Without your health, you have nothing. I suspect that most of us have heard that a time or two during our lifetime and find it to be pretty accurate. I don’t interpret it in a rigid way and coldly presume that everyone that does not enjoy perfect health is miserable and I do not believe that is the meaning of that venerable adage. Surely there are millions of people around the world living with various afflictions that are enjoying happy and meaningful lives. At the same time it is hard to argue that their lives wouldn’t be even better without whatever chronic condition they are living with.
Despite what the Medical-Industrial Complex would like us to believe, as a nation we are sick, and real solutions to that problem are not being offered by those who are expected to provide them.
Perhaps you are someone who is living in denial regarding the health of the population in America. Even if you are, I do not blame you. I understand completely. In fact, I was that way not all that long ago. The media and other entities that have the greatest influence on the population are absolute experts when it comes to deceiving the public. And they have a powerful incentive to do just that. Have you seen how many pharmaceutical commercials there are during an evening “news” program from the Big Networks?
For me a “breakthrough moment” was necessary before I was able to begin the process of piercing the dark veil of lies that surrounds the issues concerning health, wellness and longevity in this country. In my case it probably helped that I was somewhat “primed” to recognize the glimmer of genuine truth when I encountered it. My upbringing was somewhat unconventional in some respects, including being raised as a Jehovah’s Witness (JW). What does that have to do with recognizing truth as it applies to health and well-being?
Despite my family wisely separating ourselves from the JWs when I was about 17 years old, I concede that some valuable lessons were learned as a result of our membership in that organization. A core principle of the JWs is the “us vs. them” mentality. We were constantly indoctrinated by the organization to believe that we were separate from “The World.” Everyone that was not a JW was considered to be of The World and was doomed to perish in the great “Armageddon” that God would use to cleanse the Earth of all the “wicked” people of The World, leaving only the virtuous and God-fearing JWs in its wake.
That’s pretty extreme to be sure but I think it also contributed to my ability to look at the world in a different way. We were told that the current “system of things” was wicked and worthy of destruction. A contention I would be hard-pressed to dispute in view of the world we are presently living in. I’m not expecting an Almighty God to bring Armageddon to bear against everything wicked in this world but it’s clear that something needs to change before it’s too late. Waiting around for God to fix everything does not seem like the wisest course of action.
I believe that the continual demonization of The World and its wicked inhabitants that I heard so often as a child growing up in the JW organization influenced me in a way that allowed me to view things in a more skeptical way. We were taught that we were constantly surrounded by wickedness so I guess it’s no surprise to presume that would make someone a bit less trusting with regard to the world at large. As such, believing that those currently in charge of world affairs are indeed wicked (I prefer “evil”) is not as long a journey as it might be for someone who was not subjected to JW propaganda as a key element of their upbringing.
Looking askance at everything outside our exclusive and righteous little JW group as a child makes it easier to presume that others are up to no good. Even so, it took me the better part of my life to realize that we were being lied to about matters of health and wellness. On the other hand, I do believe that the situation has gradually become worse over the years as greed and the lust for power has greatly influenced those who we had counted upon to provide us with advice that actually improved our chances to live healthy lives. Even just a decade or so ago I do not think we were misled as egregiously as we are today.
If I may borrow a little from the JW playbook, let’s consider The World around us as it currently exists. Have you been out in public lately? Perhaps you enjoyed a meal at a local eatery or browsed the aisles of your local Walmart or supermarket. Or maybe you work for a large company and are in the presence of many fellow employees every day. Have you happened to notice how many of your fellow human beings are very visibly and obviously overweight these days? Have you wondered why that is? Maybe you think you know why but if you based that conclusion on what the Medical-Industrial Complex tells you, you are probably wrong.
The lying media and their Medical-Industrial Complex co-conspirators want you to believe it is because you are eating too much fat. They want you to think that eating things like butter and whole milk can make you fat. Worse yet, the hideous and disastrously-dangerous-to-health seed oils are actually recommended as healthy! Oh boy! Stumbling onto that one nearly caused my head to explode!
The consumption of insane quantities of seed oils is one of the most important (if not the most important) contributor to the current epidemic of obesity and poor health in this country. They are in nearly all processed foods today and impossible to avoid if you eat like a typical American as I once did. There will be much more to say about seed oils in the future.
How do I know that saturated fat in things like whole milk, butter and red meat is not what is making people fat and unhealthy? And that seed oils and corn syrup are the real main causes of obesity? My own personal experience has proven it to me. More on that later.
For most of my life after separating from the JWs as a teenager I was mostly content to live my life as a “normie” and believed almost all of what the mainstream media told us. I thought doctors and pharmaceutical companies really wanted to help people. And at that time, I believe they probably did. At least more so than they do today. And yes, I do believe there are still doctors that genuinely want to do the right thing. Some of them are right here on Substack.
When I think about how my attitudes about the media and the medical establishment has changed through the years, it makes me think about some of the prominent Democrats that have decided to leave their party during this election cycle. And in particular, it is what they say about their party that resonates with me. So many of them say that they separated from the Democrat Party not because they left the party. It was because the party left them. It became something unrecognizable to them. For many of them the party morphed into something that was the exact opposite of what the party once stood for. That is clearly the truth and I applaud them for their honesty and critical thinking ability.
In a very similar fashion, I do not believe that I decided to reject so much of what the Medical-Industrial Complex stands for today. They rejected me. And millions of others by allowing greed to dictate how they operate. This became more obvious when the law was changed in 1997 and allowed pharmaceutical companies to advertise direct to consumers. I recall thinking how odd that was. I grew up in a world where pharmaceutical advertising did not exist. Why would they need to advertise their products to us? Wasn’t I supposed to rely on my doctor to tell me what kind of medications I should be taking? They had tipped their hand. Perhaps unknowingly, but the deed was done and it was an important indicator of just how greedy and corrupt the pharmaceutical industry had become.
Having a soft spot for natural approaches to medicine and alternative treatments due to my upbringing made it a little easier to see how the medical establishment was changing. At the same time, I was becoming more aware of things our government was doing to limit our freedom and increase their power. Efforts to enact gun control was probably the main motivating factor behind the evolution of my thinking. It was as clear as day. Since the majority of our elected leaders are never truly interested in anything that does not benefit them, why would they want to limit our access to firearms? It’s obvious. So that we would be less able to resist the things they wish to impose on us. Period.
As my attitudes evolved and I was becoming more distrustful of all things “Big,” I stumbled onto a website that was created by a fellow called Ray Peat. My best guess would be that it was around 2016 or 2017. Lord knows how I found it but I suspect it was most likely recommended by someone who posted something in a health-related forum or perhaps it was on Twitter.
Health has always been an interest of mine and that probably also had a lot to do with my upbringing. My parents were taking vitamins and supplements back in the 1960s before it was trendy. I vividly recall them loading us into the car for trips to the “nature food store” in Malden, Massachusetts.
I also vividly recall choking down foul-tasting tablets consisting of things like “desiccated liver” and “brewer’s yeast” with a glass of water. As kids, my brother and I were regularly given those things along with vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene, dolomite, bone meal and probably a few more I am not able to recall and probably did not taste as terrible as the first two I mentioned. They never actually forced us to take them but we always did so willingly because we believed that they were good for us as our parents had told us.
Although their fondness for more natural approaches to health and a subscription to Prevention magazine might make you think of my parents as “hippies,” that was not the case at all. In fact, the influence on them from their association with the JWs would more likely classify them as conservative. The association with more natural approaches to medicine (and diet and all things “organic”) with people on the left is something that has bothered me for years. Does it not make more sense that a natural approach like that of our ancestors would be better associated with conservatives, as in “conserving” the traditional methods of the past? Alas, I digress as I often do and will likely continue to do. You have been warned.
The first time I encountered the Ray Peat website I spent a little time exploring it and reading about Peat’s views about health and medicine before I clicked away and kind of forgot about it. “Could any of that be true?” I wondered. Even if it was, it seemed like too much trouble to start avoiding all the wonderfully tasty treats in the supermarket that he demonized. I’ll just continue taking my vitamins (thanks Mom and Dad!) and hope they will keep me healthy.
It was probably six months to a year or so later that I found myself on Ray Peat’s website once again. Surely the result of encountering another recommendation from someone online. This time I slowed down a bit and took more time to think about what he was saying. Peat was a Ph.D. and was clearly a pretty sharp guy. He had done a lot of his own research and even tried numerous experiments on himself. But what most impressed me was that he was not selling anything other than his very modestly-priced email newsletter ($25 per year if I recall correctly). He wasn’t selling an online health and nutrition course for $297 and he was not selling books or supplements. He was putting most of his information and recommendations online for anyone to access for free. To me that made it more likely that he was telling the truth.
After considering Peat’s claims and doing some research of my own I began to believe that he was right. That was my breakthrough moment. My main takeaway was that seed oils are horrendous for human health and are likely killing millions of people slowly. I talked to my wife about this new revelation and thankfully, as someone who is open to the ideas around alternative medicine and natural healing, she agreed that this might be something we wanted to pay attention to. At that point we decided to greatly limit our consumption of seed oils and other sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). The over-consumption of PUFA, according to Ray Peat, is a major contributor to the failing health of the American population and my increasing suspicions about the big food corporations that were pushing all these PUFA-containing products for profit made that easier for me to believe.
At that point in my life I was about 58 years old and weighed roughly 180 pounds. At six-foot-one-inch that would probably not be considered “obese” or even significantly overweight and while I did not have a “gut” that rivaled many of my peers at the time, I certainly had more of one than I wanted.
Although we were never what I would classify as “junk food junkies,” my wife and I would enjoy a lot of the same unhealthy treats many other Americans enjoy. A few times a week we would treat ourselves to things like potato chips, candy, ice cream and baked goods like cookies, cakes and pies. With a sensitivity to gluten that I inherited from my father (headaches!) my consumption of baked goods was somewhat limited but I was still able to locate many gluten-free versions of things that contained all the same health-destroying seed oils that were in the traditional versions. To summarize, we were consuming way more PUFA than we should have been.
We started reading labels in the supermarket and were astounded (and angered) to find seed oils in virtually everything! Those are the things we decided we would no longer be putting in our shopping cart. We were finding seed oils in things like baked goods (notorious for that!) and even in candy and ice cream! Why, in the name of everything that is holy would they need to add that stuff to ice cream? The answer to that depends on what degree of “conspiracy theory” you are willing to entertain. From simply wanting to make their product smoother all the way to colluding with the Medical-Industrial Complex to damage the health of the public and profit more from medical procedures and pharmaceuticals as a result. I do not discount either.
Eliminating nearly all PUFA from our diet was both difficult and easy. It was easy when it came to planning our meals because all we had to do was limit ourselves to “real” food. As far as that goes, we were pretty well on track before we decided to eliminate PUFA since the vast majority of our meals were prepared at home and prepared much the way our meals were prepared for us by our parents when we were growing up. The real changes where meal times were concerned was eliminating things like margarine, which we had used to replace butter some years before because we believed the lies about butter and other saturated fats being unhealthy. The truth of the matter is the exact opposite! Margarine is a PUFA nightmare and we were fooled into believing that using it instead of butter was improving our health and longevity.
Other foods we had to move away from were things like store-bought salad dressings and mayonnaise. Both PUFA nightmares in their own right and both eliminated from our diet at that time.
Since we had been eating pretty traditional “real” food meals since we were together, that turned out to be the easiest hurdle to overcome. I actually enjoyed going back to butter since I always preferred it to margarine despite the endless claims at the time that it tasted like butter. No. It. Did. Not. And believe me, I did not spare the butter and I continue that practice today.
The real challenge arose when we sought junk food treats that did not contain seed oils or corn syrup since that is another unhealthy ingredient that is bad enough on its own but is now almost certainly from genetically-modified corn. Where corn syrup is concerned, there’s a very interesting story about how the food industry benefits from using it to replace the primary sweetener that was used in virtually everything that needed sweetening back when I was a kid and that was plain old cane sugar.
If you have taken any time at all to actually read the ingredients on things you buy at the supermarket (you certainly should!) you might have noticed the exclusion of traditional ingredients like cane sugar and butter and the inclusion of things like corn syrup and seed oils. There’s little doubt that the big food companies did this to cut costs (and as a result, boots profits) but I also have to wonder if there were other reasons that may have been influenced by a relationship between Big Food and the Medical-Industrial Complex of which Big Pharma is a major player.
Using corn syrup and seed oils benefits Big Food by cutting costs and boosting profits while more sick people benefit the Medical-Industrial Complex because more people are experiencing failing health and as a result are subjecting themselves to expensive medical procedures and consuming costly pharmaceuticals. Sadly, it is not at all difficult for me to imagine a marriage of convenience (and profit) like this as a reality in the world we live in.
But wait, there’s more! Wouldn’t it be great if Big Food could not only cut costs and boost profits by using ingredients like corn syrup but also make people want to eat more of their unhealthy garbage than ever before? Well, that is exactly what they did!
Not all that long ago food scientists working for Big Food discovered something very interesting. They learned that replacing more traditional sweeteners like cane sugar with fructose-based sweeteners like corn syrup (especially high-fructose corn syrup) had an interesting effect on people (and animals) that consumed it. It actually made them eat more! These “new” sweeteners had the ability to delay the normal signals the body sends to us telling us we are full and should stop eating whatever it is we are eating. The result is obvious. People eat more of these highly processed, mass produced, cheap and unhealthy “foods,” making them fat and unhealthy as a result. It may be evil but it is hard to say that it isn’t brilliant at the same time. And boy, is it ever working out as well (or better) than they could have envisioned.
I will readily admit that eliminating junk food would be the sensible approach for people wanting to improve their diet and their health as a result. However, there are things that I am stubbornly reluctant to give up. I have a pretty notorious sweet tooth that I wish I did not have but as I often say to my wife (who is far more disciplined about avoiding junk food than I), it provides me with too much enjoyment to give up and what is life without some enjoyment? Even if it is accompanied by some risk.
As an aging human I find that my sources of enjoyment and pleasure are shifting a bit with the years and my favorite treats are definitely something that has been rising in the ranks.
However, I am much more selective when it comes to junk food choices. I also limit my junk food consumption to two days per week (I know, I probably could do better) and I very rarely purchase things that contain seed oils or any other form of PUFA. As you might imagine, that limits my choices quite substantially. I generally am able to purchase only one brand of ice cream and only two flavors of that brand that I am able to purchase locally. I’ve always been a sucker for an ice cream sundae so I make my own hot fudge sauce that tastes as good or better than the store-bought versions that are loaded with corn syrup and other garbage.
My candy choices are also quite limited and with chocolate being my favorite, I am currently limited to one brand of chocolate bar offered by a local retailer. There are other brands that do not contain PUFA but they are either not too tasty or must be purchased online at significantly increased cost. I used to favor Hershey’s since their ingredients were not too bad in a couple of their chocolate bars but they recently started adding seed oil (sunflower) to them so I stopped buying those.
As for potato chips, that can be a monumental challenge. In general you will find every potato, corn or other “chip” in your supermarket has been cooked in seed oil. In my case I am fortunate enough to have two local retailers that offer potato chips cooked in olive oil or avocado oil. Both of those oils have a much lower PUFA content than the oils used for traditional chips. The downside, as you might expect, is that they are significantly more expensive. I pay almost $5.00 for a six-ounce bag but once in a while I can get them on sale for $3.00. Compare that to perhaps $1.50 or less for a 12-ounce bag of the traditional chips. Sometimes it seems that if you want to be healthy in this world, you also need to be wealthy. Or broke. I am certainly not wealthy.
As far as baked goods go, even the gluten-free versions contain seed oils. I do not recall ever seeing one that does not. As a result, all of the baked good we consume are what my wife makes herself. Fortunately, she enjoys baking and is able to use a brand of heirloom flour at our local supermarket that contains far less gluten than traditional flour and I can usually get away with consuming sensible amounts of things she makes with it.
It’s kind of a strange state that you can end up in as a result of realizing the truth about Big Food. In the supermarket I watch with interest as people load their carts up with all kinds of unhealthy edibles. I hesitate to call it “food” and even “edibles” seems questionable but technically I suppose it is edible. Perhaps that’s simply because it takes years to kill you as opposed to something like cyanide that would drop you where you stand. And at least all this processed food crap tastes wonderful going down. It is likely that it was carefully and painstakingly engineered to do so.
Sometimes I get the urge to walk up to someone loading their shopping cart with eight 2-liter bottles of soda and tell them how terrible that stuff is for their health. I rather wish that I could but with societal norms and whatnot, they would probably be as likely to grab their cell phone and call 9-1-1 as they would be to believe me. At best, most of them would probably just think I was crazy and that I might even be – gasp! – a conspiracy theorist! Still, I cannot help feeling a little sad for them and especially for the kids if they happen to have them along as well.
This is why I think the MAHA movement is so vital. While the average person might think of me as a nut-job if I approach them and start preaching to them about the health hazards from seed oils, corn syrup, genetically-modified crops, preservatives and food coloring, the same message coming from the U.S. Government, news media and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might actually get their attention. Let’s face it, most of them are already conditioned to believe “official” sources so perhaps they might actually listen.
What’s before us now, a day before the most important election in my lifetime is an opportunity like we have never had before. Although I surely do not agree with RFK Jr. on every issue of the day, I think he has his views on health and wellness dialed in very well. I would love to see him placed in a position of real authority to not only reform corrupted federal agencies like the FDA, CDC and USDA, but to also get the message out to the public that most of what’s being offered to them as “food” is horrifically unhealthy and is literally killing them and their loved ones.
If Trump wins and follows through on his promise to give RFK Jr. that kind of power and influence, I really think we could turn things around and actually make America healthy again. As much as I want to see the entire country on track to live healthier, longer lives, I admit there is an element of self-interest involved as well.
Since my “awakening” I have found it enormously frustrating to go into the store looking for some tasty treat to enjoy and then having to eliminate 95 percent (or more) of what I find on the shelves. I will even admit that I sometimes “cheat” and will get something that I usually would never eat such as a bag of traditional potato chips or even a package of (gluten-free) Oreo cookies like my wife and I did back in January. Yes, we actually do that kind of thing a handful of times a year. We’re human after all and sometimes you just want to indulge and enjoy something without worrying about how unhealthy it is.
I cannot help but think how wonderful it would be if food manufacturers would return to traditional ingredients from the past. I cannot advocate for eating junk food all the time, but I think it would be great to be able to go to the supermarket and peruse the aisles for those occasional treats and not have to worry about being poisoned. That would dramatically increase my options and I would no longer have to limit myself to two flavors of one brand of ice cream or one or two brands of potato chips that are not cooked in seed oils. It sounds like a fantasy to me now but with the right people in positions of authority, perhaps it can actually happen.
So, what is the effect on the human body when you have been consuming almost no PUFA for seven or eight years? As you may recall, back on 2016 or 2017 I weighed about 180 pounds. While making absolutely no effort to lose weight or make any other dietary changes beyond the near elimination of PUFA, corn syrup, GMOs and most other harmful ingredients such as preservatives and food coloring, I now weight 155 pounds. My “gut” is pretty much gone and I probably now weigh what nature intended me to without the influence of unhealthy food. I am a little ashamed to admit I have really fallen off the wagon where exercise is concerned and have basically not done that for the last year or so. If anything, I lost even a little more weight during that time but seem to have stabilized around 155 pounds.
I was actually quite good with exercise for a number of years and was walking and doing strength training every week but I just kind of let too many other things get in the way. That and laziness took me off track and I hope to start getting back on soon. My point is that if it was exercise that caused me to lose 25 pounds over the last seven or eight years, I surely would have put that weight on over the course of the last year when I was not exercising at all. It just didn’t happen
I hesitate to admit this as well since it makes me feel a little stupid but I was actually a bit mystified as to why I was losing weight over that time period. It was anything but a rapid weight loss. It came off very slowly and gradually. So much so that only recently did it seem to settle into what appears to be a more permanent number (155 pounds). I had been thinking about it and was not able to determine why I lost that weight, even wondering at one point if I might have a serious illness. Who loses weight without even wanting to or trying? Eventually, I think I figured it out.
Once we adopted our new approach to eating it really did become our “new normal.” Our new healthier eating habits were normal and routine to us. So much so that in my mind it did not seem like I had been doing anything to cause me to lose weight when I actually was. It does not feel like “being on a diet” and as far as having weight loss as a goal, I surely did not. I was just eating “normally.” Surely a far cry from the “normal” American diet but is has become normal to me.
I have since discovered that PUFA is not treated the same way by the human body compared to real foods that we are meant to be eating. Instead of being burned as fuel by our bodies to supply us with energy, PUFA has a tendency to be stored in our body as fat. The more PUFA you eat the more fat accumulates. Making matters worse, this PUFA-induced fat does not simply melt away after a day or a week or even a year. On average, it is said that it takes about seven years for it to be cleared from the body. I know I read that somewhere but I was unable to find a reference. It seems to make sense to me for the following reason.
It was about seven to eight years ago that I all but eliminated PUFA from my diet. And only recently did my weight loss settle at 155 pounds. I do not think that timeline is a coincidence. I believe that PUFA-induced fat has been gradually eliminated from my body over that time and pretty much right on schedule. While it seems to have worked out that way in my case, I have no real solid evidence to support that. What information I am able to find online suggests that clearing PUFA from the body can take a varying amount of time depending on the individual.
At 66 years old I believe I enjoy above average health for someone my age. I am not going to lie and say that that is all thanks to the elimination of almost all PUFA and other unhealthy food ingredients from my diet because I do other things as well. However, what I have learned about PUFA makes me think that it has an awful lot to do with it. I have seen numerous studies indicating that excess PUFA consumption can lead to a surprising number of serious health problems that one would never imagine could be connected. 1 2 3 4 5
In addition to dietary changes, I also regularly take certain vitamins and supplements on a regular basis just as my parents had me doing all those years ago. I take 2 grams of vitamin C every day and also take three 50 mg doses of niacinamide daily. In addition to that I also take what I consider to be the most important vitamin of all. I take 5000 I.U. of vitamin D3 daily along with vitamin K2. I believe that may be the main reason that I do not seem to ever get sick.
I have had the sniffles a few times in recent years but only for a day at most. Other than that, I have not been sick. The last time I recall actually being sick was in 2004 when I got the flu. Starting around 2012 or so I learned about the tremendous importance of vitamin D from Dr. Mercola and began to make an effort to raise my serum vitamin D levels. In 2010 it was 30 (I keep records of my lab results) and by 2018 it was 50. I admit that my efforts were probably somewhat off-and-on during that time and that probably explains the slow increase.
By 2020 the number was 69 and this past May when I saw my doctor it had risen to 98. I personally believe that my above-average serum vitamin D level is one of the main reasons, if not the main reason I do not get sick. I never had COVID or even anything to indicate I ever had even a mild case. Both my sons got it but I did not see them when they were sick. Both my wife and I did not subject ourselves to the dangerous and experimental gene therapy jabs and thankfully the same is true for both of our sons. We did, however, carry on with our usual routine during the fake pandemic. We shopped for groceries once a week and did other things in public that we normally did. I should point out that my wife never got COVID either and she also never gets sick. As I recall, her serum vitamin D level was close to 80 when she had it tested a year or so ago.
Every morning I eat three or four organic eggs (from our own chickens) for breakfast with a turkey sausage patty. I sometimes accompany that with organic grits and as I indicated above, I do not spare the butter. I also use it in the pan to cook my eggs and often drizzle what remains in the pan over my eggs when I fry them. As you might be able to tell, I am not the least concerned about “high” cholesterol and it would be all I could do to not laugh in my doctor’s face if he ever recommended that I take a statin. Frankly, I think he knows better.
I do not take any prescription medications and the same is true for my wife. Before May of this year that was not the case for me. Around 2013 I began to have problems with my blood pressure. That was before we made changes to our diet to eliminate PUFA and other unhealthy things. Although my feelings about blood pressure and how it is exaggerated by the Medical-Industrial Complex to get more people on medication, there was really no question that my pressure was indeed high at that time. I was seeing readings as high as 165/104 and sometimes even higher. I believe that would be considered high blood pressure almost no matter who you ask.
Up until May of this year I was taking blood pressure medication daily to control my blood pressure. Was elevated PUFA and poor diet contributing to my high blood pressure? Perhaps, but I can never know for sure.
About a month before I saw my doctor in May I decided to stop taking my blood pressure medication and see what would happen. I have a couple of home blood pressure-measuring devices so I could monitor it and make sure my blood pressure did not go too high. If it did I would resume taking the medication.
I had already reduced my dose by half at least a year before and did not notice any change so I felt ready to take the next step. So what happened? In a word: nothing. My blood pressure did not change at all. I had briefly experimented with stopping my medication in the past and although it always seemed to go well for a few days, it always spiked after that and I would resume taking it. This time nothing happened. Is it a coincidence that happened around the same time my weight settled down to 155 pounds, signaling, perhaps that I had eliminated years of accumulated PUFA from my body? Maybe, but again, there seems to be no way for me to know.
I know this is a bit long-winded and perhaps that is an indicator for how passionately I feel about this issue. This is such an important election in so many ways and probably in ways most of us do not even realize.
I definitely think of myself as a MAGA supporter but I am just as passionate about MAHA and truly hope it is an idea that can take hold and transform people’s lives. It could eliminate so much of the suffering and misery that results from poor health. I really believe it could lead to positive changes in this country that we cannot even imagine right now. Here’s hoping it can become a reality.