The Quack speaks
From FTA:
Jack Kruse // May 9, 2012 at 17:42
I have a conundrum here. What was done to me will be found in justice. What kind of
justice, I am unsure as yet. But I have a consciousness about the movement that this
“twatter” undermined by the actions said. They people who are complicit in this are
crafting a message that my response has damaged the movement. Quite the
contrary……the “twat” opened that can of worms. I have to protect that emotion in
spite of my anger, because the movement and helping others is part of my mission.
The ‘respected leaders’ have to back “paleo the movement”, but neurosurgery pays
my bills, so I must protect my house first and foremost. I have hired peopel to do just
that on Sunday night as I was driven back to Houston after being removed from the
boat. The first person I called was Robb Wolf because I knew what he was crafting
was just hit with a torpedo from the “in paleo crowd”. The respected leaders forget to
easily, because Paleo pays their bills. But I promise you the “twat” who opened that
account will be found and prosecuted in the court of law and in the court of public
opinion. To those who fed that ‘twatter’ account……..hire someone now, because
the law says if you fed it……..you own it because of what happened. See
consequences do matter when the federal government resources are wasted. And if
they choose not do deal with it I have plenty of time and money to follow up to see to
it that the rest of this community knows precisely who put our message at risk. When
you came after me you opened the door, my response is called defense.
Sounds like ACTUAL threats to me Dr. (for now) Kruse.
Jack Kruse // May 9, 2012 at 17:42
I have a conundrum here. What was done to me will be found in justice. What kind of
justice, I am unsure as yet. But I have a consciousness about the movement that this
“twatter” undermined by the actions said. They people who are complicit in this are
crafting a message that my response has damaged the movement. Quite the
contrary……the “twat” opened that can of worms. I have to protect that emotion in
spite of my anger, because the movement and helping others is part of my mission.
The ‘respected leaders’ have to back “paleo the movement”, but neurosurgery pays
my bills, so I must protect my house first and foremost. I have hired peopel to do just
that on Sunday night as I was driven back to Houston after being removed from the
boat. The first person I called was Robb Wolf because I knew what he was crafting
was just hit with a torpedo from the “in paleo crowd”. The respected leaders forget to
easily, because Paleo pays their bills. But I promise you the “twat” who opened that
account will be found and prosecuted in the court of law and in the court of public
opinion. To those who fed that ‘twatter’ account……..hire someone now, because
the law says if you fed it……..you own it because of what happened. See
consequences do matter when the federal government resources are wasted. And if
they choose not do deal with it I have plenty of time and money to follow up to see to
it that the rest of this community knows precisely who put our message at risk. When
you came after me you opened the door, my response is called defense.
Sounds like ACTUAL threats to me Dr. (for now) Kruse.
Comments
Robb Wolf already spoke on PH and as for the rest of the leadership, it says a lot that Kruse's threat-buddy Kevin Cottrell is no longer on the PaleoFX board
http://paleohacks.com/questions/118128/meta-whats-the-deal-with-paleohacks-dr-kruse-and-the-fbi#axzz1uJAJ8IvV
Actually, the tweet itself wasn't the threat. Maybe he should spend his time and money to find who "Lance" is. That's what we'd all like to know...
And if so, his apparent desire to get more publicity with (again apparently) zero reflection on what the authorities found actionable information just raises more red flags (as if any more were needed ...)
No it’s called retaliation. Also, this jackass is assuming he knows who did it and is trying to intimidate. To me it sounds like he wrote this after having one too many. I found what he said to be irrational, belligerent and unjustified. After reading what Robb said on PH Kruse is losing his friends and will soon find himself on an island with only a handful of stragglers.He better stick with neurosurgery, not much income is going to be found elsewhere.
In the end we are all better off having this quack sail off (no pun intended) into the sunset. He's like a big fart in the wind; large explosion of sound, heads turn, people gasp at the smell, and then before you know it all gone and people move on.
On another note, this is a quote from Robb's post on the Kruse subject:
"If we are too stupid/irrational to sort out our shit then we deserve mainstream medicine"
While I agree with him on the premise I disagree with the attitude he has of mainstream medicine. Thank God for mainstream medicine, without it we would be dying from diseases that used to kill people off in droves. Anyhow that's for another blog, I just wanted to get that off my chest.
I'd love to comment more, Evelyn, on your posts regarding Kruse. You seem to write a lot of those lately. Thing is, you also quote a huge chunk of his writing in those posts, too, and it is pretty much incomprehensible. Though I thought that, "my brain thinks vertically and horizontally" thing was hilarious!
"If we are too stupid/irrational to sort out our shit then we deserve mainstream medicine"
While I agree with him on the premise I disagree with the attitude he has of mainstream medicine. Thank God for mainstream medicine, without it we would be dying from diseases that used to kill people off in droves. Anyhow that's for another blog, I just wanted to get that off my chest."
Thank you for this, Woodey. I was thinking the same thing. I am as disgusted with the "health care delivery system" as anyone but I get tired of paleo or alternative anything acting as if the whole edifice of modern medicine is nothing but corruption and stupidity.
I mean, really. Vaccinations and orthopedic care for fractures alone justify modern medicine. I am fond of saying the alternative to medicine is not alternative medicine, it is better medicine. I guess I should repeat myself more.
I have no idea what that's supposed to mean. I hope it was some kind of temporary a brain fart.
gee ... yes, I deserve vaccinations, antibiotics, all the medications I"ll use and never use but which are available if needed, prosthetics, surgery, doctors being forced to wash their hands and all the things that modern medicine has GOTTEN RID of; no more blood letting and leeches ...
All that is the barest tip of the veritable iceberg. Even people in small villages in the boonies have some access to most of this stuff, but because they don't have the easy, ready access that's available to most of us that live in major urban centres, it's a constant source of angst for those communities.
Yes, thank God for modern medicine!
> the alternative to medicine is not alternative medicine, it is better medicine
While there are conventional doctors that resist change, it's great that there is a skeptical, self-improvement, self-correction process built into scientific approaches as opposed to the canonical or traditional approaches.
also known as this
upshot: DOESN'T HELP, just give up.
> "my brain thinks vertically and horizontally"
Jack's got NUFFIN on me ... I think screw-i-ly AND Möbius-stip-i-ly, while drinking beer out of a Klein bottle while walking up Escher's (ancient pathway) staircase.
We evolved creatures are as far above Jack as he is above ... MRSA. Good thing my cold exposure made me immune to Jack.
"i am currently confused as to what value there is in a paleo/ancestral approach to nutrition and health."
I am not sure there is any now. There might have been, but just from the total inability to coalesce around core recommendations, and the radical variability in approaches we see under the label, anyone could be forgiven for thinking paleo is a lot of ideologically-driven a priori narrative-based dietary faddism.
OK, everyone agrees that a preference for real food is smart and that we could ditch wheat and sugar without ill effects if we want, but otherwise there is no "core curriculum" as it were.
We still have factions claiming with a straight face that Milk is a cause of multiple sclerosis (!!) and other factions recognizing that pastured milk products might be some of the healthiest traditional (definitely not paleo) real foods you can eat.
And we have factions that cling to the shunning of legumes on a basically theoretical (if weak) basis which as far as I can tell has zero support in epidemiology and little other evidence to support it. In fact, it seems to be an artifact preserved from the original conceit of Eaton and Cordain that anything "we could not have eaten easily" when we were not even who we are now, cannot be good for us. This is a conceit that has never made an iota of sense for me. other than perhaps as a starting point for suspicion.
Then we have serious but well meaning confusion over what to do about the preponderance of n6 in the modern diet. Swamp it out with high dose fish oil while continuing to eat nuts (which cannot reasonably be thought by any anthropologist to be more "paleo" than legumes or wild grains) high in n-6? Turns out that might be worse than doing nothing.
Finally we have the fatal virus that has infected paleo from the beginning but now looks more like an ineradicable retrovirus rather than a 24 hour flu. Low Carb hucksterism and offshoots of it like Krusism. The atkins fad diet -which works so well to reduce craving and food reward effects, has evolved into a full fledged dietary cult that has now, with aid of it's profiteers selling books and xylitol based treats not found in nature, glommed on to "paleo" like Ursus Maritimus hugging a newborn penguin.
Result - there are now people who actually believe that BANANAS can only be eaten seasonally.
The paleo label actually is kind of finished. It does not represent any scientifically respectable approach and has such few reliable core elements as to be a heuristically useless concept. It has nothing to add to reading Michael Pollan or and just adding some red meat, or Weston Price sans sourdough bread.
Just try being a total newbie, googling paleo diet and coming up with something really scientifically defensible beyond eating real food - you might not even get that, with all the paleo bars and supplements about.
PS My comments are about the state of "paleo" as a meme. It is of course useful to use an ancestral approach to nutrition in some ways. The problem is, in order to instruct someone in it, I would have to specify how to do it and WHO is doing it correctly and not just making up stories, etc. And then, I would be roundly criticized for trying to constrain the libertarian wonderland that is paleo on the internet, where every idea is a beautiful snowflake that deserves a fair hearing and is somehow "contributing to the conversation" - as if dialogue about diet were a useful good for it's own sake.
I would be considered a "hater" who is not interested in "helping people" by being so negative as to point out which of the beautiful paleo flowers are really just weeds.
I think I need a tin foil hat...
So my read is that those are the folks he's interested in. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't know that the precedent is there for that either. Does something not count as fair use under parody because Carnival and the FBI didn't get it at first glance?
That said, his attempts to intimidate via blanket threats and angry words should embarrass him much more than what just happened to him. I don't know that he'd have the legal recourse to discover who made the suspicious tweet or the phone call. And suing people based on a whim, well... you can sue anyone in this country, provided you have a lawyer willing to take the case. But that will only get you as far as a judge who will quickly throw it out.
If his desire is to mobilize some kind of LC/Paleo internet army, then you might be seeing the defining moment of the end of the whole movement.
{Applauds}
There is no question that it is hard to minimize excess n-6 while eating a lot of nuts. Hence I avoid eating a lot of nuts more than I avoid eating legumes like black beans.
Jack is a liar and now a bully threatening people with baseless lawsuits and prison time for a parody tweet and hosting a twitter account, neither of which are the slightest bit illegal.
Let him punch a pillow to let off steam. He has no one but himself to blame for what happened.
When you say that you avoid eating a lot of nuts I assume you mean eating A LOT OF NUTS ie nuts by the handful and crusts made of nuts which would be no different than eating foods fried in refined n6 oils and baked treats both in regard to n6 load and calorie excess. Nuts are a common go to for people still looking for ways to make high reward foods [and lots of them] fit into their food rules aka missing the forest for the trees.
2) Someone post a parody tweet on this account
3) Someone named "Lance" reads this parody tweet and informs the FBI/Homeland Security about this tweet
4) The FBI/Homeland Security investigates this and clears good Dr
5) Carnival Cruise orders Dr Kruse to leave the ship even though he was cleared
6) Kruse is now threatening legal action against all parties involved and the Paleo world is having a fit
EVERYONE SHOULD JUST TAKE A CHILL PILL
I have never understood this Paleo-Luddite attitude toward modern medicine. Hell, my tonsils were infected regularly as a kid, I broke a couple of bones, and in college had an ingrown toenail that was killing me and a quick surgery on local anesthesia fixed it forever more. And many, many more quality of life things that were simple to deal with but could have spelled disaster otherwise, not just for myself but essentially every friend and family I have.
That said, I'm sure Robb would agree. He was just tweaked. I wouldn't know anything about that, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Paul_Chambers
Is your stance in this Kruse stuff based more on your innate proclivity to take up for the guy that the majority is seemingly going after or is it based more on the fact that you impishly like being a contrarian or is it because you truly feel that Kruse has the right of this dispute/issue?
"Nuts are full of fibre, for example, much of which carries on through and out of the body, taking a significant percentage of entrapped fat with them; so they don't, in my opinion, release as much O-6 into the body as might be expected from composition tables."
Unless you have steatorrhea you are definitely getting exposed to the (usually quite oxidized) PUFA in nuts by eating them, fiber or not. Do you really only eat raw, soaked nuts? Most people are eating roasted ones that are going to be oxidized as hell.
"I disagree that nuts aren't well studied;"
I mean medically well studied - epi and randomized trials. They are not, IMO.
"I've read a lot of studies of their calorific effect, digestive effect, and health effect. However, I'm not gung-ho about this; what the likes of Land and Peat say about nuts frightens the wits out of me, since I eat about 200g a day.:
Why on earth are you eating them so much, then?
To posts above, I do think -- I HOPE at least -- Robb just left out a few words. By that I mean rather than modern medicine, he meant modern medical dietary advice? Just trying to cut him some slack. He came off quite a bit holier than thou in that post than needed be, but ...
Another oddity is why a tip off to the tweet would be more worrisome to the FBI than the tweet itself, because I've yet to hear any details what the caller said. I imagine the person alerted them to the tweet. Isn't that called good citizenship these days? I've yet to hear there was any real "bioterrorism threat" and the reporting on this is UNREAL. For this caller/emailer to be in trouble for calling/emailing they would have had to actually THREATEN -- as in use of the first person.
That was one thing that disturbed me when I was heavily involved in the LC/Paleo community, I never could understand the anti- establishment mentality. I remember discussions on the Fat Head Facebook page with people who were against vaccinating their kids because they couldn't trust doctors. It just blows my mind.
I blame the leaders of these movements for fostering this kind of mentality. Last week I was on Naughton's blog and he was doing the usual posts about "scientists lie" and it drove me nuts reading the comments cheering him on as the savior of the people. I guarantee that if Tom found a lump on his nut he wouldn't go sit in a tub full of ice and try to freeze it off while eating a pound of coconut oil soaked bacon. He would go to one of those evil doctors and get help.
Adults who bash doctors and scientists are like kids who bash their parents, but run to them when they need something. Its convenient and it impresses their followers/friends, but its a big joke.
I agree with Kurt that there is a need for improvement in medicine, but that takes time and the reality is things are improving. Meanwhile there are some things we can do to take care of ourselves so that maybe we won't need to see the doctor as often, diet being one of them. I just wish some of these health gurus wouldn't feed off of peoples fears and make doctors (who are there to help us) out to be the bad guy.
Two articles that sum up why I think naturopathy and homeopathy practice should never ever replace modern medicine and real doctors.
http://www.readperiodicals.com/201101/2274226131.html
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/10-03-31/
Just point to the hemlock plant and tell them it makes great tea.
The downside is the diet is too restrictive and that just doesn't cut it for the majority, because of this I think it harbors a mental aspect to food that just isn't healthy. Also I feel that it tries to sell false hope to people that are worried about diseases, things like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. For me quitting LC/Paleo has been hard because I worry about my health and for the past year I felt that the diet was going to save me from modern day afflictions that are on the rise.
Another issue I see is we don't know the long-term benefits or detriments this diet can have on people. Being Paleo for a year or a few years is not long-term, not when people live to be 70 or 80. Short-term results are not good indicators for making any kind of claim for long-term benefits!!!!Yet you see it time and time again people making speculations that others run with and embrace as if it is established universal law.
I see the Paleo movement as just another group glamorizing a past era, not fully understanding it and just taking sections of it that fits their mental picture. Hey I would love to head over to my neighbor’s hot hot girlfriend, club her on the head and take her back to my pad for some whoopee. Times have changed and so has our body. Before we were hunter/gatherers we were scavenger/gatherers and we ate whatever we could get our hands on, uncooked to until we knew how to make fire. I wonder how many Paleos are out there eating raw roadkill and bugs. I mean come on lets be true to our Paleo roots.
But...then I thought, "Um, who would just come across such a tweet. It would have to be soemone reading that twitter account. If so, they knew it was a joke. If so, then reporting it went beyond prankster-mode."
Perhaps that is why the FBI would be interested in "Lance." Lance, if malicious in intent, knew it would cause time/trouble/expense/humiliation/discord/fear/etc. And I doubt the FBI likes having its time wasted on such nonsense when real terrorists abound.
I'd want to smack "Lance", too, if this was the case: "Let's get SKS in trouble with a little email/call."
If "Lance" was malicious and not civic-minded (as may be the case, it seems), I hope he gets the worst case of piles on records and has to spend all he has on underwear and Preparation H. :D
That being said I came to Carbsane's defense because I felt that she has been unfairly picked on and that some people have used the Kruse incident as an opportunity to funnel their anger at her. You came to Kruse's defense and I came to Carb's.
You have done nothing personal to me and if you and Carb where to hash things out in private and all was well I would act accordingly. Maybe I am acting like Carbsane's watchdog (not by her asking btw), but that's fine, her blogs are wonderful treats and she has been nice to me. My thing is I don't really like seeing women unfairly (even if its fair I still don't favor it, I am a bit old fashioned in that regard)picked on.
If you have something good to say and its constructive I'll listen, even give well thought out feedback. Case in point I read your post liked it and responded.
Going to be on FOX studio B national news in a few minutes.......DTV channel 360"
I responded to Razwell? Seriously? When did I do that?
Nuts are not an issue for me because I never ate a lot of them and see no reason to now. It would not emulate any sort of actual historical ancestral diet, nor would the consumption levels you describe offer me anything I desire or need in my diet. And there is the very convincing case about excess n-6 in them.
The point is that you claim to be seeking them in excess - i.e., making it a point to eat a lot of them. 200 g a day is a HUGE amount of nuts. Why eat so many if YOU (not me) are finding Lands' reasoning something reasonable?
Any food can be treated as a food, no? Why would it follow that it is desirable to eat 200 g a day of nuts? Desirable vs allowable and no big deal at 20 g a day, say. Anything that is a whole food can be viewed as Pollan does. So? Does this mean any given whole food is a super-food to eat 200 g a day of?
"You rightly raise an eyebrow at the way certain Paleo contingents deprecate this or that major time-honoured source of food; but you retain this suspicion of nuts."
You misunderstand my position. My suspicion of nuts is not about nuts per se, it the prescription to EAT A LOT of them. It is their alleged superiority to things like legumes I am taking issue with. Paleo dogma a la Cordain argues that legumes are bad and nuts are to be eaten in preference due their historical pedigree.
Saying I take issue with this prescription TO EAT A LOT OF NUTS BECAUSE THEY ARE GOOD is not the same as saying I am as suspicious of nuts per se as Cordain is of legumes or milk.
In any case, I was using the few sentences I wrote about nuts as an illustrative example of the lack of core prescriptions in paleo. I was not trying to preach anything to you personally, and in fact the way you are making this an off-topic discussion about nuts only further defines the point I was trying to make.
I don't care if you personally eat nuts or legumes or snickers or anything else...
[points up] That's what I thought you meant :)
Evelyn - I was not meaning to pick on Robb the man. I think he just worded that poorly and assume like you do that he means the obtuse way modern medicine treats diet.
Just riffing on the meme he brought up. I very much appreciate most of what Robb posted on his sleep-deprived paleohacks missive.
" I guarantee that if Tom found a lump on his nut he wouldn't go sit in a tub full of ice and try to freeze it off while eating a pound of coconut oil soaked bacon. He would go to one of those evil doctors and get help."
Priceless.
And I c/p this excerpt!
"Well, let me spell some things out: 1-Jack used this as a power grab. He was HORRIBLY victimized in this, I will not forget that nor let it go. But he also used this situation to his advantage and to the serious detriment of the Ancestral Health movement at large. 2-Thugish McCarthyism tactics were used to silence people. This is beyond appalling and is completely unacceptable."
Wish I had an adorable baby girl to play with. Now, that's good for one's health. :D
And now... gone. :(
Even if you had Carb removed his posts and those related to him on that thread....although he has made more comments, but I'm fairly certain those will get removed as well.
I'm still not getting why Lance would be in trouble either -- I mean if someone other than Kruse calls in a tip that someone carrying biohazardous materials on board, don't we usually pin a medal on them? If it went down like this, and someone thought that tweet was from Jack and there was any threat, (shakes head)
Ha! Gently steaming cup of aconite anyone? It's organic you know...anyone? Sadly that sort of thing does occasionally happen for people who fancy themselves just a bit more savvy with the gather end of the spectrum than they really are. Heck...it probably happens irl for tribal folk too every now and then. Paleo for reals.
"I think it harbors a mental aspect to food that just isn't healthy."
Agree.
"Also I feel that it tries to sell false hope to people that are worried about diseases, things like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes."
And this.
The only common denominators for longevity and health involving diet that I can find are basically to not overeat on a mostly nutritious diet that is NOT neurotic and that does allow for social enjoyment/feast times because those social aspects are at least as important to your well being as your macro ratios :)
Paleo can easily have 2/3 strikes, depends on how you play it.
It does. I've spent most of my life living in the Northwest and occasionally you hear about people that go mushroom picking out in the woods and end up hospitalized or dead. Back in the 80s a family went shroom picking (not magical ones) to eat with dinner, they ended up extremely sick and killing a couple of them.
I have never bought the "eat the foods nature provides" line. As much as people love to sound groovy by talking about Mother Nature and the wonderful goodness she provides for us, she's kind of a b**ch.
"The only common denominators for longevity and health involving diet that I can find are basically to not overeat on a mostly nutritious diet that is NOT neurotic..."
Sound words of advice. I am embarrassed to say that I spent a year not following that train of thought. My character is prone to going gung ho when I find something I like. Fortunately I am also quick to question whenever something isn't working or I get frustrated. In the end their is no magic bullet, while common sense and balance give me the best chance to get through life.
My point in that statement is we are knocking on the door of upending that paradigm. The risk assessment program here is Reno is exploding:
http://robbwolf.com/2012/04/16/paleo-diet-risk-assessment/
We've had contacts form several hundred Police/Fire/Municipalities who want help enacting similar programs. I was on an email exchange with a researcher who is writing up an RAC for an NIH proposal. From where I'm sitting some pretty good stuff is happening.
But wait! Paleo lacks the epimistimological rigor of quantum mechanics! We should just give up. No, let's work to make the damn thing both function empirically (which it does a pretty good job of) and have the type of academic continuity that allows folks to sleep at night.
Kurt-
I hold you in Demi-God status. Really. So I suggest you organize and oversee a Darwinian Medicine statement of facts/purpose. Some kind of Article sof Confederation where we take what we do and do not know and lay it out in some kind of cogent manner.
Autoimmunity: Wheat is a pretty good suspect, dairy and legumes much less so. perhaps however it is reasonable to recommend eliminating these foods for a period of time, see if disease processes improve, then reintroduce.
"Paleo" as a descriptor of all this is unfortunate. It should have been Darwinian, Evolutionary or the like. It will be eventually, but we need to build the academic rigor, and that is going to come AFTER infiltrating the mainstream with he general "paleo" moniker. The NIH proposal goes in as Paleo/Darwinian Medicine. We capitalize on the momentum of the movement to do things like crowd source research funding. Concurrently we get our epistemological house in order.
And a bit on the Libertarian comment. I suspect I'm the main offender on that count. I've been very reticent to take folks to task on their ideology, preferring instead to rely on "market" forces to bring the best practices to the surface. Much of this is born of my experience in CrossFit in which I was effectively fired for recommending we focus on food quality instead of 40/30/30 proportionality ala the Zone. I can't say the split has been anything but good for me, but the process sucked and I've not wanted to visit that type of behavior on other folks.
BUT, as Kurt (or someone...I'm operating on about 4 hrs of sleep) alluded, not all ideas are of equal merit. If you do not have a research background, are not articulate with the literature and or do not have a clinical background your commentary gets little or no weight. We HAVE mapped significant swaths of this landscape. The pontificating and mental masturbation about minutiae comes from quarters that are not from the academic/clinical side of this. If we have some kind of a formalized document about what we know we know, think we know, suspect etc, then we have a pretty solid platform for QA/QC.
so Doc, when do we get started?
@Evelyn It is a possibility that he meant something else other than what he wrote, but on the internet we can only go by what people type. After reading his book I got the impression that he was more level headed and knowledgeable than the majority of diet gurus out there, so I was a little surprised to read the statement he made.
He took the time to come on here and share some of his thoughts, but he hasn't done that on Paleohacks, which to me says he stands by what he typed. He's obviously intelligent and knows that the movement he is a part of is rife with ant-government/establishment people who do view the medical community as bought by big pharma and untrustworthy.
So what do you do? You cater to it, maybe not in a big in your face "I look like a nut" way, but you hint and suggest. What he said is plain as day and stuck out like a sore thumb. He was making a point and followed it up with a sensationalistic crescendo, perfect for driving home the message.
I've spent a few days on PH and there is a lot of people asking questions that should be directed at doctors and dieticians, oh but ummm can't do that, they are part of the problem not the solution. Paleo is the solution and the layman have the answers to people's problems. Construction worker Bob will give you sound health advice because he doesn't eat dairy or grains. UMMMMM....HMMMMM.
Robb being in the position he is in and knows the respect he commands by his name alone needs to be more on top of what he says. That's just part of the responsibility that comes with leadership. Nice guy or not I will cut him the same slack I give Jimmy Moore.
And in what state of nature would an Ursus Maritimus ever encounter a newborn penguin? :D
> ambien does not restore sleep
is this proven fact or the naturalistic fallacy in another guise?
A year ago I would have reflexively agreed but now I want proof.
Ambien has some deeply profound effects. I'm open to the possibility that Ambien sleep is better than normal sleep. But I would need to see proof of that too, if anyone claimed it.
ambien and coma sufferers
1. take 6 months to figure out why I can't sleep (maybe insulin resistance, maybe not)
with the real-world corollaries:
1a drive sleepy
1b operate heavy machinery sleepy
1c be a sleepy pedestrian (so lack of attention or balance will put me in a car's path)
or
2. take a pill
Steve Novella, god bless ; ) that man
On another note, you might be interested in this: http://www.thedreamlounge.net/jack-kruse-fox-news/
I tried to leave this comment, but apparently I'm on a blacklist where anything I post on sites I've never even attempted to comment on go directly to the vapors. Comment: This is all on Jack's head. You might be interested in this: http://paleohacks.com/questions/118128/meta-whats-the-deal-with-paleohacks-dr-kruse-and-the-fbi#axzz1uc1LdOO7
Cottrell is out of PaleoFX ... comments on root post
Oh I wasn't. Most of what he said I agreed with, just that one sentence stuck out, which is all I'm commenting on.
"Robb specifically is working towards that end, optimizing medicine/physicians/healthcare professionals, etc to offer better care than what the current mainstream medical system offers...working to give us a better system..."
I have no desire to live in a system that Robb thinks is best. What's he going to optimize it with paleo medicine? I don't see any peer reviewed evidence that paleo is even healthy let alone optimal health. It’s arrogant for him to assume he knows the healthy way for all of us and that he is going to do his best to make sure we live that way.
Besides he is not altruistic, his income is dependent on what he says; therefore he is terribly biased and will do what it takes to make money. How much more eager is he to make a living now that he has a baby girl. He has to hustle, especially with the damage Kruse has done and the Mark Sisson shadow he lives under. Robb is second fiddle in the paleo community Mark is the king, therefore you have to work twice as hard.
What happened with Kruse is a prime example of people not trusting modern medicine. The greater majority of them don't have the schooling to refute doctors so they live by word of mouth and the direction they get from above. They leave themselves wide open to quacks and there are a lot of them out there. So Robb has to come in and do damage control, which in general means making statements that will cater to his crowd. That message in the paleo community is the "medical community and our scientists have failed us and we have to take matters into our own hands. Our way is the right way and we have to go out there and make a difference." Ew gross. It’s self righteous and deluded.
To make matters worse there is nothing to indicate that paleo is the end all when it comes to nutrition. Pushing a diet that is flawed and has many unknowns, one of them being what the long term effects are is not smart or safe. But there is a large market for the disenfranchised, which means a lot of money.
Is Robb going to clarify to his paleo supporters what he meant in his post? No, but he comes here to do that, a place that is skeptical of him. No need to explain on a site that doesn't question.
I don't have a bias towards Robb that will explain away what he "really meant to say". So I will question and demand explanation. Will I get it? More than likely not, but I will get his sympathizers explaining and defending him.
It’s my birthday and I am going to go enjoy it and take a break from the internet today. You all have a good day.
Still, I can understand when one has contractual agreements, conferences in late stages of organization, etc.etc., popular forums where he posts/posted, etc. it is difficult to know the exact moment when you can pull the plug w/o going down the drain with him. Pull the plug too early and the backlash would be considerable. So either Jack's really a genius or there was just a perfect storm of timing that brought about these current events. It steamrolled past the time to pull the plug.
I think the most direct way to influence the fragmented US medical system is: personal and targeted communication to higher-ups!
At work (at an evidence-based medical research center), I occasionally get to interact with some crazy influential people. For example, one of our nutrition projects involves three professors/doctors who were on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines committee. I'm still a peon, at least until I finish my PhD, and not an alpha-male in social situations, so I never say anything at all. Not that it would be appropriate to throw around my dietary views in a work context, and not that I won't remain a peon long after finishing school.
But if anybody knows someone who has some influence, some subtle talk about evolutionary / ancestral thinking would be awesome. I gave a lecture at work last week titled "Evidence-Based Wellness: You're doing it wrong". Controversial for sure, but might have led the curious to do some google searching. Last summer at Whole Foods, I bumped into a biostats professor from the Harvard School of Public health and was too aggressive in talking up macadamia nut oil, of all things.
Gotta strike the right balance between scientific rigor, lack of crazy-talk, and being nice. Luckily "paleo" is blessed with some leaders that possess all of these traits. Whether it's called paleo, ancestral hoo ha, or whatever, enough people are becoming interested in rethinking the whole "diet" thing that it gives me a little fuzzy feeling sometimes.
"What I'm talking about (largely) is the scenario of an insulin resistant individual going to their doc for "sleep issues." Doc prescribes Ambien, does not adress metabolic issues which are the root cause. The individual does NOT have an Ambien deficiency, ambien does not restore sleep, it creates a state of unconsciousness. I could list a thousand examples along this line."
Oh I dunno...tribal folk are mighty fond of their drugs :) That part doesn't get mentioned a lot in the ancestral health brochure.
I don't have time at the moment to go bone picking but I do have time to suggest that you have ample ethics tangles to run a fine toothed comb over among your associates without branching out to fictional accounts that portray primary care docs as snake oil salesmen.
And interpret the lack of effective treatment of reversible conditions as you like. I'm unsure as to the N-3/N-6 breakdown of snake oil.
Good catch : ) The San Diego Zoo?
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