MeadowR

Fine-tuning my 40s for peace and longevity ☀️

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

Female. Mid-40s. Petite.

Physically fit but carrying an extra 8 pounds and tummy fat that won’t budge unless I’m consistently keeping cals to 1200 a day MAX—aka constantly hungry

So I started low dosing retatrutide, first and only peptide so far

Logging my experience here.

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@Favwontmiss Play Mahjong with friends

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

There is something about morning sunlight that improves the quality of the rest of my day.

I go out on my porch at around 8 AM and just sit in a chair, close my eyes, and soak it up for about 10 to 20 minutes.

Game changer.

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@AutismCapital 😂

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@allie__voss I joined a small gym where a personal trainer designs my strength exercises.

Class is small, most of them older than me.

Helps to have good vibes and an expert guiding me.

I also only lift twice a week and that has been plenty for me so far. Cardio/walks on the other days.

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@muscleforlife I’ve been wondering about this for years

Back injuries are huge at physical jobs. Why not invest in employees’ strength training to facilitate stronger cores?

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@vedichi_ Yes! I’m hoping this experience helps me learn how to better control my eating habits.

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

Food noise was high yesterday in spite of titrating up on Reta in week 7.

I also had a migraine and figured my satiety signals were off.

Didn’t give in and overeat.

Scale went down the next morning.

Retatrutide is like training wheels for controlling calorie intake.

[Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliri]

I just tested my hand in a mini version of this scanner. Images that are higher quality than MRI, whole body captured in <1 minute, virtually free to run. This is going to change medicine.

Things get even crazier when you consider the possibility of using the same tank to focus ultrasound to ablate tissue, stimulate nerves, etc.

The FDA is not in the slightest ready for this. People will also complain about incidental findings but they are wrong and don’t understand how quickly software can improve and how inexpensive a time series of scans will be to generate.

[Jesús Enrique Rosas @Knesix]

Best advice that I can give anyone for the next 4-5 years:

- Don't ride motorcycles
- Don't do 'extreme sports' anywhere, especially third world countries
- if you need to go skiing, make it kindergarten-safe

Meanwhile, take care of your health. Because in 4-5 years our lifespans could be extended 20%-30%, easily live over 100, and have at 80 the energy of a current thirtysomething

We're living the timest of times!

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@MotherGrundy Agree

Admittedly, it is hard when the world keeps shouting at us to be a business boss while also being there for our kids

You can do it all but something will suffer

I’d rather it not be my kids

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@bluewmist This is the way

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@coookwithchris Uh oh. Is my plastic cutting board giving me cancer?

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@JayCampbell333 I hope not. It’s been such a blessing in my life! Fixed my broken metabolism after years of raising kids and messing up my hunger hormones.

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

This but without living right next to my parents and that one crazy sibling thanks

[Mountain Cabins @cabinsmountain]

Normalize buying land with your siblings and closest friends and building a place where your families can grow together.

Modern isolation isn't how people were meant to live. A few generations ago, extended families often lived just down the road from one another. Meals were shared, support was always nearby, and childcare wasn't a constant concern.

Bring back the village.

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

🚨Breaking News on AI doing full body scans comparable to an MRI—but without the radiation and high cost 🚨

[Midjourney @midjourney]

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

I can’t for this to be widely available!

Full body scans without radiation or high cost. AI at its best. Better than a DEXA.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Something just happened today that I genuinely did not see coming — and it could change the future of preventive medicine more than anything I've written about on this platform.
Midjourney — the AI company that became famous for generating images from text prompts — just announced a medical hardware division and unveiled a working prototype of a full-body scanner unlike anything that's ever existed.
It's called the Midjourney Scanner. And it works like this.
You step into a shallow pool of water. You stand on a platform that slowly descends — about two inches per second — through a ring containing roughly half a million tiny ultrasonic transducers, each the size of a grain of sand. Every one of them acts as both a speaker and a microphone, sending ultrasonic waves through your body from every angle and recording what comes back.
60 seconds later, you step out. The scan is done.
No radiation. No magnets. No claustrophobia. No IV contrast. Just sound, water, and an almost incomprehensible amount of computing power — roughly 2 petaflops processing 17 gigabytes per second of raw acoustic data — reconstructing a 3D map of your entire internal anatomy down to half a millimeter resolution.
Organs. Tissues. Blood vessels. Bones. Muscle. Fat distribution. All segmented by AI in real time.
As a cardiologist who has spent months writing about how the standard screening playbook misses the majority of future heart attacks — this is the technology I've been waiting for without knowing it existed.
Here's why this matters for the future of your heart.
Right now, getting a detailed look inside your cardiovascular system requires either a CT scan (radiation), an MRI (magnets, claustrophobia, 45-60 minutes, $1,000+), or a coronary CT angiogram (radiation, IV contrast, limited availability). These are powerful tools. I order them regularly and they save lives.
But they're reactive. You get them when something is already suspected. They're expensive. They're uncomfortable. And for most people, they happen once — maybe twice — in a lifetime.
Imagine instead: a 60-second scan with no radiation that you could repeat monthly or quarterly. Tracking cardiac structure over time. Watching body composition shift. Detecting changes in organ size, fluid distribution, or vascular architecture before symptoms ever develop. Building a longitudinal dataset of YOUR body that AI can analyze for patterns no single snapshot would reveal.
That's what Midjourney is building toward.
The company plans 50,000 scanners worldwide over six years, with capacity for a billion scans per month. The first location — the "Midjourney Spa" in San Francisco — opens at the end of 2027 with 10 scanners alongside saunas, cold plunges, and a gym. The scan costs a few dollars. The experience is designed to feel like wellness, not medicine.
The technology is built on Butterfly Network's ultrasound-on-chip platform — 40 modules per scanner — combined with Midjourney's own AI segmentation and reconstruction stack. David Holz, the founder, claims the system aims for image quality comparable to MRI in many aspects but at nearly 100x the speed with zero radiation.
Now the caveats — because I'm a physician and the caveats matter enormously.
This is a Gen 1 prototype. About a dozen people have been scanned so far. Current scan time is actually closer to 20 minutes, not 60 seconds — the system is bottlenecked by bandwidth and reconstruction algorithms. The 60-second target is aspirational for future hardware generations.
It is not FDA-cleared for diagnostic use. Midjourney is starting with body composition maps — a category below diagnostic imaging in the regulatory hierarchy. The path from "beautiful 3D body scans" to "clinically validated diagnostic tool that your cardiologist can act on" runs through years of clinical trials, comparative studies against MRI and CT gold standards, and FDA review.
No independent clinical validation has been published. The imaging claims come from Midjourney's own demonstrations. Comparative data against established modalities does not yet exist.
And the privacy implications of full-body internal scans at planetary scale — a billion scans per month — is a conversation that hasn't even started yet.
So I want to be precise. This is not ready for clinical medicine today. It may not be ready for years. Many ambitious medical hardware projects have failed in the gap between prototype and product.
But.
The fact that a working prototype exists — producing real segmented 3D anatomy from sound waves and compute alone — means the physics works. The engineering works. The question is no longer "is this possible" but "how fast can it be validated and scaled."
And if it is validated — if the resolution holds up against MRI, if the AI segmentation proves reliable, if the regulatory path clears — then what we're looking at is the most significant new imaging modality in 50 years.
For my entire career, preventive cardiology has been limited by the fact that seeing inside the body is expensive, slow, uncomfortable, and infrequent. We catch disease late because we image rarely. We image rarely because imaging is hard.
A 60-second, no-radiation, spa-based full-body scan that costs a few dollars would demolish every one of those barriers.
I've written about AI detecting inflamed arteries. About gene editing curing cholesterol. About GLP-1 drugs rewriting metabolic medicine. About cellular reprogramming reversing aging.
This is the missing piece: the ability to see inside every human body, routinely, safely, and affordably — so all of those interventions can be deployed before the disease arrives instead of after.
The company that taught AI to generate images from imagination just built a machine that generates images from the human body.
The future of medicine showed up today from the last place anyone expected.

[peptidepirate🏴‍☠️ @peptidepirate]

The Reta series pt.8🏆🏴‍☠️🏆🏴‍☠️🏆🏴‍☠️🏆🏴‍☠️
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☠️🚫☠️The truth about bone loss ☠️🚫☠️

The bone density problem that gets overlooked on Reta or any GLP🏴‍☠️

You are watching the scale labs and the body comp scan but almost nobody is watching their skeleton🏴‍☠️

And it can quietly lose density the entire cut if you are not paying attention🏴‍☠️

Here is why it happens🏴‍☠️

The mechanism is mechanical🏴‍☠️

Bone holds its density based on the load it carries🏴‍☠️

When you drop weight fast the load on your skeleton drops with it🏴‍☠️

Your body reads that lighter load as a signal that it needs less bone so it starts pulling it back🏴‍☠️

What the research shows🏴‍☠️

A 52 week trial on semaglutide measured a real drop in bone density at the hip and spine versus placebo🏴‍☠️

Breakdown went up and building did not rise to match it so the loss came out net negative🏴‍☠️

This is not a Reta curse or specific to GLPs 🏴‍☠️

It happens with any rapid weight loss bariatric surgery and crash diets all carry the same skeletal cost🏴‍☠️

The scary part🏴‍☠️

There are almost no symptoms🏴‍☠️

You do not feel your bones thinning the first sign for a lot of people is a fracture that never should have happened🏴‍☠️

This is why you track it with data not how you feel🏴‍☠️

How to actually track it🏴‍☠️

A DEXA scan at baseline and every 6 to 12 months is the gold standard it reads the hip and spine the exact spots that lose the most🏴‍☠️

Check your vitamin D and calcium so you know the raw materials are even there🏴‍☠���

Bone turnover markers on bloodwork can show if you are breaking bone down faster than you are building it so you catch it early🏴‍☠️

The fix is easy🩹🏴‍☠️

Lift heavy compound movements squat deadlift and press because that load is the exact signal that tells your bones to hold their mass🏴‍☠️

Cardio does not count here it is great for your heart but it does not stress the skeleton hard enough to protect it🏴‍☠️

The supplement stack🏴‍☠️

Vitamin D3 5000 IU daily because you cannot mineralize bone without it and GLP users trend low due other factors🏴‍☠️

Vitamin K2 as MK7 100 to 200mcg because it directs calcium into your bones instead of your arteries🏴‍☠️

Calcium 1000 to 1200mg daily ideally from food first as the raw material your bones are built from🏴‍☠️

Magnesium glycinate before bed because turning vitamin D into its active form requires enough magnesium🏴‍☠️

Protein 1 gram per pound because the frame underneath the mineral is built from protein🏴‍☠️

The takeaway🏴‍☠️

This is not a reason to fear the compound as it happens with any major weight loss🏴‍☠️

Just be aware of it and protect what you already have🏴‍☠️

Peptides work best when the raw materials are present and a protocol is in place🏴‍☠️

🧬🔬

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@BowTiedHRT I’m in week 7 of Reta and just barely titrated up to 1.5 mg.

My resting HR has not been affected.

However my average walking HR increased from 87 to 100 since my first dose of .5

[MeadowR @MeadowRainRun]

@TheCryptoDaddi I’ve noticed that I need this only after tittering up on my Reta dose.

Otherwise, one nice side effect of Reta has been regular BMs