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The Magic Pill

I was watching this from a file I downloaded from Netflix onto my mobile yesterday at the bowls club.

I have only got as far the as the American kid spitting the dummy over the plateful of broccoli, I near choked on my beer laughing at that.

Will finish watching it to day.
 
Watched it all the way through on YouTube. Really good balance of theory and practice. Why isn't this 1st line therapy for so many conditions. That is rhetorical. Its virtually free to implement so there is little to no profit for any medical institution or drug company. Think of all the cows that family could buy with just the money spent on their kids' drugs over the years!
 
I watched it on Netflix last night. Thought it was excellent, partly because of the wide range of situations/eating cultures is addressed.

One thing made me both delighted AND miserable:
The horrendous diets that these people were on, and considered normal, yet they were bouncing up to hugely improved health in a mere 10 weeks.
- The autistic children transformed
- The T2 off insulin and losing 40 pounds
- The asthmatic who hadn't used an inhaler or needed antibiotic for the duration
- The ladies who felt massively improved after 2 weeks of returning to their ancestral diet...

I am so ****** jealous!
I have to work at this every day. Have done for years. Tweaks and adjustments, progressive changes...
and I've never had that huge leap of improvement.

Of course, I am delighted for them, but I kind of hope that people don't automatically assume that they will get the same almost instant benefits as the people on the documentary.

I guess Magic Pills only work for some people.
 
I've just finished watching it as well Brunneria, don't forget they probably follows several people/families during filming and pick the ones with the best most positive outcomes.

It was sweet to see the little girl with learning difficulties turn basically from a little monster to a fun loving little cherub and the fact she actually said a couple of words was amazing. The retired nurse, looked amazing too at the end and it wasn't just the new hair style! You could actually see she was full of life.

I thought it well worth watching but nothing really will change while cheap carbs are literally thrust down our throats.
 
Dam, looks like I realy am gong to be that guy.
I had issues with it.:bored:

I'll start by saying I would happy recommend it for anyone to watch it is inspirational and heart warming especially little Abigail's whole family including her gran.

But.
That's one of the things I had issue with Keto has been used since the 1920's to reduce seizures this is not new, just not well known. IF the documentary had said this and then went on to show the tremendous change in Abigail's family I feel it would have been more honest.

Keto cures cancer. (the jury is still out on this one)
Does it help? A lot of the evidence points towards it helping. That is not the stance the documentary takes.

Your diabetes is cured! :meh:
The American nurse's Dr made this statement. (I assume she was a Dr.)

It's a documentary so it's there to put it's side across and as such it did a great job informative, inspirational and heart warming. I found the South African Dr facing ethics and legally winning a case that LCHF is good for you, fascinating. And the improvements with asthmatic's that was completely new to me, I did learn something.

I also thought the ex-vegan looked slightly deranged. ;)
:bag:
 
slip said:
I've just finished watching it as well Brunneria, don't forget they probably follows several people/families during filming and pick the ones with the best most positive outcomes.
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Agreed.
I wonder how many of their subjects fell by the wayside and fell off the wagon. It is certainly a HUGE adjustment to make.

Years ago, I watched a similarly transformative documentary about asthma. Several families were followed, as they were guided in diet, lifestyle and living changes to help their severely asthmatic children. The ones that followed the instructions, removed carpets and rugs and curtains, changed the bedding often enough, vacuumed daily, adjusted diet, turned the central heating off, and threw open the windows, etc. etc. had HUGE benefits.

The ones that didn't follow the instructions precisely saw little benefit and gave up, saying the programme 'didn't work'.
 
slip said:
I've just finished watching it as well Brunneria, don't forget they probably follows several people/families during filming and pick the ones with the best most positive outcomes.
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Possibly they may have we don't know and quite possibly they filmed several aboriginal tribes or villages in Australia till they found a positive out come. again we don't know.
 
JohnEGreen said:
I didn't see any where in the film where it stated keto was a cure for cancer
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The showed an Xray of cancer before the Keto diet and Xray of no cancer after the Keto diet that's a pretty clear statement.
That was the stance they took.

I never said they stated anything maybe that's why you "didn't see any where in the film where it stated"
Never claimed it did.o_O
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So there was cancer before keto and no cancer after keto as shown by Xray. Thank you for pointing that out though I draw no conclusions from that and neither did they you on the other hand seem to have.
 
Brunneria said:
I watched it on Netflix last night. Thought it was excellent, partly because of the wide range of situations/eating cultures is addressed.

One thing made me both delighted AND miserable:
The horrendous diets that these people were on, and considered normal, yet they were bouncing up to hugely improved health in a mere 10 weeks.
- The autistic children transformed
- The T2 off insulin and losing 40 pounds
- The asthmatic who hadn't used an inhaler or needed antibiotic for the duration
- The ladies who felt massively improved after 2 weeks of returning to their ancestral diet...

I am so ****** jealous!
I have to work at this every day. Have done for years. Tweaks and adjustments, progressive changes...
and I've never had that huge leap of improvement.

Of course, I am delighted for them, but I kind of hope that people don't automatically assume that they will get the same almost instant benefits as the people on the documentary.

I guess Magic Pills only work for some people.
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Brunneria, simply because you have keep this up for ages and supported so many people, you are my heroine!!
 
Angelofthemarches said:
Brunneria, simply because you have keep this up for ages and supported so many people, you are my heroine!!
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Awww! Bless you!
Thank you
That really gave me a boost. :)

I have just got back from a meal out with extended family, in which I really struggled (with a set menu) to find anything that suited me - and ended up eating more of the wrong stuff that I wanted. It didn't help that they were busy, and the service was so slow that I was considering eating the flower arrangement by the time the food arrived!

So none of us are perfect, and nor should we try to be. We just do the best we can, now.
Because 'now' is all we ever have.
 
Brunneria said:
Awww! Bless you!
Thank you
That really gave me a boost. :)

I have just got back from a meal out with extended family, in which I really struggled (with a set menu) to find anything that suited me - and ended up eating more of the wrong stuff that I wanted. It didn't help that they were busy, and the service was so slow that I was considering eating the flower arrangement by the time the food arrived!

So none of us are perfect, and nor should we try to be. We just do the best we can, now.
Because 'now' is all we ever have.
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Well said.
 
slip said:
nothing really will change while cheap carbs are literally thrust down our throats.
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Just watched it. Found my eyes watering at a few points, including the lady at the beginning counting out her medicines, and the retired nurse - the vicious circle they were caught up in was very sad. @slip's point above was graphically illustrated for me by the father of Abigail saying how expensive their new way of eating was, yet the amount of processed food in the cupboards at the beginning, which they were chucking out, was absolutely staggering. I am surprisingly left with a feeling of hopelessness, even though the message from the film is definitely one of hope - witness the amazing change in Abigail - and of course that is emphasized by the successes of Forum members. I now understand why American/Canadian recipes emphasise grass-fed meat/butter - I had no idea of the huge scale of feed-lots: just appalling, and sadly the practice seems to be creeping in here. So so much is wrong with our food industry. And then there is the continuing persecution of Dr Noakes - too many powerful lobbyists and voices....

I really cannot see how we are going to turn the 'tanker' around. If we (the UK) can't even take on board the simple message to put a hat on children when they are out in the sun (lots wandering around at lunch-time today with no hat), then how on earth are we going to embrace the massive change in how we eat? You only have to look at people's trollies in supermarkets to realise the scale of the problem.
 
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