Lots of useful information. Slow metabolism is indeed a prerequisite for longevity. Mercola campaigning for speeding it up only shows he has been captured. Even exercising can accelerate the absorption of synthetic proteins from injections…
thanks Roman - great article! and an excellent unpack of the science, in laymen's terms with words defined.
spot on re sili valley "the shadow of death"
part of the problem with the call centers in India is that, because of the 9 to 13 hour time difference between India and most western nations; they end up working at night (under blue light) and sleeping during the sunniest hours, thus destroying their circadian rhythms in two primary ways.
whenever i float the idea that it's not the food; it's the light environment, most people think it's absurd - especially the food "gurus" who think the acceleration of diabetes and obesity is just due to too much sugar (actually in the 1950s and 60s there was plenty of sugar in most diets, and fat people were rare. even one fat kid in a class of 30 was unusual)- now we have to act like it's normal to be morbidly obese at the risk of being politically incorrect.
i also thought jack kruse's 2017 nourish vermont presentation was, perhaps his best and most comprehensive.
I lived in other parts of the world, where office workers were working under tubes, but they were not fat. Obesity seems to be primarily caused by the wrong diet, especially the one promoted in the US in the last 40 years.
Have you given any thought about using quartz halogen bulbs without a front cover glass to get a wider spectrum including some UV lighting inside the home? I am thinking about carefully removing the front cover glass on some 50watt GU10 MR16 halogen bulbs to get some UV light inside of the home as a better light source if you have any thoughts on that let me know. The high heat glass cover used in these bulbs cuts out the UV light whereas the fused quartz bulb itself doesn't cut out much of the UV light. Thanks!
Any glass cuts out most of UV, and not all UV is bad. Halogen is supposed to be as good as incandescent. Even full-spectrum LED might be tolerable with a white-colored glass cover. Also, there is a large selection of LED bulbs and some of them might be okay, but I'm afraid they all respond to ambient radiation...
This is SO powerful, Roman and Bohdanna. I just did a quick skim and will return later. I believe it's so true. And, I can eat potato chips with abandon outside! :) I think of you two every time I see someone (especially a health-conscious person) who's wearing sunglasses. Ditching them was a game-changer for me. Thanks to you.
I clicked on the Ayurveda link and lo and behold! Thanks for the share. :) Headed back outside right now. ☀️
Maybe 30 years ago I bought some vitamin A. Took a pill and felt very weird for a few hours. Took another the next day and felt even more weird for a longer period. Threw the rest away and never took A again.
A few years later I got some chickens. I soon learned that the more greens they ate, the darker orange/red and the more plump and robust their yolks became, thanks to the concentration of carotenoids from the greens in their yolks. No greens in their diet result in pale yellow eggs with limp, weak yolks.
Unlike commercial hens, they spend their days foraging in the sunlight.
I eat 3 or 4 of those egg yolks raw, in a Bernaise sauce I make every morning.
As your experience also suggests, "vitamins" are synthetic crap, and their MSDS doesn't promise much good. The latest fads are DMSO and methylene blue:
Thanks for another very interesting article! Btw, today I am starting a 60 day eperiment using blue light blocking glasses and blue light filter on my laptop. I have taken a NAD+ test already, and will take a new one in 60 days to see if blocking thus blue light will impacy my NAD+ levels.
Belated question from the UK, latitude 52 degrees north. How does anyone get enough light here except in the roughly two months around the summer solstice (21st. of June)? We are in that wonderful period now.
To my mind we can't get enough light, unless perhaps we have snow-white skin ('type 1', I think it's called). I don't, my skin is probably type 4.
Some form of artificial sun lamp is needed, giving a continuous solar-type spectrum and including the UV-B and UV-A. But have you seen the price of xenon lamps?!
A friend who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder had an arc lamp a long time ago. The UK health service used them in around 1950, I think so, his was probably an NHS cast-off.
He found it very effective although he had to be careful to avoid sunburn. After it broke, he could get nothing to treat his SAD effectively. He says vitamin D tablets and exercise are better than nothing but not nearly as good as the strong UV and visible light were.
Thanks a LOT, Roman and Bohdanna, Highly informative.
"We can however convert the carotenoids from eggs, shellfish, salmon and liver, very easily to this active form of Vitamin A - retinol."
But seafood is getting very problematic, in terms of getting any that's not from highly polluted waters and at affordable prices. Same with eggs and liver. And some of us (OK, me) have a hard time processing animal products, i keep trying and my body keeps telling me it's unhappy. Problems, problems.
Have you tried natural food probiotics? like unpasteurized kim chi, sauerkraut or pickles? Kefir (the dairy type) has been transformative for me, including greatly improved digestion, but the others are beneficial too. One thing i have noticed is that they all immediately help alleviate symptoms from wireless radiation for me - which i think is due to the fact that the radiation kills off our endogenous essential bacteria, and eating probiotics replenishes them. Wireless radiation may be a primary cause of the rise of digestive problems in recent years.
i dunno - i think that at least kefir might, if the cow who gave the milk had enough green pasturing. Plus i know that the little beasties that make milk into kefir create many compounds via their metabolic activity - who knows maybe some of them make retinol. glad to hear you are already hip to the importance of probios. There was a doc - i think an MD neuroscientist - on nick pineault's recent emf hazards summit - who said that microwaves (RF) damage our microbiome even more than they damage regular human cells.
by microwaves i don't mean the ovens (which is why i wrote microwaves/RF to make that clear but now i know it didn't) Microwaves are another name for most if not all of the radiofrequency (RF) spectrum in common use by humans. As in "microwave sickness". I also never use microwave ovens. In fact, if they are plugged in, not even turned on, they put out strong emf fields.
I like kombucha too, as well as yogurt and other probio foods, just didn't mention them all.
Lots of useful information. Slow metabolism is indeed a prerequisite for longevity. Mercola campaigning for speeding it up only shows he has been captured. Even exercising can accelerate the absorption of synthetic proteins from injections…
thanks Roman - great article! and an excellent unpack of the science, in laymen's terms with words defined.
spot on re sili valley "the shadow of death"
part of the problem with the call centers in India is that, because of the 9 to 13 hour time difference between India and most western nations; they end up working at night (under blue light) and sleeping during the sunniest hours, thus destroying their circadian rhythms in two primary ways.
whenever i float the idea that it's not the food; it's the light environment, most people think it's absurd - especially the food "gurus" who think the acceleration of diabetes and obesity is just due to too much sugar (actually in the 1950s and 60s there was plenty of sugar in most diets, and fat people were rare. even one fat kid in a class of 30 was unusual)- now we have to act like it's normal to be morbidly obese at the risk of being politically incorrect.
i also thought jack kruse's 2017 nourish vermont presentation was, perhaps his best and most comprehensive.
I lived in other parts of the world, where office workers were working under tubes, but they were not fat. Obesity seems to be primarily caused by the wrong diet, especially the one promoted in the US in the last 40 years.
Have you given any thought about using quartz halogen bulbs without a front cover glass to get a wider spectrum including some UV lighting inside the home? I am thinking about carefully removing the front cover glass on some 50watt GU10 MR16 halogen bulbs to get some UV light inside of the home as a better light source if you have any thoughts on that let me know. The high heat glass cover used in these bulbs cuts out the UV light whereas the fused quartz bulb itself doesn't cut out much of the UV light. Thanks!
Any glass cuts out most of UV, and not all UV is bad. Halogen is supposed to be as good as incandescent. Even full-spectrum LED might be tolerable with a white-colored glass cover. Also, there is a large selection of LED bulbs and some of them might be okay, but I'm afraid they all respond to ambient radiation...
This is SO powerful, Roman and Bohdanna. I just did a quick skim and will return later. I believe it's so true. And, I can eat potato chips with abandon outside! :) I think of you two every time I see someone (especially a health-conscious person) who's wearing sunglasses. Ditching them was a game-changer for me. Thanks to you.
I clicked on the Ayurveda link and lo and behold! Thanks for the share. :) Headed back outside right now. ☀️
Maybe 30 years ago I bought some vitamin A. Took a pill and felt very weird for a few hours. Took another the next day and felt even more weird for a longer period. Threw the rest away and never took A again.
A few years later I got some chickens. I soon learned that the more greens they ate, the darker orange/red and the more plump and robust their yolks became, thanks to the concentration of carotenoids from the greens in their yolks. No greens in their diet result in pale yellow eggs with limp, weak yolks.
Unlike commercial hens, they spend their days foraging in the sunlight.
I eat 3 or 4 of those egg yolks raw, in a Bernaise sauce I make every morning.
As your experience also suggests, "vitamins" are synthetic crap, and their MSDS doesn't promise much good. The latest fads are DMSO and methylene blue:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/more-miracle-drugs-dmso-and-methylene
Of course, what greens are safe under a chemtrailed sky...
Is any food safe under a chemtrailed sky?
What do you guys think of the states banning chemtrails? Florida recently made the list. Do you think these laws will actually stop anything?
Two things play into this- the materials can drift for thousands of miles and they're going after the wrong targets. Explained here.
https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/its-time-to-talk-about-flying-on
Thanks for another very interesting article! Btw, today I am starting a 60 day eperiment using blue light blocking glasses and blue light filter on my laptop. I have taken a NAD+ test already, and will take a new one in 60 days to see if blocking thus blue light will impacy my NAD+ levels.
That's awesome Johan! Do you have a link / article about the experiment?
I do. Here you go:
https://liveto151.substack.com/p/announcing-3-experiments-in-partnership
reading this at 9AM as I nude sunbathe on my deck.
Nice! Then you already know (: that's the best time to do it.
Love your articles! Just had breakfast outside in the sun.
Hi Carol! Thanks so much! So glad you're enjoying the content, and soaking up the free content of sunlight (: it's the best! is it warm by you?
Because of you all I started going out when the sun rises & look @ the sun, we’re in FL 🏝️ no more 🕶️ either!
AMAZING!!! How much better do you feel now? Has sleep improved, any noticeable health changes since implementing these steps?
Belated question from the UK, latitude 52 degrees north. How does anyone get enough light here except in the roughly two months around the summer solstice (21st. of June)? We are in that wonderful period now.
To my mind we can't get enough light, unless perhaps we have snow-white skin ('type 1', I think it's called). I don't, my skin is probably type 4.
Some form of artificial sun lamp is needed, giving a continuous solar-type spectrum and including the UV-B and UV-A. But have you seen the price of xenon lamps?!
A friend who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder had an arc lamp a long time ago. The UK health service used them in around 1950, I think so, his was probably an NHS cast-off.
He found it very effective although he had to be careful to avoid sunburn. After it broke, he could get nothing to treat his SAD effectively. He says vitamin D tablets and exercise are better than nothing but not nearly as good as the strong UV and visible light were.
Thanks a LOT, Roman and Bohdanna, Highly informative.
"We can however convert the carotenoids from eggs, shellfish, salmon and liver, very easily to this active form of Vitamin A - retinol."
But seafood is getting very problematic, in terms of getting any that's not from highly polluted waters and at affordable prices. Same with eggs and liver. And some of us (OK, me) have a hard time processing animal products, i keep trying and my body keeps telling me it's unhappy. Problems, problems.
Have you tried natural food probiotics? like unpasteurized kim chi, sauerkraut or pickles? Kefir (the dairy type) has been transformative for me, including greatly improved digestion, but the others are beneficial too. One thing i have noticed is that they all immediately help alleviate symptoms from wireless radiation for me - which i think is due to the fact that the radiation kills off our endogenous essential bacteria, and eating probiotics replenishes them. Wireless radiation may be a primary cause of the rise of digestive problems in recent years.
I have kimche and kefir daily. Indeed. But do they provide retino?
i dunno - i think that at least kefir might, if the cow who gave the milk had enough green pasturing. Plus i know that the little beasties that make milk into kefir create many compounds via their metabolic activity - who knows maybe some of them make retinol. glad to hear you are already hip to the importance of probios. There was a doc - i think an MD neuroscientist - on nick pineault's recent emf hazards summit - who said that microwaves (RF) damage our microbiome even more than they damage regular human cells.
I've never used microwave at home for cooking. BTW, Kombucha is also good for probiotics.
by microwaves i don't mean the ovens (which is why i wrote microwaves/RF to make that clear but now i know it didn't) Microwaves are another name for most if not all of the radiofrequency (RF) spectrum in common use by humans. As in "microwave sickness". I also never use microwave ovens. In fact, if they are plugged in, not even turned on, they put out strong emf fields.
I like kombucha too, as well as yogurt and other probio foods, just didn't mention them all.