IN THE NEWS … Much has been made year’s end of purported medical myths allegedly dispelled by a Buffoonritish Medical Journal (BMJ) “study”. Do you consider whether fingernails grow after death and the effect of shaving on hair to be medical matters?
Other matters addressed were distortion more so and disservice by way of misinformation.
Drinking water was discouraged – as if people already don’t drink enough good, clean water – and reading in dim light dismissed as an issue even while admitting that it does cause some problems.
At least one outright error was made by the BMJ and passed along by mainstream media medical minions.
Eating a big turkey meal induces drowsiness due to high amounts of the essential amino acid tryptophan was “revealed” to be a “medical myth”.
What is medical about eating turkey or about an amino acid? That is dietary and nutritional either or both of which medical pholk have barely – if any – training. That explains other errors compounded in this alleged myth-busting.
The article noted that it is likely the alcohol served with these meals that causes drowsiness. Wrong again.
First off, from my earliest childhood memories to the present day I have enjoyed turkey feasts with many different folks with much drowsiness following in most thereafter though nary a drop of alcohol was served. This alone serves as a myth buster of the alleged medical myth busting about this one.
Truth and travesty
The article also noted that turkey does not contain any more tryptophan than other meats. Wrong yet again.
Dr. Charles Parry, Ph.D. of the state of Virginia about 25 years ago related to me a story on tryptophan truth and travesty. Dr. Parry was a nutrition specialist attached to a medical clinic.
Parry related the story of a man who some years earlier wrote a book about longevity promoting low tryptophan consumption as a key to longer life. The back of the book was filled with recipes to assist in low tryptophan consumption that mostly revolved around eating turkey.
The author of this “long life” book had checked government nutrition tables and found only a ‘dash’ ( - ) rather than a numerical listing for tryptophan content of turkey. He concluded that tryptophan was so low in turkey as to not be able to be measured.
The truth was that a ‘dash’ ( - ) in the tables indicated that no measurement had been attempted up to that time. The truth was – and is – that when measurement was finally made it was discovered that turkey was actually one of the very highest sources of tryptophan.
The travesty was – and is – that the original premise about low tryptophan consumption being a key to longer life was truth, and this truth was – and is – lost largely due to the bad assumption that caused the author to promote turkey as low in tryptophan.
Untruth and true travesty
Not a single, harmful medical myth was actually addressed by the BMJ piece.
It did not disclose that vaccines are neither safe nor effective.
It did not disclose that medical pholk know next to nothing (or less) about nutrition.
It did not disclose the great-granddaddy of all medical myths. There are not evil entities lurking invisibly about waiting to sneakily pounce upon you and bring you to your knees, to your back, and even to your deathbed. Germs are not the cause of disease and death. It is the degradation of the host that causes germs to be harmful.
An extensive and exhaustive study of the wonderful works of Dr. Antoine Béchamp would do wonders for medical mythbusting.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for that. The medical mythos (synonymous with mainstream medicine) does not want to kill the big phat, phinancial pharmaceutical goose laying their golden eggs. Those big “goose eggs” are as in big “zeros” when it comes to true health and healing.