Rafael Rodríguez

Volveremos a encontrarnos.

[Dr.J.M.Esteban @drestebanh]

Diabetes tipo 3: cuando la resistencia a la insulina se convierte en la puerta de entrada al Alzheimer

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[Rafael Rodríguez @rafarh19]

@GIGANTESbasket Y no se ha podido ver en abierto, por ejemplo en @teledeporte mientras emitían un partido de fútbol repetido. Todo en orden....🤬

[Meins Avenida @CBAvenida]

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Con ustedes, los números de nuestras diez ⭐️ bordadas desde ya en nuestras cabezas y corazones

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Red meat has been charged with twelve separate crimes in seventy years, and the prosecution has quietly dropped nearly every one.

"Saturated fat clogs your arteries."
Sydney and Minnesota sat in a garage for decades. Opened up, the men on vegetable oil had died on schedule.

"Dietary cholesterol raises your cholesterol."
Dropped from the American guidelines in 2015. No card, no flowers.

"Bacon is full of nitrites."
So is spinach, about 130 times over. The case was quietly walked to a different aisle.

"Charring meat causes cancer."
At the rodent dose you would need to eat a small herd, daily, for life.

"Haem iron is a carcinogen."
Measured in men who were also on forty a day. Bold of them to blame the beef.

"Purines cause gout."
Beans, lentils, spinach and mushrooms are stuffed with purines and somehow got off without charge.

"Red meat raises TMAO."
Fish raises it more. Funny how that one never made the press release.

"Meat drives IGF-1."
Milk drives it harder. The dairy aisle sleeps soundly.

"Neu5Gc causes inflammation."
In mice. Genuinely, that is the whole case.

"Beef takes 15,000 litres of water per kilo."
Rain. On grass. Someone put weather on an invoice.

"Cattle methane is cooking the planet."
Twelve years in the atmosphere, in a cycle that has run through ruminants for ten thousand years. Held to a standard no aeroplane has ever met.

"Livestock eat food that could feed people."
Eighty-six per cent of it is straw, husk and hedge. Help yourself.

Twelve charges. Not one has survived contact with the evidence.

Every time one collapses the next arrives fully formed, with a press release and a graph.

In January 2026 the Americans put full fat dairy back in and softened the saturated fat line. The apology was a footnote nobody read.

A working science drops the hypothesis and moves on. This one drops the hypothesis and keeps the defendant.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A wolf has a stomach at pH 1, a short simple gut, and no fermentation chamber anywhere in it. It eats meat.

A lion has an intestine about four times its body length, where a grazer runs twenty, and it sleeps twenty hours a day between kills. It eats meat.

A cat cannot make its own taurine and cannot turn carotene into vitamin A. Denied animal tissue it goes blind and its heart gives out. It eats meat.

A crocodile secretes the strongest stomach acid ever measured in a vertebrate, strong enough to take bone and horn apart. It eats meat.

A ferret moves food from mouth to exit in about three hours. There is no time in that gut to ferment anything. It eats meat.

An eagle has forward-facing eyes, a hooked beak, talons, and coughs up the parts it cannot dissolve. It eats meat.

A polar bear stores so much vitamin A in its liver that one meal of it will poison a man. It eats meat.

Not one of them was ever told. The body was the instruction.

Now the human.

Stomach acid at pH 1.5, as acidic as animals that eat things they find already dead.

Small intestine running two thirds of the gut, colon under a quarter. That is the carnivore's proportion, upside down from every leaf-eater alive.

No cellulase. No rumen. A caecum so useless we take it out when it complains.

B12 in no plant on earth. Haem iron absorbed at twenty-five to thirty-five percent against two to ten for the plant version.

Forward-facing eyes. A shoulder built to throw. Skin that sweats, so we can run something faster than us into the ground by mid-afternoon.

Our tapeworms split from the ones in lions and hyenas 1.7 million years ago, because we were standing at the same carcass.

Stone tools were stripping meat off bone 2.6 million years back.

Same acid. Same gut. Same eyes.

The only animal on earth that can read its own biology is the only one arguing with it.

[Meins Avenida @CBAvenida]

Conocemos a… 🧐
💙 STEPHANIE MAWULI 💚
(Aunque en realidad, ya la conocíamos bastante 😉)

“Avenida juega intenso en cada partido. Cuando vi eso, quise unirme al equipo”

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[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I am not telling anyone to ignore their LDL. I am not telling anyone to stop their medication. That is a decision between you and your doctor.

What I am telling you is that LDL alone never explained why some people get heart disease and others do not. The clinical trials proved it. Twice. From both directions.

If you want to understand your actual risk, you need to check all twelve heads. Not one. Not three. All twelve.

Because the doctor staring at the gauge on the floor will never see the dragon standing behind him.

The truth heals.

Co-founders — Neo | HealthTruth
Philip Ovadia MD, Cardiac Surgeon
Aseem Malhotra, Cardiologist
Robert Cywes MD, Metabolic Surgeon
Prof. Tim Noakes, Head of Science

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

The twelve-headed dragon.

Insulin resistance. Chronic inflammation. Thyroid dysfunction. Gut dysbiosis. Poor sleep. Chronic stress. Seed oils. Refined sugar. Physical inactivity. Nutrient deficiencies. Alcohol and toxins. Diet mismatched to genetics.

Every one of these drives arterial damage independently of LDL levels. Every one is supported by peer-reviewed evidence. And not a single one is addressed by a statin.

"Residual risk" is not a mystery. It is the eleven heads that are still breathing fire while the doctor stares at the one gauge on the floor.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. Most people optimize the wrong variables. They count steps while their mitochondria quietly fail. They scroll for two hours while inflammation climbs. They wait for the annual physical that says "you look fine" — right before the first real warning appears.

You don't need another complicated routine. You need one priority for the next 90 days: restore cellular energy and lower the fire that drives almost every disease I treat.

Everything else gets easier once that foundation is solid. Here's the exact protocol I give patients who are done dabbling.

𝟭. 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗴𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.

Your master antioxidant collapses with age. When it drops, mitochondria slow, inflammation rises — IL-6, TNF-alpha, hs-CRP, the exact markers I watch in heart patients — and recovery dies.

Glycine + NAC (GlyNAC) restarts the factory. In Baylor's randomized trials, older adults taking both for 16 weeks improved nearly every hallmark of aging at once — mitochondria, oxidative stress, inflammation, strength, cognition, gait speed. Some markers returned to young-adult range.

Typical dose over 50-60 with fatigue or rising inflammation: glycine 5-7g and NAC 5-7g, split through the day. Cheap. Over the counter. Benefits fade if you stop — treat it like brushing your teeth. Check with your doctor first if you have kidney disease or take nitrates or blood thinners.

𝟮. 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Magnesium glycinate 300-400mg at night. Vitamin D3 with K2 to a blood level of 50-80.

Magnesium calms vessels, steadies rhythm, deepens sleep, and is required to activate vitamin D. D without magnesium worsens the magnesium gap. D without K2 can drive calcium into your arteries instead of your bones. I take both daily — patients feel it in their sleep within 1-2 weeks more than almost any other single change.

𝟯. 𝗘𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗮, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗴𝗻.

Nutrient-dense real food: eggs, fatty fish, quality meat, organ meats when you can (liver and heart are nature's multivitamin and a CoQ10 source), vegetables, fruit. Cut the industrial seed oils and ultra-processed food keeping the fire lit. Not perfection. Consistency that compounds.

𝟰. 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮-𝟰 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗮𝘆.

That scroll time is more than enough to walk, lift, sleep, or just sit still long enough for your nervous system to downshift. Busyness is not progress. Walk daily. Lift something heavy 2-3x a week. Get morning light. Sleep like it's your job.

𝟱. 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

ApoB. hs-CRP. Lp(a) once. Vitamin D. Fasting insulin or HbA1c. And if you have risk factors, a coronary calcium score — or better, AI-CT angiography, because zero calcium does not mean zero soft plaque.

Data turns vague intentions into a game you can win.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟵𝟬-𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲: don't overhaul your whole life. Make cellular energy and lower inflammation the only non-negotiable for three months. Everything else rearranges around it.

Most people will read this, feel a spark, and return to the same day tomorrow. The ones who change treat their biology like a serious person treats a craft — deliberate, repeated action until it becomes identity.

Your future self doesn't care how busy you were.

It cares whether the factory was running.

One priority. Ninety days. Then look at the markers and the mirror.

[Carlos Sánchez @Cyandeceres]

La prueba de que los políticos no se creen su propia narrativa del cambio climático es que no invierten en prevención de incendios. Si se creyeran su narrativa, legislarían en ese sentido, invertirían en prevención, limpiarían los montes, aprovecharían el exceso de masa arbórea y subvencionarían la ganadería extensiva, y lo harían precisamente por el cambio climático y, sin embargo, hacen lo contrario de lo que habría que hacer.

En el cambio climático han encontrado un filón para seguir impulsando una agenda contraria al interés general haciéndonosla tragar por la vía de urgencia mediante relatos para dummies abducidos y crédulos hasta el paroxismo. En lugar de disponer la manera de adaptarse al pretendido cambio climático, nos imponen la necesidad incontrovertible de "combatirlo".

[Dr.J.M.Esteban @drestebanh]

It doesn't matter how many articles you show. They'll never buy it!
The business is too big.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

People keep asking me what ApoB is. Here is the simplest explanation you will ever read.

Your doctor orders a standard cholesterol panel. It measures LDL-C. That tells you how much cholesterol is being carried inside your LDL particles. It measures the cargo.

ApoB is a different test. Every LDL particle has exactly one ApoB protein on its surface. So measuring ApoB tells you how many LDL particles you have. It counts the trucks.

That is the entire difference. LDL-C weighs what is inside the trucks. ApoB counts how many trucks are on the highway. Both are looking at the same highway. Both are measuring the same trucks. They are just reading different speedometers.

The ApoB camp says particle count matters more than cholesterol content. More trucks means more particles penetrating your arterial wall.

Here is the question neither test can answer. Are those particles dangerous?

Because Brown and Goldstein proved in 1985 that your immune system cannot see native LDL. It does not matter how many particles you have if none of them are oxidized. Your macrophages will ignore every single one.

What makes LDL dangerous is not how much you have or how many particles you carry. It is whether those particles have been damaged by insulin resistance, inflammation, seed oils, or high blood sugar.
Neither LDL-C nor ApoB tells you that.

The tests that do? Fasting insulin. HOMA-IR. hs-CRP. Homocysteine. Triglyceride to HDL ratio. Oxidized LDL.

Those tell you whether the trucks are on fire. And that is the only question that matters.

[Nick Norwitz MD PhD @nicknorwitz]

2/7) Here’s a remarkable fact: You can feed your gut even when you’re not eating.

There are structures in your intestine called Brunner’s glands that secrete mucin to nourish gut bacteria.

And these glands are regulated by your vagus nerve… which is influenced by your mental state.

In other words: there is a direct brain-to-gut pathway through which your mental state can literally feed or starve your microbes.

And the consequences are profound.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I want to play the other side today.

Millions of doctors prescribe cholesterol lowering drugs. They are not stupid. They are not corrupt. Most of them genuinely believe they are saving lives.

So let me lay out their best argument and then test it against the data. Honestly.

The case FOR lowering LDL. Four different drug classes all lower LDL through different mechanisms. And all four show some reduction in cardiovascular events. When four classes all point the same direction, that is hard to ignore. The medical community calls this concordant evidence. It is their strongest argument.

Fair enough. Let me test it. 🧵

[Meins Avenida @CBAvenida]

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A doctor has gone on the record this week to warn that the best striker on the planet is quietly wrecking his arteries. Eight hundred and fifty seven thousand dollars went unmentioned.

Erling Haaland eats about six thousand calories a day. Beef, eggs, fish, butter, raw milk, and the liver and heart of a cow. The results of this reckless experiment: fastest man in Premier League history to fifty, seventy five and a hundred goals, Norway's all time leading scorer, one of three players in seventy two years to score in each of his first three World Cup matches.

Somebody clearly needed to step in before it got worse.

Enter Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, concerned about impurities in the fuel and the state of arteries you cannot see underneath all that muscle definition.

Meredith Wadman went through the accounts in Nature in 2006. The Foundation to Support Animal Protection, better known as the PETA Foundation, gave Barnard's group five hundred and ninety two thousand dollars across 1999 and 2000. PETA itself chipped in another two hundred and sixty five thousand. Barnard sat on that foundation's board and ran it as president until at least 2005, listed as an officer alongside PETA's Ingrid Newkirk.

The American Medical Association, hardly a fan club for steak, called the Physicians Committee a fringe organisation of questionable repute and an animal rights group speaking for under half of one percent of American physicians. Roughly a tenth of the membership practises medicine.

Forty years of independent scientific inquiry by an organisation founded on the principle that humans should not use animals for anything, funded by the people who once campaigned to rename fish sea kittens, and every single time, on every disease, the evidence has led them reluctantly to the conclusion that you should stop eating animals.

You have to admire a hypothesis with that hit rate.

Note the actual charge. No scan. No blood panel. No marker of any kind. The evidence submitted is the imagined condition of arteries nobody has looked at, inside a twenty six year old at the outer edge of human physical performance.

You cannot see the arteries. That is why it was arteries.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Seed oils are in your crisps. Fine. Fried in the stuff, we all knew that.

Seed oils are in your chips. Yep. Same deal, no notes.

Seed oils are in your mayonnaise. Okay, it is basically oil to start with, I will allow it.

Seed oils are in your bread. Every loaf on the shelf. In bread. Why is it in bread.

Seed oils are in your hummus. It is chickpeas. It was chickpeas. Now it is chickpeas and rapeseed, with a picture of an olive on the front.

Seed oils are in your tin of fish, drowning the one good thing left in the cupboard. Hello. That fish was fine.

Seed oils are in the "olive oil", cut with the cheap stuff and sold at the olive price, which is fraud, that is just fraud.

Seed oils are in the shelf marked healthy, which is now the oiliest shelf in the shop.

Seed oils are in the BABY FORMULA. The first food a human being ever eats. We start them early.

Seed oils are in the drip. Too ill to eat and they run it into your vein, and there is no label to read because you are unconscious.

Then it gets worse.

Seed oils are in the chicken itself. And the pork. We feed it to them, and a one-stomached animal wears its dinner in its own fat.

So there is no clever swap left. No aisle, no back of the shop, no ingredients list long enough to save you.

Except one. Put the same feed in front of a cow and the rumen hydrogenates the lot before it ever reaches the meat.

Four stomachs, quietly doing the reading for you.

[Meins Avenida @CBAvenida]

Imposible animar estas noches veraniegas sin música en la CASITA …

[Rafael Rodríguez @rafarh19]

@FHFamiliar https://t.co/A4t2ifpTP0

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

In 1985 two scientists won the Nobel Prize for proving something that should have changed medicine forever.

Brown and Goldstein showed that your immune system cannot even see normal LDL. Native LDL floats through your blood and your body ignores it. The scavenger receptor is locked. No recognition. No uptake. No disease.

But when LDL gets oxidized by inflammation, seed oils, high blood sugar, or cigarette smoke, everything changes. The scavenger receptor unlocks. Your macrophages recognize it as a threat. They engulf it. They swell. They become foam cells. And foam cells are what build the plaque inside your arteries.

That is not a theory. That is Nobel Prize winning science from 40 years ago.
The disease does not start with how much LDL you have. It starts with what damages it.

Yet here we are in 2026. Doctors are still measuring total LDL and prescribing drugs to lower it. Nobody is asking what oxidized it in the first place.

The Nobel Prize answered the question. Medicine ignored the answer.

[Rafael Rodríguez @rafarh19]

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