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Food is just the beginning.

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

I'm not surprised that the popularity of the carnivore diet is losing steam. It never was a durable solution for most people.

Ultimately, part of what people were experiencing were the benefits of an elimination diet. But that doesn’t mean a zero-plant diet is optimal long term.

We’re already seeing that play out. Many of the loudest carnivore advocates are starting to add back fruit, vegetables, and other whole foods.

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

@texasrunnerDFW Try seeing how you feel outside Dallas. Sky high alternaria plus PM2.5 is a bad combo for mold reactor phenotypes.

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

PM 2.5 exposure for certain STK10 variants is a major factor here.

[Ben Blumenrose @benblumenrose]

Oof another 38 year old guy diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer. Gents - get screened... colonoscopy, cologuard, etc. These are different times...

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

New on the blog:

https://t.co/L8spXzfJEl

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

It's not the food, it's the air.

[Brett Boettcher @brettboettcher1]

2 weeks in Spain eating out for every meal.

Beer and wine. Ice cream dessert.

My wife and I lost a combined 8 lbs.

Most cope and say "the food in the US is poison"

Here's what really made the difference:

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

No amount of pm 2.5 is safe.

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

Telling people that no amount of alcohol is "safe" is technically true but also stupid messaging

No amount of driving is safe

No amount of bacon is safe

We should explain risk and let adults decide

A woman who has a glass of wine a day for her entire adult life increases her lifetime risk of developing breast cancer by 1.8% compared to a woman who never drinks at all

Not nothing but also, not that much (your risk tolerance may differ)

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

More of this please.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

If life is strictly about the narrow elimination of biomarker distress, we really should stop having children.

Not cut back. Eliminate procreation.

The science is clear.

> raising babies increases cortisol
> disrupts REM sleep
> shrinks hippocampal volume
> elevates resting heart rate
> raises inflammatory markers

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

@faraz_r_khan Run a HERTSMI-2 panel.

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

Of course, no one can say for sure, but this type of illness hits (or worsens) in a small percentage of people that move to Austin, TX. The region has levels of ambient mold that are off the charts high, growing ozone issues, and a severe allergen profile for sensitive people.

[Dana Parish @danaparish]

This is sadly what a lot of Lyme (aka Borrelia) patients have to resort to since modern medicine & PH has chosen to ignore this crushing disease. I’ve seen hyperthermia work well but everyone I know relapsed within months unless they followed it with antibiotics.

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

Very important tweet.

[Chris Lakin @chrislakin]

Having a lifelong illness without realizing you have a lifelong illness is wild. I was literally like “Maybe I just have to eat beef, goat butter, and nothing else for the rest of my life.” No— I had a mold infection

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

Score one for the Vegans

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

93 years & 231 days old Ann Esselstyn dead hangs for 2 min 52 seconds! To set new WR. (Maybe we call it live hangs instead now?) Distal strength reflects many things.

[Karl Mehta @karlmehta]

Harvard researchers put 24 office workers in the same room for 6 days.

They changed one thing about the air. The workers didn't know.

Then they tested their brains.

Cognitive scores doubled.

Here's what the air you're breathing right now is doing to your brain:

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

Calling the top.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your visual cortex burns 44% of your brain's energy budget. Turning off the lights in the shower is the fastest way to slash that load to near zero.

Your brain is 2% of your body weight but burns 20% of your total energy. Visual processing alone eats almost half of that. Every photon hitting your retina triggers a cascade of neural signaling that demands oxygen, glucose, and ATP at rates higher than almost any other cognitive function.

When you kill the lights, you're removing the single largest energy load on your cortex. That freed-up metabolic capacity gets reallocated.

This is where it gets interesting. A 2022 study from the Laureate Institute for Brain Research measured what happens when you strip sensory input from anxious patients. High-frequency heart rate variability, the gold standard marker of parasympathetic activation, increased significantly compared to controls. Blood pressure dropped. Breathing rate fell. The nervous system shifted from sympathetic dominance to parasympathetic mode within minutes.

The warm water adds a second mechanism. Core body temperature rises during the shower. When you step out, temperature drops rapidly. That cooling signal triggers melatonin production and primes the circadian system for sleep. Layer darkness on top: no photons suppressing melatonin through the retinal ganglion cells, no blue-light signaling to the suprachiasmatic nucleus that it's still daytime.

The shower is doing three things simultaneously. Reducing cortical energy demand by eliminating visual input. Activating the parasympathetic nervous system through sensory reduction. Triggering thermoregulatory sleep signaling through the heat-then-cool cycle.

A $0 float tank that takes 10 minutes.

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

New on the blog.

https://t.co/y8GCGT3rIB

[Brown Eyed Girl @Browneyes5152]

I've faced more peer pressure to eat protein as an adult than I did to take drugs in my teens.

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

Baby Aspirin Genetics - https://t.co/AKuHLsE6Fn

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

Higher caffeine intake has been found to lower risk of osteoporosis, but can genetics change the equation, especially at high doses >300 mg per day?

https://t.co/QSkELU3bTf

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

https://t.co/p7VwsNT5ok

[Thomas Dayspring @Drlipid]

Has the LMHR crowd apologized yet?

[Gene Food @GeneFoodHQ]

Many of our users have asked for input on the best supplements to address MTHFR and methylation more broadly, and we finally have a post live on the site.

https://t.co/OjM214eSDY