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You can’t be a hero and cry about losing/it’s not fair at the same time. Life has always required that you choose. Work harder, rise above, find a way to win OR give up, complain and blame others.

In 1959, Dr. Jane Wright tested 15 cancer patients. Instruction: spend as much time outdoors as possible, no glasses, avoid artificial light. By summer's end: 14 had shown no further tumor advancement. Several showed possible improvement. The 15th patient kept wearing regular glasses — blocking most UV from entering her eyes. The experiment was never repeated. Two objections were raised: no control patients were used, and experimental procedures should first be proven with animals. The animal study followed. Dr. Samuel Gabby, Senior Staff Member at Sherman Hospital, Illinois ran it using C3H mice — highly susceptible to spontaneous tumor development. Three groups: - 30 pairs under daylight white fluorescent tubes - 30 pairs under pink fluorescent tubes - 8 pairs under natural daylight filtered through window glass — the control. Control mice developed cancer two months later than those under daylight white fluorescent — and three months later than those under pink fluorescent. Pink fluorescent mice also had severely reduced litter sizes — one to two offspring instead of the normal six to fifteen. The full report was submitted to the Illinois Medical Journal. It was never published. It was presented to the Illinois branch of the American Cancer Society. It generated criticism of Dr. Gabby, nothing more. (John Ott — Health and Light, 1973)

Comparison is something I've had to fight hard. And for a long time I didn't even realize what I was really doing. Every time I looked at someone else's life, their team, their title, their success, I was quietly telling God He made a mistake with mine. But here's what I've learned: you cannot be grateful and comparing at the same time. I believe they cannot coexist. So today I want to challenge you — stop auditing someone else's blessing. Your calling, your story, your design is not an accident. God doesn't make mistakes. 🎙️: Lifestyle Podcast

Things high performers do differently: - sunlight > red light panels - incandescents > red bulbs - training outdoors > gym under LEDs - eating with the season & location > bananas in December in NYC - seafood > supplements - TM > meditation apps - autobiographies > biographies - banya/finnish sauna > infrared sauna - one deep work block in AM > ten scattered ones - mission > money as the primary driver - eating at same time each day > randomly - purpose > productivity systems - mitochondrial health > symptom management - whole fish > fish oil - mineral spring water > electrolyte powders - wool > polyester - barefoot > cushioned shoes - lindy > novel - systems > motivation - swimming in natural water > chlorinated pool - walking meetings > sitting meetings - 3 strength sessions > 5 strength sessions - wired headphones > AirPods

Have you ever watched a horror movie with vampires? Not sexy vampires for middle aged dumpy wine aunts to masturbate to, but actual lore accurate vampires? The kind of movie where your grandfather is scratching at the window asking why you won't let him in, but there's something wrong with his eyes and the tone of his voice, and either that's not him, or worse yet, maybe it is him, but with everything that made him love you stripped away and replaced by insatiable hunger? The main character is never stupid enough to let him in, is he? It's always grandma. About halfway through the movie. And she's always the first to die, slaughtered the moment she opens that window, but almost everyone else sheltering in the house quickly, follows, leaving the protagonist and his scantily-dressed girlfriend to flee across the moors at night, pursued by the blood-hungry corpses of everyone else they ever loved. You've seen that movie, right? Well, I feel like I'm in that movie. It's not that I hate grandma. She's nice. Loves people. Bakes cookies. But she keeps trying to open the goddamned window. Every time I point out that some institution of our former society is being worn as a skinsuit by corrupt self-interest masquerading as socialism masquerading as compassion, there's always those guys who are shocked and betrayed that I attacked their beloved thing. No. Your beloved thing is gone. It doesn't matter what it did for you 30 years ago. It's not 30 years ago now. The soul of your beloved thing was eaten by a monster, and now it has become a monster itself. It doesn't matter whether I'm talking about the Catholic church, Christianity in general, the Republican party, the American Medical Association, the NRA, Disney, whatever. It's always the same. There's always the guy who is shocked, angry, and betrayed, because we're both supposed to be "right-wing", and here I am, attacking his beloved grandpa. I must be an evil nihilist straight from the bowels of reddit. But I am not trying to rob you. I am trying to help you. That is not your grandpa. That is a vampire. What's almost worse is that there are some guys who do, eventually, understand. After they yell at me a bit and call me a grandpa-hater or something. But the first thing they say, when they figure it out is... "Can't we save the skinsuit?" They're still hoping, on some level, that grandpa is still there. That there's a cure. That they can have their beloved institutions and traditions back. Well, I'm not hopeful. I mean, I can't say for sure whether they can or can't, but that's not important. That's the wrong question. We can't worry about saving Grandpa right now, because we have to save ourselves first. We have to survive the night. And if you're not willing to stake Grandpa through the heart for that, or, worse yet, if you try to stop the rest of us, yelling "Grandpa! Noooooooo!", grabbing at someone's wrist as he's trying to raise the big wooden mallet, then... Well, then you're not an enemy, but you are a liability. And so we have to put you in the back seat. We can't stop attacking Vampire Grandpa to spare your feelings. The hour is too late for us to listen to friends who can't tell the difference between us and the enemy.

"David, is there anything that you do to protect your skin form the sun?" Glad you asked. Yes. My body makes a substance called Melanin. Melanin has an interesting shape because it is composed of multiple conjugated benzene and pyrrole rings, often linked to long, complex chains and constructions. These are able to trap (UV) photons and turn them into an electric current which my body can use. At the same time the absorption of the photons protects my DNA from damage. Truly incredible invention. I gradually increased the amount of melanin in my skin by gradually increasing my sun exposure over time. But there's even more that I do: 1. I avoid seed oils wherever I can. Seed oils consist large amounts of Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) which have a high propensity to oxidise. Since spending a lot of time in the sun can cause the formation of free radicals in the skin, present PUFAs will likely be oxidised and thus cause inflammation (i.e. sunburn) 2. I consume Astaxanthin. Contained in larger amounts in salmon or shrimps, it can help protect the skin against damage from excess sun exposure. 3. I use a novel invention called the shade like any animal on the planet does when I notice that I've gotten enough sun for the moment. 4. I ensure that my nights are pitch black. Because regeneration of the skin and melanogenesis requires good circadian oscillations to build the foundation of future exposure. 5. (Very important) I go outside during sunrise to prepare my skin for sun exposure during the day. And I go outside during sunset again to calm my skin down with regenerative Near Infrared wavelengths.

@williameijer Historically, if the tribe exiles them, they die. 'Why do you care about what is true?' simply translates to "Why are you risking your social standing and survival for an abstraction that provides zero immediate tribal utility?"

The endothelial injury hypothesis explains how people with “normal” LDL still develop cardiovascular disease. It’s ignored by the mainstream, because it would destroy the multi-billion dollar statin industry.

Fields do not stay wrong for decades because nobody noticed. They stay wrong because a result looks good, the mechanism gets guessed, and after enough repetition the guess starts getting treated like proof. That is exactly what happened to grounding. The public got a finished story before the field earned a real explanation, and once that story became easy to repeat, repetition started doing the work that measurement never did. “The Earth gives you free electrons” is not a mechanism just because it sounds natural, biochemical, and complete. It is a satisfying sentence, and too much of this field has been living off the authority of that sentence instead of the discipline of evidence. What grounding changes first is not deep tissue chemistry. It changes the electrical state of the boundary, because contact happens there, potential equalises there, and that is where measurement gets its first grip on the event. That is why this kind of correction gets punished, because once people have built language, audiences, and authority around a weak explanation, dragging it back to measurement does not feel like clarification to them. It feels like an attack on everything they attached to it. That is the whole trick. People took what followed and pretended it proved what caused it. Less pain, less stress, better sleep, lower inflammation, none of that earns the right to declare electron influx as the mechanism unless electron influx is actually shown. An effect is not a mechanism. A symptom shift is not a measurement of the story attached to it. Repetition is not measurement, and a beautiful explanation is not evidence. So the cleaner thesis is not that grounding feeds the body electrons, but that grounding changes electrical conditions at the body’s surface in a way that may reduce interference around peripheral signalling. Less mythology, more measurement. Grounding is not electron loading in any established mechanistic sense. It acts first as boundary-layer electrical quieting, and every bigger claim has to earn its place after that. PMID: 27454187 “AC body voltage was reduced by an average of 58-fold” during grounding.

Longevity is a mitochondrial problem. The better your mitochondrial function, the better you can deal with inflammation. Alistair Nunn, Professor in Theoretical Quantum Biology & Bioenergetics: Inflammation is a very energy-hungry process, as it must repel pathogens, remove defective cells, and engender regeneration — all of which puts a significant load on mitochondrial function. More mitochondrial energy reserve = more capacity to deal with inflammation.

Robert O. Becker mapped the DC electrical system of the human body in the 1960s. He proved salamanders regenerate limbs using DC current, not chemistry. He proved bone heals using piezoelectricity, not calcium supplements. He proved anesthesia is an electromagnetic state not a chemical one. The Military classified his work. Medicine ignored it. Pharma buried it. The most important biological discovery of the 20th century and you've never heard his name. The Body Electric. Read it.

The more I learn about it, the more it seems that all testosterone boosting supplements are completely worthless. You can boost Testosterone with Sun, sleep, cold plunge and exercise for free. And it'll do much more than any supplement ever could.

@amitylee13 Calling for peace is not “literally the gospel.” The gospel is “literally the gospel” and we should be hearing more of that from the Pope.

I took my 11 year old to her checkup this morning and the nurse asked me to step out of the room for a moment. I politely declined and she said, "It's just for a moment." And I told her, "No thank you, given all the stories about children being abused my husband and I decided to never leave our children alone with anyone, even medical providers. Anything you need to do or say you can do with me in the room." She looked all miffed and just left, no idea what her plan was but she didn't feel the need to continue it with me present and that makes me even more suspicious?? When she left my daughter thanked me for not leaving, she's already shy about the doctor, her eyes got so wide when the lady asked me to leave.

Mitochondrial research is the most interesting thing I’ve come across maybe ever. Ketogenic research and mold toxicity and psych med injury is all fascinating (and some of it horrible) but it all seems to converge on mitochondrial dysfunction. The research coming out in this area is revolutionary.

@ECallum7 @KatKanada_TM Yep

@sherobbedmyboot @KatKanada_TM Self inflicted. She kept thinking she had a “gotcha” instead of listening

This GQ Jordan Peterson interview lives rent free in my head. The woman who interviewed him — Helen Lewis — had no idea who she was up against.

Vacation destination hack: if you want a health reset, pick a high-sulfur region. Sulfur is the third most abundant mineral in your body. It’s essential for glutathione — your master antioxidant. For collagen. For detoxification. For every cell membrane. Your body gets sulfur two ways: food & environment (hydrogen sulfide gas). Volcanic regions release hydrogen sulfide into the air. Your skin absorbs it. Hot springs deliver it transdermally. Basalt rock mineralizes the soil — the food grown there is sulfur-rich. Stephanie Seneff, MIT researcher: this is likely why the Mediterranean diet actually works. The Mediterranean diet only works in the Mediterranean. Greece and Italy are major world sulfur suppliers. Crete sits on basalt rock — 5x less heart disease than the neighboring limestone island with the same climate and diet. Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge crest. Lowest cardiovascular disease in the world. Tons of sulfur. Oregon sits on the Cascade mountain chain — all basalt. Lowest childhood obesity rates in the US. The common variable isn’t the food or the lifestyle. It’s the geology. High-sulfur regions worth visiting: - Sicily & Mount Etna, Italy - Iceland — geothermal fields, lowest cardiovascular disease in the world - Rotorua, New Zealand — bubbling mud pools, hydrogen sulfide in the air - Yellowstone, USA — fumaroles, sulfur deposits - Hawaii — active volcanic vents, native sulfur crystals - Japan — sulfur-rich onsen hot springs - Crete, Greece — basalt rock, 5x less heart disease than the neighboring island Geology is an underappreciated variable in health.

Fatigue isn't mental. It starts at the cellular level. Weak mitochondria = brain fog, slow decision-making, 2pm crashes. The highest performers don't have more motivation. They have superior mitochondrial function. The real lever that makes everything else easier.

Bernie Sanders’s hypocrisy explained by his own posts 😂

@SenMarkKelly As a Catholic, I find it abhorrent that you call yourself a Catholic while supporting the murder of babies as a Democrat. Sit this one out Mark.