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The majority of Americans might be misled by official health recommendations to eat “healthy” vegetable oils. Even the term “vegetable oil” is misleading because it gives you the impression that you are receiving vegetable micronutrients when these oils are actually highly toxic, industrially-processed seed oils. Seed oils are some of the most dangerous items you could eat. Tucker Goodrich and Dr Mercola discussed what will be the topic of Dr Mercola's next book, namely linoleic acid (LA), which he believed is likely the leading contributing cause of virtually all chronic diseases we've encountered over the last century. Unfortunately, this is a topic that most clinicians and health care practitioners who focus on natural medicine have only a superficial understanding of. Goodrich has a business background as a stockbroker and asset manager, and developed an IT risk management system used by two of the largest hedge funds in the world. A string of health cr...

Did you know that most anti-aging supplements do not work? Despite their big and lofty promises, most anti-aging pills don’t slow down aging. Examples are most vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and herbs. Luckily, there are science-based supplements that can slow down aging, extend lifespan and have a lot of science behind them to support this. That most anti-aging supplements don’t work is already bad in itself. But it can get even worse: some of them can actually be unhealthy, accelerate aging and shorten lifespan! We dug into the research to uncover “anti-aging” supplements you don’t want to take. 1. Most antioxidant supplements It’s still a widespread, popular belief that antioxidants slow down aging. Unfortunately, most antioxidants do not slow down aging.  Numerous large studies have shown that people who take antioxidants do not live longer, and in some cases even have shorter lifespans ( R , R , R ).  This makes sense, because when one takes antioxidants via a food ...

Milk can accelerate aging in various ways. Given milk impacts aging, which is a process that by definition takes a long time, it takes decades for these effects to manifest. However, milk can even have immediate pro-aging effects, like increasing insulin resistance or increasing the production of insulin drastically, as we will discuss below. In this article, we will explain several mechanisms by which milk can accelerate aging. How milk stimulates pro-aging growth pathways Milk is made by nature to make calves grow quickly. That’s why milk contains many substances to stimulate growth. However, growth stimulation also accelerates aging. One red thread through all aging research (biogerontology) is that too much stimulation of growth leads to faster aging. More precisely, milk contains various substances that stimulate growth receptors in cells, like insulin receptors, mTOR receptors, and insulin-like growth factor (IGF) receptors, making cells age faster. In biogerontology (the science...