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Everyone keeps asking me what I’m on to look like this at 40.

So here are all the peptides, anabolics, and hormones I used to reach 8.5% body fat at 227 pounds, 6’4” (a 100% transparent thread):

1. Retatrutide

Medical History & Informational Notice (Before Proceeding Further)

The data below is a personal record of treatments administered exclusively within a legal clinical framework under the direct supervision of licensed medical professionals. This information is shared for educational and historical purposes only. It is not medical advice, nor is it a recommendation. Any attempt to replicate these protocols without professional medical oversight is dangerous and may be illegal.

Ran for 3 cycles, building the dose up slowly over time.

Triple agonist hitting GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon receptors simultaneously (meaning appetite suppression, blood sugar control, plus fat oxidation all running in parallel).

The Sumerian King List states that eight kings ruled the Earth for 241,200 years before a Great Flood.

This is not poetic exaggeration.
It is the oldest written record that exists.

A thread 🧵👇

Over 500 versions of the flood myth exist across every culture on the planet.

In 95% of cases, the flood is universal.
In 88%, a family survives.
In 70%, on a boat.

Five continents. The same story.

The parallels between Tablet XI of Gilgamesh and Genesis are impossible to ignore.

A righteous man. An ark. Animals. Birds sent to scout the land. A sacrifice upon landing.

The biblical story of Noah was written centuries after the Sumerian text.

How to get rich without getting lucky:

Find a way to make $100 an hour doing something simple IN YOUR TOWN.

Do it until you have $10k+ in the bank and you’re too busy to sell new customers.

Hire employee for $25 / hr to do what you do so you can sell new customers.

Repeat.

Be willing to work and sweat and even maybe scrub toilets for 3-6 months.

Look at the market unemotionally. It’s not about you and what you love doing.

Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Look at competition as a sign there is money to be made.

I hear this every week in my office:

"Doc, my heart rate hits 150 during squats — that's cardio, right?"

No. And if your cardiologist hasn't explained why, keep reading. 🧵

A high heart rate during lifting is due to cardiovascular stress... No one is disputing that.

But cardiovascular stress and aerobic adaptation are not the same thing. The type of load your heart sees during a heavy lift produces a fundamentally different physiological response than sustained aerobic exercise.

Here's the physiology. During a heavy lift, you perform a Valsalva maneuver — you brace against a closed airway. Intrathoracic pressure spikes. Venous return to the heart drops. Stroke volume falls. Heart rate climbs to compensate.

Your heart generates force against the pressure. Not volume. Your heart rate elevates to push less blood through smaller arteries...

You can literally clean out your brain doing this.

The GLYMPHATIC SYSTEM in the brain helps flush out various toxins from the cerebrospinal & interstitial fluids of the brain.

It might just be your behind fatigue, cognitive decline and even depression.

Here's how (🧵1/8):

The brain produces cerebrospinal fluid from blood for a multitude of reasons.

Your neurons need it to fire properly, and it also physically protects your brain from damage and from being too heavy.

But perhaps the most important role of CSF is to enable glymphatic clearance.

The body had the lymphatic system.

Your tissues get blood for nutrients, and they produce waste, which gets taken up by lymphatic vessels.

These drain into your lymph nodes where your immune cells can clean up various toxins, microbes, or other byproducts.

The thing is, the lymphatic system does not have a heart equivalent constantly pumping it around, so it can become stagnant if we do not manually mobilize it.

The same is true in the brain.

SAMANTHA AKKA ❤️

Me and my friend are in video call

Me:rey mama ni amma ni choopinchu ra naku modda aagatledhu,
ahhh thattukolekapotunna ra mood ni
(Na maatalu window lo nunchi na samantha akka vintundi)

Nenu battalu lekunda modda kottukovadam choosi shock ayindi
Me:mama pls

ra ala anaku ra
okkasari choopinchu ra amma
guddha ni (ani vadni brathimaalutunna)
Eppudu intlo paddhathi ga unde nannu ala siggu lajja vadilesi unde la choodatam tho akka surprise ayindi
Kasepu nannu alane brathimaaladam choosi navvukoni
Direct ga door teskoni lopaliki vachi

door lock chesindi Nenu bayam tho modda meeda pillow addanga pettukoni
Me: entakka ala suddenga vachesav emaindi?
Akka gattiga na rendu chempala meeda kottindi
Akka: mi call motham vinnanu entra nuvvu chestunna pani
Me :sorry akka edho mood lo chesanu malli repeat avvadhu akka

Welcome back to my fresh hell. We left off with the now infamous David Axe report and now we are moving onto pilot testimony. Now the reason we are going to move here is because this is another source of information that is often used in the great F-35 debate.

Personally I do not like using pilot testimony as a direct source. If you do any research on any individual plane you will learn really quickly that every plane has beat every other plane in mock dogfights and that reading tea leaves is probably a better use of our time.

I would note this short has 22 million views and it has not once popped up in any debate regarding the F-35 that I have seen. And I am in countless War Thunder discords which you think would be the lowest bar. Maybe somewhere on the internet is a "gotcha"...but just nowhere I am.

🚨India sends ₹83,000 crore of medicines to America every year.

Yesterday Trump put a 100% tax on drugs.

Nifty Pharma fell 3.5% in one day.

People are selling everything.

But here's the thing nobody told you

90% of India's medicines to America have ZERO tax on them.

Zero.

The people panic selling right now are selling the wrong stocks.

Let me explain this🧵
(MUST BOOKMARK & REPOST)

2/20

okay so first.

what did Trump actually do on April 2?

he taxed TWO things.

thing 1 → brand name medicines. the expensive ones. the ones with patents. 100% tax.

thing 2 → steel and aluminum. he changed how the tax is calculated. closed a loophole.

that's it.

he did NOT tax
→ cheap generic medicines ❌
→ all Indian pharma ❌
→ everything ❌

this one fact is worth crores to you if you're an investor.

most people reacting right now missed it completely.

3/20

before i go further
be honest.

what do YOU think this tariff does to India?

answer comes at tweet 11.
i promise it will surprise most of you.

🚨 In 1513, a man was thrown in prison, tortured, and exiled. So he wrote a book about power.

The Catholic Church banned it. Napoleon was caught with a copy in his carriage after his final defeat. Stalin kept it on his bedside table and wrote notes in the margins. Mussolini read it. Kissinger and Nixon used it as bedtime reading.

The book is The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. It's 500 years old. It invented the word "Machiavellian." And it's still the most dangerous book on power ever written.

I turned Machiavelli's core strategies into 12 Claude prompts.

You describe any power struggle (office politics, negotiations, competition, leadership) and it gives you the exact Machiavellian counter-move.

Here are all 12:

Prompt 1: The Lion and the Fox

Machiavelli's most famous strategy (Chapter 18): A leader must be both a lion and a fox. The lion uses raw force. The fox uses cunning. Most people only know how to be one.

"I'm facing this situation: [describe your power struggle — office politics, negotiation, competition, conflict]. Analyze it through Machiavelli's Lion and Fox framework. Tell me: (1) What is the 'lion move' — the direct, forceful action I could take? What are its risks? (2) What is the 'fox move' — the cunning, strategic, indirect approach? What are its risks? (3) Which one should I use in THIS specific situation and why? (4) Is there a way to combine both — appear as the fox while positioning the lion? Give me the exact words to say and actions to take."

Prompt 2: The Feared vs. Loved Calculator

Machiavelli wrote (Chapter 17): "It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one must choose." But he also warned: fear without hatred is the key. Cross into hatred and you lose everything.

"I'm in a leadership position at [your role/context]. I need to make a tough decision: [describe the decision]. Using Machiavelli's 'Feared vs. Loved' framework, tell me: (1) What would the 'loved' approach look like? Where does it make me vulnerable? (2) What would the 'feared' approach look like? Where does it risk crossing into hatred? (3) Where is the exact line between respected fear and destructive hatred in this situation? (4) Give me the specific approach that commands respect without creating enemies. Script the exact conversation or action."

Se uno la prende un po' dall'alto la cosa, comunque, dal pdv militare ed esclusivamente americano finora è stata una passeggiata per loro.
Dipenderà un po' da come vorranno gestirla in futuro ma al momento fanno danni praticamente senza subirne.

Si certo, hanno avuto 13 vittime, perso un Awacs e un altri 2-3 velivoli, più qualche gazebo e prefabbricato in giro per il golfo, ma comparato ai danni inflitti direi che l'unico rischio serio resta politico interno e finanziario.

Di contro gli iraniani stanno dimostrando una grande intelligenza rimodulando il blocco dello stretto, consapevoli che far danno a tutti renderebbe tutti ostili, questo però non ferma gli Stati Uniti, che di petrolio e gas locale non hanno certo bisogno.

1/ China Challenge: Believe it or Not*

The Escalator to Heaven

2/ Who has the longest stack of escalators in the world?

3/ Answer: Chongqing, China. The “Goddess” escalator in Wushan county consists of a series of two dozen individual escalators and lifts that climb more than 750 feet over a 2,500-foot length in 21 minutes. Every day, 9,000 people pay the 50-cent fee to avoid a steep stairway.

1/ A Four-Star’s History Lesson on the Iran War

A must-read summary of a great listen: see @nytimes @DavidAFrench's conversation with former commander of US Special Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

nytimes.com/2026/03/23/opi…

2/ To successfully meet the challenge the US currently faces in Iran, McChrystal recommends starting with “strategic empathy”: asking how the events occurring today look through the eyes of our adversary. (In the security studies canon, strategic empathy is an antidote to Americans’ natural “strategic narcissism” that understands events only through our own eyes, assumes others see the world as we do, and expects them to act only in response to our initiatives.)

3/ Specifically, McChrystal advocates beginning by asking how Iranian leaders remember the history that has led to this juncture: “I try to remind people whenever we think of what’s happening now: If we don’t understand the journey to this point, we don’t understand the attitudes that are going to drive decisions people make.” While Americans’ memory of Iran’s 1979 revolution and support for Shia militias leads US policymakers to view Iran as a “recalcitrant enemy,” for Iranians, it really starts in 1953 with US covert action to overthrow Iran’s elected leader.

SOVEREIGN MIND MECHANICAL BRIDGING OF THE GAP BETWEEN WANTING AND LIKING
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Here are the primary somatic protocols to ensure pleasure has "weight" and integrity:

1. The "5-Second Somatic Anchor"

When you engage in a pleasurable act (eating, a cold shower, a walk, or tactile contact), the Amygdala and VTA (Ventral Tegmental Area) often rush ahead to the next hit. This leaves the current moment "empty."

The Protocol: Before and during the act, focus exclusively on one Kinetic Fact for 5 seconds.
The Science: This forces the Thalamus to send high-resolution data to the mPFC and Sensory Cortex, bypassing the "Wanting" script.