There's absolutely no scientific basis for that, besides that I don't think he used LSD much if at all past the hippie period. Certainly not regularly (and there are people who have used LSD weekly for years with no apparent damage)
I'm not a professional researcher on this topic, just an passionate observer and n=1 having healed an "Incurable" autoimmune condition using a carnivore (ketogenic) diet.
The rationale to put it shortly is that cancer (amongst other modern disease epidemics) is a mitochondrial disease, that most cancers have damaged mitochondria and can't process ketone bodies. Ketogenic metabolism is perfectly healthy and most probably the default state for human biology. I won't go into details in this reply, but my personal experience and that of thousands of others attests to this.
The rationale for an animal (and animal fat) based diet is more complex, but it revolves around the fact that all plants contain compounds that damage the intestinal lining to varying degrees. This leads to a cascade of events in which the immune system devolves into a diseased state that leads to the wide array of chronic illnesses that we see today. Chronic inflammation disturbs the whole system, often includes neuroinflammation, which itself causes depression and exacerbates stress, worsening the condition further.
> It certainly has drawbacks. (Ex: we subsidize too much corn and wheat.)
Huge drawback right here, corn (high fructose corn syrup, corn itself) and wheat are both at the center of the obesity epidemic and health crisis. It's a point that's often brought up and isn't controversial at this point, but inertia makes it hard to correct, especially with said subsidies.
Excellent idea and we'll surely be seeing something like this, there are AR apps that already map facial expressions to avatars.
Downside could be some uncanny valley if the models are not very high quality.
But if I had to make a prediction, I'd expect we'll get much more value from higher bandwidth, ultra high definition streaming and features like 3d cameras / virtual reality. I think we have a tendency to really underestimate how important high definition is for human communication.
- eliminate nutritional deficiencies: most effective is carnivore-ish diet in my opinion, meat and animal products are the best sources of bioavailable nutrients
- eliminate stressors in food: stimulants, coffee, etc.
- resistance / strength training
- cardiovascular training
- cold exposure (ice baths are awesome, I don't personally have access or a personal setup)
I had a similar feeling for the language and I can assure you you do get used to it, and that it's probably not the syntax that's making it difficult but understanding the programming model.
As for not being machine-editable, the nix language has a module system and it's easy to format a file with something that's whatever shape you want and have that machine-editable. Or use any other format and fromJSON etc. functions.
Likely even more if they're fed their natural (100% meat-based) diet, no wonder pets get all the same diseases as we do when they're fed typical industrial pet food + scraps.
Infection requires a certain level of exposure that you're unlikely (I would say, impossible) to reach merely by touching (unless it's a droplet and you shove it up your nose or something...).
I also want to point out that a respiratory virus's #1 (or perhaps only) means of transmission is via the airways, I don't think it's reasonable to expect even licking your fingers would result in an infection.
I'm open to proof or hints of proof in that direction, I just don't see it ATM, based on what I've read on contagion events.
Exactly. I would be a disaster if the viruses were indeed viable this way, I think excessive hygiene actually harms the immune system by restricting eustress from other bugs.
The virus needs to settle in the airways to reach the level of infection.
I understand people's reaction, it's hard to sort all the messages from the media & health authorities, but it's still sad that so many have seemingly abandoned common sense.
You don't really, my theory is sometimes the auditory part takes over mid-sentence, whereas when I'm in my usual visual mode the errors stand out immediately.
I too have healed "incurable" conditions with an (almost) all-meat diet.
I hope the message spreads quickly, and I'm sure it will, there are probably hundreds of thousands of similar cases by now (judging only by the popularity of some subreddits).
I know it certainly appears like a suboptimal strategy, but it assumes that the measures did indeed do what they were expected, that's contentious (we can discuss why, but I think it's obvious).
In a risk-benefit analysis, it leaves future (speculative) advances in treatment VS acquiring herd immunity as quickly as possible and with minimal actual damage, for this it makes sense to maximize exposure for the less at risk.
Also, the summer is a better season to get infected, at least because of generally better immune system function (because of better vitamin d status).
In my experience the benefits are with what some would consider "megadoses", in the tens of grams range.
This is what Dr. Barry Sears, who's a specialist in this area, uses with trauma patients. It's extremely effective at reducing inflammation and brain repair.
Walnuts and other nuts are often mentioned as sources but they're terrible compared to fish, and most importantly they contain a lot of omega-6, they are to be avoided if the objective is healthy.
I'm curious of your actual hunch, are you actually skeptical that canola (and other industrial seed oils) are not harmful?), or just pointing something out about the evidence?
Coconut milk is the ONLY valid "alternative". It doesn't have quite the same nutritional profile (lower protein and sugar), but it's actually more favorable.
The best are without additive binders but some like gellan gum are safe in relevant quantities.
The problem is the fats in those oils are very susceptible to oxidation and have low smoke points, they are never safe as cooking oils for this reason.
For cooking the best options outside of animal fats are olive oil and coconut oil, but of course olive oil is most versatile and better tasting imo.
> Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) yielded low levels of polar compounds and oxidative by-products, in contrast to the high levels of by-products generated for oils such as canola oil.
But I formed my position from many other points, the degradation in public health in the USA has tracked perfectly with the switch from animal fats to seed oils for cooking (and other uses but frying is the worse offender)
It might be good from a culinary perspective, perhaps smoke point is irrelevant, I was thinking of what causes degradation of the fats when subjected to heat.
The risk in children is from diabetes and metabolic syndrome, conversely what protects children most is a relatively well functioning immune system.
As we've seen that coronavirus immunity is enhanced with exposure to other coronaviruses, and innate immune system function, it appears children should not be isolated. By this rationale, they shouldn't even be wearing masks.
Since obesity is correlated with nearly all chronic disease, one explanation is vitamin D being fat-soluble, it's plausible that some vitamin D gets trapped in fat and is therefore reduced in circulation.
This might be both because vitamin D has low oral absorption, especially in high doses, and that staggering is necessary, and that some systemic effects take time to manifest.
Sugar costs way more in health consequences. It's easier to recover from abuse from most drugs than sugar, which is a slow poison, yet available everywhere and given to us since early childhood (actually, in the womb).
That nutritional availability may apply to plant matter (and not in all cases), but certainly not to meat, which likely was the major part of the diet.
On the contrary, cooking destroys enzymes and evaporates water-soluble vitamins.
Bacteria are also very useful for digestion and all meat is aged even today (obviously).
My take is that it was simply a chance discovery of enhanced taste.
Standard doses are way too small to be effective, and most of the science and anecdotes refer to small (1-3g) doses.