ProudGDad

Husband, father, 5 GKids, huge dog lover, long-time avid golfer, CARNIVORE/keto w/ IntFsting, ‘ Livin’ the Dream ‘ in NW Arkansas

[ProudGDad @ProudGDad5]

@LiveAncestral Lover!! ☕️❤️☕️❤️

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

One gram of fat for every gram of protein. On carnivore, treat that as the floor, not the goal.

Fat is your fuel here. No carbs are coming to help. Skimp on it and you will feel flat, starving, and wretched, then blame the diet.

Most people do better higher still, nearer two grams of fat to one of protein. Aim past the minimum, never below it.

Start with the cut. You want it well marbled, fine white threads of fat running all through the red.

The lean, ruby, trimmed steak is the wrong one. Reach for ribeye over fillet. Chuck, brisket, short rib, belly. Fatty mince, twenty percent fat or more, never the lean.

Then add more on top. A knob of butter melting over the hot steak. Eggs cooked slowly in butter until they drink it in.

Cook in tallow or butter, never a dry pan. The fat that renders out is the prize, not the mess to tip away.

Brown your mince and leave the fat where it is. Stir that golden pool back through it. That is the meal, not the waste.

Spoon the drippings back over the plate. Leave the yolks soft. Choose the fatty fish over the lean.

Get the fat right and the rest follows. The energy, the fullness, the steady calm. On carnivore, the fat was never the side. It is the whole point.

[ProudGDad @ProudGDad5]

@LiveAncestral As soon as I get some butter, be gone in short order!

[Maxine Pye @LiveAncestral]

My body makes cholesterol every single day.

Every cell does it.

It builds cell membranes. It makes oestrogen, testosterone, cortisol. It produces bile to break down fat. It converts to vitamin D when sunlight hits skin. The brain is around 60% fat by dry weight and holds 25% of all the cholesterol in the body. It is foundational tissue, not a problem waiting to be diagnosed.

Then a blood test shows cholesterol is present and the advice is always the same.

Lower it.

Lower what exactly. The substance my liver is producing on purpose, adjusting output daily based on what I eat, because the body has been regulating this successfully for a very long time.

Eat less dietary cholesterol and the liver makes more. Eat more and it makes less. The body compensates. That is not a fringe observation. It is established physiology.

Nobody opens a car bonnet, sees oil, and books it in for emergency treatment. Oil in an engine is not the problem. The absence of oil is the problem.

What matters is whether cholesterol is being damaged. Oxidised LDL is a different conversation to LDL. Small dense particles carry greater atherogenic risk than large buoyant ones. A standard lipid panel tells you none of that.

I am not scared of cholesterol.

I am more interested in what is driving inflammation in the first place.

Anyone else confused about why high cholesterol became a diagnosis rather than a measurement?

[ProudGDad @ProudGDad5]

@LiveAncestral Hi, Maxine … carnivore/ketovore lifestyle about 4.5 years now; I’m mid sixties and, yeah, stupid — that I didn’t start this way earlier. Pay no mind to the idiotic comments … trust me they will always be there ❤️

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"Vegetable oil" is the finest bit of branding in the entire shop.

There is no vegetable in it. It is pressed from seeds, then degummed, bleached and deodorised with industrial solvents until it stops smelling like what it actually is.

"Seed oil" sounds like something that lubricates machinery. "Vegetable oil" sounds like you've eaten a carrot.

What you are swallowing is a fragile, heat-battered omega-6 fat that quietly files itself into your cell membranes and keeps the inflammation gently ticking over for years.

The word "vegetable" on the bottle is the whole trick. It worked on an entire century of shoppers.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Your liver makes about 1,000mg of cholesterol every day.

You eat, on a generous day, about 300mg.

If you eat more, the liver makes less. If you eat less, the liver makes more. The body has a target. It defends the target. It does not negotiate.

The pharmaceutical industry has built a 40 billion dollar product category around interfering with that target.

The drug is a statin. The mechanism is straightforward. It blocks an enzyme called HMG-CoA reductase. This is the same enzyme that builds cholesterol. It is also the same enzyme that builds CoQ10, which every mitochondrion in your body requires to produce energy. The drug doesn't know the difference. The drug doesn't care.

You take the drug. The cholesterol goes down. So does the CoQ10. So does the testosterone, because testosterone is made from cholesterol. So does the vitamin D, because vitamin D is made from cholesterol. So does the bile, the brain function, the muscle integrity.

You get tired. You get foggy. Your legs ache. Your libido disappears. You go back to the doctor.

The doctor prescribes something for the fatigue.

The doctor prescribes something for the libido.

The doctor prescribes something for the muscle pain.

The doctor does not prescribe taking you off the original drug.

The original drug is working as designed.

That is the design.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Prison is perfect for liberals: equal outcomes, free food and housing, no guns, universal healthcare, and same-sex relationships.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

So…

There’s Medicaid fraud but no voter fraud.

There’s welfare fraud but no voter fraud.

There’s daycare fraud but no voter fraud.

There’s hospice fraud but no voter fraud.

Everywhere we look there’s major fraud but no voter fraud?

Voter fraud allowed all the other frauds.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

I don't eat salad, because I'm not a rabbit.

I don't eat grass, because I'm not a cow.

I don't eat seeds, because I'm not a sparrow.

I don't eat oats, because I'm not a racehorse.

I don't eat lentils, because I'm not surviving the siege of a medieval village.

I don't eat fruit smoothies, because I'm not a toddler being bribed into the car seat.

I don't eat soy, because I'm not a vat in an industrial oil press.

I don't eat seed oils, because I'm not a paint thinner.

I don't eat margarine, because I'm not a science experiment that escaped the lab in 1911.

I don't eat fortified breakfast cereal, because I'm not a marketing department's quarterly target.

I eat fatty red meat, because I'm a human being, and that is what we have always been.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Statins are safe and effective.

Until you realise that:

- The absolute risk reduction in primary prevention is about 1%. The "25-35%" figure is relative. 99 people out of 100 take it for life for nothing.

- Roughly half of heart attack patients have normal or low LDL. If cholesterol were the driver, this number should be near zero. It never has been.

- The whole framework rests on Ancel Keys picking seven countries out of twenty-two. France was excluded because France ate butter and refused to die on schedule.

- Muscle pain affects 5-30% of users. The profession called it nocebo for twenty years. A 2020 meta-analysis finally admitted it was the drug.

- Statins raise blood sugar enough that the FDA added a diabetes warning to the label in 2012. A drug to prevent heart disease, increasing your risk of the single largest cause of it.

- The same 2012 label update added a warning for memory loss and confusion. Patients reporting brain fog had been told for two decades they were imagining it.

- Statins deplete CoQ10, the molecule every mitochondrion needs to produce energy. The heart is the most mitochondria-dense tissue in the body. The profession's response was to not supplement it.

- Rhabdomyolysis, elevated liver enzymes, cataracts, tendon rupture. Each described at launch as theoretical. Each now on the label.

- The over-75s, the group most aggressively prescribed, are the group the trials mostly excluded.

- PCSK9 inhibitors crashed LDL to levels never seen in nature and produced mortality benefits so small the trials had to be reanalysed to find them.

Eight of the nine members on the 2004 American panel that expanded statin eligibility to tens of millions of new patients had financial ties to statin manufacturers.

The guidelines were written by the people selling the drug.

Safe and effective.

Have a careful read of what that phrase has meant, historically.

[🇺🇸 𝓓𝓪𝓻 🇨🇦 @DameScorpio]

🇺🇸💪♥️ I do not care what anyone thinks about me for saying this today. Because President Trump deserves to hear it. And I am done waiting for the right moment. This is the right moment. President Trump, thank you. Not for a policy. Not for an executive order. Not for a rally or a speech or a headline. For something so much more personal than any of those things. Thank you for waking up every single morning at 79 years old, when staying in bed would have been so much easier. Thank you for skipping meals that went cold, for missing family moments that never came back, for traveling to countries most Americans cannot find on a map, for sitting in briefings before most of America opened its eyes, for carrying criticism that would have broken most people permanently, for getting back up every single time the world said stay down, for donating every single dollar of your salary, for giving up the most comfortable life imaginable to sit in the most uncomfortable chair on earth and carry the weight of 340 million people without once asking any of us to notice. You did not have to do any of this. You had everything…the money, the properties, the comfortable life, the peace…and you gave all of it away for a country that does not always stop to say thank you. And today I am stopping. Because I refuse to be part of that silence anymore.

Today, in front of every single American reading this, I want to say what most people feel but never actually say out loud. Thank you, President Trump, for everything you gave that we never asked for, for everything you carried that we never fully saw, for every morning you chose America over yourself. We see you. We feel it. And we are more grateful than words will ever fully capture. God bless you. God protect you. And God keep giving you the strength to carry what most of us could never lift. 🇺🇸💪♥️

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

FACT: Democrats are one stolen election away from destroying America.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

'The body burns sugar first, so sugar is the preferred fuel.'

The body also burns alcohol first.

Before carbohydrates. Before fat. Before anything else.

So either the body prefers alcohol, or it burns things first because they are toxic and cannot be safely stored.

Alcohol is a toxin. The body oxidises it immediately to limit damage.

Carbohydrates follow, because excess blood glucose is also damaging.

Fat burns last because it can be stored safely and retrieved without harm.

'Burns first' does not mean preferred.

It means dealt with first.

Nobody is recommending alcohol as a fuel source.

The logic applied to sugar has not been extended that far.

[🇺🇸 Justice @250_Revolution]

Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.

I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

😡😡😡✅

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The thing people don't understand about seed oil consumption is the timeline.

You don't feel seed oils the way you feel a bad meal. There's no immediate response. No visible crash. You eat the thing cooked in sunflower oil and you feel roughly normal, because the damage is subclinical, cumulative, and operating at the level of your cell membranes rather than your blood glucose.

Linoleic acid has a half-life of approximately two years in human adipose tissue. You are walking around right now with oxidised fats from meals you ate two, three, four years ago integrated into your cellular architecture.

The damage accumulates quietly. For years. And then at some point the inflammation becomes systemic enough, the mitochondrial function compromised enough, the hormonal signalling disrupted enough, that you have a condition.

And the condition gets a name.

And the name gets a drug.

And nobody asks what was in the cooking oil.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Want your blood to boil?

There are 193 countries in the world and 177 of them receive US taxpayer $.

177 of 193.

91.7% of the world.

Then our politicians import from other countries to also give them our $.

My $
Your $
Our kid’s $

Americans are getting screwed.

Must stop!

[Cindy K @MAGAMAHACindy]

Brandi Kruse made a strong observation about the recent “No Kings” protests that deserves repeating and expanded.

Supposedly millions took to the streets in protest.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth for those who wasted their day in protest:

You’re protesting a man who didn’t sneak into office.
He didn’t “steal” the election.
He didn’t win by accident or by technicality.

He won decisively by a large margin, across the board chosen by the people, for the people.

And he did it despite everything:
- Ten years of relentless media attacks
- Two impeachments
- Multiple criminal prosecutions
- Constant public ridicule and character assassination

The entire institutional machine was aligned against him…
and he still won in a landslide.

That almost never happens.

So the real question isn’t “Why is Trump winning?”

The real question is:
“Why are voters choosing him anyway?”

Despite the nonstop accusations, the mean tweets, the sarcasm, and the chaos.

A lot of Americans voted against what the Democratic Party has become.

They rejected:
- Radical ideology being forced as the new normal
- Open-border policies sold as compassion while cities and citizens suffered
- Pandemic-era overreach that crushed livelihoods and shattered public trust
- A complete absence of accountability, replaced by ever-louder messaging and gaslighting

At some point, people stop listening.

Instead of pausing to ask, “Where did we lose the public?” the response has been:
- More outrage
- More protests
- More name-calling
- More insistence that the voters are the problem

But what if that refusal to self-reflect is exactly why you keep losing?

You can keep calling him dangerous.
You can keep calling him unfit.
You can launch more investigations and impeachments.

But when millions of Americans still choose him anyway… that should tell you something profound.

You don’t fix it by getting louder. You fix it by getting honest. And until that happens, nothing will change.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

From Ken Blackwell over at FaceBook. GREAT read!

A thread.

1) No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.

500 groups. Three billion dollars in revenue. Pre printed signs stacked and shipped before you even knew what you were supposed to be mad about.

That is not a spontaneous uprising. That is infrastructure.

That is planning. That is money. That is message discipline.

And that is what you walked into on Saturday.

You looked around, saw the crowd, saw the slogans, felt the energy, and told yourself this was democracy. “No Kings.” It sounded clean. It sounded righteous. It felt like you were part of something organic.

But the signs were ready before your outrage was.

That should bother you.

Because you are not living under a king. You are living in a constitutional republic with elections, term limits, and a press that has spent years attacking the most powerful figures in the country without consequence. No one is being arrested for calling a president a fascist. No one is being silenced for dissenting.

That is not tyranny.

And yet you are being told it is.

You are being trained to see normal functions of a country as authoritarian. Loving your country becomes suspicious. Wanting a secure border becomes immoral. Believing parents should have a say in their children’s lives becomes dangerous. Asking basic questions about elections becomes taboo.

That is not clarity. That is conditioning.

Every country on Earth enforces its borders. Most require identification to vote. That is not controversial anywhere else. It is only controversial here because you have been told it should be.

And you believed it.

Meanwhile, look at the people who actually hold power and how long they have held it:

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler’s entire reign.

That is what entrenched power looks like.

Decades. Not months. Not a single term. Decades.

But you are told the threat to democracy is the outsider who disrupted that system for a brief window of time.

You are told he is the king.

No. What you are reacting to is not monarchy. It is loss of control.

You do not hate kings. You hate kings that are not yours.

Because when power consolidates on your side, you justify it.

A sitting president steps aside. Within days, a replacement is effectively crowned without a real contest, without a meaningful debate, without voters having a say in a process that is supposed to belong to them.

No primary. No debate. No ballot.

And you said nothing.

Three days before you marched, lawmakers aligned with your movement rejected voter identification requirements. At the same time, you lived through a period where you had to show documentation to participate in basic parts of life.

You needed proof to eat, to travel, to work.

But asking for proof to vote is suddenly oppression.

That contradiction should stop you cold. Instead, it gets waved away.

Look at how power is actually maintained.

Non citizens are counted in the census. Census numbers determine representation. Representation determines power. Remove verification, expand the count, and you increase influence without ever needing a crown.

That is how modern systems entrench themselves.

Then look at speech.

There is written evidence of government officials pressuring platforms like Facebook to suppress information. Not just misinformation. Information that later proved to be accurate. Scientists were sidelined. Doctors were ignored. Even humor and satire were targeted.

Humor.