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[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

In a nursing home filled with people in their 90s—many too frail to walk without help or stand up from a chair on their own—researchers decided to put them on a weight-training program.
Not light calisthenics. Not gentle stretching. High-intensity progressive resistance training, three times a week, with loads that eventually reached about 80% of each person’s maximum. The results, published in JAMA in 1990 by Maria Fiatarone and colleagues, upended long-held assumptions about aging and muscle.
Ten frail, institutionalized volunteers (average age 90, some as old as 96) trained their quadriceps for just eight weeks. Their strength exploded—an average gain of 174%, with some individuals more than tripling their starting numbers. Mid-thigh muscle cross-sectional area increased by roughly 9%. More importantly, function improved: tandem gait speed rose nearly 50%. Several participants who had needed canes or arm support to rise from a chair no longer did. Attendance was extraordinarily high; these were not people who were easily motivated by abstract health advice, yet they showed up and pushed themselves.
The study demonstrated something radical for its time: the muscles of people in their tenth decade still possess remarkable plasticity. They respond to progressive overload with substantial gains in strength, size, and real-world mobility—changes that meaningfully restored independence and reduced the burden of frailty. The relative magnitude of adaptation was comparable to what much younger adults experience under similar training.
In short, the experiment proved that chronological age, even extreme age accompanied by chronic disease and institutionalization, does not erase the body’s capacity to grow stronger. Strength training could reverse a large portion of the functional decline once considered inevitable.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

True love is a gift from God, and we cannot simply create it ourselves. Whereas human love is often tainted by selfish desires, God’s love, on the other hand, is selfless, long-suffering, patient and possesses all the wonderful qualities that Paul lists in his Letter to the Corinthians (1 Cor 13). #Youcat

[Turkishh @TInyhunta]

This has haappened to every player at least once😭

[British Intel @TheBritishIntel]

France is burning for a 2nd week. Around 400 high schools have shut, thousands have been arrested and hundreds of police officers injured, as protests over overcrowded classrooms have turned into riots in Paris, Bordeaux, Belfort and beyond.

French officials admit the violence is now being driven by people who are not even students. After the 2023 riots, a French government inspection found most of those convicted came from immigrant families, mainly from North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Marine Le Pen's party says this is the same story again, with second and third generation migrants at the centre of it.

Decades of mass immigration and cowardly leaders have brought France to this.

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

Top 5 European countries for beef and lamb consumption live way longer than the lowest 5 countries

[Jesus Loves You @John_Matthew_T]

King Nebuchadnezzar ordered everyone to bow down to a golden image. But Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused because they would worship God alone.

The king became furious and ordered them to be thrown into a blazing furnace. They knew God could save them, but they also made it clear that they would remain faithful even if He did not.

“Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from it.”
- Daniel 3:17

The king looked into the furnace and saw not three, but four men walking around in the fire. God was with them, and they came out without being burned.

Their faith reminds us that following God doesn’t mean we will never face the fire. It means we don’t face it alone...

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

But it couldn’t be social contagion, folks. It’s just that young people, especially autistic, gay and mentally ill ones, are finally free to be their authentic selves.

The sudden explosion of young women who want to cut off their healthy breasts and take testosterone? Well, it’s absolutely not the newest form of self-harm, to which troubled adolescent girls are provably prone, ok? It’s not a consequence of the commonplace fear of becoming an adult woman, with all that that entails. No, there’s nothing to worry about there.

The possibility of regret? Naturally, we don’t let minors get tattoos or own guns or vote, because that would be ridiculous, but if they want irreversible surgeries and drug treatments, they must be given them, and everyone around them must immediately agree they are now the opposite sex. That’s called being kind.

And the mounting numbers of detransitioners? They were never trans, obviously, and should be mercilessly attacked, especially if they now say they were vulnerable and in a friendship group, online or off, dominated by trans identities, where transitioning was presented as a way to resolve all their social and emotional difficulties. (I have the emails).

No, there’s nothing whatsoever to see here. Keep justifying it, keep cheering it on, keep insisting that the doctors and drug companies making serious money out of it all are acting with the purest of motives. Answer every reasonable question with an accusation of hatred and bigotry. Dispel every qualm of conscience with an activist-approved talking point. Reassure yourself that everyone on your dinner party circuit agrees with you.

And when, in years to come, we’re all looking back on graphs like this, be proud that you did your bit to monster whistleblowers, parrot unevidenced claims and create the climate of fear that allowed the worst medical scandal in a century to take place.

[Neet @neet_sol]

Do nothing more

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

No other words other than genocide

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

— Albert Einstein

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Carnivore is hard to get your head round for one reason: it works by doing the reverse of every piece of advice you've had since school.

- Told to eat less fat. Eat the fat.
- Told to trim the steak. Buy the cap.
- Told to eat 5 a day. Eat 0.
- Told to eat little and often. Eat twice, a lot.
- Told to count calories. Never count again.
- Told to have breakfast. Skip it until you're hungry.
- Told to eat wholegrains for energy. Grain is the thing draining it.
- Told to watch the cholesterol. Eat 6 eggs.
- Told fibre keeps you regular. The gut calms down without it.
- Told to swap butter for oil. Swap the oil for butter.
- Told to snack on fruit. Snack on nothing, because you're not hungry.
- Told you need variety. Eat the same thing and thrive.

Every single line of the leaflet, turned round, and the body says thank you.

You don't have to understand it. You just have to do it for 30 days and watch the leaflet lose.

The advice was never wrong by accident. It was wrong the whole way through, and consistency is a kind of proof.

[Frankie @BelejFrantisek]

@dr_ericberg Rack of Lamb with fried eggs and butter

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

You can read Carl Jung 50 times and still be blown away at the 51st

[Frankie @BelejFrantisek]

@YayaMarchena @Lovandfear Thank you

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

C. S. lewis with maybe the greatest paragraph ever written on love

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

Just interviewed a young woman diagnosed with high grade brain tumor shortly after her 2nd child was born

Grade 4 highly aggressive astrocytoma-had surgical resection, followed by chemo therapy and radiation- after 8 months of chemotherapy it unfortunately came back and was inoperable!

She elected to not undergo any further chemotherapy and instead gave up sugar, went carnivore and put her faith in God.

The tumor continued to double in size every scan for the next 8 months reaching about 4cm in size and she was told her survival rate was less than 1% -at month 9 of carnivore the tumor began to shrink, her oncologist could not explain it-6 months later it was completely gone! Today she celebrated 1 year of her tumor recurrence being completely gone! This interview will be found on my podcast channel where I have done hundreds more like it

https://t.co/Deeknd53ey

[Chan @ChanTV_]

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[Frankie @BelejFrantisek]

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