So
many questions, I doubt Jillian has the answers. More like she won't
answer as I do not believe she can answer. While she portrays
herself as a “deep thinker,” she does not think deep enough.
She
opens chapter two with this.
Being that Jillian presents Jilly Juice and the rhetoric surrounding it as a religious belief this is what one needs to consider in regards to revelation.
Revelation when applied to
religion, means something communicated immediately from God to man.
It
is revelation to the first person only, and hearsay to every other,
and, consequently, they are not obliged to believe it.
It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a
revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in
writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first
communication. ―
Thomas
Paine, The
Age of Reason
(1794)
So
what Jillian believes she is receiving from some sort of higher
power, is of no consequence to us. More so as she has no evidence to
support her claims and assertions. It's as if she grabs them from
thin air, or in her case pulled them out of her ass.
She
then lets her chemo-phobia flag fly high,
although
not understanding what the role of the FDA has is in regards to assuring
the safety and efficacy of our nation's food supply and pharmaceutical market.
Exactly
what “principles” does the FDA apply?
I
don't understand how she can state the “individual must determine
what is appropriate” when the general population wont even wear a
simple mask to diminish the spread of CV-19?
To
borrow from SciBabe, “About 60% of people in the US always wear
masks when they leave the house. If we could get that up to 80% (I’m
keeping expectations realistic), it would make a drastic change in
transmission rates.”
,,,
Masks
work. They really do. They protect the wearer a little bit,
and they protect other people a lot. This is because the virus is
spread mostly in small droplets of fluid that are directly spread
from one person to another. When you talk to someone, you
are spraying them with these tiny droplets. When you wear a mask,
this is mostly blocked. To add to the data that masks work,
a recent study looked at infection rates among health care
workers at MGB hospital. They found a dramatic decrease in infection
rate once universal mask wearing was mandated.
The
pushback against maskwearing seems particularly irrational. We are in
the middle of a deadly pandemic. Wearing a mask is a small sacrifice
that is a courtesy to those around you, mostly to minimize the chance
that you infect them. Not wearing a
mask is essentially a choice that your personal liberty is so
important, you won’t bring yourself to take a small measure that
will reduce the chance that you kill other people with your germs and
perpetuate the broader pandemic.
but
yet she rails against such measures. Encouraging her minions to
do the same.
Life
is not biodiversity, but biodiversity is a part of life. Your own
citation explains as much.
“The
term biodiversity (from “biological diversity”) refers to the
variety of life on
Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems, and can
encompass the evolutionary, ecological, and cultural processes that
sustain life.”
I
am not sure how to make that any simpler as “life” is the
condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and
dead organisms,. That's it!
There's
a slight problem with that descriptor Jillian assigns to the
microbiome. She
defines or describes the microbiome incorrectly.
Simply
put, the microbiome is the genetic material of all the microbes -
bacteria, fungi,
protozoa and viruses -
that live on and inside the human body. Notice, NO proteins!! Again
Jillian is playing fast and loose with her terminology.
What
do you mean by “Mother
Nature?” Nature personified as a woman considered as the
source and guiding force of creation? Or do you mean Gaia
whom from her fertile womb all life sprang, and unto
Mother Earth all living things must return after their allotted span
of life is over.
(Can't be Gaia as Jillian believes indefinite life is possible.)
It
is often taken for granted that all animals host and depend upon a
microbiome, yet this has only been shown for a small proportion of
species. We propose that animals span a continuum of reliance on
microbial symbionts.
See
also:: The
Case of the Missing Bacteria
It
gets worse, and we are barely four pages into her book.
So
wrong on so many levels. Simply put, all 4 categories listed need to
be consumed in the foods we eat. They are then converted in the body
to usable forms.
Jillian
use of the word “symbiotically” is also incorrect, it is the
biologic
association of two or more species. Amino acid, fatty acids,
prohormones, and minerals are not living entities, they cannot form
symbiotic relationships.
So
do you see the problem we are going to run into? Every statement
made by Jillian is going to need to be fact-checked for accuracy.
Nothing this woman states should be accepted at face value.
Case
in point, this next passage is just a bunch of nonsensical verbiage
bandied as pseudo-science.
Or, take a gander at her notion concerning proteins.
(Her
source::
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/single-cell-protein)
Single-cell
protein (SCP) refers to protein derived from cells of
microorganisms
such as yeast, fungi, algae, and bacteria, which are grown on various
carbon
sources for synthesis. This chapter discusses the present status
of microbial SCP production from agricultural wastes and describes
some of the technical and economical problems related to the
production processes that must be overcome for large-scale
application. The
dried cells of microorganisms or the whole organism is harvested and
consumed.
SCP
production may have potential for feeding the ever-increasing world
population. Massive quantities of SCP can be produced in a single
day. As a source of protein it is very promising with potential to
satisfy the world shortage of food while population increases. There
are several carbon sources that are used as energy sources for
microorganisms for growing and producing SCP.
I
should note the page Jillian cites as source, is a collated abstract,
from ScienceDirect, of various sources relating to SCP.
Simply
put a protein
is a biomolecule comprised “of amino acid residues joined
together by peptide bonds. Biomolecules are molecules produced by
living organisms. As such, most of them are organic molecules.
Proteins are one of the major biomolecules,,, [t]he components of
proteins include carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, and
sometimes phosphorus.“ (FYI, good overview article concerning
proteins.)
IOWs,
proteins are not single-celled organism!!
This
point she must of pulled from her ass.
No
where does Jillian's source say there are “viral proteins Not made up cells but
made up of a single virus protein known as a viron.”
What
it does say,
A
virus
is a small parasite that cannot reproduce by itself. Once it infects
a susceptible cell, however, a virus
can direct the cell machinery to produce more viruses. Most viruses
have either RNA
or DNA
as their genetic material. The nucleic
acid may be single- or double-stranded. The
entire infectious virus particle, called a virion,
consists of the nucleic acid and an outer shell of protein.
The
simplest viruses contain only enough RNA or DNA to encode four
proteins. The most complex can encode 100 – 200 proteins.
I
don't know whether to laugh or cry. This source item makes no
apparent sense in supporting Jillian's narrative.
There
is no indication of the assertion she makes or what follows
concerning the periodic table.
No,
scientist have not “proven” anything.
What
the 2013 article summary states.
Scientists
may be a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth
billions of years ago. Researchers have produced data supporting the
idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on Earth around 4 billion
years ago were capable of forming foldable proteins in a high-salt
(halophile) environment. Such proteins would have been capable of
providing metabolic activity for the first living organisms to emerge
on the planet between 3.5 and 3.9 billion years ago.
The
word “prove” does not appear in the article. What
the article presents is a summary of a paper in support of the
origins of life as “proteins first” versus “RNA first.”
Using
a technique called top-down symmetric deconstruction, Blaber's lab
has been able to identify small peptide building blocks capable of
spontaneous assembly into specific and complex protein architectures.
His recent work explored whether such building blocks can be composed
of only the 10 prebiotic amino acids and still fold.
His
team has achieved foldability in proteins down to 12 amino acids --
about 80 percent of the way to proving his hypothesis.
If
Blaber's theory holds, scientists may refocus where they look for
evidence in the quest to understand where, and how, life began.
Actual paper:: Simplified
protein design biased for prebiotic amino acids yields a foldable,
halophilic protein
While
Jillian babbles a bit more concerning proteins, I am going to stop
here due to length. So far she has yet to substantiate any of her
revelations and has failed at simply defining terms. She attempts,
thus far, to sound all science-y. But when her own source material
is actually read past the headline, it does not support her claims
and assertions. Just because Jillian claims substantiation, does not make it so. The material cited needs to support the concepts being put forth.
Either
Jillian has the reading ability of a fifth grader or is intentionally
misrepresenting what she reads. I'm going to let you, the reader,
decide.
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