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Welcome to my kitchen 🫶🏼

[Alex Orton, ND @alexorton_ND]

Becoming light conscious is the single biggest health tactic I have implemented in recent memory.

Good lighting is also a vibe. Once you get it, you will go into poorly lit rooms and be repulsed, the same way as you are by a negative person.

[ames @ames033]

@AmberIllig Look into thyroid function. Oftentimes, low thyroid can contribute to this. I’d get a full thyroid panel, included T3, T4, TSH, and antibodies. (Use functional medicine values, not the general recommendations.) Check out Dr Broda Barnes book on hypothyroidism, very insightful.

[ames @ames033]

@iam_preethi Yep. I went to the OB-GYN yesterday, started to talk about my low ferritin and how I was working on improving it. “Doesn’t matter, won’t affect your ability to get pregnant.”…. My ferritin was 4. 🙄

[Ashley Armstrong @farmer_ash_]

Can we circle back on this? One of the most influential review papers used for decades to support the safety of glyphosate was officially retracted in December 2025. The retraction notice stated that the conclusions about whether glyphosate causes cancer were “solely based on unpublished studies from Monsanto,” and Monsanto employees helped write the paper without proper disclosure.

Seven months later, there have been no meaningful regulatory changes. Meanwhile, pesticide manufacturers now have legal immunity in the United States.

The regulatory agencies are captured by corporate interests so I don’t think meaningful changes to our food system will come from the top down.

They’ll come from millions of individual food sourcing decisions made by farmers and consumers every day. Every purchase is a vote.

When you can, vote for the food system you want by supporting farmers and co-ops who are working to reduce or eliminate its use.

[ames @ames033]

@mrs_alyse I would look into working with @iam_preethi through Ferta or @BioavailableNd. Both have helped women conceive naturally after failed IVF. I’m on my TTC journey myself and both their pages are a wealth of knowledge 🫶🏼

[ames @ames033]

@wolffdew I tried making chicken liver pate and it was atrocious 🥲 recipe plsssss

[ames @ames033]

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[ames @ames033]

Practicing my mastery of latte art in time for autumn

[ames @ames033]

Happy hour oysters always

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

If I'm honest this has been a hard season for me lately. I've been struggling with trusting God's timing. I was reminded when reading Psalm 37 today that I am to be still before Yahweh and wait patiently. That Yahweh is good to those who wait for him and seek him, and it is good to wait quietly for God’s salvation (Lam. 3:25–26). This quiet waiting involves hoping in God’s word while the soul waits more intensely than watchmen awaiting morning (Psalm 130:5–6).

I was reminded that prior to preaching to thousands, for a season Peter went back to fishing after thinking he failed Jesus. That Paul sat in prison cells, Lazarus lay in a tomb, Jonah prayed in the belly of a fish, Hannah wept on the steps of the tabernacle, Joseph was locked in the captivity, and Moses stood in the fields of Median herding sheep. All before God made moves in his timing.

Times of waiting, while hard, remind us of the confidence we should have in God’s timing and character. When direction seems slow in coming, we're called to wait for it, assured it will come when the time is ready (Hab. 2:3). Yahweh himself waits to be gracious and show mercy, and those who wait for him are blessed, for he is a God of justice (Isa. 30:18). Rather than taking matters into their own hands, like I often am tempted to do, we are instructed not to repay evil but to wait for the Lord, who will deliver us (Prov 20:22).

Hoping for what is unseen involves waiting with patience (Romans 8:25), and through the Spirit and faith, believers eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness (Galatians 5:5). Waiting involves expectancy and hope regarding events and contingencies still in the future, it's the outworking of a spiritual posture directed at trusting God’s promises and timing rather than our own understanding.

Knowing all of this, writing here on X doesn't make my season of needing to wait any easier, but the consistent, inspired, inerrant testimony of scripture nonetheless gives me something solid to trust in. I am fickle, impatient, and finite. God is trustworthy, forbearing, and infinite. And his timing is right even if I don't know how or when things will happen.

[ames @ames033]

Made some homemade trail mix with the crispy cashews recipe in Nourishing Traditions and Unreal m&ms. They got a little melty in the beach bag and the result is yummy nut clusters 😋

[Ashley Armstrong @farmer_ash_]

Our corn- & soy-free, drug-free, mobile pasture-raised eggs from small regenerative farms score a 38/100 on @oasishealthapp, while Costco’s industrial “pasture-raised” corn- & soy-fed eggs rank at the top.

I believe we provide some of the highest quality eggs you can find, and have spent years developing a custom corn-, & soy-free low-PUFA feed to intentionally lower PUFA levels in our eggs. And many of our customers tell us they can finally tolerate eggs again after switching to ours.

These kinds of simplified food “ratings” have real consequences for small farms and small businesses. We’ve already had customers cancel subscriptions because of this “score”.

If apps are going to publicly rate food quality, they need to include real agricultural context (feed composition, farming practices, ingredient sourcing, and actual on-farm experience) not just broad nutritional assumptions slightly disconnected from how food is actually produced.

[ames @ames033]

@allie__voss This whole discourse is crazy. We are a household of 2 (my husband and I). Every night I make dinner for 4 so we have leftovers for lunch the next day. I prefer it to eating out and it requires minimal to no extra cooking. Incredibly cost effective. Not that hard?

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

There are very few true luxury experiences anymore. Most are just hyper-commoditized slop in an uncanny wrapper. Lounges, clubs, restaurants, hotels, travel. Its all one big racket. The only reason these exist is because the most insecure person you know still buys into the fake status these services conjure.

Cheap and authentic is better than faux luxury.

[ames @ames033]

You must master a classic roast chicken.

[s ♡₊˚🦢・₊✧ @h0neyndmilk]

need a little side table in my kitchen so i can yap with someone while i cook

[ames @ames033]

New cooking challenges to tackle makes my heart sing!

[Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy, MD @drconnealymd]

Sometimes you get better right away.

Sometimes you get lessons. Exploration. A slowdown. More lessons. Patience. Perspective. New questions. New ways of seeing things.

Our health problems elevate us to entirely new paradigms of living. If the learning episodes were always short, we wouldn’t remember them.

[Ashley Armstrong @farmer_ash_]

Once you start making home cooked meals you just won’t go back. Tastes better. You feel better. Cleaner. More nutrient rich.