Ancestral Health Symposium 2014: Videos

For those with time to spare follow the link to a load of new videos.

      https://www.youtube.com/user/AncestryFoundation/videos

Graham

This is fabulous, thank you!

Working my way slowly through most of the presentations and there are some excellent ones, too many to mention.

One however that is really standing out for all kinds of reasons is Jamie Scott's presentation on the importance of muscle mass in health and disease. Excellent and well worth watching!

Thanks Graham. Will endeavour to work my way through them.

Having another afternoon of catching up on this conference. Another relevant talk for diabetics or anyone interested in BP, salt and the effect of diet:



The talk is by Dr Linda Frassetto, neophologist on the effect of a Paleo diet on BP.

Seems like salt sensitivity and insulin resistance tend to go together.

She refers to diabetes as a disease of blood vessels.

Another excellent talk is by Chris Masterjohn on "The Vitamin D Paradox".

He goes into the research regarding Vitamin D3, Vitamin A and Vitamin K2. Well worth watching:

I re-read his article about K2 .on the WAPF website a couple of days ago. I'm also revisiting my 'Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox' book by Kate Rheaume-Bleue. I started taking 100mg of K2 per day about a week ago, and have just upped it to twice per day.

Another really interesting talk by a former mainstream psychiatrist (now functional medicine practitioner), Dr Kelly Brogan. A whole new take on anxiety and depression:

Yes, very interesting Indy, thanks.

I wonder too about the role of HCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin) after pregnancy too.  This hormone-like element has been raised all through pregnancy to help sustain the baby, and it often elevates the 'feel good' factor within the mother.

Towards the end of the gestation it starts to lower and then drop to normal or even below normal levels after delivery.  Could it be a factor?  I know that the levels in some women don't rise as expected, but conversely, maybe there are some who experience a much higer rise than normal.  Maybe someone needs to do a study to see if there is a co-relation between higher or lower levels during pregnancy and incidence of post-partum depression?

I know I felt more well and had more energy during my pregnancies than at any other time.  Was it the raised HCG?  I didn't (fortunately) suffer with depression, but then I never really have.  My daughter did though, after both her pregnancies, but she is vulnerable to depression anyway, which just smacks to me of some kind of deficiency.

I do believe she has issues with gluten and grains - she had night terrors as a child, was very insecure and has had DH type lesions on her body occasionally.  She's gone gluten free at times but can never sustain it, and now she's married to a sweet man who is addicted to it and loves her cakes, she has little incentive!  She is very low and fatigued at the moment, even on antidepressants...

Grains, especially wheat, mess with the brain something awful, and also is a potent robber and blocker of nutrition. It concerns me now, knowing what I know about modern 'wheat', that so many wean their children on to rusks and toast. How many babies respond normally until or sometime after they are weaned? Dr Davis asked how children have benefitted from a grain free diet on his blog recently, and hundreds replied with often amazing results!