Congratulations on the new podcast, and I'm looking forward to episode #2 and beyond! I do however have a comment that Is by no means a complaint, however I want more good people thinking about the following subject.
As a preface, to really understand what it's like to be sick, you need to be sick! Between 5-6 minutes into your podcast Rav mentioned that food science is indisputable. I respectfully dispute that :)
I happen to have very good reason to have an opinion on what I'm about to say. Science nutrition and consensus is FAR from indisputable! In fact, I'm not sure that there is another science further from being honest and accurate. The amount of conflicting information is astounding... the way food and drug industries like it; all the better to separate sick people and their money. Before I continue, let me say you have to look no further than Professor John Loannidis for details on why nutritional science is so poor due to personal bias and observational studies etc...
I'm 51 years old and I now eat only beef and drink water (please don't stop reading :) for the most part unless I cheat; which I do!
Since April 1 2020 I was suddenly reduced from being very fit and strong to not being able to work and needing to crawl around my own home. As I now know, in hind-site, I was sick for a lot longer... I just did not fully know it, especially as I was aging. You only age once, so it's easy to assume that as your health deteriorates, it's just part of getting old. But when your 90 some year old Grandma's health is better than yours, that should tell you something!
My Doctor, after a few months decided that I had an Autoimmune disease called Polymyalgia Rheumatica. He immediately put me on the steroid Prednisone, which before I pulled the plug, I was as high as 50mg per day to try to deal with the pain. After many specialists, I was told I'm someone who western medicine cannot help. My symptoms were very similar to Parkinson, MS, Lyme disease, Lupis & Crohn, in fact, it's funny how almost every auto-immune disease sounded like what I had; so I decided I must have Lyme disease since it is the great mimickers of other diseases and proceeded to go on Doxy for some time. I had global inflammation in my body that did not allow me to work, walk or lift my arms, all while being in a lot of pain. I did go to a private lab for a stool sample and based on their report I had an abundance of a opportunistic gram negative bacteria called Morganella Morganii and no detectable phospholipids or triglycerides. In hiring a private lab to do blood work I was also was very low on Manganese of all things and who knows what else as you have to pick what you want tested and pay for every thing al-a-cart. As it turned out, even though I was 6 feet tall and 215 pounds I now know that I was suffering from severe malnutrition. I was metabolically unhealthy and the second worst thing about being metabolically unhealthy is leaky gut. With a leaky gut, food toxins get in your body and then you have an all out war, hence global inflammation. The worst thing, I suppose is something I was fortunate enough to avoid and that's when your cells, albeit unhealthy, take matters into their own to save your undernourished and sick organs, in an effort to save you. Cancer, in my opinion!
Over the past full year it has become an indisputable fact. If I eat anything (anything) besides beef I get sick. So I've bounced back and forth from feeling the best I've ever felt, to not being able to get out of bed, all depending on what I've eaten that day.
Brief timeline:
early 80's - I recall feeling immensely tired and my grandfather would say things like "You should not be so tired, what are you going to do when you get old." I was very conscious and hard working, so comments like that went deep and have stuck with me. In my teens I was a high level track and field athlete with high jump, pole vault and 100 meter sprinting being my specialties. I was very fit, powerful and athletic. Academically, school and especially math came very easy to me; however I was still a huge under-achiever and I used to question why. All these years later I finally understand. I was very tired!
In my 20's I started visiting the doctor.(s) I was still very fit, but now only a weekend warrior and I split my time between working hard, playing hard and drinking too much beer :) The doctors told me that I was perfectly fine and that I could just loose a few pounds. I knew however that I was different than my co -workers. Even though I was highly functioning at my work designing mining equipment I kept a big secret from my employers and peers in that I was very, very tired!
In my 30's my wife and I had a son. From the beginning he was very sick and the children's hospital could not understand why. As his parents, all we could think to do was to start removing food from his diet. Low and behold, once removing wheat, he started to gain health and we've never look back. It did not take me long to think; maybe the wheat is my problem. At the time, my Doctor had barely heard about gluten, but said, if it makes me feel better to not eat wheat, then don't eat wheat! Like so many others I started feeling better but I was still far from being 100 percent, as I now know.
Going from 50% health (functioning) to under 50% (not sure how low, but after the drugs, I'd say very; maybe 10% health and vitality)
Early 2020 (48 years age) I suddenly could not sleep anymore due to pain in my left hip. It hurt to stand, sit and lay down. After suffering for a few months (cortisone gave no relief) my GP managed to diagnose me with a so called auto-immune disease and immediately put me on steroids. I was willing to try anything as I was in so much pain; but things turned much worse from there.
Although the steroids took some of my pain away, I continued to be sick and spent the next couple of years pretty much sleeping and living in a fog. I saw all sorts of specialists and spent a lot of money. They decided that western medicine could not help me and I'm sure they believe it was all in my head. From there, I tried eastern medicine which only left my wallet that much lighter!
On my good days it became my full time job to solve my problem and have been studying medical papers ever since. Along the way I discovered fasting and low and behold, as long as I was not eating I would start to feel better as my body would become less inflamed. At this point in time, I did not realize I was malnourished and went as long as 9 days with only water. It was very hard, but very exciting as there was a glimmer of hope for me. Something I was eating was my problem; but what?
In the beginning of "my saving my life with food journey" based on scientific consensus, I focused on eating the so called best vegetables that where low in Lectins and other toxins, good bone broths, fermented foods, kombucha, good teas, you name it, while completely eliminating wheat, alcohol, seed oils, processed foods etc.. until I finally gave up after about 1 year and resorted to the most crazy idea of only eating beef and water.
Now at nearly 51, I can say, I'm experiencing energy, clarity and a lack of symptoms of so called disease that would take up pages to write them all down; which I'm happy to share! For example I used to catch a cold, I swear, every time I would come even remotely into contact with a sick person which was very hard since I thought it was my son bringing home germs from day care. I realize now, that, me getting colds was just my bodies way of healing and removing toxins; for lack of description and getting into it, let's just say I would love mainstream science to really take an honest look into germ theory as I'm damn near convinced!
In the last year of eating predominantly meat, I can say that I no longer get sick as long as my diet is clean. I can confidently be around friends with so called Covid or a cold. It's very liberating to think that I'm not going to get sick, and I don't... take that for what you will from a guy that got every cold, every time!
Anyhow, I felt compelled to share my story since the mention of the undisputable nature of nutritional science. I'm proof that it's not undisputable since hardly any doctors or scientist would recommend eating only beef to cure an auto-immune disease... it's certainly NOT the consensus. Interestingly, 50 years ago, beef and water was the cure for epilepsy and animal fat and protein was very well known to be the best food source for humans; funny how we've gone backwards and have it all wrong now! (so says I)
Fun fact... Of the many (like I said; pages) of side effects I get to enjoy when including plants in my diet is that I pee A LOT. For the last few years, leading up to everything falling apart on me; I had to pee all the time, even when I was not drinking coffee and drinking as little water as I could get away with! Now, on a meat based diet; I can drink lots of water or I can drink almost no water. It makes no difference to my health anymore and I do not have to pee all the time! As it turned out, it was simply my bodies global inflammation that was causing my constant urination, and of course the Doctors could not see that.
Another Fun fact... For some reason, on the carnivore diet, I can get away with drinking as little as 1 cup of water a day with no ill effect. I'm not sure why, but I suspect it has something to do with the body having to do less chemical conversions with the given fuel source.
Let me leave you guys with a good quote pasted below that I recently come across and thanks for taking the time to read my post. (assuming you made it this far ! :)
Respectfully,
Cam Davidson
"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions."
Ouch. What has GONE, not "what has went" (0:45). When did this habit of using the preterite as a past participle start?? Learn your principal parts, people!!
I just became a paying subscriber. Sorry to be a Luddite but is there a way to make sure I have full access to these podcasts besides just searching for The Illusion of Consensus in my Apple podcast app? IOW is there a separate App through some other platform? Thanks if anyone can help!
Oookay, I think I got it---noodled around and I was able to find the podcasts, if not in the most elegant way. Looking forward to hearing from these brave guys.
Hi Miss Sheryl, I believe you found it on Substack is that correct?? that’s where I find them if there’s another place please let me know. Best regards, Elizabeth.
Gentlemen,
Congratulations on the new podcast, and I'm looking forward to episode #2 and beyond! I do however have a comment that Is by no means a complaint, however I want more good people thinking about the following subject.
As a preface, to really understand what it's like to be sick, you need to be sick! Between 5-6 minutes into your podcast Rav mentioned that food science is indisputable. I respectfully dispute that :)
I happen to have very good reason to have an opinion on what I'm about to say. Science nutrition and consensus is FAR from indisputable! In fact, I'm not sure that there is another science further from being honest and accurate. The amount of conflicting information is astounding... the way food and drug industries like it; all the better to separate sick people and their money. Before I continue, let me say you have to look no further than Professor John Loannidis for details on why nutritional science is so poor due to personal bias and observational studies etc...
I'm 51 years old and I now eat only beef and drink water (please don't stop reading :) for the most part unless I cheat; which I do!
Since April 1 2020 I was suddenly reduced from being very fit and strong to not being able to work and needing to crawl around my own home. As I now know, in hind-site, I was sick for a lot longer... I just did not fully know it, especially as I was aging. You only age once, so it's easy to assume that as your health deteriorates, it's just part of getting old. But when your 90 some year old Grandma's health is better than yours, that should tell you something!
My Doctor, after a few months decided that I had an Autoimmune disease called Polymyalgia Rheumatica. He immediately put me on the steroid Prednisone, which before I pulled the plug, I was as high as 50mg per day to try to deal with the pain. After many specialists, I was told I'm someone who western medicine cannot help. My symptoms were very similar to Parkinson, MS, Lyme disease, Lupis & Crohn, in fact, it's funny how almost every auto-immune disease sounded like what I had; so I decided I must have Lyme disease since it is the great mimickers of other diseases and proceeded to go on Doxy for some time. I had global inflammation in my body that did not allow me to work, walk or lift my arms, all while being in a lot of pain. I did go to a private lab for a stool sample and based on their report I had an abundance of a opportunistic gram negative bacteria called Morganella Morganii and no detectable phospholipids or triglycerides. In hiring a private lab to do blood work I was also was very low on Manganese of all things and who knows what else as you have to pick what you want tested and pay for every thing al-a-cart. As it turned out, even though I was 6 feet tall and 215 pounds I now know that I was suffering from severe malnutrition. I was metabolically unhealthy and the second worst thing about being metabolically unhealthy is leaky gut. With a leaky gut, food toxins get in your body and then you have an all out war, hence global inflammation. The worst thing, I suppose is something I was fortunate enough to avoid and that's when your cells, albeit unhealthy, take matters into their own to save your undernourished and sick organs, in an effort to save you. Cancer, in my opinion!
Over the past full year it has become an indisputable fact. If I eat anything (anything) besides beef I get sick. So I've bounced back and forth from feeling the best I've ever felt, to not being able to get out of bed, all depending on what I've eaten that day.
Brief timeline:
early 80's - I recall feeling immensely tired and my grandfather would say things like "You should not be so tired, what are you going to do when you get old." I was very conscious and hard working, so comments like that went deep and have stuck with me. In my teens I was a high level track and field athlete with high jump, pole vault and 100 meter sprinting being my specialties. I was very fit, powerful and athletic. Academically, school and especially math came very easy to me; however I was still a huge under-achiever and I used to question why. All these years later I finally understand. I was very tired!
In my 20's I started visiting the doctor.(s) I was still very fit, but now only a weekend warrior and I split my time between working hard, playing hard and drinking too much beer :) The doctors told me that I was perfectly fine and that I could just loose a few pounds. I knew however that I was different than my co -workers. Even though I was highly functioning at my work designing mining equipment I kept a big secret from my employers and peers in that I was very, very tired!
In my 30's my wife and I had a son. From the beginning he was very sick and the children's hospital could not understand why. As his parents, all we could think to do was to start removing food from his diet. Low and behold, once removing wheat, he started to gain health and we've never look back. It did not take me long to think; maybe the wheat is my problem. At the time, my Doctor had barely heard about gluten, but said, if it makes me feel better to not eat wheat, then don't eat wheat! Like so many others I started feeling better but I was still far from being 100 percent, as I now know.
Going from 50% health (functioning) to under 50% (not sure how low, but after the drugs, I'd say very; maybe 10% health and vitality)
Early 2020 (48 years age) I suddenly could not sleep anymore due to pain in my left hip. It hurt to stand, sit and lay down. After suffering for a few months (cortisone gave no relief) my GP managed to diagnose me with a so called auto-immune disease and immediately put me on steroids. I was willing to try anything as I was in so much pain; but things turned much worse from there.
Although the steroids took some of my pain away, I continued to be sick and spent the next couple of years pretty much sleeping and living in a fog. I saw all sorts of specialists and spent a lot of money. They decided that western medicine could not help me and I'm sure they believe it was all in my head. From there, I tried eastern medicine which only left my wallet that much lighter!
On my good days it became my full time job to solve my problem and have been studying medical papers ever since. Along the way I discovered fasting and low and behold, as long as I was not eating I would start to feel better as my body would become less inflamed. At this point in time, I did not realize I was malnourished and went as long as 9 days with only water. It was very hard, but very exciting as there was a glimmer of hope for me. Something I was eating was my problem; but what?
In the beginning of "my saving my life with food journey" based on scientific consensus, I focused on eating the so called best vegetables that where low in Lectins and other toxins, good bone broths, fermented foods, kombucha, good teas, you name it, while completely eliminating wheat, alcohol, seed oils, processed foods etc.. until I finally gave up after about 1 year and resorted to the most crazy idea of only eating beef and water.
Now at nearly 51, I can say, I'm experiencing energy, clarity and a lack of symptoms of so called disease that would take up pages to write them all down; which I'm happy to share! For example I used to catch a cold, I swear, every time I would come even remotely into contact with a sick person which was very hard since I thought it was my son bringing home germs from day care. I realize now, that, me getting colds was just my bodies way of healing and removing toxins; for lack of description and getting into it, let's just say I would love mainstream science to really take an honest look into germ theory as I'm damn near convinced!
In the last year of eating predominantly meat, I can say that I no longer get sick as long as my diet is clean. I can confidently be around friends with so called Covid or a cold. It's very liberating to think that I'm not going to get sick, and I don't... take that for what you will from a guy that got every cold, every time!
Anyhow, I felt compelled to share my story since the mention of the undisputable nature of nutritional science. I'm proof that it's not undisputable since hardly any doctors or scientist would recommend eating only beef to cure an auto-immune disease... it's certainly NOT the consensus. Interestingly, 50 years ago, beef and water was the cure for epilepsy and animal fat and protein was very well known to be the best food source for humans; funny how we've gone backwards and have it all wrong now! (so says I)
Fun fact... Of the many (like I said; pages) of side effects I get to enjoy when including plants in my diet is that I pee A LOT. For the last few years, leading up to everything falling apart on me; I had to pee all the time, even when I was not drinking coffee and drinking as little water as I could get away with! Now, on a meat based diet; I can drink lots of water or I can drink almost no water. It makes no difference to my health anymore and I do not have to pee all the time! As it turned out, it was simply my bodies global inflammation that was causing my constant urination, and of course the Doctors could not see that.
Another Fun fact... For some reason, on the carnivore diet, I can get away with drinking as little as 1 cup of water a day with no ill effect. I'm not sure why, but I suspect it has something to do with the body having to do less chemical conversions with the given fuel source.
Let me leave you guys with a good quote pasted below that I recently come across and thanks for taking the time to read my post. (assuming you made it this far ! :)
Respectfully,
Cam Davidson
"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've been waiting to dig into this much more deeply and you haven't disappointed so far. Congrats on dispelling so many assumptions people have.
Excellent, excellent discussion, thank you for putting this on! This information needs to get to everyone on the planet.
Finally. Honest discussion. Science at its best! Never give up telling the truth! Thank you!
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Ouch. What has GONE, not "what has went" (0:45). When did this habit of using the preterite as a past participle start?? Learn your principal parts, people!!
I just became a paying subscriber. Sorry to be a Luddite but is there a way to make sure I have full access to these podcasts besides just searching for The Illusion of Consensus in my Apple podcast app? IOW is there a separate App through some other platform? Thanks if anyone can help!
Oookay, I think I got it---noodled around and I was able to find the podcasts, if not in the most elegant way. Looking forward to hearing from these brave guys.
Hi Miss Sheryl, I believe you found it on Substack is that correct?? that’s where I find them if there’s another place please let me know. Best regards, Elizabeth.