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hairtech
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Thank you Sanheblue.
garageland
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Very interesting read, well done guys
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hairtech
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Thank you garageland.
topccat29
29 year HT veteran
Hairtech here is an interesting point. When palmitoleic acid levels in the body go up you can be sure insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes will follow in most people. Would it not make more sense to reduce palmitoleic acid levels first as studies have shown when this is done diabetics get better or go into complete remission. So now you are probably wondering how does one reduce palmitoleic levels in the body, very simple reduce all those cheap carbs one is stuffing into their face because the big food processors have convinced everyone that it is very normal while they fill their pockets with gobs of cash and laugh at you when you need to get your feet amputated. Yes very cruel but this is exactly how people need to look at things sometimes in order to bring about change. When you get tired of being screwed over maybe you will get mad enough to say I m not longer going to be taken advantage of and change will be easy.
Doctors can t tell you this because they lack knowledge and it does not benefit them for you to be well. Doctors need sick people in order to stay in business. This is not being negative for those that are inclined to always want to put on a happy face. This is reality and you can only make better decisions when you have all of the information and not just some of it.
Sorry guys but you can include beer in the cheap liquid carb catergory and that is why the big ass beer belly is a good sign of insulin resistance and the closely followed erectile dysfunction :'#G::
Doctors can t tell you this because they lack knowledge and it does not benefit them for you to be well. Doctors need sick people in order to stay in business. This is not being negative for those that are inclined to always want to put on a happy face. This is reality and you can only make better decisions when you have all of the information and not just some of it.
Sorry guys but you can include beer in the cheap liquid carb catergory and that is why the big ass beer belly is a good sign of insulin resistance and the closely followed erectile dysfunction :'#G::
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hairtech
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Bwahahahaha!
topccat29
29 year HT veteran
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4 awesome repairs with SMG
Good thread this I enjoyed reading it too.
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hairtech
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Ya it is. Thanks topcat.
topccat29
29 year HT veteran
The public has basically been brainwashed to believe all the nonsense. All one needs to do is look at the number one selling drug in the world and it s a statin in fact look at the top ten list and see how many statins are listed. A much better indicator of potential cardiovascular disease are inflammatory markers like homocysteine and CRP. But it s only when big Pharma can address that aspect with another drug that you will hear about it. This the way the system works along with many other systems. People are clueless to the amount of money that is being made.
Here is an article from 2 days ago in the journal of Diabetes Care.
Newly published research reveals that more frequent statin drug use is associated with accelerated coronary artery and aortic artery calcification, both of which greatly contribute to cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.
Published Aug. 8th, 2012 in the journal Diabetes Care, researchers studied patients with type 2 diabetes and advanced atherosclerosis and found that coronary artery calcification "was significantly higher in more frequent statin users than in less frequent users."
Furthermore, in a subgroup of participants initially not receiving statins, "progression of both CAC [coronary artery calcification] and AAC [aortic artery calcification] was significantly increased in frequent statin users."
What is perhaps most alarming about this new finding is that statin drugs have already been shown to significantly increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, prompting the FDA on Feb. 27th, 2011, to add "diabetes risk" to the warning label of all statin drugs marketed in this country.
Now, with this latest discovery, it is safe to say, not only do statins likely induce type 2 diabetes in susceptible populations, but they also accelerate the cardiovascular complications associated with the disease -- a painfully ironic and highly concerning fact, considering that statins are supposed to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, not accelerate it.
As we have explored in previous articles, this is probably only the tip of a massive iceberg of statin-associated adverse effects. Our ongoing database project has linked statin drugs to over 300 documented adverse health effects, not the least of which is the ability to weaken the heart muscle, or to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by 48% in postmenopausal women.
If you know someone on a statin drug, especially someone who also has diabetes or is at risk of developing it, please distribute this information to them, and expose them to the peer-reviewed and published research that already exists on potential naturals alternatives: Health Guide: Statin Drugs.
Here is an article from 2 days ago in the journal of Diabetes Care.
Newly published research reveals that more frequent statin drug use is associated with accelerated coronary artery and aortic artery calcification, both of which greatly contribute to cardiovascular and all-cause mortality.
Published Aug. 8th, 2012 in the journal Diabetes Care, researchers studied patients with type 2 diabetes and advanced atherosclerosis and found that coronary artery calcification "was significantly higher in more frequent statin users than in less frequent users."
Furthermore, in a subgroup of participants initially not receiving statins, "progression of both CAC [coronary artery calcification] and AAC [aortic artery calcification] was significantly increased in frequent statin users."
What is perhaps most alarming about this new finding is that statin drugs have already been shown to significantly increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, prompting the FDA on Feb. 27th, 2011, to add "diabetes risk" to the warning label of all statin drugs marketed in this country.
Now, with this latest discovery, it is safe to say, not only do statins likely induce type 2 diabetes in susceptible populations, but they also accelerate the cardiovascular complications associated with the disease -- a painfully ironic and highly concerning fact, considering that statins are supposed to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, not accelerate it.
As we have explored in previous articles, this is probably only the tip of a massive iceberg of statin-associated adverse effects. Our ongoing database project has linked statin drugs to over 300 documented adverse health effects, not the least of which is the ability to weaken the heart muscle, or to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by 48% in postmenopausal women.
If you know someone on a statin drug, especially someone who also has diabetes or is at risk of developing it, please distribute this information to them, and expose them to the peer-reviewed and published research that already exists on potential naturals alternatives: Health Guide: Statin Drugs.
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topccat29
29 year HT veteran
What those that do not have diabetes should understand about diabetes is that the same reason they suffer from heart disease, erectile dysfunction or having their feet amputated has nothing to do with cholesterol and everything to do with blood glucose levels. So why do you believe heart disease is all about cholesterol because that is what you have been conditioned to believe and that is what sells product.
I have been eating a high cholesterol high fat diet for 15-20 years now. I m my own case study and I can say categorically most of what people are told is complete bullshit, all it takes is enough reading. But people have this fear that has been part of their programming and it s very hard for them to get past it. Try to get them to stop taking their statin a life long drug ¦ ¦..lol ¦ ¦.it s amazing to watch.
Then they wonder where the cancer came from.
I have been eating a high cholesterol high fat diet for 15-20 years now. I m my own case study and I can say categorically most of what people are told is complete bullshit, all it takes is enough reading. But people have this fear that has been part of their programming and it s very hard for them to get past it. Try to get them to stop taking their statin a life long drug ¦ ¦..lol ¦ ¦.it s amazing to watch.
Then they wonder where the cancer came from.
topccat29
29 year HT veteran
Hairtech I wrote this almost 10 years ago and gave it as a speech among many other speeches and I consider myself a big time amateur. The audience laughed a little and learned a little. It is somewhat diabetes related. Contrary to what some on some of the forums have written about me I like to read, write and help people because that is what I like to do. I get excited when presenting new ideas or trying to get at the truth.
When I was about 10 years old in the early 70 s I thought I knew what health food was, if fact I was quite sure. I was on the same nutritional program as the astronauts. Now your probably thinking how does a 10-year-old get a hold of this information. Well it wasn t as hard as you might think. I got it from the man on television. What was this superior nutritional program I was on, space food sticks and tang. Surely this would give me the strength and stamina that the astronauts had, the commercial said so.
Imagine, there I was sitting on the recliner, I mean in the capsule, getting ready for blast off, my body could withstand the G-forces it was experiencing because of my special diet, I was going to the moon. In reality the only thing that was blasting off and going to the moon was my blood sugar level. If we look at the main ingredients in both those products, it s glucose syrup and sugar. Neither one contributes to health, in fact they both have the opposite effect. The list of ill effects is long, and I ll go over a few of them, in a minute.
I believe at the time this product was marketed more to boys then to girls and a good marketer always knows his customer. In order to know your customer you have to understand his psyche. When it comes to little boys there are several aspects that need to be met. I am going to give you just 2 of those aspects that both these products meet. One would be the need for power, boys are continuously in search of icons of power, they have a need to be the fastest, strongest, or jump the highest. Who better to have use your product then an astronaut, they are the best of the best when it comes to their physical condition.
The second need is the need to be brave. We have all seen the kid that wears a cut or scrap as a badge of courage. An astronaut is perceived as being extremely brave, you would have to be, your basically strapping yourself to a rocket. So when a child sees this commercial he associates, eating and drinking these products with power and bravery.
Is using an astronaut to market your product wrong? No, not at all, if the astronaut truly developed his physical power and bravery from the product there is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Somehow I highly doubt that taking in loads of sugar all day long contributes to these qualities, if fact I am quite sure this wasn t the case.
So what kind of person would attempt to deceive a child into eating something that they knew was bad for their health. Think about that question. We see advertisements for products aimed at children that we know are bad for them, what kind of person would be willing to cause harm to a child, just to make a buck.
I think what happened here was there was a big board meeting and the head of purchasing said listen we bought loads of corn syrup and sugar because it was so cheap, but now the warehouse is filled to capacity, what are we going to do with all this stuff. The head of product development chimes in you know what, I got an idea, we can heat it up, add some flavor, press it out like a tootsie roll, and will tell all the boys and girls this is what the astronauts eat, and since sugar is so addicting they be eating it all day long. Moms will love it they won t have to cook and they will think that the kids are eating a nutritionally complete meal. Hey, it s a win win.
This all happened in the early 70 s and maybe your thinking well times have changed, and advertisers don t do that anymore. Well the fact is they do it more then ever. When Michael Jordan is sweating those orange droplets of Gatorade sweat and a voice says is it in you what are they saying, if I drink loads of there flavored sugar water, so much if fact that it starts to come out of my pores I will be a great athlete, what does sugar water have to do with performance, absolutely nothing, but children make this association and don t have the cognitive ability to discern fact from fiction.
So what does all this sugar do to the human body, the list is very long, so I ll go through just a few, dental decay, heart disease, depression, senility, hypertension, and cancer.
Sugar also makes you fat, and this is how. When you eat it your blood sugar levels rise very rapidly, your body produces insulin to deal with the situation, storing some of it in the muscles and liver as glycogen which is basically a energy reserve but once those are filled the insulin is forced to convert the rest of the sugar into triglycerides which is deposited as adipose tissue, adipose tissue is body fat. As person becomes fatter from the sugar, their body becomes more and more insulin resistant, so the body responds by producing even more insulin. Eventually the insulin receptors on the surface of the body s cells are blocked from carrying out their function. This is one reason why overweight people are tired much of time. Insulin is no longer effective, you have become a fat producing machine. Eventually you end up with diabetes. Now diabetes is not good thing, in fact if you re a man, it can make you impotent.
Has anybody here seen that commercial where the young, healthy looking baseball player is touting Viagra, I think maybe he drank a little too much Gatorade.
When I was about 10 years old in the early 70 s I thought I knew what health food was, if fact I was quite sure. I was on the same nutritional program as the astronauts. Now your probably thinking how does a 10-year-old get a hold of this information. Well it wasn t as hard as you might think. I got it from the man on television. What was this superior nutritional program I was on, space food sticks and tang. Surely this would give me the strength and stamina that the astronauts had, the commercial said so.
Imagine, there I was sitting on the recliner, I mean in the capsule, getting ready for blast off, my body could withstand the G-forces it was experiencing because of my special diet, I was going to the moon. In reality the only thing that was blasting off and going to the moon was my blood sugar level. If we look at the main ingredients in both those products, it s glucose syrup and sugar. Neither one contributes to health, in fact they both have the opposite effect. The list of ill effects is long, and I ll go over a few of them, in a minute.
I believe at the time this product was marketed more to boys then to girls and a good marketer always knows his customer. In order to know your customer you have to understand his psyche. When it comes to little boys there are several aspects that need to be met. I am going to give you just 2 of those aspects that both these products meet. One would be the need for power, boys are continuously in search of icons of power, they have a need to be the fastest, strongest, or jump the highest. Who better to have use your product then an astronaut, they are the best of the best when it comes to their physical condition.
The second need is the need to be brave. We have all seen the kid that wears a cut or scrap as a badge of courage. An astronaut is perceived as being extremely brave, you would have to be, your basically strapping yourself to a rocket. So when a child sees this commercial he associates, eating and drinking these products with power and bravery.
Is using an astronaut to market your product wrong? No, not at all, if the astronaut truly developed his physical power and bravery from the product there is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Somehow I highly doubt that taking in loads of sugar all day long contributes to these qualities, if fact I am quite sure this wasn t the case.
So what kind of person would attempt to deceive a child into eating something that they knew was bad for their health. Think about that question. We see advertisements for products aimed at children that we know are bad for them, what kind of person would be willing to cause harm to a child, just to make a buck.
I think what happened here was there was a big board meeting and the head of purchasing said listen we bought loads of corn syrup and sugar because it was so cheap, but now the warehouse is filled to capacity, what are we going to do with all this stuff. The head of product development chimes in you know what, I got an idea, we can heat it up, add some flavor, press it out like a tootsie roll, and will tell all the boys and girls this is what the astronauts eat, and since sugar is so addicting they be eating it all day long. Moms will love it they won t have to cook and they will think that the kids are eating a nutritionally complete meal. Hey, it s a win win.
This all happened in the early 70 s and maybe your thinking well times have changed, and advertisers don t do that anymore. Well the fact is they do it more then ever. When Michael Jordan is sweating those orange droplets of Gatorade sweat and a voice says is it in you what are they saying, if I drink loads of there flavored sugar water, so much if fact that it starts to come out of my pores I will be a great athlete, what does sugar water have to do with performance, absolutely nothing, but children make this association and don t have the cognitive ability to discern fact from fiction.
So what does all this sugar do to the human body, the list is very long, so I ll go through just a few, dental decay, heart disease, depression, senility, hypertension, and cancer.
Sugar also makes you fat, and this is how. When you eat it your blood sugar levels rise very rapidly, your body produces insulin to deal with the situation, storing some of it in the muscles and liver as glycogen which is basically a energy reserve but once those are filled the insulin is forced to convert the rest of the sugar into triglycerides which is deposited as adipose tissue, adipose tissue is body fat. As person becomes fatter from the sugar, their body becomes more and more insulin resistant, so the body responds by producing even more insulin. Eventually the insulin receptors on the surface of the body s cells are blocked from carrying out their function. This is one reason why overweight people are tired much of time. Insulin is no longer effective, you have become a fat producing machine. Eventually you end up with diabetes. Now diabetes is not good thing, in fact if you re a man, it can make you impotent.
Has anybody here seen that commercial where the young, healthy looking baseball player is touting Viagra, I think maybe he drank a little too much Gatorade.
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hairtech
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yes sugar in coca colas, french fries, chips, pasta, cakes, ice cream, creme broulette, brownies, all breads(wheat or white) , rice, fruit juices, candies, and even beer and spirits etc... spike blood glucose/blood sugar. That in turn spikes insulin. Insulin while trying to lower blood glucose, also turns on sugar conversion to fat storage...
I gave up most of the refined sugars many years ago. It changed my life. Good post TC.
I gave up most of the refined sugars many years ago. It changed my life. Good post TC.
topccat29
29 year HT veteran
Here is an example of just how dumb people have become as they are continually conditioned. Powerade ION4 is the official drink of the 2012 Olympics and manufactured by Coca Cola. It s sugar water and costs less than a penny. Anyone that did even a minimal amount of reading would know that this does not promote sports performance but then they wouldn t have time to look at their cell phone every 2 seconds and then people wonder where the diabetes came from ¦ ¦duh
Water, glucose, fructose, citric acid, mineral salts (sodium chloride, magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium phosphate), flavourings, acidity regulator (potassium citrate), stabilisers (acacia gum, glycerol esters of wood rosins), sweeteners (sucralose, acesulfame K), colour (brilliant blue).
Water, glucose, fructose, citric acid, mineral salts (sodium chloride, magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, potassium phosphate), flavourings, acidity regulator (potassium citrate), stabilisers (acacia gum, glycerol esters of wood rosins), sweeteners (sucralose, acesulfame K), colour (brilliant blue).
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Topcat I stay away from these drinks!
topccat29
29 year HT veteran
I am referring to the general public who think they are informed because they watch TV. They see their favorite sports star doing something like downing a sports drink or going for a hair transplant and they believe that their hero s choice must be the best. It s a form of social proof. They believe their sports hero is smarter and better than they are so their choice must be great but nothing could be further from the truth. And this is the very reason why those clinics that promote the quality of what they do by using a famous sports star or artist are more often than not completely full of crap but the general public eats it up so they will keep doing it.
With platforms geared toward athletic enthusiasts, sports drinks experienced a resurgence in sales. The total category increased 14.9 percent to more than $3.9 billion in sales, according to SymphonyIRI Group, Chicago, for the 52 weeks ending May 15 in U.S. supermarkets, drug stores, gas and convenience stores and mass merchandise outlets, excluding Wal-Mart.
With platforms geared toward athletic enthusiasts, sports drinks experienced a resurgence in sales. The total category increased 14.9 percent to more than $3.9 billion in sales, according to SymphonyIRI Group, Chicago, for the 52 weeks ending May 15 in U.S. supermarkets, drug stores, gas and convenience stores and mass merchandise outlets, excluding Wal-Mart.
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hairtech
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Yes I know that was the trust of your post... I agree.
topccat29
29 year HT veteran
HT I realize you understood. But I don t get that others don t see some of this. I don t know much about European football but it doesn t take much to find out a player like Wayne Rooney has a tattoo that says, just enough education to perform not quite sure what the true meaning might be but people like to follow along and I have seen his name posted to the forums so often like he is some great decision maker of super intelligence. I hardly think this is the case but I could be wrong maybe he performed extensive research or the people that make money off of him did extensive research for him because they were so concerned that his hair might not look quite right.
Imagine if we all went to Michael Jackson s plastic surgeon because he was such a superstar obviously he must know something the rest of us don t know.
And have I made some bad decisions in the past, absolutely and this is what happens when you have too much trust in people and especially those in some of the professions. It s been a real eye opener and a valuable experience. I would never know much of what I now know without having to be forced into it.
Imagine if we all went to Michael Jackson s plastic surgeon because he was such a superstar obviously he must know something the rest of us don t know.
And have I made some bad decisions in the past, absolutely and this is what happens when you have too much trust in people and especially those in some of the professions. It s been a real eye opener and a valuable experience. I would never know much of what I now know without having to be forced into it.
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