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“The accumulation of fat inside the cells of your muscle and liver interferes with the action of insulin. If insulin is the key that unlocks the doors to your cells, saturated fat is what appears to gum up the locks. With glucose denied entry into your muscles, the primary consumer of such fuel, sugar levels can rise to damaging levels in your blood.”

2/2 yet the combined political might of agribusiness and the pharmaceutical industry that profit from the sale of these drugs have effectively thwarted any effective legislative or regulatory action all to save the industry less than a penny per lb of meat.”

1/2 “Nearly every major medical and public health institution has come out against the dangerous practice of feeding antibiotics to farm animals by the ton just to fatten them faster,

Antibiotic levels in the human body (found in urine) can be lowered after only 5 days of removing meat from the diet.

“Antibiotic residues can then end up in the meat you eat. Studies have revealed that traces of such antibiotics as backtron, sipro, and rufloxisim (probs spelled all of these wrong, listening to this on audio) have been found in the urine of people eating meat even though none of them were actually taking those drugs.”

“The FDA estimates that 80% of the anti-microbial drugs sold in the USA every year now go to the meat industry.”

“A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee may once again kill. We may soon be past the age of miracles.”

Suggestion to stop this by researchers: limit antibiotics in agriculture/food production to therapeutic purposes. In other words, to treat sick animals. Millions of lbs used each yr to promote growth

“A 2013 study reported that you may more effectively maintain your levels of white blood cells after exercise by consuming a special type of fiber found in bakers, brewers, and nutritional yeast.”

Extreme exercise/prolonged intense training lowers immune system, so diet is important

“Studies find that if you let kids run around for just six minutes, the levels of immune cells circulating their blood increases by nearly 50%. On the other end of the life cycle, regular exercise can also help prevent age related immune decline.”

What do probiotics eat: fiber and a certain type of starch concentrated in beans. These substances are called pre-biotics, the things your bacteria eat (probiotics)
Eat whole foods, sauer kraut, fresh fruits and veggies