Dear Sir, I see you are receiving all sorts of medical advice regarding your sight problems. As a private clinician of over 30 years experience, and a strong eye for research in areas of interest, I want to just say that the biliary colic you mentioned, along with the cataract can both develop as a result of a diet bot too high in carbohydrates AND too low in saturated fats. If, for example, you've been generally following the much repeated advice to keep saturated fats down due to vague cardiovascular risks, then this has, in all likelihood, resulted in a diet higher in carbs than is healthful. It is Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs) that cause cataracts. These are the direct result of repeated episodes (e.g. thrice daily) of raised blood glucose, which is what dietary carbohydrates are. STARCH (root veg and cereal grains) is chains of glucose, and SUGARS which are, technically, pairs of 'sugars' i.e. disaccharides, and they all get turned in to glucose (i.e. sucrose = glucose and fructose; lactose = galactose and glucose; maltose = glucose and glucose etc) and the glucose from all sources binds to proteins throughout the body (which is what we are made of, so they are literally everywhere) and prevent them from functioning properly. The most vulnerable are the finest proteins, such as the lens, the smallest capillaries, e.g. in the kidneys, retinae, and in the toes etc, and it is due to this that diabetics, with their generally excessive blood glucose, get clobbered in the kidneys, eyes and feet first with subsequent issues of sight loss, amputations and dialysis.
I should add that GLUTEN is a dastardly player in human health, and indeed in human history, as it can play havoc with our immune systems. This can manifest in virtually any tissue damage you can to name, including liver and gall bladder inflammation.
So, if I may be so bold, I suggest you drastically lower your carbohydrate intake (that includes fruit by the way, it's sweet you see, i.e. has sugars in) and in doing so ensure that the gluten is removed, as gluten is but a small part of cereal grains, the rest of which is mostly starch, i.e. glucose. Oh, and do not for a minute think that oats are a safe grain. They are just as bad for humans as are wheat, rye and barley when it comes to both gluten and glucose. Rice and corn are really just high in carbs/glucose. Their gluten is very much less reactive in humans than the type in wheat, oats, rye and barley.
I expect that you are fully aware of all this, but in case you were not, I am happy to offer you my suggestions to enable you to regain your health.
I too home educated, so I am a great supporter of others who do the same, and who free their beloved children from the arseholery of state education.
Re meibomian dysfunction, I have recently come across a case whereby the cause for the swollen eyelids was found to be cashew nuts. She stopped eating them and the eyes recovered, despite being told she had 'pouting' meibomian glands and therefore blepharitis. Nope - it was a food reaction. Not saying yours is the same, but be aware, individual reactions to foods are extremely complex and hard to work out. Listen to Tammy Peterson talking about her process of discovery and recovery from lifelong mysterious food reactions with an English vicar, Helen something, quite recently.
Good luck and thank you for your excellent work. Much appreciated.
Goodness what is not happening you!. The eyes matter most so you have to give them kindness and rest. I am hoping you are going to do a Lucy Letby book. Its hard getting a bomb site for a house, but you do seem to have a gift for turning wastelands of the mind into beautiful premises, so I think you can do the same with your house!
its interesting you say you are homeschooling your child, I am sure many people would love to take their kids out of the madness and give them what they were originally sent to school for, a real education.
Noted the bit of vandalism of the painting with dismay.
I did actually coming home one evening get caught in a Palestine march, that was because we were all put off the tube at Victoria and I had to walk to Vauxhall. it was a huge crowd , and I did see one poster which had three pigs heads on it decapitated with blood drops underneath, so I think there was obviously an element of that in the crowds. it was a massive number of people.
great newsletter thank you. I'll buy your Lucy book when its out. But care of the eyes, first.
Still suggest that melatonin may benefit your eyesight. It's good for macular degeneration. I have been taking 20 mg per night for a different issue over the last 5 years and have not had to see a doctor in that time.
Sigh. Yet another Substack writer I will have to unsubscribe from because of their ill-informed views on Israel. No people and no country has the right to murder 30,000 people, mainly women and children, for the sake of their security.
Heh please read Mark Sloan's book on Red Light therapy - I just have, and as a result I have today started using the red light therapy lamp that I've had in the cupboard for the last two years. I got it to improve my eyesight (as recommended by a natural eyesight specialist) but used it today for the sciatica in my hip and was blown away by how much it improved my condition. Sloan's book mentions its use for glaucoma and macular degeneration. I think it mught help you. Worth a read.
Hi Scott, Our love and thoughts are with you. It sounds like you are really fighting against the wind right now. The home Ed journey is one I took for 8 years too, and despite now being completely impoverished I don't regret one day of it. When the First and Second choice university offers come, and you overhear excited conversations about what is going to be cooked for friends, within the future visions of endless dinner parties, making music, joining the gym, and having fun, a huge sigh of relief comes.
Back to Lucy, and nurses everywhere. We don't know what her defence will have to offer at her appeal but let's hope they can pull it together for her properly this time. I notice time has been allocated over 3 days to hear the Appeal at the same time, if it's granted.
Did you see The House of Lords Debate about the State of Maternity Services? There was heartfelt concern and a call for a full National Enquiry with more than half of services considered by The Care Quality Commission to be Inadequate or Needing Improvement. Maternal deaths, Neonatal deaths and still births, recruitment and retention issues, loss of experienced midwives and doctors and more were out there for all to see. A New Start was called for by the quite wonderful, esteemed Baroness Cumberlege.
I need to send you a message quite urgently, which is the best way xx
Hi Scott, our love and thoughts are with you. It sounds like you are really fighting against the wind right now. The home Ed journey is one I took for 8 years too, and despite now being completely impoverished I don't regret one day of it. When the First and Second choice university offers come, and you overhear excited conversations about what is going to be cooked for friends, within the future visions of endless dinner parties, making music, joining the gym, and having fun, a huge sigh of relief comes.
Back to Lucy, and nurses everywhere. We don't know what her defence will have to offer at her appeal but let's hope they can pull it together for her properly this time. I notice time has been allocated over 3 days to hear the Appeal at the same time, if it's granted.
Did you see The House of Lords Debate about the State of Maternity Services? There was heartfelt concern and a call for a full National Enquiry with more than half of services considered by The Care Quality Commission to be Inadequate or Needing Improvement. Maternal deaths, Neonatal deaths and still births, recruitment and retention issues, loss of experienced midwives and doctors and more were out there for all to see. A New Start was called for by the quite wonderful, esteemed Baroness Cumberlege.
I need to send you a message quite urgently, which is the best way xx
Dear Sir, I see you are receiving all sorts of medical advice regarding your sight problems. As a private clinician of over 30 years experience, and a strong eye for research in areas of interest, I want to just say that the biliary colic you mentioned, along with the cataract can both develop as a result of a diet bot too high in carbohydrates AND too low in saturated fats. If, for example, you've been generally following the much repeated advice to keep saturated fats down due to vague cardiovascular risks, then this has, in all likelihood, resulted in a diet higher in carbs than is healthful. It is Advanced Glycation Endproducts (AGEs) that cause cataracts. These are the direct result of repeated episodes (e.g. thrice daily) of raised blood glucose, which is what dietary carbohydrates are. STARCH (root veg and cereal grains) is chains of glucose, and SUGARS which are, technically, pairs of 'sugars' i.e. disaccharides, and they all get turned in to glucose (i.e. sucrose = glucose and fructose; lactose = galactose and glucose; maltose = glucose and glucose etc) and the glucose from all sources binds to proteins throughout the body (which is what we are made of, so they are literally everywhere) and prevent them from functioning properly. The most vulnerable are the finest proteins, such as the lens, the smallest capillaries, e.g. in the kidneys, retinae, and in the toes etc, and it is due to this that diabetics, with their generally excessive blood glucose, get clobbered in the kidneys, eyes and feet first with subsequent issues of sight loss, amputations and dialysis.
I should add that GLUTEN is a dastardly player in human health, and indeed in human history, as it can play havoc with our immune systems. This can manifest in virtually any tissue damage you can to name, including liver and gall bladder inflammation.
So, if I may be so bold, I suggest you drastically lower your carbohydrate intake (that includes fruit by the way, it's sweet you see, i.e. has sugars in) and in doing so ensure that the gluten is removed, as gluten is but a small part of cereal grains, the rest of which is mostly starch, i.e. glucose. Oh, and do not for a minute think that oats are a safe grain. They are just as bad for humans as are wheat, rye and barley when it comes to both gluten and glucose. Rice and corn are really just high in carbs/glucose. Their gluten is very much less reactive in humans than the type in wheat, oats, rye and barley.
I expect that you are fully aware of all this, but in case you were not, I am happy to offer you my suggestions to enable you to regain your health.
I too home educated, so I am a great supporter of others who do the same, and who free their beloved children from the arseholery of state education.
Re meibomian dysfunction, I have recently come across a case whereby the cause for the swollen eyelids was found to be cashew nuts. She stopped eating them and the eyes recovered, despite being told she had 'pouting' meibomian glands and therefore blepharitis. Nope - it was a food reaction. Not saying yours is the same, but be aware, individual reactions to foods are extremely complex and hard to work out. Listen to Tammy Peterson talking about her process of discovery and recovery from lifelong mysterious food reactions with an English vicar, Helen something, quite recently.
Good luck and thank you for your excellent work. Much appreciated.
Goodness what is not happening you!. The eyes matter most so you have to give them kindness and rest. I am hoping you are going to do a Lucy Letby book. Its hard getting a bomb site for a house, but you do seem to have a gift for turning wastelands of the mind into beautiful premises, so I think you can do the same with your house!
its interesting you say you are homeschooling your child, I am sure many people would love to take their kids out of the madness and give them what they were originally sent to school for, a real education.
Noted the bit of vandalism of the painting with dismay.
I did actually coming home one evening get caught in a Palestine march, that was because we were all put off the tube at Victoria and I had to walk to Vauxhall. it was a huge crowd , and I did see one poster which had three pigs heads on it decapitated with blood drops underneath, so I think there was obviously an element of that in the crowds. it was a massive number of people.
great newsletter thank you. I'll buy your Lucy book when its out. But care of the eyes, first.
Enjoyed your newsletter.
Thank you for the update 👍
Still suggest that melatonin may benefit your eyesight. It's good for macular degeneration. I have been taking 20 mg per night for a different issue over the last 5 years and have not had to see a doctor in that time.
Sigh. Yet another Substack writer I will have to unsubscribe from because of their ill-informed views on Israel. No people and no country has the right to murder 30,000 people, mainly women and children, for the sake of their security.
Heh please read Mark Sloan's book on Red Light therapy - I just have, and as a result I have today started using the red light therapy lamp that I've had in the cupboard for the last two years. I got it to improve my eyesight (as recommended by a natural eyesight specialist) but used it today for the sciatica in my hip and was blown away by how much it improved my condition. Sloan's book mentions its use for glaucoma and macular degeneration. I think it mught help you. Worth a read.
I've read everything you've written on the Lucy Letby case and I completely agree that it doesn't add up properly. I'd love to read a book about this
Hi Scott, Our love and thoughts are with you. It sounds like you are really fighting against the wind right now. The home Ed journey is one I took for 8 years too, and despite now being completely impoverished I don't regret one day of it. When the First and Second choice university offers come, and you overhear excited conversations about what is going to be cooked for friends, within the future visions of endless dinner parties, making music, joining the gym, and having fun, a huge sigh of relief comes.
Back to Lucy, and nurses everywhere. We don't know what her defence will have to offer at her appeal but let's hope they can pull it together for her properly this time. I notice time has been allocated over 3 days to hear the Appeal at the same time, if it's granted.
Did you see The House of Lords Debate about the State of Maternity Services? There was heartfelt concern and a call for a full National Enquiry with more than half of services considered by The Care Quality Commission to be Inadequate or Needing Improvement. Maternal deaths, Neonatal deaths and still births, recruitment and retention issues, loss of experienced midwives and doctors and more were out there for all to see. A New Start was called for by the quite wonderful, esteemed Baroness Cumberlege.
I need to send you a message quite urgently, which is the best way xx
Hi Scott, our love and thoughts are with you. It sounds like you are really fighting against the wind right now. The home Ed journey is one I took for 8 years too, and despite now being completely impoverished I don't regret one day of it. When the First and Second choice university offers come, and you overhear excited conversations about what is going to be cooked for friends, within the future visions of endless dinner parties, making music, joining the gym, and having fun, a huge sigh of relief comes.
Back to Lucy, and nurses everywhere. We don't know what her defence will have to offer at her appeal but let's hope they can pull it together for her properly this time. I notice time has been allocated over 3 days to hear the Appeal at the same time, if it's granted.
Did you see The House of Lords Debate about the State of Maternity Services? There was heartfelt concern and a call for a full National Enquiry with more than half of services considered by The Care Quality Commission to be Inadequate or Needing Improvement. Maternal deaths, Neonatal deaths and still births, recruitment and retention issues, loss of experienced midwives and doctors and more were out there for all to see. A New Start was called for by the quite wonderful, esteemed Baroness Cumberlege.
I need to send you a message quite urgently, which is the best way xx