Dr Shawn Baker 🥩

Multi sport world record setting athlete, physician, Founder online clinic for treating chronic diseases, author of “The Carnivore Diet”

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Turn 60 in January, good to still be able to get after on these hill sprints! 5.55 was best uphill 40 yds today-should be right around 5.0 on flat ground- maybe will see next week!

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Got some sprints on the schedule today

Need proper fuel!

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Several comment on various platforms regarding my comments on not using TRT. Some take it as a personal denigration of their integrity

1. I couldn’t care less what others do with their health, (which the exception I’ll discuss below)

2. I have always competed and still plan on completing in a number of sports (eg, track and field, Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, rowing and likely more), which have all banned TRT, even for older athletes, as it clearly provides significant unfair advantage compared to those that are not using PEDS

3. Most importantly, I have zero reason to use TRT as I have no signs of deficiency, even though I’m about to turn 60, and interestingly my testosterone is absolutely not abnormally high for my age ranging from 237 to 500 the few times it’s been tested. Now I could easily use those lower numbers and claim I needed TRT and easily get a doctor to prescribe it. I would then be even stronger, faster etc.. than I already am and it would be totally unethical in the context of sport for me to do so.

4. We have unfortunately entered a time when even 20 and 30 year old men are taking these drugs, often for reasons that are, in my view, completely unnecessary and therefore anyone that is in even remotely decent shape these days is assumed to be drugged up, which is unfortunate.

5. I fully believe that most men, if they were disciplined with diet, exercise, sleep and other lifestyle factors would not need to be on these drugs (obviously exceptions exist and I have no doubt they will show up in the comments).

6. As I said in point number one, I don’t care what you take, unless you show up to a sport I’m competing at and try and cheat with drugs, then I will call you a scumbag asshole.

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Humans have a relatively small capacity to ferment plant fiber, similar to that of a dog or a cat!

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Happy Veterans Day to all those that have served and the families that supported them!

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Always great to see this stuff !

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Top 5 reason why you should not “Eat Zee Bugz”

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Which country has the most bug eaters?

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It’s almost embarrassing when I see people posting about how old people should not be lifting heavy!

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Way to go Cynthia!!!

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Dr. Milton Mills is a critical care and internal medicine physician (Stanford MD) long associated with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). He has repeatedly argued that promoting animal products—especially dairy—through the U.S. Dietary Guidelines is a form of institutional racism and food injustice.

His central point rests on lactose intolerance rates. Roughly 70–75% or more of African Americans, 90–98% of people of Asian ancestry, and high percentages of Native Americans and Hispanics cannot digest lactose as adults, compared with roughly 30% of people of Northern European descent.

Mills says the guidelines encourage these groups to consume dairy anyway, producing gastrointestinal distress, even though the main official rationale (calcium for bone health) is, in his view, weak or inapplicable—particularly for African-American women, who have lower rates of osteoporosis. He has also linked dairy to higher and more aggressive prostate cancer risk in Black men.

Mills extends the argument beyond dairy. He claims communities of color carry “thrifty genes” shaped by traditional plant-based, low-fat diets with limited animal foods.

Shifting to a Western animal-food-centered pattern, he argues, drives disproportionate rates of chronic disease. He has testified before USDA advisory committees, calling the guidelines and their lack of diversity racially biased, and co-authored a 1999 PCRM paper titled “Racial Bias in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.”

In short, Mills contends that pushing animal products on populations he says are less genetically adapted to them constitutes structural racism.

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Anyone shocked to see which industry spends the most money to influence our government?

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How about you instead just feed that cat a piece of meat

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Bert Lahr — the Cowardly Lion — once starred in a Lay’s commercial where he played both the man and the Devil.

The Devil holds out the bag and delivers the line that stuck for decades:
“Betcha can’t eat just one.”

Lahr grabs it. One chip. Then another. The Devil laughs. The bet is lost every time.
It was clever advertising. It was also an honest description of the product. Thin, hyper-palatable, engineered for the exact salt-and-crisp combination that overrides normal satiety. The kind of food designed so that “just one” is never the end.

The commercial treated that loss of control as a joke. For a lot of people it stopped being funny a long time ago.

Even the Cowardly Lion couldn’t stop.

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In the middle of a famine, Hansel and Gretel got left in the woods so the rest of the family might have enough to eat. They wandered for days with almost nothing. Then they found a little house made of bread, with a cake roof and windows of clear sugar. They didn’t stop to think. Hansel started pulling pieces off the roof. Gretel bit into the sugar panes. It was the sweetest thing either of them had ever tasted.

That house was the trap. The witch built it so hungry kids would stop and eat, and then she could take them.

In the medieval world this story comes from, actual sugar was rare and expensive. It came from the East and only the rich ever got much of it—kings and nobles buying it by the sack for fancy feasts and medicines. Ordinary people mostly used honey. Still, the people who could get sugar wanted more of it. It was sweet in a way honey wasn’t, and once you had it you kept looking for it. Demand kept growing.

So for two starving kids, a whole house with sugar windows wasn’t just food. It was something almost impossible to walk past. The sweetness hit harder because they’d never had anything like it. They walked right in. They got out later by outsmarting the witch, but the bait worked exactly the way it was meant to. Even back then, when sugar was scarce and costly, it already had a way of making people ignore the danger for one more bite.

We’ve made that bait cheap and everywhere. Modern sugar intake has driven up obesity, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, and tooth decay on a scale no medieval person could have imagined. The same sweetness that once lured two kids into a witch’s house now quietly damages the health of whole populations, one easy bite at a time.

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US per capita sugar sweetened beverage consumption 1900-2025

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Awesome

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Awesome to see this