Imagine getting degrees from two prestigeous universities only to end up making videos on youtube and having a shitty mobile app hustle in addition to immediately failing at whatever research scientist prospects he may have had with the KETO-CTA clown show lmao
I stumbled upon MAHA Summit and considering how MAHA and RFK Jr built their following explicitly on fighting corporate influence in American dietary politics, it's wild witnessing the speaker list. It's nothing but corporate influence. Every single speaker is a CEO or CMO of some "wellness" corporation. They even have fake doctor Eric Berg (supplement business) there among the speakers. Bar of entry clearly isn't professionalism or credentials, it's how much money they have.
And all that is blessed by RFK Jr and JD Vance at the closing fireside chat.
Of course, RFK Jr is a total huckster who personally staffed Dietary Guidelines Committee with food industry board members and profiteers, conviniently writing entire chapters on interests they represent.
What's just sad is the complete complacency and silence from MAHA community about all of this. They didn't react and protest filling DGA committee with industry profiteers. They aren't protesting MAHA summit being nothing but "wellness" corporate summit. It's safe to say at this point that the entire MAHA movement itself is a grift.
I got a great recommendation in my YouTube feed about how insanely influential the dairy industry is in US food supply politics and how it is basically deeply ingrained into the system at this point. Big recommendation to the whole channel. It wasn't news for me, and the EU is suffering from the same issue with China now repeating the same mistake. But it got me thinking.
Have you ever seen a single keto shill call out the huge influence of meat and dairy lobbies? I haven't and I have read all their most influential books, as well as tons of articles by them and of course watched their videos. They never raise the issue!
Now if you aren't all that familiar with how the keto shills operate, a huge part of their effort spent is on discrediting nutrition science and institutions setting up things like dietary recommendations. You can read a short primer about it here. Big part of that effort is simply lying it's all funded by sugar industry and big pharma, even when actual guidelines have never recommended eating sugar or a daily dose of ibuprofen. But they never ever bring up the massive influence wielded by dairy and meat lobbies even when their influence and what they have done is well documented. That is the hypocrisy.
Nina Teicholz is the most culpable of them all of this hypocrisy, pushing it to the extreme. She is for example author of this infamous "study" which "proved" that "Our analysis found that 95 % of the committee members had COI with the food and/or pharmaceutical industries and that particular actors, including Kellogg, Abbott, Kraft, Mead Johnson, General Mills, Dannon and the International Life Sciences, had connections with multiple members.". Sounds really bad until you read the fine print: "we considered COI without date restrictions, allowing us to go as far back in time as information is publicly available" which means if any of the 2020 DGA members had received industry grant in say 1984 for a one time consulting fee, Nina counts that as a conflict of interest in 2020, which is absolutely absurd. It's the same as saying I have conflict of interest with global cargo business because I worked a few summers in a warehouses in my teens.
It's also noteworthy the list of companies she decided to showcase when in their own study American Egg Board, National Pork Board and Beeg Checkoff are heavily represented in figure 2. Did she mention any of those in that list of companies in summary? Of course she didn't.
Furthermore we know that right now the RFK Jr's DGA panel is completely swamped with ongoing industry conflict of interests including food industry board members and corporate owners in keto business. Only one member has no COI. The keto community, as well as the MAHA community, both whose big complaint all these years has been industry influence, have been stone dead quiet about it. Their utter hypocrisy and cultish sheeplemind attitude is beyond pathetic.
And recently I learned something really sick. Guess who was the one "having conversations with Kennedy’s team" before that genuinely industry plagued DGA panel was assembled? Nina Teicholz. And here's the kicker, she has not said one bad word about industry influene in the USDA dietary guidelines process. She helped make it happen.
They're deliberately inducing hypochondria in their audience! You may have noticed "metabolic health" and "metabolic wellness" being used increasingly frequently in the keto and carnivore circles. It is the new meta among keto grifters and it works like this:
As long as their victims believe they are fundamentally not healthy, they remain in a value extraction loop between 2-5 and big money can be extracted from them. As long as they don't change their diet and don't believe believe their own doctor, they are trapped.
It's strikingly similar to scientology, maybe even inspired by it, where at some point the initiate gets told he has an evil alien spirit inside of him and needs to pay up to try to get rid of it. Replace evil alien spirit with metabolically unhealthy and it's the exact same thing.
Metabolic health is of course a legitimate thing which gets routine assessed by doctors with a standard blood panel and waist circumference if need be, but the grift lies in inducing the need and making it a hypochondria lifestyle that never ends with an ever expanding list of products things to measure.
I think they are pivoting to this from merely selling supplements for one reason: their audience is increasingly crunchy moms, think raw milk, so selling supplements doesn't work so well.
I'm weary of the trope of a spirit scaring people for the first hour of the movie with brief apparitions and squeaky door hinges and flashing lights even if it has been established it's out to kill everyone. Like, ghost pls, why, you could clearly start the bloodbath you want to do at any time. It's very silly.
It's such a chatterbox generating hundreds of lines of thinking output on simplest of tasks such as something it itself identified to be the next step in planning mode, and when giving it green light to execute it basically rethinks it all over again. This wasn't an issue back in the good ol' days when Flash was practically free but now all that output is beginning to make a noticeable dent in the wallet. I use OpenCode.
Back in July 19th 2020, over six years ago, Shawn Baker opened a GoFundMe for a "Carnivore Diet Clinical Trial". The promise was "we move the carnivore diet beyond anecdote to hard clinical data". Then, after getting $216,880 from his supporters, Mahsa Rostami who is a co-founder of Shawn Baker's corporation Revero, announced in Jan 28 2022 closing of the funding with a promise that "money will go towards clinical trials that we will be conducting at Revero.com". That's right, Shawn and Mahsa funneled all that money into their own corporation.
Now after 4½ years since ending the funding and funneling all that money into Shawn's own corporation, there has been no updates what so ever about the study. It doesn't exist, Shawn never did any clinical research he promised to do with that money. He scammed over 3000 people out of a quarter million dollars and put it all into his own company, then went silent about it, with nothing to show for his promise four years on.
Shawn Baker is a scam artist.
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Insulin resistance is one of the pathophysiological features of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Recent findings have linked insulin resistance to chronic low-grade inflammation in white adipose tissue.
Excess storage of saturated fat in white adipose tissue due to a modern life style causes hypertrophy and hyperplasia of adipocytes, which exhibit attenuated insulin signaling due to their production and release of saturated fatty acids. These adipocytes recruit macrophages to white adipose tissue and, together with them, initiate a proinflammatory response.
Proinflammatory factors and saturated fatty acids secreted into the bloodstream from white adipose tissue impair insulin signaling in non-adipose tissues, which causes whole-body insulin resistance.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jmi/56/3,4/56\_3,4\_88/\_article/-char/ja/ (full pdf in English there)
Results
Of 3115 people screened by telephone, 244 adults with overweight met participation criteria and were randomly assigned to the vegan (n = 122) or control (n = 122) groups. The analysis included 223 (91.0%) completers. Total food weight did not change significantly in either group (Table). Energy intake decreased in both groups, more in the vegan group (effect size, −357.1 kcal/d; 95% CI, −521.9 to −192.3 kcal/d; P < .001) (Table). Energy density did not change in the control group but decreased by 30% in the vegan group (effect size, −0.28 kcal/g/d; 95% CI, −0.38 to −0.19 kcal/g/d; P < .001; Table and Figure).
Reductions in dietary energy density were associated with greater weight loss (r = 0.28; 95% CI, 0.15 to 0.39; P < .001), remaining significant after adjustment for energy intake (r = 0.21; 95% CI, 0.08 to 0.34; P = .002). A 1-kg weight loss corresponded to a 0.29-unit decrease in energy density (P < .001), or 0.36 units after adjustment (P = .002).
...is when you point out the people in low-fat diet era were way thinner than the current high-fat diet era
Coming from OpenCode so I'm looking for some simple examples to demonstrate most clearly the utility value of Hermes. To give me a immediate easy to setup Heureka moment to understand what OpenCode can't do but Hermes can. Thanks!
I did some deep diving into our The Usual Suspects wikipage to fill out what exactly the people in the academic front section have specialized in and which university they are tenured at.
Oh boy, I was not expecting what I found out! I had to move half of them from academics to marketers once I looked closer at what they are really doing. As I laid out in the new section of private clinic havers:
>Noteworthy of some in this bunch is their tendency to borderline fake their position on social media with phrases such as "board-certified" or slapping their alma mater after their credentials to imply they are practicing or tenured.
Had me fooled! And what did I find out? 3x online telehealth clinic, 1x mobile app clinic, 3x private clinic! I actually thought they had research positions. Look at this practical example and try to guess which of the three is an actual academic:
>MD PhD, Harvard Medical School · University of Oxford
>!You'd think he is at Harvard or Oxford, but he isn't! He's running a mobile app!!<
>Professor, Author, Researcher & Metabolic Scientist
>!Tada! This one works in academia! !<
>Board-Certified Neurologist
>!Works at a supplement company! !<
Get it?! This is fucking sick. How did I miss this bullshit! Amazing!
Corrected and expanded edition of The Usual Suspects is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ketoduped/wiki/index/people/