CRITICAL information if you take statins (or never want to)

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Understanding of HEART DISEASE, CVD, cholesterol, saturated fat has moved on A LOT since “The lipid hypothesis” (which even today is still called a hypothesis for good reason… it was never proven, and it won’t be because it’s not true).

For example, from the video below… “normalizing insulin can help the thyroid function normally, which improves cholesterol metabolism.”

I am shocked and horrified by the continued use of statins, given where we are now in our knowledge of heart disease. Regularly eating fish has been shown to have a greater effect than statins. That’s just ONE lifestyle factor!

We need to get into HOLISTIC prevention and management, the body functions as a synergistic WHOLE. And as the graph below shows, cholesterol is not even correlated with heart disease…  Continue reading “CRITICAL information if you take statins (or never want to)” →

Is meat carcinogenic?

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Mino asks…

“A doctor who leads a cancer research foundation, Prof. Veronesi, says that meat contains carcinogens, and so should limited in consumption, or even avoided. Do you agree?”

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There’s a lot of talk at the moment about this subject, and it’s a very big subject, because of a recent study.

However, the ancestral health community has pretty much unanimously trashed the study conclusions, e.g. here, here, here and here.

A study is never just a study, there are different types, and as always with health, there are so many interacting factors that separating cause and effect is notoriously difficult.

Most often, observational or epidemiological studies are used to show a correlation that is then hyped by the media, as they like to do. Correlation is interesting but it doesn’t prove causation, in the same way that BMW owners correlating to heart attacks doesn’t mean we should stop driving BMWs.

We use nature as one of our key guiding principles… humans have ALWAYS been hunter-gatherers, that is our natural diet, it’s what made us human. And hunter-gatherers existing today are known to be free of modern lifestyle diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes etc. So, any data that suggests a practice that is inherent in our 2.5 million year homo genus history is damaging, raises an eyebrow.  Continue reading “Is meat carcinogenic?” →

How to be detached

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Imtiyaz asks…

“Michael, can you please tell me more about the topic of detachment?”

Detachment comes from staying in the natural meditative state of awareness. If you commit to the “Live in the Moment” chapter’s methods of meditation and flow, you’ll naturally become detached from many things that cause pain, because identification with thoughts causes pain, believing that happiness comes primarily from circumstances causes pain etc.

If you think of how happy children are, that happiness doesn’t come from things or ideas, but primarily from their state of being. So meditation CENTERS you, and frees you from ideas and beliefs that take you away from happiness, that is detachment.  Continue reading “How to be detached” →

Is saturated fat bad for you?

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Many long-held beliefs about nutrition are crumbling… most shocking of which is the idea that saturated fat is bad. An in-depth review of data in 2009 concluded…

“…there is no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease.”

A similar robust review in 2014 came to the same conclusion…

“Current evidence does not clearly support cardiovascular guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats.”

SHOCK HORROR, and frankly annoying that YET AGAIN, the advice doled out for decades has been hurting people, not helping. Why has is taken 50 years before anybody bothered to see if the “lipid hypothesis” was true? And why tell people to avoid healthy fats based on weak evidence and mere theory?

Many cutting-edge health research geniuses have delved, and discovered that the whole idea was built on shaky foundations, including a shocking revelation that Ancel Keys fudged some data to show an association between saturated fat and heart disease, where none existed.  Continue reading “Is saturated fat bad for you?” →

We recommend you give up grains and dairy

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The Happy Guide position on grains and dairy is “anyone with illness should quit grains and dairy” (see page 48 of the book).

In fact, I would encourage everyone to quit these foods. The Happy Guide diet does allow rice which is considered safe, and quinoa/millet which are not actually grains but seeds.

Here’s more from Kelly Brogan about a new study…

“Both celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity can result in autoimmune conditions including diabetes, arthritis, thyroiditis, and neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis and gluten ataxia. This study aimed to elucidate the mechanisms underlying the neurologic manifestations of potentially undiagnosed sensitivity.

I’ve previously discussed the literature supporting gluten-brain clinical significance and highly recommend that anyone suffering from psychiatric or neurologic symptoms consider a month-long (at least) elimination of these two categories of foods, gluten and dairy.”

Grains and dairy are not natural human foods at all. For two and a half million years, since “homo” genus began, we did not have them in our diets, so it’s no wonder they cause so many problems. Quit, quit, quit!

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How to kill your ego

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The ego is the illusion of a million thoughts we incorrectly called “me.” This very destructive false sense of self has many buttons that can be pushed, and does nothing but damage in our lives.

Ultimately, we cannot end our pain without killing the ego.

See the ego as false by listening, watching, noticing… every thought, every reaction. Stay awake! Awareness alone transforms. Nothing else need be done.

Be aware, and you become authentic — and WHAT A RELIEF, to drop the burden of a false self, with its million shoulds and shouldn’ts, with its million rules and regulations, with its million buttons and reactions.

What a relief to live in the beautiful simplicity of NOW.

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The big picture of unwanted thoughts

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Caught in a web
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By understanding all the factors affecting your thoughts, you can get really clear about how to get rid of your unwanted ones…

Attitude

Thoughts come back depending on the meaning you previously gave, depending on your attitude to the original event. What meaning did you give? How did you react?

To get rid, you must change the meaning and attitude to “don’t care.”

If your attitude and meaning is fear, you cause your mind to react in primitive ways that are meant to protect you from danger. Anxiety, the fight or flight state is a state to save your life in extreme danger, it’s not a state that’s good for logical thinking… Continue reading “The big picture of unwanted thoughts” →

The best diet tip ever

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What can I have for dinner?

This is such a common problem for everyone and especially moms or dads preparing food for the whole family.

You get home from work, you’re tired, the kids are screaming for food and all you want to do is relax…

You look in the fridge and find a limp piece of celery and an out-of-date chicken leg. This all-too-common scenario is a perfect recipe for a hunt for the take-out menu… Continue reading “The best diet tip ever” →

How to lose weight easily

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Measuring waist, weight loss
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With some very simple mindset ideas and a crystal clear plan, it IS possible to lose weight easily and keep it off for good. In this article, you’ll learn the simple and easy tools you need to make it happen for you.

I’ve never seen this approach fail — it always works when it’s carefully and faithfully applied.

The “BIG STUFF” of weight loss

You need to hit a calorie target consistently and easily every day (or most days — it’s what you do most of the time that matters).

This plan does NOT involve COUNTING calories, which I’ll explain later. The mega-important words there are consistently and easily, so here’s how you do it… Continue reading “How to lose weight easily” →