Helen Batty
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Helen Batty
@hbelfry.bsky.social
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Academic Family Physician advocate for rebuilding soil and human health based on scientific nutrition dense regenerative agriculture and optimal mitochondrial function
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Great antidotes to #antiNeuroscience see 📚 &blogs by experts GeorgiaEdeMD & ChrisPalmer “BrainEnergy” describing #MetabolicSyndrome basis of autism & other 🧠 ❤️kidney Disorders& UNBIASED EBM #nutrition fix needed at PublicHealth level
Advocacy website NGO #MetabolicMind Jan Ellison
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when they planned to flood 8.3 million km2 for a hydroelectric project. Campaign was successful & area became a national park after her death in ‘84. #printmaking #sciart
minouette.etsy.com
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Happy birthday to Indian #botanist E.K. Janaki Ammal (1897-1984), here with plants she studied: #sugarcane, #magnolia & eggplant. 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬 #histsci

A trailblazer for #womenInSTEM in India, expert in cytogenetics, phytogeography, coauthor Chromosomal Atlas of Plants, 1st Indian woman PhD & early woman 🧵
Deer? 🦌 & other wild ruminants??
You don’t need to eat any venison but animals that prune errant branches growing too close to ground&pathways, graze away weeds& grasses otherwise accumulating as tinder for forest 🔥 leaving behind essential water&fertilizer 💩 are necessary part of ecology Nature
Happy #WorldVeganDay ! The Vegan Land Movement marked the day creating a future woodland with wonderful vegan volunteers on land removed from dairy farming.
This is vegan community in action. 💪Join us!
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Cheap Quick&East:
Strong flavours of healthy balanced nutrition your grandparents would recognize- cabbage
& liver sautéed in butter, canned fish/sardines, eggs eggs eggs
Real physiology science:
NGO Metabolic Mind
I’m looking for help for a friends teenage daughter. She has been diagnosed with POTS after having Covid. Currently, she’s having a migraine has lasted for four days and won’t end. Says it moves around her head. Also, very light sensitive right now.
Any advice or information would be helpful.
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FYI -“food”plants can be variouslytoxic to many humans
@gwillow.me @waiterich.bsky.social
See below & consult physical&brain health experts like Dr Georgia Ede 2024book chapter
“Grains, beans, nuts, and seeds: consumer beware”
Metabolic dysfunction is at the core of mental disorders.

Exercise, diet & sleep are fundamental to mental health.

🇨🇦 NT Fabiano “Excited to serve as Guest Editor for this Topic Collection at BMJ” call for papers:
Heads up Ontario #FamilyMedicine
#Chikungunya 🔔
New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)
Remember low protein plant forward EAT-Lancet diet specifically cautions unsuitability for pregnancy& breastfeeding, growing adolescents (to age 25) &children, elders - all risk brain 🧠 nutrient deficiency - read the fine print…
🚲🥗🚗 Small choices matter, but big change happens when systems support them.

WRI Climate ranked 19 climate-friendly behaviors to show which ones cut the most emissions and why policies & businesses must make them accessible.

See the list 👉 bit.ly/4q0pWvC
Corrected resource website for effective family friendly kids’ ( big & little) brain health including renewed interest in use for Autism Spectrum core symptom improvement @theglobeandmail.com
charliefoundation.org
How to Get Started With the Ketogenic Diet
The Ketogenic Diet, or Keto for short, is a way of eating that mimics the effects of fasting. Learn how to get started.
charliefoundation.org
Autism spectrum core symptoms may improve with metabolic based nutrition of ketogenic food choices long known safe & effective by pediatric neurologists (Families can see Charlie’s Foundation resource)
@theglobeandmail maybe ⬆️research worthwhile? @metabolicmind
www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...
Frontiers | Efficacy and Safety of Diet Therapies in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis
Objective: Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder, with a rapid increase in incidence over the past decade. Interest in alternative therap...
www.frontiersin.org
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Not new but I missed it winning a prize
Aerosol transmission of SARSCoV2 virus is the dominant route for transmitting COVID-19.
👏'2025 Faraday Horizon Prize for advancing understanding of the physicochemical properties of exhaled aerosols, and their impact on transmissibility of respiratory pathogens.' @rsc.org
www.rsc.org/standards-an...
Simple brilliant idea: capture sunlight energy ☀️
&convert it into EV power directly 🚗
While keeping everyone’s vehicle cool& shaded 🌴
Look at this massive parking lot in China, all covered in solar and equipped with EV chargers. Utterly dwarfing anything like it in the US, AFAIK. english.news.cn/20250918/85a...
Max prep recipe for hibernation?
Fructose overload from autumn fruits including “sweet”corn + ripe grains wheat oats etc drive insatiable appetite & successful belly adipose accumulation including fatty liver.
Hibernation state of fasting ketosis 🔥 fat & releases 💦 =
Natural cycle balance
My pick almost made it, again. Congrats Chunk!
As an academic survivor of BigTobacco era wonder whether same situation regarding advantages of animal based nutrition for many patients (ie 🐮 are not climate culprits) & of well managed safe 🇨🇦 type CanDo nuclear power ?!

eg Check out FReSH collaborative members…
Need to remember that Physicians have been monitored and sanctioned for decade or more about over-using antibiotics!

Obviously extreme sepsis situations approach should be quite opposite, &most MDs are very glad if this is added to scope of practice qualified RN & EMS @mattgalloway.bsky.social
The simple message is watch the carbs- not the fats:
athero.org/resources/hy...

Elevated triglyceride levels independently add to risk for ASCVD events, including heart attacks&strokes ▶️can contribute to inflammation, endothelial dysfunction&the formation of small, dense LDL particles