phospholipid mmbrane builders

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Hello RDs,

Do any of you remember the man going to St Ives who met a man going the other

direction who had seven wives, who had seven sacks, which had seven cats, which

had seven kittens? (how many cats did the man going to St Ives have? zero)

Well, I may have let those cats and kittens out of the bag, and some of them may

follow the man to St. Ives..

My latest blogs fill in gaps that our society's leaky membranes have developed.

http://gingerjens.blogspot.com/2011/10/tangent-on-zomig-and-migraines-that.html

***the bombshell isn't the inversion board fighting muffin top, it's the

statement that I think blondes have more fun because their endogenous

cannabinoid receptor systems work better than brunettes, redhead's or dark

haired types'

http://gingerjens.blogspot.com/2011/09/membrane-building-foods.html

***includes reference tables of phospholipid content of common foods, essential

for strong membranes and building blocks for eCBs which are themselves

precursors for the eicosanoids

http://www.caymanchem.com/app/template/Article.vm/article/2148

Did you know? Fun facts about eicosanoids *** I just found this link, I think

I'm going to love this website. (AA) arachidonic acid is the other half of

anandamide, one of the eCBs, endogenous cannabinoids

http://gingerjens.blogspot.com/2011/09/feed-your-membranes-to-spell-relief.html

http://gingerjens.blogspot.com/2011/09/aftermaths-fruit-and-nut-course.html

I also updated my What is an RD and my resume pages - they actually get hit

pretty regularly - a sign to me that most people don't know what an RD is

either.

http://gingerjens.blogspot.com/p/what-is-registered-dietitian.html

http://gingerjens.blogspot.com/p/my-resume.html

added a bombshell about WIC and farm subsidies and vitamin D fortification of

infant formula

http://gingerjens.blogspot.com/2011/09/could-michael-jacksons-vitiligo-suggest.h\

tml

***never knew what vilitigo was or that it had to do with hypothyroidism and

that pickles with meals may have been a traditional way to prevent chronic B

vitamin deficiency and a variety of other skin problems that can result from low

stomach acid production. The 1945 physician with that study found the new trend

towards a reliance on new-fangled vitamin supplements disturbing.

I'm not an evil whistle blower, just a frustrated one. I am giving info to the

people that are googling for it (and are willing to wade through my blogs) but I

would really rather work with the system for speedier change (autoimmune

disease, migraines, obesity and hypothyroidism are no fun and they are

unnecessary) The value of case studies is to look at what worked at the

individual level and see if any of the strategies can be shared on a larger

scale. We might not all have access or interest in special brownies but to find

out that we can build more endogenous cannabinoid rich membranes just by making

" regular " brownies with whole grain buckwheat flour instead of white flour is a

valuable piece of information to have. We all knew that we should eat more

carrots, apples and sweet potatoes but did we know that they were all rich in

endogenous cannabinoid building blocks?

If anyone is willing to contact me privately, I would really like to collaborate

- am I an enemy that should stay off this forum for good? or are we all

dietitians struggling to help our clients?

I don't appreciate being referred to in the third person, shunning is no fun,

but the links and other examples of professionalism that I have observed on this

forum, have helped me to grow as a person and as a dietitian.

I am disabled by word processing handicaps and lack of contact with the academic

world (it may be across the street but it seems like they don't like medical

marijuana patients in Michigan or Marquette). I really want to get this

information in a format that could be submitted to a peer reviewed journal. I

joined Mendeley recently but I haven't figured out how to use it yet

This is, I think, my last attempt at courteously trying to share valuable

insights with my fellow professionals. I hope some of you find it helpful rather

than disruptive.

I think the bottom line to the disrespect of the dietetics profession is that we

never had full control in the first place. The basic diet ratios that aren't

working were never tested on double blind populations. It wasn't primarily

dietitians who wrote the guidelines that all the rest of it is based on but it

could be dietitians who help lead health back into the health care industry -

but we will have to rework at least some of the recipes and menus. - sorry gals

and guys.

I was so disgusted by the lack of a single page entry about endogenous

cannabinoids in a brand new Pathophysiology textbook that I went right to the

internet and spent $500 on several tests devoted to the topic. The answer my

friends lies in the power of intracellular levels of calcium and glutamates. In

health the cell is so good at keeping them out that they are actually signals

to the endogenous cannabinoid receptors that make up a bulky part of the

membranes. The signal is to catabolize/release/activate and respond to wound or

baby building or fight/flight situations. Doesn't matter how the calcium and

glutamates got into the cell, once they are there in concentration the building

bock phospholipids are released and converted to eCBs (endogenous cannabinoids)

along with arachidonic acid (a saturated fat that got a bad reputation in the

low fat movement but turns out is crucial to health)

It's time to hit the do over button and we can do it but someone has to start.

" If the leader starts limping, all the followers will limp, too. " - Kenyan

proverb

we are a monkey see, monkey do world and our habits are hurting us and our

policies aren't helping either - but we can rewrite policies and model good

habits - it is just helpful to have a solid definition of what " good habits "

really are. One or two dairy servings a day wouldn't be too much but as a

serving and condiment in most common foods and snacks and having it being pushed

as a supplement is too much. Easy answers are only easy to give and strong bones

built out of calcium was a wrong easy anwer back in 1910 let alone 1997 and it

is still wrong today. The hidden glutamates in processed foods is a bigger

problem. Glutamate rich receptors are not only located in the senility decay

areas of Alzheimer's but they have also recently been found to be heavily

located in the pancreas, bones and skin/vascular tissue as well. Adequate

magnesium would help protect against the high glutamate levels from ever being

allowed into the cells. It is a balance problem - low magnesium allows the

influx.

I'm asking for some of my peers to review my work please, pretty please with

essential glycocalyx building sugars on top. The vilitigo article is masterful

work, I think, but I don't know if it would be Master's or doctorate work

because I have never done that type of work and not sure if I would recognize it

if I did. I have been overworking on this again and not eating well - I need to

let it go somewhat but I know it is important information.

Take home point if you made it this far: ignore the endogenous cananbinoid

system at the risk of your skin and brain and all your membranes because the

eCBs are building blocks, not just messengers.

$500 worth of textbooks doesn't buy much these days unless you shop on Amazon!

Vajda, R.D.

www.GingerJens.blogspot.com