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PETA has a campaign promoting the lie that consuming animal protein will hurt your sex life. I’m not going to manufacture words to make this more interesting. Its not only a lie but it’s the exact opposite of the facts. The vegan diet has long been associated with lowered libido and erectile dysfunction in men and amenorrhea in young menstruating women. This fact was exploited by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg who invented Kellogg’s Corn Flakes as a remedy to help young children avoid the self-polluting actions of masturbation. Dr. Kellogg knew full well that vegan diets and diets low in animal protein & fats reduced sexual desire, libido and ejaculation in young adults. There are also numerous scientific studies out there that show long-term vegan diets leading to lowered sex hormone production that can affect libido and fertility in otherwise healthy young adults in childbearing years. This one in particular is...

To me a superfood is one that supplies you with every needed nutrient required to sustain life and not suffer a nutrient deficiency that shortens one’s life or causes debilitating physical condition. A superfood is one that as its name implies, of all foods, it is the highest in all the macronutrients and micronutrients required to actually thrive. A food source that if it were the ONLY food available to you, you would not suffer for, but instead rejoice in your good fortune for having such a food readily available. If you search the internet for superfoods you’ll find a virtual cornucopia of foods whose authors’ claim as superfoods. Most are fruits, veggies and grains. A few mention quietly dairy which in my humble opinion is in fact a superfood. But most stay clear of dairy because as of late dairy has become a “bad actor” in the “what’s healthy now”...

Despite a rapidly increasing world population and ever more hyper-connected, globalized world where people, technologies, and ideas move more fluidly than ever before, nearly 20 million children under five years of age are severely malnourished. Standard treatment of these individuals includes the use of calorie-dense ready-to-use therapeutic foods to ensure rapid weight gain. These foods have been so successful in their goal, that ready-to-use supplementary foods (RUSFs) have been developed for use in moderately malnourished children as well. For safety, shelf-life, and financial reasons, RUSFs are based upon a vitamin and mineral fortified peanut butter paste combined with soy protein. However, preliminary evidence in severely malnourished children suggests that a whey-based RUSF is more effective than one using soy. Yet evidence for the use of whey protein in moderately malnourished children is conflicting, with one of the largest barriers to inclusion being the additional cost. As such, Stobaugh et al conducted...

When we pay attention to our evolutionary edicts we are rewarded with greater life span and heath span. 3 that have shaped our 1.8-million-year journey are what I like to call the 3 S's. Sun, Sex and Sleep. Sun exposure has endowed us with many health and longevity benefits that we are just now truly starting to discover. And it's much more than just Vitamin D production. Activation of the melanocortin system reduces whole body inflammation, shift the body to being more lean and muscular, improves mood, increases libido, makes arteries re-absorb atherosclerotic plaque and stops the accumulation of arterial plaque, and improves sleep. The act of having sex is our primary evolutionary directive. Long before Maslow's Hierarchy of Need, there were drivers of reproduction that made us do the things we did. These are not affected by cultural or social constructs, but instead woven right into our DNA. The continuation...

I lost my sister Valerie to PD several years ago. I still maintain that she was misdiagnosed and thus mistreated. I do acknowledge that she had a neuro-muscular disorder, but being treated with dopamine agonists burned out her brain. She did not have any tremor at the onset of the disease. Only symptoms she had was weakness in her right leg and depression. Yet she was diagnosed with PD and drugs to treat PD were prescribed. Over the next 4 years she developed tremor as a result of the drugs. Self-fulfilling diagnosis. This study links changes in the gut and links it to the vegus nerve. The vegus nerve is the main wiring harness of the human body. It connects and innervates every organ system. It also runs along the outer wall of the stomach. It effects digestion directly. It’s also susceptible to the contents of the gut that may leak...