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Halina High
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Halina High
@halinahigh
Nutritionist, Bodywork, Real Food, LCHF, Nourishing Traditions & Paleo. Live today like it's your last
an Aussie in London Katılım Nisan 2013
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@SirLeoBDasilva What I don’t understand is there’s so much talk about city getting away with behaviour deserving of red cards- despite VAR - does anyone legal actually investigate these situations 🤔
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Arsenal fans, I want you to understand that we are up against cheats and evil people.
Trossard has been going through a lot in his family life.
As soon as he picks form, a sponsored post about his divorce comes out.
Guess who sponsored the release of that news to destabilize him?
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Bacteria from the gut can translocate into the brain via the vagus nerve, especially when there is leaky gut triggered by a high fat diet. Such gut dsyfunction appears to play a role in neurological diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and autism .journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
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Prolonged water fasting also treated seizures effectively long before this, but you’ll die if you do it forever, so the Mayo Clinic invented the ketogenic diet in 1929 as a way to achieve the same effect while keeping someone well fed.
The keto diet works by raising GABA levels in the brain but doesn’t *force* synaptic GABA effects like the drugs do, so it didn’t make people as zombified as phenobarbital, a barbiturate, the then-leading treatment for seizures.
Mayo invented the keto diet as an alternative to phenobarbital.
In the 1970s barbiturates were largely replaced with benzodiazepines, which have a lower side effect profile, have a lower risk of fatal overdose, and are less zombifying.
Big Pharma got the keto diet reclassified as for “refractory epilepsy” meaning it is the last resort when all the drugs fail, but that is not why it was invented.
Keto diets likely have broad efficacy where fasting and GABAergic drugs have efficacy.
They have downsides and limitations and not everyone is a good candidate for them but they are profoundly under-utilized in psychiatry.
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
In the 1950s, Yuri Nikolaev, a Russian psychiatrist, started treating mentally ill patients with prolonged water fasting. He went on to treat over 8,000 people. Reports suggest that over 70% of patients showed significant improvement, with many returning to normal functioning and work. Nikolaev’s work was documented by Western doctors, such as Dr. Allan Cott, who visited the Soviet Union to study these methods and later published findings that hailed the results as an "unparalleled achievement".
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Just so wrong!
Ben Aveling- Radmore Farm@Radmore_farm
The Victorians passed a law in 1860 to stop exactly what your supermarket is doing to your meat today. Parliament held a specific debate about it in 2004. The FSA promised crackdowns in 2003 and again in 2005. Undeclared proteins were still being found in injection mixes by the late 2000s. In 2013, The Guardian revealed supermarket frozen chicken was nearly a fifth water by weight. Nothing changed. In this video I trace the origin of meat injection to 1854, show you the EU directive that legalised it across every member state, and show you a product on UK supermarket shelves right now that contains dairy proteins injected into chicken breast — with no meaningful front-of-pack disclosure. Farm-gate reality versus supermarket shelf deception. Every receipt is publicly available. 👇 Make a choice based on information. Not based on what you might think, have heard, or have seen. Want real meat? Shop now : radmorefarmshop.co.uk Clothing @RidgelineUK Use code RadmoreFarm
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Grateful to Times columnist Giles Coren for putting to the sword a local council pipsqueak for trying to put out of business a restaurant in the middle of nowhere where owner Ruth Hanson does all the kitchen prep herself, the washing up, the bookings, the till, payroll and then cooks it.
The restaurant is called Hansom in Bedale, North Yorkshire. To give you an idea of its remoteness it’s 7 miles from Northallerton and 31 miles from York.
So, on occasions, her husband Mark, who had a job of his own, gives up his evenings to chauffeur some guests to and from their homes.
Coren points out when he reviewed the place last year ( he gave it a glowing recommendation) he had to hitchhike from Northallerton station.
No Bedale train, no metro, no Uber hanging around at the corner.
Enter Chris Doyle, licensing enforcement officer for N Yorkshire council, who has written to Ruth saying in his view Mark was operating a taxi service and that would require a raft of expensive and time consuming licences.
Ruth responded that Mark was her husband, he was unpaid and there was no separate charge for the journey.
Doyle said he didn’t care as there was deemed to be a commercial benefit and warned without a licence the council may take legal action.
Coren has a great last paragraph; “ Yeah, you sue her, you absolute local heroes.
“ You teach Ruth and Mark a lesson for being great at their jobs, for treasuring their customers, for trying to create a little joy and make ends meet in a collapsing world.”
PS Thought you’d like to see what a Ruth menus looks like. This is called the Sunday Sharing Feast.
Starters.
Smoked Leek and Pickled Croque
Monsieur
Whitby Crab Crumpet Pickled cucumber, Garden herbs.
Heritage beetroot, whipped goat’s Curd, Wild Garlic emulsion.
Main Course
Wensleydale chicken, Apricot and sage Wellington.
Honey and mustard mash, buttered spring , cider sauce.
Dessert
Yorkshire rhubarb and ginger trifle.
Cost; £55.
With publicity thanks to Coren’s column and this tweet I suspect the queue will be out the door and Mark can have his evenings off again.
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Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on.
The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software.
The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check.
Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance.
Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls.
Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else.
A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.
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That cute rock stack by the creek just killed a bunch of mosquito killers.
Dragonflies spend most of their lives underwater, sometimes up to five years, clinging to rocks while they grow.
A single dragonfly larva eats hundreds of mosquito larvae before it ever flies.
But dragonflies are just one species. The rocks in a healthy stream are also covering caddisfly larvae, mayflies, stoneflies, water beetles, salamander egg clutches, and the freshwater snails that fish depend on.
Eastern Hellbenders, an endangered giant salamander species, lay their eggs specifically under flat stream rocks. Moving the rock kills the clutch.
When you pull a wet rock out of the water and stack it on the bank, everything clinging to that rock dies. They desiccate within minutes in the sun.
A single rock pile is dozens of small lives lost. Most stream cairns are stacks of fifteen to twenty rocks.
If you see stacked rocks at a creek, knock them over. The stream rebuilds itself faster when rocks are scattered the way water put them.
Leave no trace isn't an aesthetic preference. It's real habitat protection.
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@SamaHoole @ProfTimNoakes True @lowcarbGP has the best results for type 2 diabetes drug free remission probably anywhere in the world
Achieved in 10 minute NHS appointments
Saving £400,000 on diabetes drugs alone so far also deprescribing blood pressure, psych , painkillers and other drugs.
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Sergio Aguiar has finished the Boston marathon in 3 hrs 42 mins - with just London to go this weekend to complete the six World Marathon Majors.
He’s running the world for daughter Alice, one of three girls killed in the Southport attack, to ‘spread her magic and raise funds for Alice’s WonderDance’
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years installing nest boxes for barn owls in his free time.
No grant. No organization behind him. Just Robert Salter, quietly building and mounting over 350 boxes across fields and farms on weekends, before and after work, for three and a half decades.
This year was the second-best barn owl breeding season in the region in decades. 304 owlets counted. Last year there were 95.
Barn owls have struggled across the UK for generations due to habitat loss, rodenticide poisoning, starvation from agricultural changes that eliminated the field margins where voles live, and collisions with vehicles on roads that cut through their hunting territory.
In many parts of England, populations collapsed while nobody was paying much attention.
One man paying attention changed the outcome for an entire region.
"This bird has lived alongside humans since they settled in this country," Salter told the BBC. "Because of that close relationship, I just feel like we owe it to barn owls to help and maintain their future populations."
The conservation story we usually tell involves governments, legislation, and international agreements.
Those matter, but so does one person who decided a species deserved better and just kept showing up.
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Let's talk about what a ketogenic diet actually does to the brain. Because "it burns fat" barely scratches the surface.
When you restrict carbohydrates to roughly 20-50 grams per day, your liver begins converting fatty acids into ketone bodies: beta-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate, and acetone.
Beta-hydroxybutyrate is the main one. And it does something remarkable.
It crosses the blood-brain barrier and fuels neurons directly, bypassing the glucose metabolism pathway. For neurons with impaired mitochondrial function, this is a lifeline.
But ketones don't just feed neurons. Beta-hydroxybutyrate is also a signaling molecule. It inhibits the NLRP3 inflammasome, which is one of the primary drivers of neuroinflammation. It increases BDNF, the protein responsible for neuronal growth and repair. It activates antioxidant pathways that protect neurons from oxidative damage.
And it stabilizes neural membranes in a way that reduces excitability, which is exactly what you want in conditions like bipolar disorder and epilepsy.
Ketogenic diets were first developed in the 1920s to treat epilepsy. The mechanism that controls seizures is the same mechanism that stabilizes mood. This is not a coincidence.
I went from four psych ward admissions and treatment-resistant bipolar to zero episodes on a ketogenic diet. The mechanism above is why.
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Farmers and local farm shops are using social media to sell their food. Supermarkets pay them pittance for their food and a vindictive government punishes them. So they are taking the matter into their own hands and trying to sell direct via social media. Support our farmers.
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Such an interesting area of research
Kayla Barnes-Lentz@femalelongevity
1/ The ovary is the fastest-aging organ in the female body. And almost no one is studying why.I just sat down with @BBParis1984 (@USCLeonardDavis ), who runs one of the only labs in the world mapping ovarian aging. A few things from our conversation I can't stop thinking about:
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This is such an easy and effective way to clear your head and protect your brain!!
Dalton (Analyze & Optimize)@Outdoctrination
You can literally clean out your brain doing this. The GLYMPHATIC SYSTEM in the brain helps flush out various toxins from the cerebrospinal & interstitial fluids of the brain. It might just be your behind fatigue, cognitive decline and even depression. Here's how (🧵1/8):
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As a medical school professor, I teach about APOE4 -- the gene that makes you 2.5x more likely to develop Alzheimer's. We've told patients there's nothing they can do about it.
A new JAMA Network Open study of 2,157 adults just proved us wrong.
Higher meat consumption completely abolished the APOE4 dementia risk.
The data:
-> APOE4 carriers with highest meat intake: 55% lower dementia risk
-> Their typical 2.5x excess Alzheimer's risk? Gone entirely
-> Cognitive decline reversed: +0.32 standard deviations over 10 years
-> Unprocessed meat was protective; processed meat was harmful regardless of genotype
Researchers propose APOE4 is an evolutionary adaptation to meat-rich diets. The gene isn't a defect -- we just stopped feeding it correctly.
This is personalized metabolic medicine. Your genes load the gun, but your diet pulls the trigger -- or puts the safety back on.
Full breakdown coming on the Health Longevity Secrets podcast.
Source: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
#APOE4 #Alzheimers #MetabolicHealth #Nutrition #HealthLongevity
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23% of schizophrenia patients in the largest NIMH study ever conducted tested positive for anti-gluten antibodies. In healthy controls it was 3%. We are not talking about a subtle statistical blip. We are talking about a seven-fold difference sitting in the research for years while patients stay on medications that may never fully work for them. Up to 30% of people with schizophrenia may have a dietary root cause. That number should change how every psychiatrist practices.
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