Matthew Ledoux

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[Camus @newstart_2024]

7 extra years of life.

That’s what Gary Brecka says he could have added on average if he could reach people with real data.

Life insurance companies predict death with scary accuracy using massive real-world records, not drug trials.

Brecka’s big takeaway? Most early deaths come down to modifiable risk factors.

Insurance models show that addressing things like blood sugar control, inflammation, vitamin deficiencies, and sleep can dramatically shift predicted lifespan, often by years, because they target root causes rather than symptoms.

A stark reminder that much of our longevity is more controllable than we’re told.

What’s one small habit change that’s added quality to how you feel?

[Matthew Ledoux @papadoux2u]

We used to work together. We had a common goal to better our community. We used to do great things!

What happened to us?

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

If you thought COVID was built on a web of lies, wait till you hear what they did with Alzheimer’s disease.

While Big Pharma poured billions into failed drugs and fake plaque theories, one neurologist quietly proved the decline could be reversed.

And he did it without a single pharmaceutical.

Dr. Dale Bredesen discovered Alzheimer’s has five root causes, not one.

And when you treat those root causes, patients recover. 🧵

[SpaceWeatherNews @SunWeatherMan]

While not a huge deal for MOST tech, the ionospheric fluctuations during solar storms (especially in the 3 days after) can wildly impact the global atmospheric electric circuit at cruising altitudes (especially near the jet streams)…

…and the two most vulnerable possible items are solar panels and a lithium battery being charged.

Do not do this. Do not charge anything while on the plane. It is not worth it. Just wait.

On the downward spiral of the ongoing geomagnetic excursion (magnetic pole shift) someone IS going to get severely injured or take down a plane in this exact way.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The World Cup has destroyed decades of leftist propaganda about the United States in the past week or so.

Europeans making videos on social media about their visit has been eye opening for the world.

🔊

[Emanuel Quiñones @EQuinones6310]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America!
The greatest country on earth.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

“Psilocybin, the psychedelic component of magic mushrooms, has previously been touted as an effective treatment for depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD — but now researchers say it has the potential to be used in Alzheimer’s intervention as well.

In this case study, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, researchers focused on an 80-year-old Japanese American woman with Alzheimer’s. She had declined over the previous decade and was reduced to urinary incontinence, speaking in single syllables, and dependence on caregivers for mobility support and daily living.

She was then given a 5g dose of magic mushrooms.

During the initial phase, she was agitated, sweated profusely and entered a prolonged sleep state that suggested unconsciousness. But around hour 19, she began speaking in full autobiographical sentences, recalling life events she had been unable to articulate for years.

In the days and weeks that followed, more incredible changes emerged. She regained urinary continence, even in the evenings, and began dressing herself. She was able to make and maintain eye contact, remember social interactions, emotionally respond to others, and hold lucid conversations.”

[Matthew Ledoux @papadoux2u]

@Manu_Sisti Claude

[🇺🇸 Edward T. Winslow @EdwardTWinz]

🚨 Colombia just elected a man who said the only peace process he believes in is one "imposed by the force of arms."

Do you understand what that means?

– Abelardo de la Espriella — a political newcomer, zero elected office, celebrity criminal lawyer — just won Colombia's first round with 43.7% of the vote

– He was trailing in polls. He outperformed every establishment right candidate. He did it anyway.

– His platform: 10 mega-prisons in the jungle. Military offensives. US-backed strikes on cartels. End all peace negotiations with armed groups.

– His exact words: "Any bandit who resists will be eliminated as appropriate. If he submits, he goes to a mega-prison to pay his debt to justice."

– That is not a campaign slogan. That is a GOVERNING DOCTRINE.

– He modeled himself directly after Nayib Bukele — the man who put 80,000 gang members in a single prison and dropped El Salvador's murder rate to near zero

– Outgoing President Gustavo Petro ran on total peace negotiations with cartels and guerrillas. His policy produced more kidnappings, more extortion, more violence.

– The Colombian electorate just looked at four years of that and said: enough.

– The runoff is June 21. His opponent: leftist Senator Iván Cepeda at 40.9%.

– Ecuador's President Noboa congratulated him within hours. The regional right is watching.

The Colombian people didn't elect a politician.

They elected a lawyer who spent 20 years watching cartels walk free — and decided to run for president to stop it himself.

The cartel era in Colombia just opened a door that CANNOT be closed.

And the jungle is watching.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Matthew Ledoux @papadoux2u]

@NadzuAI Claude

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@TommiPedruzzi @TheFinancian_ Asset

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@codewithimanshu Cash

[Movez @0xMovez]

Jane Street pays $750k/ year for quants who can answer how to use Stochastic Process and Markov Chains in quant trading.

This 1-hour MIT lecture on probability gives you the same insights quants get paid $60K/month for.

Bookmark & watch today. Then read the article below.

[Andrew Panella @Longevity_EDU]

The natural molecule that widens your blood vessels and lowers blood pressure:

Nitric Oxide.

Low Nitric Oxide is a reason why blood pressure meds don't work for most people on them.

Here are 10 tips to boost it naturally (bookmark this): 🧵

1. Don't use mouthwash

[Fitness Harbor @FitnessHarbor_]

Dr. Rhonda Patrick just dropped a 3-hour masterclass on the Huberman Lab podcast.

She shared 8 shocking truths about everyday things that are slowly making you sick:

1. Drinking water from glass bottles (has higher levels of microplastics than in plastic ones)

[Diana ❤️🇺🇸🙏🐸 @DianaT192]

HE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE TWICE. THEN HE SAID VITAMIN C CURES CANCER. THEY DESTROYED HIS REPUTATION OVERNIGHT.

Dr. Linus Pauling is the only person in history to win two unshared Nobel Prizes. The first in Chemistry. The second the Nobel Peace Prize. He is considered one of the most brilliant scientists who ever lived. He founded molecular biology. He mapped the structure of proteins. He changed the course of modern science.

Then in 1970, he published a book claiming that high-dose vitamin C could prevent and treat cancer.

The medical establishment turned on him within weeks.

The same institutions that had celebrated him for decades called him a quack. The American Medical Association publicly ridiculed him. Journals that had published his work for 40 years refused to print his research. Funding was cut. Colleagues distanced themselves. The media ran headlines calling him senile.

He was 69 years old. He had two Nobel Prizes. And they erased him from credibility because he threatened a trillion-dollar industry with a vitamin that costs pennies.

Pauling's research showed that intravenous vitamin C in doses of 10 grams or more per day could selectively kill cancer cells while leaving healthy cells untouched. He published clinical trials with Dr. Ewan Cameron showing that terminal cancer patients given high-dose vitamin C lived on average four times longer than those on conventional treatment.

The Mayo Clinic ran two studies claiming to "debunk" him. But they used oral vitamin C instead of intravenous. Oral doses cannot achieve the blood plasma concentrations needed to kill cancer cells. They knew this. They designed the studies to fail. Then they published the results as proof that Pauling was wrong.

In 2005, the National Institutes of Health finally confirmed what Pauling said 35 years earlier. High-dose intravenous vitamin C is selectively toxic to cancer cells. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

They proved him right. After he was dead. After they had already destroyed his name.

A two-time Nobel laureate told the world that a natural molecule could fight cancer. They buried him for it. Then they quietly confirmed his work when no one was paying attention.

The cure was never the problem. The price was.
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[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.