Health & Wellness

The science on time-restricted eating and circadian rhythm

Dr. Rhonda Patrick
Found My Fitness
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC

Time-restricted eating is a form of daily fasting wherein the time of the day during which a person eats is limited, or compressed. People who practice time-restricted eating typically eat during an 8- to 12-hour daytime window and fast during the remaining 12 to 16 hours. Unlike intermittent fasting, which involves caloric restriction, time-restricted eating permits a person to eat as much as they want during the eating window. Time-restricted eating aligns the eating and fasting cycles to the body's innate 24-hour circadian system.^[1] Within the scientific literature, time-restricted eating primarily refers to human trials, while time-restricted feeding primarily refers to animal studies; however, both terms are occasionally used interchangeably.

The circadian system is composed of multiple cellular clocks found in all cells throughout the body. These clocks orchestrate the regulation of gene expression that coordinates metabolic programs needed to support bodily functions. Of the entire human genome, approximately 15 percent of the genes display daily oscillations, or fluctuations, in their activity. Many of these genes participate in carbohydrate, lipid, and cholesterol metabolism.^[2] In both animal studies and human trials, time-restricted feeding and eating have elicited beneficial health effects, including weight loss, reduced fat mass, improved heart function, and enhanced aerobic capacity, without altering diet quality or quantity.^[3]

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The physiological effects of caffeine

Emily Manoogian, PhD
My Circadian Clock
Mon, 17 Jun 2019 00:01 UTC

Caffeine is one of the most used stimulants in the world with over 80% of adults in the US consuming caffeine daily. Caffeine is most commonly consumed through coffee, tea, soda, or energy drinks, but foods such as dark chocolate also have high levels of caffeine. Given the wide spread consumption of caffeine, it is important to understand how it affects our physiology.

How much caffeine do you consume?

The average caffeine intake in the US is 165-300mg/day (Mitchell et al., 2014). Below is a table of approximate caffeine in a single serving of common caffeine containing food and beverages.

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Brazil's toxic pesticides 'affecting people all over the world' through agricultural exports

RT
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:24 UTC

Brazil's embrace of highly toxic pesticides - the government has approved 262 so far this year and loosened regulations on what is considered "extremely toxic" - is affecting people far outside its borders, an expert tells RT.

"EU-banned pesticide[s are] being manufactured in the EU, and then coming back to citizens in the EU, in the food we eat," environmental journalist and founding member of the Green Economic Institute think tank Oliver Tickell told RT, explaining that as one of the largest soy exporters in the world, Brazil supplies a significant quantity of the feed that cattle and other livestock worldwide consume. European consumers tucking into a juicy steak have no idea that the creature they're eating might have been nourished on soy sprayed with highly toxic pesticides.

"This is not just a problem for Brazil and Brazilian people and people exposed in the countryside to these pesticides and consumers and farmers," Tickell warned. "It is actually affecting people all over the world through Brazil's agricultural exports."

Case study reveals how cognitive decline can be reversed

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Sun, 28 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC

Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common form of dementia, eventually leads to the inability to carry out even the most basic of bodily functions, such as swallowing or walking. It is ultimately fatal, as conventional treatment options are few and universally ineffective.

Like autism among children, Alzheimer's among seniors has reached epidemic proportions, with no slowdown in sight. On the contrary, evidence suggests the trend is worsening.

At present, Alzheimer's affects an estimated 5.8 million Americans,¹ and projections suggest the disease will affect 1 in 4 Americans within the next two decades. By 2050, Alzheimer's diagnoses are projected to triple.^2,³

Comment: It's interesting that previous researchers have found benefits of ketosis and fasting for neurodegenerative conditions even before knowing what the mechanism of action was. It's sad that the mainstream medical system continues to look at beta amyloid plaques as the bad guy, despite no progress along that line. It's thinkers like Bredesen who's getting results, that will be paving the way for research in the future.

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Grassland Ecology 202 for vegans: Calling for change that makes sense

Alan Lewis
Linked In
Fri, 19 Apr 2019 00:01 UTC

Comment: See the first Part, Grassland Ecology 101, here.

This post follows up on Grassfed Ecology for Vegans and Synthetic Meat Marketers. Let's take a look at common vegan calls to action. We'll see how the agricultural community responds to them, and make some suggestions about how to open better conversations.

In the first post, I described how our global grasslands co-evolved with ruminant herds. Grazing herds spur regrowth of grass, break down the grass into nutrition and fertilizer. Together grasses and grazers grow the topsoil on which life in general, and veganism in particular, depends.

Calling for the end to ruminant livestock husbandry overlooks global grassland ecology. Calling for an end to concentrated animal feeding makes more sense. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) do not allow animals to graze for the last part of their lives. Instead, high-calorie cattle feed is grown on vast acreage using GMO seeds, synthetic fertilizers derived from fossil fuels, and toxic herbicides. These large monocultures often intentionally remove all biodiversity of plants, wildlife, and soil biology. The soils cannot generate their own nutrition, they do not hold moisture well, and they create the perfect environment for invasive weeds.

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Dr. Malcolm Kendrick - A second look at vaccination - answers that cannot be questioned

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick Blog
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:12 UTC

'No man can be forced to be healthful, whether he will or not. In a free society, individuals must judge for themselves what information they choose to heed and what they ignore.' John Locke. 'A letter concerning Toleration'

Here, I am going have another look at vaccination, before scurrying away from the subject for a bit, and getting back to the safe ground of cardiovascular disease. Much to the relief of some of the regular readers of this blog, no doubt.

I have to say that I thought long and hard about blogging on vaccination. It is the most brutal area for discussion that I have ever seen, and a reputation shredder. If you even dare to hint that there may just be the slightest issue with any vaccine, people come down upon you like a ton of bricks.

I also know that by daring to write on this subject, there will inevitably be people moving behind the scenes to have my blog taken down. I cannot imagine WordPress management going to the wire to protect my right to free speech. A little flick of a switch, and I will be gone from the airwaves.

However, as we move towards a world where it seems that all Governments around the world are going to pass laws mandating vaccination for everyone, and people are fined, or lose their jobs, for speaking out, or refusing to be vaccinated, then I feel that some attempt to discuss the area is essential.

Because, once something becomes mandatory, and any research into possible harms moves strictly off limits, we really need to be absolutely one hundred per-cent certain that there is no possibility that we may be doing harm. Or, that we are reducing any potential harm to the lowest level possible.

Can vaccines do harm?

Comment: Dr. Malcolm Kendrick - The vaccination debate Part 1

Muslim parents reject non-Halal flu vaccine

Alahna Kindred
The Sun
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:28 UTC

Muslim parents are refusing to let their children take part in a flu nasal spray vaccine as it is 'not halal'.

The Muslim Council of Britain ruled the treatment forbidden by Islam after parents were told the vaccine contained gelatin - which derives from pigs and is considered unclean.

Public health officials have expressed concerns over the number of Muslim children expected to be withdrawn from a national programme set to start in schools next month.

For the first time, every healthy children between the ages of two and 10 in England will be offered the Fluenz nasal spray vaccine.

An injectable alternative without gelatin does exist, but it is only offered to kids who are at a higher risk of contracting the flu.

Community leaders revealed in some areas that the "mast majority" of Muslim parents have vowed to pull their kid from the programme.

Comment: UK government to give flu vaccine to children under the age of nine - even though similar program failed to prevent the recent flu crisis

Grassland Ecology 101 for vegans and synthetic meat marketers

Alan Lewis
Linked In
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:01 UTC

First, congratulations on your commitment to making the world a better place. It's not always popular (or safe) to take a stand on principle when the rest of the world is unaware or insensitive to matters you find extremely important.

However (you knew that was coming), many of your arguments and statements about global ecology have been clouded by a misunderstanding perpetuated by biotech and global corporate agricultural interests. Briefly, let's look at the two big Red Herrings. Afterwards, I will suggest a path forward to bring strength and resilience to the plant-based movement. [Read Part 2]

Comment: It's been pointed out multiple times in multiple articles, videos and other media - livestock is good, nay necessary, for the environment. Don't believe the vegan environmentalist propaganda - they're trying to sell you something.

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This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself

Ryan Prior
CNN
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 15:40 UTC

By the time he was 19, Lindsay was almost completely bedridden.

Doug Lindsay was 21 and starting his senior year at Rockhurst University, a Jesuit college in Kansas City, Missouri, when his world imploded.

After his first day of classes, the biology major collapsed at home on the dining room table, the room spinning around him.

It was 1999. The symptoms soon became intense and untreatable. His heart would race, he felt weak and he frequently got dizzy. Lindsay could walk only about 50 feet at a time and couldn't stand for more than a few minutes.

Impossible Foods, impossible claims

Anna Lappé
Medium
Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC

The company has courted ethical foodies, but how sustainable is this meat alternative?

Impossible Foods — maker of the veggie "burger that bleeds" — is the latest darling of the food-tech world. Its stardom is driven largely by its claims that the burger is better for the planet than the real thing: But what's actually in its signature patty raises big questions. Despite these questions, Forbes has given it glowing coverage; The New York Times has served up front-page column inches. Katy Perry, Questlove, and Jay-Z are all investors. And the company is already shorthand for a dot-com wunderkind. At a recent tech conference I attended more than one pitch led with "We are the Impossible Foods of..." This status comes from a PR arsenal, of course, a novel product, yes, but also from the company's explicit courtship of the ethical foodie, tapping a new generation of eaters who want to ensure the food on their plate helps the planet. In its very mission statement, Impossible Foods claims it will "drastically reduce humanity's destructive impact on the global environment" by using plant-based proteins. But just because it's not meat, doesn't mean it's a planetary panacea.

Comment: These meat alternatives are based on lies from the ground up - they're not better for your health, nor the planet.

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Health & Wellness

The science on time-restricted eating and circadian rhythm

The physiological effects of caffeine

Brazil's toxic pesticides 'affecting people all over the world' through agricultural exports

Case study reveals how cognitive decline can be reversed

Grassland Ecology 202 for vegans: Calling for change that makes sense

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick - A second look at vaccination - answers that cannot be questioned

Muslim parents reject non-Halal flu vaccine

Grassland Ecology 101 for vegans and synthetic meat marketers

This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself

Impossible Foods, impossible claims

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