also went to work early and paid for their own cars and insurance….guess what? They thanked us for not handing them everything. They have wonderful work ethics and are all productive members of society. They know how to do their own laundry too!!
Your point about the seed is exceptionally profound. Lots to think about there.
Man, James.
Thanks, that was great.
Similar lessons from MY Dad.
Great post!!!
Plus GOD warned us in HIS word about being under a ruler who tightens the bough on our necks. Remember when HE tried to get "Israel" not to be like other nations rules by a king. They were to be a nation under GOD'S rule and direction
I have received the same encouragement from my kids who had to do it the old fashioned way (Smith Barney), while their friends where given the new cars and 'cool stuff'. They thank me now, and remind me if I feel guilty at all, they accept Venmo and Zelle...
"Dave’s Killer Bread tested positive but lower than other brands."
I appreciate Dave's honesty.
I still don't want his poisoned bread, though.
Having MOSTLY given up bread over ten years ago, I occasionally indulged in a Dave’s killer bagel. Dammit. Good thing we have a cottage sourdough baker in the neighborhood. Just gotta convince her to offer bagels. Her English muffins are amazing!
Do you think it’s ironic that it’s “Dave’s Killer Bread?”
Dave's has tried to source all organic ingredients since its inception. It is almost impossible to source uncontaminated food in the US and much of the world. It is far better than the old commercial stalwarts.
Ha!
and here I figured “Dave’s Killer Bread” was Jeff spoofing . . .
pretty funny.
I thought so ..
What flour is she using... Walmart organics? Bob's Red Mill? Italia imports?
Grind your own flour and make sourdough. Even those with gluten sensitivity can eat that bread. Watch this video from Bread Beckers about what they have done to wheat to make commercial flour. It certainly opened my eyes to why wheat is so important in our life due to its nutrients that have been removed by the industry and have to be added back into our diet through artificial means.
https://youtu.be/8sCDVxxj0gk?si=sWN2LAsXV52fMfjO
Thanks for the link!
I bought my wife the book from Beckers for Christmas. . . lobbying her to let me buy her a mill.
Promise her that you will make the bread sometimes. There are many men who bake bread and do it well. It's a creative experience. You decide what goes in the loaf of bread and you can choose different seasonings and spices.
Karmy, which mill did you buy? Recommendations?!
I have a Wonder Mill. But do some research because there are many options and price ranges. And do invest in the book by the Beckers, "The Essential Home-Ground Flour Book". It contains all you need to know to get started.
A friend who bakes uses Einkorn wheat.
That’s the only flour I buy now. It lasts me forever because we don’t eat many carbs anymore but at least when I do need flour I know it’s healthy and properly grown.
The best. I would buy weekly!❤️
This: from LeadsafeMama’s website.
Here are the TWO flour products we analyzed to date that tested safe by all standards when analyzing for Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic: #1 tested “non-detect” for all four while #2 tested positive for traces of Arsenic, but at a level that is considered safe by all standards (very low, trace amounts). All of the other flour products we have tested to date tested positive for concerning levels of toxicants:
Italy (Einkorn Flour): https://amzn.to/4iEgsRM
Mexico (Corn Flour): https://amzn.to/3YQ9B0s
I just attempted two loaves of sourdough focaccia loaves with all Italian Einkorn. BIG FAIL! Going back to half organic white and half organic einkorn
So, why was it a "fail"? Failed to rise enough?
Keep doing it. It gets better.
Unless she bakes with organic flour, her stuff can have round up as well
Buy your flour from Italy. It's much better and safe!
Even with organic it might have roundup spread from neighboring farms.
I am also lucky enough to have s cottage baker nearby. Her sourdough bread is amazing.
Check her source of wheat.
I will !
Yep, I have a local restaurant/bakery that makes organic sourdough bread. Pick up once a week. :-)
They may want to consider a rebranding strategy. “Our bread will also kill you, but at a slower pace than our competitor’s brand.”
"Dave's Harmful Bread"
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Mostly safe.
"Dave's" . . . <silence> . . . "uhh . . . " "bread?" " " . . . okay, then . . . 'bread'"
now THAT was perfectly timed and executed.
Love it.
"Twice the cost, but half the pesticides!"
ROUND UP is in everything and everybody.
True, but I’ll still avoid it whenever possible. And we do have choices.
I haven’t eaten ‘gluten’ for years. I call my choice ‘gluten free’ because that has become the catchphrase, but it’s really a wheat allergy and or more probably a Round Up intolerance/allergy.
I sometimes have trouble with gluten, too, so I've walked this path. I've learned that plenty of gluten-free foods are made from crops also treated with glyphosate (oats, corn, legumes). Simply being gluten-free doesn't necessarily lower glyphosate exposure.
Some reports even claim that gluten-free products have higher glyphosate. (I wish Florida would do some verification/testing on that hypothesis!)
And organic gluten-free products are currently pretty hard to find. That's a pretty niche market and I'm sure the prices would give your average "Nature's Own Butter Bread" customer some serious sticker shock. There's a reason they spray everything with glyphosate: it drives down production costs and risks.
Right. And most gluten free products are so high on the glycemic index, it is akin to eating sucrose with a spoon.
Unless it’s gluten free steak or gluten free broccoli 😆
Now those are two of my favorite gluten free foods, but they are hard to make into bread.
A lot of the problems with oats are that oats are processed on the same equipment as wheat, thus high cross-contamination. And yes glyphosates are a problem too. Luckily I can eat corn products and other gf breads, but try to limit them due to the sugars content.
Everything gluten-free is more expensive, and then add in better oils and non-Gmo you’re really up there. You’re right, organic even worse.
They don't charge for the gluten . . . the gluten is "free."
It is really silly!
Brands used to do that with sugar. They claimed they weren't charging for the sugar, so it was "sugar free." Regulators held them accountable.
One nuance that’s worth mentioning is that glyphosate is, unfortunately, nearly ubiquitous at this point—even showing up in very small amounts in some organic products. For example, imagine a monocrop field of organic wheat located a quarter mile from a large conventional wheat field. When the conventional farmer applies a glyphosate “burn-down,” some drift is almost inevitable.
Because complete avoidance has become so difficult, a more realistic (and sanity-preserving) approach is minimizing exposure as much as reasonably possible. In that context, I still see Dave’s brand as the lesser of two evils among mainstream grocery-store brands, since the testing suggests it reduces exposure by roughly 94%.
I’m genuinely surprised and impressed that two non-organic brands were able to achieve non-detectable levels. I honestly don’t know how they accomplished that, and it really underscores the value of testing.
Actually, I was surprised that my favorite grocery store bread tested "free" or safe - Sarah Lee Artesano bread - it's white bread, but has real bread taste - you know the good bread taste you get from yeast rolls? THAT is the taste I get from it.
Learn to ferment and make your own sourdough bread. Buy your flour from an organic mill.
Problem solved. The good thing is even the ugly bread is edible. 😂
I buy my organic flour and pasta from Italy. The chemicals contaminating the food supply are illegal there.
That’s really disappointing. His raisin bread is outstanding. Makes a great peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Agreed. I just started eating his bread...and now I'll be stopping.
Maybe Dave will not like being on the contaminated list & perhaps change his grain sources and get off the list of containing glyphosate.🤞
Several years ago I saw a clip of someone saying "It will kill you, it's right in the name ..." unfortunately, we occasionally buy it because it is the lesser of evils when needed.
I, too, appreciate the ironic honesty.
My BIL farms and they use roundup frequently, especially as a drying agent when he gets ready to harvest wheat corn and soybeans. I’d never eat any of the products that are considered GMO altered.
Where does he farm? Roundup is really expensive. Around here, (Southern Illinois), they just wait for it to dry naturally. I can't imagine any farmer spending the extra money when they could just wait the extra time, unless it's a very wet climate.
Mrs. RW
South Dakota, it’s a huge farm with a short harvesting window. Been doing it for years.
down there by August 10th or so(guessing) the whole dang field is brown just from the sun! right?! (my wife is from small town North of Alton.)
Why? It's a killer.
Ugh…
I'd be interested in the test results for the Buns at McDs, Burger King, Wendys' Etc.
Don't expect them to be anything but toxic.
Interesting... if this is accurate, looks like should I ever stray from not eating the crap in the 1st place: McDs and Chipotle would be my fast flubs:
https://assets.nationbuilder.com/yesmaam/pages/9335/attachments/original/1709754679/MAA-Glyphosate___AMPA-Results-20230925.jpg?1709754679
(if above link doesn't work its from):
https://www.momsacrossamerica.com/fast_food_glyphosate_herbicide
Great addition. McDonald's results were surprisingly low. Subway was horrifying, as was the Starbucks Impossible breakfast sandwich. Good to know In-N-Out is low and trace amounts for their basic border and fries.
OMG - Yes... and that just reminds me with what brought a lot of US here to C&C in the first place... The Legal Name of Subway prior to 2019!!!!!!
(it would be a bad joke if it wasn't true):
"1965-2019 Owned by Doctor's Associates Inc."
Add to that past info I seem to recall about the crap subway sprays on all their meat slices (why I stopped eating it a long time ago).
True - but My goal is to understand comparably how toxic. Such info from big users is where I’d expect to drive change.
I'm sad about Dave's Killer. I trusted them. You really can't be sure unless you buy organic flour from a farmer you can actually visit and look in the eye.
Actually, I was surprised that my favorite grocery store bread tested "free" or safe - Sarah Lee Artesano bread - it's white bread, but has real bread taste - you know the good bread taste you get from yeast rolls? THAT is the taste I get from it.
I am bummed, I was told by a personal health consultant Dave's was good, but they were focused on non folic acid fortified or enriched bread.
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Oh give thanks to Yahweh, call upon His name;
Make known His acts among the peoples.
Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;
Muse on all His wondrous deeds.
Boast in His holy name;
Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh be glad.
— 1 Chronicles 16:8-10 LSB
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Amen!!!
Yes! Amen.
Amen! Tell of His wonderful works 🙌
Amen! Amen!
Great instruction from God on our priorities and focus should be. How many could be saved from worry and anxiety and worthless pursuits by this prescription from our Creator? Such simple instruction- O Lord helps us to apply this daily!
Why doesn't TrumpRx have Ivermectin...at Indian prices?
Some data nerd out there should take the list of all TrumpRx drugs and list them by how popular they are, how many annual buyers. Then, list the total dollars saved (for those in Portland, you'd do this by multiplying the number of buyers, actually the number of purchases, by the savings per purchase). Seems simple enough...in fact if Musk were still in DC, he could have a 16 year old do this in 28 seconds.
Next, if this is so impactful for consumers, wouldn't the drug companies' stock prices have tanked? Have they (I'm too lazy to check)?
Thanks for checking for me, I take ivermectin (and HCQ) 🪴
We use the supplier on the 2nd Smartest Guy in the World substack. Scroll to bottom of every post. $69.00 for 50 12 mg tabs. It’s called Petmectin. Has sales. My hubs has had 3 clear scans for his bladder cancer since diagnosed early in 2o24. Also sells hydrochloriquin and fen Ben (hubs takes that too but from another supplier on Amazon) , doxycycline. Sold as pet meds. It’s worth the money for us.
$69 for 50 at 12mg each is one of the best deals I've seen, outside of India. Might have to give it a go. I have read that the big makers of Ivermectin do have separate factories making human vs animal versions. So, I worry about the "stuff" that might be in the animal versions. Still, as an emergency supply...which is worse, the tiny bit of animal stuff in it vs the respiratory illness I get?
And isn't that fun: in the most technologically advanced world ever, we have to choose between illness and animal meds for something that has been produced dirt cheap worldwide for decades. You can't hate them enough!
This is a good source & cheaper: https://www.ivermectinkart.com/
thanks Dena!
me too.
If you don't mind saying, where do you get your Ivermectin? How much does it cost? --Thanks
I used to purchase by mail 500 mg Metformin (generic) from a Mexican pharmacy, at US$4.62 + shipping. They can no longer mail to the USA.
If I want more, I can either pay TrumpRX $181 for Astra Zenca version, or drive 800 miles to the friendly border town farmacia. A year’s supply at a savings of a little more than $1,000…Hasta la vista.
But if you’ve never watched Contraband Seized at the Border you better find out how much you can bring back. Anything over the allowed amount and you will have to go back across and throw it in the trash can.
OTC in Idaho.
I travel to Idaho about once a month. It's not available. OTC is now legal in ID but the pharmaceutical companies aren't packaging it for OTC sale. One step at a time. Although I haven't checked in a few months...I'll try again.
This is where TrumpRx could be even more powerful: offer for sale, things Big Pharma won't.
I order it from an ID company, Idamectin. It may not be the cheapest, but I'm happy to support a local company and get the Ivermectin I want. If it becomes available cheaper through TrumpRX, yay!
Looks like Shopify shut them down on the web sales.
Dang it!
Exactly!
I just googled a Compounding Pharmacy near me. I gave the info to my Naturopath and she provided a prescription for the Ivermectin to the pharmacy and they mailed me the pills. I take a pill a day for about ten days when I know I will be around vaccinated people - my siblings and cousins.
Family events are a bit strained, because I am the only one who didn't take the Shot They are polite, but it is clear they don't want me around.
That’s what I was told.
Where because I tried to find it and they keep telling me it isn’t manufactured for humans? I live near Post Falls.
AllDayChemist .com - get the Austro brand. Best price for one of the best quality.
And I sometimes use Kay-biotech .com when I need a bunch of IVM really cheap.
But recently I bought the 00 sized empty capsules on Amazon, and a bunch of the horse paste tubes. I fill the capsules with it to make it easier to take. I use that for when I’m sick because it works best. You need 3x the preventative dose when symptoms are present. The paste is measured for preventative. So if I’m sick I don’t have to try to get dosing for 150 lb, I actually need dosing for 450 lb. An entire tube of paste is preventative for 1000 lbs. I simply squirt the required amount into a pinch bowl, then use small spatula to place inside the empty capsules. You actually could do this for preventative too as the markings are for 50lb each but only lock at 250lb. Still once I figured all that out it became a lot easier to dose out.
I use the human grade tablets for preventative and spike protein detoxes.
Aren't horses about 1000lb? So, one tube is one dose for a horse? Doesn't make sense.
But the provider info you provide looks interesting...thanks!
Yes, one tube is a preventative dose if the horse is 1000lbs.
It’s cheap at $10 a tube. You don’t have to give it to a horse every day of the week.
Race horses and show horses are big money so that’s not too expensive for the amount one might need over time.
It also explains why the tractor supply store has hundreds of boxes in stock all the time. lol
Ranchers and farmers also use it for other animals too that are not as large.
It’s been years since I’ve had horses, but the best I remember is that the paste has a dial on the plunger to measure out the amount to be used, but I cannot remember the increments in pounds. You wouldn’t take a whole tube at a time of course.
250 lb lockable increments, but notches exist at 50 lb increments. A lot of livestock and other farm/ranch animals are under 1000 lbs
Try MixMyRx in Florida.
Be Well, Be Blessed, Phillip
I have a doc who prescribes and the pharmacy she uses is in PA. It is expensive, about $80 bucks for 30!! I keep thinking of trying the Second Smartest Guy on Substack and his products. Less expensive and same mg. 🤷🏻♀️ Some people use the “horse paste” but I am not good with math (even though many say it’s almost impossible to overdose. I use that paste for around my “dry” eyes and on simple moles. It is on Amazon. Not medical advice!!!)
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We use it. No problems with it. 69.00 for 50. 12 mg tabs prophylactic you only really need 1 tab a week. Many can only get the 3 mg elsewhere. Cancer (why my husband uses it) it’s worth the money for ease in receiving the dosages he needs. 3 clear bladder cancer screens since October 2024. Also uses Fenben on Amazon.
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Janet, where do you buy yours? And glad to hear it's helping!
I’ve used this site: https://www.ivermectinkart.com/
I also have a doc who prescribes IVM; the pharmacy he uses is in CA. Cost is ~$3 per 12 mg troche. I buy FenBen from 2nd Smartest Guy; w/ 20% off coupon, cost is $1.33 per 150 mg tab.
I got mine from a pharmacy in Tennessee. No prescription needed. Allfamilypharmacy.com. Iver is $3/pill.
I go to the vet store and purchase a 250 ml vial of Ivermectin (Ivermax). It's an injectable for cattle and swine. We squirt a CC in water once a week. Keeps the bugs away! And it's cheap! Of course it says "not for use in humans" but my rancher buddies have been using it for decades and swear by it.
I buy mine from Ivermectin.com. They also sell Fenbendazole and Hydroxychloroquine. It's guaranteed not to be Chinese made.
I’ve used this site: https://www.ivermectinkart.com/
Drug companies make so much profits that when they do discounts like this, they’re getting funded in other areas still increasing their revenue.
Great thinking and great questions. Here are some drug topics if you’re interested in learning more:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/modern-medicine-as-poison
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-are-drug-prices-so-high-hint
First article is a spot on gem, coming from someone who has researched cancer and health non stop for 4 1/2 years. Only thing he should have added that the infamous Flexner was a school teacher, so , a real expert in medicine, Glad he mentioned JDs dad was a for real snake oil salesman. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
I’m using Mark Cuban’s company: cost plus drugs. One of the drugs I buy there has a $90 copay from Medicare pharmacies. I buy it from him for $25.
Add fenbendazole and hydroxychloroquine to the list too.
Please share with me what the fenbendazole and hydroxychloroquine do - and - how you take them.
I had a NASTY three year fungal sinus infection that became staph infested! (allergies and the masks really made and sustained my issue!)
I had to fly back and forth alot as my Dad was in poor health - the airports and planes were sticklers for the face diaper!)
All my anti fungal meds end in "zole" - Fluconazole, Ketaconazole, Itraconazole - and cause liver damage!
I am currently eating as clean as possible and not taking many supplements as my liver needs time to cleanse and rejuvenate. Anyway - would love to hear what there two supplements are for and how to use with Ivermectin. Thank you!
We had a run of staph infections in our family. Dr. would prescribe antibiotics and 2-3 mths later, it would return. Finally asked a friend at a health food store what might help. He recommended two products from a brand called Dr. Christopher: X-Infx and Vitalerbs. We took them daily for 4 months - totally cleared our systems of staph!
I'm not a medical practitioner, but if you go look for Meryl Nass or 2nd Smartest Guy on the internet, you'll get some very good information about them and Ivermectin. I use Ivermectin when I feel a cold coming on, or just not feeling well. It's wonderful.
I've read that some doctors are using a combination of Ivermectin and Fenbendazole to fight some cancers. Meryl and 2nd Smartest have more information on that.
Thank you! I appreciate this information!
https://www.snootspray.com/
You can also try Snoot spray.
THX!!
Moderna down. We need ivermectin otc, and we need it now.pennies to manufacture. Sadly CO’s like the wellness co have made a small fortune selling their emergency, contagion etc kits. Please, please make ivermectin otc throughout our country. Mexico was selling kits with ivermectin, azythromycin and zinc pills five yrs ago, in vending machines. The cost, a few dollars. Why is our country so heavily controlled by big pharma…..I think we all know the answer to that one.
Replying to my own post…again. I might have a problem?
Anyway, lots of good comments here about Ivermectin suppliers, prices, and dosage. I’ve read about dosage between 3mg and 12 mg, or at least those are the common pill sizes. Can anyone point me to a reliable source of information, i.e., not an “expert”, about dose?
https://makiscancerconsult.com/protocols#ivermectin-tiers
Here is a link to cancer protocol dosing for ivermectin.
That list was just a few the poster went through. Not the complete list. He said so.
Isn’t this list of meds on the TrumpRX site just the beginning? I think I read somewhere where more meds will be added as time goes on.
Probably because Ivermectin is already relatively cheap. He seems to be staring with a focus on the most expensive drugs.
We’re never going to get it as cheap as India or anywhere else that it’s highly used. Take what you can get that isn’t sold by the tablet.
I beg to differ, slightly. Though I like your "take what you can get" attitude...it's my attitude about Social Security--get it as soon as you can because it won't be there in 10 years. But I digress...back to your post...
Yes, not as cheap as in India, just like anything. But if Trump used his "bully pulpit" to say the following, I think we'd have it for $0.25 a pill: "You know, I've heard about this Ivermectin. It's been huge everywhere for a long time. But Americans can't get it at "most favored nation" prices. I want that to change. I'm talking to you Drug Companies. We can do it the easy way or the hard way."
I checked Trump Rx last night. I currently use WeShare Christian health share. My husband’s small business was set to have to pay $2500 per month to cover just me. (BCBS KS) Our kids are
grown and he uses the VA medical system. I switched two years ago so don’t have a current price. WeShare is $540 per month. Anyway my thyroid pill is $142/3 month supply with WeShare. Trump rx has it at $45/3 month supply.
I know I often complain about the VA, mostly because they really pushed the covid DeathVax.
However, their Rx system works pretty well. Co-pays for 30-day supply are either, $5, $8, or $11. No co-pays if the drug is for something service-connected. If a veteran has a 50% disability, there are no co-pays at all for drugs. And for those who have co-pays for Rx, there is a cap of $700 annually. Once that is met, no more charges.
My husband was with the VA now for almost 15 years. We never had a big problem with turning down the death vax. They called once and asked him to set up an appointment at some date. He never did and they never bothered him again. I did hate the mask mandates that went on for almost 3 years. And I have always said the VA was good about handing out pharmaceuticals, maybe too good.
Synthetic thyroid pills do nothing for me. I wish they would cover the natural options as these are even pricier than synthetics. Even more disturbing is the move to entirely remove these options here in the US.
I had hyperthyroidism, and my functional doc had no suggestions. He said all of the endocrinologists he knows are unhappy people, and so are their patients. Besides, all they would do was either cut out my thyroid, cut out the 2 problem nodes, or kill the thyroid with radioactive iodine and put me on Levothyroxine (second most prescribed drug, after Lipitor) for life. I did not feel like God made me with any extra body parts. He had cured his son of hypothyroidism, which is incredibly common here, but hyper is rare. I went to Dallas to see the holistic doctor Jerry Tennant. Don't even know what he did, but in 3 months , I was cured.
Yes, finding the right holistic doc is key. Mine cured too. No meds, just iodine, good diet, exercise and lifestyle changes. Get sunshine! :-)
That’s what I was looking for. I hope it’s added in the future.
I weaned myself off of thyroid med about four months ago. Took them for 20 years only to do my research and found that didn't really need it if I did some diet/exercise/life-style changes. In fact, most people don't need to take it. I can tell you iodine is important!
Try MixMyRx in Florida.
Be Well, Be Blessed, Phillip
Try MixMyRx in Florida - for compounded thyroid.
Be Well, Be Blessed, Phillip
Nice savings. Now, buy lotto tickets!
I'm a chemist. So when I read about "elevated levels" of something, I ask, "elevated above what?" If we're talking about something very bad that isn't supposed to be in a given food product, then "elevated" probably means "above the detection limit".
Chemistry Tutorial (don't worry, I tried to write this for Portlanders): detection limit just means that when you measure something in a sample that you KNOW doesn't have any of the substance you still get a number from the measurement. It's a small number, but it ain't zero. So, you repeat the measurement and look at the fluctuations in the data. Then you calculate how big a signal would have to be to be clearly greater than that noise. That's your limit in being able to detect. The statistical methods required are really pretty simple.
Here's the kicker: we have gotten really, really (REALLY!) good at detecting just about anything in anything. Parts per trillion is routine for a lot of stuff. Including stuff that is only toxic at parts per billion. Think about that: we can see bad stuff at levels 1000x lower than any level of concern.
I have worked on methods to detect plutonium in the environment. We can detect attograms (go look that up!).
I have no idea how toxic glyphosate is, but I'd bet my favorite mass spectrometer that we can detect it 1000x lower than that level of concern.
Am I surprised it's in agricultural products when it's main use is in rocket propellant? Oh wait, that's not it, it's used in AGRICULTURE! I'll bet every organic chunk of produce you've ever bought has some amount of some of the bad stuff you think isn't there. Why? Because we've been putting the bad stuff on ALL of our fields for decades. So, the organic stuff might be lower, maybe a lot lower, in the bad stuff but it ain't zero. And that's ok: lower is good!
Anyway, you can see that these discussions about "there's a speck of stuff in my noodles" triggers me.
Last, Jeff: "Another Florida investigation found arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, and pesticides in various brands of baby formula. Some had both lead and mercury!" Spoiler alert: all baby formula has lead and mercury! How do I know this? Because some have measured positive and to me that means the ones that didn't measure positive are just below the detection limit. And the people doing the measurement are likely not world class chemists. I can almost guarantee that if you used a chemical analysis method better than whatever EPA or FDA approved method was used here, your detection limit would be 100x lower and you'd see the lead and mercury everywhere.
Thank you, Greg. That is very interesting and reassuring. Nothing in this present world will ever be perfect. What comes after this life is much more important. Trust Christ!
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that detecting something may or may not mean that the stuff at the level detected is a problem. Am I understanding you correctly?
That is an interesting and important addition to the discussion.
The candy information that I saw included acceptable annual intake, and the candy that was contaminated all exceeded the allowed amount. One Halloween stash would rapidly exceed the annual limit several times over.
Yep, that's it.
And to be fair to the regulators, toxicology science is hard. Like most things biological, at least if you're really dedicated to getting it right. So, we tend to err on the side of caution. I have no problem with that.
Keep in mind that the same mindset and skill sets in the government that came up with and manage the Welfare State are being applied to everything the government does. Incompetence all the way down.
I've never thought about this, but it would be good to figure out how to do it right. By "it" I mean assess how much of various things are bad. Things in the air, water, food, you name it. But don't let the people who think CO2 is a pollutant do the work!
I'm also a chemist, and your words are appreciated. We have also continuously lowered the the acceptable limit to the basically the detection limit. IIRC, it goes something like this: new technology has sub ppt resolution, now every single molecule it can detect must be below ppt to be considered healthy, even though we were just consuming ppb quantities for 50+ years. I agree that it's generally a good thing to have as little pollutants as possible in the stuff we consume, but it also just feels like your standard regulatory capture. I guess it will keep the staff analytical chemists on the pay roll.
This also is an important reminder that we forget about.
As I understand it, some of these heavy metals just exist in the environment (as parts of various minerals in the earth's crust, of course! because that's where they are mined), and humans have been consuming them for millennia, depending on locale and so on.
Of course that doesn't suddenly make arsenic not toxic. But perhaps minute amounts consumed minutely and in the context of a whole foods diet minus the other manufactured toxins are not the horrors that we may otherwise imagine?
"Didn't let the ppl who think CO² is a pollutant do the work!" Bingo! What are they teaching them in school??!! It's not science!
Tylenol will kill you, and it ain’t a nice way to go. Fact is that Roundup is bad for you so don’t bathe in it, but it can be washed off of food. Did taking lead out of gasoline increase our IQs or lengthen our lives?
Agree...it's all about dose. A whole bottle of Tylenol or 4 pills every hour?...both bad ideas. A bathtub full of Roundup...good one! Lead in gasoline, agree that was probably a good idea in the 1940s when we didn't know better, but then we fixed it. Along with the air and water in most cities. Still a long way to go.
If you're point is "Greg, why are you against testing and regulating?", I'm not. I just think the criteria by which we judge something to be at too high a level is not very scientific. That's ok, the science is getting better and until we really have something figured out better to be cautious.
But one man's caution is another man's hysteria. It's a political challenge, not a scientific one.
So Greg, is there possibly hope that all the dark chocolate that I eat really does not contain huge levels of cadmium and lead? Please be true! 🫣😆
If you've read my posts here, you know I'm snarky, sarcastic, skeptical, etc. But I take your question to be a serious one, after all it involves chocolate!
So, serious answer: I don't know. I've never looked at the chemistry literature on heavy metals in food, let alone chocolate. But the question sounds like fun, so I'll do a little digging and see what I can learn.
In the meantime, my guess is your chocolate does not contain "huge levels", meaning levels that should concern you. Does your chocolate contain levels that can be measured, maybe even easily?...probably.
Because lead can be measured down to parts per trillion when parts per million are the levels of concern. Parts per trillion (pptr) is what a world class measurement lab can do (I'm exaggerating a little, but I think 100 pptr has been done), but even parts per billion should be doable for most labs.
So, at those levels, probably detectable because lead is everywhere. In fact, one of the biggest challenges in measuring it at those per billion or per trillion levels is the "chemistry blank". That's the amount you measure in a clean sample where you know that no lead is present in the sample (or at least below your detection limits). But when you measure the sample you find some lead. Why? because it's in the dust floating in your lab, it's in the chemicals you used to prepare the sample, it's in the glassware, etc., etc. So a little creeps into the sample that you chemically process for the analysis instrument (fun fact: there are almost no sample types that can be analyzed directly, you always have to "prepare" them).
Sorry for the long answer...that's what you get for asking a PhD a question! :)
More later if I learn something actually useful!
Karen - i was told by a Naturopathic Doctor that the best Chocolate to eat is single sourced from South America. Most chocolate is sourced from Africa and has more lead in it. YMMV
You have to stop eating more than chocolate to avoid cadmium and lead, potatoes and carrots have these metals in them. They are even passed through in breast milk. Bottom line, eat what you want, eat a variety.
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All true, but really beside the point.
The correct amount of Roundup in wheat is zero. None. As Jeff Childers pointed out, several brands had no detectable levels of Roundup. So it is entirely possible to manufacture food that isn't overtly contaminated with residual pesticides/herbicides.
You spent a lot of text making something simple needlessly complicated. As a Chief Engineer I see this all the time, us scientific types tend to get hyper-focused on the trees and miss the forest. But normal people don't want poison in their foods, period. Handwaving along the lines of "some poison is fine" isn't persuasive.
They are poisoning and killing our child in more ways than one.
It is interesting the ambiguity there is in using term "elevated level" when honestly real data is missing - elevated in relation to what - MCL, MDL that OSHA MSDS has?
Which is your favorite mass spec?
Ooh, that's a hard one. Either the Sapphire from Nu Instruments (Wrexham, UK) or the Neoma MS/MS from ThermoFisher in Bremen.
They are like riding a pony through a candy factory!
Big Ag has gmo'd the seeds to be resistant to Roundup, so thar farmers can spray it on the crops and the herbicide won't affect the yield, just the weeds. The end user of the crops, well, and how Roundup ultimately impacts humans is open to interpretation...
For fun, you should discuss everyone's new bogeyman, PFAS detection limits.
This is important to understand. Detectible limits are usually far below levels doing biochemical damage. Also contaminants found are not contaminants absorbed. Much of them are blocked by food's fiber, and from mineral content that form insoluble compounds that pass through us unabsorbed.
Just read on Dr. William Davis' blog about microplastics in root vegetables. All from the soil.
Funny how the devoted keto crowd saved themselves from years of poisoned grain
The more I read about the keto diet, the more impressed I am with what it can help with. It’s a longtime treatment for epilepsy, for example, and often works when medication hasn’t. It apparently has many studies showing it can put autoimmune diseases in remission. That’s pretty awesome, and is limited to strict keto, not carnivore, and it’s a management thing not a cure. But interesting. If I ever have autoimmune issues, first thing I’m going to do is strict keto for 30 days and see if it helps.
Also, if I may rant… y’all know I’m an orthopedic massage therapist. I have had multiple clients come in having been recently diagnosed with an autoimmune, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, and the FIRST THING the doc does is prescribe them the long term chemo pill. Why on earth are they not having them do keto for a couple of months first? (Also, it’s probably because 90% of people won’t do it, but still). Rant over, thank you for listening to my TED talk.
🤔 wonder what would be causing so many autoimmune issues lately. Just 5 years out from 💉
It’s such a mystery….
Experts are baffled.
If you’re not baffled, are you even an expert?? 😑
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If I can't dazzle you with my brilliance, I'll baffle you with my bullshit!
That’s crazy that doctors are starting with a chemo drug! I’ve had autoimmune disease for decades and my rheumatologists have prescribed hydroxychloroquine. They say it’s the safest drug, safer than aspirin.
I always wondered if those on Hydroxychloroquine for RA got covid?
Yes. I got Covid. I have Sjogrens and Hashimoto’s, both well controlled. Had them for decades. I also have a genetic issue with my immune system. I had covid twice and did not have to go to the hospital, although the first time I got it in 2021 I was really unwell. The last time I got it was last year and it was nothing.
I have a pal on HCQ for Lupus... he never got Covid.
It worked for me too, but as soon as the three weeks kicked and started working, I developed an allergic reaction. Made me very sad.
Oh no! That’s terrible! I’m sorry to hear that. Have you found an alternative?
I remember when all the alternative drugs for covid were being bashed in the media, around the time supposedly Trump said ‘drink bleach’. Another one that was bashed was Hydroxy because it supposedly could create a shortage for Lupus sufferers.
That was when I realized this was all a lie. Hydroxychloroquine is very safe. I was warned there was a shortage. I think they just made it short because they didn’t want people taking it. It’s my opinion that it does help with other illnesses like Covid, although ivermectin is better.
Exactly, that was my point, take anything except what might actually help people. Vit D was knocked then too.
We did paleo for 4.5 years. Honestly, I had zero wheat for that whole time. I also had Hashimoto’s (hypothyroidism with antibodies) and was on Synthroid, 150 mcg. A few months in, I started to have interesting pain around my eyes. Suspecting my thyroid dose might need to be reduced, my doctor ordered a thyroid blood test, including antibodies. The antibodies were gone. Gone. I asked the doctor if that meant I didn’t have an autoimmune disease, and he said that’s exactly what it meant. He said eliminating wheat was most likely doing this, that a molecule in gluten imitated thyroid hormone and told the body to stop producing it. We tried zero Synthroid for a month, but that didn’t keep my thyroid on track. Eventually 75 mcg, half my pre-no-wheat-diet dose, kept me level.
I do have wheat sometimes now, but not every day, and almost always organic, but it seems even organic wheat products are not entirely safe. My antibodies remain gone … but I do think a constant, daily, multiple times a day intake of wheat is what causes the problem. Even people who are “allergic” to a food can sometimes have it occasionally, because the body can process a food quite well unless overloaded by a lot of the food at one time or by constant use of it. And wheat is EVERYWHERE. Stopping it entirely is not for the faint hearted!
Has anyone else noticed gluten, peanut, pick a food, allergies were all but non existent 50 years ago? What changed? Might want to start with the vaccine schedule.
My functional doctor put me on a compounded bioidentocal thyroid hormone. Also on a yeast free diet. Worked great. My antibodies for thyroid and also a blood clotting antibody disappeared.
Tell me more about the compounded bioidentical hormone. Has it worked well? Years ago my grandmother did a diet called The Yeast Connection that really controlled her asthma. I would love to get off of levothyroxine.
Yes it has worked well for me. My understanding is it is derived from plants. We had to adjust the dose a few times. Now I am very stable. The yeast free diet eliminates my asthma.
Plus, the antibodies I had disappeared. Even my functional doctor was a bit surprised.
I weaned myself off on my own and then told my holistic doc. Spent a lot of time reading an listening to podcasts. It can be done!
Does it contain pork? I haven’t tried the Standard Process brand of T4 because it contains pork, but listening to the Instagram docs, lol, I have learned that now there are brands who use bovine ingredients.
I didn’t even think about compounding pharmacies.
I can’t eat wheat/gluten, dairy, pork and now eggs.
No I believe it’s from plants.
Stopping wheat entirely is very difficult, especially while traveling. I also have to watch for cross contamination, shared fryers, etc.
I am super sensitive to it. Daily life around home is easy even though my husband loves bread and eats it all the time. We thicken gravy with cornstarch and I do use gf bread occasionally. The ingredients in gf bread aren’t that great. Crunchmasters makes a great cracker though.
You might want to do some research or watch YouTube videos of Dr. David Brownstein on thryroid issues/iodine. I also read one of his books. He's an MD that does holistic medicine now, along with his two daughters who are also MD's. Good stuff.
Keep ranting. The political climate seems to be succumbing to logic and reason a little more every day
I try not to rant because no one listens, but when I get one of these client I make sure to suggest they look up how the keto diet can affect autoimmune and see if that might be an option for them.
Ranting's great. I'm from NY. Leard to rant outta the womb. It's good for the body, good for the soul.
That's what I tell my husband! He calls me Italian LOL
My sister said it best: “I finally figured out what’s wrong with me. I’m an Italian trapped in a Norwegian body!” 👍🤣
Yet another smart husband.
Hey my Italian side comes out with the ranting too lol 😂
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Like Barney the dinosaur used to say, "Our fun in Learing never ends"
Do you also (can you?) ask when their symptoms began to occur?
Taking your dog off of any store bought kibble may be the answer to epilepsy as well. It was for mine (miniature dachshund which usually have petit mal epilepsy). After six months on all homemade kibble was able to wean him off zonisamide with no resulting seizures. He still had break thru seizures on zonisamide (but rarely) when eating the "best" dog foods. Its lovely to not have to give him that anymore.
kibble is garbage, as is most Purina and the like main stream food. My wife is meticulous about what she feeds our dogs, and in the past 2 years, we lost 1 , our daughter's border collie rescue at 17 1/3, and a small English setter at 16. Prior to her being such a stickle for food, we never had a dog live longer than 14 1/2 . All were in the 40-55 pound range.
My dog has epilepsy. He gets about half kibble, but I use MCT oil daily and that seems to make a difference. He is on meds as well, but has been stable for 3 or 4 years now. He hasn’t had any vaccines in that time, and is now overdue for rabies. I’m going to have to figure out how to get out of that!
All kinds of kibble out there, some are really good. Lots of good freeze dried options too
I was diagnosed with RA back in 2008. My first rheumatologist put me on methotrexate and told me that drugs were the only way to manage the disease. I had another doctor tell me that food would have no effect. I quickly got off the methotrexate and tried managing my RA through diet and exercise. I didn't know about the ketogenic diet then. I have gone through several diets but unfortunately nothing has put me in remission. But I will continue following my ketogenic diet regardless.
Docs have been indoctrinated into pill pushing. Nothing else exists in their therapeutic world.
Doctors are a lot like atheists. Atheists claim to know that God does not exist. If you draw a big circle that represents all knowledge and ask them to draw a circle within that circle that represents all their knowledge, if they are honest, they will have to draw a small circle. Hence, they can't possibly know that God doesn't exist. Most doctors act as if they know everything. Anything you may bring up can't possibly exist if they don't know about it. And the reality is, they only know what they know. What they were taught in med school and what the pharmaceutical companies tell them about their drugs in their flashy promotional pamphlets. They don't know what they don't know, and they typically aren't spending their spare time after work doing the research and finding out other treatments and the latest research. If you bring up any research they will usually be insulted. After all, they are the doctor, not you!
This is correct. Big Pharma started many years ago & they designed the model, thus American medical schools teach zero nutrition & lots of pills. Thank God for RFK. Functional Medicine is thankfully rising.
It’s horrible
Keto <40 carbs/day changes my joint pain, attitude, bloating, sinus, allergies, BP in just THREE DAYS. It saved my sanity thru the last WW3, Covid. I believe even done short term improved hubs cancer recovery, Mom's heart and stroke and memory recoveries and challenges. Had one Dr say that yes it's a very excellent healthy diet but nobody wants to do it, not even her. She's Indian of course and rice is a 'healthy' staple she said.
After 6 years of cancer and more than a ton of research (results my vary) I think a low carb diet/low glycemic diet is the way to go. Tune it to your body. It doesn't mean you can never have a small (new or something of that size) potato again. It means that you're making conscious choices and you are aware of the impact of your choices on your body. Notice how you feel and eat accordingly.
I’m curious, within your clinic setting, Have you seen any improvements with arthritis? I know that when I stay strict keto, my arthritis doesn’t bother me at all, but the second I touch bread my joints start to ache. Anecdotal, I know, but I’ve heard this from a lot of other people. And don’t forget that it also helps with type two diabetes.
My husband reversed his type 2 (A1C was 9) in less than one month. He is now in excellent health: lost weight, regained muscle as well as zest for life.
Never do Keto for ONLY 30 days and then try to determine its efficacy. You need at least 4-6 weeks just to become fat adapted, sometimes longer, and then 4-6 straight months to see the full benefits of the diet, especially if you’re coming off of a SAD diet (standard American diet).
The reason so many people didn’t think Keto worked for them is because they didn’t give it an adequate amount of time or didn’t stay disciplined with doing it properly.
All my benefits started to happen at the 4 month mark. My mental health did start to improve after 2-3 months. I was off all meds after 6 months. The difference of 6 months vs 30 days is night and day.
If you try the diet, stay true to it for a full six months before judging anything.
Also, people raved how necessary intermittent fasting was and pressured me to add that the first few months. They were right, but I cared more about becoming really good with the diet so I didn’t add fasting until after my first year. Then it was like rocket fuel. I’m glad I held off and focused on one thing at a time.
After the third year I found I often slip into carnivore without trying, but because I’m content with Keto I don’t need to stay there. I just let my body lead me.
Sorry, but this doc is an out and out quack. The very first chemo drug was derived from leftover WWI mustard gas. Chemo is a toxic poison, with NO medical use in a sane world.
I work in a chiro office, it’s no doctor here. They come to me after seeing whatever doc they’re seeing and they all have the same story.
What is the difference between keto and carnivore?
The ketogenic diet is typically very low-carb, traditional keto diets were very high in fat (think Atkins). Nowadays, there are a number of different keto diets; while all are low in carbs, they tinker with the amount of protein and fat you get. Carnivore diet is exactly what it sounds like primarily meat; few if any vegetables. Carnivore is primarily recommended for people that have food, digestive issues or autoimmune issues.
Constipation must be an issue in carnivore, no fiber.
My B-I-L ate nothing but meat for years, he says quite the opposite! 😬
He was trying to talk me into it, but I have never been a meat lover and couldn't imagine only eating it, he said "Never trust a fart" LOL
LOL-same. I eat a lot of veg and fruit and fish.
Surprisingly it’s not! I thought that would be an issue too but I haven’t had a problem or constipation in four years EXCEPT for when I do have a large amount of fibrous veggies. Lol That’s the only time I have dealt with uncomfortable constipation. 🤷🏼♀️
(My issues actually are for the other way when I have too much of a sugar alcohol, which I avoid as much as possible. Erythritol is the least likely to cause serious digestive upset so long as you don’t exceed 50gm in a single day, so it’s the only one I’ll use. I also use stevia drops or monk fruit.)
So glad to hear it Juju. I know many that tried the diet and had to go off bc of bloating and severe constipation. Happy you are not one of them! Love my monk fruit and coconut sugar!
Carnivore is ONLY meat. Low carb, <150? carb gm intake no matter how you get it but strict keto is very low carb, <50-30, no grains, no starch, no sugars except certain berries in limited amounts. Keto puts your body into ketosis, fat burning mode instead of carb burning.
I saw the video of RFK Jr saying this about keto diet and mental illness, but every article says bizarre and unfound claims. Here's one in case you missed it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rfk-jr-makes-unfounded-claim-045509078.html
I have a very good friend who has been fighting for her daughter's mental decline for years now and they all say they're morning to help her then she put her in keto and she's LIVING again and not DYING!!
I have heard that it can be potentially helpful with schizophrenia but I don’t think it’s a remission thing like with autoimmune.
One of the many reasons I adopted a keto/paleo diet years ago was because of the Roundup issue. This isn't Roundup getting into wheat incidentally from weed control, it's much worse than that. Monsanto marketed Roundup to farmers as a desiccant, that is to spray it directly on the wheat right before harvest to dry it out. That made the wheat easier to harvest and process. It really is diabolical when you think about it, to save a few dollars the agriculture industry was deliberately poisoning the crops.
Pretty sure round up killed our dog💔. Only natural weed killer for this family. I wish I had known sooner. That’s on me.
Oh gosh! That’s awful.
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So sorry Nard
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I hope you know grain fed meats usually were fed glysophate containing grains .
That's why paleo diets encourage grass-fed beef organically raised. Not only to avoid contaminated feed, but it's cattle's natural diet. So the meat's omega 3 to omega 6 distribution is in far healthier ratios than grain-fed cattle.
But besides that, the cow has it's own detoxification system. They eat the contaminated feed, not us. By the time that feed is turned into meat much of the original contamination has been processed and removed by the cow itself. Not great for the cow, but better for us.
So even without going grass-fed, it's inherently cleaner than eating the contaminated feed.
Nuts also
I live there! I see it! Even in my organic garden I can't control the over spray!! We RUN into the house and close it up but that's only when they are right her and we ALL KNOW it's blowing from miles away except not the guys making the money who spray it! 😡
Re: "to save a few dollars the agriculture industry was deliberately poisoning the crops."
Actually, the truth is that to make billions of dollars the chemical companies (Monsanto in particular) deliberately poisoned the crops. And denied the evidence. Marketed that glyphosate was as safe as drinking water.
Lol, wouldn't that be an ironic reason for weight loss and health improvement.
Grains are waaaaaay overrepresented in American diets (brought to you by Wonder Bread).
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, said the makers of Fruit Loops and Count Chocula.
AH..te good old days for the 60s when they were such a treat!
I’ve done keto and felt great. Now high protein, low nutrient dense carbs. Easy to eliminate bread due to a what-i-thought-was-a-gluten-intolerance. Turns out, it was an I’m-being-poisoned-by-the-food-industry-intolerance.
I now import my flour and make my own bread - whole grain and sourdough - and life is amazing. I also buy glyphosate-free organic wheat berries, sprout my own grains, mill my own flour, and make sprouted whole wheat bread. It’s a process. It’s love. It’s the Little Red Hen coming home to roost. Pure. Wholesome. No bloat. No grain brain. Just a fresh from the oven home baked hug. Highly recommend.
I eat one or two heavenly slices a day. Life. Is. Good.
Create your own line of bread: “Nard’s KillFree Bread” Lol
I may DM you soon. I’m lost with where to begin to learn to make my own sourdough bread. I mean I found instructions online, and apparently I can get “starter” from King Arthur’s, but it’s one of those things I really just need a convo about to learn.
Oh Lord, can you ship some to me?
Can i come eat at your house? :-)
I did Keto for 3 or 4 months. Basically, I cut out sugar, alcohol, and any carbs not in vegetables. In that time I went from 205 to 173 and my digestion stabilized.
Since then I started ballroom dancing and needed to eat more. So I have more carbs through potatoes and occasionally eat ice cream. And allow myself to eat wings. So, I'm back up to 190. But it's mostly muscle.
Bottom line. It worked for me.
Meat eaters still have to look at where their product was raised and finished. Feed lots use grain from farms that use chemicals.
Right?
And ate delicious flesh filled with the blood of animals given all kinds of hormones and antibiotics, and adrenalin, urine and pus. And those grass fed, healthy animals, eating grass with all that same stuff sprayed on grains and such. Yup, pretty funny too, for those who maintain that diet and and down the line find their kidneys starting to fail and finally kill them, like Dr. Atkins, the father of this idiot diet.
Good grief, your overwrought hyperemotional hysterical nonsense doesn't work here. It might impress teenage girls wearing nose rings though. Try TikTok.
These militant vegans really do think the rest of the world are slaves to their emotions just as they are. A reasoned, thoughtful argument is as foreign to them as Swahili.
Excellent reply Jeff!!!!
Nailed it!
hello sunshine
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You think animal blood is filled with urine and pus?
That is so spectacularly stupid, there should be a special award.
After reading today's post, and posts from other inteligent Substackers, I have but one question:
Why do we even need Democrats?
To remind us of how evil seeps in. To remind us that we beed to be more dogmatic in researching or looking up stuff. To remind us that we can’t trust most?
I don’t know. I was a demo for most of my voting years, however never voted a party ticket. I am somewhat ashamed that I left my name on the rolls for as long as I did.
I emerged from the left around age 30 - after many paychecks of wondering why they took so much! I remember joining the Republican women’s club and they were fascinated and horrified to hear I was a “recovering liberal” No one then (in the late 90s) had ever heard of someone switching sides!! Now some of the biggest voices on the right were former dems (podcasters I mean). Interesting…
Kind of like the influencer Christians who are former Muslims....
"if you aren't a liberal by the time you are 20, you have no heart. If you aren't a conservative by the time you are 30, you have no brains"
My son’s first job was Subway. He got his first paycheck and said, “Who is FICA and why did they take all my money?”
I have not switched sides. I gave simply left the public record.
I'm ashamed that you did that, too. Haha.
Forgive yourself. It is healing. We forgive you. 😇🙏 And welcome to the Light!
Shalom Shalom
Be Well, Be Blessed, Phillip
Wouldn't it be something if they 86'd themselves as a viable political party?
Pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered. Methinks they got a little greedy.
To be young and idealistic…then you grow up, start a family, and realize how the world works. At least that’s the way it used to work. Today, we have infanticized AWFULS stuck on replay…
They really seem to have stayed in adolescence—all knee jerk emotional responses and worrying about being included in the popular crowd 😕
Yeah they never graduated out of middle school
They’re definitely a net negative to society in their current iteration. I wish the middle left in that party would have the balls to stand up to the radicals, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. They’re in a death spiral.
They’re there to help us see the RINO’s amongst us. Like a litmus test.
Why do we even need a Democracy?
We DON'T need a democracy; we have a representative republic, thank God.
“In a republic a fair degree of equality and prosperity are important goals, but it is liberty that is given priority as the proper end of government. In a democracy these priorities are reversed: the status of men and women as consumers of economic goods is taken to be more significant than their status as participants in the creation of political goods. A republic is what we would call moralistic in its approach to both public and private affairs; a democracy is more easygoing, more permissive, as we now say, even more cynical.” Irving Kristol 1974
What a powerful quote. Thank you for sharing!
Or a representative republic? How about we become a Benevolent Dictatorship? I know one guy who would be a good benevolent dictator...
I always thought a dictator was a cross between a prick and a potato.
Only in a "banana" republic.
Just don't try peeling it in public.
Ahh, you? : )
Maybe. I'm not tipping my hand, though.
Frozen marshmallows for snack time every day for every citizen! 😁
Frozen mini marshmallows are not a snack. They're an entree.
You crack me up
How about an anarcho-syndicalist commune?
Vote for Dennis!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6f4XJLdwUI
Strange, but true.
We don't.
I have somewhat pondered that recently
It's hard to see good if we don't compare it to something?
How do you propose eliminating them? 👁️👁️
Need? About as much as I "need" a bio-weapon injection. They are already the walking dead. After the Demonrat Party loses the mid-terms, they will fold up and cease to exist. The political landscape in the US is evolving into a one-party system. Step back to the twenty thousand foot level and you can see it.
Yin Yang. ☯️
Yes, I am hoping they self cull via jabs.
Yay for the new drug site, at least for those who choose to use pharmaceuticals.
Now, fix insurance premiums please. I need catastrophic coverage with an annual deductible that won't clear out my savings and with premiums that don't eat a quarter of my monthly income.
I don't want or need preventative coverage. I'll negotiate cash. I don't need pregnancy coverage. Let me pick what I do need and pay only for that. Thanks.
yes! And make Medicare completely optional (no penalties) for anything other than hospital, and even then, allow for opting out if join membership hospitals.
More important, outlaw all of this check-the-box data entry/tracking/collection stuff associated with Medicare "wellness exams."
Ugh! Yes! Doctors don't even need to TOUCH their patients to complete a so-called wellness exam. It's all a boon to the labs and pharmaceutical companies. Not much benefit to patients except those who naively say "I had my checkup; I'm good." 🙄. As if the white-coat's declaration is adequate and meaningful.
Yes! Like car insurance!
It is widely known now that seed oils are truly a terrible health choice, responsible for much of the obesity and sickness in America and everywhere that consume them.
That said, Crisco makes them look like health food. My British mother always used Crisco to make her pastry. Prepare to be ill reading how they make , and marketed Crisco. Spoiler alert, the American Heart Association helped.
https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2019431364982931869
I use avocado oil or olive oil
Avacado is probably the best seed oil, but it is still a seed oil. And it needs to be organic and cold pressed. Ghee, butter, extra virgin olive oil (careful. Know your source. Much is cut with canola oil), and coconut oil are the best choices. I also use lard and tallow.
avocado is not a seed oil. Avocado oil comes from the flesh of the avocado, not the seed. Virgin olive oil is also not for cooking, its for finishing.
Did not know that about avacado oil. Non virgin olive oil very likely is cut with seed oils, so I never use it. I do routinely use olive oil (EV) to cook, but not above Medium. High heat , I use ghee or coconut oil.
In my Mediterranean background, olive oil was used for everything, including frying.
Use organic cold pressed extra virgin olive oil only
David Wesson in 1880-99 discovers how to turn cottonseed by-product into cooking oil, and then into solid shortening.
Humans are the only living thing that will eat Crisco. Even rats and toaches won't touch it.
Seed oils are made with the same process.
Wow, how they brought this crap to us under our noses. So much evil I can't keep track of it all.
"“Nearly all of the drugs on the site are already widely covered through insurance,” the article complained, having temporary amnesia about co-pays" - whatta you know, maybe we don't need insurance for this. Pondering...
I love Jeff’s idea of creating a parallel market before addressing Obamacare. We’ve learned since Covid that a parallel market is extremely important.
Not just that, but a parallel world view about health itself. The market I'd love to see is a well-care system versus the current sick-care system, and the overall MAGA vibe is trending heavily toward improved health that doesn't require pharmaceuticals to merely survive. I already live in that parallel world, and my daily focus is my overall wellbeing. It's nice over here, everyone is welcome!
I don’t have insurance. It cracks me up when people ask “how do you get away with that?” Get away with WHAT? That’s hilarious. I have direct primary care and a catastrophic policy. I don’t get away with anything. I eat right. I live well. I take care of myself. I don’t take prescription drugs. I use natural remedies when needed. I’ll be 60 this year and everything is A-OK. The world is ridiculous.
You have what's known as a long time preference, i.e., you value the long-term over the short-term, much like one who saves or invests for the future. Most folks have developed a short time preference, valuing immediate needs over the future. Short time preferences justify eating crap and moving little.
Or even "need" the stinkin drugs
"But the very first drug on the list, Cetrotide (a fertility drug)"
I thought the beautiful shot was for preventing fertility..
With the new revelations about Epstein, who thinks he is still alive? And if so, who switched him out? Some say he is drinking martinis on the beach in Tel Aviv. I prefer to believe he is in protective custody and turned states evidence.
I honestly don’t know. He had/has (?) his hands on so many people.
Literally.
I’ve written extensively about Epstein - I’m coming to see that it’s a lot of talking points but nothing happens. For example Bill Gates is there so often, but nothing will happen. Here’s there Epstein files: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/franklins-epstein-files-a-guide-to
I dont want to go there, I know how easily men with money are influenced and can influence evil. They have chosen money to be their idol. I have heard the deplorable and disgusting rituals mentioned. However, I have a friend who tells me that Trump was involved. Is this true?
No he wasn’t. As soon as he was made aware what Epstein was into he kicked him out of Mar-a-lago and cut all ties with him. He even helped with evidence against him and was one of the few to testify against him I believe. He was the ONLY person Epstein and his posse couldn’t control and who didn’t put himself in a compromising situation that allowed them to have leverage over him. That’s why they tried so hard to ruin him.
Apparently he is still playing Fortnite in Tel Aviv.
I’d love to find out, but not holding my breath.
I personally hope the demon is dead, stone cold but burning in Hell. He was a sick fuc*, so twisted it causes your head to spin. He deserves torment, forever and ever.
Alive for sure, but I'm betting on the martini sipping.
It's full-on clown world at this point.
Seeing what's in those files, nothing should surprise us.
Of course, Epstein is a RUSSIAN agent, not any other country. No way.
Of course he's alive, he's drinking a margarita in Tel Aviv with the rest of the pdfs.
Glyphosate goes on the grain. The grain goes into humans. Humans gradually become accustomed to glyphosate poisoning until they are Roundup Ready. Don't let that happen to you. Go against the grain.
An excellent 47 minutes video on Monsanto and its dirty history and exploitation of farmers, soldiers, and the American people is by Veritasium, a science channel on Youtube. It's called "Exposing Why Farmers Cant Replant Their Own Seeds". Well worth watching. It is a company (and now Bayer) that you can't possibly hate enough. But our politicians love and have been enriched from for decades: https://youtu.be/CxVXvFOPIyQ?si=CU0pGfbxozQ9OS8x
Yes, well aware of Monsanto's malfeasance. For years I quipped: GMO = Get Monsanto Out.
Check out ONe Degree Company. Grains and granola gluten and glyphosate free. You can track the farm the ingredients came from as that info is on the back of the bags.
We can laugh or we can cry.
In NYC, the best we can do now, for the next four years, is laugh when a democratic socialist walks into a bar…https://lizlasorte.substack.com/p/a-democratic-socialist-walks-into?r=76q58
OK - time to check out FL's food report site. I'm not gonna be _too_ affected because I don't tend to eat too much with grains, but it's good to know. My mom really likes Dave's breads but not surprised that glyphosate shows up in there. More surprised that any breads _don't_ show that these days with our wheat supply. :(
One degree company makes Oatmeal, gluten and glyphosate free. You can trace back to the farm it came from as it is on the back of the bags. They also make organic, glyphosate free delicious granola.
You can find good products like the out there, but you have to look , and you have to read labels. Most people can't be bothered to do either. Convenience, and phone time is all that matters to most.
Hegseth is head of the Department of WAR remember? We are no longer a country on the DEFENSE. TAW!