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Grant's new Diabetes Blog Post
Just thought I would start a thread on the new blog post! I'm still reading it! Thanks @ggenereux2014
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I can confirm that , A year and half ago I was toxic on vitamin A , I became prediabetic ( 5.9 hba1c, fasting glucose test 96 ) , Considering the fact that , I am a skinny guy and young, and always had a post meal glucose tolerance of < 95 always no matter what I ate , before vitamin A toxicity . Obviously Zinc was the issue too . I went very low vitamin A since then , increased my beef intake and Zinc 50 g for a month ( grant is dead right about Zinc Connection ) . Hba1c went back to 5.3% . No more frequent peeing at night. , no more dry mouth , even if I eat tons of carbs in form of rice or potatoes .
Vitamin A is a killer , I went from a young athletic healthy lean person , to a chronically ill 70 year old in no time . My hair has turned all grey . It even made me look old 🙁 . Fuck Poison "Vitamin A " !
Yep , despite popular opinion here , during initial days you SHOULD take Zinc with Red Meat . I know it depletes copper , but that too only serum , I think we have enough copper in our bodies , depleting it would take years , but again foods are quite good in bioavailable copper , so most of us should be fine .
I remember my Zinc was so depleted by Vitamin A that my thick hair even turned thin and I could see my scalp . I only took Zinc for a month to build it up in my system , but with red meat . So 50 MG for 3 weeks , provided you eat like 250-300 Gm of Beef a day . After that give up on it and just continue with red meat . Btw the best Zinc for me was Natures Bounty Zinc gluconate , works very well
https://www.naturesbounty.com/our-products/minerals/zinc/zinc-50-mg-100-caplets/
So, zinc can help dry mouth? I didn't realize they were related. Puddleduck also had good mouth results with zinc and a mouth issue. I'm having some bad dry mouth. Would desiccated oyster be a bad idea?
I dont know about oyster , So far what I have observed Zinc is is pretty harmless if you take 50MG for 2-3 weeks , Take it for a week and see how you feel , but I would also mention not to overdo it , for a month is max, then red meat should provide you daily RDA and keep the stores high
@are I think exercise is a really good agitator of VA release, hence feeling bad. But it must be good in the long run, with a low VA diet...
Quote from Arena on August 4, 2020, 1:18 amThanks for explaining! I eat 300-400 grams of expensive beef each day. I have not tested my blood for copper, zinc or any other minerals for a while. I’m kind of afraid to mess up the balance in my system, but seems line my body is quite the wreck these days anyway, so what can go more wrong! Just popped 50mg, leaning back, and waiting for Zeus to take me away!
I will tell you that the best beef is probably the cheapest which is factory farming ground beef. It is lower in vit A and ground beef is basically whole food. Because it is not just meat, but also some connective tissues etc.. Which means it has balanced amino acid profile. Much better than just muscle meat full of methionin and low in glycine + it is super easy to digest.. So buying something like grass fed very lean beef is not better for you and it is big waste of money..
Grant's latest post has some great food for thought.
vA intake hasn't gone up in accordance with an increase in diabetes though. I think it's possible that carotenoid consumption has steadily grown but not total vitamin A intake. One of the studies that Garrett Smith found was of rates of Hypervitaminosis A in NZ in the 1960s. Hypervitaminosis A was common, butter intake was high and many took fish liver oil back then. Hypervitaminosis A has been common for a long time, it's not a change in total vA intake that is purely responsible for an increase in diabetes.
It could easily tie in though. Hypothyroidism slows down vA metabolism, if that has increased then that could explain it. Perhaps the cause is a medication that blocks vA metabolism. One in six americans are now on some type of psychiatric medication. Medication's have such a profound impact on physiology, I think they must be considered a prime suspect. Or perhaps vaccinations play a role?
Did pesticides or toxins from plastics like BPA increase in the food supply in that time?
Another thing to consider is car exhaust, with the switch to unleaded petrol cars started emitting a lot of benzene.
Increased rates of illness are possibly increasing due to inherited poor health. It becomes very hard to find the cause. That's why I prefer to look at the direct effects of things rather than statistics.
One thing is clear, thing are getting worse...
I agree that maybe if the article showed VA consumption rose, it would be a good point to make, but I do think that more VA is taken now than was taken in the 1960's.
I think I've said this before. The diet I'm on right now (lowered VA, but not Grant low) wouldn't bat an eye in the 1960's.
Somewhere along the way we forgot we were a meat and potatoes culture. Vegetables and dairy became much more important during my lifetime. "heart healthy vegetables"...
I was just thinking about this today. Price, decided that the fat soluble vitamins in other cultures (like the Maori or the Eskimo) were 10 times the rate of American diets of the 1930's. That's because, LOL, we actually ate a meat and potatoes diet.
As I've said, I think what actually changed (that Price missed) was that Lard became a non-thing, and it had always been our number-one fat (low A, and possible D). I suppose from then on, junk fats and butter fat became our most important fats.
Pottenger thought up the idea that it takes 3 generations to see all the changes that diet brings.
I keep thinking of that fat monkey that I posted a pic of on my log once. He was swilling smoothies and nibbling corn that people threw him. He was obese. I suppose VA doesn't always look like an egg and butter.
Another thing that has changed is that people don't get sunlight and when they do they use sunblock.
Of course, there is also roundup...
I also have posted about animal feeds now being mostly made of corn AND with added VA supplement. I bet that is in the monkey chow...