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@aakashgupta I just had a stroke and I use stevia. Not anymore. Thank you.

Erythritol is in every keto protein bar, every "zero sugar" energy drink, and every stevia packet on your table. The FDA approved it in 2001. A $275 million market. And researchers just watched it destroy brain blood vessel cells in three hours at the dose you get from a single drink. Here's what happened at the cellular level. University of Colorado Boulder exposed human brain microvascular endothelial cells to 6 millimolar erythritol, the concentration in one sugar-free beverage. Reactive oxygen species production doubled. Nitric oxide, the molecule that keeps your blood vessels relaxed and open, dropped 20%. Endothelin-1, the most potent vasoconstrictor your endothelium produces, jumped 30%. And when they challenged the cells with thrombin to simulate a clotting event, the cells' ability to produce t-PA, the enzyme that dissolves blood clots, was completely blunted. Less vessel relaxation. More vessel constriction. Worse clot-busting capacity. That's three independent pathways to stroke, all triggered by a single serving. This isn't the first signal. Cleveland Clinic tracked 4,000+ patients in 2023 and found those with the highest blood erythritol levels were roughly twice as likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke over three years. Two times the risk. On par with diabetes as a cardiac risk factor. And erythritol doesn't metabolize. Your body absorbs it in the small intestine, dumps it into the bloodstream, and excretes it through urine almost completely intact. Every serving stacks on the last one. The population most aggressively consuming erythritol, people with obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome, is the exact population with the highest baseline cardiovascular risk. The sweetener marketed as their safe alternative may be compounding the problem it was sold to solve.

🇺🇸 SOLDIER: “We moved closer to Iran, to a deeply unsafe known target. No good reason articulated.” Q: “Were these deaths preventable?” 🇺🇸 SOLDIER: “Absolutely.” Q: “Hegseth said it was fortified. What fortifications were there?” 🇺🇸 SOLDIER: “I’d put it in the none category.”

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

never seen someone get excommunicated by a community note

We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war. Art of the deal, baby.

If you hate Pope Leo because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

There’s a reason why the sound of birds singing feels so peaceful to our nervous system. Because birds only sing when there’s no danger present.

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm. They impeached Richard Nixon for a bit of spying. What should Donald Trump get for corruption like this?

Yesterday Donald Trump changed the law so the USA's forests can be sold to billionaires, an area the size of the UK and France. While Javier Milei allowed billionaire companies to mine in Argentina's glaciers, which has ALWAYS been banned. They are selling what isn't theirs.

hate how no one is taking this seriously enough

The Christian conservative mind cannot fathom someone being simultaneously religious and not hateful

Hans Zimmer in Sweden: “I’m just gonna say it — Fuck Trump”

Todd Blanche represented Ghislaine Maxwell. Todd Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in prison. Todd Blanche now has day-to-day authority over which Epstein files get redacted. He is the Acting Attorney General of the United States.

Let’s not forget that two people died for this fake, fake, fake stunt.

Again, we're so not ready for what's about to happen to the economy.

First Lady Melania Trump has complained about "mean-spirited" comments about her. Last month her hubby depicted Michelle Obama as an ape.

@NewsHour @jayferus

The Trump administration on Thursday proposed weakening rules for the disposal of ash produced by burning coal that can contain hazardous heavy metals and contaminate groundwater. to.pbs.org/4tuWZc0

The reason the “rescued pilots” are not being publicly honoured as “heroes” and paraded around the media is because they don’t exist. It was a failed nuclear heist.

Coal ash is almost twice as radioactive as spent nuclear fuel and they're gonna let them dump it into your drinking water