AlexTernianov

Physician, researcher, Diabetologist, Low Carb Keto Diet specialist

[Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche @PGtzsche1]

Good surgeons know how to operate, better surgeons know when to operate, and the best surgeons know when not to operate. The best doctors know when not to prescribe a drug, but there are few: our drugs are the leading cause of death. https://t.co/WMMC2QKgdE

[AlexTernianov @AlexTernianov]

@lowcarbGP @bmj_latest @BMJNutrition @SBakerMD @drchatterjeeuk @OfficialADSOrg @KenDBerryMD @drjasonfung @ElieJarrougeMD @thelowcarb_rd @lowcarb_aus @drtom_butler One of my favourite articles! Congrats and thank you!

[AlexTernianov @AlexTernianov]

@ElonVisioniX 10 holes! Most people will say 6, but they are 10. Unfortunately, you give a hint with the announcement!

[AlexTernianov @AlexTernianov]

@SteveBennettMhP Perfectly defined!

[Epoch Health @epochhealth]

"Most published research findings are false."

Say that out loud in a hospital and you'd get laughed out of the room. That's the actual title of a paper by John Ioannidis at Stanford, whom Dr. Aseem Malhotra calls the most cited medical researcher alive.

The greater the financial interest in a field, the less likely its research is to be true.

Doctors treat the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and The Lancet like biblical truth. They don't realize how much of it is corrupted by vested interests.

Dr. Malhotra spent years treating those journals as gospel. Then he realized what he was actually reading: studies bought and shaped by the people who profit from them.

He isn't saying doctors are bad. He's saying they're being manipulated and don't know it.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Russian psychologist spent 10 years proving that the act of talking to yourself out loud is one of the most powerful cognitive tools the human brain has, and almost nobody outside his field has read the work.

His name was Lev Vygotsky.

He worked in Moscow in the 1920s and died of tuberculosis in 1934 at the age of 37. He had no laboratory, no funding, almost no English readers, and a body of work that the Soviet government suppressed for two decades after he died.

He produced the foundational theory of how human cognition actually develops, and the central piece of that theory was a behavior almost every adult is faintly embarrassed about.

Vygotsky noticed that young children talk to themselves constantly. They narrate their own actions, they argue with imaginary opponents, they instruct themselves through tasks out loud.

The dominant theory at the time, from the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, said this was a sign of cognitive immaturity that children would eventually grow out of as they learned to think properly.

Vygotsky said the exact opposite.

He argued that this self-directed speech was the most important cognitive event in the entire developmental window, because it was the moment a child first started to use language as a tool to control their own mind. The child was not failing to think. The child was learning how to think by externalizing the process and listening to themselves do it.

He predicted that as children matured, this out-loud self-talk would not disappear. It would go underground. It would become silent inner speech, which is the running monologue every adult has inside their own head for the rest of their life.

The voice you hear when you read this sentence is the direct descendant of a four-year-old narrating their own block tower.

For 50 years almost nobody outside Russia had access to his work, and the few researchers who did pick it up could not get funding to test it. Then in the early 2000s the experiments finally started to pile up, and what they found was that Vygotsky had been right about something even more important than he knew.

The first major study came from Gary Lupyan at the University of Wisconsin and Daniel Swingley at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. They ran a simple visual search experiment. Participants were shown 20 images at once and asked to find a specific object, like a banana or a chair. In one condition they searched silently. In the other condition they were told to say the name of the object out loud to themselves while looking for it.

The participants who spoke the target name out loud found the object significantly faster, with higher accuracy, than the participants who searched in silence. The effect was strongest when the spoken word matched a familiar object the brain already had a strong category for.

Saying the word out loud literally tuned the visual system to detect that thing better. The researchers called it the label feedback effect, and the implication was that the act of vocalizing a goal physically changes how the brain processes the world while pursuing it.

The second major study came out of the University of Michigan and Michigan State in 2017. The lead researchers were Ethan Kross and Jason Moser, and they used both EEG and fMRI to record what happens inside the brain when people talk to themselves while emotionally upset.

They asked participants to recall painful autobiographical memories and reflect on them in two different ways. Some used the first person, saying things like "why am I feeling this way." Others used the third person, referring to themselves by their own name, saying things like "why is John feeling this way."

The brain scans showed that the simple act of switching from first person to third person, even silently, decreased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for rumination and self-referential pain. Within a single second of using their own name instead of the word I, participants showed measurably lower emotional reactivity. The shift required no extra cognitive effort. It cost the brain nothing. And it worked.

Kross described the mechanism in his interviews. Talking to yourself by name creates a small amount of psychological distance from your own experience. Your brain processes the situation more like a problem belonging to someone else, which means it can analyze it instead of drowning in it.

What Vygotsky had intuited in 1934 turned out to be even more powerful than the developmental theory he built it into. The voice you use to talk to yourself is not background noise. It is one of the most precise cognitive tools the brain has, and you can change how it works just by changing the pronoun you use.

People who talk through problems out loud are not anxious or unstable. They are running an externalized version of a process the rest of us are running silently and worse. The kindergartener narrating their block tower, the surgeon muttering through a procedure, the engineer pacing a hallway describing a bug to nobody, the athlete repeating a cue to themselves before a free throw, they are all using the same ancient mechanism that builds and steers human thought.

You can run the experiment yourself the next time you are stuck on something hard. Stop trying to solve it silently in your head. Say it out loud. Describe what you are seeing. Walk yourself through the steps as if you were explaining it to a colleague who is not in the room.

And when something genuinely upsets you, switch to your own name. Ask why this person is feeling this way, instead of why I am feeling this way.

The voice you have been told to keep quiet your entire life is one of the oldest pieces of cognitive technology you own.

Most people are still embarrassed to use it.

[AlexTernianov @AlexTernianov]

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[Vinnie Tortorich @VinnieTortorich]

A Danish researcher proved cholesterol does not cause heart disease. They burned a copy of his book on live Finnish television.

Dr. Uffe Ravnskov. Danish nephrologist and lipid researcher. He spent decades studying cholesterol up close. The deeper he looked, the less the official diet-heart hypothesis held up.

The official story was simple. Saturated fat raises cholesterol. Cholesterol clogs arteries. Cholesterol causes heart disease. Lower it and you save lives.

Ravnskov went back to the underlying trials and found the data did not support any of it. High-cholesterol countries did not have higher heart disease rates than low-cholesterol countries. The famous statin trials hid more than they showed. The dose-response that should exist if the theory was right kept refusing to show up.

He publishes The Cholesterol Myths in Sweden. Detailed. Citation-heavy. Polite but devastating.
The Finnish edition launches. Finnish proponents of the cholesterol hypothesis go on national television. On channel 2, on live air, a copy of the book is set on fire in protest.
He kept going.

In 2002 he founded THINCS. The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics. The first organized scientific dissent against the diet-heart hypothesis. More than a hundred doctors, researchers, and PhDs from around the world joined. Almost none of them got airtime.

For thirty years the official advice did not move. Statins became the most prescribed drug in human history. Saturated fat guidance kept tightening every revision.

Then January 2026 happened. The federal nutrition reset moved away from the low-saturated-fat era. The pyramid was inverted. Full-fat dairy returned to the official plate.

The book they burned on Finnish television in 1992 turned out to be the early warning.

Ravnskov was right.

Most patients are still on the medication built on the theory he disproved.

#NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #VinnieTortorich #UffeRavnskov #CholesterolMyths #THINCS #SaturatedFat #RealFood #NutritionScience #MAHA

[Elie Jarrouge, MD @ElieJarrougeMD]

🚨 Nobody should have Type 2 Diabetes. NOBODY.

It’s not a “chronic disease.” It’s a dietary disease: Preventable and completely reversible.

Prevention is easier.
Reversing it takes discipline, but it works.

If you have it, here’s exactly how you reverse it:

1. Quit sugar and carbs completely.
2. Prioritize animal protein and fat.
3. Stop snacking.
4. Build muscle.

Your body will heal. The results will be dramatic. I’ve taken patients off insulin and other diabetes meds with 8 weeks doing exactly this.

I label people “no longer diabetic” every week. Most people aren’t ready to do what it takes.

Are you?

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2016, the Netherlands Meteorological Institute adjusted temperatures at De Bilt, the country's main climate station. Daily maximums from 1901 to 1950 were lowered by up to 1.9C, which removed 16 of 23 heatwaves from the record.

The altered data were then used to claim modern heatwaves were unprecedented.

Four researchers challenged the changes, but the institute dismissed the criticism, so the analysis went to peer review. In 2021, it was published, conclusively demonstrating the method systematically erased historical heat extremes.

Today, the Meteorological Institute has quietly changed its approach, and as a result, seven erased heatwaves have been restored, including the extreme summer of 1947.

Here again, we have a government agency caught rewriting climate history. The Netherlands Meteorological Institute erased heatwaves of the past, ignored critics, and reinstated the truth only when the evidence became impossible to ignore.

Policies were built on that manipulated record.
Dutch farmers lost livelihoods.
Industry and the wider economy paid the price.

But accountability is coming.

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

Did you know that melting ice plates in Norway revealed artefacts lodged in the rocks below the Ice, meaning it was warm enough to not have those ice plates back in the Iron Age & Medieval Periods therefore it was warmer than recently, and this was proved by carbon dating the same found artefacts?

[Vinnie Tortorich @VinnieTortorich]

An anonymous dietitian got an Australian surgeon banned from talking about food.

Dr. Gary Fettke. Senior orthopedic surgeon. Launceston, Tasmania. He amputates the consequences of type 2 diabetes for a living. Feet. Toes. Legs.

He spent years watching the same patients come back. The official high-carb diabetic diet was feeding the disease. So he started telling them: cut sugar. Cut refined carbs. Eat real food.

An anonymous dietitian reported him to AHPRA, Australia's medical regulator. The charge: giving nutritional advice outside his scope of practice.
AHPRA's exact words to him: "There is nothing associated with your medical training or education that makes you an expert or authority in the field of nutrition, diabetes or cancer."

The investigation ran two and a half years. Zero patient harm. Zero patient complaints.

November 2016. They cautioned him anyway. He was forbidden from giving any nutritional advice. To anyone. Even patients about to lose a limb.

He refused to back down. The science was on his side. So was every patient he had ever treated. #isupportgary built into a movement.

October 3, 2018. AHPRA dropped every allegation. Apologized in writing. Four and a half years after the original complaint.

They didn't beat him with science. They tried to beat him with bureaucracy. He outlasted it.

The body listens to what you feed it. The medical board listens to dietitians.

Choose carefully who you listen to.

#NoSugarNoGrains #VinnieTortorich #GaryFettke #isupportgary #AHPRA #LowCarb #Type2Diabetes #DiabetesReversal #SugarLies #FoodIsMedicine #MedicalFreedom

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Bloodletting for fever. Confident. Standard practice.

Mercury tablets for syphilis. Confident. Widely prescribed.

Radium water for low energy. Confident. Sold in pharmacies.

Lobotomies for anxiety. Confident. Won a Nobel Prize.

Thalidomide for morning sickness. Confident. Distributed to millions.

Cigarettes for throat irritation. Confident. Doctor-endorsed advertising.

Heroin for coughs. Confident. Marketed by Bayer.

DDT sprayed in children's schools. Confident. Government-approved.

Margarine instead of butter. Confident. Heart-healthy alternative.

Dietary fat causes heart disease. Confident. Fifty years of guidelines.

Statins for everyone over fifty. Confident. Best-selling drug in history.

Seed oils are safe. Confident. Endorsed by every major health body.

Meat is carcinogenic. Confident. WHO classification still stands.

Every generation of doctors was confident.

Every generation was wrong about something they were certain of.

The question isn't whether to trust doctors.

The question is which part of the current list turns out to be the thalidomide.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

German MEP Christine Anderson warns that under-16 social media bans are ultimately just a pretext to link everybody's online activity to a digital ID.

"The EU wants to scan private messages sent from your phone. They say it's about illegal material online, but in practice it means scanning everything that people say."

"It would inevitably require identifying every user through digital ID."

"That is called surveillance. And putting one's own citizens under surveillance is the practice best known in totalitarian regimes."

[Dr Verner Wheelock @VernersViews]

"The idea that high cholesterol levels in the blood are the main cause of CVD is impossible because people with low levels become just as atherosclerotic as people with high levels and their risk of suffering from CVD is the same or higher." 1/2
https://t.co/b6J8rdpeOS

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Dr. Paul Thomas had his license revoked for published a study proving that vaccinated children are 500% more prone to allergies, autoimmune conditions, neurodevelopmental issues, and infections of all kinds compared to unvaccinated children.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Buckingham Palace has reportedly confirmed that the king will not be issuing an Easter message this year.

Apparently, it isn't traditional for the monarch to issue a special message at Easter.

Well, fine. But the king did issue a special message for Ramadan in February. So many Christians will understandably feel slighted.

And many others will see it as yet another example of asymmetric multiculturalism.

[Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 @VoicesUnheard]

1990: Italy admits CIA/NATO ran a secret army.

Civilian targets? Yes.

False flag operations? Yes.

The "Strategy of Tension."

Operation Gladio is the most damaging scandal you've never heard of. 👇

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A gorilla has a colon the length of a small motorway. It ferments plant matter for up to 24 hours. It eats all day. Every day. Just to stay alive.

It still can't fully digest cellulose. It extracts maybe 30% of the calories from the fibre it consumes. The rest exits approximately as it entered.

A cow has four stomachs. Four. It regurgitates its food, chews it a second time, passes it back through, ferments it with specialised bacteria, neutralises the resulting acid, and extracts nutrition from grass that would be entirely indigestible to any primate on earth.

Then there's you.

You have a stomach the size of a fist, a colon that runs for about five feet, and a digestive transit time of roughly 24-72 hours. You have almost no capacity for fibre fermentation. You have essentially no cellulase. Your gut is optimised for one thing: dense, calorie-rich, rapidly digestible animal protein.

You are not built to process plants.

But here's the beautiful thing.

You don't have to.

The cow has already done it. It took the grass, ran it through four stomachs and a rumen of microorganisms, and produced beef. The beef arrives at the other end pre-converted. Bioavailable. Ready.

You outsourced the hard part ten thousand years ago when you domesticated ruminants.

You are the apex predator that invented a living food processing system.

And somewhere, a nutritionist is telling you to eat more fibre.