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A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

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I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet

Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain.

You point Claude Code at a folder, drop in any source, an article, a transcript, a PDF, and Claude reads it, links it, and files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest, the more you feed it, the smarter it gets.

Here's the whole thing:

> Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code

> Paste Karpathy's wiki idea file and tell Claude to build it

> Claude makes three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, a CLAUDE.md that runs it

> Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this"

> Ask questions across everything, forever

Five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again.

Full step-by-step guide with Claude and Obsidian, link below.

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[MR. Xclusive @DOCMAGA1]

You can scream on here all day.
You can share clips.
You can follow every “insider” and “truth teller” and “next big drop.”
None of that means a damn thing.
MAGA — listen carefully:

Complaining is not strategy.
Posting is not power.
Following grifters is not action.

You’ve got people making a living off your outrage.
They farm your clicks, feed you anger, and give you just enough hope to keep you hooked — while nothing actually changes.

And you sit here refreshing your feed like it’s going to save the country.
It won’t.
Let me ask you something — seriously:

Do you think your favorite influencers actually want change?
Do they want real organization?
Do they want structure, coordination, leadership?
Or do they want engagement?

Because here’s the simplest question nobody asks:

Why don’t they organize you?

Why don’t they tell you to link up locally?
Why don’t they build systems to amplify YOUR voices?
Why don’t they mobilize you into something that can actually apply pressure?

They have millions of followers… and zero structure.
Think about that.
If even a fraction of their audience moved together, spoke together, acted together — it would be impossible to ignore.

So why doesn’t it happen?

I’ll tell you why.

Grifters.

And let’s go even deeper —
I see these influencers on here posting the same recycled nonsense all day, every single day.
And the only reposts they aren’t charging for?
Their little inner circle. Their club. Their grifter network.

You want to talk about Capitol Hill being some exclusive club you’ll never be part of?

X is even worse.

Same people. Same voices. Same echo chamber.
They feed each other, boost each other, protect each other — and you sit outside of it thinking you’re part of something.

You’re not. You’re the audience.

So ask yourself this:

When is the last time you saw one of these big accounts say —
“Hey, go follow this smaller account. He’s loyal. He makes sense. He has good ideas. Let’s build him up.”

You haven’t.
And you won’t.

Because the second YOU become powerful, they become less necessary.

Now let’s get real about what you actually want:
You want term limits?
You want mass deportations?
You want to actually be heard?

It is NEVER going to happen under this system the way you’re using it.

I joined this app to connect with other MAGA and try to make a difference.

You know what I see instead?
People racing into the replies of massive accounts…
Begging to be seen. Hoping for a like. Hoping for a repost.

That’s not a movement. That’s a fan club.

Fuck them. For real, FUCK EM.

Patriots follow each other.
Patriots amplify each other.
Patriots stand with each other.
Patriots don’t live off other patriots.
And here’s where people are going to push back:

“The No Kings protest was dumb.”
“Corny.”
“Pointless.”
Maybe.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

It influences people.

And I already know what you’re going to say —
“Our protest is Election Day.”
Okay.
Then let’s talk reality:

Midterms are not looking great.
If power flips, impeachment talk comes right back.

And I know the next excuse:

“We can’t march. We work. We have families.”

I AGREE.
So don’t march.

Do something easier.

Organize ONLINE.

Act like ONE VOICE instead of a thousand scattered ones.
Imagine this:
Hundreds of thousands of people following each other…
Amplifying each other…
Moving in unison.
No riots. No chaos. No stupidity.

Just coordination.

You don’t need to be in the streets to have power.
You use your wallet.
You organize boycotts.

You apply pressure.

You say:
“We are not buying from this company.” — and actually mean it.

You say:
“We are not watching this.” — and actually follow through.

You think that wouldn’t work?
The ONLY reason corporations shifted culturally is because the other side organized.

We don’t need to become them.
We don’t riot. We don’t destroy.

We out-discipline them.

We out-organize them.
We outlast them.

We identify the fakes.
We support the real ones.
We vote with intention.

And if you ever get a true aligned Executive + Congress?

Everything changes overnight.

Now I’m going to say this plainly.

I am begging you.

I really want to change things.
I really want to make a difference.

Donald Trump is ONE MAN.

His power is limited.

Congress controls the money.
That’s not opinion — that’s the system.
So when policies get blocked, it’s not always some conspiracy.
It’s structure.

Example-When Trump wanted to cut off Federal Funds for sanctuary cities, it was blocked. What did Grifter influencers tell you? "It was activist Judges"
NO IT WAS NOT.
It was Congress, the Judges were correct. The President does not control the purse strings, Congress does. That is why that happened. The uncomfortable truth is, we need the White House and Congress.

And grifters won’t explain that — because confusion keeps you engaged.

We don’t just need the presidency.

We need alignment across the board.

And that will NEVER happen unless we organize.

There are tens of millions of us.

We could move mountains.

But right now?
We’re scattered.

Distracted.
Managed.

I’m as pissed as you are.

But I’m serious about this:

I will follow you back.
I will amplify your voice.
Do you want to build something?

Because most influencers don’t.

They don’t want a movement.
They want an audience.

And here’s another truth you might not like:

It is NOT a sin to disagree.
Blind loyalty is not strength.
It’s weakness.
If something isn’t what we voted for — you speak up.

That’s the responsibility.

So I’m asking you:

Join me.
Grow with me.
Let’s build something real.

We can do this.
We must do this.

Because right now, we are on a collision course with disaster.
Follow each other.
Amplify each other.
Stand together.

What are you waiting for?

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

stop asking Claude one question and thinking you understand the topic. you don't.

Stanford proved a better way. it's called STORM. peer reviewed. 25% more organized output. open source.

the trick: don't ask one question. ask five. from five different experts.

>the practitioner: what do they know that academics miss?
>the skeptic: what's the strongest counterargument?
>the economist: who profits from the current narrative?
>the historian: what pattern has played out before?
>the academic: what does the evidence actually say?

4 prompts. 5 minutes. no software. no GitHub. just paste into Claude.

single prompts give you what everyone already knows.
STORM gives you what nobody else found.

this article has all 4 prompts ready to copy. pick your hardest topic. paste prompt 1. you'll know more in 5 minutes than people who spent days reading.

[jay plemons @jayplemons]

Tim Pool reacts to Adam Carolla's epic rant.

@Timcast "Absolutely amazing, expletive-filled rant." 😂

[P @pm81]

@RoundtableSpace @grok create a roadmap to replicate

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

"Let's play basketball now. Be smart. Stick together. We've come back from worse. Chip away"

–– Jalen Brunson in the huddle before the Knicks come back in Game 4

[P @pm81]

@Solidified @PaulGoldEagle Ritz Carlton Knicks fans are not the same

[Nicky The Good @nickythegood]

This is the best edit. No commentary. Just the sound of The Garden.

[Alex Feinberg @Alexfeinberg]

Dumb people feel cheated when you solve their problems too quickly

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

This play will be replayed for years.

[ESPN @espn]

THE KNICKS STORM BACK FROM 29 DOWN‼️

THE LARGEST COMEBACK IN NBA FINALS HISTORY HAS NEW YORK ONE WIN AWAY!

[AdiiX @adiix_official]

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[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is biblical.

A woman in her eighties. Ten years into Alzheimer's. Hadn't spoken a full sentence in five years.

Takes one, 5 gram dose of psilocybin.

She slept 19 hours and woke up and spoke for hours about her life, recognized family and held real conversations. She regained bladder control after five years, walked on her own. and dressed herself. Gains held for weeks.

[P @pm81]

Hard not to see the $2 trillion valuation #spcx