Icarus

wake me, when you need me

[Caveman @cavepaleo]

They found out that sperm not only delivers the father’s DNA but also grabs the father’s RNA from the seminal fluid and delivers it to the egg.

RNA = which genes are currently on/activated.
So your health state during the last ~60 days is also passed on.
(diet, exercise, toxins, sleep, etc)

[Master Metabolism @lowmegatron]

Anyone remember that Chinese Alzheimer’s surgery that unblocked the glymphatic system, draining the seed oils from the brain?

“Four months after the surgery, during a phone interview, the patient's daughter stated: "My mother's memory is stabilising and improving, and she is able to complete household chores every day.”

Banned now, of course.

[Icarus @666icarus]

@SolBrah Works for social functions, gym workouts etc etc.

[Icarus @666icarus]

@SolBrah My theory: Leave on a high. Energy is cumulative until the peak, when you experience the peak you are at max accumulation. Anything afterwards is expenditure of energy and a losing game. Better to step out at the peak and conserve what you just generated.

[Jake Gilman @jakeglmn]

Hydrogen water will be as common as creatine in 10 years.

The world's leading hydrogen scientist will change how you think about your health forever.

Here's everything you need to know (thread):

1) Drinking hydrogen water improved every marker of metabolic syndrome

[Healthy Alfred 🌴🥥 @HealthyAlfred]

BPC-157 healed every tissue scientists tested it on. every. single. one.

nerves. tendons. bone. liver. gut. eyes. heart. brain.

30 years of testing. zero failures.

sounds impossible right? I thought so too. then I tried it.

→ severed nerves — REGREW
→ Achilles tendon — REATTACHED
→ torn ligaments — REBUILT
→ bone defects — CLOSED
→ punctured cornea — SEALED
→ destroyed liver — REVERSED
→ shredded gut — REPAIRED
→ stopped heart — RESTORED
→ Parkinson’s — REVERSED
→ crushed spinal cord — RECOVERY at 360 days

ZERO lethal dose. ZERO cancer cases. ZERO toxic reactions.

Huberman — years of back pain. gone.

Rogan — elbow tendonitis. gone in two weeks.

RFK Jr. — “big fan.” FDA now reclassifying it.

still waking up in pain? still avoiding the gym? still popping painkillers?

that’s not aging.

that’s a repair your body started and never finished.

BPC-157 restarts it.

your doctor has never heard of it.

your stomach has been making it your entire life.

would you believe me now?

🧵 everything it healed, how I take it, and proof from others below ↓

[Icarus @666icarus]

@MrJamSpark04 @DrDiscussion @Jaesunspeaks @Jimcast467855 @UweBollRAWNet You're what's wrong with the world bro, did the hurty words hurt you?

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

Elon on Speed

“I always tell the teams: compress the timeline. Take a 10 year plan and try to do it in 6 months. You’ll probably fail, but you’ll be so far ahead of everyone else that it doesn’t matter. Most companies move at a glacial pace. We try to move at the speed of light.”

[Icarus @666icarus]

@LiamBadco I think Max's volume and work rate will get it done

[Icarus @666icarus]

@Jwwbodybuilding @oxidativestate I'm from the UK where do you get your supplements?

[Icarus @666icarus]

@MerseyPolice @aroundliv

[Sonny @thehonestletter]

If you've concluded the UK no longer rewards building a life here, here's the actual exit plan — in the order that works. Save this thread.

[FengShuiMasterZ @FengShuiFlowZ]

This is the ultimate transition from "forcing" to "Wu Wei" (无为 - effortless action).
Rushing is the ego trying to compress Divine Timing, which only creates massive energetic friction and exhausts your Qi. Surrender isn't giving up; it’s handing the steering wheel over to the Dao. When you stop fighting the current and trust the flow, you stop leaking energy into an imaginary "future" and finally anchor your Shen (spirit) in the present. Peace was never a destination you could drive to; it’s the frequency you tune into the exact moment you stop resisting what is.

[Icarus @666icarus]

@ThaBeefDev What happened after 2014?

[Icarus @666icarus]

@aroundliv Classic this one

[Icarus @666icarus]

@terencecrawford Boxing is glorified ballet dancing, MMA is true violence

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

God honors his favorites by crushing them, drops the whole insufferable wretched weight of purpose on their spines until they either snap into shape or snap entirely. the unburdened, those buoyant grinning vapid little phantoms drifting through their own lives without a single crushing thing to carry, they are forgotten

[du @thedulab]

One of the greatest perspective shifts ever