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@DNIGabbard God Bless you and your Husband🙏

Show me your purple 💜

@TheQueenofKa Is it spicy? I want some. Lol.

I make for lunch today🥰😋😋😋 Arooiiii Mak ka

@dnarunner @nicknorwitz I think he said he got a full ride.

@nicknorwitz My only question is, how do you make enough money to pay off all that education?

I wanted to give a big community shoutout and thank you, specifically in response to my personal disclosure at the end of Monday’s video. In fact, and as a disclosure about the disclosure, there’s now a “Catch Me Up on This Video” AI tool in YouTube Studio. One of the things it highlighted was that my vulnerability regarding my career path and health journey led to a massive wave of support. It even suggested doing a community post going deeper into that personal transition. So, for those of you who are interested, that’s what this post is about. 👉If you check out the video and go to the timestamp where I discuss it (12:54 in the video linked in the quoted post), you can hear the emotion in my voice. ♥️Okay... here goes everything... For me, my journey into medicine started almost as soon as I was verbal. My parents are both MD-PhDs, and there have been many other doctors in my life. I had always aspired to be a caregiver. I loved science, and I loved helping people — whether that meant raising money for polar bear conservation through my “Baking for Bears” club benefiting the World Wildlife Fund, or serving as a camp counselor for kids with muscular dystrophy. Human connection is something I deeply value. And I’m obviously a giant nerd. So combining the science of the human body and helping people, through the profession of medicine, felt like the only thing I could ever imagine doing. It was my default path. Then, as many of you know, during the transition between college and starting my PhD, and before medical school, I got very sick. And I mean very sick. I was in and out of intensive care and palliative care. And the profession I had so much respect for — and still do — failed me. I’m not pointing fingers at any individual clinician, but the system failed me. The tools available at the time were not sufficient to put my disease into remission. And when the status quo fails, patients often end up discarded and desperate. That’s where I was. And that’s where many of you are or were. Or, perhaps worse, have a loved one who has been there or is there. When this happens, people start trying things out of desperation, not expectation, including things considered fringe by the mainstream. And let me be clear: just because something is not “evidence-based” in the conventional sense does not mean it lacks biological validity. Sometimes it simply hasn’t been studied adequately because there is no business model or institutional incentive to study it. That was my case. Through self-experimentation, I found something that saved my life: a ketogenic diet for inflammatory bowel disease. There are still no large randomized controlled trials proving this works broadly. But it absolutely, unequivocally worked for me. So that became my framing entering medical school: someone who respected medicine deeply, but who also understood its limitations because I had lived them. Then life threw me a number of curveballs during medical school. And by the end, I realized I had many opportunities to do what I had ultimately wanted to do all along: help people improve their health through science. When I started medical school, I thought the only way to do that was to become a practicing clinician. But with the democratization of information, social media, and the networks I had built, I realized there are many ways to contribute to what I think of as “the new medicine” — a broader and evolving framework that involves patients far more directly in the conversation. So, as I’ve now disclosed several times, I never applied to residency. Not because I couldn’t have. And I don’t mean to flex my resume, but in this context it probably does matter. I was valedictorian at an Ivy League school. I earned a PhD from Oxford on a full merit scholarship. I attended Harvard Medical School. I even had a residency program director at Harvard-affiliated hospitals willing to write me a letter of recommendation. The door was wide open. By this point, "become a clinician" was the path of least resistance. But it's not the one I chose, knowing full well that would take me from being as much as an insider as one could be to being an outsider, as least in some sense. The path I took risked everything I had worked for in order to try something unconventional. And no, this wasn’t just about becoming a YouTuber or social media influencer. It was about trying to create real change. To build platforms and programs that empower patients, educate people, and help individuals take ownership of their health journeys. To encourage people to become leaders in their own health rather than placing blind faith in some supposedly omniscient authority figure. And even with everything that has transpired over the past year since graduation — much of which I’m not yet ready to share — I am 100% confident this was the right decision for me. Not only am I happier than I’ve ever been, but I genuinely believe that, given my skill set and interests, this path will allow me to have a far greater impact on both individual and public health than anything else I could have done. Like I said, there are initiatives in the works far bigger than a YouTube channel or social media platforms. But my public presence has already opened doors to some incredibly interesting professional connections, and I intend to leverage those relationships toward my broader mission: making metabolic health mainstream and inspiring people to stay curious and recognize the power they often don’t realize they have to improve their own health. Not in opposition to medicine — but as part of the evolution of what medicine can become. And, I'm only going to be able to do this with your support.  So, thank you... from the bottom of my perfectly healthy heart. Finally, if this resonated with you, do me a solid.:Take the time to watch the video (linked below) if you haven't, and leave a comment or share it with someone. Not even for the science, to stroke my ego or the algorithm, but because I want people who feel alone to know that change is coming in medicine. There's too much of a bottom-up groundswell and freedom of information to not see optimism in the future. Thank you.

The same fake framing is always used by the left on taxes. If only so and so paid more, then we could fund some emotionally compelling program or benefit for students, families, or whoever else. It is rhetorically powerful, as the retweets and likes here show, but it is also totally vacuous. You could just as easily reverse the argument and say that if Gavin Newsom had not burned $120 billion on a train to nowhere, Californians could already have free this or that. The point that almost never gets made is the one that actually matters. The government could fund everything it currently funds with a fraction of the money it already takes in. It could fund vastly more with existing revenue alone. The reason it cannot is that enormous portions of that money disappear into bureaucracy, waste, grift, and outright fraud. Until that is fixed, every tax debate is just an argument over how much more money to feed into a broken machine.

@capricekayem Have you ever put out a post that talks about how you manage a position once you are in it?

if i do it this week ill give you guys $1,000 😘 thanks $AMD

All Cornyn had to do to keep his seat was pass the Save America Act. All GOP leadership had to do to save him was pass the Save America Act. All McConnell had to do to protect Cornyn was pass the Save America Act. They all refused, because passing the Save America Act would’ve meant working more than a few hours a day for three days a week. And now they cry about muh Senate being ungovernable? It’s genuinely hilarious.

Speaker Johnson screw you for asking the American people for a Congressional raise . Your salary $223k isn’t enough? Go play in traffic! You guys do a lousy job! I’ll do the job for less! #250_Revolution

@Eliza_8828 Yes, if it has plenty of butter.

@TheGoozer68 No, I didn t eat any but would you like to try some?😜😜

I forgot I was baking bread today and it ended up like this by accident 😢😂😅

Good morning 😃

Women think it’s a God-Given right for them to create pornography but a mortal sin for men to then consume it.

True

Where are you @SenEricSchmitt ? Where are you @SenRonJohnson ? Where are you @SenJohnKennedy ? Where are you @SenTuberville ? Where are you @SenTedCruz ? Where are you @SenRickScott Where are you @SenatorCotton ? We only need 5 to nominate a REAL Leader ???

@MandyLSimard Sasquatch!

POV: You’re hidden out in the wilderness, camera ready for wildlife to appear. What animal would you be hoping to see?

The Supreme Court should not be “balanced” or seek to give wins to “both sides.” Its job is to correctly interpret the law. If one side keeps advancing interpretations of the law that are incorrect, they should lose more often.

It has been a huge pleasure to watch Rocky grow like this

@KirasEpicTrades Impressive comeback! It has been great to follow along.

Here's an update on my stats:

Someone at the CIA is actively undermining an executive order @CIA. I suggest you figure out who and quick. Punitive action incoming.

Very well said.