E. Horst

(1/4) BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Earlier this summer, I made the difficult decision to retire from my position as Director of the @millersvilleu Weather Center at the end of August. I’ve been blessed to serve in this role for one-third of a century (yikes!) and to be part of…

@EdRussoWX Please out the author of this post—he/she deserves to be shunned.

A popular weather page posted this ahead of yesterday’s severe threat. Completely reckless and irresponsible. This creates unnecessary fear, not preparedness. We as meteorologists / science-communicators are losing the battle to these toxic pages.

@EdRussoWX Outrageous! I hope this was not a professional MET.

@MUweather I think you did an excellent job with this tricky and rare system! No hype on MU forecast—just expert analysis and mid-envelop forecasting. ✋

Seeing a lot of coping posts & lengthy explanations for both successes & busts from both amateurs & pros, & that is completely unnecessary. In the end, the storm tracked west of the ECMWF's depiction but east of the NAM/GFS . Mets did their best with the data at their disposal!

@dmorrison99 No, it’s my camper van. Not really too messy. It’s almost like baby powder.

@HorstWeather Good thing that’s a rental car! I wouldn’t want to drive mine thru that stuff.

Today’s weather: “Gusty winds with blowing & drifting gypsum!” Seriously, folks, this isn’t snow—it’s the gypsum dunes of White Sands National Park in New Mexico. A surreal day driving and hiking here.

@steve_butzer I’m in NM, so not paying super close attention. But I-95 from Philly to Boston looks to get hammered. Challenge will be the sharp western edge in the eastern third of PA.

@HorstWeather Anticipating your thoughts on Sundays system 👀

Amazing photo!

Looks like the Arctic Ocean — it’s really Lake Erie!

@RyanMaue Agree. Not even close.

College football >> whatever this is

@MUweather meteogram shows an impressive run of sub-zero wind chills (blue) beginning ~2000 (8pm) Saturday thru Noon today. 16 consecutive hours of sub-zero chills is a rare occurrence (thankfully!) for LanCo. Stay warm, my friends! Stoke the🔥

Lake Erie nearly 100% frozen — about a once-per-decade occurrence.

@MetabolicUncle Great post! 💯

COLLAGEN FROM SKIN BEATS BONE BROTH Bone broth tastes good. People like the ritual. But if you want collagen that works, you're making a mistake. The problem isn't what bone broth contains. It's what else comes with it. BONES STORE POISON Bones accumulate heavy metals. Lead, cadmium, whatever the animal encountered during its life gets locked into skeletal tissue. When you simmer bones for hours, you extract collagen. You also extract everything else stored there. One cup won't hurt you. But therapeutic collagen doses mean 15-30 grams daily. Get that from bone broth and you're drinking a lot of cups. Now you're getting meaningful toxin exposure. Studies find 10+ micrograms of lead per cup. Multiply that by daily consumption over months. The math stops working. Chronic low-dose exposure accumulates. Your body doesn't reset. SKIN SOLVES THIS Collagen hydrolysate from skin avoids the contamination entirely. Skin is barrier tissue. It renews constantly. It doesn't store toxins like bones do. Quality manufacturers use bovine skin from grass-fed animals for this exact reason. They understand the biochemistry. Bones are a liability. Skin is clean. This matters beyond toxins. Grass-fed animals produce better collagen. Better amino acid profile. Fewer inflammatory markers. The animals weren't eating grain in feedlots, pumped with antibiotics. That shows up in what you're consuming. YOUR GUT CAN'T BREAK DOWN WHOLE COLLAGEN EFFICIENTLY Hydrolysate means the collagen is already broken down. Enzymatic hydrolysis cleaves long chains into smaller peptides. Your digestive system can actually absorb them. Bone broth contains intact collagen. Your gut has to break it down first. Some people do this well. Most don't. Digestive capacity varies wildly. Hydrolysate removes that variable. The work is done. You get peptides ready for absorption, not a digestive gamble. Studies showing collagen benefits used hydrolysate. Improved skin elasticity, reduced joint pain, faster injury recovery. Not bone broth. The research base exists because bioavailability drives results. VITAMIN C ISN'T OPTIONAL Your body can't synthesize collagen without vitamin C. Sailors got scurvy because their bodies couldn't maintain connective tissue without ascorbic acid. You can flood your system with glycine and proline, but without adequate vitamin C, collagen production stops. Bone broth has no vitamin C. Cooking destroys whatever was there. You'd need to add it separately anyway. Hydrolysate plus vitamin C is the complete system. Most quality supplements include vitamin C now because manufacturers understand this isn't optional. THE DOSING REALITY Getting 15-30 grams from bone broth means multiple cups daily. That's excessive liquid. Excessive time sipping broth throughout your day. Collagen hydrolysate gives you the same dose in one scoop. Ten seconds. Mix it into jogurt, coffee or juice. No taste. No need to structure your life around broth consumption. By taking skyr or yogurt and adding collagen to it you could even use one that is artificially sweetened with vanilla or another flavor to essentially create a low calorie high-protein, full complex amino acid profile. Such a balanced mix of amino acids is very beneficial for muscle protein synthesis and tissue regeneration. Fortunately, I can be very liberal with my caloric intake, so I am using unsweetened grass-fed hydrolyzed collagen. It is an absolute must every time I eat skyr, which is two times a day. I eat it with a lot of honey. I don’t know of a better, more balanced muscle supplement than the mix of a high calcium intake, balanced amino acids (you don’t get that when you eat meat), and the generally highly anabolic features of dairy. Compliance determines outcomes. The best protocol is the one you actually follow. Bone broth feels like a chore after two weeks. You'll quit. Hydrolysate removes the friction.Consistency beats romantic notions of traditional foods. WHAT TO BUY Get grass-fed bovine collagen from skin. Those three criteria filter out most problems. Grass-fed means better animal welfare and fewer inflammatory compounds. Bovine provides the amino acid profile closest to human collagen. Skin-sourced avoids bone toxins entirely. Third-party testing matters. Reputable brands test for heavy metals and publish certificates of analysis. If a company won't show testing results, walk away. Good hydrolysate dissolves in cold liquid. If it clumps or needs hot water, the hydrolysis was done poorly. You want fine powder that disappears into whatever you're drinking. BONE BROTH HAS A PLACE Bone broth isn't worthless. It provides minerals, gelatin, compounds that support gut health. A cup occasionally for flavor or comfort makes sense. As a base for soups, it's excellent. But as your primary collagen source, the logic breaks down. You're accepting toxin exposure and poor bioavailability for no benefit. The collagen from broth isn't superior. It's harder to absorb and comes with contaminants. Drink bone broth occasionally if you enjoy it. For enjoyment, not supplementation. Take your hydrolysate separately and get collagen benefits without the downsides. MAXIMISE THE EFFECT If you want to maximize the reconstructive effect on your tendons, ligaments, and other tissues, take vitamin C and the hydrolyzed collagen 30 minutes before your training. The increased blood flow, together with a higher availability of the relevant amino acids, will do its job.

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Longevity stack that actually works: high quality multivitamin creatine monohydrate (10-20g) vitamin D3 (5-10k IU) omega-3 (2-3g EPA/DHA) magnesium glycinate (400mg) what else?

@rand_longevity Vitamin C, enriched, hydrolyzed collagen

Incredible!

Ice skating on the beach in Wildwood NJ

It’s not any day that you can stand in the middle of the Conestoga Creek! Only one or twice per decade do we get the sustained cold needed to create this ice rink! Today is the 8th consecutive sub-freezing day and 4th single-digit overnight.

@PritzkersPicks @RyanMaue No. Too early to write it off.

@HorstWeather @RyanMaue Is Philly out of consideration for snow?

Wednesday Morning "Blizzard Watch" ❄️ Morning weather models remain consistent w/development of "bomb cyclone" 💣L 📈Main snowfall threat: North Carolina, Virginia, New England. So far, more likely Washington D.C. and NYC will miss out but remain FRIGID 🌡️

@NWSStateCollege Agree. However, check out the GEFS Plumes -- significant spread with a mean of plowable snowfall in Harrisburg...and 5 members with double-digit snowfall. So still significant uncertainty.

🎲❄️While confidence has increased in a winter storm bringing impactful snowfall to the Carolinas and southern VA, odds for plowable (>2") snow in central PA are low with the best chance (10-25%) in the southern and eastern portions of the forecast area #PAwx