I have my theory about greens lately… I feel that there are too many chemicals in the vegetables we eat. As much as I love them… I am worried about the amount of pesticides in them. In future I will grow all my greens myself. Anyone have a practical way of not getting poisoned by the chems?
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It was suggested to me to clean my produce wit GSE (grapefruit seed extract). I don’t do it as often as I should.
Here is a random post about it.
Also,
Doug Evans, known for being a sprout expert, offers a lot of free advice on how to grow your own sprouts. That something you can easily, and affordably, start today if you are so inclined.
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I normally use bicarb or salt to wash my vegetables … soak my grains for at least 6 - 12 hours. But that is so bothersome.
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The alternative is to go carnivore … which is hard for me. Someone need to research what kinds of toxins all our vegetables and fruits have … and make a list. Oh well… most people can’t plan 2 weeks ahead let alone 10 to 20 to 50 years into the future.
Well, the animals are eating the toxic plants, so there’s that! 
Sorry, I know you didn’t need me to add one more thing to worry about!!
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Yes but they have the correct enzymes to break them down. We do not … that is the difference.
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We’ve been to conferences and heard Sally Norton speak, her story of being poisoned by plants, and have both read her book.
We are now carnivore. We go to this farming conference as eaters, acresusa.com, and learned last Dec what was called grass finished beef, the very highest in nutrient density is not called regenerative beef, regeneratively farmed beef. When you read the farmers website you need to see frequent, daily moving of the herd into tight grazing areas with tall fresh grass. Some time ago called mob grazing.
We saw a video of a study comparing conventional CAFO beef, and regenerative beef, like eating salmon vs seed oils with a small amount of protein. The shocking worst was distilery grains fed beef. It almost kills you in one eating (exagerating). The Omega 6 vs Omega 3 ratio of the worst, distilary grains fed was around 30:1. Regenerative was (depending on the farm) 4:1 to 8:1. Regenerative is still an art form and very location, soil, specific.
Per an intelligent design like finding; the higher the nutritional density and better the omega 6 : omega 3 ratio (lower) the better the meat tasts. Same is true for vegetables. The better tasting tomatoe has higher nutrition. In vegatable land often measured by the vegetables brix value. Once upon a time when we ate vegatables we used a 0-16 brix meter to test vegetables. Most disappoutingly where sub 10. A few where in the achievable 13-18 range and tasted it. Long story as to where one might buy high brix vegetables. If you go to farming conferences and study highbrixgardens.com you’d guess best growing conditions are in slash and burn volcanic soils. Can be found in middle america and parts of Mexico prior to over farming. Organic mainly (can) mean low toxics. Per testing; not that much higher nutrition, a little. Highest was found to be from freshly slash and burned conventionally grown areas. Sad!
An easy tip is to buy regeneratively grown beef from piedmotese.com . Or better; google and we all buy from different suppliers. Its gotten to be supply limited as intelligent folks realize how poor our food system is so low nutrition and high in toxics.
Good luck folks, curt
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In the spirit of being helpful…
I’ll assume this is not a common effect and perhaps the risk is widely known, but I thought I’d share this because it was news to me
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Thanks for sharing. Keep in mind that this young man was particularly anxious about losing his hair prior to starting dutasteride and he had the added stressor of moving overseas away from his girlfriend and other support systems. This tragedy might have happened even if he wasn’t on medication.
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My friend’s 19 year old son started taking creatine and lost all his hair… he was devastated. Anyway apparently some people cannot take creatine for body building. One of the side effects of people with certain dna I think.
What are your thoughts on LDL and cholesterol? I’d be interested to see your cholesterol blood panel. If you don’t take ezetimibe, it would be interesting to see your results after taking ezetimibe for 6 months.
I know some people ardently think PFS isn’t real but does seem to be a thing. This was dutasteride which blocks more 5AR enzymes than finasteride, it can more strongly affect neurosteroid production.
Hair loss sucks.
That’s interesting I believe some evidence came out that it doesn’t cause hair loss. Maybe certain people are susceptible to it, or maybe he was already going to bald. Did he have men in his family that were bald?
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His father and grandfather wasn’t bald but I am not familiar with his maternal side. Anyway according to the doctor some people reacts to it.
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