Dija Know… Joe’s Restaurant Newsletter -167 Fall 2024

♦ It’s Thanksgiving this week. Our deepest gratitude goes out to you our dear customers, to our staff who are reportedly the friendliest in Santa Fe, to all our friends and family whom we love and who love and support us and to God.

♦ Dija know? Richard Eeds, your local SF know-it-all talk show host, broadcasts live from table #21 here at Joe’s. He does this every first Friday of the month on 1260AM Radio. Say hi to him.

♦ Dija know? D-Psicose is a game-changer. It might even be a life-changer for some people. If you are struggling with diabetes and bloodsugar issues, you need to know about D- Psicose AKA Allulose. Sheila has been on a carnivore diet for a year, has been weight training (ask me about Larry!) for over 4 months and has added allulose into her daily routine for 10 months. She attributes the drop in her A1-C levels to this combination. But what is allulose and why is it significant enough and safe enough that I convinced Roland we must bring it to you here at Joe’s. I’ll get back to that.

Ozempic (semaglutide) has become the rage for weight loss. It works. However it has enough downside risk that I would hesitate to recommend it to any but the very obese.
Allulose, on the other hand, has a huge safety margin and produces some of the same benefits though not nearly so radically.

So Allulose is a rare sugar sourced from raisins, figs and maple syrup. The cellular structure of Allulose is similar to that of fructose and glucose. It is different from other sugars in that it is not metabolized by the human body in the same way as table sugar. It does not affect blood sugar or insulin levels. Let me repeat that – it does not affect blood sugar or insulin levels. How it works is it occupies the transport and receptor sites of those two common sugars, essentially booting them out and

Diabetes type 2 and obesity are topping the disease charts – massively undermining human potential. Furthermore, they trigger downstream diseases in almost all categories – auto- immune, cardiovascular, hormonal, digestive, neurocognitive. The stats now show that almost 50% of the US population is obese and 39% worldwide. One in ten Americans is diagnosed with Diabetes type 2. Allulose may not be a panacea but it sure as heck is an important aid in these out-of-control conditions.

A couple more details. It’s about 25% less sweet than sugar. The taste and texture are the same. Human studies are now emerging. Body fat is reduced – both subcutaneous and visceral, and blood glucose levels do not spike. And here’s a cherry on top of the cake. Prepare to be stunned. When you add Allulose to a carbohydrate food it lowers the glycemic index of that carb. You will typically see your glucose flatline. OMG! Get it? No blood sugar spike!

The only downside may be that if you ingest more than 28 grams (one ounce) you may experience GI upset. Well, duh.

So what are we doing with Allulose here at Joe’s? Well if it were up to me, I would trash sugar and replace it in all desserts with Allulose. I was outnumbered. Cooler heads prevailed. Because of its expense and because we don’t yet know the market’s response (that’s you), we are offering just one or two Allulose-sweetened desserts skillfully prepared by our pastry chef, Alleene.

Ask your waiter about today’s Allulose-sweetened dessert

♦ Dija Know? But of course you did! We are entering a new time, a new paradigm really. And have been for a while now. But it has accelerated noticeably of late. Many have felt it for some time and almost everyone now senses it. Disruption is undeniable on all fronts. The momentum of this change can be scary but it’s also very exciting. We can cover our eyes and ears or we can embrace and use it to our advantage.

For those with a passionate interest in health (and therefore food), what’s on the horizon brings a sense of joyful anticipation. The era of the “Bigs” (Big Food, Big Ag, Big Pharma) and their suffocating dominance is coming to an end. They have shamelessly controlled the quality of our food and narrowed the scope of our health care.

Many brilliant health care practitioners have had to abandon certain advanced components of their practices and mute their findings and research. While Big Medicine, Big Parma, Big Food have grown like an aggressive cancer, gobbling immense profits.

What I see breaking through is a breath of intoxicating fresh air. New generations, free of limiting dogma, coupled with wise and visionary elders, are championing breakthroughs in all areas of health.

Subjects I have (sometimes wearily) written about for decades are becoming and will become common knowledge. (all newsletters are on the Joe’s website). Health practices now exist that range from simple common sense protocols to cutting edge technologies that support and maintain our bodies

by tending to us as grand sovereign beings able to heal and regenerate. Everything is possible. New knowledge is breaking through.
One example we are all familiar with – Olympic level athletes mentally rehearse and visualize their performance. The results are invariably better than when they practice only physically. Similar energetic methods are being accepted and used for health and healing. Why? Because they work! And there are countless effective modalities that assist our self-healing. They need to be woven into our education system and most important of all – become affordable. My own healing journey (being told I had 3 years to live back in 2007) burdened my family financially. The allopathic treatments, covered by insurance, turned out badly for me. About face. I uncovered some highly effective natural and non-invasive technologies that in time, brought about my recovery. They were however disallowed by insurance. And many modalities I wished to try were simply out of reach — either too costly or available only in other countries.

Taking control of our health, having access to all the new technologies that are proven (or not yet proven!) should be our right and must integrate into the current medical model. We need conventional medicine and we need alternative “medicine.” I have great respect for Western medicine the way it once was practiced – with care and time for each individual patient. That is seldom the case now, as we well know. Doctors too have been hobbled by “the system”. This will change.

We must have access to a broad scope of healing therapies. From a very short list, I call for access to and legalization of such things as peptides (based on Dr Kavinson’s research) and peptide injectables, hyperbaric oxygen, PEMF, multiple oxygen therapies, stem cell therapies, ivermectin at human dose, raw milk products, AO Scan, EESystem, vitamins, nootropics, fluoride-free water, food free of chemicals, nutraceuticals, nuanced diets and vitamin protocols, platelet rich plasma therapy, redox cell signaling, photo biomodulation, quantum qi frequencies, and other therapies that actually work but cannot be patented by Big Pharma. Few (none?) of these are currently covered by insurance. It’s time for an overhaul of the system. The FDA and the other “Bigs” need to stand on notice.

Many people, no matter what, will stick with the “norm” comfortably backed by institutional dogma. That is their right. No judgement! But others will continue to search, to speak out and to share our findings. I will continue to share my point of view – that is that we have a sovereign right to pursue vitality and robust health. That is my purpose.

Fundamental to my way of thinking is that food and health are inextricably bound. Which is why we strive at Joe’s to source for you the highest quality ingredients. Roland and I eat here too! We want you to have the same high standard of food that we demand for ourselves.

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food.”(Hippocrates)

Couldn’t say it better.

♦ Dija know? Joe’s now has spirits! You already knew that. But now we have the ones in the bottle! And they are all distilled right here in New Mexico.