MCT for Health

  If you have ever dealt with different dietary options, you have certainly encountered some basic requirements for the protein content of your diet. The recommended daily intake is usually given as 1 g / kg body weight or 0.8 g / kg Lean Body Mass. It may be minimal rather than the recommended protein intake, as not all amino acids are useful to the body. From my point of view, I want to show you the most interesting moments from the lecture of Dr. Peter Ballerstedt, who spoke at the Low Carb San Diego 2021 conference. It is interesting that some things that are very clear to animal breeders and used for their optimal nutrition are unknown or not used in human nutrition. And lately, the situation has worsened due to the ideology of climate change or animal welfare. The main topic is the usability of the proteins we eat. You may know that proteins are made up of amino acids. Amino acids are like the dices of the LEGO building block kit from which all life on Earth is built. You pro...

In previous posts, I have mentioned several times that the main cause of the current detrimental state of metabolism in many people are polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs), vegetable oils from seeds. Take a look at these posts and see how they treacherously affect our metabolism, how they prevent to use energy from the saturated fats the body makes to store energy for worse times, how toxic their breakdown products are, how they damage LDL cholesterol and how they destroy our blood vessels, how they cause chronic inflammation by preventing the resolution of common acute inflammations. But this post will be about something else, although I will still focus on the metabolic syndrome. We will not deal with food, but with electromagnetic fields. It's a pretty hot topic these days, in a world full of GSM networks, WiFi routers, 5G networks, WiGig connections and everything mobile. But I will not discuss that today. I will not examine how much energy does not harm yet and how much already. W...

Are you afraid that when you are 75 years of age or older, that it will go downhill with you and there will be no solution to prevent the constant deterioration of your health? I have a good news for you. This interesting pilot study shows a way to significantly slow down or even reverse a number of signs of aging. If your problems aren't too big, just the standard signs of old age associated with decreased glutathione (GSH, I've addressed it here ), decreased fat metabolism, increased insulin levels, and insulin resistance, the study offers solutions with excellent results. The study lasted 36 weeks in eight individuals around 75 years of age. First, important parameters were measured at the beginning before the change. These parameters were compared with the same parameters of young individuals with a mean age of 24 years. People in the study group of elderly individuals then regularly supplemented with the amino acids glycine and N-acetylcysteine ​​(NAC). If you don't k...

We are somehow used to the fact that mild chronic inflammation is a common part of our lives. Joints, tendons, adipose tissue and other tissues, usually poorly supplied with blood, sometimes cause us pain and problems. Sometimes over time, mild chronic inflammation stops hurting, but the pain may return or move, which is not right. I'm no expert on inflammation, so don't expect advice like what to lubricate, what to do, what herbs to use and similar advice. No, as always, I will try to find the causes, the complete basis, why inflammation, which is one of the main mechanisms for repairing damaged tissue, turns into something as incomprehensible and long-term devastating as chronic inflammation. To understand, we will first easily outline the function of the immune system. This study , which deals with the connections between metabolism, redox state of the immune system and the course of inflammation, will help us to do this. As you may know, a cell obtains energy by making ATP ...

What? Hydrogen peroxide? It's just a disinfectant for injuries, isn't it? I borrowed  a headline from the title of the book of the same name, written by William Campbell Douglass, a doctor of medicine. Let me cite the preface here. Quote : What's going on here? Peroxides are supposed to  be bad for you. Free radicals and all that. B ut now we hear that hydrogen peroxide is going g ood for us. I have been very skeptical about this one, but so ma ny patients were asking my opinion about H2O2 that it was  as getting embarrassing to say, "I don't know." I didn't want  ant to give up Monday Night Football to research H2O2 ,  but there was just no way out of it. (The games were  lousy anyway.) I was astounded to find that excellent clinical res earch had been done on the medical uses of Hydrogen p eroxide as far back as 1914! (There goes my Monday N ight Football—maybe Sunday afternoon, too.) Doctor J.S. Haldone reported in 1919 that oxygen diss olved in the blo...

What is a torpor? It i s a state of vital signs that occurs in certain animals. It can take hours, days or weeks. It reduces metabolism, lowers body temperature, and builds up and saves fat stores. You may be wondering why to deal with this phenomenon when one does not fall into such a state. Really? Have you ever heard the advice that if you want to lose weight, you should eat less and move more? You need to expend more energy than you eat, don't you? In principle, yes, but evaluating the value of the energy emitted is not as easy as it seems at first glance. Even the usable energy intake is quite uncertain and does not equal the tabular energy value of food. It depends on how the food is processed by your metabolism. Only a small part of the food is immediately "burned", most of the energy will be stored in stock for worse times. You probably already know that fats and sugars are stored differently. Your body has a memory of your habits, it constantly adapts and assumes...

It was before Christmas. Grandpa suddenly started having trouble urinating. Nothing extraordinary at his age, but you know, just a pandemic everywhere, so he didn't want to go anywhere with it. He tried some teas, which temporarily helped, but the problems remained. So I started looking for some scientific studies that would suggest a solution. And since I was already interested in a pulsed magnetic field few years ago to treat, for example, badly growing fractures, the artificial intelligence of the search engine also offered me a study comparing classical drug treatment with experimental pulsed magnetic field treatment. And wonder of the world, all three studies I found showed statistically significant efficacy (i.e., the results are not random). In addition, long-term follow-up has been shown to improve for several months after therapy, in contrast to drugs that still need to be taken. What exactly is a pulsed magnetic field? From the name, it is clear that it will be short puls...