Mario Ruiz

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a 14-year study that quietly explains every brilliant person you know who never did anything with it.

Karen Arnold tracked 81 high school valedictorians from the class of 1981 for 14 years. They kept getting top grades in college. They landed solid, respectable careers. And almost none of them ever broke new ground or built anything that mattered. Her own description of the group: not mold-breakers. "They get school," she said.

That's the whole tell. School measures one trait with religious intensity, which is how well you execute work that someone else assigns and grades. Valedictorian is the trophy for being the single best person in the building at completing other people's instructions. It is a real skill. It also has a brutal expiration date. The morning after graduation, the assignments stop coming and nobody ever hands you the rubric again.

Now look at the "mid" people who outran them. While the valedictorian was perfecting the assigned task, the B-students were getting comfortable with the ungraded one. Cold outreach. Starting things that might publicly fail. Asking for the raise. Building an audience before anyone gave permission. School tests for none of that. The world after school tests for almost nothing else.

Which is why the MIT math kid tending bar in Florida is the most interesting person in this post, not the cautionary tale he's being filed as. He stopped optimizing for a scoreboard built by someone else. The writer has enough money to walk away from the whole game and is calling that condition "burned out." By their own math, the smartest move described anywhere in the thread is the one they're too scared to make.

School spends 18 years rewarding you for never once questioning the assignment. Then it sets you loose in a world where the entire game is choosing your own.

[BEN_JUICE_WRLD @postbyben]

No matter how many times I watch it, this scene remains GOATed.🍿🎥

[La Fea Del Grup @LaFeaDelGrup]

La cara de Carlos Antonio Vélez, vale oro JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

[Internet Mummy @kiara1yph]

Are these made with AI? nice storyline tho 💯

[Interesting Sciences @amazing13_13]

Wow!! All this started with a little teasing

[Estherr @Coin_Media_Tv]

Dwight "The General" Manfredi, played by Sylvester Stallone, arrives at a cannabis dispensary called "The Higher Plane" to forcefully establish his protection racket over the local business owners.

[🍀 𝓕𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓼𝓰𝓸𝓭🍀 @Frankloves_god]

A global plague breaks out, designed to wipe out woman. This movie scene is interesting

[richies❤️💙❤️ @richies_donsav]

These are all Ronaldo ex teammates between 😂🤦‍♂️

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Road rage.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

WTF IS A KILOMETER

[haruka no yume【はるかのゆめ】 @haruka_no_yume]

🇯🇵 Boku no Natsuyasumi 3, like its predecessors, allows the player to live out their life in the Japanese countryside during the Showa-era.

I love the sounds of the summer: the insects chirping, the grass rustling and the old wooden house. So deeply nostalgic.

[Almas Oscuras @almas_oscuras]

Pocos la conocen, pero en 2009 se estrenó una película que, salvando las distancias, podría considerarse una "Misery del siglo XXI".

"The Loved Ones" nos cuenta la pesadilla de Brent, un estudiante que rechaza la invitación de su tímida compañera Lola para ir al baile de graduación. Como venganza, Lola y su padre lo secuestran para celebrar su propia y sádica fiesta.

Terror australiano de alto voltaje, rodado en apenas 4 semanas y con muy poco dinero, pero un grupo de actores que lo dan todo.

"The Loved Ones" es una de las "7 relaciones tóxicas de terror" de las que @Roybattyforever y @enbocacinefago hablan en su nuevo video del canal "Replicante Cúbico".

Video completo ⬇️

[Poirot @Argenpoirot]

Para mi de los días más gloriosos del fútbol fue cuando el Coco Basile echo a Sofi Martinez diciendo "Querida, no podes entrar aca"
Mientras Messi miraba todo sentadito.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

The “This Is Football” doc has great segment of Pep Guardiola watching his Barcelona game tape and adressing idea that Messi walks lazily around the pitch:

“He’s walking. That’s what I like the most. He is not out of the game, he’s involved. He’s moving his head. Right, left, left, right. He knows exactly what is going to happen. But his head is always…moving.

He’s not running, but he’s always watching what’s happening. He smells where are the weak points in the back four. After 5-10 minutes, he has the map in his eyes…in his brain to know exactly where is the space and what is the panorama.

It’s like being in the jungle and I have to survive. And he knows if I move here or here, I will have more space to attack."

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

En rio negro encontraron un bosque de árboles petrificados de hace 50 millones de años

En un momento el contenido se vuelve sensible, mirar con discreción

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

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.

[The Eagle flies free @Fa21519230]

🚨🚨 IMPACTANTE: Estudio de resonancia magnética sobre niños pequeños expone algo ATERRADOR: Escanearon los cerebros de 60 niños de 3 a 5 años, incluyendo a Rose, de 5 años y descubrieron que el tiempo frente a pantallas interactivas está causando una pérdida medible de sustancia blanca en sus cerebros en desarrollo. Incluso solo 2 horas al día están ligadas a una conectividad neural deteriorada, así como al desarrollo del lenguaje y la alfabetización.
"Vaya… No esperaba ver nada por el estilo"...
Profesor Mike Nagel, neurocientífico y padre.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

If you're struggling in life, do this:

> final food 4 hours before sleep
> screens off 60 before bed
> read a book 10 min before sleep
> light in eyes when waking
> exercise daily

Do it for 7 days straight.

It works. I promise.

[Fitness Dad @FitnessDadx]

when I started the forbidden fitness method

[Werkin @StayWerkin]

Wiz Khalifa’s 13-year-old son Bash called him about a kid trying to fight him at the mall, and Wiz gave him real advice about de-escalating, protecting himself, and not putting himself in bad situations 👀💯

He also then told chat he doesn’t care if people clip the moment or criticize his parenting, saying his son is his responsibility and people will get a totally different reaction if they speak on that