Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

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In fact, that little bit of coldness in the tip of the nose was enough to take nearly 42% of the extracellular vesicles out of the fight, Bleier said. Colds cause a lot of people to stay home. The CDC says 22 million school days are lost each year in the U.S. because of them. Some estimates say that Americans have 1 billion colds a year. ESRD patients are much more likely to die in general, so it would be worth measuring insulin to catch this earlier. Calcium doesn’t seem to be beneficial independent of dairy (dairy generally reduces the risk of IR).

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It also helps to include some intensity (though reducing intensity for a while makes sense if you’re starting a low carb diet, give your body time to adapt). Artificial sweeteners: pros and cons of diff options, some have small insulin responses alone and several increase insulin in combination with carbs. Stevia, erythritol, and Monk fruit appear to be among the better options. People with a weak immune system are more likely to get infections and to have severe symptoms. Get some tips on how to stay healthy here. READ MORE There is typically no insulin shortage in people with type 2 diabetes. Giving them more insulin is nonsense, and makes them gain more weight and become more insulin resistant.

I took pretty detailed notes as I was reading, so I thought I would share them in case anyone finds it useful.(I also added a much shorter summary to my book list.)

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This leads us to wonder again: Why hasn't this devastating gene been eliminated? The answer is that it does little harm until the age of forty. A patient who becomes ill after that age will generally have no fewer children than an average person. Since natural selection favors the number of times a gene is copied, it is not so interested in the health of individuals later in life. As long as a gene doesn't reduce the number of surviving offspring, it will still be preserved no matter how devastating the effect is. There are also disease-causing genes that may even increase reproductive success, for example the genes that cause manic-depressive illness. Mania patients are sexually aggressive and combative, and many of them are brilliant, successful, and extremely attractive. Normally fat cells would grow (hypertrophy) to a certain point, and then make more fat cells (hyperplasia). Common colds and flu share many symptoms, but an infection with influenza also tends to manifest with a high temperature, body aches, and cold sweats or shivers. This may be a good way to tell the two apart. IR is probably also a major contributor to earlier and earlier puberty, as fat storage and leptin send signals to start puberty.

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In Part One, we learned about the three external factors that cause disease. The first is pathogens. They are always evolving, and that constantly makes our fights with them increasingly difficult. The second is the ubiquitous natural and unnatural toxins. Evolution hasn't equipped us with adequate mechanisms to deal with them all. The third is the rapid development of human civilization, which has increased the rate of pathogens spreading to an unstoppable level. Dr Bikman not only clearly explains what IR is, he also presents a comprehensive and evidence-based plan for combating it. Randy: There are some things that almost everyone fears spiders and snakes and snarling dogs and lions. And you have to ask, did we just learn those? And the answer interestingly is yes, but it's a special kind of learning in a marvelous experiment done with monkeys by Susan Minooka. She took baby monkeys who'd never seen a snake and she had them reach over the snake to get a banana and they were quite mellow about that. They were not scared of the snake at all. Then she showed those monkeys a video of another monkey being frightened of a snake and all they had to do is watch that one video and they got scared of snakes after just watching one video with no direct harm from snakes. But then she did the next part of the experiment. She showed them pictures of a monkey reaching across a flower to see if she could cause fear of a flower and she couldn't. It turns out that we don't have, like, what's called a built-in fear of snakes, but we do have a system that sets us up to learn fear of snakes really, really easily. That's a good thing. Dr. Biology: Right. Randy, on this show, I never let my scientists leave without answering three questions.