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Change begins at the margins.

[Aliquis @BTCPops]

@Ducnghia16 Mazzy Star

[Russ Shaw MLS - Lab Scientist @RussellShaw_MLS]

Found a tool worth sharing for anyone running their own panels.

LabHackr (https://t.co/FaQy1OAHlG) catalogs every direct-to-consumer lab test in the US, then runs a matching algorithm to align identical Quest or LabCorp assays sold under different brand names across 52 retailers. Same lab. Same assay. Same LOINC code. Same printed result. The only thing that differs is what the retailer charges.

The price spread is genuinely absurd.

A Comprehensive Metabolic Panel at Jason Health is $8. The identical panel at LabCorp OnDemand is $60+. Same blood draw at the same patient service center. Same Quest or LabCorp lab running the analysis. Same LOINC code on the result.

A typical Vitamin D test ranges from $35 to $311 across retailers for the same test.

A bundled annual physical panel (CBC, CMP, Lipid, TSH, Vitamin D) ranges from $89 cheapest to $589 most expensive across the 21 retailers that carry it. Same five tests. 56x price range.

How it works:

You search the markers you want or pick from pre-built bundles. Their algorithm finds the single retailer that carries everything cheapest, including the requisition fee. You click through, pay direct, get drawn at any Quest or LabCorp patient service center near you, and have results in 1 to 3 days. No insurance. No referral. No markup.

Why this matters:

The case for running your own panels gets stronger every year. Most insurance won’t cover ApoB or Lp(a) without a specific diagnosis code. Most physicians won’t order fasting insulin, hsCRP, homocysteine, or omega-3 index in routine care. The data you actually need to track metabolic, cardiovascular, and longevity health upstream is largely DTC territory now.

When you can run a basic metabolic and lipid panel for under $30 cash, the economics flip. Quarterly comprehensive testing becomes accessible for the price of a couple coffees a week. You stop arguing with your physician about coverage and start arriving with the data already in hand.

What I’d recommend you build a quarterly basket around:

CBC, CMP, fasting insulin, HbA1c, full lipid panel, ApoB, Lp(a) (one time only, it’s genetic and stable), hsCRP, homocysteine, vitamin D, ferritin with iron studies, full thyroid (TSH, Free T4, Free T3), and basic hormones (testosterone with SHBG for men, estradiol and progesterone for women).

That’s the comprehensive metabolic and cardiovascular foundation that lets you trend your own physiology over time. Built quarterly, that data becomes a longitudinal record nothing else in healthcare can match.

Two honest disclosures from their site that I appreciate: they’re transparent that affiliate revenue covers server costs first, and anything beyond that goes to Partners In Health, who bring the same diagnostics to people in Haiti, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Peru, and Malawi who have never seen a lab panel. They also flag that as of now they haven’t crossed server cost so nothing has been donated yet. When it does they’ll post receipts. That’s the right way to run a transparent affiliate model.

Not sponsored. I make zero income from anything I post. Just sharing tools that actually serve patients trying to take control of their own data.

Quarterly testing was already the brand thesis here. LabHackr just made the math friendlier for the people doing it.

Don’t wait for the diagnosis.

Read the label.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

As you go to work today and settle into the week, please study the form below. You will soon need to fill this out EVERY year and tell the government what you own and then allow them to tell you how much its worth.

That is the framework that is enabled by the Trojan Horse "Billionaire Tax" that is trying to get passed.

Give them credit: they cleverly use Billionaires as the hook, but build in the language and the framework that will allow the Legislature to simply extend the tax to everyone and make it yearly.

And this is where the form below comes in...

In this case, ask yourself, will it be you or the Billionaires that will be able to fill this out properly and avoid penalties.

As much as Billionaires can be pushed to do more for society, we all know that they have the infrastructure to manage these kinds of disclosures...middle class Californians do not and they will be the ones that get penalized in the end.

[Aliquis @BTCPops]

@ze_rusty Thes long texts with 1-sentence paragraphs - now ubiquitous on X and an obvious attempt to be dramatic / increase engagement – are both annoying and an insult to people’s, intelligence. Make it stop. 🛑

[Aliquis @BTCPops]

@bryan_johnson Errare est humanum, perseverare (in errore) stultum est.

Welcome to the club, Bryan. We’ve been waiting for you.

[Aliquis @BTCPops]

@XFreeze If it's 9x safer, why only a 50% discount? Make it 1/9th. Make it make sense.

[Aliquis @BTCPops]

Taking a survey for those who have Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 or Type 2. (I have the former.) Are people really this fragile nowadays? 🫤

Risks of taking this Survey
Risks or Discomfort: The risks associated with this study are minimal. Some questions ask about your experiences living with myotonic dystrophy (DM). Thinking about or describing these experiences may cause mild emotional discomfort or distress. You may end the survey at any time.

[Aliquis @BTCPops]

@gothburz So you were manipulative, duplicitous and fine with wasting other people’s life’s for your benefit. Bravo!

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

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[Aliquis @BTCPops]

@NicHulscher Just wow!

[☣️ Pleb Kruse = BTC foundationalist in exile 🟩🔆 @DrJackKruse]

THE DETAILS: Why is thyroid disease linked to polarized light? Recent research and biochemical observations have highlighted a surprising environmental factor in the rising prevalence of thyroid disorders: exposure to artificial polarized light and its potential to induce chiral inversion in amino acids.

Glycine, the only achiral amino acid (lacking a chiral carbon), is normally immune to this effect, but critical thyroid-related precursors such as tyrosine and tryptophan are highly chiral and susceptible. When linearly polarized light, common in LED, screens and fluorescent screens, energy-efficient lighting, and even polarized sunglasses and contact lenses. Artificial light interacts with these amino acids or their metabolic intermediates, it can drive enantiomeric inversion (L → D or D → L forms). The difference between heaven and life is based on homochirality.

These “wrong-handed” molecules disrupt key enzymatic steps in thyroid hormone synthesis (T4 and T3 from tyrosine) and melatonin/serotonin pathways (from tryptophan), while also interfering with proper heme formation and oxygen binding due to altered spatial configuration of the porphyrin ring. Many causes of anemia in my clinic are caused by this too.

The resulting metabolic chaos contributes to hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and other autoimmune thyroid conditions by generating misfolded proteins that the immune system recognizes as foreign.

This mechanism helps explain why thyroid disease rates have skyrocketed in parallel with the widespread adoption of polarized artificial lighting and screen time, offering a novel environmental trigger beyond the scope fo centrlaized and functional phsyicians to recognize because they are light ignorant. Moreover, this mechanism is beyond iodine deficiency, drug treatments, or any genetic predisposition to these conditions.

Fix the light and the thyroid disease vanishes.

Thyroid disease has always been a disease of a lack of sunlight and/or too much polarized light as the top line of the slide shows. It is not a deficiency of drugs or iodine.

Graves disease comes from a big time loss of UVB exposure and this drives autoimmune creation of aberrent B cells making immunoglobin because T regs did not turn in to NK cells to remove those B cells by apoptosis. Why did I say cancer and autoimmunity are linked in the blog.

So many with Graves disease do not know the story of John Ott at the SeaQuarium of Miami:

Autoimmune Graves Disease is due to a lack of UV light.

Pass it on, because your endocrinologist won't.

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[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

Science just did the unthinkable:

Researchers genetically modified the world's deadliest virus to trace how psilocybin physically repairs the brain...

𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱.

We've finally figured out why one trip can change your entire life 🧵

[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

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[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

🚨 JUST HAPPENED: HHS Sec. RFK Jr. delivers on MAHA big time, $700M redirected to regenerative agriculture!

Fewer pesticides, healthier soil, more nutrients

“With soil health comes nutrient density. We’re fixing the food system from the ground up.”

[Dagon Duke @dagon_duke]

That story is pure distilled American metaphysics. The difference between preference and covenant, spoken in the accent of a man who still measures distance in a long rifle shot. What makes it profound isn’t the punchline, it’s the unspoken premise underneath it. The robber operated inside a cost benefit calculus he wanted money more than he wanted to die for it. The storyteller didn’t. Once that line is crossed, the negotiation is over before it starts. It’s the same reason a mother can lift a car off her child, or why a tiny nation with its back to the sea can make empires reconsider their plans. Decision is a spreadsheet. Commitment is a blood oath. One can be talked out of, the other has to be killed out of. Civilizations, marriages, revolutions, and turkey hunts all turn on which one shows up that day. Shakespeare needed five acts and iambic pentameter to say it. Robin Risher did it in thirty seconds with a dip in his lip and a .357 on his hip. I’ll take the latter. Some truths only sound true when a man who’s lived them tells them.

[Aliquis @BTCPops]

@Bitcoinprof0637 Done

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Massie’s solution, the PRIME Act, would allow small custom slaughter facilities to avoid major processors by selling cuts of meat directly to consumers. Massie argues that this would open up competition and force the conglomerates to operate more fairly.
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[James Lavish @jameslavish]

Translated: "You will soon need approval for every single transaction you attempt. If we decide we don't want you to buy that steak or take that trip or fill that car with gas (all in the name of climate control, of course) then we will simply deny that transaction. And if you speak out against us, we may just seize your money altogether."

[Aliquis @BTCPops]

Done

[Aliquis @BTCPops]

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