Goals - insights from Earl Nightingale & Structured water update.

Mine include - finish my book, include recipes or food prep tips.

Before I get to goals - Structured water update - yes, using a smoothie blender with hot coffee and half teaspoon of ghee (clarified butter) or a little MCT oil will create a cappuccino like beverage that is honestly, yes, super good. I am dairy sensitive but thought I would take the risk of clarified butter which should have less dairy protein - but I did get more congested last night which is the symptom that occurs for me with dairy pretty quickly after eating any. So, this morning I tried MCT oil, which I happen to have with THC/CBD in it. Again, cappuccino like appearance and texture of the beverage and with a froth on top. The coffee didn’t bother my gut much either.

Instant coffee blended with a coupe 1 ml drops of MCT oil.

The structured water information is in this recent post:

When I make a soup broth with Gumbo file, I am making a structured water broth. When chicken broth gels in the refrigerator it is demonstrating that it is structured water. My soup broth can gel in the refrigerator too - sometimes. Certain ingredients like Gumbo file, Wakame seaweed, and the starchy protein from white beans, lima beans, and the hydrolyzable tannins of pomegranate pith, all can add to a thicker structured gelatin like broth. Image - Lima beans cooked with wakame seaweed, one inch piece, after being chilled.

A creamy stirred pudding or porridge also becomes structured water. Emulsifiers like the mucilaginous fiber of Gumbo file help form liposomal structures with a membrane of oily phospholipids surrounding a watery interior which may contain phytonutrients from the ingredients.

A video of an essay by Earl Nightingale - The Strange Secret to Success

We need to control our thoughts as they may indeed create our future and our present. Setting goals gives a clearer picture to focus on and that may help avoid more negative worry or fear thoughts that distract and disrupt progress.

I have made a little progress on my book draft Tipping the Clock Towards Health and am working on a chapter that I will post. It isn’t quite done. I modified the opening to include CoV topics as a theme throughout and I plan to add recipes or more general food preparation information along with other guidance about phytonutrients, supplements, and lifestyle changes that may help restore circadian cycle function. I may tone down the science explanations and increase the what can help and how to do that. An excerpt about POTS and epigenetics from my original version is included in this post: Artemisinin, arteannuin-B, sgp130Fc and COVID-19, June 25, 2020, (substack).

People who buy* a copy of Leanpub/Tipping The Clock Toward Health will get email updates from the Leanpub site (when I feel there is an update significant enough to notify folks about, I am working on it). Eventually a paper copy could be made or I can take the file to another publisher. Initially it would be a pdf or ebook. *Current price includes a free option and either purchase would include the future email updates. The update includes and estimate of how done I feel it is - 0-100% - it is only in the 10-20% range - a skeleton to be filled out - but has useful information already.

Gut dysbiosis and Alzheimer’s dementia risk.

Cute little editorial - two compact pages that share a lot of information (early release): Chun-Che Hung, Kristi M. Crowe-White, Ian M. McDonough, A seed and soil model of gut dysbiosis in Alzheimer’s disease, Aging, 2023, Vol. 15, Advance. June 19, 2023, https://www.aging-us.com/article/204840/pdf Nice overview, does not include Retinoid toxicity.

Butyrate producing species need zinc and resistant starches and fiber like inulin and FOS. Pomegranate peel or green tea catechins also help.

“Specific foods and dietary habits can affect the structure and abundance of different strains of microbiota in the intestine, which is implicated in the maintenance of human homeostasis, more generally. As an example, a recent study has reported that AD patients with better global cognition had more ingestion of coffee or tea [8]. Furthermore, the Mediterranean diet pattern and high intake of plant-based foods, especially those rich in polyphenols might delay an AD diagnosis and increase the levels of fecal short chain fatty acids and bile acids [7]. These lifestyle modifications might facilitate gut homeostasis and ameliorate the dysbiotic events that decrease the brain’s vulnerability to pathogenesis. Without the proper gut environment to foster homeostasis and symbiosis, dysbiotic microbiota drive the disease relationship and development.” (Hung, Crowe-White, McDonough, 2023)

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