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Bivi trip 5-6 March 2016
We had a great adventure over the weekend. Tony, Careg, Brie and Mark with me walked from near Pycombe village to the New Timber Hill across a tremendous mud road and had our lunch at the top of the hill. Than we walked back across the mud ( it was a great adventure and was really nice to see how B. helped M. to get through the mud) and found our sleeping place . The kids pointed out the most beautiful dining room what you can see one picture below . We set up the bashas, and luckily Tony helped me with huge patience when I forgot again and again the special knots. During the trip we learnt a lot about the nature and tasted primrose flowers and young nettle leaves. Tony thought us how to recognise different trees just from the shape and colour of a young sprout. We learnt about the impact of different plants and saw some rabbits at the bottom of the Devil's dyke's chalk valley. The weather was over our expectation and at the end we missed our sun glasses. Thank you for the Craggers and especially Tony for this amazing bivi trip.
I would like to echo Henrietta's thoughts on the walk. Our first stop was the Bronze Age hill fort on Wolstonbury Hill (see below) where, minutes after talking about the wildlife of Transylvania, Henrietta started a conversation with a couple from…Transylvania!
Following a muddy descent we climbed Newtimber Hill (see below) to cook and eat in brilliant sunshine, in what Brae described as 'the best dining room in the world' taking in the panoramic view, especially the dramatic steep valley of Devil's Dyke (see below). We lingered to watch a dramatic sunset as the birds piped up for their evening chorus.
Sunday was glorious and our 'dining room' of the previous night was white with a deep frost. Walking a vertiginous path over a chalk pit we descended to Saddlescombe Farm (see below) and had a look at the Donkey Wheel – imaging a massively scaled up hamster wheel and you get the idea – which was used for drawing water from the well.
Another steep hike took us to Devil's Dyke where the blue sky was filled with the rainbows of paragliders and the sharp angles of hang gliders. The arrival of the 77 bus signaled the end or a great weekend.
WOLSTONBURY HILLFORT
A Late Bronze Age Ram's Hill type enclosure situated on a clay-with-flints capped, chalk hill which forms part of the Sussex Downs. The north-south aligned, roughly oval enclosure is defined by a ditch up to 5 metres wide and circa 1.2 metres deep which bounds a central area of 2.2 hectares. Part excavation in 1929 and 1995, and a 1993 survey, have shown the ditch to be flat-bottomed and interrupted in places by narrow causeways, interpreted as original features. A bank of dump construction surrounds the ditch, measuring up to 5 metres wide and up to 1.5 metres high, and the ditch is flanked on its south western side by a slight internal bank up to 0.2 metres high. The earthworks have been disturbed in places by late 18th century-early 19th century flint diggings, mainly excavated by the inmates of Hursterpierpoint workhouse. Two gaps at the north and south east of the boundary earthworks have been interpreted as original entrances. The later flint diggings have also disturbed much of the interior of the enclosure, although surveys have indicated roughly north-south aligned curving banks measuring 2-4 metres wide and up to 0.5 metres high. These are interpreted as lynchets resulting from the subsequent cultivation of the interior during the Early Iron Age. Antiquarian sources indicate that the monument may have been used as a cemetery during the later Anglo-Saxon period. Reports in the Gentleman's Magazine of 1765 and 1806 suggest that the inhumation burials furnished with grave goods were disturbed on the hilltop by flint quarrying and possibly also by the construction of the now dry dewpond situated in the central part of the enclosure. Other finds include worked flints dating to the Neolithic period and the Early Bronze Age and Roman coins and pottery.
We come back down to Pycombe, cross the road and go up to our lovely bivi site…
Newtimber Hill
Newtimber Hill is owned by the National Trust and is situated in the South Downs AONB. Most of the land is included in a large Site of Special Scientific Interest which spreads westwards along the spectacular Fulking Escarpment and Devils Dyke. All the land lies within the South Downs Environmentally Sensitive Area designated in 1986. It is a Grade 2 Nature Conservation Review Site on account of its well developed chalk downland habitat. There is a woodland trail at the foot of the hill (access from Beggars Lane/ A281), and from the hill, you have magnificent views of Devils Dyke and the Downs. The hill is managed as Open Space.
Newtimber Hill is a prominent feature in the landscape, particularly from the north and west of the property. Its land gives the impression of a horse's saddle, with a north and west facing section of the steep scarp slope of the South Downs along with the summit area and a section of the south facing dip slope which is dissected by a shallow dry combe forming gently along ridge spurs. A dew pond near the summit was restored in 1979.
The calcareous grassland is of outstanding quality including areas of very species-rich sward, especially on the steep, west-facing scarp slope. Horseshoe vetch, orchids, dropwort, autumn gentian and roundheaded rampion are present.
The next morning we will walk down to Saddlescombe Farm (Becci can tell you much more about the farm)
History and environment of Saddlescombe Farm
There is archaeological evidence of the farm being farmed since the Bronze Age with burial mounds and trackways being found nearby. Today there are a number of farm buildings ranging in date from the early 17th century, find out more on the National Trust website. Working with the National Trust we have entered the farm into an environmental project which will help to restore the hedgerows, establish pollen and nectar rich areas, manage species rich grassland and have farm visits for schools.
From there we walk up to Devil's Dyke…
Myths regarding the formation of Devil's Dyke
Local folklore explains the valley as the work of the devil The legend holds that the devil was digging a trench to allow the sea to flood the many churches in the Weald of Sussex. The digging disturbed an old woman who lit a candle, or angered a rooster
causing it to crow, making the devil believe that the morning was fast approaching. The devil then fled, leaving his trench unfinished. The last shovel of earth he threw over his shoulder fell into the sea, forming the Isle of Wight.
A further variant has it that the Devil's digging was terminated by him stubbing his toe on a large rock which he kicked in anger over the hills towards the sea, then abandoning his diabolic plans of Weald destruction due to the injuries sustained. The rock landed in the area now known, consequently, as Goldstone valley in Hove. The Goldstone acquired its name from the hints of gold in its makeup. The enormous and mysterious rock now lies in Hove Park in Goldstone Valley, near where it was first discovered. It can be seen at the Old Shoreham Road end of the park and is considered to have been possibly an object of Druid worship.
Another story holds that rather than digging to flood Sussex, he was simply in a huge goat-like form, intending to crush the surrounding area. He smelt the tang of salt water in the wind, and fearing his coat would get damp (for he is vain to the point of sin), he fled leaving nothing but a hoof-print, now known as Devil's Dyke.
English pagan Black Metal band Old Forest released a song and video titled 'The Devil's Dyke' on their 23 April 2008 'Death To Music Productions' EP release 'Tales of the Sussex Weald ; Part 1 (The Legend of the Devil's Dyke)'
We can have a drink and food here if we want before catching the bus back to Brighton.
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Hurricane damage to forests: Scientists study impacts on carbon cycle
by Lynn Yarris, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that flooded New Orleans and pounded the Gulf coastal areas of Mississippi and Louisiana, uprooted or severely damaged roughly 320 million trees. (Image courtesy of NASA)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of carbon emissions that exacerbate global climate change most of us probably think of the exhaust from automobiles and other vehicles, or smoke billowing from rows of stacks at fossil fuel-burning power plants. But there is a source of large carbon emissions that is not so immediately obvious – the destruction of forest trees through hurricanes. For example, studies led by Jeffrey Chambers, who is now with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have shown that Hurricane Katrina, the storm that flooded New Orleans and pounded the Gulf coastal areas of Mississippi and Louisiana, uprooted or severely damaged roughly 320 million trees. In terms of the carbon cycle, this devastating loss of vegetation from a single storm was equivalent to about a 10-percent increase in U.S. fossil fuel emissions for a year.
"Hurricanes and other extreme events that disturb forest ecosystems have the potential to alter forest structure and and ecosystem functions, including biomass accumulation rates and forest tree species composition," says Chambers, a researcher in the Climate Sciences Department of Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division. "Quantifying these forest disturbances is necessary to evaluate the extent and severity of damage for estimating biomass loss, developing regional carbon budgets, and making management decisions."
Chambers, in collaboration with Berkeley Lab colleagues and researchers at other institutions, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Maryland and Tulane University, is developing models that evaluate the impact of tree mortality on the carbon cycle. These models are designed to be incorporated into new and improved Earth Systems Models that can more accurately predict global climate change.
"Whereas other research efforts focus on the size of the area impacted by a storm, we use a combination of field plots, remote sensing image analysis, and modeling techniques to estimate the number of trees that were destroyed," Chambers says. "This is an important advancement in the assessment of large-scale disturbances to forest ecosystems."
Trees and other green plants are critical players in the carbon cycle, the biogeochemical process by which carbon loops between the ocean, the biosphere, the atmosphere, and Earth's crust. Atmospheric carbon dioxide, along with water, is absorbed by green vegetation and assimilated into plant biomass. Through photosynthesis, some of the carbon is converted into sugars for the plants and the oxygen is released back into the atmosphere. When the carbon assimilated into plant biomass is greater than the carbon lost through plant decomposition, the forest serves as a valuable terrestrial carbon sink. The total sink is a net gain of one to two petagrams of carbon per year, which is the equivalent of about 25 percent of annual carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.
"When a forest disturbance increases the amount of decomposing dead plant material, the ecosystem can change from a sink to a source of carbon," Chambers says. "Processes that elevate the mortality of vegetation, especially trees, can cause a weakening of the terrestrial carbon sink that contributes to climate system warming. In addition, a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme events that cause tree and vegetation mortality, resulting in an increase in decomposing biomass. This increase in tree and vegetation mortality could act as a positive feedback mechanism that accelerates the global warming effect."
To quantify the destruction to forest ecosystems caused by land-falling hurricanes, Chambers and his collaborators study the numbers of downed, snapped and dead trees. These numbers are obtained by direct measurements in the field, and by regressing Landsat and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data that in turn were associated with Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data from the U.S. Forest Service. Factors such as the abundance of green vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation, soil and shade, recorded before and after the storm, are included to produce spatially explicit maps of hurricane forest impacts.
"The empirical models we are developing relate changes in the surface reflectance spectra to tree mortality rates, providing us with a unique method for mapping tree mortality patterns at regional to continental scales," Chambers says. "We are working to relate these patterns to causal agents, such as wind from strong storms and hurricanes, as well as drought, insect outbreaks, and fire. Ultimately we aim to develop predictive models for how these mortality agents will change with a warming climate."
NASA satellite image shows damaged and destroyed forest trees (in red) in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, damage that in terms of the carbon cycle was equivalent to a 10-percent increase in U.S. fossil fuel emissions for a year. (Image courtesy of NASA)
Chambers and his collaborators first made use of their empirical modeling techniques to assess the forest impact along the Gulf Coast as a result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, and Hurricane Gustav, which hit the region in 2008. Their work has shown that in addition to wholesale destruction, the aftermath of these storms has led to many forests in the region being heavily invaded by Chinese tallow trees.
"In terms of biomass and carbon, it will take probably on the order of 75 to 100 years for the forests in the region to fully accumulate the carbon lost from the decomposition of all the dead trees," Chambers says. "However, with the invasion by the Chinese tallow and other factors, the forests there will probably never be quite the same."
Most recently, Chambers and collaborators applied their modeling technique to study Amazon tree mortality in the wake of a single squall line – an aligned cluster of convective storm cells – that spread across the entire Amazon rainforest in 2005. The widespread tree mortality caused by this one event – an estimated 540 million trees – was equivalent to nearly 25 percent of the mean annual biomass accumulation estimated for these forests.
"Our results highlight the vulnerability of Amazon trees to the wind-driven mortality associated with convective storms," Chambers says. "Storm intensity is expected to increase with a warming climate, which would result in additional tree mortality and carbon release to the atmosphere, with the potential to further warm the climate system."
Chambers and his collaborators also recently completed a study in which they synthesized field measurements, satellite image analyses, and empirical models to evaluate forest and carbon cycle impacts for historical hurricanes from 1851 to 2000 over the continental U.S. This study showed that an average of 97 million trees were affected each year during this time span, with an average carbon release of 25 Teragrams per year (one Teragram equals one million tons). There was twice as much destruction in the years prior to 1900 because there were more hurricanes and much larger forested areas. Although the impacts were greatest along the Gulf Coast, significant impacts also occurred in eastern North Carolina.
"The results of this study will serve as an important baseline for evaluating how potential future changes in hurricane frequency and intensity will impact forest tree mortality and carbon balance," Chambers says.
Staggering tree loss from 2005 Amazon storm
Provided by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Citation: Hurricane damage to forests: Scientists study impacts on carbon cycle (2011, May 4) retrieved 21 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2011-05-hurricane-forests-scientists-impacts-carbon.html
Amazon carbon sink threatened by drought
Frequent, severe fires turn Alaskan forests into a carbon production line
Carbon sequestration estimate in US increased -- barring a drought
One-fifth of fossil-fuel emissions absorbed by threatened forests
Effects of forest fire on carbon emissions, climate impacts often overestimated

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Big Blue Marble is happy to welcome back Philly authors Janet Mason, with her novel The Unicorn, The Mystery and Louis Greenstein, with his new novel The Song of Life.
Janet Mason, an award-winning creative writer, is the author of THEY, a biblical tale of secret genders (Adelaide Books; 2018). Her book Tea Leaves, a memoir of mothers and daughters (Bella Books; 2012) was chosen by the American Library Association for its 2013 Over the Rainbow List. Tea Leaves also received a Goldie Award. Mason is also a teacher, a Unitarian Universalist lay minister, and blogger. "In The Unicorn, The Mystery, we meet a unicorn who tells us the story of the seven tapestries, called "The Hunt of the Unicorn" from the 1500s on display in "the unicorn room" in The Cloister in Manhattan, now part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tapestries tell the story of what is still called an "unsolved mystery."
Louis Greenstein is the author of two novels and twelve plays; he has been awarded a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts playwriting fellowship and has edited books on subjects ranging from self-help to Led Zeppelin. He has produced two documentary films, covered professional boxing for The Ring magazine, and written for the Emmy-winning TV show, Rugrats. The Song of Life is a comedy about suffering and forgiveness. When 24-year-old Margaret Holly gets hit on the head with a Hindu scripture known as the Bhagavad Gita, she is propelled on a seven-year spiritual odyssey. During this time, she grieves a heartbreaking loss, forgives those who abused her, masters the practice of meditation, and comes to better understand the nature of the universe. Her journey introduces her to the inscrutabilities of brain science, the promise of Big Data, and—thanks to her charming, reckless cousin Roy—the colorfully brutal world of professional boxing. Elliott Fenwick is a college professor, an expert in predictive analytics, and a neurotic with lagging social skills who embarks on his own quirky odyssey and—despite himself—changes his and Margaret's lives forever.
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Harvard neurologist Martha Herbert, in a keynote address at an autism conference, said "we need to conduct research as if we know this is an emergency." Already, up to one and a half percent of American children have autism, and it appears to be on the rise. Well, what about fever's dramatic effect? This "dramatic relief of autistic behavior [during a fever] continues to tantalize parents and practitioners." From a research standpoint, "what could be more revealing than a common event that virtually 'normalizes' autistic behavior for a time?" "There's so much going on during fever," though; where do you even begin?
But, synaptic dysfunction is not the only contributing cause of autism. There's also oxidative stress. "The brain is particularly vulnerable to oxidative stress" because lots of free radicals are forged in the brain, which has few "antioxidant defense capacities." And, indeed, "[t]here is a long history of studies showing that [autism] is associated with oxidative stress and diminished antioxidant capacity." Nrf2 levels cut nearly in half, which is what triggers our body's "antioxidant response." If only there was a way we could boost Nrf2 with foods—boom, there it is! Sulforaphane just so happens to be perhaps "the most potent natural…inducer…of Nrf2" on the planet.
So, maybe if we give some broccoli to those with autism, it will also make things better by triggering Nrf2, which activates those antioxidant response elements. And then, there's the mitochondrial dysfunction. "[C]hildren with autism [are] more likely to" suffer from dysfunctional mitochondria, the little power plants within our cells where metabolism takes place. If only there was some food that could improve mitochondrial function. And, there is. "A diet rich in cruciferous vegetables effectively retunes our metabolism by…restoring metabolic [balance]." Power plants for our cellular power plants.
Not only can sulforaphane boost the gene expression of heat shock proteins as much as six-fold within six hours, it can double the mass of mitochondria in human cells growing in a petri dish. So, maybe if we give some broccoli to those with autism, it will also make things better by relieving some of that mitochondrial dysfunction that is creating even more free radicals. Okay. So, can we try giving some kids some broccoli already? First, one final factor: neuroinflammation—brain inflammation, another causal factor in autism. If, at autopsy, you look at brain tissue of those with autism, you can see inflammation throughout the white matter. And, if you do a spinal tap, up to 200 times the levels of inflammatory mediators, like interferon, bathing their brains.
What's causing all that inflammation? Well, the master regulator of the inflammatory cascade is a protein called NF-kappa-beta, which induces inflammation and, if overexpressed, like in autism, can lead to "chronic or excessive inflammation." If only there was a food. Wait—broccoli does that, too? In fact, it's the major anti-inflammatory mechanism for sulforaphane, inhibiting NF-kappa-beta.
Well, then; that completes the picture. Give someone with autism broccoli, and heat shock proteins are released to boost synaptic transmission, Nrf2 is activated to wipe out the free radicals, mitochondrial function is restored, and we suppress the inflammation triggered by NF-kappa-beta. One food to counter all four purported causal factors. That's one of the differences between foods and drugs. Drugs tend to have single effects. But, autism spectrum disorder, ASD, "is multi-factorial"—no wonder there's no drugs that work. But, "strategies using multi-functional phytochemicals [like sulforaphane] or even [better] the [whole] plants [themselves],…are highly attractive"—in theory. But, you don't know, until you put it to the test, which I promise we'll cover, next.
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Republishing "Fighting Autism Brain Inflammation with Food"
Dramatic relief of autistic behavior during a fever? If you missed it, check out my last video: Fever Benefits for Autism in a Food. Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion in Best Foods for Autism.
While you're waiting, what else can broccoli's magic do?
place, let's look at that, then no one even has to concern themselves with this broccoli issue.
Right, inflammation can indeed be necessary as an acute response. However, as anyone with arthritis, SLE, IBS, psoriasis, et al, can tell you, chronic inflammation is another mater and is a major (I'm prone to say monumental) problem. So reducing the source is a great idea. Countering that source and symptom with food is fantastic idea.
The inflammation is chronic because the causes are chronicly ingested, wrong foods/others factors and it could be some so called healthy foods also like starchy foods.
Great point Julot. Indeed there are always a multiplicity of factors to consider. Eliminating the factor or factors causing the inflammatory response is obviously extremely important.
When I developed psoriatic arthritis I went to an ND who had some "magic pills" that were expensive and would work if I took them and paid him for may years. Instead I went to another ND who printed a chapter from a text book which showed that studies had shown that sufferers of this auto immune condition could be impacted by many things including wheat, night shade, even citrus et al. OK I have a sister with celiac so I tried eliminating gluten and it worked. However, I remained very sensitive to any contamination and continued to have swelling in my toes. But at least the pain was gone.
So I kept looking at diet and found this web site and started noting the plethora of inflammatory factors in animal products in general. So I went completely plant based.
In a few weeks the swelling in the toes disappeared and over time I realized that occasional contamination of food with gluten was not causing a problem. This had been a problem for years. So,,, after about 6 months I decided to have a slice of whole grain bread as a test. I broke out in a sweat in anticipation of the pain but I did it anyway. But the pain never came and there was never a resurgence of symptoms. So yes my gluten sensitivity was and probably is still here but it is so minor that eliminating all the inflammatory factors in animal rendered that sensitivity irrelevant.
OK put that into other contexts, whole grain whole food starchy diets are overwhelmingly the basis of long life in the blue zones. Though I can't find the source now, there was one study here showing a complete remission of auto immune symptoms in 50% of the subjects who eliminated all animal from their diets. All in all 95% showed improvement with 50% having complete remission. Now that is incredible. Beats hell out of the methotrexateth my rheumatologist wanted to prescribe.
So, for the rest who were not cured, there is likely some plant based food source of problem and you are absolutely right, that should be eliminated. I like to think of the peanut. A really healthy food but if it provokes anaphylactic shock, you don't wanna go near it. My sister with celiac should never go near wheat. For the rest of us whole grains starch and greens will likely mean a longer healthier life.
Should be carefull about oils/nuts also and of course mid to high fat diet especially from nuts but possibly any high fat foods, gluten obviously, non celiac gluten sensitivity doest exist and seems to be more common than what it seems.
Could the inflammation be caused by a SAD diet? Is that what it is trying to heal from?
Vegan and people eating a SAD diet, have the same rate of autism, which can be caused by something else, such as pesticides or mercury contamination.
And it is not because you are a vegan that you will consume more foods with Sulforaphane if you don't eat properly.
Dr Mercola said that folate can prevent pesticide contamination from causing autism. Dr G also said foods that regulate the mitochondrial, will help. Nobody knows exactly what foods or phytonutrients can help improving autism condition. We just have to try them all.
Actually, I'd argue the case for microwave exposure, which has pretty much increased in sync with unprecedented increases of autism.
The industry has argued that any exposure that does not cause cooking seems harmless – and therefore any exposure below that level seems safe. Many research studies have disproved this, demonstrating effects at microwaves well below the level needed for heating, but the industry has stuck to this position and their lobbyists have made sure that out government policy makers have as well. This despite the recent U.S government National Toxicology Program study demonstrating that microwaves at cell phone frequencies at very low exposure levels CAN cause cancer. See this article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/debate-renews-over-health-risks-from-cellphone-use-1467829289 that came out 7/7/16 in the Wall Street Journal, of all places, and makes exactly the point I made after the NTP study came out – that I had not seen brought up in any media reports, viz, that the NTP study has confirmed that microwaves can have non-thermal toxicological effects, that this DOES open the proverbial can of worms, with respect to all of the safety studies the microwave industry has NOT done, while exponentially increasing human exposure to microwaves at a wide variety of new and untested frequencies year after year.
Though he goes quite a bit farther than I would, He crossed his t's and dotted his i's. I found his EMF/Microwave pathology thesis unfortunately both plausible and well-supported by scientific research. A lecture worth watching.
Why has the release of this information taken so long? If the tobacco industry had the equivalent of a trillion plus dollars to play with back in the 50's, and as many inroads into government policy as the microwave industry has today (including microwave tower protection laws), and the allegiance of professional politicians, how many extra decades would it have taken for the dangers of tobacco smoking have become evident? Would cigarette packages have warning labels on them, even today?
Doctor, I got rid of my microwave oven a long time ago. Microwaving will denaturalize protein and destroy nutrients in a subtle way more than any form of cooking. So we are now facing with an avalanche of factors that can affect our health, from pollutants to our foods having less nutrition due to how it is processed or cooked, and therefore we have less chance of countering the pollutants.
I read an article the other day which says that more CO2 emission will not only cause global warming, but also plant foods that are bigger but with less nutrition, in particular protein.
These days, as far as personal exposure goes, microwave ovens seem pretty much irrelevant. Or bodies and brains get the vast majority of exposure from our cell phones, routers, cordless phones, and laptops. And more and more "smart devices" emitting microwaves find their way into out homes every day.
Unfortunately cell phones have markedly increased their output over the years several fold, so that now, even if you use one on speaker mode, you get more microwave exposure to your head than you used to get – say ten years ago – when you held an older model cell phone directly against your ear. And of course any areas of your body near the cell phone – or an IPAD, etc., get a full dose. I'd recommend using landline phones as much as possible, until – or IF – research ever sorts the actual risks out, and to use cell phones when unavoidable only, and even then only for only as long as necessary, not for long social conversations.
Incidentally, I calculated that an SAR of 0.12 mW/kg, where Salford began to detect leakage in the blood-brain barrier in rats, corresponds to about 15,000 microwatts/meter squared, well below the range of levels of exposure one would get in close proximity to most cell phones.
And yes, different frequencies may have different effects, just as different chemicals have different effects. A study showing that one frequency – say 3.5 Ghz, does not have a particular effect does not say anything about whether another microwave frequency, say 5 GHz, will. Each needs to undergo testing separately.
I used to think microwaves were "evil" and got rid of mine 8 years ago. But I think it's a myth. I haven't bought a new one as I've done without one for so long there's no need.
I've never seen any anti-microwave websites making the claim that "athermal effects are "not presently measurable."," because the scientific literature has dozens of studies – published in credible peer-reviewed scientific journals – demonstrating that such athermal effects do indeed exist. Furthermore, the just completed 25 million dollar study by our own countries National Toxicology Program not only demonstrated that athermal levels of microwaves caused an increase in brain cancer in rats, but also demonstrated that this exposure caused DNA breaks.
"In May, the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) announced that male rats exposed to cell phone radiation developed higher rates of cancer. Soon, the NTP will explain how that might have happened.
Jerry. You wrote "Vegan and people eating a SAD diet, have the same rate of autism, ".
There appear to be a range of genetic and environmental factors involved. Also, there may be different "causes" just as some cancers are associated with or perhaps caused by certain viruses or smoking or alcohol or saturated fat consumption etc.
Vegans and vegetarians can be very healthy but they have to eat right right with a completed diet.
P.S. I saw you mentioning eating fish in several of your posts. Have you changed your diet?
Uh, even the abstract indicates that adoption of a vegetarian diet seemed to follow not precede the mental health problems. That would suggest there's nothing to see here.
But let's dispel the notion of meat eaters versus vegans, because today's meat eaters eat WFPB just like vegans, or even more, except that they also eat animal foods (myself included). I don't know of anyone who just eat animal foods. People who eat a SAD diet are excluded.
Thanks for this video. I'll certainly try increasing my broccoli intake. I'm a female in her thirties and I was diagnosed with autism level 1 (Aspergers) a year ago. I was born and raised Vegan, to two Vegan parents. My symptoms of autism were hellishly worse as I was growing up, but in various ways I have been able to now live a life in which at least I experience happiness, which I didn't really, for the first few decades. After my diagnosis, my dad's behaviour throughout my entire life began to make sense – he now believes he has Aspergers too. The literature I've read, such as by one of the most renowned autism specialists in the world, Simon Baron-Cohen, says that autism has a strong genetic basis. I now know other adults with autism, and many of them say they were only diagnosed after their children were diagnosed, and that now, now only do they see it in themselves, but their parents, and grandparents, etc. So part of me really questions the idea that rates are going up. Aspergers itself was only really discussed in the 1980s, and most mental health professionals and doctors don't seem to recognise it today, let alone in the past.
On the other hand, I feel very uncomfortable, because I see a lot of my Vegan friends exhibiting signs of Aspergers Syndrome – more than amongst my non-Vegan friends and colleagues etc. I can't say I've met hundreds of Vegans, but I know 6 that are either diagnosed or I suspect of having Aspergers (2 of them either have it in the family, or are also suspected by relatives who work in the field of autism). I say suspect, because many of these individuals just don't want to pursue a diagnosis. Amongst non-Vegans, I'd say I know 3. But I've met thousands of non-Vegans.
One thing I know is that growing up my parents did not know anything about Omega oils and I'd say my childhood was entirely deficient in them. I also don't ever remember taking a B12 supplement as a child, and because we survived (on fortified foods), I honestly believed until I was diagnosed with autism that humans didn't need it afterrall. I know so many Vegans who don't supplement with omega oils or B12 and recently I've met two Vegan children who show signs of more severe autism, including damaged mental capacities and lack of speech, and I had to persuade the parents of one of them to at least take B12, as they too thought they didn't need it. Considering that both nutrients are cited by doctors as some of the most effective methods of alleviating autism symptoms, it really worries me that unless they supplement (which many Vegans don't, and don't know to eat flaxseed), they could be running the risk of causing severe damage to their children.
I don't know if my fears are justified. If anyone can share any thoughts, I'd be grateful.
As proponents of the whole-food plant-based diet will say, eating vegan does not mean eating healthy. A vegan diet is free of animal products, but it can be full of refined carbs and oils, which are not going to build a healthy body. However, a vegan diet that is low-fat/oil-free and free of refined and processed foods is health-promoting, and that diet does not require any supplementation except for B12 — not even the omega 3's. It is very possible that the vegans you know with chronic health issues are those who are not really eating a truly healthy animal-free diet.
Please PLEASE stop using the word vegan to describe plant based eaters. Veganism is NOT a diet. It is an ethical and moral stance against the exploitation of non-human sentient animals.
Being vegan doesn't mean you eat a whole food plant based (WFPB) diet. Nutrition wise, it simply means you don't consume any animal parts and any of their secretions.
Could it be caused by glyphosate use?
Yes. I think it could, but difficult to prove.
Then explain why indigenous Indians have exorbitantly low rates of chronic disease? They consume loads of curcumin, an anti-inflammatory, compound (that doubles as a nootropic). Inflammation for the most part, is bad.
I totally agree. That's why I tell people about this site with the disclaimer, " subject to change without notice" (lol). The research is constantly changing.
I have found it totally opposite to you . The research presented seems to be consistent , namely whole foods from plants get the best results .
Dot Plogger: it's not a disclaimer.
The pedagogical techniques used in this video are tremendous. It pretty much guarantees I will not have much free time today as I will by reviewing the sources and factors introduced in this video to try to really get a grip on this.
I do not have nor do I currently know anyone with ASD, but sulforaphane is so central to so many important aids to health that this just adds tremendously to our understanding and using it effectively. e.g. Yesterday I spent time with a friend with Parkinson's. My brother has it as well and sulforaphane is also suggested as beneficial for that. I also have a cousin with newly discovered esophageal cancer and a niece with newly diagnosed brain cancer. Again sulforaphane is potentially beneficial.
Looks like I've gotta start drinking kale smoothies and get systematic about sprouting broccoli. Eating it daily is probably not enough.
I agree. This video is incredible. I have a family member on the spectrum and what strikes me as astounding is one simple fact: this family member is constantly in the sauna, in the steam room, in the bathroom with the hot shower running for 45 minutes. As his internal body temperature rises, I suspect he simply feels better. Wow. Heat shock proteins….. Hmmmmm….. I look forward to the next study! (And I am thinking, how can we make broccoli crunchy without altering the important phytochemicals? Hmmmm…. ) Crunchy cabbage coleslaw? Wow!
Hi, do you know of any info. that Dr. G has regarding echinacea? Safe or not, effective?
Shelby, right at the top of the page is a search box (with the magnifying glass icon). Plug in echinacea and see what may come up!
Unlikely. The MCFs in coconut oil increase intestinal permeability (1, 2, 3), including to endotoxins (4). In animal models, autism-like disorders can be induced by prenatal/neonatal exposure to endotoxins (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), and immune cells from autistic children have more proinflammatory responses to these proinflammatory bacterial compounds (12, 13).
An aside worth mentioning, the animal studies make a case that maternal supplementation with zinc (known to reduce intestinal permeability) may help prevent this mechanism (14, 15, 16).
Hi Darryl, I have not got the time to reply to you regarding the intestinal permeability issue, but it is caused by a combination of inflammation by not consuming Omega 3 fat and then consume saturated fat, but saturated fat alone is not the cause. It is a long article that I posted the other day, and you have to read the entire article and not just the conclusion. Reread the entire article again.
I responded here. The Mani et al. paper you linked, which I've read shared many times on this and other forums, is one of many which have found a variety of dietary fats, saturated or not, cause postprandial metabolic endotoxemia. The Mani et al. paper along with this human trial suggest coconut oil is no different.
Intestinal inflammation may contribute to permeability by disrupting the mucosal layer and tight-barrier. However as we know LPS "stows away" in the chylomicrons that distribute digested fats in normal metabolism, it doesn't seem a necessary precondition. Moreover, there's a substantial body of evidence that some fats themselves contribute to intestinal inflammation (for example, milk fat increasing Bilophila wadsworthia and hydrogen sulfide production).
Daryl, Totally impressed by your posts with all the references plus the neat and tidy summations of the relevant points.
I've advocated for holistic style research for years (in a long dead blog) and believe we would be much further along with good health practices had we continued single-minded studies by adding other things after their completion to see how the outcomes are changed.
Even the healthiest foods have both benefits and risks.
A lot of people these days although not clinically hypothyroid have marginal thyroid functioning – and eating too many of these foods can impair thyroid functioning to the point where symptoms – such as cold sensitivity and fatigue appear, and this can also show up in a TSH blood test. I have a friend who had normal but on the hypo end of thyroid function – who after eating cruciferous vegetables every day for a few months noticed a marked cold sensitivity, and when the blood tests came in, his doctor even wanted him to start taking synthroid! He backed off on the cruciferous vegetables and his thyroid returned to normal, as reflected by the disappearance of cold sensitivity and the blood test results.
I also knew an energetic and healthy couple who to boost their health even further began to mainline green smoothies, which often included a lot of kale. After a month of this they could hardly move, and they had to back off.
This is a theoretical concern, for most. Most cruciferous vegetables, including broccoli, have negligible impact on iodine uptake, but if I were prone to hypothyroidism, I might consider limiting intake of rutabaga (1) and bamboo shoots (2).
The U.S has about 326 million people, so 4.6% = 15 million people, not an insignificant number. And this does not count "pre-hypothyroid" people with high – but still within the accepted normal range – of TSH numbers.
And even if someone in that healthy range starts mainlining cruciferous vegetables, especially if they eat them raw, I'd feel willing to bet that many of them might not remain normal for long.
Cruciferous vegetables contain natural chemicals called goitrogens (goiter producers) that can interfere with thyroid hormone synthesis. So you need to eat foods with iodine at the same time, and you need iodine anyway for other purposes. But I believe that broccoli sprout does not contain as much goitrogens, or none. Also the goal is to consume sulforaphane which the sprout has 10X the broccoli itself, and so you can eat less.
Eat some seaweed also. Or you can take kelp tablets.
Could somebody provide a list with sulforaphane content of the different cruciferous vegetables? I seem not being able to find a credible source with figures.
hi Maxime, this page might interest you http://www.brainprotips.com/sulforaphane-supplements/ I see even the humble turnip offers a respectable amount , and brussel sprouts top the list. Hope this helps.
I think I read that in the case of broccoli seed, it is more potent than the sprouts–though it tastes bitter. Just got a Vitamix–I'll put it to the test Haha!
You need to watch some of the previous videos. The amount of sulfurophane present can vary HUGELY depending on how it's obtained and cooked. Both the precursor and sulfurophane are resistant to heat degradation, but the enzyme that does the conversion is not. Also, they're in the same compartment – meaning, the broccoli by itself does not produce sulfurophane – it's a defensive compound produced when a bug chews on it, which breaks open the separate compartments containing the enzyme and precursor. Then the precursor is converted INTO sulfurophane.
If raw, it has to be chopped and let to sit for 20-30 minutes to allow the enzyme time to convert the precursor mentioned above into sulfurophane. In the alternative – if you get it frozen, like most of us, the enzyme has been destroyed.
There is, however, a quick and easy fix. Ground mustard spice contains the enzyme, so sprinkling that onto your steamed broccoli or other cruciferous vegetables will perform the conversion of the precursor into sulfurophane, the active compound described above.
GAEngineer: As you say, the enzyme that does the conversion (myrosinase) is deactivated by heat. Therefor, steaming, boiling, and blanching are out.
Unless, as you say, you add the myrosinase back in with mustard seed.
Also steam no more than 4 minutes. Do not boil, nutrients are lost in the water.
You have to actually read the article.
You will find a sulforaphane content list in this video at about the 43 minute mark.
You copied my youtube link without acknowledging. Thanks but LOL.
Broccoli sprouts are the richest food source of glucoraphanin, the precursor to sulforaphane.
It is possible to increase the sulforaphane yield from a given quantity of broccoli sprouts 4-5 times by heating them in 70 C (158 F) water for 10 minutes. This paper, "Heating decreases epithiospecifier protein activity and increases sulforaphane formation in broccoli", describes how this works.
Glucoraphanin is converted to sulforaphane by the enzyme myrosinase. However, in the presence of the cofactor ESP, most of the substrate in converted to other, non-useful products. Heating the sprouts deactivates the cofactor without affecting the myrosinase, causing virtually all of the glucoraphanin to be converted into sulforaphane. After blending (required to release the glucoraphanin), let the mixture sit for a few minutes before consuming.
As cheap as broccoli sprouts are to grow, who wouldn't want to get more bang for his/her buck, especially considering the enormous value of sulforaphane and the ease of this simple heating process?
Thanks to Dr. Rhonda Patrick for teaching me about this amazing trick.
Thanks for such a helpful explanation!
Mustard seed is loaded with myrosinase, as someone mentioned above. I add a tablespoon to my blend to give an additional boost to the enzyme.
How often do you wash them per day? I was washing them morning and evening. It didn't seem to be enough. Maybe 3 or 4 times a day ?
I soak the seeds for 8 hours, drain, and then rinse 3 times a day (every 8 hours), and harvest at 5 days. There are automatic misting machines that mist every 20 minutes, and the sprouts grow like crazy. I think it is hard to over-water them, as long as they are well drained.
I have looked but found no definitive information about perfectly optimal growing/harvesting parameters. They are not sensitive to light/dark cycles, so I keep them under a fluorescent 24/7 and they green up nicely. In my experience they like the open air and so do better in uncovered containers rather than in the jars one usually sees sprouts grown in and which I formerly used.
Sorry–I love to talk about sprouting!
Re: Thanks to Dr. Rhonda Patrick for teaching me about this amazing trick.
And you read it from my post?
Like this? Sulforophane can be found in significant amounts in broccoli, red cabbage, and collards, other cruciferous vegetables have little. My table lacks values for broccoli sprouts or seeds, which have an order of magnitude more (in fact, if one doesn't like sprouting, would could theoretically puree the seeds in water to obtain more than from the sprouts).
Thanks for the reminder to add data (if I can find it) for arugula/rocket, which is evidently the erucin champion.
Re: if one doesn't like sprouting, would could theoretically puree the seeds in water to obtain more than from the sprouts).
Darryl. according to what I read, the amount of Sulforaphane is maximized 3 days after the broccoli has sprouted. If you wait longer or less (i.e. eat the seed), there is less. In total, the amount of time that you sprout is about one week. After this, you put the sprout in the refrigerator to stop the growth.
The latter states a sulforaphane content that ranges from 44 to 171 mg in 100 g broccoli (dry weight) and 1153 mg/100 g for broccoli sprouts.
How about homemade sauerkraut and other fermented cruciferous veggies, eaten raw for the healthy bacteria? It's been a few years since I spent time reading about autism, but I recall that gut bacteria is deranged in autism, and this has a huge effect on the brain, since the gut and brain are closely linked through communication of gut bacteria.
If this is an important component of autism, and some babies are autistic very early on, that is because babies get their gut bacteria from mom as they go through the birth canal. If mom's gut bacteria is out of balance from antibiotics or another reason, or they are C-Section babies, they would be starting life with compromised, or unbalanced gut bacteria. I understand some doctors are now giving newborn C-Section babies some of mom's vaginal secretions orally as soon as they're born, to mimic what they would get through a natural birth.
I know people tend to avoid fermented foods because they are salty. Salt is used to prevent bacteria from starting to rot the cabbage and other veggies before enough lactic acid is formed to do that job. Sauerkraut and kimchi that I've made had less salt than I've seen in some recipes. A huge bowl of shredded cabbage, which made a half gallon of fermented kraut or kimchi, had a tablespoon. That is a lot to someone who doesn't add salt to food at all. I'm wondering if the salty brine could be rinsed off the kraut before eating, and if the sauerkraut would still contain the healthy bacteria. Does anybody know the answer to this?
I get dehydrated without salt in my diet. I'm relearning this fact. No fun.
Wow! Terrific video Dr Greger , Avocado Video and Noun Project! Very well done.
Susan, thanks for the recipe!
As one of the people who wasn't happy with the semantics and general sound of the last video, I feel compelled to tell you that I really appreciate THIS video. Thank you! I look forward to watching tomorrow's video. And, I did get a few florets of broccoli down my autistic four year old last night:). He's got a few more florets in his lunch today. We will see how that goes. I made sure that his smoothie had more greens in it, too. Usually, I give the kids very little, because one common thread with autism is pickiness–and boy oh boy, is my kid ever picky! This is not the place Chinese you see in neuro typical kids, it's a whole different beast. So I'm doing my best and working hard to educate him along the way!
Not the *pickiness* you see in other kids. good gracious.
HM, Dr G mentioned the possibility of mitochondrial damage that can cause autism and a host of other very serious diseases including cancer, CHD, diabetes, Alzheimer's, etc. Sulforaphane can fix this damage but the number 1 nutrient for mitochondrial health is Coenzyme CoQ10. CoQ10 is created by the body through foods but as we age starting at a young age of 25, the body produces less and less, and so we have to supplement. The supplement is created from fermented foods but it is a complicated process that I know of only one company that can make an effective CoQ10 supplement, and it is covered by a Japanese patent, and so nobody can make the same one for a while until the patent expires, and then they still have to learn the secret recipe.
This brand of supplement is sold at Costco and they often have $7 discount. But if you cannot wait, just spend an extra $7 and get one bottle for now, and I guarantee you that 95% it will do magic. And you need to use even for yourself, because as we age then CoQ10 is not produced anymore and the number 1 cause of aging and diseases comes from mitochondrial and DNA damages.
So here is my theory. Sulforaphane from cruciferous vegetables helps regulate the mitochondrial. But it may only work for healthy people. What happens if it does not work for some people? And the symptoms can range from autism to something more serious like cancer? So my theory is that while you eat foods that give you the Sulforaphane, you also supplement with CoQ10. Your kids health is on the line, and it's only $30 to try out a solution. If you want to see the effect for yourself, take the supplement and you will see immediately a boost in energy, and your BP will drop if it is high, etc. I wish I live nearby you and I can "donate" you a bottle of the Qunol CoQ10 supplement. You will see magic, trust me.
Jerry I see that there is both a liquid and capsule version. Do they work equally well?
Jerry since you raised the issue what are your thoughts on ubiquinone vs. ubiquinol? Dr. Sinatra who is a renowned cardiologist suggests using only the ubiquinol form.
Hi Lee, the Quinol brand has 2 supplements, one contain Ubiquinol and one contains Ubiquinone. One is more "natural" and is closer to the form that the body will use. The pill has that while the liquid has the other form which has to be converted. But I find that the liquid works better for me although your mileage may vary. I recommend people to use the liquid form simply because I want them to see results quickly. The liquid form is more expensive and has to be refrigerated. I use both, in the morning I take the liquid and in the evening, I take the pill. Or I take the pill when I travel because it does not need refrigeration. Just take the liquid form first because you will see results quicker if your body is the same as mine. Then try the pill later after you see results with the liquid and then you can compare.
Let say that you jog 5 miles every day and you start to get out of breath at 5 miles. Now after taking CoQ10, you don't feel tired after 5 miles. I can jog forever without tiring but I stop at 5 miles because I don't want to injure myself. To see the effect of CoQ10, use your exercise as measurement, or you can look at your BP, sleep, etc.
I live right next to a Costco :). I'll ask my kids ped about dosing for the little ones. Thanks! You've been very kind, Jerry.
I've not seen it! Thank you!
So watching this, I feel like Jerry may be onto something. I live in a northern climate and have been Noah used with a d deficiency numerous times. I have to supplement my d a lot. And I get plenty of outdoor time! So…I know this is a different end of the light spectrum, but perhaps is still an issue? Definitely something I'll bring up with the doctor.
Jerry Lewis is the last person that anyone should take advice from around here.
I would avoid giving children unregulated supplements, since you have no idea what might be in them. If you lived in Germany, where they are regulated like drugs, you'd be fine, but if you're in America, you might be pouring lead, mercury, cadmium, and banned pharmaceuticals down your child's throat.
CoQ10 supplements are a waste of money. Speaking from expensive personal experience I can say they don't work, and based on my understanding of the research, they are only good at one thing: making supplement companies rich.
Some people claim to experience improvement in fatigue symptoms when taking it, but it is probably due to contamination with amphetamines or simply due to the good old placebo effect. If you're going to take CoQ10, I strongly recommend you have each bottle tested by an independent lab. I only learned years after I quit that I was likely taking a cocktail of dangerous drugs and heavy metals due to the unregulated American supplement market.
LOL, it's the FDA approved drugs that kill you.
And by the way, the Qunol brand has been used clinically.
And if you go to any good MD, they will tell you to take CoQ10 as you age or if you take statin drug because it decimates the CoQ10 in your body.
You are simply jealous rather than learning the facts.
You have a bad habit of stating your personal opinions as established facts even when the science clearly shows that you are wrong. Consequently you seem to equate "learning the facts" with simply uncritically accepting everything you say. Not everybody believes that you are omniscient.
Unfortunately, you also have a tendency to make personal attacks like this when people point out that your statements are not always correct or consistent with what the science shows.
Lonie I think that your comment says something about your judgement but the point is that it is prudent to fact-check unsupported claims, especially those made by individuals who have been shown to make incorrect statements in the past.
Obviously you don't agree. You aren't alone of course. There seems to be something in human psychology that attracts us to people who appear to be utterly certain about, well, whatever. I think Nietsche said that there are two types of people in the world: those who want to know and those who want to believe. I want to know – so show me the evidence if you claim that this or that is true.And I am not even from Missouri. If you want to believe Jerry whenever he states something as a fact, that's your choice. But I would argue that it is not a wise one.
Great response, TG. A few videos back even Lonie told him to dial it down, so to speak. Of course he hasn't listened.
Hey Tom, it is obvious we have different levels of what is acceptable information.
If I read you correctly, you are more if not totally focused on the scientific approach and consumption of evidential data. I don't read Jerry's links (or anyone else's for the most part) and base my acceptance of the knowledge presented on my intuition + science based leanings.
Admittedly, much of what I assimilate from him and others are concepts that seem compatible with things I already know. I feel justified in the ratings I handed out between yours and Jerry's posts based SOLELY ON MY PERSONAL OPINION… other's mileage may vary.
Another thought came to mind in the difference in how you approach knowledge and how Jerry does. As an observer of you both, it seems you trust others to convince you what is the best way to proceed (healthwise) and you put your faith in their judgement.
Not saying which approach is better… just saying I agree more with Jerry's approach.
Lonie, not that I can answer for TG, & in fact I think he's moved on to the next video. But my observation about TG's approach is that he does NOT trust others to convince him as you & Jerry do. Rather, he puts his trust in the data and the data only. It makes no difference who is presenting it. The scientific data speaks for itself.
You gave Jerry some good advice a few videos back about dialing it down a bit. It's a shame he didn't take it.
Nancy, Jerry is enthusiastic in his response. I submit that maybe some of the root of his, at times, over-aggressive approach may stem from how others have responded to him. That's how arms races get started.
And I think he is a valuable asset to this forum if one just looks at his willingness to help. Personally I'm impressed at how well-studied he is.
But in re: your take on Tom's approach, it appears to me that he will only accept research from researchers with multiple titles and degrees. I think he may miss out on some lesser titled researcher's findings that he may not see as elite, but that I consider practical in their approach to knowledge.
And thank you for the wishes for a lovely evening. Hope the same for you.
Yes, Lonie, the bar is raised much higher here than most other websites, that's why I come here & no longer visit the others because they no longer support my needs. I need to see the facts first before I'll subscribe & not just hear a theory that sounds good.
As for how Jerry is treated, he brings it on himself every time he posts a link to a study that supports the exact opposite of what he's claiming, etc. It doesn't fly here, and he should know that. He does seem well studied on what's all over the internet, & I understand how that might resonate with you, but that doesn't fly here, either. He & some others have this idea that we're in a bubble & aren't aware of outside information. The fact is, many of us have been there, done that, & some of us even bought the t-shirt. And we've moved on because it no longer supports our criteria. So although Jerry thinks he may be spreading light, we're looking for a different light source. He's like a bad salesman, who keeps pushing & pushing long after people have told him multiple times they're not interested, & even after they've explained to him why they're not interested. You've never done that. As I've said before, I respect your criteria even though it's different from mine.
Your evening sounded like fun – very creative & artistic. Mine was musical.
Nancy, in reading your comment above the one thing that kept popping out to me was your use of the word "we" as though you were speaking for the entire forum.
And while I do acknowledge you have a posse of followers, that is, people who agree with you, there is evidence there are some who aren't in the "posse" and who actually benefit from a different angle. Many of them do not post (possibly from not wanting to get into a "discussion" with a true believer) but I've seen some who engage Jerry as a normal human being rather than some outlaw radical.
And I'm sure you are aware I prefer supplementation to the expense of buying or even growing all the foods one needs to meet all our requirements. Not only the expense, but the time required to process and cook them.
I do have an expensive supplement habit, but at least I save time.
Not meaning to sound as though I am defending Jerry, he can do that for himself.
What I am trying to point out is that he and others like him drop an acorn or two now and then… and many of the blind squirrels on the forum refuse to accept that anything contrary to what they believe to be an acorn… is just litter.
Lonie: It's clear to me, having spent years reading every comment on this forum, that Nancy did a very good job of speaking for the vast majority of the people on this forum. If Jerry actually dropped the occasional acorn which brought new and legitimate information, you would not be having this discussion. Trash: 99.9999% Acorn: 0.0001% Given the volume of his posts, the ratio is a problem. I know that *you* see all sorts of acorns there. The point Nancy made so well was that we can tell by the vast majority of responses that almost no one agrees with you. We have even seen multiple people who have never commented before, but who have read the forum quietly, commenting now about how worthless and disruptive those comments have been.
Thea, please take this personally… you are a sobersides.
Also, is it possible that your desire to take so many supplements is driven by your unwillingness to cook, and that you cast a blind eye to what the actual science says about it in favor of what you want to hear on the subject & then call it intuition? It's reminding me of what T. Colin Cambell said about people wanting to hear good news about their bad habits.
In all honesty, I'm not saying this to be snarky or negative. I'm bringing it up because I'm interested and I care.
Thea, as always, thanks for your support. And I hope both of you have a beautiful day!
Nancy also wrote: Also, is it possible that your desire to take so many supplements is driven by your unwillingness to cook, and that you cast a blind eye to what the actual science says about it in favor of what you want to hear on the subject & then call it intuition? It's reminding me of what T. Colin Cambell said about people wanting to hear good news about their bad habits.
So here are some facts as I see them so you can get a better picture to analyze.
Secondly, my supplement intake is based on cutting edge science. Much more so than what is posted here, for the most part… and most of it from reputable institutions and researchers. They don't get much attention in the scientific journals for the most part, for whatever reason.
And REAL scientists, your kind of scientists, just gloss over their findings because they simply aren't complicated enough so they can't be real science, i.e., there's no way you can repair failing organs in an older body just by transfusing with a young persons plasma they say, but I'm betting it can be done as I have participated in a study and I am finally feeling like I'm seeing some improvement in my health, now six months after getting the 7 unit of plasma treatment.
I had no failing organs at the time and that may be why it has taken so long to notice a general improvement.
I checked out Kaneka as I use Natural Factors Ubiquinol as after 40yrs old this active form is already converted and more easily absorbed and found this data on suppliers of their product. https://ubiquinol.org/brands I was happy to find the brand listed here and feel confident in using it.
Liisa, I know that Dr G always talks about eating foods rather than taking supplements. I agree in most cases but I don't agree that it can apply for for all cases. Just google for "Body cannot produce CoQ10 as we age" and you will find a truckload of articles. This is a well documented fact. And scary enough, aging starts at 25 year young.
But it is up to every individual decision at the end of the day.
One may say, "Well, try it for a while and see if you notice any bad effects." With a list of possible side effects like the above, it may be a daunting task for someone to determine if CoQ10 is the culprit or is it something else. Is it really wise to experiment on one's body with something with those possible side effects.
You skipped something? Increase the bodies basic antioxidant?
Eur J Nutr. 2014. Randomized controlled trial of oral glutathione supplementation on body stores of glutathione. Glutathione, the most abundant endogenous antioxidant, is a critical regulator of oxidative stress and immune function. While oral GSH has been shown to be bioavailable in laboratory animal models, its efficacy in humans has not been established. Our objective was to determine the long-term effectiveness of oral GSH supplementation on body stores of GSH in healthy adults. A 6-month randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial of oral GSH (250 or 1,000 mg / day) on GSH levels in blood, erythrocytes, plasma, lymphocytes and exfoliated buccal mucosal cells was conducted in 54 non-smoking adults. Secondary outcomes on a subset of subjects included a battery of immune markers. GSH levels in blood increased after 1, 3 and 6 months versus baseline at both doses. At 6 months, mean GSH levels increased 30-35 % in erythrocytes, plasma and lymphocytes and 260 % in buccal cells in the high-dose group. GSH levels increased 17 and 29 % in blood and erythrocytes, respectively, in the low-dose group. In most cases, the increases were dose and time dependent, and levels returned to baseline after a 1-month washout period. A reduction in oxidative stress in both GSH dose groups was indicated by decreases in the oxidized to reduced glutathione ratio in whole blood after 6 months. Natural killer cytotoxicity increased >twofold in the high-dose group versus placebo at 3 months. These findings show, for the first time, that daily consumption of GSH supplements was effective at increasing body compartment stores of GSH.
This study was supported by Kyowa Hakko USA, Inc. and Kyowa Hakko Bio. Ltd. ** Setria Glutathione can be found in select supplement manufacturers.
GSH is broken down in digestion, so GSH supplements amount to an expensive cysteine & glycine supplement, both of which also increase GSH status (glutamate is unlikely to be limiting). N-acetyl cysteine and glycine are cheap and offer limited profit potential, but GSH can be sold at considerable markup to those not versed in the biochemistry.
In any case, I would prefer to increase the enzymes that are involved in GSH synthesis and maintainence in its reduced form, like glutathione reductase. This is precisely what Nrf2 regulates, and what many Nrf2 inducers, including sulforaphane from broccoli, accomplish.
You may not like the source of the following article but it comes at the right time.
A citation of snake oil Joe Mercola hardly enhances ones credibility. You might consider leaving that aside. He has quite thoroughly demonstrated himself to be little more than a carnival barker and snake oil salesman.
Why do you guys have to act like a j whenever Mercola is mentioned? Does Fuhrman sell supplements too and only organize health seminars for rich people at expensive resorts? And McDougall clients are also rich people from California.
I am no follower of Mercola but he is nice enough to invite Dr G over his site to promote his book as well as mentioning him multiple times. You can search :Greger" at Mercola web site and you will see that he mentioned Greger at least a few dozens of times. His search engine is not good and so it shows more results that there are but still you have a few per page.
And by the way, the only difference between Dr Mercola and Dr G is that Dr Mercola includes animal foods for complete nutrition but he is promoting WFPB more often than Dr Greger because has like 4, 5 articles per day and most talk about plant foods. The few times when he talked about animal foods are about the sources of non contaminated foods to eat and the parts that are beneficial.
And about the supplements that Mercola sells, you don't have to buy from him because of his high price but every single one is needed for your optimal health. You are buried your head under the sand by ignoring them. I use the same supplements that Mercola sells but from different sources except for a few ones such as whey protein.
Not a follower of his, but your position is well stated.
Thanks for your updates on health isues.I do have a challenge with my boy aged 13 years and i have taken to a Hospital severally and was diagonised to be having a condition known as Muscle dystrophy which weakens muscle development.so my question is it possible for this condition to be corrected Nutritionally becouse they told me there is no cure for such condition? please essist me where possible thanks.
I am very sorry to hear of Dr. Greger's recent negative experience with a poisonous elderberry smoothie. He mentioned it in the Facebook stream from London yesterday. He seems to be in very good spirits though. I have never seen him laugh so hard as when he was describing this event. I presume that he will make a video about this at some point.
GreenSmoothieParty – can you give details? I was just contemplating buying dried elderberries for putting in my berry smoothies. I hope Dr Greger is fully recovered.
Good to know! I had thought people cooked and sweetened them since they don't taste that great.
Thanks for posting this video! My daughter has autism and I've been waiting for a video on this!!
Me too! My 18 yo daughter was recently diagnosed as being on the spectrum. I will definitely work on getting broccoli in her, as well as CoQ10.
Just this day put some chlorophyll liquid in my raw organic cocoa powder/almond milk/goat whey protein concentrate/niacin powder/angostura bitters/and other things, drink.
Thanks for the chlorophyll/co Q 10 link. I will start adding a dropperful of this greenery to my tea as well.
Dear Greger, in the video, one of the papers that you show early in this video references Glutathione as a key antioxidant protecting the brain. You have never written about food and glutathione formation, at least I do not find any references by searching here. It may be a worthwhile topic.
Thank you for the topic suggestion, Tom! I have forwarded it to Dr. Greger for consideration.
I am Dad to a 14 year old non verbal autistic son. I've never noticed any improvement when he has had a fever. Additionally he eats lots of broccoli and cauliflower so I'm a little skeptical. I will continue to feed him broccoli because we like it however.
It is hard enough to get non-autistic children to eat broccoli, but many autistic children have major restrictions around food and absolutely refuse to eat the very foods that may help them, such as broccoli. I presume there is no supplement that can replace the need to eat the actual vegetables themselves?
I drink broccoli sprout smoothies (with kale and other veg) and sometimes they are strong enough to be literally gag-inducing. I tried to make a 'lite' version for my daughter, who has attention and anxiety issues, and she would only drink it reluctantly if I paid her cash (she's a teen so that's a motivator). I gave up after a few days of watching her grimace; I thought the lite version was pretty good (but probably ineffective, anyway).
A (safe) supplement would be great.
On a side note, other interventions aimed at reducing inflammation could be helpful, but similarly difficult to implement. I'm thinking specifically of good oral hygiene, especially flossing.
Hey Yvette, thanks for writing! The clinical trial Dr. G mentions in his video DOES use a sulforaphane supplement – not broccoli sprouts themselves. These supplements ARE commercially available, but more evidence is needed before we recommend autistic kids swallow these…which would probably be just as hard as eating broccoli for the smaller kids. My recommendation is to try and make it taste good! Cover it with a Chinese-style 'brown sauce" (tastes sweet and spice) or puree it into a banana bread recipe, where the taste might be disguised by the sweetness of the bananas. Good luck!
Is it just broccoli or do you get the same results with kale, collards and cabbage?
content of sulforaphane( or glucoraphanine for that matter) from this table as well as from other sources, appears to indicate that broccoli excel by colossal margin, especially Broccoli sprout and Broccoli seeds(although data missed from this table). Red cabbage and Collards only to some extent.
Have to mention, If you use frozen Broccoli, perhaps you need to add horse raddish, wasabi or mustard seed powder to compensate loss of myosin, which essential for conversion of glucoraphanine i believe.
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Hi Tess, I am a nutritionist and part of the NF team. Yes the research might get the same results with any other cruciferous vegetables. But this specific study was done with broccoli.
Thats almost pretty sure, one of the major causes of autism is vaccinations, heavy metals, especially mercury and all the crazy toxins in vaccines.
Will you, really? Because when you promise to cover a topic I'm particularly interested in next, I really wish you'd keep your promises!
I hope this clear up your confusion. Unless I'm missing something?
Really glad that Dr. Greger is touching upon the suggested benefits of nutrition in mental disorders. As a 27 year old who has dealt with an attention deficit his whole life and mild depression for almost a decade, I would love to hear more about different herbs, supplements, or foods that may benefit ADD especially. I would like to avoid taking methylphenidate or Adderall if possible.
How much broccoli would be an "effective" amount?
3/4 cup is the minimum recommended daily amount.
Does anyone have ideas how to get kids with ASD – notoriously picky eaters – to consume sprouts? I'd be willing to recommend this to my parents of kids with ASD (I'm a speech therapist), if it was possible to sneak cruciferous vegetables into chicken nuggets!
I am a volunteer for Dr. Greger. Thank you so much for your question. This is a good one, since many kids with ASD are picky eaters, as you mentioned.
If you can blend it up with other foods in the form of a sauce, soup, dressing, or smoothie, that may be a very easy way to hide the sprouts.
Although the science may not be able to point directly at meat consumption for worsening ASD symptoms, meat does increase levels of IGF-1, which could theoretically counteract the benefits of the broccoli sprouts. Decreasing meat intake while increasing cruciferous vegetable intake may be the best of both worlds. However, if this is not doable, perhaps there would be ways to put the broccoli sprouts in ketchup, for example, that the chicken nuggets could be dipped in. Perhaps others on this site will be able to chip in ideas for how they get their children to eat healthy.
I am wondering if cooking these cruciferous vegetables decreases their benefit to autism. Do they have to be raw? Thanks! Love your posts.
Do you have any suggestions about how to get a 3 year old autistic child to eat any healthy foods? My grandson has begun to refuse eating anything but white types of foods. This is common with autistic children we understand.The Nutrabullet used to be useful in getting food into him, but he refuses it now. I know it is not preferred, but is there some liquid product that could deliver the nutrients he needs. We could put it in his drink. We heard of a product called Youth Factor that does this, but it appears to be for older adults. We don't know what to do. Any ideas?
With autism, this picky eating is often a texture issue. What is the texture of the foods he likes to eat? Is there a way you can replicate that texture with other foods?
No one responded to my question. What could we do to get healthy food into a child who refuses to eat anything but rice, crackers and the like? The child has no language so we cannot communicate with him and he cannot communicate with us. He gets terribly constipated and will go into a meltdown when we deny him bad food. He will drink liquids. Maybe we will try some products that are liquid forms of vegetables and fruits. Maybe we need to buy a juicer.
Love your information on consuming broccoli to combat autism. My question is how can I get the pill form of the broccoli sprouts like the ones you used in the trial? I have a son on the spectrum and he is a VERY PICKY eater and getting him to eat broccoli would be impossible!! Please help!
Great video, but what did they use in the study? In the segment they said they gave capsules to the group so they didn't know what they were taking. How do I get the capsules since I just got my son to swallow them.
I have been thinking a lot about the connection between food you eat and the brain. Could whats happening in Cuba to us diplomats and travelers, be more of an issue with foods you eat and bacteria and viruses in them. Along those lines, what do you recommend to eat while abroad to avoid Travellers diarrhea / extreme side-effects like the us diplomats in Cuba?
Sulphoraphane is a Nrf2 activator (Nrf2 is a basic leucine zipper (bZIP) protein that regulates the expression of antioxidant proteins that protect against oxidative damage triggered by injury and inflammation). There is a natural product that combines 5 natural substances that is 7x more protent at activating the Nrf2 protein than Sulphoraphane. It reduces oxidative stress 40% in 30 days. There are 23 peer reviewed articles on this product. Please let me know if you would like a link to the studies.
What about concussion? Does it work the same way? I am trying to give my daughter turmeric, pomegranate-cherry juice, kale etc…How should I treat traumatic brain injuries?
You asked about concussion if nutrition could treat traumatic brain injuries. While rest is the standard first line treatment for concussion, your thought of giving your daughter anti-inflammatory medicines makes intuitive sense, although I could only find minimal studies to support that approach.Making sure your daughter has good nutrient intake with whole plant foods and no foods known to increase inflammation is wise. The studies I could find supported the idea of making sure she is getting adequate amounts of Omega 3s, and Vitamin D I have included 4 studies that validate the connection between nutrition and brain injury, but no specific recommendations. I have also included a non-research paper which gives a comprehensive description of some of the newer approaches to brain injury, which alas does not mention nutrition. Certain, however, the foods you are giving your daughter are healthy, although I could find no research proving their effectiveness, just indications that food nutrition matters for brain injury.
Impact of nutrition on inflammation, tauopathy, and behavioral outcomes from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
J Am Coll Nutr. 2016 Jul;35(5):469-75. doi: 10.1080/07315724.2016.1150796.
Concussions, Traumatic Brain Injury, and the Innovative Use of Omega-3s.
Brain Inj. 2016;30(8):960-8. doi: 10.3109/02699052.2016.1147081. Epub 2016 May 16.
A review of the neuroprotective role of vitamin D in traumatic brain injury with implications for supplementation post-concussion.
Certainly the foods you mentioned are healthful.


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Masks & Masculinity
How much does male privilege explain?
People in Olympia, Wash., protest against the state's extended stay-at-home order April 19, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Lindsey Wasson, Reuters)
I confess to being a liberal (my children often dispute that self-evaluation). I find the refusal to wear a mask in the middle of this pandemic to be incomprehensible and morally obtuse. The more vehement refuseniks claim it is a question of "freedom" and individual rights. But no rights are absolute. We have a right to free speech, but not to falsely yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Why? Because doing so endangers the lives of others, and the right to life trumps the right to free speech in most circumstances. One should wear a mask in public, and especially in crowded indoor spaces, because not doing so endangers the health and even the lives of others. Of course, some question the reliability of public health experts who now extoll mask wearing after discouraging it at the beginning of the pandemic. The experts have also changed their view about how likely one is to pick up the coronavirus from touching an infected surface. But the shifting consensus of experts should not shock us. Given that this is indeed a "novel" virus, we should expect scientists and clinicians to be learning more about it all the time, and changing their advice as more information becomes available. That's how science works.
The most obstreperous opponents of masks tend to be men, a fact that has been chalked up to machismo and male privilege. The latter was the subject of a recent New York Times book review, which I read after completing my daily domestic chores. First, I had prepared and served my wife breakfast, did the dishes and tidied up the kitchen. I repeated those tasks at lunch and dinner. In between, I did grocery shopping and picked up prescriptions at the pharmacy. I also did a few loads of wash, folded the clothes, and brought them up to the bedroom. Finally, I and my male privilege sat down to read the paper.
Now, to be honest, this is not our normal routine. Far from it. But my wife had surgery on her left ankle a month ago, and cannot put any weight on that foot for at least three months. She gets around, as best she can, on a "knee scooter." Life has changed. Basically my wife is confined to the couch or a chair. As a consequence, I am now in charge of all household duties—under her expert instruction, of course. That was not a prospect that either of us looked forward to with any particular pleasure. But to be honest, it's only fair. Until now, we have mainly divided up domestic chores in a predictably "traditional" fashion, but also in a way that suits our individual talents or lack thereof. Of course, there has been friction from time to time about our domestic arrangements, but a regime of rigorously and equally defined chores has never seemed possible or desirable to either of us. We have different strengths and temperaments, and have found that a complementary division of labor rather than a strict balancing of the workload is best. My wife is much better organized than I will ever be and far more task-oriented. She takes satisfaction in bringing order to disorder. Frankly, she demands it. I make piles of "important stuff." She is of the absurd opinion that the New York Review of Books and other magazines (such as Commonweal!) should be recycled, not treated like holy relics. She is scrupulous about the checkbook; I round off the numbers. She is an excellent cook; I can barbecue. We have made peace with this clash of expectations, but it should be noted that our children have opted for more egalitarian domestic arrangements, which I'm sure is for the best.
Relationships between men and women are much more complicated and various than Manne's account would seem to suggest.
Given the confession above, you can imagine my hesitation when I finally sat down to read the Times review of philosopher Kate Manne's Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women. The reviewer, Jennifer Szalai, lavishes praise on Manne's forensic abilities. "She's like a pathologist wielding a scalpel, methodically dissecting various specimens of muddled argument to reveal the diseased tissue inside," Szalai writes. An example of such surgical precision, Szalai imagines, is how Manne would have "destroyed" the logic of some men who now refuse to wear masks. Szalai is speculating here because, as she notes, Manne's book was written before the pandemic. For her part, Szalai is incensed by Trump supporter Charlie Kirk, who justifies not wearing a mask by obnoxiously saying, "I thought it was my body, my choice!"—thus turning the abortion-rights argument back on "mask-wearing feminists." Szalai finds this embrace of the argument for bodily autonomy by mask deniers like Kirk "half-witted."
She is half right. But she is oblivious to how the argument for mask wearing undermines her own abortion-rights position. There are, of course, many Americans who both wear masks and reject abortion, and they do so for the same reason. You wear a mask to protect the lives of others, just as you object to abortion because it takes the life of another human being. That fact is as plain as, well, the mask on your face.
As far as Manne's book goes, it seems to describe with a very broad brush strokes how misogyny characterizes perhaps all male-female relationships. "In Manne's reckoning," Szalai writes, "[men] have been conditioned to feel entitled to admiration, sex and consent; a home where someone else uncomplainingly does most of the child care and housekeeping."
Uncomplainingly? What world is Manne living in? "When a woman fails to give a man what he's supposedly owed," Manne contends, "she will often face punishment and reprisal." I think these claims are highly contestable. No doubt such reprisals happen, but I have rarely observed them in the relationships of my peers. Relationships between men and women are much more complicated and various than Manne's account would seem to suggest. But I will have to take up that argument some other time. Now I have a load of laundry to do and dinner to prepare.
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William Leslie "Les" Ingman (* 17. August 1927 in Barrow in Furness; † 29. Oktober 1990 in Hounslow) war ein britischer Radrennfahrer und nationaler Meister im Radsport.

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Ingman war Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 1952 in Helsinki. Im olympischen Straßenrennen schied er beim Sieg von André Noyelle aus. Die britische Mannschaft belegte in der Mannschaftswertung den 11. Rang.
1954 und 1956 gewann er die nationale Meisterschaft im Bergzeitfahren jeweils vor Eric Wilson. Er startete für den Verein Apollo Cycling Club.

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Q: CKEditor: How to set focus to at the end of content when max-limit reached I'm using CKEditor version 16 in an Angular 7 application. I have set maximum character length to 4096. Once user trying to type 4097th character control goes to starting and showing whatever typed from beginning until keyup or produce delay in typing. Later extra character showed on beginning will be automatically deleted.
I have tried setting editorConfig properties and It didn't worked out.
I have crossed checked any timeout code is the cause of this issue and it is not.
CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config ) {
    config.startupFocus= true;
    config.extraPlugins = 'wordcount';
    config.wordcount = {
        showWordCount: false,
        showCharCount: true,
        maxCharCount: 4096,
        showParagraphs: false,
      countSpacesAsChars: true
    };
    config.pasteFromWordRemoveFontStyles = false;
    config.pasteFromWordRemoveStyles = false;
    config.extraAllowedContent= 'a[href]';
    config.removePlugins = 'resize';
    config.enterMode = CKEDITOR.ENTER_BR;
    config.autoParagraph = false;
};

A: You can try by accessing ck editor instance.
    CKEDITOR.instance.editor1.on("key", function (evt){
    let instance = CKEDITOR.instance.editor1
    const data = instance.document.getBody().getText();
    const currentCount = data.replace(/<[^>]*>|\s/g, "").length;

const maxCount = instance.config.wordcount.maxCharCount;
    const isFunKey = (evt.data.keyCode === 8 || evt.data.keyCode === 46 ||

evt.data.keyCode === 35 || evt.data.keyCode === NumberConstants.36 ||
    evt.data.keyCode === 37 || evt.data.keyCode === 38 ||
    evt.data.keyCode === 39 || evt.data.keyCode === 40 ||
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      if (currentCount >= maxCount) {
        if (!isFunKey) {
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    })

If you have more editor, you can loop through the instance and update the code accordingly.

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Summer is here, and so are a lot more motorcycles. As the weather gets warmer, more motorcyclist hit the roads. Unfortunately, the more riders on the road, the more you hear about accidents, injuries and even deaths. In a motorcycle and automobile accident, the automobile is usually at fault. Drivers look out for cars and trucks, but often do not look for motorcycles. Always stop, look and listen before you proceed into the roadway. Motorcyclists can help themselves by keeping their high beams on during the daylight hours. Lastly, remember loud bikes save lives. If the driver does not see you, he may hear you coming before he or she pulls into your path.
Motorcycle riding has become more popular in recent years, appealing to a new group of enthusiasts consisting of older and more affluent riders. Sales of all types of two-wheelers reached about 1,158,000 in 2010, a level not seen in about 30 years. At the same time motorcycle fatalities have also been climbing, reaching their highest level in 2006 since 1981. There has been a dramatic jump in the number of deaths among motorcycle riders age 40 and older in recent years. Motorcycles are by their nature far less crashworthy than closed vehicles. They are also less visible to other drivers and pedestrians and less stable than four-wheel vehicles. Operating a motorcycle requires a different combination of physical and mental skills than those used in driving four-wheel vehicles. Motorcyclists and their passengers are more vulnerable to the hazards of weather and road conditions than drivers in closed vehicles. Motorcycle accident fatalities have increased every year for the past nine years. In 2006 there were 6.6 million motorcyclists on the road in the U.S., versus 3.0 million in 1996. There over 137.4 million automobiles on the road. Motorcycles account for 3 percent of all registered vehicles on the roads. As far as miles driven, motorcycles account for only .4 percent of the miles driven in 2005. However a motorcyclist in 2006 was 37 times more likely than a person in a car to die in a crash, and 8 times more likely to be injured. Per registered vehicle, in 2005, a motorcyclist is 5.4 times more likely than a person in a car to be killed in an accident. Some 104,000 motorcycles were in crashes in 2006.
Motorcycle accident claims are typically governed by the law of negligence. As with other types of accidents, figuring out who is at fault in a traffic accident is a matter of deciding who was negligent. In many cases, your instincts will tell you that a driver, cyclist or pedestrian acted carelessly, but not what rule or rules that person violated. Fault issues can be complicated, and our experienced attorneys will look to a number of sources, such as police reports, state traffic laws, and witnesses, to help you determine who was at fault for your accident.
Ferguson & Ferguson, located in Huntsville and Decatur, Alabama are motorcycle accident attorneys who aggressively pursue legal rights for accident victims with significant physical or psychological injuries. Our Alabama motorcycle accident lawyers are skilled at handling motorcycle accidents, including fatal accidents. A motorcycle injury attorney must know the personal injury laws of Alabama, and every other state. Driving accidents often deal with laws of different states. Our motorcycle accident lawyers understand how a fatal accident can impact your family. When you need a motorcycle accident lawyer in Decatur, Cullman or Huntsville, Alabama who knows the accident claims process, call us immediately. If we can not settle your case, we will not hesitate to take your accident case to trial. Our extensive preparation of your accident claim in anticipation of a jury trial tends to increase the amount an insurance company offers to settle it. We work with experienced accident investigators, engineers, medical professionals and others who assist in creating a winning posture for trial. When you need a Huntsville, Alabama lawyer who knows accident law, call us first to find out your rights.


Ukrainian Castles astonish with their beauty. Ukraine is a place of culture, history and natural beauty. For centuries the people who lived here worked to create masterful homes and residences that complimented the beauty around them and reflected the culture of Ukraine. As a result there are many beautiful castles and palaces in Ukraine today.
Generally the castles in Ukraine have a more robust appearance, because their primary purpose was the defense. They are usually situated on a hill. Over time, however, more elaborate and decorative additions have been made to some of these castles and this has given them nowadays a magnificent tourist attraction. Many castles have been turned into museums that now give the opportunity to travel through ages during a sightseeing tour.
The palaces in Ukraine were mainly royal residences which provided good protection for the monarchy as well as comfort and luxury. Architectural embellishments may be expensive and it isn't uncommon to find gold-plated arches, gold-tinted artwork and solid gold furniture and utensils decorated with jewels in these dwellings. These expensive adornments also tend to reflect the masterful craftsmanship that was popular during those periods of Ukraine's history. They also show us the way that these nobles lived centuries ago.
There are a number of palaces and castles in Ukraine which are worth seeing. The Livadia Palace and Mariyinsky Palace are popular. Those who prefer castles can discover the Olesko Castle, the Zolochiv Castle, the Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle, the Kodak Fortress and the Lviv High Castle. Of course there are many more castles and palaces in the beautiful country of Ukraine which haven't been mentioned here.


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