Monday, July 20, 2020

Chapter 2:: What Is Balancing Life? - A Review (3a)

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.


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.



What Jillian has done is take a very specific type of protein, derived from agricultural waste, and taken that to mean proteins in general. She again generalizes from a very specific definition to the broad definition of what a protein is.

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.

(Her source:: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21523/)

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.

(Her source:: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/carbon-source)

There is no indication of the assertion she makes or what follows concerning the periodic table.

No, scientist have not “proven” anything.

(Her source:: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130405064027.htm)

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.


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.

Up next, more of chapter two!!


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