jenn

Catholic wife, mom and nana. massage therapist, musician, amateur gardener. What are you grateful for today? God loves you!

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

“I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone.
Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link.
Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

~Unknown

[jenn @911jenn]

@MomtoEandP 😢🙏🏼

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us #PrayTogether for the respect and protection of human life in all its stages, recognizing it as a gift from God. #PrayerIntention @clicktopray_en https://t.co/QMnnKlPidU

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Dr. Andrew Huberman: "Unless I'm Absolutely Starving, I'm Not Eating Canned Soup Ever Again."

One serving of canned soup every day for just 5 days triggered a 1,000%+ increase in toxic BPA in urine.

Huberman's direct warning:
"Unless You Have A Powerful Reason To Consume Canned Soup---Don't Consume Canned Soup."

BPA (Bisphenol A) is a potent endocrine disruptor that mimics estrogen, hijacking your hormones. It’s been linked to:

- Cancers (breast, prostate, ovarian)
- Infertility & reproductive damage
- Obesity, diabetes & metabolic chaos
- Early puberty in girls
- Neurodevelopmental issues in children
- Heart disease

Europe banned it in food packaging. The FDA still says it’s “safe.”

Acidic foods like tomato soup break down the can lining even faster, dumping more BPA straight into your meal.

This isn’t theory — it’s from a randomized crossover trial. Your convenient pantry staple can spike your toxin load dramatically in under a week.

**Fresh, whole foods. Glass jars. Tetra Pak. Verified BPA-free when you must use cans.**

Your hormones, fertility, and long-term health are too important to gamble on “just one can.”

Ditch the cans before they ditch your health.

What canned item are you cutting out starting today? 👇

[jenn @911jenn]

@TuitNutrition 🤗 thanks to all of you for your work to spread healthy eating and healing.

[Cary Kelly @CaryKelly11]

I made a Steak-umm lasagna on a whim, using Steak-umms as a pasta replacement, and it turned out embarrassingly good!

Like, it's "please don't let this be my biggest contribution to society" good and it's an absolute protein bomb, measuring in at 116g of protein with only 13g carbs.

Please repost and help it go viral, but not too viral. 😂

[Sean OMara MD, JD @DrSeanOMara]

Every GLP-1 patient I scan after stopping the drug shows the same pattern. The fat returns. The muscle does not. The disease accelerates. Here is what I tell every one of them:

1. Eat species-appropriate food. Meat, organs, animal fat.
2. Add fermented foods to every meal.
3. Replace your hour on the elliptical or treadmill with ten minutes of sprints.
4. Sleep like your ancestors. Dark, cold, no screens.
5. Get a $250 MRI and see what the drug actually did.
6. Stop poisoning your gut with processed food.

[Benjamin Bikman @BenBikmanPhD]

When fat cells become "full", the body begins storing excess fat in other tissues. This ectopic fat is primarily a problem not because of the amount of fat, but rather the type of fat.

When fat cells are overfilled, they not only release fats (as free fatty acids; FFA), but they also release inflammatory cytokines. Of course, this is all occurring in the midst of elevated insulin. This creates not only a metabolic paradox (high insulin and high FFA), but a metabolic pressure on the recipient tissues. Now, they're not only forced to store the FFA (the high insulin prevents fat burning), but some of these FFA are being converted into the sphingolipid ceramide.

And ceramides, more than any other signal, are what drive insulin resistance.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Crépin Martial Monga, a Catholic priest, was shot dead by gunmen in the Central African Republic.

Image: ACN

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

You are not too old to build muscle. The people who told you otherwise have never read the study that settles it.

In 1990, researchers took ten frail nursing-home residents with an average age of 90 and put them on heavy resistance training three times a week. Real load, taken close to what they could manage. No chair aerobics, no resistance bands the colour of a boiled sweet. Actual weight.

Eight weeks later, among the nine who finished, strength had climbed by an average of 174 percent. Their thigh muscle had grown. Their walking speed improved by nearly half. Two of them put their walking sticks away. One resident who could not stand from a chair without using their arms got up unaided.

Average age in the room: 90. Oldest: 96.

If you think ten people is a thin reed to lean on, the same researcher ran it again four years later as a proper randomised trial, a hundred nursing-home residents this time, and the strength gains held at 113 percent. The frail and the ancient kept building muscle every time anyone bothered to test it.

Now sit with what you have been told instead. Take it easy. Mind your back. You don't want to overdo it at your age. Stick to walking. A nice gentle swim. Don't lift anything heavier than the kettle.

Every one of those instructions was handed to people more capable than the nonagenarians in that study, and it made them weaker.

Muscle responds to load. It does not ask your age before it grows. The 70-year-old who picks up something heavy twice a week is building tissue the same way the 25-year-old is, just from a different starting line. Slower, smaller numbers, but the machinery still works, and it keeps working into your nineties whether anyone gave you permission or not.

Old age was never the thing that made you weak on its own. A lifetime of being told to sit down and protect a body that was begging to be used did far more of the damage.

Pick something up. Put it down. Do it again next week with a bit more. You have decades of evidence and a nursing home full of nonagenarians on your side.

[Chris S. Cornell @BiggestComeback]

In this morning’s daily 10-minute journaling session, I got stuck on a simple series of questions.

1) Where am I today?

2) Where do I want to be?

3) What can I do today that moves me one step closer?

The older I get, the more I believe this is what lasting health, fitness and quality of life is really about.

Not finding the perfect diet.
Not finding the perfect workout.
Not comparing yourself to someone who’s on a completely different path.

But honestly assessing where you are, deciding where you want to go, and then taking a series of small but meaningful steps in that direction.

That’s the beauty of an N = 1 journey. No one else gets to decide what’s realistic for you. You gather information. You make adjustments. You learn what works for your body, your life, and your goals.

The journey never really ends.

You just keep asking the same questions… and keep taking the next steps…

[Chris S. Cornell @BiggestComeback]

Some people enjoy pizza, candy, & the occasional beer without much consequence.

Others have learned those same foods increase their hunger, disrupt their sleep, worsen their glucose control, slow their recovery, and/or make it much harder to stay lean.

Choosing to avoid foods that consistently produce outcomes you don’t want isn’t fragility.

It’s self-awareness.

Elite athletes succeed using many different nutritional strategies. So do everyday people.

The goal (for most of us) isn’t to prove you can eat every food.

The goal is to understand which choices consistently move you closer to the health, fitness, and quality of life you want—and have the discipline to keep making more of those choices.

[Mimi @mimikmorgan]

Movement is medicine!

STIFFNESS with Parkinson's is real and it can stop you in your tracks.

When it hits, sit down and start rocking side to side in your chair. Slowly. Count out loud. Keep going for a couple of minutes. You will feel a difference.

A few more things that actually help:

*Put on music with a strong beat and let it move you. Your brain responds to rhythm from the outside when the inside is not cooperating.

*Use your voice. Hum, sing, count out loud when you move. A louder voice activates muscles throughout your whole body. It sounds strange but it works.

*Warmth helps more than most people realize. A warm shower in the morning, a heat pack on your shoulders or upper back, even just a warm room. Cold makes stiffness worse every time.

*Set a timer on your phone for every 30 to 40 minutes. When it goes off, stand up, march in place for 30 seconds, sit back down. Sitting still for long stretches is one of the biggest things that makes stiffness worse.

*And if you walk, swing your arms as big as you can. Opposite arm to opposite leg. Count your steps out loud. The arm swing drives the whole body and it reduces stiffness more than most people expect.

Your body is not broken. It just needs a signal. Give it one.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

She could not speak until she was nearly four. She grew up to redesign how half the cattle in North America are handled and killed, by learning to see the world through the eyes of a cow.

Temple Grandin is autistic, a thinker who reasons in pictures, not words. As a young scientist she did the one thing no handler had thought to do. She climbed down into the chute and looked along it at the height of the animal.

And she saw what everyone had missed. The cattle were freezing at shadows on the floor, at a glint on a puddle, at a coat draped over a rail. Small terrors, invisible to us, screaming at them. The autism the world had called a defect was the very thing that let her feel an animal's fear.

So she rebuilt the whole machine around that fear. Curved races, so the animal never sees what waits ahead. Soft light. Sure footing. Her centre-track restrainer, cradling the body steady through its final second, so the end comes clean.

Then she did the harder thing. She turned mercy into arithmetic. For McDonald's she built an audit of five cold numbers: stunned on the first shot, fallen, crying out, shocked with a prod. Fail it, lose the contract. An industry deaf to every plea to be gentle went silent the moment gentleness became a score it could fail.

She is no abolitionist, and the purists have never forgiven her for it. Her stance is the harder, braver one. She eats the animal, she looks it in the eye as it dies, and she insists that this is precisely why it is owed a calm life and a death without terror.

Nature offers no such kindness. The wolf does not stun the elk.

Her life's work fits in a few short words. Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.

[Chef Andrew Gruel @ChefGruel]

Yes, it does. If you break ground beef up immediately, it releases moisture and steams before it can brown. Leave it in one layer like a steak, let a deep crust form, flip it, then break it up. More Maillard reaction means richer, beefier flavor and better texture. Game changing technique.

[Chris S. Cornell @BiggestComeback]

“It’s so hard to eat healthy…”

“It’s so hard to stay on track…”

Making an effort > making excuses.

[John Dabell @John_Dabell]

1. Become fluent in optimism and speak hope into difficult days
2. Become fluent in optimism and learn the grammar of perseverance
3. Become fluent in optimism and let resilience shape your vocabulary
4. Become fluent in optimism and translate setbacks into opportunities
5. Become fluent in optimism and communicate possibility wherever you go.

[jenn @911jenn]

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[jenn @911jenn]

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[jenn @911jenn]

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