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Moriarty's avatar

I am having fun writing a short-story so I may publish it at New's Year Even. We will see.

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Hannah Wilde's avatar

I was studying nutrition in the 80s and was lucky enough to be taught by a woman whose mantra was "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" so when the health guidelines solidified into one egg per month max she treated it with the disdain it deserved. The demonization of eggs has been so incredibly damaging to health it makes me furious to contemplate it.

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rjt's avatar

It was important to demonise eggs to prep us for understanding that we needed to lower our cholesterol levels with statins.

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Toolste's avatar

now they will make consumption all but impossible. Look at acalifornia

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Aly Jaenicke's avatar

Excellent subject. I love eggs, I eat 2 eggs daily. Love the sun too. Perhaps the reason why I rarely become ill.

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Moriarty's avatar

Eggs, daily sun exposure, exercise, some time in green areas and you are ahead of most of the global population health wise. Crazy if you think about it.

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rjt's avatar

I looked at Vit D kinetics the other day. Vit D, fat soluble, lasts a few weeks (half life about 2 months.) Serum kinetics of injected Vit D are different with fairly rapid clearance but not relevant for clinical use unless your patients are undergoing dialysis.

Looking at the relationship between Vit D maternal levels and ASD/ADHD outcomes should have a noticeable seasonal variation in Canada, but not Puerto Rico or Brazil. It would be necessary to correct for the timing of administration of vaccines, of course!, but one might be able to find Amish or other groups with no vaccinations as a control.

Merry Christmas and good luck with the story. R

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Moriarty's avatar

I wasn't aware of the different kinetics between fat-soluble and injectable Viit D, but it does make a lot of sense to have completely different absorption rates and clearance rates.

A few months ago I was looking into Vitamin D status in Brazil to understand what could possibly be going on, since Brazil was still experiencing an onslaught of immunological damage from Omicron waves (sepsis reaching record numbers, etc), and found out that roughly almost 40% of our population has a Vitamin D deficiency or at least insufficiency. Crazy to think about it, since we "live" under the tropical sun for the vast majority of the year.

Thank you !

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Perplexed Rationalist's avatar

Apparently Australia has one of the worst VD deficiencies in the world. Because nobody goes out in the sun and if they do not without covering themselves in sunscreen. I’ve long thoight there must be a link between VD levels and MS but based on this you would expect Aus to be an outlier in terms of MS rates v distance from the equator

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Chief Wolf's avatar

eggcellent

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Toolste's avatar

Oh MY

thanks

I have suffered for years from MSG toxicity AND i am Vitamin D deficient. Never knew a link was possible

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mejbcart's avatar

how similar to the Samoa story, just different alphabet letters were missing, VitC and VIt A deficiency in that measles cases.... I just wait for that day that the 'researchers' realize that all diseases are basically lack of NORMAL complete ORGANIC food, minerals, Mg, Se, I, just as examples, and of course the good FATS, DHA/EPA. The question will be left, what do we do with all the MD's hanging on to pharma drugs???

Forgot to add, that all assuming we do not have genetically modified humans. Remind me please what the covid genetically modifying injections do to people?

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