The FDA was created in 1906 to prohibit the sale of contaminated food, and drugs. At this time the FDA needed to regulate food safety because there was a lot of food born illness do to poor practices. Companies would add chemicals, or preservatives to food, so you don't know that it had gone bad. The FDA did a lot of good things in the beginning. In 1938, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act established new drug regulations, including pre-market...
There's something that people need to know. When people say that the covid vaccine is effective, they are referring to these numbers: Pfizer–BioNTech 95% Moderna 90% Gamaleya (Sputnik) 90%, J&J 67% AstraZeneca 67%. These numbers are know as the relative risk reduction, which is the number of attack rates with, and without a vaccine, but these numbers are contributed to compare results between vaccine trials. These are the only numbers your hearing in the media because it leads people to believe...
Today we are going to talk about a topic that deserves attention. We should be able to have an open discussion about this without conflict. Unfortunately, this has become a very politicized, and polarized topic. We really need to ask questions, and begin to think for ourselves. My goal is to not make anyone right, or wrong, but to have people make an educated, empowered decision for themselves. Interpreting the data The research that people go to, so they can prove masks...
These days are breathing is obstructed do to improper breathing. Many of us are breathing incorrectly do to various reasons. We are breathing through our mouths most of the time. When breathing through the mouth, you are breathing unfiltered air. This can cause an all manner of issues. The structure of your face can change in a negative way when mouth breathing. Chronic mouth breathers have a collapsed pallet, and smaller mouths because of collapsed air ways. This is a...
Fat has wrongly been vilified ever sense the 20th century. A man named Ancel Keys was responsible for a big part of it He did research that showed saturated fat causes heart disease. The problem is that he used vegetable oil, which is mainly polyunsaturated fat. We know today that these oils do cause heart disease for a variety of reasons, but Keys pointed to the tiny amount of saturated fat in those oils, and blamed that. This was unpronounced...
The consumption of sugar has sky rocketed in the recent decades. Today, the average American consumes about 150 pounds of added sugar each year. This is not including sugar that's naturally occurring in food. Sugar has many deleterious effects on the body. Today, we will cover obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Obesity How does sugar make you fat? It's all about the hormonal impact that food has on our body. Insulin is our bodies major fat storing hormone. Fat does not raise insulin,...
There is no such thing as a one size fits all diet. There are so many different varieties of diets today. Everything from paleo, keto, vegan, carnivore, low fodmap, and gaps. The truth is that all of these diets have value, and they all work at certain times, and for certain people. We have to find out what the best diet is for us. As I said, there is no one diet for everyone, but there are some universal principals...
Cholesterol is one of the most widely misunderstood molecules that exists. Based on biased research back in the 20th century. The main argument is that cholesterol is bad because it clogs arteries, but there's no context. Today you will discover the benefits, and physiology of cholesterol. First, we need to talk about why we have it in the first place. The benefits include needed to build our cell membranes, used to build sex hormones, converting UVB from sunlight into vitamin...
1. Forest Bathing Forrest bathing is the practice of going in nature, or the forest to relax. Trees produce special essential oil like molecules that have been proven to improve the immune system. Going in nature also reduces cortisol. Reacher's conclude "A total of 971 articles were screened; 22 of them were included in the systematic review and 8 in the meta-analysis. In all but two included studies, cortisol levels were significantly lower after intervention in forest groups if compared...
In are culture we believe that calories are everything. As long as you don't eat to many calories, you can stay thin, right? Well today your going to learn how this isn't true, and the many factors that control what calories actually do in your body. 1.Thermic effect of food This means that it takes calories to digest calories. For example, if you have 100 calories of protein, it takes 30 of the calories just to digest the 100, so your only...