Concept art for ‘RAY GUNN’, a new animated film directed by Brad Bird (‘The Incredibles’)
The film follows a private inspector drawn into a case involving aliens & murder all in the alternate futuristic city Metropia.
Releasing later this year on Netflix.
There's an island in the Pacific where nobody gets acne. A Swedish doctor named Staffan Lindeberg spent years there, examined 1,200 people, including 300 teenagers, and couldn't find a single pimple. In the US, 85% of teens have acne. The difference comes down to food.
The islanders eat 70% carbs. Their carbs are yams, sweet potatoes, coconut, fish, so this had nothing to do with cutting carbs. Sugar and junk food: 0.2% of their diet. In the US and Europe, those same foods make up around 70%.
When you eat sugar, your blood sugar jumps. Your body responds by flooding you with insulin. Insulin wakes up a growth hormone called IGF-1 (your body already makes a ton of it during puberty, which is why teenagers get hit the hardest). IGF-1 cranks up the oil in your skin, boosts testosterone, and makes skin cells grow so fast they pile up and clog your pores. Oil, hormones, clogged pores. Acne.
A 2017 lab study showed this at work. Researchers put IGF-1 on human skin oil glands and watched oil production climb while the glands got inflamed.
Researchers then tested this with real patients. A 12-week experiment published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition split people into two groups. Same calories, same carbs. One group swapped to low-sugar carbs like vegetables and whole grains. The other kept eating normal Western carbs. The low-sugar group lost nearly double the breakouts: 23 fewer pimples versus 12 in the other group. Just from changing what kind of carbs they ate.
Sugar also ages your skin a second way. Sugar molecules floating in your blood grab onto the proteins that keep your skin firm and stretchy (collagen and elastin) and lock them together. Those proteins go stiff, your skin loses its bounce, and wrinkles show up faster than they should. Sunlight speeds it up. One study found that getting your blood sugar under control for just 4 months reduced this protein damage by 25%.
The Inuit in Northern Canada had zero acne for 30 years of observation. Then Western food arrived: soda, chips, refined sugar. Acne showed up right behind it. Genetically similar groups in Papua New Guinea who switched to Western diets saw the same thing.
I get the meme. Giving up sugar sounds awful. But over 1,300 people across two continents with zero acne on low-sugar diets, plus a controlled experiment showing near-double improvement in 12 weeks, makes this one of the few skincare tips backed by real science.
Reverence and devotion are inner exercises for the soul.
When a human being feels genuine reverence toward something higher—Truth, Goodness, The Divine—it reorganizes the soul. It cultivates humility, moral strength, and clarity of perception.
Worship does not feed God.
It builds the human soul.
Next time you buy a gatorade try your best to put your full attention on the drink, experience it with your whole mass and really feel the flavour, absorb yourself in this moment.
You will notice how much better drinks taste when you are conscious and how hard it is to actually remain that way without drifting in a dream or distant memory.
You will notice that you have lost your ability to enjoy drinks, food, laughter, sex and much more all because you are an unconscious machine, letting the dead run through you, from impulse to impulse, never going anywhere.
This is the terror of the situation.
Your life becomes a thousand times harder after noticing this
Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.
—Carl Jung
On January 23, I’ll be free soloing Taipei 101 in Taiwan. It’s been a long time goal of mine and it’ll be the most ambitious urban climb that I’ve attempted. It’s a nearly 1,700 ft tower! What’s not to like?! And I’ll be doing it LIVE on @netflix. Tune in Friday, January 23 at 8PM ET / 5PM PT
Its actually the opposite.
This is pure spiritual narcissism right here.
Once consciousness rises you begin to look into the depths of people and love them for who they really are, you begin to enjoy parties even if you are just observing souls interacting, you begin to realize how much good can be pulled from fellow man with a tiny bit of encouragement.
This man has a lot of growing up to do