2. I couldn't give up because my brain was wired to repeat the same behaviour due to rutting of the neural pathways.
3. I didn't want to give up because I knew from a very young age that there was something terribly wrong with world, and when I stopped drinking for any length of time I would start seeing the wrongness again and the people around me became seemingly more stupid.
4. Being sober is lonely. So to drop drinking I had to engage with people and cut all ties with people I used to drink with. I severed friendships of 45 years, and within 12 months realised that they were not friends, just sad, lonely people unable to change.
My friends now are my neighbours, local people and the people I communicate with on substack are my family now as my blood family is poisoned.
This book shows that if you totally stop drinking ( or other addiction), you can not only recover you memory and repair your damaged brain, something unexplained happens... Your brain surpasses what it was at its prior best... Read the book...
I stopped drinking fully 19 years ago, was a big binge drinker on the odd social occasion... After an initial period of discomfort at social settings with friends urging you to drink, that soon settled down and people accepted my decision.
I noticed better health within six months, any puffy weight I had went, social occasions didn't require thinking about how much I had, and if I could drive home, I was more relaxed in social settings too (I used to have a drink to loosen up, but found I actually just needed to relax)... and now 19 years have gone by, I think I have spared my liver and body a bonus 19 years of all that stress my binge drinking used to cause. I may very well have done some damage earlier in my youth and ignorance but so far my health has been very good...
This was a great article thank you and I've saved and filed it !
One thing that isn’t mentioned, and I guess it’s not surprising as the zeitgeist is “what’s in it for me?” but any intoxicant that compromises your personality integrity is a short-changing of your loved ones (and even one drink has an effect, however subtle). Your relationship with them is the conduit through which you can give them the only thing of enduring value that you *can* give them: the gift of love. And love requires first, being attuned to them, and second, balance, subtlety and wise judgment in how you interact with them, all of which the selfishness of intoxication distorts.
This is vital to your children: your selfish intoxication deprives them of you, maybe just a little bit at a time, but it accumulates. If you think that you are somehow “better” when you are intoxicated then you might profitably seek help to overcome the issue that you think you’re improving.
But most of all, intoxication affects your relationship with your Creator because the foundation of your relationship with Universe is love and its projection onto others, which ability is damaged by intoxication of any kind. This projection of love is a life-long process of discipline, learning and self-correction, ultimately leading to self-mastery. Distorting your perceptions, emotions and memories can only wreak havoc with it. Purity of body, mind and spirit are the essence of the realness of your personhood, your key to the transcendence of the animal level of existence. Don’t pollute them with poisons.
I think the big lie ai discovered about alcohol is that one or two glasses of wine or a couple beers, a shit of whiskey or tequila every now and again are good for you!!! FALSE!!! NOPE!!!
This is the big lie the industry used to tell people it is okay to have just a few which usually leads to just a few too many for a lot of people!!!
NO AMOUNT OF ETHYL ALCOHOL IS GOOD FOR YOU!!! There is nothing about it that your body needs for any reason!!! It is all, every drop of it toxic yo your body!!!
I SURE WISH THE TRUTH WAS TOLD ABOUT THIS and everything else The Powers That Be are doing to us to try and kill us or enslave us!!!
I believe there is ethyl alcohol in many things that are considered good for you. Orange juice has a trace amount. Kombucha is touted as being good for you and it has a very small amount of ethyl alcohol. Same with grapefruit juice.
Fermented foods are generally regarded as healthy for you yet many do have a trace of alcohol. I’m not sure what the answer is.
It's funny all alcohol from the $2.99 2 buck chuck to the several hundred $'s bottles of fine wine, bourbons, etc is all metabolized the same in the liver. The old saying, Pick your Poison, it is all that and more. It only took me 41 yrs to wakeup, I hope articles like this will wake up more people earlier.
I've known many lives ruined by the stuff. The affect it had on my family growing up was horrible. Thankfully, even though I participated a lot as a teen and twenties, I learned that it was a poison to me and now I hardly ever partake. Maybe 4 or 5 beers a year in certain social situations.
On another topic that interests me, I have recently been hearing more and more "psychologists" explaining how cannabis is bad for you and mental health.
Since I distrust virtually every aspect of medicine at this point, I do not trust such statements and in this case, I have a lifetime of knowledge on the subject. I'd be interested in any deep dives on that subject.
Personally, I know that it has worked wonders for many people I know with anxiety, depression and various pain ailments.
I like the effect of cannabis on my brain but it makes me paranoid so on the rare occasions when I partake it is always with some alcohol to alleviate the paranoia. Fwiw.
Thanks! This is an exceptional summary of the many negative aspects of alcohol. Excellent work. I drank way too much for way too long back when I was the Miller Man delivering to all the bars in Breckenridge, a ski town high in the Colorado Rockies. I currently have a drink or maybe two, more days than not, but haven't been buzzed in a long time. I do have a few counterpoints to make, first about alcohol in general and then about this specific article.
Alcohol most certainly causes all the health issues you described and probably many more, and it causes untold amounts of misery in societal disruption, but it has many positives as well. There are many beneficial substances in at least some drinks with resveratrol coming to mind. You lumped all alcoholic beverages together with no distinction between unfiltered, unpasteurized and unprocessed beverages that you might get from a brewpub or a local winery and which should contain a variety of beneficial organisms as opposed to sterile industrial crap. Certainly people can choose to drink beverages that are healthier as well, bloody marys instead of rum and coke. I must admit, though, for better or worse, my preference is beer. Also, there is no denying that when people get together and drink that they are often having a great time. It's a social tool. "I'll buy you a beer" is a way to repay a "my bad" or a way to start a conversation with someone.
This debate has been going on since before history and will continue long after we are gone, with a whole category of debate called "the if by whiskey" fallacy, where is is so obvious there are positives on each side that it's easy to argue either way. A prohibition era politician was asked if he was for or against whiskey and he said something to the effect of if you mean the relaxing drink after work he was for it and if he meant the devastation alcohol causes he was against it. It's more than OK that this article was one sided, though, because that is what is needed to counter the one sided marketing in our face all the time, sort of like how they sold this fake pandemic.
Now on to the comparison with antibiotics. As I noted above, not all alcoholic beverages are alike, some being clean pure carefully crafted living sources of beneficial agents and others are toxic sterile commercial products made with little to no regard for who will consume them. You also lumped a wide variety of antibiotics into one category when in fact some are quite focused in their actions, as you described, while others like the fluoroquinolone class for example, will nuke the fuck out of every organism and every cell they touch and they continue this chain reaction in your body indefinitely as they and the toxic daughter particles bind inside the helical coil of our DNA. So not only do they mess with our intestinal flora as we ingest them, they keep doing so for the rest of our lives. We are on the brink of getting a study published to document this but it's not easy to get a school to do any studies that show harm by BIG PHARMA. Until the clot shots came along these were hands down the most brutally toxic drugs ever developed. I had an adverse reaction in 2007, and in addition to losing all beneficial flora from head to toe, I also had blood clots, spontaneous tendon ruptures, a cartilage transplant, broken and bloated blood vessels cut from umpteen entry points, bulging discs, torn muscles, collapsed lung, pulmonary edema, liver, kidney and heart damage, neuropathy, the list is endless. My point is that only some antibiotics fit your comparison, but definitely not the synthetic broad spectrum ones.
So anyway, again, awesome work and thank you very much! Looking forward to reading more, although I need to get back to work on writing more for my new Substack. Check out my new word, coincidist, describing people who blame medical harm on coincidence. Coincidism is a filthy thing that goes right along with fascism and communism. We counter coincidism with creativity, humor and love.
I have done more healing than falling apart these last 15 years, but it's been rough. I'm ready to go or I'm ready to stay. Actually, I'm pretty excited about this Substack. I would love to get this word into Webster's...
Another great post, though this is a much more nuanced topic than I suspect Huberman understands, or at least can describe adequately in his lectures.
I've been a two 6-ounce glasses of wine drinker for at least the 36 years that I've been married. I generally abstain for a month or two every couple of years. I'm 67 years old, survived severe ventricular arrhythmia five years ago that could easily have led to sudden cardiac arrest and which put me at a health decifit for a few years, I'm a 20-year survivor of a melanoma that only gave me a 50% chance of living for five years, and I've got extremely well managed pancreatitis. I still have my tonsils, gallbladder and appendix, which is very rare for my age.
I've known for at least 10-15 years about the methylation issue. When I took driver's ed in high school we got to see a movie about the shrunken brains of deceased alcoholics. So, I think I'm as aware as anyone of the pros and cons. And I've had friends for whom alcohol was a very slippery slope that they could not manage. And others who quit for reasons other than health.
But I just want to add a slightly different perspective. My life changed for the better in 1983 when I started bicycle touring. In 1985 and 1986 I roamed relatively aimlessly for 17,000 miles around the US, Canada and Western Europe. After that, I bicycle-commuted pretty much year round, much of that in Seattle, so lots of rain and muck to contend with. At my last job, I was commuting 14 miles round trip, at times in extremes of single or triple digit temps (Fahrenheit).
If you go on any one of several mainstream health sites, you'll learn that alcohol "causes" an endless parade of diseases. This is part of the allopathic Rapist's Defense: Blame the victim when you don't know what is going on. They say, "If you don't do X I can't help you." Translation: "I don't think I've got a pill for your symptoms, which makes me feel stupid. It's your fault that I feel stupid, because I'm smarter than you because I know Latin names for stuff that you don't."
But let's jump in the Wayback Machine for a minute. Prohibition came along right after Rockefeller's Flexner Report made the scene, which was an attempt to eliminate the competition for allopaths. So, what better way for allopaths to implement their political agenda, than to align themselves with the biggest political controversy of the day? Voila! We have to ban alcohol, because allopaths say that it causes all these diseases! If we do this, the sun will shine, the birds will chirp and all will be right with the world! Right. I don't think that is how things turned out.
I have a friend who is a physician. Actually a hospitalist, who does critical care, so he sees lots of folks who are suffering from the effects of decades of perhaps not-so-great choices. When I told my about my chronic pancreatitis, he said pretty much instantly that it was caused by alcohol (his father died from heart disease which was negatively affected by alcohol, so he has a bit of a bias). So I pressed him on how he knew that was the cause. He said, "You know that it's bad for your liver, and the pancreas is right next door." "Of course," I thought to myself, "how stupid I am. I wish I could have connected the dots like that." He could just have well said that it's bad for your liver, your liver is in your body and so is your pancreas, therefore, ipso facto, you've discovered the cause of your pancreatitis - alcohol. (Notice the use of Latin there, it makes all the difference in achieving the correct diagnosis.)
The pancreatitis (inflamed pancreas) is caused by a problem with enzyme production. Magnesium deficiency is probably a big part of it (this is probably more of a cause for diabetes than eating too much sugar, but that's just a different way to talk about the effect of empty calories). Decreased stomach acid is likely part of it, which is required for the body to sense when to produce pancreatic enzymes. Some gallbladder dysfunction is possibly part of it, as the pancreas and gallbladder both share the same outlet to the duodenum (hopefully I'm remembering my anatomy correctly) and gallbladder sludge can block the bile duct, causing all or a portion of your pancreatic enzymes to be unable to leave the pancreas. And all of these things happen to alcoholics and teetotalers alike. Like all chronic disease, the causes are multifactorial. Several things lead to it, and there are things that mitigate it. The same is true for cancer, heart disease, and pretty much any other chronic disease.
So yeah, if you aren't active, or if you drink too much (which is highly individual), or do any number of other negative things, you will overwhelm your body's ability to heal itself. But when you are active, you have a greater metabolism, which means blood gets circulated more times through your body, you have more oxygen and carbon dioxide being processed through your lungs, you are creating thermal energy that helps maintain the charge separation that keeps all bodily fluids moving smoothly and thus clearing the debris and crap out of your body. In short, you have healthy mitochondria that can deal with a certain amount of toxicity. The key is not to overwhelm your body. Listen to your body. Find a balance that works for you.
Having said all that, if you have a health crisis (like my heart issues), be very careful. What your body had been able to tolerate for decades can change very quickly. I now limit myself to one glass of wine consumed between around 6:30 and 7:30. And it's probably best if I drank that a couple of hours earlier, so it can be fully metabolized before I go to sleep. But that's not when I prefer to drink. When consumed when I choose to drink, it can be disruptive for sleep. I do two things to mitigate that. First, I take one benedryl (an anti-histamine) just before bed. The sulfites in wine contain histadine, which your body easily converts to histamine. Second, we use a grounding pad and grounded pillow covers on our bed, and many people find that this is exceptionally helpful for good sleep. It also has the added benefit of flooding your body with negative ions for eight hours or so, which can help neutralize all the positively charged free radicals that alcohol and other things produce.
I started my journey with chlorine dioxide a couple of weeks ago. My Raynaud's is gone, though I don't know if that will be permanent or not. My skin is clearing up nicely, but again, no way to tell how long that will last. And I seem to be able to better tolerate a little more than just one glass of wine on occasion. The folks that extol the benefits of CD imply that changes such as these are more or less permanent, and at this point I'm inclined to agree (it may take a maintenance dosage of CD for long term remission, but it's cheap and non-toxic). If CD can help an overtaxed liver or kidney better filter out a backlog of toxins, then it will help your body to regain homeostasis. Things will become balanced again, and your body will be more resilient. It appears that CD may be able to undo the consequences of a variety of less than optimal health choices.
Life is short. Food, sex and sunshine are probably the most dependable pleasures in life. Make the most of both sunny days and horny days - you only get so many, and it's a shame to waste any. And if a glass of wine can make a meal or dessert taste better, then why not do so?
The above link is for 4 ounce bottles. There are smaller, less expensive sizes. 4 oz may last my wife and I more than a decade. There are also other brands, I chose to go with one in glass bottles.
Andreas Kalcker's video on how to make CDS. When these steps are completed, store the product in a brown glass bottle and keep it refrigerated. CDS evaporates above around 52 degrees fahrenheit:
The 17 ounce (500 ml) glass jars can be found on Amazon. You will need a graduated syringe for measuring the dose. I found one at Walmart, though I'm sure there are lots of options on Amazon.
The above link includes his protocols. They are easier to access in his books, Forbidden Health and The Essentials, but shipping is prohibitive ($50). Protocol A is a good place to start.
I started with 3 ml CDS is one liter of distilled water on the first day. I roughly split that into 6-8 separate portions, spaced throughout the day. Increase to 4 ml the next day, then 5 ml thereafter. Wait at least 30 minutes after meals. If you are taking prescriptions you probably want to do your own research and consider buying his book(s).
The gradual increase is to check for a Herxheimer reaction that can be caused by a mass die off of nasty bugs. If you get loose stools or feel unwell, back off on the amount of CDS until things clear, then slowly ramp back up.
I'm currently taking 10 ml doses, and it very quickly has helped improve my libido.
Compared to all the money I've spent in my lifetime to see a doctor and be sent home either empty handed or with an ineffective treatment, this is probably the best money that I've spent on healthcare. If I had found this at the beginning of my healing journey, I likely wouldn't have read extensively about health for the past twenty years, which would have saved me hundreds of dollars per year on books alone.
As someone who is also not a big drinker, I cannot believe how much peer pressure I'm under every time I go to a work or social function. I find Australians, especially, can't handle it when you don't drink. I stick to my guns but, bloody hell, it's annoying!
If you dig through the literature you will be hard pressed to find a study that is not funded by “big alcohol” indicating alcohol is beneficial. As a nutritionist I advise clients to reserve it for special occasions since it contributes to numerous health concerns such as what your article mentioned. The issue is that even people who are not alcoholics have a dependence on it. Many use it to “relax” or “de-stress” which in reality is making it worse.
But look around you, advertising that you need alcohol to have a “good time” is everywhere such as sport events, parties, out to dinner, art and wine events, and on it goes.
So, this is the one topic I can’t 100% buy. Among other things, wine was a beverage of choice in biblical times. And for all the centuries since. Also, in just my little life, I have known far too many people who lived into their 90’s and beyond (productively) who swore by a glass of wine a day, or a shot of whiskey.
I’m not saying it is for everyone, and often it gets out of control. But I’m concerned that as a health-conscious group we’ve started to see “demons” everywhere.
And then there is the quantum physics aspect of not being able to separate the observer from the observed. Meaning if you go into a topic looking for everything bad about it, that’s all you will see.
What many seem to be completely missing is the spiritual aspect of health. There is no amount of materially-focused behavior that will “save” us. That’s not what this physical trip is about. And “faith healings” are real. So pretty much anything physical can (and ultimately will) be transcended.
Back on the physical front, something I learned from a chiropractor: There is an ethnic component to drinking too much alcohol. Some people of Celtic, Slavic, and Native American origins are deficient in a “feel good” hormone known as PGE1. Alcohol forces the brain to produce that hormone. But it can only produce a limited quantity. Such people keep drinking only because they want to feel good. (rather sane motivation, eh?) A supplement known as GLA (black currant seed oil) helps the body produce PGE1 by the way. [Disclaimer: this is a lay person's description of what I learned … forgive the lacking technical descriptions.)
Just my 2, or maybe 3+ cents worth…
Of course search engines have buried results on the PGE1 topic. Here is one of my older links to a book that covers the subject:
".....Stay strong, therefore, under the banner of Christ and in the army of God, Who is Almighty, and Who on the Cross has already won the war that is now entering its final stages. Gather around the Lord, call on His Holy Name, and He will give impetus to your battle. Remember the words of Saint Paul: “I can do all things through him who strengthens me” (Phil 4:13)." ~Archbishop Vigano
I'm looking forward to reading your research findings regarding Cannabis, especially Tetrahydrocannabinol. I've had a strong gut suspicion that because it's now becoming "legal" and regulated by Big Industry and Government, that it can't truly be of any "benefit for us". Numerous people that I love and care for, who say they aren't addicted to THC, certainly exhibit addictive behaviors towards it, and have not been the same since starting to use THC. Some of those people that I love and care for have even died by suicide after starting to use THC, as if their entire brain chemistry was altered; the spiral I saw them on was enough to make me not want to touch THC or cannabis. Others I know who seem THC dependent claim they cannot function without it, but my observations are that they don't function while ON IT. Their anxiety is higher, their depression seems worse, some have become agoraphobic and cannot leave their house for months at a time. I cannot help but feel that the THC is being used to keep/put us in a fog/subdued, chemically dependent and nonfunctional.....???? Open to discussion, hearing other viewpoints, experiences, etc.- Thank you.
Your work is so necessary. I am so appreciative of all you do.. would love to hear some thoughts on things like PEMF, red light therapy, methylene blue, sleeping pills, gluten (weird range, i know, lol)..
Ok..next up, how does one stop drinking?
I was an alcoholic for 35 years.
1. It is not a disease.
2. I couldn't give up because my brain was wired to repeat the same behaviour due to rutting of the neural pathways.
3. I didn't want to give up because I knew from a very young age that there was something terribly wrong with world, and when I stopped drinking for any length of time I would start seeing the wrongness again and the people around me became seemingly more stupid.
4. Being sober is lonely. So to drop drinking I had to engage with people and cut all ties with people I used to drink with. I severed friendships of 45 years, and within 12 months realised that they were not friends, just sad, lonely people unable to change.
My friends now are my neighbours, local people and the people I communicate with on substack are my family now as my blood family is poisoned.
This book shows that if you totally stop drinking ( or other addiction), you can not only recover you memory and repair your damaged brain, something unexplained happens... Your brain surpasses what it was at its prior best... Read the book...
" The biology of desire" by Mark Lewis.
I stopped drinking fully 19 years ago, was a big binge drinker on the odd social occasion... After an initial period of discomfort at social settings with friends urging you to drink, that soon settled down and people accepted my decision.
I noticed better health within six months, any puffy weight I had went, social occasions didn't require thinking about how much I had, and if I could drive home, I was more relaxed in social settings too (I used to have a drink to loosen up, but found I actually just needed to relax)... and now 19 years have gone by, I think I have spared my liver and body a bonus 19 years of all that stress my binge drinking used to cause. I may very well have done some damage earlier in my youth and ignorance but so far my health has been very good...
This was a great article thank you and I've saved and filed it !
One thing that isn’t mentioned, and I guess it’s not surprising as the zeitgeist is “what’s in it for me?” but any intoxicant that compromises your personality integrity is a short-changing of your loved ones (and even one drink has an effect, however subtle). Your relationship with them is the conduit through which you can give them the only thing of enduring value that you *can* give them: the gift of love. And love requires first, being attuned to them, and second, balance, subtlety and wise judgment in how you interact with them, all of which the selfishness of intoxication distorts.
This is vital to your children: your selfish intoxication deprives them of you, maybe just a little bit at a time, but it accumulates. If you think that you are somehow “better” when you are intoxicated then you might profitably seek help to overcome the issue that you think you’re improving.
But most of all, intoxication affects your relationship with your Creator because the foundation of your relationship with Universe is love and its projection onto others, which ability is damaged by intoxication of any kind. This projection of love is a life-long process of discipline, learning and self-correction, ultimately leading to self-mastery. Distorting your perceptions, emotions and memories can only wreak havoc with it. Purity of body, mind and spirit are the essence of the realness of your personhood, your key to the transcendence of the animal level of existence. Don’t pollute them with poisons.
I think the big lie ai discovered about alcohol is that one or two glasses of wine or a couple beers, a shit of whiskey or tequila every now and again are good for you!!! FALSE!!! NOPE!!!
This is the big lie the industry used to tell people it is okay to have just a few which usually leads to just a few too many for a lot of people!!!
NO AMOUNT OF ETHYL ALCOHOL IS GOOD FOR YOU!!! There is nothing about it that your body needs for any reason!!! It is all, every drop of it toxic yo your body!!!
I SURE WISH THE TRUTH WAS TOLD ABOUT THIS and everything else The Powers That Be are doing to us to try and kill us or enslave us!!!
I believe there is ethyl alcohol in many things that are considered good for you. Orange juice has a trace amount. Kombucha is touted as being good for you and it has a very small amount of ethyl alcohol. Same with grapefruit juice.
Fermented foods are generally regarded as healthy for you yet many do have a trace of alcohol. I’m not sure what the answer is.
It's funny all alcohol from the $2.99 2 buck chuck to the several hundred $'s bottles of fine wine, bourbons, etc is all metabolized the same in the liver. The old saying, Pick your Poison, it is all that and more. It only took me 41 yrs to wakeup, I hope articles like this will wake up more people earlier.
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I've known many lives ruined by the stuff. The affect it had on my family growing up was horrible. Thankfully, even though I participated a lot as a teen and twenties, I learned that it was a poison to me and now I hardly ever partake. Maybe 4 or 5 beers a year in certain social situations.
On another topic that interests me, I have recently been hearing more and more "psychologists" explaining how cannabis is bad for you and mental health.
Since I distrust virtually every aspect of medicine at this point, I do not trust such statements and in this case, I have a lifetime of knowledge on the subject. I'd be interested in any deep dives on that subject.
Personally, I know that it has worked wonders for many people I know with anxiety, depression and various pain ailments.
I like the effect of cannabis on my brain but it makes me paranoid so on the rare occasions when I partake it is always with some alcohol to alleviate the paranoia. Fwiw.
Thanks! This is an exceptional summary of the many negative aspects of alcohol. Excellent work. I drank way too much for way too long back when I was the Miller Man delivering to all the bars in Breckenridge, a ski town high in the Colorado Rockies. I currently have a drink or maybe two, more days than not, but haven't been buzzed in a long time. I do have a few counterpoints to make, first about alcohol in general and then about this specific article.
Alcohol most certainly causes all the health issues you described and probably many more, and it causes untold amounts of misery in societal disruption, but it has many positives as well. There are many beneficial substances in at least some drinks with resveratrol coming to mind. You lumped all alcoholic beverages together with no distinction between unfiltered, unpasteurized and unprocessed beverages that you might get from a brewpub or a local winery and which should contain a variety of beneficial organisms as opposed to sterile industrial crap. Certainly people can choose to drink beverages that are healthier as well, bloody marys instead of rum and coke. I must admit, though, for better or worse, my preference is beer. Also, there is no denying that when people get together and drink that they are often having a great time. It's a social tool. "I'll buy you a beer" is a way to repay a "my bad" or a way to start a conversation with someone.
This debate has been going on since before history and will continue long after we are gone, with a whole category of debate called "the if by whiskey" fallacy, where is is so obvious there are positives on each side that it's easy to argue either way. A prohibition era politician was asked if he was for or against whiskey and he said something to the effect of if you mean the relaxing drink after work he was for it and if he meant the devastation alcohol causes he was against it. It's more than OK that this article was one sided, though, because that is what is needed to counter the one sided marketing in our face all the time, sort of like how they sold this fake pandemic.
Now on to the comparison with antibiotics. As I noted above, not all alcoholic beverages are alike, some being clean pure carefully crafted living sources of beneficial agents and others are toxic sterile commercial products made with little to no regard for who will consume them. You also lumped a wide variety of antibiotics into one category when in fact some are quite focused in their actions, as you described, while others like the fluoroquinolone class for example, will nuke the fuck out of every organism and every cell they touch and they continue this chain reaction in your body indefinitely as they and the toxic daughter particles bind inside the helical coil of our DNA. So not only do they mess with our intestinal flora as we ingest them, they keep doing so for the rest of our lives. We are on the brink of getting a study published to document this but it's not easy to get a school to do any studies that show harm by BIG PHARMA. Until the clot shots came along these were hands down the most brutally toxic drugs ever developed. I had an adverse reaction in 2007, and in addition to losing all beneficial flora from head to toe, I also had blood clots, spontaneous tendon ruptures, a cartilage transplant, broken and bloated blood vessels cut from umpteen entry points, bulging discs, torn muscles, collapsed lung, pulmonary edema, liver, kidney and heart damage, neuropathy, the list is endless. My point is that only some antibiotics fit your comparison, but definitely not the synthetic broad spectrum ones.
So anyway, again, awesome work and thank you very much! Looking forward to reading more, although I need to get back to work on writing more for my new Substack. Check out my new word, coincidist, describing people who blame medical harm on coincidence. Coincidism is a filthy thing that goes right along with fascism and communism. We counter coincidism with creativity, humor and love.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coincidism/p/ive-created-a-concept-i-call-coincidism?
Nevermind, just subscribed to your 'stack and read more. 😔🫂 Looking forward to reading more of your writings.
I have done more healing than falling apart these last 15 years, but it's been rough. I'm ready to go or I'm ready to stay. Actually, I'm pretty excited about this Substack. I would love to get this word into Webster's...
I'm excited for your Substack, too! ❤️🔥
‼️❣️ Wow. Have you been able to reverse any of your antibiotic-adverse-reaction-caused damage?! How are you doing today? What a nightmare.
Another great post, though this is a much more nuanced topic than I suspect Huberman understands, or at least can describe adequately in his lectures.
I've been a two 6-ounce glasses of wine drinker for at least the 36 years that I've been married. I generally abstain for a month or two every couple of years. I'm 67 years old, survived severe ventricular arrhythmia five years ago that could easily have led to sudden cardiac arrest and which put me at a health decifit for a few years, I'm a 20-year survivor of a melanoma that only gave me a 50% chance of living for five years, and I've got extremely well managed pancreatitis. I still have my tonsils, gallbladder and appendix, which is very rare for my age.
I've known for at least 10-15 years about the methylation issue. When I took driver's ed in high school we got to see a movie about the shrunken brains of deceased alcoholics. So, I think I'm as aware as anyone of the pros and cons. And I've had friends for whom alcohol was a very slippery slope that they could not manage. And others who quit for reasons other than health.
But I just want to add a slightly different perspective. My life changed for the better in 1983 when I started bicycle touring. In 1985 and 1986 I roamed relatively aimlessly for 17,000 miles around the US, Canada and Western Europe. After that, I bicycle-commuted pretty much year round, much of that in Seattle, so lots of rain and muck to contend with. At my last job, I was commuting 14 miles round trip, at times in extremes of single or triple digit temps (Fahrenheit).
If you go on any one of several mainstream health sites, you'll learn that alcohol "causes" an endless parade of diseases. This is part of the allopathic Rapist's Defense: Blame the victim when you don't know what is going on. They say, "If you don't do X I can't help you." Translation: "I don't think I've got a pill for your symptoms, which makes me feel stupid. It's your fault that I feel stupid, because I'm smarter than you because I know Latin names for stuff that you don't."
But let's jump in the Wayback Machine for a minute. Prohibition came along right after Rockefeller's Flexner Report made the scene, which was an attempt to eliminate the competition for allopaths. So, what better way for allopaths to implement their political agenda, than to align themselves with the biggest political controversy of the day? Voila! We have to ban alcohol, because allopaths say that it causes all these diseases! If we do this, the sun will shine, the birds will chirp and all will be right with the world! Right. I don't think that is how things turned out.
I have a friend who is a physician. Actually a hospitalist, who does critical care, so he sees lots of folks who are suffering from the effects of decades of perhaps not-so-great choices. When I told my about my chronic pancreatitis, he said pretty much instantly that it was caused by alcohol (his father died from heart disease which was negatively affected by alcohol, so he has a bit of a bias). So I pressed him on how he knew that was the cause. He said, "You know that it's bad for your liver, and the pancreas is right next door." "Of course," I thought to myself, "how stupid I am. I wish I could have connected the dots like that." He could just have well said that it's bad for your liver, your liver is in your body and so is your pancreas, therefore, ipso facto, you've discovered the cause of your pancreatitis - alcohol. (Notice the use of Latin there, it makes all the difference in achieving the correct diagnosis.)
The pancreatitis (inflamed pancreas) is caused by a problem with enzyme production. Magnesium deficiency is probably a big part of it (this is probably more of a cause for diabetes than eating too much sugar, but that's just a different way to talk about the effect of empty calories). Decreased stomach acid is likely part of it, which is required for the body to sense when to produce pancreatic enzymes. Some gallbladder dysfunction is possibly part of it, as the pancreas and gallbladder both share the same outlet to the duodenum (hopefully I'm remembering my anatomy correctly) and gallbladder sludge can block the bile duct, causing all or a portion of your pancreatic enzymes to be unable to leave the pancreas. And all of these things happen to alcoholics and teetotalers alike. Like all chronic disease, the causes are multifactorial. Several things lead to it, and there are things that mitigate it. The same is true for cancer, heart disease, and pretty much any other chronic disease.
So yeah, if you aren't active, or if you drink too much (which is highly individual), or do any number of other negative things, you will overwhelm your body's ability to heal itself. But when you are active, you have a greater metabolism, which means blood gets circulated more times through your body, you have more oxygen and carbon dioxide being processed through your lungs, you are creating thermal energy that helps maintain the charge separation that keeps all bodily fluids moving smoothly and thus clearing the debris and crap out of your body. In short, you have healthy mitochondria that can deal with a certain amount of toxicity. The key is not to overwhelm your body. Listen to your body. Find a balance that works for you.
Having said all that, if you have a health crisis (like my heart issues), be very careful. What your body had been able to tolerate for decades can change very quickly. I now limit myself to one glass of wine consumed between around 6:30 and 7:30. And it's probably best if I drank that a couple of hours earlier, so it can be fully metabolized before I go to sleep. But that's not when I prefer to drink. When consumed when I choose to drink, it can be disruptive for sleep. I do two things to mitigate that. First, I take one benedryl (an anti-histamine) just before bed. The sulfites in wine contain histadine, which your body easily converts to histamine. Second, we use a grounding pad and grounded pillow covers on our bed, and many people find that this is exceptionally helpful for good sleep. It also has the added benefit of flooding your body with negative ions for eight hours or so, which can help neutralize all the positively charged free radicals that alcohol and other things produce.
I started my journey with chlorine dioxide a couple of weeks ago. My Raynaud's is gone, though I don't know if that will be permanent or not. My skin is clearing up nicely, but again, no way to tell how long that will last. And I seem to be able to better tolerate a little more than just one glass of wine on occasion. The folks that extol the benefits of CD imply that changes such as these are more or less permanent, and at this point I'm inclined to agree (it may take a maintenance dosage of CD for long term remission, but it's cheap and non-toxic). If CD can help an overtaxed liver or kidney better filter out a backlog of toxins, then it will help your body to regain homeostasis. Things will become balanced again, and your body will be more resilient. It appears that CD may be able to undo the consequences of a variety of less than optimal health choices.
Life is short. Food, sex and sunshine are probably the most dependable pleasures in life. Make the most of both sunny days and horny days - you only get so many, and it's a shame to waste any. And if a glass of wine can make a meal or dessert taste better, then why not do so?
Love this story.
I was enthused by this author's recent piece on the subject but please post link to help people (me!) source & administer chlorine dioxide safely.
Thanks.
The raw materials for making CDS (chlorine dioxide solution, which is simply chlorine dioxide gas dissolved in water): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C482G2VP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The above link is for 4 ounce bottles. There are smaller, less expensive sizes. 4 oz may last my wife and I more than a decade. There are also other brands, I chose to go with one in glass bottles.
Andreas Kalcker's video on how to make CDS. When these steps are completed, store the product in a brown glass bottle and keep it refrigerated. CDS evaporates above around 52 degrees fahrenheit:
https://andreaskalcker.com/en/cds-clo2/cds-protocols.html
The 17 ounce (500 ml) glass jars can be found on Amazon. You will need a graduated syringe for measuring the dose. I found one at Walmart, though I'm sure there are lots of options on Amazon.
The above link includes his protocols. They are easier to access in his books, Forbidden Health and The Essentials, but shipping is prohibitive ($50). Protocol A is a good place to start.
I started with 3 ml CDS is one liter of distilled water on the first day. I roughly split that into 6-8 separate portions, spaced throughout the day. Increase to 4 ml the next day, then 5 ml thereafter. Wait at least 30 minutes after meals. If you are taking prescriptions you probably want to do your own research and consider buying his book(s).
The gradual increase is to check for a Herxheimer reaction that can be caused by a mass die off of nasty bugs. If you get loose stools or feel unwell, back off on the amount of CDS until things clear, then slowly ramp back up.
I'm currently taking 10 ml doses, and it very quickly has helped improve my libido.
Compared to all the money I've spent in my lifetime to see a doctor and be sent home either empty handed or with an ineffective treatment, this is probably the best money that I've spent on healthcare. If I had found this at the beginning of my healing journey, I likely wouldn't have read extensively about health for the past twenty years, which would have saved me hundreds of dollars per year on books alone.
Thank-you
Thank you for taking the time and effort to share this.
I drank a lot and only stopped 10 years ago. 74 now. I think I was just lucky that I was blue eyed and able to metabolize it quickly!
As someone who is also not a big drinker, I cannot believe how much peer pressure I'm under every time I go to a work or social function. I find Australians, especially, can't handle it when you don't drink. I stick to my guns but, bloody hell, it's annoying!
I'll sometimes have orange juice while everyone is having a beer. Talk about social pressure 🤣🤦♂️
From now on every time I see a guy in a bar with an OJ I'm going to go up to him and say "excuse me, are you Unbekoming?" 🤣🤣🤣
There goes my cover 🤦♂️
If you dig through the literature you will be hard pressed to find a study that is not funded by “big alcohol” indicating alcohol is beneficial. As a nutritionist I advise clients to reserve it for special occasions since it contributes to numerous health concerns such as what your article mentioned. The issue is that even people who are not alcoholics have a dependence on it. Many use it to “relax” or “de-stress” which in reality is making it worse.
But look around you, advertising that you need alcohol to have a “good time” is everywhere such as sport events, parties, out to dinner, art and wine events, and on it goes.
What about methanol, a key decomposition product of aspartame - a substance added to almost all foodstuff all over the world?
So, this is the one topic I can’t 100% buy. Among other things, wine was a beverage of choice in biblical times. And for all the centuries since. Also, in just my little life, I have known far too many people who lived into their 90’s and beyond (productively) who swore by a glass of wine a day, or a shot of whiskey.
I’m not saying it is for everyone, and often it gets out of control. But I’m concerned that as a health-conscious group we’ve started to see “demons” everywhere.
And then there is the quantum physics aspect of not being able to separate the observer from the observed. Meaning if you go into a topic looking for everything bad about it, that’s all you will see.
What many seem to be completely missing is the spiritual aspect of health. There is no amount of materially-focused behavior that will “save” us. That’s not what this physical trip is about. And “faith healings” are real. So pretty much anything physical can (and ultimately will) be transcended.
Back on the physical front, something I learned from a chiropractor: There is an ethnic component to drinking too much alcohol. Some people of Celtic, Slavic, and Native American origins are deficient in a “feel good” hormone known as PGE1. Alcohol forces the brain to produce that hormone. But it can only produce a limited quantity. Such people keep drinking only because they want to feel good. (rather sane motivation, eh?) A supplement known as GLA (black currant seed oil) helps the body produce PGE1 by the way. [Disclaimer: this is a lay person's description of what I learned … forgive the lacking technical descriptions.)
Just my 2, or maybe 3+ cents worth…
Of course search engines have buried results on the PGE1 topic. Here is one of my older links to a book that covers the subject:
https://books.google.com/books?id=O8ocMgEN4WkC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=pge-1+and+alcohol+irish+genes&source=bl&ots=cSh_1rniaX&sig=JjpFZCl-BaSHB3EnnV7Kb_zX55E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig7NXf2PHYAhXxTN8KHYYzCW0Q6AEIRjAH#v=onepage&q=pge-1%20and%20alcohol%20irish%20genes&f=false
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò Shares Powerful Message He Sent to Participants of “Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International” Meeting
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-shares-powerful-message-participants/
".....Stay strong, therefore, under the banner of Christ and in the army of God, Who is Almighty, and Who on the Cross has already won the war that is now entering its final stages. Gather around the Lord, call on His Holy Name, and He will give impetus to your battle. Remember the words of Saint Paul: “I can do all things through him who strengthens me” (Phil 4:13)." ~Archbishop Vigano
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2 drink per night whisky drinker for over 10 years. This is the video that convinced me to quick 👈 drinking permanently.
I'm looking forward to reading your research findings regarding Cannabis, especially Tetrahydrocannabinol. I've had a strong gut suspicion that because it's now becoming "legal" and regulated by Big Industry and Government, that it can't truly be of any "benefit for us". Numerous people that I love and care for, who say they aren't addicted to THC, certainly exhibit addictive behaviors towards it, and have not been the same since starting to use THC. Some of those people that I love and care for have even died by suicide after starting to use THC, as if their entire brain chemistry was altered; the spiral I saw them on was enough to make me not want to touch THC or cannabis. Others I know who seem THC dependent claim they cannot function without it, but my observations are that they don't function while ON IT. Their anxiety is higher, their depression seems worse, some have become agoraphobic and cannot leave their house for months at a time. I cannot help but feel that the THC is being used to keep/put us in a fog/subdued, chemically dependent and nonfunctional.....???? Open to discussion, hearing other viewpoints, experiences, etc.- Thank you.
Your work is so necessary. I am so appreciative of all you do.. would love to hear some thoughts on things like PEMF, red light therapy, methylene blue, sleeping pills, gluten (weird range, i know, lol)..
Thank you!!!