Romans 1 is a clear warning about what American culture is doing TODAY.
This is why there was so much anger over the MLB players who refused to celebrate "pride."
WNBA players hate Caitlin Clark and cheap shot her because sheโs white and straight. Thatโs despite the fact that sheโs the only reason most of them are getting paid anything at all.
If you want to be President, you must be a natural born American citizen.
Federal judges and Members of Congress should be held to the same standard.
We introduced a constitutional amendment to make it happen.
๐จ HOLY CRAP! Sen. Mike Lee just walked out and RIPPED the Senate for taking another 2 week recess, calling on Leader Thune to CANCEL IT for the SAVE America Act
"Why are we taking a recess right now?! Why on EARTH is the Senate wanting to recess for two WEEKS?"
"Now, I get it. America's 250th birthday is coming up. That's great. It's all the more reason why we should finish our work. It's all the more reason why we should finish, do everything we possibly can to pass the SAVE America Act instead of recessing for two weeks." ๐ฅ
"Only come back and work for a few weeks and then recess for another five or six weeks after that!"
"Why? Why even bother to spend all this time and all this effort campaigning and running for office if when we get here we're constantly taking a recess!"
"A recess at a moment when the Republican Party controls the House and the Senate and the White House. Why? Why do we do this?!"
"There's got to be a better way, a way that doesn't constantly involve saying, oh wait, we've got to take a recess, we've got to leave."
"The American people deserve better than this. They deserve to have free and fair elections and we've got to fix it."
As much as I enjoy watching the WNBA, that was one of the most dangerous cheap shots I have seen since I started following the league. The contact from Alyssa Thomas on Caitlin Clark appeared intentional and had the potential to result in a serious injury.
It is unacceptable that the officiating crew did not recognize and address the play appropriately. Player safety must always be the top priority. If the league does not take action, whether through a fine or suspension, it sends the wrong message and raises concerns about the safety of players on the court.
WOW!
A 2018 report from Housing & Urban Development shows that
the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database
has been used to determine eligibility for housing.
This is the same system used in the SAVE America Act.
So, why are Senators working overtime to NOT pass legislation that the Department of Homeland Security offers for FREE?
If we can determine eligibility for housing, why canโt we use it to determine eligibility for voting?
Make it make sense.
I'm a cardiologist. After 40, stop guessing about your health. These numbers tell you whether you're building a long, vibrant life โ or quietly declining without knowing it.
I run these on myself. I run them on every patient I care about. Most are cheap bloodwork. All are available now. And together, they paint a picture no standard annual physical will ever give you. Print this. Bring it to your next appointment. Your 60-year-old self will thank you.
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Target: below 5 ฮผIU/mL. Ideal: 3-4.
This is the 10-year warning bell your standard panel completely misses. Your glucose and A1c can look "normal" for a decade while your pancreas is working overtime to keep them there. Fasting insulin catches insulin resistance 5-10 years before your A1c moves. By the time A1c rises, the damage is already extensive.
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Target: below 1.0.
Calculated from fasting insulin and fasting glucose. The single best measure of insulin sensitivity. Above 1.0 and your metabolism is already under strain. Above 2.5 and you're insulin resistant โ even if every other number looks fine.
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Target: below 5.4%.
Not below 5.7% โ that's the threshold where medicine calls you "prediabetic." By then you've been metabolically compromised for years. Optimal is below 5.4%. Blood sugar mastery is longevity mastery.
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Target: below 2. Ideal: below 1.
Your metabolic health crystal ball. This ratio predicts insulin resistance, cardiovascular risk, and metabolic syndrome better than any single lipid number alone. A ratio above 3.5 is a red flag regardless of what your total cholesterol says.
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Target: below 80 mg/dL for moderate risk. Below 60 for high risk.
I've written about this extensively. ApoB counts every atherogenic particle hitting your artery walls. A 2024 analysis found 54% of patients had dangerous levels that standard LDL testing completely missed. If you only know your LDL, you're driving with one eye closed.
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Test once in your lifetime.
100% genetic. 1 in 5 Americans are elevated. Triples heart attack risk independently of everything else on this list. Diet and exercise cannot lower it. The 2026 ACC/AHA guidelines now recommend everyone be tested. Most never have been.
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Target: below 1.0 mg/L.
You can have perfect cholesterol and inflamed arteries silently preparing to rupture. hs-CRP measures the fire behind the plaque. The JUPITER trial proved that finding and treating inflammation saves lives โ even when lipids look fine. If this number is elevated, your mouth, your gut, your metabolic health, and your visceral fat are the first places to investigate.
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Target: 50-80 ng/mL.
Not the bare minimum of 30 your doctor accepts. Suboptimal vitamin D is linked to higher inflammation, weaker immunity, increased cardiovascular events, worse mood, and poorer outcomes across nearly every disease I treat. Supplement D3 with K2 โ without K2, calcium deposits in your arteries instead of your bones.
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Men: optimal range 600-1000+ ng/dL total.
Declining testosterone is an independent predictor of cardiovascular death in men. It's tied to insulin resistance, arterial stiffness, visceral fat accumulation, and systemic inflammation. DHEA-S drops 10-20% every decade after 30. Tracking these isn't about vanity โ it's evaluating your body's systemic resilience.
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Target: below 120/80. Aim closer to 110/70.
Every point above optimal is cumulative arterial damage. Buy a home cuff. Measure morning and evening, seated quietly for five minutes, arm at heart level. White-coat readings in the office miss what's really happening. The smartest $40 investment in cardiac self-care.
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Men over 40: above 40 mL/kg/min. Women over 40: above 35.
Cardiorespiratory fitness is the single strongest predictor of all-cause mortality โ stronger than smoking, diabetes, or heart disease as individual risk factors. A landmark study in JAMA found that extreme fitness was associated with the lowest mortality with no upper limit of benefit. You can estimate VO2 max with a timed mile, a rower test, or a wearable. Get faster every year.
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Target: as few as possible.
Every medication you're on should be earning its place. I just wrote about five commonly prescribed drugs that do more harm than good with long-term use. Bring your full medication list to every appointment. Ask: "Do I still need this?" Deprescribing is one of the most powerful and underused tools in medicine.
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Thirteen numbers. Most available through cheap bloodwork and simple tests. Get them once or twice a year. Here's what I want you to understand: these numbers don't just tell you where you are. They tell you where you're heading. A fasting insulin of 8 today becomes diabetes in five years. An ApoB of 120 today becomes a heart attack in ten. An hs-CRP of 3 today means your arteries are inflamed right now โ regardless of how healthy you feel. The standard annual physical checks a fraction of these. It was designed to find disease that's already there. This panel finds the disease that's coming โ years before it arrives.
What gets measured gets improved. Optimize with the foundation I write about every week on this platform:
Zone 2 cardio plus resistance training 3-4 times per week. High-protein whole-food nutrition. Sleep 7-9 hours โ non-negotiable. Morning sunlight. Stress management. And the targeted supplements I've covered in detail โ creatine, magnesium, CoQ10, D3+K2, glycine, omega-3, psyllium husk.
The breakthroughs coming in the next decade โ gene editing for cholesterol, cellular reprogramming, senolytics that clear senescent "zombie" cells driving inflammation and aging, GLP-1 drugs rewriting metabolic medicine โ will be most powerful for people who've already built the metabolic foundation to receive them.
The future of medicine is personalized. But it starts with knowing your numbers today. Print this list. Book the bloodwork. Own the data. Prevention isn't passive. It's the most aggressive thing you can do for the decades ahead.
Last month, we put the open borders industrial complex on noticeโfraudulent asylum claims would result in fines against attorneys. Today we fined an attorney over $255k for filing multiple fraudulent claims on behalf of Indian nationals. https://t.co/tqskAzbRjM
We've said it before. We'll say it again.
No one born in another country should be serving in our government. Judges included.
Sparkle Sooknanan was born in Trinidad. She just blocked the Administration from using a federal database to check citizenship data for voters.
A foreign-born judge blocking efforts to verify American elections are decided by American citizens.
This is exactly why we introduced a Constitutional Amendment to ban foreign-born individuals from serving in Congress, on the federal bench, or in Senate-confirmed positions.
This is not about where someone was born. This is about who they serve.
One allegiance. One country. America FIRST.
๐จ HOLY CRAP! President Trump just FIRED BACK at Leader John Thune saying โwe donโt have the votes for the SAVE America Actโ
47 says: BE A LEADER AND GET THEM! ๐ฅ
โThatโs what being a leader is about! Look, we have to get proof of citizenship, otherwise WE DONโT HAVE ELECTIONS.โ
โWe have to get voter ID. John is a leader, hopefully he can get the votes!โ
โWe HAVE to pass it.โ ๐บ๐ธ
Yet another RINO exposes his true colors. Senate Majority Leader John Thune stopped a vote that would have forced Senator Adam Schiff to unseal the records of his settlement with the family of a 17-year-old boy in 2020.
"Senator Schiff has a right to privacy," said Thune, who admitted that there were at least a dozen Democrats who would have voted for the release.
The question then becomes, why is John Thune covering for Adam Schiff, and what does he know?
Citizen Journalist Nick Shirley and his team say they're looking into it, and DOGE has a full audit of both senators when they reconvene in September.