Katchum's Health Blog

How to keep your brain healthy

2025-10-22T13:35:00.000-07:00

Avoid these foods:

- MSG

- Aspartame

- Sucralose

- Aluminum (baking powder, cookware)

- Diacetyl (beers, margarine, flavouring)

- Mercury

Eat:

- Bacopa Monnieri

- Ginkgo Biloba

- Huperzine

- Vitamin D and K

- Choline

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Vitamin D

2021-10-31T07:06:00.002-07:00

Elderberry against Coronavirus

2020-04-11T02:10:00.003-07:00

Magnesium

2020-04-10T14:02:00.002-07:00

One magnesium pill a day is good for you. Many people are magnesium deficient.

Activated Charcoal

2016-10-01T07:11:00.001-07:00

This precious can remove all toxins out of your body and increase lifespan with 50%. I'm going to try it and I'll notify you when I reach 150 years. It's called activated charcoal.

Fasting is good

2015-12-15T10:03:00.002-08:00

Fasting is good.

Ketosis

2015-04-28T12:52:00.003-07:00

Very good experimental video on ketosis.

mTOR: The way to build muscles

2014-08-17T08:57:00.001-07:00

Just found out how to build muscles faster. The technique is to suppress mTOR (protein) in 3 ways so that it bounces back later on and you gain muscles from that.

- You make sure you drink coffee in the morning at home/work (not decaf, because it has more toxins)
- You exercise early when going to work (cycling)
- You do intermittent fasting (eating just a light salad for lunch and no breakfast)

This will suppress mTOR and when it bounces, you will build muscle mass without even thinking about it. The rebound of mTOR happens when you start to eat again (eat proteins to build muscle). Your body is in a regeneration mode. This also means you may never drink coffee after exercise or when you start the regeneration mode. Otherwise your mTOR will be inhibited. Exercising right after eating is also not recommended because that will inhibit mTOR.

Lies and Myths

2014-07-15T11:38:00.002-07:00

I just have to bookmark this post to be able to refute the common lies and myths in the natural health space.

Especially the one about eggs being bad for your heart...

Sleep flushes out brain toxins

2014-07-12T13:45:00.001-07:00

Interesting to know is that when you are sleeping, the brain cells will become half their size. This will free up space to flush out the bad toxins in your brain. That's why everyone should sleep more than 7 hours a day. If you sleep one hour less each day, it will accumulate. This sleep deprivation is not healthy. Eventually you will develop a brain of an alcohol addict. You will develop diabetes, heart problems and even cancer.

During your sleep, the glymphatic system will pump cerebral spinal fluid to your brain and flush out the toxins. You should cherish your sleep, enjoy it and feel how the spinal fluid goes through your brain. That's how I fall to sleep.

Other things to remember is to make the room dark, sleep before midnight, remove electronics, keep the temperature cool, don't use alarm clocks and buy a grounding mat for your bed.

To read more go here.

How arteries get clogged up

2013-12-16T11:22:00.000-08:00

An interesting article opened my eyes. http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/05/11/statin-nation.aspx

How do people get coronary heart disease? Due to an increased consumption of sugar, the risk of inflammation goes up. The arteries will get damaged by the high concentration of sugar. The damaged arteries need to follow an automatic cell repair mechanism. As all cell membranes consist of cholesterol, the repairing of these damaged cells will need cholesterol. The liver will produce this extra cholesterol, so the cholesterol concentration in the blood will go up.

When the cells of the arteries (endothelium) get fixed, this will form a scar on the arteries. It's this scar that will cause narrowing of the arteries along with the cholesterol that is used to repair the cells. It's therefore very important to have good cholesterol HDL in your blood, because bad cholesterol LDL will cause plaque.

But the primary cause of coronary heart disease is not cholesterol, it's inflammation due to high blood sugar. In fact low cholesterol induces heart disease, because a deficiency in cholesterol means a deficiency of cholesterol sulphate. A low level of cholesterol sulphate, which has a negative charge, will make blood more positively charged. Positive charged blood is prone to blood clotting as it is thicker. So actually you need more cholesterol to get the blood thinner. Of course you also need sulfur which can be found in eggs, coconut oil, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, kale, ... Especially old people who are deficient in sulfur need to eat this. Otherwise the sulfur will be extracted from the bones, which causes arthritis.

I hope this enlightens your view on cholesterol. Eating too many eggs is not bad for you.

Unblocking your nose

2013-11-23T10:31:00.002-08:00

A simple method to unblock your nose. No special flagrances and potions needed. Just do this...

How to train your muscles

2013-10-30T08:29:00.000-07:00

One of the best ways to train your muscles is to do extreme weight training. The key is to exercise such power that your heart rate starts to go up significantly while your body temperature rises with it. Your pace of breathing will go up. The benefits are an increased amount of human growth hormone production.

Now there are two exercises in particular that caught my attention.

The first one is to train your abdomen muscles. This is called the plank. Hold this position for an extended amount of time.

The second one is to train your legs and buttocks. This is called a lunge. Hold this position for an extended amount of time.

Remember, hold the position until you feel your heart rate is significantly higher.

Fruit Juice Is Not Healthy

2013-08-18T12:34:00.001-07:00

If someone ever says that fruit juice is healthy, you use this video and this article to prove them wrong.

How to treat cancer starting by yourself

2013-06-16T03:22:00.002-07:00

This article is very important to read. If you ever have cancer, the first thing you need to do is to literally "starve" yourself. Cancer cells need glucose to thrive, so you block all sugar in your diet. That's what you need to do.

Instead of sugar, you eat protein and a lot of healthy fats like nuts and coconut oil.

Read the article here => Ketogenic Diet

You can changes your epigenetics

2013-06-13T10:29:00.001-07:00

This is an amazing story. Whatever you eat, can have an immense effect on the growth of your body.

All bees in a hive have the same genetics, but each of them can become the queen. It's all about what the bees eat and that will change their epigenetics.

So pay attention to what you eat!

If you ever need to give a reason not to eat breakfast...

2013-04-01T01:04:00.001-07:00

Then you refer to this article:

This is why Steve Jobs had cancer

2013-02-11T08:01:00.000-08:00

I just read an article that links fruit with pancreatic cancer.

As you know, Steve Jobs was a fruitarian, and maybe this sheds light on why he got cancer. Believe me, don't eat too much fruit, it isn't healthy.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/02/11/all-fruit-diet.aspx?e_cid=20130211_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20130211

Sun Exposure for Vitamin D

2013-02-07T09:22:00.000-08:00

Interesting to know. The minimum degree the sun needs to have for you to get Vitamin D is 30°. So as long as it's warm enough and the sun is high enough, you will get Vitamin D by tanning.

For example Belgium:

50° latitude North
4° longitude East

From 22 February onwards, the sun will go above 30° around 12 o'clock. So from then on, you can start getting out in the sun again to get your Vitamin D. From 15 April onwards the sun will go above 50°, which is the optimal time to get a lot of Vitamin D with great efficiency.

Vegetarians have 32% less heart risk

2013-01-30T11:38:00.002-08:00

Bloomberg reported today that vegetarians have 32% less heart risk if they eat meat. I'm a vegetarian, and it's good to know that I'm not going to die of heart attacks.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-30/vegetarian-diet-cuts-heart-risk-by-32-study-says.html

Cell Phones and Cancer

2012-10-07T01:07:00.003-07:00

Here is the latest news on how damaging Cell Phones are for your brain. If you use it too much, your brain will develop a tumor.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/10/07/devra-davis-on-cell-phone-dangers.aspx?e_cid=20121007_SNL_Art_1

One cup of Decaffeinated coffee is Good for you

2012-09-16T01:21:00.003-07:00

I just found out that one cup of coffee is good for reducing diabetes 2, Alzheimer's, Parkinson and various cancers risks.

Decaffeinated is better because you keep the mysterious ingredients and cut the caffeine. Caffeine is responsible for increasing risk for osteoporosis.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/09/16/coffee-health-benefits.aspx?e_cid=20120916_SNL_ArtNew_1

If you want to live longer, don't eat breakfast

2012-09-14T00:09:00.004-07:00

It's counterintuitive, but to live longer, you need to skip breakfast. It's better for your insuline resistency.

http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/09/14/intermittent-fasting-benefits.aspx?e_cid=20120914_DNL_artNew_1

Brushing Teeth Lowers Chance for Dementia

2012-08-21T13:06:00.002-07:00

I had no idea that brushing teeth lowers the chance for Alzheimer's disease.

Read it here: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/33/Fit-Gezond/article/detail/1489171/2012/08/21/Verband-tussen-tandenpoetsen-en-dementie.dhtml.

Breakfast is your least important meal of the day

2012-08-18T02:23:00.002-07:00

I just found out that it's not good to eat breakfast if you want to loose fat:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/18/fructose-and-the-fat-switch.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/08/17/eating-breakfast.aspx