@TyMastersonKS freedom of speech for white men, good job Ty!
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John Thyfault (TeeFo)
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John Thyfault (TeeFo)
@john_thyfault
Our lab does research on exercise and metabolic health. I am passionate about family, friends, football, camping, music, KU Jayhawks, FHSU Tigers, and science!
Kansas, USA Katılım Nisan 2016
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Yesterday, TPUSA members from KU and K-State joined me in the Senate for the historic passage of the KIRK Act, six months to the day of Charlie’s tragic assassination. I will always defend our freedom of speech, and it was an honor to do so alongside TPUSA members that are keeping Charlie’s legacy alive.
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Today we celebrate registered dietitian nutritionists for their expert, evidence-based nutrition care in obesity and health research. #nationalnutritionmonth #RegisteredDietitianNutritionistDay #RDNs
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@TyMastersonKS what do you mean take back, you have had the majority or a super majority for what...30 years?
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Today, the Kansas Senate passed SB 339 which will require school districts to provide daily recess for Kansas kids, in addition to, requiring a yearly Kansas state fitness test. This bill is a common-sense MAHA measure that promotes the physical fitness of our children and encourages the formation of lifelong healthy habits. Let’s Take Back Kansas, and Make Kansas Kids Healthy Again!
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John Thyfault (TeeFo) retweetledi
Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. It’s slow, it tends to favor established labs and familiar names, and it gets uncomfortable around anything too unconventional. Papers loaded with mountains of data tend to cruise through, while bold ideas that actually challenge the consensus get stuck in limbo or turned away at the door.
The irony is that where a paper gets published almost never determines its real worth. What actually matters is what the scientific community does with it afterward, whether people cite it, argue with it, build on it, or use it to blow up a long-held assumption. That’s where the value lives, not in the journal’s logo.
A major survey a few years back found that roughly 70% of researchers think the current system is fundamentally broken, and it’s not hard to see why. Publicly funded research hides behind paywalls, editors chase whatever topic is hot that month, and the whole incentive structure pushes toward safe bets over genuinely risky and potentially important work.
Science has always been complicated and deeply human and full of ego and inertia, but the conversation is shifting.
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@TyMastersonKS Can you not do anything for Kansans that truly helps us? This does nothing.
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Today I had the privilege of carrying the KIRK Act on the Senate floor. It successfully passed with a super majority, and will honor Charlie Kirk’s legacy by protecting freedom of speech on our college campuses across the state.
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John Thyfault (TeeFo) retweetledi
Obesity is linked to at least 12 cancers.
Here’s part of the biology in @JAMA_current
Dysfunctional adipose tissue becomes a pro-tumor endocrine organ, driving insulin signaling, estrogen excess, chronic inflammation, and immune suppression.
In other words: obesity can help create the ecosystem cancer needs to grow.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… @OncoAlert
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@JasonSynaptic @PattyMurray getting most of us to quit science - that is the end game @JerryMoran - are you working on stopping this madness?
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OMB has still not released funds to the NIH as mandated by congress! This is just crazy stupid. What’s their end game?! @PattyMurray what is the senate doing about this?
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John Thyfault (TeeFo) retweetledi
Our translational science review on obesity and cancer is out today in @JAMA_current
Here, we delve into several mechanisms driving the relationship and look forward to seeing how the field evolves with the emergence of novel strategies for intervention.
@KUcancercenter
Eric Topol@EricTopol
Obesity and overweight are risk factors for several types of cancer. Why? A @JAMA_current review jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…
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John Thyfault (TeeFo) retweetledi
Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth’s Pentagon—the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.)
In other pricey food purchases, the government decided to drop $15.1 million for ribeye steak (again, just in September), $124,000 for ice cream machines, and $139,224 on 272 orders of doughnuts.
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John Thyfault (TeeFo) retweetledi
Day 5 of Obesity Care Week! Watch Dr. Stephen Cook's video and answer: ❓ What obesity research should lead the next decade? Comment or post your video! TOS 💜's obesity research! #CommitToCare #ObesityCareWeek #ObesityResearch #TheObesitySociety
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Word - physical health and confidence go hand in hand with learning.
John G. Patrick@Coachjgpatrick
The weight room is the most influential room in a school. It’s not a place to hang out — it’s a classroom. A place where habits are built, standards are set, and character is developed.
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John Thyfault (TeeFo) retweetledi
Woah. This is a bleak outlook.
Excellent analysis by @Jori_health shows the NIH grants being hit hardest are the very ones designed to bring new scientists into the system - small R, R21s, and K awards.
Dismantling the system one generation at a time.
Mukund Iyengar@mukundiyngr
The cuts aren’t random. They’re targeting on-ramps. When we zoom into 2026 funding decline by mechanism, the deepest cuts land on new ideas entering the system: ▪️Small R (R03 / R15) ↓81% ▪️R21 exploratory grants ↓73% ▪️Other high-variance mechanisms ↓70%+ If you want to stall science, this is exactly how. Meanwhile, among other news: ▪️R01s ↓47% ▪️R37 MERIT ↓40% In other words, the earliest-stage bets are being starved first. When the on-ramps close, the damage shows up later: ↓ pilot data ↓ resubmissions that mature into R01s ↓ new labs surviving their early years ↓ shared cores that support entire departments ↓ discoveries that ever reach trials So much remains unanswered. This week we’re digging deeper: -which disease areas rely most on these mechanisms -which institutions are most exposed -where the first downstream breaks appear (trials, screening, imaging, prevention, survivorship) If you run a lab, grants office, or cancer center, tell us what cut you want. Source: NIH RePORTER via @Jori_health
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John Thyfault (TeeFo) retweetledi
❓ How does obesity research shape global health systems, access, innovation, outcomes, and equity? Watch Richele Corrado's video and share your answer! 💜 #CommitToCare #ObesityCareWeek #ObesityResearch #TheObesitySociety
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@davykevinp Look at me, I know more than people studying this for 20 years!!!! but I don't even know the definitions or the literature.....sigh
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This has all gotten silly. You can opine or even provide evidence that VO2max isn’t the top longevity predictor, fine. However, Eric doesn’t understand that Vo2max is the gold standard measure of cardiorespiratory fitness.…and Vo2max may not even be Vo2max but rather VO2peak.
Eric Topol@EricTopol
Good summary by @grok The defenders of V02 max primacy don't have the data to support it; a proxy extrapolated from the 99%+ data based on METS, and it isn't even VO2 max (it's V02 peak).
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John Thyfault (TeeFo) retweetledi
I am proud to see the official launch of the Obesity, Metabolic Health and Cancer Research Program at @KUcancercenter - a first of its kind for an NCI-designated or comprehensive cancer center!
kumc.edu/about/news/new…
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@RogerMarshallMD @CaseyMeansMD then why didn't she finish residency or have any training in science?
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Every American should listen to our next Surgeon General, @CaseyMeansMD — a leader who understands that food is medicine and is committed to fighting America’s chronic disease crisis.
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WELL SAID! The @EricTopol post on VO2max is misleading
Alan Couzens@Alan_Couzens
This whole thing is quite odd. One MET = 3.5 ml/kg/min of VO2. In the strictest sense, a MET is a direct measure of VO2 If there is any "conflation" going on, it is in making the assumption that a given level of exercise intensity within a given CRF protocol corresponds with a fixed number of METs/fixed VO2. He is correct that the majority of these studies don't measure VO2, i.e. they run a VO2 protocol but don't have the subjects hooked up to a met-cart - for practical reasons. However, if they were hooked up to a met-cart, the VO2max would line up relatively well with the end workload. And, when VO2max doesn't line up with the end-stage workload on a test, it's only due to differences in economy between the subjects. E.g. someone has a better or worse running gait - hardly a longevity measure. The problem is not that VO2max is not a good measure of cardiorespiratory fitness. The problem is that the number on most people's watches is *not* their actual lab-measured VO2max!
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I bet those super agers have higher than normal cardiorespiratory fitness - :) - but i'm serious too.
Eric Topol@EricTopol
The Super Agers (SA) had twice the number of new neurons (immature) as the healthy older adults (HA)
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@drjasonfung Just stop it, would you? - this is not gym bro science. Maybe you are getting hung up on definitions but CRF is critically important for health, and VO2max falls under the umbrella of CRF. ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/ci…
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No real doctor actually thinks VO2 max is any kind of predictor of health. Just a bunch of gym bro 'science-like' wishful thinking. Doctors talk about a1c, BP, metabolic syndrome, genetics (apoE, BRCA, thalassemia), creatinine, etc., like, a hundred times a day. NOT VO2 max.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb@nntaleb
Finally, the debunking of the VO2 max BS. Note also: indicators of mortality (when low) are not indicators of longevity (when high).
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