MCT for Health

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a relatively mysterious disease, the causes of which are not entirely clear. If I understand the body as a self-healing intelligent system that, whatever it is controlled by, always tries to maintain a balance between processes, an increase in blood pressure must be the way to solve a fundamental problem. The body wouldn't just destroy itself. I just refuse to believe it, period. The physical principle of the origin and nature of blood pressure is clear, although there are doubters here as well. But I'll leave it aside now. The standard explanation is that the blood volume of the left ventricle is forced into the aorta and other adjacent arteries by compression of the heart. Their elasticity causes them to "inflate" slightly like a balloon and take over the volume of blood expelled by the heart. This "inflation" of the arteries increases the blood pressure and we measure it as the so-called systolic pressure. This pr...

In one of my previous posts , I looked at the work of Richard Johnson, who claims that we have something like a fat switch in our body. While it is turned off, the body works normally and burns fat. If you inadvertently turn it on, you will store more fat and burn less. We also learned from him that the easiest way to turn it on is to quickly flood the liver with sugars dissolved in water, ie with the help of sweet drinks. If we start to look in more detail at what process we will actually start, we will find this interesting enzymatic pathway (production line), which resides in liver cells and other organs that have glucose intake independent of insulin levels. This enzymatic pathway can convert glucose, generally considered a good and harmless sugar, into fructose, which according to research is considered to be one of the causes of metabolic problems such as obesity, diabetes, heart attack, etc. It is called the polyol pathway . Quotation from Wikipedia (you can skip it, if you wan...

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...