Protein + Glucose #2 By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Protein poisoning is caused by excessive protein minus carbs and fat. Drinking too much water makes a bad situation worse. <> Elmer Verner McCollum (The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition: The Use of Food for the Preservation of Vitality and Health, 1922) wrote … “When the animals…
Protein + Glucose #1 By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Meat by itself drops blood sugar. Ditto eggs.<>According to Ray Peat (Dec. 18, 2012) …“Eating protein by itself can cause a big surge of cortisol. Preceding the protein with some carbohydrate makes the protein go farther, otherwise under the influence of cortisol a lot of protein…
Omega 3 Conspiracy By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog If linolenic acids (omega 3 fatty acids) are so “good” for us, why are corporations competing to remove them from soybeans? They autoxidize (peroxidize) too quickly, that’s why. <> Monsanto and Pioneer are the leading contenders in the global low linolenic (LL) soybean and soy oil markets….
Gas Into Mass By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Fat is 84% carbon dioxide (CO2) and 16% water (H2O). The beaker boys know we lose over 90% of our fat by EXHALING it as gas and water vapor. They don’t know we can gain our fat back simply by INHALING. Adding nitrogen through the mouth combines…
Baking Soda Bubbles By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Re: What about baking soda for heartburn? It’s counterproductive. It can even cause a heart attack. Add some baking soda to vinegar to see why. <> Mixing an acid (vinegar) and a base (baking soda) creates salty water and carbon dioxide gas. <> The phase transition from…
Men Can Menstruate Too By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Mainstream medical doctors ascribe 99 percent of all cases of male menstruation to snail fever (schistsomiasis), caused by parasitic flatworms. They attribute the remaining 1 percent to PMDS (persistent Müllerian duct syndrome) — Müllerian duct derivatives cause uterine growth in a man. But male menstruation can’t…
Armed & Dangerous By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Anne (not her real name) had pain in her RIGHT shoulder. Her RIGHT side was “active” when Mind Hacked. She was angry at her ex-husband over their recent divorce, but there was little “activity” on her LEFT side. So it wasn’t her ex she wanted to punch…
Melatonin vs Thyroid & Thymus By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Mainstream Big Pharma beaker boys pretend they know a lot about melatonin. Melatonin research is geared to marketing, not facts. The real “melatonin miracle” is that so many people have been conned by the hype that this “miracle molecule” is age-reversing, disease-fighting, sex-enhancing, and sleep…
Pale Faces & Black Mouths By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Native Americans commonly called white settlers “pale faces.” They also called them “black mouths.” Mouth breathing (as opposed to nasal breathing) is responsible for numerous diseases, not just dental and facial ones. <> George Catlin (Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life, Ninth Edition, 1891)…
Living To Spite Someone By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog According to Adano Ley (Swami Nitty-Gritty) … “Better to be a live weirdo than a dead know-it-all.” <> Matthew Joseph Rodermund, M.D. (Fads in the Practice of Medicine, and the Cause and Prevention of Disease, 1901) wrote … “A story is told of a wealthy lady,…
Oxygen Upside Down By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Ray Peat (“Altitude and Mortality,” 2006) wrote … “Breathing pure oxygen lowers the oxygen content of tissues; breathing rarefied air, or air with carbon dioxide, oxygenates and energizes the tissues; if this seems upside down, it’s because medical physiology has been taught upside down.” <> Achilles Rose,…
Stress & Shock & Lactic Acid By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog I was initiated into Transcendental Meditation (TM) on February 14, 1971, in Beaumont, Texas. A major benefit of TM is that it dramatically reduces lactic acid, also called “fatigue acid.” Stress and lactic acid go together like a skunk with stank. <>…
Chew Like a Caveman? By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog We’re told to “chew like a caveman for good teeth” by pundits who don’t have a clue. These “experts” — including Pf. Jimmy Steele, head of the School of Dental Sciences at Newcastle University, and Dr. Nigel Carter, of the British Dental Health Association…
“Natural” Vitamin C By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog If you believe that Royal Navy surgeon James Lind (1716-1794) was the first person to discover that citrus fruit prevented scurvy, I’ve got a bridge to sell you. The ancient Egyptians (1500 B.C.), ancient Indians (400 B.C.), and other previous civilizations knew just as much…
5G Is Unstoppable By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog 5G is unstoppable (not my words) short of nuclear war, an extraterrestrial impact event, or other mass extinction. <> According to the Serenity Prayer … “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And…
What You Are Is Breathing By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Descartes should have said … “I think I am, therefore I think I am, I think.” Yes, No, Maybe? <> Ron & Claire Levitan (Growing a Soul on the Planet Earth: The Fourth Way & Esoteric Christianity, 2018) wrote … “We see life…
Sugar & Eclampsia By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Ray Peat (“Eclampsia in the Real Organism: A Paradigm of General Distress Applicable in Infants, Adults, Etc.,” 2006-2016) wrote … “… a woman who was 6 months pregnant called me around 10 o’clock one morning, to say that she had gone blind, and was alone…
Sugar To the Rescue! By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Ray Peat (“Sugar issues,” 2012) wrote … “Experimental evidence shows that polyunsaturated (omega-3) fats retard fetal brain development, and that sugar promotes it. These facts argue against some of the currently popular ideas of the evolution of the human brain based on ancestral diets of fish…
Sugar Can Save Your Life! By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog The World Health Organization (WHO) wants you to REDUCE your intake of sugar to at least 10%, and optimally 5%. <> According to The World Summit on Sustainable Development … “WHO is task manager for Chapter 6 of Agenda 21, which deals with…
Vitamin D In X-Rays? By Atom Bergstrom Atom’s Blog Over 100 years ago, rickets and its accompanying tetany (uncontrolled muscle spasms) were treated by four main methods … 1) exposure to sunlight 2) cod liver oil 3) exposure to a mercury vapor quartz lamp 4) exposure to ionizing radiation <> Well, how much…