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The Low-Nickel Diet LYL Version: What to Eat, What to Avoid, and What I’ve Changed

I need to start this one with a correction. Not exactly an “I was wrong about everything” correction. Nothing that dramatic. The basic Love Your Liver framework—reduce toxic inputs, support elimina...

Apples, Pears, Bananas, and WHITE Fruits & Vegetables: Nature Is Trying to Tell Us Something

Some background before we begin. The main visible colors of carotenoids aka “vitamin” A in fruits and vegetables are yellow, orange, and red. On the other hand, the white or cream-colored parts of ...

Nickel in Food: The Supposed “Health Foods” That Quietly Dominate Your Exposure

I used to highly recommend whole grains and beans for their high amounts of soluble fiber. Why? Because it fits perfectly into my Toxic Bile Paradigm by doing a great job of adsorbing toxic bile (w...

Where Is All This Nickel Coming From? The Exposure(s) NO ONE Can Completely Avoid

When I first started going down the nickel rabbit hole, I was mostly thinking about food. Oats. Beans. Nuts. Seeds. Chocolate. The usual “high-nickel diet” stuff. Then you start looking at water. T...

Nickel aka “Devil’s Copper” — How a Poisonous Ore Got Its Name

Nickel has one of the strangest origin stories on the periodic table. Seriously. Most people hear the word nickel and think of the five-cent coin. Maybe stainless steel. Maybe they vaguely remember...

Nickel Toxicity: The Silent Metal Problem Almost Nobody Is Looking For

I’m not going to beat around the bush here. I think nickel toxicity is a massive blind spot in modern health. When most people hear “nickel,” they think about cheap earrings, belt buckles, watch ba...

The TOXIC Truth About Cod Liver Oil & Fish Oil — RELOADED: Part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I went through the history of cod liver oil and fish oil, the animal toxicity research, Weston Price’s own rather inconvenient observations, “vitamin” A and vitamin D, imm...

The TOXIC Truth About Cod Liver Oil & Fish Oil

Cod liver oil is, to be blunt, poisonous trash. Yes, I took it in the past. Yes, I fell for the “traditional food” story too. Then I looked at the research. What did I find? Dead animals. Sterile a...

The Worldwide “vitamin” A Toxicity Epidemic: The Liver Studies Have Been Warning Us for Decades

We were warned about a coming “vitamin” A toxicity epidemic DECADES ago. Not hinted at. Not vaguely concerned about. WARNED. By 1953, a paper simply titled Vitamin A Intoxication noted that the ...

The Pattern Is the Point: Tretinoin, Nickel, PEA, and What the Research Is Actually Showing

Prefer to watch? Find the video for LYLL #264 below: Every once in a while, I put together a livestream where several seemingly unrelated research papers land in my lap at the same time. Muscle ...