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They replaced nutrient rich beef fat with toxic seed oils and wonder why everyone is sick today. Real meat cooked in its own fat will always be the ultimate human diet

NYC can't have anything nice anymore because Mamdani.

The hospital put stents in my arteries after a heart attack on the tennis court at 52. Then they handed me a food tray. Pancakes with syrup. Apple juice. Low fat yogurt. White toast with jelly. A muffin. They fed me the exact foods that put me in that bed. Look at this chart. The things that actually kill you are at the top. Diabetes. Metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance. All driven by the food on that tray. All reversible with diet. No pill exists for any of them. The things your doctor focuses on are at the bottom. LDL cholesterol. 1.4x. That is what pharma sells pills for. They cannot cure the top of this chart. Food can. A cured patient is a cancelled subscription. This thread is about the biggest subscription in medicine.

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government"

I have no idea why people or corporations want to leave.

The people who want the government to decide who should and should not be wealthy will always put themselves on the "should" list.

Morning ride. There's another mile to & from the trail, but I started the count from the beginning of the loop. At mile 4 it starts going up and gets progressively steeper. I was out of breath when I turned around. Eventually, I want to ride to the top and complete the loop, about 18 miles.

Without formal training or reading a book, I've become quite disagreeable on my own.

This is step number one in how government frauds you out of your money.

The doctor who became obese and needed to take drugs to lose weight thinks fiber is essential. This is how screwed up the nutrition and medical sciences are.

The ketone study I've been waiting for... I sat down with Dr. Latt Mansor (of @ketone) to do a deep dive into a brand-new study in cyclists showing that post-exercise ketosis enhances vascular responses and even bumps up EPO during recovery by 15%. Always love talking about this science stuff.

Super excited to have the great Amber O'Hearn as a return guest for our Livestream Monday June 15 at 5:30 pm EST. ! A wealth of knowledge not only in the Carnivore space but nutrition in general. #yes2meat @KetoCarnivore @ifixhearts @BiggestComeback

250 years ago today, the Continental Congress assembled a committee of five to draft a Declaration of Independence from the British crown. America’s story started here.

Food is and is not whatever the government tacitly deems food to be. This makes nutrition a branch of political science.

Ice cream is actually one of the healthiest foods in existence, judging by a multitude of recent research articles. There was a very highly publicized article that came out in 2018 out of Harvard. It was for a student's dissertation, he found that ice cream was inversely associated with heart disease. The nutrition department and the student himself tried repeatedly to "make the association go away" with different analysis, and checking his work. But it didn't. Not only was ice cream reported as beneficial, it was actually one of the most beneficial dairy products analyzed. With up to a 12% reduction in heart disease risk for having >2 servings of ice cream per week. This wasn't the first study to find benefits of ice cream, and it also wasn't the last. In a 2013 meta analysis of studies, they also found a protective effect of ice cream on diabetes. You can see the bias against ice cream, as they don't even mention it in the main page. That's despite ice cream showing one of the BEST results of any food studied for diabetes risk. Another study from 2014 showed the same thing. Again, this is a meta analysis, not just one study. They are pooling together all of the studies on ice cream and diabetes and still finding this. The best result of any dairy food studied - here with a 32% reduction in diabetes risk. The bias against ice cream is very strong in these studies. A 2016 study once again showing the same benefit of ice cream for diabetes risk. They say that the study above (Chen et al) showed "attenuated association" once diet collection information was stopped after hypertension or high cholesterol diagnosis. They argue that this means that the association is invalid. But not only did they not try to dismiss any other food studied like this, but this is just objectively not true (see above - there still was an association). They also buried their results on ice cream in the supplementary tables so it didn't even make the paper. That's probably because they didn't like the fact that once again, ice cream intake was inversely and strongly associated with diabetes risk. So you really can't argue that there was some kind of agenda in favor of ice cream here. More recent studies show the same thing. A 2019 paper again showed a lower risk of diabetes with increased ice cream consumption. And again, they put this information at the very end in the supplementary tables to try to hide it. Finally, the most recent study in 2024 showed the STRONGEST association for ice cream's protective effect on diabetes. There was a linear dose response. That means more ice cream = less diabetes, straight up. In fact, there was a 50% reduction in risk for having one serving per day. Which, as you could guess by this point, was the greatest risk reduction of any dairy food studied. Why would ice cream actually be good for you? My main guess is the unique protective fats in dairy, that are abundant in ice cream. ◇ C15 ◇ C17 ◇ CLA ◇ TVA ◇ TPA are fats almost exclusively in dairy fat, and all have unique effects. ◇ Mitochondrial enhancing ◇ Anti-inflammatory ◇ Anti-thrombotic ◇ Lipid lowering ◇ Fat burning ◇ Cancer preventing I've covered these all at length in other content. Of course, this is all observational. This is simply seeing what people eat and then seeing what happens to them. It's not an experiment. That is definitely a limitation. However, when you see the same association, consistently, across decades, regardless of analysis and confounding adjustment, you probably have something real. This is not to say everyone should go and immediately pound gallons of ice cream for invincibility. But... it does mean having reasonable amounts of ice cream is likely good for you.

🚨 BREAKING: In a stunning announcement, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that he is going to release Dietary Guidelines that will ban ultra-processed foods, ease restrictions on saturated fats and fundamentally transform what American soldiers and schoolchildren eat.

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