February 01, 2026

Lighting a fire to warn others about smoke...aka creating the very danger you warn about - Part 6 of 6, a Response to Grant Genereux's "Are Supplements Ruining the Low Vitamin A Diet?"

Grant’s Confusing Calcium & Censorship Conundrums

Originally posted on Substack on October 2, 2026.

Jump To: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6...as responses to Grant’s article here.

If you thought Grant’s inconsistent and hypocritical stance(s) on supplements in the previous articles were outright confusing, this final part is going to be a real doozy.

A giant facepalm sums this all up nicely.

A Baffling “Supplement” Recommendation


Now, correspondingly you should be very sure that you are getting adequate amounts of the essential minerals including calcium, magnesium and potassium.

I don’t see any leadership from Grant here about how a person is supposed to go about doing this. In fact, Grant isn’t doing any testing on himself to achieve this in any notable way, other than a DEXA scan 3+ years ago. That was covered in Part #4.

Since doing my livestream on all things calcium, I’ve come up with an additional (optional) blood panel for our clients to look deeper into potential calcium deficiencies (always combined with a person’s feedback on how they feel with consuming high-calcium foods):

The foods common in a low vA diet are probably not going to provide enough therefore some form of supplementation is likely needed.

Is Grant admitting here that his “prison diet” creation is, and always has been deficient in certain things? This would then lay blame for some (many?) of the “detox setbacks” squarely on his shoulders then!

I’m feeling confused again though. Now “some form of supplementation is likely needed”? His article is titled, “Are Supplements Ruining the Low Vitamin A diet?” after all!

Fortunately, these mineral supplements are very inexpensive and available everywhere.

Thank goodness supplements are cheap and available, eh?!?!

I think drinking mineral water is a pretty good strategy, but you’ll probably need another source as well.

How will Grant “be very sure that [he is] getting adequate amounts” of calcium from mineral water without any lab testing of any type to confirm this?

In the short term you could even just use something like TUMS (calcium) or Rolaids (calcium and magnesium).

This whole thing just went off the rails.

Grant’s proposed solution to what he is suggesting is a long-term issue is to recommend pharma-made antacids derived from limestone for the short-term…yet no long-term solution is really provided. All he implies is that he’s satisfied with his solution of a combination of hard tap water and mineral water.

Did Grant use TUMS or Rolaids himself first? No, that’s not how he rolls. He lets other people do it for him, as we covered previously via his quote:

“As such, I have always been waiting for other people to test things out and report their results. I’ve been hoping that if this project can get enough traction eventually someone will discover something truly effective to help streamline and accelerate the recovery process.“

How very “do as I say, not as I do” of him.

To use a quote of his from further down in his article, “people need to be extremely careful in taking anyone’s advice and or supplements”. This is very pertinent here, as you’ll see.

Let’s dissect his “supplement” recommendation in detail, particularly TUMS:

To begin, TUMS and Rolaids are NOT supplements. They don’t have “Supplement Facts” on their labels. They are over-the-counter (OTC) medications. This is why they have “Drug Facts”:

Haleon makes TUMS. “Haleon is the result of the combination of three consumer health businesses, GSK, Novartis and Pfizer, over the last decade.” Here’s an important reminder of what those companies also make:

It seems strange that Grant would promote a product made by the hybrid hellspawn company of multiple vaccine manufacturers, when he has always been known to be strongly opposed to vaccines (page 212).

Calcium carbonate, the main “active ingredient” of TUMS, has caused so many problems over the years that there are literally two disease syndromes named after it. These are “calcium-alkali syndrome” and “milk-alkali syndrome”:

“Milk-alkali syndrome or calcium-alkali syndrome (CAS) is the triad of hypercalcemia, metabolic alkalosis and renal impairment. It is often related to ingestion of high amounts of calcium carbonate…”

How about that time when TUMS was recalled in Canada because it was contaminated with fiberglass, paper, and aluminum foil?

Should we cover how calcium supplements are often significantly contaminated with lead?

Should we cover how multiple TUMS products contain talc, a known carcinogen?

Should we cover how Bill Gates has been funding research for years into spraying calcium carbonate into the atmosphere via geoengineering aka “persistent contrails”? [wink, wink]

The manufacturer of TUMS gives warnings to not take max doses past two weeks duration (because it is known to cause serious problems!) and provide this list of side effects on their website:

  • Constipation

  • Confusion

  • Being unusually weak or tired

  • Irritability

  • Headache

  • Allergic reaction like skin rashes, itches or hives, and/or swelling of the face, lips or tongue

  • Stomach gas

  • Loss of appetite

  • Nausea

  • Vomiting

Pay attention to the bolded symptoms above.

Playing with Fire…and Limestone


Since he brought her up, let’s discuss Grant’s new blogger/moderator, Hope Tipton. She is a tireless and shameless promoter of excessive calcium supplementation, on par with the past’s Dr. Sippy of the “Sippy Regimen”.

Hope’s pro-calcium Telegram group hasn’t even been around a full year. Yet, members of that group have reported the following symptoms from supplementing calcium (we have screenshots of these reports):

  • Constipation

  • Sedation (hypercalcemia is known to cause lethargy, confusion, drowsiness, and stupor…sedation is an early symptom on that progression)

  • Irritability

  • Headaches, including migraines

  • Skin blistering/worsening

  • Cracked heels

  • Polydipsia (excessive thirst)

  • Nosebleeds

  • Cramping

  • Worsening kidney labs, including lowered EGFR and increased creatinine, that went away after stopping calcium supplements

  • Hospitalization in a person who admitted to, at a prior point, taking a full cup’s worth of calcium carbonate within a 24-hour period (this is anywhere from 100-150 grams of elemental calcium)

Compare the bolded symptoms in the two bullet point lists above.

It seems that yet again, Grant performed no due diligence on the well-known side effects of calcium carbonate (note bolded similarities in the two symptom lists above), nor did he ever go into Hope’s group to see that well-known calcium supplement side effects (plus more!) are occurring with regular frequency in real people.

It should be noted that common advice given by Hope to others in that group includes:

  • Nearly ALL disease is calcium deficiency-related

  • The solution to nearly any issue is to eat MORE high-calcium foods (high vA dairy is her favorite!) and/or take MORE calcium supplements. It is always MORE, never LESS. The only tweaking ever done is changing the TYPE of calcium recommended.

  • Nearly every supplement that isn’t calcium itself, depletes calcium somehow. Her nicotinic acid article makes this bias obvious.

Grant should know that his newest guest blogger/moderator consumes dairy with every meal (how very NOT low vA of her!):

How so very *not* low vA of her!

Also, she is recommending that people on the SAD (Standard American Diet, which is assumed to contain plenty of dairy) need 10 to 20 GRAMS OF CALCIUM A DAY (only achievable with massive supplementation):

That is NOT a typo, folks

Let us recall Grant’s quote from his seven-year update:
“Apparently, that recommended 1000 mg / day is not needed if vA is not silently picking away at our bones. And, we probably don’t want a bunch of needless extra calcium in our diet that might otherwise contribute to clogging our arteries etc.“

If Grant believes that 1000 mg/day (1 gram) of calcium includes “a bunch of needless extra calcium” and that too much calcium via diet and/or supplements will “contribute to clogging our arteries etc.“…where do we even begin with a long-term recommendation for 10 GRAMS to 20 GRAMS A DAY?

If one looks at the research on calcium supplementation, it is regularly associated with increasing heart attack and stroke risk…therefore the above should be considered an absolutely reckless and potentially long-term DEADLY recommendation.

I cover calcium supplements and increased mortality (risk of death) research in the video below, and the conveniently hyperlinked references can be found here.

Literally increasing people’s risk of cardiac death makes some temporary and easily-solvable skin issues from nicotinic acid seem downright unimportant (especially when nicotinic acid aka flush niacin comes with so many heart-related benefits!).

Grant & Censorship


This whole thing became personal for me at this point.

Censorship and suppression of the negative results

What happens when things go wrong with taking supplements? Well one thing is that many people are not going to want to publicly admit they’ve made a mistake and thus they’ll self-censor. Some other people might not want to speak up out of fear of making someone, or someone’s program, look bad. I also know that there’s imposed suppression of negative results and the threat of being kicked out of certain programs and forums for speaking out.

I’m not quite sure who Grant is referring to here. If he’s referring to me from secondhand hearsay information, he’s quite incorrect.

No one has ever been kicked out of my program for having issues with any of the supplements *I* might have had them *try out*. People who watch my YouTube livestream Q&As hear me help people troubleshoot supplement issues and questions all the time. I regularly tell people—on my livestreams and in my private network—that they don’t have to take *any* supplements if they don’t want to, and I repeatedly state that our eventual goal is to need as few in number, and as minimal amount(s) of any/all supplements, necessary to maintain their desired quality of life. In fact, the people in my program are among the most helpful around, always trying to help troubleshoot when people have issues with any supplement, including the most common advice given that they learned directly from me when they aren’t sure what to do: Stop. Taking. It.

When certain people started recklessly discussing excessive calcium supplementation within my network, along with speaking poorly of myself and others in my program—both inside my network and elsewhere—I chose to take action to protect my people that I consider myself to be responsible for. I removed these agitators from my network post-haste. I covered the types of reckless recommendations that were happening above, which makes it obvious that my decisions on this matter were entirely justified.

I’m here to help people get better. I’m not here to let anyone—let alone raw amateurs—influence my people, in my program, in dangerous directions. I have principles, I stand behind them, and I have the spine to take action. I have skin-in-the-game.

As I’ve mentioned in several blog posts I am completely opposed to censorship and covering up or manipulating the facts.

Is Grant really against censorship though? You be the judge after what you’ll learn here.

Grant links to a previous blogpost of his that contains two YouTube videos in the very beginning of his recent blogpost that promote the creators’ products and/or services.

Why is this important?

Because Kelsey attempted to submit my recent videos on calcium and nicotinic acid on Grant’s recent article as a comment, to help set the record straight. Grant himself CENSORED (denied) the comment.

Kelsey’s attempted comment submission, and Grant’s response aka censorship. Rules for thee, but not for me?

Had Grant chosen to post Kelsey’s comment in the first place, this entire article series would have likely never have happened.

Instead, he chose to CENSOR it himself!

My disappointment is immeasurable at this point.

Rather I think we should highlight and discuss the failures as much as we do any success story. Only by being open and honest can we determine what and why things are sometimes going wrong.

I have thoroughly laid out many potential reasons why things “sometimes go wrong” with the “prison diet” for people in this article series. I’m the one being honest here.

Rather than being afraid of making a supplement “look bad”, if it is bad then you have an obligation to speak up and share that information. And if someone threatens to kick you out of their program or forum for doing so then that is a huge and clear sign that it’s not worth being a part of. BTW, this kind of censorship and threat of being kicked out of the group is one of the hallmarks of a scam or cult operation. Just saying…

If only people knew that Grant and his forum moderators literally deleted and prohibited posting of ANY & ALL positive testimonials for people doing “low vA-based nutrition” on his forum if they even mentioned my name or the Love Your Liver program. From a 2024 email conversation Grant and I had:

Me:
“Hi Grant,
Your moderator(s) are now editing out any reference to me or the LYL program in the testimonials that Joe (zendog) is posting.

Grant:
”Hey Garrett,
Yeah, I see. They’ve set up some rules about not having anyone promoting products or services.”

Grant says he wants the positive results of this approach to be seen. Yet, he fully knew that all testimonials for “low vA nutrition” were being actively CENSORED (deleted) if they mentioned me and/or my program.

One of several things was going on:

  • Grant led this from the top, and he dishonestly threw his moderators under the bus.

  • Grant’s moderators—who are often extremely antagonistic to the low-vA movement—run the show on his forum.

  • Most likely some combination of both.

By many people’s accounts and Grant’s own admission in the video below—which *I* helped him get on—his forum is full of trolls, antagonists, and people who speak poorly of him often, both in public and private. His admitted neglect of the forum and repeated poor moderator choices have irreparably damaged this movement. Why does he continue to host a forum full of people who are against the movement he started? Only Grant knows the answer to this question.

It’s like refusing to weed a garden, then wondering why the garden has been taken over with weeds! A slowed-down rate of incoming emails to Grant’s inbox would be one symptom of this larger problem.

Not speaking up and not sharing the facts can indeed ruin the reputation of the low vA diet.

Yes, I completely agree with this. Grant allowing and encouraging his platform to CENSOR the positive testimonials of a huge low “vitamin” A diet community will definitely skew the reputation of the low vA diet.

Beware the “Experts”

As I’ve stated multiple times before, people need to be extremely careful in taking anyone’s advice and or supplements

This fully implicates Grant’s advice as well. See Grant’s advice about TUMS above for a perfect example! Remember, Grant didn’t even take these things he suggested first himself.

and especially so when that advice comes from someone who’s primary motive is to take the hard-earned money out of your bank account and put it into theirs.

It’s quite a thing to assume to know someone else’s primary motive and intention behind doing something. Maybe Grant believes that all entrepreneurs only make things and provide services because they are money-hungry vultures? Did Grant only work as an engineer because his “primary motive is to take the hard-earned money out of [his employer’s] bank account and put it into [his]”?

A recent prime example of this is all the self appointed “experts” on YT, including multiple MDs, pushing liver as a “super food” and of course some of them selling their liver pills. That advice has been an absolute disaster for so many people. In addition to the case reports I wrote about in my recent Eating liver and cancer blog post, I’ve since received even more reports from people who were eating liver and are now dealing with cancer.

Spending more of his time on topics like the above would be a much better approach than going after people already in alignment with the low vA movement.

As I stated in my eBook, we’d all be vastly better off if we never heard a single word from the so-called “Health and Nutrition Experts”!

I have news for Grant. He is, whether he likes it or not, whether he wants to be or not, considered a so-called “Health and Nutrition Expert” to many. This means several important things…

There are ramifications to building a platform, a paradigm, a movement, and putting out information to one’s followers.

There are ramifications to hosting a public forum that is antagonistic to a movement.

There are ramifications to indirectly endorsing people who are putting out dangerous information.

There are ramifications to stabbing peers and friends in the back.

In Conclusion…


My aim here has been simple: to clear up confusion and answer criticism with evidence and transparency. The stakes are too high for misinformation to go unchecked — too many people depend on honest research to guide their health.

The strength of our movement has never rested on one person. It comes from a community willing to question old assumptions, test ideas, and keep asking better questions. That spirit of persistence and humility is what makes us resilient, and it’s why these ideas will keep moving forward long after any single debate.

Looking ahead, the future is bright. As stories are shared, evidence grows, weak scientific dogmas are challenged, and real progress will continue. Together, we can keep building something that restores hope and health where conventional wisdom and approaches have miserably failed us all.

If you want to be part of this work, here’s how to connect:

FIN.

Jump To: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6.

Written by Garrett Smith