Malou Samonte

A bodybuilder tells you he eats 400g of carbs a day and he’s shredded and metabolically healthy. So carbs can’t be the problem, right? He’s missing something fundamental about his own metabolism that doesn’t apply to you. 🧵

@KishySquishy @MikhailaFuller Hypochondriac is very triggering for us autoimmune folks. Coz we are told many times it is all in our head.

@MikhailaFuller And yes I'm aware of autoimmune arthritis, my brother had rheumatoid his whole life before he died at age 47.

Here’s a podcast about mitochondrial dysfunction. From all my years of using ketogenic diets like the lion diet for health, getting impacted by mold, experiencing SSRI induced withdrawal/damage, it finally appears like the root cause is mitochondrial dysfunction at a cellular level. The research into this is cutting edge and fascinating. @ChrisMasterjohn, a PhD in nutritional sciences, runs a mitochondrial testing company called Mitome and is unbelievably knowledgeable about mitochondrial dysfunction. We get into what serotonin is actually doing in your body, why SSRIs and benzodiazepines are actually mitochondrial drugs in ways nobody prescribing them understands, why the lion diet and other keto diets work from a biochemistry standpoint, why mega-dosing supplements can harm you, what B vitamins and red meat have to do with inflammation, how mold toxicity and food reactions can produce identical symptoms and more. This one is for anyone who has been chronically sick and wants to understand what’s going on at a cellular level.

László Boros and I worked very hard on this paper, and I am delighted that it made it through peer review with the journal Metabolomics. As of today, it is available on the Web. We uncovered a fascinating story around gut microbes and deuterium homeostasis, and we have identified a liver metabolite called trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) that we think is a marker of deuterium overload in mitochondria and a powerful signaling molecule, associated with many chronic diseases. rdcu.be/ffW03

I'll be honest, I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out my life. Mapping it out. Planning the next move. Trying to make sense of my circumstances when things didn't go as planned. But here's what God has been teaching me, there's a difference between asking what's next and asking what does God want. And those are very different questions. Your uncertainty isn't a dead end. It's an invitation. An invitation to stop white-knuckling your own plan and trust that His purpose is bigger than anything you could map out on your own. So let me ask you, are you more focused on your circumstances or your Savior?

@claudiopoy When institutions fail for the benefit of the powerful. Nakakayamot maging 🇵🇭

May pa press con pa with matching “I really don’t know what happened here, because they’re bound by data privacy laws emerut” I mean, we have an ambassador in Prague. We have diplomats. Bat di pumunta agad??? Tapos hinayaan for 11 days, and di man lang nahihiya sa kashungahan???

An example of how inefficiency is the norm in this country: the PH delegation in Prague wondering what happened and why Zaldy Co was able to evade detention. Hello, April 11 pa nahuli and it took you more than 2 weeks to be there??? It’s as if sadyang pinatakas talaga. 🤡

@RizRizmck @LSAINTMERVILLE @Texas_jeep__guy Palawan is part of Luzon. For a country with 7000+ islands bandits can travel by boat to anywhere. Even Malaysia.

I don’t know about you but I’m ready to go here. This is Balabac, Philippines 🇵🇭. It’s considered the Maldives of the Philippines. Beautiful white beaches and stunning blue water. 🏝️🌊☀️

At 24 hours of fasting, autophagy begins. At 36 hours, it triples. At 72 hours, it maxes out. If you have never fasted past a single meal skip, your body has never run its own cleanup cycle. Not once. Not in years. The heart fat, the visceral fat, the dead tissue — it is all still there because you never gave your body permission to burn it. You need to fast, and you need to make it a habit.

This therapy may be able to reverse alpha-gal syndrome, aka tick induced meat allergy... Soliman Auricular Allergy Treatment (SAAT) uses acupuncture in the ear, a single needle placed for 3-4, weeks to help the immune system "reset." Western medicine isn't really sure how it works but there's some evidence that it's quite effective. (PMID 35003502) 126 patients treated, 121 (96%) reported symptom remission. More studies are needed, but this is compelling data. Red meat (beef, lamb, venison) and dairy + collagen are incredibly nutrient-rich foods that are vital for optimal health. Not being able to eat these is a big deal. I hope this therapy is studied more widely and this information gets to those who are suffering with alpha-gal. Please share if you know someone who has this issue.

@TimTebow Grateful to the Lord for his life and for spreading hope in 🇵🇭 The Lord be with you all in every moment of reminiscing his life 🙏🏻

Heaven ushered in a hero of the faith last night as my Dad was welcomed home! Many will say sorry for your loss but the truth is he’s not lost, we know exactly where he is. He’s home. Forever! I asked him last week what he looked forward to most about Heaven, and he simply said, “Jesus.” He couldn’t wait to see Jesus face to face. Praise God that his wait is over. Death has been swallowed up in victory. He’s healed and whole now. So we don’t mourn as those with no hope. See you soon Dad!

@wilsonhlthcoach Have ur GI scoped her yet? It seems she also has intestinal mucosa damage. Gosh, u are juggling between nourishing, healing and root cause. When her status get better may be look into BPC157 peptide. Its ideally produced by human gastric juice, a healing peptide.

For anyone who's new to why my daughter's diet is so limited to certain foods, here's a breakdown of why: 1. She has pancreatic endocrine insufficiency causing diabetes. - She can't have too many carbs or else her blood sugars spike too high even with insulin. 2. She has severe malnutrition and difficulty putting on weight. - She has to eat some carbs because she's not putting on weight with a strict low-carb/carnivore type of diet. 3. She has pancreatic exocrine insufficiency causing severe gut malabsorption. - She has to take pancreatic enzymes with her food or else she won't absorb much at all. 4. She has fat malabsorption even with the enzymes. - She can't have too much fat or else it pushes food straight through her. 5. Because of her gut malabsorption and malnutrition, she can't eat fiber. - Her enzymes bind to fiber and further reduce absorption, so she has to limit foods with fiber. 6. She doesn't have any teeth. - She has to eat soft foods like cottage cheese and yogurt, protein powders, or foods that can easily be chopped up in a food processor. 7. Too much dairy increases her carb intake and can sometimes contribute to diarrhea. - But the dairy is the main soft food that's easy for her eat. 8. She's hungry all the time. - Which causes too much protein, fat, and carb intake for her small size which can contribute to her gut issues and the inability to hold on to food longer. So...... Her blood sugars can't have starchy carbs but she needs them for weight gain. She can't have fiber-based carbs because they block her enzymes. She needs fat but her gut doesn't absorb it well even with the enzymes. She needs soft foods but can't do too much soft starchy carbs. She's hungry often but shouldn't eat too much or overload her GI tract. So, I could...... Stop the carbs but it makes her weight drop. Stop the dairy but it's the only thing soft enough that she can eat that has all 3 macros; carbs, protein, and fat. Stop the protein powder muffins made with cottage cheese and egg but it's another easy way for her to eat without any teeth. Give her only meat and eggs chopped up fine, but she can't do the fat and her weight will drop. Give her only high fat to heal the gut, but as we've already tested, her gut isn't absorbing fat very well right now. Make her fast more often to give the gut a break, but she's critically underweight and malnourished with severe muscle atrophy. She has no wiggle room for any more weight loss. She does try to intermittent fast, but it's only for about 12-16hrs and is done through the night into the morning. What will help? Hopefully when she has her teeth, she can have a bit more of a diverse diet and she can cut back on the soft foods like dairy and protein powders. How will we fix this? One day at a time.

@wilsonhlthcoach Praying for your daughter. Its good to get a GI consult. I had a scope and turns out i have mild chronic gastritis. I took high dose multivits for a while. Never though i would have deficiency since i always eat healthy and had always normal BMI. Im low ox diet & flexicarnivore.

Ever since I started sharing my daughter's story back in January, many of you have shared your suggestion that her diarrhea could be caused by SIBO. One thing is certain, she does have chronic pancreatitis. Her pancreas is atrophic and fibrotic with calcifications. Over five years ago, she began having episodes of acute pancreatitis, which led to her development of diabetes. Her pancreas never had a chance to heal. So, three years ago, she began having diarrhea with steatorrhea, unintended weight loss, and uncontrolled blood sugars. Classic endocrine and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. Yet she wasn't diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis or insufficiency until the end of last year. Since coming home, we've done everything to try and get the diarrhea and gut malabsorption under control. But, we could only do one thing at a time to see what works and what doesn't. 1. Sugars under control ✅️ 2. Reduce carbs ✅️ 3. Increase fat ✅️ 4. Try metformin ✅️ 5. Try an anti-diarrhea med ✅️ 6. Try smaller meals ✅️ 7. Try low-fat meals ✅️ 8. Enzymes throughout meals ✅️ 9. Sprinkle enzymes on food ✅️ 10. Try intermittent fasting ✅️ The biggest obstacle to her gastric/gut distress was her high blood sugars. That's been fixed for some time now. We don't know the damage that was caused, but with sugars under control, the enzymes with every meal/snack, and even trying lower fat meals, her gut should be working fairly normally by now and her stools should be getting better. Since everything else has been fixed, it's time to check for alternative reasons. The first one we're checking for is possible SIBO. I've already mentioned it to her PCP a week and a half ago who said we need to speak with the GI doctor about it. I can order the breath test online but it won't be covered under her insurance without a prescription. So, we're waiting until she sees her GI doctor on April 30th. In the meantime, I'll be making her some SIBO yogurt. I ordered l. reuteri capsules, which came in the mail yesterday, and I began making her yogurt this morning. I used to make yogurt quite often, but this one is a little different. It will ferment for at least 36 hours, then she can start eating a small amount once a day. I've read that if it is, in fact, SIBO, and this yogurt is added to the diet, a change in stools can happen in as little as 24-48 hours. If her stools do change, at least it gives us some solid evidence to take to her GI doctor 🙏

In 1986, a Texas psychologist told 46 students to write about the worst thing that ever happened to them, 15 minutes a day for 4 days straight. Over the next 6 months, those students went to the doctor half as often as the kids in the control group. The psychologist was James Pennebaker. He repeated the experiment, and so did other labs. Same answer every time: writing about pain in a notebook was changing something inside the body. Follow-up studies found improved immune cell counts, faster wound healing after surgery, lower HIV virus levels in blood tests, and better lung function in people with asthma. For years the mechanism was a puzzle. Pennebaker had stumbled onto a much bigger pattern than he realized. Making things of any kind does something to the body. Take painting. A 2016 study at Drexel University handed 39 random adults some markers, clay, and collage paper and told them to make whatever they wanted for 45 minutes. No rules, no skill required. 75% of them walked out with lower cortisol (the main stress hormone) in their saliva. Beginners and experienced artists got the same drop. Take dancing. Doctors at Einstein College of Medicine tracked 469 seniors over a 21-year period in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2003. People who danced a few times a week were 76% less likely to get dementia than people who rarely did. That was the largest protective effect of anything they tested. Crosswords came in at 47%, reading at 35%. Swimming and cycling did nothing for the brain at all. Take singing. In 2004, researchers in Germany measured antibodies in a choir's saliva before and after rehearsal. The antibody count (the stuff that fights off colds and flu) rose significantly. A follow-up study on cancer patients and their caregivers found that one hour of group singing dropped cortisol and switched on their immune systems at a measurable, blood-test level. And just going to see art helps. University College London tracked 6,710 British adults over age 50 for 14 years. People who went to the theatre, a museum, or a concert every few months were 31% less likely to die during that window. Even going once or twice a year dropped the risk by 14%. Wealth, education, and starting health were all accounted for. The mechanism seems to live in a brain circuit called the default mode network, the part that wanders when you daydream. When you fall into the zone of making something, that network hooks up with the one that holds your attention, and the brain's stress system quiets down. Cortisol falls, dopamine climbs, and the slow-burn inflammation that eventually kills most of us calms down too. None of it depends on the quality of what you make. The Spanish tweet sounded like hyperbole. 40 years of peer-reviewed data says it's roughly right.

This is crazy but there is a way for you to eat meat again F bill gates

@realDaveFeldman @LDLSkeptic Hope they make it available in Asia soon 🙏🏻

🔥🔥🔥I have massive news: Amazon has expanded the #CholesterolCodeMovie to France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, and Mexico 🇲🇽!!! 💥No doubt this is related to the fact TCC launch performance has broken the all time record with our distributor 🤯🤯🤯

@maxlugavere @Lostvoyageur 💯

Setting aside that the differences are small in your illustration, a 6 oz. portion of red meat is perfectly reasonable, and packed with tons of other great nutrients. I'm not saying it's better than a banana, but you get way more bang for your buck, nutritionally, and perhaps most germane to this post, no one thinks about beef as a K source and yet its a great one

A 6 oz. serving of lean beef contains more potassium than a banana. Let that sink in.

Never accept that a mental illness is resistant to all treatments. Instead, continue to explore the treatments that haven’t yet been tried.

@realDaveFeldman @amazon Im based in Singapore. Its not available on my Amazon Prime 😔

Truly humbled. 🙏 Our documentary, The Cholesterol Code, is now officially released to streaming on @amazon and I couldn't be happier with the feedback we've been getting -- every single hour. 🙏 I really want to take a moment to thank some very important people who made this possible: @wideeyetv -- and in particular, our Director - Jen Isenhart, our DP - Tom Hadzor, and our Editor - Bill Krumm @Metabolic_Mind -- in particular, the incomparable @janellison My best very good friends and collaborators, @nicknorwitz & @AdrianSotoMota There are definitely many, many more people to thank which I'll be doing a lot more of tomorrow for the super stream.

97% of iPhone users never touch Camera settings. Which means 97% are shooting with settings that make photos look worse than they should. I changed 5 of them last week. My photos instantly looked more professional. Here is what I changed:

David Sinclair just revealed one of the biggest studies on nattokinase. A comprehensive Chinese study of 1,067 people found that nattokinase reversed cardiovascular disease by removing up to 95% of arterial plaque in one year. This supplement is an enzyme from fermented soybeans and costs almost nothing. Sinclair has been taking it daily for a couple of years. He measures his carotid artery with ultrasound and says there's no plaque buildup at all. Peter Diamandis takes it too. He believes you need at least 6,000 fibrinolytic units per day to reap the benefits. For context: • Statins cost hundreds per month and come with side effects. • Surgical interventions can cost thousands of dollars Nattokinase costs a fraction of both. Sinclair's caveat: "Do this with the knowledge of your physician." But the data exists. A study of over 1,000 people and up to 95% plaque removal in just 12 months. And the man whose lab is reversing aging takes it every day. — David Sinclair (@davidasinclair) on Peter Diamandis' (@PeterDiamandis) Moonshots podcast PS. David Sinclair is speaking at SynBioBeta on May 6th this year, discussing the science of slowing and reversing aging. If longevity is the world you're in, the investors, partners, and scientists shaping this space will be in the room. Grab your ticket in the comments below.

@TexasCowgrl1111 Collar on the right is bigger