2022-08-21
"The focus on our immune systems, which has inevitably followed on from the "Covid Experience", brings us to the topic of how we should support our immune system if we wish to stay healthy in our modern age of novel risk factors.
Leaving aside Big Pharma's implied narrative that all we need is another vaccine, I think it reasonably self-evident that primarily, "we are what we eat".
It's a reasonable assumption that stuff that we eat (and drink!) every day probably has a pretty big effect on our health. We know that if we ingest poisonous substances such as cyanide then our health can immediately suffer, so it stands to reason that stuff that we ingest affects our health either for good or for ill.
We know a fair bit about the out-and-out poisons because their effects tend to be both immediate and drastic, but we know a great deal less about which foods are best for our health because (a) we eat a personal mixture of foods prepared in a huge variety of ways and (b) we eat all kinds of things on an occasional basis that may or may not have a good or bad effect on our health. It's a complex topic.
This young lady has spent a great deal of her time investigating some of the advice that many of us have been following for years, namely the idea that we should avoid saturated fats, or even reduce our total fat intake overall.
She has a tale to tell, and it is very revealing:
(80 minutes - 45 minute presentation, 35 minutes of questions)
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