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Jonna Schultz retweeted
From Hospice and sleeping all day to speed demon around our track in just 3 months with good food, exercise and lots of sunshine.
We can do better with our elderly population!
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The Washington Post article below references a study showing that Vit D supplementation was associated with an increase in dementia.
My theory:
Many people avoid the sun and take vitamin D supplementation because they falsely think that the only benefit of sunlight is vit D. This will mean a lot of people on vit D supplements avoiding the sun.
We already know that sun exposure is associated with LOWER dementia risk
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
If you are not doing sun exposure, don't be surprised if you are at higher risk of getting dementia (regardless of whether you are taking vitamin D).
Interesting article today in The Washington Post.
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
A new study following >5,000 older adults for six years found that routine vitamin D supplementation was associated with slightly faster cognitive decline—but importantly, this was seen in people who already had normal vitamin D levels.
This is observational. It does not prove that vitamin D supplements cause cognitive decline.
But it raises a fascinating question:
Is taking vitamin D in a pill biologically equivalent to making vitamin D in your skin from sunlight?
No.
Marion Nestle, emerita professor of nutrition at NYU, told the Washington Post:
“I vote for short exposures of skin to sunlight, especially during the summer.”
There is an important physiological distinction here.
With UVB exposure, vitamin D is produced in the skin through a naturally regulated photochemical process. Continued UV exposure does not simply produce unlimited vitamin D—excess previtamin D3 and vitamin D3 can be converted into inactive photoproducts.
An oral supplement bypasses that cutaneous pathway.
That does NOT mean vitamin D supplements are necessarily bad. They are extremely useful when indicated, particularly in deficiency.
But it illustrates a principle I think medicine sometimes forgets:
Route matters. Physiology matters. Context matters.
And sunlight is not merely a vitamin D delivery system.
It simultaneously interacts with nitric oxide, circadian biology, immune signaling, mitochondria, and potentially many pathways we haven't even discovered yet.
We often try to isolate one molecule from nature and put it into a pill.
Sometimes that works beautifully.
But we shouldn't automatically assume the pill reproduces the physiology of the original stimulus.
Maybe the question shouldn't always be:
“What supplement replaces sunlight?”
Maybe we should also ask:
What are we losing when we replace sunlight with a supplement?
Jonna Schultz retweeted
Interesting article today in The Washington Post.
washingtonpost.com/health/20…
A new study following >5,000 older adults for six years found that routine vitamin D supplementation was associated with slightly faster cognitive decline—but importantly, this was seen in people who already had normal vitamin D levels.
This is observational. It does not prove that vitamin D supplements cause cognitive decline.
But it raises a fascinating question:
Is taking vitamin D in a pill biologically equivalent to making vitamin D in your skin from sunlight?
No.
Marion Nestle, emerita professor of nutrition at NYU, told the Washington Post:
“I vote for short exposures of skin to sunlight, especially during the summer.”
There is an important physiological distinction here.
With UVB exposure, vitamin D is produced in the skin through a naturally regulated photochemical process. Continued UV exposure does not simply produce unlimited vitamin D—excess previtamin D3 and vitamin D3 can be converted into inactive photoproducts.
An oral supplement bypasses that cutaneous pathway.
That does NOT mean vitamin D supplements are necessarily bad. They are extremely useful when indicated, particularly in deficiency.
But it illustrates a principle I think medicine sometimes forgets:
Route matters. Physiology matters. Context matters.
And sunlight is not merely a vitamin D delivery system.
It simultaneously interacts with nitric oxide, circadian biology, immune signaling, mitochondria, and potentially many pathways we haven't even discovered yet.
We often try to isolate one molecule from nature and put it into a pill.
Sometimes that works beautifully.
But we shouldn't automatically assume the pill reproduces the physiology of the original stimulus.
Maybe the question shouldn't always be:
“What supplement replaces sunlight?”
Maybe we should also ask:
What are we losing when we replace sunlight with a supplement?
Jonna Schultz retweeted
This is so beautifully written, and so accurate, and yet, most cardiologists will ignore it. so sad
This is why we must have a grass roots sharing of information because most MDs will blindly follow guidelines dictated by pharma.
@markkaplan20 @dramerling @KenDBerryMD
The year is 1913. A pathologist in St Petersburg feeds pure cholesterol to rabbits and their arteries fur up beautifully. The rabbit is a herbivore. It has never met cholesterol and has no machinery for handling it. He dissolves the stuff in sunflower oil, which nobody finds funny for another century. Everything you will ever be told about your dinner rests on this.
The year is 1953. An American physiologist publishes a graph of fat against heart deaths in six countries, and the line is so straight it might have been ruled. It was. Data existed for twenty-two. The sixteen that spoiled the shape are not on the chart, and the six that survived it will run your kitchen for forty years.
The year is 1955. You hear it on the wireless: the President has had a heart attack on the ninth at Cherry Hills, having blamed the onions on his lunchtime hamburger. The market opens on Monday and loses fourteen billion dollars, the worst day since the war. His cardiologist goes on air to brief the country on one man's arteries. Heart disease has its emergency.
The year is 1959. Eisenhower does everything he is told, and he is a general, so he does it properly. Low fat, no butter, weight logged, cholesterol read like scripture. He had also smoked four packs a day for thirty years. The cigarettes get a footnote. The butter gets a national policy, and your mother changes the tin under the sink.
The year is 1969. He dies, after seven heart attacks, having obeyed every instruction for fourteen years. His weight went up on the diet. His cholesterol went up on the diet. The American Heart Association has already told your family to eat the way he ate, and nobody thinks to ask how it went for him.
The year is 1984. After seven years and a hundred and fifty million dollars, a trial finally proves the case. Coronary deaths: thirty on the drug, thirty-eight on the placebo. Total deaths: sixty-eight against seventy-one, which is nothing, with more of the treated men dying by accident, violence and their own hand. On your kitchen table, Time runs a frowning face made of eggs and bacon.
The year is 1987. Framingham, the study that started all this, publishes thirty years of its own data: over fifty, high cholesterol carries no extra mortality, and falling cholesterol goes with rising death. Not lower. Higher. That same year the first statin is approved and the danger threshold is lowered. Only one of those changes what your doctor does. Have a guess which.
The year is 2013. In 2001 the panel moved the line and took the Americans who ought to be medicated from thirteen million to thirty-six. In 2004 it added several million more, and eight of its nine authors had financial ties to the firms selling the drugs. This year a new calculator adds sixteen million on top, nearly all of them over sixty. One of them is you.
The year is 2015. The American advisory committee reports, in a technical annexe, that cholesterol in food is no longer a nutrient of concern. Forty years of binned yolks, egg-white omelettes and your mother's yellow tub, closed out in one line. No press conference. No apology. The egg was always an egg.
Now it is today.
Your number is taken, printed and held against a line that keeps moving toward you.
The rabbit could not eat it. The graph left out most of the world. The President obeyed every order and it killed him anyway.
Every time the evidence has weakened, the number of people to be treated has gone up.
Ask your doctor which of those two things his number came from.
Jonna Schultz retweeted
The ketogenic diet is the most powerful diet for the elderly.
I've used it in my assisted living homes to help residents lose weight, regain their energy and even improve their memory.
The complete guide to the ketogenic diet:🧵
Jonna Schultz retweeted
Lipoprotein (a) is increasingly noted as a strong risk factor for for the development of heart disease- they say that it is genetic and that a healthy diet can’t lower it!
The reality is that it is well established that higher saturated fat in the diet lowers it, but they won’t say that because they hate saturated fat!
A low lp(a) is considered to be < 30 mg/dl
On a high saturated fat carnivore diet mine was 2 mg/dl
Jonna Schultz retweeted
I interviewed a Mayo Clinic-trained cardiologist with 30 years of experience.
Dr. Todd Hurst told me 10 things every adult over 40 needs to know to prevent heart disease:
1) 90% of heart attacks should never happen
Jonna Schultz retweeted
The TG:HDL ratio is one of the simplest and most insightful indicators of #cardiometabolic health. If your number is over ~1.5, time for a dietary change. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3382… #metabolism #NAFLD #insulinresistance #lowcarb
Jonna Schultz retweeted
Your baby should be sunbathing
As a father, I have skin in the game
Let’s put this ridiculous notion that we shouldn’t get our newborns and infants out under sunshine to rest
SUNLIGHT BABY THREAD
Jonna Schultz retweeted
@grok Is there any placebo-controlled research showing a reduction of coronary events or death with LDL reduction in people who have a triglyceride/HDL ratio < 1.0?
Jonna Schultz retweeted
Fifty years. One paid review. That’s all it took.
1965A sugar trade group needs the science to look a certain way.
They hand-pick the studies. They hire three Harvard scientists. They pay them the equivalent of fifty thousand dollars today.
The scientists write the review the sugar industry wanted. Sugar is cleared. Saturated fat takes the blame.
An executive writes back after reading the final draft. This is quite what we had in mind.
1967The review runs in the New England Journal of Medicine. No funding disclosed. No conflict of interest listed. The journal did not even require it back then.
That single paper helped build the foundation for the low-fat advice that followed for the next five decades. Butter became the enemy. Bread became the hero. A nation was told to fear the wrong food.
One of the three paid scientists went on to help write the first official US dietary guidelines in 1977.
The correspondence sat buried in a box in a Harvard library for 49 years.
A researcher found it in 2016. The letters. The drafts. The payment. Published in JAMA, in black and white, decades after every person who wrote them was already dead.
Fifty years of guilt over butter and cream. Paid for by the people who profited from the sugar.
Share this. Someone in your circle still believes the fat on their plate is what is killing them.
Jonna Schultz retweeted
If you watch again, notice that nothing is covered in the film from the dozens of MDs/PhDs that oppose the view that high LDL causes CVD.
@DoctorTro @realDaveFeldman @nicknorwitz @markkaplan20
Jonna Schultz retweeted
1/20
The film Cholesterol Code is going Global tomorrow. The most important aspect of the film is the documentation of the great benefit of the ketogenic diet (KD) for mental and physical health. What is unfortunate is that the film leaves the viewer with the impression that nothing is known as to whether people on a KD with high LDL are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). While no one can say for certain whether high LDL in a metabolically healthy person increases the risk of CVD, what is so terribly disappointing is that the film lacks any scholarship regarding the LDL literature. I am therefore going to share what I think is missing from the film.
@BenBikmanPhD @DrPaulMason @Alabdulgaderaa @ifixhearts @FatEmperor @zoeharcombe @ProfTimNoakes @MaryanneDemasi @SinatraMD @DwightLundell
@DiljanMansoor @markkaplan20 @KenDBerryMD @PeterJAnderson_@ApoDudz
@dramerling @ElieJarrougeMD @JeffryGerberMD @TuitNutrition @bigfatsurprise
@GrassBased @shashiiyengar @drozcanyuce @SbakerMD @DominicDAgosti2
@ElieJarrougeMD @grahamsphillips @doctortro @bscherMD @BudoffMd @AdrianSotoMota @drjenunwin @drericwestman @lowcarbGP @_coach_al @nicknorwitz @lowcarbGP
Jonna Schultz retweeted
In 10 years of running care homes, I have yet to meet a resident with dementia who wasn't addicted to sugar.
A few years ago, we used to leave sugar packets on the tables.
Some residents would pour five of them into a single coffee.
If there were no dessert, they'd tear open the packets and eat the sugar on its own.
That's why we removed the sugar from the tables and asked families to take leftover treats home.
I've seen a lot of people fear dementia, but they rarely think twice about the diet that could contribute to it.
After years of watching the two together, I'm convinced they're related.
This weekend, I encourage you to look in your family's kitchen, and remove the sugary treats from there.
• Cakes
• Biscuits
• Sugar packets
Something so simple to do, yet overlooked.
I just recorded my longest interview to date with Dave Feldman (.@realDaveFeldman), a respected voice in the health space.
For three hours, I shared the raw stories from a decade running my care homes.
Here are a few of them:
1) Families break down crying right in front of me
Jonna Schultz retweeted
In some people, fiber-free diets can help heal the gut.
That's not just based on anecdotes—it's grounded in science and clinical practice.
For example, fiber elimination has been shown to improve constipation-predominant IBS (PMID: 22969234) and help induce remission in treatment-resistant inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), including Colitis and Crohn's disease. (PMID: 37967555)
Mechanistically, it makes sense.
If an imbalanced microbiome is driving inflammation, you don't necessarily want to keep feeding the microbes contributing to the problem.
That doesn't make a carnivore diet a panacea.
But extreme dietary interventions can sometimes have profound—even life-saving—effects for the right person.
That's not something to ridicule. It's something to investigate... especially when other approaches have failed.
P.S. In the spirit of curiosity, I'm going to try a Lion Diet (cc @MikhailaFuller) and document what happens.
What questions do you want me to answer?
Jonna Schultz retweeted
The most medicated, most vaccinated, and most chronically ill population in history has a living control group sitting right inside its borders — and the results are brutal for the current model.
Amish and Mennonite communities still grow, raise, and prepare nearly everything they eat on their own land. Fresh meat, eggs, raw milk, butter, lard, garden vegetables, and real grains cooked from scratch. Their bodies move all day — farming, building, hauling, walking behind horses. And they have largely stayed outside the childhood vaccine schedule and the daily pharmaceutical pipeline that now defines American life.
Outside those communities, millions of people — including many in middle age — take five, eight, or more than ten prescription drugs every single day. Blood pressure pills, statins, diabetes medications, antidepressants, anti-inflammatories, acid reducers… the list keeps growing while the people taking them keep getting sicker. New chronic conditions appear faster than the old ones can be managed. Autoimmune disorders, allergies, metabolic disease, and constant fatigue have become normal.
Inside these traditional communities, vibrant health is the default. Strong bodies, clear skin, bright eyes, and kids who play and work hard without the constant doctor visits or medication schedules that mark modern childhood and adulthood. Dramatically lower rates of the chronic illnesses that now dominate the rest of the country.
They didn’t design a study. They simply refused to participate in the great experiment of replacing real food and natural living with processed everything and pharmaceutical intervention at every turn. Same country. Same air and water nearby. The only consistent differences are whole foods from the soil and bodies that still do real work — plus the near-absence of the vaccine-and-pill approach sold as essential.
The vaccines were never required for the health these communities actually display. The drugs aren’t fixing what the modern lifestyle created. Real food and real movement are quietly delivering the vibrant, resilient health that endless prescriptions have failed to restore for so many.
They didn’t set out to embarrass anyone. They just kept doing what humans did for most of history — and accidentally became the clearest control group we have.
Jonna Schultz retweeted
🚨🚨🚨🚨Today the U.S. House passed the Sunshine Protection Act, advancing legislation that would make Daylight Saving Time permanent nationwide.
This is the biggest legislative step this issue has taken in years but it is not law.
The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate, where there is still an opportunity for it to be debated, amended, or rejected. If you care about health and circadian biology, this is the time to speak up.
The scientific case against permanent DST has become increasingly strong:
• Morning light is the most powerful signal for synchronizing the human circadian clock.
• Permanent DST delays sunrise for much of the year, especially in winter, reducing exposure to morning light when our brains need it most.
• Later sunrises are associated with chronic circadian misalignment, sleep loss, poorer mood, reduced alertness, and increased cardiometabolic risk.
• Studies comparing western versus eastern portions of time zones consistently show worse health outcomes where people experience later sunrises despite sharing the same clock time.
• The American Academy of Sleep Medicine and numerous sleep and circadian experts recommend permanent Standard Time, not permanent DST, as the option that best aligns with human biology.
The argument for permanent DST is largely one of convenience and preference for lighter evenings. The argument for permanent Standard Time is one of physiology and public health.
If you believe our laws should reflect the best available scientific evidence, now is the time to respectfully contact your U.S. Senators. Tell them that while ending the twice-yearly clock changes is a worthy goal, permanent Daylight Saving Time is not the healthiest solution. Ask them instead to support permanent Standard Time, which preserves the morning light our circadian system depends on.
Please REPOST this. The Senate has not yet voted, and informed voices can still make a difference.
@LeaderJohnThune is the Senate majority leader that will determine when this legislation comes to the Senate for debate. He should know how you feel.
Jonna Schultz retweeted
I just recorded my longest interview to date with Dave Feldman (.@realDaveFeldman), a respected voice in the health space.
For three hours, I shared the raw stories from a decade running my care homes.
Here are a few of them:
1) Families break down crying right in front of me
