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Nothing can illustrate the tendency towards “self-optimization” better than the perennial subject of nutrition and toxins. This gets really complex now since both are closely intertwined.

The philosopher, physician and theologian Manfred Lütz points out in the introduction of his book “Lebenslust” (Lust for Life) that this is both a religious and a political topic, and satirical reality as well.

How susceptible nutrition is to Voodoo reporting can be demonstrated with the subject “margarine”. A study was published over fifty years ago that warned of the dangers of cholesterol. The company Procter&Gamble, was advertising margarine since butter and the cholesterol contained therein were regarded as bad for the heart. This “insight” was based on a single study. This resulted in “mountains of butter” in Germany, which had preoccupied the media for months on end. So much butter was not eaten that it was given away to East Germany. East Germany then sold it back to West Germany to obtain foreign currency.

The problem was that the study had been rigged: Twenty-two countries were examined, but the results from only seven countries, which produced “correct” results, were published (it was even called “The Seven Countries Study”). The author, Ancel Keys, had admitted in a 1997 interview that there had never been a connection between dietary cholesterol and cholesterol associated with heart disease.

One single fake study had caused billions of Deutschmarks in damage and only because people wanted to “believe” things and cared about their health. Strangely enough, no one has come up with the idea that the situation could be the same today, just concerning other matters. This behavior can, I think, be called “naive”.

Coincidentally, forty years ago I had personally attended a lecture by a nutritionist who was already complaining about the margarine hype and who preferred butter. He demonstrated how unnatural the production process of margarine can be. It was thus known. Facts were already being ignored back on those days. Furthermore, the expert warned against the traces of catalysts present as heavy metals in cheap margarine as a residue from the manufacturing process.

But “health pills” or pills that make you feel better have always existed, even 200 years ago. These couldn’t have been vitamin pills because vitamins weren’t known yet, but were heavy metals. Yes, in low doses, but heavy metals nevertheless. These are toxic.

Why were these pills sold as “health pills”? People at the time had suffered from “uninvited guests” like tapeworms, and they didn’t like heavy metals. The parasites departed. Humans can partially excrete heavy metals through their sweat. What’s more, they have an antibiotic effect, but are toxic at too high a dosage. Two-hundred years ago, many great minds like Beethoven died from heavy metal poisoning: Wine was sweetened with lead sugar, and arsenic sulphur was used.

Understanding the above logic with the “health pills”, which is incomprehensible from today’s point of view, is necessary in order to understand the relativity of “a healthy diet”, which therefore doesn’t exist.

Rice Wafers

In 2015, rice wafers came under fire as they were shown to contain arsenic. Apparently, the process of expanding the rice makes the heavy metal bioavailable. The rice came from China. Rice wafers: Those are those round things that come in a stack of about fifteen pieces with a diameter of about 10 centimeters (4 inches). It’s a popular food for babies or toddlers. By the way, they taste just how I imagine cardboard tastes.

Even venereal diseases used to be combated with drugs containing heavy metals. Their antibiotic effect was used for this purpose. The drug was called “Salvarsan”. That was less than 100 years ago. Of course, people died during this therapy; many thousands more than what we would call a “side effect” today. Penicillin is used these days. Penicillin is, by the way, a mycotoxin or mold-poison.

Whether heavy metal usage is still commonplace in China or whether the metal in rice wafers occurs naturally is something I can’t judge. However, this is of no importance.

Conversely, when we examine the nematodes in fish it’s exciting to see how people can mutate into “thrill seekers”. You eat raw fish (Sushi) and then complain about fish tapeworms. Since you want to be hip, you are willing to take that risk. Normal people cook meals. This shows that today’s diet has nothing to do with “common sense”.

The highlight are “black smoothies”, which contains finely dispersed activated carbon. The inherent “logic” is obviously (?) derived from activated charcoal tablets, which bind toxins in acute cases of poisoning. How these activated carbons want to “know” which substances are toxins and which are nutrients is a mystery. Apparently, drinkers of this kind of smoothie apparently attribute more intelligence to them than to themselves.

Smoothies are a “modern” food. Bacteria live on every plant and on

every fruit. This isn’t bad because they protect themselves with their cell walls. Leaves often have a layer of wax, making it very hard for bacteria to penetrate. When you put everything into a mixer, the cell walls will break up allowing the bacteria to multiply quickly because the surface that these bacteria can attack has increased one thousandfold (again, the area rule applies here; math is the same everywhere). To keep the temperature low, you add ice because 10° Celsius (50° F) more will double their growth rate. In the middle of summer, a smoothie is thus a proven way to get food poisoning if you let it sit for a longer period.