The Intersection of Voodoo Dieting and Common Sense

There are many theories of illness and patho-physiology. As much as I respect the libertarian critique of the FDA and ardently support the "right to try" movement, medical regulation is imperative. Here is Israel there are so many quacks who invent medical theories and charge millions of shekel from naive cult followers. I will grant you that greed is corroding the medical system is the US, but self appointed healers can be even more sneaky and dishonest, unless they really do believe waving their hands above your body can heal PCOS, cancer or renal failure, and in that case they are delusional and should not be allowed to drag others into their dillusion. I have seen people die or their lives ruined. On the other hand there are also insidious forces in the mainstream medical community. For every doctor who promotes an verified theory on the unintended side effects of vaccinations, such as the article published in The Lancelot, there are also researchers whose concerns are quashed and voices censored. The tobacco industry hired scientists to falsify reports as did the opiate empire, specifically the Sackler brothers who introduced the pain scale. Makhaila Peterson introduces her blog, Don't Eat That, with a statement: "The food pyramid is a lie, fat is good for you, and many (if not most) health problems are treatable with diet alone. "  I strongly believe we should always be willing to engage in inquiry. Jewish tradition teaches that food has a strong spiritual affect on a person, and common sense would therefore say that of course food would have an impact on physical well-being, both medically and from a mental health perspective. The mainstream medical community has largely accepted the concept of allergies. The Epipen has been of course been a way that malady has been capitalized upon, but it also would be hard to deny the evidence of a comatose 16 year old boy whose throat closed up from eating a peanut (true story, so sad.) This article was titled intersection, as a kind of tongue in cheek reference to the resolution of the two perspective: statistical research. I will include below an interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight of a vaccine questioner who was blackballed, even though he had political leverage and connections. I can only imagine the stumbling blocks put in the way of researchers and questioners who do not have that kind of political power.

I also included a link to the blog mentioned earlier, Don't Eat That. After suffering from severe depression, arthritis and fearing she would not make it to her thirtieth birthday, she found a way to cure herself, her dad, and a half a year ago had a baby girl! Miracles do happen.

  

http://mikhailapeterson.com/2017/09/12/baby/

And this is the explanation for the zero carb diet.

Zero Carb – The Carnivore Diet

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Mikhaila

So I’m onto the next stage of food weirdness.

I’m on day 5 of only eating meat.

What is the Zero Carb Diet?
Literally, it’s people who only eat meat and animal products (this can include dairy). Obviously, it won’t include dairy for me. I still think dairy is evil. Some people have been doing this diet for 20 years. There are tribes that only eat meat as well (Inuit, Massai, etc.)

How do they not get scurvy and vitamin deficiencies?
It’s possible that some of the vitamins we need are actually vitamins we use for metabolizing glucose. For instance, vitamin c competes with glucose, so it’s possible that people who don’t eat anything with glucose need far less vitamin c. There also is small amounts of vitamin C in meat

There are a lot of questions about this diet, but people seem to thrive on it.

I’m going to try it out for a month and see what happens.

I have a couple of theories/questions:1. People who thrive only eating meat have extremely damaged microbiomes and can’t tolerate plants. Meat doesn’t need a microbiome to be digested, so eating meat eliminates the microbiome problem. Plants need to be broken down partly with a functioning microbiome (especially carb-y plants). I don’t believe people are carnivores. I do believe that you need a good microbiome to help you digest plants. Antibiotic use, birth control use, C-sections (among many other things), over generations, is BAD. It’s cumulative too, which concerns me. I obviously have a microbiome problem (I can’t take probiotics is a big clue). I was born C-section so my microbiome is going to be a little funky. Or a lot funky. Then my baby, born naturally, breastfed, is still going to have a funky microbiome because she inherits it from me! Generationally, through antibiotic use and whatever else, we’re screwing over our children. It’s terrible. Anyway, I think maybe that’s the reason for this new microbiome-less diet. If anyone has any info on the microbiomes of carnivorous people, comment below, that’d be really interesting.
2. Maybe people on the zero carb diet haven’t tried the safe foods. A lot of the stories I’ve read are people trying to reintroduce fruit and nuts and then declaring all plants are harmful to them. What happens if you reintroduce coconut oil? Lettuce? Is that still going to bother you?

Why am I doing this?
1. I haven’t been able to get as well as I felt before the pregnancy. I’m at an 8/10. I was able to get to a 9.5-10/10 before the pregnancy. I was able to tolerate more and now I can’t without a reaction. I feel good but not AS good as I did before. This is probably from a microbiome change. There’s evidence that your microbiome gets less diverse during pregnancy. This is something I REALLY didn’t need. (See this article for more info: “The first trimester gut microbiota is similar in many aspects to that of healthy non-pregnant male and female controls, but by the third trimester, the structure and composition of the community resembles a disease-associated dysbiosis that differs among women”… GR8)
2. Every time I try to reintroduce probiotics it fails miserably. Even baby amounts. There’s something really wrong if you can’t tolerate probiotics in any form in any amount. I can’t even do homemade sauerkraut (and I don’t have a problem with red cabbage so it’s not the cabbage).
3. I don’t seem to be getting less sensitive, which makes me think I’m not healing, I’m just not irritating myself. I need to move onto the healing stage.

Plan of action:
1. Meat for a month, see if I feel any better/different.
2. Eat lettuce after a month and see if that irritates me. (Arthritis, digestive problems)
3. If it turns out (my limited) plants are bothering me, I’ll continue with the all meat diet and theoretically allow my gut to heal. Bone broth, and meat. THEN I’ll attempt to add in probiotics and some plants once I’m healed.

I know that when I have a reaction I can’t digest plants properly. I also know that almost all plants give me an autoimmune disorder and severe depression and skin issues and makes my life literally not worth living. I wanted to try all meat a while ago but was unsure about the vitamin thing. After some research though I feel a bit better and am more than willing to give it a try:

http://www.jbc.org/content/87/3/651.full.pdf+html

https://zerocarbzen.com/resources/ – This guy really knows his stuff.

I recently met a chiropractor who combined food research with enterpraneurial capatilism.  Voodoo dieting as I just coined it can be a risky game, and it can be expensive, time consuming and be so all consuming that is takes over your life. In my opinion, over obsession on food and what you eat, can also be debilitating. What a fantatic niche market, custom tailored diet advisement with indivually developed vitamin packages. I definitely know he is passionate about his work, and truly cares about helping people because he got into a long conversation with my sister and I, total strangers, freely sharing his apple cider vinager theory and walking us through it. Granted we were on line and needed to pass time, but either way I was not just impressed, I was convinced! (Not necessarily to try his diet right away, but to seriously check it out and to let go of my early negative experiences with food fearmongering and recognie there can be reality and truth to some of this, and even a way to verify and defend.)

https://www.facebook.com/salzmandc

In the following video Mikhila and her father discuss more of their history, even three generations back, in overcoming depression and other illnesses.

Side note: When I was speaking to my sister about this post she shared an amazing insight. As much as Makhaila's story can inform and inspire, her cure is not universal. That is why we need to be critical in our research and application. Yes, people with celiac disease must stay far away from gluten, and removing gluten from their diet has changed many people's lives. But gluten and bread is a staple in most people's diets for years; and for good reason. When it then became fashionable for everyone to go and eliminate gluten, negative side effects started emerging. The ability to study, analyze and predict is amazing, but we also need to use reason and critical rigor in complex medical situations. One size definitely does not fit all.