The Path is Too Deep

Living in Halifax, the ocean isn't just a view; it's a grocery store. In in previous part of my life, I treated fish as the "diet food" you ate when you were trying to punish yourself for eating steak. It was the dry, flavorless white puck you suffered through. But as I rebuilt my "Clean Keto" protocol, I realized that both sides of my ancestors - those seafaring vikings of Denmark and those rugged Nova Scotians near the Annapolis Basin - were onto something. I don't eat fish just for the protein anymore. I eat it because it is the most potent anti-inflammatory medication in my arsenal. In a previous post , I talked about removing the "Arsonists" (Seed Oils/Omega-6). Today, I want to introduce the "Fire Department." Part 1: The Ratio War (Omega-3 vs. Omega-6) To understand why my heart kept failing, you have to look at the battlefield of inflammation. The human body operates on a balance of fatty acids. Omega-6s (Seed oils, processed...

If you grew up in the 1980s like I did, you remember the "Health Guidelines" vividly. We were told to trade our butter for margarine, our steak for pasta, and - most tragically - our eggs for sugary cereal. The egg was demonized. It was viewed as a cholesterol grenade, a "heart attack on a plate." So, as a man with five heart attacks on his medical chart, why do I consume eggs almost every single day? Because for 40 years, we were playing a "Shell Game" - a con where we were distracted by the wrong villain. The egg isn't the killer. It is quite possibly the most perfect nutritional capsule nature ever designed. Part 1: The "Cholesterol" Confusion (The Con) The logic seemed sound in 1985: Eggs contain cholesterol. Heart disease is caused by cholesterol. Therefore, don't eat eggs. It was simple. It was elegant. And it was wrong. Biology is not a simple bucket. It is a complex, adaptive system. We now know that Dietary Cholesterol (what y...