Friday, December 6, 2024

DR. HEATH: I was trying to show him that he's welcome to choose his behavior, but the behavior he chooses may have no effect on his getting what he wants.

00:00.  Dr. Heath, my week is always made brighter by your psychological cherries which adorned my proverbial cake how are you today?

00:10.  I'm great and my week would not be complete without a Johnny Vedmore interview so I'm just happy to be here on a day or two before Father's Day.

00:20.  Indeed, Father's Day is upon us, Dr. Heath.  Have you any ancient wisdom for the modern dads? 

00:30.  I actually have a surprise for your listeners . . .  Book titled, The Enchiridion of Epictetus: Handbook of Epictetus, written about 2,000 years ago, and here he is, none other than Epictetus, sitting at his desk with his walking stick, his crutch. And we're going to talk about him today because I raised my son on a steady diet of 2000 year old philosophy from Epictetus and the first thing that I taught him was an opportunity I will remember his mother had gone to Walmart he did not want to be separated from her he threw himself down on the parquet wood floor of the kitchen and started crying.  So I asked him if that was what he was going to do, "Are you going to lay here and cry?" and he said yes, and I said "That's fine.  I'll be in the living room.  When you're done, you can come and join me."   And one of my favorite quotes from Epictetus is, "It's not what happens to you, but how you react that matters."  So what I was trying to do there, dads, is I was trying to show him that he's welcome to choose his behavior, but the behavior he chooses may have no effect on his getting what he wants.  Throwing yourself down on the kitchen floor and crying only gets you dirty pants, and so I raised him on that and he learned that it is not things that are out there that decide our thinking and decide our mentality and decide our mindset, but what we decide to think.  And so he began choosing healthier behaviors, not because I slapped him around because we didn't do that, not because I yelled at him, but because I showed him that his behavior, that particular behavior, didn't get him what he wanted.  And so it's not what happens to you that you don't get your way or something like that, but it's really how you decide to act to those things that really decides a course of your life.  

03:31. There are a lot of people who react to that a lot differently it's really emotional bringing up children of course it's a very emotional experience being a child in the relationships you have with your parents too so it's always a mail what advice would you like to give to fathers about how to be a positive influence in their children's lives on a day like this?

04:00.  That's a fabulous question because one thing I didn't do as a dad, I did not catastroph-ize or awful-ize his emotions.  I actually invited him to experience every single one of those.  I told the story of a very tragic incident where a friend of his died of a gunshot wound, and there's no way I could take that hurt away from him.  It would be unfair of me to do so because I said to him you were going to have to experience every single drop of those difficulty emotions.  And that's what's really going to carve your future.  And indeed, that's what has made him very successful is that he has learned that emotions are not our enemies.  Emotions are normal.  Emotions aren't just things for women.  I watched him cry.  I sat with him while he cried.  He has seen me cry.  He has sat with me as I've cried, and we've come to embrace that part of our humanity.  But what we make decisions on are not the presence of emotions but the direction of our thinking and he's in fact very good at that; that's why this was such a meaningful gift to me of old Epictetus because it really cements how major a role men older men dads teaching boys not what to think but how to think. 

05:35. And so I didn't but show to think I didn't catch the fish for my son.  I taught him how to fish for thoughts so that he would be a more effective thinker.

Yeah, by the sounds of it how to feel and process the emotions that emotions exist as well that is something I have to say my dad wasn't the best at you know I only saw my dad cry a couple of times but when that was so you knew that times were bad because he was someone who used to be he would give the "Let's suck it up," taking your emotion and just take in your emotions and just hold it with him.  Is that something that you hear a lot from grown men that that's what their fathers were like, fathers who thought they had to be strong characters, we're strong men that didn't show emotions?

Oh yeah that 

Thursday, December 5, 2024

MARY TALLEY BOWDEN, MD: Of the 5916 colleges in the US, these 16 are still MANDATING the COVID shots for their students.

DR. SHAWN BAKER: Those who consume the most fructose had a nearly 3-fold increase in the rates of dementia, and those who consumed the most sucrose had an almost doubling of their dementia risk.

Dementia has been in the news quite a bit lately.  Interestingly enough there's a study here that looks at the relationship between sugar consumption and dementia.  "Dietary Sugar Intake Associated with a Higher Risk of Dementia in Community-Dwelling Older Adults," Agarwal, J Alzheimers Dis, 2023;95(4):1417-1425. 

And what it shows is that between the lowest quartile in the highest quartile, those who consume the most fructose had a nearly 3-fold increase in the rates of dementia, and those who consumed the most sucrose had an almost doubling of their dementia risk.  

So perhaps lay off on the sugars

Her name is Courtney Swan, MS, and sitting next to her is Jillian Michaels.  Her comments on glyphosate were given at Sen. Ron Johnson's Roundtable, “American Health and Nutrition: A Second Opinion,” on September 23, 2024.

00:00.  Miss Swan is a nutritionist a real food activist and founder of the popular platform Real Foodology she advocates for transparency in the food industry promoting the importance of Whole Foods and clean eating Courtney is passionate about educating the public on the benefits of a nutrient-dense diet and she encourages sustainable chemical free farming practices to ensure better health for people on the planet.  Miss Swan.

00:27.  My name is Courtney Swan.  I have a master's of science in nutrition and I host the Real Foodology podcast, and thank you so much for listening to me, to us today.

Our food is being tainted by dangerous chemicals and it's making us sick in 2009 I started to get debilitating stomach aches I bounced around between specialist with no Clarity for 2 years until 2011 when I was diagnosed with a gluten intolerance I was also at the time told to avoid corn and soy which are common food sensitivities amongst my generation unfortunately my story is not unique clueless to how this was connected to our food system I started to do some digging what I found was alarming.  Our current agriculture system origin story involves large chemical companies; not farmers, chemists.  85% of the food that you are consuming started from a patented seed sold by a chemical corporation that was responsible for creating Agent Orange in the Vietnam War.  Why are chemical companies feeding America?  Corn, soy, and wheat are not only the most common allergens but are among the most heavily pesticide-sprayed crops today.  In 1974, the US started spraying our crops with an herbicide called glyphosate and in the early 1990s we began to see the release of genetically modified foods into our food supply.  It all seems to begin with a chemical company by the name of IG Farben.  The later parent company of Bayer, IG Farben provided the chemicals used in Nazi nerve agents in gas chambers.  Years later, a second chemical company, Monsanto, joined the War Industry with a production of Agent Orange, a toxin used during the Vietnam War.  When the wars ended, these companies needed a market for their chemicals, so they pivoted to killing bugs and pests on American farmlands.  Monsanto began marketing glyphosate with catchy name like Roundup.  They claimed that these chemicals "were harmless and that they safeguarded our crops from pests."  So farmers started spraying the supposedly safe chemicals on our farmland they solve the bug problem but they also killed the crops.  

[Why didn't the farmers realize this and STOP USING ROUNDUP?!!!!]

Monsanto offered a solution with the creation of genetically modified, otherwise known as GMO crops that resisted the glyphosate in the Roundup. that they were spraying.  These Roundup Ready crops allowed Farmers to spray entire fields with glyphosate to kill off pests without harming the plants, but our food is left covered in toxic chemical residue that doesn't wash, dry, or cook off.  Not only is it sprayed to kill pests, but in the final stages of harvest it is sprayed on the wheat to dry it out, grains that go into bread and cereals that are in grocery stores and homes of Americans  are heavily sprayed with these toxins.  It's also being sprayed on oats, chickpeas, almonds, potatoes, and more

You have the right, the 5th Amendment, to remain silent. Use it. Don't be a witness against yourself

Remember, a cop's job is to put you in jail.  They use force and the threat of force out on the streets, get you to sign a citation on the streets, and then leave it up to the courts, lawyers, and judges to put you away.  Oh, wait, I'm sorry, the police are there to "protect and serve."

Penny's situation reminds me a little of the Eric Garner murder by NYPD officers, murdering him for selling individual cigarettes to folks who couldn't or didn't want to buy a full pack.

Robert Wenzel's assessment of confronting police on the streets is smart.

Courts are certainly not completely fair but you will have a much better chance than by resisting on the street.

That said, there is a lot of talk in the media about “police brutality,” but when it comes down to it, all police confrontations are about, at a minimum, implied police violence. You are either going to have to follow a copper’s requests, or he is going to escalate as far as he has to—to death (yours), if necessary.

To lower the amount of “police brutality,” a society needs to lower the number of potential confrontations police have with the public.

The confrontation the police had with Garner was allegedly over his selling loose cigarettes. It was probably a bogus claim, but the police needed some cover story.  The question remains, though, why should police be enforcers preventing private transactions over loose cigarettes? Forget government cigarette tax laws, one would  think that police on patrol are supposedly on patrol “to protect the public” against violence, not enforce government edicts. 

Elsewhere, Wenzel makes this excellent point, 

In NYC, the cops involved in the scuffle with Garner were not local sidewalk cops.

The cops in those confrontations did not know Brown and Garner and so they had no way to judge how much of a real threat they were. And there was the “us versus them” mentality on both sides, partly because of the zero-tolerance policy. Wilson ordering Brown to the sidewalk and NYPD cops attempting to arrest Garner for selling loosies. 

Don't ignore this classic by James Duane.