Comments on: More braying from Bray

By: Irene

Irene — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:34:52 +0000

People overeat because they feel HUNGRY all the time. Stop the hunger feeling = loose weight. The only time I have never felt hungry was right after getting a Hepatitis B vaccine. I assume that the circulating liver enzymes as a result of the vaccine was the cause. A few days later, the appetite returned. Is it possible to take a liver enzyme tablet to cut off the appetite?

By: Dr. George Bray, “esteemed biomedical researcher” and professor of medicine, Louisiana State Medical Center, Baton Rouge, call your unemployment office… | Free The Animal

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:25:26 +0000

[...] not the first time. It was only less than a month ago that Dr. Eades demonstrated convincingly that Dr. George Bray is a fucking liar; Bold Faced. I want to go over Dr. Bray’s response to Gary’s letter in some detail because it is emblematic [...]

By: lefox

lefox — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:21:09 +0000

pardon me – news source…..

By: lefox

lefox — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:20:17 +0000

As a Canadian I can attest that the Toronto Star is possibly the largest but hopefully not the most influential new source in the country! It’s a tabloid….

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:09:28 +0000

Low-carber,

IMO, American cheese is a modern “industrial” cheese food product, and not real cheese, no matter what the carb count. It’s highly processed and bears little resemblance to the great cheeses of the world.

By: Low-Carber

Low-Carber — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:39:47 +0000

Hello all: I would like to know if american cheese is allowed in the low-carbohydrate keto diet. Because i am trying to do a high-fat, moderate in protein low carb diet and i do eat american, mozzarella, monterrey, or swiss cheese and most hard cheeses only have about 1 gram of carbohydrate or less than 1 gram of carbohydrate for every 100 calories. But i read in a forum that cheese has a chemical which blocks weight loss. So i would like to know if its ok to snack on cheese on low carb diets.

By: George D. Henderson

George D. Henderson — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:14:00 +0000

You’ve read a hundred books, but you’ve obviously never eaten protein “to excess” if you believe it slows metabolism.
A little experience is worth a (misread) library in this case.
Look at the animals that eat the most protein (and fat) – they are the fast, lithe, muscular types, and they have the shortest digestive tracts.
I live in New Zealand, in large parts still an unspoiled aboriginal subtropical paradise. I have tried living off the land, eating only the foods available to a hunter-gatherer in this country, using all the available books on edible plants.
Carbohydrate deficiency is the first thing I noticed. There are few edible carbohydrate plants (so few that pre-european Maori spent hours preparing bracken roots, which have carcinogenic properties if not prepared properly, and still suffered liver cancer as a significant cause of death). If it were not for seafood and birds, one could perhaps have lived in this country, but no people would have flourished.
It did not surprise me that the Maori (who came to New Zealand from Polynesia some time during the past millenium) drove the Moa (a large flightless bird) to extinction, then resorted to cannibalism.
Maori today suffer from extremely high rates of diabetes and heart disease – and they are being told to eat less fat and more whole grains. This to a people who had never even seen a grain until 200 years ago, and who cannot possibly have adapted to gluten in that time.
There is a point, when you give this high-carb low-calory advice to native peoples with their own dietary histories, at which medical folly crosses the fine line between misadventure and genocide.

By: George D. Henderson

George D. Henderson — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:57:14 +0000

Atkins “tends to shut down the thyroid”
The recent high-fat diet trials had lowered T3 as one of the anti-inflammatory end-points. A 10% drop in T3 accompanied better lipids, C-reactive protein, etc. But isn’t more T3 good for you?
Perhaps when people over-eat carbs they need to make extra T3 to cope, and this can be bad for the thyroid; an anti-inflammatory diet has less need for thyroid stimulation (after all, heat is already being produced by futile cycles) and the thyroid can ease off a bit.
Atkin’s comment is consistent with the most recent research and another example of how he knew what he was talking about long before anyone else did.

By: George D. Henderson

George D. Henderson — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:44:50 +0000

You’re overlooking the elephant in the room; the micronutrients and protein in the western high-carb diets are inadequate to build and supply the insulin receptors etc. to deal with the carbs.
A healthy traditional diet that is reasonably high in carbs from whole plants is unlikely to be vitamin and mineral deficient, and the person eating it also gets more sunlight exposure.
It is this “empty calory” nutritional paradigm that starts the insulin resistance problem. The low-carb diet is the best way out; just supplementing the micronutrients while still locked into the carb addiction is not as effective; you need to give insulin a rest as well.
Also, in a low carb diet, calories need to come from somewhere – and they come from amino acids and fats, nutrients which can actually help to rebuild or protect the body.
Where is the sugar that has the health profile of glycine or DHA?

By: George D. Henderson

George D. Henderson — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:21:27 +0000

Abstract
The mechanism of the immunosuppressive effects of glycine and its pathophysiological applications are discussed in this review. Glycine has been well characterized in spinal cord as an inhibitory neurotransmitter which activates a glycine-gated chloride channel (GlyR) expressed in postsynaptic membranes. Activation of the channel allows the influx of chloride, preventing depolarization of the plasma membrane and the potentiation of excitatory signals along the axon. Glycine has recently been shown to have similar inhibitory effects on several white blood cells, including hepatic and alveolar macrophages, neutrophils, and lymphocytes. Pharmacological analysis using a GlyR antagonist strychnine, chloride-free buffer, and radiolabeled chloride has provided convincing evidence to support the hypothesis that many white blood cells contain a glycine-gated chloride channel with properties similar to the spinal cord GlyR. Molecular analysis using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and Western blotting has identified the mRNA and protein for the β subunit of the GlyR in total RNA and purified membrane protein from rat Kupffer cells. Dietary glycine is protective in rat models against endotoxemia, liver ischemia-reperfusion, and liver transplantation, most likely by inactivating the Kupffer cell via this newly identified glycine-gated chloride channel. Glycine also prevents the growth of B16 melanomas cell in vivo. Moreover, dietary glycine is protective in the kidney against cyclosporin A toxicity and ischemia-reperfusion injury. Glycine may be useful clinically for the treatment of sepsis, adult respiratory distress syndrome, arthritis, and other diseases with an inflammatory component.