What is a "nutritionist"?

Buyer Be Wary: Practically anyone who wants to call themselves a Nutritionist can do so. You can get a "Certificate" as "Nutritionist" on Udemy for $100 probably*. *But I didn't go look at Udemy today

*Stream of consciousness post - I should probably delete those but I don’t. I’m working on a project that I feel good about, and yet, that also has left me feeling oddly scared or bad somehow. I pick through those thoughts later in the post, along with a few other things like ~ What is going on with the field of nutrition?

And - fetal development - is it more evil to call congenital fetal brain development errors “deformed”, “malformed”, or “perfectly formed for their own unique little neurodiverse modern life selves - and we should all have the goal of having more perfectly uniquely developed neurodiverse infants!”? Personally, I do think that redefining “health” as “whatever modern life dishes out” is more evil than bluntly stating that fetal malformations are really not desirable goals for prenatal health. Autism was normalized as just another lucky kid getting born with a lucky set of life quirks to cope with. So lucky, so blessed! *cranky post warning.

The project link, in case you would rather cut to the chase: Project I like: (Dropbox). Which is a follow up to this post:

Walter shared Eucalyptus essential oil as a Thanksgiving Friday hope post and got lots of likes for highlighting the one thing. My project and/or previous post includes Eucalyptus oil, a bunch of others, and guidance for how to use safely. I have given up trying to figure out why providing minimal information is preferred over providing more thorough information.* Or maybe I am still confused. Oh well. I think thorough guidance and safety cautions are a good thing. *It likely involves who is approved to be liked and who isn’t okay to like. Or sadly, that ‘males’ are wise and ‘females’ aren’t.

The essential oil book I read as a reference went into a lengthy discussion of how the history of ‘medicine’ was seized and made harmful by males who wanted to dominate ‘feminine’ “Mother Nature”. Yes, midwives and herbalist women were burned at the stake as witches far more often than ‘male’ witches were discovered and burned in the 1600s. Medical Aromatherapy - Healing with Essential Oils, by Kurt Schnaubelt, (1999, Frog Books).

What is a ‘nutritionist’?

I listened to a webinar on seasonality and health by a duo with an electrical engineering background and a ‘nutritionist/Quantum biologist’ - no idea what that means - beyond, based on the talk, a potentially dangerous information provider. Confidence sells. Youth and looks sells - but is it selling youth and good looks to you too? or is it selling errors delivered with a lot of youthful confidence?

James DeMeo really disliked the direction that New Age/Alt health went with “quantum biology”. Yes, aether or chi energy flow is critical to health but that doesn’t mean that balanced nutrition isn’t also important and part of quantum energy flow. Or that all of Physics or Physiology is wrong (just a lot of it ;-).

I cannot correct all of the wrong information online - funny cartoon, circa ~ 2010, Jan and Arlo - Arlo calls downstairs to Jan - “Honey, come to bed!” Jan responds “I can’t, someone got something wrong on the internet.” Jan at her keyboard: <Type, type, type>.

Specific nutrition tidbits I can’t support - if someone is promoting a quite restricted diet like carnivore or paleo, while also saying that they do not believe in supplements, at all, then, BE AWARE that that is dangerous information. Whether you believe in nutrients or not, your body needs them all in balance throughout the year and very restricted diet choices make it quite difficult to really get everything you need each day.

Hunter/gatherers didn’t stay in winter climates. They were the original ‘snowbirds’ who traveled with the seasons.

If we are also being told that in cold weather, there are no starches, and therefore we should only eat carnivore/paleo in winter months, because hunter/gatherers wouldn’t have had starches stored for the winter…. then recognize that that is utter nonsense. Hunter-gatherers traveled with the weather and the seasonal crops and the movement of wild game. They didn’t stick around an area when it was winter - that would be stupid with no central heating. Also starchy tuberous roots are starch too, not just grains or fruit. And they store well, and fruit can be air dried.

»Carnivore Diet is likely too high in protein for safe fetal brain development.«

Carnivore diet may be helpful for some people and may help men more than women on average - and would be less dangerous for a male than for a just conceived fetus. For a young woman to be promoting a diet likely to be dangerous for women of child bearing years is a concern, but the only other time I typed that concern (on Twxtter), all I got was the anecdotal example of ‘But so and so woman just had a baby while following Carnivore Diet and the baby is fine” …my thoughts, Let’s wait to age 6 to see how fine the child is then. Can the child make it through autism risk years (preschool) without autism showing up?

Or is it really evil and hideous of me to even suggest that having a child with autism would be a thing to Not Prefer having? Are we supposed to be so accepting of ‘neurodiversity’ that we now are to try to promote autism in our next generation? If so, then pregnant women, just take thalidomide - that might cause autism. Caution though not to take too much or you might also get a flipper limb child without normal arms and legs, hands or feet. Be sure to only take enough thalidomide to deform the baby’s brain development….

Uh, oh, now I used the word ‘deform’!

Malform? Is that more politically correct or still “offensive” to neurodiversity? More PC: Perfectly formed in their own unique, one of a kind way, (*ultrasound enhanced probably). *Chinese studies on women being forced to have abortions found that ultrasound is powerful enough to literally move fetal brain cells out of the proper brain layering - which IS a big, not good, deal.

Lemmings gonna lemming.

Anyway, I gave up trying to understand people or what they like. They largely like what is popular and approved to be liked and dislike what is unpopular and supposed to be disliked - and therefore it is a complete waste of my time trying to work with that type of consumer. I like accuracy, not popularity. Whatever else my parents may have done they did succeed at raising me to not be a lemming. My mom literally used that imagery regularly - If everyone else was jumping off a cliff would you too? Um, no Mom, I would not follow the lemming herd to their deaths. My dad is (*was) so odd, that he doesn’t really get that most humans act like lemmings. (*still hard to adjust to the idea of his death/change.)

I also have a hardened shell on I realize. I feel good about my current work project, and have to expect minimal feedback about it for my own peace of mind. Picking through this feeling - liking my own work/hard work/good project, - and yet it is also eliciting feelings of trepidation and danger. Why? → oh I get it. For years, anytime I have produced something new and good, it gets cancel culture slammed and mocked so the public will dislike it and think it stupid instead of being good. So, oh well, I like my work. If people want to dislike what they are told to dislike, then I cannot help them anyway because they have no free will of their own.

It has been hard though.

Essential oils project

Project I like: (Dropbox). {*I now need to reconvert it back into a condensed slideshow and add audio.) If you are going to immediately slam it because it is about products of a MLM company, then recognize that MLM companies are largely housewives selling to housewives. Do you want to help stay at home moms? or do you want to be snitty about them trying to stay at home with their kids and make a little money or have a little bit of social life or sense of purpose other than only wiping drippy noses?

Also recognize that guidance about essential oils is also clues about super healthy foods to simply eat more of - or make your own phytonutrient rich soup broths or teas. Gumbo file helps emulsify the broth, or the hydrolyzable tannins in pomegranate peel. Information is versatile and can be used in different ways. That is what makes it so much fun.

Either way, I do need to feel good about my own work and be less scared about producing and sharing good work - even though doing good work frequently gets people killed in our cult run society.

Facts matter. We are in dangerous times and Carnivore diet misinfo is not the biggest risk out there. Yet it is one.

Why is “nutritionist” a free-for-all phrase?

In thinking through this, I have arrived at the interesting thought that while licensing rules are putting more and more of a stranglehold on most small business - like rules about licensing for corn-row hair braiding specialists. The concept of “nutritionist” is a complete free-for-all and fairly meaningless - not well-protected. The “vegan” social media influencer who killed herself with an all fruit diet was being written about after her death as if she was a nutrition educator who wrote about health instead of someone who had killed herself following a crazy diet.

The WEF is promoting vegan diet as if it is a safe and good thing when it is hard and likely dangerous, especially for children and developing fetuses. The carnivore diet is likely too high in protein for safe fetal brain development. Just because something is trendy and being promoted by mainstream articles doesn’t mean it is a good or safe trend. It just means people are followers, and pretty stupid about it too. The stupid Ice Bucket Challenge killed people I think, eventually, and the stupid Cinnamon challenge can too.

Please recognize that our insider cult society has made “nutrition” and “food” into a bad and unreliable product instead of life saving and quality of life improving - which it can be, but careful shopping or growing and cooking from scratch is pretty much needed to do so.

Addition: This post by Matt Taibbi about the Twitter censorship findings is on topic with the suppression or distortion of ‘nutrition’.

Not a Nothingburger: My Statement to Congress on Censorship

Sadly, but hopefully, another day of sunshine to look forward too. (I woke up at 2 am - still awaiting the sun). *I went back to bed and am now putting a few edits on the post at 7:54 am.

My Christmas cactus became a mouse meal but I was left one bud. I moved it upstairs where the cat to mouse ratio is more plant friendly.

A mouse, I assume, carefully nipped off each bud, except for one - for which I’m grateful. Yes, I could buy a blooming cactus a florist grew, but that wouldn’t have been my plant being nurtured to blooms. Somehow the goal is nurturing the plant to beauty, rather than just buying some flowers.

Streaming comments on a Dave Matthews live concert - “Too much bass” - shortly later - ““Too much bass” LOL” → totally, that I can agree with. Dave Matthews Band does not have too much bass. Someone got something right on the internet. What a relief. Another good one: “​I don’t understand why there’s haters?” I don’t understand either, except I think it has to do with tribalism and feeling safer within group think - giving motivation to defend the group think. (SPAC concert *same one I linked to recently. Youtube autoplayed it again.)

Rewind a couple decades - 1999 “Crash Into Me” - the band looks so young. (Youtube) What is TMI? That song got me crying so hard during a bad breakup phase of my life that I had to pull over while driving to work in order to not crash my car. Sometimes two people just aren’t best together anymore. When ‘home’ is more stressful than a busy job, then you got problems. When someone is expecting you to be someone who you are not, then you are living a fake life and need to start over living a real life again.

Why do I wake up at 2 am? Because I frequently go to bed at 7 pm, exhausted, when my mom goes to bed, and then 2 am rolls around the clock and it feels like morning to my confused body. And it is quiet. Very early morning is when caregivers get time to concentrate.

Peace be with me and you, dear readers.

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