Cinnamon Wolfe

Christian. Business Owner. Conservative. Question Asker. Critical Thinker.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

To our Founding Fathers, thank you for creating heaven on earth 250 years ago.

America has given so many of us everything we have. I, personally, owe her everything in return.

Happy 4th!

[Chris Pratt @prattprattpratt]

Celebrate America’s 250th birthday at the box office!!! There’s a lot of great choices this weekend. But considering it’s July 4 weekend I humbly suggest “Young, Washington.” I was actually blown away. The movie is incredible. Like Braveheart for Americans. Jon Erwin crushed it. William Franklin Miller did a great job as young Washington. Remember the name! A star is born! The movie is awesome! Way to go!!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

Eli Lilly just released Phase 3 data for retatrutide, their next-generation obesity drug. 2,339 patients. 80 weeks. The biggest trial in the field.

8 things worth knowing:
1️⃣ It beats every obesity drug on the market. Wegovy (semaglutide): 15% Zepbound (tirzepatide): 22% Retatrutide: 25%

2️⃣ You don’t need the highest dose. The lowest (4mg) already outperforms Wegovy. 18% weight loss with one dose increase. Fewer people quit than on the sugar pill.

3️⃣ At two years, weight was still dropping. No plateau. Patients with BMI over 35 lost 84 pounds. 30% of their body weight.

4️⃣ Some patients stopped taking it because they lost too much weight. That’s never happened with an obesity drug.

5️⃣ It works differently. Ozempic and Zepbound suppress appetite. Retatrutide does that too, but its third receptor (glucagon) flips your metabolism toward burning stored fat. In Phase 2, ketone bodies rose 2-3x, confirming the body was switching fuel sources.

6️⃣ It causes a side effect no other obesity drug does: tingling and numbness (12.5%). New receptor, new trade-off. Worth watching.

7️⃣ In a separate study, it cleared 86% of liver fat. 93% of patients reached normal levels. 1 in 3 adults have fatty liver disease. No approved drug comes close.

8️⃣ Two-thirds of patients on the highest dose were reclassified out of obesity entirely. They started at BMI 40. They finished under 30. That’s not just weight loss. That’s a medical reclassification.

@US_FDA filing expected late 2026.

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Here’s a simple way to get unstuck when you’re worried, overwhelmed, or overthinking a decision.

Ask yourself one question:

What kind of thing am I dealing with?

Most issues fall into one of three categories.

1. Settled Things

These are things that have already been decided.

Your birth family.
Your nation of origin.
Your height.
Your past decisions.
Your upbringing.
Things you did.
Things done to you.

Some of these things were decided by your own past actions. Others were decided by God’s providence. As Paul says in Acts 17:26, God determined our appointed times and the boundaries of our dwelling place.

You can’t go back and change these things.

So the question is not, “How do I undo this?”

The question is, “Does this have any bearing on what I should do now?”

If not, leave it alone. Don’t spend your life fighting settled things.

2. Action Things
These are things you have some real control over.

Your diet.
Your exercise.
Your spending.
Your work ethic.
Your attitude.
Your friendships.
Your theological knowledge.
Your presentability.
Your habits.
Your skills.

These are your controllables.

You may not control everything about your health, finances, relationships, or future. But you usually control more than you think.

So if the issue falls here, don’t overthink it.

Take direct action.

Start small if you have to. Make the call. Go on the walk. Open the Bible. Apologize. Apply for the job. Pay the bill. Clean the room. Do the next faithful thing.

3. Prayer Things

These are things outside your direct control, but not outside God’s control.

The economy.
The weather.
The housing market.
The availability of a suitable spouse.
Other people’s choices.
Timing.
Open doors.
Closed doors.

You can’t force these things. You can’t grab the steering wheel of providence.

But God can act.

So you take indirect action through prayer. You ask. You wait. You prepare. You remain faithful. You do what you can do and trust God with what only He can do.

So ask yourself:

Is this settled?
Then accept it and learn from it.

Is this actionable?
Then do something.

Is this outside my control?
Then pray and trust God.

This is a simple framework, and yes, it’s a little reductionistic. But that’s the point. The goal is not to explain every complexity of life. The goal is to get you unstuck.

Most people waste too much energy trying to change the past, control what belongs to God, or pray about things they simply need to obey.

So categorize the issue.

Then act accordingly.

Accept what is settled.
Act on what is yours.
Pray over what belongs to God.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

What’s exciting to me about this poll is it illustrates what a deep bench of serious talent the GOP has. An embarrassment of riches. When you compare that to the possible candidates for the Dems in 2028, I feel very good about the future.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Next time anyone with political ambitions agrees to an interview, they should also have their own cameras and record/tape the entire thing.

The agreement is then simple and obvious: the media has to tell the truth or you release the full version.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

The answers to many modern problems are simple but politically incorrect.

So instead of solving anything, everybody pretends they don't know what's going on, and spend years misdiagnosing the issue, talking in circles, and wasting time.

[Amos Murphy @AmosMurphy_]

You deserve what you get in sport, but it's hard not to feel for Justin Rose.

If there was ever a deserved Masters winner, it would be him.

[Cinnamon Wolfe @cinnamonwolfe]

@conservmillen Went on Tuesday for the first time! It was an experience like no other. Still thinking about it and probably will be for a while!

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

Almost exclusively everyone who moves into my place is on a statin. It's one of the first medications I work to get them off of.

I show their doctors the research - high LDL is linked to longer lifespan, and the triglyceride-to-HDL ratio is a better indicator of heart disease than LDL alone.

As long as the family backs me up, I can usually get them off. We've deprescribed statins from a lot of residents and they're doing fine.

I can't think of the last time I've had a cardiac event in one of my assisted living homes.

[Lamar MK @LamarMK]

A 7 seater Cyber SUV would break the internet.

Three full rows. Real legroom. Real headroom. No compromises.

Every family SUV on the market makes you choose. Space or safety. Tech or comfort. Tesla wouldn't make you pick.

Built on the Cybertruck platform, this would be the safest family vehicle on the road.

Tesla would have to build an entire new factory just to keep up with demand.

Would you trade in your car for this?

[Dr. Spencer Nadolsky @DrNadolsky]

Rapid fire glp-1 med myth busting

- no difference from placebo in pancreatitis
- medullary thyroid cancer seen in rats not humans (humans don’t have GLP-1 receptors there while rats do)
- muscle loss is same as caloric restriction
- gastric emptying slows initially but goes closer to normal after months. No strong data for permanent issues other than random lawsuits.
- help with weight loss via appetite. They are not metabolism boosters (yet)
- they do have multiple benefits beyond weight loss

[American AF 🇺🇸 @iAnonPatriot]

The evolution of the White House over the last 250 years..

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[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Pradip Jamnadas just described a 72-day water fast under supervision that erased diabetes, normalized blood pressure, and dropped ~55–60 lb — mostly visceral belly fat — with skin retraction instead of loose hanging skin.

His go-to fasting progression for visceral fat / pre-diabetes / reversal:

- Start: 12:12 (12 h fast, 12 h eating window) for 2–3 weeks

- Then: 18:6 (18 h fast, 6 h eating)

- For serious cases (heavy overweight, type 2 diabetes): 48-hour fast once a week or OMAD (one meal a day) for 9 days → 3-day water fast every 9 days

Allowed during pure water fasts: black coffee, black tea, water + electrolytes (e.g., Element or ½ tsp Celtic salt daily). Cravings? 1 tsp MCT oil in water.

He had one patient fast 183 days (from 400 → 210 lb) with no loose skin horror show — “totally different physiology” from calorie restriction.

Steven Bartlett: “Probably shouldn’t try this at home… medical supervision is critical.”

Clip from this 3:43 mind-bender — fasting flipping metabolic disease in ways calorie cuts rarely do.

Would you ever consider supervised extended fasting for real reversal… or is even 72 hours unthinkable?

Your thoughts — drop them below.

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

Yes—eat less and people lose weight. That has been known since the first monastery diet.

The difficulty is that human biology fights it. Hunger hormones rise, metabolic rate falls, and appetite increases. That is why most people regain weight after diet alone.

GLP-1 medications work by altering those biological signals—reducing appetite and food noise—so that “eat less” becomes sustainable rather than a brief act of willpower.

Saying “just eat less” is not wrong. It is simply incomplete.

[Greg O'Gallagher @gregogallagher]

GLP-1s are too good to be true. There must be some hidden catch.

No.

Drugs like Tirzepatide don’t magically melt fat.

They simply make you feel full sooner and stay full longer.

That’s it.

The fat loss happens because people eat less.

For decades the problem with dieting wasn’t knowledge, it was adherence.

Follow a solid meal plan, get steps, lift heavy and use the lowest effective dose and you just remove the hunger bottleneck.

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

The “Ozempic body” insult is just aesthetic snobbery dressed up as health advice. When someone loses 20–30% of their body weight, blood pressure drops, sleep apnea improves, joints hurt less, and their risk of heart attack falls. If that offends an influencer’s sense of beauty, medicine will somehow survive.

And the irony is thick: Saladino rails against “pharmaceutical shortcuts” while selling a cabinet full of supplements that have far less evidence than GLP-1 therapy.

Yes — eat real food. Yes — move your body. I recommend the Mediterranean pattern all the time. But pretending obesity is solved by telling people to “eat like your great-grandmother” ignores genetics, metabolism, medications, environment, and decades of clinical research.

GLP-1 drugs aren’t a shortcut.

They’re the first effective medical treatment for obesity we’ve had in a century.

[Pastor Travis Johnson @BasedPastorTrav]

Best video on X you will see today.

Bold Gospel declaration between @WesleyLHuff on the @stevenbartlett on the diary of a CEO podcast.

It is rare to see someone take being told they are going to Hell so well.