Kandace Knudson, PhD, MPH

Educator, writer, vegetarian, health coach and public health advocate, dog devotee. Representing only my own views here.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Ramona. She was found as a stray on the side of the road with her leg bone completely broken in half, making it difficult to walk or even move comfortably. She needs surgery to live pain-free. You can help her below ❤️‍🩹

https://t.co/sFYLr6UKEV

[Annie 🌴🏖️🌞😊🎢🎡 @AnnConstitution]

@peachtard Boomers collected stuff. Millennials collected passport stamps. Gen Z collects experiences and screenshots. Gen X just wants everyone to stop asking them questions for five damn minutes so they can drink a hot cup of coffee in silence.

[Kandace Knudson, PhD, MPH @2kmk]

@LissetteCBS4 @NickMerianos @CBSMiami Happy for you, @NickMerianos, but so 😭for Sacramento after losing our best weather educator ever. Boo hoo!

[The Global Warmer🔥🌏 🔥 @TheGlobalWarmer]

“After 37 years, the world’s longest running soil warming experiment uncovers a startling climate secret” @SciTechDaily1

https://t.co/Q4zPP9PXlv

[Kandace Knudson, PhD, MPH @2kmk]

@lrozen $6.57 for me yesterday in California, thanks to the Trumpocalypse.

[Kandace Knudson, PhD, MPH @2kmk]

@SethAbramson Love it! I’d love to get it on Qobuz in high res. Not sure what artists have to do to get it to that platform.

[Kandace Knudson, PhD, MPH @2kmk]

Has “Trumpocalypse” been copyrighted yet?

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

Einstein, an agentic-AI tool that claimed it could connect to Canvas and complete assignments for students, causing a meltdown across higher ed. The site is now gone, but the questions it raised about AI's impact on teaching and learning aren't going anywhere. https://t.co/CZcfoIrXau

[Lama Surya Das @LamaSuryaDas]

Please join in prayer for all beings everywhere. #NewMillenniumPrayer #WalkforPeace #Peace #Pax #LamaSuryaDas #AwakeningtheBuddhaWithin

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

Why are people freaking out about Bad Bunny at the Grammys and the Super Bowl? Here’s a helpful explainer from the Los Angeles Public Library.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

I lectured on a college campus this week and asked students about Chromebooks. Outside of math, 94% finished middle and high school on Chromebooks, with no textbooks or fiction books. College is the first time they’ve touched a paper book for class since elementary school.

[🥀_ Imposter_🥀 @Imposter_Edits]

If you can get beaten over your 1st amendment right, and murdered over your 2nd amendment right, you have no rights.

[Hounds in Pounds @HoundsInPounds]

Happy Life, Handsome Devil! ❤️💜
#neversaynever

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“AI Isn't Killing Education”—Psychology Today

A spectacular insight by my good friend ⁦@JohnNosta⁩.

Timely as we move in El Salvador to @Grok AI Tutor to all students—as recently announced by President ⁦@nayibbukele⁩ and ⁦@elonmusk⁩. https://t.co/QJwT5uQjh6

[Ben Smith @bensmithlive]

The question about nutrition I get asked most often is: "Should I eat vegetables?"

Let's end the debate once and for all.

Vegetables contain two opposing forces at the same time.

On one side: polyphenols, carotenoids, glucosinolates, fiber, essential vitamins, and minerals that lower inflammation, feed your microbiome, and protect against chronic disease.

On the other: lectins, oxalates, phytates, and fermentable fibers that can irritate a damaged gut, trigger immune flares, and block mineral absorption.

The mistake is treating vegetables as universally good or universally bad.

The body isn’t that primitive as it responds differently depending on the state of your gut, your immune system, and your exposure pattern.

Now, here’s the interesting part.

Plant compounds are hormetic stressors.

Low, pulsed, varied exposure activates NRF2, boosts antioxidant defenses, and strengthens resilience.

Constant, high-dose, repetitive exposure does the opposite, i.e. overstimulation, irritation, and, in sensitive guts, full-blown inflammation.

And this is why vegetable cycling works so well.

A short elimination phase, 2 to 4 weeks of low-lectin, low-oxalate, low-fiber eating, calms mast cells, reduces permeability, and lets the gut wall repair.

Clinical IBS research shows measurable improvements in barrier function after this type of reset.

Then, reintroducing vegetables in structured rotations gives you the upside of phytochemicals without the cumulative downside of anti-nutrients.

You get the NRF2 activation, the fiber-driven SCFA production, the micronutrient bump, and the microbial diversity without overwhelming the same pathways day after day.

Think of it like strength training.

You don’t hammer the same muscle seven days a week. You stress it, you recover, and you rotate.

Gut physiology is no different.

People with IBS, SIBO, autoimmune flares, or a history of food sensitivities often benefit the most from this model.

But even robust metabolisms adapt well to cyclical exposure because it mirrors ancestry, seasons, food availability, and the natural ebb and flow of plant toxins in the wild.

The real danger lies at the extremes.

If you eat spinach daily, you’ll saturate yourself with oxalates. Beans? You’ll overload lectins.

Eliminating plants forever? You’ll starve the microbiome and lose the phytochemical signals that keep cellular defenses sharp.

Take the balanced approach:

Reset. Rebuild. Rotate.

Use plants strategically, not religiously.

Use removal as a tool, not a lifestyle.

Use variety as your shield against sensitisation.

Vegetables aren’t inherently good or bad, they’re stimuli.

And the body thrives when stimuli arrive in intelligent, periodic waves.

[Kr$na @krishdotdev]

This is the end.
Now no one can cross this level !

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Don’t take my word for it.

I interview the great @moonalice - the man who intro-ed Mark Zuckerberg to Sheryl Sandberg - & AI savant - @GaryMarcus, whose predictions on OpenAI have been consistently proved right.

Anyway, read it & tell me what you think

https://t.co/5cNoRpew4v

[Grant Stern  @grantstern]

LOVE WINS!

Kim Davis loses, AGAIN.

Obergfell is still the law of the land.

Despite these dark times in America, Love is still LOVE!

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again. https://t.co/4VdEPvTots

[Kandace Knudson, PhD, MPH @2kmk]

@NotAvgLiberal I’d rather have park rangers, air traffic controllers, and a dept of education 🤷🏼‍♀️