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John Day MD's avatar

Much of the world will not make vitamin-D from sun exposure in the winter months. Most people over 100# should just take 5000 IU/day (125 micrograms), though folks over 200#, and/or missing a gallbladder, might need 10,000 IU/d to get up into mid-high normal range of vitamin-D level (60-100 looks ideal). It may take several months for blood levels to plateau.

I personally do all that stuff, and nice, organic coffee (or good tea) in the morning does not mess with the time restricted eating/ketosis, if you avoid sweetener. You might feel more like walking/gardening/biking.

Already gardened and organic-coffeed; gotta get on the bike now, It's 7:41 AM in Texas.

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CM Maccioli's avatar

I do the same for Vit D except in summer when I take none. Haven't been sick in 10 years. I did notice yesterday that my skin burned immediately in the sun. That has never happened before. Half hour in the sun and I don't even break a sweat. Took about 5 min to peel shrimp outside and I had to go inside.

Observing this unnatural weather we've had, 5 days of rain going to 82 degrees in a.m. to 94 by 11, real feel 107, all my flowers and plants burnt in a day, it appears to me they have found a way to eliminate the good rays and allow only the deadly and painful UV rays to hit the ground. Time for people to look up and see what is being done to us.

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John Day MD's avatar

Our magnetic fields are dropping hard as the poles wander. Magnetic field strength in Y2k was down 10% from 1900, and in 2010 it was down another 5%.

NASA won't say since then, nor will Europeans or Chinese.

We might panic...

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CM Maccioli's avatar

Aren't magnetic poles considered extremities of a rotating earth? Well, that can't be since the earth is flat.

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John Day MD's avatar

The north pole is wandering towards Siberia. There is the Southern Atlantic magnetic anomaly. Things change occasionally, maybe every 6000 years...

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Tim Groves's avatar

Let's also remember to factor in variations in solar output. We are now at the top of the sunspot cycle, and that, rather than a decline in stratospheric ozone or in the earth's magnetic field may be the single biggest cause of the extremely strong sunlight we have been experiencing last year and this.

Again, Google's AI was quick to educate me:

Solar Cycle 25, the 25th cycle since 1755, began in December 2019 and is expected to reach its peak around July 2025, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). While initially predicted to be a relatively weak cycle, similar to cycle 24, it has already exceeded those expectations in terms of sunspot activity. The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, an international group of experts organized by NOAA and NASA, anticipates a peak sunspot number between 105 and 125, with the peak occurring between November 2024 and March 2026. "

Intriguingly, I don't remember experiencing similar high levels of UV and strong sunlight around 2014 when the previous solar cycle was near peak, but it seems solar cycle 24 was the weakest solar cycle in a century. We have to go back about 20 years to find solar activity at higher levels than it is now.

And then there's that decision to clean up bunker fuel. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) established a global sulfur limit of 0.50% for marine fuels, requiring ships to reduce sulfur emissions from 3.5% starting January 1, 2020. This reduction is probably contributing to an overall warming effect, although this is not known with certainty. The reasoning is that sulfur dioxide emissions from burning bunker fuel reflect some sunlight back into space and contribute to cloud formation, which also reflects sunlight. So reducing the SO emissions should make for a hotter and brighter planet.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

{...since the earth is flat...}

YEAH !!! 👍👍👍

That's exactly why

- Muslims pray 24 hrs all around the globe,

- High- & Low-tides exist,

- Emperor penguins never get a sunburn, even standing outside 24/7/365,

- the largest desert is located around the equator,

- seasons exist,

- jet-lag exists,

- Sunset in highest Burg-Khalifa level is more than 130 seconds AFTER

being perceived at its ground-floor,

- ocean-going vessels slowly "sink" behind the horizon,

- you can walk/run/swim/fly/drive, bike for months in a perfectly straight

line and most curiously, will exactly tread in your own footsteps again,

- more than 90% of Musk's and NASA's satellites for communication, GPS,

etc. are not visible in direct line to a single observer,

- A "horizon" does exist, even standing on the tallest terrestrial mountain,

- different frequencies of radio-waves have vastly different ranges,

- etc., etc. ...

E adesso, si mangi un bel gelato alla panna, sperando che, dopo eversi goduto il suddetto, Lei sia finalmente in grado di cominciare a usare il Suo cervello in modo migliore ...

Have a nice time !!! 🤣🤣🤣

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Marty Ellenbecker's avatar

Infrared gets to the ground. Just get into a car that's been parked outside for a while on a cloudy day sometimes even in winter

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Tomas Hull's avatar

Good points, John.

I’ve always wondered how the Inuits/Eskimos) got their vitamin D end managed to be cancer and CHD free tribes…that is until the governments decided to feed them and “take care of their health”… ;-)

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John Day MD's avatar

They eat animals that can synthesize vitamin-D.

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Tomas Hull's avatar

This is true but not all true… ;-)

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John Day MD's avatar

Cod liver oil has vitamin-D, for instance.

Never eat a whole polar bear liver, as it has enough vitamin-D to actually be toxic. Arctic animals don't much survive if they can't synthesize vitamin-D.

Humans lost the capacity long ago when we lived in North Africa and it did not matter (they say).

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Tomas Hull's avatar

“ Humans lost the capacity long ago when we lived in North Africa and it did not matter (they say).”

Not sure what you mean?

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John Day MD's avatar

You don't need to synthesize vitamin-D if you live where you are in strong sun regularly, which does the processing for you.

Scroll down to "The Evolution of the Immune Response" in this 2021 article:

http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2021/11/covid-19-vitamin-d-urgent-vaccines-need.html

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Tomas Hull's avatar

We know that polar bears devolved from brown or black bears because their hair follicles lost the ability to produce melanin that gave it its colour. Gene (MC1R) I think lost its function.

Melanin affects the production of vitamin D from sunlight but if that can’t be synthesized, what happens to the bears that can’t munch of vitamin D food sources? Do they die??? Actually no…

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John Day MD's avatar

Bears can synthesize vitamin-D. Humans can't.

Humans need UV to help create it in their skin by fracturing a bond in the precursor.

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Dan...'s avatar

“LLM” is another nickname for AI, aka the New God of Humanity.

As it goes with gods, we are here to make our requests, wishes and demands, and their role is to deliver. The effectiveness of this division of roles had not been that clear until the time when AI was released on the innocent public, and that for free (they say).

Now we know that AI software is being written to please the human, to confirm their opinions, and to enhance their biases. That should be pretty obvious, right? You wouldn’t like to use a machine that starts each sentence with “No, you are wrong”.

Ah, and these occasional glitches when special lines of the code are activated with the command “Attack”.

What AI (or LLM) really does? It harvests all sources of information available, copies everything to its own local media, and regurgitates at will. Forget copyright. Forget fact checking. The point for the AI is to give you a “relevant” reply, preferably one that will increase your addiction to the particular AI software.

Years ago, someone big said that all search engine results are a huge error. You should be given one specific answer to your question, and that’s it. No need to feed your curiosity, common sense or decision making. Fast forward, and here you have the embodiment of that thought. AI gives you one specific answer - although with the illusion that you have some control over it (aka prompt design).

Regardless of your extremely limited control, if any, you will get one answer.

That will be usually a long, in-depth elaboration - to create an illusion of conversation. And you will happily waste more hours of your limited lifetime to read through this one and only reply. Your mind will be locked within the newly created simulacrum. You will believe that this reply is a reflection of your question, but its form and structure, enriched with ego-fuelling phraseology, will put your mind to sleep.

The designers of AI software are master manipulators. Their predecessors look like kindergarten kids.

The best part is that your one and only answer is completely irrelevant - because AI (or any thinking human, for that matter) will not use it as a “settled” science. It won’t be of any referential value. It’s only a reprocessed blob of who-knows-how-reliable random pieces of information in an unknown, secret AI scrapbook which is governed by secret algorithms controlled by unknown entities.

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Nina's avatar

This is extremely well written, thank you. The author is under the impression it's a "checkmate"; the AI knows better and admitted the truth. Instead, it simply regurgitated what she wanted it to say.

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Dan...'s avatar

I have utmost respect for Jessica. She knows her stuff and can write about it for both professionals and lay people, which is a rare talent. So, my comment is not about her - but about how the AI is being positioned (product placement) as the new God for all humanity.

Medical, science and research professionals are a fertile ground here. They are always seeking attention (fame), they are competitive (grants), and they want to dominate the world no matter what (power). AI is a great tool to use for these purposes. Why? Because 99.9% people, including scientists, take it at a face value and believes it straight after unboxing.

All mythology disappears when you compare it with how the European Union handles AI. They do not call it by this name. Instead, they use a very telling phrase “high performance computing”. No intelligence there. Nothing artificial. Only programming (and high-end processing machines).

What is the most dangerous danger of AI? Retiring the human mind altogether. When this is accomplished, an anonymous programmer will add a line of code to all POS cash registers, telling the machine to add $x.xx to all transactions or to round off the cost to x.x - and no customer will be able to detect the fraud/theft, because they will not be able to count their cash in the pocket.

The AI machines are positioned to replace libraries, parents, schools, whole universities, morality teachers, bosses at factories, sales staff, drivers, lawyers, even politicians - acts of law are being complied by AI machines these days. Maybe this is why they need to be called “beautiful”… - to force us to worship them a priori…

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Seems, it's for a long time you've been pondering about this topic ...

My sincere compliments having reached the exposed conclusions !!! 👍👍👍

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Dan...'s avatar

I may be wrong. My views are only based on what is officially leaked to the media and how it is explained. As always, probably, the technology (or its descriptions) disclosed to the public is the one that has been outdated years ago, while the real thing is beyond our comprehension. Which does not change the basics: it is still only computers and only software.

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John1200's avatar

You are correct, AI is being positioned as the arbiter of truth. Very 1984.

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Jdawg's avatar

Try Enoch AI built by Mike Adams and using a natural health model LLM

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Dan...'s avatar

What for?

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CM Maccioli's avatar

Storing in glass, made me chuckle. Been doing that since 1990 even though Tupperware was all the rage. A piece of paper towel at the bottom prevents moisture. I save all sizes glass jars. Food in plastic gets slimy in 2 days. Food in glass stays fresh and useable for a week. Glass jars (labels removed) on top shelf for all sauces, vegetables center, and all meats bottom coldest shelf. No mystery, you can see what you got. Got rid of plastic same time I pitched the microwave. A gas stove eliminates need for all other cooking appliances.

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Jessica Rose's avatar

i know!

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Marty Ellenbecker's avatar

For produce that spoils easily in plastic bags,

first wrap it in the plastic net packaging that holds

loose Brussels sprouts. bagged oranges, grapefruit, etc.

Leave bag slightly open. Zucchini and some others

may need double net wrap to avoid plastic bag touching.

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KatWarrior's avatar

Excellent, Jessica.

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Robert Arvanitis's avatar

"Understand" does not apply here.

An LLM is just that, a model, based on word association.

That is, relationships among words, with no reference to how words may describe reality.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

A translator alone in a room merely matches symbols, without comprehension.

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Wood Rox's avatar

ARGENTIC AI IS NEXT . THEN Inference is the next stage beyond llm ai....I think then generative ai

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Robert Arvanitis's avatar

Interesting point.

The real issue is how "AI" of any kind learns to go beyond word association, and relate the notion of "breeze" to the feeling of wind on the cheek.

That does not come within the wires alone.

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webstersmill's avatar

Thank you, Miss Jessica. Appreciate you sharing this LLM discussion, keeping it focused. You are always on point, and willing to share your thought process during your inquiries/studies. This is very helpful to me, an old school person. My solution to keeping any inquiry focused (oh, the interesting distractions!) is creating an initial question map to keep on track with the expanding decision/info tree. OMG, wish I had half the brain of my grandfather who passed at 102, and uncle (106). The family grew up on whatever they could grow, raise, hunt or find. Everyone worked to survive, and contributed according to their abilities. Mitochondrial support/cancer avoidance methods are age-old truths.

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Tomas Hull's avatar

People develop certain types of cancer without having the Metabolic Disorder.

Dr. Seyfried-one of the authorities in cancer as metabolic disorder claims metabolic disorder can be identified as the main cause in about 85% of cancers. That leaves us with 15% of cancers caused by unknown or possibly genetic causes, such as deleterious mutations leading to gene dysfunctions…

Dr. Seyfried’s dietary guidelines are also interesting. Jessica seems to believe keto diet is the most beneficial… but Dr. Seyfried says that any diet can actually work if…

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Retired Massage Therapist's avatar

Jessica: you say: "Neither I, NOT the LLM are MDs".

Did you mean NOR instead of NOT?

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mejbcart's avatar

sorry, sounds like important post, BUT what the heck is LLM???

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Pete's avatar

Well as usual I enjoyed reading that. You certainly know what you're talking about. However where does the COVID vaccine come into the conversation. Many of us in the UK were forced to have this terrible so called vaccine. We now know that it was effectively a very dangerous substance and proven to cause cancer. Somehow it doesn't fit into your theory, or does it?

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Mark Much's avatar

Jess, none of this advice will matter if you are living in the wrong country. The iron dome and Patriot missiles are useless against hypersonic missiles. Please exercise the Samsonite option and pack your bags. I hear the surfing and cuisine are good in Morocco. Vaya con Dios.

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Lucy Walter's avatar

Shame the LLM has swallowed the ‘whole plants are all we need to thrive’ agenda. It’s only by eating just beef and an occasional bit of fish that I have found true, pain free health. All those plants and legumes etc do not provide adequate nutrients for a human to thrive. I get it that it’s a whole lot better than the SAD, but it is not what humans evolved to eat. Our short intestine and highly acidic stomach testify to our ancestors eating mainly animal foods, and in my personal experience, a carnivore diet has healed so many different ailments that I’m convinced this is our true hereditary diet.

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F SCHONFELD's avatar

Thank you for sharing these health tips that make sense and cost next to nothing. Please keep sharing your information. You have become a trusted source where there are so few left

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Aad Koningen's avatar

Thank you for your good advice ! I have one remark: take it easy on the spinach and allmonds because of oxalates. See Sally K. Norton "Toxic Superfoods".

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Thank you.

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