The original extent of bison herds prior to European contact. That's a lot of grassland now being strip-mined with GMO corn and soy crops. Sad.
High-input, industrialized mono-cropping a historical and ecological abomination. It is sustained by government subsidies, agro-industrial lobbying and other forms of market intervention.
Unlike the Native American tribes who ate bison nose-to-tail, modern Western human is obese, metabolically damaged and on a crash course with cancer and autoimmune disease. In no small part thanks to industrially refined grains, sugar and plant oils.
Re-wilding the American West with regenerative cattle and bison grazing is the logical, responsible and historical land use for these rural areas.
How did it go wrong?
Fiat money = fiat food.
Broken monetary incentives lead to mis-allocation of resources. Under this market distortion mono-cropping, manufacture and consumption of high fructose corn syrup and soy oil seems like a good idea. Its not.
Read the Fiat Standard by @saifedean to understand this critical link between money and industrially refined garbage being passed off as 'food'
In US: 'Model predictions show that the highest frequencies of atrazine detection in shallow ground water beneath agricultural areas...
- the western Corn Belt
- eastern Great Plains
- Pacific Northwest
- Mid-Atlantic regions ' water.usgs.gov/nawqa/home_map…
Alright this thread really blew up. Thank you and welcome to all my new followers. To be clear, I have presented one view of the topic as described by @TuckerGoodrich and @CarnivoreMD, which I agree
For what to replace your seed oils with check out the work of @RealOilRspctr and start using real fats. I prefer the animal fats rich contain fat soluble vitamins
For those looking for specific references from the literature check out the podcast show notes carnivoremd.com/how-seed-oils-…
Recently implemented a strict blue light/circadian protocol on a patient with ocular myasthenia gravis
Still symptomatic despite being highly compliant with strict whole foods, low carb diet (meat-based)
Lots of artificial light exposure however. 1/4
Protocol included
- deliberate AM sun gazing (no glasses)
- fasted cold thermogenesis
- blue blockers inside/during screen time
- full body sun exposure
- strictly eating outside, dinner finished before sunset
- removal of LED bulbs
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One week later... patient's symptoms have disappeared with no need for their acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
Still early days, but I suspect correcting the circadian dysfunction and optimizing mitochondrial function has put them on a path to disease remission
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