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Bang! And, my gut is telling me to listen to this video first. Thanks, Celia!

Then, to listen to this: "'What Is A "Proper Human Diet?' She Reversed Extreme Bi-Polar Depression and Multiple Schlerosis By Eliminating "Normal" Foods; Emily Penton Achieved What ALL Of 'Psychiatry' Claims To Be Impossible"

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/what-is-a-proper-human-diet-she-reversed

Then, to listen to this: "The Oxylate Great Awakening: If You Are Unwell, And You Eat A Lot Of Raw Veggies, Nuts, Green Smoothies, Etc, You Truly Must Start To Learn What 'Superfoods' Are Actually Doing To Your Body; My Favorite Sally Norton Interview: 'Superfoods Is A Great Marketing Ploy.'"

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/the-oxylate-great-awakening-if-you

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I only eat certain cooked veg. Quit raw spinach and kale long ago. I buy some greens but sauté them well with butter, cherry tomatoes and garlic. Delicious. Only raw carrots which have antibacterial effect. Shred carrots, add some olive or coconut oil and vinegar. It’s good for your gut. I’m over those “big ass” salads that Dr. berg and sisson promote. Nuts and seeds definitely have gut killers and promote endotoxin. I’m on a pro metabolic nutrition plan. Check out Jay Feldman Energy Balance YouTube and online. It’s all about blocked energy at the cell ATP level and greens and nuts don’t help but are part of energy blocking. So much food we think might be good does that because it’s polluted and filled with PUFAS. Jay is getting me OFF low carb, keto because of long term damage to thyroid and more and actually gave me insulin resistance after 12 years. I also massively under ate which lowered my metabolism to the basement. 3 good meals a day now. No more IF, no more OMAD. It hasn’t been easy but after 8 months of slowly adding easy to digest carbs including lots of fruit and fruit juices, potatoes and white rice, honey as my main carbs, I’m getting there. I have more energy, less anxiety and sleep crazy good. It’s been a revelation how bad these trends like keto and carnivore are long term. They are valuable short term because you get off bad food and lower endotoxin. But it turns on you in ways you might not notice for a long time. The gurus aren’t telling you everything. Apparently it’s ok to get glucose which your body and absolutely your brain prefers, from running your body on stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline taxing your liver and the rest of your organs, bones and tissue instead of just giving it what it needs by natural fruit and good carbs. Stress and anxiety Hmmm. I’m loving the fruit back. I buy a fresh pineapple and so enjoy the taste. I have no cravings nor binge at all because I don’t have to. It’s sad to see almost everything down the grocery aisles so compromised. Where are the restaurants that cook without PUFAS seed oils like that poisonous canola. I live within many farm grown food and animal food producers. I I’m buying from them.

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Has anyone else tried the cookbook "Wild Bread" by Mary Jane Butters? I found it in the "Mary Jane's Farm" magazine (I don't have a farm, but it's a great magazine). I used to buy bread that was made with naturally made yeast from my doctor's office years ago, and it really helped with some stomach issues I was having. The basic premise is that store-bought yeast makes dough rise quickly, but it doesn't break down the grains like our bodies need. It's basically pre-digesting the grains when you use wild yeast. You grow this living bread ecosystem in a bowl on your countertop for a couple of weeks, and then you can bake tons of stuff with it. I just got the supplies to try it. All it requires is a good brand of flour and water.

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Tom Cowan said the other day, and I think he wrote that in one of his books, that his bread is always home-made, well cultured sour-dough, and with several types of grains on it, which he grinds himself. And the bread thereof is something like a treat, not the main staple of his diet.

The yeast is what makes grain into human food.

But, maybe some people should abstain from all bread, even from painstakingly prepared and home-made bread.

People in recovery phase should probably simplify. Meat is simple enough.

The more "civilized" foods probably can be useful after recovery.

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Depends on the grain. All cereal grains have gluten-like proteins. The only other one I can recall off the top of my head is the one in corn which is called zein. Native Americans would process corn using lime (nixtamalization) that helps destroy the zein and prevent niacin from being locked up (pelegra). That process also adds a lot of calcium to the corn which is why Mexicans, who still eat traditional corn, have such good teeth. I grow and nixtamalize my own corn.

The problem with wheat is that, thanks to grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Norman Borlaug did a lot of manipulating of wheat varieties back in the 50's and 60's to make wheat more tolerant of modern farming practices (better farming through chemicals - aka the green revolution). Nutrition was not on his radar. The result was the modern wheat most of us eat today which now has 500% more gluten than the heirloom varieties our grandparents ate prior to Borlaug.

Best wheat variety today would be an old heirloom variety called Emmer. Use a natural fermenting process (no store bought yeast) for at last two days.

Except for my home grown corn, I cut all grains out of my diet about 20 years ago. But I do eat the pseudo grains quinoa and amaranth (home grown when I can).

I cut out spinach, chard and kale about 15 years ago. The greens I do eat from my garden I cook in lard from my pigs. That helps bind up oxalates.

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I applaud your diligence and self-determination in following your own way. As Valle wrote, "me quito el cráneo."

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They invented the myth that calories were the most important variable, and that all calories are the same, meaning that, energy-wise, starch and fat end up as the same kind of heat energy. Which is funny, because they claim that the great benefit of having many billions of humans around was due in part to more and cheaper food, thanks to industrialized agriculture and pesticides and such, but then they also invented the lie that there are too many people around and they have to be culled. The global warming myth is the great grandson of the calorie myth.

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On the gluten myth, I used to think it was a well disguised attack on Christianity. Jesus is the bread of life. Bread has gluten. Gluten is bad for you, which yields: Jesus is bad for you. Typical commie nonsense.

But bread is a substitute for meat. Optimal protein for humans is meat and eggs and fish and so on. Sub-optimal protein is beans and cereal. Conquered peoples, slaves, are not given meat, but weakening foods that prevent rebellion. That's very obvious.

Jesus does not confer necessarily material freedom in this world, but eternal life in the presence of the God. So Jesus as the bread that gives eternal life is something best understood by materially conquered people, and by those who willfully renounce to the joy of meat.

Also, in many religions it is considered a sign of sanctity to renounce meat, something of merit, because, meat is good for the body. Not eating meat means the holy monk is renouncing the world. If meat eating was bad, then the monk would be considered attached to this life, and would have no merit.

On the other hand, atheists do not want eternal life. And many of them also don't want any freedom here. It is said that Lenin was asked "Comrade, what about freedom? When do we get freedom?" by someone in the crowd, and Lenin answered, very angry "Freedom?!? Freedom for WHAT!!!"

So vegetarian or meatatarian, vegan or meat-an, commies are gonna commie, and they hate all life, this one and the eternal.

One can't take advice from such people.

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The historic fascination with wheat is a bit Eurocentric. Prior to colonization, much of the world didn't eat wheat (africa from the sahel south, the americas, austrailia, nz).

From October 2021 -

https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/interview-with-dr-tom-cowan-4a9

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Many bad things that no one can un-invent are Eurocentric: metrication, democracy, irrational numbers, DNA philosophy, income tax and edulcorants, to name just a few.

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True enough.

Something weird here Celia. I can make comments but I can't like them.

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I'm gluten-free and low carb so don't eat much in the way of grains. But my husband recently started making corn tortillas using traditionally prepared corn meal from Mexico and they are delicious. I eat them when we cook fajitas at home.

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Yup, heirloom corn varieties that have been nixtimalized are great nutrition.

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What brand of corn flour (harina de maíz) do you buy? It’s actual called corn masa if it’s used for tortillas and it is known as nixtamal. You can use this to also make tamales! And that’s a fun group cooking project to do!

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Correct. I honestly never looked too carefully at the bag which was given to us by a friend who purchased it at an Hispanic grocery. The bag says Instant Corn Masa Flour. The brand is Maseca. Any feedback on the brand (healthwise) is appreciated. We are completely new to making corn tortillas.

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You might want to try corn flour from a website masienda.com

(They have several varieties of corn.)

It is ‘heirloom corn masa harina’. It is ‘nixtamalized’ corn flour, that the corn has been soaked in an alkaline limewater solution, then dried and ground into flour. This process increases the nutritional value, flavor and aroma of the corn.

It has a much richer texture and taste, than the Maseca you are using. Maseca is sold all over Mexico and the corn it is made from is not the best and it is not ‘nixtamalized’.

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For some, it's not gluten, it's GMO, and they are able to eat things from Europe where GMOs, along with irradiated food, are considered "new food" and are subject to extensive, case-by-case, science-based food evaluation. Up until recently, the EU has possibly the most stringent GMO regulations in the world, but biotech is eroding this by pushing the 'sustainability' clap-trap, and of course the puppet masters use words like 'modernization' to make those concerned look like knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. Unfortunately, all things with gluten in the U.S. are GMO. One other point I learned the hard way is to be careful of "gluten free" things, as many are made with almonds - which for me causes wide-spread inflammation. Not all nuts are alike; however, and I do fine with walnuts and pecans. You really have to turn into Sherlock Holmes to decipher it all!

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Anger as a result of inflammation - such a simple yet profound concept...

(inflamed passions-as they say...)

I am going to chew on this for a while...

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Eat chenopods in moderation, with extra vitamin C (to reduce the nitrate; not the oxalate), and bring back the 15 minute YouTube limit.

My 7th grade English teacher taught 3 rules of public speaking; be brief, be concise, and be seated.

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"Bring back the 15 minute You Tube limit". AMEN to that one! YT creators can further reduce the video length ( and my nerves) by using a TELEPROMPTER.

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"Anger is brain inflammation, by the way."

That's funny.

I have a long philosophy rant about anger. Also a short version. I won't share it here today, it's not the moment.

Instead, I ask of everyone else to look closely at the written word "inflammation." It has a flame in it. Fire. Flamma means fire.

Some say "combustion". The little light of a candle or the big light of a bonfire. But what's the meaning of having inflammation everywhere, even in the brain?

Leaving aside other symbolic interpretations, my own view on this metaphor of the flame is the duality of safety and risk.

There is safety in fire, and light and warmth. Wild animals won't come if we make a fire. Cold is conjured, death takes a pass, trauma goes to sleep when there is a safe fire. Saint Paul wrote "Our God is a consuming fire" and "God is love."

But fire burns, it can be painful and overwhelming. It consumes all air for itself. Fire BAD! Among the most imaginative methods of execution ever devised by humans, the death by sun exposure ranks in the top three. The worst traitors took that punishment, according the ancient author Plutarch (a vegan and something of a psychopath by the end of his career.)

Next 24th of June is Saint John the Baptist. People make bonfires that night. It's a rite of passage.

Young men (and some women) literally walk over coals that night. It's a bit of a trick: if you stomp your feet hard and fast, you can dissolve some of the damage that fire and heat would otherwise do.

But walking on fire really means: abnegation, or becoming God for others. To take your cross and keep walking. In my opinion, it's the polar opposite of new-age thought.

Children are not supposed to fight fire. Becoming an adult means confronting fire and taking control over it.

Getting old means to let go of the control over fire, and become fire itself. That's the inflammation.

Maybe our body wants to be inflamed, for any reason. And we don't want to be inflamed. We have to broker a deal between body and desire. Most likely, inflammation should be simply understood as malnutrition.

But I warn against the temptation to reduce all diseases as inflammation or malnutrition. Fire is a signal. It means "pay attention! You can do something!"

Fire is not the enemy. It's just a part of reality.

And inaction is the best option sometimes. Like the inaction of not-eating candy, or not-going to vote, or not-drinking whiskey, or not-torturing your parasympathetic nervous system with the News.

Inaction should be explored in all earnest.

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I agree that the constant bombardment of bad news takes a heavy toll on a person's health. I live in Israel - a country that literally grinds to a halt 5 minutes every hour to hear the latest (fake) news report.

If that's not bad enough , so many people here spend the entire evening watching the news channel on huge plasma screens. It's like they're bringing the war right into their living rooms.

We decided to ditch our tv 30 years ago. It astonishes me how people can tolerate watching life sized horror scenes day in and day out without going insane or giving themselves a heart attack.

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Just a thought... but I wonder if there isn't something fundamentally off in one's core if they have issues with this or that or those or these. Seems like every so many years there is a new bandwagon to jump on and a new evil food. Shouldn't our bodies be able to handle all of this? Our ancestors certainly had no problems.

I'm kinda inclined to think that perhaps the biggest problem, besides the chemicals, is that we just plain eat too much of everything. Then our bodies react. I've seen people do that with eggs -- "oh, eggs are a good protein for me that I can handle"... then they eat 3 dozen a wk and after a few months they suddenly feel sick after eating them. Whatever happened to moderation in all things?

Our culture seems to have become so fixated on food that it's almost a psychosis.... and I do know people for whom it is.

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Anger is certainly an inflamed passion.

Spinoza, for instance, regarded anger as one of the primary negative emotions that arise from our interactions with the world, a form of human bondage and a source of suffering. According to Spinoza, anger stems from perceiving an external event or person as hindering our desires or impeding our power to act.

On the other hand, Spinoza never met Greta Thunberg or the standard bearers of the Woke generation, whose anger was better explained by the Clash:

Let fury have the hour, anger can be power

D'you know that you can use it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ82BX0hGBM

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Codex Alimentarius is horrifying and a quasi legal framework for subverting and poisoning everything. Needs to be thoroughly analysed and dismantled.

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God bless you for covering this.

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I like you shared about something I never heard of.👌

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Consensus is truth? Anger is brain inflammation?

There are plenty of counterexamples to the first.

Acute inflammation is one of the reasons we are still alive.

Chronic inflammation is usually regarded as a disorder.

Anger, if at all, would seem an instance of the former.

But which of your readers will land on that interpretation?

In either case, please show the evidence linking anger to inflammatory chemistry, or was the comment offered as metaphor?

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