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4 years ago I discovered Keto/IF via a YouTube video with Thomas DeLauer, and followed Dr. Eric Berg’s and Dr. Mercola’s (among others) eating and health advice. I dropped 50 pounds in four months without any exercise. But that was not all. I had about 9 other health problems including pre diabetes, high blood pressure, carpal tunnel, and eyesight conditions that improved or went away completely. We have high zinc in our well water and started taking quercetin. Haven’t had a cold symptom in over three years.

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Jul 28, 2022Liked by Moriarty

Your articles a few months ago first made me aware of the IF/prolonged fasting benefits. Some extra googling and youtubing (berg / ekberg) and I started my first ever prolonged fast in May (2.5 days) after having Covid in mid April. I now run a 3 day fast at the start of every month (ease of remembering) - just about due for my next starting on Sunday night.

I still can't believe it took me until the age of 36 to hear about the huge benefits of it.......I guess the system doesn't actively make it known.

I now strongly advocate it to my friends, and have got a few into it. This post will also be shared to help educate about the benefits 👍

Haven't gone full KETO yet, I just enjoy some of those foods too much! Sour dough, rice, pasta!.....but I do watch my intake (carbohydrates make up approx 20% of my diet)

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Vitamin B6 is involved in a wide range of biochemical reactions that affect cell processes:

amino acid trans-sulfuration pathway that degrades homocysteine to taurine and hypotaurine;

fatty acid metabolism;

neurotransmitter synthesis;

immune function;

glyconeogenesis;

folate metabolism;

synthesis of coenzyme Q, and

heme synthesis.

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Vitamin B6 consists of three related pyrimidine vitamer derivatives: pyridoxine, pyridoxal, and pyridoxamine, and their phosphate esters. The metabolically active coenzyme form of vitamin B6 is pyridoxal 5’- phosphate (P5P).1 B6 vitamers are first oxidized to pyridoxal, and rapidly phosphorylated to P5P in the liver.2 P5P is the main circulating form exported from the liver and is considered the most relevant direct measure of vitamin B6 status.

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I wonder if the heart is also experiencing impaired ketogenesis?

Lopaschuk et al. 2020: Ketone metabolism in the failing heart: "In heart failure there is a decrease in cardiac mitochondrial oxidative metabolism and glucose oxidation that can lead to an energy starved heart. Ketone bodies are readily oxidized by the heart, and can provide an additional source of energy for the failing heart..."

Schugar et al. 2014: Cardiomyocyte-specific deficiency of ketone body metabolism promotes accelerated pathological remodeling.

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Modeling the emergence of vaccine-resistant variants with Gaussian convolution COVID-19: Could the wrong strategy ruin vaccine efficiency?

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Schiff bases between the vitamin aldehyde and the substrate primary amines. Since all amino acids contain at least one primary amine, the Schiff base mechanism of action makes PLP-enzymes important in their metabolism.

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The elite want to keep us from eating animal protein, so what, they can make us sicker?

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One advantage of BA.2.75 is its extremely high hACE2 binding affinity. By solving the hACE2/Spike complex structure of BA.2.75, showed that indeed R493Q reversion is the major contributor, independent of N460K.

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And also a related study about poor immunization through 1-dose-only strategy (as in the UK), which induce a low immunogenicity (confirmed since by the 1-dose J&J), and promotes immune escape

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And also a related study about poor immunization through 1-dose-only strategy (as in the UK), which induce a low immunogenicity (confirmed since by the 1-dose J&J), and promotes immune escapte

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when a substantial portion of the population is vaccinated, natural selection will shift towards favouring variants that can resist the vaccine. These variants can therefore become dominant and even cancel out the benefit of the vaccine

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