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@brian_quik @Hybridathlete Under 40, 3miles/5km in under 30 minutes if you’re not injured. Any slower in my view is seriously unfit.

@Hybridathlete Any man under the age of let’s say 40 should be able to run a mile on demand. Doing squats will not get you there.

Very good explanation of why your sets of heavy back squats is not, in fact, “cardio.”

@ShivaniM_KC Consider getting it via the grey market from China. A years supply is well under £100 this way.

Crazy obesity guidelines for Mounjaro on the NHS, in which a patient can have BMI> 40kg/m2 OSA Dyslipidaemia Hypertension and Pre-diabetes Started Tirzepatide privately & lost 15kg but unaffordable so got referred to Tier 3, failed eligibility for Mounjaro (no T2D) and got switched to Wegovy starting at 0.25mg!!! And regained all the weight lost What are we doing here???

On the one hand it’s corrupt. On the other hand, the fact that he didn’t just buy oil suggests these morons genuinely didn’t think this through at all.

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@ColeFusionHQ An electrican who looked like Elton John so was called Socket Man.

@MichaelAlbertMD Great thread. A point worth mentioning is that glp1s do not preclude other interventions like healthier diets, exercise and even gastric bypass surgery.

1/ 🚨 This tweet commits a textbook fallacy about what it means for a treatment to "work." And its key empirical claim deserves a much more honest engagement than it gets. Let me explain. 🧵

So the UK's 10-year gilt yield - the cost of government borrowing - is now up at 2008 levels. An 18-year high The difference is that, back then, UK national debt was 48pc of GDP, and now it's the best part of 100pc. So the debt service costs are much MUCH heavier. Of the £14.3bn the UK government borrowed in February alone, no less than £13bn of that was spent on interest on existing debts - a situation which is not only unsustainable, but very close to provoking a disastrous financial collapse. Yet still, our national discourse is all about more spending, more borrowing, more "state intervention". When is the Labour party – and much of the listless, unthinking rump of the UK's political and media class – going to start acknowledging reality? WHEN ....?

Ultraprocessed food isn't a coherent scientific concept and the attempts to formalize it have been a joke, as with the scale used in this study. Slice a potato and bake it: Unprocessed (Group 1) Slice a potato and fry it: "Ultraprocessed" (Group 4) Nuts: Unprocessed Nuts, salted: "Processed" (Group 3) Homogenized, pasteurized milk: Unprocessed Milk churned with sugar into ice cream: "Processed" This is a search for a scientific-sounding language to describe why one set of foods is nutritionally suspect, but in moralizing terms of how it was created by an industrial system, rather than characterizing food impacts directly by nutritional content or satiety. They can't just call the system "added sugar" because that's too obvious and not morally satisfying.

At no point did I know what the next word would be.

Training for a marathon will never make you look like a rail-thin runner unless you want to and you take fairly drastic measures to do so. Similarly, you will never get “too big” from lifting weights unless you want to and you take fairly drastic measures to do so.

@AlanJLSmith Isn’t most of this increase welfare, specifically state pensions?

UK government spending per person: 2004: ~£8k Today: ~£18.6k Even after inflation that’s ~40% higher. Two decades of the internet. Cloud. AI. Automation. Yet public service productivity is still below 2019. Where did the efficiency gains go?

purely technically it's pretty easy to get rich as a nation, you just need rule of law, basic property rights and a functional court system. the weird question is rather why these basic features are so rare on a global scale.

@JMZiermann @Tuomasss @tomcron @DavidDack If a young adult is unable to run a mile, they’re definitely not healthy.

@Tuomasss @tomcron @DavidDack Nope - many of my students are healthy young adults without the ability to run a mile 😉… sedentary lifestyle …

If you’re thinking about goals for 2026, I’m going to suggest something simple. Sub 30 5K. Sub 60 10K. Sub 2 hour half. Sub 4 hour marathon. Not because the internet will clap. Not because it sounds impressive at dinner. But because those benchmarks usually mean you’ve built a solid engine. Consistent training. Decent strength. Good habits. The kind that carry into the rest of your life. When I chase times like that, I’m not chasing ego. I’m chasing capacity. Heart health. Durability. The ability to keep showing up year after year without falling apart. It’s not about being elite. It’s about being strong enough to age well. Which one of those feels within reach for you right now? #running

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The way Ozempic has triggered naturally skinny people is v funny

@trinity2pointO Rogue R&D lead: (hits blunt) "OK, but it's like a Concept 2, but you only use your ass" Keltec Consultant: "Brother, you should come work for us."

This is the most personal thing I've published. I've been taking low-dose tirzepatide for 2 years. Not for weight loss. Not for diabetes. I'm a physician who made a calculated bet on the multi-organ potential of this drug class. I know how some colleagues will read this. I know exactly how the internet will reduce it: "Doctor admits to using Ozempic for productivity." That's not what this is. But staying silent felt worse than being misunderstood. ⚠️ I don't endorse others doing what I've done — my clinical background affords a level of informed consent that most people don't have. Full piece → substance-over-noise.beehiiv.com/p/special-edit…

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