The Hidden Culprit

X (formerly Twitter): Caitlin Johnstone

My 4 a.m. cellphone alarm pulled me from sleep. In fact, it was 4:01 a.m. by the time I had risen and cancelled it ─ obviously I did not hear it for a possible minute.

I am unsure just what time I left here on my 5.625-mile round trip hike to do some grocery shopping at Real Canadian Superstore, but I would wager that it might have been at least 6:15 a.m.

Happily the morning was heavily overcast and wonderfully gloomy, and betimes the sky would even spit rain for short periods. Such conditions keep most people indoors who do not need to be venturing anywhere afoot.

My cashier was a delightful and beautiful South Asian lass with a voice I would love to have been intimately familiar with.

Incidentally, I splurged on 500 grammes of Sproos Grass-Fed Collagen. If a daily serving is a 10-gramme scoop as claimed, then the stuff ought to last me for 50 days.

My interest is to see if it will have any visible effect on the 'stringy' look to my upper arms where the appearance resembles that of someone who has undergone a dramatic weight loss. I am hoping that it is the visible sign of age-related collagen loss, and that this stuff will restore some unquestionable fullness.

It would also be nice if it would lend a boost to a little visible muscle buildup.

My younger brother rose before I was able to seek a possible nap; so I later joined him for some T.V. without any bed rest.

When he turned the T.V. over to me so that I could put our Android TV Box to work, I led us off with the last of a recorded video that we had twice previously suspended play on.

It was a documentary topping 1½ hours (1:38:27) that had been made available on BitChute's bluedemon218 channel back on September 19, 2020: McDonald's Massacre (Actual Footage).

The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre was an act of mass murder which occurred at a McDonald's restaurant in the San Ysidro neighborhood of San Diego, California, on July 18, 1984. The perpetrator, 41-year-old James Huberty, fatally shot 21 people and wounded 19 others before being killed by a police sniper approximately 77 minutes after he had first opened fire.

At the time, the massacre was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, being surpassed seven years later by the Luby's shooting.

Despite how long it took us to fully watch the video, it was deeply interesting.

Then I tuned in the only other video we were to have time for, since it was almost 1¾ hours (1:44:51) ─ it was also at BitChute, but had been published April 3, a mere four days ago, at the Mercola channel: Reductive Stress — The Hidden Culprit of Chronic Disease- Interview with Brad Marshall.

In this interview, Brad Marshall explains how reductive stress works, and why it’s so bad for your health. Understanding reductive stress is an important topic because it's fundamental to optimizing your biology. It’s a fundamental biological principle that is not widely appreciated or even understood, as it contradicts almost everything we've been taught about biology.

Reductive stress has a significant yet underappreciated role in biological health, contradicting conventional biological education
Reductive stress, which results from an imbalance in the cell's electron flow that leads to a surplus of NADH, is a primary cause of oxidative stress that leads to virtually every degenerative disease and the most common causes of death
Reductive stress leads to oxidative damage by causing a bottleneck in mitochondrial electron transport
Elevated NADH levels, a hallmark of reductive stress, alter your body fat composition by promoting the conversion of saturated fats to monounsaturated fats. This highlights the intricate relationship between diet, cellular energy balance, and fat physiology
Strategies for mitigating reductive stress and improving metabolic health include dietary adjustments to favor glucose burning, reduce fat intake, and manage blood glucose levels through selective protein and carbohydrate sources

Somehow my brother sat it through, though he did bitch on its complexity a few times.

I thought that we might have actually watched three videos, but I cannot now imagine what a third one might have been.

My brother was to have some bed rest and then left for the day before I had yet taken my inadequate nap. Nevertheless, I hope to get out this evening on a good walk and do a little shopping at Save-On-Foods in Fleetwood ─ I intend to include a purchase of a half dozen cans of cider.

I do not wish to leave here any later than 8 p.m., for it is quite a walk, and the store closes at 10 p.m. And since it is already 7:27 p.m., I had best start preparations ─ I am going to need to quaff a Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol) for the boost to get me on my way.