-Wanted to understand why responses to chiropractic treatments were inconsistent.
-Role of the Nocebo – our pain sensing system. Pain pathways are influenced by nutrition.
-Diabetes is an inflammed pancreas.
-Not all inflammation is accompanied by swelling and heat. These occur only with robust injury.
-Overeating calories from any source puts on body fat. Accumulated body fat is a source of inflammation. With too much body fat, the body behaves as if it had a low grade infection.
-Body prefers to be in slight caloric deficit, but can adapt to a little excess body fat. Body fat over a person’s threshold is associated with classic markers of inflammation, as seen in levels of fasting blood glucose, triglycerides, LDL, HDL, CRP.
-Everyone’s response to food varies. Post-prandial glucose levels show what foods you react to.
-Kitavans ate a diet high in complex carbs of sweet potato, yams, taro, and fruit. Had good health, no obesity, long-lived.
-Overeating is the issue. When in caloric deficit, we heal and restore our mitochondria.
-High sugar, flour, and oxidized fatty acid foods trigger immediate inflammation. Cells get washed in sugar and will kick out inflammatory chemistry.
-Check blood glucose 2 hours post-prandial. Want to be below 140. If above, indicates carbohydrate intolerance.
-Mainstream is on a campaign to diss coconut oil. Saturated fatty acids raise both LDL and HDL. Sugar, flour, trans fatty acids raise LDL and lower HDL.
-Atherosclerosis is always in areas of turbulence. Blood samples are taken from the veins. Same amount of cholesterol in arteries is also in the veins. But we don’t have atherosclerosis in veins, only in the arteries. Aortic artery is in an area of high turbulence.
-After diabetes and metabolic syndrome onset, LDL and HDL get inflammed. Soft and buoyant particles become small, dense, hard and oxidized. LDL becomes a free radical, an autoantigen.
-Insulin is a hormone that stimulates the hormones that make cholesterol. HMG-CoA reductase is turned on by insulin and turned off by statins.
-Excess glucose in sugar and flour becomes body fat and high cholesterol. Statins are given to counter too much flour and sugar in the diet.
-Oxidized cholesterol is an irritant to the endothelial cells of the blood vessels. Accumulation reduces blood flow.
-Tissues never heal properly if the body is hypercaloric for a long time.
-We normally produce more LDL than HDL.
-2 part cholesterol series on YouTube at DeFlame Nutrition
-Chronic dietary injury from too much flour, sugar, and refined oils. The body never has a chance to heal with that chronic inflammation.
-Juan asks: What are the most potent anti-inflammatory foods? Look at what to eliminate rather than what to take. Most important, stop overeating. Stop the inflammation train. Replace with green vegetables, ginger, turmeric, most fruits.
-66% of US population is overweight or obese.
-Doris wants to know if there’s any problems with having fat and fruits together. People in tropical islands eat coconut and fruit together.
-Healthy stuff won’t hurt you unless you’re eating excess amounts of healthy stuff.
-Illiterate people in primitive societies stayed lean, free of heart disease and diabetes. It’s the misinformation permeating the literature that misleads.
-Arteriosclerosis is chronic inflammation of the arteries. Put that same inflammation in the joints and you have osteoarthritis, in the brain- Alzheimer’s, in the pancreas – diabetes.
