Andrew Braun

Public Health 3.0 Professional. Interested in asset-based community development, reframing values, and organic non-sedentary behaviors.

[Chris Palmer, MD @ChrisPalmerMD]

The impact of diet and nutrition on mental health is so much more complicated than most people understand.

Check out my latest post outlining a few of the different ways to understand it.

https://t.co/aHpSVSIp9E

[Sean OMara MD, JD @DrSeanOMara]

Competitive swimmers training 60+ minutes a day are showing up on MRI with fat around the heart and fat infiltrating their muscles.

Endurance cyclists with sub-5% body fat are developing atrial fibrillation.

The leanest-looking people in the gym may be the sickest on the inside.

[Sean OMara MD, JD @DrSeanOMara]

Too much of the wrong kind of exercise can be worse than exercising too little.

My routine at 62 is 15 minutes of exercise every 3 days

Meanwhile, distance runners logging 30+ miles a week are developing atrial fibrillation, visceral fat around the heart, and fat infiltrating their muscles.

[Sean OMara MD, JD @DrSeanOMara]

Endurance athletes are building the very disease they think they're outrunning.

Distance runners and cyclists accumulate visceral fat, heart fat, and muscle fat while believing their exercise protects them.

Their cortisol remains too high for too long and contributes to all sorts of dysfunction.

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

@4Day_Week How aligned is this movement with the progression in technology, specifically AI?

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

Insurance tries so hard to be relevant

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

The path forward begins with a fundamental reorientation: from perpetual consumption toward building real assets—productive capacity, independence, and long-term strength.

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

For decades, our society has optimized for consumption. Endless buying powers growth, but it hollows out resilience. We’ve traded durable value for disposable cycles, leaving families, communities, and the system itself fragile and dependent

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

AI’s true test is slashing work hours so we can finally prioritize health: consistent exercise, deep sleep, real food, and actual living. Without delivering more free time for humans to thrive, it’s a total waste of resources. All or nothing.
#AITimeBack

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

US diabetes prevalence has risen sharply now ~12% of population, with 40M+ affected alongside obesity. https://t.co/jnOyV1HG9J
Time to re-examine the ‘grains are good’ dogma. Prioritize protein & real food. Your metabolism isn’t a marketing slogan #PublicHealth #PopulationHealth

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

For anyone who still hasn't had the memo:

- Oatmeal = sugar
- Quinoa = sugar with a marketing degree
- Brown rice = sugar wearing a tiny bran cardigan
- Wholewheat bread = sugar that went to a wholesome photoshoot
- Sweet potato = sugar the wellness influencers agreed to forgive

"Complex carbohydrate" is one of the great triumphs of food branding. It sounds like something that takes effort to break down. Something virtuous. Something earned.

It's a chain of glucose molecules holding hands. The chain breaks in your gut within minutes. By the time it crosses into your blood, it's the same glucose as a spoon of table sugar.

Your pancreas has never once read a label. It doesn't care that the oats were steel-cut, organic, and recommended by a man in running shoes. It sees the glucose. It pumps the insulin. Same response. Every time.

The packaging is for you. The bloodstream isn't fooled.

[David Scott Patterson @davidpattersonx]

When AI replaces all jobs, faith will become more important.

Spirituality will converge toward the optimal: truth, love, and peace.

Practices of Christianity and Buddhism based on these core principles will grow in popularity.

Judaism and Islam will decline.

[Sean OMara MD, JD @DrSeanOMara]

6,000 MRI scans. 7 years. One conclusion:

The 3 things most people use to measure health (weight scale, calories, cholesterol) don't measure the thing that's actually killing them.

Here's what does. 🧵

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

@picstoral @ValerieAnne1970 Do you believe that the current doc-patient relationship is free from influence or bias?

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

@ValerieAnne1970 Let’s not swap one dependency for another. The wellness industry pushes endless supplements, adaptogens, powders, and detox kits that often deliver minimal benefits at high cost.

Real health isn’t another product to consume it’s food, sleep, exercise, and sunlight. #Foundations

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

@4Day_Week Hesitations to adoption include not being able to roll back to a 5 day if the numbers don’t match. Once the 4 day is the new baseline, people won’t want to go back. How does this relate to the WFH Covid-19 shift? People are going back into the office

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

@davidasinclair How do “we” move away from comfort as the goal and look to build resilience through small challenges?

[Andrew Braun @AndrewMBraun]

@davidpattersonx That only addresses the other 40%. Lifestyle disease is not a medical problem yet we keep throwing clinical solutions at it. How will AI impact the 60%? If it’s not getting time back in our day, the value of AI is overstated

[Sean OMara MD, JD @DrSeanOMara]

At 24 hours of fasting, autophagy begins. At 36 hours, it triples. At 72 hours, it maxes out.

If you have never fasted past a single meal skip, your body has never run its own cleanup cycle. Not once. Not in years.

The heart fat, the visceral fat, the dead tissue — it is all still there because you never gave your body permission to burn it.

You need to fast, and you need to make it a habit.