Our 10 days in the Midwest come to a close. Now we move on to Texas for the next part of our great US World Cup Road Trip 🇺🇸
Things I’ve learnt along the way:
- Your weather is not to be messed with
- Your sunsets are stunning
- Your beer is fantastic
- Your barbecue is delicious
- Your scenery is beautiful
- Folk have STRONG opinions on barbecue and gas prices
- Biscuits and gravy are definitely
NOT scones and mushrooms
But above all… the people are amazing, true salt of the earth folk and remind me of back home in Yorkshire (a high compliment)
Thank you Midwesterners 🤍
I feel like I’m trapped in The Truman Show.
I abandoned my life and spent the last 4+ years reporting on the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine, while the global MSM gaslit the world and called me a Russian propagandist.
And now that I’ve been proven correct, nobody cares. Not one apology. 😂
Everyone is just cheesing and continuing on with their lives, after they were just told that the Biden administration conspired with the MSM/Social Media platforms, to cover up the truth about a man-made pathogen that killed millions, and about the nefarious USAID labs around the globe.
I don’t know what I was expecting to happen, but it’s wild just watching the world pretend all that didn’t just happen, while I sacrificed everything to help bring all this to light.
It’s a tough pill to swallow.
Six Things I See in My ‘Strongest’ 80-Year-Old Patients
I am 63 now, and after three decades as an orthopedic surgeon, I have examined thousands of people in their eighties. Some arrive frail and afraid, others walk in straighter and more confident than patients half their age.
They’re still skiing, still gardening, still picking up grandchildren without a second thought. The gap between those two groups is not luck, and it is rarely genetics alone. The same patterns keep showing up in those who are thriving.
Here is what they have in common. The most important reasons are lower down in the list…
A British physiologist named Brett Gooden published a paper in 1994 that quietly proved every human walking around on this planet has an emergency reset button hidden in the skin of their face, and almost nobody knows how to use it.
His name is mostly forgotten outside diving medicine. The paper is called "Mechanism of the Human Diving Response," and the body of research it kicked off has been replicated by neuroscientists, cardiologists, and physiologists in labs across the world for the last thirty years.
The mechanism it described is the single fastest way to lower a human heart rate that has ever been documented.
The discovery actually began long before Gooden formalized it. Physiologists had noticed for decades that seals, whales, dolphins, and otters could slow their heart rates dramatically the moment their faces touched water, allowing them to dive for long periods without running out of oxygen.
The question Gooden helped answer was whether the same reflex existed in humans, and what exactly triggered it.
The answer turned out to be a network of nerves almost nobody outside neurology had paid attention to.
The trigeminal nerve is one of the largest nerves in your head, and it covers the entire surface of your face, especially the area around your eyes, nose, forehead, and mouth. When cold water touches that skin, the trigeminal nerve fires a signal straight into the brainstem, which then routes a command through the vagus nerve directly to the heart.
The vagus nerve is the master switch of your parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part of the body responsible for calm, recovery, and the slowing of the heart.
The entire signal chain takes about a second to complete. Cold water hits the face. Trigeminal nerve fires. Vagus nerve responds. The heart slows.
Human heart rate has been documented to drop anywhere from 5 to over 50 percent during this response, depending on the temperature of the water, how much of the face is covered, and how strongly the person is holding their breath.
In infants the response is so powerful that it has been implicated in cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, because the same reflex that protects a baby underwater can be triggered accidentally by bedding pressed against the face during sleep.
The reflex is called the mammalian dive reflex, and the broader nerve circuit it sits inside is called the trigeminocardiac reflex.
Researchers who study it now consider it the single most powerful autonomic reflex in the human body, which means it is faster and stronger than almost any other automatic response your nervous system is capable of producing.
The detail Gooden zeroed in on is the part that should matter most to anyone who has ever had a panic attack, a racing heart at 3am, or a moment of overwhelming anxiety they could not breathe their way out of.
Two ingredients trigger the response. The water has to be cold, ideally under about 15 degrees Celsius, and it has to touch the area around the forehead, eyes, and nose. The skin of the cheeks and chin alone is not enough.
The receptors that fire the reflex are concentrated in the upper face, which is exactly the part of a seal that hits the water first when it dives. Evolution kept that wiring intact in humans even though we stopped diving for our food a long time ago.
This is why splashing cold water on your face during a moment of panic actually works. It is not psychological. It is not a placebo. You are activating a neurological circuit that has been sitting in your body since before your species walked upright, and the circuit does exactly what it was built to do.
A psychiatrist at Harvard named Marsha Linehan eventually wrote this exact protocol into a dialectical behavior therapy technique she called the cold water dive, which she taught to patients in acute emotional crisis. The instruction was simple.
Fill a bowl with cold water and ice. Hold your breath. Submerge your face from the forehead down to the chin for thirty seconds. Within the first ten seconds, the heart begins to slow. By the time the face comes out of the water, the body has shifted out of fight-or-flight and into the parasympathetic state that makes thinking clearly possible again.
Emergency room physicians have used the same trick to reset abnormal heart rhythms in patients with certain types of tachycardia for decades. They call it the diving reflex maneuver.
A bag of ice water held against the face for fifteen to thirty seconds can convert a runaway heart rhythm back to normal without a single drug being administered.
Same nerve. Same reflex. Same biology your ancestors used to hunt for fish underwater two hundred thousand years ago.
The strangest part of all of this is how few people know it exists. The cold plunge industry has built itself into a billion-dollar movement based on full-body cold exposure, ice baths, and dramatic protocols that require expensive equipment and serious commitment.
But the fastest, most underrated nervous system reset available to a human being requires a sink, a few seconds, and the upper half of your face.
Your nervous system has an emergency brake. You were born holding the handle.
Yes this is why Western Europe used to hang 1% of each generation
For centuries, every crime of any seriousness was a hanging offense, and generally these sentences were enforced
Over time, hanging all thieves/rapists/murderers/etc meant that such genres were plucked from the gene pool, and European civilization could, in the 18th and 19th centuries, focus on building great empires and cultivation of high civilization rather than on how to handle reducing recidivism amongst the petty criminals who make life unbearable
If you want a pleasant and cultured civilization, the path to that begins with the gallows and gibbet for the problem causing 1%
Jeffrey Epstein sent Steve Bannon a 15 point replacement cabinet for Donald Trump.
This was August 27 2018. Trump was in the middle of the worst legal crisis of his first term. Epstein was not watching from the sidelines.
He sent this.
"1.Defense : Pompeo ; 2.state: Meadows ; 3. treasury : Thornton ; 4. CIA: Cotton ; 5. NSC: Harvey ; 6. UN: Tulsi Gabbard ; 7. DNI: Admiral Harris ; 8. Labor : Henry Olson ; 9. HHS: pinkerton ; 10. HUD: McNamara ; 11. VA: Gov Perry ; 12. AG: Sen Heilcamp ; 13. NEC: Peter Navarro ; 14. Engy: Washburn ; 15. Justice: Bill Burck"
Mike Pompeo became Secretary of State. Mark Meadows became White House Chief of Staff. Tom Cotton became CIA Director. Tulsi Gabbard became Director of National Intelligence. Peter Navarro served as Trade Adviser.
Epstein was not guessing. He was planning.
This is message 789 of 3,356 in the Bannon thread alone. We have read 900.
Do you understand how deep his influence is?
Source: DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act release. Jmail iMessage Archive. steve-bannon thread. Message 789. August 27 2018.
For all you true English patriots.
Now do you understand that we are trying to be removed from the modern day life.
Stand your ground. We give the world everything it has. We cannot be wiped out.
This is England.
@JamesHu27192912 It’s a disaster for the elderly and for humanity as a whole. I’m getting on in years, the medical system has become very frightening post covid. I can still handle it, who knows how long that will continue.
🚨BREAKING: Keir Starmer is set to RESIGN as Prime Minister of the UK
The whole country is ERUPTING in CELEBRATION. This is the END of the worst socialist tyrant in British history. 🇬🇧
🚨 Mark Levin Flying to Israel for Israeli-Govt-Sponsored "Summit" as Netanyahu Reportedly Seeks to "Leverage" Levin to Trash Trump's MoU
➤ Mark Levin told his audience on Friday that he's taking a week-long trip to Israel to spend time with family and speak at an unnamed "event."
As a "joke," he said he's "going to be meeting with the Mossad," "the IDF" and "all the top government officials" to "share information."
➤ Levin failed to mention he's going to the Israeli govt-sponsored Jewish News Syndicate's International Policy Summit, which is being headlined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Sa'ar, Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, Netanyahu advisor Caroline Glick, Israeli Amb. Danny Danon and more.
➤ This trip comes as CNN reports Netanyahu "is trying to leverage right-wing media figures" including "pro-Israel podcaster Mark Levin" to lobby Trump to trash his MoU with Iran.
➤ At the JNS Summit last year, Netanyahu personally thanked Levin for his service to Israel in the infowar.
"[Mark Levin] is more than a friend, he's a guardian of Israel!" Netanyahu said.
Is Levin operating as an unregistered agent of the Israeli government?
Those who cast praise on evil are evil per se. The supported genocide on Gaza, pitting Ukraine on Russia, intentionally firing missiles at and attacking children at school in Iran.
Those who cast evil will come to realize evil is sticky. And evil will come to their doors as hungry wolves. Evil fools and stupid tools supporting satanic Zionists who hate them.
Zionists openly helped flood millions of invaders into Europe, North America, Japan, and more.
Epstein Island.
Jabs.
Zionists who murder Christians, Muslims, Jews, and openly traffic children.
“Christians” and “Jews” who support genocide and Satanism are in fact Satanist in disguise. Look closely. It’s obvious.