Invest in yourself every single day.
Mentally: read, write, learn, observe, study.
Emotionally: reflect, forgive, meditate, sit in silence.
Daily: keep one promise to yourself before noon.
Nobody will ever care about you as much as you do. Act like the most important project you’ll ever manage, because you are.
Alpha gal syndrome. I have discussed this here and on Fresh FM,recently.
The case discussed in tbetpist is not a hypothetical one. It really happened to Brian Waitzel. He ate a late steak dinner, around 10pm, sometimes in 2024. Then, the chain of event narrated in the quoted post happened to him.
Here's why:
There's a tick called lone star tick. It is called so because the female has a marking on its back that resembles the map of Texas (The Lone Star State). When the tick bites a human, it introduces the alpha gal molecule in its saliva to the person and their body recognizes it as foreign. The person's immune system then becomes sensitized to it. Next time they eat mammalian meat, they'll have severe gastrointestinal issues (pain, vomiting, diarrhea).
One thing about alpha gal syndrome is that it usually starts within 2-6 hours of eating the meat, unlike food poisoning that happens minutes after eating.
Not everyone who is bitten develops the allergy. Repeated bites raise the risk, and antibody levels often fall if further tick bites are avoided. Also, the only treatment is to avoid red meat.