Sentient Salamander
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Sentient Salamander
@Mruffaner13
Amphibious Freethinking Truthseeker
Somewhere in the Southwest Katılım Temmuz 2022
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Where should we party when XRP hit $589? 🤔 💭
A. Hawaii, USA 🇺🇸
B. Phukhet, Thailand 🇹🇭
C. Alcapulco, Mexico 🇲🇽
D. Bali, Indonesia 🇮🇩
E. Palawan, Philippines 🇵🇭
F. Jeju Island, South Korea 🇰🇷
G. Nha Trang, Vietnam 🇻🇳
H. Gary Gensler House 🏠
#XRP 💎 💎 💎 💎 💎 💎 💎 💎 💎 💎

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Before it took off, the bird ate parts of its own liver, kidneys, and gut. That was the only way to be light enough to fly. Then it flew 8,425 miles from Alaska to Australia, in 11 days, without eating, drinking, or landing once.
The bird is called B6. It's a bar-tailed godwit, four months old, weighing about as much as a can of beans. In October 2022, scientists at the US Geological Survey tracked its flight from Alaska all the way to Tasmania. The trip took 11 days and 1 hour. It is still the longest non-stop flight of any animal on Earth.
For two weeks before takeoff, godwits eat until they almost double in weight. Fat ends up being 55% of their body, more than any bird ever measured. Then they shrink their own insides. About a quarter of their liver, kidneys, stomach, and intestines gets broken down and reused for fuel, making room for the extra fat and cutting weight. Their heart and wing muscles grow bigger at the same time.
They never drink along the way. The water they need comes out of burning fat, the same reaction their muscles use for energy. They also never really sleep. B6 flapped its wings for 264 straight hours, cruising around 35 miles per hour with help from storm tailwinds. By the time it landed, it had lost almost half its body weight. The shrunken organs grew back over the following weeks.
Scientists still cannot explain the navigation. B6 had never made this flight before. Adult godwits leave Alaska weeks earlier, so young birds fly alone with nobody to follow. How a four-month-old bird finds its way across 8,425 miles of open ocean to a place it has never seen is still an open question.
About 100,000 bar-tailed godwits leave Alaska every fall. Most of them land in New Zealand or Australia 10 or 11 days later, having eaten parts of themselves to get there.
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#BREAKING🚨: This 5-month-old just flew 8,425 miles from Alaska to Australia with no food, no water and zero stops for 11 days straight
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@matthewbaszucki The science is crap and our politicians, who should not be making decisions about nutrition, are all bought by the industries who keep Americans unwell. Many of us were indoctrinated to believe that the food pyramid is a healthy diet. More of the same game.
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The food pyramid destroyed American health. And the government knew it wasn't based on solid science when they published it.
In 1977, Senator George McGovern's committee released the first Dietary Goals for the United States, recommending a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. The meat and dairy industry pushed back. The guidelines stayed.
The science supporting those guidelines was weak at best. Ancel Keys' Seven Countries Study, the foundational research behind the low-fat movement, cherry-picked data from 22 countries and presented results from 7. Countries that didn't fit the hypothesis were excluded.
What followed was four decades of food policy built on a fraudulent foundation. Food manufacturers replaced fat with sugar and refined carbohydrates to hit "low fat" labels. Obesity rates exploded. Type 2 diabetes exploded. And now we're watching metabolic dysfunction drive an epidemic of mental illness that nobody in mainstream psychiatry wants to connect to diet.
I grew up eating that food pyramid diet. I was drinking, eating processed garbage, and running on no sleep when my brain broke at 19.
The system failed me nutritionally before it failed me psychiatrically. Then I switched to keto, and everything changed.
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@matthewbaszucki This was one of my biggest complaints about working inpatient children's psych- trash diet full of processed carbs. Prisons- same thing. Trying to advocate for change is futile and was always met with resistance and excuses. It's sad and absolutely affects behavior & health.
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I want to tell you what a psych ward actually looks like from the inside.
Sugary cereal and root beer for breakfast. No outside access. No exercise. Fluorescent lights. Medications given against your will.
I spent about two months total across four hospitalizations in these places. Every element of the environment worked against recovery: the food spiking insulin and inflammation, the sedentary confinement destroying metabolic health.
I don't blame the workers. Many of them clearly cared. But the system is broken at the structural level.
What actually healed me was the opposite of everything the psych ward offered. Animal foods. Exercise. Structured sleep. A ketogenic diet.
The psych ward kept me alive when I couldn't keep myself alive. But it was containment. Not treatment.
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@matthewbaszucki Thank you for sharing. Your story gives me hope for my 24 year old son and for some of my patients. Mainstream psychiatry isn't always the answer.
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The night my dad found me at a Starbucks in San Diego, I had a bag of my things, my laptop, and about three weeks of homelessness behind me.
I had been sleeping in a lifeguard tower on the beach. I woke up in a Denny's one morning with no memory of how I got there. I was releasing music videos on Snapchat because I thought I was going to be a famous rapper.
I was 21 years old and I thought I was exactly where I was supposed to be.
That's the cruelty of psychosis. It doesn't feel like suffering. It feels like destiny.
My dad got me into a psych ward in San Diego. That was my last hospitalization. I didn't know it at the time.
Three years later my mom found the work of Dr. Chris Palmer. I went ketogenic. The mania stopped.
I'm beyond grateful my dad found me at that Starbucks. The look on his face. He never gave up. Neither did my mom. And eventually their refusal to give up on me connected with something that actually worked.
If you have someone in your life with serious mental illness: don't give up. The standard system may not have the answer. But that doesn't mean an answer doesn't exist. #keto #metabolictherapies

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