Advanced Mediterranean Diet

Like many folks, ItsTheWooo ain’t happy about it:

“Now, if you search my blog tags, you guys will know i’ve experimented, and very much benefit from kratom.  I’ve been using kratom for 2 years and counting, and i consider it really a healing substance, that transformed my life considerably. . Kratom has been a very valuable herb to me, which helps my mood and assists my sleep, helps my body regulate weight, and is generally a relaxing pleasant addition to my regimen.The first year i found it, the kratom was so effective it felt like a magical cure. There was greater happiness in my experience of life – it made me happier days after a dose, it kept fall depression completely at bay, and finding it in late august 2 years ago it was as if the summer did not end. It also stopped my brain, made the “noise” go away, let me sleep normally. Kratom seemed to normalize my body rhythm – i woke the same time every day, i slept the same every day. Upon finding kratom , my mood , sleep, everything got so much better; it even helped cure residual “eating problems” , eating became much easier and residual dieting/monitoring behaviors vanished.Work became much easier – the constant struggle with thoughts of people’s intents died down considerably. I could peacefully exist w/o this internal dialogue of suspicion. I performed vastly better at work as a result of kratom resolving these thought issues, as i could interact more normally with coworkers vs “coping” with my thoughts.”

Source: *The Scribble Pad*: Personal update + Kratom discussion (The unethical DEA tramples civil , human rights)

As a hospitalist, I see lots of accidental and intentional drug overdoses and adverse drug effects. But I’ve never seen a patient with an adverse effect from kratom. I’ve never even run across a patient who mentioned taking it.

From the Science-Based Medicine blog:

“Overweight and obesity are also diseases of modern civilization which is [sic] characterized by abundance and an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. Further, the food industry is driven by market forces which favor tasty foods, which often means being high in fat and/or sugar.

The public, understandably, simply wants to know what diet is optimal for reducing cardiovascular risk and maintaining a healthy weight. Ironically, we already have the answer, in my opinion, at least the “90% answer.”

I also think that most people know the answer – engage in regular exercise and eat a moderate varied diet with plenty of vegetables. If you do that you are most of the way to an optimal diet, and all the controversy is essentially over that last few percentage points of minimizing risk by optimizing diet.

The people who seem to have the highest stake in those last few percent are the self-help industry and the various food industries. The self-help industry want to sell you the optimal diet, and so they have a vested interest in coming up with some diet schtick and selling it – the Atkins diet, the Zone diet, the South Beach diet, etc.The one diet that seems to have the most science behind it is the Mediterranean diet. That is probably because it is a moderate diet, nothing extreme.”

Source: Sugar Industry Research « Science-Based Medicine