jomamma007
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I'm listening to this interview with Matt Blackburn where he talks about calcification. He seems to be very anti-calcium and he blames calcium for many different diseases.
What are your thoughts on what he says in this interview?
Matt isn't anti calcium from food at all. He has his own goats literally for the milk and cheese. He is against calcium in drinking and bathing water, and think it's a giant reason why everyone is calcified. I'm more under belief that it's the lack of calcium in the diet of most people. He also hyper focuses on thing that aren't as important, like saying you can't be healthy if you shower in tap water etc, you need dirty electricity filters for your house, emf blocking equipment that doesn't have much backing, never having artificial light in your house unless it's orange/red etc.
100%. It's tough because I'm sure many here as well as myself have bounced from keto to carnivore to fasting to fish oil now to Peat etc, and you can't blame people for changing their views. At the same time, he speaks as an authority, while he'll talk about danger of PUFA and quote Ray, while at the same time disagreeing with him on calcium being more important than magnesium and vitamin D and such. He had a parasite phase as well.Matt has bounced from trend to trend. He even had a fish oil supplement. I understand we all change our positions as we learn but I'm tired of hearing him talk about stuff as if he is an authority. He simply just repeats whatever subject he is focused on at the time.
He also had literally nothing to add in the Vitamin D debate against Georgi and Danny. He refers to it as "rat poison" and only made 2 points in the debate. One that it's used in rat poison (even though the dose was astronomical and rats also have a higher affinity for converting cholecalciferol into calcitriol), and second that the MSM recommends it so it must be bad. That's it. Nothing of value. This guy, while I think has good intentions, is making a killing selling expensive albeit quality supplements and recommending the craziest things to people. Bone broth for SIBO? Like I watched a ton of his Q n As and podcasts, which got me into Peat, and there's a lot of nonsense because he really hasn't had any major health issues himself, which he freely admits. Like doing only diet related things if you're suffering from severe thyroid and gut issues is not enough for most.
I've talked to him with a 1 on 1, and he seemed genuine, but honestly didn't have actual experience or knowledge in helping many others apart from trying basic metabolically supporting things. He focuses on water quality and EMF to separate himself from the pack. You have to get acid free containment free drinking water and then vortex it to a certain frequency and then get it blessed by 3 priests on a Tuesday or you'll get calcified. He then gets validated by people doing HTMA tests showing high calcium because they are showering in water that has high PPM and this has nothing to do with your actual calcium levels in the tissue. He also is buying 30k float tanks and all these gadgets every week. Just buying a 1k ice cream maker non chalant because he's making a killing on the supplements etc and now he has his own house off the grid with every gadget you can think of, but it's okay because he had to work at Costco and uber while researching for 10 years to get to this point and deserves it etc.
He was mostly vegan for 10 years and suffered some health issues from that, and went into 6 months of OMAD KETO (which he claims almost killed him LOL, while I'm sure many here have done so much more damage to their body), and goes directly into pounding milk sugar etc and healed himself within a year with just food after reading Kate Deerings book and vitamin E. I don't believe many of these guys have actually suffered tremendous health issues and then give advice it's crazy. It's like Paul Saladino promoting a carnivore diet, which he had only been on for a year, because it "cured" hi eczema, only to have to add in carbs after a while because he was getting many bad symptoms, so now it's ANIMAL BASED eating and all this nonsense.
I've taken notes about his site, he'll have 7000 Vitamin E products for example (at $60), and he'll sell out in 2 months and that's just one of hi 10 products. Of course that's not 100% profit, but he's making a killing off all these Instagram followers trying to restore their metabolism. $75 for an oyster supplement? A vitamin C product that's derived from real food because ascorbic acid is not Vitamin C etc.
He caught onto the massive pro metabolic trend on instagram since the pandemic, and is riding success with his supplements just like Saladino jumped on the carnivore train and because of his MD (that he got a month before starting his podcast), whom I also worked with and didn't really understand much about the bloodwork he had me run. I've literally learned more with a few consultations with Danny Roddy, and listening to the Generative Energy podcast, then 2 $700 consults with Paul. Yeah Paul Low T3 isn't okay because I'm on some magical meat diet lol. Anyways, it's not my attention to bash Matt, as he's the reason I even got into looking at metabolism. At the end of the day he's helping people, but they could learn and save more $ if they red some of Rays work etc...This is just my experience with working/following a lot of his work for 6 months last year coming off carnivore.
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