1979: fasting glucose over 140 makes you diabetic.
1997: lowered to 126.
Millions of new diabetics. Same blood.
1997: prediabetes starts at 110.
2003: lowered to 100.
A third of American adults, created by a footnote.
1984: high blood pressure is 160/95.
2017: lowered to 130/80.
American hypertension goes from 32 per cent of adults to 46. Thirty-one million new patients in a morning.
2001: the cholesterol target is 130.
2004: lowered to 100, and to 70 for the high risk.
Statin eligibility expands by millions.
Eight of the nine men who wrote that 2004 update were on the payroll of companies selling statins. They disclosed it only when forced.
1994: a WHO panel invents osteopenia. Bone that is not thin enough to break, given a name and a prescription. Half of older women qualify.
Nobody got sicker on any of those dates. A committee sat down and a number moved.
The threshold drops, the market widens, and the drug is already licensed and sitting in the warehouse.
Your grandfather was healthy at 145/92. You are ill at 132/81.
Nothing about the body has changed. Only the paperwork, and who profits from it.
You can be 80% carnivore and change your life.
You can eat meat and dairy Monday to Friday and feel better than you have in years.
You can have a piece of birthday cake at your nephew's party and it changes nothing.
You can go on holiday, eat the local food, enjoy it, and come back to eating beef without the holiday counting as a failure.
You can be a work in progress. You are allowed to be a work in progress.
The person who eats well 80% of the time and sustains it for five years is healthier than the person who eats perfectly for three weeks, falls off, and spends the next year feeling like a failure.
Consistency over time beats intensity over weeks.
Buy the mince. Cook it in butter. Add more butter.
Do this most days.
The rest can figure itself out.
If doctors in 1950 could be catastrophically wrong about smoking, fat, and sugar while being completely confident in their recommendations...
And doctors in 1980 could be catastrophically wrong about margarine, low-fat diets, and dietary cholesterol while being completely confident in their recommendations...
And doctors in 2000 could be catastrophically wrong about opioids, hormone therapy, and Vioxx while being completely confident in their recommendations...
Why would you assume doctors today, working in the same institutional structures with the same pharmaceutical funding and the same regulatory capture, have suddenly figured it all out?
The system hasn't changed. The incentives haven't changed. The conflicts of interest haven't changed.
Only your willingness to believe them has.
First Hawley (who doesn’t own stock) explains why this bill is so important.
“86% of Americans say members of Congress should not be able to buy and sell shares of stock.”
“We’ve seen the former speaker of the house make millions of dollars of profits.”
“We’ve seen members of both parties, I’m sad to say, be investigated for their stock trades.”
“And the reason for all of this is, that quite frankly, members of this body are privy to information that the normal person just is not.”
@GeneralMCNews This amendment was not about the Epstein files. They added the Epstein files as a Rider to try to get their GENIUS bill passed.
Stop with the BS.
This is why we need single item bills / amendments
BREAKING: U.S. Department of Agriculture has canceled a $600,000 grant for the study of menstrual cycles in transgender men, Secretary Brooke Rollins announced.
Democrats are currently fighting, shouting, and throwing toddler fits because ...
- Violent illegal criminals are being deported.
- Billions of dollars of waste and fraud are being exposed.
- Federal employees actually have to show up for work.
- Trump is trying to broker a peace deal between Ukraine/ Russia.
- Grown men can't compete against women in sports.
Just is case you're wondering why Democrats have a 30% national approval rating and have zero power in our government.
“He was authorised to spray germs into the fog in San Francisco harbour”
“The point was try to infect 800,000 people”
“Remember Nobody knew that this was happening”
Declassified CIA documents reveals an awful experiment using germs & fog conducted on its own people.
.@RobertKennedyJr has specifically said he won’t ban vaccines. He said he’ll demand gold standard science and transparency where vaccines are concerned. The vaccine fear mongering is to distract you from the insane corruption that has been going on with our government agencies essentially being co-opted by big food, big Ag, big pharma, and big insurance. Here’s a simple infographic least we forget
I’m NOT an anti vaxxer. I’m for safety and transparency… but since @dr_andrealove wants to make sure we “don’t let people lie…”. Here’s the childhood vaccine schedule. 36 doses of vaccines plus flu and covid “recommended annually” starting at 6 months to 18 years of age (36 + 36 = 72). Did they not teach you math with that PhD? THAT is what people are talking about when they tell you “72 vaccines”. But I would love to hear from you Andrea on why a newborn needs Hepatitis B vax if the mother tested negative. Honestly… inquiring minds…