C__Katie

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I had a cardiac event at fifty two with normal LDL cholesterol of 110

Nobody ever asked why.

Six years later I take no medication and my heart age is forty five.

Ninety seconds. I photograph an old lab report and you see what comes back, including one number every lab in the country prints as normal.

Free to start. No card.

https://t.co/4bcViHf32V

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Eight weeks of yoga changed which genes were switched on in the immune cells of the people who did it. A 2013 study found 2,209 genes had shifted, and many were the ones that control inflammation.

Herbert Benson and Manoj Bhasin at Harvard tested two groups: people who had been doing yoga for years and people who had never tried it. The long-term group's genes looked different from the novices at the start. After eight weeks of training, the novices' genes had shifted toward the pattern of the experienced group.

Genes tied to inflammation went quiet. Genes tied to energy went up. The shift came after eight weeks of yoga, slow breathing, and repeating a calming phrase.

Benson had spent decades studying what he called the relaxation response, the body's ability to counter the fight-or-flight state, and this study was the first to show it working at the level of gene expression. The DNA itself does not change. What changes is which genes are active and which are quiet, and the study showed that a daily practice of sitting still, breathing slowly, and repeating a calming phrase can reach down into the cell and adjust the switches. https://t.co/bCNfW6Hg47

[Ruth Ann Crystal, MD @CatchTheBaby]

This week's Dr. Ruth Report:

📈 COVlD wave esp. West + South
🦠 Long COVlD gut biopsies show persistent virus, inflammation, immune dysfunction
🧠 Long COVlD EEG signature
👁️ COVID's hits on Eyes, Bones, Thyroid
📋 EO misinfo on childhood vaccines

Read👉https://t.co/dhES2WypIt

[Lara - Covid is Airborne @fillthewhole]

Well, well, well … Long Covid in HCWs on news this morning. Bosses have been told to make working conditions more flexible 🙄

How about we get respirators in hospitals to protect both staff & patients so the numbers of people developing LC doesn’t increase?

Cases on rise 😷

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Nobody in America got sicker on the morning of 4 June 1998. Twenty-nine million of them went to bed a healthy weight and woke up overweight, because the NIH had moved the BMI line from 27.8 to 25 overnight.

That is the whole business model. Here is the headcount.

1994: a WHO panel invents osteopenia. Bone thinner than a young woman's, nowhere near thin enough to break. Half of all postmenopausal women qualify on the spot.

1998: the overweight threshold drops to 25. Twenty-nine million new patients. Not one of them gained a pound.

2001: the cholesterol panel publishes ATP III. Americans recommended a statin go from 13 million to 36 million. Twenty-three million new customers in one afternoon.

2003: the blood pressure committee invents prehypertension. A diagnosis for people whose blood pressure is normal. Forty-five million qualify on day one.

2013: the statin guideline is rewritten. Another 12.8 million eligible, almost all over sixty, none with heart disease. Eight of the nine men who wrote it were on the payroll of statin manufacturers, disclosed only when they were forced to.

2017: hypertension moves from 140 over 90 to 130 over 80. The share of American adults labelled hypertensive jumps from 32 per cent to 46. Thirty-one million people, before lunch.

2026: the new cholesterol guideline lands in March. Another 21.5 million eligible, total now 87.5 million. The people it just added carry an average ten-year risk of 3.1 per cent. Which is to say, almost none.

Not one of those was a discovery about the human body. Every one was a decision about where to draw a line on a chart, taken in a room, by a show of hands.

And note the direction. Thirty years, four organ systems, and the line has never once moved back. No panel has ever sat down, reviewed the last panel's work, and handed several million people their health back.

Over 140 million reclassifications in a single country. A woman of sixty-eight can sit on four of those lines at once and be four kinds of ill without a single symptom, on five tablets, for a body that is doing exactly what a sixty-eight-year-old body does.

A cure is capped by the number of people who have the disease.

A threshold is capped by the population.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Switzerland becomes the first country to ban mammograms.
The Swiss have ended a deeply flawed system which has 60% false diagnosis. A system which ensures a huge income stream for Big Pharma.
Hopefully others will follow.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

France in lockstep - adding synthetic folic acid to flour.
Whenever Governments are in lockstep it’s bad news for the people.
We have a saying in the UK Parliament - when all the political parties agree it’s always bad news for the people !

[Gunnar🍊🌊 @FarvingCo]

Gut endotoxins PENETRATED the blood-brain barrier WITHIN 6 HOURS.

No infection. No head injury. No disease.

One toxin. From the gut.

I couldn’t think. Couldn’t focus. Couldn’t hold a thought for more than 30 seconds. I blamed my phone. My sleep. My attention span.

It wasn’t any of those.

Your blood-brain barrier is a single layer of endothelial cells held together by proteins called tight junctions — claudins. The same proteins. The same failure. Different organ.

When LPS enters your bloodstream from a damaged gut, it doesn’t stop at your organs. It reaches your brain’s vasculature and forces those junctions open. The barrier breaks.

Your microglia — the brain’s resident immune cells — shift from surveillance to attack. They release inflammatory compounds directly into neural tissue.

Your brain’s own defense system turns on itself.

Your doctor calls it brain fog.

It has a real name.

Neuroinflammation.

You don’t have a focus problem.
You have two leaking barriers. And the first one opened the second.

But there are 4 different reasons your intestinal barrier cracked — and each one requires a different fix. The wrong one makes it worse.
PMID: 23876253.

Find out which of the 4 gut inflammation patterns is breaching your brain in 60 seconds:

https://t.co/vTBKfpzyYt

[Dana Parish @danaparish]

Guys, I have a lot to say about toxic mold making people sick in homes and offices. Here are some key facts most people get wrong:

1. “Mold is everywhere! It’s not a big deal beyond allergies.” 🚩

This dogma is only half-true.

Mold spores *are* everywhere outdoors and can cause typical allergy/asthma symptoms (stuffy nose, cough, shortness of breath).

BUT toxic indoor molds that grow hidden in water-damaged buildings are different. They produce airborne microscopic toxic byproducts called “mycotoxins” that you inhale. These serious toxins are linked to far more than “a little allergy.”

These are NOT the same as outdoor hay-fever molds referred to above. There is a lot of intentional misinfo about toxic mold bc it is prevalent, causes severe multisystemic illness & is expensive to fix/ remediate. Insurance companies lobbied hard to limit public awareness of toxic mold after getting nailed by several huge multimillion dollar cases in the 90’s.

Toxic molds (like Stachybotrys “black mold,” Chaetomium, Aspergillus, Fusarium, and others) thrive indoors in dark, damp spots behind walls, under floors, or in leaky areas. They hate sunlight and don’t typically cause seasonal outdoor issues.

What do you think “sick building syndrome” is? 💡 (Hint: often, toxic mold illness)

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[Forge Physique @ForgePhysique]

Flat belly workout and exercise

[Whiplash347 @Whiplash437]

Twice a month mix 3 milliliters in a glass of Orange juice and down it. REMEMBER WHEN the Media laughed and said ivermectin was ONLY for horses and cows? THEY KNEW it was made for people since 1987.

Here’s what they didn’t tell you 👇

1 – It prevents the damage caused by drugs created using mRNA technology, blocks the entry of Spike Protein into cells and, if the person was vaccinated, they can treat themselves for damage already done through Ivermectin.

2 – It only has beneficial effects and no harmful effects in the treatment of the C virus. In fact, even before entering the cell, it has already destroyed the virus in the blood.

3 – It has a very powerful anti-inflammatory action against and has a powerful impact on traumatic and orthopedic injuries, it strengthens muscles and has no side effects like corticosteroids.

4 –It treats autoimmune ailments such as: rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, fibromyalgia, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, allergic rhinitis.

5 – It improves the immunity levels in cancer patients and treats Herpes Simplex and Herpes Zoster, plus reduces the frequency of sinusitis and diverticulitis.

6 – It protects the heart in cardiac overload. In an embolism for example, it prevents cardiac hypoxia because it stimulates the production of basic energy so that the tissue is not destroyed and thus improves cardiac function.

7 – It is anti-parasitic, anti-neoplastic (anti-cancer). Allegedly, it suppresses the proliferation and metastasis of cancer cells, preserving healthy cells and improving the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatment.

8 - It can kills cancer cells resistant to chemotherapy, defeating the resistance to multiple chemo-therapeutics that tumors develop, and combined with chemotherapy and/or anti-cancer agents, it provides an increase in the effectiveness of these treatments.

9 – It is antimicrobial (bacteria and viruses) and increases immunity.

10 – It reaches the Central Nervous System and regenerates the nerves.

11 – It helps to regulates glucose, insulin metabolism, cholesterol levels and reduces liver fat in steatose.

12 - It can be used as a prophylactic agent and has been associated with a significant reduction in infection, hospitalization and mortality rates due to C-19.

[Metabolic Factor @MetabolicFactor]

3-Minute Tabata Workout 🔥

[Justin Mihaly @JustinMihaly]

Confusion around Thyroid function is extremely high in western medicine trained folks

Most are running a TSH... a T4... and you're told everything is "normal"

Meanwhile you're exhausted, gaining weight, losing hair, and freezing cold 24/7 and there's no true insight as to whats stalling progression or making you feel bad.. specifically P:E ratio

Here's how we actually assess thyroid function. And it starts BEFORE bloodwork

Body Temperature of course is number one especially in dieting athletes - its so easy to troubleshoot stalls in progression before they hit using temp feedback

This is the single most underrated marker in all of health.

Your thyroid controls your metabolic rate. Your metabolic rate determines how much heat your body produces. So if your thyroid is tanking... your body temperature is going to tell you before any lab ever will.

The assessment:

Immediately after waking. Take your temp before you get out of bed. IMO 97.4 is a great temp to be at here. A lot of people will say 98 degrees but here's the thing... your morning temp can be artificially elevated by stress hormones. Cortisol and adrenaline will raise your temperature to compensate for a sluggish thyroid. So a "normal" morning temp doesn't always mean your thyroid/liver is fine.

That's why we take a second reading 30 minutes after your first meal. This is the real tell. After eating, your body should be ramping up metabolism to process food. You should be at 98.2 or above here but even at 98.0 that's pretty good

If you wake up at 98 degrees or higher and then DROP below that after eating - That pattern tells your morning temp was being propped up by stress hormones and your thyroid can't actually sustain metabolic output on its own.

Take it orally. I know Broda Barnes suggested a mercury thermometer under the armpit for 10 minutes but let's be real... nobody is going to do that consistently. Oral is faster and compliance matters more than perfection. Consistency and uniformity of measurement is what matters most here.

Pulse

Resting pulse should be somewhere between 70 and 85 bpm.

Now this is highly variable person to person. Are you an athlete? Do you do a ton of zone 2 cardio? Your resting pulse is going to be influenced by your aerobic fitness history.

But here's what most people miss...

A chronically LOW pulse (under 65) in someone who is NOT a trained endurance athlete is a red flag for hypothyroidism. Your heart is a muscle and it needs thyroid hormone to contract efficiently. Low thyroid = slow heart.

Again... consistency and uniformity of measurement matters most. Same time. Same conditions. Track the trend.

The Markers That Give You Autonomy

These are the things that give you a MUCH better overall picture than a single snapshot in time from bloodwork. Bloodwork is one moment. These markers tell you what's happening every single day:

1. Cold hands and cold feet. And no this is NOT normal if you're a girl either. Cold extremities means your body is rationing heat because it doesn't have enough metabolic output to keep everything warm. That's a thyroid problem.

2. Energy. Are you relying on 6 cups of coffee to function? That's not a caffeine deficiency. That's a metabolic rate problem.

3. Mood. Thyroid hormone directly influences serotonin and dopamine production. Low thyroid = flat mood, irritability, anxiety. And no you don't need an SSRI for that JFC we gotta get off those

4. Mental function. Brain fog, slow processing, can't find words. Your brain is the most metabolically active organ in your body. When thyroid output drops your brain is the first thing to suffer.

5. Libido. This is a big one. Low thyroid crushes sex drive in both men and women. And here's where it ties into prolactin... hypothyroidism elevates prolactin. Elevated prolactin suppresses GnRH which tanks LH and FSH. That means less testosterone in men and disrupted cycles in women. If your libido is gone and your prolactin is elevated... look at the thyroid first before you start chasing hormones.

6. Blood pressure. Hypothyroidism can cause both low BP (from reduced cardiac output) and high BP (from increased peripheral resistance as the body tries to compensate). Either way it's telling you something.

7. Weight gain. Especially when your P:E ratio is dialed and you're still gaining. If your protein to energy ratio is on point and you're in a reasonable deficit and the scale won't budge... it's not your diet. It's your metabolic rate. And your metabolic rate is controlled by your thyroid.

8. Digestion. Slow motility, bloating, constipation. Thyroid hormone drives peristalsis. Low thyroid = slow gut = bacterial overgrowth = more problems.

9. Hair, skin, and nails. Thinning hair, dry skin, brittle nails. These are the tissues your body sacrifices first when metabolic resources are scarce. Your body will prioritize keeping your heart beating over growing your hair. If these are suffering your thyroid is suffering.

Bloodwork

Now we get to labs. And I'll be honest... this is a crapshoot to read sometimes. Don't feel bad because doctors get it wrong ALL the time.

Here's what to run and how to actually interpret it:

- TSH. Thyroid Stimulating Hormone. This is really only relevant when it's elevated. Above 1.4... maybe even lower... and we're looking at hypothyroid. When TSH is suppressed we need to dig deeper into T3 and T4 to understand why.

- Free T3 and Free T4. These are your actual thyroid hormones. T4 is the inactive storage form. T3 is the ACTIVE form that does the work. Upper reference range on both? Great... although it's not the full picture. Here's why...

- T3 can be elevated in serum yet DEPLETED in tissue. Meaning your blood looks fine but your cells are starving for thyroid hormone. This is where body temp and all those other markers become critical. The blood doesn't always tell the truth.

- Reverse T3. This is the brake pedal. When your body is stressed it converts T4 into reverse T3 instead of active T3. rT3 blocks T3 receptors. So even if your T3 looks decent on paper... if rT3 is elevated it's blocking the signal at the cellular level.

Common patterns:

TSH high + T4 high + T3 lower end = rT3 is most likely elevated. Classic hypothyroid pattern where conversion is impaired.

TSH low + T3 low + T4 low = rT3 is most likely elevated. The whole system is suppressed.

Cholesterol. This one surprises people. High cholesterol is not ALWAYS directly linked to hypothyroidism but it's a damn good confirmation marker. Here's why...

Your body needs T3 to convert cholesterol into downstream hormones like pregnenolone, progesterone, DHEA, testosterone, and estrogen. When T3 is low that conversion stalls and cholesterol BACKS UP in the blood.

9 out of 10 times when I see high cholesterol on bloods we can bet TSH is above 1.4 and body temp is not ideal.

So before you let your doctor throw you on a statin... check your thyroid function first. The cholesterol isn't the problem. The cholesterol is the SYMPTOM in 99% of cases

Stop letting a single TSH reading dictate your health.

Track your temps. IMO tracking your pulse can be very helpful. Pay attention to the signs your body is giving you every single day.

The body doesn't lie. Labs sometimes do.

[ᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴘʜʏꜱɪQᴜᴇ @Artofphysique_]

Simple & Effective Waist Workouts for Seniors!

[Taichi for Health @StaminaFitnes]

Chinese longevity hacks better than morning matcha

[Taichi for Health @StaminaFitnes]

This is what happens when you stay home too much

[ᴀʀᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴘʜʏꜱɪQᴜᴇ @Artofphysique_]

Just 100 reps a day - tone your arms, waist, legs & back with simple moves! No gym, no excuses - just YOU and 10 minutes a day!🔥

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Dudes Father beat Stage 4 Lung Cancer in just 8 months - here’s how.

People’s understanding & treatment of Cancer continues to radically evolve.

[C. Vivek Lal @CVivekLaL]

The modern Western lifestyle is destroying your gut.

Your gut is the control center influencing your mood, immunity, weight, and even lifespan.

After 15 years of researching the gut & microbiome, here's how your gut works, what’s damaging it, and how to fix it: 🧵

[C__Katie @C__Katie]

So farts are important for humans but not for cows? I mean #Bovaer is messing with them so...