Reality. Checked

To the maybe 10 people who will see this; here’s a little clarity about sugar: 1. Sugar (glucose) is the body’s primary fuel source. If you don’t eat it, you will make it: “gluconeogenesis”. All types of carbohydrate eventually turn to glucose for fuel. If you eat too much it will be stored as “glycogen”; if those stores are filled up, as fat. Very fit people have bigger “gas tanks” to store carbohydrate as glycogen rather than converting it to fat. Big bonus to being very fit/active. 2. Insulin is not the devil. Its job is to transport glucose from your bloodstream to your cells. If you are “insulin resistant” (40-50% of the population - central obesity” ) you need MORE insulin to do the same job, and it doesn’t work as well. 3. To minimize “glucose spikes after eating” Lose weight, exercise (I know, 🥱) which makes your body more sensitive to insulin. 4. Limit carbohydrates to 50% of calorie intake. I realize this is vague however everyone is very different depending on your age, weight, activity level, muscle mass, etc. Apps like “My Fitness Pal” is a good tool to use. 5. Avoid, like it’s poison, LIQUID SUGAR: sugared soda (yes diet is better), all juices, coffee/fruit smoothies, sports drinks (unless you’re actually in sports and need them for performance) 6. Balanced meals with some starch/whole grain; lean protein, healthy fat and fiber will slow the emptying of the stomach and glucose won’t be dumped into the bloodstream there by “spiking” glucose and insulin. An example would be to compare a turkey/avocado sandwich with an apple to breadsticks and pasta (also super high in calories) 7. The “Glycemic Index” is a list of foods and their effects on blood sugar. It goes out the window when a food is combined in a mixed meal, and has little if any influence on how nutritionally dense or “healthy” a food is. But hey, out of curiosity you can Grok it. You will see some high sugar foods have less of an impact than some non-sweet foods on blood sugar. 8. Finally, as for the impact on cancer, it is normal for blood glucose to go up a little after eating. I can see how, if you have insulin resistance, it can “Feed cancer” more, however if you have cancer you need to EAT. I have had patients starve to death because they could not consume enough calories and/or had family members tell them to avoid sugar in an attempt to cure the cancer.

@data_republican @RepLuna Honest question because I can’t tell who is at fault. Why is it very Rep Republicans fault and not the Democrats? What do Republicans need to do that? They are not doing

@RepLuna We're all watching. The Republican party is a disgrace.

The American people are witnessing a full blown breakdown in the Senate. We have a piece of overwhelmingly popular legislation that still can’t get passed thru. This entire ordeal has exposed the failures of our system to truly represent the voters. It’s all so corrupt.

Less is more. Not being hungry at all not a good way to learn what your body actually needs. Part of the success with an “off ramp” depends on how fast the individual loses weight. Done the “right” way: losing 1-2lbs/week, increased activity (hopefully weight training) they will have a better chance. If weight crashes, individuals will be battling not only their prior bad habits, but also their body’s natural instinct to gain the weight back (and more). We’ve seen this movie a million times before.

I know some that try to change kids sex 😬. You are a dream patient; for rarities like you they are pointless. They have a tough job bc a lot of managing diabetes is behavioral/psycho-social

The only reason someone w Type 1 (who has demonstrated good control) needs to see an endocrinologist, is for prescriptions and labs. It’s reasonable for insulin and diabetes tech to be OTC (Endos have enough to do w Type 2s)

@RRDDDDDDDDDD IYKYK

@johnkonrad I thought you heard it wasn’t going to open until next year?

It’s all starting to make sense.

@adamhousley Its really that people ate waaaaay less (crap or not). Portions of everything has doubled since the 70s plus way more snack food and fast food and 1000 calorie coffee shakes.

Because people were active and our food wasn't made of crap.

@nettermike My husband and I are native Californians and will vote R. I told him about the debate getting cancelled, he said “of course, but…it doesn’t matter anyway”. Thats the attitude of 80% of us.

Californians receive their June 2 primary ballots in May and a collective statewide shrug that is increasing the likelihood that a Republican will be the state’s next governor.

@neoavatara The flu vax is a joke. I have to get it each year. I got super sick anyway.

As of this week, 115 children have died from flu this year. Almost all were unvaccinated. cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-gene….

How to decrease triglycerides: 1. No liquid sugar 2. Very limited or zero alcohol 3. Portions of carb/meal should be limited to 1/2c to 1 cup 4. Stay moving, avoid sitting for more than 2 hours at a time 5. Fat loss (will occur with #1-4) 6. Add DHA/EPA supplement, nuts/seeds, olive oil, fish (nuts are 150cal/oz and oils are 120cal/Tb so limit) 7. Avoid saturated fats 8. Include lean protein at most meals 9. Eat your veggies; fruit don’t overdo (1-2c/day)

@FmnKaren @arvistardok @grey4626 He did not debate groypers and propagandists (like Fuentes) that were the origins of college students bad ideas. He only debated the brainwashed.

@arvistardok @reality0628 @grey4626 *their And yes he debated students all the time once they “spoke their mind”. And yes the whole point of the campus tours was to debate and change minds.

The clip isn't Kent destroying Levin...it's the precise, surgical moment a once-promising operator executed his own reputation with the cold finality of a misfired Hellfire. Mark Levin didn't bolt to commercial because he was owned. He did it because the man sitting across from him...former Green Beret, ex-NCTC Director, self-proclaimed insider...had just crossed the wire into unhinged territory, openly declaring that the real imminent threat wasn't the mullahs racing toward breakout capacity, their proxy armies bloodied across the region, or the ideology that has killed Americans for decades. No. According to Joe Kent, the dagger at America's throat was coming from Israel. Let that land. A senior American intelligence principal, fresh off resigning in theatrical protest, looked a national audience in the eye and reframed our closest operational ally in the Middle East...the only democracy in the region conducting the kind of relentless, precise strikes that keep Iranian nightmares in check...as the aggressor. Not a policy disagreement. Not a tactical caution. An imminent threat from the Israelis. This isn't bold truth-telling. This is psychological fracture dressed in veteran gravitas. Kent's arc is textbook for the disillusioned operator who watched his influence evaporate: sidelined for months on suspected leaks...FBI probe predating the resignation, per multiple reporting streams...cut from the President's briefings, then choosing public self-immolation over quiet dissent. The psyche here is lethal in its predictability...cognitive dissonance on steroids. Unable to reconcile his own operational irrelevance with the administration's decision to act on intelligence he now dismisses as false, he projects the betrayal outward. Israel becomes the scapegoat. The lobby the puppet-master. Classic deflection: when your access dies, manufacture a conspiracy to explain why the mission moved on without you. From a pure military-intelligence standpoint, this is catastrophic tradecraft. You do not, under any circumstances, burn the principal's decision-making process in real time on air. You do not rewrite the threat picture to fit a narrative that echoes every adversarial information op from Tehran to Moscow. Kent knows the mosaic: Iran's nuclear latency, its ballistic program, Hezbollah's arsenal, the Houthis choking sea lanes. He briefed enough to understand escalation ladders. Yet here he is, live, elevating a partner nation's preemptive posture...precisely the kind of decisive action special operators once respected...into some dark Israeli threat fantasy. Levin's pivot to music and break? Not panic. Discipline. Radio is a weapon platform; you don't let the guest veer into territory that risks operational compromise or audience radicalization. Kent wasn't winning an argument...he was detonating his remaining credibility in 1:48 of slow-motion collapse. The man who ran for Congress twice on a warrior's record, who positioned himself as Trump's loyal counterterrorism blade, just proved why he was rightly benched: loyalty is conditional, judgment is flexible, and when the mirror shows personal failure, the reflex is to torch the alliance that actually delivers results. This wasn't exposure. It was self-exposure. A Green Beret who forgot the first rule of the long war: you serve the mission, not the myth that preserves your ego when the mission leaves you behind. Kent didn't destroy Levin. He euthanized whatever was left of his own legend...with surgical precision, on live mic, for the world to watch. And the silence after the music hit? That's the sound of a reputation flatlining. No revival. No heroic return. Just the quiet, lethal verdict of men who still understand the difference between principle and pathology. 🗡️💀⚖️🗡️

@FmnKaren @grey4626 He debated college students. He wouldn’t give ppl like Fuentes a platform

@reality0628 @grey4626 Kirk debated everyone.

@ChefGruel Went out to Christmas dinner w 12 coworkers at an old school steakhouse in Orange. The waiter offered to give everyone a separate bill. He went around the long table, punched in everyone’s order in a handheld computer and out came the bill. 😆

This is why we never allow bill splitting

@marklevinshow You cannot debate lies and propaganda.

You POS are hilarious. In radio we’ve hard breaks. I had to go to the break. That simple.

@StarPlatinum_ You must be fun at parties

So you’re telling me seven dogs got stolen, thrown into a truck, escaped while it was moving and still found their way back home together like nothing happened This happened in China, in a small village near Changchun - Seven dogs - All from the same place - They grew up together - Played together - Knew the same streets One day they get taken. loaded into a truck meant for a dog meat shop Somehow they escape while the truck is still moving No one knows exactly how but suddenly they’re out And instead of running in different directions They stay together They move like a group At the front a corgi In the middle a German shepherd injured from the escape the rest surround him, protect him, slow down for him Then the rest - golden retrievers - labradors - a small pekinese all moving together 17 kilometers Through highways cars passing at full speed open fields roads they shouldn’t even cross People try to stop them They ignore everyone Then finally, they make it back, all seven back to the same village Back to their owners

@Fenvuer @Susan_Shelley Without prop 13 your mortgage would be the same, except most of it would be taxes - going straight to the greedy, lying polititians instead of your principle.

@Susan_Shelley Prop 13 partially shields longtime residents from the criminal politicians they continue to elect. Without Prop 13, CA voters might actually hold politicians accountable for waste, fraud and abuse.

No, under Proposition 13 (1978) the assessed value of that $80K home went up 2% per year while under the same ownership. Under Prop. 58 (1986) a principal residence passed from parent to child was excluded from reassessment. (Prop. 19 limited and capped that exclusion in 2020.)

@emzanotti Waiting for “its AI”

This is probably going to turn out to be fake but I don't care, I want to live in it.

@Blueelectron4 Its 3-5 years max 🤦‍♀️

My controversial opinion is a main cause of declining birth rates is the social norm that parents must suffer like prisoners with an 18 year hard labor sentence or else be viewed by society as guilty of neglect and child abuse. Your grandparents didn't live like this.