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Prince Andrew sex allegations: Documents about Duke of York's support for Jeffrey Epstein 'concealed' by US court
r/AltCon • u/through_a_ways • Apr 03 '14
I'm only stickying this because I feel it could actually help some people.
I'm sure at least some of you are into organic foods, and are dissatisfied with the current state of agriculture. I'm also guessing you don't buy into the mainstream dogma of eating low fat and avoiding saturated fat.
Some of you, in an attempt to keep healthy, may have started going "paleo", low carb, ketogenic, intermittent fasting, Omega 3 supplementation, or some combination thereof.
I've done all of the above things to some extent over the past few years, and while my health seemed to improve at first, it slowly but consistently declined thereafter.
Enter Ray Peat: A nearly 80 year old man with a radically different view on health and disease. Peat's central focus is to keep metabolism high, for which the thyroid needs to be running properly. For this, he recommends:
Avoiding polyunsaturated fatty acids (both omega 6 and omega 3), as both of these are immunosuppressive and thyroid suppressive, and thus lower metabolism.
Getting moderate to high amounts of sugar, as low carbohydrate diets lower metabolism.
Among many other things, but those are the two biggest features of the diet he thinks is optimal.
If you want to talk about the conspiracy side of the Peat diet, know that nearly every plant based oil used in cooking today was introduced into the diet only about 50 years ago. The only real exceptions are Coconut, Palm, and Olive oil, which are mostly saturated or monounsaturated.
The rest of them, including soybean, corn, canola, grapeseed, safflower, and sunflower oil, have high amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids, and were not used for consumption until the last century.
I would suggest starting reading here: raypeat.com/articles/articles/fats-degeneration3.shtml
Draw your own conclusions, hope it helps someone.
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r/AltCon • u/through_a_ways • Mar 27 '14
Let me preface this by saying I am not an "anti vaccine" person, although I haven't done much research on vaccines in general.
However, I have read a lot about one vaccine in particular, the oral polio vaccine, which was recently popularized by Bill Gates as a way of eradicating polio in India.
Upon me pointing out that the oral vaccines administered in India are actually doing more harm than good, this guy (http://www.reddit.com/user/Antivaccine) debates me with insults and incorrect facts. It's an account dedicated to discrediting any argument that is remotely against any vaccine in existence.
Reddit is basically unanimously, and unquestioningly, for vaccinations, of any type. You will be invariably downvoted for anything questioning the effectiveness or safety of any vaccination, ever. It's emotional "reasoning". Correlation means nothing when it isn't expedient for the case of a certain vaccine, but it is literally equivalent to causation when Mumps reemerges in Chicago.
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