I was disappointed when a 2020 MA referendum vote failed to enable ranked choice voting, which solves the problem of voting who you want to vote for and having another candidate that you choose if your first candidate doesn’t get enough votes. In any case I have voted in the past NOT for an ideal candidate, but for the best choice out there that could win. Many are so scared of a Trump second term that they think Biden is the only way to prevent that from happening. That appears not to be true.
[From Kennedy24.com] MAY 1, 2024—Independent Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today announced the results of the largest Presidential election poll of the 2024 election at a press event in Brooklyn, New York.
The poll, conducted by John Zogby Strategies, surveyed more than 26,000 likely voters with a margin of error of +/- 0.6%. Kennedy and his Campaign Manager Amaryllis Kennedy presented key findings from the poll that included comparative results of head-to-head matchups between Presidents Biden and Trump, between Kennedy and President Biden, and between Kennedy and President Trump.
The results were provocative. In a head-to-head matchup, Trump defeats Biden handily. Kennedy beats President Trump in a two-way race, by a tight margin. In a two-way race between Kennedy and President Biden, Kennedy wins in a landslide.
“To be a spoiler, a candidate has to fulfill two requirements — first, they must not be able to win themselves, and, second, by participating in the election, they must prevent someone else from winning who otherwise would,” Kennedy said.
By that criterion, the only spoiler in the race is President Biden. He is the one who cannot win against either candidate and whose presence gives Trump the victory instead of Kennedy.
After presenting the detailed findings, Kennedy called on Biden to step aside so that he can provide American voters with their only viable alternative to four more years of Donald Trump.
RFK, Jr. then presented a “No Spoiler Pledge,” which states:
Both parties agree to co-fund a 50-state poll in mid-October 2024 of 30,000+ likely voters
The survey will test the results of a head-to-head race pitting President Biden against President Trump and a second head-to-head race pitting Mr. Kennedy against President Trump.
Both parties pledge that whoever performs weakest against President Trump in a two-man contest will drop out of the presidential race
R.F. Kennedy, Jr. is not an ideal candidate either. He is missing out on capturing the essence of the rebellion on campuses against military spending to Israel, which is not to defeat Gaza or Hamas, but in preparations for a greater war with Iran, Russia, etc. This plan for ongoing war has been on a steady increase since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However, both Biden and Trump are even worse than being silent on this issue, but would continue such war with Evangelical enthusiasm. Yet on many other issues, our world would be much safer, prosperous, and healthier with a Kennedy-Shanahan administration,
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Democracy Now interviewed journalist and author Ari Berman about his new book, Minority Rule, which details how the United States has since its founding, privileged the rights and interests of a small elite over the needs of the majority. He outlines how, for the first time in U.S. history, five of six conservative justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents who lost the popular vote, and confirmed by senators elected by a minority of Americans. Berman says the court’s makeup is the product of two skewed institutions: how we elect our presidents through the Electoral College and how we appoint U.S. senators — both of which are flawed because they violate one person, one vote, violating the principle of equal representation, and empowering white, rural, conservative and wealthy citizens at the expense of more diverse and progressive parts of the country. “Our institutions are so antiquated, so undemocratic, that we need fundamental reform to change them, to democratize them,” Berman says.
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Above is to an embedded mind blowing documentary by John Hankey that reveals strong evidence of a false flag operation by Israel on October 7, 2023. Hankey produced the film which inspired FN’s 2012 film compilation called Dark Legacy – JFK and 9-11. Watching and sharing this 2024 film documentary may be key for peace in our lifetime. Stop the genocide. RFK, Jr. needs to watch this film. This following embedded video from Double Down News is less conspiratorial in its focus, but the evidence of dark spinning of the truth is also undeniable.
10 April, 2024 – 16:01 – DDN
We’re all on the same side, though some might not know it yet
And to argue in a point of time can become almost about
endless confusion while Nature takes over – Inshallah –
as the Earth turns around awakening from the devolution
of pandemics, sight unseen as horrific images of Gaza
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Money is a necessity and a corrupting influence in American politics.. It is important to take a hard look at the game of financing in the political arena. I am not sure former Republican donors would support RFK, Jr.’s super Pac, if he had a VP candidate like Tulsi Gabbard or another independent candidate with some conservative values. Timothy Mellon, a billionaire descendant of the Mellon banking family, contributed $5 million to the PAC – after donating to a pro-Donald Trump committee in 2020. Could some of the large players have another agenda than a Kennedy-Shanahan administration?
I think Nicole Shanahan is special and will serve our Country well in using AI to learn more about health and well being. But meanwhile a humanitarian crisis is going on in the Middle East. Israel and others are ignoring the International Court exposing plausible Genocide and crimes against humanity in displacing millions and killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians since October 7th, 2023. People are now starving while U.S. and other weapons keep coming down in Gaza. The people of Israel are beginning to revolt. They prefer a lasting cease fire and a return of the hostages taken from Israel by Hamas. Are finances keeping RFK, Jr. from challenging the Netanyahu regime, which is engage in creating suffering on an unprecedented scale?
American Values 2024, formerly the People’s Pharma Movement, is a hybrid political action committee supporting independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign.
As a hybrid PAC, the group can function both as a super PAC, raising unlimited funds for independent expenditures, and as a traditional political action committee, giving money to candidates directly. It must have separate bank accounts for each purpose.
The group was co-founded in 2022 by Mark Gorton, CEO of Tower Research Capital and creator of file-sharing platform LimeWire, and Tony Lyons, head of independent book publishing company SkyHorse Publishing. Gorton and Lyons serve as co-chairs of the PAC.
Both Gorton and Lyons have been affiliated with Kennedy in the past. Gorton told CNBC in May that, in 2021, he donated $1 million to Children’s Health Defense, a Kennedy-run nonprofit that frequently spreads anti-vaccine misinformation. Meanwhile, Lyons has published several of Kennedy’s books, including “The Real Anthony Fauci” and “A Letter to Liberals.”
In a July blog post on the aims of the PAC, Gorton wrote, “In addition to traditional efforts to get the word out and build support for RFK Jr. among the electorate, American Values 2024 will be running campaigns that focus on the forces of structural corruption which resist the reforms that RFK Jr. offers.” The PAC’s website adds that American Values 2024 will “help restore the soul of democracy to America by taking back our political system from corporate interests.”
The group had raised nearly $9.8 million, as of June 30, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Timothy Mellon, a billionaire descendant of the Mellon banking family, contributed $5 million to the PAC – after donating to a pro-Donald Trump committee in 2020. Celebrity security consultant Gavin de Becker – who has donated to both Republican and Democratic candidates in the past – contributed $4.5 million to American Values 2024.
Other contributors include prominent Democratic donor Abby Rockefeller, Lyons’ Skyhorse Publishing and tech entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, who frequentlyspreads vaccine misinformation.
American Values 2024 stated in an August press release that it had raised an additional $6 million in July. Then, when Kennedy – who began his presidential campaign in the Democratic primary – announced in October that he would be running as an independent, the PAC reportedly received an additional $11 million in contributions.
The group says it plans to spend between $10 million and $15 million to make sure Kennedy is on the ballot in at least 10 states, including swing states, where ballot access for independent candidates can be difficult.
According to OpenSecrets, as of Nov. 13, American Values had spent about $823,000 on independent expenditures made in support of Kennedy — including several newspaper ads.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan last week. Photo: Emily Elconin/Getty Images
The commercial just before the Super Bowl halftime show urging millions of Americans to vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an independent was a clever re-creation of his uncle John F. Kennedy’s presidential ad from 1960. But the comparison between the two politicians frustrated some family members whose name was sung repeatedly in the 30-second spot. Kennedy’s cousin Bobby Shriver wrote that his mother, whose image appears in the ad, would be “appalled” by the “deadly health care views” held by RFK Jr., who has spent decades promoting debunked claims about vaccines.
Kennedy apologized, explaining that he was not aware of the ad’s contents as federal laws prohibit him from coordinating with the super-PAC that paid $7 million for the commercial. But Mark Gorton, the co-founder and co-chair of the PAC, American Values 2024, was not afraid to hit the Kennedy clan harder. “It’s really a shame that a bunch of them are caught so deeply in the Democratic censorship bubble that they don’t understand the real righteousness of the work that RFK Jr. has been doing,” Gorton says. “They are still following the big-pharma party line.”
For almost three years, Gorton, a hedge-fund multimillionaire, has been one of the great boosters of Kennedy, the exiled member of an American royal family who’s crusading against the pharmaceutical industry and government-funded health programs. Since 2021, Gorton has reportedly donated over $1 million to Children’s Health Fund, the nonprofit chaired by Kennedy that has been accused of promoting disproven anti-vaxx ideas. In 2022, after a private dinner, Kennedy told his inner circle he was considering a presidential run. Gorton vowed to help in any way he could: “I was one of the early people that found out, and I said, ‘If you’re running for president, I’m all in.’”
Kennedy, 70, has other wealthy backers from high society. Banking heir Timothy Mellon — the largest donor to Donald Trump’s super-PAC last year — has given $15 million to American Values 2024. Abby Rockefeller, the daughter of former Chase CEO David Rockefeller, has given $100,000. But few other donors have been as critical to the campaign as Gorton, who co-founded the PAC and pitched in $500,000 to support the campaign in its nascent days. (The other co-founder, Tony Lyons, is the publisher of the conservative book imprint Skyhorse Publishing, which has put out Kennedy’s most recent books.) Gorton says he was the de facto manager of the working group that got the campaign moving before its formal launch last year.
Insurgent presidential campaigns are rarely smooth operations, and this one is no exception. Kennedy first ran for the Democratic nomination against Joe Biden, but after getting little traction in polls, he announced he would run as an independent. (He has also flirted with running for the Libertarian nomination to ensure that he got ballot access, which is considerably more difficult without a party.) Gaffesensued. Epstein connections were revisited. Still, though, he has Super Bowl–level name recognition and is performing well enough in national polls to threaten Biden’s or Trump’s chances at retaking the White House. But Democrats seem more worried about Kennedy and are striking at him hard. Last week, the Democratic National Committee filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that American Values 2024 was illegally coordinating with the Kennedy campaign by spending $15 million to get him on the ballot in battleground states such as Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Michigan.
“They have hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal and they’re willing to play dirty and they consider RFK Jr. to be a very significant threat and they’re desperate,” Gorton says of the DNC.
He is also ready to defend Kennedy on more controversial matters, such as when the candidate was caught on tape at a private dinner last July saying that COVID was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and that the “people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
“I think there is some dream among the mad scientists inside the biowarfare Establishment to be able to develop targeted diseases that would only kill certain groups of people,” Gorton says, backing up the thrust of Kennedy’s claim. “And we know that that’s their dream. And we also know that the COVID disease was developed in a biowarfare lab in China. And so he was just making the observation that COVID seemed to target certain groups more than others.”
For Gorton, the response to Kennedy’s COVID comment was a telling look inside the news business. “Here’s all sorts of people who are functionally paid operatives of the DNC who are seeded throughout the media, and they’re just happy to take any sort of story like that, whether it’s true or not, and blow it out of proportion,” he says. “There’s a giant political hit machine out there, and the Democrats are not staying in power by putting forward a superior candidate and doing a good job representing the American people. They’re staying in power by running a giant propaganda hit machine and trying to subvert the mechanisms of democracy and keep RFK Jr. off the ballot.”
Gorton, who says he is involved in big-picture “strategic guidance” at the PAC, says it is committed to getting Kennedy on the ballot. That may involve spending more of his money. Gorton said in an interview last year that he did not plan on donating again to Kennedy, but he may have changed his mind on that front. “I think I might very well,” he says.
Gorton is relatively new to politics, having started his career on Wall Street. In 1998, he founded Tower Research Capital, one of the first firms to focus on high-frequency trading. Within a decade, his firm reportedly had over $117 million in assets.
Mark Gorton in LimeWire’s New York office in 2010. Photo: Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images
He has extracurricular interests, too. A devoted bicyclist frustrated by car congestion in New York City, Gorton founded an urbanist nonprofit in 1999 that advocated for pedestrian safety and more bike lanes. The group eventually launched the popular transportation site Streetsblog, for which he remains the publisher.
But Gorton would have been just another millionaire with a nonprofit if not for LimeWire, the peer-to-peer sharing service he founded in 2000. For tens of millions of young users of its free and premium services, it was a portal into a world of easily accessible music, movies, and pornography. It was also a preview of the streaming age to come. “I saw it very much as a First Amendment thing,” says Gorton. “We were creating a tool that let people share files, any sort of files, and that seems like a basic logical extension of the First Amendment.”
According to the major record labels that sued him, LimeWire was also a massive exercise in copyright infringement. After a federal judge found the company and Gorton personally liable for violating copyright law, his attorneys settled. LimeWire would shut down and pay out $105 million in damages. “Through that experience, I saw that our legal system is not developed off of rational reasoning, based off of the Bill of Rights, but instead has been more or less constructed to support the property interests of large corporations,” Gorton says.
He was learning other lessons at this time. Around 2007, after reading Robert Caro’s famous series of books on Lyndon B. Johnson, Gorton realized LBJ was behind the JFK assassination. “He describes the character of LBJ, and just how ruthless and power hungry he was, and how, even in college, he’s running fairly sophisticated political conspiracies,” says Gorton. “And through that, I was able to see or get hints that he was behind the Kennedy assassination. Then when I looked more deeply into it, sure enough, there was a mountain of supporting evidence for that.”
Gorton has discussed this conspiracy theory with Kennedy but treads lightly: “For me, it’s a historical event. For him, it’s his dad and his uncle.” He also says Kennedy “really understands the depth and corruption of the deep state. And this includes the fact that the CIA and Lyndon Johnson and the political Establishment killed his uncle and killed his dad.” (Kennedy has maintained that Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating his father during his presidential run in 1968, is innocent.)
Gorton says that he did not have a similar a-ha text for his realizations about the pharmaceutical industry’s influence over American politics, only that he has read widely in the field. “I have several shelves in my library filled with books about pharmaceutical-industry corruption,” he says. “Also, I read a lot of Substacks. I found that basically Substack is the place where I think some of the best independent voices are. And it’s a corner of the internet that is not completely dominated by corporate interests.”
Gorton’s own Substack page provides a clue to his current beliefs on vaccines and the government’s response to COVID. “You can no more expect to hear the truth from the CDC than you could from a panel put together by Andrew Cuomo to look into workplace harassment or the NYPD to look into placard abuse,” he wrote in an open letter to an unnamed New York politician in 2022. He praised Alex Berenson, the former Times reporter whom Tucker Carlson referred to as his favorite “COVID contrarian.” He linked to a Joe Rogan episode featuring a vaccine scientist accused of spreading COVID disinformation. Much like Kennedy himself, he referred to the U.S. response to the pandemic as a “medical genocide” and a “state-sponsored crime” protected by “a massive cover up and disinformation campaign.”
Like many of his supporters, Gorton sees Kennedy as a way out of this cycle of public-health failure and political corruption: the ostracized insider railing against the Establishment he grew up in. “The corruption is marbled into the very structure of the entire system,” Gorton says, referencing Kennedy’s books The Real Anthony Fauci and The Wuhan Cover-up. “You can see he has an encyclopedic knowledge of this corruption and how the system works.”
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You have the rest of March to watch Jeff Hays free Online biographical documentary called: The Real RFK, Jr – based on the book by Dick Russell with the same title, though subtitled: Trials of a Truth Warrior. The film is key for as many people to watch as possible. It is riveting and shows how connected he is to the baby boomer generation and all our relations. Whereas many in our generation sold out for comfort, avoiding what is true and relying on the mainstream media instead of critical thinking, RFK, Jr took a life journey path to task. He explains how he became an addict, and how he found healing..
Flyby News endorsed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for President in 2024. Not since 1963 has the U.S. had a President representing we, the people, in exposing the corruption of what was warned to us in a farewell address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex..”
The creator of the documentary, “The Real RFK Jr.” is making this fascinating, full-length, biographical film available for free through the end of March. Watch it at home and share it with friends and family. Be prepared to be inspired.
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The key element to reclaim a lost USA republic is to have a popular independent candidate on the ballot in every state and county. This will happen as it is the will of the people. Following the VP announcement this Tuesday, which begins at 11:00 AM PT (2:00 PM ET) the Kennedy24 campaign will take a big step. In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the campaign will soon be able to collect signatures and addresses from voters to get RFK, Jr. and VP choice on the MA ballot. I encourage everyone to consider signing up as a volunteer at Kennedy24.com to receive petitions to sign to give democracy a chance.
[You can also go to EVENTS and choose your state to see the status of such campaigns.]
The creator of the documentary, “The Real RFK Jr.” is making this fascinating, full-length, biographical film available for free through the end of March. Watch it at home and share it with friends and family. Be prepared to be inspired.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr discusses the pathway to peace in the Middle East with Palestinian Mohammad Dajani Daoudi and Israeli Yossi Klein Halevi in this episode.
On Friday, March 1, the RFK Jr Podcast released “Path to Peace Episode One,” featuring Kennedy in conversation with Palestinian Mohammad Dajani Daoudi and Israeli Yossi Klein Halevi. This conversation marks the first time since October 7 that any of the major presidential candidates have publicly sat down to talk with members of the Israeli and Palestinian communities of Jerusalem about a path to long-term peace.
Flyby News supported an independent 3rd Party run back in 2021. It will take an independent administration willing to put one’s life on the line for our nation and world.
“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or madness.”
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Video Running Time: – 01:37
When corporations dominate our government, human beings, communities, and the environment are turned into commodities. From the beginning of our nation’s history, our most visionary political leaders have been warning Americans about the military industrial complex and corporate control of our government. If you want to turn back this ascendancy of corporate power, please support my campaign today.
– RFK, Jr.
The Real RFK Jr. Review: (Movie) A Story Of An American Icon’s Truth
The Real RFK Jr. is a free documentary created by executive producer Jeff Hays.
The Real RFK Jr. premiered in February 2024 and reveals the real, unfiltered story about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Find out everything you need to know about the new documentary and what you’ll learn today in our review.
What is The Real RFK Jr.?
The Real RFK Jr. is a documentary exploring the life, political viewpoints, and future of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is the son of US Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of US President John F Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy. He’s running in the 2024 United States Presidential election as an independent candidate.
In The Real RFK Jr., filmmaker Jeff Hays explores Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s background, including his advocacy work, environmentalism, skepticism of vaccines, and more.
Here’s how The Real RFK Jr.’s executive producer, Jeff Hays, explains the documentary:
“Welcome to the untold story of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – a riveting journey inside the trials and triumphs of one of America’s most captivating figures.”
Jeff Hays based The Real RFK Jr. on a biography of the same name by Dick Russell. In that biography, Russell explored the “true character behind the rumors.” After reading the book, Jeff was so impressed he decided to make a movie about it.
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This post includes a video and analysis by Dr. Mercola on basic tips for optimal health. What I like about this information is in seeing him evolve through life in understanding how to stay healthy. I don’t always agree with him on diet, as my own choice and experience is in benefiting from plant-based and not an animal based diet. This following MedCram video by Dr. Seheult explains research on Neu5Gc, a sialic acid molecule found in meat and dairy, and how it may contribute to severe COVID-19 symptoms, inflammation, and certain chronic diseases and cancers. However, Dr. Mercola offers a wealth of information that is worth considering.
Sun exposure is necessary for endogenous vitamin D production, which radically upregulates your immune system and improves your ability to fight infections, including COVID
The near-infrared rays in sunlight also create structured water, which is important for cellular integrity and energy distribution, and trigger the production of melatonin — a powerful antioxidant — in your mitochondria
Linoleic acid (LA), an omega-6 fat found in vegetable oils and seed oils, massively increases oxidative stress and lowers your metabolic rate, which in turn prematurely ages and degrades your body
One of the foundational concepts of health that I’ve radically revised my thinking on is the idea that a low-carb diet is the best way to optimize your metabolic health. That was misguided, because when glucose is absent, your body releases cortisol to produce endogenous glucose. Cortisol sacrifices lean muscle mass, bone and your brain to make glucose, which triggers inflammation and impairs your immune function
Most people can likely benefit from aspirin, as it’s anti-lipolytic, lowers cortisol, regulates an inflammatory pathway called NF kappa B (NF-kB), helps increase testosterone and progesterone, increases metabolism and helps normalize blood pressure by lowering aldosterone
May 8, 2023, I was interviewed by Polly Tommey on the Children’s Health Defense Tea Time program. In it, I reviewed several of my top diet and lifestyle strategies that will help optimize your health, with a focus on my latest revisions and updates.
As most of you know, health is my passion. I’ve been involved in health education for over five decades. Health is also a journey, because as you learn new information, your views on even the most fundamental aspects evolve. I’ve recently evolved my thoughts on the dangers and importance of healthy carbohydrates in your diet, which I will share here.
As I mention in this program, we’re currently in a lull with respect to global tyranny, as lockdowns and other mandates have been lifted in the U.S., so this is a great opportunity to regroup and commit to strategies that can radically improve your health so that you’re better prepared for whatever comes next.
Sun Exposure Strengthens Your Immune System
One foundational basic that has not changed is the importance of regular sun exposure. For the last century, we’ve known that sun exposure is necessary for endogenous vitamin D production, which in turn radically upregulates your immune system and improves your ability to fight infections, including COVID.
In October 2020, I published a scientific review1 detailing how vitamin D reduced the risk of COVID-19 infection and its severity. Since then, that evidence has only grown stronger. I also published a vitamin D guide, available for download on StopCOVIDcold.com.
Optimizing your vitamin D to a level between 50 nanograms per milliliter and 80 ng/mL is probably one of the simplest, least expensive and most foundational strategies to sustain your health. In Europe and Canada, the blood level you’re looking for is 150 to 200 nanomoles per liter.
If for whatever reason you can’t get enough sun exposure to reach that ideal level, consider taking an oral vitamin D3 supplement. As a rule, adults who don’t get sun exposure will need about 8,000 IUs a day. If you’re obese, you’ll want to increase that a little bit, because vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, so it’s easily stored in your fat.
Other Health Benefits of Sun Exposure
That said, sun exposure also has several other health benefits that are unrelated to vitamin D production — and which cannot be obtained by swallowing a vitamin D supplement.
For example, the near-infrared rays in sunlight create structured water,2 also known as EZ water, which acts a bit like a battery, in that it gets charged with energy. This structured gel-like water is important for cellular integrity. It also enhances the ability of red blood cells to flow through your capillaries. It also plays an important role in the energy distribution within your body.
Another major health benefit of sun exposure is the production of melatonin in your mitochondria. This too is produced by the near-infrared in sunlight. Melatonin is a profoundly effective antioxidant, but it also causes your body to produce other endogenous antioxidants, such as glutathione.
It’s important to have high quantities of subcellular mitochondrial melatonin to help regulate your body’s oxidative stress. You can learn more about this from my interview with Dr. Russel Reiter.
Sunlight also allows vitamin A to be converted into retinoids, which is the active form, and vitamin A is almost as important as vitamin D. Another hormone that’s important is testosterone. If you get sufficient sun exposure it will increase your testosterone levels. Men obviously have and need more testosterone, but it’s also an important sex hormone for women.
The importance of avoiding LA — an omega-6 fat — is one of the foundational health components that I’ve come to realize in more recent years. LA, which is found in vegetable oils and seed oils, massively increases oxidative stress and lowers your metabolic rate, which in turn prematurely ages and degrades your body.
I’m convinced excessive LA intake is one of the most important drivers of chronic disease today — far more so than sugar. The main reason why excess LA causes disease is because it prevents your mitochondria from working well. Mitochondria are subcellular organelles responsible for producing most of your cellular energy in the form of ATP, and without ATP, your cells cannot function and repair themselves normally. Processed seed oils can also:
Damage the cells lining your blood vessels
Cause memory impairment and increase your risk of Alzheimer’s disease (canola oil has been linked to Alzheimer’s)
Strip your liver of glutathione, thereby lowering your antioxidant defenses
Inhibit delta-6 desaturase (delta-6), an enzyme involved in the conversion of short-chained omega-3s to longer chained omega-3s in your liver
Impair your immune function and increase mortality
Make your fat cells more insulin sensitive, thereby causing insulin resistance
Inhibit cardiolipin, an important fat in the inner membrane of your mitochondria
Last month I submitted a narrative review article on linoleic acid (LA) to the journal Nutrients. It’s currently under peer review. I’ve also published an extensive article on LA, with a comprehensive video, on my Substack, which is quite comprehensive. The video took many months to create to help you understand this complex topic. The article is free to read for everyone.
Beware: Most Fish Oil Supplements Are Garbage
There are two basic types of fatty acids, based on how many of their carbon bonds are paired with hydrogen: saturated fats and unsaturated fats. Unsaturated fats are further subdivided into monounsaturated fats and PUFAs, depending on how many pairs of hydrogen atoms they are missing.
Because your tissues are made up mostly of saturated and monounsaturated fats, your body requires more of them than PUFAs. The main dietary PUFAs are omega-3 and omega-6 fats, and while your body does need these, it needs them in relatively small quantities.
Again, LA is an omega-6 fat that should be avoided as much as possible. It’s found naturally in most foods, so it’s nearly impossible to become deficient if you eat real food. Processed food, of course, is loaded with it, so you’re guaranteed to get excessive amounts in those. Most Americans get 50 grams a day or more of LA, and the daily requirement is only 2 grams.
Omega-3, on the other hand, is not readily available in a wide variety of food. It’s only found in fatty cold-water fish. Most probably know that omega-3 is important for heart health and more, and fish oil is one of the most popular supplements on the market.
The problem is most of these supplements are worse than garbage. In addition to the problem of most being rancid, they’re also not in the form of triglycerides, which is what you find in the fish itself. They’re distilled synthetics in an ethyl ester form that never appears in nature. So, I don’t recommend taking most fish oil supplements. Instead, get your omega-3 from small fatty fish, like wild-caught Alaskan salmon, sardines and mackerel.
Another alternative is cod liver oil. The fatty acids in cod liver oil are in the natural triglyceride form, so as far as omega-3 supplements go, I think it’s one of the best. Another good one is krill oil. Both are excellent
You do need to be careful, though, because like fish oil supplements, many of cod liver oil supplements are rancid by the time you open the bottle. The taste of the cod liver oil should be completely neutral. You shouldn’t have to hold your nose and swallow it. If it tastes or smells bad, it’s rancid and should not be used.
Why I Changed My Mind About Low-Carb Diets
One of the foundational concepts of health that I’ve had to radically revise my thinking on, based on the work of the late Ray Peat and his student Georgi Dinkov, is the idea that eating a low-carb diet long-term is the best way to optimize your metabolic and mitochondrial health.
I now realize that this was misguided, and the reason for that has to do with the fact that your body requires glucose and if you aren’t eating it you will go into a hypoglycemic coma and die. Obviously, your body has safeguards to prevent that and the major one is the hormone cortisol.
In medical school, we learned that cortisol is a glucocorticoid. Gluco means glucose (sugar) and cortico means it comes from the adrenal cortex. It’s also another word for steroid. We were told that cortisol is responsible for maintaining glucose homeostasis, but led to believe its primary purpose was for inflammation.
Well, that’s just not true. While cortisol certainly contributes to glucose balance, its primary purpose is to raise your blood sugar when it is too low and you don’t have enough glycogen reserves in your liver.
How Does Cortisol Work?
But just how does cortisol increase your blood sugar? It does it by breaking down your muscles, bones and brain. It sacrifices your lean muscle mass to release amino acids that your liver converts to glucose in a process called gluconeogenesis.
So, ultimately, cortisol also is going to cause inflammation and impair your immune function. And it increases food cravings. So, you do not want your cortisol to be elevated. For a long time, I was a proponent of a low-carb diet, but now I realize that chronic low-carb is not a good idea.
As a fuel, glucose is vastly superior to fat, and this was something I simply got wrong. The same thing goes for fasting. Both low-carb and fasting are great interventions in the short-term for those who are overweight and metabolically inflexible.
However, once you’ve regained your metabolic flexibility, it is important to revise your strategy and add healthy carbs back in, or else these strategies will backfire and lead to decreased metabolic health, compromised mitochondrial function and impaired metabolism.
Cortisol happens to be the primary aging hormone. If it is chronically elevated, you simply will die prematurely as it is highly catabolic, meaning it will break down your body tissues. To stay healthy as you age you need to be anabolic and build healthy tissues like muscle and mitochondria. Elevated cortisol will seriously impair those efforts.
Important Cautions Before You Increase Carbs
So, it is clear that you need to be doing everything you can to keep your cortisol levels and chronic inflammation low. But it would also be a major mistake to increase your carb intake if you are still on a high-fat diet. I did this experiment in the mid-‘80s after I read the book by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond called “Fit for Life.”
They suggested having fruit only for breakfast, which I tried. Then I did my lab work and found my fasting triglycerides and lipoprotein profiles had exploded for the worse. I prematurely concluded that a high-fruit diet was nonsense and remained relatively low-carb for nearly four decades.
This was until I encountered Ray Peat’s work and reevaluated my initial impression. I now understand that I was missing important parts of the strategy. And now I eat 3 to 4 pounds of watermelon virtually every morning at 5:30 as my first meal, followed by three eggs and 8 ounces of white rice and 2 ounces of maple syrup one to two hours later.
That sounds like a lot of carbs, and it is. I have additional fruits later in the day and now my carb intake is about 475 grams a day. You might wonder what has happened to my weight and blood sugar with all these extra carbs.
Well, I thought my weight was good at 192 as I increased my muscle mass, but it has decreased by 10 pounds to 182 with no change in muscle mass. My fasting blood sugar has dropped 10 points. So far it seems to be working for me.
The Vital Metabolic Switch You Need to Understand
This is one of the most important principles in food science that I never learned or understood until recently. My strong guess is that this is also true for most natural medicine clinicians. That is why I created the figure below to help you visualize so you can better understand this vital concept.
Low-carb diets have helped at least tens of millions of people improve their health for a very good reason and that is there is a stealth switch that controls what fuel your mitochondria can burn as they can only burn one fuel at a time: either fat or glucose.
The switch has been given the name the Randle Cycle, but it is more helpful to visualize it as a railroad switch that changes the tracks of the train, and the train can only travel down one track, not both. This is because only one type of fuel can be burned at a time.
The best-case scenario is you metabolize, or burn, glucose in your mitochondria without any reductive stress (a term I will explain in my upcoming interview with Georgi Dinkov). When you do this, you will generate only 0.1% reactive oxygen species (ROS).
Not only does this route generate less ROS but it is also incredibly efficient at energy production by creating 36 to 38 adenosine triphosphate (ATP) for every molecule of glucose that is metabolized. It will also generate metabolic water and carbon dioxide, which are also important for your health.
For this to occur, as indicated in the figure above, you will need to consume less than 30% of your calories as fat. When you consume significantly more than that amount the switch changes to burn fat in your mitochondria and you will not be able to burn glucose until your fat decreases to less than 30% of calories.
Since glucose is unable to be shuttled into the mitochondria to burn, it winds up backing up into your blood stream, raising your blood sugar. This is a major contributor to diabetes. What little glucose is burned for fuel is done by using glycolysis which is a primitive pathway that bacteria and cancer cells use.
It is great we have this pathway as you absolutely need it for quick fuel when you are activating your Type II muscle fibers. But if this is the primary way you burn glucose you are in a catastrophic metabolic state as you are creating loads of lactic acid as a waste product instead of healthy CO2, and you are only generating two ATP for every molecule of glucose, which is 95% less energy.
Lactic acid increases reductive stress, which causes reverse electron flow in the mitochondria and causes reductive stress, which increases the ROS to 3 to 4%, which is 30 to 40 times more than when glucose is burned efficiently in the mitochondria. You likely don’t yet understand reductive stress, the opposite of oxidative stress, but will have done an interview with Georgi on this and will be posting it later this month.
Why Lactic Acid and CO2 Are so Important
Remember when you are burning glucose efficiently in your mitochondria, the glucose is converted not only to 36 to 28 ATP, but when the electrons from the glucose are ultimately handed off to oxygen, metabolic water (deuterium-free) is made and, very importantly, carbon dioxide.
This is vital to understand as carbon dioxide is a potent stimulator of mitochondrial biogenesis, which will increase the number of mitochondria that you have so you can make even more energy.
Conversely, when you are burning glucose far less efficiently in glycolysis, you are only generating two ATP and, rather than creating life-sustaining carbon dioxide, you are generating life-damaging lactic acid, which will degrade your mitochondria and make them die sooner.
Updated Time-Restricted Eating Recommendations
I now believe that for most people, fasting is not a good idea, and the reason for that has to do with the fact that most people have large stores of LA in their body fat. When you have excess harmful fat in your body, the last thing you want to do is start burning it, because once you do, it’s going to liberate proinflammatory molecules and increase cortisol, which also causes inflammation.
For a long time, I’ve taught that one of the strategies that will get many people healthy is time-restricted eating (TRE), where you compress your eating window and eat all your meals within a set number of hours, typically six to eight hours each day.
This is still a useful strategy because most people, especially those who are overweight, eat for more than 12 hours a day. That can be a recipe for metabolic disaster, but you also don’t want to restrict your eating to just one or two hours a day, because then you’re fasting too much.
As a rule, you want your eating window to be anywhere from eight to 12 hours and regularly vary the length of the fast. Maybe go a little shorter in the winter and a little longer in the summer when the days are longer, as your metabolism is also keyed or synchronized to the light-dark cycle.
The key rule is to stop eating three or four hours before you go to bed. You need seven to eight hours of sleep every night, and you need 10 to 11 hours of not eating. That’s what you get automatically when you stop eating three to four hours before bed. So that’s my revised TRE recommendation, based on how it impacts cortisol.
Updated Carb Recommendations
For the reasons I just reviewed above, I’ve revised my own macronutrient intake. In the past, I would restrict my carb intake to 100 grams, and sometimes to less than 50 grams. Now, I’m eating 450 grams of carbs a day, so the majority of my calories come from carbohydrates — but not just any carbohydrates.
Simple carbs — sugars — have long been considered to prematurely age you, while complex carbs were believed to be preferred since they feed your microbiome. However, that notion seems to be turned on its head with the new understanding of how endotoxin is a major problem sabotaging your metabolic health. The best carbs to eat are ripe fruits.
The complex carbs that aren’t digested in your stomach travel down to the intestine where they indeed do feed your bacteria, but after the bacteria grow and multiply and die, the gram-negative bacteria release endotoxin, or LPS (lipopolysaccharide), which increases allergic reactions, organ dysfunction and even sepsis.
Endotoxin also catalyzes a series of metabolic reactions that converts tryptophan in your gut to serotonin. This is another shocker because most people think serotonin is good, but mostly, especially higher levels are not good for your health. You do not want high levels of serotonin, because it’s an antimetabolite.
This means it suppresses your body’s ability to create energy in your mitochondria, in the electron transport chain, so you become tired and fatigued, your metabolic rate slows and you gain weight.
The bioenergetic model is based on the concept that your body craves energy, and if you can get the fuel into the subcellular spaces like the mitochondria, burn it properly and create ATP, then you’re off to the races. Your body will self-repair automatically.
Four Ways to Improve Your Metabolic Health
With that background, you can now understand why longer fasts can backfire. If you’re not eating, you’re not feeding the bacteria in your gut. Hence there’s no endotoxin being produced. As a result, your inflammation goes down, your cortisol level comes way down and you start feeling better.
But after a day or two, you’ve exhausted your body stores of glycogen (sugar) in your liver. And because you don’t have any, your cortisol will rise, activating lipolysis that releases the fatty acids from your fat cells. PUFAs like LA are not burned for energy but stored in your cells, and if your fat cells are loaded with LA, then lipolysis can really wreak havoc. The LA needs to be released slowly and carefully, over time. To do that, I recommend the following four strategies:
Increase your NAD+ level by taking 50 milligrams of niacinamide, three times a day.
Optimize your circadian rhythm by going to bed around sunset or shortly thereafter (in the summer) and getting up around sunrise.
Engage in moderate exercise. Avoid strenuous and high-intensity workouts, as that will release LA from your cells and raise your cortisol.
Take a high-quality vitamin E supplement at a dose of 100 milligrams to 150 mg. The specific isomer you need is D-alpha tocopherol, which is the active form. Avoid the “DL” form. You also want the other tocopherols (beta, gamma and delta) and a small amount of tocotrienols. Vitamin E helps counteract the adverse effects of the LA, so that when it’s liberated through lipolysis, it won’t cause so much oxidative stress.
The Surprising Benefits of Aspirin
I’ve recently evolved my views on aspirin and recently wrote an article on why. I now suspect aspirin can be a supplement that most people can benefit from. For example, aspirin is a powerful anti-lipolytic, which means it decreases the breakdown of PUFAs released from your fat cells. Aspirin also:
Lowers your cortisol levels
Is a master regulator of an inflammatory pathway called NF kappa B (NF-kB)
Helps increase testosterone and progesterone, which are two of the most important sex hormones in your body
Increases your metabolism by uncoupling the mitochondria, which helps weight loss. Uncoupling mitochondria means that instead of making ATP, your body is going to make heat. So you don’t get energy overload and oxidative stress; rather the energy is released in the creation of heat
May decrease the risk of COVID death by 50%
Lowers aldosterone, which helps normalize blood pressure
I now take aspirin daily. Baby aspirin is one option, but I believe a daily dose of 325 mg, once a day, is better for most unless you are using it to prevent a clot, then a baby aspirin once or twice a day is likely better. Avoid enteric coated (timed-release) aspirin as they contain questionable additives. Instead, look for ones that contain only aspirin and corn starch (in this case, the amount of corn starch is not a concern, as we’re talking minute amounts).
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From: Vera Sharav – Sent: February 16, 2024 – Subject: AHRP February Newsletter
Undeterred supporters of Freedom and Human Rights:
Monday, February 19th is designated Presidents Day in the United States, when instead, we should be reaffirming the Bill of Rights each year.
Since 2020, we have been subjected to relentless propaganda about a fabricated virus to blind us to the real assault on our freedom. We are under siege by a global oligarchy whose objective is to overthrow existing pollical, economic and social institutions — and to obliterate our personal freedom, and our right to refuse consent to medical interventions.
Speaking truth, asserting our human rights, and refusing to follow demeaning, harmful government edicts have been declared “crimes” punishable by banishment from the public square and being designated as a threat to society. These overreaching government dictates are in gross violation of the US Constitution. They are troubling echoes of the demolition of citizens’ rights in the early stages of the Third Reich.
Today’s propaganda tools and the genetically manipulated weapon of mass destruction are far more sophisticated than those available to the Nazis.
Independent scientists who have studied gene editing technologies for decades, concluded that these technologies failed to provide any benefit to humanity. Systematic reviews of the accumulated evidence in the scientific literature, following three years of a mass global Covid-19 “vaccination campaign” have concluded that the mRNA lipid nanoparticle technology – the one used in the Pfizer and Moderna Covid -19 injections masquerading as “vaccines”– has caused a massive increase in disease, disabilities, infertility and death in men, women, and children. See: Spike Proteins and Lipid Nanoparticles are Highly Toxic per Systemic Review of Scientific Literature
A prestigious group of Japanese doctors and scientists held a press conference on January 11, 2024. Citing “Thousands of papers [that] have reported side effects after vaccination which affect every organ without exception” they called for immediate cessation of the vaccination campaign.
Professor Emeritus Masayasu Inoue, Osaka City University announced:
“We are working with Dr. Fukushima to create this database. So far, about 201 types of disease and 3,071 papers on side effects have been reported. It is unprecedented in human history for a single vaccine to have this much (harmful) literature out on it.”
Irrefutable evidence of devastation caused by this genetically manipulated mRNA lipid nanoparticle technology, and the recommendation by government officials in concert with the medical establishment – for its continued use – ignoring the devastating consequences – suggests that these injectables were designed to serve as bioweapons. They are intended to confound our protective human biology and to penetrate every organ of our body. Read more: mRNA Nanoparticles are Weapons of Mass Destruction and Disruption
“Re-analysis of the Pfizer trial data identified statistically significant increases in serious adverse events (SAEs) in the vaccine group. Numerous SAEs were identified following the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), including death, cancer, cardiac events, and various autoimmune, hematological, reproductive, and neurological disorders. Furthermore, these products never underwent adequate safety and toxicological testing in accordance with previously established scientific standards….”
A United Nations summit meeting is scheduled for Monday Feb. 19th in Geneva to advance the Pandemic Treaty by the World Health Organization.
The purpose of the WHO Pandemic Treaty is to establish its total control over public health globally; to obliterate national sovereignty and even a semblance of accountability. The globalist drive to demolish representative democracy and establish One World Dictatorship accountable to no one! Let’s stop them in their tracks.
As most people on this mailing list know, I’ve directed and produced a ground-breaking documentary to raise awareness about the parallels between the fascist Nazi era and the suspension of personal freedom since 2020 under the guise of preventing the spread of a deadly pandemic that wasn’t.
My 5-episode documentary, Never Again is Now Global is offered to the public, around the world, for free. More than 600,000 have viewed parts of the comprehensive 51/2 –hour documentary. I continue to work on an additional episode – and am writing and editing a forthcoming book.
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