Anne

@markkaplan20 How did you get the mercury level down?

Pillar 5. Toxic Load. The Invisible Burden. I had mercury poisoning. A professional tennis player. Ate clean. Exercised every day. Had poison in my blood. Mercury at 10 mcg/L. The absolute maximum of the reference range. Quest ran the test twice to verify. Nobody tested for it. Nobody even considered it. This is the pillar nobody talks about. Heavy metals. Mold. BPA. Pesticides. When everything else is dialed in and you still feel terrible, this is often the missing piece. Rochester 2013 showed BPA disrupts metabolic function. Tchounwou 2012 documented heavy metals driving chronic disease. It was the finding that shocked me the most.

You probably think you are healthy. You exercise. You eat well. Your doctor says your labs are normal. You feel mostly fine. That was me at 52. Former professional tennis player. Orange juice every morning. Whole wheat toast. Fresh juices. The healthiest person I knew. I was rotting from the inside. Insulin resistant. Thyroid in crisis. Mercury poisoning. Chronic inflammation. Gut dysfunction. Hormones collapsing. Minerals depleted. Seven systems. All broken. All hidden behind "normal" labs. Here is what nobody is testing. And why it almost killed me.

Avoiding the sun is as dangerous as smoking. Moderate daily sun on your skin lowers heart disease risk, improves circulation (NO), and beats vitamin D pills. Just don't burn. Your body is built for regular sunlight exposure.

@JamesMac_Fit Guessing I'd say some people don't handle fiber well.

I saw someone say you shouldn’t eat the skin on potatoes I asked why, he didn’t respond Can someone explain to me please?

@Moveandstretch That I had to eat less to lose weight. After 2 weight loss surgeries, I still couldn't keep the weight off and and was eating 800 calories a day to lose ~ .5 lb a week. I don't count calories anymore and can easily eat 3/4 lb of ground beef w/bacon 2X/day & maintain 120 lb loss

Tell me: what's one health belief you held for years that you later discovered was completely wrong? Mine was "eat small meals every 2-3 hours to keep metabolism high." Turns out constant eating kept my insulin elevated and my body in storage mode. I'd love to hear yours. What "common knowledge" did you finally question?

@benonwine My first reaction? Hold the camera steady and hold it on something for more than half a second.

This is Bournemouth beach… Be honest what’s your first reaction?

@MarkusLahdo @metabolic_print What tests? Free T3, Free T4, and antibodies. ‘Normal TSH’ misses a lot. Iodine? Iodine deficiency can directly impair thyroid hormone production. And fluoride? Fluoride competes with iodine uptake at the thyroid. Supplement iodine and fluoride filter for your drinking water.

@metabolic_print So if we do the tests and it comes back normal but we have most of the symptoms of hypothyrodism and feel like garbage, what’s the next step. Since diet alone hasn’t fixed it

You can have normal thyroid blood levels, and still be hypothyroid. Just like knowing how much money is in someone's wallet doesn't tell you their spending rate. A patient can have normal labs and clinically severe hypothyroidism because their cells aren't responding to the hormone that's there.

Sunburn rates before 1900: minimal, despite people working outdoors 12 hours a day in fields, on boats, on roofs. Sunburn rates after 1900: epidemic, despite air conditioning and office cubicles and SPF 50. What changed? The fat in the food. Your skin is built from the fats you eat. Saturated fat is stable under UV light. Polyunsaturated fat oxidises rapidly the moment the sun hits it. Eat seed oils → PUFA gets built into skin cell membranes → UV light strikes unstable fat → oxidation → sunburn. Eat saturated fat → stable membranes → UV tolerance climbs → natural sun protection from the inside out. Your great-grandfather worked in fields all day on butter, lard, and dripping. He didn't burn. He didn't reapply anything. He didn't own a hat with a UPF rating. You eat sunflower oil for 50 weeks of the year, then go to Spain for one and come back looking like a boiled lobster. The sun hasn't changed. The sun is the same sun. What changed is your cell membranes. They're now made from industrial fat that combusts under UV exposure like cooking oil left in a hot pan. Carnivores consistently report dramatically improved sun tolerance. Not because meat contains SPF. Because saturated fat builds UV-resistant skin. You've been blaming the sun for damage caused by what you ate 18 months ago.

@cecegkh I don't see anything wrong with this. It's more modest than the leggings that show every part of a woman's anatomy and form fitting stretch tops

@AmmousMD Routine infant circumcision It is non-consensual surgery on a healthy infant. It removes functional tissue and permanently alters the body without medical necessity. It's not healthcare. It's harm. The lie? That there are any health benefits from this harmful practice.

OK, so cholesterol is a scam. What else is the medical system lying about?

@markkaplan20 Which widely accepted health belief is most likely wrong and why?

Fellow HealthTruth seekers. I want to hear from you. Instead of me choosing the next thread, you choose it. Tell me what you want to learn the truth about. I have spent 6 years studying root cause medicine. Reading studies buried in journals from the 1960s and 1970s. Published by researchers who lost their funding for telling the truth. Hundreds of thousands of years on this planet. Different genetics. Different continents. No heart disease. No diabetes. No autoimmune epidemics. Then we changed the food. And everything broke. You pick the topic. I will build the thread your doctor wishes you would never read. Heart disease. Insulin. Thyroid. Statins. Seed oils. Autoimmune. Weight loss. Inflammation. Labs your doctor never orders.etc Reply below. I will build it. ❤️🙏💪💥

@SamaHoole Month 48 - knee and/or hip replacement after the insulin resistance and chronic NSAID use have blunted repair and accelerated degeneration

Medication cascade from a single statin prescription: - Month 1: statin prescribed for a cholesterol number - Month 3: muscle pain develops (CoQ10 depleted by the drug itself) - Month 4: NSAIDs prescribed for the muscle pain - Month 8: liver enzymes elevated (from the statin) - Month 10: cognitive decline begins (the brain is 25% cholesterol by dry weight) - Month 12: blood pressure rises (CoQ10 depletion affects heart muscle) - Month 14: ACE inhibitor added for the blood pressure - Month 18: fatigue deepens (mitochondrial dysfunction worsening) - Month 20: antidepressant prescribed for the "low mood" - Month 24: glucose control deteriorates (statins increase diabetes risk by 30%) - Month 30: metformin added to the pile Started with one drug for one number on a chart. Ended with five drugs managing the side effects of the first drug. Each one billed to the NHS or your insurer. Each one a recurring revenue line for life. The original cholesterol number? Lower. The patient? Worse in every measurable way. Modern medicine, working as designed.

(Next annual checkup) Patient: I took your advice and stopped carnivore. I went back to the standard American diet. Plenty of carbs. It was great eating ice cream, cereal and drinking soda again. Seems like I have some aches and pains though. I’m thirsty all the time too. Doctor: Hey great. Your LDL is lower. Looks like you’re now diabetic. But dont worry. We’ll manage it with Insulin injections and GLP-1 drugs. I’m a little concerned about your kidney function as well. Patient: How long will I have to take those. Doctor: oh for the rest of your life. But at least your risk of heart attack might be a little lower.

@CraigBrockie I did. I messaged and called the doctor's office twice and was told to take it and don't exercise while I was on it.

@silverwhitemoo Prednisone and ciprofloxacin together would make me ask a lot of questions first

What’s the worst advice your doctor gave you? Mine was to take an antibiotic for months as a teen for acne.

@MBHanson265153 @JeanLucConnery @SamaHoole NSAIDS also destroy your joints.

@JeanLucConnery @SamaHoole NSAID’s hit your kidneys—tylenol hits your liver …fyi

Your thyroid controls everything. Metabolism. Body temperature. Heart rate. Mood. Hair growth. Energy. And most doctors only run one test... TSH. That's like checking the oil light and ignoring the engine. A full thyroid panel includes: TSH, Free T3, Free T4, Reverse T3, TPO antibodies, TGA antibodies. If you're exhausted, gaining weight, losing hair, and feeling cold, and TSH is "normal" push for the full panel.

@TheDrMAWZ What is it with aspirin? It's either a miracle drug or a dangerous bleeding risk. My own doctor told me he'd rather I take ibuprofen for pain if absolutely needed. But then there are some, like Ray Peat, who think it's a wonder drug. It's confusing.

Peaters keep winning, day and night

@AlpacaAurelius My wallet gets a "hangover" because I order extra meat and turn down the starchy sides.

am i the only one that gets a legitimate hangover from eating out because i eat so clean the rest of the time?

@dr_ericberg Blood sugar stability (even if not “diabetic”) Most people think in binaries: diabetic vs not. long before a diagnosis, there’s years of elevated insulin and glucose spikes. That’s where damage starts. People feel “fine,” so they assume nothing is happening.

What do you think people ignore most about their health? Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only

@Diet0Nutrition AST/ALT/GGT now: 10 / 10 / 6 At worst: 59 / 69 / 42 That’s a shift from active liver stress to metabolically quiet My mother and her mother died from liver disease. I fixed my insulin and triglycerides and my liver healed.

@Diet0Nutrition I have been amazed at my liver's recovery. About 10 years ago a doctor told me that I would need a liver transplant or I would die because my NAFLD would progress to NASH and then cirrhosis if I didn't lose weight. I did lose weight, but, more importantly, changed my diet. /1

The liver is the only organ capable of complete regeneration. Even if you lose 75% of it, the liver can grow back to its original size in a matter of weeks.