Sickness As Industrial Label By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog According to Ray Peat (interviewed by Jeremy Stuart & Brad Abrahams) … “If you don’t know Gilbert Ling’s work thoroughly, it’s hard to understand the idiocy behind contemporary (last eighty years) of biological and medical thinking. It’s a type of insanity that is reinforced by the culture,…
Doggy Door Fable By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog According to Medical Nemesis (Medically Disabling Professionalism Inc.), the water inside a cell is exactly the same as the water outside the cell. “A water molecule is a water molecule is a water molecule,” saith the Assassins in White. Water is a bathing medium, according to these…
The World Hospital By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Ivan Illich (1926-2002) warned us about medical imperialism, but the Sheep-Bots went on about their business. <> According to Ivan Illich (1973, 1974) … “Medical classification justifies the imperialism of standard staples like baby food over mother’s milk and of old-age homes over a corner at home….
Jewelry With Bad Vibes By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog It was the last days of the Phoenix Metaphysical Book Store. It wasn’t in Phoenix. It was in Houston — in a two-story house at 524 Westheimer Blvd. in The Montrose (a hip section of Houston that eventually suffered the same fate as Haight-Ashbury). The book…
30-50 Cups of Joe a Day By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog According to Ray Peat (Oct. 3, 2020) … “When I was hypothyroid, I felt best when I would have 30 to 50 cups, just constantly drinking a fairly strong coffee with cream.” Georgi Dinkov : “Wow, so you were drinking more coffee than milk…
Copper (29) & Zinc (30) By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Copper and zinc are opposites that live in adjacent suites. Copper is catabolic and zinc is anabolic. Copper promotes pneumonia and zinc promotes cancer. Pneumonia is helped by zinc, and the growth of cancer is helped by copper. However, the metastasis of cancer is helped…
Medical Police State By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog We’ve been living in a Medical Police State since the 1970s. <> Re: That’s all? I would think it’s been longer, so basically my entire life. And yet the masses of fear-driven slaves have no idea. Medical Nemesis didn’t METASTASIZE till the 1970s, but the American Medical…
Abdominal Policemen By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Be kind to your omenta, and your omenta will be kind to you. The greater and lesser omenta “float” on top of your intestines. <> Nathaniel Scharping (“The Omentum: A Curtain of Tissue That Keeps Our Guts Working: The omentum is a curtain of fatty tissue that hangs…
Slow Wave Delta Power By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog The Father of Neurofeedback (Dr. Joe Kamiya) trained people to play The Star Spangled Banner with their alpha/theta brainwaves. But he didn’t master DELTA. <> Dr. Barbara B. Brown (1921–1999) coined the word “biofeedback.” She could teach the average person to control a single specific cell…
Indigestible Boluses (Bezoars) By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Dr. Samuel Goodwin Gant catalogued nine varieties of intestinal calculi and concretions. 1) Gall-stones (biliary calculi)2) Hairy concretions (bezoars)3) Avenoliths (oat-stones)4) Enteroliths (intestinal calculi)5) Pancreatic calculi6) Urinary calculi7) Coproliths8) Prostatic calculi9) Miscellaneous concretions <> According to Samuel Goodwin Gant, M.D. (1902) … “Concretions sometimes become firmly encysted…
Oat-Stones (Avenoliths) By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Less than three bowel movements a day is job security for your gastroenterologist … or, if you’re holistically inclined, your colon hydro-therapist. <> What follows was written before the oat-bran mania of the 1980s. According to Samuel Goodwin Gant, M.D. (1902) … “Concretions of this variety are rarely…
Constipation & Gut-Stones By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Many gut-stones are composed of struvite (NH4MgPO4·6H2O). A constipated pineal gland also accumulates struvite. Gut-stones are common in horses due to their diet. NOW it’s common in “modern” human beings” too. <> According to the Mayo Clinic … “Constipation is generally described as having fewer than three…
Keep Those Dogies Rolling By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog According to Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) … “Fit For Life [first published in 1985] will guarantee you only one bowel movement a day. Solar Nutrition guarantees you three.” <> John F. Cowan, M.D. (1922) wrote … “The classification of enteroliths has been based largely on their…
Pineal Pine Cone By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Re: Does the pine cone at the Vatican have anything to do with the pineal gland? There IS an indirect link. The Vatican’s pine cone is a pagan symbol of symbolic and actual CASTRATION. The pineal is anti-gonadal and associated with the color MAGENTA. <> Re: What…
Magnesium Gut-Stones By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Solar Nutrition (circadian eating) keeps those dogies rolling, Rawhide! Eating Solar “according to Hoyle” guarantees three bowel movements every 24 hours for most people. (There’s always an exception to the rule.) That’s one B.M. per Growth Period (Tree, Vine, Root). <> Calcium and magnesium are essential for bone…
Minding Psoriasis By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog According to The Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology (2016), “Patients with psoriasis may have a high prevalence of several mental disorders. A case-controlled study conducted by Kumar et al reported that 84 percent of patients with psoriasis had psychiatric comorbidities, a prevalence that was statistically significant.” More…
Minding Eczema By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog According to Ray Peat, the physical causes of eczema are endotoxin, serotonin. and low thyroid. Be careful if you choose his most radical remedies — novocaine with rubbing alcohol. Life and Death begin and end in the colon. Three bowel movements a day discourage all skin problems. The…
Magnesium Sources & Ratios By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Re: What are your recommended sources of magnesium? 99% of every fresh whole food in existence from all three Solar Growth Zones contains magnesium. For example, every single chlorophyll molecule is composed of 6.7% magnesium. Chlorophyll-free mushrooms can’t exist without magnesium either. The question is not…
Acid-Alkaline HOLISM By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog When quantifying the acid-base values of cooked meat, measuring the liquid it’s cooked in will only reveal what was siphoned out of the meat, not what was left behind inside the meat. Measuring blood, urine, and saliva not only gives you just partial info about the ENTIRE body’s…
Fast-Tracking Techno-Fascism By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Corona is Climate Change on steroids. Things weren’t moving fast enough for the Predator Class. Even giant space-alien lizards lock their doors when they fly by our miserable mud-ball. <> Corona is a fast-tracked updating of Climate Change. Problem — Reaction — Solution. To the dismay of the…