Senior Medical Researcher at Ancestralize (a health app) & Chief Scientist at Clinica Pêro (a medical clinic) pero.pt. Views are my own
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12 May 2022
the 3 devils you should exclude😈👹👺
to make space for animal foods🥩🥚🐟
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For those who haven't been following -- and nobody's been following because nobody cares, least of all the journalists' NGOs -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been steadily releasing death notifications for one "journalist" after another, listing them invariably as fighters and commanders in the organizations' ranks.
It's dozens now. Maybe more.
But the "Israel targets journalists" meme is forever. The facts will never penetrate the thick fog of ideological confirmation bias that has overtaken the NGO and activism world and its journalistic arms in the mainstream media.
Literally no one cares about whether journalists were actually hunted down by Israel, as it was depicted by @pressfreedom and others, or whether Hamas used fake "journalist" claims to protect combatant commanders, counting on a global NGO and media ecosystem it knew was looking to confirm its biases.
No one will examine these falsehoods or report on them in a visible way because no one cares about the wellbeing of the real journalists, who are desperately endangered when combatant commanders are labeled "journalists" -- and even the world's major journalist advocacy groups decide to play along.
🧵FAKE Gaza Journalist Alert: Helmi Al-Faqawi is listed by @pressfreedom as a journalist killed by the IDF at a "reporter's tent" at Nasser Hospital. But PIJ confirmed he was a commander—he used the hospital as a base. The 14th fake journalist outed in the last few weeks. 1/
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Much of what @DoctorTro shares, he doesn't get paid for.
He shares a lot of info and resources for free.
If you've ever got your life back after wallowing in misery for many years, it makes you want to tell everyone who will listen.
Enter social media.
If you can make a career out of it, even better.
It's obvious you don't understand the sense of community and empowerment being the author of your own comeback story endows.
And that's cool but what's not cool is casting shade on a successful doctor to try and make yourself look smarter and better.
Tro has receipts.
All you seem to have is criticism.
Jun 12
Dr Tro, who has a financial interest in keto, cites multiple studies showing keto helps epilepsy.
Here's a list of treatments that help epilepsy that don't have other beneficial aspects on mental health or wellbeing:
Surgical and device interventions
* Temporal lobectomy
* Hemispherectomy
* Corpus callosotomy
* Responsive neurostimulation
* Deep brain stimulation (anterior thalamic nucleus)
Anticonvulsants that are neutral-to-harmful for mood and cognition
* Phenobarbital (sedation, depression, cognitive blunting, behavioral disinhibition in kids)
* Topiramate (cognitive slowing, word-finding problems, depression. The "dopamax" reputation)
* Levetiracetam (irritability, aggression, depression. "Keppra rage")
* Vigabatrin (depression, psychosis, plus irreversible visual field loss)
* Perampanel (black-box warning for hostility, aggression, psychiatric events)
* Zonisamide (depression, cognitive impairment)
* Phenytoin (cognitive effects, no mood benefit)
* Tiagabine (depression, encephalopathy)
* Felbamate (anxiety, insomnia, and aplastic anemia/hepatotoxicity for good measure)
And, of course, the ketogenic diet itself, which has no positive randomized controlled trials in mental health.
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My review of evidence for "The entropic brain" is now available unformatted. Formatted version coming soon. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4226…
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Ketogenic diets are indeed appropriate for people with (and without) mental handicaps
Jun 13
Keto is for retards
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Jun 12
1/ A new RCT in @JAMACardio found that vitamin K2, specifically MK7, slowed coronary artery calcification progression compared to placebo in 180 adults over two years.
Promising finding. But it raises a fascinating question about how we measure cardiovascular disease. 🧵
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Case in point x.com/benbikmanphd/status/20…
Jun 12
lastly, these drugs could be useful in a targeted and time-limited manner, i.e. helping people transition from a crappy diet to a good one, but that's not how they're used and likely never will be by the vast majority of doctors/patients
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Jun 11
'Oh, a mentally ill person would never stick to a ketogenic diet, it's too restrictive.'
Tell that to someone who's been suicidally depressed for thirty years. Or hearing voices. Or whatever.
Actually, they will stick to it.
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Jun 12
🎥 Famous science educator Dr. John Campbell (@Johnincarlisle) recently reviewed the case report by our colleague #PanagisPolykretis, and sat down with him for a chat.
🔍 Review: youtube.com/watch?v=4qdAZDAM…
💬 Discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=UMfPdlsM…
📄 Read the 'Detection of Vaccine-Derived Spike Protein Associated with Immune Cell Infiltration in the Heart and Liver' study here: bit.ly/4eDn1Fp
👇 More details can also be found in our previous post!
[📺 Interview Alert ] Could COVID-19 vaccination cause hematopoietic cancers?
Our colleague Panagis Polykretis, PhD, joined the @ConseilCsi to discuss his recent case report on lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma following COVID-19 vaccination. 💉
The conversation w/ @BanounHelene & @louisfouch3 explores potential biological mechanisms reported in the scientific literature, challenges in scientific publication that clash with the established narrative—and, last but not least, the vital role of true informed consent, academic freedom, and open debate.
Watch the full English video here: youtube.com/watch?v=A_I21jLb…
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Jun 12
Muslims too, tbf.
Not super keen on elective surgeries for babies. Let them make the decision when they’re adults.
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Keto is for everyone*, homosexuals and heterosexuals
*leaving aside those with rare inborn errors of metabolism
Jun 12
Keto is for fags
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VICTOIRE. Les accusations portées contre moi par la doctorante soutenue par la présidence de l'Université de Strasbourg n’ont pas été retenues.
Merci à mon avocat, maître
@LouisCailliez_
Le tribunal de Strasbourg a relaxé @FBBlackler, attaquée par une chercheuse. Ce procès n’avait d’autre but que d’empêcher son travail sur l’entrisme des Frères Musulmans dans l'université.
Merci à maître @LouisCailliez_, avocat de notre Collectif Justitia, pour ce beau succès !
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"A minority of people lose weight and keep it off with keto"
you're mistaking your wishes for reality
Jun 10
A minority of people lose weight and keep it off with keto. It’s doesn’t come close to GLP-1 drugs. And that should be celebrated by everyone … if the true focus is patient outcome not dietary dogma.
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It is messages like this in our inbox that make what we do every day feel like the most important work in the world.
Check out the research study or our study page on Metabolic Mind for all the details on the pilot trial of a new metabolic intervention for anorexia.
metabolicmind.org/trials/fea…
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"The entropic brain" was formative in my psychedelic education
Can't wait to read the update!
Abstract up on pubmed. Paper itself coming soon. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4226…
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Today, women in Afghanistan are being shot in the streets simply for anting an education, wanting a job. Wanting to work and wanting to walk outside without a man's permission.
Taliban security forces killed one person and several wounded. Dozens arrested including women and girls.
It started last Friday, when Taliban imams announced from mosque loudspeakers that women were forbidden from leaving their homes without full hijab, including face cover.
Morality police flooded Herat's streets, markets, and shopping centers, batons in hand, arresting women for their clothing.
Just one day after some men in the West rolled out the red carpet for the Taliban, normalizing them, legitimizing them, shaking their hands, you can see how savagely women being shot and beaten up in the streets.
This is a total betrayal…Do not even dare to speak on behalf of wounded women.
An Afghan man, perfect English, telling you women in Afghanistan are fine. Just fine. Don't worry.
This is not nuance. This is normalization. This is normalizing Taliban.
Let’s women in Afghanistan talk.
Women who have been flogged. Women who have been imprisoned. Women who have been denied an education. Women who have watched their lives disappear under gender apartheid.
We the women of Iran have seen this movie before. Just watch the second video.
An Iranian man, same perfect English, so relax, saying IRGC the terrorist organization that massacres protesters, and morality police are not that bad, they’re just fine and women if you don’t have fun with them!
To every Afghan woman, every Iranian woman: Be louder than these men.
Do not let anyone with microphones, normalize what is being done to your bodies, your lives, your freedom.
@UAGApartheid
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Imaginez que vous ayez une fille. Elle s’appelle Carolin Bohl. Le 7 octobre, votre fille est assassinée par les terroristes du Hamas. Votre monde s’effondre. Vous témoignez de la haine à laquelle vous êtes confrontée. Et face à votre histoire, à celle de votre fille, Francesca Albanese trouve deux mots à offrir : « Change de médicament. »
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Jun 8
A new study called NATURE-CT gives us something genuinely valuable: a look at how coronary plaque progresses naturally in relatively “low-risk” adults on no lipid-lowering therapy.
But the way some people are using it online concerns me. Let's talk about what the data actually shows and how it relates, or does not, to ketogenic therapy. 🧵
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🧐Be sure to join me June 12 at 1:30pm ET for the next talk in the NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series, titled “Energy Balance or Fuel Partitioning? A History Lesson in the Science of Obesity Pathogenesis, and Its Implications.”
I’ll be joined by Gary Taubes, a science journalist and historian, to discuss how nutrition, fitness, and other factors like genetics influence obesity risk.
NIH staff can attend in person in the Masur Auditorium of NIH’s Building 10.
The public is invited to attend virtually via webcast. ➡️ bit.ly/3S6bUfr
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This was crazy. Burying failed SSRI trials. Published findings positive in ~100% vs 50% if they included the buried ones. Imagine reaction to bias like this psychedelic trials?! Tmk, no buried trials in psychedelic medicine. maryland.ccproject.com/wp-co…
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[📺 Interview Alert ] Could COVID-19 vaccination cause hematopoietic cancers?
Our colleague Panagis Polykretis, PhD, joined the @ConseilCsi to discuss his recent case report on lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoblastic lymphoma following COVID-19 vaccination. 💉
The conversation w/ @BanounHelene & @louisfouch3 explores potential biological mechanisms reported in the scientific literature, challenges in scientific publication that clash with the established narrative—and, last but not least, the vital role of true informed consent, academic freedom, and open debate.
Watch the full English video here: youtube.com/watch?v=A_I21jLb…
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