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Grains, Hormones, Inflammation, Nutrition

Conventionally Healthy vs Actually Healthy

It’s very easy in today’s fast-paced lives and somewhat stressful surroundings to forget to really think about what we’re putting inside our bodies. We all know that we are what we eat, we’ve all heard this. Yet not many of us make the time to really think about how we’re fuelling our cells, vital organs and musculoskeletal systems. Our bodies. More to the point, we’re not conscious of the toxins we’re consuming regularly, thinking they’re healthy – as that’s what society and culture says is healthy.

I often hear of someone close to someone who got a serious illness like Cancer and sadly passed away, and for them to say: “They lived a healthy life, they ate healthily.” The question that normally goes on in my head is: ‘By what standards? Conventionally healthy or actually healthy?’  The two are at almost opposite ends of the spectrum. I’m sorry if you have lost someone and this is hard to hear. I really think this is important to know though. We have what society is telling us is healthy and we have what is actually healthy. For example, did you know that for us to be healthy, we need to eat at least 51% of our daily food intake from raw, plant-based foods. Many advocates say we should be having 80-90% of our daily food intake in the form of plant-based foods. There is a clear reason vegans live the longest. This means vegetables and fruits. The vital fuel for our cells, the micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), come from plant-based foods. This is why I drink vegetable juices daily when I can. Most nutrients are killed in the cooking process and by the time vegetables have reached our plates, many of the nutrients are lost too in the transportation process. We then zap what’s left of them, eat a token piece of cooked broccoli and cooked carrot in the evening, with most of our plate loaded with carbs and meat/fish – and wonder why we get ill. At the bottom of this page, you’ll see a quote from the transcript of The Truth About Cancer series from a leading expert in Cancer.

Did you know that the USDA recommended foot plate does notmyplate_blue even include fat? Fat is an essential
macronutrient for our cells. Our brain cells are made of 70% fat. The rest of our cells are made of 50% fat. We need to consume a large proportion of healthy fats every single day – or we’re depriving our cells, and indeed our hormones, of what they need to thrive. Our ancestors would consume 60% fat, 20% protein and 20% carbs of the 3 macronutrients. This has now swung round to 60% carbs, 20% protein and 20% fat (and that fat proportion is an overestimate and the carb proportion and underestimate).

The reduction in fat and huge increase in high GI carbs over the last half century is what has contributed most to the obesity epidemic and surge in Type-2 diabetes (as well as many other illnesses) – according to the authors of Wheat Belly and Grain Brain and many other leading authorities in this space. You’ll also see in Wheat Belly how the quality of the modern grain is nothing like what it was originally – before all the genetically modified alterations of the proteins.

Here’s a diet I used to live on, thinking it was healthy: I’d wake up and have a ‘healthy wholegrain’ breakfast cereal with milk. For lunch, if I was busy, I’d have a ‘healthy wholegrain’ sandwich with meat/tuna and a few slices of cucumber and lettuce. I’d snack on fruit, or a bag of crisps or energy bar (not knowing what’s in the energy bar).  In the evening, I’d cook a plate protein such as tuna or chicken or steak, with a side portion (2/3 of the plate’s worth) of ‘healthy wholegrain pasta’ or mashed potato or boiled potatoes and a few pieces of cooked vegetables like broccoli or carrots or leaks. Little to no healthy fat.

Let’s start with breakfast: Grains cause inflammation due to their anti-nutrients (inflammation being the condition behind most serious health conditions and diseases, neurodegenerative diseases – and it accelerates biological ageing). Grains are also high glycemic meaning they trigger a super sharp blood sugar response and insulin surge afterwards. Continuous over exposure to insulin leads to insulin resistance and the likes of type-2 diabetes and fat retention – and adds to inflammation and many other health problems. Breakfast cereals are also loaded with sugar (unless they’re sugar free, and often have zero calorie sweeteners to counteract the lack of sweetness – more harmful than sugar) and other preservatives to give them a long shelf life. Sugar causes and feeds cancer cells. Cancer cells have 15 times the number of insulin receptors than normal cells. If you want to feed cancer cells, make sure to have lots of sugar. Sometimes some of the most healthy looking breakfast cereals have trans fats and vegetable oils not fit for human consumption. Milk causes inflammation. Probably because it’s designed for baby cows to grow fast. Nutrient intake at breakfast: Zero. Inflammation creation: High.

Lunch: Healthy wholegrain bread with ‘low-fat’ margarine spread (with other preservatives added to bread for longer shelf life): Inflammatory. Meat or fish intake with high GI carbohydrates: Poor food combination, inflammatory and acid-producing. Lettuce and cucumber: a fraction of the nutrient intake required to counteract all of the negative effects of the bread and margarine. Most margarines contain hydrogenated vegetable oils fit more for a car engine than the human body. Bread has a very high glycemic index so blood sugars spike way above safe levels so induces another surge of insulin. The surge in insulin also triggers mood swings when this hormone extracts all the excess glucose (blood sugar) out of the blood to prevent the blood from becoming toxic. You get that natural high of course, which is nice – but short lived. In comes the food coma.

Dinner: 2/3: Meat / fish – nice source of protein, unless it’s cooked in trans fats like vegetable oils. 2/3 of the plate with potatoes / pasta? High glycemic so triggers an insulin response, leading to fat retention and leads to insulin resistance when done consistently. Cooked vegetables? Better than not having vegetables but most nutrients are stripped of them.

Desert? The healthiest of deserts would be fruit. Unfortunately, this sits on top of the rest of the food and ferments. A desert high in sugar as most are? Insulin -> hormone disruption -> far retention -> fuel for cancer cells.

NOW: A typical diet: Breakfast: Fully loaded whole organic egg vegetable omelette with spinach, peppers, onions, broccoli and a side portion of avocado and raw tomato and spinach with room temperature olive oil. To drink: Green vegetable juice and green tea. This is nutrient rich with very low insulin spikes. This fuels cells and strengthens the immune system. I normally have an Americano coffee after breakfast with no milk – because milk is designed for baby cows to grow fast. I don’t resemble many features of a cow, so I reckon it’s best not to drink it.

Lunch: Massive mixed salad with tuna or chicken or sometimes without a source of protein. I’ll often have quinoa or sweet potato if I’m having an active day. This is nutrient rich and triggers a very low insulin response. Sweet potato / butternut squash / quinoa / millet are low-moderate on the glycemic index.

Dinner: 2/3 of my plate consists of vegetables, normally cooked admittedly with a source of protein. If I’ve had a really active day, I’ll have sweet potato or quinoa. Desert? Not normally unless it’s a special occasion. Once a week I tend to eat a dessert. I do have a sweet tooth. I’ll treat myself to dark chocolate too occasionally after dinner. Oh, and I’ll often have a glass or two of red wine. Red wine does actually have some health benefits – although, without would be better.

Snacks: Fresh whole fruit or nuts (macadamia or almond or walnuts), organic plant-based protein bars.

Are you eating a conventionally healthy diet or a healthy diet?

Low on testosterone? You will be if you’re not getting sufficient micronutrients. This is one of the first things that Dr Incledon does when patients fly in from all over the world to see him to increase their testosterone completely naturally. He tests for every vitamin and mineral deficiency, before recommending to them how they change their diet and integrate an exercise regime to support them in increasing testosterone naturally. In almost every single case, his patients are deficient on a number of vital nutrients required for testosterone production in the body.  I’ll be publishing an interview with Dr Thomas Incledon soon. Stay tuned.

Here’s a quote from the transcript of The Truth About Cancer:

Ty: So just to reiterate, what we have to watch out are the sugar spikes and what might cause those sugar spikes? It’s the man-made processed sugars, the candies, the sweets. We also have to watch out for sugar’s effect on the immune system.

Dr. David Jockers: Sugar really impairs the immune system. In fact, in 1970s, a scientist named John Ely—and what John did—Dr. Ely, he actually looked in detail at what happens…how do white blood cells run? What’s different about white blood cells and normal cells? What we found was that white blood cells actually need 20 times more Vitamin C than normal cells.

Now, he also looked at, what’s the pathway for white blood cells to get the Vitamin C that they need. We know Vitamin C is an antioxidant, protects the white blood cells from oxidated stress and of course, most of your listeners—most of your people should know, white blood cells are kind of like your military. They’re going out and they’re fighting wars every single day and so they need a lot of protection.

How does the Vitamin C actually get into the white blood cells? That’s the question. What he found was that it goes through the same pathway that sugar or glucose gets into the cell – through insulin – and so what that means is when blood sugar elevates, our body naturally produces this hormone called insulin. Insulin takes the sugar, puts it into the cell where it belongs. What we know is that cells, including white blood cells, they have a greater affinity for glucose—the insulin receptor itself has a greater affinity for glucose than it does Vitamin C. So what that actually means is that when blood sugar is elevated, we are unable to get the Vitamin C into the cell and so there is something that Dr. Ely came up with, it was called the phagocytic index, and it was just this measurement of how good a white blood cell is at destroying either abnormal cells like cancer or bacteria, virus something along those lines.

Ty: How many bad guys can it kill?


Dr. David Jockers: Exactly. That’s exactly what he was looking at. Here is what he found was that a blood sugar of 120 actually reduces your phagocytic index by 75 percent. So, we look at our blood sugar of 120, we know that if you have a fasting blood sugar of 120, you are considered pre-Diabetic, 125/126 is diabetic. Most people say, I don’t have a fasting blood sugar of that, however, most people in society – let’s say we eat cereal in the morning – just eating the bowl of cereal in the morning for the next three to four hours, you’re going to have a blood sugar above 120.

Ty: Just from cereal?
Dr. David Jockers: Just from cereal.
Ty: Not even sugared cereal just because of the grains?

Dr. David Jockers: Exactly. Just eating Cheerios. Having a glass of orange juice with that. Your blood sugar is going to be pumped up and what’s happening there is, you are actually reducing your white blood cells’ ability to break down cancer cells. Then if you go and at lunch and you have a sandwich, have these high carb meals all throughout the day, you’re actually reducing your phagocytic index. Most people are spending 16 hours a day with reduced immune function.

Ty: As we just heard from Dr. Jockers, sugar actually burdens and impairs the immune system. It fuels cancer cells, but that’s not the only reason to stay away from processed man-made sugars like candies and sweets. Another reason we need to stay away from it, is it’s been recently shown through studies that have been published in peer-reviewed journals, that sugar actually creates cancer cells. This is called oncogenesis. 

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