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Bob Bichen's avatar

As generalities, I can agree with most of this. Everything is relative, and fixing the things that are the most harmful in a diet is obviously going to have the greatest effect. However, there is no mention of a very important topic that falls outside of these generalities: seed oils. They'll kill you slowly in many different ways including: obesity, reduced energy production in your mitochondria, plugged arteries, increased sunburn sensitivity and many others. They're not meant for human consumption in the quantities they're being consumed at. We're talking an order of magnitude too much omega 6 fats. This is the biggest diet problem today.

Also, glyphosate can destroy the gut microbiome to a point where it can no longer digest properly in just parts per billion. It doesn't necessarily act as a poison directly on the human body, just the micro-organsims that we depend on for life. It's used for drying crops at harvest time which is a crime against humanity.

Growing crops with glyphosate largely depends on GMOs with inadequate safety data that have been engineered to be resistant to it. This encourages monoculture and treating the soils as just a physical medium to hold the three industrial chemical fertilizers: nitrogen(ammonia), potassium and phosphorous, and now, glyphosate. The microbiome and trace mineral content of the soil is destroyed and depleted respectively, and they never come back, but the crops look great! Too bad they're nutritionless garbage that renders you malnourished, gluten intolerant and unable to digest any food properly.

Avoiding the "dirty dozen" of conventionally grown produce is highly recommended if cost effectiveness is paramount.

Bob Bichen's avatar

Seed oils are mentioned in the video. I'm a reader mainly so I had only read the text when I commented. This guy is completely out of his depth on seed oils. NO AMOUNT OF EXERCISE will make up for over-consumption of seed oils. They are toxic at one fifth the average level being eaten by the average North American and NOTHING will allow you to be healthy other than reducing them drastically. Sorry, it's just the way it is. You can't evolve the human organism in three generations to rewire how it requires and processes fats.

PamelaDrew's avatar

This guy should be on Rockefeller-Gates-Monsanbto/Bayer Biotech Mafia payroll.. not only is it every chemical lobby talking point it shows zero grasp of human biology.. can't be a more moronic observation than if the toxins were bad we would see population wide health effects w fattest, sickest population in human history plagued by "food allergies" because Mother Nature rejects poisons.

Bob Bichen's avatar

The "food allergies" are most likely vaccine caused. Anaphylactic shock from the second dose has been known for about 100 years to permanently disrupt human health. See: Sasha Latypova's substack.

PamelaDrew's avatar

Sasha has me blocked for years she's a pharma fraud with some good research by uncredited sources twisted enough so folks can't get to the core truths. If she were honest she woulod have spent six year4s explaining how mRNA TRANSFECTION is decades old lab tech ALL virology is based on. 1999 Biotech Death of Jesse Gelsinger nearly ended gene based "medicine" she knows zero about food that's helpful when the GMO foods have many of the same designs & problems.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080517050534/http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991128mag-stolberg.html

Injections do cause a wide variety of harms they have no plausible mechanisms for producing immunity but another source of contaminating our bodies. Separate compounding problems from GMO crops novel proteins plus their partner chemicals.. humans are not designed to have diets of poisons or genetic experiments instead of food. Just because Monsanto Mafia can legislate "substantial equivalent" loopholes to say GMO is close enough to God given designs does not change biology. Contrary to industry claims NONE has ever had human health or safety testing.. like the Covid mRNA Transfection a few rats is all they use.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101122021318/www.fda.gov/Food/Biotechnology/Submissions/ucm161130.htm

Völva's avatar

Layne Norton is a nuisance in the social media landscape - rude, aggressive and often cocksure despite being misguided. He’s not worth listening to. The few times he’s right costs the listener hours of bad-vibes negativity. Hard pass.

TomD's avatar

Not sure I can think of any of these influencers that aren't a nuisance, usually hawking vitamins, LMNT,AG1 etc..at least Layne has a PhD in nutrition

PamelaDrew's avatar

That's not nuance is paid propaganda and this the worst chemical industry swill I've seen in decades of tracking Rockefeller-Gates-Monsanto Biotech Mafia. CRIMINALS

Völva's avatar

You’ve got a point there :-). And at least he doesn’t seem to be as shady as Pedo Attia. But it’s his negativity and attitude that rubs me the wrong way. If you attack others more than you bring substantive discussion to the table, you are not a valuable source in my world. And the “everyone else is wrong and only I am right” attitude creates poor judgement and an inability to correct factual mistakes when they are made.

Bob Bichen's avatar

A PhD in nutrition from the Rockefeller school of "illness is caused by pharmaceutical deficiency" is hardly worth more than a roll of Charmin.

PamelaDrew's avatar

What a spectacular moron.. this could be from Monsanto if he isn't on the payroll for some GMO Pesticide lobbying group he is missing his calling. This borders on criminal.

I asked Layne about pesticides, glyphosate, and the concern that conventional produce might be undermining long-term health.

His response reframed the issue.

He laid out two logical possibilities:

Fruits and vegetables are so beneficial that any potential pesticide exposure is overridden by the net positive effect.

The pesticide levels are so low that they don’t meaningfully impact health outcomes.

Because we observe this consistently:

People who eat more fruits and vegetables live longer and have lower chronic disease risk.

If pesticide exposure from conventional produce were a major driver of disease, we would expect to see risk increase in high produce consumers. We don’t.

That doesn’t mean organic is bad. If you prefer it, can afford it, or believe it tastes better — go for it.

But the current body of evidence doesn’t robustly support the claim that organic produce produces superior health outcomes.

Also worth noting:

“Organic” does not mean pesticide-free. It means different pesticides — some of which actually have less safety data than their conventional counterparts.

Scott's avatar

What about glyphosate and aluminum uptake? MSG, nitrates, phosphates, etc.?

Kiara Sands's avatar

The calorie in calorie out model has been disproven. When your body is so out of whack, you are addicted to sugar unless you’re locked in a cage you hardly lose weight and you have no energy to move. You have to fix the problems of the gut the seed oils all the rest of the crap before you’re going to actually be honestly successful this has been proven time and time again.

Rav Arora's avatar

Evidence for this? I was 40 pounds overweight a few years ago and I followed the calorie method Layne advocates for and - surprise, surprise - it worked!

PamelaDrew's avatar

Do you really think everyone is so stupid the idea total calories consumed correlates to body weight & because you dr5opped so flab with fewer calories it somehow indicates overall health? This is embarrassingly ignorant and the remarks about Organic using untested chemicals pairs nicely with glyphosate moved from known carcinogen to NatSec essential product. This is truly evil propaganda.

Kiara Sands's avatar

Read Dr. Fung’s work with thousands and thousands of people who have been struggling desperately to lose weight using that method. I’m not saying that it will not work on some level but for thousands of people who have type 2 diabetes, and other conditions that have been brought on by our food sources it does not work. When I tried lowering my calorie intake, I literally lost all energy. I could barely get out of bed much less start an exercise program.

Chip Eichelberger's avatar

Thanks for posting. It validates all of the common sense Health information that works. If you want to live a long time, eat a little, very few overweight people over eighty l, especially with any quality of life. Move more and eat more LIVE foods.