N-Glycolylneuraminic acid

We're gonna talk about s- testing the unexpected sleep aid made from tea roots.

And, uh, we're also gonna talk about what happens when you eat red meat and sugar.

Whoa.

Something you don't wanna have happen, and that's every single person going in to eat, uh, meat and sugar.

Now, did you read the article-- Not the article, excuse me, the letter to my attorney, David Slater.

Alice Slater is his mother, very famous in the feminist movement 'cause she was one of the great feminist lawyers.

But David Slater, brand attorney, worked full time on my staff for years.

And when I was told, "You can't come back to PBS because you gave misinformation on sugar," well, I was telling the truth.

But IGF-1, we definitely want to cut down.

NEU5GC, this is something interesting and new.

You can look this up, but we're actually looking at as mammals, we don't have the ability to break this down and our immune system doesn't have this.

And animal proteins that when we eat that, it can trigger in many patients an inflammatory response, an autoimmune response.

Now, the other thing, if you're going to embark on a carnivore diet, let's be careful about our food choices that are available by eating animal products.

First of all, there is a sugar molecule in beef, lamb, and pork called Neu5Gc.

That sugar molecule is distinctly different from the sugar molecule that lines the blood vessels of chicken, fish, and us.

We have an antibody that can be developed when we're exposed to Neu5Gc-containing foods that we will attack our own blood vessels with that antibody.

So we don't want an autoimmune attack on our blood vessels, and there is considerable experimental evidence that one of the reasons that red meat promotes heart disease is actually from this molecule Neu5Gc prompting an autoimmune attack on our blood vessels.

The other thing that's concerning is that tumor cells can use Neu5Gc to hide from our immune system, to cloak themselves.

Now, here's the deal.

You and I do not produce Neu5Gc, so the only place a tumor cell could get Neu5Gc is for you to eat it in beef, lamb, or pork, and that's why there is an association.

The healthy user effect, which can make supplements appear more useful than they are, and the placebo effect, how real it is, and how surprisingly common it is for doctors to use it to effectively deceive patients.

In the rheumatoid arthritis chapter, I cover traditional Chinese medicine, introduce elimination diets, including fasting, and explore three overlooked sources of inflammation, Neu5Gc, endotoxins, and sodium versus potassium intake.

In the back pain chapter, I also cover acupuncture, dry needling, cupping, chiropractic spinal manipulation.

Spoiler alert, it's not all it's cracked up to be.