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The human body is not a machine you can hot-wire with peptides and hormones.
It's an evolutionarily calibrated, self-regulating biological network.
Billions of nodes (cells, mitochondria, organs, signaling molecules) linked by dense feedback loops.
This network was refined over millions of years under a narrow set of 4 natural inputs:
1) Timing
2) Energy
3) Structure
4) Environment
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12 years ago I walked down these stairs and into my first AA meeting on my own steam—although my bosses were very supportive that this was how I’d spend the noon hour. I’m ever grateful to them.
Today I walked down these steps to see my dear friend Bob who celebrates 40 years sober today. An unexpected gift was seeing so many old friends who made the same trip.
There was also a young, beautiful woman with terrified, nervous, desperate eyes sitting next to her husband. She walked down the stairs for the first time today. He was there to support her.
Sitting across from them was Bob, with his wife, and some of the good friends he’s made in his 20+ years in Denver. Like me those years ago, she heard a message of hope, laughter at stories most normal people wouldn’t get, a living demonstration of the power of one drunk helping another get well, and the lifelong friends we meet along the way.
This downtown Denver meeting has been going for more than 50 years. Its fortunes up and down like Denver’s. When I was new, it was packed every day with 40 or 50 drunks drawn from downtown’s fanciest offices and dirtiest alleys. These days it’s smaller; a 40% office vacancy and zoom will do that. But the message is the same—a common problem and a common solution that works for us, no matter where we come from.
I love the men and women I met there; they saved and changed my life by spending the noon hour in a basement Monday through Friday. If you can’t control how much you drink, or when you stop, you start again, we’ve found a way to get free.
The hardest part is walking down the steps.
Thank you Bob for being there when I was new and today for the woman who was so brave today.
We do recover.
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Hello Alex Alex Alex,
Let me summarize the book UNELECTED in a nutshell.
The Industrial Revolution created a class of private citizens with unimaginable wealth. Many were reviled as robber barons (e.g., Rockefeller of Standard Oil). Others had a better image, like Andrew Carnegie.
These new rich decided because they had money, they had a responsibility to do good by the world. So they started building global philanthropic networks that could go into every country. In order to do so, they hired Department of State and Department of War and other state officials.
They quickly took over the country's education system starting in the 1920s to train them in the "international mind."
When the intelligence community truly sprang up in World War II, the IC hired from ... these same shadowy philanthropic networks. And after WWII, they all coalesced on the same goal: the best chance at achieving a human utopia is to bring the entire world to "democracy."
Except it turns out converting countries to democracy isn't so simple as just financing CIA coups. Did all those NGOs question their own assumption might be flawed - that not every peoples, not every culture and religion is compatible with "democracy"?
No. Instead, the Trilateral Commission in the 1970s concluded that a more technocratic route was necessary. And over many iterations - the Balkans and African adventures of the 90s, the Iraq & Afghanistan ventures, Arab Spring and color revolutions ... every failed iteration of "democracy" always resulted in the same conclusion: the people are dumb, we have to try harder, put more pressure on them, tighten the screws.
And now you have become fully self-referential. Anyone who disagrees with you is "authoritarian." Anyone who agrees with you is "our democracy." Voting methods doesn't matter. That the judiciary system blatantly stole the election doesn't matter.
And nowhere this is more obvious in your 30th anniversary publication.
In your 30th anniversary publication, you had an article from your longtime head of Open Society Fund-Serbia, Sonja Licht. She also happens to be one of the most decorated civilians in Europe and widely considered an expert in "democracy:"
🔹 Pro Merit Medal of the Council of Europe
🔹 Star of Italian Solidarity
🔹 French Legion of Honour
Her solution: "I believe the time has come for a responsible, courageous elite, those who care far more about addressing the genuine social problems than about election results. Only a political elite with vision, prudence and a focus on the general good—to whom the electorate, with their active involvement in public life, can cede part of their sovereignty in the elections... spearhead... our struggle to survive."
Read that again.
The idea of democracy as pushed by the head of one of your foundations is to literally stop "election results" and to have the public cede their trust to a technocratic elite.
End democracy to save democracy itself.
This is the final form of a project that started a hundred years ago to spread free markets and create global peace and instill self-governance throughout the world.
This is your legacy, Alex Soros.
Your father spent his life fighting Communism.
You, as his protege, will spend your life perfecting Communism.
In the name of "democracy."
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Haven’t seen anyone in the space recommending this book.
A hidden gem on seasonal eating & blue light, written in 2000, before those topics were on everyone’s radar.
An even more important read now that the clocks have changed to winter time in Europe and will change in the U.S. this Sunday.
Highly recommend.
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You absolute midwit. Congrats on repeating the Wikipedia "Nazis were far-right, end of story" summary you absorbed between TikToks.
Yes, the Nazis crushed independent unions, jailed and murdered communists and social democrats, and Hitler liquidated the Strasserite "left" wing of his own party in the Night of the Long Knives. That part is not in dispute. They were not Marxist class-struggle socialists. They hated Bolshevism as a Jewish plot and treated international socialism as the main enemy. Fine.
What your middle-school history class skipped is that they still ran a National *Socialist* state: private property existed only as long as it served the Führer’s racial and war goals, wages and prices were controlled, industry was cartelized under state direction, profit was subordinated to the party, and the economy was planned for autarky and rearmament. That is not free-market capitalism, liberal conservatism, or classical right-wing economics. It is the same family of state-directed, anti-liberal, collectivist economics practiced by every other fascist and "national socialist" regime. The name was not a prank; the 25-point program and the early rhetoric were full of anti-capitalist planks precisely because they were competing with the actual socialists for working-class support.
Your North Korea comparison is the usual gotcha and it is only half-clever. Yes, names can lie. But the NSDAP did not merely call itself socialist while secretly running a Rothschild hedge fund. They nationalized, directed, rationed, and regimented. The difference from Soviet socialism was mainly that the Nazis kept the owners as managers under party orders instead of shooting them all and installing commissars. Both systems produced shortages, secret police, and mass graves; one just had better uniforms and Wagner.
Elon pointing out the obvious—that "National Socialist" is not an ironic branding exercise and that the regime was economically left of any classical liberal or conservative—does not make him a moron. It makes him less obedient to the post-1945 academic consensus that insists every totalitarian who isn’t a full Marxist must be filed under "far-right" so the left never has to share the body count. Money didn’t buy him a brain; it just bought him a platform where he doesn’t have to pretend your selective reading of 1930s Germany is the complete picture.
Keep yelling "far-right fascists" while ignoring the actual economic policies and the party’s own name. It is the historical equivalent of covering your ears and shouting.
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For roughly half the population, 2-3 cups of coffee a day was associated with 36% higher odds of a heart attack.
The difference comes down to CYP1A2 — the liver enzyme that breaks down ~95% of the caffeine you drink.
And this is not a rare genetic variation.
Roughly 45-55% of the population carries at least one copy of the slow CYP1A2 variant, meaning they're classified as slow metabolizers.
About 10% have two copies — the slowest clearance of all.
Caffeine’s half-life averages around 5 hours.
In fast metabolizers: 2 to 4 hours.
In slow metabolizers: 6 to 10 hours or more.
A landmark study published in JAMA in 2006 compared 2,014 people who had a first nonfatal heart attack with 2,014 matched controls.
Among slow metabolizers, compared with people drinking less than one cup a day:
1 cup a day — no increase in odds of heart attack.
2-3 cups — 36% higher odds.
4+ cups — 64% higher odds.
A second study, from Italy in 2009, followed 553 young adults with mildly elevated blood pressure for a median of 8 years.
Among slow metabolizers:
64.6% of coffee drinkers developed high blood pressure requiring treatment, vs. 47.8% of those who didn’t drink coffee.
Urinary adrenaline told the same story — significantly elevated in coffee drinkers, but only in slow metabolizers.
The authors’ recommendation followed the genotype directly.
Slow metabolizers with prehypertension or hypertension: avoid caffeinated coffee.
Roughly half the population is metabolizing caffeine slowly right now and has no idea.
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Had dinner yesterday with a friend & his girlfriend, who both quit caffeine.
He told me about his business partner, a guy in his late 20s who struggled with chronic high blood pressure and tinnitus, and would often get blurry vision, even though he exercises, eats healthy and does everything “by the book”.
Seven days after quitting caffeine, his blood pressure has normalized, the tinnitus has significantly reduced and the blurry vision is gone.
Removing caffeine was the only thing he changed.
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I have been searching for the source.
One river. One source. Everything downstream of it. The body works the same way.
For three hundred thousand years, the body knew what to do. Then the design was overwritten. Processed food. Seed oils. Sugar. Pharmaceuticals treating symptoms of a problem nobody was willing to name.
Nature already solved it. We stopped looking.
This is the story of the people who never stopped. The doctors, scientists, and researchers who risked everything to follow the truth upstream. Back to the source.
I am standing on the shoulders of giants. 🧵
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When you start seeing them as children, then it all makes sense.
Normally, kids figure it out around four – that it isn't so. The mental communist doesn't.
Every one of us started out as a mental communist.
A very small child believes that wishing makes it so. The world revolves around him. Food appears, toys appear, someone else pays for everything. When reality says no, he cries: "It's not fair!" And when something breaks, it's someone else's fault.
Normally, children figure out around four that it isn't so. The mental communist doesn't.
The rest of us learn it from reality. The stove is hot. The toy breaks. The friend leaves. Wishes don't move the world; work does. Freud called it the passage from the pleasure principle to the reality principle. It is called growing up.
The mental communist never made that passage. He is fifty years old, and still four.
Why? Because he was protected from reality for too long. A comfortable home, endless studies, a job in an institution where being wrong costs nothing, and a state that plays the parent. Peter Pan was the boy who wouldn't grow up. Today Neverland has a campus, a newsroom and a ministry.
And so the fantasies became delusions.
A child's fantasy is soft. It gives way when reality pushes. A delusion is hard. It survives every piece of evidence – that is what makes it a delusion.
You recognize the grown child easily. The tantrum when reality says no – today we call it outrage. Rights without duties. Someone else always pays – only the parent has become the state. Every failure is someone else's fault: he started it. And the imaginary friend – "humanity," "the people," "history" – who always agrees with him.
Here is the danger. A child's fantasy is guarded by his parents. A grown man's delusion is guarded by power – and paid for by everyone else.
What grows people up is what it always was: consequences, work, responsibility for someone other than yourself. And nothing ends a fantasy faster than your own baby crying at three in the morning.
A civilization is built by adults. It cannot be run from Neverland.
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The $35 Ozempic Killer.
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Does this sound absolutely insane?
Good.
Because this is EXACTLY what Ozempic does.
It chemically muzzles your hunger signals so your brain stops telling you to eat. You pay $1,500 a month for a pharmaceutical company to shut down the system your body has used for 200,000 years to keep you alive.
And when you stop taking it? The weight comes back. Because nothing changed. You never fixed what was broken. You just stopped eating.
Here is what is actually broken: the food.
Your great grandmother did not need a muzzle or a weekly injection. She ate eggs, meat, butter, vegetables, and fruit. She cooked with animal fat. She did not snack between meals because her insulin was not spiking every 90 minutes from seed oils and processed carbs.
The answer to overeating is not to stop eating.
The answer is to eat real food.
Your hunger normalizes. Your insulin drops. Your body remembers what it was built to do.
The Neo Muzzle is $35.
A lifetime of real food costs less than a year of Ozempic.
Stop muzzling your biology. Start feeding it.
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Practically how do you change your light bulbs to be healthier? I lay out exactly how for home + office: livelongerworld.com/p/nontox…
Most people check the ingredients in their food. But what about the light bulbs in their homes?
As the days shorten, we spend more time under artificial light. Yet most people choose their lighting without considering what it means for their health.
Here I explore the forgotten research on natural and artificial light, why the differences extend far beyond vitamin D, and what deserves a closer look in your own home:
midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-l…
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.@alexandracooper is building her family in the very institutions modern feminism characterizes as oppressive while poisoning the minds of females championing meaningless casual hookups and “girl-bossing.”
If you listen to her and follow her advice, it will lead you to a life of regret.
Read my latest op-ed below 👇
foxnews.com/opinion/riley-ga…
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There is a little boy in Poland named Michael who only exists today because a 24-year-old American soldier from Staten Island stepped directly in front of a suicide bomber to save a man he barely knew.
If you want to know what real American heroism looks like, you need to know the name Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis.
It was 3:54 a.m. on August 28, 2013, at a forward operating base in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Most of the base was sleeping when a 3,000-pound car bomb ripped a massive hole through the eastern perimeter wall. Through the dust and the chaos, ten insurgents strapped with suicide vests poured into the compound.
Michael didn’t hesitate. After making sure his men were safe in a bunker, he ran directly toward the sound of the gunfire. He didn’t even have time to put on his protective equipment. Armed with only his rifle, Michael linked up with a Polish officer he had just met, Lieutenant Karol Cierpica.
Together, the two men stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the dark, fighting back the onslaught to protect the rest of the base. They killed eight of the attackers, and a ninth was shot after throwing a grenade. But then, from behind a row of shipping containers, the tenth bomber emerged.
As the terrorist charged them and detonated his suicide vest, Michael did the unthinkable. Without a second thought, the young man from Staten Island stepped directly in front of the blast, using his own body as a human shield to absorb the shockwave.
Michael was killed instantly. But because of his ultimate sacrifice, Karol Cierpica survived.
Karol eventually returned home to his family in Poland, carrying the unimaginable weight of a life bought by another man's blood. A couple of years later, Karol and his wife welcomed a beautiful, healthy baby boy.
They named him Michael.
Today, that little boy is a walking, breathing testament to the unbreakable bond of brotherhood and the sheer, unmatched courage of the American soldier. Michael Ollis was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, but his true legacy isn't just a piece of metal—it's a father raising a son across the world, passing down the story of the American hero who gave him the ultimate gift of life.
Share this if you still believe in the American soldier, and if you believe the name Michael Ollis deserves to be remembered by every single person in this country.
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Look at how he covers his daughter. Fucking legend.
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The best times to test your vitamin D are October and February.
Dr. Alexander Wunsch — German physician & one of the world’s leading researchers on light biology, author of Die Kraft des Lichts (The Power of Light) — writes:
“The first diagnosis can be made at any time, but the optimal times for monitoring are February and October. The February value shows whether a deficiency developed during the winter months. The October value shows whether sun exposure in summer was sufficient and enough vitamin D was stored.”
October is the month to check what summer left you with.
His thresholds, in ng/ml:
- Below 12: severe deficiency.
- 12 to 20: deficiency.
- 20 to 30: insufficiency.
- 30 to 100: sufficient.
- 40 to 60: optimal.
Severe deficiency and deficiency should be corrected promptly. On that, he writes, experts largely agree.
One nuance Wunsch adds — skin type on the Fitzpatrick scale matters:
“In patients with skin type I or II, I also tolerate a value of 20 ng/ml as sufficient, whereas in more strongly pigmented patients I aim for a target value of 60 ng/ml.”
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A Europa será destruída por mulheres que projetam naqueles animais a maternidade que cabia aos filhos que elas abortaram.
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We’re officially entering winter season (52°N latitude edition), this means:
- Less carbs, more protein & fat
- No Ecuador bananas or Chilean blueberries
- Carrots & beets
- Sauerkraut maxxing
- Cold exposure every morning
- Seafood (SMASH) 4-5x a week for DHA & better cold tolerance
- Sauna is your winter sunlight
- Switch to incandescent bulbs (100W at desk)
- Carry blue light blockers
- Exercise before sunset when possible
- In bed before 10 PM. Wake up without an alarm.
- Sleep with an open window & a heavy blanket
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The @FDA knew early on Covid shots were killing kids, but rather than start warning parents of possible adverse events, they bowed to political pressure & hid the data. The exact opposite thing these agencies are supposedly meant to do.
Great investigative reporting from my friend @thackerpd realclearinvestigations.com/…
