By Rob Archangel, 180DegreeHealth.com staff writer?
Special Announcement
This will be the last post of 180 Degree Health. Time to shut ‘er down and move on to our exciting new venture: rapid weight loss methods, just in time for the warm weather. It’s gonna be great- feel free to send your credit card information our way right now so you can be on the ground floor for this exciting, once in a lifetime opportunity.
Also, after the Grimaldi’s Pizza get together on Saturday (email rob@180degreehealth.com for details), Matt and I, artists of impeccable confidence, will open bidding on our recently acquired East River crossing. This is your chance to secure a revenue stream for your great grandchildren and beyond; thanks to the budget shortfall here in New York City, private investors like you can gain controlling access to the roadway and the royalties that come with it, into perpetuity. Act quickly, and as a thank you to our long-time followers, we may be able to offer an even better deal to you than we could bear for the general public.
And on that note, as we celebrate the twilight of 180D, you can all mosey down to Exterminating Angel Press Magazine to read about the benefits of senescence. This season’s issue is themed GROWING UP, and features a new essay by Matt.
More gray ain’t so bad. Check it out here: Going Gray: A Sign of Healthy Aging.
I like joke
I call April Fools. Almost deflated me for a second… bastards.
Yeah, and I have decided to get castrated. My vet recommended it for my dog, and I figured it would be good for me, too.
I suppport this.
lolz
I liked that going gray essay. I liked it a lot. And I feel the same way – I have NO IDEA what is “good” or “bad’ anymore, I’m just trying to be happy and do what I love every day. And it feels like a million tonnes of weight off my shoulders. Nice one and happy April!
Rob A.,
I have analyzed the projected return on investment for the East River Crossing and I do not like it’s potential for recurring revenue steams (which is nil). If I give you a big enough Credit Card Number, can I purchase the Brooklyn Bridge instead? The revenue stream (by charging tolls) can be enormous :)
Lindsay Young,
I second that…BASTARDS!!!
So fo real, I’m not liking the grays that are creepin in and I am eating full on starchy, sugary, saturated-fatty, Peat-y, 180degree-y etc… etc… what am I missing?
I’ve heard it’s minerals… and for whatever it’s worth I’ve heard anecdotal stories about reversing some gray by taking molasses every day.
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
Learning that the whole world is not actually a passion play of good versus evil was one of the hardest things I ever had to accept. For a self-assured gal known as being someone who knows stuff about stuff, realizing I actually know nil felt a little bit like death. But now I am SO TOTALLY SURE that no one knows shit about shit, so there’s some certainty to feel comfortable about;)
Perfectly said Gummshoe.
The more you know, the more you realize how little you actually know. It’s a big planet/galaxy/universe. :-)
Multiverse Cameron, Jeez… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
Those other universes can do their thing, as long as they don’t mess with MY universe over here…bunch of punks.
I almost died. But I LIVE because I ain’t no fool.
xo the hag xo
Borrowing liberally from Men in Black (All hail K!)- In 1993, I knew eating fat made me fat. In 2003, I knew carbs made me fat. In 2007, I knew running would make me skinny. Imagine what I will know tomorrow.
Ah I loved the gray article! I totally wasn’t expecting that; I thought it was going to be about hair (: At the ripe old age of 19, I know I’m significantly more ‘gray’ than I used to be, especially when it comes to health and nutrition.
Matt,
I used to pester you on Facebook about my 2 yr old son with thyroid dysfunction and the autistic recovery and special diet. Well homeopathy (particularly clearing vaccines and meds) saved the day. I could never feed him the metabolic healing foods without behavior or constipation. He is now eating sourdough white bread and drinking raw milk. In a few months of homeopathy he started having regular bowel movements. This kid was constipated for 2 years (even drinking raw milk taking probiotics etc). He is off all supplements except Quinton seawater. I wanted to share this with you for your other patients with kids. Sebastian still has some lingering ocd or anger during a homeopathic clear detox but he is doing amazing!
While on gaps he had a tsh of 4, antithyroglobulin 88 . His OAT showed Low atp and sky high oxalates. It was a fucking disaster metabolically. I am Still struggling to get his temps up because he has a mind of his own and wants to live on fruit and juice but he looks so much better.
Homeopathy is amazing! (And that’s no April Fool’s joke!)
Rob,
I’ve decided to show up at Grimaldi’s on April 6th. The only problem is since I live in Phoenix, I will be going to the Grimaldi’s in Scottsdale (its owned by the same family that owns Grimaldi’s in Garden City NY) :)
Sounds like a plan- happy smashing JonO!
Wish I could go. If you all ever get to Atlanta I’ll be there. It will be so neat to see each other for real.
Hi.
I’ve been thinking a lot about something. Sorry if you’ve already posted it or said something about it, I couldn’t find it:
It’s known that an hypometabolic state can be achieved by not eating enough nutrients/calories and that every generation of humans turns out to be worse than the previous one when there has been a mediocre nutrition.
There’s also this thing about humans having way more diseases than ever right now, that somehow we were healthier centuries ago.
So: does this mean that, somehow, when we were hunter-gatherers the food and nutrients were abundant and we were at peak metabolic performance? I know that no one knows for sure what happened back then, but it doesn’t really make sense to me because we all imagine that time as a really stressful, exercise-laden, food-scarcity age.
What do you think?
Thank you for your answers and for this post being a joke.
Hi Fab,
To understand about the peak metabolic performance of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, you need to let go of the false image that they lived ina time of food scarcity. There is actaully more evidence that they lived in a time of food abundance. They did not stay in one location and let themselves be subjugated to the whims of Mother Nature the way Farmers do. If there was a drought or shortage of food in one area, they would migrate to another location much like herds of Wildebeasts or Antelopes do on the African Plains. They would eat almost anything including insects, grubs, bone marrow from recently killed prey of other predators etc. Although they had to go thru stressful times, they also had a lot of leisure time as well (at least judging by the hunter-gatherer tribes that still exist today).
Thank you very much, JonO. It totally makes sense.
Doesn’t any of the 180 peeps have an idea as to how to do a 180 on gray hair?
I mean it’s not like recovering from extreme diets is all there is to consider going against the mainstrem on. Gray hair says something about your health, I think, well at least it’s a possibility.
A lot of people report reversing gray hair with blackstrap molasses. Check out Earth Clinic testimonials. It is supposed to be something about a copper imbalance, meaning it could be too much or too little. I know Matt is big on molasses for its high mineral count, including adding it to half-n-half for his signature drink “half-asses”. Yum! But I don’t have anything else to add.
I love the site and suggestion, news to me, thanks.
One poster on a related thread there wrote: “Adrenal fatigue can cause you to have lower level of copper binding protein, making the copper you take in bio-unavailable. Then the copper you take in gets stored in your brain and liver causing problems. Poor adrenals may underlie grey hair. Something common in Starbucks customers!”
Interesting take on it.
And then there’s this too:
“”Hello, I am 39 years old. This year, I noticed some gray hair and felt a little depressed and sad. I started taking Alpha Lipoic Acid for general well-being. I noticed my gray hairs are gone for good. Black Strap Molasses is good in term of iron and magnesium, but if you are concerned with your gray hair then ALP is the answer.”
OK, so which is it dangit!
Tony, I’m a huge fan of Earth Clinic. I literally use it as my own health clinic. But I’m obsessed with all things “health” and am very interested in the topic, so this might not apply to you. My method, if you can call it that, is to read all of the testimonials in a given ailment or remedy and consider the posts as parts to the whole. I try not to take one post as gospel, but rather look for connections and similarities between them all. This helps to avoid common, but not all, missteps in treating oneself. Oh, and BTW, I’m a fan of Alpha Lipoic Acid, but used in conjunction with other liver support supplements gives me the most bang for my buck. Self healing (or doctoring) requires research and listening to your body’s cues, which takes practice! Happy hunting!
Tangytam,
I’ve done some initial digging on ALA and so far it sounds worth trying. It’s made by the body, so a baby step trial seems prudent.
How much do you take?
What kind/source? Any particular foods?
Why do you lump it in with other ‘liver supporting supplements’?
From what I read, it’s a systemic anti-oxidant. One attractive thing about it it that it ‘free floats’ to areas of the body that need it unlike vitamin anti-oxidants.
Hey tony, sorry that it’s taken me awhile to respond. I primarily take ALA in order to boost glutathion production. So when i say a liver protocol that means most of the raw ingredients that the liver needs to make glutathion. This includes N-acetyl cysteine, co-q10, vit C, B vit complex, milk thistle, selenium, and ALA. I pretty much do this to cover all my bases. As it is, I only do this for a few weeks at a time due to boredom and schedule changes. I do these supplements 2-3 times a day. This article says about why this works, however I only just now found it, which was kinda nifty. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/glutathione-the-mother-of_b_530494.html