Kinjite

[Healthy Alfred 🌴🥥 @HealthyAlfred]

a man in Shanghai weighed 174.8 kg.

they sampled his gut. one species made up 35% of everything in there.

Enterobacter cloacae B29. an endotoxin-producing pathogen barely detectable in a healthy person.

they put him on a diet designed to starve it. twenty-three weeks.

he lost 51.4 kg. the bacteria went from 35% to undetectable.

diabetes reversed. hypertension gone.

(PMID: 23235292)

then they proved it.

they took that strain out of his gut and put it into germ-free mice. fed them a high-fat diet.

they became obese and insulin resistant.

the control mice on the same diet without the bacteria didn’t.

one strain. that was the difference.

it’s gram-negative, from the Enterobacteriaceae family. MASTIC GUM has documented kill activity against gram-negative bacteria in that same family — E. coli, Staph, seventy species tested.

it hasn’t been tested against B29 specifically. I’d rather say that than have you find out.

but a tree resin that selectively KILLS gram-negative pathogens, and an obesity case that reversed when one disappeared.

your gut has a census and you’ve never read it.

🧵 how I take mastic gum in the comments ↓

[alexei @alexeixbt]

neuroplasticity is real. we can rewire old neural pathways and overcome our mental blocks.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

— John Muir

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.”

— Aldous Huxley

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.”

— Marcus Aurelius

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.”

― Carl Jung

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.”

— Edward Abbey

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“We do not talk—we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. Talk is personal and if of any value must be creative.”

— Henry Miller

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

— Haruki Murakami

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

― P.J. O'Rourke

[Zygo Tape @ZygoTape]

Beautiful faces breathe backward

[Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost @Ne_pas_couvrir]

When you watch old videos of high-trust societies, you notice how little coercive infrastructure they needed. Here, one elderly policeman was enough because shared norms, reputation, shame, and neighbors willing to intervene maintained order.

As trust declines, informal social control collapses and ordinary cooperation must be monitored and enforced. That invisible social infrastructure is replaced by an authoritarian state apparatus and private controls, such as more police, cameras, locks, barriers, contracts, rules, paperwork, verification, and surveillance.

[Joseph de Maistre on X @FMClausewitz]

"Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language."

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

Some men seem to have lived several lifetimes in one.

Sir Richard Francis Burton was one of them.

Born in 1821, Burton was a British Army officer, explorer, diplomat, writer, swordsman, and one of the most remarkable linguists of his age. He reportedly mastered 29 languages, along with numerous dialects.

In 1853, he disguised himself as a Muslim pilgrim and made the dangerous journey to Mecca. He spent years mastering the language, customs, prayers, and mannerisms necessary to maintain his disguise and reportedly even underwent circumcision to make it more convincing.

He also entered the East African city of Harar, explored in search of the source of the Nile, and reached Lake Tanganyika with fellow explorer John Hanning Speke.

During an expedition in Somaliland, Burton was attacked and struck by a spear that entered one cheek and passed through the other. He survived and carried the scars for the rest of his life.

As if that weren't enough, Burton was an accomplished swordsman, served as a British diplomat, wrote extensively about the cultures he encountered, and produced famous English translations of The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra.

Explorer. Soldier. Scholar. Linguist. Diplomat. Adventurer. And that seems to barely scratches the surface.

Sir Richard died in 1890 at the age of 69.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[Schmetterling @schmetter25]

Also teaches you to only focus the good and totally deny the bad.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

"One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims."

— Thomas Sowell