Taurine is the next creatine.

Hear me out...

RCTs in humans show clear benefits from taurine (1-6g per day) in both disease states and for exercise performance.

Taurine is powerful stuff. 🧵 Blood pressure reduction (PMID: 26781281), both SBP (systolic) and DBP (diastolic)

Improved vascular function in Type 2 DM (40546935)

Improved markers of metabolic syndrome including SBP/DBP, decreased triglycerides, decreased fasting glucose (38755142)

Biggest nutrient deficiency in the US?

Potassium? Choline? Vitamin D?

Nope, it’s infrared light (760-1000nm). 🧵 Believe it or not, the mitochondria in every cell in your body make the MAJORITY of your melatonin. (>95%) in response to infrared light (PMID 36671781, 29164625)

And almost NONE of us are getting enough of it.

I am not a fan of methylene blue. The data clearly shows that unless you have a block in your electron transport chain, it LOWERS ATP production in your mitochondria.

I think most people are conflating MAO-A inhibition and serotonergic effects with mitochondrial benefit. Yes, metabolic dysfunction is common but methylene blue is not the way to address this.

The easy root cause solution is to cut out seed oils and processed sugars rather than turning your tongue (and brain) blue.

Sugar is bad for you, but not for the reason you think.

Sugar is NOT bad for you because it raises your blood sugar.

Sugar is bad for you because it causes dysbiosis in your gut => increases endotoxin =>inflammation/metabolic dysfunction.

A thread... 🧵 From the outset, it's important to point out that "naked sugar" (think table sugar= sucrose and high fructose corn syrup) has different effects in the body than sugar consumed as a part of fruits/fruit juice/honey etc.. we'll get to this eventually...

Fasting insulin is a SINGLE, CHEAP, EASY BLOOD TEST that could change the health landscape in the United States over night. If every doctor ordered a fasting insulin ($30) on their patients -and knew how to interpret it**- we would immediately understand how great the burden of metabolic dysfunction in our country is and we could begin targeting it effectively.

Seed oils ARE inflammatory. Full stop.

They increase oxidized LDL (PMIDs: 2008870, 14739118, 8432867, 28503188, 9488997).

Oxidized LDL is known to worsen atherosclerosis (PMID 24222937) and to bind C-reactive protein (CRP) (12244213) a marker of inflammation.

(All studies cited are in humans)

1/8 Seed oils increase Lp(a) (PMIDs: 21466598, 14739118).

Lp(a) is known to be pro-atherogenic, pro-thrombotic and pro-inflammatory (32453609)

2/8

You're not fat because you eat too much, you're fat because you eat the wrong foods...

(1/12) Yes, eating too much of the wrong foods (ultra-processed foods) is doubly bad...

But it's the wrong foods that are CAUSING you to overeat, and therein lies the problem for many people.

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What do the randomized controlled trials with seed oils in humans REALLY show when we look at them in detail?

Let’s briefly look at ALL eleven of them and see where this leaves us…

Thread ⬇️ 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 (𝐑𝐂𝐎𝐓) (𝐏𝐌𝐈𝐃:𝟏𝟒𝟐𝟖𝟖𝟏𝟎𝟓): 1965 - 2y follow up. 80 patients with ischaemic heart disease. 80g olive oil vs 80g corn oil per day vs control (diet as normal) .

Result: At two years, the proportion of patients remaining free of major cardiac events is greater for the control group (75%) than for the two oil groups (olive oil 57%, corn oil 52%).

Potential flaws: only the experimental group was instructed to avoid trans fats (TF), while the controlled group was believed to consume trans fat since it was given no advice on dietary fat. In spite of this, the group eating saturated fat had better cardiac outcomes than the experimental group.

TLDR: 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐜 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 despite control group likely consuming more TF.

Spinach
Oats
Almond butter
Seed oils

These “health” foods contain compounds that have been shown to worsen joint pain and arthritis…

See the research below⤵️ Oxalates - deplete sulfate levels in the body. Lower levels of sulfate can lead to weaker cartilaginous tissues, ligaments, tendons and bones.

These nutrients hold the KEY to LONGEVITY:

Taurine
Creatine
Anserine
Carnosine
Carnitine
Vitamin B12 and K2

There is only one food that contains all these nutrients.

Which is it? Taurine, creatine, carnosine, and anserine

I have a lot of respect for vegans and vegetarians.

Making intentional choices about your diet and removing all processed foods are the first steps to radical health!

And don't forget that MANY essential nutrients for humans are only found in red meat..

[Threads] Vitamin A, B12, K2
Creatine
Taurine
Carnitine
Carnosine
Anserine
4-hydroxyproline

These nutrients have been shown to prevent cognitive decline, muscle loss and fight against chronic diseases.

These are all major factors that reduce quality of life and shorten life span.

This is why @kneesovertoesguy and his family choose to eat an animal-based diet of mostly meat, fruit, honey, raw dairy, and organs…

3 quicks steps on how to start an animal-based diet below ⤵️ Meat and organs should be at the center of diet.

How much meat?

1 pound per 100 pounds of goal body weight. So if you you are 150 pounds, you should eat 1.5 pounds of meat per day.

Which organs? Start with liver. The most nutrient dense food on the planet.
0.5 ounce per day is perfect.

Oatmeal is NOT healthy.

Oats contain heavy metals, pesticides, mycotoxins, phytic acid, and saponins. These are all extremely toxic for us.

Oatmeal is NOT a healthy breakfast.

See the research and my alternatives⤵️ Pesticides

https://t.co/yuLdbpWmSyewg.org/news-insights/…

Red meat reverses aging.

Nutrients exclusively found in red meat have been shown to prevent cognitive decline, muscle loss, and fight against chronic diseases.

These are all major factors that reduce quality of life and shorten life span.

Red meat is essential for longevity. Dietary creatine, taurine, carnosine, anserine and 4-hydroxyproline are beneficial for preventing chronic diseases in humans

Plant-based (vegan) arguments are well intentioned but they fall apart when considered carefully...

Farming plants on land leads to FAR greater loss of life than farming livestock on the same land, and the latter clearly provides a more nutrient-rich food for humans... Factory farming of livestock isn't great, AND I would argue that industrial plant agriculture is even WORSE for the land from pesticide, water, and soil quality perspectives...

We rarely hear plant-based advocates discuss this point.

Mostly everything you've been told about nutrition is wrong:

-Red meat is GOOD for you
-Sugar is NOT bad for you
-Spinach is NOT a health food
-Oatmeal is the WORST breakfast
-Saturated fat is HEALTHY
-Seed oils (canola, sunflower etc.) are HORRIBLE Red meat is GOOD for you.

Replacing grain based carbohydrates with 200g of red meat resulted in LOWER levels of inflammation in an 8 week interventional trial in humans.

French fries. You love them but they are probably one of the most addictive and weight gain promoting foods on the planet... Potatoes by themselves appear to be quite satiating...

But when they are deep fried in seed oils (peanut, sunflower, safflower etc.) things go off the rails in terms of satiety...

If ApoB containing lipoproteins (LDL, VLDL, chylomicrons) cause atherosclerosis, then why don't we develop atherosclerosis in veins (and only in arteries)? @PeterAttiaMD The same amount of ApoB circulates through the venous and arterial circulation, and the endothelium of these is the same.

If ApoB is inherently atherogenic, why don't we see atherosclerosis in the native venous circulation?

Stop drinking almond milk!

Here's why... Many almond milks contain seed oils like canola, safflower or sunflower oils which are high in linoleic acid.

Linoleic acid is an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid that accumulates in your cell membranes, raises oxLDL & Lp(a) and breaks down into harmful compounds like 4-HNE.

5 foods you think are healthy that are NOT:

1. Oatmeal
2. Peanut butter
3. Spinach
4. Chia seeds
5. Almond milk Oatmeal:

-Oats contain significant amounts of phytic acid, a molecule that chelates minerals and prevents their absorption.

-Most of this phytic acid survives cooking (though fermentation can degrade phytic acid).

tldr: oatmeal robs you of minerals

So let me get this straight...Covid is an illness that:
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is much worse in the obese but we haven’t recommended people lose weight or think about diet... ...is much worse in people with low vitamin D but we were told to stay indoors and parks were closed...