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Curtis's avatar

Is there anything or anyone left that doesn't want to kill, sicken or rob us? I try not to despair, but it's getting difficult. The up-side is that everything in the Universe tends to point towards the idea that living a simple, clean, traditional life is the best thing we can do, and the worst is jumping on every fantastic, new thing that comes around.

The Ministry of Herbs's avatar

I'm 48 and not only the healthiest I've ever been but the healthiest person I know. It's pretty simple. Eat as much whole organic food as you can, get outside barefoot as much as you can, get good sleep, have healthy relationships, and your body will handle the rest.

I can't afford 100% organic so I know which are my non-negotiables. I have my treats that come in a package but I don't stress over them. In fact- stress may be more harmful than consuming a bunch of the wrong things! Don't despair

Dawn's avatar

I recall someone in Scripture telling us the Adversary cometh not but to kill, steal and destroy. This world is a spiritual battlefield, but we know who the final Victor is who gives life. And I for one am clothed in his full armor!

Crixcyon's avatar

I don't understand how chemical "vitamins and minerals" can be made to be the same as what is in natural foods. No way is a vitamin D pill equivalent to being in the sun and helping your liver make it and store it.

I have given up 95% of my supplement pills and only use some herbs or herb tinctures. Do I trust big pharma, the HHS, the doctors, China or India making supplements? Never again.

This article makes so much sense to me. We are constantly being marketed to death and many foods, drugs, vaccines and supplements are filled with toxins. How about the virus of the month, disease of the month and then the miracle drug of the month. It's a pattern, it's a club, it's a cult. It's an early death...just what the depopulators want for every human.

Create the fear of death and then supply the solution. 99% of the time, the solution is just adding more toxins...that is what keeps you ill and diseased....not viruses, bacteria and other germs.

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

after taking some vitamin and supplements, I too gave up on them, realizing they are in fact just the same as the chemical pills. An article from Geoff Pain here on Substack explained why my Ashawandha was no longer working. I took it for several years and then changed brands. It turns out he found, that some brands contain hardly any or none at all, just other pulverized herbs. My soil is so poor it grows very little, but what little I can harvest, I eat! Purslane, clover, chickweed, good king Henry and several others grow wild, or you buy some organic seed and they will reproduce without trouble. Several berries can be harvest from the wild. The first book I buy when I move somewhere, is about edible and poisonous plants. I dare not pick mushrooms. Too many deaths there!

CD's avatar

Some "poisonous plants" aren't actually poisonous at all. Pokeweed and black nightshade are just two that are listed as poisonous, but grow in my front yard and have excellent benefits associated with them. Any time you want the truth about "poisonous" plants, type "holistic" next to it in your search bar. Pro-tip: Don't use "Google". It'll lie to you and 9/10 lead you down the wrong path.

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

True. Pokeweed is poisonous to dogs, though. My friends dog died from it. I read that you have to boil it and then it is fine, it has been eaten here in the South in old times. I got black nightshade in the yard but don't use it. I do not trust much online, I still got my old, printed books, a few Europeans and several American. If it is listed as dubious, I usually don't use it. The silliest one I have (bought on advice from someone) has under each article ' ask your doctor", even under celery LOL. Handbook for herbs and natural supplements, written by Linda Skidmore-Roth. A nurse, probably not allowed to give medical advice? I kept it because it got measurements, which most of my other books don't.

CD's avatar

Excellent response. 😊

I have indeed heard that it is toxic to dogs. So sorry for your friend's loss. We have two small dogs, and fortunately, they've never expressed any interest in them.

Yes, I'm told that pokeweed leaves should be twice to thrice boiled, then prepared and the berries can be swallowed whole or processed in a similar way as the leaves before consuming.

All the best and good health to you! 🌞

Robert Yoho, MD's avatar

We have all been child-abused, and many people have turned profoundly anti-intellectual in response. This material is an example, and I'm surprised you promoted it. To wit, "you are simply ingesting a chemical synthesized in a lab that bears no relation to something health- and life-giving that can be found in natural foods derived from the natural world." When something is chemically identical, it is identical.

Any beginning functional doctor knows that the cyanide-related B12 compound is not the one you use. I will let the reader investigate more.

Anyone familiar with the incredible wealth of material about vitamin D understands that conclusions like the above are naive and damage the understanding of newbies. Whether you meant it or not like this, it was clickbait and does not belong in your pantheon of excellent work.

Start here to understand D: https://hlahore.substack.com/p/21-reasons-why-doctors-are-reluctant?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1137005&post_id=173712480&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=axf9e&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Likewise, there are many reasons to supplement, not the least of which are the degradation of nutrients from industrial farming techniques. My next post describes this.

The criticism of China-sourced supplements was accurate, but there are tested sources of supplements that are available economically. See the Fullscript links at the top of each post of robertyoho.substack.com.

There is much more here that is dead wrong, but I'm out of time.

I am your friend and wish you would dialogue with me before publishing health-related material.

Dawn's avatar

The letters MD says it all. I would not trust anyone with credentials from Rockefeller school.

SomeDude's avatar

as you say, if it's chemically identical, it's identical.

check out the MSDS for your precious Vitamin D supplement. https://www.fishersci.com/store/msds?partNumber=AAB2252406&productDescription=VITAMIN+D3+5G&vendorId=VN00024248&countryCode=US&language=en

find a bottle of it that doesn't list the active ingredient as cholecalciferol and I'll eat my boots.

then look up cholecalciferol rat poison and talk again about how beneficial this particular example of BetterLivingThroughChemistry™ is, compared to the bodily production of D via sunlight.

ya know, that little outburst of inanity you just posted makes me reconsider keeping the subscription to your substack.

Peter 🔒's avatar

Some dude, the Doc has been misled on a few topics (below), did correct course on some, but keep the sub and add your input to his comments section.

Misled on:

- Vit D

- Methylene Blue

- RFK jr. & Polymaths as 100% good guys

- AMD/MWD (mid western doctor account/ cointel-PRO) who plagiarized Jeanice Barcelo

- Virus Isolation

Also, some 'identical chemicals' can have different Bond Angles, which makes them react differently chemically.

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

been following midwestern doc for some time, did not know he had plagiarized someone! now I have to look that up. Thanks for the tip.

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

the big difference for the doctor is that sunshine is free. The bottle of junk vitamin D my doctor wanted me to take was not outrageous expensive, but it made me sick, so I looked up what it was made of. I am not sure how to dispose of the crap.

VN's avatar

Technically, it is not identical, that is an assumption. For it to be identical, the natural form needs to have been isolated first. This has not been done. This also ignores the research done showing synthetic vitamin c does not have the same effect on scurvy as lemon juice does. You are commenting from your attachment to your current understanding and not from an open mind willing to investigate the information. Unfortunately, a very typical response from someone with a medical background. Lose the arrogance and ask yourself what you actually know on the subject.

CD's avatar

"When something is chemically identical, it is identical".

Um, seriously?

Steven Johnston's avatar

Vitamins. Another load of made-up old nonsense (in my opinion).

Eat fatty red meat. You'll be fine.

Carol's avatar

We tossed all our supplements & started eating loads of red meat (direct from farmers in US) eggs & bacon too. Pounds melted off & we feel great, I’m 59 husband is 69.

Steven Johnston's avatar

I supplement my red meat with........more red meat.

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

only farmer raising healthy meat animals moved far away, but lots of fresh home laid eggs from 2 friends! the difference is immense.

Peter Wiggins's avatar

A very interesting article indeed. Though being fairly awake to the ever growing BS for decades, it was the Covid scam that fully dragged me out of ‘The Matrix’ so to speak. Regarding vitamins, I too was wrapped in what appears to be the fallacy of taking vitamins, particularly low dose D3. Only recently I’ve become totally aware that the supplements industry is permitted because like pharmaceuticals it is detrimental to our health, and that is what the parasites want - sick dependent supplicant populations, not thinking for themselves or questioning anything. Is it eugenics by stealth? Regarding the very interesting commentary, which made complete sense to me, but, it is difficult for a mass of citizens gather or drink unfiltered spring water, gather sea kelp, obtain raw milk etc. I am in the U.K., our tap water is horrendous and full of dissolved solids (heavy metals, fluoride etc), I use a multi stage filter system to obtain drinking water, we use local farm markets for fruit and vegetables, local butchers for meat of known origin, prepare fresh wholesome food daily etc. If everyone had the wherewithal financially to do this it would be a good start. Unfortunately the corruption, psy-op, brainwashing and infiltration across all of society and government makes getting the basic message across very difficult.

sweettooth's avatar

This is exactly my problem. We would go bankrupt if we would buy everything organic, especially meat. Raw dairy? I would have to go quite far to get it, and to do that for a family several times a week is not feasible. But I did plant a lot of herbs and bought a herbal medicine encyclopedia. Now, in need of a new home, I pray that it will have a garden big enough to do it again, and plant vegetables as well.

Peter Wiggins's avatar

Excellent VN, many thanks for the information 😊

VN's avatar

You may have already seen these sites, but sharing them just in case they are helpful:

1) To locate springs near you: https://findaspring.ue1.rapydapps.cloud/map/

https://findaspring.org/

2) To locate raw milk near you: https://getrawmilk.com/map

or: https://www.realmilk.com/raw-milk-finder/international/

DanB1973's avatar

Vit D supplementation is crucial for the growth of solar panel powerplants. The more vit D are sold, the more money will be collected for the breakthrough project to dim the sun. Or something like that. Or something else.

VN's avatar

I really agree with this statement as well: “We can accept the mysterious nature of life and food, while wisely following in the path laid out for us by our ancestors who intuited what foods we should eat and how they should be prepared. Basically, we only need to eat traditional diets based on our geographical locations and seasons in order to avoid malnourishment and stay healthy.”

That part about eating based on our geographical location and based on season is one that is so overlooked. Many do not realize how much local foods help us to adapt to the area we are in. Not only do we get the local microbes which are set up to live and thrive in that environment, but the types of foods seems to help us to deal with the local climatic conditions. Take all of the tropical fruits that thrive in hot, tropical climates. Those foods are cooling and hydrating which is needed when you are there. They also provide the types of fat that help you thrive in that climate such as from coconuts, avocados, and nuts. The same applies for seasonal foods. Eating from the abundance of fully ripened fruits in summer builds up reserves for winter and also is a type of seasonal detox. And of course, having foods fully ripened and not picked too early for traveling across the world means that full nutrients and enzymes are present and that other chemical compounds have either been removed or converted into digestible forms for us.

The whole idea of one diet being better than another is in some ways a waste of time. It may have application for someone going through a particular health issue. But in general, it’s all about what is local, natural, and native to the area along with what has succeeded for thousands of years in the past. We have everything we need when the natural processes are respected.

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

last year I bought a book written years ago, Nutrition and Physical degeneration, by Weston A Price. It has been republished plenty of times. He states you should eat what your ancestors ate. Mine are potatoes and cabbage, carrots, peas, and very little meat. Some peoples eat nothing but fish, others nothing but meat. That is why anyone trying to cover all people, is wrong from the get-go. There IS no diet that is good for everyone! And that is why all doctors are wrong, following the ‘guidelines’ with numbers, because depending on your body, your food, your environment, your numbers will be different from everyone else’s.

VN's avatar

Exactly! If I eat a diet heavy in meat, I start to feel ill and have more health issues. For me, a high fruit diet in summer is really good, and then a starchier diet in winter with more root veggies, cabbage, and other greens. I still need some meat and animal fat, but not a high amount like some are recommending today. A lot of people misunderstand that book by Weston A. Price and think it supports a carnivore diet, but it is as you said, a book that supports traditional diets and not processed foods. Eat well, Ingrid!

CD's avatar

Very well-stated.

M.'s avatar

After reading your Vitamin D article I stopped supplementing with my young child and his skin breakouts completely cleared up. Perhaps his body was trying to eject the supplement? Thank you. He no longer has any skin breakouts.

SomeDude's avatar

this author has a bunch of writeups on "vitamins," the processes for how they're made (disgusting,) where the bulk chemicals they're made from are sourced (dirty factories in India and China,) and MSDS links for the toxins they're either built from or the finished products.

my favorite is cholecalciferol, which is either marketed as vitamin D... OR straight up rat poison. Same chemical compound. No difference in chemical name. MSDS extremely toxic do not ingest.

this article has a funny title, (as does the entire 'stack,) but lists many of the individual articles on the poisons named as "enrichment" or "supplementation."

it's nice to see someone else writing on the topic, as many folks immediately shut off their brains when they see the word chemtrails and will read no further.

https://chemtrails.substack.com/p/how-vitamins-are-isolated-the-nail

agent Rogelier than you's avatar

Be careful: Thre is a crazy and delusional person or bot who goes by "AlphaOmegaEnergy" who insults a lot of people on this topic.

I'm under his attack now.

Listen, be also mindful of the possible link to the cult of Scientology. Sometimes, they are wolves in sheeps clothing, sometimes they are crocodiles in wolves clothing.

The great Tom Szasz was a co-founder of a "Citizens' Commision for Human Rights" and I think this was a shared project with Scientology. Szasz couldn't be any more of a secular atheist, but he liked to have a favorable audience for his quips. The point is that the scientologists may sound friendly and rational and humane at first, but it's all a façade. These people are raging narcissists and despots. So, please be careful who you meet in this line of research of opposing "vitamins" and "drugs."

Cheers!

EasterNow's avatar

Codex Alimentarius... some more bullshit cooked up by Jesuits no doubt. I fell into the vitamin trap for several years myself.

Clearly SubStack is owned and monitored by the masters. You wonder why they are allowing it to be so open. I suppose it doesn’t have a very wide reach, relative to the rest of the internet. It’s mostly older people who consume content through reading. And it provides a means to monitor the fringes, to gather intelligence and formulate counter measures. Also to gather the last remnants of the free internet into a walled garden.

Gecko1's avatar

Here's a good podcast interview with Shannon Rowan about the vitamin story and you can listen to the lady herself state her findings:-

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-fair-food/120-shannon-rowan-vitamins-HST3PsCplWK/

David Weiner's avatar

Much good info here, but methinks her take is too broad-brushed.

While we should be skeptical of so-called fortification in general, and especially when promoted by globalists, there may be cases when it is of value. When niacin was added, that ended the epidemic of pellagra. Yes, that may have been due to refinement, to one degree or another, yet it helped greatly. And many people go into remission from schizophrenia when they use Hoffer's high dose niacin protocol.

Shannon Woodland's avatar

I am very curious about her opinion on what causes warts if not the papilloma “virus”?

Deano's avatar

We know 1000% sure it’s not a virus. Your skin is the body’s largest detox organ and usually a mirror image of what is going on in your colon. Do they eat clean, have good bowel movements, drink plenty of water, and they’re in the attitude of gratitude, meditation to relieve stress? Simple changes and the body can heal. Sun-gaze an hour after sunrise for 20 min, grounding for 20 minutes, journaling and being grateful are all so simple and important. Everything is frequency and vibration. The body can’t heal in low vibration.

VN's avatar

I loved this article and your one on vitamin D. Vitamins are something that never made sense to me since I was a kid, but I accepted the use of them and never really questioned them until later in life. It was when I was looking into making my dogs’ food myself that I really started questioning it, because for a food to be considered “balanced” it must have vitamins added. I looked into the nutritional studies that determined these values that must be present in dog food and they were so bogus. Some weren’t even based on dogs but on other animals.

Then there is the supposed MTHR mutation that affects something like 40% of people today where they can’t process synthetic B vitamins and they are a toxin to them. Is it really a mutation or simply a natural reaction to this synthetic garbage? And do these synthetics block out or interfere with the natural forms in our bodies? So many things to consider for the implications of these and how they have undermined our health.

Here are some of the things I had read about vitamins when I was researching dog food years ago for those interested. They refer to info that was around in the ‘40s about how the body does not recognize synthetic vitamins like it does natural ones:

https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/raw-diets-for-dogs-getting-enough-vitamins-and-minerals/

and

https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/vitamins-dogs-3-reasons-stay-away/

It is interesting that this information has been out there for anyone who cares to find it for a long time, but it certainly is not the common viewpoint. I learned it from trying to feed my dogs, (and Shannon should look into raw feeding her cats, it’s the natural diet for them and doesn’t have additives.)

CD's avatar

We have two small "senior" dogs and feed them grass fed hamburger with seasonings such as tumeric, pink salt, pepper, coconut oil, a splash of ACV, thyme, and cumin. We add a few veggies such as carrots and squash. They have a small amount of peanut butter as a treat. They are healthy and happy, neither over weight nor under weight. No trips to the vet.

VN's avatar

That is the best way! Feeding our animals traditional diets is so important too, we can’t leave them out. Traditionally dogs ate whatever they hunted & caught themselves plus scraps and leftovers from humans. My dogs also have raided my vegetable garden and my fruit trees all on their own, so I know they are following their own natural instincts of what they need. The most hilarious thing I ever saw was one of my puppies running around my yard in triumph with a huge, ginormous cucumber in his mouth that he got from one of my plants. It was almost bigger than him! He sat down and relished it chomping it all up. Never seen a dog so happy! Lol Good on you for feeding your dogs well! Give them a pat from me if you don’t mind, haha.

CD's avatar

Nice! Haha. Don't mind at all. Give yours a pat right back! You've got a smart little garden companion, there. 🐶🐾🥒😄

CD's avatar

Great info, btw!