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Methylation Miracle Unleashing Your Body
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Paul Frankel
Chris Foulke
, September 28, 2008
Paul Frankel does a great job of breaking down this subject, methylation and its profound impact on our health, disease process, and positive cures and prevention. It is a nice little paperback that I stuck in my front pocket to read wherever I ended up. This book goes beyond what I knew about nutritional approaches to healing disease and powering health. Too bad it's subject--'The Methylation Miracle' is little known while the dominant industrial paradigm of avoiding cholesterol and saturated fats are firmly laid in the public consciousness. THEY ARE BASICALLY FALSE LEADS. Frankel very neatly and reliably explains how this cholesterol hypothesis is unsupportable and how HOMOCYSTEINE, a breakdown product of the hugely important methylation process, IS DIRECTLY AND RELIABLY LINKED TO HEART DISEASE, AS WELL AS CANCER. I would add AGING as well, but that might seem too unbelievable to some, but the quality and level of our bodily methylation is at the heart of why we age and why cancer occurs--if you don't understand this, then I would recommend getting this book. Many people are actively engaged on this destructive practice of avoiding fats and not taking much larger doses of crucial vitamins than the diet can provide as medicines to quell disease and move into positive realms of health and well-being. Please don't waste too much time on poorly or non-nutritionally educated medical personnel, fraudulent low-fat diets, and trying to lower cholesterol merely with medications, when cholesterol in plaque is maybe a secondary or tertiary byproduct of more fundamental processes that can be corrected, (remarkably?) in so many cases by adding some basic vitamins and other things such as choline to your diet. Chapter 7 is titled 'Eat Naturally'. Some pertinent facts from 'The Methylation Miracle', 1) "half of the people who have heart attacks do not have high cholesterol", 2) "cholesterol in the diet does not dramatically raise cholesterol in the blood", 3) "simple mechanical stress causes plaque to form even when there is no cholesterol in the diet", and 4) "in animals, excess cholesterol in an otherwise balanced diet does not cause heart disease". Cholesterol is in every cell in your body, a natural constituent. It has been made out to be a culprit by misstating research (major studies like the Framingham Heart Study, a big British study, the Japanese situation), by funding studies that ignor this resounding truth that fat is good for us (lots of fat, only good quality, well-balanced fats) , and by big lobbies have pushing the avoid cholesterol mantra to sell their not-so-healthy oils and margarine. This book is not about politics, though. It is a very personable story replete with personal cases. It gently explains the science involved in methylation while citing numerous studies that develop his more sound theory (or reality, I'd say, going a little further--) in a straightforward manner. In a field, Health Care, where ignorance is bliss for so many 'health care professionals' but pain, disease, and increasing risk of all sorts of illnesses and death are common in the population, this book is an effective antidote and potential lifeline. EVERY PHYSICIAN, DIETER, NUTRITIONIST, HEALTH AFFICIONADO, NURSE, PERSON TRYING TO LOWER THEIR CHOLESTEROL, ACTUALLY, EVERY AMERICAN AND WORLDWIDE HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER--SHOULD GET & READ THIS BOOK. IT WILL BE THE BEST INVESTMENT YOU MADE THIS WHOLE YEAR ($6 + shipping), WITHOUT A DOUBT, POSSIBLY SAVE YOU HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS IN MEDICAL BILLS, LOST LIFE POTENTIAL, ETC. DON'T MISS THE CHANCE, YOUR DNA MAY BE HALF NAKED AND LACKING METHYL GROUPS RIGHT NOW. HOPE i DIDN'T SPILL TOO MANY BEANS...THERE'S A LOT MORE TO IT INSIDE
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America Alone The End of the World as We Know It
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Mark Steyn
Chris Foulke
, April 22, 2008
This book presents a strong hypothesis but presents little supporting material. It's logic, which is hard to assess, is backed up with incidents, analogies, sweeping statements, and highly intellectual snipes and broadsides. Though I think there may be some validity to what he is saying, it is hard or impossible to determine that from reading this book. His premises, which lean strongly on population growth or maintenance, are presented apart from numerous other factors, social and environmental. What? WE have to think about THAT? He thinks 1) Europe is dying, 2) The U.S. is thriving and doing so well that we represent the future--a beacon of economic health and progress that others should emulate. When one looks at the reasons why (and I confess I didn't read the entire book, just perused it extensively) I couldn't find them. Statistics? He doesn't do them. His expertise seems to be in the area of, "I'm smarter than you, believe it or shut up." A dangerous voice inside an administration or influential think tank. I like his snarly, rich sarcasm and rollicking intellectual style. It briefly makes for some interesting, insightful, and entertaining reading (especially if you're a 'conservative', don't like opposing viewpoints, and want a strong pro-American read), but if one is looking for substance, I'd check out the coffee shop and pastries. Cream-filled eclair? Even if I were a crumbling socialist Canada or European republic whose downslide (by definition) is occurring because of 'too few babies' and creeping Islam, I would not ban this book.
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