people assume bootstrapped = lifestyle and lifestyle = no big goal/impact.
but they forget that you can be selfish, it's fine. you can have the lifestyle the great product and the huge impact.
many businesses have bootstrapped to well beyond 100M arr and have more impact than most VC funded companies.
you just need to sit with yourself and think about what you want before doing what everyone else is doing.
it's the ultimate form of having agency.
one tree resin KILLED five pathogens linked to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
without touching your good bacteria.
mastic gum. one island. 3,000 years. published in NEJM.
→ H. pylori — stomach cancer trigger. 38% eradication in 14 days (19879118)
→ P. gingivalis — found in 9/10 Alzheimer’s brains (16822220)
→ F. nucleatum — found INSIDE colorectal tumors (Koychev 2017)
→ S. mutans — rotting your teeth (16343417)
→ Candida — destroying your gut (8808717)
five pathogens. five results. zero harm to healthy bacteria.
no antibiotic can do that. antibiotics nuke everything. your microbiome pays for weeks.
mastic gum selects. kills what’s hurting you. leaves what’s protecting you.
zero resistance. 3,000 years.
your doctor nukes your gut to kill ONE bacteria. a Greek tree kills five and leaves your gut intact.
🧵 where I get mine in the comments ↓
The global ecosystem has recently learned what sovereign AI means: access to critical infrastructure that can't be revoked overnight.
This is what Cohere was built to solve: your data, your weights, and operations that remain in your control.
Otherwise, it's just a buzz word.
This red card business is just a microcosm of American cultural viewpoint that any act done by America is an innately righteous act because America does it
An awful despicable culture
You can even see this in a variety of studies:
People with high Vitamin D are healthier
But you can't replicate the effect with Vitamin D supplementation
Why? Because it's just a lab marker for your sun exposure.
Overcoming the Environment: Sun, Blue Light, and "Grounding" Your lifestyle profile tells the story. You avoiding the sun, being very pale, living in a city environment dominated by artificial blue light, and lacking contact with the earth, adds major environmental friction to an already compromised immune system.
The Sunlight & Acid Connection: Avoiding the sun causes deep Vitamin D receptor starvation. Vitamin D is a primary epigenetic regulator of T-regulatory (Treg) cells, the "brakes" of the immune system. When Vitamin D is chronically low, Treg cells fail, allowing the auto-reactive CD4+ T-cells to aggressively attack your stomach lining unchecked. Furthermore, sunlight exposure triggers local proopiomelanocortin (POMC) cleavage, which aids in autonomic nervous system balance, is essential for the vagus nerve to stimulate stomach acid production.
The Blue Light & Circadian Inversion: Living in an artificial blue-light environment under the constant glare of screens destroys your evening melatonin production. Melatonin is a potent mitochondrial antioxidant. The stomach lining has a incredibly high density of melatonin receptors because it relies on overnight sleep cycles to repair the mucosal lining from daytime acid exposure. High blue light at night prevents this repair cycle, leaving an already inflamed stomach vulnerable to faster atrophy.
The "Grounding" and Tech Physics: From a biophysical perspective, constant exposure to electromagnetic frequencies (EMFs) from city technology without physical contact with the earth alters cellular voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs). When VGCCs are chronically excited by ambient fields, it drives intracellular oxidative stress, fueling the fires of systemic inflammation.
I hope your audience learns a lesson. Do not listen to your advice. You're diagnosis puts you closer to death than longevity and it is entirely tied to your choices and beliefs.
@exosome If they can make it rain at will, I don’t see why this can’t be possible. You should check out this company @RainmakerCorp. They make it rain at will.