Hunter Health

High protein; Keto for 12 years; IF; ⬇️ 80lbs; weights; LMHR; INFJ; PHC uk Ambassador; Youtube Channel: KetoGaia Kitchen

[Hunter Health @KetoGaia]

@CraigBrockie Probiotics. Thank you 🙏

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

What doctors think statins do:

- Lower dangerous cholesterol
- Prevent heart attacks
- Save lives
- Safe long-term
- Worth the minor side effects

What statins actually do:

- Block the mevalonate pathway upstream of cholesterol
- Block CoQ10 (heart energy), vitamin K2 (bone and arterial health), and dolichols (cell signalling) along the way
- Extend average life expectancy by a matter of days over five years
- Cause muscle pain, fatigue, cognitive decline, and elevated blood sugar in a meaningful fraction of users
- Treat one number on a panel while ignoring the inflammation and insulin resistance that actually drive cardiovascular disease
- Create a prescription you will renew until you die

The patient is told he's been given a cholesterol drug.

The patient has, in fact, been given a metabolic wrecking ball that happens to lower one figure on the bloodwork.

The figure goes down. The cardiovascular events do not. The repeat prescription, however, holds firm for life.

[Kristie Leong M.D. @DrKristieLeong]

🪠 How to Clean Your Brain (Literally) — New Research

I’m always excited by simple ways to protect brain health.

New Penn State research in Nature Neuroscience reveals a built-in “hydraulic pump”:

Your brain gently sways with movement, acting like a rinse cycle that flushes cerebrospinal fluid through brain tissue to clear metabolic waste (the stuff linked to cognitive decline).

Here’s how the brain pump works:

• Abdominal/core contractions increase pressure in spinal vessels.
• This creates rhythmic swaying of brain tissue.
• The motion squeezes fluid through the brain — like wringing out a dirty sponge.

Best part? No gym required. Everyday movements trigger it.

Brain Flush Protocol — 3 Easy Ways:

Rhythmic Walk — 10+ minutes brisk walking. Steps + natural core engagement optimize the sway.

Micro-Bracing — When you stand from sitting, lightly engage your abs. Small but powerful pressure shift.

Standing Desk Shifts — Shift weight side-to-side or do occasional calf raises. Keeps the pump active all day.

Pro Tip: Pair with diaphragmatic breathing — it amplifies thoracic pressure changes for even better flow.

Small daily movements aren’t just exercise — they’re brain maintenance.

Protect your cognition one step (and brace) at a time.

Have you noticed clearer thinking after walks? What’s your favorite low-effort movement habit? 👇

#BrainHealth
#Neuroscience
#Longevity

Source: Guenette, J. P., et al. (2024). Body-to-brain hydraulic signaling flushes the neural interstitium. Nature Neuroscience.

[Dr. Ammous @AmmousMD]

Leptin is the satiety hormone.

Its levels are dictated your diet and light environment.

High carb diet, heavy blue light all day, little sunlight ⟶ Leptin resistance.

-The result:
Always hungry.
Low energy.
More fat storage.

[Dr. Ammous @AmmousMD]

Biggest lies I was taught in medical school:

🥩 Meat causes colon cancer
🧈 Animal fat causes heart disease
☀️ Sun causes skin cancer
🧴 Wear sunscreen
🧠 Depression = chemical imbalance
🩸 High cholesterol is dangerous
💊 Statins are safe
🕶️ Sunglasses protect your eyes
🧬 It’s all genetic
🧂 Salt is bad for you
📉 Count calories to lose weight

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Aseem Malhotra says even President Trump is likely misinformed about statins.

For a healthy man over 75 with no significant heart disease, the benefit is just 1 in 446 to prevent one heart attack.

Globally, 200 million to 1 billion people take these drugs. For low-risk people, the absolute benefit over 5 years is only about 1%.

In primary prevention, statins have an NNT of around 100+ to prevent one major cardiovascular event, while side effects affect 10–20% of users.

Do you think we over-rely on statins for heart disease prevention?

[Hunter Health @KetoGaia]

@Marion436842126 @RosieFalco 💯 👍

[Louisa Nicola @louisanicola_]

Most people think exercise benefits the brain because it increases blood flow.

That is only part of the story.

Every workout triggers a cascade of biological signals from muscle, heart, liver, adipose tissue, and immune organs. These molecules travel throughout the body, influencing inflammation, energy metabolism, neuroplasticity, and cellular repair.

The result is not simply a healthier body.

It is a brain that processes information more efficiently, adapts more effectively, and resists degeneration for longer.

Your cognitive performance is not determined by the brain alone.

It is the product of constant communication between every major organ system in the body.

Exercise strengthens the entire network.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I see it in my replies every week.

"I had a heart attack at 55. Metabolically perfect."

"My cholesterol was fine. My blood pressure was normal. Nobody saw it coming."

I believe them. Their standard labs probably were normal. Their doctor probably did call it perfect.

But perfect based on what? Four tests. Total cholesterol. LDL. Blood pressure. Fasting glucose.

That is what most doctors check. Four things. And when those four things look good, they call you healthy.

Meanwhile, 12 forces are quietly building the plaque that will eventually rupture.

Your doctor checked 4. Called it perfect. And missed 12.

[Marion Holman @Marion436842126]

1/7 When you take statins - vascular smooth muscle cells experience impaired mitochondrial function, abnormal calcium signalling, reduced CoQ10 availability, altered isoprenoid synthesis, and disruption of vitamin K-dependent calcium regulation, the consequences of which /2

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

"We consider the CHOLESTEROL LEVEL Of 350 Perfectly Fine."
~Barbara O'Neill

"Now, doctors want you DOWN to 150"...every time the numbers are lowered, MILLIONS More people 'need' drugs.

That's NOT health care, that's greedy MARKETING. Statins are a $22 BILLION dollar industry.

The hypothesis that high total cholesterol causes CVD was introduced in the 1960s by the authors of the Framingham Heart Study.

However, in their 30-year follow-up study published in 1987, the authors reported that ‘For each 1 mg/dl drop in total cholesterol per year, there was an 11% increase in coronary & total mortality’.

Statins cause a litany of side effects that will cause sickness & a low quality of life. Statins do not lower Cardiovascular Risk or Disease, Stroke, Heart Attack or Mortality. Statins cause more death.

Chronic Conditions Caused By Statin Drugs:
Liver Inflammation & Damage
New Onset Type 2 Diabetes
Heart Failure
Vertigo & Dizziness
Cognitive Impairment
ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
Aphasia
Dementia & Alzheimer's Disease
Cancer
Pancreas Inflammation
Parkinson's Disease
Muscle Tearing & Pain (Rhabdomyolysis)
Fatigue & Weakness
Neuropathy
Hormone Deficiency
Brain Damage
MS Multiple Sclerosis
Clinical Depression

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

"STATINS are one of the most DANGEROUS drugs."
Dr. Cate Shanahan, MD

"You have to know MORE than your Doctor because Doctors are MISEDUCATED."

"The greatest myth is that there is a relationship between high cholesterol & heart disease--it does not exist."

"There is absolutely NO evidence that shows dietary cholesterol causes cardiovascular disease."

Saturated fats & cholesterol have NO effect on CVD outcomes, including Heart Attacks, Strokes, CVD mortality & total mortality.

There are no benefits to taking a Statin, yes they lower your cholesterol, but they do not lower Cardiovascular Risk or Disease. Statins are dangerous because low cholesterol causes deadly side effects:
💊Statins cause CoQ10 deficiency, resulting in muscle pain & Mitochondrial Dysfunction.

💊Statins inhibit Heme A, a vital component of the electron transport chain for energy.

💊Statins stop Dolichol, a crucial molecule in protein glycosylation in the brain, deficiency leads to Parkinson's & other brain disorders.

💊Statins cause liver & pancreas damage, leading to insulin resistance & type 2 diabetes.

💊Every Statin crosses the blood brain barrier & shuts off the enzyme of cholesterol production leading to Dementia & Alzheimer's.

💊Cholesterol should not be lowered, it's critical for Vitamin D & all hormones, digestion, every cell should be saturated with healthy cholesterol.

Chronic Conditions Caused By Cholesterol Lowering Statins:

Muscle Pain
Muscle Tearing
Weakness
Neuropathy
Heart Failure
Dizziness/Vertigo
Cognitive Impairment
Dementia
Alzheimer's Disease
Cancer
Pancreatitis
Liver Damage
Diabetes
Depression
Parkinson's Disease
ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
Hormonal Deficiency
Brain Damage
Multiple Sclerosis

A low carbohydrate diet prioritizing nutrient dense animal foods, eliminating harmful seed oils, sugar & processed foods provides the best healthy cholesterol profile.

This approach keeps Triglycerides low & HDL high, which is one of the best biomarkers for Cardiac health. TG/HDL ratio optimally should be less than 1.5

[Agingdoc🩺Dr David Barzilai🔔MD PhD MS MBA DipABLM @agingdoc1]

The immune system as a guardian of health: micronutrient support and lifelong protection

"Overall, this evidence highlights that life-course-based immunonutrition could be a strong strategy to preserve health-span and promote long-term physiological resilience."

https://t.co/Elkvcyl8cB

[Kristie Leong M.D. @DrKristieLeong]

Most people think exercise only builds stronger muscles.

Wrong. It does more than that.

The real magic is arterial remodeling.

Every time you exercise, faster blood flow creates shear stress on your artery walls. This triggers:

→ Wider arteries
→ More elastic vessels
→ Better endothelial function

You’re literally upgrading your circulatory system and slashing heart attack + stroke risk.

Train for your arteries. 💪

#VascularHealth
#Longevity
#ExerciseIsMedicine

[Heart Surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia @ifixhearts]

Most cardiologists still tell patients: “Your cholesterol is the problem. Take this statin.”
After operating on thousands of hearts, I can tell you that’s incomplete at best — and dangerous at worst.
The real drivers of heart disease are what I call The 3 Missed I’s.
🧵 1/8

[Guy Smith @GuySmith1713057]

@VinnieTortorich Uffe Ravnskov is that rare Medical Doctor that understands Statistics better than many Statisticians. His paper "How Statistical Deception made Statins Appear Safe..." is a classic. https://t.co/TxvpJnydb8

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"Bacon contains nitrites and nitrites cause cancer."

A 100g portion of bacon contains roughly 5.5 mg of nitrate.

A 100g portion of spinach contains roughly 741 mg.

Spinach has approximately 130 times more of the substance bacon is being prosecuted for. Around 80 percent of dietary nitrate in the human diet comes from vegetables. The leafy salad your dietitian recommends is, by mass, a nitrate delivery system that makes a rasher look like a rounding error.

The standard rebuttal is that vegetable nitrates are different. They are not. The exact same molecule, absorbed in the exact same gut, recirculates through the exact same salivary glands, gets reduced to nitrite by the exact same bacteria on the back of the tongue, and ends up in the exact same stomach. The pathway is called the enterosalivary circulation. It is how your body makes nitric oxide. It is the basis of every beetroot pre-workout product on the shelf.

The absolute increase in colorectal cancer risk from 50g of processed meat per day is roughly 0.7 percentage points over a lifetime. One in twenty-five becomes one in twenty-one. Only if you eat that much, every day, for the rest of your life.

The molecule isn't the problem. The framing is.

Eat the bacon.

[Satchin Panda @SatchinPanda]

Exercise does far more than build strength or endurance—it activates molecular pathways that help regenerate muscle, heart, and brain tissue.
Understanding these signals could pave the way for “exercise mimetics” that bring regenerative benefits to those unable to exercise. 🧬🏃 #Exercise #RegenerativeMedicine #HealthyAging @WuTsaiAlliance
https://t.co/wRNNzt084y

[William A. Wallace, Ph.D. @WilliamWallace]

Vitamin C is famous as an antioxidant. That framing understates what it does inside your immune cells.

When a neutrophil hunts down a bacterium, it does not chew it apart. It engulfs the pathogen into a sealed compartment called a phagosome and detonates a respiratory burst inside, spraying reactive oxygen species like superoxide, hydrogen peroxide, and hypochlorous acid onto the trapped organism. This is essentially the chemistry of industrial bleach, used in a controlled space. It works. It also creates a problem.

ROS does not stay neatly contained. Some of it leaks back into the neutrophil itself. A cell that produces enough oxidant to kill a pathogen produces enough to kill itself. The neutrophil needs an internal antioxidant pool large enough to neutralize the leakage without shutting down the kill. Vitamin C is a major component of that pool.
Resting plasma vitamin C tops out around 70 micromolar at saturation. Inside neutrophils, the concentration sits in the millimolar range, roughly 50 times higher. This is not passive equilibrium. Neutrophils pump vitamin C across their membrane against a steep gradient using a sodium-dependent transporter called SVCT2, maintained at metabolic cost.

When neutrophils initiate a respiratory burst, their internal vitamin C drops sharply. Stankova 1975 and Winterbourn & Vissers 1983 documented this consumption during phagocytosis. The cell then needs to refill the reservoir. Repeated infection without dietary replenishment depletes the pool, and neutrophil function declines with it. Patients with severe infection routinely show plasma vitamin C well below healthy controls.

The practical question is dosing. Levine 1996 in PNAS measured this directly in seven healthy adults under controlled depletion-repletion. Neutrophils saturated at approximately 100 mg daily intake. Plasma saturated fully at 1000 mg daily. Single doses above 500 mg showed declining bioavailability with the excess excreted in urine. Above 400 mg daily, no measurable additional benefit appeared.

What this means: roughly 200 mg daily, split into two doses, keeps your neutrophil and plasma pools comfortably saturated. That is achievable from food alone. A red bell pepper, two kiwifruit, or an orange plus a cup of strawberries each put you in the range. The 1,000 mg pills do not get more vitamin C into your cells than the pepper does. They just produce more expensive urine.

Cellular vitamin C does not fall during infection because the immune system is broken. It falls because the system is working as designed and burning through its reserves to do it. Refilling the tank is one of the few interventions with mechanism, pharmacokinetics, and clinical context all aligned.

Washko et al., J Biol Chem, 1989
Levine et al., PNAS, 1996
Carr & Maggini, Nutrients, 2017

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

We once considered a Cholesterol Level of 350 perfectly normal & healthy.

Then it was lowered to 300.
Then to 240.
Then to 190.

Now doctors want your levels as low as statins can force them — no matter what.

Every single time the “safe” number drops, millions more healthy people are suddenly labeled as needing medication.

This isn’t medicine. It’s a business model. Statins generate over $22 billion every year.

The truth is, the cholesterol hypothesis has been heavily questioned for decades. The famous Framingham Heart Study that helped launch the fear actually showed that for every 1 mg/dL drop in cholesterol per year, there was an 11% increase in both coronary and total mortality.

Large reviews of elderly populations (over 68,000 people) found that those with the highest LDL cholesterol lived the longest.

Yet studies on statins show they extend average life expectancy by only about 3.2 days.

Lowering cholesterol harms the body because cholesterol is essential. It forms every cell membrane, protects your brain, produces hormones, and helps repair arteries.

**Statins come with a long list of serious side effects, including:**

- Liver inflammation & damage
- New-onset Type 2 diabetes
- Heart failure & cardiomyopathy
- Vertigo, dizziness, cognitive impairment
- ALS, aphasia, dementia & Alzheimer’s
- Cancer
- Pancreatitis
- Parkinson’s
- Muscle tearing & rhabdomyolysis
- Fatigue, weakness & neuropathy
- Hormone deficiency
- MS, epilepsy & clinical depression

**Real culprits behind heart disease:** chronic inflammation, seed oils, excess sugar, and processed carbohydrates — not cholesterol itself.

Your body makes most of its cholesterol for good reason. Forcing it dangerously low can create more problems than it solves.

Share this with anyone being pushed toward statins.

Higher LDL in the elderly is linked to longer life in multiple studies.
The constant lowering of “normal” cholesterol numbers benefits drug sales far more than patients.

Food is medicine. Real healing starts with what you eat.