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What 800 HOURS of KovaaK's Looks Like in @PlayApex

@ColeExDee THANK U !!! 🙏

@NOV4CUS DOING GREAT

both pics are after 3 months of consistently working out 3-4x a week what's the difference this time? 🕵️ ive been drinking 1 gallon of water, hitting my protein goal, and having a consistent sleep schedule. always choose yourself 🤍

@normalnchill anytime

@NOV4CUS Can u punch me in the mouth

@DOKH0CS lets see your progress pics 🤓

@NOV4CUS More like 3 months of thinking you're working out

@idkchas the muscle mommy arc is here 😎

@NOV4CUS go nova!!!!!!!!!

@jozh65274982 fr posing is a skill itself

@NOV4CUS W you learned to flex

@LighthouseDPC dont even get me started on sentara...

@aakashgupta Liar. Doctors have been replaced by Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants. A Sentara Hospital here even has Nurse Practitioners running the ICU. 60% of Riverside Cardiology Staff are Nurse Practitioners. We told you this was going to happen. NO ONE LISTENED!!!

Hospitals kill between 250,000 and 400,000 Americans per year through preventable medical errors. That makes “your doctor’s mistake” the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only cancer and heart disease. Everyone reads advice like “stay with your loved one in the hospital” as a family values tip. The actual reason is darker. A board-certified physician is publicly admitting the system he operates in has enough failure points that an untrained person sitting in a chair provides a meaningful safety layer. The math explains why. A landmark Penn study tracked 170,000+ surgeries across 168 hospitals. Each additional patient added to a nurse’s workload raised the odds of dying within 30 days by 7%. Staffing ratios across US hospitals range from 4.3 to 10.5 patients per nurse. That means one hospital gives your family member 2.4x less nursing attention than the hospital down the street, and you have zero way of knowing which one you walked into. So what does a family member in the room actually do? They catch the wrong medication bag. They notice breathing changes at 2am when the nurse is covering nine other beds. They flag a deteriorating condition 6 hours before anyone on staff would have checked. They function as an unpaid, around-the-clock monitor compensating for a staffing model designed around reimbursement rates, not patient survival. When a physician says “be cordial with staff but watch everything like a hawk,” he’s describing a system where the margin between good outcome and catastrophe is one missed check during a shift change. Hospitals don’t optimize for your family member’s recovery. They optimize for throughput. 700 people die from preventable hospital errors every single day. Your presence in that room isn’t emotional support. It’s a rounding error in a broken staffing equation that nobody has the budget to fix.

@BBvoided @Moonkiller17 you would be so surprised how many people don't read it... you really cant eat at everyone's house 🤢

@Moonkiller17 If you spend time looking at the labels, they will literally tell you what is supposed to be refrigerated after opening and what is okay to leave in a cool dry space in a cabinet. It's really no reason to guess or go off old ways. It's literally on the label

I’m coming on here to say that your condiments should go IN THE FRIDGE. Your bbq sauce, hot sauce, AND KETCHUP.

@anactualwalnut my fav combo is low cal syrup and dark chocolate !!

Trying to psyop myself into enjoying yogurt (I don’t like yogurt) because 3/4 cup of oikos triple zero yogurt + 1/2 cup of my protein granola (and some berries) is 32 G’s of protein and that’s just such a cheap quick easy breakfast/snack and I need to grow up and eat yogurt

@Lyserberg we're so back pt. 2

@NOV4CUS You love to see it

i moved out of my toxic in-laws house 🥹

@staticdots thank you !! i feel so at peace now 😌

@NOV4CUS YIPPIEEEE HAPPY FOR U NOVA

@Eikuld @morrisseyenjoyr sounds like you need to work on your hip mobility my friend

@morrisseyenjoyr Cant never tell if Im doing it right. Sometimes I feel it. Sometimes I dont. If I progress overload my form becomes noticeably sloppy so I lower weight, noticeably sloppy once more so I drop even more weight. Endless cycle for me. Been thinking to cable deadlift Ive been hearing

i used to think bulgarian split squats were just BBL influencer propaganda but they really do work

@SlimeStBets people have been brushing and cleaning their teeth since ancient civilization

@HealthyAlfred Okay yes, I agree this could be plausible. But do you explain how humans were able to exist for so long without the dental care we have now.

The bacteria bleeding from your gums is colonizing your brain right now. They found it in Alzheimer’s patients’ brain tissue - the exact same bacteria from gum disease. P. gingivalis (the bacteria causing bleeding gums) was identified in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Not just “present” - actively colonizing brain tissue and producing toxic proteins (gingipains) that correlated with tau pathology and amyloid plaque formation. Study on mice: Oral P. gingivalis infection → brain colonization → increased amyloid production (the plaques destroying Alzheimer’s patients’ brains). This isn’t correlation. They found the bacteria FROM YOUR GUMS physically inside brain tissue. The mechanism: Bleeding gums = open wound → bacteria enter bloodstream → travel to brain → colonize tissue → produce gingipains (neurotoxic) → trigger amyloid plaque formation → neuroinflammation → Alzheimer’s pathology develops Cardiovascular disease study: P. gingivalis also found in atherosclerotic plaques (arterial blockages causing heart attacks). Stroke study: Periodontal disease + dental caries increased stroke risk by 86-158%. Your bleeding gums aren’t just a dental problem. They’re a bacterial highway to your brain and arteries. 50% of adults over 30 have gum disease (P. gingivalis infection). Most don’t know until bacteria already spread systemically. Mastic gum kills P. gingivalis before it enters your bloodstream. Study: 1 gram daily mastic gum: → P. gingivalis: suppressed → Gingival bleeding: significantly reduced → Gum inflammation: decreased My gums bled every time I brushed. Started mastic gum 1g daily. Week 3: Bleeding stopped completely. Dentist asked what changed - gums went from inflamed to healthy in one visit. The bacteria causing Alzheimer’s and heart disease lives in your mouth. Every time your gums bleed, you’re letting it spread. 1 gram daily. Kills bacteria before it colonizes your brain.

@Poddubitskaya07 you can drastically reduce your chances of getting it if you have a healthy lifestyle and challenge your brain 🧠

@dannycharts @HealthyAlfred I'm getting treatment for gingivitis, my teeth look perfect but my gums are bleeding everyday....Im worried that fhe bacteria has gone into my bloodstream and into my brain. I'm scared that i'll get alzheimers

@TheFalcoEffect @AlpacaAurelius its wild how they forget to tell us that our gut is a neurotransmitter factory

@AlpacaAurelius Gut microbiome doing the heavy lifting again. Honestly at this point the gut is running more decisions than people think.

eating 30g of dark chocolate completely eliminate negative moods dark chocolate is magic

@staticdots my hero

KovaaKsRoamingEggplantSeason just some scens that have helped me develop being able to actually read movement main thing is to follow the target with your eyes, like actually LOOKING at the target and smooth corrections

@_lobotomyx LMAOOO

That's my average drive home every night in orlando

@Zargisan your body cant rest & repair bc its too busy digesting that big meal. also breathing properly during sleep is super important!!

@MNAB_Not_A_Bot @ChrisWillx This is probably another issue. I do OMAD and it’s about 2 hours before bed. Really it’s just mornings that are hard. I feel great once I’m actually going, but it takes me several hours to get there. Sometimes I don’t start hitting my stride until around 2:00pm.

You don’t perform on 6 hours sleep. One of the most important sleep studies ever ran a brutally simple test. People slept 4h, 6h, or 8h per night for 14 days. No all-nighters. Just “normal” short sleep. Cognitive performance was tested every two hours. By day 14: 6 hours = same impairment as being awake for 24 hours. 4 hours = same as 48 hours awake. But here’s the scary part – after day 3–4, people stopped feeling more tired. Reaction times kept slowing, attention lapses kept increasing, working memory kept degrading. But subjective sleepiness flatlined. Your brain keeps getting worse, your ability to notice it breaks. This is why chronic undersleeping feels sustainable – you adapt to feeling tired but you do not adapt to being cognitively impaired. The participants would’ve told you they felt “okay”. Objectively, they were functioning like they’d pulled an all-nighter. If you’re sleeping 6 hours and think you’re fine, you’ve probably lost calibration. Sleep need is biological. Most adults need 7–9 hours. “I only need 6” usually means “I forgot what normal feels like.” Feeling fine is not evidence you’re functioning well. Chronic sleep loss doesn’t just impair your brain – it blinds you to the impairment. — h/t @aakashgupta

@WallhackHQ manifesting 🙌 @Fulzi_