Bob Briggs

I had a very enjoyable discussion with the amazing Malcolm Guite, poet and Anglican priest. We discuss the imagination, the Arthurian stories, human brokenness, the collapse of materialism, tradition, chivalry, and more. Link below.

"Eating too much fat will give you gallstones." Eating too little fat will give you gallstones. The gallbladder exists for one reason: to release bile when you eat fat. No fat in, no bile out. The bile sits there, concentrates, and crystallises into the stones the low-fat diet was supposed to prevent. A 1998 Italian study put obese subjects on two weight-loss diets, identical in calories, differing only in fat content. Higher-fat group: zero gallstones. Lower-fat group: 54.5 percent developed gallstones in twelve weeks. The mechanism is not hidden. It is in the textbook. Harvard Health will tell you, in the same paragraph, that low-fat diets cause gallbladder stasis and that the recommended treatment for gallstones is a low-fat diet. The contradiction is presented as nutritional wisdom rather than a problem. The hinge needs to move. The gallbladder needs to empty. Fat is the lever. People who go high-fat low-carb sometimes pass small stones in the first few weeks and panic. The gallbladder is finally emptying after years of being told to sit still by people who did not understand what it was for. Eat the fat.

My statin thread reached over 460,000 people. Thousands of you asked the same question. "If cholesterol does not cause heart disease, then what does?" The answer has been published for years. In the largest risk factor study ever conducted. 27,939 women. 21 years. Published in JAMA Cardiology. Here is what they found. And here is why nobody told you. 🧵

I had a heart attack at 52. My cardiologist put me on 80mg of Lipitor. Within months I started losing my memory. He switched me to Crestor. Then Repatha. Nobody asked why a cholesterol drug was affecting my brain. I fired my cardiologist. I healed myself. This is the thread about what I found. 🧵

Full Music video is up on on YT. I appreciate yall! youtu.be/_DH6npClQ_s?feature…