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Why Exercise Doesn’t Replace Walking
Many people think that intensity can replace walking. And they are right to a degree. It does on the aerobic side.
But there are things it doesn’t replace: lipid clearance, and vascular remodeling. 🧵
Many people think that intensity can replace walking. And they are right to a degree. It does on the aerobic side.
But there are things it doesn’t replace: lipid clearance, and vascular remodeling. 🧵
To make this model conceptually simple, imagine you have a sink.
- Basin = your blood plasma
- Water in the sink = ApoB containing lipoproteins (VLDL, LDL, remnants)
Clearance is the drain. If the water stays in the sink too long, it gets stagnant.
So it needs to be drained.
- Basin = your blood plasma
- Water in the sink = ApoB containing lipoproteins (VLDL, LDL, remnants)
Clearance is the drain. If the water stays in the sink too long, it gets stagnant.
So it needs to be drained.
But the sink only has a hydraulic foot pump. With every pump, it just removes a little bit of water.
It’s hydraulic, so pushing it harder won’t result in more water being drained.
So that pump must be working constantly. The more often, the better.
It’s frequency that matters.
It’s hydraulic, so pushing it harder won’t result in more water being drained.
So that pump must be working constantly. The more often, the better.
It’s frequency that matters.
Kaiser Permanente is aggressively negligent—and has specialized in denying me care since October 7, 2025 to mitigate the multi systems debilitation from a fluoroquinolone antibiotic that never should’ve been prescribed by their negligent cornea surgeon.
Zero informed consent. Zero disclosure of risk. Medical battery.
It is March 18, 2026 and I spend every day doing nothing but fighting Kaiser for care and spending every moment sick and debilitated.
I was happy in September 2025. Robustly healthy. My body just worked —as it had for 61 years—in large part out of the fierce discipline I apply to maintaining the most powerful and effective evidence-based eating and exercise.
I will probably never again walk normally, and I will lose all of my ability to balance as they currently deny me the necessary IV magnesium to decrease the enormous edema and stop the death of muscle in my foot that will progressively lead to my needing a prosthetic or brace to be able to stand without falling over.
Someone might tell Kaiser CEO Gregory Adams to look at my posts.
Urgently. At the moment I have my primary care doctor pretending to have knowledge and scope of practice in fluoroquinolone antibiotic injury.
If he actually had that, he would know that Fluoroquinolone injury leads calculated magnesium, which is why I am taking a sickeningly high oral dose and getting almost none of it.
Harming my health as he sits there refusing the IV infusions I need if you’ve even stuck your toe in the fluoroquinolone research.
Necessary order: IV magnesium sulfate in 9% saline (I refuse glucose solution), twice a week, two hours each so I won’t get sick—and yes I knew this order off the top of my head because I’m a fucking transdisciplinary medical expert, as opposed to just pretending.
This is a fucking emergency to save my ability to balance and reduce some of the horrific oxidative harm I’m suffering from the mitochondrial damage, neurotoxicity, elevated matrix metalloproteinases and flooding oxidative stress from mobs of reactive oxygen species.
Below:
1. What has been taken from me by the monstrous aggressive negligence of Kaiser Permanente.
Which is everything.
2. The sickening business of Kaiser Permanente as a denial of care provider—after I was harmed by their negligent cornea surgeon whose ignorance about the medications she prescribes is likely harming every single patient she has.
I’ve notified Kaiser of this repeatedly and told them I would talk with any scientific expert they have to detail the evidence on this.
I put them on notice that they should have an expert on steroids, the immune system, ocular medications and ocular science oversee every prescription she gives out—and by expert, I don’t mean the arrogant but scientifically ignorant (see below for details) Chief of Service of ophthalmology.
If you are getting eye surgery at Kaiser, there is a strong likelihood that you will be given prescriptions that will damage your eyes and health. With no disclosure.
Somebody needs to look at how many patients of this doctor might’ve glaucoma from the egregious overdose of corticosteroids she prescribes for DMEK transplants—even to extremely metabolically healthy patients like me.
No w it’s possible she’s just a scientific ignoramus with a prescription pad with no untoward intent.
But I can’t help but wonder whether she gives an overdose amount of corticosteroids because she is prioritizing her transplant win record at the expense of patients overall health and their vision itself.
In short, the question must be asked: How many patients are now blind or very close to it because she gave them excessive doses of steroids?
And let me just tell you, I desperately hope the answer is “none,” and “you’re an idiot, Amy Alkon.”
But I suspect the answer is way on the other end of that. Horrific.
Zero informed consent. Zero disclosure of risk. Medical battery.
It is March 18, 2026 and I spend every day doing nothing but fighting Kaiser for care and spending every moment sick and debilitated.
I was happy in September 2025. Robustly healthy. My body just worked —as it had for 61 years—in large part out of the fierce discipline I apply to maintaining the most powerful and effective evidence-based eating and exercise.
I will probably never again walk normally, and I will lose all of my ability to balance as they currently deny me the necessary IV magnesium to decrease the enormous edema and stop the death of muscle in my foot that will progressively lead to my needing a prosthetic or brace to be able to stand without falling over.
Someone might tell Kaiser CEO Gregory Adams to look at my posts.
Urgently. At the moment I have my primary care doctor pretending to have knowledge and scope of practice in fluoroquinolone antibiotic injury.
If he actually had that, he would know that Fluoroquinolone injury leads calculated magnesium, which is why I am taking a sickeningly high oral dose and getting almost none of it.
Harming my health as he sits there refusing the IV infusions I need if you’ve even stuck your toe in the fluoroquinolone research.
Necessary order: IV magnesium sulfate in 9% saline (I refuse glucose solution), twice a week, two hours each so I won’t get sick—and yes I knew this order off the top of my head because I’m a fucking transdisciplinary medical expert, as opposed to just pretending.
This is a fucking emergency to save my ability to balance and reduce some of the horrific oxidative harm I’m suffering from the mitochondrial damage, neurotoxicity, elevated matrix metalloproteinases and flooding oxidative stress from mobs of reactive oxygen species.
Below:
1. What has been taken from me by the monstrous aggressive negligence of Kaiser Permanente.
Which is everything.
2. The sickening business of Kaiser Permanente as a denial of care provider—after I was harmed by their negligent cornea surgeon whose ignorance about the medications she prescribes is likely harming every single patient she has.
I’ve notified Kaiser of this repeatedly and told them I would talk with any scientific expert they have to detail the evidence on this.
I put them on notice that they should have an expert on steroids, the immune system, ocular medications and ocular science oversee every prescription she gives out—and by expert, I don’t mean the arrogant but scientifically ignorant (see below for details) Chief of Service of ophthalmology.
If you are getting eye surgery at Kaiser, there is a strong likelihood that you will be given prescriptions that will damage your eyes and health. With no disclosure.
Somebody needs to look at how many patients of this doctor might’ve glaucoma from the egregious overdose of corticosteroids she prescribes for DMEK transplants—even to extremely metabolically healthy patients like me.
No w it’s possible she’s just a scientific ignoramus with a prescription pad with no untoward intent.
But I can’t help but wonder whether she gives an overdose amount of corticosteroids because she is prioritizing her transplant win record at the expense of patients overall health and their vision itself.
In short, the question must be asked: How many patients are now blind or very close to it because she gave them excessive doses of steroids?
And let me just tell you, I desperately hope the answer is “none,” and “you’re an idiot, Amy Alkon.”
But I suspect the answer is way on the other end of that. Horrific.
@KPMemberService file this below as an urgent grievance & transmit it to Gregory Adams, CEO of Kaiser.
Not one of you who takes down my grievances (all incorrect in some way) wants the sort of “care“ I’ve been given.
Example, putting yourself in my shoes:
You were a runner all your life. Love love love running. It is part of who you are. So much so that when there was no girls cross country team in jr high, you begged Mr. Ford, the math teacher/coach of the boys team, to let you on. He was good with that & the guys were great. You sucked compared with with the boys, because well, sex differences & boys’ greater physical capacity.
But you were happy every moment of coming in late to the finish line w/the runts of the litter, 7th-grader boys who still looked 8 years old.
You came to Venice in the 90s and you ran 7 miles three times a week. LOVED IT! From around Venice Blvd & Abbott Kinney all the way to Montana Boulevard and Ocean Ave and back.
And you’d run late at night. Always after 10 and the rule was just that you had to be home by 2 AM.
Greatest time. Cool night air. Motown in your ears, waving to the valets at Joes on Abbot Kinney and then those on Ocean Avenue as you passed, and you felt as you always do running: Powerful. Soaring.
Running is an integral part of who you are. Your body and your mind are one. And you feel like you can do anything while you’re infused with that power, and this is very important.
It gives you the energy to pursue what should be impossible endeavors. Like how you’re told by all the newspaper syndicators that though your problem is the most popular thing in the future section of the New York Daily News, Dear Abby and Ann Landers have all the real estate in daily papers and there will never be any meaningful space for you and you will never make money.
Amy the runner: I can fly! I’ll show them!
And show them I did. I syndicated my own column myself to over 100 papers.
And when I was down about something, I knew I needed to go for a run to make my heart fly as I flew, and I’d come home renewed and ready to attack whatever problem there was or just a perspective on some bummerino situation.
In the past few years, I dispersed my runs with this crazy vigorous dancing to Motown on my porch for 20 minutes in the morning. Part running really hard in place and part dancing my ass off till I do that very badly and can’t clap on the beat. And I was so happy doing this and I spread that by calling out to people walking by on the sidewalk across the street, “Have a beautiful day!”
Why did I say that? Because I could! Because it’s nice to be nice! And when you’re feeling energized and powerful through your own movement, there’s a joy you feel that you want to spread.
Every bit of that has been taken from me by Kaiser Permanente. Both through the cornea surgeon’s extreme negligence in prescribing me a fluoroquinolone antibiotic concurrently w a glucocorticoid as a patient over 60. Basically FDA FQ black box of 2008 as recipe for “care”—& yes you can get systemic effects from ocular. See case reports & chemical pathology. Some of which I probably detailed in docs above.
Oh, I demand you also tell Kaiser CEO Gregory Adams to look at letter I sent cornea surgeon on Oct 7, 1:45 AM. Also 2nd letter to her, initially stuck in drafts. Also letter to head of neuro documenting how scientifically unfit he is for his job & other letter to new neurologist. Also doc about incompetently written MRIs by gaslighting, outside-scope-of-practice head of phys med.
Anyway, the formerly powerfully happy runner I was in September 2025
can’t get to the kitchen w/o falling unless she grabs on to surfaces. Terrifying progression of debilitation. Since Sunday, I can barely walk at all. Each step is precarious & difficult.
KP denying me scientifically warranted care & even a diagnosis from practitioner w scope of practice is leaving me progressively & likely irreversibly debilitated.
Medical fucking evil.
Not one of you who takes down my grievances (all incorrect in some way) wants the sort of “care“ I’ve been given.
Example, putting yourself in my shoes:
You were a runner all your life. Love love love running. It is part of who you are. So much so that when there was no girls cross country team in jr high, you begged Mr. Ford, the math teacher/coach of the boys team, to let you on. He was good with that & the guys were great. You sucked compared with with the boys, because well, sex differences & boys’ greater physical capacity.
But you were happy every moment of coming in late to the finish line w/the runts of the litter, 7th-grader boys who still looked 8 years old.
You came to Venice in the 90s and you ran 7 miles three times a week. LOVED IT! From around Venice Blvd & Abbott Kinney all the way to Montana Boulevard and Ocean Ave and back.
And you’d run late at night. Always after 10 and the rule was just that you had to be home by 2 AM.
Greatest time. Cool night air. Motown in your ears, waving to the valets at Joes on Abbot Kinney and then those on Ocean Avenue as you passed, and you felt as you always do running: Powerful. Soaring.
Running is an integral part of who you are. Your body and your mind are one. And you feel like you can do anything while you’re infused with that power, and this is very important.
It gives you the energy to pursue what should be impossible endeavors. Like how you’re told by all the newspaper syndicators that though your problem is the most popular thing in the future section of the New York Daily News, Dear Abby and Ann Landers have all the real estate in daily papers and there will never be any meaningful space for you and you will never make money.
Amy the runner: I can fly! I’ll show them!
And show them I did. I syndicated my own column myself to over 100 papers.
And when I was down about something, I knew I needed to go for a run to make my heart fly as I flew, and I’d come home renewed and ready to attack whatever problem there was or just a perspective on some bummerino situation.
In the past few years, I dispersed my runs with this crazy vigorous dancing to Motown on my porch for 20 minutes in the morning. Part running really hard in place and part dancing my ass off till I do that very badly and can’t clap on the beat. And I was so happy doing this and I spread that by calling out to people walking by on the sidewalk across the street, “Have a beautiful day!”
Why did I say that? Because I could! Because it’s nice to be nice! And when you’re feeling energized and powerful through your own movement, there’s a joy you feel that you want to spread.
Every bit of that has been taken from me by Kaiser Permanente. Both through the cornea surgeon’s extreme negligence in prescribing me a fluoroquinolone antibiotic concurrently w a glucocorticoid as a patient over 60. Basically FDA FQ black box of 2008 as recipe for “care”—& yes you can get systemic effects from ocular. See case reports & chemical pathology. Some of which I probably detailed in docs above.
Oh, I demand you also tell Kaiser CEO Gregory Adams to look at letter I sent cornea surgeon on Oct 7, 1:45 AM. Also 2nd letter to her, initially stuck in drafts. Also letter to head of neuro documenting how scientifically unfit he is for his job & other letter to new neurologist. Also doc about incompetently written MRIs by gaslighting, outside-scope-of-practice head of phys med.
Anyway, the formerly powerfully happy runner I was in September 2025
can’t get to the kitchen w/o falling unless she grabs on to surfaces. Terrifying progression of debilitation. Since Sunday, I can barely walk at all. Each step is precarious & difficult.
KP denying me scientifically warranted care & even a diagnosis from practitioner w scope of practice is leaving me progressively & likely irreversibly debilitated.
Medical fucking evil.
@threadreaderapp unroll
So just so we're clear on things. October 7, 2023 was the largest mass murder of Jews since the holocaust including execution of children and animals and innocent concerts goers. Innocent people were RPG rocket killed in their cars. They were executed in their homes.
Hamas and Hamas adjacent filmed and kidnapped several females and repeatedly sexually assaulted them over and over and over. And then executed them.
There were literal dead baby parades from Hamas. They did the whole foot clan soldier in green headband thing and everything.
And the only time that the New York Times or @NickKristof, a proven serial fabulist took any interest in all of this was so that he could write a story about how the IDF trained rape dogs. Dogs that rape. Rape dogs. Dogs. Dogs that do not give consent.
This was an idea that the New York Times actually said yes let's run with this.
Hamas and Hamas adjacent filmed and kidnapped several females and repeatedly sexually assaulted them over and over and over. And then executed them.
There were literal dead baby parades from Hamas. They did the whole foot clan soldier in green headband thing and everything.
And the only time that the New York Times or @NickKristof, a proven serial fabulist took any interest in all of this was so that he could write a story about how the IDF trained rape dogs. Dogs that rape. Rape dogs. Dogs. Dogs that do not give consent.
This was an idea that the New York Times actually said yes let's run with this.
This is the equivalent of Hamas is a simple peaceful party while Israel is training Dolphins with fricken laser beams on their heads.
All done by a guy that the New York Times pays and knows is a Hillary Clinton advisor, guy who claimed he could not find antifa in Portland and had to apologize for being a serial fabulous
@NickKristof
All done by a guy that the New York Times pays and knows is a Hillary Clinton advisor, guy who claimed he could not find antifa in Portland and had to apologize for being a serial fabulous
@NickKristof
I feel a deep urge to shove a piece of paper like this down the throat of everyone who says that things in Mariupol “aren’t so clear-cut.”
Here’s what the owners of properties in Mariupol get now. I also know about the same in Berdyansk.
“Russian Federation
Donetsk People’s Republic
ADMINISTRATION
OF THE MARIUPOL CITY DISTRICT
OF THE DONETSK PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
NOTICE
The Administration of the Mariupol City District (hereinafter — the Administration), acting in the interests of the owner of the real estate property located at the following address (hereinafter — residential premises/apartment):
[address handwritten]
hereby notifies you of the following:
Due to the absence of title documents for the specified real estate property, properly registered in accordance with the law, you are required within three working days to vacate the apartment and hand over the full set of keys to the residential premises to an authorized representative of the Administration.
In the event of refusal to vacate or violation of the evacuation deadline from the specified residential premises, sanctions assumed by Article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, and Articles 139 and 330 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, may be applied against you.
Notified:
(signature) — (full name) — (date:)”
Here’s what the owners of properties in Mariupol get now. I also know about the same in Berdyansk.
“Russian Federation
Donetsk People’s Republic
ADMINISTRATION
OF THE MARIUPOL CITY DISTRICT
OF THE DONETSK PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
NOTICE
The Administration of the Mariupol City District (hereinafter — the Administration), acting in the interests of the owner of the real estate property located at the following address (hereinafter — residential premises/apartment):
[address handwritten]
hereby notifies you of the following:
Due to the absence of title documents for the specified real estate property, properly registered in accordance with the law, you are required within three working days to vacate the apartment and hand over the full set of keys to the residential premises to an authorized representative of the Administration.
In the event of refusal to vacate or violation of the evacuation deadline from the specified residential premises, sanctions assumed by Article 19.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, and Articles 139 and 330 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, may be applied against you.
Notified:
(signature) — (full name) — (date:)”
Remember these papers when the time comes to evict the Russians from the Crimea and Mariupol, and other places.
One of my friends - a Ukrainian fighter - lost a family home and a business in the Crimea in 2015. There are Russians there now.
He says that he dreams of coming there and just looking in the eyes of these people. He wouldn’t harm them. He’d just give them two hours to pack their things and leave.
One of my friends - a Ukrainian fighter - lost a family home and a business in the Crimea in 2015. There are Russians there now.
He says that he dreams of coming there and just looking in the eyes of these people. He wouldn’t harm them. He’d just give them two hours to pack their things and leave.
A German friend told me today he was struck by how Ukraine seemed to be regaining control over the dynamics of the war. I would not call it a strategic turn yet. But the shift is real. Here are three reasons why👇
1. Moscow’s model of war has stumbled.
That model rested on four assumptions: Ukraine would be exhausted; the West would walk away; Ukraine’s energy system and economy would collapse; and Kyiv would fail to solve its problems both in the rear and on the battlefield.
Meanwhile, Putin’s supposed genius would keep Russia on top, while its economy and society would absorb any cost.
Putin miscalculated across the board—partially in some cases, completely in others. Moscow is not yet losing the war. But it is losing its model of war, and that failure is becoming visible.
That model rested on four assumptions: Ukraine would be exhausted; the West would walk away; Ukraine’s energy system and economy would collapse; and Kyiv would fail to solve its problems both in the rear and on the battlefield.
Meanwhile, Putin’s supposed genius would keep Russia on top, while its economy and society would absorb any cost.
Putin miscalculated across the board—partially in some cases, completely in others. Moscow is not yet losing the war. But it is losing its model of war, and that failure is becoming visible.
2. The air combat balance has changed.
In the first five months of 2026, Ukraine restored a qualitative edge in drones and narrowed the gap in long-range strike power.
Protection against ballistic missiles remains Ukraine’s key vulnerability. Otherwise, its air defence and strike capabilities have grown stronger. Russia, meanwhile, has lost the ability to simply press by mass, guarantee advances on the front, and shield its rear from Ukrainian strikes.
The result is clear: pressure on Ukraine has stabilized, while pressure on Russia has increased.
In the first five months of 2026, Ukraine restored a qualitative edge in drones and narrowed the gap in long-range strike power.
Protection against ballistic missiles remains Ukraine’s key vulnerability. Otherwise, its air defence and strike capabilities have grown stronger. Russia, meanwhile, has lost the ability to simply press by mass, guarantee advances on the front, and shield its rear from Ukrainian strikes.
The result is clear: pressure on Ukraine has stabilized, while pressure on Russia has increased.
Germany and Ukraine will jointly produce long range drones that can fly 1,500 km.
Ukraine needs reach to hit launch sites and logistics deep behind Russian lines.
Germany wants Ukraine’s battlefield feedback loop built into production — Kyiv Post. 1/
Ukraine needs reach to hit launch sites and logistics deep behind Russian lines.
Germany wants Ukraine’s battlefield feedback loop built into production — Kyiv Post. 1/
Boris Pistorius came to Kyiv quietly for a reason.
Weapons cooperation is no longer about just deliveries. Now Ukraine is building joint manufacturing capacity. 2/
Weapons cooperation is no longer about just deliveries. Now Ukraine is building joint manufacturing capacity. 2/
The project spans two layers.
Short range systems under 100 km for the front, and deep strike platforms up to 1,500 km. 3/
Short range systems under 100 km for the front, and deep strike platforms up to 1,500 km. 3/
Right before you fall asleep, your hands and feet get warmer. That warming is the real trigger that switches your brain into sleep mode. A 1999 Nature paper tested it against melatonin, core body temperature, heart rate, and how sleepy people felt. The hand and foot warming won.
The drawing in the tweet works on this exact trigger. The pose has a name in Japan: Mōkan Undō, or "capillary exercise." Katsuzō Nishi designed it in 1927. He was the chief technical engineer on the Tokyo subway, Japan's first. It became one of six daily exercises in his system, still done in Japan today.
You lie on your back, point your arms and legs straight up, and shake them for thirty seconds. While the limbs are up, gravity drains the blood from them. When you lower them, the blood floods back into your hands and feet, warming them in seconds. Your brain reads that warming as a green light to sleep.
The shaking activates a separate reflex, the kind most mammals use after a scare. Dogs and rabbits shake themselves off after a fright for the same reason. Dr. David Berceli, a trauma therapist, built a whole method around it, with certified instructors now in 40 countries. The shaking flips your nervous system out of "I'm wired" mode and into "I'm safe to sleep" mode.
Nishi got the biology wrong. He believed capillaries, the tiny blood vessels at the ends of your veins, did the pumping. William Harvey, an English doctor, had shown the heart did the work, three centuries earlier, in 1628. The exercise still works, for entirely different reasons than Nishi thought. The drained limbs come back warm. The body reads that as a sleep cue, and the shaking calms the nervous system on top of it.
A drawing on X with millions of views just rediscovered a 100-year-old Japanese sleep exercise. A subway engineer designed it first, decades before sleep scientists figured out why it would work.
The drawing in the tweet works on this exact trigger. The pose has a name in Japan: Mōkan Undō, or "capillary exercise." Katsuzō Nishi designed it in 1927. He was the chief technical engineer on the Tokyo subway, Japan's first. It became one of six daily exercises in his system, still done in Japan today.
You lie on your back, point your arms and legs straight up, and shake them for thirty seconds. While the limbs are up, gravity drains the blood from them. When you lower them, the blood floods back into your hands and feet, warming them in seconds. Your brain reads that warming as a green light to sleep.
The shaking activates a separate reflex, the kind most mammals use after a scare. Dogs and rabbits shake themselves off after a fright for the same reason. Dr. David Berceli, a trauma therapist, built a whole method around it, with certified instructors now in 40 countries. The shaking flips your nervous system out of "I'm wired" mode and into "I'm safe to sleep" mode.
Nishi got the biology wrong. He believed capillaries, the tiny blood vessels at the ends of your veins, did the pumping. William Harvey, an English doctor, had shown the heart did the work, three centuries earlier, in 1628. The exercise still works, for entirely different reasons than Nishi thought. The drained limbs come back warm. The body reads that as a sleep cue, and the shaking calms the nervous system on top of it.
A drawing on X with millions of views just rediscovered a 100-year-old Japanese sleep exercise. A subway engineer designed it first, decades before sleep scientists figured out why it would work.
Thanks for going down this rabbit hole ❤️
Follow @anishmoonka for daily stories across science, history, psychology, culture & AI.
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Sources:
Kräuchi 1999 Nature — “Warm feet promote the rapid onset of sleep”
nature.com/articles/43366
Raymann 2005 Am J Physiol — “Cutaneous warming promotes sleep onset” (causal follow-up to Kräuchi 1999)
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…
Nishi Shiki — Wikipedia entry covering the six exercises including mōkan undō
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishi_Shi…
Katsuzō Nishi — biography with Tokyo subway role
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuz%C5…
TRE Global — Dr. David Berceli’s Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises
treglobal.org
Follow @anishmoonka for daily stories across science, history, psychology, culture & AI.
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Sources:
Kräuchi 1999 Nature — “Warm feet promote the rapid onset of sleep”
nature.com/articles/43366
Raymann 2005 Am J Physiol — “Cutaneous warming promotes sleep onset” (causal follow-up to Kräuchi 1999)
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…
Nishi Shiki — Wikipedia entry covering the six exercises including mōkan undō
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishi_Shi…
Katsuzō Nishi — biography with Tokyo subway role
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuz%C5…
TRE Global — Dr. David Berceli’s Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises
treglobal.org
Part 2. Japan has the shortest average sleep in the developed world, and the longest average life. Sleep: seven hours and twenty-two minutes a night. Life: eighty-five years. Japanese women have topped the global life expectancy chart for forty straight years.
The drawing in the tweet is part of something bigger. The Japanese have built small daily physical rituals into national life at a scale no other country matches. Each week, more than twenty million Japanese take part in a ten-minute calisthenics broadcast that airs every morning on national radio. The broadcast is called Radio Taiso. It has aired daily at 6:30 AM since 1928.
Radio Taiso came from America. In the 1920s, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company aired a radio calisthenics program for its policyholders. Japanese postal officials visited, brought the idea home, and built a national infrastructure around it. The Americans abandoned theirs decades ago. The Japanese still do theirs.
Sleep deprivation costs the Japanese economy fifteen trillion yen a year, about one hundred billion dollars. Thirty-nine percent of Japanese adults sleep under six hours a night. They are not sleeping well. But they are doing something the rest of the developed world has stopped doing: showing up, in groups, daily, for free, to move their bodies in the same way at the same time.
Japan has more centenarians per capita than almost any country on Earth, roughly three times the US rate. As of late 2025, the count was ninety-nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-three people aged a hundred or older, virtually identical to the US total in a country one-third the size. Japan has set a new national record fifty-five years running.
The US sleep aid industry runs to about forty-four billion dollars a year. Melatonin gummies, weighted blankets, sleep tracking rings, mattress brands, prescription sedatives. The Japanese counterpart is a drawing of someone lying on their back, flapping hands and feet for thirty seconds before bed, now at 5.3 million views on X.
Nobody is selling it. That might be why it works.
The drawing in the tweet is part of something bigger. The Japanese have built small daily physical rituals into national life at a scale no other country matches. Each week, more than twenty million Japanese take part in a ten-minute calisthenics broadcast that airs every morning on national radio. The broadcast is called Radio Taiso. It has aired daily at 6:30 AM since 1928.
Radio Taiso came from America. In the 1920s, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company aired a radio calisthenics program for its policyholders. Japanese postal officials visited, brought the idea home, and built a national infrastructure around it. The Americans abandoned theirs decades ago. The Japanese still do theirs.
Sleep deprivation costs the Japanese economy fifteen trillion yen a year, about one hundred billion dollars. Thirty-nine percent of Japanese adults sleep under six hours a night. They are not sleeping well. But they are doing something the rest of the developed world has stopped doing: showing up, in groups, daily, for free, to move their bodies in the same way at the same time.
Japan has more centenarians per capita than almost any country on Earth, roughly three times the US rate. As of late 2025, the count was ninety-nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-three people aged a hundred or older, virtually identical to the US total in a country one-third the size. Japan has set a new national record fifty-five years running.
The US sleep aid industry runs to about forty-four billion dollars a year. Melatonin gummies, weighted blankets, sleep tracking rings, mattress brands, prescription sedatives. The Japanese counterpart is a drawing of someone lying on their back, flapping hands and feet for thirty seconds before bed, now at 5.3 million views on X.
Nobody is selling it. That might be why it works.
Pranayama is the #1 bio hack on Earth.
It fixes depression, chronic stress, and reverses aging naturally.
Recently, I've been researching its healing benefits. What I found will blow your mind...
Here's what it is and how to perform it the right way (according to science): 🧵
It fixes depression, chronic stress, and reverses aging naturally.
Recently, I've been researching its healing benefits. What I found will blow your mind...
Here's what it is and how to perform it the right way (according to science): 🧵
Your breath controls every single function in your body.
Yet 99% of people breathe wrong their entire lives.
This isn't just about oxygen - it's about activating genetic switches that Big Pharma spends billions trying to trigger with drugs.
Ancient yogis mastered this 2,500 years ago.
Yet 99% of people breathe wrong their entire lives.
This isn't just about oxygen - it's about activating genetic switches that Big Pharma spends billions trying to trigger with drugs.
Ancient yogis mastered this 2,500 years ago.
A single 90-second breath hold triggers a 556% increase in growth hormone.
The 1986 Djarova study proved it - hyperventilation plus breath retention increased HGH by up to 5.56-fold.
Pharmaceutical companies charge thousands for weaker results.
This costs nothing.
The 1986 Djarova study proved it - hyperventilation plus breath retention increased HGH by up to 5.56-fold.
Pharmaceutical companies charge thousands for weaker results.
This costs nothing.
25 Things That Will Transform Your Life If You Start Them In 15 MAY.
1. Do a complete life inventory - files, wardrobe, subscriptions, contacts. Eliminate what's dead weight.
1. Do a complete life inventory - files, wardrobe, subscriptions, contacts. Eliminate what's dead weight.
2. Create "anti-goals" - document what you refuse to tolerate this year. Self-imposed boundaries hit different.
3. Write a letter to your future self. Unseal it in December. Witness how far you've traveled.
4. Stop consuming news first thing in the morning. Your mind deserves serenity before chaos.
5. Schedule "thinking time" - 20 minutes of sitting with zero input. Breakthrough ideas live in silence not noise.
3. Write a letter to your future self. Unseal it in December. Witness how far you've traveled.
4. Stop consuming news first thing in the morning. Your mind deserves serenity before chaos.
5. Schedule "thinking time" - 20 minutes of sitting with zero input. Breakthrough ideas live in silence not noise.
6. Write down your top 3 priorities every morning. If everything matters nothing does.
7. End every day by documenting one thing you discovered. Small awareness compounds into profound wisdom.
8. Review your spending - separate what fuels energy from what drains it. Eliminate the drains ruthlessly.
9. Do a relationship inventory. Who energizes you? Who exhausts you?
10. Invest one hour learning about money. Financial literacy = freedom.
7. End every day by documenting one thing you discovered. Small awareness compounds into profound wisdom.
8. Review your spending - separate what fuels energy from what drains it. Eliminate the drains ruthlessly.
9. Do a relationship inventory. Who energizes you? Who exhausts you?
10. Invest one hour learning about money. Financial literacy = freedom.
The Credit Cycle Melt UP and Coming Crash 🧵
We have seen one of the greatest melt ups in US history since the 2022 lows, as we begin entering unknown territory of the highest valuations in human history
The melt up isn't driven by europhoria or sentiment, it is driven by liquidity and credit that is directly linked to the AI retooling occurring in the financial market and underlying economy
This thread is meant to be a complete breakdown of HOW to think about what is happening, and WHEN risks begin to build that will cause the next bear market 🧵
We have seen one of the greatest melt ups in US history since the 2022 lows, as we begin entering unknown territory of the highest valuations in human history
The melt up isn't driven by europhoria or sentiment, it is driven by liquidity and credit that is directly linked to the AI retooling occurring in the financial market and underlying economy
This thread is meant to be a complete breakdown of HOW to think about what is happening, and WHEN risks begin to build that will cause the next bear market 🧵
The current credit cycle melt-up is being driven by two things:
1) Financial market liquidity is expanding AT THE SAME TIME credit is being injected into the underlying economy. This creates a reflexive feedback loop between the market and economy as they feed on each other and risk assets are the release valve of this liquidity and credit.
2) AI is fundamentally retooling the market and economy in a manner that people don't really understand yet. AI is speeding up the pace at which goods and services are transacted in the economy. It now costs a lot less to spin up a company, market it, and build a brand. This can happen with very little upfront capital which means that more businesses generate cash flow with less up front investment. On net this basically injects more cash into the system without being very capital intensive. The same thing is happening in financial markets with capital allocation decisions.
The problem is that there is an increasing amount of money chasing the same amount of investments even though things in the economy and market are operating faster due to AI.
I have been explaining all of these factors daily on the livestreams I do and in the daily reports i send out (both of which can be found on my website which is linked in my bio)
1) Financial market liquidity is expanding AT THE SAME TIME credit is being injected into the underlying economy. This creates a reflexive feedback loop between the market and economy as they feed on each other and risk assets are the release valve of this liquidity and credit.
2) AI is fundamentally retooling the market and economy in a manner that people don't really understand yet. AI is speeding up the pace at which goods and services are transacted in the economy. It now costs a lot less to spin up a company, market it, and build a brand. This can happen with very little upfront capital which means that more businesses generate cash flow with less up front investment. On net this basically injects more cash into the system without being very capital intensive. The same thing is happening in financial markets with capital allocation decisions.
The problem is that there is an increasing amount of money chasing the same amount of investments even though things in the economy and market are operating faster due to AI.
I have been explaining all of these factors daily on the livestreams I do and in the daily reports i send out (both of which can be found on my website which is linked in my bio)
The biggest misconception in markets right now is thinking that AI or the macro credit cycle are independent. Right now, the entire capex side the market is helping drive spending in the underlying economy as oil prices surge which is helping push long end interest rates marginally higher.
It is no mistake that companies like Caterpillar are moving in lockstep with AI factor flows showing that the AI flows in markets are reverberating across every industry. Why? Because hardware is meeting software in a total retooling of the global economy.
It is no mistake that companies like Caterpillar are moving in lockstep with AI factor flows showing that the AI flows in markets are reverberating across every industry. Why? Because hardware is meeting software in a total retooling of the global economy.
1/ 🧵 New Report: Systematic Violence on October 7th—a comprehensive report detailing the patterns of violence committed by Hamas & its collaborators on Oct 7 and against hostages in Gaza. The findings describe a deliberate "architecture of terror."
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⚠️ Warning: Graphic Content
2/ Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV):
•Rape & Gang Rape: Brutal assaults on both women and men.
•Sexual Torture: Intentional mutilation and burning.
•Genital Mutilation: Evidence of foreign objects (nails, tools) used in attacks.
2/ Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV):
•Rape & Gang Rape: Brutal assaults on both women and men.
•Sexual Torture: Intentional mutilation and burning.
•Genital Mutilation: Evidence of foreign objects (nails, tools) used in attacks.
3/ Targeting Personhood Perpetrators followed a recurring pattern of targeting the head, face, and genital areas of female victims. The commission concludes this was a deliberate effort to disfigure victims and "erase their personhood" during and after execution.
法的措置(笑)とか差し押さえ(笑)をするらしい。
できるもんならやってみてほしい。
もしできるんだったら俺も同じビジネスモデルで小遣い稼ぎ始めるわ。
できるもんならやってみてほしい。
もしできるんだったら俺も同じビジネスモデルで小遣い稼ぎ始めるわ。
まずはおじさんにレスバ仕掛けて「法的措置と差し押さえによる脅迫を受けました><」って東弁(笑)に泣きつくところから始めよう。