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[Camus @newstart_2024]

Men are biologically wired to notice women’s thighs, hips, and butt for a fascinating reason.

Dave Asprey explained it on Mari Llewellyn’s podcast: women store DHA (an essential omega-3) in those fatty tissues, the exact nutrient babies need for brain development.

That’s also why first children often have higher IQs, mothers pour their DHA and mineral reserves into the first baby. Subsequent kids get less.

He also shared how targeted supplements before, during, and after pregnancy helped his wife (who was diagnosed infertile with PCOS) have healthy kids at 39 and 42, no IVF, no drugs, and drastically lowered her risk of postpartum depression.

DHA makes up ~60% of the polyunsaturated fats in the brain and is vital for neuron growth, synaptic function, and visual development. Mothers transfer large amounts during pregnancy and breastfeeding, depleting their own stores, which is why strategic supplementation before and during pregnancy can reduce postpartum depression risk and support healthier babies.

It’s pretty amazing how evolution built these preferences with a clear biological purpose.

What’s one surprising nutrition or fertility fact you’ve learned that changed how you think about the body?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX IPO info

[cumi @sambellcumi]

Whenever you feel sad, remember that there are tiny kinesin proteins trying their best to make you happy 🤓

[Gabe Pluguez @Gabepluguez]

Marriage stuff the church never warned me about:

1. Sex is a skill. It’s a gift from God and It’s worth learning how to do well. Being better at sex (only with your wife) only blesses your marriage. And the “best sex” isn’t what you think. It’s facilitated through intimacy, safety, and love. For the man - this means you need intimacy with the Holy Spirit, first. You need to view your wife as a daughter of the King and love her in way she’s worthy of. You need to die to yourself, serve her, protect her, provide for her financially, emotionally, and spiritually. You need to LEAD her. That typically translates into more frequent, more pleasurable, more intimate sex - which energizes a marriage.

2. Your view of money matters. If all you want is more, you won’t steward it well, you'll still live in comparison to what you want next, and funny enough - you'll probably end op with less of it. On the contrary, if you don’t prioritize increasing your wealth, you’ll miss out on the abundant opportunities God gives you to glorify him through what money can do. Money is a tool. It's a gift God has given you to steward and multiply for his glory (yes you can buy nice things to the glory of God, and you can exhibit financial discipline to the glory of God). Worship him with every dollar you receive, and every dollar you deploy.

3. Pray together every single day, even if you're really tired or you just fought. The divorce rate for the average couple is 50%. The divorce rate for couples that pray together is less than 1%. God hates divorce. Divorce is hell. God can always redeem divorced believers, but avoid it if you can. Establish the basic discipline of praying together every single day. This is more important than brushing your teeth and eating food.

4. Be willing to cut friendships. Especially ones that began before you were married. The two of you have became one flesh. Your dynamic with every human being you interact with has forever changed. Everything you do directly affects your wife, everything she does directly affects you. Have conversations early on about who is no longer welcomed in your life, cut them quickly. And if there are people who simply need to be kept at greater distance, orient your calendars accordingly. Do the same in reverse. The couples who sharpen you, draw near to them, prioritize them. They will be there for both of you in your hardest times. They will fight for your marriage in moments where you offend one another. Your friends matter. And no - your wife cannot have male friends that are not directly friends with you, or vice versa.

5. You are not part of your parent’s family anymore. Non-believers have a harder time with this, but the Bible speaks to it so directly. You are no longer part of your parent’s family. They are now extended family. If your parents have friction with how you live your lives, that’s OK. There is tension between consistently honoring your parents, while being OK if they disagree with you. Bring that tension to the Holy Spirit and ask for his guidance in every interaction, every boundary, and all communication.

6. Marriage isn’t the goal. It’s the beginning of a journey. It’s a common temptation to become complacent in improving yourself after getting married. There’s this mindset of “jobs done! We’ve arrived.” and that’s absolutely hilarious. The most challenging, and most rewarding work begins after you’ve gotten married. This is where you’re now directly cleaved with the person who’s supposed to sharpen you. Then this means men, you need to lead, cast vision, and continually grow. And women, you are the person this man is willing to die for, you’re the person he’s trusting to deliver his child, and nurture his offspring. You’re the primary helper God designed to support his mission. It is your duty as a woman of God to continue to grow. A proverbs 31 woman was not a weak, powerless housewife scrolling Instagram all day. Read it.

7. Set the culture of how you’re going to steward your bodies in the home, early. How you honor the temple of God is such an integral part of your daily life, it impacts sleep schedules, grocery lists, it impacts every single meal, it impacts how you use your time. If there’s not agreement in the home about how you’re going to honor your bodies, it will become an intense point of contention in your day-to-day life. The person with greater health will be burdened with taking care of the one who has worse health. And although some things are not preventable, most prognosis are totally preventable. Don’t burden your partner because you couldn’t stop eating Twinkies and never worked out. Do your part so that you can show up well with them, with energy, presence, and confidence in who God made you. Your health will be the #1 determinant of your quality of life in your later years when grand babies come. Heck - after your relationship with God, it's one of the primary determintants of your quality of life even before grand babies come. And - back to my first point, you want to be able to keep those hips moving as you guys get older 👍

8. Marriage is not a thing you do for mutual benefit. He provides, she makes the home - in practice yes, but that's not the point. The point of marriage is so that you know Christ more deeply. It's a reflection of the most valuable thing in the universe. Eternal life, knowing God. Take that view into every trial, and every mountain top - you work towards an excellent, intimate marriage - to know Christ more deeply, as a testemant and service to his people, and to glorify his Holy name.

Married people, what would you add?

[old toons @oldtoons_]

"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker."

~ C.S. Lewis

[Gaurav @gauravsbuilding]

Wow, this is genuinely terrifying..

[BasedBlondexx @BasedBlondex]

They don’t want you to know that bee venom cures cancer and Lyme disease..

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

Aristotle called it “vice.”
The Apostle Paul called it “sin.”

George Lucas called it “the dark side.”

Star Wars was originally designed to be a modern myth to pass on timeless wisdom.

There’s a lot of gold in what Lucas says here in this clip:

[Austen @austen686]

@zedsdead @deadbeats check out this https://t.co/8M0N8zv2X7

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Neuralink progress

[Scott Wilson @onescottwilson]

Crazy how quickly red incandescents put people to sleep, especially children.

Last night my gf was babysitting a 4 year old at our house and within 5 minutes of me switching the lighting to red incandescents she went from being a ball of energy to tired and ready for sleep.

Take notes parents.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

🚨 JUST IN: Future LA Mayor Spencer Pratt agrees to do an interview with Nick Shirley. THIS IS HUGE

MAKE CALIFORNIA GREAT AGAIN

[Dilum Sanjaya @DilumSanjaya]

Vibe coded another game UI, generated with GPT Images 2

UI
GPT Images 2 → Gemini 3.1 Pro
3D assets
GPT Images 2 → Tripo

[Windows Central @WindowsCentral]

The original Xbox dashboard has been fully reverse-engineered and reconstructed to run on PC. It’s not just a theme—it’s built using real retail code and can even launch your Steam games.

Here is what we think👇
https://t.co/dGq1AXVxIS

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Major upgrade to 𝕏 advertising

[Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐 🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 @TheCriticalDri1]

PAWN Star...Wars 😂😂😂😂

@NeuralDerp's latest AI wizarding magic is top fucking notch!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

That’s a lot of illegal immigrants