Pasteurized milk no doubt. Probably those Frankenstein A2 casein Holstein cows from the Netherlands. Please find research on those consuming raw milk with all the enzymes and good bacteria that are destroyed by pasteurization and the thousand year old breeds which were not genetically modified to be A2 casein. The author of gutcritters.com attributes his cure for his gut dysbiosis to consuming raw milk.

Also the process of fermenting removes the lactose and converts the milk into a healthier probiotic.

The enzymes and the properties of milk can help to form the mucus lining on the inside of the intestines. Babies have no immunity and they get all this from the enzymes in the raw mother's milk.

How can you possibly draw conclusions from a study that has an entirely different food?

Also I learned that it is A2 casein which is causing many of the problems with milk (in addiction to those who are lactose intolerant and also the fact that milk is pasteurized which makes it poison), and goat's milk is always A1 casein.

Really you need to more fine tune your research before you jump to such statements.

Your response?

I agree with everything you wrote. I even question the coconut and some days I haven't eaten it as I am trying to experiment to find out what works and what doesn't. One potential benefit of the coconut is the acids may be effective in correcting gut dysbiosis. Also if you are thinking that the saturated fat in coconut is bad for the heart, the opposite is true. Only coconut and olive oil are healthy oils for your heart and in general. But even so, I question my intake of coconut meat as a significant portion of diet and have not done that every day.

For the moment, I am more focused on getting my LIVING probiotics right, because of my case history and symptoms, I have a strong reason to implicate potential issues with my gut microflora. Also Kefir is known to be very good for even healthy individuals, so it is doesn't hurt to prioritize that.

My priority at the moment is trying to find a balance of nutrition and energy from a balanced diet that can hopefully stabilize my worsening symptoms (eyes and voice the worst lately) and allow me to work normally.

If anything the fasting enabled me to refocus away from land based meats toward fish, which I feel is the correct way to go.

Well we can see who goes to extremes and thus needs a psychiatrist.

Can you fucking read:


I told you already that my case history is that from the time I arrived in Mindanao in 1994, I had dysentery and amoebas nearly ever week in the 1990s, then a series of gut infections over the years from 2006 forward, culminating in two severe gut infections clustered closely at the end of 2011 and Spring 2012, which precipitated being rushed in an ambulance to ER in May 2012 for an exploded acute peptic ulcer which was leaking acid into my abdomen thus causing my internal organs to tear and bloating my mid torso. I was in ICU and they were not sure if they would need to do surgery. That was the most pain I had ever experienced in my entire life.

That gut dysbiosis was surely caused by repetitive uses of antibiotics to treat those routine gut infections. Since the doctors found h.pylori in my stool, they again prescribed more antibiotics to the tune 6000 mg per day for 21 days (because the first 7 days I had to change to remove the Clarithromycin which screwed up my sense of smell so bad that I would puke even from the smell of a car exhaust). From that I got a severe fungal infection in my pelvic area which I assume was my bladder or colon. My doctor was nonchalant, said I looked stressed when I described the fungal infection symptoms, and never did he recommend stool tests nor a colonoscopy (it was about then that I completely gave up on him!). I had a lot of pain throughout my abdomen area for months I presume because I was scarred from the affair, which included for example taking PPIs which are known to be a factor correlated with chronic gut dysbiosis.

In November 2012, I proceded to the best hospital in Cebu (thinking it is more modern and more foreigners than Davao) and asked them to give me all the diagnostics they could. For example, the blood work showed my lymphocytes sky high. For example they confirmed I was negative for Syphilis, Clamydia, HIV, and other STDs they could test for (HPV not being one they could test for and one I had acquired in 2006 and unknown if ever fully cleared). The remainder of the tests had to be sent out to a lab in Manila, so they took my email address, phone number, and address so they could forward the results to me. They gave me their phone number for follow up. I never did receive any communication. I called but no one can help me. Typical for the Philippines, you totally waste your money because even if you do get a result, you can't even be sure you can trust the result you get. So what is the point of paying for diagnostics when you are not even sure the information you are getting is reliable???

Come on Mr. Know It All? Pray enlighten me fool.

As I told you, when I was in the office of my doctor who treated me for the acute peptic ulcer, I met a younger foreigner who was continually on morphine because my doctor had done a surgery on him to remove part of his digestive tract and sew together what remains. I believe it is referred to as a "j pop". Any way, the young guy (30s?) was clearly in such pain and years hence from the surgery he will never be painless again. It reminded me of how I could still see in my right eye after the incident where my eye was gouged with a hard object, but the surgeon in the Philippines managed to 100% detach the retina and destroy the eye. I had to return to the USA to one of the best eye surgeons in the country (whom I paid in excess of $100,000 in cash) to save my eyeball and reattach some of the retina (but lost 95% of the vision). So I asked the young guy, why did he operate in the Philippines and not back in the USA. He said lack of funds. There is no way I would operate in the Philippines again. I would at least hop over to Singapore or Australia.

So do you think I am going to trust a filipino doctor to stick a scope up my anus into my colon?!! Hell no! Not easily. I did recently get the names of some Gastroenteritis doctors at the same small brand new private hospital where I recently got my eye checkup. I am going to make an appointment to talk to them and detect whether I have found someone who I trust. Which is not likely, because I know very well the attitude the filipino doctors. Also I've told you that some of the tests are not available in Davao, e.g. I checked numerous hospital labs and none had e.coli nor salmonella stool tests.

So now what are the odds that my condition given the case history is not related to my gut? And what are the odds that the symptoms I have described are not M.S.?

And why do you think just because I am suffering in poverty that makes me insane because I have to juggle my priorities in terms of what I can and can't do at this time. And thus my treatment options follow accordingly.

You have demonstrated over the past few days how much of an indolent asshole you can be. Good riddance.


Which describes exactly what I am doing with diet (which isn't ketogenesis nor fasting idiots):


Ketogenesis and fasting are perhaps effective for cancer, because you are trying to starve the cancer. But starving the body of nutrients is generally not a good idea for most health issues.

No matter what an official diagnosis would say, that wouldn't change one iota the diet treatment I am pursuing. So what is your point?

Instead I am pointing out to you that you may be harming yourself by prioritizing ketogenesis and not Kefir. My next priority is Kefir because as I documented up thread yesterday, Kefir is a more diverse probiotic than Komucha (and the Yakult I am drinking has too much glucose and only provides one bacterium). You are barking up the wrong tree with ketogenesis focus, wherein up thread I even cited for you that Terry Wahls finds no statistical advantage for ketogenic diets from her clinical trials. Also nuts and legumes are hard on the gut because of the anti-nutrients, so I asked WTF were you doing eating nuts and coffee for breakfast. And yet you call me insane  

The much more likely area of causation is microflora yet you are too lazy to go make some Kefir and then you call me insane  

Dude you are one fine example of calling the kettle black.

Did you do a clinical test to determine if that is your feces in the toilet when you stand up.  

(I had an extensive post on my case history...)

I don't know how you could possibly survive without labs and medical insurance. Explains well why Greece can't break free from the EU slave masters.

Professionals have never cured a single M.S. patient. Not one.

Gut microflora and metabolism are intricately linked together. I don't think you can study them in isolation.

Edit: from your link I found this:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26367776

My vision got much worse since the fasting (but I don't know if it was due to the fasting or a trajectory that pre-existed). Went from 20/40 to 20/70. I lost muscle mass. My athleticism declined.

I am very skeptical that I gained anything from fasting, except lost scarce time being too low of energy to do anything much. It wasn't pleasant and I would not look forward to doing it ever again.

I think the major benefit has been to stop eating chicken, beef, and pork and focus on fish, vegetables, and moderation of white rice by eating also sweet potato for carbs. And not overdoing to carbs in any case (heck I've eaten roughly a half-cup of rice daily and half of a sweet potato past few days only and my face looks much less like a walking skeleton and my skin color and tone improved, probably also from eating the fish).

I am focused on what I can feel. I can feel my stomach aching. It is not nerve damage lie. It is aching truly. So what ever I do that eliminates or mitigates that aching and the concomitant head aching with chronic fatigue, then that is more real to me than the ad nauseum theories of academia and medical journals which jabber on and on and yet have absolutely no cases of ever curing a single M.S. patient!

And can you understand that if you have gut dysbiosis then you won't be disgesting carbohydrates properly thus leading to these sorts of cascades.

You and macsga are citing to me effects, not causes.

Billions of humans are eating carbohydrates in moderation with no problems.

All the classic symptoms of M.S....

• Numbness sometimes from knee down, other times just hot/cold/numb feet. Sometimes very swollen feet and ankles (edema?).
• Welts on the back of the head, when touched the pain goes deep. More than just a surface pimple. Sometimes same soreness without a welt at surface.
• Sometimes felt the skull was numb or feeling of a wet towel draped over it.
• In the past have tinnatus and difficulty swallowing.
• I had at times weakness on my left leg and even my left arm.
• Drastic reduction in my vision. Blurry vision, reduced acuity.
• Uncontrolled muscle twitching/spasms.
• chronic fatigue syndrome and brain fog
• excessive (volume & frequency) and sometimes uncontrollable urination
• lately losing my voice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis#Signs_and_symptoms

I quote some bullshit from that sales pitch:


I eat more coconut meat than that every day. Doesn't make me feel sick at all.

Keto doesn't do a damn thing to stop my gut from aching which always correlates with the back of my head aching and the onslaught of CFS.

Fasting for 10 days did, because there was nothing in my gut at all. But once I put any food back in there, even just vegetables and coconut (medium-chain fatty acids) oil, the pains came back. I may have really injured the mucus lining in my gut by not eating for 10 days.

In attempting to combat corporate (Monsanto, etc) Food Totalitarianism and in general for chronic disease, some people take this too far and start declaring that everything can benefit from a ketogenic diet. I just can't find enough evidence that Multiple Sclerosis benefits from ketogenic diet. Whereas I have found 3 claimed cases of M.S. that were cured with fecal transplants (to correct gut dysbiosis).

• The summary of research has nothing to say that supports ketogenic diets for M.S..
• Terry Wahls' clinical research has found no extra benefit for the ketogenic version of her Paleo diet:
  
  http://www.phoenixhelix.com/2015/06/06/episode-20-ketogenic-diets-with-terry-wahls-and-paul-jaminet/
  
  
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  Terry herself is conducting clinical trials into the effectiveness of the Wahls Paleo Plus diet on MS. Early results have surprised her: people benefit just as much from Wahls Paleo (the non-ketogenic version) as they do Wahls Paleo Plus (the ketogenic version of her diet).
• Ketogenic diets can have bad side-effects, including depriving the body of nutrition with side-effects such as losing your tooth enamel and muscle mass, and even the claim it can make candida in the gut dysbiosis worse:
  
  http://www.phoenixhelix.com/2015/06/06/episode-20-ketogenic-diets-with-terry-wahls-and-paul-jaminet/
  
  
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  Dr. Paul Jaminet is a scientist and author of The Perfect Health Diet. A negative experience with a ketogenic diet let him to be a safe starch advocate in the paleo community.
  
  
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  The ketogenic diet entered clinical use around 1920 for epilepsy, where it was found to stop seizures. They didn’t consider factors beyond that and paid no attention to nutrition. For that reason, there are lots of recorded side effects that are a direct result of malnutrition: stunted growth in children, kidney stones, muscle wasting, weak bones, etc.
  
  https://thepowerofozone.wordpress.com/2015/03/17/does-the-ketogenic-diet-get-rid-of-candida-the-ketosis-candida-mercury-link/
  
  
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  Ketosis Makes Candida Go Systemic
  
  Somebody forwarded to me a German text by a German doctor who claimed that long-term low carb diets will make candida worse because candida can feed more readily on ketones than on glucose. I was incredulous. Not having a very high opinion of German doctors I wanted to see whether I could find corroborating information in the English-speaking world. I ran a google search and an article by Mark Sisson from marksdailyapple.com popped up. It read:
  
  “Avoid very low carb.
  
  Paul Jaminet, who suffered from candida overgrowth, argues that since candida (being eukaryotes) have mitochondria that can feed on both ketones and carbs (as opposed to prokaryote bacteria without mitochondria), going very low carb or ketogenic will only provide more fuel for the overgrowth. Furthermore, since ketones are water-soluble and pass easily through cellular membranes, ketones will actually be a more accessible food source for candida. Don’t go high-carb, since any extra glucose will just be food for the yeast, but don’t go ketogenic, either. Stick to around 100-150 grams of carbs while still limiting sugar. Although other sources do recommend going as low-carb as possible, my money’s on Paul.”
• Worse yet the ketogenic diet could destroy the mucus lining of the gut causing the leaky gut to worsen!:
  
  http://www.phoenixhelix.com/2015/06/06/episode-20-ketogenic-diets-with-terry-wahls-and-paul-jaminet/
  
  
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  He believes a ketogenic diet is more likely to cause autoimmune disease than cure it, due to the depletion of the mucus layer of the intestine, which puts bacteria directly into contact with immune cells. (Carbohydrates are necessary to maintain this protective mucus layer.) For example, there’s a theory that connects a bacterial infection with a low carb-diet and high mammalian meat consumption, leading to Hashimoto’s.
• Even a theory of M.S. as a metabolic disorder of the LDL lipid cycle, admits a possible connection to gut dysbiosis:
  
  http://nicolagriffith.com/2011/12/21/huge-news-multiple-sclerosis-is-a-metabolic-disorder/comment-page-2/#comment-9781
  
  
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  Dear Corky, thank you so much for your encouragements. I do hope this article will make the research community think outside the box, or at least outside its comfort zone for a little while. I will be delighted to send you the article. My email address is aspcorthals (at) gmail (dot) com. If you send me an email, I'll reply to it with the article. And your question is not at all foolish. There are lipid panel tests, but usually levels of oxLDLs (oxidized LDL) are not tested. So you must specifically ask for it. The absorption of nutrient is another big topic. Top research is being done right now on gut bacteria and their role in the absorption of nutrient (specifically lipids) and MS. Specific profile of gut flora seem to increase the likelihood of autoimmune disease, because essential nutrients cannot be absorbed properly and put to use in the metabolic cycles. Please do email me, and I'll send you the article.
• And if M.S. is not gut dysbiosis then why is it being cured with antibiotics! I even noticed my M.S. symptoms go away when I am on antibiotics, but I have not dared that 8 week doxycycline that Dr. Paul is advocating because I am concerned that it might worsen my gut dysbiosis by killing off good bacteria also. But heck that is another thing to try if all else fails.
• Again this afternoon I started to get the pain at my abdomen and the head with the usual signal that chronic fatigue and brain fog was imminent, but again after drinking Kombucha tea the severity of this symptom was alleviated within 10 - 20 minutes. Note I still feel a slight tingle of pain at the abdomen and back of my head is still sore to the touch, but I don't feel the imminent collapse into CFS, fog, and bed ridden pain.

CoinCube, not being able to spend adequate time on studying global warming is a valid reason for being only skeptical.

Except again, aren't you even aware that they are extrapolating from data that is not historical enough to even include the normal periodic cycles of global warming and cooling. I mean it wouldn't take more than a few minutes of googling to realize that.

Al Gore tried to point to those ice core charts going to back 100,000s of years. But when we zoom in on his charts, the temperature rise was leading the rise in CO2 by 800 years. The sun warms the planet. Warming oceans release more CO2. Duh.

CoinCube you lack intuition which is the ability to separate impossible shit from the rest regardless of data.

If you are only skeptical of global warming and not outright crying fraud, then I think you need to re-review the fundamental tenet of the scientific method known as the Shannon-Nyquist theorem. The math of this theorem also implies that you must sample at twice the period of the long-tail otherwise you have aliasing error.

There is no fucking way you can say anything about the climate model until you've look at 1000s of years of patterns. Giving any credence to this nonsense of making any kind of statements based on 50 years of global industrialization is for fools who lack intuition.

We are headed into a Little Ice Age. You had better get your intuition working better and pronto.

http://www.armstrongeconomics.com/archives/37504

The point of this post is to explore the importance of living probiotic supplementation for chronic illness of the gut.

I've been waiting to make this post to allow time to pass for more confirmation of effects. Insufficient time has passed to make confident claims. Nevertheless, I want to post this story while the original impetus is still visceral in my mind.

Those who've been tracking my health saga may remember that I did a 10 day water only fasting in late August and dropped from roughly 72 kg (from peak in 2014 of 85 kg) to likely well below 60 kgs. I didn't weigh myself at the end of the fasting because I was too damn weak to go out to my gym. I don't own a scale. Wednesday was my first back in the gym since fasting. I had gained weight back to 65 kg and by Saturday 67 kg.

Before the fasting (perhaps it was early August), because I felt my vision was starting to decline faster, I had tested at an optometrist at the mall requiring a +1 corrective lens to attain 20/20. And my uncorrected vision was in the range of 20/40. It had gone from uncorrected 20/20 in 2010 to needing a +0.75 lens in 2013.

On Saturday I proceed to an ophthalmologist because I needed a medical certificate in order to obtain a renewal of my driver's license. Pressure in my good eye was normal at 13, but my visual acuity had declined precipitously in less than 2 months to 20/70 and needing a +1.75 lens to attain 20/25. I could no longer attain 20/20 with any lens.

I was stoically dejected as I proceeded from the doctor for 1 kilometer sidewalk stroll to the mall where I could buy a can of tuna before I would head to the gym. I realized I was losing the battle against Multiple Sclerosis and I was going blind. In less than 2 months my vision had declined from 20/40 to 20/70. I could be nearly blind in a few more months.

Also on Sat while waiting 2 hours for the ophthalmologist, I was having the usual effect of pain in my mid-abdomen about where my small intestine is located (also where the traverse colon of the large intestine comes across), the yellow discoloration of the skin in that area, and that pain at the back of the head which is the sign of chronic fatigue and debilitation oncoming. When I feel that it is so depressing because I know I'll soon be a zombie. The feeling is horrible and can't really be appreciated how horrible it is until you experience it. I guess imagine like you have a knife in your stomach, and another in the back of your head, and someone drained all your energy and you want to collapse.

I became so much more depressed than usual because I accepted a reality that after all the superman, Herculean effort I had given to try to cure this (e.g. not eating for 10 days, and doing 4 kms daily running in total exhaustion and pain, i.e. beyond the point of collapse ... essentially pulling energy from the bowels of nothingness to the point of blackout literally)... that all of it was for naught.

It was dawning of me that my life was a failure. As I was walking, I just felt like this was the end. There was no more hope. Nothing more that could be done. There was still the potential fecal transplant, but I was weary. My running had declined to 8+ min mile pace. The fasting had eaten away my muscles and I couldn't even bench press my body weight. A broken man, and a broken life. Not muchNothing to hope for. Nearly bankrupt, unable to work, unable to be cured. Would need to start preparing for how to live out the decline in body function with minimal expenses, so thoughts of living in a bamboo house (with all the mosquitos for tumultuous nights of insomnia) without electricity, etc..

The metrics were telling me the truth that I was denying. Multiple Sclerosis was progressing. Although I had less welts on the skin since the fasting and more careful diet, I was declining precipitously on the metrics that matter and don't lie to self (vision, athletics, amount of productive hours worked per day).

In the grocery store (at a mall I don't normally shop in because it is downtown and far from my rental house), I first grabbed an unripe banana. Then I saw brown eggs and a sign that said, "free range, 100% antibiotic free guaranteed", so I grabbed an egg. And then I saw these tiny salted, uncooked dried fresh fish in a cellophane bag, so I grabbed that. I was looking for some kind of fermented food with good bacteria. I think perhaps the salted dried fish do have beneficial bacteria, but difficult to find documentation of that. Then I saw goat feta cheese, so I grabbed that. I was also reading the various labels on the yogurts and the Yakult probiotic drink. For many years I had avoided the Yakult because it looked like a local product to me and I had tried it once and it was so laden with sugar. But being in this desperate state-of-mind, I didn't care. And I read the labels more carefully. I noted the L-casei culture in the Yakult was from Japan and it was a Japanese licensed product. I read each tiny bottle had 8 billion bacteria and the Yogurts had only 1.25 billion per cup plus the Yogurt had beef gelatin in it. Clearly the Yakult was more designed to be a probiotic. Also it was glucose sugar, not fructose. So I grabbed 5 of the 80ml bottles. I got my local can of tuna chunks in water. Checked out and proceeded to the parking lot on a hot tropical day.

There I sat on the curb in the parking lot. Dejected. Feeling no more hope. Not even wanting to think about my life, ramifications, etc.. Just really down mood. Feeling like a broken man.

I ate the raw egg yoke. Very orange color because from a native chicken. I ate everything I bought except only a portion of the goat cheese.

I walked over to the gym about another 1 km away.

I didn't expect much from the workout. Just was going to do a little bit or what ever I could. At first didn't feel really good, but as I was working out I felt some vigor and power. And ended powering through a descent workout with some good power on the arm curls.

Then I noticed my stomach wasn't hurting and the head wasn't aching and I didn't feel as if the chronic fatigue and debilitation was oncoming.

Also I noticed on Saturday evening that finally my Komucha tea was brewed correctly with a nice colored baby SCOBY on top and the very tart taste which indicates it made it all the way to being a probiotic.

So Saturday, Sunday, and so far today on Monday, every time I feel that pain coming on in my gut (with the concomitant M.S. effects in the back of the head), I drink large quantities of either the Yakult or the Kombucha tea, along with eating fresh tuna (not from can) either fried or raw in kinilaw style, also white rice and sweet potato. Also I finished the goat feta cheese on Sunday.

So far what I noticed is that every time the pain and deleterious effects on my head are muted upon doing that. Also I noticed my vision improved, as well my overall feeling. My energy has been good, while also I've slept so much the past 2 days. Not the sleeping due to chronic fatigue where you don't really sleep but toss and turn and wake up exhausted, but the sleeping like a baby sort of sleeping.

Also over the past 2.5 days, my urination has been much less and less violent urges to pee, i.e. normal. And over the past weeks since the fasting my defecation had become very infrequent even though eating, perhaps only twice a week. The past two mornings I have defecated 3x each (total of 7x in past 2.5 days).

My sense is that my body is in repair mode but it is too early to know if this is true or yet another false hope and hope driven confirmation bias.

Any way, if after some days or weeks this is confirmed to be a cure for my condition, this would point to probiotics and correction of the gut microflora as the cure that was eluding me and makes me just shake my head in disillusionment at all the other homeopathetic treatments I've tried:

• collodial silver
• ultra high dose vitamin D3
• massive doses of AHCC
• EGCG (from green tea)
• high dose coenzymated B complex (B Healthy brand)
• fasting
• ketogenic diet
• all vegetable diet
• guyabano diet

I'd like to also take Kefir because it appears to be a more complete living probiotic:

http://commonsensehome.com/water-kefir-versus-kombucha/
http://kellythekitchenkop.com/5-reasons-why-homemade-kefir-soda-pop-is-better-than-kombucha-tea/
http://gutcritters.com/saccharomyces-boulardii/
http://gutcritters.com/crohns-disease-and-the-yeast-connection/

http://www.benefitsofkefir.com/#Kefir_vs_Yogurt
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/water-kefir-versus-milk-kefir/


Why couldn't my doctor who handled my hospitalization for acute peptic ulcer and the massive doses of antibiotics over 14 days and then the followups where I was so fatigued and unhealthy, why couldn't he have advised me to drink Yakult? A very simple thing he could have done in May 2012 that may have prevented me from losing 3 years of my life to needless suffering and teeth gritting, hardcore struggle.


In the USA, at best you pay $3 for the Yakult we pay 90 cents for in the Philippines. I am in Yakult paradise.

The Yakult factory in the Philippines is run to international standards:

http://jotan23.blogspot.com/2014/06/new-yakult-variant-why-drink-yakult.html



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9881885


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143526


Note there is also a Danone yogurt product in the West that has added L. casei:

http://www.actimel.co.uk/fabulous-flavours/original/




See my links above which apparently indicate the milk Kefir is more probiotically diverse than Kombucha, but Kombucha has some acids that are not present in Kefir.

Paleo compliant seems like a nonsense concept. I don't think there was ever a stage where mankind was only eating one set of foods universally.

Rather my current thinking is that we have autoimmune disease and likely caused by gut dysbiosys. Strengthening our gut microflora should be priority number #1. We will continue to have inflammation that correlates with foods for as long as our gut microflora is not healthy.

I'd prefer free range, native chicken eggs with no antibiotics nor grains supplemented. But I think that is a less of a priority than intaking living probiotics and not eating bacon laden with sodium nitrate and from grain fed, antibiotic laden, high omega-6 fat pigs. I would prioritize whole foods and wild foods over non-foods and factory foods, such as coffee.

Their chief developer Eric was formerly with Euro Pac, which afair is Peter Schiff's company. Their about page lists some individuals with PhDs.

Kudos to Bryant Coleman for a potential Hall of Fame post:


P.S. rpietila thanks for explaining that about the web of power in corporatism. I didn't have the patience nor energy to explain it to that level of detail.

klee, Armstrong may be that good. He said he had an algorithm on his machine copy that destroyed itself (overwrote its own data 7 times) when it detected it was being tampered with. But yeah that one is hard to fathom. Nevertheless if he spent $0.1 - 1billion on data (as he claims inflation adjusted) and had even audio tapes of many of the NY Club market manipulations (which I've seen an official SEC letter confirming these tapes were conveniently destroyed when the twin towers fell on 9/11).

Given the fees he was raking in from advising corporations with his model, one might assume he spent a lot on security. In that case, yes I think one could make it very difficult for the NSA. Give me $10 million and 5 - 10 year period to have prepared over time to spend on security, and I could probably make it impractical for the NSA to intercept my work.

Nevertheless it is still difficult to fathom, because you need subcontractors and they can be infiltrated.

Armstrong is one really strange or unique man that stands out from all others in our era. This man claims he was the hedge fund manager for the Japanese postal retirement fund in the $trillion range back in the 1980s! Apparently that was more than the USA national debt which is what I think he wrote (haven't double checked that).

About your M.S., I will have a reply in the Economic Totalitarianism thread... in one word why the hell are you (we) not drinking Yakult! (well it was here all time in front of my face in every grocery store here and I ignored it for 3 years because it looked like a local product to me and was so sweet and I thought it was nonsense). Something significant happened to me yesterday. I will explain...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9881885

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22132181

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143526

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17944834

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12562457

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_casei


http://www.yakultusa.com/#faq

First comes war, then after a decade of suffering and die off of the boomers, then a reset in a one world reserve currency to back debts. This will be like a global Euro experiment, with the same outcome as Greece but on a global scale where weaker nations see their debts grow in value (deflation) thus bankrupting.

This is all written in the Bible. The first stage we are in now. The second stage is where all the money gets concentrated in hill in Israel which is the one world reserve.

How quickly the people become complacent before they really want to the big red, white, and blue dick up their ass one day in the future (yeah I know they are just too busy studying their navel to think about what it will feel like to be slaves in the near future ... cows are so oblivious to anything but grass ... mooo):

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/09/27/business/tech/trial-kim-dotcom-implications-international-online-privacy/