100%. For example right now the meat and dairy lobby groups are pushing hard for everyone to eat for more protein than they need. Now, I have people who can't tell the difference between a cytokine and a histone without using Google, even if it slapped them round the face, telling me they need 100g plus a day in Brotien. Its just a coincidence that this so called health advice makes those groups a lot more money.
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alot of people buy into the "flouride-free" gluten free, and inflammation, lysine diet apparently.
My body is an engine that turns food into lifting a hundred pounds of machinery. I dead lifted a generator about a week ago, yet it was the tree I felled a month ago that fucked up my shoulder.
When I read "nutritional hexes" I assumed this would be honeycomb related.
my boss does a "cleanse" once a month. IDK what she takes but she also believes ivermectin cures cancer, sooooo....
Its no coincidence that she is one of the sickest "healthy" people ive met. She has no health conditions or chronic illnesses. Shes in good physical shape and doesn't smoke or drink. Exercises most days, etc. Yet, she "cant get out of bed" or has some mystery stomach flu or something like that about once a month. Funny how that seems to line up just after her cleanses. I suggested once that she was making it worse with the cleanses but she just doubled down.
Willfully ignorant and proud.
as soon as you hear (X) cures cancer you know shes deep into pseudoscience, its one of the "gateway" into pseudoscience. those cleanses are likely messing up her gut microbiome causing "diarrhea, GI problems". when i took antibiotics once he caused watery runs, and it never was the same.
i wonder if shes getting antibiotics from a shady ass doctor, i know if you take too much you will have chronic GI problems. there something called chronic lyme, where its usually midwestern woman believes its chronic so they go to a MD that is "specialized in Lyme" to be prescribed on antbiotics for months on end, and to convince themselves they have it, they take another shady test for lyme.
Firehouse in the USA: "right leaning straight white guys that watch FOX news" is over represented. We work 24 hour shifts and thus cook two meals a day at the station. Inevitably that means I get to experience whatever dumb-ass dietary advice the manosphere/RFK Jr. is pushing: keto, carnivore, MORE PROTEIN, etc.
They get hilariously defensive when I tell them "I don't do fad diets".
...I don't think I've ever met a man in real life that ate a fad diet. They eat hamburger helper and take out.
Clearly you need to spend more time around Joe Rogan watching dude-bros. There's also several of them on supplemental testosterone: "The doctor will tell you that your level is normal but they've been secretly lowering the 'normal level' over the past several decades. If you want I can give you my doctor's information."
My theory is reincarnation is real and I was a horrible person in my previous life.
Oh how I hate the whole idea of detox and clean as it relates to nutrition. I worked at a health food store when I was young and while there was good nutritious food there, plenty of good people, the whole idea of 'clean' comes from a very dark place. I remember the raw foods guys and the idea of breathetarians. Like the less physical and embodied you were, the better person you were, enlightened. The idea of the physical world being unclean and something you should try to be free of, I hate it.
It really is more of a religious idea than anything to do with physical health. I think you have to enjoy being embodied, love the physical plane of existence, to have a healthy body. Not perfect.
ETA: OMG another comment reminded me. Also the colonics people trying to get literally clean inside, horrified at the stuff that came out of them, convinced it was toxic. I'm sure they are all dead by now.
I read a thing recently that argued that "purity" is one of the most distinctive thematic motifs in fascistic thinking, and examined how that is a means by which people can slide into right wing ideologies from an initially left wing position.
It was striking because it made it clock for me why there seems to be a "crunchy eco-leftist turns right wing" pipeline. To attempt to summarise some of the article and my own thoughts following it: A purity oriented framework of health situates "toxins" and the like as the Big Bad Other. Many of us are aware of how dangerous the notion of a Big Bad Other is if we're thinking about people, but it can creep up with us in contexts like this because it doesn't seem harmful initially. However, by thinking about health in this way, we train ourselves to think in terms of the Big Bad Other, and condition ourselves towards thinking about things in a black and white manner.
I worked at a vitamin store chain owned by the parents of a college friend of mine (who is now worth $34 million lol - that chain has turned into a miniature Whole Foods) for a few months. I remember one customer came in because she was going through a divorce, and the cashier said "oh, you need St. John's Wort for that". Nobody there thought this was unusual in any way.
Also knew a guy in college who claimed to be a Breathitarian. We caught him at the Ponderosa steak house in the next town over one night.
I remember one customer came in because she was going through a divorce, and the cashier said "oh, you need St. John's Wort for that".
Capitalist witch woman gives antidepressants
Also: Replace "super" (as in "superfood") with "sacred" and it works just as well.
I'm a personal trainer with certifications in fitness nutrition (I'm not a dietitian, those are actual licensed medical practitioners you go to see about dietary needs. I can legally provide guidelines, but I can't prescribe meal plans.)
Our body is great at getting rid of toxins and waste products. It's almost as if we've evolved ways of dealing with such things. Anyone talking about "toxins" and "waste products" as if they're 'stuck' in your body is either very ignorant, or trying to sell you snake oil. Probably both. I've seen a lot of it, especially in my profession. People making up bullshit to sound knowledgeable and sell you something you don't need. And yeah, a lot of trainers are just as ignorant and just trying to sell you something you don't need.
EDIT: In case anyone wants to sink their teeth into the topic, there's a very good book I read as part of my course work, called "Nutrition, 6th Edition" by Dr. Paul Insel; Don Ross; Kimberley McMahon; Melissa Bernstein. It's all very well sourced and kept up to date as modern science catches up. Available on AA if you don't want to buy it.
Wouldn't the only really possible "cleanse" be something like water fasting or similar since you wouldn't be taking in more of the so-called "toxins" (well I guess it does technically exist like alcohol but that gets metabolized)?
Unless, those are microplastics, which are probably something that will always be there for us.
They've detected microplastics in breast milk. You know what that means? It's time to start living up to our name as mammals.
We hormonally induce lactation for everyone. All the time. Just leech out those microplastics. Nips into 3d printers.
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Yeah the dude is really wrong.
Your body is good at filtering out hydrophilic toxins. But for just about every other toxin... Not so much. Most hydrophobic toxins and other toxins, like heavy metals, VOCs, pesticides, micro plastics, etc., are man made and your body hasn't had millions of years to evolve natural filters.
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