Shoulder tendonitis and keto or carnivore diet

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #283

That’s a shame. My acne was never all that bad in adulthood, but it was still annoying—pimples and blackheads all the time. I also had a very greasy face and scalp. All that cleared up when I went keto (took several months, though), and it only returns if I yield to cravings and overdo the carbs (and even if I stay in ketosis, interestingly).

#284

I had acne for years as a teen and young adult. Oily greasy skin. I took tetracycline for many years. I remember when I fasted 10 days with my father in my early twenties how my skin cleared. Only to find the pimples and pustules return when I started eating again.

How do you know when you’re in ketosis?

(B Creighton) #285

She probably means yeast. We all have some yeast. It is nothing to be ashamed of, but if you eat more sugar, you are feeding it, so the SAD diet helps it take over. It can cause skin rashes, etc.

The MCT, capryllic acid, is highly anti-fungal/anti-yeast. She should try goat yogurt/milk and coconut milk or oil(oil would be better). The fat structure simply deconstructs the cell walls of the yeast. Another secret I learned more recently is that niacinamide is highly anti-fungal as well. It interferes with the yeast’s abilitly to make new cell wall. If I take 500 mg in the morning, and again at night(for a total of a gram per day) it clears up my skin fungus, and associated whiteheads. It also works to clean out gut yeast. Whether it will help with rosacea, I really can’t say tho. I don’t think you can overdo capryllic acid, but you can overdo niacinamide. The absolute recommended limit seems to be 3 gr per day. I use a third of that.

(B Creighton) #286

I take some every morning. Good source of vitamin A, D, and the essential omegas. In the evening I take calamari oil(very high in DHA without the mercury concerns) and krill oil. Free DHA needs a transporter to get into the brain tho, so I take a phosphatidylcoline with it. For a cheaper source, you can just take lecithin.

#287

My daughter son in law and grandson all slept in a home in South Florida that had mold hidden in the walls. They lived there for several months until it was discovered and she believes the three of them all have toxic mold due to this.

She will only eat foods that suit her tastes. She won’t try fish. She’s not a big sugar addict. She can and does do intermittent fasting she avoids cows milk and cheese but I dont think she will try goat milk or yogurt.

My mom used to give us kids cod liver oil every morning.

(Bill) #288

None whatsoever.

#289

This may be naive but why are drs telling us to avoid animal saturated fats. Is it purely the profit motive?

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #290

I had forgotten, but five years ago, when I joined this site, we had a number of people going through a Candida die-off from cutting the carbs. It was apparently difficult to experience, but everyone who went through it felt it was worth it, in the end.

It’s good to know about caprylic acid and niacinamide, though. I don’t remember any previous discussion of them in this context, so thanks for mentioning them.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #291

No, it’s not purely for profit. There is a belief that saturated fat causes cardiovascular disease. This idea was largely promoted by a man named Ancel Keys, who was one of the scientists who treated Dwight Eisenhower’s heart attacks. Keys was a physiologist, and he conducted studies trying to prove that saturated fat in the diet was linked to coronary heart disease.

Keys did research in 22 different countries, measuring fat consumption and heart disease. In the end, he published results for 7 of those countries, showing a clear correlation between diet and heart health. Unfortunately, when we go back and analyse the data for all 22 countries, we find that there is no such correlation. It exists only in the 7 countries he picked for his article. So Keys cherry-picked his data to prove his point.

Interestingly, however, there is an even stronger correlation between sugar consumption and heart disease in Keys’s data, but he dismissed that correlation out of hand. I don’t believe Keys himself was involved, but several of his good friends were being paid at the time by the sugar industry to play down any harmful effects of sugar, and blame everything on fat intake instead.

Keys was a bully, and he destroyed the careers of a couple of scientists who disagreed with him. And he and a number of his friends got into prominent positions in the American Heart Association and the U.S. government that allowed them to promote Keys’s diet-heart hypothesis. It has since become a standard scientific belief, despite a number of large, well-funded studies that contradict it.

#292

The pharmaceutical industry gains by this belief as well. As I know most of my friends are on statins to this day.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #293

I do believe Upton Sinclair was right, when he wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

#294

And if you have a hypothesis to prove you’ll find a way to prove it regardless of whether it’s true or not.

#295

Any comments on fermented meat? Has anyone tried it? Does the bacteria in fermented meat kill off bad bacteria in the gut?

(B Creighton) #296

Well, that is different. If it was toxic black mold phosphatidylcoline is supposed to help get the toxins out of fat. The body makes lots of glutathione, but it can get depleted, so taking acetyl glutathione will help remove toxins from the bloodstream. If it is bad, I would probably seek the help of a specialist. Usually, the body just detoxifies itself over time with a good diet.

(B Creighton) #297

There are some probiotics which kill off bad bacteria. For the stomach and upper GI tract, Lactobacillus reuteri is an important one. It’s apparently one of the few that can live in that acidic environment. There is also a beneficial fungal probiotic that will help keep down the bad guys. I also recently have used bacteriophages to do this. Unlike even antibiotics, they can penetrate the biofilms that some of the bad guys secrete to protect themselves, so can be very effective. Problem is, there are only about 4 available in the US market, and they attack a fairly small family of bad guys, of around ten species if I recall correctly. I personally would be very leary of fermented meat… To me it seems to waste meat nutrients in favor of carbon dioxide and alcohol. Since it is not necessary for me to preserve meat this way, I find no benefit for the extra cost.

#298

What about the probiotics found in full fat yogurt? Is it useful in ridding the gut of unhealthy bacteria?

#299

Best thing you can do with the evil bacteria dudes is starve them. As luck would have it, a lot of them like sugar. You want to eat for the good guys.

If your gut microbiome is a hot mess, and most people’s are, then I like the analogy that Dr. Steven Gundry uses; consuming a bunch of probiotics is like trying to put out a forest fire with a hosepipe.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #300

I wonder if fasting would be useful for killing off unwanted intestinal bacteria.

(B Creighton) #301

Yogurts these days are typically limited to 5 or 6 strains of probiotics. There used to be at least one that had L. reuteri, but they don’t anymore. I used several different brands of probiotics with a fairly wide variety of probiotics, plus kefir, and some single strain probiotics over months for recovery of GI health. Plus, as I have said bacteriophages. When you consider that there are 100s of trillions of these guys living in the typical GI tract with hundreds to thousands of species in a healthy GI tract, what I did was still a drop in the bucket, but over time, they multiply so you can successfully remodel your gut over time. I just try to make sure I give my gut the opportunity to have certain strains, and a chance for a place to colonize in the gut by starving the bad guys while using things like bacteriophages against them.

#302

I hope to get to the day when I can fast. Right now if I miss a meal I feel terrible so I’m staying on keto which has helped me tremendously…