Health & Fitness

11/02/21

Chris Hemsworth’s Hulk-y arms are a thing to behold

Men experience more emotional pain during breakups

The stereotype of men being less emotionally invested in relationships than women may not be accurate, say psychologists. A new study of online relationship support finds that men tend to experience emotional pain more than women when their relationship takes a turn for the worse.

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Mark Moss: Building Your Health Is Wealth

Mark Moss, an entrepreneur and financial expert who's been a full-time investor for over 25 years, is passionate about freedom, liberty and personal wealth. Finances aren't something I typically focus on, but we're both in agreement that health is your greatest form of wealth.

I'll be speaking at Moss' live event in Miami, Florida, in November 2021, where he and other experts will be sharing how to control your financial future during The Great Reset,¹ but in the video above you can hear our recent conversation, which covers everything from key tenets of physical health to how to discern the truth in this era of censorship.

This is only one of three public events I will be speaking at this year. If you want to come and hear me at this event, I arranged with Mark to give you a special discount. Normally these links provide affiliate commissions to me but I asked Mark to give them to you instead to make it more affordable for you to attend. So, if you want a heavily discounted ticket to see me you can click on the link below.

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Building Your Health Is Wealth

Moss wants to empower people to build wealth, not so they can become greedy or stockpile money, but because money allows you to help other people and have options in your own life. Now, with injection mandates increasing, people are being forced to make a decision to quit their job or put their health at risk from a jab.

"Unfortunately," Moss said, "we've found lots of people who, when the pandemic broke out, didn't even have $400 saved. When you don't have that money, when you don't have those savings, you're stuck at a dead-end job. If you had money saved, you could quit the job, go look for something else."

Also, with civil liberties being impacted daily, building wealth gives you the option to change your location to a country or state that may protect your freedom rather than restrict it. He continued:²

"So that's why we focus on money. It's not about being greedy, it's about having options … you're going to need to have those. The financial system, like the medical system, isn't really designed for your benefit. It's designed for the benefit of the people that run the system.

Once you can just start to look at things a little bit differently and, really, it's a lot more simple than most people make it seem, you can start to build wealth, you can start to then increase your freedom, your options and so forth. Of course, I also look at health as an asset.

You can have all the money in the world, but if you lose your health, you have nothing. I also look at my freedom as an asset. If I have wealth, but I'm locked in my house, that does me no good."

In order to live your life fully, you really need to have all three: health, freedom and secure finances, which is what the November event is all about.

No. 1 Way to Protect Your Health

Your health is priceless, and many of the most powerful health strategies cost nothing at all or can be implemented very inexpensively. Yet, not only are these natural strategies not taught in conventional medical schools but, if you go against the standard, pharmaceutical-based treatment options you can be challenged, reprimanded or have your license taken away.

This process ostracizing natural therapies began back in 1910 with the release of the Flexner Report, which was written in commission for the Carnegie Foundation.³ The Flexner Report essentially eliminated almost every form of natural medicine, because it was a competitor to the emerging class of pharmaceuticals, primarily derived from oil and petroleum products that Rockefeller was behind.⁴

It's similar to the financial system, Moss said, in that your best bet is often to "forget" everything you've been taught and open your mind to starting fresh. "I see the same thing in the financial system. Like, you go through economics classes, and then you get a job working for a financial firm, and then you're just kind of a salesperson, just selling the products they have, and it's really hard for you to untrain yourself and start looking for those solutions."⁵

In relation to your health, it's important to ignore the mainstream advice to eat vegetable oils, which are more accurately defined as seed oils. Seed oils are hidden in virtually every processed food, including restaurant foods, and there's virtually nothing more destructive to your body in producing heart disease, cancer, age-related macular degeneration, diabetes, obesity and dementia.⁶

Chicken and Pork Are a Major Source of Seed Oils

Even if you cut out processed foods and other major seed-oil offenders like sauces and salad dressings at restaurants, you can still be hit by these pernicious toxins because they're hidden in ostensibly "healthy" foods like chicken and pork. These animals are fed grains loaded with the omega-6 fat linoleic acid, which is found in most seed oils and causes health damage when consumed at the excessive levels that are common today.

Many people eat loads of chicken because it's perceived as a health food and it's inexpensive, but it's a major source of linoleic acid. In your own cooking, examples of healthy fats to use instead of seed oils are beef tallow, butter or coconut oil.

Time-Restricted Eating, Exercise for Better Health

Moss and I also spoke about time-restricted eating, which means condensing your meals into an, ideally, six- to eight-hour window. This will improve your health in a variety of ways, primarily by improving your mitochondrial health and metabolic flexibility. It can also increase autophagy,⁷ which helps your body clear out damaged cells.

Moss also mentioned nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), a vital signaling molecule⁸ that's also believed to play an important role in longevity. This is partly due to its role as an essential substrate for sirtuins,⁹ which are enzymes related to longevity, as well as its role in DNA repair.

NAD modulates energy production and many enzymes and in so doing controls hundreds of processes in your body including the survival of cells and energy metabolism. NAD is influenced on a daily basis by what you eat, exercise levels and more, and also declines with age, leading to changes in metabolism and an increased risk of disease.¹⁰

Exercise, especially strength training with blood flow restriction, is one of the best ways to increase NAD levels and energy,¹¹ because it activates NAMPT, an enzyme that's responsible for NAD biosynthesis.

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Another strategy to boost your health and longevity is regular sauna usage. As your body is subjected to reasonable amounts of heat stress, it gradually becomes acclimated to the heat, prompting a number of beneficial changes to occur in your body.

These adaptations include increased plasma volume and blood flow to your heart and muscles (which increase athletic endurance) along with increased muscle mass due to greater levels of heat-shock proteins and growth hormone.¹² It's also a powerful detoxification method, due to the sweating that it promotes.

Unprecedented Manipulation and Censorship

The ability to freely share information such as this is being threatened nearly every day. Due to self-appointed authorities controlling the pandemic narrative, acting as the arbiters of what is right and wrong, and declaring anything against it misinformation, open debate is being stifled and the free sharing of information is censored.

Due to a number of very serious threats against me, personally, and my business, we recently removed 25 years' worth of content from Mercola.com. This was necessary to persevere in the current censorship climate, as each day rules are being changed to deplatform health advocates. While this threat to freedom is reaching new heights each day, it's been going on for many years.

Over two years ago, Google took me out of their search engine, and rigged the tool so that, if you look me up, you'll only see bad information instead of the decades of valuable health information I've provided. When you consider that 93% of the world's online searches use Google,¹³ you can see that their control runs deep and they — along with other social media platforms — are a major reason why this pandemic brainwashing propaganda campaign has been so successful.

Google has been called a dictator with unprecedented power because it relies on techniques of manipulation that have never existed before in human history, according to Robert Epstein, a Harvard trained psychologist who is now a senior research psychologist for the American Institute of Behavioral Research and Technology, where for the last decade he has helped expose Google's manipulative and deceptive practices.¹⁴

They're not only a surveillance agency — think about products like Google Wallet, Google Docs, Google Drive and YouTube — but also a censoring agency with the ability to restrict or block access to websites across the internet, thus deciding what you can and cannot see.

Thriving in an Age of Scientific Censorship

"I think the problem used to be getting information," Moss said. "Today, the problem is maybe too much information. So how do you discern it? And then even now, more importantly, if one side is being erased? So it's a complex issue, but what can the average person do to, one, be able to discern the information better, and then find the right information?"

Learning how to navigate this unprecedented cancel culture and emerge with the truth is possible, but you'll typically need to look outside of typical social media platforms. Identify people who you believe are experts in the field and follow what they're doing.

Many of these experts have had their accounts banned on Facebook, Twitter and even YouTube. So you have to go straight to their site. Using RSS feeds, so you can collect information on a variety of topics at once, which makes it a bit easier.

It's also important to understand that you really cannot trust almost any search engine, even the non-Google search engines, because Google has developed the most effective and sophisticated search engine tool that ever existed, and almost every other alternative search engine uses Google as a search data structure. So there's no alternative — it would cost billions, hundreds of billions, to create an alternative.

Then, once you read information, it's also wise to ask who is benefiting from the information and whether the source is conflicted. It's so important, Moss said, to "look at the information that you get, get it from trusted sources that you've gathered — friends that are like-minded maybe — and just try not to trust everything that you see on Google or YouTube."¹⁵

Building a community of like-minded people is also important, and aligning yourself with those who have healthy habits and who are not brainwashed by propaganda will be a solid strategy going forward.

This is a primary reason for Moss' live event — to build new connections and provide a strong community support system. It's now more important than ever that we support each other and work together to sustain resources and develop the creativity to find a solution to the direction the world is headed.

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Artificial intelligence to detect colorectal cancer

Unexpected antibody type found in people with malaria infections

Malaria, a pathogen transmitted into blood by mosquitoes in tropical climates, is typically thought of as a blood and liver infection. However researchers have detected antibodies primarily made in response to infections in the mucous membranes -- in such areas as the lungs, intestines, or vagina -- in study participants with malaria.

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Vaccine patches could be more effective than injections so slap one on me

Jessica Simpson is unrecognisable as she celebrates 4 years of sobriety

Number of premature deaths worldwide caused by consumption in G20 nations

The haze that blurs a blue sky or a beautiful skyline is caused by particulate matter, often made from pollution, less than 2.5 microns wide. Despite their microscopic size, PM2.5 are responsible for more than 4 million premature deaths every year. A new study shows that the pollution caused by consumption in the world's biggest economies leads to half of those deaths.

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Attention NSW, you’re now eligible to get your Covid booster

Potential strategy for fighting obesity

Quadricep muscle contracts differently after ACL reconstruction; may contribute to lingering weakness

Scientists identify new antibody for COVID-19 and variants

Too assesses how well people read kids’ emotions

Psychology researchers have developed and validated a new tool for assessing how accurate people are at recognizing emotion in elementary school-aged children. The technique will facilitate research on understanding emotions of children -- and highlights that adults are often wrong when assessing the emotions of children.

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People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency

Study Found Toxin from GM Crops is Showing up in Human Blood

A new study is causing fresh doubts about the safety of genetically modified crops. The research found Bt toxin, which is present in many GM crops, in human blood.

Bt toxin makes crops toxic to pests, but it has been claimed that the toxin poses no danger to the environment and human health; the argument was that the protein breaks down in the human gut. But the presence of the toxin in human blood shows that this does not happen.

India Today reports:

“Scientists ... have detected the insecticidal protein ... circulating in the blood of pregnant as well as non-pregnant women. They have also detected the toxin in fetal blood, implying it could pass on to the next generation.”

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Unplanned Pregnancies 20 Times More Likely on Birth Control Pill than IUD

By Dr. Mercola

If you think your birth control pill is the best pregnancy prevention tool there is, you may be surprised by new research looking into its failure rates.

Compared to other forms of protection, the Pill failed miserably, which only adds to the myriad of reasons why you should heavily question its use.

The Pill Fails 20 Times More Often

About 99 percent of sexually active women use at least one method of birth control, the most common of which is the birth control pill (oral contraceptives). The Pill was used by nearly 11 million U.S. women from 2006-2008.ⁱ

Meanwhile, nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended.ⁱⁱ Certainly not all of these are due to a birth control failure, but some of them -- estimates suggest about half -- undoubtedly are. Which brings me to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.ⁱⁱⁱ Out of the 7,500 women in the study, who used various forms of birth control including an intrauterine device (IUD), implant, birth control pills, patch, ring and contraceptive injection, 334 became pregnant, 156 of which were due to birth control failure.

The contraceptive failure rate among pills, patch or ring was 4.55 percent, compared to 0.27 percent among participants using reversible contraception such as intrauterine devices. The effectiveness—or non-effectiveness—was no different in adolescents or young women. The implications—that birth control pills are 20 times more likely to fail than IUDs—should give some women a pause to think about the method of contraception they want to use.

As for the varying degrees of effectiveness, the Pill must be taken daily, preferably around the same time for it to work its best. Study author Dr. Jeffrey Peipert, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, noted:^iv

"This study is the best evidence we have that long-acting reversible methods are far superior to the birth control pill, patch and ring. IUDs and implants are more effective because women can forget about them after clinicians put the devices in place ... If there were a drug for cancer, heart disease or diabetes that was 20 times more effective, we would recommend it first."

Hormone-Based Contraceptives Have Steep Risks

Unintended pregnancy is clearly a big one, but artificially manipulating your hormones using oral contraceptives, the patch or ring, or an injection like Depo-Provera is also a very risky proposition. Most birth control pills are a combination of the derivatives of the hormones estrogen and a synthetic progesterone(progestin). They work by disrupting the hormones in your body, essentially fooling your intricate hormonal reproductive system into producing the following effects:

Preventing your ovaries from releasing eggs

Thickening your cervical mucus to help block sperm from fertilizing an egg

Thinning the lining of your uterus, which would make it difficult for an egg to implant, should it become fertilized

However, it is naive to believe that these are the only impacts the synthetic hormones are having. Your reproductive system does not exist in a bubble ... it is connected to all of your other bodily systems as well. The Pill, too, does not only influence your reproductive status; it's capable of altering much more.

Ten years ago, in 2002, one of the largest and best-designed federal studies of hormone replacement therapy was halted because women taking these synthetic hormones had a such a higher risk of breast cancer, heart attack, stroke and blood clots that continuing forward with the study would have been unethical. The news made headlines because millions of women were already taking these synthetic hormones, but fortunately it prompted many of them to quit. And what do you think happened a year after millions of women quit taking hormone replacement therapy? Incidents of breast cancer fell dramatically -- by 7 percent!

What does this have to do with the Pill? Birth control pills contain the SAME type of synthetic hormones -- estrogen and progestin -- that were used in the ill-fated study!

That's just one risk. Oral contraceptives have been linked to more than two dozen conditions, including heart disease, liver cancer, deep vein thrombosis and inflammatory bowel disease.^v Research suggests they are not only carcinogenic (cancer-causing) but also cardiotoxic (toxic to your heart) and endocrine disrupting.

Why I Advise Most Women to Stop Hormonal Contraceptives

Birth control pills are rarely, if ever, necessary or beneficial. In exchange for the convenience of preventing pregnancy (which you can do naturally perhaps even more effectively, and I'll explain how below), you are putting yourself at risk of a myriad of health issues.

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that several types of hormone-based birth control methods increased women's risk of heart attack and stroke.^vi The link was found between oral contraceptives as well as contraceptive patches and the vaginal ring. Women using the ring were found to have a 2.5 times greater risk of stroke compared to those not using hormonal contraceptives, whereas the other methods increased the risk to varying degrees.

Other known health risks of hormone-based birth control include:

Cancer: Women who take birth control pills increase their risk of cervical and breast cancers, and possibly liver cancer as well.	Fatal blood clots: All birth control pills increase your risk of blood clots and subsequent stroke.	Thinner bones: Women who take birth control pills have lower bone mineral density (BMD) than women who have never used oral contraceptives.	Impaired muscle gains: A study found that oral contraceptive use impairs muscle gains from resistance exercise training in women.^vii
Long-term sexual dysfunction: The Pill may limit the availability and/or action of testosterone, leading to long-term sexual dysfunction, including decreased desire and arousal.	Heart disease: Long-term use of birth control pills may increase the buildup of arterial plaque, which may raise your risk of heart disease and cardiac mortality.^viii	Migraines and nausea	Weight gain and mood changes
Irregular bleeding or spotting	Breast tenderness	Yeast overgrowth	Yeast infection

The other hormonal-based options are not much better. Birth control patches (Ortho Evra) have resulted in an avalanche of lawsuits over the past several years due to the overwhelming health problems women have experienced from using them. One of the reasons the patch is so risky is that you absorb up to 60 percent more synthetic estrogen than if you were taking an oral contraceptive. Side effects of the patch include:

Raised risk of heart attack and stroke Irregular bleeding Problems wearing contact lenses Fluid retention or raised blood pressure

Nausea Headache Breast tenderness Mood changes

Menstrual cramps Abdominal pain Skin irritation or rashes at site of patch

As far as injections like Depo-Provera, or depo medroxyprogesterone (DMPA), go, this synthetic analogue of natural progesterone known as a progestin interferes with hormone signaling to prevent your ovaries from releasing eggs. Progestins carry with them a vast array of negative side effects, including:

Side Effects of Depo-Provera

Weight gain

Headaches

Breast swelling and tenderness

Decreased sexual desire

Depression

Bloating

Swelling of the hands and feet

Nervousness

Abdominal cramps

Dizziness

Weakness of fatigue

Leg cramps

Nausea

Vaginal discharge or irritation

Backache

Insomnia

Acne

Pelvic pain

Lack of hair growth or excessive hair loss

Rashes

Hot flashes

Joint pain

Convulsions

Jaundice

Urinary tract infections

Allergic reactions

Fainting

Paralysis

Osteoporosis

Lack of return to fertility

Deep vein thrombosis

Pulmonary embolus

Breast and cervical cancers

Abnormal menstrual bleeding

Increased risk for STDs

Unexpected breast milk production

Changes in speech, coordination, or vision

Swelling of face, ankles or feet

Mood changes

Unusual fatigue

Is an IUD a Better Option?

Intrauterine devices are small, plastic, T-shaped sticks with a string attached to the end. The IUD is placed inside the uterus and prevents pregnancy by rendering the sperm unable to fertilize an egg, and by changing the lining of the uterus so that it is less supportive for an embryo. It also works by releasing hormones into your body, specifically a progestin hormone called levonorgestrel, which is often used in birth control pills.

One of its major advantages, and what contributes to its increased effectiveness rate, is that it essentially eliminates the compliance failure issue as all you do is insert it once. There is no daily task to remember to do. However, it, too, carries significant risks, including some that are unique to a foreign body being placed inside your uterus. Among them:

Pelvic infection: IUDs may lead to pelvic inflammatory disease, a serious infection

The device may attach to or go through the wall of the uterus

Pregnancy while using an IUD can be life threatening, and may result in loss of the pregnancy or fertility

Ovarian cysts may occur

Bleeding and spotting

Take Charge of Your Body Using Natural Birth Control Methods

You may not be aware that there are many effective and safe methods for preventing pregnancy. Some of the more common, barrier methods are:

Male condoms: Condoms have a 98 percent effectiveness rate when used correctly. A water-based lubricant will increase the effectiveness; do not use an oil-based lubricant, however, as they break the latex and usually are petrochemical in origin.

Female condoms: These thin, soft polyurethane pouches fitted inside the vagina before sex are 95 percent effective. Female condoms are less likely to tear than male condoms.

Diaphragm: Diaphragms, which must be fitted by a doctor, act as a barrier to sperm. When used correctly with spermicidal jellies, they are 92 to 98 percent effective.

Cervical cap: This heavy rubber cap fits tightly against the cervix and can be left in place for 48 hours. Like the diaphragm, a doctor must fit the cap. Proper fitting enhances the effectiveness above 91 percent.

Cervical sponges: The sponge, made of polyurethane foam, is moistened with water and inserted into the vagina prior to sex. It works as a barrier between sperm and the cervix, both trapping and absorbing sperm and releasing a spermicide to kill them. It can be left in for up to 24 hours at a time. When used correctly, the sponge is about 89-91 percent effective.

Many people are familiar with these barrier methods, and less familiar with natural family planning (NFP) tools, which a woman uses to track when she is ovulating, and then avoid sex during that time (or does so only using a back-up barrier method). Many women feel empowered by NFP because it allows them to get in touch with their fertility cycle.

Some of the most popular methods include:

Calendar Method: Abstention from sex during the week the woman is ovulating. This technique works best when a woman's menstrual cycle is very regular. The calendar method doesn't work very well for couples who use it by itself (about a 75 percent success rate), but it can be effective when combined with the temperature and mucus methods described below.

The Temperature Method: This is a way to pinpoint the day of ovulation so that sex can be avoided for a few days before and after. It involves taking your basal body temperature (your temperature upon first waking) each morning with an accurate "basal" thermometer, and noting the rise in temperature that occurs after ovulation.

Illness or lack of sleep can change your body temperature and make this method unreliable by itself, but when it is combined with the mucus method, it can be an accurate way of assessing fertility. The two methods combined can have a success rate as high as 98 percent.

The Mucus Method: This involves tracking changes in the amount and texture of vaginal discharge, which reflect rising levels of estrogen in your body. For the first few days after your period, there is often no discharge, but there will be a cloudy, tacky mucus as estrogen starts to rise. When the discharge starts to increase in volume and becomes clear and stringy, ovulation is near. A return to the tacky, cloudy mucus or no discharge means that ovulation has passed.

I encourage you to become actively involved in fertility awareness, and embrace natural family planning or barrier methods that will not interfere with your hormones and health. Some excellent reading to get you started on this path include:

The Ovulation Method: Natural Family Planning, by John J. Billings

Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health, by Toni Weschler

Honoring Our Cycles: A Natural Family Planning Workbook, by Katie Singer

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Is Alzheimer's a Form of Diabetes?

More evidence has been uncovered that Alzheimer’s disease may actually be a third form of diabetes, according to researchers from Northwestern University.

Insulin and insulin receptors in your brain are crucial for learning and memory, and it’s known that these components are lower in people with Alzheimer’s disease. In your brain, insulin binds to an insulin receptor at a synapse, which triggers a mechanism that allows nerve cells to survive and memories to form.

The Northwestern University researchers have found that a toxic protein in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients -- called ADDL for “amyloid ß-derived diffusible ligand” -- removes insulin receptors from nerve cells, and renders those neurons insulin resistant.

The findings suggest that ADDLs accumulate at the beginning of Alzheimer’s disease and thereby block memory function.

The process is currently thought to be reversible.

The researchers speculated that drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes, which also causes insulin resistance, may “supercede currently available Alzheimer’s drugs.”

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Side Effects of Depo-Provera
Weight gain Headaches Breast swelling and tenderness Decreased sexual desire Depression Bloating Swelling of the hands and feet Nervousness Abdominal cramps Dizziness Weakness of fatigue Leg cramps Nausea Vaginal discharge or irritation	Backache Insomnia Acne Pelvic pain Lack of hair growth or excessive hair loss Rashes Hot flashes Joint pain Convulsions Jaundice Urinary tract infections Allergic reactions Fainting Paralysis Osteoporosis	Lack of return to fertility Deep vein thrombosis Pulmonary embolus Breast and cervical cancers Abnormal menstrual bleeding Increased risk for STDs Unexpected breast milk production Changes in speech, coordination, or vision Swelling of face, ankles or feet Mood changes Unusual fatigue