James Bell

Nuclear Eng turned info security eng/architect, dog agility competitor/instructor/judge, part of my girls menagerie: aussies, cats, horses, goats, chickens,...

[Dr. David @DrDavidivw]

🚨 World-renowned cancer biologist Thomas Seyfried, PhD, reveals "we have a mechanism now why parasite medications are working".

Professor Thomas Seyfried: "Mebendazole, Febendazole [I] did a dive on it and I said, why [do] Parasite medications work against cancer cells, and it turns out that the parasites use mitochondrial substrate level phosphorylation in the tissue .. and mebendazol fenbendazol kill these parasites. So I tried it on the cancer cell and sure as hell, it targets the mitochondrial substrate and glycolysis"

Parasites rely on the EXACT same dysfunctional energy pathway cancer cells do and these drugs don’t care that cancer isn’t a parasite.

"So we have a mechanism now why parasite medications are working, but cancer is not a parasite"

Thomas Seyfried mentions avoiding researching Ivermectin because of political pressure during covid, but Dr. Isabella Cooper, PhD in Ketogenic Science and Hyperinsulinemia points out the mechanism for him:

"Ivermectin, it actually works on the mitochondrial cell death pathway".

[Ooana Trien ~ Eric Arthur Blaire’s Mistress @ooana]

I always understood why the Second Amendment was constitutionally protected.

What I never really understood was why people called it a natural right.

Then I moved from New York to Florida.

I didn’t own a gun yet.

One afternoon I was loading things into the trunk of my car outside a HomeGoods when a man approached me.

“Excuse me.”

He must have thought he’d startled me, because he immediately added, “Don’t worry. I’m not going to get close.”

I laughed.

“I’m a New Yorker. I’m used to close. How can I help you?”

He started telling me that he needed money for gas.

At some point while he was talking, I got into my car.

And sitting there, with the conversation still unfolding, I suddenly realized something:

He didn’t know whether I had a gun.

Not somewhere at home.

Not hypothetically.

For all he knew, I could have had one right there in the car, tucked under the steering wheel or within reach.

I didn’t.

But he couldn’t know that.

Schrödinger’s gun.

And in that instant, before I even knew whether his story was true, something changed in the space between us.

I thought about New York.

I thought about my friend who had been murdered in his own apartment during a burglary gone wrong.

Would those men have gone into his apartment if they had believed he might be armed?

I don’t know.

I thought about the time I was mugged at gunpoint, with a gun pressed against my temple.

Would that man have approached me with the same confidence if he had believed there was even a possibility that I could defend myself?

I don’t know that either.

But sitting there in that Florida parking lot, listening to this stranger talk, I suddenly understood deterrence in a way I never had before.

Not as military theory.

Not as constitutional law.

As something intimate.

My body. My life. The few feet between one person and another.

For years I had thought about guns primarily as objects: who had one, who shouldn’t have one, what laws should govern them.

Suddenly I understood the question from the other direction.

What changes when another person cannot simply assume that I am defenseless?

I felt taller.

Not because I had a gun.

I didn’t.

But because, for the first time, I understood that someone approaching me could not automatically assume that being physically stronger meant having power over me.

There was uncertainty.

There was a boundary around my body that had to be taken seriously.

Then his story began to fall apart.

I told him I didn’t have cash, but offered to help another way. I could put some gas in his car.

He took off.

So apparently, yes, it was a scam.

But by then I had already understood something much larger than the scam.

The phrase natural right finally made sense to me.

The Constitution had not given me ownership of my body.

It had not given me my life.

It had not invented my right to protect either one.

Those things came first.

What I understood that afternoon was the thing underneath them.

I had once been completely helpless while another human being held a gun against my temple.

Years later, without a gun in my possession at all, I understood what it meant for the person approaching me not to know whether I was helpless.

That uncertainty changed the space between us.

And that was the moment I finally understood the natural right behind the Second Amendment:

My life is mine, and
the right to defend it has to exist before anyone gives me permission to do so.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

West Antarctica sits on top of a volcanic rift.

Thwaites and Pine Island, Antarctica's two fastest thinning glaciers, sit directly above strong geothermal anomalies. The glaciers are being melted from below, not above, and atmospheric data backs this up.

A recent study shows central west Antarctica has cooled around 1C per decade over the past 20 years. Bird Station, the only long-running record on the ice sheet, shows the trend. The surface is cooling, the base is heating, and melt is concentrated where the crust is hottest.

Public messaging insists CO2 is melting Antarctica, but the air is cooling, with the only real melt restricted to the west, to regions sitting atop a hot volcanic rift.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I want you to try a thought experiment with me.

You have coronary artery disease. You are given two choices. You can only pick one.

Door one. You take a statin or Zetia for the rest of your life. Your LDL drops. Your doctor is happy. But you change nothing else. Same diet. Same metabolic environment. Same insulin. Same inflammation. Same oxidative stress.

Door two. You take no drug. But you fix your metabolic health completely. You reverse insulin resistance. You lower fasting insulin and HOMA-IR. You bring hs-CRP and homocysteine down. You eliminate seed oils. You move your body every day. You sleep. You protect the wall.

Which door does the evidence support?

Door one lowers the cargo. That is all it does. The glycocalyx is still degrading. The wall is still damaged. Whatever LDL remains is still oxidizing inside an inflamed artery. The foam cells are still forming. The fire is still burning. You lowered the number on the lab report. The disease is still being built.

Door two fixes the battlefield. The glycocalyx rebuilds. The endothelium heals. Insulin sensitivity returns and the particle pattern shifts from small dense to large buoyant. Oxidative stress drops so LDL is no longer modified. Macrophages have nothing to eat. Inflammation cools. The chain is broken at five of the six steps simultaneously.

The Lyon Diet Heart Study showed a 70% reduction in cardiac events with a dietary intervention. LDL barely moved. The wall changed.

The JUPITER trial selected patients by inflammation, not by cholesterol. Then gave them a cholesterol drug. The benefit tracked with CRP reduction, not LDL reduction. They proved the environment mattered and then prescribed a drug for the particle.

I had a cardiac event at 52. My LDL was 110.

I chose door two.

My fasting insulin went from 10.3 to 2.8. My hs-CRP dropped below 0.5.

My triglycerides went from 150 to 63.

My metabolic age is 43.

I take zero pharmaceutical drugs.

This is not medical advice. This is what I chose for myself based on four years of learning where the disease actually starts.

And to everyone who asks why not do both.
That is a fair question. Here is my honest answer.

I do not want to put these drugs in my body. Statins deplete CoQ10, raise the risk of insulin resistance, and come with a side effect profile I am not willing to accept when the root cause alternative exists. That is my choice. That is my risk reward calculation. Yours may be different. Make it with your doctor or make it on your own. But make it with your eyes open.

One exception I will always state publicly. Familial Hypercholesterolemia. Lifelong extreme LDL elevation can overwhelm even a healthy wall. That is the one condition where I believe medication alongside root cause work is appropriate.

For everyone else, the question is simple. Do you want to lower the cargo or fix the battlefield?

Just dropped my daughter at college in Madison Wisconsin and the other one in Ohio State - so grateful to be here.

We all have to make our own choices every day and manage our risks keep asking questions - the science is not settled.

The truth heals

[Punchbag Studios @punchbagstudios]

Make sure to gift your kids the Fauci pandemic playset !

[Punchbag Studios @punchbagstudios]

The first leaders of feminism would turn into the most insane misogynists if they could see what their actions would lead to😂

[Brandon Herrera @TheAKGuy]

My opponent Katy Stout just got caught red-handed LYING about Big Bend construction.

Either she’s clueless about Texas District 23, or she was just caught intentionally lying. Either way, it’s just another of many reasons she’s not qualified to lead.

[QThestorm @17QStorm]

🚨 ELON JUST DROPPED THE TRUTH BOMB PARENTS STILL AREN’T HEARING

On Bill Maher, Elon Musk didn’t hold back:

“The amount of indoctrination happening in schools and universities is far beyond what parents realize. Kids today are having a completely different experience than we did.”

He gave a concrete example. A friend’s daughters in a Bay Area high school were asked who the first presidents were. They named George Washington.

Then he asked what else they knew about him.

Their only answer: “He was a slave owner.”

Nothing about leading the Continental Army. Nothing about winning the Revolution. Nothing about becoming the indispensable man who held the new nation together.

Just the smear. That was the entire lesson.

Parents have no idea what their kids are actually being taught — and even less idea of what is being deliberately erased.

This is not education. This is systematic rewriting of American history to produce kids who feel guilt instead of pride.

The machine is still running full speed. Don’t sleep on it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

An Alzheimer's brain cannot use glucose properly, and it can still use ketones perfectly well.

Scan the brain with radioactive glucose and the picture in Alzheimer's is a brain with the lights going out region by region. Glucose uptake falls by 20 to 25 per cent in the affected areas.

The fall shows up decades before symptoms. It is visible in the middle aged children of patients who have no memory problems at all.

Scan the same brain with a labelled ketone and the uptake is largely preserved. The transporters still work. The mitochondria still burn it. The tissue is not starving because the fuel is gone, it is starving because one particular delivery system has failed.

The brain has two fuels and this disease disables one of them.

That is why the condition acquired a nickname in the literature, type 3 diabetes, and why the mechanism looks like insulin resistance in an organ nobody was watching for it.

Your liver makes ketones out of body fat whenever insulin drops far enough for long enough. That is a factory setting, not a protocol.

Thirty years of drug trials aimed at the plaque. Aducanumab, lecanemab, the lot of them, billions spent clearing a protein.

The other fuel line was open the entire time and required a fortnight of not eating sugar to test.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[Jeff pontz @827js]

Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks
that we not post about this
lady murdered on a Charlotte train
by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests
I say in Iryna’s memory please share
and make this go viral!

We will never forgot her ever

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Cholesterol cannot clog an artery until something oxidises it first. They have known this since the 1980s.

Native LDL floats past the artery wall and the immune cells ignore it.

Oxidise that same particle and the immune cells swallow it, swell into foam, and pile up into the plaque that narrows the artery.

No oxidation, no plaque. That step is mandatory. It is the whole disease.

So the only question that matters is what does the oxidising.

A saturated fat molecule has no weak point to attack. It cannot be lit.

A polyunsaturated fat is nothing but weak points, and that is what seed oil is.

The oxidised fat they pull out of human plaque is overwhelmingly linoleic acid.

The cholesterol is just the passenger. The seed oil is the part that catches fire and gets left in the wall.

Drive your number down and the fuel is still in the tank.

Stop eating the oil and there is nothing left to burn.

They looked at all this and declared war on the cholesterol number.

They put the arsonist in charge of the fire brigade and jailed the timber.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

ALARMING DATA FROM JAPAN THAT DEMANDS ATTENTION

Professor Robert Clancy: "A massive Japanese study of 20 MILLION PEOPLE — Every single excess death was in the COVID-vaccinated group."

The unvaccinated group showed ZERO excess deaths.

Even more troubling: mortality rates consistently surged about three months after each booster, peaking around 100 days post-vaccination.

The timing is too precise to dismiss. This pattern is now impossible to ignore. The evidence is piling up fast, and the public has a right to see it.

[Christopher Wipper @SGTWipper1Each]

A cowboy from Texas...

A cowboy, who just moved to Wyoming from Texas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud.

He sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn.

When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more.

The bartender approaches and tells the cowboy, "You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time..."

The cowboy replies, "Well, you see, I have two brothers. One is an Airborne Ranger, the other is a Navy Seal, both serving overseas somewhere.

When we all left our home in Texas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together.

So I'm drinking one beer for each of my brothers and one for myself."

The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there.

The cowboy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way.

He orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.

One day, he comes in and only orders two mugs.

All the regulars take notice and fall silent.

When he comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss."

The cowboy looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in his eyes and he laughs.

"Oh, no, everybody's just fine," he explains, "It's just that my wife and I joined the Baptist Church and I had to quit drinking."

"Hasn't affected my brothers though...."

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I am going to make a claim that will get me attacked by cardiologists, pharmaceutical companies, and most of the medical establishment.

Heart disease can be stopped without drugs.

Not managed. Not reduced. Stopped at the root.

I do not mean in theory. I mean there are populations on earth right now with virtually zero heart disease. No statins. No PCSK9 inhibitors. No cardiologists. Clean arteries into their 80s.

And the reason they have no heart disease is not genetics. It is not luck. It is not low cholesterol.

It is because they never triggered the mechanism that causes the disease in the first place.

That mechanism is taught in every medical school. It has been understood for over 25 years. And it proves that heart disease is a chain of events that can be broken at multiple points without a single drug.

Let me show you.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Never forget

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

As some of you may be aware, we will likely be importing more cheap foreign beef in order to cut the cost at the grocery store for the consumers-this is likely a midterm election strategy as people don’t vote for incumbents when food is too expensive

The down stream effect of this is that it will likely cause many American ranchers to go out of business unless additional help is sent their way

In the mean time, if you can afford to do so, please buy directly from ranchers if you can-it might be the difference between them going out of business or surviving to keep on doing what they do the best in the world, producing high quality beef!

Share this if you’d be so kind!

[Tom Klingenstein @TomKlingenstein]

The Declaration is America's great moral power. It animates her and it directs her. A country that stops believing its own founding principles has nothing left to steer by.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked why SpaceX barely files patents.

His answer flips everything business schools teach about protecting ideas.

"Patents are a recipe book for your competitors."

The room expected the standard answer. Patents protect innovation. Patents are moats. Every startup lawyer's first advice is file, file, file.

He explained why that's backwards for SpaceX. A patent is a public document. You file one, and you've published your engineering solution to the entire planet, with diagrams. Your only protection is your ability to sue whoever copies it. His primary long term competitors are in China. He said suing there would be pointless, so a patent filing would simply be handing over the blueprints with extra steps.

So SpaceX protects almost nothing on paper. The protection is velocity. By the time anyone reverse engineers the current rocket, SpaceX is two generations ahead. The moat isn't a document. The moat is speed.

Think about what that reveals. He'd rather rely on outrunning everyone forever than on a legal system defending yesterday's work. Most companies protect the past. He decided the past isn't worth protecting because he's never going back to it.

Secrets are for companies that stopped moving. If your advantage needs a lawyer to survive, it was never an advantage. It was a head start you wasted.

[Kekius Maximus @Kekius_Sage]

I’m a physics teacher, and quite a few stories have stayed with me throughout my career.

In my class, there’s an unwritten rule: For every final research project, students must submit a lab notebook recording all raw measurement data. Missing data or fabricated results mean an automatic F, in science there’s simply no room for dishonesty.

At the end of the term that year, a girl came to turn in her reversible pendulum project which was meant to measure the acceleration due to gravity. The data in her notebook was all over the place, and her graph was wildly off from the theoretical value of 9.8 m/s².

"My results are... completely ruined," she said. "Everyone else got nice numbers close to 9.8. I guess I'm getting an F".

I looked at her densely packed notebook, filled with meticulous notes: measurements taken at 2:00 AM, the humidity in her bedroom, even the exact times the string snapped and had to be retied. Having taught for over a decade, I can easily tell who fakes their numbers to match the textbook and who stays up all night putting in the real work.

"Why didn't you just tweak the numbers a bit to get closer to 9.8, like the others?" I asked.

She looked up, her eyes rimmed with red, but her voice was steady: "Because the data is what it is. You taught us that a scientist never lies about their data."

I silently flipped to the next page and marked a big red A.

She was stunned. "Wait... but my experiment completely failed?"

"Your experiment didn't fail. It just proved that your pendulum had air drag and a wobbly pivot" I said. "Science isn't about manufactured perfection, it's about the pursuit of truth. You stood up for the truth, and that's the true mark of a researcher."

Starting that semester, I created a small award in the corner of the lab: "The Best Failed Lab Report", given to the experiment with the most skewed results, but the most honest logs and thorough error analysis.

I want these kids to understand that having the courage to acknowledge mistakes and confront reality matters far more than faking a perfect score just to please someone else.