flybye

I see a world where people use their blinkers

[American Debunk @AmericanDebunk]

Understand the moment we’re in. UFC on the White House lawn, national soccer players singing the national anthem, 70k in a stadium screaming country roads, foreigners experiencing American culture and falling in love.

We’re back, baby.

After a decade+ of the shame machine telling us our flag was problematic and our pride was prejudice, the world has arrived to witness the opposite — and they can’t stop celebrating it.

This is a cultural tide turning, an explosion of confidence, and the clearest symbol yet of America being reborn.

The Rebirth

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

Nature makes you healthier - science proves it.

Grounding (bare feet on the sand / grass):

• Lowers inflammation and cortisol
• Improves sleep and recovery
• Reduces pain and tension
• Boosts heart rate variability
• Speeds wound healing

Negative Air Ions (waterfalls, lightning):

• Elevate mood, lower depression
• Clear allergens and pollutants
• Improve lung and brain function
• Boost alertness and focus
• Lower cortisol and stress

Bright / red / near infrared / infrared / blue / UV light (Sun):

• Increases vitamin D
• Lowers blood pressure
• Regulates circadian rhythm
• Anti-inflammatory for skin
• Boosts metabolism / increases fat loss

Phytoncides (trees):

• Boost NK cell activity
• Calm nervous system
• Reduce stress hormones
• Anti-cancer
• Fight microbes naturally

Animal Contact:

• Supports parasympathetic tone
• Lowers blood pressure
• Anti-anxiety and depression
• Microbiome resilience
• Lowers allergy risk

There's research behind all of this, but when was the last time you were prescribed outdoor dog time from your doctor?

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Obama's new $850M “presidential library” in Chicago isn't a library. It's a cover-up.
His foundation, not the National Archives,now decides which records ever see daylight. Top of the list to stay buried, the 2015-forward surveillance & coup against Trump.
Obama has lots to hide

[Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom]

The European mind is starting to comprehend. 🇺🇸

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Was waiting for this video to drop ever since I saw the news item about Boston. Garron doesn’t disappoint.

[PNW Thistle @PNWthistle]

French guy experiencing air conditioning in America. These videos from the Europeans in America are so funny. I can’t stop laughing. Watch til the end!!

His caption: “I pledge allegiance to the ice of the United States of America!”

🎥 othermichaelphelps on TT

World Cup is healing us. 🙏🏽

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[South Dallas Foodie @SouthDallasFood]

I’m crying y’all please don’t go home 😭😭

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

This Japanese soccer dude is never leaving Dallas! 🤣

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.

Write that down. 🦋

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

SHOCKING: Dr. Ben Carson Reveals How European Food Cured His Friend’s Diabetes in 2 Weeks — Then American Food Brought It Back

His friend had a very difficult case of diabetes.

He went to Italy… ate their food… and within TWO WEEKS his diabetes was completely gone.

He stayed for three months.
Came back to America… and within TWO WEEKS the diabetes came roaring back.

This isn’t “bad luck.”
This is proof that American food is poisoning us.

Clean European food reversed his disease.
Toxic, ultra-processed, chemical-loaded American food brought it right back.

Our grocery stores and restaurants are loaded with ingredients and processing methods that much of Europe has banned or strictly limits.
We are literally eating our way into chronic illness while being told it’s normal.

Dr. Ben Carson is sounding the alarm.

The diabetes epidemic isn’t random.
It’s manufactured by the food we’re being sold.

Change what you put in your body before it changes (or ends) your life.

The evidence is right in front of us.
Real food heals.
American “food” destroys.

[Doc Holliday @BarkingFrogger_]

They eat for pleasure with all five senses. Slowly. No calorie counting, no low-fat nonsense. Real butter, chocolate, duck fat, in moderation. They rarely snack, skip soft drinks, and prefer walking over jogging.

The numbers back it up: France has one of the lowest obesity rates

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Mark Carney flew to Ireland and warned the rules-based order is "breaking down."

Days later at the G7, Trump proved him right — cracking Iran after 47 years and handing Syria the Hezbollah job, over Israel.

Carney calls it a rupture. We call it the future. 👇

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

Adam Carolla destroys the “both sides” nonsense: The Democrats are batshit crazy.

@adamcarolla "One side is pushing hard for transgender kids, and wants to over-regulate and tax your life and wants Elon Musk dead.

And the other side wants lower taxes and they want to own guns and they want the government to leave them alone.

The right did not ruin Los Angeles and California. The right didn't ruin Seattle. It didn't ruin Chicago. It didn't ruin Portland. The right didn't ruin anything. The left ruined shit.

Defund the police is a shit idea that gets people killed. Fund the police is a good idea that saves more lives. Abolish ICE is a batshit crazy idea too, and rounding up criminal felons is a good idea, so F off."

[NFL Philosophy @NFLosophy]

My favorite side effect of the World Cup is foreigners reminding us that America in real life is so much better than America on tv and social media.

[James DiNicolantonio @drjamesdinic]

Your body believes what your mind
repeats.

Tell yourself you’re overwhelmed,
and stress takes over.

Tell yourself you’re capable,
and your nervous system settles.

The words you speak internally
shape the state you live in.

[Dr. Dawn Michael @DawnsMission]

🚨BREAKING: 88.3% of doctors would REJECT chemotherapy if they got cancer themselves. Yet they push it on patients as the only “Standard of Care.”

The hard data: cytotoxic chemotherapy contributes just 2.1% to 5-year survival in adult cancers (U.S. figures). Dr. Thomas Seyfried — one of the world’s leading cancer metabolism researchers — says he would choose the Ivermectin + Fasting Protocol instead.

Why? Cancer cells are metabolically rigid. They’re addicted to glucose and can’t efficiently use ketones. Healthy cells thrive on them. A low Glucose-Ketone Index (GKI) starves the cancer while supercharging your Natural Killer cells and T-cells — the body’s own assassins.

Chemo and radiation often destroy those same immune cells, setting the stage for recurrence. This isn’t fringe theory. It’s built on Otto Warburg’s Nobel-winning work and backed by cutting-edge research (including new preclinical data on ketogenic diets enhancing targeted metabolic drugs).

The cancer-industrial complex is a multi-billion-dollar machine optimized for lifelong treatment, not eradication.

Fantastic news? The truth is finally breaking through. Metabolic therapy isn’t “alternative” anymore — it’s the logical next evolution. Would you want your oncologist to tell you this on day one of diagnosis?

[꧁♛𝓑𝓵✯𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓮𝓼♛꧂ @heyitsmeCarolyn]

I am having the funnest time watching all of these Europeans LOVE what we take for granted! 🤣😂🤣

[C3 @C_3C_3]

After 4 years of men wearing dresses at the White House it is important to have men cage fighting at the White House.

The only way to reverse the damage done.

It’s science.