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Subconscious Eating Equals Subcutaneous Fat

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This is probably the easiest thing you can do for health and beauty. I just stumbled upon it. As I work from home now, guess what? I own a refrigerator. I also go to Costco. So I have lots of pantries stuffed with food. Some good some bad. So there are cans of sardines and tuna and salmon and so much produce.

So there are great choices and there are still some bad choices although I am trying to slowly wean myself off of hard core sugary snacks with nuts and dried fruits.

For the first time in my life I am having trouble losing weight. In the past the moment I thought of losing weight a few days would pass and it was gone before I even thought of how I was going to do it.

Go ahead send the hate mail. Granted I was running 5 miles a day I was thirty years younger. I worked in a printing plant. So other than avoiding a shitty candy machine, it wasnt too tough. But maybe dont send the hate mail yet because I am struggling but I will figure it out, because I want to.

Even back then, I did have one big challenge I took clients out to lunch. But I had a trick for that. I could imagine whatever I wanted. I could salivate over fillet mignon and lobster and the dessert tray. I only need 2 seconds of will power.

When the waiter came, my only rule was whatever you are thinking is irrelevant just blurt out grilled salmon salad and a perrier.

Thats it 2 seconds. Most days the moment he walked away from the table I did have the urge to call him back. But I wasnt going to do that in front of my clients.

And number 2 ( fitting for this reason) I didnt want to be a fat sick alcoholic, like most salesman were. I was surrounded by motivation. And It was work.

Everyone at the infamous Palm Too or Sparks or Ruth Chris or wherever were either fat, and drunk and really died off quickly. Seeing guts so big they couldnt even get close to the table was motivating and made it obvious this was work and overeating was an occupational hazard.

Now I did allow myself some fun and variety if I was out on a date in the evening. But I loved looking good and feeling great more than I loved “food”

PS my favorite saying is
“Nothing tastes as good as looking good feels”

If you internalize this and memorize this you dont even have to read anything or diet anymore.

I actually wanted to write about something different this morning. Because I realized I was working at home, eating at least 3 meals a day at home and watching TV while I was eating.

Since I stopped watching TV to avoid feeling like shit watching how bad the world and our country is I realized that I was starting to eat consciously and was even enjoying certain foods.

So I stumbled upon this theory accidentally.

I wrote this yesterday when I woke up.

Subconscious eating makes subcutaneous fat.

How can you consciously eat shit? It doesn’t even make any sense. The problem is we rarely eat consciously. Imagine thinking about what you’re eating.

What you’re placing in your mouth. The fact that it’s actually going into your body and your body has to deal with it. What’s it going to do to your body? Will it make you fat? Are you even hungry? Why are you eating it?

It’s usually not even possible to have any of these thoughts because you’re watching TV. You’re talking to someone. Maybe you’re anxious. There is 100 things going on in your mind and none of them have anything to do with what you’re eating.

Being conscious is just not that complicated.

Think before you eat.

Think while you’re eating. It could actually really be enjoyable in a nice way.

The other day  I crunched on a miniature red pepper. Oh my God the sound and it exploded in my mouth. It tasted fabulous.

There is a lot of great food on this planet that wasn’t manufactured.

Eat consciously if you don’t want subcutaneous fat, don’t eat subconsciously try to remember that. 

Different things work for different people. A lot of people resonate with “nothing tastes as good as looking good feels”

But watching TV while eating? Really? Politics? Again from my other post if your subconscious can activate your body so physically that you can avoid getting hit by a car you didnt even see? Imagine what is going on in your body while you are watchching your favorite political channel while subconsciously eating and diverting all of your energy to your nervous system and your muscles getting ready for fight or flight, probably away from your digestive system.

If I was a scientist I would drop the acid test into your stomach to see what is going on while you are agitated when you watch TV. Measure your heart beat blood pressure. We are probably really doing incredible damage on so many levels when we watch TV and eat.

We have no idea how much harm you are doing to yourself besides getting overweight.

Part Three of our Survival Programming

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I previously wrote about sugar and fat and all the ways we are wired or have evolved to survive that today are sabotaging us. But stress is so important that it deserves a post onto itself. This fight of flight mechanism is also hard wired into our very survival. A cascade of hormones are released in order to prepare to fight or flight. Your heart beats faster, muscles tense, you breathe more quickly. Heck I even notice these thing when I am angry. Long term effects; anxiety depression, addiction, even weight gain.

We even know the exact mechanisms of how this occurs including the regions of the brain affected and the exact hormones released. There is a great article in Harvard Medical School Publishing from where I summarized this post as i added it to my premise that “Grog” or caveman is literally running your life in so many ways.

Want a perfect example of how really cool and efficient and below your awareness this cascade happens? This cascade of visual and physical changes is what allows you to jump out of the way of a speeding car before your awareness is fully cognizant that you were even in danger. How’s that for Grog finally doing something good for you? But think about it, along with that comes all the things he is killing you with.

If he can take over that quickly without your awareness. Surely you must comprehend all the bad he is doing to you without your awareness. Overeating for stress or for the next famine that will never happen. Or losing your temper because of a perceived threat that doesnt really even exist. So this cascade of chemicals and physical changes happens instantaneously, how can you possibly even stop it without your awarness.

There is a cascade of really bad stuff that happens with chronic stress, overeating, high blood pressure, damaged arteries, the list is really bad. There is also a long list of things you can do to counteract this, like meditation, relaxation response. Hopefully I have at least opened your eyes to all of this. How about challenging yourrself to eat one meal mindfully? Notice what you are eating when you are full Dont leg Grog tell you keep eating store fat. How about noticing if you are hungry when you reach for something? I have noticed I am rarely hungry. We truly live in the land of plenty, We eat out of habit and stress and Grog induced eating. So stress does permeate in oh so many ways.

Grog is ruining your life by making all of your bad choices.

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I have said this before but its worth repeating as many times as it takes in as many ways for you to learn the core of pretty much all of your problems. Overeating, eating too many sweets, making the wrong choices in relationships, getting lost on your i phone i pad in or your favorite app or game, being lazy, not exercising. The list is endless.

If I can teach the world this one thing they will erect statues of me at some point in the future. So it is worth repeating. Like a book that can easily be summarized in one chapter, but contains countless examples. Lets see the 80/20 rule. Did I really need 400 pages of examples? Some ideas are so important its worth beating it into you primitive hard wired brain.

This is not only one of them, but this concept has so many tentacles it is worth exploring and uncovering all the far reaching consequences that are effecting you so you can at least have a fighting chance to make some changes. As well as having the awareness to observe who is making your decisions, so you can intervene when necessary and make adjustments.

For anyone alive today you can thank Grog or whatever your ancestors names were. Think about the unfathomable number of ancestors that preceded you. You can either believe in evolution or we were just placed here by god fully formed. If we have evolved over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years you obviously evolved to avoid fire and bitter poisons and avoid predators, and that part of you might even be hard wired in your neurology from even more primitive ancestors.

So thing about the enormity of what brought you here, even if you want to just believe that you only had 75,000 years of human ancestors. Actually if you want to check out a really fun video, check this youtube out. But back to my point. So if any single one of at least many thousands of your ancestors didnt have a well formed sweet tooth that avoided bitter poisons, your great great great….. well you get the idea, they would have died. So your immediate parents and great grand parents wouldnt have been born and you wouldnt exist. That is so profound. So you crave sweets, duh! Of course you do. Its hard wired into your primitive brain or be evolution call it what you will. And if you watched the youtube and believe that we further evolved from monkeys or chimps and their ancestors, then that is hard wiring that has existed for millions of years. So its there live with it.

But we have a ton of ways of dealing with it from supplements like chromium and even cinnamon and a few others. And even substituting. I recently started buying mixed nuts with raisins, dried cranberries mango and pineapple. Do I still occasionally buy ice cream? Yes. But at least I am not eating cookies all day long. I even resisted buying cookies and instead bought dried apple crisps for a snack. But you can also make sure you are fully satiated with enough protein and fat so you are not starving. For me that is eggs or a hard boiled egg for breakfast or early lunch or a can of sardines, tuna or salmon.

I was reviewing this post. This is HUGE and needs to be expanded. You will have to find what works for you. I can promise you one thing, no glucose starved brain is going to resist a candy bar or some cookies. So find the right compromise for you. Actually fat is satiety for me. But i just googled “fat and satiety” I wanted to double check myself before I shared this with a friend. Its really complex and there are opposite views on this including types of fat. Maybe thats why for me no 1 is eggs. Sardines and Salmon and Tuna do nothing for my satiety. Back to keeping track of what works for you or your biomedical individuality.

Want to hear something crazy to prove you need to “do you” learn you track you? I just hung up with a friend from Florida who was way off kilter, balance whatever. Her vitamin D was 14. Its supposed to be 80. She is as white as sand, so its not dark skin blocking the sun. She gets 20 minutes of full sun every day. So keep track of you. If you have insurance get as many tests as your insurance will pay for. My twice a year blood tests are over 6pages long, costs the insurance company over $6000, and tests all my hormones. The doctor writes CPT codes to justify testing everything.

But can you imagine not testing vitamin D? Thank god that was discovered and adjusted before Covid.

I think sugar is our number one enemy so it was worth going into that detail. Our newly emerged no 2 threat or maybe should be called our no 1 threat is our, apps, and our phones. Everyone is addicted to something. Middle aged women scouring Pinterest for their next big decorating idea, younger people incessantly scrolling through tik tok or baby boomers still on facebook. And who is it on Instagram LOL? And what about games? So there are two problems here. One is dopamine and the other is your primitive desire to not become prey ie someone else’s food.

PS in hope of motivating you, do you really want this guy, Grog running your life? or should I say ruining your life? Because I guarantee you he is, unless you work really hard at recognizing where he is “F”ing with you. So obviously I am using Grog as the representative of your primitive brain. PS they do say we only use 10% of our brains. And thats a genius. Maybe Grog is in charge of the other 90%. Just sayin. Do we even know what goes on in the other 90%? So a quick little search tells us that the remaining 90% are glial or some sort of neural cells. So thats just leave it at the fact that there is a lot of programming in our brain that drives our behavior, whether is inherited or hard wired. I think we can all agree if our ancestors didnt have acute senses and the ability to notice everything around themselves, they too would have died off.

Hmmm what do we have in today’s world that indeed might actually sabotage those with the highest ability to notice everything and not get eaten by a lion or step into quick sand or avoid the snake or other predator hanging from a tree or sneaking up behind us? So those with the keen abilities to notice everything are all of our ancestors, or we wouldnt be here. So dont beat yourself up when you pick up your phone to call work and you see a dozen notifications and you land up losing yourself, because that is how you have been programmed for millions of years. Start by turning off all but absolutely necessary notifications. When you do CHOOSE to go to Facebook or whatever your favorite app is, it will still be there and all the notifications will be there. You just dont need them screaming at you on your home screen. Assuming you are human.

PS what about dopamine? So besides your absolutely necessary survival skill of noticing everything, you get a hit of dopamine, every time you click and see something. You are no better than a chimp pressing a bar to get food or Grog snorting cocaine for the first time. In fact if you give mice the choice of cocaine or food they will press that bar until they die. Is it really that different when we slowly extinguish our life force in favor of tapping away on some stupid app? The average person spends 4 hours a day on screen. I know mine is twice as high. So we have some serious problems here. Dopamine probably a great idea for another post.

I think if we could even tackle the top 2 we would have fabulous lives or improve our lives dramatically. Literally be living our lives vs just observing it. Heck me just writing vs playing or reading or watching TV or facebook is a 100% improvement of my time. I am thinking, writing, sharing contrasting comparing researching vs mindlessly clicking just to make someone a lot of money. Just stop, look, listen to your body, quiet your mind. What is important to you, not the advertiser? Is it going for a walk calling a relative a friend, doing some gardening, taking a class.

To make matters worse, the whole world was locked down for 2 years. So Grog had full control of all of us. Millions of small businesses were destroyed while Amazon prospered. We learned to stay at home and further immerse ourselves on our little rectangles ordering stuff. Its been a true disaster on so many levels. We need to fight that much harder to regain control of our brains and our lives.

You may never completely eliminate Grog or Grog thinking from your brain. But you certainly dont need to let him run everything all the time. I went a little deeper in another blog on happiness. But its worth repeating here, if you are wired or programmed to avoid pain any association to previous pain will be avoided. Lets face it all of these programs are connected in your brain. You can spend $50,000 a year going to psychoanalysis three times a week, or you can simply explore the ways that you have adopted programs with flaws into your brain.

I gave the analogy in my other blog. You were right to dump the partner that drank too much physically and mentally abused you and literally beat the shit out of you every week and you could never find him when you tried to call him. But that program which was correctly fully loaded into your brain will start playing when any of those red flags appear in the future.

So of course when you finally meet the brilliant brain surgeon, nicest guy in the world, kisses the ground you walk on, and he is unreachable because the brain surgery took 10 hours not the three he said it would take, you have already started to play the program of the A hole that almost killed you. So you are freaking out running “A” hole program for 7 hours imagining all of the times no 1 Ahole cheated on you and visualizing all kinds of crazy stuff. And when he finally calls you after 10 hour exhausting surgery you probably hand up on him and dont want to even believe him. And guess what anyone smart enough to be a brain surgeon is so highly focused on his work. He probably does neglect other minutiae in his life. So that is the typical genius that will forget to charge his phone or even take his phone with him. So what do you do? So you fight with him every time he triggers one of your programs and you can guess where this relationship is going.

But again back to the basic programming we all share. Survival. What is probably hard wired for survival. I would argue that today we are still faced with the two giant ones causing 90% of our problems. Why are 60% of the people in this county obese? Its not just the sweet tooth. Guess what? If your ancestors werent absolutely the best at storing fat, you wouldnt be reading this. You know what else you needed to do to survive 10,000 years ago? Rest and conserve energy in between the rare killing of animals that you ate. I am talking about before agriculture and refrigeration (LOL). Observe any animal, a cat a lion a dog. They eat and they sleep. Its the right thing to do to store energy(fat) and conserve energy, sleep. So we have to literally fight our programming. Its a wonder any of us ever do anything.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things i can not change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. This applies to everything. I found one that had this added sentence “living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time” How profound.

Part three of our Survival Equation that is killing us This is worth of another blog.

NAC if you dont know what this is, its even more important you read this.

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For starters it saved my life. But for those with a short attention span. Let me start with, it is actually used in hospitals as a drug to detoxify the liver with tylenol overdoses. This is truly a miracle supplement available as an over the counter supplement that has a plethora of benefits. If you drink alcohol, take it, full stop. I am just blown away by the sheer magnitude of articles when I googled “NAC for alcohol” I dont even know where to start. You should try that search yourself.

Here is a nice summary from Forbes Magazine.

“Many acute and chronic health conditions, including aging [related issues], diabetes and heart disease are associated with low glutathione levels. Because of this, glutathione supplementation is often recommended to prevent or treat diseases,” explains Kelly Johnson-Arbor, M.D., medical toxicologist and co-medical director at the National Capital Poison Center in Washington, DC. “Since oral glutathione is not absorbed well by the human body, its precursor—NAC—is often used to achieve higher glutathione levels.”

“NAC’s potential activity against SARS-CoV-2 is still under clinical studies. However, there are clinical studies to support its use to decrease the severity, duration and frequency of influenza, common colds, recurrent bronchitis and recurrent pneumonia,” says Jia-Yia Liu, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and creator of NACPRO+, a supplement primarily based on the properties of NAC.

Why it works Your body breaks down alcohol into acetaldehyde, a highly-reactive compound that is actually much more toxic to your brain than alcohol itself. Hangover symptoms can be prevented or significantly reduced if you help your body get rid of the acetaldehyde. Hangover symptoms are caused when your liver enzymes and antioxidants try to detoxify and eliminate it, but often cannot keep up. You can help your liver by supporting your body’s natural detoxification process. One way to mop up acetaldehyde is by increasing glutathione, your body’s master antioxidant. You can increase glutathione is by taking n-acetyl- cysteine (NAC). NAC is the precursor to glutathione. Oral gluathione does not appear to be effective. I am speaking to the average person that is not getting IV vitamin treatments.

NAC Here is a nice article on Web MD I am not even going to suggest some of the benefits they are suggestion because I dont want the FBI and the FDA raiding my house at 4am for suggesting a supplement can have benefits at preventing a disease. Here is their link and a few of their suggestions.

Glutathione plays a role in many chemical reactions in your body. It also helps detoxify chemicals, including some that your body creates naturally, as well as pollutants and drugs.

“Your supply of glutathione seems to decrease as you get older, possibly because your body can’t create as much. Lower glutathione levels appear to go hand-in-hand with poorer health. For instance, lower levels may play a role in many conditions that are more likely to develop in older people.

Your glutathione levels may also decrease during certain health problems, such as:

I can also say from my observation, when my dad was suffering from Parkinsons. He shuffled terribly and could barely walk and needed to lean on his walker all of the time. I took him for glutathione IVs. I took a video of him after his IV. He walked normally and said he didnt need the walker. So I told him to carry it so he could drop it and use it if he needed it. It was quite remarkable.

While NAC is generally considered safe, side effects can occur.

Possible side effects of NAC include: 

  • Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting or diarrhea
  • Low blood pressure
  • Anaphylactic reactions, such as rash, swelling, tightness of the chest or difficulty breathing
  • Increased heart rate
  • Dizziness or lightheadedness

In most cases, adverse side effects of NAC are mild. However, the supplement isn’t right for everyone. People with certain medical conditions should avoid taking NAC.

Don’t take NAC if you have a bleeding disorder, know you are allergic to NAC or suffer from cystinuria (a rare kidney stone condition). NAC can also potentially elevate your homocysteine levels in high doses, which is an amino acid associated with heart disease, explains Dr. Liu.

Although NAC is available with and without a prescription, our experts agree that anyone considering a NAC supplement should first talk with their doctor.

PS in the grandest irony of all because NAC is so effective it is still being used in emergency rooms to save lives with tylenol overdoses, so that is a justification to call it a drug and there is a current push to restrict it based upon that. I Sure hope they dont start using vitamin C in hospitals then they can take that away from us too.

Finally as I alluded to in the first paragraph. I had hepatitis C, at least since the seventies. So perhaps more than 50 years. In fact I had it before it had a name. They called it Non A Non B they didnt know what it was. My doctor from the seventies retired so they offered me my blood tests. I had highly elevated liver enzyme in my blood tests from the seventies. I also got a biopsy in the 90’s where they take a chunk of your liver out. At that point they said I was stage 3. After that there is stage 4 cirrohsis liver cancer and death. As I also said I was friends with Oz Garcia. I did a lot of IV gluathione and NAC.

Follow me for a moment it gets a bit complicated. So I was stage 3 in the 90’s based on the gold standard, a biopsy. 20 years later around 2010 I did a blood test that said I was stage one, so the insurance company refused to spend over 100k for my treatment. I said hold on I have a biopsy from the 90’s They said well its impossible that you could have improved so we will treat you. How did that happen? My doctor said I would have a compromised liver and would have to be constantly monitoring it for the rest of my life. After treatment I did my first liver scan. They said my liver was perfectly normal. I said normal for someone who has had hep c for 50 years? They said no, normal for someone who never had any disease. You decide why I am healthy with a perfectly normal liver. Not going to jail to suggest that IV vitamins and supplements could have possibly contributed to protecting my liver and reversing liver disease.

2 Minute Exercise? Sign Me Up

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I have always been a bit lazy when it comes to exercise. Actually I remember going to Equinox Gym in NYC and saw my friend there and proceeded to hit a few machines and leave. He came up to me and said “Johnny I was here for an hour before you got here, and will be here for another half hour. I watched you do 2 minutes of exercise, give 3 girls air kisses and leave, whats up with that?” i replied, “look at me and look at you”

So I have been vindicated. Google it there are a lot of articles on this. I think its more psychological than physical. People think that if they are not committed to doing a long workout they should not go at all or do. Well first of all I notice if I just go or start or whatever some days I do stay longer go farther.

In fact I will be the perfect guinea pig for this and report back to you. I did run from age 26 to 56. And I did play tennis. Gym, yea 2 minutes. But now that I have become and old fat “F” lets see what it takes to transform back. I do have a cheat on my side. We have EMsculpt at our office. So once I got my abs, which looked great, I started doing pushups. And as I said on another post. It started with one half assed pushup and now is 2o to thirty reasonably good ones.

But to my earlier point. I am so lazy now. But the other day I said I would walk to the corner. But I was talking on the phone so I landed up walking half a mile, and back, so I think thats a mile. Finally a good use for my phone and enjoyment of speaking to friends. So you have to find your own hacks. Almost like the book The One Minute Manager. It said catch even the worst employee doing something good and praise them. So catch yourself doing something good and praise yourself. And if it works put it into your repertoire.

For me I now have a rule to do pushups before my shower. Anywhere from 20 to 40. Now if I only took showers more often.

So here I am cant even believe my age. But I did finally slip. I picked up a Covid 10. So post jogging which I stopped in my mid 50’s I went from 155 12 percent body fat to 165. I am now at 175 and 24% body fat. I cant believe its actually hard to lose weight. In the past the minute I even thought about losing weight it simply fell off.

So I am going to add 2 minutes here and there and report back.

How about a stronger sex muscle?

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EMsella. You have all heard about Kegels right? Women have been told forever do 20 kegels a day.

It will strengthen your muscles. PS its the same for men. So with Emsella you get 11,000 kegels by just sitting on the device for 20 minutes fully clothed. Cant think of anything easier. And its FDA approved for incontinence. And guess what adult diapers are outselling baby diapers in Japan and we are about 2 years behind them I am not waiting I am improving that muscle now. PS its also under study for erectile dysfunction. The whole world is going to go crazy if that happens. Have you ever heard of Viagra? Guess what happens when you help more men have more sex? So here is a link so you can read more about it.

Emsella Now there is a hack that everyone can get behind. And of course for women who have had a few children, its not uncommon for them to pee a bit when they laugh or in other circumstances. So here is your high tech easy cure to tighten up that muscle again. Your husband just might thank you.

NEWS FLASH Viagra is good for your HEART and your BRAIN ?

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“Viagra and Cialis May Cut Risk of Early Death From Heart Disease by 25 Percent.” A large new study shows that men who take erectile dysfunction medication are less likely to experience heart failure, stroke, and heart attack.Jan 25, 2023

A study in the Journal of Sexual medicine of 23,000 men with ED found that those who took medication to treat the condition had a 39% lower rate of death due to cardiovascular disease. Did you read that? 25% , 39% lower rate of death by heart disease? I am screaming at you. This is insane. I was going to link to more articles. But even that is crazy there are dozens of articles google it yourself.

This is probably the biggest news in my life. A safe, tested approved drug that has an astonishing extremely high statistical effect on the biggest disease in the world.

I dont sell this. I simply love my friends and family and the more I read about this the more I am in shock. Its shameful and despicable that we havent heard about this when some of the studies go back more than 10 years. Many extremely dangerous drugs are approved with as little as a one percent improvement.

For most drugs, when you hear the commercials on TV they need a fast talker to list all of the potential side effects in less than 30 seconds, usually including sudden death, for a mere rash. We are talking lowering the rate of dying from heart disease.

I know some of you are getting curious. Here is a decent article about how it works, the actual drug and the generics.

The side effects of Viagra are so tiny I can list them here without eating up the rest of the page. “Headaches, skin flushing, and upset stomach are common Viagra side effects. A stuffy nose and nose bleeds are also possible. But it’s important to watch for more serious problems, like an erection that lasts longer than 4 hours or vision changes.Apr 21, 2023″

Seriously thats it? Why isnt it required that we all take it? Especially when you read in the summary provided by Harvard Health that it reduces the likelihood of alzheimer’s by close to 70%.

I never have had any of those side effects, and I take 50mg a day a few days a week. My endocrinologist agreed 100% to take it for heart health and brain health and prescribed it for me for those reasons.

Forget about sex. What is more important then your heart and your brain? We will all get older, even if we are young now. The true “limiting” factor is our brain and our heart. No one wants to grow older with no brain and when our “ticker” gives out we are done.

THERE IS ONLY ONE POSSIBLE EXPLANATION. In my opinion if Viagra was not off patent for so long and so so cheap, it would be front page news and required by everyone to take.

Look in your email box. Everyone is making it. Even my sister gets emails for Viagra. Its been off patent for many decades. It literally costs pennies to make. Maybe the health insurance companies will lead the way because they would rather pay a few pennies for Viagra vs paying for all kinds of heart surgeries and Alzheimer’s drugs. Granted it would destroy a multi-billion dollar industry. Can we talk? Lets face it one of the biggest industries in the United States is the heart industry, $54 billion. And Alzheimer’s is not that far behind and growing fast. Global Alzheimer’s Disease Market $25 Billion by 2029

Do the math. If it costs pennies to make. That is literally cheaper than bottled water. How is anyone going to make any money? You know from looking in your email spam folder everyone is selling it.

We also know it literally costs at least 10 million for an FDA double blind placebo controlled study. In this case it would probably cost a lot more. We would have to do extensive studies researching all of our participants habits from exercise to diet. It might literally be impossible and take at least a decade to do a study.

So what are we left with? The correlation. Personally I feel the correlation speaks so loudly its deafening. These numbers are astonishing.

In the mean time why not follow one of “johnisms” We all place our bets in life. I would bet on a drug that increases the circulation of the blood by relaxing your blood vessels with studies showing 69% less alzheimes and 37% less heart disease. That is a bet I am willing to make for my life.

If there is one thing we all learned in the past 5 years is profit comes before life. I honestly did not think they would let people die for profit. But anyone with a working brain couldnt help but notice that during Covid the highest priority was profit, lives be dammed. And if you need further proof just look towards Ukraine. Its a fact that very early on a peace could have been negotiated if we allowed Russia to maintain Crimea which was annexed in 2014. What country doesnt want access to the sea? Russia needed a port that is open all year not frozen like their northern ports. It also needed Ukraine to not join NATO. But we would rather spend trillions to destroy Ukraine, kill countless lives and rebuild it. Sorry off topic. But is it? Its all about profit. So if there are drugs that cost pennies that will preserve your brain and your heart, what are you waiting for?

In this article I am going to focus on Viagra and Alzheimer’s. Actually I am sure I can find a thousand articles about how sex is good for you if you do engage in more sex as a side effect of this. But the news for just Alzheimer’s is astounding. I have always watched FDA drug approvals and have a good sense and a middle of the road opinion on the FDA understanding the process and what is at stake.

I also know about how much money is spent on the approval process. We also dont want to approve something that has correlation without rigorous testing and a placebo group to compare to. If you really want to get into it read Overdosed America. It was written by a doctor that left medicine because he was sickened by the fact that they approved a drug for inflammation that had a serious risk to the heart and only a minimal benefit. In that book he explains that drugs are often approved with little to no benefit. I am talking 1% with deadly side effects, which is why he wrote the book overdosed America. So when we have a drug that seems to prevent alzheimers by 67% that is utilizing an already approved drug ( approved in 1998)with a known safety profile , it is pretty much criminal that, that research isnt widely disseminated. I recently saw it on Fox News and here is the cliff notes as expressed by Harvard.

AND EVEN MORE BENEFITS? ALZHEIMERS TOO? 69% less likely Harvard? r u “f’ing kidding me?

“If you take sildenafil (Viagra, Revatio) to treat erectile dysfunction or pulmonary arterial hypertension, here’s good news: the little blue or white pill may also be protecting you from Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers analyzed insurance claims data of 7.23 million people and found sildenafil users were 69% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s over a six-year period than non-users. The possible link? As part of the study, the researchers also examined brain cells from Alzheimer’s patients and found sildenafil users had more brain cell growth and slower formation of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain, an early biomarker of Alzheimer’s.

It’s important to note that the results showed only an association between sildenafil use and lower Alzheimer’s risk. Randomized controlled studies are needed to confirm the findings. But so far, it looks like sildenafil could have far-reaching health benefits. The results were published online Dec. 6, 2021, by Nature Aging.”

If you google Harvard and Alzheimer’s you will not find this article. But if you google Harvard Alzheimer’s and viagra you will find it for yourself. By the way the first search says all the research was focused on the plaques on the brain. Yet this is saying there is improvement and prevention by focusing on circulation. How many billions of dollars went down the drain focusing on the wrong thing. PS maybe they should have thought about correlation is not causation, when it came to plaques on the brain. Kind of like the first rule of common sense. What do I know I am not a doctor?

We all know or have heard of someone that has been cured by some ancient remedy or by a drug that hasnt been approved in the United States. But we need to know that it will not harm different individuals. Is it safe for a grandmother ? a small child ? someone with other diseases, on other medications ? The process is lengthy and costly. It costs easily tens of millions of dollars for the approval process. In total, billions might be spent between research development and trials.

So if you can prove even a tiny improvement and it is proven safe, it is approved. I know. Here is a funny example. The lasers for growing hair. They do improve and regrow approximately 10% of hair lost. But I only have 10 hairs on my head, do you think 1 more hair on my head is a cosmetic improvement ? But that is an example of an FDA approved device for growing hair and how little the results might be so you can ponder these mind blowing statistics about Alzheimer’s.

As with any medical treatment, it is crucial for individuals to consult with their healthcare providers before considering the use of Viagra for conditions other than erectile dysfunction. Healthcare professionals can assess an individual’s medical history, evaluate the available evidence, and provide personalized recommendations based on the latest research findings.

What about exercise ?

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What items do you need for a home gym workout routine, and how much will it cost me?

Zero. I saw my best results when I started doing pushups. I did not have those muscles at all. I could barely do one. Now I reached 50 but I have backed off a bit. I do minimum 20 now. But I can see a huge difference in my chest shoulders and back. Obviously you can exercise any muscle you want. Google search isometric exercises. Or you can just be a jerk like me and everyone else and buy expensive equipment or even a treadmill. They work really well as a place to store boxes and junk. Seriously I just searched what percentage of people use their treadmills and saw a figure that Americans spend $397 MILLION ANNUALLY on unused gym memberships. WOW ! Talk about hitting lotto. So if you want to win the grand prize in lotto dont buy anything. If I remember correctly, actually just searched it. Charles Atlas isometric. Assuming you are not looking to get bigger than Mr America, all you need is your own body weight. Spend your energy and time exercising not shopping for equipment. Actually you just got me motivated to try some isometric exercises for other body parts. So thanks for the question.

FYI those new non slip hangers with felt on them you see everywhere are less than $1 each so you might want to save a few thousand dollars and buy a coat hanger vs a treadmill to hang your clothes. And a coat hanger takes up less room.