You HAVE influenced people to change their diet! It only took one tweet of yours for me to start furiously googling “LCHFMP” and I looked up the doctors you thanked in that tweet (Dr Lustig and Dr Fung) and I bought “Metabolical” and I took 2 courses with Dr Westman the author of “End Your Carb Confusion” and here I am 6 months later and MY LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER!!! I am 60 years old and I finally feel like the best years of my life are ahead of me. I have miraculously quit drinking. I have tons of energy and positive vibes and in my job in healthcare my patients notice and they ask me how I did it, and I risk my job every day by telling them to do the things their doctors are most likely going to disagree with, so your influence is spreading beyond me and I thank you again so much! I hope I run into you someday on a hike, I will most likely burst into tears between this and Letting Go of God. I LOVE YOU!! 💕
Julie, I love watching these videos - they so touch my heart! It's like being with my mom again, or the great aunts in their apartment on Washington Blvd. in Chicago, keeping up on topics big and small.
Anyway, I didn't realize you were writing this book about health, etc. and I so appreciate the information about Dr. Fung, etc. and plan to read those. You know I'm going through a mercury poisoning crisis since February, right? I'm so upset about the state of healthcare today, that I too have started writing about it. An Australian ecological group found my writings and has now published them at the Institute of Ecological Agriculture through this link:
The good news is that my non-traditional, integrative functional medicine doctor has not only diagnosed my poisoning, she has completely changed my diet and supplements and is literally saving my life. My mercury levels have dropped by more than half and I'm about halfway through being done with the treatments.
I now realize that traditional medical doctors have only part of the training they need when they graduate, and by missing out on how critical our nutritional requirements are they are literally performing malpractice. Not only was I eating too much large species fish, but I had two dental amalgams that were leaking mercury profusely that I finally had removed on Wednesday AND NO ONE CAUGHT IT until I went outside traditional medicine.
Now, given our family's genes of curiosity and exploration, I am on a mission to change this. If there's anything I can do to help you, just let me know. I just wrote my state senator, several medical reporters, etc. and will continue to expand this. It is just unacceptable.
Hope the talk goes really well tonight - you'll be great! I'm getting filmed painting outside on Monday at the Biltmore Estate for a PBS documentary and am really glad I don't have to make people laugh - just paint a pretty picture! And here's a laugh: my brother Steve (you remember him, right?) were asked by a writing workshop producer in Vermont to give a lecture about Gertrude Stein. Me? Steve maybe, but I hadn't a clue....we turned him down, thank goodness.
Cannot wait to see you - love you, in good health and honest living.
Julia, I paused your video the second you mentioned Dr. Jason Fung. Even though I have changed my diet and health in 2012 (my friend had cancer... I began to research diet) and dumped processed food and sugar, I hadn't heard about Jason Fung until a few days ago. An Uber driver and I got into a passionate conversation about how food is medicine. That driver told me about Jason Fung.
Anyway, I wanted to pause the video (which I'm enjoying so much) and share my experience. I love synchronocities in life.
Days are so frustratingly limited. I wish I’d known that. I spent so much of my working years with the delusion that once retired, I’d have time for all my interests! So much out of reach, even in the best of circumstances.
It’s funny that you’re imagining your ideal life. This week I was thinking how your Substack videos bring you a bit close to the ideal you mentioned, I think in Letting Go of God, to Sister Wendy’s life of contemplation/host of a tv show!
It’s so strange I can barely watch a five minute video (of whatever) on YouTube but I just did 20 minutes with you. I find you to be soothing and funny which is a wonderful combination. Plus I love books. The quilt story DID make me laugh.
I, too, wholeheartedly endorse writing this book! I’m already familiar with Dr. Fung and I’ve cycled in and out of Keto for a while now. The goal is for it to finally stick.
I keep waiting for a Substack notification that you’ve written another post on LCHFMP! But the truth is I look forward to anything you post/write/do.
Back in 2005 I didn’t have a lot of money. I’d given up my life in Boston and moved to Florida to be caretaker to my parents who BOTH had strokes, one right after the other. At the same time I was *also* on the journey of becoming a non-believer. Being a huge fan of God Said Ha, I somehow scrambled the means and time to fly to LA specifically to see you at the Hudson Backstage for Letting Go. During the caretaking portion of my life, it was one of the best things I ever did for myself.
You can tell you are excited about the book. Your conversational approach is winning and if anyone can take complicated scientific mechanisms and make them relatable, it’s you!
re: lose weight fast! Processed food is a Capitalist conspiracy. Food scientists spend ALL THEIR TIME figuring out how to combine sugar/salt/fat to make you addicted. Then the Patriarchy convinces you that you'll ever be thin enough or rich enough. EVERY women's magazine (at least when I was growing up) had the latest diet and the most cravable dessert recipe. The only way to lose weight for good is to get a terrible disease that makes you unable to eat and then you die. Trust me, I'm there. Rachel, just turned 77
You HAVE influenced people to change their diet! It only took one tweet of yours for me to start furiously googling “LCHFMP” and I looked up the doctors you thanked in that tweet (Dr Lustig and Dr Fung) and I bought “Metabolical” and I took 2 courses with Dr Westman the author of “End Your Carb Confusion” and here I am 6 months later and MY LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER!!! I am 60 years old and I finally feel like the best years of my life are ahead of me. I have miraculously quit drinking. I have tons of energy and positive vibes and in my job in healthcare my patients notice and they ask me how I did it, and I risk my job every day by telling them to do the things their doctors are most likely going to disagree with, so your influence is spreading beyond me and I thank you again so much! I hope I run into you someday on a hike, I will most likely burst into tears between this and Letting Go of God. I LOVE YOU!! 💕
If you haven’t already, see The Quiet Girl, the movie of Foster. It’s a masterpiece, so affecting. Claire Keegan, I love everything she has written.
IT'S PAT! seems more and more like it was a Disney World of Tomorrow that came true.
Thanks so much.
And--- you're beautiful--- one heretic to another.
Julie, I love watching these videos - they so touch my heart! It's like being with my mom again, or the great aunts in their apartment on Washington Blvd. in Chicago, keeping up on topics big and small.
Anyway, I didn't realize you were writing this book about health, etc. and I so appreciate the information about Dr. Fung, etc. and plan to read those. You know I'm going through a mercury poisoning crisis since February, right? I'm so upset about the state of healthcare today, that I too have started writing about it. An Australian ecological group found my writings and has now published them at the Institute of Ecological Agriculture through this link:
https://www.ecoag.org.au/campaigns/view-campaign/NA_ZVrH6MS3l1Ox8pG4RrILOxqN5EzVyZtOlXBXAu5Ac1ljDkkA8E_LkMV9PV9vI3VLJNt9fP6gJh-Q4TBulzLxV-ChKjHgi
There are also two articles on my website. I plan to add to them as time allows:
https://www.catherinetwomey.com/medicine-health
The good news is that my non-traditional, integrative functional medicine doctor has not only diagnosed my poisoning, she has completely changed my diet and supplements and is literally saving my life. My mercury levels have dropped by more than half and I'm about halfway through being done with the treatments.
I now realize that traditional medical doctors have only part of the training they need when they graduate, and by missing out on how critical our nutritional requirements are they are literally performing malpractice. Not only was I eating too much large species fish, but I had two dental amalgams that were leaking mercury profusely that I finally had removed on Wednesday AND NO ONE CAUGHT IT until I went outside traditional medicine.
Now, given our family's genes of curiosity and exploration, I am on a mission to change this. If there's anything I can do to help you, just let me know. I just wrote my state senator, several medical reporters, etc. and will continue to expand this. It is just unacceptable.
Hope the talk goes really well tonight - you'll be great! I'm getting filmed painting outside on Monday at the Biltmore Estate for a PBS documentary and am really glad I don't have to make people laugh - just paint a pretty picture! And here's a laugh: my brother Steve (you remember him, right?) were asked by a writing workshop producer in Vermont to give a lecture about Gertrude Stein. Me? Steve maybe, but I hadn't a clue....we turned him down, thank goodness.
Cannot wait to see you - love you, in good health and honest living.
XOXOXO Catherine
Julia, I paused your video the second you mentioned Dr. Jason Fung. Even though I have changed my diet and health in 2012 (my friend had cancer... I began to research diet) and dumped processed food and sugar, I hadn't heard about Jason Fung until a few days ago. An Uber driver and I got into a passionate conversation about how food is medicine. That driver told me about Jason Fung.
Anyway, I wanted to pause the video (which I'm enjoying so much) and share my experience. I love synchronocities in life.
PS You look so healthy. You're glowing.
Days are so frustratingly limited. I wish I’d known that. I spent so much of my working years with the delusion that once retired, I’d have time for all my interests! So much out of reach, even in the best of circumstances.
It’s funny that you’re imagining your ideal life. This week I was thinking how your Substack videos bring you a bit close to the ideal you mentioned, I think in Letting Go of God, to Sister Wendy’s life of contemplation/host of a tv show!
It’s so strange I can barely watch a five minute video (of whatever) on YouTube but I just did 20 minutes with you. I find you to be soothing and funny which is a wonderful combination. Plus I love books. The quilt story DID make me laugh.
I, too, wholeheartedly endorse writing this book! I’m already familiar with Dr. Fung and I’ve cycled in and out of Keto for a while now. The goal is for it to finally stick.
I keep waiting for a Substack notification that you’ve written another post on LCHFMP! But the truth is I look forward to anything you post/write/do.
Back in 2005 I didn’t have a lot of money. I’d given up my life in Boston and moved to Florida to be caretaker to my parents who BOTH had strokes, one right after the other. At the same time I was *also* on the journey of becoming a non-believer. Being a huge fan of God Said Ha, I somehow scrambled the means and time to fly to LA specifically to see you at the Hudson Backstage for Letting Go. During the caretaking portion of my life, it was one of the best things I ever did for myself.
You can tell you are excited about the book. Your conversational approach is winning and if anyone can take complicated scientific mechanisms and make them relatable, it’s you!
re: lose weight fast! Processed food is a Capitalist conspiracy. Food scientists spend ALL THEIR TIME figuring out how to combine sugar/salt/fat to make you addicted. Then the Patriarchy convinces you that you'll ever be thin enough or rich enough. EVERY women's magazine (at least when I was growing up) had the latest diet and the most cravable dessert recipe. The only way to lose weight for good is to get a terrible disease that makes you unable to eat and then you die. Trust me, I'm there. Rachel, just turned 77