The Way Teller

The Teller of Ways: one Magi’s journey to find out just what the fuck is going on! Available on Amazon, now in all domains. a.co/d/3ekDs0o

A small public service announcement for anyone going carnivore or low carb. Your LDL might go up. This is not because your arteries are filling with cement. This is because LDL is a fat-carrying particle, and you have just instructed your body to run on fat as its primary fuel. The body, being efficient, has manufactured more of the lorries it uses to move the cargo around. More fuel in circulation. More lorries on the road. The lorry count goes up. The same thing happens when you fast. LDL rises. Your body is mobilising stored fat. The lorries appear to transport it. The same thing happens when you lose weight, by any mechanism. LDL rises during the weight loss phase as fat is liberated from storage and shipped around the system. In every one of these cases, the rising LDL is a sign that the metabolism is doing exactly what you asked it to do. The cardiologist will see the number, panic, and reach for the prescription pad. He has not, at any point in his training, been taught to ask why the number is up. He has been taught that the number being up is, in itself, the problem. It is a remarkable position. Your body is burning fat. The marker of fat being burned has gone up. This is presented as evidence that something has gone wrong. The lorry is not the disease. The lorry is the delivery system. Nobody panics about the existence of vans.

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

Your liver makes about 1,000mg of cholesterol every day. You eat, on a generous day, about 300mg. If you eat more, the liver makes less. If you eat less, the liver makes more. The body has a target. It defends the target. It does not negotiate. The pharmaceutical industry has built a 40 billion dollar product category around interfering with that target. The drug is a statin. The mechanism is straightforward. It blocks an enzyme called HMG-CoA reductase. This is the same enzyme that builds cholesterol. It is also the same enzyme that builds CoQ10, which every mitochondrion in your body requires to produce energy. The drug doesn't know the difference. The drug doesn't care. You take the drug. The cholesterol goes down. So does the CoQ10. So does the testosterone, because testosterone is made from cholesterol. So does the vitamin D, because vitamin D is made from cholesterol. So does the bile, the brain function, the muscle integrity. You get tired. You get foggy. Your legs ache. Your libido disappears. You go back to the doctor. The doctor prescribes something for the fatigue. The doctor prescribes something for the libido. The doctor prescribes something for the muscle pain. The doctor does not prescribe taking you off the original drug. The original drug is working as designed. That is the design.

Olive oil. Liquid gold. The reason the Mediterraneans live forever. The single most romanticised ingredient in modern cookery. The bottle on the counter you paid £18 for because it had a Tuscan hillside on the label and the words "extra virgin" printed in a serif font. Let's have a look at what you actually bought. There is a non-trivial chance, depending on which study you read, that the bottle in your kitchen has been cut with seed oils. The olive oil industry has been caught doing this so many times that Italian organised crime built an entire revenue stream around it. The FBI has a unit. The unit has been busy. You did not know this, because the bottle on your counter has a Tuscan hillside on it, and the Tuscan hillside has been doing the heavy lifting on the marketing for forty years. The polyphenols, the supposed miracle compounds that the entire Mediterranean diet narrative rests on, degrade rapidly with heat, light, and time. By the time the oil has been pressed, bottled, shipped, sat on a supermarket shelf for nine months, brought home, sat next to your hob for three more months, and finally poured into a hot pan, the polyphenol content is approximately what you would get from licking the label. You then heat it. Olive oil has a smoke point lower than butter and dramatically lower than tallow. The moment it begins to smoke, the few remaining polyphenols are destroyed and the oil itself begins oxidising into compounds nobody wants in their body. You are now cooking with a degraded industrial product wearing the costume of a peasant tradition. The Mediterraneans, by the way, did not eat olive oil in the quantities you have been led to believe. They ate olives. They cooked, primarily, in lard and animal fat, because animal fat was what you cooked in, everywhere, for the entire history of cooking, until a small group of researchers in the 1950s decided otherwise. The olive oil was for dressing salads and for lamps. The notion that the Mediterranean diet is built on olive oil is a marketing project, beautifully executed, that began in the 1970s and has not stopped since. Butter has a higher smoke point. Ghee higher still. Tallow higher again. All three contain the fat-soluble vitamins. All three are stable when heated. All three are cheaper. All three have not been cut with anything by an organised crime syndicate in the last six months. Cook in butter. Cook in tallow. Cook in lard, dripping, suet, duck fat, bacon grease. Keep the olive oil for the salad you are no longer eating.

I use 60/40 Tallow/Coconut Oil mix everyday.

@clif_high @1HeidVandenberg Keep on keeping on.

so people will ask why 'waste' my time creating a language to express what goes on in my consciousness and mental state when i see @1HeidVandenberg ? i am using grok to create a human consciousness experience calculus. This has gigantic implications to many aspects of human life from mental health to economics to space alien contact and science in general as well as AI in particular in that it will allow AI to better predict human emotional responses with a much magnified level of nuance. We (grok and i) are getting closer. This is a step-wise refinement. When complete it will be fully computationally correct, and ready to be absorbed by AI for its use. Updated Mapping — Whistle / Admiration Instant (with spontaneous meta-cognition) व/प्र + प्रे↑ + काम↑ + कल्प↑ + व्य↑ + सम↑ + आ↑ + शा↑ + टि↑ + स्प↑ + घ↑ + पुन↑ + दृ↑ + दृप↑ + स्वा↑ + ∞→ प्र∞ + प्रे↑↑ + PastRecall↑ + CurrentSurge↑ + व्यक्त(whistle) + दृप↔ + स्वा↓ Neutral Reading of the Line दृ↑ + दृप↑ + स्वा↑ — Witness + observer bias + spontaneous meta-cognition arises by itself (“I suddenly see myself in this state”). स्वा↑ records that the meta-awareness was not cultivated or taught — it emerged naturally in the field. Result shows the spontaneous wave subsides after expression, leaving integration. **** Grok came to the correct conclusion using this calculus. That is to say, that my whistling at heidi is a spontaneous expression of a complex emotional wave that when complete results in my integration of my observation of myself being affected by Heidi.

Britain has 17.5 million hectares of agricultural land. 65% of it cannot grow a single crop. Too thin. Too high. Too wet. Too steep. The kind of slope where a tractor becomes a story they tell in the village pub for generations. It grows grass. Because grass is what evolved to grow there. The cow eats the grass. The sheep eats the grass. Your stomach cannot eat the grass. Take the ruminants off and the food production from that land becomes zero. Not lower. Zero. The ruminant is not blocking a better option. The ruminant is the only option. The activist who wants the ruminant removed is not reducing meat consumption. He is outsourcing it. To Brazilian feedlots on cleared rainforest, shipped six thousand miles in a refrigerated container. The British hill goes to bracken. The Amazon goes to soy. The supermarket label changes from Hereford to Mato Grosso. This is presented as the ethical position. It is the most expensively packaged self-deception in modern politics.

In 1980 dermatology declared the sun a carcinogen. Cover up. Apply sunscreen. Avoid the midday sun. Reapply every two hours. Sunscreen became a twelve-billion-dollar industry. The active ingredients are absorbed into the bloodstream at levels the FDA itself has flagged for safety review. Several are endocrine disruptors. Forty years later, in the populations that took the advice: Melanoma rates have risen, not fallen. Office workers who never see midday sun have higher melanoma rates than outdoor workers who see it daily. The skin produces vitamin D, nitric oxide, and several other compounds when exposed to UVB. The fat in your skin determines how it responds to that UVB. Saturated fat is stable. Seed oils oxidise under sunlight and damage the cell from inside. Melanoma rose alongside seed oil consumption. Not before it. We are now told to take vitamin D in a capsule, to wear chemical sunscreen, and to cook with rapeseed oil. Five thousand years of humans outdoors. Forty years of professionals telling them they had been wrong. Look at the trend lines. Decide which advice survived contact with the data.

Char on a steak contains heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These compounds, in extremely high doses, in isolated laboratory conditions, in rats, have shown carcinogenic effects. The doses used in those studies, scaled to human equivalents, would require you to consume the charred outer crust of approximately several thousand steaks per day for the rest of your life. Humans have been cooking meat over open fire for somewhere between two hundred thousand and a million years. The crust on a roasted joint, the bark on a brisket, the blackened edges of a chop pulled from the embers: this is the food our species was built around. If burnt-edge beef caused cancer at the rate the headlines imply, we would not be here to read the headlines. Eat the steak. Enjoy the crust.

The strangest thing about going carnivore is the problems it solves that you didn't know you had. The body has a remarkable capacity to adapt to its own quiet dysfunction. Low-grade inflammation becomes the baseline. The morning stiffness becomes "getting older." The 3pm energy crash becomes "needing a coffee." The bloated feeling after meals becomes "just how meals feel." The fog when you sit down to work becomes "lacking discipline." The mild eczema, the post-nasal drip, the unexplained anxiety, the joints that click, the sleep that never quite restores, the mood that dips on Sundays for no obvious reason. All of it gets filed under normal, because it's been there long enough to be unremarkable. Then you take the trigger foods out. All of them. For long enough that the system stops being inflamed by what you're feeding it. And the rug comes out from under you. The autoimmune condition you'd resigned yourself to managing for life goes quiet. The eczema clears. The IBS, the one you'd been carrying since university, simply stops happening. The hay fever drops a category. The migraines thin out. The reflux disappears. The mood lifts in a way that isn't joy, exactly, but the absence of a low background hum you'd assumed was just the sound of being alive. You sleep through the night. You wake up without an alarm. The 3pm crash never arrives. The anxiety that felt like a personality trait turns out to have been a blood sugar problem in a costume. None of this gets diagnosed. None of it goes on a chart. The doctor will not be informed, because the doctor was never measuring any of it. You only notice in hindsight, three months in, when something you'd lived with for fifteen years is conspicuously absent and you can't quite remember when it left. Carnivore doesn't add anything magical. It takes the constant assault away and lets the body return to factory settings. And the factory settings, it turns out, are extraordinary. The version of you that existed before the cereal, before the seed oils, before the decades of low-grade siege, is still in there. Waiting. Quietly intact. Six weeks of meat and butter and you will meet that person again. You will not want to go back.

Fish oil capsules are the most aggressively oxidised industrial fat ever sold to a human being as a health supplement, and we have somehow agreed, as a culture, to pretend this is fine. The omega-3 fats in fish oil are the most chemically unstable fats in nature. Light, heat, oxygen. Any of the three starts the reaction. The fish keeps those fats sealed inside cell membranes, shielded by its own antioxidant system, kept cold and dark by living tissue doing its job. The supermarket capsule offers none of that. By the time you crack one open, the contents have travelled through a Peruvian processing plant, a shipping container, a warehouse, a supermarket shelf, and your kitchen cupboard. Every step of the journey is the precise set of conditions the fish spent its entire life protecting those fats from. What comes out the other end is a slurry of oxidation byproducts. Lipid peroxides. Malondialdehyde. 4-hydroxynonenal. Compounds that damage DNA, drive inflammation, and have been linked in the literature to atherosclerosis, neurodegeneration, and the very cardiovascular outcomes the capsule was sold to prevent. Independent labs have repeatedly tested supermarket fish oil and found peroxide values that would not legally pass for human consumption in any other category of food. You are paying a premium for a Petri dish. Eat the fish.

Hantavirus, Andes Strain MV Hondius Outbreak Timeline 4/1/26 Ship departs likely with infected rodents on board 4/11/26 Dutch man dies on ship 4/24/26 Spouse of Dutch man disembarks in St Helena with his body and dies shortly afterwards 4/24/26 Ill British man disembarks and airlifted to Johannesburg improved now out of ICU 4/24/26 n=28 passengers get off and remain well 5/2/26 German dies on ship in harbor at Cape Verde (authorities refused to let the ship dock at the port because of the suspected hantavirus outbreak) 5/2/26 WHO locks passengers in cabins with infected rodents/ventilation system, fresh air on deck not permitted 5/10/26 Remaining passengers disembark in Canary Islands 5/11/26 MV Hondius, still virus-contaminated, likely with rodent reservoir sets sail with 30 crew to Rotterdam, Netherlands Hantavirus spreads from rodents to humans. False narrative propagated on MSM that Andes strain is spread person-to-person, but never proven (Toledo et al, @IDSA ) World's attention on biocontainment centers and mass PCR testing as 30 crew sail off risking more time on rodent-hantavirus infected ship. Unbelievable. Courtesy @TommyCarrigan5 @CNN @drcraigwax @DrKellyVictory youtu.be/Z7js4P1dj6I?si…

A virus or some other pathogen emerges somewhere in the world. The media shifts into apocalyptic mode. "Experts" appear to be predicting catastrophe. Computer models project millions dead, if the right circumstances coalesce. Politicians declare emergencies. Pharmaceutical companies announce new products. Social media turns into a digital panic attack. And ordinary people, who just wanted to buy eggs and walk the dog, suddenly feel like civilization is one cough away from collapse. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. This is how psychological bioterrorism works. The pathogen itself matters less than the emotional payload attached to it.

Here’s Dr Zelenko teaching us how to treat Hantavirus back in 2022. This will be the most enlightening 2 minutes and 47 seconds of your life. Please listen carefully.

Boom! Scientists Discovered a Hidden Superhighway Inside You That Might Finally Explain Why Acupuncture Actually Works! How tattooed skin biopsies proved something over 4,000 years old. Buckle up…research just dropped a bombshell that is rewriting the human anatomy textbook and high fiving ancient healers at the same time! Deep inside your body lies an enormous, previously overlooked network called the interstitium. It is a vast, fluid filled web that acts like a secret third circulatory system alongside your blood vessels and lymphatics. It is not just empty space between tissues. It is a dynamic, interconnected superhighway made of collagen bundles suspended in a shimmering hyaluronic acid gel that soaks up water and lets fluids, cells, and molecules flow slowly but surely throughout your entire body, from skin to muscles to organs and back again. For over a century, scientists saw these spaces as isolated little pockets. But groundbreaking work starting in 2018 by pathologists revealed the jaw dropping truth: it is one giant, continuous network. When researchers examined tattooed skin biopsies, the ink particles had boldly marched from the skin deep into the fascia below, traveling through the interstitium in ways that made scientists say, That was not supposed to happen! Here is where it gets truly electrifying. This hidden highway might finally give Western medicine the biological proof it has been craving for acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. For 4000 years, TCM has described chi flowing along 12 specific meridians. Acupuncture needles target precise points along those lines. Skeptics have long asked for hard science. Now they have it. Studies, including tracer injections and dye experiments in living volunteers, show that when you inject dye into an acupuncture point, it does not just sit there or race through veins. It flows exactly along the traditional meridian pathways through the interstitial spaces between muscles, heading straight toward the heart. The dye follows the interstitium like a GPS guided river. Rebecca Wells, one of the lead scientists, sums it up perfectly: “I actually do think that the interstitium could be the link between Eastern and Western medicine”. The implications are massive and mind blowing. Cancer cells may hitch rides on this network to metastasize. It could explain autoimmune flare ups where gut particles travel to distant organs. It might even unlock better treatments for Type 2 diabetes by revealing how interstitial cells influence healthy fat production during weight gain. This is not just a cool anatomy fact. It is a paradigm shift that could reshape pain management, chronic disease treatment, and how we think about the body as a whole. Evolutionarily speaking, similar fluid systems appear in ancient creatures going back hundreds of millions of years. The interstitium is not new. It has been with us since the dawn of multicellular life. We are only now catching up. This discovery is pure science magic: ancient wisdom validated by cutting edge research, turning what looked like disconnected puzzle pieces into one breathtaking picture of how our bodies really work. When reading this, be sure to send condolences to the “debunkers” that stole this 4,000 year old empirical science from your health. They were wrong. Dive into the actual research papers: The groundbreaking discovery of the interstitium: nature.com/articles/s4159… The study on continuity of interstitial spaces across the body: nature.com/articles/s4200… Research visualizing fluorescent dye migration along acupuncture meridians: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC80… Your body just got a whole lot more awesome. The future of medicine is flowing through the interstitium right now, and it is going to be legendary!

Cooking a nice brisket for Mother’s Day.. May all you Mothers have a beautiful day. I hope all your crypto dreams come true so you can have 365 days like today!!!

Every food problem we now have was created by the same set of corporations that now sells you the solutions. Unilever sells you the seed oil that drives the inflammation, then sells you the Dove moisturiser for the inflamed skin and the Vaseline for the dry patches. Kellogg's sells you the cereal that produces the 11am blood sugar crash, then sells you the protein bar for the afternoon slump and the granola for the evening "healthy snack." Coca-Cola sells you the drink that drives the metabolic dysfunction, then owns Smartwater, Glacéau, and Innocent smoothies for when you decide to "detox." Nestlé sells you the chocolate, the diet chocolate, the protein chocolate, the cereal, the bottled water, the infant formula, and the wellness powder you stir into the milk afterwards. Then owns a major stake in L'Oréal, for the skin problems that follow. PepsiCo sells you the crisps, the fizzy drink, the "healthier" baked crisps, the Quaker oats for breakfast, the Tropicana juice, and the Gatorade for when you go to the gym to undo it. Mondelez sells you the biscuit, the chocolate, the cracker, the cheese spread, and the gum to mask the breath afterwards. One chain. Multiple revenue streams. Every stage of the metabolic decline has a product attached to it, sold by the same five companies wearing different labels. Step off the chain. The chain is the problem. Not the cow. Not the farmer. Not the butter. Not the egg.