What is food, have we got it all wrong?

I don’t care if people eat meat or plants or both. I do care that we all share greater understanding of the mechanisms that drive biology so that we can make better choices, for ourselves and for our environment.

The core idea I currently subscribe to is this: The more antioxidants a substance requires to stabilize it, the lower value it has as a food. This idea is based on the assumptions listed below, all of which may be incorrect and will certainly contain some inaccuracies. It is a working model and open to change.

1- Polyunsaturated fats from seeds (n-6) can not be stabilized and they saturate the mechanism for DHA assimilation, wrecking membrane resilience and function.

2- n-6 irritate and damage arteries creating calcification that is easily measured by a CAC test. (Ivor Cummings, Chris Masterjohn)

3 - n-6 competes for and saturates cellular mechanisms for DHA production. (Undisputed bio chemistry)

4 - n-6 drains antioxidants from cells to fight the damage that n-6 is doing to cell membranes and by extension, to tissues and organs. (Tucker Goodrich is blaming Polyunsaturated fats rather than carbohydrates for insulin resistance, I have not read his work, but I tend to agree that the root of the problem is an antioxidant crisis).

5 - substantially more antioxidants are required to use carbohydrates for fuel, than fatty acids or ketone bodies. This is not a problem for undamaged mitochondria. (Dr Veech)

6 - When Glutathione, the main antioxidant used in the mitochondria is insufficient, the cell try’s to reject more glucose from entering. Insulin is the signal to accept glucose, it increases to force the cell to open. When the cell requires more insulin to respond, this is known as insulin resistance. (Chris Masterjohn)

7 - The body has about 1,000 teaspoons of blood and can tolerate about 4 teaspoons of glucose. This glucose can be made from protein on demand. Excessive glucose is toxic and must be either used for fuel immediately or it will be converted to triglyceride and stored. (Jeff Cyr)

8 - Cells that have been depleted of antioxidants can no longer tolerate carbohydrates. Eating Antioxidants from plants does not seem to alter the glutathione levels in the mitochondria where they are required. Our stomach acid and liver enzymes protect us from most plant compounds, few survive this process in any usable form other than glucose, fructose and acids (Dr Art Ayers)

9 - Fat cells also become inuslin resistant, I do not know why this is, but (Ivor Cummings and Professor Bikman can explain it) They are probably overloaded with triglycerides, and that is why it ends up back in the liver and other organs.

10 - once a cells mitochondria are damaged it can not use oxygen or antioxidants anymore, it will revert to fermenting glucose which provides insufficient energy for immune system function or for checking the way new protiens are read or folded from our DNA - this is the environment for cancer and fungal infections. (Dr Bruce Lipton and Dr Thomas Seyfried)

11 - Stress is Inappropriate tension - it is basically fear that can not be expressed in any useful way. This fear represents about half of our emotional spectrum, the other half is the joy and curiosity of sensation. Our biology is ruined when it can not perform graceful chemistry and transport those products efficiently. Concern over worthiness of love and validation are basically safety/threat issues, stories about our value account for 95% of our emotions and actions. It is very hard to maintain correct tension in the blood vessels and organs and muscles when we are not present to our senses. Our thoughts rob our attention from reality making it impossible for biology to do homeostasis. Our thoughts are our opinions bounced back at us. If we could release our opinions, we would not require so much energy, therefore we would require less fuel and less antioxidants. (I learned this from the balancing and applying functional leverage while on my SUP board on the ocean).

12 - High Blood Sugar disables the immune system. GAA - glucose ascorbate antagonism. Macrophages are like little PAC-MAN they gobble up dead, threatening or dysfunctional matter, they are the soldiers of the immune system. They work 14 times harder when they are full of vitimin C, (ascobic acid). Glucose is structurely similar to Ascorbic acid and when blood sugar is high, Macrophages become saturated with glucose rather than ascorbic acid.

13 - Malaria is a parasite that infect the red blood cells. It requires high levels of blood sugar to grow, it becomes dormant in the fasted state. Many other parasites, fungal infections and of course cancer thrive in high glycemic environments, when we run on fat as a fuel we simply require fewer anti oxidants and avoid the insulin resistance that increases both blood sugar and triglyceride levels.

14 - 34% of the Earth is covered by land, of this 18% was grassland. These grasslands and the soils that sustain them were created by a web of organisms included micro-organisms, (they are the the sequestered carbon), insects like dung beetles and worms, large herbivores that have multiple stomaches for breaking down plant cellulose into fats and acids, top level predators that kept the herds both moving and genetically strong.

The 4% of the Earth that is used for cultivated crops, such as fruit tress, grains (grass seeds), legumes (seeds), are using soils that were created by herds of animals and the web of life they require. We now use petro chemical pesticides, fungicides and fertilizers to prevent that land from reverting back to pasture (grass and weeds that animals with 4 stomaches thrive on). We use Hydro-carbons to produce Carb-Hydrates - great business for the energy companies and pharmaceutical industries that fund our research and train our doctors, but terrible for the biology we walk around in.

15 - of the 3 Macro Nutrients, Protien Carbohydrates and Fats. Carbohydrates are both unnecessary and other negative performance. I know this from direct experience, becuase I stopped eating any plant food 14 weeks ago and just took 1st place in an SUP race against people half my age. (Dr Shawn Baker has been full carnivore for 1 year and is breaking world records on a Concept 2 rower and he is 50). Maybe we will both fall apart in the near future, but so far I have never felt better or thought more clearly.

16 - All of this thinking is my own way of trying to apply control, rather than accepting what is, and trying to move gracefully with that. Sensitivity to what is, is all we really have, quality action flows from this. I hope to write, draw and move more from sensitivity and less from fear each day. It is certainly easier to be kind when surrounded by the intelligent use of resourses that creates abundance. First we need to understand what that means and choose our actions based upon that understanding.

*The names quoted may not show their proper tittles, and those people did not use the words I have chosen, I am quite sure I have mis understood them on many occasions, but it is not my desire to mis represent their incredible work for humanity and the greater biology. I provide their names so that you may do your own research if interested.

If you made it this far, thank you so much! I’m a minow, so not many will see this post, if you think others may find it interesting, please consider re-steeming =8-P