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@EO_Nutrition "only two small trials using 'pharmacological doses' of thiamine for PD, the results are extremely promising" What is that dose? @MelRoBuilds

Thiamine is probably the most neglected nutrient for heart health. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26497757/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30928321/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16412860/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29360523/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17157711/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10842416/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23910704/

🚨 Mind-blowing medical breakthrough: Liver tumors are literally being DISSOLVED using focused sound waves – no cuts, no chemo side effects, just precision ultrasound that turns cancer into liquid the body clears away! This is changing the game for patients who couldn’t have surgery before. (Videos & Sources below 👇) In 2026, a groundbreaking non-invasive treatment called histotripsy is gaining traction for dissolving liver tumors using focused ultrasound waves (essentially high-intensity sound waves). It mechanically liquifies the tumor tissue into a form the body can naturally absorb, without surgery, needles, radiation, or significant damage to surrounding healthy tissue. FDA-cleared since 2023 (with expanded use and real-world adoption ramping up in 2025-2026), it’s now offered at various hospitals for primary and metastatic liver tumors. Who’s ready for the future of cancer treatment? 🔥 Here are some videos explaining/demonstrating it (verified from recent hospital and health system sources): •University of Chicago Medicine’s explainer on how histotripsy destroys liver tumors with focused ultrasound: youtube.com/watch?v=LEn7Sk… •Sutter Health’s video on their revolutionary noninvasive ultrasound treatment for liver tumors: facebook.com/SutterHealth/v…
(Highlights precision destruction without surgery!) •Allina Health’s reel showing histotripsy in action and patient hope: instagram.com/reel/DUutGxuAJ…
 This tech (via HistoSonics’ Edison system) has shown strong results in trials like #HOPE4LIVER, with high success rates in tumor destruction and low complications. It’s outpatient, precise, and even shows promise for immune-boosting effects against other cancer sites. Verified link sources: •Focused Ultrasound Foundation on liver tumors treatment (updated 2026): fusfoundation.org/diseases-and-c… •Johns Hopkins Medicine article on histotripsy offering new hope (2026): hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/… •Allina Health news on new ultrasound treatment liquefying tumors (Jan 2026): allinahealth.org/allina-news/20… •Hackensack Meridian Health on non-invasive ultrasound for liver tumors (Jan 2026): hackensackmeridianhealth.org/en/news/2026/0… •HistoSonics official site (developer): histosonics.com Always consult a doctor for personal medical advice – this is emerging tech but not suitable for everyone. What do you think – sci-fi becoming reality? Drop thoughts below! 🚀

"Health Canada" Approves Lab Grown Milk For 2026 Mass Production To Replace Dairy Cows & Cause "The Most Profound Disruption Of The Agriculture Sector." Agenda 2030 Right On Track.

This is incredible. This machine is capable of cleaning up 100 million kg of plastic ocean waste, and as of 2025, it has already collected about 500,000 kg of plastic. It aims to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.

Raw kidney beans: five of them will hospitalise you. Raw cassava: kills people regularly in food-insecure regions if not processed correctly. Raw elderberries: cyanide compounds. Toxic without cooking. Raw potatoes: solanine. Neurological symptoms in quantity. Raw grain: mycotoxins, lectins, phytates. Requires processing to be safely edible. Raw spinach: oxalates that accumulate in soft tissue with regular use. Raw ribeye: safe. Eaten raw across cultures throughout history. No processing required. The plant kingdom is defending itself. This is not metaphor. The chemistry is real and documented. You don't have to cook a steak to avoid hospital. You absolutely have to cook a red kidney bean.

In a trial of Natural desiccated thyroid (T3 + T4) vs levothyroxine (T4), hypothyroid symptoms were significantly higher in the T4 group. When taking T4, common hypothyroid symptoms were higher than when taking NDT: -constipation = 2.9× higher -headache = 3.7× higher -muscle cramps = 6.5× higher -depression =2.7× higher -delayed achilles reflex = 2.2x higher -rheumatoid = 2.7× higher -cold = 3.6× higher -fatigue = 2.5x higher Unlike most modern approaches which dose based on TSH, the study dosed NDT based on symptoms. The researchers noted that patients who had been removed from NDT and placed on T4 by their doctor “presented with the same symptoms as before. Renewed treatment with NDT corrected the situation.” (Baisier, 2001) “(levo)Thyroxine itself has little or no biological activity, and tissue effects attributed to T4 can indeed only be explained by conversion of T4 into T3. The cell receptors exclusively bind T3.” The dosing protocol for NDT (~4:1 T4:T3) was as follows: -dose increased by 30mg/day every 2 weeks -treatment adjusted for first time only after 2.5 months, later after 3 months -adjust based on symptoms -end doses varied between 150-300mg/day after 4.5-72 months -used in the study began with 30 Free T3 in urine was nearly 2.5 times higher in patients switched to NDT (1900-1990). “Combined T4 + T3 treatment is definitely more efficient than T4 treatment alone. Since the TSH is chiefly regulated by feedback from the inactive prohormone T4, rather than with the active hormone T3, the reliable 24 h urine free T3 test should preferably be used instead… It is probable that practitioners who rely more on serum tests (TSH and free t4) than on clinical signs and 24hr urine free t3 do not prescribe a sufficient dose of thyroid hormone to obtain satisfactory results.”

Bifidobacteria — the one microbe almost EVERYONE is missing — and it’s vanishing from newborns to old age, from healthy brains to Alzheimer’s, autism, long COVID, cancer, Crohn’s, Lyme, vaccine injury. Dr. Sabine Hazan: “When bifidobacteria disappears, disease shows up. Newborns have tons of it. Nursing home residents have zero. The process of aging is really this loss of bifidobacteria.” Her lab found: - Vitamin C boosts it - High-quality bovine immunoglobulins (clean, no antibiotics/hormones) restore it - Pandemic-era stool samples show massive disappearance She believes this single microbe may be central to longevity — and we’ve demolished it with stress, toxins, division, fear. Bifidobacteria dominate infant gut (up to 90% in breastfed babies), produce short-chain fatty acids that cross the blood-brain barrier, reduce inflammation, support serotonin/dopamine pathways, and inhibit pathogenic overgrowth. Levels drop dramatically with age, antibiotics, stress, processed food — correlating with nearly every chronic modern disease. Do you supplement or eat fermented foods specifically to support bifidobacteria? Or have you noticed changes in gut health / mood / energy since the pandemic? Your experience 👇

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BREAKING: A video on TikTok denying climate change has been ordered REMOVED under the EU Digital Services Act for being "misinformation" against "well established scientific consensus" This despite the user account of the video wasn't even in the European Union Global censorship

I used to think the social media videos I saw about the food in other countries were BS, until I went to Italy for a week. One full week of eating pasta, pizza, steak and gelato…I came home down 7lbs. We are being poisoned. It really is that simple.

German political leader Alice Weidel: “They flood our countries with illegal migrants and force our own people to feed & house them, all while terrorism stalks our street, crime explodes, & Islamic extremism takes root.”

Rat poison sales need to drop to zero. Every owl you see is eating 1,000+ rodents a year. Every hawk you see is keeping pests in check. Quit poisoning them. 🦉

THE THIAMINE BIBLE is out. A deep look into one of my favorite nutrients, and how it may change your life. Link in reply.

Don’t miss this tomorrow night… look west after sunset. A thin crescent Moon is going to slide right up next to the Pleiades (the “Seven Sisters”), and it’s one of those simple, quiet times. Just step outside and look up after sunset. You’ll see that soft sliver of moonlight sitting beside a tiny cluster of shimmering blue stars.

One more reason why everyone with cardiovascular disease should be taking VITAMIN B1 Brand new study identifies NOVEL function of thiamine/vitamin B1: High levels of TPP inhibit blood clot formation (arterial thrombosis) !!! This ONLY applies to supraphysiological levels --> achieved via supplementation **Might this be why high doses work so well in Long-COVID?** "Our study demonstrated that supraphysiological TPP exerts multitargeted effects by synergistically suppressing PI3K-Akt/GSK3β and P38/ERK-MAPK axes. These findings reveal a novel biological function of TPP and suggest that this endogenous nutrient could be a promising antiplatelet drug for the prevention of thrombosis, highlighting the intersection between nutrition and cardiovascular health." DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2026.124347

IRON EXCESS IS A PROBLEM Walk into any pharmacy. Scan the supplement aisle. Every multivitamin bottle gleams with the promise of iron. Your prenatal vitamin doubles down. Your doctor checks your hemoglobin at your annual physical, nods approvingly, and sends you on your way. Nobody mentions the iron accumulating in your liver. Your heart. Your brain. Not iron deficiency. Iron excess. And it's far more common, far more dangerous, and far more ignored than the anemia everyone obsesses over. Your body has no regulated mechanism for excreting excess iron. Unlike sodium, potassium, or calcium, iron goes in and stays in. Your intestines absorb it. Ferritin stores it. Transferrin shuttles it around. When those storage proteins hit capacity, the iron starts floating around unbound. Free iron isn't a nutrient at that point. It's a wrecking ball. There's a reaction called the Fenton reaction. Discovered over a century ago. Simple chemistry that explains why iron overload is so catastrophic. When ferrous iron meets hydrogen peroxide inside your cells, it rips the peroxide apart. The result? A hydroxyl radical. Hydroxyl radicals are among the most destructive molecules in biology. They're so reactive they attack whatever is closest. Your DNA. Your proteins. Most critically, the fats that make up your cell membranes. This isn't theoretical. This is happening right now, proportional to how much free iron is circulating in your tissues. Remember polyunsaturated fats? The seed oils? The "heart-healthy" omega-6s with their unstable double bonds? Here's what happens when excess iron meets those fragile PUFAs in your cell membranes. The hydroxyl radicals attack the double bonds. This triggers lipid peroxidation. The fats in your cell membranes start rusting from the inside. This produces toxic byproducts like malondialdehyde and 4-hydroxynonenal. These compounds are themselves highly damaging. In 2012, researchers at Columbia University identified this iron-dependent destruction of cells and gave it a name: ferroptosis. Published in Cell, their work established ferroptosis as a distinct form of cell death, separate from apoptosis. It's now implicated in neurodegeneration, liver disease, cancer, and cardiovascular damage. Iron provides the spark. PUFA provides the fuel. Your cell membranes burn. The mainstream nutrition establishment tells you to consume more of both. A 2014 study in the Journals of Gerontology tracked 12,458 adults for 12 years. Men with ferritin above 300 ng/mL and women above 200 ng/mL had significantly higher all-cause mortality. The standard lab range for men goes up to 300-400 ng/mL. The "normal" range includes levels associated with dying sooner. The NHANES II data, published in Circulation in 2000, found that high body iron stores were associated with increased cardiovascular mortality, particularly in men. Jerome Sullivan proposed the iron hypothesis in 1981 in The Lancet. His theory? The lower risk of heart disease in premenopausal women wasn't about estrogen. It was about iron. Women lose blood monthly through menstruation, the body's only natural way of dumping excess iron. When menstruation stops, iron stores climb. Cardiovascular risk climbs with it. The Kuopio Ischemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 1998, tracked 2,682 men. Blood donors had significantly lower risk of acute myocardial infarction compared to non-donors. The mechanism? Reduced iron stores. Published. Peer-reviewed. Replicated across decades. It just doesn't sell multivitamins. Why does every multivitamin contain iron when iron overload is far more dangerous and far more common than iron deficiency in adult men and postmenopausal women? Why does the standard lab range for ferritin go so high that it includes levels associated with increased mortality? Why was Sullivan's iron hypothesis, published in 1981, never adopted into mainstream cardiology, even as the evidence continued to accumulate? Blood donation is the most direct route to reducing iron burden, but there are metabolic interventions that address the underlying cellular damage and energy production issues that make iron accumulation so destructive in the first place. I discuss them in the second part of this post.

Did you know Goodwill made $2.1 BILLION in revenue last year? They pay executives 6-figure salaries. They pay workers sometimes less than minimum wage via a legal loophole. They get their inventory donated for free then sell it back to the public. The thrift store for “poor people” is one of the most profitable nonprofits in the country.

The Crusades were not random wars of aggression. The Crusades were the Eastern Christian response to centuries of Islamic conquest. They were primarily defensive wars. In early Christianity there were five centers of high authority: Rome, Alexandria, Constantine, Antioch, and Jerusalem. Each one had a Bishop and administered a large region, both politically and religiously. The origins were Apostolic and the cities were the core seats of Christian authority. Islam rose out of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 600s. Almost immediately after consolidating power in Arabia, the Muslim state launched rapid military expansion against its neighbors from 632 onward. Islam took 3 out of 5 of the Patriarchal Holy Sees (Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem) in the 7th century. The Crusades were the Eastern counteroffensive. The Muslims had conquered the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and were in Tours, France by 732. It took over 700 years for the Spaniards to expel the invaders. The Reconquista was a parallel Western front. The Ottomans laid seige to central Europe for hundreds of years. They took the Balkans and Constantinople fell in 1453. Vlad Tepes of Wallachia (reimagined in modern times as the horror character Dracula) fought them off heroically for 6 years and drove them out of his principality. They laid seige on Vienna in 1529 and were expelled from Vienna 160 years later. Only Rome remained from the original Holy Sees after 1453 when Constantinople fell. Things you don't learn in school these days.