Fran Kubelic

If you go into hospital as an alcoholic, they don't put a bottle of vodka on your bedside table and titrate the dose. They remove the alcohol. If you go into hospital as a heroin addict, they don't hand you a syringe with the meal tray. They remove the heroin. If you go into hospital as a smoker, they don't wheel you outside every two hours for a cigarette break. They remove the cigarettes. If you go into hospital as a type 2 diabetic, they bring you white toast, cornflakes, fruit juice, a jam sachet, and a sweetened yoghurt. Then inject insulin to manage the blood sugar response. Then write in your notes that your diabetes is "poorly controlled." Every other addiction is treated by removing the substance. The one driven by carbohydrate is treated by serving the substance and medicating the response. Have a think about why.

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box. The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year. A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease. Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk." One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks. If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you. The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

@FreoPope @DrLloydWood Correct. Ancient humans tragically lacked antibiotics, sanitation, refrigeration, dentistry, and not dying in childbirth. Tremendous point.

A zookeeper walks into the lion enclosure with a salad. The lion eats him. A zookeeper walks into the giraffe enclosure with a steak. The giraffe is confused but politely declines. A zookeeper walks into the panda enclosure with bamboo. The panda eats roughly twelve kilos of it and digests about two. A zookeeper walks into the gorilla enclosure with twenty kilos of leaves and shoots. The gorilla spends nine hours eating it and produces an enormous, satisfied pile of waste. A zookeeper walks into the wolf enclosure with raw meat. The wolf eats it. Nobody questions this. A zookeeper walks into the chimp enclosure with fruit, with the understanding that the chimp will also occasionally hunt and eat smaller monkeys, and that this is normal. Every species, in every zoo, in every country, is fed what its anatomy says it should eat. Then we get to the human. The human, who has a stomach acid pH of 1.5, a short carnivore gut, forward-facing predator eyes, a brain built on animal fat, and two million years of skeletal evidence of hunting and butchery behind him. This animal, the registered nutritionist explains, should have a plate that is half vegetables, a quarter whole grains, and a small triangle of protein. Why? Because. The same logic that feeds a lion meat and a giraffe leaves stops dead at the door of the human enclosure. A different rule applies to us, apparently. A rule written by people who have never observed our anatomy and have never seen what we actually evolved to eat. The other animals get the truth about what their bodies need. The human gets the food pyramid, a glossy leaflet, and a polite suggestion to maybe cut back on red meat. Strange, isn't it.

@drgurner The person who angers you I love grammar Totally agree with your post

The person that angers you, controls you. Are you going to let anything or anyone do that to you? Politicians, random people on the internet, or even people in life? Let people be miserable alone. Control yourself & control your life.

“The plane went silent.” That’s what passengers aboard British Airways Flight 9 remembered most. Not screaming. Not alarms. Silence. On June 24, 1982, the Boeing 747 was flying over Java at 37,000 feet with 247 passengers onboard when Senior Engineer Barry Townley-Freeman noticed engine temperatures rising dangerously fast. Then passengers started calling flight attendants: “There’s something glowing outside the window.” Blue light flickered through the engines. White sparks danced across the wings. It looked beautiful. In the cockpit, Captain Eric Moody watched Engine 4 fail. Then Engine 2. Then 1. Then 3. Within minutes, all four engines were dead. A fully loaded 747 became a powerless glider descending toward the Indian Ocean. No thrust. Barely any radio communication. No idea what caused it. Passengers woke from sleep to something deeply unnatural: The absence of engine noise. At 37,000 feet, a jetliner should roar. Instead, there was only wind. Captain Moody got on the intercom and delivered one of aviation history’s most famous announcements: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.” Some passengers thought it was a joke. The flight attendants’ faces said otherwise. What nobody onboard knew was that the plane had flown directly through a volcanic ash cloud from Mount Galunggung. The ash was made of microscopic glass particles. Inside the engines, the particles melted at extreme temperatures and coated the turbines like cement, suffocating all four engines one by one. At 15,000 feet, oxygen masks deployed. At 12,000 feet, the crew prepared for a night ditching into the ocean. Captain Moody knew the odds of surviving a water landing in a 747 were almost nonexistent. Then he tried restarting the engines one final time. Engine 4 sputtered. Caught. Then another. Then another. All four engines roared back to life. But the nightmare still wasn’t over. The volcanic ash had sandblasted the cockpit windshield so badly the pilots could barely see through it. Captain Moody had to land a damaged 747 at night using only a tiny clear section of the side window while his first officer called out altitude and distance manually. Against every odd, the aircraft landed safely in Jakarta. Every single person onboard survived. After the incident, volcanic ash became a globally monitored aviation hazard. And Captain Eric Moody’s calm announcement became legendary — still taught today as a masterclass in crisis leadership: Tell the truth. Stay calm. Give people dignity. Even when you’re falling out of the sky.

142 people replied to my heart disease thread yesterday. Most with the same reaction. "I showed this to my doctor. He said the Women's Health Study does not apply to me." 27,939 women. 21 years. Published in JAMA Cardiology. Every major risk factor ranked. Diabetes at 10x. LDL at 1.4x. Your doctor did not say it does not apply. Your doctor said he was not taught it. There is a difference. If your doctor cannot explain why they treat the 1.4x risk factor with a $200 billion drug while ignoring the 10x risk factor that costs nothing to test, the conversation is over. Test your fasting insulin. It is under $30. The truth heals

Hey @Tim_Walz and @IlhanMN one of the biggest fraud bust in Minnesota history took place this week and you guys said nothing Shouldn’t you guys celebrate when fraud is exposed in your state and district? Or are you upset because it was exposed? Silence speaks volumes.

@CryptoMikli Your body adapts to whatever you do normally. It doesn’t like surprises

Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”

What do Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, Univ of Edinburgh, Mayo Clinic, Ohio State, James Cook, UCSF, and UCSD share in common? They are all conducting trials of ketogenic diets for mental illness. The results could change the field of psychiatry.

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TikTok betrayed me and didn’t record the ingredient part yesterday 😂 but honestly this bacon mayo is TOO good not to share. This is one of my favorite ways to get in extra fats without relying on traditional mayo, and it makes AMAZING deviled eggs. Dairy free, carnivore-friendly, ridiculously flavorful, and way more satisfying than store-bought junk. I’m doing a full detailed recipe/tutorial on my YouTube channel this week where I’ll walk through the whole process properly, explain substitutions, and show exactly how I make it. 🥓🥚

RFK Jr. reveals FDA officials admitted they literally do not know how many chemicals are in the American food supply. “When I came in, I asked FDA, ‘How many chemicals are in our food?’” “They said, ‘We don’t know.’” “‘We don’t have a list of them.’” “It’s somewhere between 4,000 and 12,000.” “In Europe, they only have 400 chemicals in their food.” “The 9,600 extra ones that we have are all illegal there.”

@ElieJarrougeMD And every time I do that, I feel a little pride instead of eating the muffin and feeling depressed and defeated yet again. That muffin would have stimulated my appetite AND made me gain a couple pounds. I finally got tired of that happening over and over.

@ElieJarrougeMD Re changing behavior-eating a Sausage McMuffin with Egg seemed so sad if you eat it without the muffin-cause the magic is the bread. But, I’ve finally gotten into the habit of having it without the muffin. It’s still good. Major victory for me to be able to do that!

Bariatric surgery doesn’t fix your eating habits. That’s why weight regain is common within a few years. GLP-1s face the same risk unless habits change. And if you truly change your behavior and eating habits, you won’t need surgery or the injections in the first place.

@ElieJarrougeMD Through lots of failures and experimentation, I’ve discovered that dairy makes me fat. You have to keep trying different things to find out what makes YOUR body fat.

My statin thread reached over 460,000 people. Thousands of you asked the same question. "If cholesterol does not cause heart disease, then what does?" The answer has been published for years. In the largest risk factor study ever conducted. 27,939 women. 21 years. Published in JAMA Cardiology. Here is what they found. And here is why nobody told you. 🧵

Here's the simple reason ruminant meat (beef, lamb) is metabolically superior to monogastric meat (chicken, pork). Monogastrics store whatever they're fed. Grain goes in, linoleic acid ends up in the fat. Pork fat now runs around 20% PUFA. Chicken fat around 25%. The bird and the pig are, in 2026, walking vehicles for the seed oils they were finished on. Ruminants are built differently. The four-chambered stomach biohydrogenates polyunsaturated fats, converting unstable plant oils into stable saturated and monounsaturated fats before the fat is ever laid down. Grain in. Beef fat still around 2-4% PUFA. The cow eats the seed oil substrate and quietly disarms it on the way through. The pig and the chicken eat it and pass it on to whoever is eating them next. Beef and lamb: built-in detox. Pork and chicken: storage tanks for the food system you were trying to avoid. If you've cut seed oils out of the cupboard but you're still eating chicken every day, the bottle isn't gone. It's just on a plate.

Eating beef instead of chicken is one of the biggest single upgrades you can make to an already healthy diet. Beef contains roughly three times the bioavailable nutrient density. Iron, zinc, B12, creatine, taurine, carnosine, the fat-soluble vitamins, the lot. This is not a small difference. This compounds. Here is what that looks like over a lifetime of choosing one over the other. Month one. Slightly more energy. Slightly better recovery from training. Month three. Noticeably better sleep. The afternoon slump is gone. Year one. Your hairline is holding the line. Your nails grow faster. The thing in your shoulder that used to click no longer clicks. Year three. You stop getting the winter cold that everyone in the office gets. Your jaw looks more defined in photographs. You can see the veins in your forearms without having to pump them up. Year five. Friends start asking if you have had something done. You have not. You have eaten beef. Year ten. You stop ageing in a way that is visible to anyone who has not seen you for a while. Old colleagues run into you in the street and assume you have been somewhere medicinal. Year fifteen. Your testosterone is higher at forty-five than it was at thirty. Your wife has stopped commenting on it because she has gotten used to it. Year twenty. You are mistaken for your own son at the wedding. Year thirty. Strangers at the bus stop ask you for advice without knowing why. Year forty. The local paper writes a piece about you. The headline is something about an unbroken streak of decades. Year fifty. Children begin to follow you in the park, sensing something they cannot name. Year sixty. You are quietly approached by a representative of the Crown. Year seventy. You are knighted for services to the national gene pool. It compounds. Worth knowing. The chicken eater is, at this point, on his third hip.

He was right then and now!