Quote from Joe2 on November 20, 2025, 3:50 pm

Quote from Jiří on November 20, 2025, 12:10 am

@joe2 I think Matt had pretty low vit A diet all those years. I don't think he was eating organ meats, dairy etc.. What could be a problem in his high refined carb diet is other micronutrient depletion and that can cause issues as well. I told him that it is simply not a good idea to keep eating a lot of empty calories chronically long term..

I agree that without any blood testing it is just he said she said, but I don't think that his night blindness got worse because he was detoxing vit A and when he ate high vit A  meal in cleared up vit A from the blood and that improved his vision in the night. That doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe if he was new into low vit A diet. But that really is not his case.  

Btw I have to remind you guys that not even Grant did any extensive blood testing during all his work on vit A. We see serum vit A. But we have no idea about other body functions like thyroid and other hormones profile over the years etc. All you have is his word from him how he feels. You probably say well why would Grant lie. He doesn't sell anything. That is correct. But he fully committed to the idea that vit A is nothing but toxin and to admit that it is not the case would not be easy.. I can imagine..  I am talking about the period after he fixed his kidney and skin issues. I am not questioning that it saved his life probably and fixed his skin issues. I would be dead as well if I didn't found Matt Stone blog and after that Grant. I am questioning the period of the time when you do low vit A for 5+years and your serum numbers are close to deficient. Where you are no longer fixing any issues that you had during toxicity days..

I simply think that it is important to be open minded and question everything all the time especially our own ideas.

Unfortunately what I see here like on any other forum(except one that I know where no one single substance is called good or bad except stuff like mercury obviously heh, but it is all about the context. Always. But that forum is almost dead now..) is dogmatic view point where every thinking starts with "ok so we know that vit A is just toxic and so can't help with any issues. So how we can explain whatever we are talking about."

Vegans will do the same "ok so we know animal foods are unhealthy so not eating them can't be a problem. So why it could be that I am aging so fast and have all those health issues" etc..

I think it is the worst thing that can happen. Because at that point you are no longer seeking real truth and you are just committed to something like it is your religion that can't be questioned. 

At least what I really respect about Grant he is not giving ban left and right to everyone who says something what completely doesn't agree with his ideas.(at lest so far. Maybe I will get banned for this comment lol heh) 

Yup.  His "benefit of the doubt" bank account is depleted with me.  I read his book and listened to some of his videos.  He is a chatty charming authoritative sounding guy.  He uniformly sounds like an open minded willing to experiment kind of guy.  Curious that the only thing he uniformly avoids is going hard core on the ideas he espoused - like low vA. 

Reminds of people who advocated various diets last 40 years before checking to see what I eat and have eaten.  Can not count how many times someone has advocated I try keto or carnivore or vegan or lacto ovo or OMAD or whatever because of their long experience with it.  When asked, their long experience is uniformly for months or maybe a year and includes weekends off the diet for their cheat days.  The number who did any diet a decade or more is counted on two hands.  

My anecdotal experience: it takes 2 years to adequately learn a diet and work the bugs out for one's self.  Even then after that, one is only then just stepping into the problems that necessarily arise with any diet done well and steadily long term.