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Scientists have known since the early 20th century that rats couldn't survive on a diet where the only protein was zein, which comes from corn, but recovered if they were fed casein, a protein from cow's milk.
Some amino acids your body can't make, so you have to get them from food, and those are the ones called essential. That label began largely with studies of animal growth: researchers fed animals different diets and noted which amino acids they needed to grow normally. Lysine is the famous example. On corn-only diets, animals developed terrible health and stunted growth, and adding lysine fixed the problem.
But making an animal grow isn't the same goal as keeping an adult human healthy for ninety years. Several amino acids that are essential for growth may not be optimal in high amounts once you're fully grown. Essential doesn't necessarily mean the more the better.
Methionine is a good example. It's a major driver of growth and methylation, which is appropriate in a growing animal. But in a middle-aged adult, eating a lot of it all the time, without the balancing effect of glycine, may push the body toward growth signaling and away from the cellular cleanup processes that support healthy aging.
I'm not saying fear protein or restrict it aggressively. But eating lots of muscle meat without bone broth, gelatin or collagen tilts that balance toward methionine, so I'd pair it with those glycine-rich foods.
You can read about the rats fed only corn protein in the Wikipedia article on essential amino acids: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essent…
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For over a decade I was getting about 200 milligrams of calcium a day. That's a fifth of what my body needed, and I didn't know it.
When I first tested my blood, my lead was 27 micrograms per deciliter, against a reference range of zero to three. That's about ten times the top of the range.
That lead didn't get there just from exposure, or just from my genetic tendency to accumulate it, although these were both factors. When calcium is low, lead takes its place in your bones, and years of low calcium had left the door open for it to build up in mine.
So I changed everything. First I cut down, as far as I could, the amount of lead getting into my blood, and then I supported my body in getting it out.
Once I rebuilt my calcium intake, my blood lead levels dropped by roughly 75 percent.
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-Strokes dropped by 14%.
-Major cardiovascular events dropped by 13%.
-Premature death dropped by 12%
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Why do people with a bit of extra fat often have better health outcomes than very thin people?
I've been thin my whole life and never overweight, so I've got no personal reason to defend extra fat. It's just what I honestly see.
My view is that your body stores a lot of toxins in fat, especially the fat-soluble ones. When your body can't get a toxin out straight away, storing it in your fat cells keeps it out of circulation and away from your brain, your heart and your kidneys. It's not ideal, since over time that fat turns into a store of toxins that slowly get released back into your blood. But it's better than having them free-floating in your bloodstream.
If you're very thin, your body doesn't have much room to store them, so they probably get stored somewhere worse, like your organs or even your brain. I think that's why very unhealthy people are often quite underweight.
There's a point where more fat stops helping, though. Too much fat is a problem, first because it shows your body is storing more and more toxins, and second because fat cells are more likely to make more estrogen, which creates problems of its own. And if you're carrying an extra 100 kilos, or 200 pounds, that puts a strain on your heart.
With an extra 20 or 30 pounds, or maybe even 20 or 30 kilos, I don't know if the weight itself is unhealthy. The problem is that it points to something unhealthy that's causing it, and that's why I'd prioritize addressing that rather than blaming your genes and deciding there's nothing you can do. As long as it's moderate, the extra weight is more a sign that something's wrong than a problem in itself.
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Chris Shade, PhD: When I got into integrative functional medicine, I came from the super sophisticated mercury chemistry lineage. You know, it was like the House of David of aquatic chemistry. Our lineage had written all the great books on metals chemistry and water chemistry, ocean lake, and I came over into functional integrative, and they treated the body like a box, like it's a black box. The mercury goes in, sticks there. Then you put the chelator in, the mercury comes out, and like there's one form of mercury.
So there's different forms of mercury. Like, over in environmental, we had to know the different forms because what's happening is coal burning, fires, volcanoes release mercury vapor. It's like the liquid mercury. In fact, quicksilver means the liquid mercury. The stuff we used to play with when we were small that evaporates, and there's a little vapor.
Now that goes up into the sky, and it's floating around. It's fat soluble, and then it gets some UV light. It pops into inorganic mercury. It's like rusting of iron, and then that water soluble goes into the water, rains down.
The more vapor, the more can rain down. When it rains down, it hits the environment, and different environments will put a methyl group on it. In fact, it's the anoxic ones, the ones that smell like rotten egg, will put a methyl on it. And that methyl group, when it's first that rusted salt, it just sticks to everything real tightly, and then the methyl group makes it more mobile, and it gets into the base of the food chain.
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How much light does your living room really give you compared with outside on a cloudy day? You can check this yourself. Download a free lux meter app on your phone (lux is the unit for measuring light intensity, and a phone app does a reasonable job), measure the light in your living room, then walk outside, even on a cloudy day, and measure again. The gap between indoor and outdoor light is fifty-fold or more. You're living in a light famine, and you probably don't know it.
A woman I worked with came to me with a textbook case of seasonal depression, low energy and stubborn weight gain that showed up every October and didn't lift until April. She'd tried vitamin D supplements and she'd changed her diet with the seasons, and nothing made a meaningful difference. She worked from home in a basement office and didn't go outside until lunchtime at the earliest. Her indoor light, which she'd never measured, was around 150 lux, the light equivalent of permanent dusk.
We made one change. Every morning, within thirty minutes of waking, she went outside for twenty minutes, whatever the weather, with her eyes open and no sunglasses. You don't need to stare at the sun, by the way.
Within three weeks her energy shifted. Within six weeks her mood had stabilized in a way it hadn't in any previous winter. She lost four pounds without changing her diet, her sleep improved without any sleep intervention, and her vitamin D, which had stayed stubbornly low despite the supplements, started to rise.
1/ If you're thinking of paying for a urine mycotoxin test, to check for the toxins molds make, here's what I'd do first, so a real mycotoxin problem is less likely to come back looking low.
6/ Only start the binder once your bowels move every day, because the toxins your bile carries only leave your body if you actually go to the toilet. Activated charcoal is my first choice for most people, taken about two to two and a half hours after the last meal of the day, at an amount that doesn't constipate you, and if it does, take less. If you take prescribed medication, keep the charcoal at least two hours away from it, and ask your prescriber whether they'd want a longer gap. And always have the binder in place before you start anything that increases how much bile you make or how much it moves, because your body reabsorbs roughly 95 percent of the bile it releases, along with whatever was in it.
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7/ Two days before the actual test, you would stop the binder. And for anything from 2-7 days before the test, every day I'd recommend sweating in high heat (like a sauna, steam or hot bath) as this tends to raise the amount that can be measured, because high heat helps your body release more stored toxins. If you do it, keep up your water and electrolytes, because if you're already very depleted in nutrients, sweating a lot will make you even more depleted.
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A piece of dried kelp (kombu) the size of a postage stamp weighs about 1 gram, and it holds around 1,500 to 2,500 micrograms of iodine.
The standard US recommended daily intake for adults is 150 micrograms, so even a tiny pinch of kelp is several days' worth.
That's why routine kelp supplementation is generally a bad idea unless you know what you're doing: the dose per pinch is so high it can easily push your thyroid function in the wrong direction. If you eat kelp, keep it to a small amount now and then, as long as you tolerate it.
Too much iodine can cause hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid), just like too little can.
A hundred years ago, before the lipid hypothesis of heart disease took hold, high cholesterol on a blood test was read as a sign of low thyroid.
Your body uses cholesterol as the raw material for pregnenolone, and from there for progesterone, cortisol, DHEA, testosterone and estrogen. It needs enough thyroid hormone to make that conversion. When thyroid function drops, the cholesterol isn't used efficiently to make those hormones, so it builds up in your blood.
So a century ago they treated the thyroid, and the cholesterol normalized as a consequence. Today the usual answer is a statin. I don't think there's anything wrong with lowering cholesterol if it's very high, but a statin does it by blocking the enzyme your liver uses to make cholesterol, so there's less raw material for all of those hormones.
I'm not making a definitive claim about statins here, and I'm not telling anyone to stop a statin their doctor prescribed. For people with established heart disease, especially anyone who's already had a cardiac event, the mortality benefits of statins are well-documented and may outweigh the hormonal trade-offs.
My own cholesterol, LDL included, was slightly above the reference range for the longest time. Once I started optimizing my thyroid, it came back down to the high end of the range.
Has the wrong hormone been blamed for prostate enlargement?
The usual story is that DHT (dihydrotestosterone, a hormone your body makes from testosterone) is what enlarges the prostate. When I looked into the research, I was not at all convinced that prostate growth is down to DHT.
Testosterone is much more anabolic than DHT. And what usually leads to unrestrained growth of cells, the unhealthy and potentially very dangerous kind, is estrogen, more than DHT.
It's not necessarily only estrogen. Inflammation is another factor, and estrogen and inflammation go hand in hand. So I'm not a believer in DHT as the primary or significant factor, and I'd look at estrogen and inflammation instead.
Why would a drug company pay for a TV ad that sounds so negative?
Perhaps an ad like that isn't there mostly to sell the drug, but to protect the company from scrutiny. That's what I'd call defensive marketing. You advertise with a news outlet to stop it running negative coverage of your product.
It's not just drug companies. For huge companies everyone has already heard of, a lot of their advertising is about avoiding criticism.
And the advertising is paying for the programming.
1/ This is my own health story, in the order it happened. It runs from years of fasting and cleansing to finding high lead in my blood, and it ends with what I now think my main problem probably was.
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7/ Finding the lead was a huge breakthrough, and it explained a lot. But my main problem was probably a hormonal imbalance, mainly low thyroid function and excessive adrenal function. I also had a genetic tendency to high cortisol, which testing conformed. I also ended up with depletion of certain nutrients, zinc probably the most important, but really a bunch of them. Your thyroid is the gland whose hormone sets how fast your body makes energy, and your adrenal glands make your stress chemicals. I think my metabolism had been low for a long time before the toxicity, probably mainly because of stress. So the lead was a problem, but looking back, I don't think it was my original issue. And of course all that fasting had made the adrenal dysregulation, low metabolism and nutrient depletion, the root causes, worse.
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The World Health Organization quote is from its fact sheet on lead poisoning: who.int/news-room/fact-sheet…
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