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NEW STUDY: OSK rewinds the clock and pushes adult heart cells into a regenerative state that improves heart repair Why is this such a big deal? Because adult heart cells do not meaningfully divide, which is why the heart heals with scar tissue rather than regeneration. This fundamental limitation has defined cardiology for decades In 2020, OSK restored function in damaged neurons. Now the same principle is being explored in the heart, building on results already seen in eye, brain, liver, and skin Consistent with the Information Theory of Aging: cells retain the instructions for repair; aging is a loss of access to them. Restore that information, and regeneration follows…

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Mathematician John Lennox says one of the biggest mistakes the New Atheists made was emphasizing the God of the gaps argument. New Atheists claimed believers invoke God to explain what they don't understand; but as those gaps in understanding shrink – for instance, we don't need Thor to explain lightning anymore, since science now explains it – the explanatory space God inhabits gets smaller and smaller until someday we have no need of God at all. Two problems with this... First, there are boundary problems that will never be solved by science, like what caused the universe. That is forever beyond the ability of the scientific method to resolve. Second, for believing scientists like Lennox and myself, it was never what we *don't* understand about the universe that led us to believe in God, it's what we DO understand that compels us to believe. I came to believe in God while studying the chemistry of the early universe using distant quasars – to me, the exquisite sense of intentional design in that work signaled God's realness.

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@BarbaraOneillAU What happens if your vitamin B is low? youtu.be/tokJfBq-LPU

Vitamin B1 gives you energy. B2 clears skin. B3 calms anxiety. B5 supports adrenals. B6 balances hormones. B7 grows hair. B9 creates new cells. B12 protects your brain. They work as a team! Alcohol depletes them. Stress burns through them. Sugar destroys them. Coffee blocks them. Eight vitamins. You're probably low in all of them.

Dr. Benjamin Bikman says cholesterol-lowering drugs are driving low testosterone in men. Yet doctors prescribe them like they're handing out flyers. Bikman is a leading metabolic scientist who explained that every sex hormone in the human body is manufactured from cholesterol, including: • Estrogen • Testosterone • Progesterone All of them. "Some men experience such terrible loss of libido because he's becoming low testosterone because of the war on cholesterol." Bikman says we were told cholesterol was bad for us because we have drugs that lower it. So Big Pharma never wanted us to know having high cholesterol is good for you. In fact, a Swedish longevity study found the longest lived people consistently had high cholesterol. The molecule your doctor is telling you to lower may be the one your body needs most. — Dr. Benjamin Bikman (@BenBikmanPhD) on Steven Bartlett's (@SteveBartlettSC) Diary of a CEO podcast PS: If you found this insightful, follow me for more unconventional health content just like this.

Dr. Roger Seheult just shared a story that should change how every hospital on Earth operates. A 15-year-old boy with blood cancer developed a flesh-eating fungal infection. Doctors removed his left lung. The infection spread to his right. He'd been in hospital for 6 weeks. Nothing was working. The doctors told his family he had two days to live. When they asked what he wanted to do with his remaining time, he said: "I just want to go outside." The staff got his hospital bed outside. Same medications. Same treatment. The only thing that changed was sunlight. • Day 1: His infection markers dropped. • Day 2: They dropped further. • Day 5: He was off the breathing machine. A CT scan showed the infection was 60 to 70% gone. He went home alive. Seheult says people in hospital beds closer to windows get discharged faster. Patients in hospitals with bigger windows give better recovery scores. And infrared light from the sun penetrates up to 8 centimeters into the body, directly fueling the mitochondria that power every cell. He's now working with three hospitals to start getting critically ill patients outside. We used to build hospitals with verandas so patients could be wheeled into the sun. Then we stopped. Maybe it's time to start again. — Dr. Roger Seheult on Steven Bartlett's (@StevenBartlett) DOAC podcast

Brecka: "The parabolic rise in skin cancer is almost perfectly superimposable with the parabolic rise in sunscreen use." O’Neill: "Exactly. Author Ian Whishart claims sunscreens themselves are causing basal cell carcinomas."

A 97-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer's was given a microdose of LSD. She had been diagnosed 11 years earlier. By 97, she was in a near-vegetative state. Despair & hopelessness had set in, and she was basically unable to communicate. Her caregiver, with the family's agreement, tried a microdose of LSD to see if it could bring her back. According to her family and the Beckley Foundation, she regained full awareness. She could talk, read, and relate to people around her. Her wit, personality, and sense of self all returned. Her daughter later said the only wish was that they had started many years earlier. That case is what led Amanda Feilding and the Beckley Foundation to launch the world's first controlled clinical trial of microdosed LSD for Alzheimer's, with the University of Basel. And the science is starting to explain why it may have worked. LSD at sub-intoxicating doses has been shown to increase Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), one of the most important proteins in the brain. BDNF drives neuroplasticity, supports neuronal survival and growth, and is central to learning and memory. In Alzheimer's patients, BDNF levels are significantly depleted. The Beckley/Maastricht research program found that microdoses of LSD (5, 10, and 20 micrograms) increased BDNF plasma levels in healthy volunteers in a dose-dependent manner. No altered state, just a measurable increase in one of the brain's most critical growth factors. Animal research has shown that low-dose psychedelics promote neurogenesis and increase dendritic spine density in the hippocampus, the brain region most damaged by Alzheimer's. A 2023 Nature Neuroscience paper found that psychedelics promote plasticity by directly binding to the BDNF receptor TrkB, a mechanism that may work independently of the psychedelic experience itself. A randomized controlled trial out of New Zealand gave 80 healthy men 10 microgram doses of LSD every third day for six weeks and measured changes in neural plasticity via EEG. The results showed modulation of long-term potentiation, a key marker of the brain's ability to strengthen connections over time. All of the above points in the same direction: LSD at low doses appears to support the biological infrastructure of a healthy, adaptive brain. Call it what you want - neuroplasticity, neurotrophic signaling, synaptic growth - these are all processes that degrade with age and collapse in neurodegenerative disease. Albert Hofmann microdosed LSD for decades. He was giving two-hour lectures at 100. He died at 102 with his mind intact. That's not proof on its own, but it's a data point that gets more interesting with every study that comes out. What if the most demonized compound of the 20th century turns out to be one of the best tools we have for keeping the aging brain alive? Pictured is the only easily available microdosing LSD product out there today. It comes from Golden Rule and ships to all 50 states. It's wild that this is now widely available.

You're taking a statin. You think you're safe. I thought so too. I was a professional tennis player. Ranked #117 in the world. My cholesterol was "normal" my entire adult life. At 52, I had a heart attack. What I discovered next changed everything. 🧵

Dr. Aseem Malhotra said: "If you take a statin for 5 years having had a heart attack, how much would you think or hope it would add to your life expectancy?" Joe Rogan replied: "25%, 30%?" Dr. Aseem tells him the truth: "Just over 4 days"

Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy. That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks. She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against blanket accusations that all white people are inherently bad — gets you branded as evil. Not wrong. Evil. Therefore you must be silenced, cancelled, or erased. No debate. No evidence allowed. She calls it cultural totalitarianism: a Manichean worldview where one ideology claims a monopoly on goodness, progress, and reason itself. Dissent isn’t argued with — it’s treated as a moral threat that has to be removed. The deepest irony? In an era that smugly ditched religion in the name of superior rationality, we’ve ended up rejecting reason, evidence, and open inquiry altogether. We’re so “rational” we’ve dispensed with the very tools of rationality. It doesn’t add up. Her take has me wondering how we got here — and how quickly disagreement turned into moral excommunication. Anyone else seeing this pattern play out in conversations lately? Where have you felt truth itself become off-limits?

Psychiatrist George Vaillant ran the study for decades. When asked what 80 years of data taught him about living longer, he gave a one sentence answer: "The only thing that really matters in life is your relationships with other people."

The saddest finding? Many men spent decades chasing status and success. Only to say in their 70s and 80s that they wished they'd prioritized people over achievement.