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Recommended Books for Health and Wellness
Related: anti-oxidant, atherosclerosis, cholesterol, ethics in medicine, gears of the machine, health, nutrition, statin, Vitamin C, Vitamin K2
It’s your life at stake! If you just follow your doctor’s advice you’re in for a lifetime of problems! For doctor advice on nutrition , your doctor and/or medical organizations are just about the LAST place to look. See ethics in medicine and particularly.
This list from Your Doctor is NOT Responsible for Your Health—YOU Are! Recommended Reading to Open Your Mind and Ask the Right Questions.
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Die, by Nina Teicholz @AMAZON
This book should be required baseline reading for all DOCTORS at the least*, as it goes through 60 years of nutrition science (so much of it now debunked), based on eight years of reviewing the medical literature, and hundreds of interviews of leading experts, systematically addressing the sordid (my word for it) history of nutrition “science”. It is very thorough and objectively done, so consider it to be a baseline reference to be read FIRST before other lighter fare on nutrition.
Check on your own fat types incorporated into body tissue with OmegaQuant Omega-3 Index Complete Fatty Acid Profile Blood Test Kit @AMAZON.
My take-away is simple: most of what has passed for “healthy eating” is based on pseudo-science, outright debunked myths that persist even among doctors, financial conflicts of interest (doctors and food companies), and most of all: government recommendations that have a purely political/financial basis stemming from a “scientific” basis that any honest scientist would reject out of hand.
* Most doctors have nil training in nutrition, which is surely a good thing given the godawful state of nutrition science. And yet IMO food is by orders of magnitude more important than all medical drugs put together, in terms of public health in general, which is a train-wreck disaster here in 2020: soaring rates of obesity, diabetes and many other health problems which we can now treat much better, but whose underlying causes are surely diet in large measure.
Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox by Dr. Kate Rhéaume-Bleue BSc ND @AMAZON
Vitamin K2 might be the single most important vitamin of all, yet it was not until 2007 it as formerly identified.
Critically important read, particularly those supplementing with Vitamin D3. Very thorough look at the role Vitamin K2 (“Activator X”) plays in health, though knowledge of it lay semi hidden for nearly 80 years after its discovery by dentist Dr. Price.
The Magnesium Miracle by Carolyn Dean, MD, ND @AMAZON
Critically important read, particularly those supplementing with Vitamin D3 and/or calcium. Vitamin K2 along with magnesium is critical for bone health.
Eye opener, though it strikes me that Dr. Dean is too tightly coupled to her area of study and should consult with Dr. Kate Rhéaume-Bleue BSc ND of Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox, and vice versa, for cross pollination of ideas and rigorous debate of a few points.
Curing the Incurable: Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins, 3rd Edition, by MD JD Thomas E Levy @AMAZON
Intravenous high-dose vitamin C can CURE polio in just 4 days, and ditto for many other infectious agents. It can also clear many toxins and poisons. Yet the modern medical profession takes a head-in-the-sand view of Vitamin C, letting people suffer and die instead of using it.
Lies My Doctor Told Me Second Edition: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health, by Ken D. Berry MD, FAAFP @AMAZON
This book confirms many of my pet theories. A few things I disagree with based on hard data of my own, namely the calories in/out thing for extreme athletes, though I do not dispute it for ordinary exercise. Point is, even if only 75% of the ideas here are correct (and I believe that is a very low estimate), then millions of people are being damaged by doctors.
The Truth about Statins, by Barbara H Roberts, MD @AMAZON
The Truth about Statins is shocking in revealing the intellectual fraud, financial conflicts of interest, shoddy studies, of the $30B statin industry. Statins are in effect a slow-acting poison on every system in the body. The original Ansel Keys cholesterol claims were such an intellectual fraud as to beggar belief. About 70% of side effects are dismissed and never reported by doctors, thus statins are “safe” (ask MD and astronaut Duane Graveline about that @AMAZON!).
All while diet has been proven to be superior to a statin for most people, and with numerous beneficial effects and no negative effects. A fact suppressed and ignored by nearly all of the medical establishment.
The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease - and the Statin-Free Plan That Will, by Jonny Bowden Ph.D, C.N.S and Stephen Sinatra, M.D., F.A.C.C. @AMAZON
This book is in a similar vein as the above book.
The Great Cholesterol Con by Dr. Malcom Kendrick @AMAZON
Dr. Malcom Kendrick, MD, eviscerates, deracinates, destroys, and demolishes the diet-cholesterol myths and the LDL-heart risk frauds and the statin conspiracy (my term, not his explicitly). By citing directly the studies that purport to prove it. Fascinating work.
MDs—you don’t have to agree with everything or even most of it, but if you can 'walk away' after this blow-by-blow of so many medical lies rejecting them all, then you are harming your patients and have no business being an MD. Take the challenge of this and all the books I list, and run them through your head. Surely a trained MD can detect and discard bad arguments, so what do you have to lose? Problem is—the truth can never be forced out once it impinges, so you are warned. Study up on how to recognize cognitive dissonance in yourself before reading, holding yourself to the highest standards.
The intellectual fraud in the cholesterol and heart disease area and its incestuous amplification within the medical establishment is staggering. You do NOT need to be a doctor to understand the outrageous contradictions, financial conflicts of interest, lies, the ad-hoc instantiation of ad-hoc hypotheses constantly needed to fix the constantly changing cholesterol/heart disease theory, the selective omission of data, the biased choice of cohorts, the shameless dismissal of contrary data, etc.
IMO, if you are an MD and have NOT listened to The Great Cholesterol Con (or its equivalent), you might be intellectually and professionally ignorant and therefore incompetent to render advice on heart health. And thus harming your patients. You should just STOP until you can commit to a few hundred hours of this book and many others. I mean that with a tinge of real anger at the medical establishment (not a comment on any particular doctor), because when you learn what has actually come to pass in intellectual amplification, rationalization and sometimes outright intellectual fraud, you yourself should be very angry at how you were hoaxed and duped. If you are an older MD, how much of what you learned in medical school has been debunked or at least had doubt cast upon it?
Eat the Yolks, by Liz Wolfe @AMAZON
I do NOT recommend this book until AFTER you have read The Big Fat Surprise..., above. That’s because this book is more of a lifestyle book, whereas the The Big Fat Surprise is a blow-by-blow work that is needed to evaluate the suggestions in this book. That said, if you want a quick introduction that is an easy listen, this book is for you.
Eat Fat, Get Thin, by Mark Hyman @AMAZON
As with Eat the Yolks, my recommendation is the same: read The Big Fat Surprise first.
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, by Daniel H. Pink @AMAZON
How to make your effectiveness better, just by when you do things.
