Well, I'm not being deliberately crabby about your selections as you kick off book reviews as a regular feature.
But when has any organized society *not* tried to indoctrinate its members? Did our brains flourish wonderfully under the tyranny of Christendom or Islam or any religion/cult dominant in its region? Were geniuses cultivated under the crushing hierarchy of Hinduism? Or Confucianism? Hasn't it always been that the magnificent achievements seen at one time or another under all these systems were the fruits of the iconoclasts in each society?
I get the feeling that a lot of these smart book-writers are using their fine reputations to be able to sell books that sound important but get a bit Chicken Littly over the usual cycles of history.
I think during the faked pandemic it demonstrated how easily we can lose our humanity. I have just finished listening to a recording that had been inadvertently taken of a woman's mother in hospital diagnosed with Covid. The poor woman was calling out for help isolated in her hospital room. She was pleading to be untied and given water and some food and all the doctor could say was "you have to be cooperative". That was a torture chamber not a hospital room, how many rooms in how many countries has this malevolent and primitive behaviour been repeated, there was not a spark of humanity in that doctor. I listened to the stories in the Scottish covid inquiry from the relatives and the inhumanity to sick people was in abundance.
It is inevitable that mental health will deteriorate, because as a society we have pursued efficiency through the division of understanding which allows for specialisation, and the growth of representational meaning. Representation allows us to think about meaning while pursuing efficiency, a progression that ends in AI, which is the global consensus that sentience has no role in intelligence, which is substrate-independent.
In effect, this says that senility is sanity, thus removing an even larger contrast than by equating men and women by removing the immutability of sex
Almost everyone in the world, from birth to death, needs proper vitamin D3 supplementation in order to attain at least the 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D level needed for proper immune system function.
This is especially so as we age. Please see the research articles cited and discussed, regarding dementia / neurodegeneration and 25-hydroxyvitamin D in this section: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.3 and more generally in this whole, long, page, which starts with recommendations about how much vitamin D3 to supplement, according to body weight and obesity status.
The level (concentration) of 25-hydroxyvitamin D circulating in the bloodstream is what is measured in "vitamin D" blood tests. Neither vitamin D3 cholecalciferol or 25-hydroxyvitamin D calcifediol (or "calcidiol") are signaling molecules. They do not function as hormones, which are blood-borne substances (also perhaps in the cerebro-spinal fluid) emitted by one part of the body to control or affect the behaviour of one or more types of cell elsewhere in the body.
25-hydroxyvitamin D is not a vitamin. It is produced, primarily in the liver, by hydroxylating vitamin D3 on the 25th carbon. This takes several days and with regular vitamin D3 intakes, every day to week or ten days, it takes several months for the circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D level to rise to a stable level. Its half-life in the bloodstream is a month or two at low levels (which are normal today) and a week or two at higher, healthy, levels such as 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L.
The natural source of vitamin D3 is ultraviolet B light, ca. 293 nanometres, breaking a carbon ring in 7-dehydrocholesterol, which is present in the skin. With white skin this can produce a healthy amount of vitamin D3, but such exposure always damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer. Such UV-B is only available naturally from high elevation sunlight, without intervening glass, sunscreen or clothing. For people who live more than about 30 degrees from the equator, this is only available in the middle of cloud-free summer days.
There is very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not, or in multivitamins. Daily supplemental quantities, such as 0.015 milligram (15 micrograms, 600 IU) recommended by governments and many doctors are generally enough to attain the 20 ng/mL 50 nmol/L level of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D the kidneys need to regulate calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism, by hydroxylating it at the number 1 carbon to form 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D calcitriol, which goes into circulation and functions as a hormone. This very low level (ca. 0.05 ng/mL) of calcitriol is the sole hormonal function of these three compounds.
Many types of immune cell need a good supply of 25-hydroxyvitamin D because each individual cell's ability to respond to its changing circumstances depends upon the successful activation and completion of its internal 25-hydroxyvitamin D >>> calcitriol intracrine signaling system. This is unrelated to hormonal signaling. Very few doctors or immunologists understand this, since it was only discovered in the last decade or two, and because it has never been explained in a tutorial fashion in any peer-reviewed journal. You can read such tutorials at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/02-intracrine/ or, in less detail, at the start of https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
In most or all countries, most people have only a fraction of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune system needs to function properly. The problems begin before birth: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.2, with preeclampsia, pre-term birth and the later development of autism, ADHD, intellectual disability and schizophrenia. Infectious diseases, cancer and auto-immune diseases are more prevalent, harmful and deadly than they would be if everyone had at least 50 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
For average weight adults, without obesity, 0.125 mg (125 micrograms, 5000 IU) is a good average daily amount of vitamin D3 to supplement, without the need for "vitamin D" blood tests. This is a gram every 22 years, and pharma grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram, ex-factory.
Damn good book..riveting. I've already lent my copy. Hope i get it back.
Guard your hippo as Clif High says. ( hippocampus)
Excellent book.
Check out https://entwine.substack.com/p/the-indoctrinated-brain
Well, I'm not being deliberately crabby about your selections as you kick off book reviews as a regular feature.
But when has any organized society *not* tried to indoctrinate its members? Did our brains flourish wonderfully under the tyranny of Christendom or Islam or any religion/cult dominant in its region? Were geniuses cultivated under the crushing hierarchy of Hinduism? Or Confucianism? Hasn't it always been that the magnificent achievements seen at one time or another under all these systems were the fruits of the iconoclasts in each society?
I get the feeling that a lot of these smart book-writers are using their fine reputations to be able to sell books that sound important but get a bit Chicken Littly over the usual cycles of history.
Bought it. Read it. Recommended it. Hope the message spreads far and wide.
I think during the faked pandemic it demonstrated how easily we can lose our humanity. I have just finished listening to a recording that had been inadvertently taken of a woman's mother in hospital diagnosed with Covid. The poor woman was calling out for help isolated in her hospital room. She was pleading to be untied and given water and some food and all the doctor could say was "you have to be cooperative". That was a torture chamber not a hospital room, how many rooms in how many countries has this malevolent and primitive behaviour been repeated, there was not a spark of humanity in that doctor. I listened to the stories in the Scottish covid inquiry from the relatives and the inhumanity to sick people was in abundance.
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It is inevitable that mental health will deteriorate, because as a society we have pursued efficiency through the division of understanding which allows for specialisation, and the growth of representational meaning. Representation allows us to think about meaning while pursuing efficiency, a progression that ends in AI, which is the global consensus that sentience has no role in intelligence, which is substrate-independent.
In effect, this says that senility is sanity, thus removing an even larger contrast than by equating men and women by removing the immutability of sex
Almost everyone in the world, from birth to death, needs proper vitamin D3 supplementation in order to attain at least the 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D level needed for proper immune system function.
This is especially so as we age. Please see the research articles cited and discussed, regarding dementia / neurodegeneration and 25-hydroxyvitamin D in this section: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.3 and more generally in this whole, long, page, which starts with recommendations about how much vitamin D3 to supplement, according to body weight and obesity status.
The level (concentration) of 25-hydroxyvitamin D circulating in the bloodstream is what is measured in "vitamin D" blood tests. Neither vitamin D3 cholecalciferol or 25-hydroxyvitamin D calcifediol (or "calcidiol") are signaling molecules. They do not function as hormones, which are blood-borne substances (also perhaps in the cerebro-spinal fluid) emitted by one part of the body to control or affect the behaviour of one or more types of cell elsewhere in the body.
25-hydroxyvitamin D is not a vitamin. It is produced, primarily in the liver, by hydroxylating vitamin D3 on the 25th carbon. This takes several days and with regular vitamin D3 intakes, every day to week or ten days, it takes several months for the circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D level to rise to a stable level. Its half-life in the bloodstream is a month or two at low levels (which are normal today) and a week or two at higher, healthy, levels such as 50 ng/mL 125 nmol/L.
The natural source of vitamin D3 is ultraviolet B light, ca. 293 nanometres, breaking a carbon ring in 7-dehydrocholesterol, which is present in the skin. With white skin this can produce a healthy amount of vitamin D3, but such exposure always damages DNA and so raises the risk of skin cancer. Such UV-B is only available naturally from high elevation sunlight, without intervening glass, sunscreen or clothing. For people who live more than about 30 degrees from the equator, this is only available in the middle of cloud-free summer days.
There is very little vitamin D3 in food, fortified or not, or in multivitamins. Daily supplemental quantities, such as 0.015 milligram (15 micrograms, 600 IU) recommended by governments and many doctors are generally enough to attain the 20 ng/mL 50 nmol/L level of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D the kidneys need to regulate calcium-phosphate-bone metabolism, by hydroxylating it at the number 1 carbon to form 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D calcitriol, which goes into circulation and functions as a hormone. This very low level (ca. 0.05 ng/mL) of calcitriol is the sole hormonal function of these three compounds.
Many types of immune cell need a good supply of 25-hydroxyvitamin D because each individual cell's ability to respond to its changing circumstances depends upon the successful activation and completion of its internal 25-hydroxyvitamin D >>> calcitriol intracrine signaling system. This is unrelated to hormonal signaling. Very few doctors or immunologists understand this, since it was only discovered in the last decade or two, and because it has never been explained in a tutorial fashion in any peer-reviewed journal. You can read such tutorials at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/02-intracrine/ or, in less detail, at the start of https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
In most or all countries, most people have only a fraction of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D their immune system needs to function properly. The problems begin before birth: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/#3.2, with preeclampsia, pre-term birth and the later development of autism, ADHD, intellectual disability and schizophrenia. Infectious diseases, cancer and auto-immune diseases are more prevalent, harmful and deadly than they would be if everyone had at least 50 ng/mL 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
For average weight adults, without obesity, 0.125 mg (125 micrograms, 5000 IU) is a good average daily amount of vitamin D3 to supplement, without the need for "vitamin D" blood tests. This is a gram every 22 years, and pharma grade vitamin D3 costs about USD$2.50 a gram, ex-factory.
remember early on when people were saying that the personalities of some of their recently jabbed friends had suddenly changed... https://eccentrik.substack.com/p/sheep-brain-top-molecular-geneticist?utm_campaign=comment&utm_medium=email&utm_source=substack&utm_content=post
If you want to fend them off... all you have to do is watch this ... https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-most-important-documentary-ever