Barbara Hunt

Retired RN, LCHF/IF. Discouraged by medical dogma re: nutrition science, LDL cholesterol, big pharma, and covid. Eat real food.

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

In 10 years of running care homes, I have yet to meet a resident with dementia who wasn't addicted to sugar.

A few years ago, we used to leave sugar packets on the tables.

Some residents would pour five of them into a single coffee.

If there were no dessert, they'd tear open the packets and eat the sugar on its own.

That's why we removed the sugar from the tables and asked families to take leftover treats home.

I've seen a lot of people fear dementia, but they rarely think twice about the diet that could contribute to it.

After years of watching the two together, I'm convinced they're related.

This weekend, I encourage you to look in your family's kitchen, and remove the sugary treats from there.

• Cakes
• Biscuits
• Sugar packets

Something so simple to do, yet overlooked.

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

Breaking your hip from a fall is one of the most common fears as we get older.

For some, that one fall is the start of a walker they can't go anywhere without, a loss of independence, and a mountain of care bills.

How to build hip bones strong enough to survive a fall:🧵

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

460 pounds, completely incapacitated and unable to stand, yet she still found a way out.

After a year at my assisted living home, Mary is down nearly 200 pounds and standing again.

Here are the 5 things we did to help her:

1/ We cut the artificial sugar

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

COCONUT OIL may be one of the most powerful foods for reversing cognitive decline.

One doctor documented how just 5 spoonfuls a day helped her husband regain function he had lost months earlier.

Here's why it works (and how to start using it at home):🧵

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Otto Warburg, Nobel laureate, showed a century ago that cancer cells run on sugar. We trust it so completely that hospitals inject radioactive glucose to make the tumour glow, then read the scan to find it.

Oncology ward lunch: jelly, ice cream, fruit juice, a biscuit.

We use sugar to hunt it, then serve it pudding.

The Nobel Committee has not commented.

[The Carnivore RN @wilsonhlthcoach]

It seems like there are so many people who don't know how total cholesterol is calculated or about lipid panel ratios.

Their doctors never mention ratios, and they're usually not listed on lipid panel results.

For anyone interested in calculations, you can do them yourself:

TOTAL CHOLESTEROL:
LDL + HDL + 0.2TG = Total Chol

Example: LDL 140, HDL 90, Triglycerides 50

140 + 90 = 230
0.2 x 50 = 10
230 + 10 = 240 Total Cholesterol

LIPID PANEL RATIOS:

Total Chol / HDL
- Optimal is < 3.0
- Average is 3.0-5.0
- High is > 5.0

TG / HDL
- Optimal is < 2.0
- Average is 2.0-3.0
- High is > 3.0

Example using numbers above:

Total Chol / HDL
240 / 90 = 2.7

TG / HDL
50 / 90 = 0.6

I taught my mom about ratios.

Her primary doctor mentioned statins a couple of times because her total cholesterol was around 240.

She finally said, "Well, look at my ratios."

He never mentioned statins again.

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

Dr. Ovadia says nattokinase is something he routinely recommends as part of his protocol for patients.

It a fibrinolytic agent, meaning it helps the body break down blood clots as they start to form.

He points to a trial showing reduced arterial plaque in patients taking it, though that study measured carotid (neck) plaque rather than coronary plaque, which he flags as a caveat.

As mentioned below, the trial tested 3,600 units daily (not statistically significant) versus 10,800 units daily (significant plaque reduction), so he typically suggests around 10,000 units a day.

He cautions that many supplements are dosed too low or poorly sourced, and that anyone on blood-thinning medication should talk to their doctor first.

(h/t @KenDBerryMD & @DoctorTro)

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

I just told Kelly Hogan something that shocked her.

After 10 years running assisted living homes, I've learned the industry is completely backwards.

Here are the 8 things I shared with her:

1) Expensive care homes don't focus on your loved one’s recovery

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

In August 2025, Roberta flew her husband to my Phoenix care home as her last hope.

She watched him decline from dementia for 10 years.

30 days later, his dementia improved enough he could move back in with her in NC.

This is ET's miracle story:🧵

[Vinnie Tortorich @VinnieTortorich]

A USC biogerontologist named Valter Longo spent thirty years asking one question.

Why do animals that eat less live longer.

He started in yeast. Then mice. Then human cells in a dish. Every time he starved them, the same thing happened. The cells did not just survive the fast. They reset. Damaged proteins got cleared out. New stem cells emerged. The system came back stronger than it went in.

The mechanism already had a name. Autophagy. The body eating its own broken parts. Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel Prize for working out the biology.

Longo took the mechanism and tested it in humans.

In June 2014, his team published in Cell Stem Cell. Cycles of prolonged fasting in human volunteers triggered a clearing of damaged old immune cells and a switch to stem-cell regenerative mode. In the pilot clinical trial, cancer patients who fasted for 72 hours before chemotherapy tolerated the treatment better and showed protection against chemo-related immune damage.

In 2015 his team published in Cell Metabolism. Cycles of his fasting-mimicking diet, five days a month, produced multi-system regeneration in mice and pilot evidence of biomarker improvement in humans. IGF-1 dropped. Inflammation dropped. Markers of aging dropped.

In 2017 Science Translational Medicine published the bigger human trial. Same protocol. Reductions in blood pressure, fasting glucose, IGF-1, C-reactive protein, and triglycerides. Especially in the people who needed it most.

Longo's research has since extended into multiple sclerosis. Diabetes biomarkers. Cancer biology. The fasting-mimicking diet is now a commercial product called ProLon. The licensing fees go to his nonprofit.

You do not need ProLon to get the lesson.

Modern life never lets you stop eating. Three meals plus snacks. Coffee with milk. A bite before bed. The body never gets to rest.

Your body is designed to spend time not eating.

Longo proved it in a lab. Your grandmother knew it without one.

#NSNG #ValterLongo #Fasting #FMD #Autophagy #Longevity #USC #DietHallOfShame

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Two identical twins with autism had zero Bifidobacteria in their gut.

Dr. Sabine Hazan’s team removed the harmful microbes, restored the Bifidobacteria — and both twins showed clear improvement in speech.

These beneficial bacteria are essential for breaking down food, producing vitamins, regulating the immune system, and protecting the gut lining. Low or zero levels are consistently found in severe COVID, long COVID, autism, invasive cancer, Lyme, Crohn’s, and diabetes.

Bifidobacteria help modulate inflammation, support neurotransmitter production, and strengthen the gut-brain axis. Their absence is strongly linked to increased disease severity across multiple conditions.

Dr. Hazan’s research is groundbreaking, but she says getting it published and advancing it has been extremely difficult. Continuing this work could lead to new, more natural approaches for treating serious illnesses.

Save the Bif.

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

"Sitting is the new smoking."

If you sit for more than 2 hours without moving, you set off the kind of metabolic changes researchers link to long-term smoking damage.

How sitting is one of the most harmful positions for the human body:🧵

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

Dave Mac just released an interview any family dealing with Alzheimer's needs to hear.

At 58, Jodie was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and thought there was no cure to it.

3 years later, people around her can’t tell she ever had it.

This is her story:🧵

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

A pioneer in Alzheimer's prevention just dropped a 60-minute masterclass about it on the Levels podcast.

Dr. Perlmutter shared 8 shocking insights about your brain you probably never heard of:

1) Type 2 diabetics have a up to 4x increase risk for Alzheimer's

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

If you'd like to watch the complete interview between Mikhaila (@MikhailaFuller) and I, bookmark this:

[The Carnivore RN @wilsonhlthcoach]

Nailed it!

[Heart Surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia @ifixhearts]

Nick Norwitz Reveals Why High Cholesterol Doesn't Cause Heart Disease

In this episode of Stay Off My Operating Table, @nicknorwitz breaks down why the medical world has been treating cholesterol as the disease itself and why that's dead wrong. One extraordinary case of a patient with sky-high LDL and zero arterial plaque is challenging the entire conventional model of heart disease. If you think managing your cholesterol numbers means you're managing your heart health, this conversation will change the way you think. 

Watch the full episode here 👉 https://t.co/pcxDkyzj5F 

#CholesterolMyths #HeartHealth #LDLCholesterol #CardiovascularHealth #FunctionalMedicine

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

Dr. Dale Bredesen just revealed that the most-prescribed Alzheimer's drug makes patients WORSE than taking nothing at all.

Aricept is the drug your neurologist hands out at the first sign of memory loss.

It's been on the market for 30 years, and almost every patient with early dementia is on it.

Dr. Lon Schneider from USC published a paper on it.

He discovered Aricept patients decline FASTER than untreated patients over time. The early "boost" wears off, and the brain damage accelerates underneath while you keep filling the prescription.

Most neurologists still prescribe it because there isn't a better pill, so families keep buying it every month, hoping it's slowing things down.

The data shows it's actually pulling forward the decline.

A new randomized trial just dropped showing what actually works for early Alzheimer's (covered in the thread below).

I’ve implemented parts of the protocols mentioned in this study in my own homes and have personally seen how it can help reverse dementia and early onset Alzheimer's.

PS: I’ve opened 7 more slots this month to my online community where we share these exact protocols.

If you’d like to see if this could help you, book a call directly with me.

Link in bio.

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

90% of assisted living homes are a major risk factor for Alzheimer's.

• No sun exposure
• Fed whatever is cheapest
• No sauna for regular sweating
• Kept in beds, chairs or recliners all day
• Medications gradually stack on top of each other
• No plan to improve

Essentially warehousing elderly until they pass away.

We're changing that.

Real food. Daily movement. Sunlight. Sauna. Community & sense of belonging. HBOT.

These are the interventions that have helped two residents reverse their dementia at our homes.

We now teach families how to do the same at their homes.

If your parent or spouse has cognitive decline and you want to act on it, book a call directly with me:

https://t.co/9mjfCprWEB

[Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec]

He’s dead on.