This Issue:

• Fall Workshop
• UFAs and PUFAs and Your Dead, Oh My.

Greetings,

A fall live hands-on workshop is on the calendar for September 21-24.

We’ll be networking, exploring the microscopic world that’s in YOU, and learning a new way to look at health care through logic and open-sourced education.

It is at the Biomedx Biotorium, a place for health exploration that is, quite frankly, not a safe space.

Absent censorship, being in such a place can deflate one of the many disinformation campaigns that may have lodged in one’s brain from special interest health care agendas.

Freed of those agendas, the mind can explore new ways of addressing health care issues that may have never been thought of before.

This can provide a pathway to presenting and providing health care that is highly effective, non-drug dependent, sane, functional, and cost effective as well. Everything the current government health care model is not.

Who is our workshop for? No doubt many, but certainly those who…

• Want to expand their health care toolkit.
• Want to move away from a dysfunctional ‘traditional’ health care environment to self-employment.
• Need to move away from a dysfunctional ‘traditional’ health care environment to save their sanity.
• Want to have on-target knowledge to support the health of themselves and their families.

This might be YOU. If it is, please join us in September where you are sure to have more fun learning about health than you can possibly imagine you might have at any workshop.

Click Here for Details and to Register

UFAs and PUFAs and Your Dead, Oh My.

(UFAs - unsaturated fatty acids / PUFAs - polyunsaturated fatty acids)

When people call in asking about the workshop or the work that is done with the microscope, I have of late been repeating a phrase that Linda, our resident unregistered nurse, often says to our class when relating how she uses her microscope with her clients:

“I don’t use the microscope to find something, I use it to teach something.”

There isn’t anything seen with various morphologies in the blood that cannot be related to some aspect of diet, physiology, or biophysics, which means everything seen offers a teaching opportunity.

With traditional schooling devoid of key relevant health topics that matter, there is nary an individual who cannot benefit from learning something that the blood has to teach.  

One example that is shared in class relates to sticky platelets, or more ominously, platelet aggregations.

These can be likened to a silent clot, a marker for cardiovascular risk. One likely way these arise is from eating the wrong food, or even the right food but in the wrong proportions.

Protein, carbs and fats are the macro-nutrients that control glucagon and insulin. That and fat control the super-hormones called eicosanoids, one of which is thromboxane A2. This is a bad guy and a potent blood-clotting agent that leads to vasoconstriction and platelet aggregations.

Where it is said an image is worth a thousand words, you can imagine how many dots to physiology can be connected here.

As a side note, I should say that what is lost in most health care thinking, is that all food, anything that passes the lips really, has a pharmaco effect, i.e., it affects one’s biology and internal chemistry.

This is contrary to a lot of traditional medical thinking that says food has no bearing on disease processes - an idea that is hard to fathom where it might have come from.

Hippocrates said long ago, “let food be your medicine and let medicine be your food.” With modern medicine and agricultural food agendas in play, Hippocratic ideas have no place in today's world where those in power are turning to genetic bioengineering and our transhumanist potential.

I imagine they would have a PR slogan for their ideas similar to that used for army recruiting, they want you to ‘be all you can be’.  But me thinks it is more like, ‘be all we can control’.

But no thanks, I’ll stick with food.

While sticking with food, another morphological marker that often arises in blood that has a story to tell, are red blood cells with corrugated surrounding membranes looking somewhat like bottle caps. Technically these are referred to as poikilocytes.

My first ‘goto’ in my own head when I see this is lipid peroxidation. This is a teaching moment about fats. Lipid peroxidation is all about the oxidation of fats in not a good way.

Bringing up the word membrane itself is a teaching moment, one that relates to the work of Harold Hillman and Gilbert Ling, both of whom have put forth revolutionary ideas in cell biology that have yet to be adopted in medical training lest too may apple carts get overturned. I won’t get into this here suffice to say I’ve referenced their work in past newsletters.

Keeping it simple however, talking about the poikilocytes seen in a blood sample, is a perfect opportunity to discuss fats in the diet. It is the UFAs and more specifically the PUFAs that are behind a majority of the oxidative stresses that people experience in life.

In our world of cell biology, cells are in essence just like gels, kind of like small packets of Jello that are highly structured water and proteins along with lipid conformations.

An interesting thing about the lipid or fatty acid contents of cells, is that the more saturated the fatty acid is, the more deeply set into the ‘Jello’ it goes. Not so much for the unsaturated fatty acids.

All cells in the body (with the exception of red blood cells), have mitochondria. And of the fatty acids within a cell structure, mitochondria will preferentially use saturated fatty acids over unsaturated ones for energy production. So, if the cell needs to give up a fatty acid, you might say ‘poof!’, because yep, it is the PUFAs that are first to go.  

When stress occurs, lipolytic enzymes are activated which work on the surfaces of fat droplets inside the cytoplasm, and those most on the surface are the more water soluble less saturated fatty acid types (the omega N-3 and N-6 variety), N-3 also being the most unstable that feeds oxidative fires.

When a huge stress occurs, as in a case of shock, it is the systemic cellular release of N-3 and N-6 fatty acids that can steamroll oxygen for itself feeding an oxidative fire leading to excessively permeable cells which causes an uptake of water and calcium causing cell swelling and a leak of ATP, enzymes and other cell contents. Oxidative metabolism of mitochondria can shut down and if things are not corrected, a person could die within 24 hours from shock stress alone.

The antidote to unstable polyunsaturated fatty acids is saturated fatty acids.

In the work of Revici, he differentiated the carbon chain fats as those being a carbon chain with a fatty acid negative end and a carbon chain with a sterol positive end. Ergo, sterols are the anti-fatty acid.

Anti-fatty acids, or saturated fatty acids, also known as saturated fats, are one's saving grace from metabolic oxidative fires that are kicked into gear by polyunsaturated fats.

There were 3 studies done in the 1980s and 90s that showed animals were remarkably resistant to shock if they were ‘essential fatty acid’ deficient.

A stress vector that leads to shock is a maximal event. Yet the everyday stress vectors we deal with in life are doing the same thing as shock, but just on a much smaller scale and over a prolonged period of time.  

Now as this is the case, you might guess what might be the number 1 and 2 hyped food supplements, that might even be on your shelf right now, that you can basically throw out because really, it is not doing a dang thing of benefit for your health and is more likely than not doing you harm you are not even aware.

Got it? It is the fish and omega 3 oils – the most highly unsaturated fats that accumulate with aging, promote metastasis, block the use of glucose and oxygen by mitochondria, lead to toxic fragments that are increased in Alzheimer’s and more. All of it not good.

In reviewing ideas for this newsletter edition, I was looking at material from Ray Peat of whom I am a big fan. He made reference in one of his articles about tofu being a causative factor in dementia.

All I could think is it makes perfect sense now as I watch TV and see Joe Biden increasingly losing his mental capacity and no one in mainstream media is saying a word about it.

Joe’s younger handlers who want to run the world and think we should all be vegans to save the planet (and couldn’t run a business if they had to much less run a country), apparently have been changing out Joe’s evening pudding with their own flavored tofu instead.

Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. Dementia is not a funny thing, especially if it is happening to you or a family member.

Nonetheless, the reality is it is happening to the chief executive of this country and that is not good at all. Silence and censorship of the topic is plain nuts. And to that, I have to think too many nuts and tofu really is the diet of far too many people today who do seem to be losing their minds in increasing numbers.

Stress is up everywhere, and where stress is up, internal biochemistry goes askew.

The latest pharmaceutical experiment on the world population is a stress vector of unprecedented proportion. The development of what has been called turbo-cancers is just one manifestation. There are many others and don’t think for a second that erroneous fatty acids do not play a role. They definitely do.  

If you are in the health field, you have to be thinking about your anti-fatty acid toolkit.

Please join us in September. We have a lot to share and when you get it, you’ll be sharing it with others too.  

May you experience a clear mind and clarity in all you do.

Steve

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