KENNETH K

My parents were both 1st generation American’s of poor, hard working Eastern European immigrants.

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

Tonight Garrett Mitchell reached over the wall in center field and took a home run away from the San Diego Padres.

He did it with an insulin pump in his back left pocket.

He fell to the 14th round out of high school because of what is in that pocket.

Start in the third grade.

He told his mother he did not feel well. He was going to the bathroom about once an hour and his stomach hurt.

Shannon Van Dyke had her son's blood sugar tested. A healthy number is around 80. The meter would not give her a number at all. It just read HIGH. The real figure was over 600.

"I remember my heart dropping, being afraid, and not knowing what to do or what our future looked like."

He got the pump at 10. She began setting an alarm for 2 or 3 in the morning to test him while he slept. She has said those years felt like having a newborn.

He kept playing. He carried a bag everywhere with snacks, insulin and sugar in it.

By his senior season at Orange Lutheran High School in California he was one of the best young outfielders in the country, and scouts had him going somewhere in the first three rounds.

He went in the 14th. The Oakland Athletics took him.

His coach at UCLA, John Savage, said the diabetes hurt his draft value. There were, in his words, lingering questions about it.

His agent Scott Boras later put a number on what it cost. Without the condition, Boras said, Mitchell could have been a top 5 pick.

So he turned the Athletics down and went to UCLA instead.

In three seasons there he hit .327. He hit 15 triples, second most in the history of that program, and his 12 in 2019 set a UCLA record and led all of college baseball.

In June of 2020 the Milwaukee Brewers took him 20th overall in the first round. He signed for $3,242,900.

"My hands were shaking."

Now here is the part that tells you what this actually costs him.

On September 13 of this year, Milwaukee took him out of a game in the middle of the afternoon. He was not injured.

"We took him out precautionary. He had high blood sugar."

His manager Pat Murphy added that it happens a lot going from a night game to a day game, and that the team keeps working on it.

That was three and a half weeks ago.

Tonight he robbed a home run in a game San Diego had to win, and Milwaukee is going to the National League Championship Series.

His mother once described the pump like this.

"You will notice it in his back left pocket. It never leaves his body, even when he's playing."

[CC Sabathia @CC_Sabathia]

Congrats to the @Brewers and Pat Murphy!!! NLCS bound!!

[Wisconsin Family @Wisconsin_fam]

Best tweet of the day

[sophie Cunningham @sophieCunndpu]

Men do not belong in women’s sports. Period.
I said it without apology.
The vast majority of Americans stand with her.

[sabine hazan md @SabinehazanMD]

History doesn’t forget.
Thalidomide: marketed as a safe morning-sickness drug. Over 10,000 children born with missing or deformed limbs before the world finally stopped it.
DES: given to pregnant women for decades to prevent miscarriage. It didn’t work — and caused rare vaginal cancers and lifelong reproductive damage in their daughters.
Vioxx: pulled after estimates of 88,000–140,000 excess heart attacks and strokes in the U.S. alone. Merck knew the signals.
Fen-Phen: destroyed heart valves in the name of weight loss.
Contaminated blood products in the 1980s: hemophiliacs infected with HIV and hepatitis C while companies kept selling.
OxyContin: sold as “less addictive.” The body count is still climbing.
Same pattern every time: rush to market, downplay early warnings, deny causality, attack the doctors and parents who speak up, then settle when the lawsuits become too expensive to ignore.
When a previously healthy young man dies of aortic dissection 16 days after his first Pfizer dose, and independent histopathology finds spike protein in the aorta destroying the endothelium — with no nucleocapsid and no underlying disease — we are watching that same playbook.
You can’t find what you refuse to look for.
And you can’t claim “safe and effective” while burying the autopsies.
Accountability is not optional.

[Nick Norwitz MD PhD @nicknorwitz]

If diabetes results from metabolic dysfunction, and heart disease results from metabolic dysfunction, why don’t we think more about mental illness through the same lens?

The mind is extraordinarily complex, but it emerges from the brain, which is a purely biological and metabolic organ.

[Dr. Sydney Watson @SydneyLWatson]

Do you know how genuinely retarded the UK (and every other Western country) has to be to import a foreign population that NEEDS TO BE TOLD rape is bad?

What the fuck are we doing?

[KENNETH K @KENJOKE]

@DrAndyGalpin Shouldn’t age be part of this conversation?

[KENNETH K @KENJOKE]

@Rainmaker1973 So how long afterwards did the effects last?

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[KENNETH K @KENJOKE]

@beaver_naughty And maybe they just over built.

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Marc Andreessen on why Starlink may be the most misunderstood success story in tech right now:

“Elon’s not the first guy who said we’re going to do satellite-based internet access.

There was Bill Gates, Craig McCaw. Complete catastrophe, total bankruptcy, complete disaster.

Elon’s like, ‘I know, I’m going to do another three of those. We’re starting as a side project at the rocket ship company.’

If the rockets are reusable, we’re going to be launching them all the time. What’s going to go in the rockets? I could wait for the customers to come to me, or I could just put up my own satellites.

Anybody who knew anything about the history of satellites knew that was the craziest idea in the world.

And of course it’s like this giant success. It’s the side project.

It’s clearly the least studied and understood thing I know of in the world right now.”

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

Over the last 10 years I have personally seen a Carnivore diet help people with

Anxiety
Autism
ADHD
Acne
Alzheimer’s
Arthritis
Asthma
Anorexia
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Ataxia

Bell’s palsy
Binge Eating disorder
Bipolar

Carpal tunnel syndrome
Cellulitis
Cancer
Cerebral Palsy
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic kidney disease
Chronic pain
COPD
Crohn’s Disease

Dementia
Depression
Diabetes
Diabetic Retinopathy
Diverticulitis

Erectile dysfunction
Epilepsy
Eating disorders

Farting
Fibroids
Fibromyalgia
Frozen shoulder
Fungal nail infection

Ganglion cyst
Golfer’s elbow
Gout
Gingivitis

Hemorrhoids
Headaches
High Blood pressure
Huntington’s disease
Hyperglycemia
Hypoglycemia

Impetigo
Indigestion
IBD
IBS
Insomnia
Itching
Iron deficiency anemia

Joint hyper mobility

Kidney cysts

Lipoma
Lipoedema
Lymphedema
Lupus

Malnutrition
Menopause
Migraines
Multiple Sclerosis
Myasthenia Gravis

Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver
Nephritis

Obesity
OCD
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Osteoarthritis
Osteoporosis

Panic Disorder
Parkinson’s disease
Pelvic inflammatory disease
Peripheral Neuropathy
PCOS
PTSD
Psoriasis
Psoriatic Arthritis

Quitting smoking

Raynaud’s Phenomenon
Raynaud’s disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rosacea

Schizophrenia
Sciatica
Schizoaffective disorder
Sinusitis
Sjogrens
Sunburn

Tennis elbow
Tinnitus
Tourette’s syndrome
Trigeminal neuralgia
Type 1 diabetes
Type 2 diabetes

Ulcerative Colitis

Vertigo
Varicose veins

Weight loss

Yeast infections

Anyone have any more?

[Renewed Health @Gramps_bloomers]

I wanted a treat. Nothing too nefarious for a largely carnivorous individual; just some roasted peanuts. WTF do they need to add SUGAR, CORNSTARCH, TORULA YEAST, MALTODEXTRIN, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS??
How about just salt.
@DoctorTro @SBakerMD @SecKennedy @KenDBerryMD

[KENNETH K @KENJOKE]

@roshmchotm64867 @benwehrman Energy is free. The transmission is costly.

[Milwaukee Brewers @Brewers]

Bobby Jr. is fitting in just fine 🐢

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya explains that once he learned the mainstream media was lying to him, he left the Democrat Party

“You went from being a large Democrat donor to now a very outspoken proponent on the other side of the aisle”

Chamath Palihapitiya “Yeah — This is not about politics for me, it's about the truth. There was a moment where I was basically like everybody else, and pretty brainwashed.

My media diet was very much the same as everybody else's. I read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. I watched a little bit of CNN, a little bit of CNBC, a little bit of MSNBC, a little bit of CBS Economist.

Every now and then you encounter it on a plane and you think you know what's going on, and I had a perception of Donald Trump initially, from the moment he walked down the staircase in Trump Tower to announce.

And then over the course of 6-7 years, I realized that some of those fundamental things that I was told about him were just totally false. And there was enough content online where I was almost afraid, but it started with Charlottesville.

I was almost afraid to look at it because I'm like, I think I was lied to. And then I saw it. I saw what he said, but then I saw the portrayal. I had originally believed that portrayal until I saw the truth.

And then I just started to go down that rabbit hole.

So for me, it was an evolution where I was like, I can't believe I'm being lied to by this group of people whose sole responsibility is to hold truth, to power. The key word there is truth to power, not your perception or your desires. And I just think that that, that, I mean, red-pilled me, I guess in a way”

[gary taubes @garytaubes]

Have you considered the possibility that your eating in secret at night is a behavior driven by the same dysregulated physiology that makes you fatten effortlessly?

That's what I and others have been arguing. There's a whole field of science known as physiological psychology which made this argument.

Regrettably, the folks doing obesity science were medical doctors who didn't read the literature in the physiological psychology world. And the folks in the pp world we're PhDs and they didn't think all that much about obesity and fat storage. They cared about appetitive behaviors, which is why and when you eat and how much you eat when you do and when you stop eating, etc.

So my point: it's not as simple as you think and the science is not nearly as cut and dry as folks on X would like to make it. You may fatten effortlessly and you may eat secretly at night, but I wouldn't be so quick to assume that the latter causes the former.

Finally, CICO always holds because it's a law of physics. What we're discussing is whether it says anything meaningful about why some people get fat and others stay lean.

[Dr. Jason Fung @drjasonfung]

@KenDBerryMD Eating red meat (with a glycemic index of zero) raises blood glucose roughly zero.
Ah, but eating red meat causes diabetes, which raises blood glucose a hell of a lot.
That's medical logical for you. Not logical at all.