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Martin's avatar

Plants in general are a scam 🙂

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JD's avatar

I think this is the most misguided comment I’ve seen WIL’s content spawn, and I’ve seen a lot of misguided comments.

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Troy's avatar

Circumin extract supposedly does not contain Oxalates but Turmeric from which it is derived is very high so when people think it reduces inflammation and pain, my assumption is that the body goes into sequester mode to get the Oxalates out of the bloodstream since they are very toxic and this reduces pain temporarily while loading the body with more and payment will eventually come due. From personal experience, I can assure you that this is NOT fun! In fact, it’s absolutely miserable. I love your newsletter!

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Martin's avatar

The effects of oxalate dumping vary wildly from person to person. When I had it it was mostly fine. Hurt a tiny bit on the toilet but disappeared after finishing and there was a strange sand-like grit in my eyes. And it only lasted a day.

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Prashanth Achari's avatar

In my country,my school text book says saturated fat is bad. Sometimes I think I am living in MATRIX

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JD's avatar

What kind of fruit? How big were the portions? You haven’t specified and neither does the article you linked to. Surely you fully informed yourself before informing anyone else?

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Stuart Morgan's avatar

Curious about the fruit, those markets are wildly different.

Maybe Saladino has another view.

Edit: Read the link, not much extra info but these were people that already had NAFLD and there is no data for the start points for both groups or they split them.

I'm very skeptical now.

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Tomasz Palacz's avatar

On the curcumin note and other plant foods, I highly recommend new book by Dr Georgia Ede: https://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Diet-Mind-powerful-ebook/dp/B0BX9976F5

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Domagoj Jugovic's avatar

Turmeric, my experience, it works it really works only of you cut the capsule and put it directly on skin 😁

No, I am serious, I tried it to calm down inflammation autoimmune and psoriasis, leaky gut etc. So I took turmeric pills, I had two brands , from one no difference and from other I was worse, enough worse so I can isolate that is from supplement. I did get it why, first brand/supplement didn't have black pepper extract (BioPerine) , and the other that made me worse had BioPerine to improve absorption of turmeric and that black pepper extract is known to worsen leaky gut so that happened to me.

Now I had a bottle that I won't drink so when I had worsening of psoriasis I tried to cut the soft pill and put turmeric on the skin directly, and it works fast as corticosteroids, not as fast but it works. Pill is a concentrated turmeric and it is not diluted to whole body and probably that is a factor. You need some plastic wrap to keep long enough on skin and stains from turmeric are unwashable.

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Dr. Poo mcgee's avatar

Guys should i eat the egg yolk raw and the egg white cooked? Im poor so i need to get the best out of the nutrition i barely get pls help whadyall think

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Jeb's avatar

It's probably fine if you cook the whole egg, however if you're willing to split them out then maybe it's better. Don't quote me on this, but my understanding is that the protein in egg whites is much better absorbed after cooking, however the fats in egg yolks are mostly unsaturated and become highly oxidised when cooked heavily, so yolks are better eaten lightly cooked or raw.

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munch and shuu's avatar

Oh my god i thought my dad was memeing about knowing "the curcumin" guy and that hes a scammer since he never told me the dudes name

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JD's avatar

Hey are you sponsored by the beef industry though?

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Joseph Everett (WIL)'s avatar

No. I sold my soul to the devil for 1.7 billion to cover the leftover debt from my fidget spinner startup. The beef industry was only offering 1.3 billion for my Substack, so in comparison it seemed like a bad deal.

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JD's avatar

Oh right. The reason I ask is I saw an article from The Guardian someone shared called ‘Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay’ about how the beef industry is getting influencers (like you) and citizen activists to amplify a message that you shouldn’t be very concerned about the environmental impacts of its production. Frank Mitloehner is behind these misleading — but scientific sounding — narratives about beef industry sustainability. You collaborated with him a while back in one of your videos and have been very focussed on beef in your content since then, haven’t you?

E.g. your ‘You probably need way more Protein’ video could have included a multitude of protein sources (to try to accommodate as many people living in different food situations as possible) but instead it’s basically a beef advert… 🤔

Are you sure you aren’t given some form of incentive to share their propaganda?

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Jeb's avatar

Did you watch and gain an understanding of the science used in that video? It clearly lays out the logic behind the arguments that beef's contribution towards climate change and resource overuse are unfairly calculated in a misleading way (e.g. inclusion of natural rainwater in calculating water consumed during production). If you're unsure about his bias, perhaps you should analyse the data presented.

And his advocacy for beef is understandable because a) it's highly nutritious and has very low polyunsaturated fat (unlike e.g. chicken and pork), b) it's abundantly available (unlike e.g. game meat) and generally viewed as having a highly palatable and inoffensive flavour (unlike e.g. game meats, lamb).

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Kim Nari's avatar

Big beef and big cream are two of his biggest sponsors!

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Kim's avatar

Nice summary video on saturated fat. Also got me thinking, I don't think I've seen any of those "inflammatory effects of LDL-C" studies detail the BMI of their cohorts.

The sunlight study was interesting to dig into!

"the increasing UVA (315–400 nm) and visible light (400–700 nm) exposures through windows and sunscreens"

"protective behaviors like avoiding sun exposure and excessive use of sunscreens that increase UVA and visible light doses"

https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-67-2-373

"Human skin or [3 alpha-3H]7-dehydrocholesterol exposed to sunlight on cloudless days in Boston (42.2 degrees N) from November through February produced no previtamin D3. In Edmonton (52 degrees N) this ineffective winter period extended from October through March. Further south (34 degrees N and 18 degrees N), sunlight effectively photoconverted 7-dehydrocholesterol to previtamin D3 in the middle of winter."

https://doi.org/10.2340/00015555-0980

Nice collection of references on related subjects.

https://ultrasuninternational.com/wp-content/uploads/grigalavicius-et-al-2015_daily_seasonal_and_latitudinal_variations_in_solar_ultraviolet.pdf

Handy graph on the third page and a graph on the following page showing that the rate of squamous cell carcinoma and cutaneous melanoma are almost x2 as common among men at lower latitudes.

The bit about "exposures through windows and sunscreens" is important due to UVB getting absorbed by the atmosphere at low angles from what I gather?

So if you spend midday inside, and as such only getting sunlight from windows, then you get constant UVA exposure and relatively close to 0 UVB exposure and therefore barely any D3 synthesis. All this is likely further magnified by this heavy migration northward that has been going on over the past decades.

In addition, per: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3PP50413A

One should probably also account for Vitamin A being the vitamin with highest absorption rate in the UVA band, which is also naturally active in the skin; and Vitamin A is mainly sourced from animal foods. So there may also be some correlation in dietary changes there.

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Daniel Francisco Valdez's avatar

lol 26 researchers does not qualify for “only” status.

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