@fartagaz "We call him Tanguy because he has tanned skin. And his surname is Destable because he's a master of destabilizing strategies against the Republic army."
1. What do you mean "nope"? Bernie is indeed the most popular Jewish politician in America. You on the other hand came fourth in the New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial primary with 12% of the vote.
2. Piker apologized for his 9/11 remarks. And he didn't refer to Jews as "inbred" but to anti-Palestinian, far-right orthodox Jews in Israel. It's offensive I admit, and not a phrase I would use, but in the interests of full information and fairness Piker is a generally foul-mouthed streamer who uses it for others, for non-Jews too, so it wasn't antisemitic in intent and he clearly wasn't referring to Jews in general.
3. Be honest - you hate Piker not because of his antisemitism but because of his anti-Zionism, as you never get this mad when Trump and top Republicans are regularly saying openly antisemitic things.
4. Talking of hate preaching, aren't you the guys who your own fellow House Dems reportedly got mad at for saying a "shit" thing about US Muslim religious leaders being to blame for terrorism?
https://t.co/hMa1X5XYOV
🚨 PIERS MORGAN: Why won’t you condemn Hamas?
RANIA KHALEK: Because asking that under annihilation is like asking an Austrian Jew in the 1940s to condemn resistance to Nazi Germany.
PIERS WENT FOR A TRAP
RANIA FLIPPED THE WHOLE TABLE 💥
My approach to seed oils is quite similar to Pascal's wager. I'm not 100% certain that they will kill you, but I avoid them. If I'm wrong and they're totally fine, I lose nothing. If they end up being the most destructive things we can eat, I won by avoiding them. Because of that, we don't purchase or use them in my house at all, and use alternatives.
On the flip side, if I go out to eat occasionally, I'm not bugging the waiter to find out if my food came within 50 feet of a bottle of canola oil.
Balance.
The issue with the bodybuilding community is that it revolves entirely around muscle growth, often neglecting broader aspects of health.
The failure to show increased protein synthesis acutely after collagen supplementation is expected, and largely irrelevant to its primary mechanism of benefit. Collagen is not a muscle-building protein like whey. It’s a regulatory protein, rich in glycine and proline, which shift the metabolic balance toward repair and anti-inflammatory processes.
Glycine, which makes up roughly 30 percent of collagen, is a major antagonist to endotoxin and estrogen, suppresses cortisol, and supports liver detoxification. The body uses collagen peptides more for regulating the extracellular matrix, suppressing fibrosis, and restoring gut barrier function than for direct stimulation of muscle synthesis.
The current fixation on CPS (connective tissue protein synthesis) or MPS misses the bigger picture. In states of stress, aging, and estrogen excess, the body ramps up tryptophan and cysteine metabolism, leading to serotonin, nitric oxide, and inflammatory cytokines. This is why amino acid ratios matter more than absolute protein amounts especially when it comes to regulating serotonin and the stress response. Collagen being devoid of tryptophan and low in cysteine acts as a metabolic counterbalance.
Furthermore, decades of animal research have shown that diets low in gelatin and high in muscle meats lead to inflammation, fibrosis, and shortened lifespan. The addition of gelatin or collagen restores balance to the amino acid profile, especially in a high-protein diet.
So instead of dismissing collagen based on short-term tracer studies, we should be asking: Does collagen lower inflammation? Improve sleep? Protect against fibrosis? Support the gut barrier? All of which are well supported in both animal and human data.
As usual, context matters. Protein quality isn’t just about leucine spikes. It’s about metabolic compatibility with human physiology under stress.