MCT for Health

Ads for food supplements full of guaranteed healthy and necessary omega-3 fatty acids are pouring in on us from all sides. So it must be a well of health. But if you've read the previous posts, you probably know there's a catch. Studies on athletes using various dietary supplements have not shown any positive effect . Conversely, there is an increase in the concentration of toxic products such as aldehyde MDA or 4-HNE , which is certainly not good for strengthening health . But I have already written in another post  that, for example, eating fish works, so why do supplements not work? As always, it's a little more complicated. First we need to find out what we really want to improve. We only need a few polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) out of the many dozens possible. They are DHA , EPA and AA . In addition, we only need a small amount, just a little of a building material for membranes and signaling. We get them more or less finished from fish. Plants only provide se...

I will try to briefly describe what came out to me as a solution, what emerges from research and logical reasoning, and what I do myself to avoid what we call the diseases of civilization. If you've looked at previous posts, you should know what it's all about. But maybe it seemed too complicated, or you don't want to deal with such details. You may not be interested in why and how what works and what has ever been published. So I will only present the results. So. The most important task for us is to provide every cell, really every cell, with enough energy. Even the one that isn't actually ours such as useful bacteria in our digestive system. But I don't just mean providing fuel, there is usually too much fuel. I mean real energy, a chemical called ATP (adenosine triphosphate). The fats, carbohydrates and proteins we eat in the form of meat, vegetables, fruit or bread are just fuel. This fuel becomes energy for the cell only after a complex process of digestion, ...

I have already written here how the composition of fats programs our metabolism, how it determines whether we will store or consume fats. However, fats are not the only foods that program our body. Today, we look at the research of the very active scientist, professor and physician Richard Johnson, who describes it in his book as a "fat switch." Sugar - 50% glucose and 50% fructose To put it simply, fructose, a simple sugar that is part of all common sweet foods, programs animal metabolism in the wild to prepare for winter. It is mainly about the rate at which fructose (sugar) is absorbed and gets into the liver. When liver cells are repeatedly exposed to high concentrations of fructose, the processes evolutionarily set up as when there is a lack of energy, oxygen or water are turned on. These are rescue processes for survival in critically difficult conditions, stimulate the processes of fat formation and storage (fat is also a water reservoir), save energy, increase the pr...

  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...