A small collection of things I took note of recently. Free Member Access.

• Chris Masterjohn Totally Sciences the Crowd at Times Square in NYC
• The One Amino Acid That Cured COVID
• The 1st Amendment and BOOBS!
• Nancy Pelosi Puts Warren Buffett in Short Pants
• Zuby and Tucker Carlson Do Sit-Down Rap
• Dr. Mike Eades’ The Arrow Newsletter
• Safe For Kids
• Australia The Global Laughing Stock Penal Colony
• BIG ASS Spider In My Living Room

Since deleting all social media about 3 weeks ago now, one niggling thing that kept popping up was that everything throughout the day I took note of—like a heightened emotion; feeling, good, bad, or worse about something—I’d instantly have an urge to share it on social media. If you ever drank or smoked to excess and resolved to quit, you’ll know the exact feeling I’m talking about when the triggers bombard you.

But while triggers can be pervasive and never ending for months and years—why recidivism is so high—I find the Social Media Addiction pretty easy to quit compared to booze and smokes. As soon as I recall, ‘oh, I deleted my accounts,’ I get a rush of euphoria. That’s pretty healthy reinforcement. I’ve written two posts on deleting social media if you missed them.

1. The Definitive Case For Deleting Social Media (public access)
2. Social Media Costs You Big Bucks! (premium access)

It also motivates and encourages you to employ healthier and more wholesome alternatives for sharing something. Like texting or emailing a family member or friend, or a small few of them. Or, here’s a novel idea, pick up the phone or get on a video chat and experience some life and love.

Another alternative is to consolidate them all like this, on the blog you own and tend to.

Chris Masterjohn Totally Sciences the Crowd at Times Square in NYC

I was pretty wowed. I’ve known Chris from his writing work going back to 2007 or so and IRL since the Ancestral Health Symposium at UCLA in 2011 where we were both speakers. We’ve met a few times since but the best exchange was during the 2016 Paleo (fx) in Austin, TX. He approached me, sat down, and I got the whole story he alludes to in his short talk at Times Square. Upon getting his PhD in nutrition, he did what you’re probably supposed to do. He went and got a university job. And he had just quit. We talked a lot about doing stuff online and he uniquely impressed me as a good listener. It’s not as though I had astounding stuff to say; nonetheless, he listed to me more intently than I usually pick up on. He’s gone on to make quite a success out of quitting a job.

The One Amino Acid That Cured COVID

In that talk, above, Chris mentioned a ton of randomized, controlled studies (Gold Standard) he’s spent hours reviewing and one was an Italian study so exciting and profound that they have published preliminary results without waiting.

You can read Chris’ analysis and breakdown, here.

An Italian clinical trial peer-reviewed and published in the Lancet this past month is nothing short of incredible.

It provides rigorous evidence that 3.2 grams per day of the amino acid L-arginine dramatically hastens the improvement in respiratory function in patients thaty already have confirmed pneumonia and are already suffering from hypoxemic respiratory distress. It may turn out to be lifesaving.

One of the things that is so remarkable about this study is that usually nutritional treatments have to be started early in the course of illness to work. For example, as I covered in my comprehensive review of the vitamin D literature, maintaining high vitamin D status is the single best thing you can do for prevention, and if administered early in the course of illness it is extremely powerful in preventing the illness from getting bad enough to put someone in the ICU. By contrast, if vitamin D is given to people who already have severe respiratory distress — at least in the standard form of vitamin D you would buy in the store — it does nothing at all.

In this case, however, the L-arginine works when things have already gotten very bad.

https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/blog/2021/10/01/the-one-amino-acid-that-cured-covid

…But just go ahead and get your jabs…

The 1st Amendment and BOOBS!

So hilarious. The first funny is that a guy relates those two things as his top two. Far more hilarious is how the two CNN children just can’t take a laugh, chuckle, or quick comeback and move on—like adults with a sense of humor do. Nope. They have to haul out the faux outrage, astonishment, and indignant virtue-signalling in a childish playground attempt to cancel him.

But he obviously can’t be cancelled.

Nancy Pelosi Puts Warren Buffett in Short Pants

Zuby and Tucker Carlson Do Sit-Down Rap

I put up a much longer video with Zuby and Adam Carolla in my recent post about how Social Media is Costing You Big Bucks! but that’s an hour long. Here’s under 5 minutes to grok how intelligent and well-spoken Zuby is. He was one of my favorite of my very limited number of Twitter follows before I deleted it all.

I’m not much of a rap fan, but if you must, I can understand Zuby rapping OK, Dude…

In that “political rap” genre, Tom MacDonald is right in there with astute poetry.

If you like that, know that People So Stupid.

Dr. Mike Eades’ The Arrow Newsletter

I am dead serious when I say that it is my Friday morning coffee time. Every. Friday. Morning. No. Exceptions. Ever. You see, he publishes it every Thursday, but since Thailand is 14 hours ahead of the west coast USA, it so happens that when I get up every Friday morning it has either just arrived in my inbox or soon will. On or before 6.30am is bankable.

As a shameless name drop, I’ve been friends with Mike for years, we correspond often, talk politics and social insanity, help each other out behind the scenes, and I was once an overnight guest in their Montecito home just outside Santa Barbara. For an example in sharing to help each other, the WordPress Plugin that runs the whole 8,000-subscriber email list (you notice I don’t use Mail Chimp or any of those other bastards?) uses stuff Mike told me about. 100,000 emails out costs me $10. Mail Chimp? Many hundreds of dollars, ch[u]mps and fools.

And I helped him a bit with broken links on his blog. More recently, I’ve provided a lot of input for him to think about relevant to some of his big plans I’m privy to.

His latest newsletter #39 showed up right on time yesterday morning, and serendipitously, it popped in right as I was publishing my latest post, so what better way to pour another coffee, relax, and dive in? If for nothing else, his mailbag selections are worth the whole read. He always picks one or two that will make you laugh. Those who’ve read his ProteinPower blog for years as I have know that when he’s not meticulously sticking to the topics of low-carb dieting science and related health, it’s only modest and benign diversions into some personal things he enjoys or experiences. The thing is, his subscriber list has many who’ve apparently conditioned themselves over the years that he isn’t even second to God when it comes to dietary insights, recommendations, clinical experience…you name it. But if it’s in the context of Covid medical practitioner therapy, masks, vaccines, virology, epidemiology, etc., HOW FUCKING DARE HE CONTRADICT THE ANCHORS AND EXPERTS ON CNN!!!

Well, his newsletter endeavors have budged him out of lots of limitations altogether and I find it to be a righteous hoot & holler. Plus, he’s just fucking good at it and it’s a pleasure to observe.

…In yesterday’s, in particular, I was surprised to find him fielding an an email from an anonymous one who avitars himself Spartacus.

I received at least ten copies of this “letter” via email this past week wanting to know my thoughts on it. The letter is a long disquisition on just about everything having to do with Covid. Published anonymously. […]

I read the entire piece carefully, and I can tell you the writer knows his stuff. I’m not as well versed as he in a number of aspects, but what I am well versed in, he gets right. So in cases like this, I figure if the writer is correct in all the issues I know about, odds are he’s correct in the one in which my knowledge is shaky.

Mike goes on to confirm the guy knows what he’s talking about in a number of areas re Covid that Mike also knows about. Then, this:

“There is a vast and appalling criminal conspiracy that directly links both Anthony Fauci and Moderna to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

Here is where he starts to go off the rails. In my opinion. […]

…They have the authority and, by God, they’re going to use it.

That’s the mindset we’re dealing with. I think it’s the authoritarian mindset at work, not a vast conspiracy of the elites out to destroy civilization as we know it and enslave the world. But, as always, I could be wrong.

I wrote to tell Mike that that very last paragraph was my favorite. Mike, Like you, I get emails every day. In so many cases, “I just can’t,” because they almost always end up to be the endless conspiracy theory stuff. I’ve always said, along the lines: “never attribute to conspiracy what’s easily explainable by individuals acting for their own various values and interests.” I suppose you could say that society and practical politics is, in itself, a grand conspiracy. But what’s a conspiracy if everyone is in on it?

Safe For Kids

Australia The Global Laughing Stock Penal Colony

I’ve written this before, but Australia has always been the brunt of many jokes for originating as a British territory penal colony.

But they got the jokes all wrong. Turns out it wasn’t all the descendants of convicts that are the problem in Australia, it’s all the descendants of prison officers.

Frankly, I can’t watch much of the video clips anymore. Since I have no gun here in Thailand and thus, can’t dry fire at the TV.

But this one’s good for a jolly ole’ laugh…

BIG ASS Spider In My Living Room

I often go to sleep a little early, get up late at night—like 11pm-1am—chow down on TV for 2-3, go for another few hour’s soak in bed. It suits me.

I have geckos in my place, always have, everyplace here in Thailand. I have no idea how they get in, but they do. I love geckos. When I lived off grid in Mexico with NO TV, a favorite pastime was to turn on the patio lights and watch the geckos stalk and catch prey, seemingly weightless as they are. Doesn’t seem to matter to them, being on a wall or a ceiling. All the same.

Geckos are a gift from God.

I don’t know about this guy who presented on the wall last night. Those legs are an inch long, at least. He soon enough scurried to elsewhere in the house. I’m assuming he’s here to eat the bugs that happen to make their way in, and not be any menace to me. Accordingly, friend until I learn otherwise.