Ah, come on Unbekoming, you stole my analogy. I coined the car, except I only used the engine to show what statins do. Can't tell you how many times that crap was promoted to me. Statins work, they really work. No cholesterol produced from your body if you take a statin. I can't even count the amount of medical, hospital, pharma drugs and useless procedures these people make money on destroying the most valuable production component a human body has.
Like a car engine. When I got my 1st car back in 1970, no one told me I needed to put oil in my engine. I thought cars just ran on gas. So, I'm sailing along one summer day on a major highway and I hear this massive KLUNK, and again and again, and low and behold, I'm dead. Dead for life, no saving my adorable VW bug convertible. What do I do? Claudette Colbert stopped a car in an ingenious way in "It Happened One Night" so I gave it a try and it worked, whodathunkit. That's the definition of a statin. You have to be a serial killer par excellance, to force feed the population a story that cholesterol causes heart attacks when the exact opposite is true. It prevents them.
It takes 4 years to eliminate seed oils from the body, if you stop now. Where are they? Everywhere. What are they? Industrial manufacturing oils not recognized by the body with no way to eliminate them so they are deposited in the largest spaces available for storage, your heart. BOOM!!, you're done. Seed oils are the major cause of heart disease, smoking doesn't even come close. Then they manipulated the figures.
Doctors have disclosed for almost 100 years that normal cholesterol is between 250 and 280, so they lowered that scale to 200. Ingenious. Pre hi cholesterol (180), hi cholesterol (200) and omg, you're gonna have a heart attack in 2 weeks (220) is what they pitch to push statins when truth be told, all have low to normal cholesterol levels. Statins are a contender to vaccines.
When you find out what seed oils can do, your life changes dramatically. No longer can you go to restaurants, your favorite foods are now off limits. You make the sign of the cross before accepting a dinner invite to a friends house. You read all labels (so much time it takes) in grocery stores, you make everything at home using only good food. It's exhausting. Been on the wagon for well over 15 years now. What I'd give for a Frito, my one and only snack food.
This is excellent, comprehensive. Great minds think alike ha. My post about this that just dropped is here; 310. HOW WE KNOW THAT SEED OILS ARE THE WORST FOODS IN HUMAN HISTORY
> HOW WE KNOW THAT SEED OILS ARE THE WORST FOODS IN HUMAN HISTORY
They are. But what is left out of that statement is how they are grown, how polluted the soil is, the pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers etc. The whole picture is painful to understand and grasp.
You are correct. They maybe the key component in fast foods that make them so toxic for health and longevity.
Right on time for this Seed article, as there are shortages. Many fakes and the impact on health never get told. I use 3 fats to cook, butter, bacon grease, and rendered lard, in small quantities. The doctor said I needed a Statin, wrong, they kill, or you endue bad side effects. My arteries are not clogged. My heart condition is a genetic defect. Enlarged with a small Mitral Valve leak. But the blood work was non-fasting, and the Government + Pharma made up the numbers. Robert Yoho is correct.
You can't tell those facts to my 83-year-old husband. He doesn't believe in anything his doctor doesn't tell him. He is well educated, has 20 years of Avionics in the USN, a Math Professor for 20 years. To my HS education. I read and improved my knowledge to protect myself from bad doctors and meds. He takes 3 statins, I see the results, shaky hands, and short-term memory loss.
My eldest at 52 had a Quad Bypass due to eating the fatty Fast Food he was forced by age into managing. Followed by balloon Angioplasty in his legs. And a bag of expensive Cardio drugs, and a near Vegan diet. DSSI is hard to get, with 6 workers per the state of Tennessee. He will not be able to work again.
Great compilation. And you didn't even touch on how bad seed oils are for your eyes!! I bet the rise in AMD and others eye diseases would correlate to the increased use of seed oils.
Thank you for this comprehensive article that is great for sharing. I love your deep dives into all these fascinating topics that hinder our human health.
Great work on this article. Sadly I hadn't read the whole thing before I commented. You covered almost all the bases. Thank you!
The one question that has puzzled me since high school, is why? Why would you NOT want people to have optimal health? I get the money angle in away. But greed can't be the only agenda.
The other point is the destruction of small farms beginning with the Nixon Ford administrations and Ag Secretary Earl Butz telling farmers to "Get Big or Get Out". Even USDA Organic has been commandeered by corporate interests. It is easy to suggest GREED. But is it? Why poison the whole planet if GREED is the only reason. Killing the goose that lays the golden egg seems dumb. There must be more to this madness.
I cannot claim to know the answer to the Why question.
It would be like saying the sheep has come to understand the shepherd.
Or the krill has come to understand the whale.
The entity is of a different specifies to us, and we live within the fractals it creates.
I do believe certain things to be true though, that maybe hint to an answer.
There are three versions of me, Healthy, Dead and Unhealthy. Only one version has value on scale. At the scale of 8 billion. I don't think this is a financial explanation, I think it's actually a spiritual one. There is a clear incentive for Unhealth at play.
Rancourt talks about Empire's desire to "suppress development" at the Nation State level. This is an old, Mercantile ethic. But for me, how do you suppress the development of a nation, without suppressing the development of the individual? Which brings me back to Unhealth.
It's also true that there are "too many people" is a very real, very old, oligarchical belief system. Unhealth directly connects with that.
Anyway, you get my point, I think we are living in a constructed Reality that is interested in far, far more than money.
> I cannot claim to know the answer to the Why question.
It would be like saying the sheep has come to understand the shepherd.
Or the krill has come to understand the whale.
The entity is of a different specifies to us, and we live within the fractals it creates.
I do believe certain things to be true though, that maybe hint to an answer.
&
> It's also true that there are "too many people" is a very real, very old, oligarchical belief system. Unhealth directly connects with that.
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REPLY:
Good day Unbekoming,
Thank you for the like and thoughtful reply. It may be true what you say "The entity is of a different specifies (species?) to us" but I have my doubts. Serious doubts.
Have you read the works of Dr Lynn Margulis? She was the key collaborator with James Lovelock who proposed the Gaia Hypothsis, now an accepted as theory in about the year 2000.
With the Gaia theory fading from peoples minds we are easily conned into accepting this madness. Dr. Lynn Margulis demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt the true masters of the Earth/Gaia for the last 3+ billion years are the microcosmos/bacteria. James Lovelock speculated that we are the creations of these beings.
All one has to do is consider all the bacteria have done to terraform the Earth. Consider just one thing CRISPER CAS 9, totally created by the bacteria and now most people don't even know it's origins and consider it created by man. We owe all our ideas to the many faceted life forms on this Earth, which owe their existence to the Microcosmos.
I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. We were well aware of the threat of population growth. We were told not to worry about population growth by the same folks who say we need to prune humanity back to about a billion people.
In the 1950s and 60s... were prepared to do that by using reason and intelligence to guide our actions and relationships. Not by environmental poisoning, via water, soil, air and food. Our biological environment is now poisoned.
My guess is ( I have no proof ) that bacteria are just giving the part of humanity that is destroying the Earth via their expensive planes, boats, mansions and needless expenditure of fossil fuels, a nudge to our hubris and we will off ourselves.
Indeed I looked up Margulis when you mentioned her to me about a year ago, and have some familiarity with her work now (so thank you).
BTW, that nudge of yours helped me discover Jennifer, and as you know I've done a wonderful interview with her, and amplified her work (so thank you again).
I will read the article above, and reflect on the bacteria "giving us a nudge" idea. That's an interesting thought!
Sent along this reply from Jennifer Margulis's "Learning to Love Flowers", in response to a comment I made. I send this along because it cuts to the heart of Dr. Lynn Margulis work, "But especially the microbes!".
Her big thing was symbiogenesis which took main stream science many years to accept. At base for all of life and its evolution to today are the microbes. I hope when you have the time to read the books by Lynn Margulis ( with reverence) you will gain a panoramic view of life. She is some what redundant in some of her books, it always helped me see an aspect of the microcosmos I had missed.
Keep up the good work. See Jennifer's comment below.
Jennifer Margulis
Jun 3
Author
I am glad my mother had such a profound influence on you, William. She was born with a love of nature and appreciation for all the creatures on earth, big and small. But especially the microbes!
I ask myself the same questions on a daily basis. I had a friend who was a rather prominent biochemist a long time ago. He said, “There’s no profit in a cure” as though he were discussing the price of tea. I was stunned. I do not understand, either.
While we try to understand the trick is to doge this collective madness that poisons the Earth and all of life. Those who seem to profit from this insanity should be exposed in public forums. Not shamed, but exposed.
Later if we are lucky we can have our questions answered by examining their way of life.
Interesting point of view. I will think about that for a while. I am all about dodging the collective madness. I recently read a book, A Bold Return to Giving a Damn by farmer/businessman Will Harris. He writes about returning to old ways of farming and raising livestock, sans chemicals and such. I just know I want to be a part of that. He managed to restore the actual life and health to his land and in doing so, the unintended consequence was restoring a healthy little economy to his little town. It was a hopeful book.
> the unintended consequence was restoring a healthy little economy to his little town.
REPLY: Precisely what was destroyed when the small New Deal subsistance was taken from the small farmer forced to Get Out. Small town America dried up and blew away. Even my uncle who was a small truck farmer could not sell his produce to the store only 100 yards away from his farm.
With corporate control of law, food processing and distribution to mention a few, the small farmer was doomed. However there is a 300 year history of agriculture that thrives in Lancaster County PA. The Amish. No banks etc. because the people care for each other. There are house raisings, barn raisings, sewing circles and much more. The land still fertile. Still one should take a deep look into these cultures. A good book written in the early to mid 1970s by Kenneth Rexroth is Communalism: from its origins to the twentieth century.
My wife are on this adventure. She is Korean born on the cusp of the Korean war. She knows a lot about the old ways (didn't have a frig in home until she was in High School). She can do a lot and teaches me. A great teacher. For us this is the path to the future. Amish farming for 300 years the same land and is still very fertile. Corporate farms ruin the soil in just a few decades with an abundance of subsidies. I will take the Amish as an indication of the direction I should go.
I will get the book you referenced. Thank you! Your wife sounds brilliant…knowing the old ways! I’m happy for both of you on your new adventure. I left my old life, worked on ranches for a few years to learn some old ways, animal husbandry, old-fashioned irrigation, etc. I now have an honorary redneck engineering degree (ha) & a PhD in post-hole digging to offset my rather useless college education. I’m fascinated by the Amish. What you are doing with your wife is so cool. Everything “corporate” is a soul killer. Been there, done that and I’m not ever doing it again. Thanks for all that amazing information! Best wishes to you both!!!
You are welcome. Actually we both in our own way (much like you) were on this journey since childhood.
Another book with reading, it is our guide, though we let the conditions we find ourselves dictate the process is; Masanobu Fukuoka was a Japanese farmer and philosopher. Book the One Straw Revolution. It is my heart guide.
> First, most of the fats that our ancestors consumed were animal fats—butter, lard, poultry fat, and tallow. Second, they ate the whole animal—not just the muscle meats but also the organs, marrow, skin, and blood.
REPLY: Very true. But also missing is todays animals butchered and sold to a local super market near you are raised in CAFOs or Confined Animal Feeding Operations. That means they are loaded with growth hormones antibiotics and toxins from the feed given to these animals.
Now the animals are receiving gene therapy injections instead of the old style vaccines. All these inputs have a profound impact on the health and biology of the animal.
A deep dive into this subject in the future would be useful.
"However, the inclusion of Linoleic Acid (LA) as an essential fat is misleading because excessive amounts of LA can actually wreck cellular and mitochondrial function. The word "essential" is misused in this context for the following reasons:"
One more reason is that lobbyist influence prevails & essential relates to product sales w warped science to show why dying for profit is great!
" In 1997, APHIS deregulated the first modified high oleic
acid soybean.
• DuPont’s soybean sublines G94-1, G94-19 and G-168 (USDA-
APHIS, 1997).
• This event involved a soybean with an inserted sense
orientation soybean microsomal omega-6 fatty acid
desaturase gene (GmFad2-1 gene).
§ In 2010, APHIS deregulated Pioneer’s soybean with
high (oleic) fatty acid, low polyunsaturated fatty acids
For a real mind blower look at the fact that NO gmo food is ever tested by FDA for safety or novel protein effects.. they are compared to traditional varieties and similar measures of fiber & nutrients based on producer studies gets GRAS status voila into the food supply.. This was Bush Sr program of Biotech Deregulation authored by evil genius Monsanto - FDA revolving door lawyer Michael Taylor.. who needs FDA safety testing?
Right on time for this Seed article, as there are shortages. Many fakes and the impact on health never get told. I use 3 fats to cook, butter, bacon grease, and rendered lard, in small quantities. The doctor said I needed a Statin, wrong, they kill, or you endue bad side effects. My arteries are not clogged. My heart condition is a genetic defect. Enlarged with a small Mitral Valve leak. But the blood work was non-fasting, and the Government + Pharma made up the numbers. Robert Yoho is correct.
You can't tell those facts to my 83-year-old husband. He doesn't believe in anything his doctor doesn't tell him. He is well educated, has 20 years of Avionics in the USN, a Math Professor for 20 years. To my HS education. I read and improved my knowledge to protect myself from bad doctors and meds. He takes 3 statins, I see the results, shaky hands, and short-term memory loss.
My eldest at 52 had a Quad Bypass due to eating the fatty Fast Food he was forced by age into managing. Followed by balloon Angioplasty in his legs. And a bag of expensive Cardio drugs, and a near Vegan diet. DSSI is hard to get, with 6 workers per the state of Tennessee. He will not be able to work again.
> The best sources are cod liver oil, organ meats from healthy animals (think liver, liverwurst, scrapple, pâté, and terrines), egg yolks from pastured hens, butter and cream from grass-fed cows, fish eggs, shellfish, oily fish, lard from pigs raised outdoors,
REPLY:
saturated animal fats and to a lessor extent (organiclly grown plant foods and oils (with minumal processing), is where nature has historically stored toxins until the living system/being has the health and freedom to process safely.
Especially ocean caught fish is polluted with various toxins and chemicals. One of them some folks may know, called Methylmercury.
It is extremely hard to grow or find wild food that isn't contamimnated. Example the people of East Palestine Ohio supplemented there diet with wild food such as deer etc.
Bhopal India where a Union Carbide plant explosion occurred in 1984, over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC).
" It awarded survivors just cents a day – the cost of a cup of tea – for a lifetime of unimaginable suffering. People who have suffered incapacitating health problems every day for decades were classed as “temporarily injured” and accordingly awarded this pittance. With 10,950 days between December 3, 1984 and December 3, 2014 and with compensation of about $500, survivors have received about 4 cents per day to cover life-long injuries." [ https://www.bhopal.net/what-happened/the-immediate-aftermath-1984-1989/compensation-injustice-1989-settlement]
Without these grim facts and many many more all covered up and forgotten is it any wonder that seed oils are being blamed for so many illnesses.
But the folks that brought you this disaster skate. Just as they did in Bopol and East Palestine. So without this background it is really hard to realize we are all being poisoned.
It has been Dr Mercola helping to publicize the work of Dr Chris Knobbe that has most helped to spread awareness about the dangers of plasticized fats derived from seed oils. Knobbe, an opthalmologist, has a book that he published in 2023: The Ancestral Diet Revolution. I haven't read it, but I'm intrigued to see his latest thoughts on the connection between seed oils and age-related macular degeneration.
Yup, good thinking. I now have mac degeneration, a wrinkled retina, did cataract surgery, now have one perfect eye, one bad. Creates a strong imbalance while doing anything. I got rid of seed oils 10 yrs ago, but never noticed that bio-engineered product warning on the label till 2 years ago. I thoroughly believe these seed oils already worked their magic on me by the time I said adios. Maybe bio is a continuation of seed oils in different form. Why wouldn't they be?
Contemplating my life choices now. I take Evening Primrose Oil 6 days out of the week, my hormonal acne cleared up but I now wonder if GLA’s are really bad. Any thoughts on them? Also, I feed my performance horse flaxseed oil & will be removing that from her diet. Thank you!
Always amazes me how much of science that was known and validated in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, taught in medical and nursing schools, has in the past several decades been denigrated without any evidence or science supporting it. In place of real science are theories and speculation pushed and sold as science…it’s not! Like Ancel Keys, a psychologist who decided all fats were unhealthy. He had the means to travel to numerous medical conventions, sell his manipulated findings on fats, and convinced the medical establishment and world for years that a No Fat diet, filled with sugar and other chemical flavorings, was healthy. Just proved that when you tell a lie loud enough, long enough, to enough people it will become the truth without any further investigation needed! Took an investigative reporter to finally debunk Keys and wake up some. Sadly, too many were indoctrinated completely and still believe that garbage!
Or the great egg debacle telling folks eggs are dangerous to eat more than once a week. The fact that the whites have lecithin and it binds with the cholesterol of the yolk, leaving only what body needs. That science has been known as true for decades and yet somehow nutritionists and docs forgot or simply didn't learn it.
Also the fact that by our body NEEDS cholesterol to function at the cellular level and the brain a,d nerve sheaths are made primarily of cholesterol. The so-called bad cholesterol LDL is created by our bodies from the processed oils and garbage in over processed foods sold as healthy conveniences. Cut those out and you have fewer problems. I have helped many folks lower their cholesterol levels w diet changes alone…get rid of boxed cereals, margarine, fake creamers, white breads, daily candy and deserts, etc. Instead eat oatmeal, wheat hearts, butter ,bacon, eggs, whole grain bread's, real cream, etc. and your cholesterol will become what your body makes and needs.
As to why we have been sold a bundle of lies to destroy our health? Remember, Big Pharma has a goal to assure that every child, adult, and elder needs at least 5 or more toxic prescriptions to maintain a false sense of health. GREED pure and simple, nothing more.
Humpty Dumpty is cracking with the help of those like yourself you gamer the truth out there for those seeking answers and willing to make changes. Keep doing what you do…shining a light on the lies and deceits out in place to cripple humanity. Thank you!
I've sent this to 5 of my loved ones and asked them to share with theirs.
Problem is there is a large cohort of vegans & vegetarians in my immediate family. I fear they may give up reading quickly.
Have been asking one or two awake doctors on Twitter to suggest how to obtain sufficient nutrition whilst on an animal-free diet. Is it possible you can do the same?
Ah, come on Unbekoming, you stole my analogy. I coined the car, except I only used the engine to show what statins do. Can't tell you how many times that crap was promoted to me. Statins work, they really work. No cholesterol produced from your body if you take a statin. I can't even count the amount of medical, hospital, pharma drugs and useless procedures these people make money on destroying the most valuable production component a human body has.
Like a car engine. When I got my 1st car back in 1970, no one told me I needed to put oil in my engine. I thought cars just ran on gas. So, I'm sailing along one summer day on a major highway and I hear this massive KLUNK, and again and again, and low and behold, I'm dead. Dead for life, no saving my adorable VW bug convertible. What do I do? Claudette Colbert stopped a car in an ingenious way in "It Happened One Night" so I gave it a try and it worked, whodathunkit. That's the definition of a statin. You have to be a serial killer par excellance, to force feed the population a story that cholesterol causes heart attacks when the exact opposite is true. It prevents them.
It takes 4 years to eliminate seed oils from the body, if you stop now. Where are they? Everywhere. What are they? Industrial manufacturing oils not recognized by the body with no way to eliminate them so they are deposited in the largest spaces available for storage, your heart. BOOM!!, you're done. Seed oils are the major cause of heart disease, smoking doesn't even come close. Then they manipulated the figures.
Doctors have disclosed for almost 100 years that normal cholesterol is between 250 and 280, so they lowered that scale to 200. Ingenious. Pre hi cholesterol (180), hi cholesterol (200) and omg, you're gonna have a heart attack in 2 weeks (220) is what they pitch to push statins when truth be told, all have low to normal cholesterol levels. Statins are a contender to vaccines.
When you find out what seed oils can do, your life changes dramatically. No longer can you go to restaurants, your favorite foods are now off limits. You make the sign of the cross before accepting a dinner invite to a friends house. You read all labels (so much time it takes) in grocery stores, you make everything at home using only good food. It's exhausting. Been on the wagon for well over 15 years now. What I'd give for a Frito, my one and only snack food.
"You make the sign of the cross before accepting a dinner invite to a friends house." 🤣
This is excellent, comprehensive. Great minds think alike ha. My post about this that just dropped is here; 310. HOW WE KNOW THAT SEED OILS ARE THE WORST FOODS IN HUMAN HISTORY
https://robertyoho.substack.com/p/309-seed-oils-how-we-know-these-are
Thanks Robert.
Hi Robert MD,
> HOW WE KNOW THAT SEED OILS ARE THE WORST FOODS IN HUMAN HISTORY
They are. But what is left out of that statement is how they are grown, how polluted the soil is, the pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers etc. The whole picture is painful to understand and grasp.
You are correct. They maybe the key component in fast foods that make them so toxic for health and longevity.
Right on time for this Seed article, as there are shortages. Many fakes and the impact on health never get told. I use 3 fats to cook, butter, bacon grease, and rendered lard, in small quantities. The doctor said I needed a Statin, wrong, they kill, or you endue bad side effects. My arteries are not clogged. My heart condition is a genetic defect. Enlarged with a small Mitral Valve leak. But the blood work was non-fasting, and the Government + Pharma made up the numbers. Robert Yoho is correct.
You can't tell those facts to my 83-year-old husband. He doesn't believe in anything his doctor doesn't tell him. He is well educated, has 20 years of Avionics in the USN, a Math Professor for 20 years. To my HS education. I read and improved my knowledge to protect myself from bad doctors and meds. He takes 3 statins, I see the results, shaky hands, and short-term memory loss.
My eldest at 52 had a Quad Bypass due to eating the fatty Fast Food he was forced by age into managing. Followed by balloon Angioplasty in his legs. And a bag of expensive Cardio drugs, and a near Vegan diet. DSSI is hard to get, with 6 workers per the state of Tennessee. He will not be able to work again.
Great compilation. And you didn't even touch on how bad seed oils are for your eyes!! I bet the rise in AMD and others eye diseases would correlate to the increased use of seed oils.
I did not know about an effect upon one’s eyes. Thanks for the alert.
Thank you for this comprehensive article that is great for sharing. I love your deep dives into all these fascinating topics that hinder our human health.
Wow! Thank you :-))
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/the-oiling-of-america/#gsc.tab=0
Good Day Unbecoming,
Great work on this article. Sadly I hadn't read the whole thing before I commented. You covered almost all the bases. Thank you!
The one question that has puzzled me since high school, is why? Why would you NOT want people to have optimal health? I get the money angle in away. But greed can't be the only agenda.
The other point is the destruction of small farms beginning with the Nixon Ford administrations and Ag Secretary Earl Butz telling farmers to "Get Big or Get Out". Even USDA Organic has been commandeered by corporate interests. It is easy to suggest GREED. But is it? Why poison the whole planet if GREED is the only reason. Killing the goose that lays the golden egg seems dumb. There must be more to this madness.
I cannot claim to know the answer to the Why question.
It would be like saying the sheep has come to understand the shepherd.
Or the krill has come to understand the whale.
The entity is of a different specifies to us, and we live within the fractals it creates.
I do believe certain things to be true though, that maybe hint to an answer.
There are three versions of me, Healthy, Dead and Unhealthy. Only one version has value on scale. At the scale of 8 billion. I don't think this is a financial explanation, I think it's actually a spiritual one. There is a clear incentive for Unhealth at play.
Rancourt talks about Empire's desire to "suppress development" at the Nation State level. This is an old, Mercantile ethic. But for me, how do you suppress the development of a nation, without suppressing the development of the individual? Which brings me back to Unhealth.
It's also true that there are "too many people" is a very real, very old, oligarchical belief system. Unhealth directly connects with that.
Anyway, you get my point, I think we are living in a constructed Reality that is interested in far, far more than money.
> I cannot claim to know the answer to the Why question.
It would be like saying the sheep has come to understand the shepherd.
Or the krill has come to understand the whale.
The entity is of a different specifies to us, and we live within the fractals it creates.
I do believe certain things to be true though, that maybe hint to an answer.
&
> It's also true that there are "too many people" is a very real, very old, oligarchical belief system. Unhealth directly connects with that.
_________
REPLY:
Good day Unbekoming,
Thank you for the like and thoughtful reply. It may be true what you say "The entity is of a different specifies (species?) to us" but I have my doubts. Serious doubts.
Have you read the works of Dr Lynn Margulis? She was the key collaborator with James Lovelock who proposed the Gaia Hypothsis, now an accepted as theory in about the year 2000.
With the Gaia theory fading from peoples minds we are easily conned into accepting this madness. Dr. Lynn Margulis demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt the true masters of the Earth/Gaia for the last 3+ billion years are the microcosmos/bacteria. James Lovelock speculated that we are the creations of these beings.
All one has to do is consider all the bacteria have done to terraform the Earth. Consider just one thing CRISPER CAS 9, totally created by the bacteria and now most people don't even know it's origins and consider it created by man. We owe all our ideas to the many faceted life forms on this Earth, which owe their existence to the Microcosmos.
I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. We were well aware of the threat of population growth. We were told not to worry about population growth by the same folks who say we need to prune humanity back to about a billion people.
In the 1950s and 60s... were prepared to do that by using reason and intelligence to guide our actions and relationships. Not by environmental poisoning, via water, soil, air and food. Our biological environment is now poisoned.
My guess is ( I have no proof ) that bacteria are just giving the part of humanity that is destroying the Earth via their expensive planes, boats, mansions and needless expenditure of fossil fuels, a nudge to our hubris and we will off ourselves.
I speculate this because of the gut/brain axis and as you pollute the gut with polluted food etc. you change the biome and it's messaging. Here is a link you may have already read a while a go; https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-talk-in-a-language-that-looks-like-viruses-20180502/
If I seem terse it's nothing to do with your work. It is this was all so obvious many decades ago and now we have become by in large clueless.
Keep shinning the light!
Thanks wm
Indeed I looked up Margulis when you mentioned her to me about a year ago, and have some familiarity with her work now (so thank you).
BTW, that nudge of yours helped me discover Jennifer, and as you know I've done a wonderful interview with her, and amplified her work (so thank you again).
I will read the article above, and reflect on the bacteria "giving us a nudge" idea. That's an interesting thought!
Hi Unbekoming,
Sent along this reply from Jennifer Margulis's "Learning to Love Flowers", in response to a comment I made. I send this along because it cuts to the heart of Dr. Lynn Margulis work, "But especially the microbes!".
Her big thing was symbiogenesis which took main stream science many years to accept. At base for all of life and its evolution to today are the microbes. I hope when you have the time to read the books by Lynn Margulis ( with reverence) you will gain a panoramic view of life. She is some what redundant in some of her books, it always helped me see an aspect of the microcosmos I had missed.
Keep up the good work. See Jennifer's comment below.
Jennifer Margulis
Jun 3
Author
I am glad my mother had such a profound influence on you, William. She was born with a love of nature and appreciation for all the creatures on earth, big and small. But especially the microbes!
The same question has bothered me. Tentatively, the answer may be nearsighted assumptions about the race are incorrect. Some assumptions are:
That humans are the top of the food chain. If so why are they farmed?
That humans are not prey animals.
That 'utopia' existed, is possible. Why assume a utopia includes humans?
Progress. 'Evolution' is automated.
"Progress" includes the mass of humans. Onward and upward, etc.
And some permutations of those including that the present day 'madness' is insanity or greed or malice rather than merely business as usual.
Psychopathy? They seem to be in charge of a lot these days.
I ask myself the same questions on a daily basis. I had a friend who was a rather prominent biochemist a long time ago. He said, “There’s no profit in a cure” as though he were discussing the price of tea. I was stunned. I do not understand, either.
While we try to understand the trick is to doge this collective madness that poisons the Earth and all of life. Those who seem to profit from this insanity should be exposed in public forums. Not shamed, but exposed.
Later if we are lucky we can have our questions answered by examining their way of life.
Interesting point of view. I will think about that for a while. I am all about dodging the collective madness. I recently read a book, A Bold Return to Giving a Damn by farmer/businessman Will Harris. He writes about returning to old ways of farming and raising livestock, sans chemicals and such. I just know I want to be a part of that. He managed to restore the actual life and health to his land and in doing so, the unintended consequence was restoring a healthy little economy to his little town. It was a hopeful book.
> the unintended consequence was restoring a healthy little economy to his little town.
REPLY: Precisely what was destroyed when the small New Deal subsistance was taken from the small farmer forced to Get Out. Small town America dried up and blew away. Even my uncle who was a small truck farmer could not sell his produce to the store only 100 yards away from his farm.
With corporate control of law, food processing and distribution to mention a few, the small farmer was doomed. However there is a 300 year history of agriculture that thrives in Lancaster County PA. The Amish. No banks etc. because the people care for each other. There are house raisings, barn raisings, sewing circles and much more. The land still fertile. Still one should take a deep look into these cultures. A good book written in the early to mid 1970s by Kenneth Rexroth is Communalism: from its origins to the twentieth century.
My wife are on this adventure. She is Korean born on the cusp of the Korean war. She knows a lot about the old ways (didn't have a frig in home until she was in High School). She can do a lot and teaches me. A great teacher. For us this is the path to the future. Amish farming for 300 years the same land and is still very fertile. Corporate farms ruin the soil in just a few decades with an abundance of subsidies. I will take the Amish as an indication of the direction I should go.
I will get the book you referenced. Thank you! Your wife sounds brilliant…knowing the old ways! I’m happy for both of you on your new adventure. I left my old life, worked on ranches for a few years to learn some old ways, animal husbandry, old-fashioned irrigation, etc. I now have an honorary redneck engineering degree (ha) & a PhD in post-hole digging to offset my rather useless college education. I’m fascinated by the Amish. What you are doing with your wife is so cool. Everything “corporate” is a soul killer. Been there, done that and I’m not ever doing it again. Thanks for all that amazing information! Best wishes to you both!!!
You are welcome. Actually we both in our own way (much like you) were on this journey since childhood.
Another book with reading, it is our guide, though we let the conditions we find ourselves dictate the process is; Masanobu Fukuoka was a Japanese farmer and philosopher. Book the One Straw Revolution. It is my heart guide.
May your way bear much fruit and joy.
> First, most of the fats that our ancestors consumed were animal fats—butter, lard, poultry fat, and tallow. Second, they ate the whole animal—not just the muscle meats but also the organs, marrow, skin, and blood.
REPLY: Very true. But also missing is todays animals butchered and sold to a local super market near you are raised in CAFOs or Confined Animal Feeding Operations. That means they are loaded with growth hormones antibiotics and toxins from the feed given to these animals.
Now the animals are receiving gene therapy injections instead of the old style vaccines. All these inputs have a profound impact on the health and biology of the animal.
A deep dive into this subject in the future would be useful.
Excellent points.
This is great but should consider the seed oils that are almost exclusively gmo varieties.. In America corn & canola & cotton are almost exclusively gmo that include novel proteins plus residual herbicides.. these crops also get the bulk of USDA subsidy dollars.. it's rigged to feed us the worst ingredients from corp farms. https://web.archive.org/web/20220623213618/https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption/
https://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=total&page=district®ionname=theUnitedStates
"However, the inclusion of Linoleic Acid (LA) as an essential fat is misleading because excessive amounts of LA can actually wreck cellular and mitochondrial function. The word "essential" is misused in this context for the following reasons:"
One more reason is that lobbyist influence prevails & essential relates to product sales w warped science to show why dying for profit is great!
" In 1997, APHIS deregulated the first modified high oleic
acid soybean.
• DuPont’s soybean sublines G94-1, G94-19 and G-168 (USDA-
APHIS, 1997).
• This event involved a soybean with an inserted sense
orientation soybean microsomal omega-6 fatty acid
desaturase gene (GmFad2-1 gene).
§ In 2010, APHIS deregulated Pioneer’s soybean with
high (oleic) fatty acid, low polyunsaturated fatty acids
(linoleic and linolenic) and lower palmitic acid.
• Pioneer event DP-3Ø5423-1
• Inserted the GmFad2-1 gene"
https://web.archive.org/web/20220808065201/https://specialtycropassistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/6-SCRA2021_Haymes_APHIS_HighOleicSoybean_20210608.pdf
For a real mind blower look at the fact that NO gmo food is ever tested by FDA for safety or novel protein effects.. they are compared to traditional varieties and similar measures of fiber & nutrients based on producer studies gets GRAS status voila into the food supply.. This was Bush Sr program of Biotech Deregulation authored by evil genius Monsanto - FDA revolving door lawyer Michael Taylor.. who needs FDA safety testing?
web.archive.org/web/20101122021318/www.fda.gov/Food/Biotechnology/Submissions/ucm161130.htm
Right on time for this Seed article, as there are shortages. Many fakes and the impact on health never get told. I use 3 fats to cook, butter, bacon grease, and rendered lard, in small quantities. The doctor said I needed a Statin, wrong, they kill, or you endue bad side effects. My arteries are not clogged. My heart condition is a genetic defect. Enlarged with a small Mitral Valve leak. But the blood work was non-fasting, and the Government + Pharma made up the numbers. Robert Yoho is correct.
You can't tell those facts to my 83-year-old husband. He doesn't believe in anything his doctor doesn't tell him. He is well educated, has 20 years of Avionics in the USN, a Math Professor for 20 years. To my HS education. I read and improved my knowledge to protect myself from bad doctors and meds. He takes 3 statins, I see the results, shaky hands, and short-term memory loss.
My eldest at 52 had a Quad Bypass due to eating the fatty Fast Food he was forced by age into managing. Followed by balloon Angioplasty in his legs. And a bag of expensive Cardio drugs, and a near Vegan diet. DSSI is hard to get, with 6 workers per the state of Tennessee. He will not be able to work again.
I have tried to infirm my sister of the same issues with stations and I'm done. Can't fix stupid
> The best sources are cod liver oil, organ meats from healthy animals (think liver, liverwurst, scrapple, pâté, and terrines), egg yolks from pastured hens, butter and cream from grass-fed cows, fish eggs, shellfish, oily fish, lard from pigs raised outdoors,
REPLY:
saturated animal fats and to a lessor extent (organiclly grown plant foods and oils (with minumal processing), is where nature has historically stored toxins until the living system/being has the health and freedom to process safely.
Especially ocean caught fish is polluted with various toxins and chemicals. One of them some folks may know, called Methylmercury.
It is extremely hard to grow or find wild food that isn't contamimnated. Example the people of East Palestine Ohio supplemented there diet with wild food such as deer etc.
Sadly the Norfolk Southern derailment [ https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/judge-signs-off-on-600-million-ohio-train-derailment-settlement-but-residents-still-have-questions/ar-BB1mROfn ] and spill of vinyl chloride, which was later burn leached into the ground water and ash into the countryside follows on going tragedies such as Bhopol India.
Bhopal India where a Union Carbide plant explosion occurred in 1984, over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC).
" It awarded survivors just cents a day – the cost of a cup of tea – for a lifetime of unimaginable suffering. People who have suffered incapacitating health problems every day for decades were classed as “temporarily injured” and accordingly awarded this pittance. With 10,950 days between December 3, 1984 and December 3, 2014 and with compensation of about $500, survivors have received about 4 cents per day to cover life-long injuries." [ https://www.bhopal.net/what-happened/the-immediate-aftermath-1984-1989/compensation-injustice-1989-settlement]
Without these grim facts and many many more all covered up and forgotten is it any wonder that seed oils are being blamed for so many illnesses.
But the folks that brought you this disaster skate. Just as they did in Bopol and East Palestine. So without this background it is really hard to realize we are all being poisoned.
Why?
It has been Dr Mercola helping to publicize the work of Dr Chris Knobbe that has most helped to spread awareness about the dangers of plasticized fats derived from seed oils. Knobbe, an opthalmologist, has a book that he published in 2023: The Ancestral Diet Revolution. I haven't read it, but I'm intrigued to see his latest thoughts on the connection between seed oils and age-related macular degeneration.
Yup, good thinking. I now have mac degeneration, a wrinkled retina, did cataract surgery, now have one perfect eye, one bad. Creates a strong imbalance while doing anything. I got rid of seed oils 10 yrs ago, but never noticed that bio-engineered product warning on the label till 2 years ago. I thoroughly believe these seed oils already worked their magic on me by the time I said adios. Maybe bio is a continuation of seed oils in different form. Why wouldn't they be?
Contemplating my life choices now. I take Evening Primrose Oil 6 days out of the week, my hormonal acne cleared up but I now wonder if GLA’s are really bad. Any thoughts on them? Also, I feed my performance horse flaxseed oil & will be removing that from her diet. Thank you!
Always amazes me how much of science that was known and validated in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, taught in medical and nursing schools, has in the past several decades been denigrated without any evidence or science supporting it. In place of real science are theories and speculation pushed and sold as science…it’s not! Like Ancel Keys, a psychologist who decided all fats were unhealthy. He had the means to travel to numerous medical conventions, sell his manipulated findings on fats, and convinced the medical establishment and world for years that a No Fat diet, filled with sugar and other chemical flavorings, was healthy. Just proved that when you tell a lie loud enough, long enough, to enough people it will become the truth without any further investigation needed! Took an investigative reporter to finally debunk Keys and wake up some. Sadly, too many were indoctrinated completely and still believe that garbage!
Or the great egg debacle telling folks eggs are dangerous to eat more than once a week. The fact that the whites have lecithin and it binds with the cholesterol of the yolk, leaving only what body needs. That science has been known as true for decades and yet somehow nutritionists and docs forgot or simply didn't learn it.
Also the fact that by our body NEEDS cholesterol to function at the cellular level and the brain a,d nerve sheaths are made primarily of cholesterol. The so-called bad cholesterol LDL is created by our bodies from the processed oils and garbage in over processed foods sold as healthy conveniences. Cut those out and you have fewer problems. I have helped many folks lower their cholesterol levels w diet changes alone…get rid of boxed cereals, margarine, fake creamers, white breads, daily candy and deserts, etc. Instead eat oatmeal, wheat hearts, butter ,bacon, eggs, whole grain bread's, real cream, etc. and your cholesterol will become what your body makes and needs.
As to why we have been sold a bundle of lies to destroy our health? Remember, Big Pharma has a goal to assure that every child, adult, and elder needs at least 5 or more toxic prescriptions to maintain a false sense of health. GREED pure and simple, nothing more.
Humpty Dumpty is cracking with the help of those like yourself you gamer the truth out there for those seeking answers and willing to make changes. Keep doing what you do…shining a light on the lies and deceits out in place to cripple humanity. Thank you!
I've sent this to 5 of my loved ones and asked them to share with theirs.
Problem is there is a large cohort of vegans & vegetarians in my immediate family. I fear they may give up reading quickly.
Have been asking one or two awake doctors on Twitter to suggest how to obtain sufficient nutrition whilst on an animal-free diet. Is it possible you can do the same?
Thanks as always.