Alisha Luna

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[Alisha Luna @madetokeep]

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[Wake Up Patriot 🇺🇸 @WakeUpPatriott]

Will you ever pay money to watch a Robert DeNiro film again ?

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Forget what Simon says and do your own thing with Samsung Galaxy.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Simplifying the tax code will increase productivity, instead of incentivizing bizarre tax-avoidance behavior

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

This is a Declaration of War against American children and a betrayal of any American who cares about MAHA principles.

Here's why it matters:

This regulation makes Ozempic the Standard of Care for the 80% of Medicare recipients who are overweight or obese. No incentives for healthy eating or exercise - straight to Ozempic...

At a cost of $1,600 per month...

The regulation says that obesity is a disease (not tied to lifestyle) and that Ozempic should be the first-line defense (remember: it is a lifetime drug).

The reason this impacts kids is that the moment a regulation says obesity is a disease (not tied to lifestyle) and available on Medicare (old people), it goes to Medicaid (lower-income people) - which means that Ozempic will be the standard of care for the 40% of 12-year-olds who are overweight or obese.

The problem isn't Ozempic in and of itself, although the drug destroys the pancreas, increases depression, and eviscerates muscle mass. It is the hold the pharmaceutical industry has on the entire process from NIH (research) to FDA (drug approval) to CMS (costing and standard of care). Under this ruling, Ozempic isn't an option for an American with obesity. It is the option.

If you are an obese American, you are getting a lifetime Ozempic prescription with zero ability to steer healthcare dollars to food and exercise. In fact, you will be called anti-science for suggesting dietary interventions because obesity will now be labeled as a lifetime condition that can't be reversed and must be managed.

This is not an exaggeration: if this regulation holds, a mother will be told she is going against the American Academy of Pediatrics advice for not jabbing her overweight 12-year-old with Ozempic for the rest of that child's life.

Think about it - why doesn't this regulation open up a pot of flexible funds for Americans suffering from obesity to steer where they find most effective with their doctor (whether that be drugs or lifestyle interventions)? Does it make sense the medical funding only goes to drugs - as a one-size-fits-all intervention for all Americans?

The drug industry is cynically saying this puts the incoming Trump administration in a pickle because Americans don't want this benefit taken away. This is not true.

Americans are tired of being poisoned and then drugged for profit. The reason over 75% of Americans are overweight or obese is not predominantly because of an Ozempic deficiency. It is the height of corruption to spend $1 trillion of government money to drug Americans at scale when our environment has poisoned them.

Americans did NOT vote for mass injections in this election.

They voted for a shift to ROOT CAUSE interventions and benefit flexibility.

Ozempic should exist. It is probably the right intervention for someone on the verge of death.

But for the average American (who is overweight), flexibility with their healthcare funds to incentivize food/exercise is almost certainly the right clinical intervention.

Trust me - if Medicare incentivized healthy eating $1,600 per month for every overweight American, obesity and related metabolic disorders would plummet far better than mass-prescribing liquified anorexia.

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

President Trump kept his promise on @joerogan to stand up to Big Pharma.

@DrJBhattacharya (NIH), @MartyMakary (FDA), @DrOz (CMS), Dave Weldon (CDC) and @regardthefrost (Dep Sec) are transformative picks.

We have a generational opportunity to help kids.

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

Policy and culture flows downstream from the scientific consensus.

And science is debilitatingly captured.

@DrJBhattacharya is going to return the NIH to performing FOUNDATIONAL science on why we are getting sick.

And it might save our country.

[Calley Means @calleymeans]

In a burst of energy before she died, my mom urged us to take her to where she'd be buried.

Cupping my dad's face, she talked about how magical their life was together.

It was the most profound moment of my life, and it wouldn't have happened if we listened to her doctors.

Just 13 days before, in January 2021, my mom was apparently healthy.

She felt a pain in her stomach during her morning hike and got a scan. Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

She called me and said she wouldn’t meet her future grandchildren. The family rushed to her side. My sister @DrCaseysKitchen and I learned three things over those next 13 days... Lessons that we think provide an explanation - and solutions - for the largest issue our country faces: the fact that we are getting sicker, fatter, more depressed, and more infertile at an increasing rate while bankrupting our country with healthcare costs.

The first was that the predominant incentive in medicine is to intervene after you get sick.

Right after my mom's unexpected cancer diagnosis, a medical team out of Stanford and Palo Alto Medical Foundation jumped to action, recommending a laundry list of surgeries and procedures—biopsies, blood transfusions, and a liver stent. In most cases, the patient would have agreed to these procedures, and the meeting would wrap up quickly.

These recommendations were coming from some of the most prestigious institutions in the world, after all.

But based on my sister's experience in medicine (Stanford MD and surgical residency), she started asking questions. We learned that these procedures had about a 33 percent chance of extending her life a few more months at most, a 33 percent chance of shortening her life span, and a 33 percent chance of not impacting her life span (yet keeping her away from the family). In all cases, the invasive route would mean that my mom would need to sit in a hospital room alone, because of Covid-19 protocols, and potentially longer if the surgery had complications, as they often do with immunocompromised cancer patients.

My mom made it clear to the oncologist that she was not afraid of her rapidly impending death, but she wanted to minimize unnecessary pain or nausea in her final days. Despite being clear, the system pushed the exact procedures that would yield pain and nausea and aggressively shamed our family for questioning the full-court press approach.

Thank God we had my sister - who had routinely seen doctors push unnecessary surgeries to terminally ill patients during her training - who had the wherewithal to push back.

In 99.9% of cases, my mom would have died alone in a hospital room and we would have missed the life-changing final days with her.

The second lesson was that my mom's cancer was not "random." Her oncologists said it was "bad luck." It wasn't.

In the decades leading up to my mom’s cancer diagnosis, she was informed her rising cholesterol, waistline, fasting glucose, and blood pressure levels were conditions that she could “manage” for life with a pill. But instead of isolated conditions, all of the symptoms my mom experienced leading to her death were warning signs of the same thing: dysregulation in how her cells were producing and using energy.

But through decades of symptoms, my mom—and most other adults in the modern world—are simply prescribed pills and not set on a path of curiosity about how these conditions are connected and how the root cause can be reversed.

The third lesson was that there is a better way than our current system, and it starts with understanding that the biggest lie in health care is that the root cause of why we’re getting sicker, heavier, more depressed, and more infertile is complicated.

Depression, anxiety, acne, infertility, insomnia, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s dementia, cancer, and most other conditions that torture and shorten our lives are actually rooted in the same thing.

And the ability to prevent and reverse these conditions—and feel incredible today—is under your control and simpler than you think.

After leaving traditional medicine and working with patients to understand their biomarkers and take simple root causes actions - my sister routinely saw quick reversals of formerly intractable conditions.

The siloing and medicalization of chronic disease in the past fifty years has been an abject failure. Today, we’ve siloed diseases and have a treatment for everything:
✅High cholesterol? See a cardiologist for a statin.
✅High fasting glucose? See an endocrinologist for metformin.
✅Depressed? See a psychiatrist for a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).
✅Can’t sleep? See a sleep specialist for Ambien.
✅PCOS? See an ob-gyn for clomiphene.
✅Erectile dysfunction? See a urologist for Viagra.
✅Sinus infections? See an ENT for an antibiotic or surgery.

But what nobody talks about—what I think many doctors don’t even realize—is that the rates of most of these conditions are going up at the exact time we are spending trillions of dollars to “treat them.”

In the face of these unprecedented trends happening to our brains and bodies across our life span—which all have metabolic dysfunction as a root—we are told to “trust the science.” This obviously doesn’t make sense. We have been gaslighted to not ask questions over the past fifty years at the exact time chronic disease rates have exploded.

The truth: we should consider listening to the medical system if we have an acute issue like a life-threatening infection or broken bone. But when it comes to the chronic conditions that plague our lives, we should distrust almost every institution giving the advice. The answers are much more simple and under our control.
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In the days following my mom's death, my sister and I affirmed to devote our lives to changing these broken health incentives. And Casey expressed a passion to write a book with lessons she's learned working inside and outside the medical system. I have helped her write this book over the past several years and it will be coming out in May.

A lot of issues will be discussed as we enter 2024, but the most important is that our human capital in America (particularly kids) is being decimated by preventable and reversible metabolic conditions. Thank you @bariweiss @TheFP for publishing an excerpt.

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Do you support the Supreme Court mandating Voter ID across all 50 states?

A. YES
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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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Who is America's greatest enemy?

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Would you support Bill Gates working in President Trump’s new administration?

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Would you support Trump hiring back all Military Members let go for not taking the Covid Vaccine ?

Should he also give them all back pay ?

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Are you Happy that Trump is the President of America 🇺🇸 Again?

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[Wake Up Patriot 🇺🇸 @WakeUpPatriott]

Famous Journalist Katie Couric says Trump supporters require “deprogramming” and calls them cult members.

What’s your response to Couric?