Ryan Ball

Aggressively average.

[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@AlfieJCarter GTM

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@aschwags3 GA

[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@artheaiguy My man! This is huge, thank you!

[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@dieworkwear Derek, Ive been reading/following along for 10+ years. I just got married & it turns out, weddings are expensive. To save where I could I went with a $90 suit. Thanks to the knowledge youve shared & a local tailor I ended up with a suit that looked great. Thank you!

[brandon* @brndxix]

.@JDVance

[Brad Stulberg @BStulberg]

This statement from Dr. Casey Means is full of so many falsehoods I don't even know where to start.

Here is a small sampling, with my responses in bold.

“I did not learn that for each additional serving of ultra-processed food we eat, early mortality increases by 18%."

I've easily had 1000 bags of chips in my life. If this is true, it means my mortality risk has increased by 18,000 percent. That seems unlikely.

"I certainly did not learn that medical error and medications are the third-leading cause of death in the US."

This is a lie. The third leading cause of death in the US is accidents, and the majority of those accidents are car accidents and falls. Medical errors are, of course, a real cause for concern but they are not the third leading cause of death in the US.

"I didn’t learn that 95% of the people who created the recent USDA food guidelines for America had significant conflicts of interest with the food industry."

Nobody gets sick from following the USDA guidelines, which are to eat around 2000 calories, focus on nutrient dense food, and limit sugar-sweetened beverages. There is an entire nutrition grift to demonize the guidelines but the guidelines are pretty solid! The problem is nobody follows them, for all sorts of reasons.

"I didn’t learn that professional organizations that we get out practice guidelines from, like the American Diabetes Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, have taken tens of millions of dollars from Coke, Cadbury, processed food companies and vaccine manufacturers like Moderna."

This is why the scientific community requires conflict of interest statements. (Unlike in Dr. Means current work, where she is selling a continuous glucose monitor to healthy people and telling them to stress out and obsess over their blood sugar.)

"I didn’t learn that just five nights of sleep deprivation can induce full-blown pre-diabetes."

Running a marathon can induce full-blown kidney disease. So what? The body normalizes after. All sorts of things can lead to all sorts of effects. This is more fear-mongering.

"I didn’t learn that if you address these root causes that all lead to metabolic dysfunction and help patients change their food and lifestyle patterns … we could reverse the chronic disease crisis in America, save millions of lives and trillions of dollars in healthcare costs per year."

This is surprising. I learned this at the University of Michigan and nearly everyone I know who recently attended medical or public health school learned this too. We also learned the solution is not medical devices, shunning modern vaccine technology for no good reason other than unfounded tribal fear, or cold plunging and taking supplements. The solution is to improve social determinants of health across the population. Everyone knows this. But it's hard to do.

Listen, ultra-processed foods generally aren't good for you (with some exceptions, such as Coca-Cola at mile 22 of a hard marathon) and physical activity and sleep are both really good for you! But the amount of wild claims, us vs. the "establishment" boogeyman thinking, and of course, contrarian thinking on everything, and sewing vaccine skepticism are all just signs of a grifter who wants to sell their product.

It's sad but impossible not to see.

[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@SageCanaday Couldn’t resist.

[Dan McClellan @maklelan]

A standard Christian nationalist tergiversation of scripture that not only isolates & proof texts without proper contextualization, but ignores that the Bible also says ppl are given power so examples can be made of them.

[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@ChaseState HYPED

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@stevemagness @BStulberg @brady_h Need Huberman to give me a shiny new term for the serotonin I get watching you guys inject reality into his pseudo-science.

[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@ChaseState But validation is the straight edge drug of choice! How else do I show that I’m in my 30’s and still down with the scene????

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Politics aside - As a dad, Joe Biden’s message to his son always makes me tear up

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

i think you can enjoy the fact that beautiful things in the world exist without needing to own them

[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@dieworkwear This one stings for us bald guys. Never realized how much it could add to one until it was gone and I’m stuck looking like a bad super villain.

[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@CP_Drums @reynlord I normally wear large and that’s what I ordered. For sure bigger than other shirts but I really like the fit and glad I stayed with my normal size. Plus if you downsize on ‘oversized’ shirts a tight fitting oversized cut tee looks goofy.

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

When I hear men worshipping guns and talking about how there’s nothing that will stop them from defending their family, my mind goes to Naaman in the Bible. Do you remember Naaman? He was a great military leader, and he also had leprosy.

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[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@hate5six @RebirthRecords_ Top tier reference

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@JackRhysider I always thought I would read more than that honestly, but I’m behind schedule to even hit that number. Kind of makes a good argument for audiobooks from an efficiency standpoint.

[Ryan Ball @FerrisRBall]

@DavidDenverBall Really bummed you can see your hair, can’t use this one for all my work stuff now.