Re: Lifeless births


"Annailis" <Annailis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Don Moody wrote:

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I'll give you an example. Suppose you had a female ancestor who had
a history of 'misses'. Do you know, beyond a shadow of doubt,
whether each of those misses occurred soon after eating a lot of
peanuts or something made with peanut products? The answer will
be, inevitably, No. Because that as a possible reason for multiple
misses wasn't known about in western medicine until 43 years ago.
That it wasn't known about doesn't mean that it didn't happen. If
it wasn't known about, why would anybody have recorded their diet
so precisely? Why would a doctor or midwife have asked that dietary
question when they didn't know its significance either?
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Would you be able to provide a link to a website in support of the
assertion that consuming a lot of peanut products during pregnancy
can cause miscarriages? I ask because I have never come across this
idea before. The only recent medical advice to pregnant women I've
seen regarding peanut products is that it might result in peanut
allergies in their children.

Ann


Ann,

I haven't a clue what 'websites' it might have reached in 43 years,
and I can't go looking any more because I am nearly blind.

The first publication to western eyes was in my Wellcome Medal paper
in 1965 in the Proceedings of the Royal Anthropological Institution.
If you can get access to JSTOR you can find it there.

There is an easier way of finding out the effect, although kindly
refrain if you actually are pregnant. Blokes can do the test as well.
Assuming that you are NOT allergic to peanuts (that's a different
effect entirely), simply eat a lot of peanuts. You'll begin to get
pains in your gut because it is smooth muscle and is having waves of
contraction. If you happen to cut yourself, or are a haemophiliac
anyway, you'll find you'll bleed a lot less when you've just eaten
peanuts. That's because the veins are smooth muscle and they contract.
For those who have a uterus, that also is smooth muscle and that is
why it contracts. That is useful if you are a bit overdue and want to
induce parturition and reduce the loss of blood in the process. It's
somewhat disastrous if you are in an early stage of pregnancy and
don't want to have a prem baby or a miscarriage.

The actual amount of peanuts, peanut butter, peanut meal or peanut
anything to use is not fine-tunable. Firstly because the amount of
prostaglandins in peanuts is not constant, and secondly because the
sensitivity to prostaglandins of the smooth muscles of everybody is
not the same.

Those without a strong stomach are advised to stop reading now!

There is another source of prostaglandins used to induce parturition.
Semen. In some tribes in Africa, women who are overdue will get their
husbands to ejaculate into their mouths. The semen gets into the
stomach and thence the prostaglandins into the digestive system, the
blood stream and smooth muscle. The English translation of the local
language for this treatment is 'making the baby feel the father.'

Amongst both amerindians and africans it is known that the optimum
time for having a dose of prostaglandins is about 8 months and 1 week
into pregnancy. The baby is smaller so the birth is easier and there
is less risk of the mother dying in childbirth. For malnourished
mothers a slightly earlier birth is a worthwhile saving in food energy
and reduction in risk of trying to birth 'big babies'. In those
cultures, if the mother dies the baby is practically certain to die
too so it's a double whammy in terms of maintaining the breeding group
above viable size. The downside is an increase in child mortality,
which itself increases more the more prem the baby is delivered. These
cultures have 'done the maths', without benefit of medical
statisticians, and that is how they know the optimum time to induce
parturition. Its lowest extra child mortality for greatest extra
survival rate of mother and child.

As I said in a previous posting, these so-called primitive savages are
very very sophisticated in such matters. That's why I went to learn
from them!

While we are on the subject of peanuts, if you even think they are
mouldy, chuck them away. Don't take any risk. If the mould is
Aspergillus flavus it will be producing aflatoxin, and that is a
murder weapon used by one of the tribes I studied with. The death is
horrendous, being preceded by slowly going mad and developing liver
failure. There is no cure. My wife and I blew the whistle on
governmental attempts to deny there was any effect on humans. That
paper is in 'Nature'. The UK Government tried to do testing on baboons
(their nearest approximation to humans) in secret in a lab in Africa
so that I wouldn't be aware of what was going on. Meanwhile another
branch of the same government asked me not only to run my own lab but
to be a visiting consultant to that same other lab! The chaos and
confusion when I walked in was memorable. But I wasn't bothered about
the human reaction. I went to see the baboons. A bid male baboon just
the other side of the wire is a fearsome sight when its in its
occasional happy moods. A baboon driven mad by aflatoxin with its
fangs 5 cm from one's face is the most terrifying thing I've ever
encountered. The following week the allowed amount of aflatoxin in
foodstuffs was reduced a billionfold. Its gone down a billionfold
again. The safe level is exactly none. If analytical chemists in the
food industry are doing their stuff, none is exactly the amount they
will allow to pass into the human food chain. However, it is a real
world out there and there will always be some shoddy work or some
crook seeking to make a buck out of condemned foodstuffs. So the last
line of defence is you.

If its cocktail time, pass the peanuts. I'm hungry.

Don


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