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But were you diagnosed type 2 diabetic? Maybe you just hadn't broken your carb-handling mechanisms too badly?
I also don't think my carb-handling mechanisms were broken too badly yet. Probably because of homesteading, all the physical work.
I had started peeing once a night which I consider a blood sugar issue. That stopped after several years lower VA.
It took a while on my not-very-aggressive low-VA diet. But it did happen, and it was kind of neat.
However, I don't think a guy like my FIL, who was very badly type-2 diabetic, which sky-high blood sugars, could suddenly get off the insulin just because he was low VA...
For one thing, it can take quite a while to have your VA levels lowered, and then repair will need to take place.
I don't know that and didn't mean for a full on diabetic to start pounding carbs because it's no VA. But I was carb sensitive (relative to my weight) for years. I yo-yoed several times by changing the amount of carbs as I played with several keto diets.
I began low VA January 2024 but just started no VA this January 2025. This is the first time that carbs seem to have no effect on me. Lower than usual, way way higher, I am steadily feeling better and losing weight. Week 1 202 lbs, week 2 201, week 3 198.
While I am attempting to be very aggressive - daily exercise, weekly plasma draw and zero VA absolute is the stated goal and I am holding - I don't think anything other than the zero VA standard is to credit for the turnaround. If you read Grants latest paper on obesity and insulin, I think he lays out a solid case for there being no problem with carbs.
That said, he has admitted that low VA might prevent cancer, but on its own probably isn't the best treatment once you have it. He might agree that zero VA alone is not enough to jump right from diabetes and insulin daily to no insulin and plentiful carbs. It is my TOTAL SPECULATION that this is possible though.
Caveat, I am even less qualified to give medical advice than Grant, who is not a doctor. But an experimental design is not hard to fathom. Put diabetics under strict I/O observation in a hospital and place one portion of them on zero VA, and stop insulin. I bet you would see immediate improvement. Experimental variables could be how many days of zero VA they would need to stop insulin without harm, or how many days of taper off they would need from insulin.
So nothing we are getting from Big Medical anytime soon, of course. But lilchick I advise you try the zero stop, it's very nice feeling I have found, going zero over just "low".
After my grandson’s horse had a brutal rattlesnake bite , researching led me to a study on nicotine. In a study by Dr. Brian Ardis in which he showed that nicotine is not addictive, , and it is good for the body. Ardis showed that nicotine helps in treating many diseases; treating venomous bites was also addressed
Many vegetables contain nicotine; eggplant is one high source. Dr. Ardis wears nicotine patches by cutting them to his desired dosage (thus making the pieces of high doses patches quire economical).
On another note I try to purchase white rice that is grown in India. I find this in the USA at a local grocery store.
Edited by DWL , a low vision poster. God bless.
DWL
I've seen it said several places that tobacco was used medicinally by the native Americans who showed it to Europeans. I'm sure there was a pleasure or recreative element as well, but shamans still practice tobacco rites as traditional medicine in the Amazon. I've seen their raw tobacco preparations in person.
As for the rice and arsenic thing I've seen several pieces of advice on how to avoid arsenic, not sure who to believe. Like with questionable levels of retinol, or pesticide,maybe with arsenic you just have to send it off to be tested.
Holy cow I am down to 193 pounds starting from 203 2.5 weeks ago. Averaging 1 beer per day and probably 3000 calories.
Made pancakes again to celebrate
Joseph, you said in your first post on this thread that you had read that nicotine lowers VA. Do you have a link or a source for that information? Your thread is very helpful. Thank you for sharing
Quote from DWL on February 13, 2025, 5:58 amJoseph, you said in your first post on this thread that you had read that nicotine lowers VA. Do you have a link or a source for that information? Your thread is very helpful. Thank you for sharing
Hilariously, this one acknowledges lowered carotenoids in smokers but advises not to supplement beta carotene or vitamin a because the carcinogenic effect is undeniable. Instead, eat foods loaded with vitamin a and beta carotene, which is a much healthier poison intake.
While these studies don't focus on nicotine per se, when combined with other studies that show pure nicotine being preventative against diseases linked to vitamin a by Genereux, my conclusion is that nicotine is the active ingredient, the common thread.
Studies imply that it is one of the 7,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke that cause the "problem" of lowered vitamins. But as we know, mainstreamers will not admit that vitamin a is the huge problem it is. Secondly, as i have stated before, big pharma has many reasons to suppress the potential benefits of a molecule like nicotine.
It is fairly easy to procure or grow at home, and even the synthesized forms are approaching their patent expiration date. It is a one sized fits all approach to medicine that promises a single generic preventative to many profitable conditions. And continuing to demonize it by association to its worst delivery form, cigarettes, props up and protects the most profitable per-patient disease we have, cancer.
I placed a hold on the audio version of Breath.
It’s to be available in two weeks. Thanks for the recommendation, Joseph.
in the Science of It category, several years ago, Johannes posted this topi:
The relationship between nicotine and vitamin A. It seems in line with your conclusion regarding nicotine and VA (post 38).
https://ggenereux.blog/discussion/topic/the-relationship-between-nicotine-and-vitamin-a/