Maxine Pye

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Want Better Sleep? Eat Red Meat. Here’s what most people don’t realise: Red meat gives your brain the raw materials to slow down, switch off, and deeply rest. The key? It’s rich in amino acids that support GABA, the brain’s calming messenger. GABA helps lower alertness, reduce mental chatter, and support deeper sleep cycles. If you’re missing GABA-building nutrients, even the best sleep hacks can fall flat. The most important amino acids for this are glutamine, glycine, and taurine. You’ll find them in: • Red meat • Collagen-rich cuts • Bone broth These are harder to get from modern, highly processed or plant-heavy diets. What studies show: • Better deep and REM sleep • Lower nighttime stress signals • Quicker sleep onset Most people try to fix sleep with supplements, gadgets, or habits. But your body still needs the building blocks. Red meat supports: • Brain chemistry • Hormone regulation • Nervous system balance A good sleep-supporting dinner could include: • Slow-cooked beef short ribs • A mug of bone broth • Sea salt and healthy fats • Optional: cooked greens or extra glycine This isn’t about tricks or hacks. It’s about real nourishment. And the message it sends to your body: You’re safe. You can rest now. Food is information. Red meat helps your body remember what deep rest feels like.

The food industry made billions teaching people to distrust their own hunger signals.

Cholesterol does not damage your arteries. Carbohydrates do. Every time you eat carbohydrates, blood sugar rises rapidly. Glucose in the bloodstream binds to proteins in the arterial lining in a process called glycation. It does not need to be pathologically high blood sugar. Every spike causes this binding. The damage is cumulative and it is happening in people who believe their blood sugar is fine because their fasting number looks normal. Glycated proteins form compounds called advanced glycation end products, or AGEs. These trigger inflammatory signalling through receptors called RAGE, which activate NF-κB, one of the most powerful inflammatory switches in the body. The result is a chronically inflamed, structurally weakened arterial lining. It becomes damaged and permeable. Fructose, found in fruit juice, sweetened drinks, and almost every processed food, glycates at seven to eight times the rate of glucose. It also drives fat production in the liver, raises triglycerides, and lowers HDL. The combination accelerates every part of this process. Once the arterial lining is damaged and inflamed, LDL enters the tissue beneath it. In that inflammatory environment it oxidises. Macrophages arrive to clear the oxidised LDL. They cannot keep up. They become foam cells. Foam cells accumulate and become plaque. The diet that starts this entire sequence is not red meat or butter. It is repeated blood sugar spikes from foods labelled as heart healthy. Refined grains. Fruit juice. Low fat yoghurt. Rice cakes. Every glucose spike is glycating your arteries. That is the mechanism. That is why diet is the driver. Have you ever tested your blood sugar two hours after a typical meal? That number tells you far more than your fasting glucose.

Sunlight is not the enemy. I do not believe we were designed to live indoors all day, avoid the sun completely, then wonder why we feel disconnected from nature. Of course, be sensible. Do not burn. Know your own skin. Build up slowly. But I am not afraid of real sunlight. I eat real food, avoid the modern processed oils, get outside when I can, and let my body do what it was designed to do. Sunlight helps the body make vitamin D when UVB rays hit the skin. That process starts in the skin, using cholesterol as part of the pathway, which is one of the many reasons I stopped fearing cholesterol years ago. This is what ancestral living means to me. Real food. Real sun. Fresh air. Salt water. Less fear. Your body knows what to do. Somewhere along the way, we got taught to hide from the very things humans lived with for thousands of years. Have you been taught to fear the sun, or do you still crave it like I do?

There is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. That is not an opinion. That is basic biochemistry. There are essential fats. There are essential proteins. Your body cannot make them, so you need to get them from food. Carbohydrate is not on that list, because your liver can make the glucose you need from fat and protein. That process is called gluconeogenesis. So why were people told to base meals around grains? The 1977 dietary guidelines pushed 6 to 11 servings a day. That was presented as health advice. It also happened to suit a food system built around cheap, storable, profitable products. A population living on meat, eggs, and simple whole food is harder to sell to on repeat. That is worth thinking about. When I cut back on carbohydrates my energy stabilised, my hunger became manageable, and I stopped thinking about food every two hours. That is not what you would expect if you had removed something essential. Your body does not need carbohydrate. It needs enough energy, enough protein, enough fat, and the right signals. What is the most difficult carb for you to give up?

What the doctor says vs what it actually means. “Your LDL is high.” What it means: Your body is producing more of the molecule it uses to repair tissue, make hormones, and carry fat-soluble vitamins through your bloodstream. That is not a malfunction. “LDL is the bad cholesterol.” What it means: LDL is a lipoprotein. A transport vehicle. It carries cholesterol to the cells that need it. There is no bad cholesterol. There is only cholesterol doing its job. “You’re at increased cardiovascular risk.” What it means: A population-level risk calculator produced a percentage. It does not know your insulin level, your inflammation markers, or the size of your LDL particles. It knows your age and your total cholesterol number. “Statins will reduce your risk by 50 percent.” What it means: Your relative risk drops by 50 percent. Your absolute risk drops by around 1 percent. These are not the same number. One of them is used in the consultation. “Statins are well tolerated.” What it means: Muscle pain, fatigue, memory problems, and elevated blood sugar are listed as known side effects. Well tolerated means most people stay on them. “This is the standard of care.” What it means: This is what the guidelines say. The guidelines were written by a committee. Eleven of the fourteen members who wrote the last version had financial ties to pharmaceutical companies. The doctor is not lying. It is following a protocol. The protocol is the problem. Did your doctor explain the difference between relative risk and absolute risk when they prescribed your statin? Share this with someone who needs to see it 🙏🏻

Everything you wanted to know about food addiction and were afraid to ask!

People spent decades replacing fat with sugar and then acted shocked when obesity climbed.

@AmericaLiveX_ He long has he been saying this for now?

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Cholesterol is not harming you. It is trying to make vitamin D. Sunlight hits your skin. Cholesterol sitting in your skin cells gets converted into vitamin D3. That is the process. That is how your body has worked for hundreds of thousands of years. Now look at what we do. We take statins to lower cholesterol. We put sunscreen on before we go outside. Then we test our vitamin D and act surprised when it is low. We blocked the raw material. We blocked the sunlight. And we call the deficiency a mystery. Vitamin D is not a vitamin. That name is a mistake that stuck. It is a secosteroid hormone. It acts on receptors in virtually every tissue in your body. Your immune system runs on it. Your mood depends on it. Your bones, your muscles, your ability to fight infection. All of it requires this one hormone that your body makes for free from cholesterol and sun. I eat eggs, butter, meat, and liver. I go outside without sunscreen. My vitamin D is optimal. Because I stopped blocking the process my body was built to run. The sun is not your enemy. Cholesterol is not your enemy. Forty years of bad advice is your enemy. When did you last get your vitamin D tested?

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More pre-planned theatre? 🤔

This doctor has been carnivore for almost 9 years, reversed his pre-diabetes & lost 70+ pounds without counting a single calorie. Here are 9 crazy truths about fat loss and health mainstream medicine has lied about (#3 will shock you): 1. Calories don't exist inside your body:

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@DavidBlessitt They don’t like it

@HolisticMax I guess you're sharing too much truth. 😅

Facebook keeps suspending my account for stupid reasons and I’m sick of it. So I will be posting here instead.

The UK Government has authorised ‘experimental Sun dimming over the UK’ while Mexico has banned all geoengineering in its skies. Watch the video below and see the difference.

4 months into taking iodine and two things changed for me fast: better sleep and better skin. Funny how small things can show up in obvious ways. Anyone else noticed that with iodine?