Hope you aren’t getting hosed by Blog and SEO “consultants” (as the bottom of the page says).

This isn’t really a sales pitch (unless it SHOULD BE, hah) – I just get agitated when good people get taken for a ride by us nerdy types!

It costs me $500-$900 per month to maintain the site. This isn’t just hosting, but includes all kinds of other things. The guys who maintain my site do all the WordPress upgrades and make sure all the plug ins are updated and continue to work. They do maintenance on our shopping cart (which seems to always gobble up a few hours every month) and all the other parts of our website that seem to continuously require diddling with as well. We have no SEO consultants. Nor do we have any blog consultants, although often I wish I did have one.

That’s good to know. For Kindle lovers, I guess. I haven’t made the leap yet. MD is hot for one, though. Not for her – for me. She’s tired of dealing with books all over everywhere. I think I know what will be under the tree for me in a month. But will I use it? We’ll see.

Namely, what is your take on the Kitavans and their supposed paradoxical good health while eating large amounts of high GI foods?

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/08/kitavans-wisdom-from-pacific-islands.html

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/11/fructose-index-is-new-glycemic-index.html

Thanks in advance.

This was the first question Gary Taubes answered in the post from just a few days ago. Go here to read all about it.

I was reading through some old posts and found this comment from you:
“The heart operates about 28 percent more efficiently on ketones than it does on glucose.”

That’s fascinating! Do you have the full reference on that? I’d love to read it. I wonder what brain efficiency is on ketones vs glucose?

Be well,
Ben

Sure. here it is.

Here is the PubMed link.

Ah, yes. Indianapolis, home of Shapiro’s Deli. Thanks.

Researcher studies ways to help cows bear more calves
November 22, 2008 – 6:40 PM
An animal scientist’s research is exploring ways to save dairy farmers thousands of dollars a year by helping prevent miscarriages in cows.

Smith’s research has shown that increased insulin levels due to starchy food raise the amounts of progesterone, a hormone necessary for maintaining pregnancy, in cattle. He hopes to find a way to increase those insulin levels without decreasing milk production.

God help us.

Love the blog…

Hmmm. Maybe my naughtiness detector wasn’t at full sensitivity. I’ll keep a closer eye on it. Order up.

http://vadimsuinverse.blogspot.com/

It is pretty entertaining too. Vadim always tries to invoke politics into discussion. He always defends individual freedom and gets pissed when people tell others how to live their lives, Here is a recent political input where he compares prediabetes with socialism, i think it was funny!

Lynn, lol you are right socialism is not communism, but… Insulin resistence is not diabetes either, but.. A person eats a lot of sweets, and considering he or she suffers from compromised metabolic syndrome, developes hyperinsulinimia. Heperinsulinimia usually, notice, usually will lead to hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia will lead to odd and comftable symptoms. Odd and uncomftable symptoms will usually lead to eating more sweets, which in turn makes pancreas pump up more and more insulin until one day prediabetes becomes diabetes due to overworked Beta cells which produce insulin. Socialism is like prediabetes in political system. It usually starts with an idea of social distribution, then it leads to more taxation ( similar to more insulin ), more taxation will lead to very uncomftable symptoms,like corporations cutting jobs, will lead to even more taxation to keep socialism afloat, which will eventually lead to very tired social system and eventually to an idea of communism, which means total government control and total redistribution. I do believe it and I lived through it!

Ahhh yes, but there is one small catch. First you have to find an MD who is not only concerned about elevated iron levels but willing to do something about it. Good luck. It would be easier to get an MD in Canada to perform a frontal lobotomy than to perform a phlebotomy. My spouse’s iron has been climbing steadily for years ever since she went through menopause. She has seen several MDs since that time, both male and female. They only thing they have suggested is to not eat red meat. The only other advice they have offered is for her to come in for tests once a year so they can ‘keep an eye on it’ (the iron levels). That’s what they have been doing. And every time she has her serum ferritin levels checked they tell her the tests show her iron levels are still climbing. There is some good news. So far none of the statin makers have funded research that suggests statins would benefit women with high iron levels.

Any suggestions Dr. Eades? Is self-bleeding practical? At one time barbers used to offer blood-letting as part of their services. The medical profession labeled the practice ’snake oil’. But looking back, maybe the barbers of yesteryear had more going for them than the physicians.

Well, if she isn’t on blood thinners or doesn’t have other health problems prohibiting it, why doesn’t she just go to the Red Cross (which surely must exist in Canada) and donate blood. If that isn’t an option, then she could pop across the border, and any number of physicians in the US would be willing to phlebotomize her for a price. I don’t think phlebotomy is one of those things you want to try as a DIY project at home. It could be really messy.

Thanks for the heads up on this. I’ll study up on it.