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Charles Poliquin’s family had an extremely strong history of heart disease. His dad died young, one brother died of a heart attack at 24, another brother died of a severed congenital heart defect after a few days. Charles had a triple bypass in his early thirties. Yes he took steroids. But, he also defied family genetics to make it to 57.

Dr. Jack Kruse says bodybuilders die decades earlier than the average person. His friend Charles Poliquin is proof. • World-class physique • Looked like a Greek statue • One of the most famous strength coaches alive Kruse told him repeatedly he was going to die before 60. He died of a heart attack at 58. Kruse says the pattern is everywhere: • NFL players die early. • Professional wrestlers die early • Gorillas die 20-30 years earlier than hhumans They all look jacked. They all die young. Kruse says the reason is physics. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. When you pack mitochondria into muscle, you are stealing that energy from your brain and heart—the two organs that actually determine how long you live. He points to Kleiber's law. Every mammal on Earth gets the same number of heartbeats in a lifetime. Gorillas have far more muscle than humans. They also die 20-30 years sooner. Nature chose brain over muscle for longevity. "Go find me anybody who's 85 years old that looks like that. You're going to find like not a lot of people." The longest-lived humans on Earth are small people with belly fat. Not bodybuilders. "Where you bury your mitochondrial density is the key." — Dr. Jack Kruse (@DrJackKruse) on the Danny Jones (@JonesDanny) podcast PS: If interested in content like this, follow me as I continue sharing unconventional health insights you won't find anywhere else on X.

What paralysis of intellect has us channelling wages to banks through the financialisation of shelter while remaining beholden to foreign powers for the basics of modern life? We export raw abundance, reimport finished dependence, and call it sophistication. We ship coal overseas, buy back the carbon as solar panels, and congratulate ourselves on moral progress. We have treated house prices as national success and productive capacity as an afterthought. We have built a system resilient neither to strategic rivalry nor to disruption in the Middle East. Australia has spent years confusing asset inflation with prosperity, financial engineering with statecraft, and imported complexity with sovereign capacity. We sell raw materials, buy back dependency, import people and call the margin prosperity. We congratulated ourselves for efficiency while dismantling redundancy, resilience and national competence. The class that calls itself the nation’s intelligence can inflate land, subsidise demand and recite targets, yet cannot secure fuel, rebuild industry or think beyond the next property cycle. And then comes the NDIS, handled with the usual implied moral vulgarity, as though a serious country must choose between caring for the vulnerable and maintaining a productive base. Social obligations can’t float above material reality . It must eventually rest on that reality . A country that hollows out energy, industry, logistics and housing will eventually discover that its promises exceed its capacity. Our aging demographics guarantee it You cant secure the vulnerable by dismantling the machinery that funds their support. The NDIS is threatened by the same order that hollowed out the real economy and then feigned surprise when the social contract became expensive. Donald Horne was right. Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people. For a long time, distance, endowment and inertia concealed the fact. That cover is thinning. A nation that cannot tell the difference between wealth and extraction, between resilience and rhetoric, between civilisation and a housing bubble, will learn the lesson the hard way.

@Just_Some_Guy29 @jamierkennedy Yeah good on him for honestly fronting the media and not getting straight into his car and leaving…

@jamierkennedy I’m not a Norman fan, but I have to give him major props for talking to the media after that.

“I screwed up” Norman told the media. “It’s all on me. I know that, but losing the Masters is not the end of the world. I let this one get away, but I still have a pretty good life. I’ll wake up tomorrow still breathing, I hope. All these hiccups I have, they must be for a reason. All this is just a test; I just don’t know what the test is yet.” #96MastersRedo ⏪

If you could only recommend *one* book that everyone should read, which will fundamentally alter the way they see the world, what would it be?

@groomyd @jamierkennedy Also 78 other tournament wins, 300 weeks at no 1. How many did you get champ?

@jamierkennedy Although he behaves as if he won 20, Norman won 2, thats two, majors.

Greg Norman, speaking to media today. “It’s the greatest championship around. It’s the only pure golf tournament we play in. It’s pure golf. No corporate tents, no skyboxes. I like coming to a place that makes you feel that much more positive. No other golf tournament generates that type of feeling.” #96MastersRedo ⏪

@DanCollins2011 April Fools unfortunately

Australia is back in the game. - Plan to build 22 new oil refineries - lift the ban on nuclear energy immediately. - halve taxes across the economy - reduce migrant intake.

@joshmanmode_ May the Golf Gods shine on you!

Weathermen always lie about the weather

Blows my mind as well. He picked up golf at 15 and was relatively self taught. His dad actively encouraged him to not make a career in golf. No one was teaching him to close out tournaments. Pretty amazing he won 80 events. Rory, Scheffler and Tiger were child prodigies, Big Jack was in a country club at 10. Greg was a surfer kid who only got the golf bug far later on. His results in this context are unparalleled. 🦈

You’re right, that’s why he only won 80 times (including 2 majors) & was world no.1 300+ weeks. Fark me, it’s stunning how little people understand the pointy end of pro golf.

@jimmyd27153 @MyGolfSpy Yes 🤦‍♂️

@Count_Truculent @MyGolfSpy Soul*

I think...I think I hate this. Right?

$YAL.ax vs $WHC.ax are in a street fight for ASX #coal supremacy. I’m ringside with popcorn loving it

@MidwestGolfJake Lydia Ko no skeletons, and wonderful role model

Tiger Woods - extremely private but multiple very public issues. Phil Mickelson - a bit more open but unexpectedly burnt every bridge. Ernie Els - randomly fights Steve Marino on his plane. Everything else seems fine. Maybe the key is to get into the occasional scrap?

The Shark Mother was not a golf pro. She was a handy club golfer with a single-digit handicap. While Greg credits her fondly with teaching him the basics, it was an intense period of solo practice and rounds that took him from a 27 handicap to scratch in 18 months. He credits his first real instruction to reading "Golf My Way" by Jack Nicklaus. Many are very suspicious of the Tigers' very quick bulk-up in the 2000s, during an era of similar bulk-ups among MLB players. Also, his association with a known PED supplier, Anthony Galea, was suspicious. Not to mention the well-documented link between Steroids and certain joint, tendon and ligament injuries (ACL, MCL, meniscus injuries, spinal/disc herniations, Achilles Tendon ruptures...

@Count_Truculent @MarkDondero Greg's mum was a golf pro, what are you talking about he was self taught. Also a lot of tigers injuries came because of how flexible his joints were and the repetition of hitting balls on them

I’ve read every book on Tiger Woods and they all tell the same story. Pissed away everything because of macho fantasies and an insane infatuation with military training. He torpedoed his thirties, put unnecessary stress on his body and cost himself Jack’s record. Probably developed a drug problem too. Incredibly sad and frustrating.

@cap_compliant @MarkDondero Maate, the Shark! 🦈

@Count_Truculent @MarkDondero The Shark is the greatest player to watch in the games history, probably unmatched by anything the future brings. Those that disagree never rode the emotional rollercoaster with him.

@dekker Meanwhile Lydia Ko just shot a 60, has won everything in the woman's game, never had a scandal and is a wonderful role model.

At what point does the golf world finally be like “alright maybe enough strikes for the unlimited positive PR for tiger”? Like 4 more stories like this? Or are we just gonna continue this cycle?

@PhilMickelson @zerohedge All aboard!

@zerohedge This is so much cheaper and cleaner than the oil CA ships across the world from the Middle East. The state fighting Sable shows their total incompetence and lack of concern for it’s residents.

*CHEVRON PLANS TO PURCHASE OIL FROM SABLE FOR LA REFINERY

@adamtaggart @LukeGromen

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At some point folks will realise inflation’s heading to 6%, cash rate to 5%+, and unemployment will surge producing the first national property price correction in a generation

@Comm_Invest Bro, I fully embraced value shifting today 🙏

Pretty much back to this mood