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“Meat consumption is the only food significantly associated with lower melatonin production.”

- melatonin is tested in the urine levels right after someone wakes up

- a Harvard study monitored melatonin and diet and concluded that meat consumption was a major factor in melatonin deficiencies

Pineal gland: right in the middle of the brain, connected to your actual eyes (the “3rd eye”) and has one function - to produce the hormone Melatonin

2/2 - Researchers dripped the blood of women before and after 14 days of healthy living onto breast cancer cells growing in Petri dishes. The blood taken after they started eating healthier suppressed cancer growth significantly better and killed 20-30% more cancer cells than the blood taken from the same women just 2 weeks before.”

1/2 “Remarkably, eating a plant based diet while walking every day can improve our cancer defenses within just two weeks. -

“some breast cancers may start in the womb and be related to your mother’s diet.”

Breast cancer: “By the time doctors detect the tumor, it may have already been present for 40 years or longer. The cancer has been growing, maturing, and acquiring hundreds of new ‘survival of the fittest’ mutations that allow it to grow even more quickly as it tries to outmaneuver your immune system.”

- early detection is actually late detection. We don’t have the tech to detect earlier

“Meat already contains highly absorbable phosphates, adding more may just add insult to kidney injury. Chicken seems to be the worst offender. A supermarket survey found that more than 90% of chicken products contained phosphate additives.”

- phosphate affects kidney functioning and increases kidney stone occurrence

- is the coloring agent in Coca Cola

- labeled as flavoring or broth in meats

“Ancient human diets largely consisted of plants.” - plants are less acidic than meats/fish

Tubular toxicity: impact of acid inducing diets that hurt the tiny delicate urine making tubes in the kidneys. They produce ammonia as a base to counter the acid, but the extra ammonia in the kidneys over a long period of time can damage them

“Could substituting plant protein for animal protein help slow the deterioration of kidney function? Yes. 1/2 a dozen clinical trials have shown that plant protein replacement can reduce hyper filtration and/or protein leakage.”

- kidney function/health can be monitored based on the amount of proteins found “leaking” (protein spillage) from the kidney.

“An equivalent amount of plant protein causes virtually no noticeable stress on the kidneys. Eat some tuna and, within 3 hours, your kidney filtration rate can shoot up 36%, but eating the same amount of protein in the form of tofu doesn’t place any additional strain on the kidneys.”