According to Ray Peat … “Coffee drinkers have a lower incidence of thyroid disease, including cancer, than non-drinkers. Caffeine protects the liver from alcohol and acetaminophen (Tylenol) and other toxins, and coffee drinkers are less likely than people who don’t use coffee to have elevated serum enzymes and other indications of liver damage. Caffeine protects against cancer caused by radiation, chemical carcinogens, viruses, and estrogens. Caffeine synergizes with progesterone, and increases its concentration in blood and tissues. Cystic breast disease is not caused by caffeine, in fact caffeine’s effects are likely to be protective; a variety of studies show that coffee, tea, and caffeine are protective against breast cancer. Coffee provides very significant quantities of magnesium, as well as other nutrients including vitamin B1. Caffeine ‘improves efficiency of fuel use’ and performance: JC Wagner 1989. Coffee drinkers have a low incidence of suicide. Caffeine supports serotonin uptake in nerves, and inhibits blood platelet aggregation. Coffee drinkers have been found to have lower cadmium in tissues; coffee making removes heavy metals from water. Coffee inhibits iron absorption if taken with meals, helping to prevent iron overload. Caffeine, like niacin, inhibits apoptosis, protecting against stress-induced cell death, without interfering with normal cell turnover. Caffeine can prevent nerve cell death. Coffee (or caffeine) prevents Parkinson’s Disease (Ross, et al., 2000). The prenatal growth retardation that can be caused by feeding large amounts of caffeine is prevented by supplementing the diet with sugar. Caffeine stops production of free radicals by inhibiting xanthine oxidase, an important factor in tissue stress. Caffeine lowers serum potassium following exercise; stabilizes platelets, reducing thromboxane production.”

Japan is set to replay the famines of 1833 and 1836.

The farmers all moved to the cities and almost all Samurai (esp. the bureaucrats and magistrates) used drugs and entered brothels in broad daylight. Murders were commonplace.

Less starvation occurred in Tochigi Prefecture, thanks to Kinjirō, a moral but not religious man.

Most Japanese don’t even know Tokyo’s Agenda 21 ICLEI representative.

I’ve met my share of military men and assassins.

Learning to go without sleep and food is obligatory.

One former friend studied martial arts in Japan, and became an assassin for the French Foreign Legion. He killed with one finger, breaking his finger 84 times.

I also knew the youngest Navy SEAL back in the 1960s. I saw a man swing on him and Tom Terrific punched him skyward and lifted him again when coming down. He was unconscious for a half hour. My other friend, Bandido 1% Biker Bo, idolized Tom.

My mentor fasted in the desert for 40 days.

He lost weight the first 20 days and gained it all back the second 20 days.

Man is not a steam engine, where calories are everything.

20-27 feet of intestines are a hollow tube.

Ideally, ending a fast with three days of blending food prevents volvulus. Odds are, this won’t happen, but, as a peacenik colon therapist with years of practical experience, I thought military men studied risk assessment.