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06/23/2026

Fast food is not fit for human consumption. Read this about McDonald's

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McDonald's loses lawsuit against chef Jamie Oliver, who proved that the food they sell is unfit for human consumption because it is highly toxic.
That was about eight years ago... but no one seemed to care... Chef Jamie Oliver won a lawsuit against the world's largest fast-food chain.
Oliver demonstrates how hamburgers are made.
According to Oliver, fatty cuts of meat are "washed" with ammonium hydroxide and then used to fill the hamburger patties. Even before this process, the TV presenter says, this meat was unfit for human consumption.
Oliver, a radical activist chef taking on the food industry, says:
"We are talking about meat that is sold as dog food and then served to humans. Aside from the quality of the meat, ammonium hydroxide is harmful to health." Oliver calls it "the pink slime process."
What sane person would put a piece of meat soaked in ammonium hydroxide into a child's mouth?
In another initiative, Oliver demonstrated how chicken nuggets are made: After the "best parts" are selected, the rest—fat, skin, cartilage, eyes, bones, head, feet—is subjected to a mechanical separation process called "Canica"—a euphemism used by food engineers. This blood-pink paste, which is deodorized, bleached, refreshed, and re-colored, is then coated in flour and deep-fried. It is typically fried in partially hydrogenated oils—in other words, toxic substances.
The food industry uses ammonium hydroxide as an antimicrobial agent, allowing McDonald's to use meat in its hamburgers that is unfit for human consumption. Even more alarming, however, is the fact that these ammonium-hydrogen-based substances are considered "legal components of the production process" in the global food industry, with the approval of health authorities. Consequently, consumers will never know what substances are in their food.
PLEASE STOP GIVING THIS FAKE FOOD TO YOUR CHILDREN, because NOW YOU KNOW.

06/04/2026

Plastics in our environment are a major health problem. One benefit of this oil crisis, which is going to get much worse, is that there will be less plastic as we move away from oil

Dr. Josh Axe

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Even without heat, the average person is already consuming 5 grams of plastic every single week. The weight of a credit card. Every seven days.
The good news is the swaps are simple:
👉 Stainless steel or glass water bottles
👉 Glass food storage containers
👉 Ceramic or cast iron cookware
👉 Wooden or bamboo cutting boards
👉 Wooden kitchen utensils
👉 Loose-leaf tea instead of plastic tea bags
👉 A reverse osmosis or solid carbon block water filter at home
Hormone disruptors like plastic are everywhere in our environment, so make sure to comment ‘HORMONE’ for my full class on healing your hormones naturally.

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06/03/2026

Known as browns gas this is very helpful for so many health issues we have our own aqua 50 machine

I thought my Hydrogen water bottle was a bust but it wasn't. It was healing me in ways I never thought possible!

06/02/2026

Sleep is so important for health life and to function well
There is a list of practices that will help you with you get quality sleep
First thing in the morning, go outside, whatever time it is, and get the light into your eyes. Before you do anything else

No, LED light bulbs or fluorescent lights not only affect your sleep, but also affect your entire system.
Limit sunglass use to only when necessary, such as when driving. It will help prevent sunburns. You need the full spectrum of light to have your body function they way it was designed
Take vitamin D with K2. Few people have enough vitamin D. Even in the sun states Had my wife on 30 thousand units a day her hayfever disappearred
You can actually adjust your cell phone so it is more red light. I did

this is just a few of my suggestions
Here is one more that i just found
Tibetan monks discovered that pressing a point on the inner forearm for 60 seconds before sleep can increase melatonin by up to 40%.

It has been in Tibetan medical texts for over 1000 years.

Western sleep medicine has never acknowledged its existence.

It needs no supplement. No prescription. 🪡

05/14/2026

Healthy habits to live longer written by a dentist
1) I eat between 5 and 10 different vegetables a day.
More important than eating your veggies is the variety of those veggies. I first learned this concept from Terry Wahls, MD.

The microbes on your tongue that convert dietary nitrate into nitric oxide don't all feed on the same thing. The commensals competing with cavity-causing bacteria on your enamel are a different community from the ones living near your tonsils.

A green smoothie with two ingredients feeds a handful of them; a salad with eight ingredients feeds a whole neighborhood, which is the part the "eat your greens" message left out!

Yesterday I had spinach, arugula, radishes, beets, carrots, fennel, parsley, and celery (eight before lunch).

2) I babysit my grandchildren on a regular basis.
People with a strong sense of life purpose live longer and show lower rates of cognitive decline. A 2019 study in JAMA Network Open followed nearly 7,000 American adults over 50 and found that those scoring highest on life-purpose measures had a significantly lower risk of all-cause mortality, with the strongest signal showing up in cardiovascular death.

In plain English: feeling needed, on a regular basis, is doing measurable work inside your body, even if our Oura ring isn't going to pick it up.

What this looks like is picking up my grandkids from school, or taking them for the weekend. We try to be "every day" grandparents rather than "special occasion" grandparents, as much as we can be, living two hours away.

3) My wife and I go to bed at the same time every night.
Couples who sleep on the same schedule have measurably better sleep quality and lower morning cortisol than couples who don't. The other half of the habit is the first thing we say to each other when we wake up: " How did you sleep? "I got a 92 last night." We're constantly titrating the temperature of the bedroom, humidity, light, air quality, and what we ate the night before.

Sleep is the project we share, and we have Oura ring data to discuss over coffee.

4) I keep fresh flowers in our home.
OK, OK...so there is no fresh-flowers longevity study. But the reason fresh flowers are on this list is that they make me happy when I see them in the morning, and being a person who is happy in his own home strikes me as a real, if immeasurable, health intervention.

Creating beauty in the spaces we live in might seem frivolous, but as someone who earned a bachelor's degree in art history, this one matters more than we even realize...

5) I replace my toothbrush head every four weeks.
The standard recommendation is every three months, and almost nobody manages even that. The problem is that worn bristles become too sharp for enamel. After a few weeks of normal use, the soft, polished tips you started with are gone, and what's left is a brush that wears away enamel and causes gum recession. A fresh brush head every four weeks is one of the cheapest insurance policies in dentistry against the damage a worn one will quietly do to your teeth and gums.

6) I spend real time outside, and I take a walk after dinner.
Morning light hitting your eyes within an hour of waking sets your circadian rhythm - and I can see the difference in my Oura ring sleep scores if I don't get it.

A short walk after dinner substantially blunts the post-meal glucose response and helps your nervous system shift into parasympathetic mode, making evenings feel like evenings.

7) I sleep with a mandibular advancement device.
For me, the difference is obvious: I don’t snore, my sleep is more continuous, and my tracker shows longer stretches of deep sleep. My nighttime resting heart rate is lower now than it was in my forties and fifties, though of course no single habit gets all the credit.

The connection between airway and aging is the most under-discussed thing in adult medicine, and I'm not exaggerating. Disrupted breathing during sleep (even mild, even subclinical) drives systemic inflammation, suppresses growth hormone, and accelerates both cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline. If you snore, or someone who has slept next to you has ever told you that you do, this matters more than almost any other longevity move I could recommend. It's so important I wrote a book about it. You can find an airway-trained dentist near you using my Functional Dentist Directory.

8) I swish with a CoQ10 MCT oil in the morning, and I never use mouthwash
Both conventional and natural mouthwash kill bacteria indiscriminately, which means every time you swish, you're taking out the commensals your mouth depends on to produce nitric oxide, buffer your saliva pH, and stay in communication with your gut. There's a reason mouthwash use is associated with higher blood pressure in the scientific literature.

The "natural" mouthwashes are no better. Peppermint, clove, tea tree, eucalyptus, oregano - at the concentrations used in oral care, these are broad-spectrum antimicrobials doing the same indiscriminate work. A small bottle of clove oil is the concentrated extract of pounds of clove buds, and nobody is eating pounds of clove buds with dinner. Concentrate any plant enough and it stops behaving like a plant and starts behaving like a drug.

What I do instead is swish with a CoQ10 and MCT oil blend, then brush. If you've been drying out your mouth with mouthwash, you'll love how hydrating this oil feels.

9) I scrape my tongue every day.
A stainless steel tongue scraper costs about eight dollars, lasts forever, and takes fifteen seconds to use. It lifts the overnight biofilm off the dorsal surface of your tongue in one or two passes. You can smell the difference in the bathroom after the first pass, and taste it in your morning coffee. If you aren't already doing this, it's the highest-leverage thing on the entire list relative to what it costs you.

10) I drink green tea every single day, and I travel with it, too.
Green tea is one of the most consistently studied beverages in the cardiovascular and oral health literature. The EGCG in it interferes with the glucosyltransferase enzymes that Streptococcus mutans (the main bacterium responsible for tooth decay) uses to build the sticky biofilm that anchors it to your enamel, which means a regular green tea habit denies that organism the foothold it needs to start a cavity.

I'm extremely picky about my tea. Most green tea served in American restaurants is the lowest grade of the lowest grade (old, oxidized, badly brewed), so I travel with my own. There's a Ziploc in my carry-on with single-serve sachets of the high-quality stuff. If you knew how much of my forties I spent trying to source decent green tea in a hotel lobby in some city I'd flown into for a lecture, the packets would make more sense.
Dr. Mark Bruhne
written by Dr mark Bruehne, he is a dentist
I will write a list this week for myself, some of the same, and actually a lot more than his list

What about you what is on your list

05/13/2026

Many of us carry weight for protection. It helps us feel safer as we struggle through the world. The solution is to do your emotional work, something I am good at helping my clients with.

celow is a article and am posting to explan more thanks

if everything we’ve been told about weight loss is only half the story, so many of us have been conditioned to believe it’s about making different food choices, moving our bodies more often, and drinking more water. And while those things do help — sometimes, the numbers on the scale don't shift the way we hoped. Or you lose a little, and it comes right back.

That’s because weight is not just physical; it’s also emotional. It can be the heaviness of chronic stress and burnout at work. The exhaustion that comes from always tending to everyone else while your own needs go unmet. Or the lingering imprint of past trauma, grief, or painful experiences. When this happens, your body can believe it’s never truly safe. And when your body doesn’t feel safe, it holds on to memories, to tension, and sometimes to extra pounds.

05/12/2026

MSM (DMSO₂), according to the 'Father of DMSO' Stanley Jacob, is the first safe, natural, side-effect-free remedy for arthritis joint pain.In fact, it completely goes beyond ordinary pain relief. It's a full-on "topical supplement" for your joints.DMSO wasn't banned because it didn't work. It was banned because it worked too well. But they couldn't hide the fundamental research forever.And what researchers uncovered in the process changed everything we thought we knew about treating joint pain.Here's the full story.====It started in a paper mill.DMSO is a natural, organic byproduct of wood pulping. First synthesized in the 1800s. Largely ignored for decades.Then, in the early 1960s, a researcher at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, Dr. Stanley Jacob, began noticing something strange about the arthritis patients he was treating.The standard protocol wasn't working. Oral medications helped some patients but did nothing for others. The joints weren't getting the compounds they needed. And he kept asking the same question that nobody around him seemed interested in.What if the problem isn't the ingredient?What if it's the body not absorbing it?At some point, he started experimenting with DMSO.What happened next was NOT what he expected. The compound passed through the skin faster than anything he had ever observed. Within minutes of application over a joint, it was already measurable in the joint fluid. It was so potent, people could smell the stench of GARLIC in their breath, moments after using - topically on their joints!It was bypassing every barrier that made oral supplements so ineffective - targeting the joint area directly.====What Dr. Jacob and his colleagues uncovered next was something the medical establishment had no framework for.They had stumbled onto an entirely new category of treatment.A "topical supplement".Ordinary oral supplements have to go through:🧪 The stomach acid that destroys up to 60% before they enter the blood🫀 The liver processing raw materials before they can reach the joint🔴 Dilution across 5 liters of blood🤞 And then hope some negligible fraction finds its way to your joints.Meanwhile, topical supplements can be applied it directly to the skin over the site that needs it. ====So, what was the "topical supplement" DMSO provided?🍃 DMSO worked because it is an organic sulfur compound. It carried rich mineral sulfur directly into the joint tissue.Sulfur is the third most abundant mineral in the human body. It is the structural backbone of cartilage. It is the compound your joints use to retain water, maintain resilience, and repair damage. And in arthritic joints, it is consistently depleted to as little as one-third of the levels found in healthy, non-arthritic tissue.So surgeons used it. Arthritis patients used it. Athletes used it. Veterinarians used it on racehorses. The results were consistent enough that respected medical journals started publishing findings. The New York Times covered it. 60 Minutes aired a segment on it. Patients were calling it a miracle.The lesson?DMSO was a topical supplement - the richest topical supplement for joint-building sulfur available.That's why it worked. However, in 1965, the FDA halted widespread human use.Not because it stopped working.Because it worked "too well".The same property that made DMSO so remarkable, its ability to pass through skin and carry compounds directly into tissue, also meant it carried everything else with it. Such as contaminants. Impurities. Whatever happened to be on the skin at the point of application. It was indiscriminate and uncontrollable.A woman in Ireland died after applying DMSO that had been contaminated. The investigation raised serious questions about product purity and safety protocols.The FDA pulled it. The research funding dried up. The pharmaceutical model moved on to drugs it could patent and control. For two decades, the story largely disappeared from mainstream medicine.Then in the 1970s and 80s, a group of researchers started asking a quiet question.How do you make DMSO safe - with all the same benefits and pain-relieving properties?The answer was simple.By adding a single oxygen atom, you get DMSO₂, now called MSM.Remember how DMSO was organically found from tree pulp? MSM is even better. It's found naturally in the human body and is a core building block of our joints & cartilage.Now, it's 10 times more stable. Non-reactive. With all the same joint-soothing benefits.It even pe*****ted the skin and accumulated in the local tissue, without the indiscriminate carrying effect that made DMSO so dangerous.It became superior to DMSO in every way.Dr. Robert Herschler, one of the original DMSO researchers at Crown Zellerbach who had worked alongside Dr. Jacob in the early days, began investigating MSM as a therapeutic compound in the late 1970s. He filed some of the earliest patents on MSM for health applications. He had spent years watching what DMSO did in patients. And he believed MSM (DMSO₂) could deliver the same benefits in a form that was safe enough for everyday use.He was right.MSM began accumulating its own research base. Peer-reviewed studies on joint pain, cartilage health, inflammation reduction. 🔬 A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial published on PubMed confirmed it improved knee quality of life in patients with mild knee pain.🧪 A Japanese research team confirmed it suppressed the cellular process that causes joint cells to die.🟢 Its ability to inhibit inflammatory enzymes inside joint cells became one of the most documented mechanisms in topical joint research.MSM is the modern evolution of the age-old DMSO remedy, made safe.It is still the richest topical supplement for joint-building sulfur available - now with all the benefits and none of the drawbacks.====And then researchers asked the next question.If MSM can pe*****te the skin and deliver sulfur directly into joint tissue, what else can it carry with it?This is where the story gets even more interesting.MSM is a natural permeability enhancer. It doesn't just deliver itself. It opens the skin barrier and increases the transdermal absorption of every other compound applied alongside it. For joint health, this changes everything.🌊 Magnesium chloride, for instance. Arthritic joints are measurably depleted in magnesium as well as sulfur. Magnesium activates the enzymes responsible for cartilage repair. It is fantastic for relaxing muscles and promoting sleep, which most with OA struggle with. It restores the joint environment disrupted by inflammation. And MSM carries it there directly.🏵️ Arnica montana, the mountainous European herb studied to match ibuprofen gel for topical pain reduction in knee and hand arthritis, disperses the swelling and soreness that builds around arthritic joints. That means pain relief without gut damage. Without the side effects that make long-term NSAID use so destructive.🌳 Frankincense essential oils too. They shut off the inflammatory signal at the source, and are aromatic and therapeutic for at-home, consistent joint relief.What started with DMSO proving that sulfur could be delivered transdermally into depleted joint tissue had evolved into something far more complete.====⏰ What happens if you use MSM with magnesium & other soothing botanicals for your joint pain?Most people notice the night first. The 3am wake-up from the aching starts to settle within the first week. Not gone. But quieter.By week two, the mornings change. The stiffness that used to take an hour to work through starts clearing in ten minutes. You start getting out of bed without the ritual.By month one, flexibility improves. Sleep is consistently better. The joint that used to announce itself with every step is quieter.By month three, this is where it compounds. Three months of consistent mineral replenishment. Most people at this point have either significantly reduced or completely stopped their daily painkiller use.You stop being able to predict the weather with your joints, and you begin experiencing moments of pain-free mobility - like you years ago.====What people are saying:"I was facing a cortisone injection every eight weeks just to walk. After two weeks on the cream my doctor cancelled the next one. My pain is gone. I'm back in the garden. It gave me my life back." — David T., 64"The throbbing in my hands was so bad I couldn't cook or knit. I thought I was heading for wrist fusion surgery. The cream eliminated the swelling. I feel 20 years younger." — Margaret S., 59"I was taking four Advil every morning. My doctor warned me about my liver. This cream is the only thing that actually melts the stiffness. I stopped the pills and I'm walking two miles a day." — Linda P., 71====How to use it?Apply a small amount directly over the affected joint morning and night. Ideally after a warm shower when your pores are most open and absorption is most efficient. Massage in until absorbed and let it air dry before dressing.Because it's a topical supplement, consistency is key to let it build up in your joints overtime.PS: If you're still using ibuprofen, taper slowly rather than stopping cold turkey. The cream works alongside whatever you're currently doing.====Don't buy everything separately from Amazon which'll cost you upwards of $50-60 every month.Outfield Organics Deep Sea Magnesium & MSM True Joint Cream contains even more soothing herbs like lavender, arnica & frankincense.Choose products that don't chuck the main ingredients at the bottom of the label. Find Dimethyl Sulfone (MSM) & Deep Sea Magnesium at the top.90-day money-back guarantee. If nothing shifts, full refund, no questions asked.→ https://outfieldorganics.com/pages/sp1P.S. Dr. Jacob, who started all of this at the University of Oregon in 1961, spent the rest of his career advocating for the therapeutic potential of transdermal MSM sulfur delivery

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05/04/2026

Interesting article on Cradle cap and how it relates to the long-term health of the infant by Dr. Jack Kruse, the world's leading expert on light and how it affects us

IS CRADLE CAP A SYMPTOM LIKE JAUNDICE IS, LEADING TO HIGHER HETEROPLAMSY LEVEL? Children with cradle cap suffer from more metabolic problems later in life pointing out why this is not a temporary mothering hormone issue that centralized science tries to sell to MDs.My observation highlights a critic

05/03/2026

Plastic is everywhere nowadays and is now used with much of our food. We buy our food in plastic. We store it in plastic, and we use plastic utensils. The list goes on and on. These plastics enter our bodies and affect our systems' functioning properly
Here is a study done in New Zealand that shows a rapid change in the amount of plastic in a body after cutting it out of using it in their food supply

The everyday use of plastic products exposes us to plastic-associated chemicals (PACs), which have been associated with risks to human health. We present the results of the Plastic Exposure Reduction Transforms Health Trial, with an observational cohort of 211 Australian participants and a 7-day pilot randomized controlled trial in 60 participants. Intervention groups received combinations of plastic-free kitchenware, low-plastic personal-care products, and food sourced from more than 100 producers that minimized all plastic touchpoints from paddock to plate, while the control group received no intervention. The primary trial outcome was a reduction in urinary levels of plastic-associated chemicals. In the cohort study, highly processed, plastic-packaged, and canned foods were important modifiable factors for urinary PAC metabolite levels. Additionally, we observed negative associations between cardiometabolic biomarkers and higher urinary di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate metabolites. Our randomized controlled dietary intervention maintained participants’ daily energy intake while decreasing plastic exposure (P < 0.001) and urinary levels of mono-n-butyl phthalate, monobenzyl phthalate and bisphenol A by 37.5% (95% confidence interval (CI): −55.6, −12.0; P = 0.007), 53.5% (95% CI: −72.7, −20.6; P = 0.005) and 59.7% (95% CI: −82.5, −6.87; P = 0.033), respectively. Intervention groups provided with foods that had minimal to no contact with plastic had the broadest effect on PAC excretion, and replacing low-plastic personal-care products alone led to an independent decrease in urinary mono-n-butyl phthalate, compared to no intervention. Despite constant plastic exposure, limiting food plastic touchpoints decreases select PACs within 7 days. Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12622001252707.

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04/25/2026

If you've ever bitten into a piece of wild arugula, a dandelion green, or an heirloom vegetable variety, you've probably noticed something: it's bitter.

Much more bitter than the mild, sweet-leaning produce we're used to from modern grocery stores.

That's not a coincidence.

Over the past several decades, we've systematically bred bitterness out of our food supply—selecting for sweeter, milder varieties because that's what sells.
We have been trained to eat sweets and have a sweet tooth, yet
Sugar is everywhere, creating many problems, such as diabetes, weight gain, and in general just wears down your body
You need bitters to have a healthy digestive system
The following is an article explaining it

And in doing so, we may have removed something our bodies actually need.

Bitter Receptors Aren't Just on Your Tongue
Here's something most people don't know: bitter taste receptors exist throughout your entire body, not just in your mouth.

They've been found in the gut, lungs, sinuses, skin, and even the brain.

These receptors aren't there by accident—they serve important physiological functions that have nothing to do with taste perception.

In the gut, bitter receptors stimulate the release of digestive hormones, including cholecystokinin (CCK), which signals satiety and triggers bile release for fat digestion.

In the airways, they help detect and respond to bacterial compounds.

In the pancreas, they appear to play a role in insulin regulation.

When we stopped eating bitter foods, we didn't just change our flavor preferences—we stopped activating receptor systems that influence digestion, appetite, blood sugar, and immune function.

The Digestive Cascade We're Missing
Traditional cuisines around the world have long incorporated bitter foods at the beginning of meals—aperitifs, bitter salads, digestive bitters.

This wasn't arbitrary.

Bitter compounds trigger what's sometimes called the "bitter reflex"—a cascade of digestive responses that prepare the body to process food efficiently.

Saliva production increases. Stomach acid secretion ramps up. Bile flow improves. Digestive enzymes are released.

When this cascade is activated, digestion tends to be more complete, nutrient absorption improves, and post-meal discomfort decreases.

When it's missing—when meals are predominantly sweet, salty, and savory without bitter notes—digestion often suffers, and we reach for antacids rather than addressing the upstream cause.

What We Lost When We Sweetened Everything
The modern produce aisle is a testament to our preference for sweetness.

Carrots have been bred to be sweeter. Lettuce varieties have been selected for mildness. Even Brussels sprouts have been modified to reduce their bitter compounds.

And beyond produce, the processed food industry has optimized for what sells—which means sugar, salt, and fat, with bitterness minimized or eliminated entirely.

The result is a food environment where most people rarely encounter significant bitter taste, and the receptor systems that respond to it sit largely unstimulated.

Some researchers believe this contributes to the epidemic of digestive complaints, blood sugar dysregulation, and appetite dysfunction we see today.

Bringing Bitter Back
The fix isn't complicated—it just requires some intentionality.

Incorporate bitter greens like arugula, endive, radicchio, dandelion, and mustard greens into your meals.

Explore bitter herbs like gentian, artichoke leaf, and chamomile, which have been used in traditional medicine for centuries, specifically for their digestive benefits.

Consider digestive bitters—tinctures of bitter herbs taken before meals—which were standard practice in many cultures before the 20th century.

Or simply stop avoiding the bitter edge in foods, and let your palate readjust to flavors beyond sweet.