Matt Crytzer

N=1 | Carnivore | 60lb weight loss

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Wool is a technology so good that if a startup unveiled it tomorrow, it would raise a fortune.

Run through the spec sheet with a straight face.

It keeps you warm even when it's soaking wet, which almost nothing else does. It is naturally flame-resistant. It doesn't catch and melt onto your skin like plastic does. It chars, refuses to sustain the flame, and puts itself out when you take the fire away. It manages moisture, breathes, and resists smell so well you can wear it for days. It bends tens of thousands of times without snapping.

And when you're finally done with it, you can put it in the ground and in a matter of months it's gone, rotted back into the soil, feeding it nitrogen on the way out.

Then there's the supply chain, which is the part no engineer could ever replicate. It grows back. Every year, on its own, on nothing but grass and rain, on a sheep that was going to stand on that hillside anyway. A self-renewing, fireproof, compostable insulation fibre with a production input of weather.

We replaced it with polyester. Oil, spun into thread, that melts on you in a fire, sheds plastic into the sea with every wash, and sits in landfill for centuries when you're done.

We had the better version the whole time. It says baa.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Trump sees the same pressure the left sees.

America has too many wage earners with no assets.

Too many renters.

Too many people locked out of compounding.

Too many citizens watching capitalism enrich someone else.

The left answer is redistribution.

Trump’s answer is ownership distribution through markets.

That is the ideological war. Not capitalism versus welfare in the old sense. Asset ownership versus grievance politics. Capital formation versus state dependency. National shareholder capitalism versus socialist redistribution.

Trump is trying to make Americans owners before they become anti-capitalist.

That is the whole move.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Neither the spirit of this Declaration nor due respect for the red lines contained therein resides in our nation’s capital.

On this 250th anniversary of our Founders’ bold assertion of these principles, let’s honor them by keeping this flame burning within us.

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

The vote that would create the United States was deadlocked, and the man who could break the tie was eighty miles away, dying of cancer, on the wrong side of a thunderstorm.

His name was Caesar Rodney. On the first of July 1776, while Congress argued itself toward independence in Philadelphia, he was stuck back in Delaware. He was tamping down Loyalist trouble, in constant pain from the cancer eating at his face and fighting for breath due to his asthma.

Then the letter came. Delaware's two delegates in Congress were split. One for independence, one against. Without a tiebreaker, the colonies would not stand united. And a divided front was exactly what the Crown was counting on.

He did not hesitate. He climbed onto his horse near midnight and rode straight into the storm. Lightning split the sky. The roads turned to sludge. A journey that normally took two days but he made it in eighteen hours. He stopped only to change horses, soaked with every mile.

He reached Independence Hall on the morning of July 2 just as the vote was called, still in his boots and spurs. Caked in mud. Thomas McKean never forgot the sight of him standing in the doorway.

Rodney walked in and cast his vote for independence. It broke Delaware's tie, and with that, not a single colony stood against the break from Britain.

On this day, 250 years ago, a dying man rode all night through a storm so America could be born.

America 250 🇺🇸

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Dr. Andrew Huberman just confirmed a “wild conspiracy theory” about incandescent lights and LED bulbs.

The long wavelengths found in incandescents increase your metabolism and “charge your mitochondria.”

Conversely, the LED bulbs that most of you have in your house are “causing disruptions in mitochondrial function.”

DR. ANDREW HUBERMAN: “Your mitochondria function better, you increase ATP production, your metabolism increases in the presence of red light, long wavelength light to the skin.”

“Shine long wavelength light on somebody, watch blood glucose levels in a blood glucose test, and it’s blunted.”

“Now, the LED lights that are commonly used now… that short wavelength light, in the absence of long wavelength light, has been shown to damage the mitochondria.”

“This used to be considered crazy. This was like chemtrail crazy, right?”

“But now we’re starting to see from animal studies and human studies, from Glenn Jeffreys and others, that people’s vision gets better when they get in front of an incandescent bulb once a day.”

“If they get sunlight, which also has long-wavelength light, your vision improves because of improvements in mitochondria.”

The Biden administration quietly pushed incandescents out of the market through aggressive energy regulations.

But you can still find them online today if you look hard enough.

If that health insight stood out to you, there’s a lot more where that came from.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.

Write that down. 🦋

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

C.S. Lewis once said:

“To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor. The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a person alone reading a book that interests them; and all economics, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, are only valuable in so far as they prolong and multiply such scenes.”

[Michael Fiore - Garden Center @Michaelfiore]

One of the most incredible aspects of the World Cup in the United States is what we DIDN’T have to do to prepare for it.

Qatar built multiple brand new stadiums, a metro system, roads, hotels, and entire districts.

South Africa built new stadiums, parking, etc.

Brazil spent billions on stadium and transit projects.

Russia built and rebuilt venues across the country.

Meanwhile, the U.S. was like: “We’re good.”

Like, we modified the playing surface in some stadiums and that was it.

The sport venue infrastructure in the US mogs every other country on earth and it’s not even close.

[Matt Crytzer @MCrytz]

@SamaHoole Carnivore changed my life 9 yrs ago. When I was starting out (60lbs heavier than now), Strong Medicine was a huge influence in my nutritional education. Dr Donaldson and his book let me know, not only was meat-only not harmful, it was optimal.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1919 a New York physician got so fed up with watching his patients get worse that he went to a museum to ask the dead for advice.

His name was Blake Donaldson. He had a practice full of people who were overweight, ill, and getting steadily worse no matter what the medicine of the day threw at them, and he had run clean out of ideas. So he walked into the American Museum of Natural History, found the anthropologists, and asked them the question no respectable doctor was supposed to ask. What did healthy humans actually eat before all of this?

They showed him the skulls. Ancient ones. Pre-agricultural ones. And the teeth stopped him in his tracks. No decay. No crowding. No abscesses. Rows of clean, strong, untroubled teeth belonging to people who had never met a dentist, a toothbrush, or a sack of flour. The anthropologists told him about the Plains hunters who lived on buffalo, and about pemmican, the dense brick of dried meat and rendered fat that carried men through a North American winter on next to nothing else.

Donaldson went back to his surgery and did something that would get a modern doctor hauled in front of a committee. He put his patients on meat.

Fat meat, specifically. Roughly six ounces of lean with two ounces of visible fat, three times a day, from beef or lamb. Coffee. Water. That was the prescription. He stripped out what he called the worst offenders, the flour and the sugar and the sweet milk, and he watched what happened.

What happened was they got better. The weight came off without hunger, because he insisted they eat enough and eat often. The blood pressure settled. The gallstones, the migraines, the aching joints, the sour stomachs, the whole catalogue of modern complaints he had been failing to shift for years began, quietly, to resolve. He kept going. By the end he had run something like seventeen thousand patients through this regime over roughly forty years, which is a working lifetime of evidence rather than a passing fad.

He wrote it down in a book called Strong Medicine in 1961.

The establishment's response was swift and familiar. One prominent figure pronounced the book hardly scientific. Another filed Donaldson under food faddism and implied he had simply forgotten whatever he once knew about nutrition. A man with forty years of patient outcomes was waved off by people armed with a theory and a grievance, and the profession moved smoothly on to the low-fat advice that has served us so brilliantly ever since.

He was not a guru and never pretended to be one. He thought he was just copying what those museum skulls had been quietly demonstrating for ten thousand years, which is about the most honest thing a doctor has ever said about diet.

The book is still in print. The skulls are still in the case. And the advice that buried him is still printed on the side of the cereal box.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Signal

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

The level of betrayal that has played out here is insane.

Normally, labor scarcity is how an economy heals itself. When workers become harder to find, employers have to raise wages to deal with it, and out of this market slowdown the seeds of a new boom would be sowed as young people have greater purchasing power to buy a home, get married, and have kids of their own.

But instead of allowing that correction to happen, America chose a different model. We’ve mass imported millions of replacements to suppress wages, blowing out asset prices in the process and leaving native Americans economically (and increasingly culturally and politically) dispossessed in their own country.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

The LARGEST human ivermectin cancer study EVER conducted found 84% of cancer patients declared COMPLETE REMISSION, TUMOR SHRINKAGE, or HALTED TUMOR GROWTH.

Our study is now PEER-REVIEWED and PUBLISHED by the International Institute of Anticancer Research.

The tide is turning.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The middle class is where the system hides its extraction because the middle class still believes obedience will be rewarded.

The poor are visibly dependent.

The rich are structurally insulated.

The middle class is trapped inside the moral contract of responsibility.

Work hard. Pay taxes. Buy insurance. Save for retirement. Don’t cheat. Don’t default. Don’t complain. Don’t take too much. Don’t fall behind. Keep your credit clean. Keep your kids on track. Keep your career moving. Keep the mortgage paid. Keep smiling.

Then the system taxes that obedience.

The middle class is easy to extract from because its income is visible, its behavior is predictable, and its fear of falling is powerful.

W-2 income can be captured before it ever reaches the bank account.

Property taxes attach to shelter. Healthcare attaches to employment. College aid disappears once income crosses thresholds. Tax credits phase out. Professional licensing, insurance, childcare, commuting, housing, and retirement all become toll booths.

The rich escape through structure.

The poor survive through assistance.

The middle pays retail.

That is why it feels like the most expensive place to live. It is the zone where you make enough to be denied help and not enough to buy freedom. You are too “successful” for sympathy and too exposed for security.

This is also why the middle-class anger is going to grow. These people are the stabilizing class. They follow rules, raise kids, pay bills, fund municipalities, staff companies, buy homes, carry insurance pools, and keep institutions functioning. When they start realizing the bargain no longer compounds, political trust breaks hard.

The deepest betrayal is that income stopped being the path to safety. Asset ownership became the path to safety. The middle class earns income to buy assets, but asset prices keep moving away because monetary policy, debt, housing restriction, financialization, and investor demand pushed the ladder higher. So the worker runs faster while the asset-owner floats.

That is the hidden class split.

The middle class is not poor enough to receive the system’s mercy and not rich enough to command its architecture. It is the payer class. The compliance class. The full-price class.

Bottom line:

The middle class is expensive because it is where responsibility gets monetized.

The system extracts most efficiently from people who still believe playing by the rules will save them.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Cancer was, in the 1920s, named the disease of the modern industrial age.

Otto Warburg, working in Berlin, demonstrated that cancer cells run on glucose. They prefer it. They run on it inefficiently, even in the presence of oxygen, in a way healthy cells do not. He won the Nobel Prize in 1931 for the work. The mechanism is now called the Warburg effect and sits in every oncology textbook published since.

In the 1970s, an American radiologist used Warburg's principle to build the PET scan. He injected radioactive glucose into the patient, waited twenty minutes, and watched on the screen where the glucose concentrated. The tumour lit up. The healthy tissue did not.

The machine has been used millions of times. It is, mechanically, a sugar detector. The thing it is detecting is the thing the cancer is eating.

The patient, after the scan, walks down the corridor to the oncology consultation. The oncologist explains the diagnosis. The dietitian, often in the same building, recommends wholegrain pasta, oat porridge, and fruit at every meal as part of a balanced recovery diet.

The mechanism is in the textbook. The textbook is on the shelf. The shelf is in the same building as the dietitian.

The two have not been introduced.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

.@SecScottBessent: "A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others. That is a dangerous dependency for any country; it is an unacceptable one for the United States of America."

[Dr. Ammous @AmmousMD]

We haven't won yet.
Statins are still on the market.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Dr James Salisbury was a Civil War physician in the 1860s, working in Union army hospitals where soldiers were dying in numbers that bullets alone couldn't account for.

The killers were dysentery, scurvy, and typhoid. The military diet didn't help. Hardtack. Beans. Coffee. Meat was rationed thin for cost.

Salisbury noticed something. Soldiers who somehow got hold of beef recovered faster from everything in front of them. Wounds closed. Infections cleared. Energy returned to men the surgeons had quietly given up on.

He ran the experiment formally. Lean ground beef, scraped from the cut to remove connective tissue, broiled and served three times daily with hot water. Nothing else for weeks at a stretch.

The results were dramatic enough that officers began requisitioning beef specifically for the sick wards. The dying got up. The chronic cases improved. The numbers were impossible to ignore.

Salisbury published his findings in 1888 in The Relation of Alimentation and Disease. His thesis: most chronic illness stemmed from fermentation in the gut caused by starches and vegetables, and could be reversed by an exclusive diet of beef.

He documented successful treatment of tuberculosis, rheumatism, gout, digestive disorders, obesity, and what we'd now call mental illness. His work was widely read across the United States. Salisbury steak was named after him. It wasn't a convenience food. It was a prescription.

Then came the 1920s. Pharmaceutical companies began producing patentable drugs for the same conditions. By the 1950s, Salisbury's work was mocked or forgotten entirely. By the 2000s, his name had been reduced to a frozen meal on a school cafeteria tray.

An American physician who cured chronic disease with beef was quietly erased because his cure couldn't be bottled and sold by prescription.

His name survives on a microwave dinner. The medicine has been stripped out of it.

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

Michael Jordan ate a steak before every game

Wayne Gretzky ate a 23 oz steak before every game

Babe Ruth ate steak 3 meals a day

Lionel Messi and the Argentina team brought 6000lbs of steak to fuel them for the World Cup

The greatest athletes thrive on meat.