True guidelines for
common beliefs part three....Today's post: Tuesday, 6-19-2018
There are many beliefs about many things that influence
health.
Some things that are commonly thought to be harmful are not
or there is a way to do them or eat them safely.
Many things thought to be safe or even beneficial are
actually harmful and even deadly.
So that the final post in this series has all of these, here
are the ones that I posted on last Weds, 6-6-2018. They are worth reading if you haven’t yet
seen them and acting on if you read them without using them yet.
If you have, Part two
finishes the section on egg yolks, saturated fat, and harmful and beneficial
fats. It then continues after that.
Part three, today’s
post
This story appeared online:
11 ‘bad habits’
that are actually healthy, according to science
https://www.businessinsider.nl/bad-habits-healthy-according-to-science-2018-5/
Some of their coverage I thought well of and some I
didn’t. I also noticed they left out
some of the more important topics.
This is my list some of which includes things they included
and my comments on those from their list.
(I thought they did well on some and much less well on
others.)
A. As you may have seen, the makers of MSG have
funded a disinformation campaign on Facebook that has at least a dozen people
saying that the furor over MSG is based on iffy or incorrect information.
The actual research on MSG finds it is so harmful it should
be illegal to add to foods –
or at the very least
illegal to put MSG in foods without informing the person eating or buying it
that it’s there and abundant research shows it’s quite harmful and fattening!
My complete post on this was on Tuesday, 5-29, last week,
with far more detail.
B. They didn’t
include smoking.
Roughly half the people who smoke believe smoking is
harmless. No need to inform them since
they believe their lives are so messed up and out of their control they might
as well smoke. So whether it’s harmful or not they really don’t care.
The other half though believes that the only significant
risk of smoking is from lung cancer and most smokers escape it.
While it is true that even in heavy smokers only about a
fourth get lung cancer, the other part of that saying “the only significant
risk is” is SO false if there was an alarm for false statements your computer
or smart phone would be vibrating so hard you’d have trouble reading this!
Two thirds of smokers get Alzheimer’s disease. We know why. It’s no accident.
Even second hand smoke triggers heart attacks, sometimes
fatal ones, in people who would otherwise not have had them for years.
Tobacco itself is radioactive; so using tobacco products or
breathing its smoke sends cancer causing radioactivity to go everywhere in your
body. So it’s no surprise that half of
all cancers and half of all cancer deaths are from tobacco use, smoking, or
second hand smoke.
Nicotine itself is harmful to your heart and tends to cause
cancer. And vaping systems expose your
lungs to other harmful compounds to we now know.
Also, most people who smoke use lighters instead of
matches. This makes the smoke much more
effective at causing lung cancer and other cancers because of the short lived
hydrocarbons in the hotter smoke.
So, if you smoke or use tobacco another way or are exposed
to second hand smoke or vape, using a way to stop nicotine addiction completely
without a substitute and staying away from second hand smoke as close to 100%
of the time is the safest way to deal with it.
C. They didn’t
include soft drinks or diet soft drinks.
*Gradually over the past 70 years we have gone from no one
knows what soft drinks are to most young people drink soft drinks at least a
few times a week to a few times a day.
Since they see other people their age do the same and they
get to see the ads for soft drinks that make them seem fun every time they go
to the movies, they believe soft drinks are fun, harmless, and normal.
This is another so false the alarm would blow up your
computer or smart phone deal.
Something like 30 different kinds of research shows that
drinking ANY soft drinks is about as harmful as smoking heavily. Doing so causes osteoporosis, fatty liver,
and helps cause cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
Drinking soft drinks is also a near perfect fattener! Drinking one or several does nothing to turn
down hunger but DOES deliver calories in a way that tends to cause those
calories to become fat. Worse the blood
sugar surge causes you to become hungry for sugary foods when the rebound effect
hits later.
Drinking soft drinks seems safer than smoking. The reality
is that it may be worse for you! And
THAT’s not yet well known.
**Millions of people drink diet soft drinks and some nurses
and diabetes educators with out of date training-- believe that they get to
drink soft drinks because that doesn’t fatten them.
In fact, because they believe this, they often drink more
than people who drink regular soft drinks.
Is this belief true?
Nope. Diet soft drinks and the artificial sweeteners used in
them fatten quite a bit MORE than regular soft drinks!
Worse, the artificial sweeteners themselves cause some
cancers and other health problems as much as or more than as regular soft
drinks using free fructose high fructose corn syrup.
[To me an article on false beliefs having to do with health
that leaves out MSG; tobacco, smoking, and nicotine; and leaves out soft drinks
and diet soft drinks is like an article about cars with nothing in it about
engines or safety.]
D. Many people still
believe that eating,
fats and oils and saturated fat, and egg yolks are bad for
you.
Many nutritionists and diabetes educators with outdated
educations still believe these things.
The article does rather better on these topics!
The article says this about eating eggs:
“Eggs – an animal product high in cholesterol, fat, protein,
and several key vitamins and minerals – have been vilified for years. But as it
turns out, eggs are actually pretty healthy. And ordering just the whites, a
practice that low-fat food advocates say is a way to shave off calories, fat,
and cholesterol, is completely unnecessary.
Whole eggs are high in a handful of key vitamins and
minerals that you can’t get from many foods like vitamin B12 and phosphorus.
They’re also rich in muscle-fueling protein and satiating fat, which makes them
filling and unlikely to be overeaten.
Plus, the cholesterol eggs contain does not appear to lead
to high cholesterol levels in healthy people. Just as eating fat does not
translate into being fat, recent
research has shown that eating cholesterol doesn’t
necessarily translate into having high cholesterol.“
Not bad! Certainly
closer to accurate than the old advice was.
Egg yolks DO have many nutrients you need and in highly bioavailable
forms. Ovo or lacto ovo vegetarians do
not need to take the long list of supplements that vegans do to stay healthy.
Eating a few eggs a week can solve that problem.
However, eggs can be from chickens fed pesticide and
herbicide sprayed grains. This makes
such eggs have some pro-inflammatory omega 6 oil and a surprising amount of
concentrated pesticides and herbicides.
So eating those kinds of eggs is still something that should
be limited.
The much better news is that eating eggs from chickens that
really are fed on pastures they walk around on from insects and earthworms and
some organic additions are now available.
Whole Foods now stocks those.
You can eat at least a whole egg a day including the yolk
from such chickens.
There are still some possible upgrades. But this kind of eggs ALSO has more of the
nutrition you eat the eggs to get!
This was the end of the
Part One post.
Egg yolks from hens truly fed their natural diet on
unpolluted pastures they walk around on are both safe and beneficial to eat.
When added to a diet with abundant organic vegetables and
fruit, they tend to support very good health.
Also, to the extent eating them boosts cholesterol, the
choline in the egg yolks raises the beneficial HDL cholesterol which has heart
and brain boosting effects.
Such egg yolks also contain l-carnitine; and both choline
and l-carnitine have nerve and mitochondria boosting effects.
Some research has found that a bacteria that causes calcium
deposits in your blood vessels TMAO blooms when you eat a lot of choline and
l-carnitine.
This suggests that eating egg yolks or taking choline or
l-carnitine as supplements might boost this bacteria and cause this effect.
The much better news is that many of the most heart
protective things you can do produce the reverse effect so well that it looks
totally safe to ignore it!
a) Take probiotics and eat organic yogurt with live cultures
and no sweeteners and sauerkraut made with organic cabbage. To some extent this leaves less room for the
TMAO producing bacteria.
b) Do things that put calcium into your bones without
overdoing it and remove calcium from your blood vessels.
Take at least 400 mg a day of magnesium. Don’t consume too much real sugar and consume
no free fructose from juices or juice concentrates and never consume it from
high fructose corn syrup with all that excess fructose also free fructose. (If you get enough magnesium you tend to add
enough calcium to bones for strength but not too much. But since most younger people eat too little
magnesium and don’t take it as supplements and the free fructose and excess
sugar they do consume deplete magnesium, they often have weak bones that uptake
too little calcium leaving it to harden their blood vessels.)
Take at least 10,000 iu of vitamin D3 and take vitamin
K2. Enough magnesium and K2 cause the calcium
you eat to make strong bones AND actively remove it from your blood
vessels! Also do NOT, repeat NOT take
statins. They harm your mitochondria and
deplete vitamin K2 and also cause calcium to be added to your arteries by
actual test because of this. NOT taking artificial sweeteners or drinking diet
soft drinks prevents calcium from leaving your bones and weight bearing
exercise and strength training add calcium to your bones.(This set of actions
directly stops TMAO from doing the reverse.)
c) TMAO is also thought to cause excess clotting.
So, do things that keep your blood vessels healthy and
flexible and prevent blood from clotting too easily.
Eating organic fruit and fruit extracts and organic
vegetables does the reverse plus it helps keep your blood vessels strong and
healthy.
This is known to prevent both kinds of strokes and heart
attacks.
Lard and butter and whole milk from cows fed only grass or
organic greens on unpolluted grass are actually beneficial to eat in moderation
for much the same reasons as egg yolks.
The same is true of organic coconut oil.
So it’s a myth that these things are harmful that most
people don’t yet know and many nutritionists trained before the research was
done showing this don’t yet know that saturated fat from egg yolks, dairy
products, and meat is NOT harmful if it’s from animals that are fed right.
These things are true however:
*Those same foods from chickens and cattle fed grain that
has been sprayed with herbicides and pesticides ARE harmful from the excessive
pro-inflammatory omega 6 oils in the grain and the bioconcentrated herbicides
and pesticides in the fat.
*The foods high in monosaturated oils are so heart
protective, although it is true that animal based saturated fat from naturally
fed cattle and chickens is safe and beneficial, the reason to limit your intake
is make room for lots of these foods.
Raw, shelled, tree nuts for those not allergic, organic
avocados, and organic extra virgin olive oil are in this list of foods.
(Peanuts have too much omega oils and tend to contain cancer
causing aflatoxin and are often not grown organically.
Cashews have too many lectins so some people have an
allergic reaction to them; and the rest of us should eat them very seldom.)
Last but far from least, taking olive leaf extract adds to
this heart protective effect.
*The nerve and brain beneficial and anti-inflammatory omega
3 oils from wild caught fish and seafood is so valuable and health producing,
you should also limit fats from land animals to make room for them.
(Or you can take supplements of purified omega 3 and DHA in
addition to eating wild caught small fish and salmon that are high in omega 3
oils but not mercury.)
In addition to the nerve and brain beneficial and
anti-inflammatory omega effects of omega 3 oils from wild caught fish and
seafood, eating and taking DHA boosts HDL cholesterol and lowers inflammation
and triglycerides so it is enormously heart protective and protective of blood
circulation to your brain.
*Next in the article, they say this:
“Breakfast is not mandatory, despite what you may have
heard.
Although it was once believed that skipping the first meal
of the day leads to weight gain, several recent studies have found the opposite
– that fasting, or occasionally skipping meals, may actually help some people
lose weight.
These eating plans are known as intermittent fasting, and
one of the most popular involves abstaining from food for 16 hours and eating
for eight. That leads most people to shift their eating window back a few hours
from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., essentially foregoing breakfast.
Large studies have found intermittent fasting to be just as
reliable for weight loss as traditional diets. A few studies in animals suggest
it could have other benefits, such as reducing the risk for certain cancers and
even prolonging life– but those studies need to be repeated in humans.”
This does work for some people.
Bullet Proof teaches to consume coffee and ghee and their
blend of lighter and better tasting MCT oils that boost ketones you and your
brain can use for energy instead of glucose for breakfast and then eat health
ok protein foods and health ok fats and oils and organic and nonstarchy
vegetables later in the day.
I tried it and could do it. But it was not effective for fat
loss for me and I prefer to eat breakfast.
But the point is accurate.
It does work for some people.
Because breakfast is often the meal you can fix and eat at
home and have the most control over and having your hunger turned down or off
can protect you from eating sugary treats with refined grain hybrid wheat in
many workplaces, I think most people will do better at fat loss by eating a
breakfast high in health OK proteins and fats and oils and nutrition.
Most people I think do better at fat loss by always eating
breakfast. But some people have done
well without it this other way.
*Next, in their article they discuss coffee:
“Drinking coffee
In March, a California judge ruled that Starbucks and other
coffee businesses must include cancer warnings on their products.
Despite this frightening announcement, there’s extensive
scientific research on coffee which suggests that, if anything, regularly
drinking the brew is linked with a reduced cancer risk as well as a range of
other health benefits, such as protecting against diabetes and boosting heart
health.
That said, doctors recommend limiting your caffeine intake
to 400 milligrams per day, or about 3 to 4 standard cups of drip coffee.”
This is weak and confusing coverage in my opinion. This is what this is about:
Coffee and instant coffee that you drink is made from
roasted coffee beans that are then ground and hot water used to extract the
active ingredients and flavor.
When foods with any carbohydrate are roasted with high heat
it causes the release of acrylamide which has been found to cause cancer in
higher doses.
This means that roasted coffee beans do have some acrylamide
in them.
Is this likely to cause people who drink coffee or instant
coffee to get cancer?
I agree with their apparent view that the answer is probably
not.
But what they don’t say is why.
And, they don’t say how to dramatically reduce the risk
which is most important.
Here’s what they left out:
Most of the acrylamide people consume comes from toasted NOT
organic refined grain hybrid wheat. If
you know to NEVER eat that food and why
and almost never do, you’ll escape enough acrylamide to make the small amount
in roasted coffee beans far less dangerous.
The many kinds of antioxidants and cancer preventing
substances in coffee beans are so many and so effective, the actual data tend
to show coffee drinkers are healthier and less likely to have cancer than
people who don’t.
Then too it’s extra important to get organic coffee and
instant coffee. The coffee made from heavily
sprayed coffee beans may cause cancer from the herbicides and pesticides; and
this risk is in my opinion about 100 times greater than the risk from the tiny
bit of acrylamide.
So, consider drinking only organic coffee and instant coffee
to prevent cancer if you want coffee that does not cause cancer.
Last but far from least, completely avoid tobacco, its
smoke, and nicotine and eat a very low inflammation lifestyle and take
supplements that support low inflammation -- and those such as olive leaf
extract that tend to prevent cancer.
THAT will prevent cancer in people who drink organic coffee
and instant coffee despite the small amount of acrylamide in the roasted coffee
beans!
This was the end of
part two, last week’s post
Part 3 continues next:
The article has this next:
“Using social media
Frequent social media use and screen time have been
portrayed as universally bad for our health.
But a lot of research on this phenomenon has been
characterized by poorly done studies and bad science. The vast majority of
evidence suggests that our smartphones are not uniformly harmful, and in some
cases, they may be a force for good.
Last year, in a study published in the journal Psychological
Science that examined the effect of screen-time on a sample of more than
120,000 British adolescents, researchers found that social media use wasn’t
harmful for the vast majority of teens. In fact, it was sometimes helpful for
things like feeling more connected and getting emotional support from peers.
“Overall, the evidence indicated that moderate use of
digital technology is not intrinsically harmful and may be advantageous in a
connected world,” the researchers wrote in the paper.”
People who take time on social media to try to feel better
or do so using time they need to do important things for themselves or their
work and who spend over an hour a day doing so, would be better off spending
that time or some of it speaking to real people in person or on the phone or
working in some cases.
For such people doing things that stop or turn down
depression and increasing the time they take productive action can help.
People who use their phones for social media and messages
when they could be conversing with the people they are actually with often is a
problem and can cause alienation.
It is an important social skill now to know when to put your
phone away and converse with your friends and family you are physically with.
However, if you do have your real life in order and are not
depressed, you can use social media to socialize and make new friends and learn
to overcome challenges by playing some video games.
And, of course NOT using your phone in ways that take your
attention too much and your vision at all while driving can be life saving.
But that said, the overall picture is simple. There are good ways and bad ways to use
social media and video games and smart phones.
If your life is in order and you use these things well and appropriately,
they are NOT a problem.
If you need to make your life better and you spend a big
chunk of your life running away from that and doing nothing about it – or you
alienate people you are physically with or die in a traffic accident by using
social media at really bad times, such use of social media can be a
serious problem.
Lastly, reading is a more active and much faster way to
learn some things and a more relaxing and quiet way to relax. It is a good idea to spend some time reading
with no social media to take advantage of these things.
Next they say this:
“Grabbing an energy drink
I’m used to the shaming look I get from my peers when I
crack open a can of sugar-free Red Bull. The questions – and judgment – never
end. “That stuff’ll kill you,” someone said to me the other day, shaking his
head. “So many chemicals!” was what I heard last week.
Truth be told, Red Bull (at least the sugar-free kind) isn’t
all that terrible for you. Besides having only 10 calories and no sugar, it has
only 80 milligrams of caffeine, about a third of the amount in a tall Starbucks
drip coffee. As far as its other ingredients – namely B vitamins and taurine –
go, scientific studies have found both to be safe.”
This is basically an infomercial for Red Bull and the info
in it is as fake as a $3 bill.
Too much caffeine ranges from a bit jangly to harmful to
your heart depending on the amount.
It’s easier and safer to use coffee or tea to get enough to
keep you boosted without overdoing it.
B vitamins and the amino acid taurine are not only safe,
they are beneficial BUT other studies show that taurine combined with excessive
caffeine that many energy drink users get can cause MORE harm to your heart
than the caffeine alone.
And, ALL the ingredients in energy drinks they share in
common with soft drinks ARE harmful and are best never consumed at all.
So the author may like Red Bull. But some use is likely undesirable. And heavy
use is harmful and has been dangerous enough to send people to the ER.
So the truth is energy drinks are best avoided. And those with high fructose corn syrup or
artificial sweeteners should never be bought or drunk!
Next the article has this:
“Drinking one or two glasses of wine
Too much of anything is bad for you, and alcohol is no
exception.
But a fair amount of research is beginning to suggest that
people who drink moderately – roughly 1 to 2 glasses of wine or beer a day –
may enjoy some health benefits, such as a reduced risk of age-related cognitive
decline.
A study published last year in the Journal of Alzheimer’s
Disease found that people who drank regularly were significantly more likely
than people who didn’t drink at all to reach age 85 without displaying signs of
cognitive decline. A large review of 74 other studies on the subject also
concluded that moderate drinkers had a lower risk of cognitive decline than
those who abstained completely.’
This one is a bit better.
But it also leaves out some key new research.
1. With one exception, drinking alcoholic drinks does tend
to cause cancer because the formaldehyde your liver converts alcohol to does so.
The exception is drinking red wine in light moderation
because the phytonutrients in the red wine from the grape concentrate
counteract the effect of the formaldehyde.
If you follow a low inflammation cancer preventing lifestyle
having a single scotch or dark beer or white wine here and there is safe most
likely.
But this new research suggests that regular use of more than
that plus a drink or two of a good quality red wine with dinner is likely to be
harmful.
2. Also note that
drinking more than that can and has cause deadly and life ruining side effects
from accidents and car accidents.
So the sense of the article is accurate – moderate use IS OK
- but the details of the new research shows that this is more limited than they
report in this article.
(I grew up in a
culture that endorsed heavy social drinking and was OK with some binge
drinking. I did that when I was
younger. But I’d be healthier and less
fat now if I’d known to drink less than half as much as I did!)
They then end with these:
“Foregoing a long workout
You don’t always need to commit to sweating for hours at the
gym to stay in shape.
Studies suggest that compact, high-voltage workouts like the
7-minute workout may be more beneficial for building muscle and protecting the
heart than some other forms of exercise. These types of workouts are known as
high intensity interval training, or HIIT.
“High-intensity interval training can provide similar or
greater benefits in less time than traditional longer, moderate-intensity
workouts,” Chris Jordan, an exercise physiologist who created the Johnson &
Johnson Official 7 Minute Workout, said.”
This is true for cardio done in short bursts with rests or
easier sections in between the bursts.
Even a few 7 minute or slightly shorter and faster paced sessions of
cardio or abdominal work or walks each week can make a big difference.
Meanwhile long slow cardio for hours is more of a hobby than
a beneficial exercise. It has the same
value or harm as a lot of social media use.
For some people with poor social skills or who are taking time they need
to make their life work, it can be harmful.
And, other recent research shows that high intensity long
cardio without breaks sometimes causes artery and heart damage and even
triggers heart attacks.
(You can do longer runs and the like. But they are much
safer and you get fit faster if you do them in a variable cardio style that
allows your heart rest when it needs it or to make sure it gets a bit of
relative rest.)
Short sessions of interval and variable cardio with higher
intensity but the breaks that let your heart rest and built up to gradually ARE
a more time efficient way to be fit AND are much safer.
This is becoming more widely known and is one of their
better sections.
They don’t cover strength training. But one set of effective strength training
per major body part done as little as two nonconsecutive days a week can give
you 80 or 90% of the health value and strength as doing multiple sets.
So it’s far better to do this much at a minimum every week
than a lot more but have to stop periodically.
“Eating gluten
If you’ve ever snacked on a slice of gooey pizza or bitten
into a chewy bagel, you have gluten to thank: the substance gives dough its
elastic texture. Gluten is not a junk ingredient, and unless you have a rare
condition called celiac disease, it isn’t unhealthy.”
This is what Arnold Schwarzenegger called “wrong advices” So
much so it smacks of industry sponsored disinformation.
Hybrid wheat was created in part to make heavier more
elastic gluten that could make bread in large industrial amounts and withstand
a lot of machine mixing.
Unfortunately it IS severely harmful to most people and even
more harmful for some.
The lighter gluten in
the original grains that today’s wheat came from was and is far less harmful.
This beginning statement also dodges the fact that the
refined grain hybrid wheat in such foods is higher glycemic than sugar or even
high fructose corn syrup; has excessive and pro-inflammatory omega 6 oils and
was grown with heavy pesticide and herbicide use.
So making this food sound enjoyable to eat and saying it’s
safe is itself false disinformation that a wheat growing conglomerate large
company would pay to have written.
Some people have suggested that celiac disease could be on the
rise, but a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association found data that strongly refutes that idea. As for all those people
who say they don’t have celiac but are just “sensitive” to gluten, a small 2013
study out of Monash University suggested that may not be true, either, as
participants’ digestive reactions appeared to have nothing to do with their
intake of the substance.
The other reasons to avoid high gluten hybrid wheat 100 % of
the time are still true if this is accurate.
And some other studies suggest that gluten does have some slow health
effects for those not allergic etc.
To be fair, for foods like faro made of the earlier wheat
that have some gluten and barley that does, some people can safely have those
in moderation.
However, for over 95% of the foods with wheat in today’s
stores made of refined grain hybrid wheat it’s simply false and misleading
disinformation.
“Instead, the bloating and discomfort that many people
experience when they eat gluten – and the sudden disappearance of those
symptoms after slashing the ingredient – may have more to do with eliminating
unhealthy processed and pre-made foods, many of which also happen to contain
gluten.”
The gluten in refined grain hybrid wheat does cause these
effects in many people.
But the “unhealthy processed and pre-made foods” that
contain this wheat also often contain MSG, high fructose corn syrup, high omega
6 oils, hydrogenated oils, excessive salt, and harmful chemicals and food
colorings. Those other things ARE best
avoided totally!
BUT note that if you never eat the hybrid wheat that is in
these foods, that automatically means you will avoid these foods and their other
horrid ingredients too!
Also note that most “gluten free” bread and other cake or
bread or cookie like products contain refined grain rice that’s high in arsenic
and/or many of these other ingredients that are best never eaten.
Making such foods from scratch at home using only health OK
ingredients is doable. But the simpler
fix is to eat organic vegetables and fruit and treats made from those instead.
They cover this next:
“Taking a nap
Nappers aren’t necessarily lazy – and some studies suggest
the habit could actually be linked to significant health benefits, especially
if you’re sleep-deprived.
For a small study published in the journal Brain, Behavior,
and Immunity in which researchers compared the effects of a 30 minute nap
against the effects of 10 hours of sleep in people who’d been intentionally
deprived of sleep, they found that both respites appeared to help return key
immunity biomarkers (which had plunged after not sleeping) to their normal
levels.
Also, according to Harvard sleep researcher Robert
Stickgold, naps may even help some people solve problems when their energy and
focus would otherwise have waned.”
Follow the methods to ensure you get restful sleep including
always getting up at the same time.
If you can get to bed in time to get enough sleep too, you
may need no naps.
If you are under 35 you may need less naps and time asleep.
But if you can take a mid-day nap on days when you get less
than 7 hours sleep it can make you feel better and be more productive. And, it will make it safer for you to drive!
This is one of their better sections.
We’ll wrap up this piece with two more things they did not
include in this article.
E. “Over the counter
pain killers and inflammation reducers are safe to take. They work and are harmless.”
Most Americans believe this and the huge sales of these
products reflect that.
Is it true that over the counter pain killers and inflammation
reducers are safe to take?.
NO it’s NOT!
Surprisingly even doctors and medical researchers do not
know this yet.
Doctors still prescribe NSAID OTC drugs to people with
osteoarthritis.
And I posted on research that concluded that because excess
inflammation tended to cause Alzheimer’s taking NSAID OTC drugs might help
avoid it.
NSAID drugs don’t turn down chronic inflammation well at all
when people are following a high inflammation lifestyle – worse they tend to
harm your joints with long term use.
Switching to a low inflammation lifestyle reduces pain and
inflammation in people with osteoarthritis better than NSAIDs. Since doing this removes a cause of osteoarthritis
and taking boswellia helps rebuild joints as well low inflammation lifestyle
and taking boswellia IS effective and safe.
Taking NSAIDs is not effective at all compared to thisl
Worse, taking NSAIDs is harmful and best avoided totally.
Both Medscape and Medical News Today had recent research
showing this in detail this week.
I found this quote in Medscape’s article:
"When prescription dispensing records for current NSAID
use were linked to the healthcare database, approximately 67.5% of the total
effect of osteoarthritis on cardiovascular disease risk was related to NSAID
use.
Specifically, the risk for congestive heart failure
increased by 44.8% with NSAID use, the risk for ischemic heart disease
increased by 94.5%, and the risk for stroke increased by 93.3%."
Are such over the counter or prescription NSAID drugs safe
to take. NO!
This is just the most recent study showing this.
I included it because of the high risk this research shows.
For me, I’d rather turn DOWN my risk of heart failure, heart
attack, and strokes!
(Aspirin and acetaminophen aren’t safe to take either in the
amounts most people take particularly.)
F. “Taking vitamin D more than iu a day is not safe and
taking vitamin D doesn’t have much more health value than placebo.”
Is this accurate?
Let’s put it this way.
If you believe it and act on it you may get breast cancer you could have
avoided.
You may heal from injuries more slowly including heart damage
than those who take enough vitamin D3.
You may die of the flu or pneumonia you might have survived
by taking enough vitamin D3.
Here’s the story.
Synthetic vitamin D2 in low doses can prevent rickets but is safest if
you take little more than that.
But natural D3 people get in amounts up to 20,000 iu a day
with no trouble from sun exposure.
And, taking 5,000 iu to 10,000 iu a day of D3 or more is
extremely protective in many ways.
(It’s important to know to take vitamin K2 also.)
Just one recent example is from Medical News Today this
week:
“"We found that participants with blood levels of
25(OH)D that were above 60 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml) had one-fifth the
risk of breast cancer compared to those with less than 20 ng/ml."
Cedric F. Garland”
Other research shows this is true of prostate cancer too.
So, is it true that taking a lot of vitamin D3 has no useful
health effects?
It’s dramatically and totally false.
Labels: False beliefs about health and the more accurate information on these topics, True guidelines for common beliefs about health
