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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Beef uses an obscene amount of water. Fifteen thousand litres per kilo."

Farmer: "Where did the water come from?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The fifteen thousand litres. Where was it before it was on the bill."

Activist: "I don't know. A river?"

Farmer: "The sky. About ninety-four percent of that figure is rain that fell on the field and got drunk by the grass. The cow ate the grass. The rain was on its way down whether the cow was here or not."

Activist: "But it still counts as water used."

Farmer: "By the grass. Which would have used it whether I farmed or moved to Spain. The cow isn't commissioning the rainfall. The rain isn't on the cow's payroll."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The rain still falls. The grass still drinks it. The water cycles back into the air anyway, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's rain, grass, cow, river. Or it's rain, grass, rot, river. Same circle, fewer dinners. Meanwhile every almond in your milk took a gallon of pumped aquifer water in California to grow. That one you might want to worry about. The rain in Wales is doing fine without your concern."

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

Someone praying for you in another building can change your brain in real time. There is a study that proves it.

Researchers at North Hawaii Community Hospital placed 11 people inside fMRI scanners, fully isolated. In a separate building, spiritual leaders who knew them personally sent focused intentions toward them at random two-minute intervals. The receivers had no way to know when. Their brains lit up at the exact moments the senders focused on them. Specific regions associated with attention and awareness activated on cue. The odds of this happening by chance were less than one in seven thousand.

Most people have never heard of this. Here are three more.

Hand-holding and pain. Researchers placed 22 couples under EEG caps. When the woman was in pain and her partner held her hand, their brain waves synchronized. The more empathy he felt for her, the more their brains coupled. The more their brains coupled, the more her pain decreased. Touch combined with focused care produced a measurable analgesic effect. The lead researcher got the idea while holding his wife's hand during the birth of their daughter.

Two brains in shielded rooms. A Mexican neuroscientist named Jacobo Grinberg ran a series of experiments at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Two participants meditated together for 20 minutes. Then they were placed in separate electromagnetically shielded rooms more than 14 meters apart. One participant was shown 100 random flashes of light. The other, hooked to an EEG with no sensory contact of any kind, registered matching brain-wave responses one out of every four flashes. Pairs who had not bonded showed nothing.

Group prayer. Andrew Newberg at Thomas Jefferson University has spent more than two decades scanning the brains of praying nuns, meditating monks, and chanting Sikhs. His imaging work shows a consistent pattern. The frontal lobes activate. The parietal lobes quiet. The effect amplifies in groups. Brains in shared prayer entrain to one another the way two pendulums swinging in the same room eventually fall into the same rhythm.

These studies measure what physically happens to the human nervous system when people focus caring attention on each other, in the same room or at a distance. The findings are consistent across labs, methods, and decades.

The basic finding, that human brains synchronize during empathic connection, is now mainstream neuroscience. Newberg alone has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers.

People have been doing this for thousands of years and calling it prayer. Christians alone offer a window into the variety. Latter-day Saints kneel as families. Catholics pray the rosary. Protestants join hands in prayer circles.

What is actually happening when you pray? On the imaging, something measurable. On the EEG, something synchronized. On the pain scale, something diminished.

Prayer works.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.'

In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents.

James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's.

In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure.

Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat.

Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first.

The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@AnnieBud What’s the trick?!

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@SamaHoole Exercise is more for the lymph than anything and ahouldnt be ignored.

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@SamaHoole Do you recommend carnivore while breastfeeding for someone who hasn’t been able to lose weight post partum? Eating Whole Foods and protein heavy diet (mostly from beef and eggs)

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@its_The_Dr Severance

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@DeChristianLife Please read the nurture revolution and then report back. This might be true as they get older but certainly false info for baby and toddlerhood

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@RuneMuneSune @juleshorn01 Thanks for sharing! I have also been relearning how to not expand only my belly on the inhale…I do feel these kind of posts are detrimental. I learned that belly breath through a breathwork facilitator training

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@thetomzyd It’s also hidden histamine intolerance for many.

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@ElonMuskAOC Please!

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@MrsCMFrancis Yepppp and wait till they find out the nazis used sleep training to create subservient children…

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@_TravisDryden @MrsCMFrancis Same bed! Look up the safe sleep 7. Colsleeping makes those early parenting years much smoother and honors basic biological responses.

[Caitlin Francis @MrsCMFrancis]

Wait till people find out that co-sleeping is the norm around the world and that the idea a baby must sleep in a hard plastic crib with no blankets is a purely nanny-state tactic to divide families and stifle a mothers milk production

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@VitallyMelanie Posted where?

[Patrick Sullivan Jr. @realPatrickJr]

The "8 hours of sleep" rule is based on ZERO evidence.

Ancient humans slept in two distinct phases, not one long stretch.

Here's the shocking truth about how you should really be sleeping:

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@VitallyMelanie Link for the routine?

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@JohnDParody Beware you will also be infertile if you do this regularly ivermectin in particular

[Free Mama @matriarchrising]

@elonmusk Why national parks though?