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Your ancestors didn't count macros.

They ate nose to tail, fermented everything, cooked in butter and slept when it got dark. No tracking apps, no supplement stacks, no ultra-processed anything.

Today over half the Western diet is ultra-processed. We're tired, anxious and inflamed, and we're told that's just modern life.

It isn't. It's a template we abandoned. And every year the science backing the old one gets stronger.

TFC tests ancestral health against modern research. What holds up, we make films about. What doesn't, we tell you straight. Our most-watched film is past 400,000 views, so people are clearly ready for it.

We also built a free AI health coach called Duncan. Ask him the things you'd feel daft asking out loud. He's in the reply below, with everything else we make 👇

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We ranked 4 popular brain supplements by how strong the real human-trial evidence actually is — and the most-hyped one finished last.

The countdown (4 → 1):
#4 Lion's mane — popular, but the human evidence is still thin and early.
#3 Caffeine + L-theanine — a real, modest, well-replicated focus bump. The honest workhorse.
#2 Omega-3 (DHA) — strong human data for memory; studies suggest the biggest gains go to people who start low.
#1 Creatine — the one the gym crowd never calls a nootropic. Research suggests it sharpens reasoning when you're sleep-deprived. Around 5g a day.

The best-evidenced brain supplement was sitting in the gym tub the whole time.

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@AlpacaAurelius Those eggs must be incredible.🔥🔥🔥

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@dr_ericberg I suppose that's why the Mediterranean region is generally pretty well off in terms of health.

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Margarine took over the world's kitchens for fifty years. Then its defining ingredient was banned outright. This is the story.

It began in 1869 as a French chemist's butter substitute for Napoleon III's army. Beef fat, dyed to look like butter. Dairy farmers fought back so hard that some states forced it to be dyed pink.

Then came hydrogenation: forcing hydrogen through vegetable oil to create an entirely new fat. Trans fat. It was sold to a generation of mothers as the healthy choice, with heart-foundation seals stamped right on the tub.

In 1948, the maker of Crisco handed the American Heart Association $1.7 million from a radio contest. For forty years, its advice held: less butter.

In 1993, Harvard researchers tracking 85,000 nurses found those eating the most trans fat had far higher heart-disease risk. Denmark banned industrial trans fats in 2003. The FDA ruled them no longer safe. By 2018 they were gone from America's food supply.

Today's margarine isn't your grandmother's. The trans fats are gone, swapped for newer processed fats, and studies haven't settled whether those are any better. But recent analyses suggest butter is largely neutral, nothing like the villain it was painted. One ingredient. Cream.

Send this to someone who needs to hear it.

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Your metabolism doesn't live in the gym. It lives in your muscles. Every step you take pulls sugar out of your blood without needing a drop of insulin. The most powerful thing you can do for your health is also the most boring. Walk. And walk often.

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@underalive84 @ferrisbuhler81 Just make sure you continue the rehab exercises, its a tool not a silver bullet

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@ferrisbuhler81 An incredible compound, cured my elbow tendinitis, cheers for the tag 💪

[Brigham Buhler @ferrisbuhler81]

He who has the magic doesn’t need tricks. BPC157 @tfchealth

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Coffee doesn't give you energy. It blocks tiredness.

Adenosine builds up all day telling your brain to slow down. Caffeine is almost the exact same shape, so it takes the seat first and the signal never lands.

Nothing added. Something blocked.

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@SamaHoole It is incredible how many 'medical professionals' still have the old dogmatic understanding of cholesterol. Even when faced with mounting evidence. It's as if the medical industry trains it's practitioners to submit instead of question.

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@thegarybrecka Perfection on a plate, I had left over homemade burger patties with some kimchi

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The Inuit ate zero plants for hundreds of years. No fruit, no vegetables, no grains. And they still got every nutrient a human needs, including vitamin C, from animal organs alone. The part most people throw away was the part that kept them alive.

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Rapeseed oil greased warship engines in WWII.

Too high in erucic acid to eat, so Canadian scientists spent 20 years cross-breeding it out. Not GMO. Actual plant breeding.

By 1974 they had it. But nobody cooks with something called rape seed.

So in 1978 they renamed it. Canola. Canadian oil, low acid.

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Your stomach makes a protective compound. Scientists copied it in a lab and called it BPC-157. In rats it appears to knit torn tendons back together. Almost all the evidence is still animal research though. One of the most fascinating, and most overhyped, ideas in recovery science.

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Ask Duncan your own 2am question, free, no appointment needed: https://t.co/nFF4A5pyEO

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5 health questions everyone Googles at 2am, and the straight answers: caffeine and sleep, protein as you age, dietary fat, and the truth about red meat. All from Duncan, our free AI health coach. Link below 👇

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The bottle won't tell you which magnesium you need.

There are 5 types, and they do completely different things:

😴 Glycinate → sleep and winding down
🧠 Threonate → focus and memory
🚽 Citrate → digestion
⚡ Malate → energy and tired muscles
❤️ Taurate → heart and blood pressure

And the cheap one most bottles hide behind? Magnesium oxide. Barely absorbed, mostly a laxative.

Match the type to your goal. Save this before your next order 📌

Which one are you? 👇

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@dr_ericberg @GarethShillaw

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@HealthyAlfred The data on it is fascinating. I've tried the wolverine stack (BPC-157 and TB-500) for elbow tendinitis with success