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@fd_crypto @ne_vluchiv Russians openly in 2014 were showing Russian soldiers in Donetsk on their State Owned TV channel.
Putin himself said that occupation Crimea and DPR/LPR were mostly Russian soldiers doing. Putin gives military awards for Russian soldiers with date 20.02.2014.
Putin himself said that occupation Crimea and DPR/LPR were mostly Russian soldiers doing. Putin gives military awards for Russian soldiers with date 20.02.2014.
@fd_crypto @ne_vluchiv to Russian soldiers*
Also 20.02.2014 is BEFORE Euromaidan was even over and before Yanukovych fled the country.
So Russians started occupation of Crimea and military involvement in other regions few weeks before anything was even resolved on Maidan.
Also 20.02.2014 is BEFORE Euromaidan was even over and before Yanukovych fled the country.
So Russians started occupation of Crimea and military involvement in other regions few weeks before anything was even resolved on Maidan.
@fd_crypto @ne_vluchiv Russia tried to do similar thing to Donetsk and Luhansk in 5 more regions, but failed.
For example, in Odesa they had armed personel trying to seize administrative buildings and they also attacked pro-Ukrainian march.
For example, in Odesa they had armed personel trying to seize administrative buildings and they also attacked pro-Ukrainian march.
The GSR has now dipped to 77.3 — deeper into the yellow box than in any recent weeks. The yellow box here captures the GSR range between the lows in July and October of 2024. Getting below this range forecasts a much more dramatic move to the downside that will last until 2028 👀‼️
The move down to make a lower low this week suggests a continuation of the overall downtrend. The recent dead cat bounce topped out at 82.37. This is a historically significant level, established by the top of the ratio in 2003, tapped again from below in 2008.
Rejecting the 82.86 level calls for a much longer-term hypothetical outlook. Strap in. It’s a long walk 👇👇😬
In 2003, the GSR breakdown from 82.86 lead to a collapse of -47.61% that lasted for ~three years and bottomed at a 43.15 in 2006.
In 2008, the GSR breakdown from 82.86 lead to a collapse of -62.06% that lasted for ~three years and bottomed at 31.70 in 2011.
Therefore, the target and timing for the incoming GSR bottom is somewhere between 43.15 and 31.70 in 2028. Let’s split the difference and call it 37:1 for sake of argument. This will be the range within which I trade some of my silver for gold. Not all of it, and not all at once, but some of it — maybe half — in 10% tranches spread out over several trades.
In a previously pinned post, I predicted a first mid-cycle target for silver of $250/oz in 2028. At $250/oz, a gold-silver ratio of 37:1 puts gold at around $9,250/oz. This will mark the end of the first third of the secular bull market and the beginning of the second third.
👉👉 x.com/potassium_phd/…
At this point in 2028, GSR ~37:1 — entering the second third of the secular bull market — the GSR will likely begin another multi-year uptrend. Overall metals prices in USD will continue going up by massive percentages until the mid-late 2030s, but in 2028, gold will begin to outperform silver again and it will be advantageous to be heavier in gold than silver at that time — as it was in 2011 and 2021 — to ride the ratio up.
After the GSR bottoms in 2028, it will likely reverse for ~3-4 years. It may not reach 82.37 again by 2032, but it could get close. Let’s call it 75:1 for sake of argument. As such, there will be a second mid-cycle opportunity to trade gold for silver in 2031-2032 and ride the ratio down again. At this time, silver will be ~$700/oz and gold will be ~$52,500/oz.
In all, the history of the GSR suggests that there will be two ripe opportunities to trade metal for metal over the next 7-8 years. It directs us now to be heavier in silver, and to trade silver for gold in 2028 to maximize gains in the second third of the secular bull market. Around 2032, it will be time to trade gold for silver again to ride the ratio down for the third third of the cycle — and the secular bull market top.
The ultimate top for metals will not be in until 2036 - 2038. At the top, silver will be at least $1700/oz and gold will be at least $62,900/oz. In the long run, buying gold or silver now will be unbelievably profitable. Those who own either will be catapulted into an entirely new economic class.
I will address my full-cycle market top prediction in more detail in later posts, but in short, here is the rough plan:
Present: $53/oz silver, $4,150/oz gold. GSR ~78. Stack mostly silver.
2028: $250/oz silver, $9,250/oz gold. GSR ~37. Trade silver for gold.
2032: $700/oz silver, $52,500/oz gold. GSR ~75. Trade gold for silver.
2036-2038: $1700/oz silver, $62,900/oz gold. GSR ~37. Trade silver for gold and metal for land.
Thank you for reading. I know it was too long.
Stay tuned 🫡
The move down to make a lower low this week suggests a continuation of the overall downtrend. The recent dead cat bounce topped out at 82.37. This is a historically significant level, established by the top of the ratio in 2003, tapped again from below in 2008.
Rejecting the 82.86 level calls for a much longer-term hypothetical outlook. Strap in. It’s a long walk 👇👇😬
In 2003, the GSR breakdown from 82.86 lead to a collapse of -47.61% that lasted for ~three years and bottomed at a 43.15 in 2006.
In 2008, the GSR breakdown from 82.86 lead to a collapse of -62.06% that lasted for ~three years and bottomed at 31.70 in 2011.
Therefore, the target and timing for the incoming GSR bottom is somewhere between 43.15 and 31.70 in 2028. Let’s split the difference and call it 37:1 for sake of argument. This will be the range within which I trade some of my silver for gold. Not all of it, and not all at once, but some of it — maybe half — in 10% tranches spread out over several trades.
In a previously pinned post, I predicted a first mid-cycle target for silver of $250/oz in 2028. At $250/oz, a gold-silver ratio of 37:1 puts gold at around $9,250/oz. This will mark the end of the first third of the secular bull market and the beginning of the second third.
👉👉 x.com/potassium_phd/…
At this point in 2028, GSR ~37:1 — entering the second third of the secular bull market — the GSR will likely begin another multi-year uptrend. Overall metals prices in USD will continue going up by massive percentages until the mid-late 2030s, but in 2028, gold will begin to outperform silver again and it will be advantageous to be heavier in gold than silver at that time — as it was in 2011 and 2021 — to ride the ratio up.
After the GSR bottoms in 2028, it will likely reverse for ~3-4 years. It may not reach 82.37 again by 2032, but it could get close. Let’s call it 75:1 for sake of argument. As such, there will be a second mid-cycle opportunity to trade gold for silver in 2031-2032 and ride the ratio down again. At this time, silver will be ~$700/oz and gold will be ~$52,500/oz.
In all, the history of the GSR suggests that there will be two ripe opportunities to trade metal for metal over the next 7-8 years. It directs us now to be heavier in silver, and to trade silver for gold in 2028 to maximize gains in the second third of the secular bull market. Around 2032, it will be time to trade gold for silver again to ride the ratio down for the third third of the cycle — and the secular bull market top.
The ultimate top for metals will not be in until 2036 - 2038. At the top, silver will be at least $1700/oz and gold will be at least $62,900/oz. In the long run, buying gold or silver now will be unbelievably profitable. Those who own either will be catapulted into an entirely new economic class.
I will address my full-cycle market top prediction in more detail in later posts, but in short, here is the rough plan:
Present: $53/oz silver, $4,150/oz gold. GSR ~78. Stack mostly silver.
2028: $250/oz silver, $9,250/oz gold. GSR ~37. Trade silver for gold.
2032: $700/oz silver, $52,500/oz gold. GSR ~75. Trade gold for silver.
2036-2038: $1700/oz silver, $62,900/oz gold. GSR ~37. Trade silver for gold and metal for land.
Thank you for reading. I know it was too long.
Stay tuned 🫡
Typo corrections 🙄
Third paragraph: “Rejecting the 82.37* level calls for a much longer-term hypothetical outlook.”
Fifth paragraph: no “a” after “at”
Third paragraph: “Rejecting the 82.37* level calls for a much longer-term hypothetical outlook.”
Fifth paragraph: no “a” after “at”
Also meant 82.37, not 82.86, in the fourth and fifth paragraphs. Darn that wick 🫠
But also Merus are not being honest about why this happened. So long as your outrage is performed…
Why was she gang raped?
Can we admit that the differentiator here is that it was filmed and broadcast…
Why was she gang raped?
Can we admit that the differentiator here is that it was filmed and broadcast…
Question: have other women been raped similar circumstances?
Kama hatuambiani ukweli basi tuseme ni kesi ya polisi na NGOs.
Na Wameru wa Taon please msiongee juu tunaona vile hamjui chenye mnasema.
This happened during a specific circumcision season cultural practice.
Kama hatuambiani ukweli basi tuseme ni kesi ya polisi na NGOs.
Na Wameru wa Taon please msiongee juu tunaona vile hamjui chenye mnasema.
This happened during a specific circumcision season cultural practice.
If we won’t have this discussion then tuwachie polisi.
Merus, be honest, is there such a thing as culturally sanctioned rape?
Merus, be honest, is there such a thing as culturally sanctioned rape?
In 1999, I was given the opportunity to design Age of Empires 2: The Conquerors expansion pack. The plan was to do it the same way as I'd done Rise of Rome. I.e., create new units, new techs, and 4 new civs (later expanded to 5, as I've recounted elsewhere).
I wanted to have the Aztecs be one of the civilizations (civ) and I was really excited for this. So how to simulate the Aztecs in-game? In general, my goals were always to give a civ (a) a military bonus (b) an economic bonus and (c) something useful in the late game. Lots of Age games never made it to the late stage, because you'd get rushed early on, so that mattered too, but of course we loved 4, 6, or 8 player games and these pretty much always went well into Imperial. So if only to keep the games being fun for us at Ensemble studios, we always remembered this.
For their economy bonus, I did something really easy. I just had their villagers carry up to 13 resources instead of 10. Now, villagers in Age of Empires 2 don't just magically pump resources into your economy. They literally pick stuff off the ground, then carry it to your storehouse. Only then is it added to your total. And while they are walking back and forth from the resource pile to the dropsite, they're not gathering.
Giving Aztecs this additional carrying capacity meant their villagers only had to do the travel time 75% as often, which indeed gave them a slight boost. Not a huge one, but a useful one. Like many good economy boosts, it was "invisible" to the players. I don't mean the player didn't know about it - I mean they didn't have to DO anything special to take advantage. Just play as normal, and watch the resources mount up a bit quicker. It was also a well-rounded boost as it affected every resource. It was more important for wood, gold, stone, and hunting than farming, because typically the farms are so close to the mill that travel time is pretty short anyway.
I also gave them faster gold accumulation with Relics, because I thought Aztecs should be religious (their whole nation was crazy about their cults). This I didn't put a lot of reliance on, because relics aren't always in play.
I also gave them an Eagle Warrior as their starting scout. This was kind of scary for the other players, because Eagle Warriors are a real combat unit, not just a scout. Microsoft changed this to an Eagle Scout later on, but evidently Eagle Scouts can kill stray villagers too, so all is well.
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I wanted to have the Aztecs be one of the civilizations (civ) and I was really excited for this. So how to simulate the Aztecs in-game? In general, my goals were always to give a civ (a) a military bonus (b) an economic bonus and (c) something useful in the late game. Lots of Age games never made it to the late stage, because you'd get rushed early on, so that mattered too, but of course we loved 4, 6, or 8 player games and these pretty much always went well into Imperial. So if only to keep the games being fun for us at Ensemble studios, we always remembered this.
For their economy bonus, I did something really easy. I just had their villagers carry up to 13 resources instead of 10. Now, villagers in Age of Empires 2 don't just magically pump resources into your economy. They literally pick stuff off the ground, then carry it to your storehouse. Only then is it added to your total. And while they are walking back and forth from the resource pile to the dropsite, they're not gathering.
Giving Aztecs this additional carrying capacity meant their villagers only had to do the travel time 75% as often, which indeed gave them a slight boost. Not a huge one, but a useful one. Like many good economy boosts, it was "invisible" to the players. I don't mean the player didn't know about it - I mean they didn't have to DO anything special to take advantage. Just play as normal, and watch the resources mount up a bit quicker. It was also a well-rounded boost as it affected every resource. It was more important for wood, gold, stone, and hunting than farming, because typically the farms are so close to the mill that travel time is pretty short anyway.
I also gave them faster gold accumulation with Relics, because I thought Aztecs should be religious (their whole nation was crazy about their cults). This I didn't put a lot of reliance on, because relics aren't always in play.
I also gave them an Eagle Warrior as their starting scout. This was kind of scary for the other players, because Eagle Warriors are a real combat unit, not just a scout. Microsoft changed this to an Eagle Scout later on, but evidently Eagle Scouts can kill stray villagers too, so all is well.
1/3
For the military I had my work cut out. I'd decided that the Aztecs wouldn't get gunpowder or horses, since of course these were introduced by the Spanish. I mean, I knew that in reality, the Aztecs would have eventually adopted guns and horses, as did the Iroquois, Mayans, Sioux, Comanches, Mapuche, etc. But it let me make them distinctive.
Aztecs were famous for their infantry, and they didn't really use bows - instead they used atlatls or slings. I incorporated the Atlatl as a unique technology, which boosted skirmishers. This let the Aztecs be a little better against enemy archers. I also gave them the Garland War unique tech, which gave all their infantry +4 to their attack.
For their army bonus, besides their two unique bonuses, I had all their military units be created 15% faster, which let them respond to an attack, or set up a strike force quicker. I did this in a tricky way that not everyone appreciates, so since I have you as a captive audience, you get to hear about it.
Usually production bonuses are done by the building in question. But I attached the training speed to the units themselves. This means that if the Aztecs convert an enemy barracks, it starts producing faster, just like an Aztec one. Plus if the enemy manages to convert an Aztec barracks, its training time slows down to their level. This is the OPPOSITE of how most buildings work that have bonuses, and is just a little perk for the Aztecs because I love them.
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Aztecs were famous for their infantry, and they didn't really use bows - instead they used atlatls or slings. I incorporated the Atlatl as a unique technology, which boosted skirmishers. This let the Aztecs be a little better against enemy archers. I also gave them the Garland War unique tech, which gave all their infantry +4 to their attack.
For their army bonus, besides their two unique bonuses, I had all their military units be created 15% faster, which let them respond to an attack, or set up a strike force quicker. I did this in a tricky way that not everyone appreciates, so since I have you as a captive audience, you get to hear about it.
Usually production bonuses are done by the building in question. But I attached the training speed to the units themselves. This means that if the Aztecs convert an enemy barracks, it starts producing faster, just like an Aztec one. Plus if the enemy manages to convert an Aztec barracks, its training time slows down to their level. This is the OPPOSITE of how most buildings work that have bonuses, and is just a little perk for the Aztecs because I love them.
2/3
I had one final thing for the Aztecs. Famously they were super-religious, so I wanted some major Monk stuff. First off I gave them every single Temple technology, plus their monks gain 5 hit points with each such tech. They can get up to 100 hp if they get them all (though some of those techs are expensive).
I feel I failed a little with the Aztec priests. In general, the design leads of Age 2 had nerfed monks from the mighty Age 1 priests. They were no longer such a key unit, and mostly were relegated to healing troops in reserve. I wanted to Make Monks Great Again with the Aztec (and later, the Spanish), so I thought the hit point boost would be awesome.
What I didn't calculate on was that GETTING those hit points meant spending lots of gold on Temple techs. Gold that then wasn't available to train your monks. And gold tends to run out over time in a long-running game. You can keep going for a while with trade units, but gold becomes a major resource gate in actual play. So while Aztecs DO make monks, they're not the potent game-changes that I'd wanted and expected.
I'll end with their unique unit which was, of course, the Jaguar Warrior. Instead of just being a "good infantry" I addressed one of the Aztec weaknesses. Since Aztecs don't have good archers, they are a little vulnerable to infantry, which are countered by archers. Of course this is mitigated by the fact that the Aztecs also make mostly infantry. But anyway I had the Jaguar Warrior be an anti-infantry infantry, with a +10 bonus against other infantry.
Apparently I didn't get the balance perfectly right because later on (after Ensemble Studios was murdered) MicroSoft boosted the Jaguar Warriors several times in different updates. They gave them more armor, increased their anti-infantry boost, made them train faster, and even upped their hit points. I imagine they're a pretty terrific unit nowadays.
I might have been blinded to their apparent weakness because they sure seemed to tear through enemy infantry back in the day.
Anyway that's the Aztecs, my triumphs and my possible failures all out there for y'all to see.
3/3
I feel I failed a little with the Aztec priests. In general, the design leads of Age 2 had nerfed monks from the mighty Age 1 priests. They were no longer such a key unit, and mostly were relegated to healing troops in reserve. I wanted to Make Monks Great Again with the Aztec (and later, the Spanish), so I thought the hit point boost would be awesome.
What I didn't calculate on was that GETTING those hit points meant spending lots of gold on Temple techs. Gold that then wasn't available to train your monks. And gold tends to run out over time in a long-running game. You can keep going for a while with trade units, but gold becomes a major resource gate in actual play. So while Aztecs DO make monks, they're not the potent game-changes that I'd wanted and expected.
I'll end with their unique unit which was, of course, the Jaguar Warrior. Instead of just being a "good infantry" I addressed one of the Aztec weaknesses. Since Aztecs don't have good archers, they are a little vulnerable to infantry, which are countered by archers. Of course this is mitigated by the fact that the Aztecs also make mostly infantry. But anyway I had the Jaguar Warrior be an anti-infantry infantry, with a +10 bonus against other infantry.
Apparently I didn't get the balance perfectly right because later on (after Ensemble Studios was murdered) MicroSoft boosted the Jaguar Warriors several times in different updates. They gave them more armor, increased their anti-infantry boost, made them train faster, and even upped their hit points. I imagine they're a pretty terrific unit nowadays.
I might have been blinded to their apparent weakness because they sure seemed to tear through enemy infantry back in the day.
Anyway that's the Aztecs, my triumphs and my possible failures all out there for y'all to see.
3/3
Bart De Wever’s trips to Russia are now paying off for the Kremlin: He protects its interests and blocks billions in aid for Ukraine.
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The Prime Minister of Belgium, Bart De Wever, plays a central role in the debate over the use of frozen Russian central bank assets, as the majority of these funds are held at Euroclear, the central securities depository based in Belgium. It is estimated that Belgium holds between 185 and 210 billion euros of these assets.
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Bart De Wever, who is currently blocking the use of Russian funds for Ukraine, maintained close relations with high-ranking Russian officials before and long after the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
De Wever himself emphasized that he had been visiting St. Petersburg since 1988 as a tourist, professionally, and with his family, as he explained during a meeting in Russia.
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De Wever himself emphasized that he had been visiting St. Petersburg since 1988 as a tourist, professionally, and with his family, as he explained during a meeting in Russia.
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Brendan O’Neill has absolutely & definitively nailed it again. 🎯
In an article titled: The scandal of the Maccabi ban must not be allowed to fade
Every word is spot on. This paragraph is so important:
“It’s impossible to overstate the seriousness of this. For a British police force to mangle facts about a ‘Jew hunt’ is unforgivable. That they did so in the service of justifying a ban on Israeli Jews from a British game is an outrage. That West Midlands report is the dodgy dossier of modern football. It inflamed the Israelophobic rage of Islamist and leftist mobs. It led not only to the unjust banning of Israeli fans but to their relentless demonisation too. This scandal cannot be allowed to fade away – heads must roll.”
🎯🎯🎯
In an article titled: The scandal of the Maccabi ban must not be allowed to fade
Every word is spot on. This paragraph is so important:
“It’s impossible to overstate the seriousness of this. For a British police force to mangle facts about a ‘Jew hunt’ is unforgivable. That they did so in the service of justifying a ban on Israeli Jews from a British game is an outrage. That West Midlands report is the dodgy dossier of modern football. It inflamed the Israelophobic rage of Islamist and leftist mobs. It led not only to the unjust banning of Israeli fans but to their relentless demonisation too. This scandal cannot be allowed to fade away – heads must roll.”
🎯🎯🎯
1. Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept millions from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct diplomacy for the U.S.
It's right in the Constitution.
popular.info/p/kushners-mos…
You cannot accept millions from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct diplomacy for the U.S.
It's right in the Constitution.
popular.info/p/kushners-mos…
2. Kushner is trying to evade legal restrictions by not accepting a formal role in the administration.
But the DOJ is clear: It's not what you SAY, it's what you DO
Kushner is acting like a Special Government Employee so legally, he's a SGE
But the DOJ is clear: It's not what you SAY, it's what you DO
Kushner is acting like a Special Government Employee so legally, he's a SGE
3. Kushner is engaged in activities that can ONLY be conducted by government officials. The Logan Act bars private citizens from engaging in negotiations w/foreign governments w/o authorization. Kushner is acting under Trump’s direction, and that creates a host of legal issues.
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Surfer built a system that now brings in a quarter of their new customers directly from AI platforms.
The strategy is simpler than you think… and you can start implementing it today.
Here's the complete playbook: 👇
Step 1: Track what actually matters
Stop obsessing over Google rankings alone.
Start tracking these AI search queries:
• Problem queries ("how to improve SEO rankings")
• Category queries ("best AI SEO tools")
• Comparison queries ("X vs Y")
• Alternatives queries ("best alternatives to X")
• Integration queries ("X for content teams")
Create 2 or 3 prompts for each category that a real buyer would type if they were shopping in your space.
Test them weekly across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
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Dr. Stephen Hussey was 34.
He exercised.
He ate clean.
His Coronary Calcium Score was 0.
Then he had a widowmaker—a heart attack so deadly only ~12% survive it outside a hospital.
He survived & wrote a book.
His case exposes a brutal truth:
The LDL-based model of heart disease is incomplete.
It can't explain why heart disease keeps rising despite more statins, more scans & more "prevention" than ever.
So Hussey went deeper.
What he found overturns decades of assumptions about what actually damages arteries, what collapses blood flow & why modern life is uniquely good at causing heart disease:
1. The LDL story doesn't match reality
2. Arteries are protected by structured water (EZ)
3. Plaque is repair tissue, not fat buildup
4. Heart attacks are clotting failures, not blockages
5. How EZ water neutralizes all 3 clotting triggers
6. What destroys EZ water
7. What builds EZ water
8. Why Hussey had a heart attack (& how he reversed plaque)
Let's start with the first problem:
1. The LDL Story Doesn't Match Reality
For decades we've been told a simple model:
Saturated fat raises LDL → LDL builds up in arteries → arteries clog → heart attack.
So cardiology kept lowering "acceptable" LDL: 300 → 250 → 200 → 150 → now "optimal" is <100.
But the real-world data never supported the story.
Many heart attack victims have little or no plaque—Hussey included, with a Coronary Calcium Score of 0.
Many people with severe plaque have zero symptoms.
Some die with "perfect" LDL.
Some live with high LDL & clean arteries.
When 136,905 heart attack patients had cholesterol measured within 24 hours of admission:
- 75% had normal LDL (<130 mg/dL)
- 50% had "optimal" LDL (<100 mg/dL)
If LDL were the initiating cause, this pattern wouldn't exist.
But instead of questioning the LDL hypothesis, the study's authors reached the opposite conclusion: the LDL targets must be "not low enough."
Another paradox: veins never develop plaque, even though LDL concentration is identical.
They only develop plaque when a vein is surgically grafted into an artery—meaning it's not LDL concentration but arterial conditions that determine plaque.
Hussey's conclusion:
LDL doesn't initiate plaque.
LDL shows up after something has already damaged the artery.
So the real question becomes:
What breaks the artery in the first place?
To see that, you have to understand one thing mainstream cardiology ignores:
In a healthy artery, lipoproteins can't even reach the wall.
Something must collapse that protection first.
2. Arteries Are Protected by Structured Water (EZ Water)
Hussey builds on Gerald Pollack's work.
In a healthy artery, blood never actually touches the artery wall.
The inner surface of every artery is hydrophilic (water loving).
When water touches that surface & receives radiant energy (sunlight, infrared), it forms a different phase:
Structured water—the Exclusion Zone (EZ).
This structured water forms a gel-like layer across the endothelial surface & excludes almost everything.
Pollack's experiments show:
- Albumin (~3.8 nm) cannot cross it
- Bacteria cannot cross it
- Red blood cells cannot cross it (~6000-8000 nm)
- Only tiny ions like potassium can (~0.25 nm)
This matters because of size:
- HDL: ~7–12 nm
- LDL: ~22–28 nm
- apoB particles: similar range
If the EZ excludes albumin (~3.8 nm), then particles in the 7–28 nm lipoprotein range are excluded too.
Meaning: If EZ water is intact, nothing in the blood ever touches the artery wall.
No contact → no injury.
No injury → no inflammation.
No inflammation → no plaque.
This is the part the LDL model never accounted for:
Lipoproteins never reach the artery wall unless the EZ shield is destroyed first.
EZ loss is upstream of every step that follows.
3. Plaque Is Not "Fat Buildup." It's Repair Tissue.
When the EZ layer collapses, the arterial wall becomes exposed for the first time.
Blood components that were previously excluded can now touch the endothelium.
The body responds the only way it can:
repair → patch → stabilize.
When researchers analyze plaque, it isn't a pipe filled with fat.
It's overwhelmingly:
- clot material
- fibrous collagen
- smooth muscle repair tissue
- trapped cholesterol that arrived after damage
- inflammatory cells cleaning up the debris
Histology shows plaque is ~87% clot-derived tissue (±8%), confirming the sequence:
Injury → clot → repair → plaque.
Not: cholesterol → plaque → blockage.
This explains why:
- plaque forms only at specific high-stress arterial sites
- veins do not plaque unless surgically grafted into arterial pressure
- plaque often appears after a flow disturbance or oxidative injury
- people like Hussey can have clean arteries & still suffer massive heart attacks
Because plaque is not the main event.
Clotting is.
4. Heart Attacks Are Clotting + Flow Failures, Not "Blocked Pipes"
In 1856, Rudolf Virchow identified the three conditions that create pathological clotting:
- Damage to the arterial lining
- Stagnant or disrupted blood flow
- Blood that becomes more prone to clot
This triad matches the real world far better than the "blocked pipe" story:
- You can have severe narrowing & no heart attack
- You can have clean arteries & die suddenly
The fatal moment is always the same:
A clot at the wrong time in the wrong place.
Hussey adds two major corrections that modern cardiology ignores.
(1) Flow disturbances alone can trigger plaque formation
After his heart attack, a catheter closure device altered blood flow in his femoral artery.
Within weeks, plaque formed at that exact site.
No LDL change.
No diet change.
Just disturbed flow → plaque.
When he restored EZ water & flow mechanics, the plaque reversed—which his doctors had never seen.
This shows:
Plaque forms where flow becomes abnormal—not where LDL is high.
(2) You can have a heart attack with zero blockage (MINOCA)
This is Myocardial Infarction with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries—& it's not rare, it accounts for 6-15% of all heart attacks.
Hussey explains the mechanism this way:
The heart prefers fatty acids & ketones & burns them cleanly.
Under acute stress, the autonomic nervous system shifts the heart into a glucose-burning state at the worst possible moment.
Burning mostly glucose produces more free radicals.
This increases local acidity, swelling, & pressure inside heart tissue.
Blood cannot enter effectively.
Collapse in flow without obstruction & tissue death follows.
In parallel, acute stress increases thrombotic potential, making clot formation more likely.
No plaque required.
No LDL required.
(3) Why some people with severe plaque feel fine
Giorgio Baroldi's autopsy work in 1956 showed that when arteries narrow chronically, the body builds collateral vessels—small bypass channels that restore blood supply.
He found that in areas with ≥70% narrowing, collaterals increase dramatically—fully compensating for reduced flow.
Separate studies in dogs confirmed the speed of this adaptation: full collateral networks formed within 4–7 days when an artery was slowly occluded.
Meaning:
The body automatically builds bypasses. It restores supply on its own.
This explains why:
- severe plaque can exist without symptoms (collaterals already restored flow)
- stents don't reduce future heart attacks in stable disease (the body already compensated)
- bypass surgery rarely extends lifespan in chronic cases (natural bypasses already exist)
Flow adapts—unless metabolic & energetic conditions collapse.
The danger is in acute metabolic collapse that happens too fast for collaterals to form.
(4) So does plaque matter at all?
Yes, but not the way we were told.
Hussey is clear: "Plaque is not what causes heart attacks."
But calcified plaque still increases risk because it disturbs flow → creates turbulence → increases clot probability. Not because it "blocks." Because it changes the physics of blood movement.
The real causal chain: EZ loss → endothelial exposure → flow disturbance → hypercoagulability → clot → heart attack.
5. How EZ Water Neutralizes All 3 Clotting Triggers
Hussey's key insight: EZ water defends against all three conditions that create clots.
(1) EZ prevents endothelial injury
When radiant energy (sunlight, infrared) hits the arterial surface, water forms a gel-like EZ layer that excludes everything larger than tiny ions.
If EZ is intact, blood components never touch the wall.
No contact → no injury → no clot initiation.
(2) EZ prevents disturbed or stagnant flow
EZ doesn't just protect—it moves fluid.
When EZ forms, it separates charge:
- EZ becomes strongly negative
- bulk water becomes positive (H⁺-rich)
This creates an electrical pressure that pushes water forward.
Pollack demonstrated that:
- water moves through hydrophilic tubing with no pump
- chick embryo blood keeps flowing even after the heart stops
- adding infrared increased flow by ~300%
- blocking infrared stopped flow
When EZ collapses: flow slows, residence time increases, clot risk rises.
(3) EZ prevents hypercoagulable, "sticky" blood
EZ forms on hydrophilic surfaces within blood: RBCs, platelets, lipoproteins.
This creates zeta potential—a strong negative charge around each particle.
Cells repel instead of clump, RBCs don't stack, platelets don't activate prematurely.
When EZ breaks down: zeta potential drops, cells stick, blood becomes hypercoagulable.
6. What Destroys EZ Water (& Opens the Artery to Damage)?
Hussey is blunt about the upstream trigger: oxidative stress breaks down fourth phase water in the arteries, damages the arterial wall, & depletes nitric oxide (NO), which is vital for ANS signaling to the heart.
He frames the problem as three imbalances: metabolic inflexibility (inability to burn fat), oxidative stress, & ANS dysfunction.
He believes these three, "especially when complicated by nutrient deficiencies, are the underlying causes of most chronic disease."
Imbalance #1—Metabolic Inflexibility
The heart prefers ketones.
In one experiment: when ketones fell below 34 mg/100 ml, the heart was forced to burn more glucose; when ketones were 34–80 mg/100 ml, the heart switched to burning primarily ketones; providing more ketones reduced use of other fuels by 30–60%.
Dietary fat is also packaged into chylomicrons & delivered directly to the heart via the lymphatic system.
The heart even has a signaling pathway to fat cells so it can call for more fuel.
Hussey's conclusion: "The heart prefers to burn ketones. To provide it with this fuel, we have to restrict carbohydrates enough so the body learns to burn fat. Heart attacks without a blockage happen when a series of events force the heart to burn predominantly glucose—metabolic inflexibility makes this more likely."
Imbalance #2—Oxidative Stress (The EZ Breaker)
Everything that steals electrons collapses EZ:
- Insulin resistance, chronic glucose-heavy metabolism, poor fat oxidation
- AGEs (Advanced Glycation End Products) which initiate atherosclerosis independently of cholesterol
- Endotoxemia from leaky gut/gum disease/root canals
- Heavy metals: mercury (35% thicker plaque), lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum
- BPA (increased lesion size 104-120%)
- Air pollution, pesticides (glyphosate shrinks EZ)
- Seed oils
- Chronic stress
- Circadian disruption
- Low sunlight, lack of infrared
- No grounding
- EMF exposure (WiFi reduces EZ by 15-20%)
Imbalance #3—ANS Dysfunction (Stress System Out of Balance)
The autonomic nervous system dysfunction matters.
The best measure is HRV.
In one study, 95% of ischemic events were preceded by almost complete HRV suppression.
HRV changes before ischemia, suggesting this is causal, not consequence.
Your nervous system destabilizes before your heart does.
7. What Builds EZ Water (and Protects the Heart)?
If oxidative stress & modern life collapse EZ water, prevention starts with restoring it.
Radiant Energy
- Sunlight & infrared build structured water in arteries, improve flow, lower pressure
- Sauna mimics sun's IR & charges EZ
- Grounding connects body to Earth's charge
- Nature exposure removes urban stressors
- Spring/mineral water provides better EZ substrate
- Circadian alignment: morning light + darkness at night enable endothelial repair via melatonin
Reduce Oxidative Stress
- Remove seed oils
- Lower processed carbs & avoid AGEs (AGEs alone initiate atherosclerosis)
- Heal gut to reduce endotoxemia
- Fix dental infections (gum disease, root canals, cavitations)
- Reduce toxins: heavy metals increase plaque, BPA increases lesions 104-120%
- Prefer mineral salts over table salt
Restore Metabolic Flexibility
- Restrict processed carbs
- Prefer animal fats
- Keep Trigicerydes/HDL <1.5, HOMA-IR <1.5
- Use fasting strategically
- A heart fueled by fat & ketones is stable. A heart forced into glucose is vulnerable.
Balance the ANS
- Meditation, nature, infrared, cold exposure, proper sleep, social connection, grounding, gut healing, omega-3, EMF reduction, sunlight
- Breathing: ~5.5-6 breaths/min with longer exhales produced best ANS balance
Train Correctly
- Marathon runners: edema, decreased function, scarring (100+ marathons)
- Marathon deaths: 93% heart attacks
- Recommended: strength 1-2×/week, short bursts 1-2×/week, stretching/yoga, avoid chronic high volume endurance (ultras etc.)
When EZ is strong: endothelium is shielded, flow is smooth, blood stays separated, clotting is harder.
8. Why Hussey Had a Heart Attack (& How He Reversed Plaque)
Hussey doesn't know the exact cause. He believes it was a perfect storm:
- Type 1 diabetic (already increased risk despite managing with diet/exercise)
- Dehydration (thought bone broth was enough)
- Constipation (considered it normal)
- COVID-19 worry
- Stressful family event couple days before
- Two nights of bad sleep
- High-intensity exercise to failure: uphill sprints, push-ups, lunges
No plaque. Just the conditions for clot formation.
Then something unexpected happened.
After his heart attack, a catheter closure device altered blood flow in his femoral artery. Within weeks, plaque formed at that exact site: 70-99% blockage.
No LDL change. No diet change. Just disturbed flow → plaque.
He focused on sunlight, infrared sauna, grounding, & circadian optimization.
One year later: 0-50% blockage.
Two years later: completely normal artery.
Three years later: still normal.
His vascular surgeon: "We can't say it's better because we don't see these things get better."
But he did get better. This was unheard of.
9. Bottom Line
Modern medicine saves lives after heart attacks happen.
But prevention requires understanding what actually causes them.
Heart disease isn't an LDL problem:
- LDL can't initiate plaque
- Plaque is 87% clot-derived repair tissue
- Heart attacks are clot events (Virchow's triad)
- EZ water protects against all three triggers
- Modern life destroys EZ first
Don't blame LDL. Understand the clot. Protect the EZ.
Prevention comes down to one principle: Stop breaking EZ water. Start building it.
How? Sunlight. Sauna. Grounding. Circadian Alignment. Metabolic flexibility. ANS balance. Low oxidative stress.
Do this & you target the real mechanism Hussey argues drives heart disease.
Not the decoy.
He exercised.
He ate clean.
His Coronary Calcium Score was 0.
Then he had a widowmaker—a heart attack so deadly only ~12% survive it outside a hospital.
He survived & wrote a book.
His case exposes a brutal truth:
The LDL-based model of heart disease is incomplete.
It can't explain why heart disease keeps rising despite more statins, more scans & more "prevention" than ever.
So Hussey went deeper.
What he found overturns decades of assumptions about what actually damages arteries, what collapses blood flow & why modern life is uniquely good at causing heart disease:
1. The LDL story doesn't match reality
2. Arteries are protected by structured water (EZ)
3. Plaque is repair tissue, not fat buildup
4. Heart attacks are clotting failures, not blockages
5. How EZ water neutralizes all 3 clotting triggers
6. What destroys EZ water
7. What builds EZ water
8. Why Hussey had a heart attack (& how he reversed plaque)
Let's start with the first problem:
1. The LDL Story Doesn't Match Reality
For decades we've been told a simple model:
Saturated fat raises LDL → LDL builds up in arteries → arteries clog → heart attack.
So cardiology kept lowering "acceptable" LDL: 300 → 250 → 200 → 150 → now "optimal" is <100.
But the real-world data never supported the story.
Many heart attack victims have little or no plaque—Hussey included, with a Coronary Calcium Score of 0.
Many people with severe plaque have zero symptoms.
Some die with "perfect" LDL.
Some live with high LDL & clean arteries.
When 136,905 heart attack patients had cholesterol measured within 24 hours of admission:
- 75% had normal LDL (<130 mg/dL)
- 50% had "optimal" LDL (<100 mg/dL)
If LDL were the initiating cause, this pattern wouldn't exist.
But instead of questioning the LDL hypothesis, the study's authors reached the opposite conclusion: the LDL targets must be "not low enough."
Another paradox: veins never develop plaque, even though LDL concentration is identical.
They only develop plaque when a vein is surgically grafted into an artery—meaning it's not LDL concentration but arterial conditions that determine plaque.
Hussey's conclusion:
LDL doesn't initiate plaque.
LDL shows up after something has already damaged the artery.
So the real question becomes:
What breaks the artery in the first place?
To see that, you have to understand one thing mainstream cardiology ignores:
In a healthy artery, lipoproteins can't even reach the wall.
Something must collapse that protection first.
2. Arteries Are Protected by Structured Water (EZ Water)
Hussey builds on Gerald Pollack's work.
In a healthy artery, blood never actually touches the artery wall.
The inner surface of every artery is hydrophilic (water loving).
When water touches that surface & receives radiant energy (sunlight, infrared), it forms a different phase:
Structured water—the Exclusion Zone (EZ).
This structured water forms a gel-like layer across the endothelial surface & excludes almost everything.
Pollack's experiments show:
- Albumin (~3.8 nm) cannot cross it
- Bacteria cannot cross it
- Red blood cells cannot cross it (~6000-8000 nm)
- Only tiny ions like potassium can (~0.25 nm)
This matters because of size:
- HDL: ~7–12 nm
- LDL: ~22–28 nm
- apoB particles: similar range
If the EZ excludes albumin (~3.8 nm), then particles in the 7–28 nm lipoprotein range are excluded too.
Meaning: If EZ water is intact, nothing in the blood ever touches the artery wall.
No contact → no injury.
No injury → no inflammation.
No inflammation → no plaque.
This is the part the LDL model never accounted for:
Lipoproteins never reach the artery wall unless the EZ shield is destroyed first.
EZ loss is upstream of every step that follows.
3. Plaque Is Not "Fat Buildup." It's Repair Tissue.
When the EZ layer collapses, the arterial wall becomes exposed for the first time.
Blood components that were previously excluded can now touch the endothelium.
The body responds the only way it can:
repair → patch → stabilize.
When researchers analyze plaque, it isn't a pipe filled with fat.
It's overwhelmingly:
- clot material
- fibrous collagen
- smooth muscle repair tissue
- trapped cholesterol that arrived after damage
- inflammatory cells cleaning up the debris
Histology shows plaque is ~87% clot-derived tissue (±8%), confirming the sequence:
Injury → clot → repair → plaque.
Not: cholesterol → plaque → blockage.
This explains why:
- plaque forms only at specific high-stress arterial sites
- veins do not plaque unless surgically grafted into arterial pressure
- plaque often appears after a flow disturbance or oxidative injury
- people like Hussey can have clean arteries & still suffer massive heart attacks
Because plaque is not the main event.
Clotting is.
4. Heart Attacks Are Clotting + Flow Failures, Not "Blocked Pipes"
In 1856, Rudolf Virchow identified the three conditions that create pathological clotting:
- Damage to the arterial lining
- Stagnant or disrupted blood flow
- Blood that becomes more prone to clot
This triad matches the real world far better than the "blocked pipe" story:
- You can have severe narrowing & no heart attack
- You can have clean arteries & die suddenly
The fatal moment is always the same:
A clot at the wrong time in the wrong place.
Hussey adds two major corrections that modern cardiology ignores.
(1) Flow disturbances alone can trigger plaque formation
After his heart attack, a catheter closure device altered blood flow in his femoral artery.
Within weeks, plaque formed at that exact site.
No LDL change.
No diet change.
Just disturbed flow → plaque.
When he restored EZ water & flow mechanics, the plaque reversed—which his doctors had never seen.
This shows:
Plaque forms where flow becomes abnormal—not where LDL is high.
(2) You can have a heart attack with zero blockage (MINOCA)
This is Myocardial Infarction with Non-Obstructive Coronary Arteries—& it's not rare, it accounts for 6-15% of all heart attacks.
Hussey explains the mechanism this way:
The heart prefers fatty acids & ketones & burns them cleanly.
Under acute stress, the autonomic nervous system shifts the heart into a glucose-burning state at the worst possible moment.
Burning mostly glucose produces more free radicals.
This increases local acidity, swelling, & pressure inside heart tissue.
Blood cannot enter effectively.
Collapse in flow without obstruction & tissue death follows.
In parallel, acute stress increases thrombotic potential, making clot formation more likely.
No plaque required.
No LDL required.
(3) Why some people with severe plaque feel fine
Giorgio Baroldi's autopsy work in 1956 showed that when arteries narrow chronically, the body builds collateral vessels—small bypass channels that restore blood supply.
He found that in areas with ≥70% narrowing, collaterals increase dramatically—fully compensating for reduced flow.
Separate studies in dogs confirmed the speed of this adaptation: full collateral networks formed within 4–7 days when an artery was slowly occluded.
Meaning:
The body automatically builds bypasses. It restores supply on its own.
This explains why:
- severe plaque can exist without symptoms (collaterals already restored flow)
- stents don't reduce future heart attacks in stable disease (the body already compensated)
- bypass surgery rarely extends lifespan in chronic cases (natural bypasses already exist)
Flow adapts—unless metabolic & energetic conditions collapse.
The danger is in acute metabolic collapse that happens too fast for collaterals to form.
(4) So does plaque matter at all?
Yes, but not the way we were told.
Hussey is clear: "Plaque is not what causes heart attacks."
But calcified plaque still increases risk because it disturbs flow → creates turbulence → increases clot probability. Not because it "blocks." Because it changes the physics of blood movement.
The real causal chain: EZ loss → endothelial exposure → flow disturbance → hypercoagulability → clot → heart attack.
5. How EZ Water Neutralizes All 3 Clotting Triggers
Hussey's key insight: EZ water defends against all three conditions that create clots.
(1) EZ prevents endothelial injury
When radiant energy (sunlight, infrared) hits the arterial surface, water forms a gel-like EZ layer that excludes everything larger than tiny ions.
If EZ is intact, blood components never touch the wall.
No contact → no injury → no clot initiation.
(2) EZ prevents disturbed or stagnant flow
EZ doesn't just protect—it moves fluid.
When EZ forms, it separates charge:
- EZ becomes strongly negative
- bulk water becomes positive (H⁺-rich)
This creates an electrical pressure that pushes water forward.
Pollack demonstrated that:
- water moves through hydrophilic tubing with no pump
- chick embryo blood keeps flowing even after the heart stops
- adding infrared increased flow by ~300%
- blocking infrared stopped flow
When EZ collapses: flow slows, residence time increases, clot risk rises.
(3) EZ prevents hypercoagulable, "sticky" blood
EZ forms on hydrophilic surfaces within blood: RBCs, platelets, lipoproteins.
This creates zeta potential—a strong negative charge around each particle.
Cells repel instead of clump, RBCs don't stack, platelets don't activate prematurely.
When EZ breaks down: zeta potential drops, cells stick, blood becomes hypercoagulable.
6. What Destroys EZ Water (& Opens the Artery to Damage)?
Hussey is blunt about the upstream trigger: oxidative stress breaks down fourth phase water in the arteries, damages the arterial wall, & depletes nitric oxide (NO), which is vital for ANS signaling to the heart.
He frames the problem as three imbalances: metabolic inflexibility (inability to burn fat), oxidative stress, & ANS dysfunction.
He believes these three, "especially when complicated by nutrient deficiencies, are the underlying causes of most chronic disease."
Imbalance #1—Metabolic Inflexibility
The heart prefers ketones.
In one experiment: when ketones fell below 34 mg/100 ml, the heart was forced to burn more glucose; when ketones were 34–80 mg/100 ml, the heart switched to burning primarily ketones; providing more ketones reduced use of other fuels by 30–60%.
Dietary fat is also packaged into chylomicrons & delivered directly to the heart via the lymphatic system.
The heart even has a signaling pathway to fat cells so it can call for more fuel.
Hussey's conclusion: "The heart prefers to burn ketones. To provide it with this fuel, we have to restrict carbohydrates enough so the body learns to burn fat. Heart attacks without a blockage happen when a series of events force the heart to burn predominantly glucose—metabolic inflexibility makes this more likely."
Imbalance #2—Oxidative Stress (The EZ Breaker)
Everything that steals electrons collapses EZ:
- Insulin resistance, chronic glucose-heavy metabolism, poor fat oxidation
- AGEs (Advanced Glycation End Products) which initiate atherosclerosis independently of cholesterol
- Endotoxemia from leaky gut/gum disease/root canals
- Heavy metals: mercury (35% thicker plaque), lead, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum
- BPA (increased lesion size 104-120%)
- Air pollution, pesticides (glyphosate shrinks EZ)
- Seed oils
- Chronic stress
- Circadian disruption
- Low sunlight, lack of infrared
- No grounding
- EMF exposure (WiFi reduces EZ by 15-20%)
Imbalance #3—ANS Dysfunction (Stress System Out of Balance)
The autonomic nervous system dysfunction matters.
The best measure is HRV.
In one study, 95% of ischemic events were preceded by almost complete HRV suppression.
HRV changes before ischemia, suggesting this is causal, not consequence.
Your nervous system destabilizes before your heart does.
7. What Builds EZ Water (and Protects the Heart)?
If oxidative stress & modern life collapse EZ water, prevention starts with restoring it.
Radiant Energy
- Sunlight & infrared build structured water in arteries, improve flow, lower pressure
- Sauna mimics sun's IR & charges EZ
- Grounding connects body to Earth's charge
- Nature exposure removes urban stressors
- Spring/mineral water provides better EZ substrate
- Circadian alignment: morning light + darkness at night enable endothelial repair via melatonin
Reduce Oxidative Stress
- Remove seed oils
- Lower processed carbs & avoid AGEs (AGEs alone initiate atherosclerosis)
- Heal gut to reduce endotoxemia
- Fix dental infections (gum disease, root canals, cavitations)
- Reduce toxins: heavy metals increase plaque, BPA increases lesions 104-120%
- Prefer mineral salts over table salt
Restore Metabolic Flexibility
- Restrict processed carbs
- Prefer animal fats
- Keep Trigicerydes/HDL <1.5, HOMA-IR <1.5
- Use fasting strategically
- A heart fueled by fat & ketones is stable. A heart forced into glucose is vulnerable.
Balance the ANS
- Meditation, nature, infrared, cold exposure, proper sleep, social connection, grounding, gut healing, omega-3, EMF reduction, sunlight
- Breathing: ~5.5-6 breaths/min with longer exhales produced best ANS balance
Train Correctly
- Marathon runners: edema, decreased function, scarring (100+ marathons)
- Marathon deaths: 93% heart attacks
- Recommended: strength 1-2×/week, short bursts 1-2×/week, stretching/yoga, avoid chronic high volume endurance (ultras etc.)
When EZ is strong: endothelium is shielded, flow is smooth, blood stays separated, clotting is harder.
8. Why Hussey Had a Heart Attack (& How He Reversed Plaque)
Hussey doesn't know the exact cause. He believes it was a perfect storm:
- Type 1 diabetic (already increased risk despite managing with diet/exercise)
- Dehydration (thought bone broth was enough)
- Constipation (considered it normal)
- COVID-19 worry
- Stressful family event couple days before
- Two nights of bad sleep
- High-intensity exercise to failure: uphill sprints, push-ups, lunges
No plaque. Just the conditions for clot formation.
Then something unexpected happened.
After his heart attack, a catheter closure device altered blood flow in his femoral artery. Within weeks, plaque formed at that exact site: 70-99% blockage.
No LDL change. No diet change. Just disturbed flow → plaque.
He focused on sunlight, infrared sauna, grounding, & circadian optimization.
One year later: 0-50% blockage.
Two years later: completely normal artery.
Three years later: still normal.
His vascular surgeon: "We can't say it's better because we don't see these things get better."
But he did get better. This was unheard of.
9. Bottom Line
Modern medicine saves lives after heart attacks happen.
But prevention requires understanding what actually causes them.
Heart disease isn't an LDL problem:
- LDL can't initiate plaque
- Plaque is 87% clot-derived repair tissue
- Heart attacks are clot events (Virchow's triad)
- EZ water protects against all three triggers
- Modern life destroys EZ first
Don't blame LDL. Understand the clot. Protect the EZ.
Prevention comes down to one principle: Stop breaking EZ water. Start building it.
How? Sunlight. Sauna. Grounding. Circadian Alignment. Metabolic flexibility. ANS balance. Low oxidative stress.
Do this & you target the real mechanism Hussey argues drives heart disease.
Not the decoy.
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On this day, December 3rd, 1402, a large-scale invasion was launched by the Hungarian King Sigismund of Luxembourg against the rebellious Bohemian lands that remained loyal to King Wenceslaus IV.
This operation, though little known, was the largest in the Margraves Moravian Wars, then the most violent. Three cities were besieged simultaneously, villages were burned and looted, and fortresses were attacked and occupied.
This is the story of the winter military campaign in Bohemia of 1402-1403.
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This operation, though little known, was the largest in the Margraves Moravian Wars, then the most violent. Three cities were besieged simultaneously, villages were burned and looted, and fortresses were attacked and occupied.
This is the story of the winter military campaign in Bohemia of 1402-1403.
[Thread]🧵
Since March 1402, the Kingdom of Bohemia had been plunged into civil war and anarchy. King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia had been kidnapped by the League of Lords, a group of high-ranking lords seeking greater power and control, with the support of King Sigismund of Hungary.
The situation became so uncontrollable that King Sigismund went to Bezdez Castle in June 1402 to trap and capture Margrave Prokope of Luxembourg, who had taken the lead of the resistance in Bohemia.
Sigismund imprisoned him in Bratislava and Wenceslaus IV in Vienna in July 1402.
The situation became so uncontrollable that King Sigismund went to Bezdez Castle in June 1402 to trap and capture Margrave Prokope of Luxembourg, who had taken the lead of the resistance in Bohemia.
Sigismund imprisoned him in Bratislava and Wenceslaus IV in Vienna in July 1402.
The Bohemian resistance against King Sigismund's Czech allies had once again found a new leader to aid them.
This new leader was none other than Margrave Jobst of Moravia, cousin of Wenceslaus IV, who had once been an ally of Sigismund.
Since his brother, Margrave Prokope, had been captured by Sigismund, Jobst had decided to break the alliance and join the rebellion in August 1402, proclaiming hostility against the Hungarian king.
This new leader was none other than Margrave Jobst of Moravia, cousin of Wenceslaus IV, who had once been an ally of Sigismund.
Since his brother, Margrave Prokope, had been captured by Sigismund, Jobst had decided to break the alliance and join the rebellion in August 1402, proclaiming hostility against the Hungarian king.
MILLENNIAL GRAY HOUSES - AS BAD AS BEIGE LINGERIE?
Yeah, millennial gray houses are pretty horrible. But saying they're as bad as beige lingerie would still be a stretch. Let's have a look at how the ugly gray-house fad got started...👇
Yeah, millennial gray houses are pretty horrible. But saying they're as bad as beige lingerie would still be a stretch. Let's have a look at how the ugly gray-house fad got started...👇
The story of Jill the Millennial, and how she persuades her husband that they NEED a gray house.
"It might be the same color as the old multistory concrete garage you park in at the mall, but it's DEFINITELY trending."
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بسیار انیمیشن جهانی جالبی است!
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USG has a new explanation on why they (now admittedly) intentionally killed 2 shipwrecked men. It does not pass the laws-of-war smell test
Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."
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Worse for Hegseth, NYT: "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved contingency plans for what to do if an initial strike left survivors."
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2/ The Hegseth-approved contingency plan:
US military could try to kill shipwrecked survivors if "they took what the United States deemed to be a hostile action, like communicating with suspected cartel members."
US military could try to kill shipwrecked survivors if "they took what the United States deemed to be a hostile action, like communicating with suspected cartel members."
3/ First it's absurd on its face that communicating to be RESCUED is a hostile act.
That's the definition of being shipwrecked and helpless.
The whole point of a legal prohibition on killing people who are shipwrecked is that they must be rescued or left to be rescued instead.
That's the definition of being shipwrecked and helpless.
The whole point of a legal prohibition on killing people who are shipwrecked is that they must be rescued or left to be rescued instead.
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What does Turning Point USA, Las Vegas and Birthright Israel/Bronfmans all have in common? Time to shine a light on what others don’t want to talk about.
Who is Turning Point USA adviser Michael A. Leven?
Michael A. Leven is adviser at Turning Point USA as well as a board member of the “Birthright Israel Foundation”. Leven is also a major player in the Las Vegas scene and vice chairman of the Marcus Foundation.
What does Turning Point USA, Las Vegas and Birthright Israel/Bronfmans all have in common? Time to shine a light on what others don’t want to talk about.
Who is Turning Point USA adviser Michael A. Leven?
Michael A. Leven is adviser at Turning Point USA as well as a board member of the “Birthright Israel Foundation”. Leven is also a major player in the Las Vegas scene and vice chairman of the Marcus Foundation.
Las Vegas:
In Las Vegas, Leven is a major player.
Leven is President of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation as well as the Sands Aviation Bermuda, Ltd., and non-executive director of Sands China Ltd. [the Sands Chinese branch of the company] until 2015.
In Las Vegas, Leven is a major player.
Leven is President of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation as well as the Sands Aviation Bermuda, Ltd., and non-executive director of Sands China Ltd. [the Sands Chinese branch of the company] until 2015.
Marcus Foundation
Who is the Marcus Foundation which Leven sits as vice chairman?
The Marcus Foundation was created by Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot. The foundation’s primary philanthropic effort was $250 million to the creation of the Georgia Aquarium, which opened in 2005. The foundation supports medical research; nonprofits in Atlanta, Georgia and Boca Raton, Florida; nonprofits in Israel and the U.S. supporting Jewish causes; and center-right public policy organizations.
The Marcus Foundation is the creation of Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, who co-founded Home Depot with Arthur M. Blank and Ken Langone in 1979 and retired as Home Depot chairman in 2002. In a 2019 interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Marcus said he had given away $2 billion up to that time and planned to donate 80to 90 percent of his remaining fortune to philanthropy and that while he left detailed instructions to his executors, he hoped to give as much money away during his lifetime as possible. The newspaper noted that Forbes calculated his wealth at $5.7 billion. “I want to live to be 100 because I want to be in a position to give it away to those things that I really believe in,” he said.
Marcus Foundation Grantmaking:
In 2020, the Marcus Foundation donated $80 million to the Shepherd Center, a rehabilitation center in Atlanta whose patients suffer from strokes, multiple sclerosis, and other brain-related illnesses. The grant will be used to support construction of a new building for the center, augment outpatient care, and start a new program to aid soldiers suffering traumatic brain injuries.
In 2021, the Marcus foundation gave $20 million to launch the Gary Sinise Foundation Avalon Network, which will be used to launch a national network of treatment centers for veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress, brain injuries, and substance abuse problems. The Marcus foundation grant was matched by a $20 million grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
A Marcus Foundation grant in 2021 was a three-year, $60 million grant to the Jewish Education Fund to support RootOne, which offers Jewish teenagers trips to Israel. RootOne said it would use the grant to provide 10,000 trips for teenagers by 2025 and over 20,000 by 2039.
Marcus Foundation grants of over $5 million in 2019 included Hillel International ($8.7 million), Thomas Jefferson University Hospital ($6.8 million), Marcus Autism Center ($5.7 million), Emory University ($5.1 million), and the Boulder Crest Foundation ($5 million). Center-right public policy organizations receiving over $100,000 included the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ($3.9 million), Turning Point USA ($500,000), the Federalist Society($150,000), and American Enterprise Institute ($100,000).
Who is the Marcus Foundation which Leven sits as vice chairman?
The Marcus Foundation was created by Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot. The foundation’s primary philanthropic effort was $250 million to the creation of the Georgia Aquarium, which opened in 2005. The foundation supports medical research; nonprofits in Atlanta, Georgia and Boca Raton, Florida; nonprofits in Israel and the U.S. supporting Jewish causes; and center-right public policy organizations.
The Marcus Foundation is the creation of Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, who co-founded Home Depot with Arthur M. Blank and Ken Langone in 1979 and retired as Home Depot chairman in 2002. In a 2019 interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Marcus said he had given away $2 billion up to that time and planned to donate 80to 90 percent of his remaining fortune to philanthropy and that while he left detailed instructions to his executors, he hoped to give as much money away during his lifetime as possible. The newspaper noted that Forbes calculated his wealth at $5.7 billion. “I want to live to be 100 because I want to be in a position to give it away to those things that I really believe in,” he said.
Marcus Foundation Grantmaking:
In 2020, the Marcus Foundation donated $80 million to the Shepherd Center, a rehabilitation center in Atlanta whose patients suffer from strokes, multiple sclerosis, and other brain-related illnesses. The grant will be used to support construction of a new building for the center, augment outpatient care, and start a new program to aid soldiers suffering traumatic brain injuries.
In 2021, the Marcus foundation gave $20 million to launch the Gary Sinise Foundation Avalon Network, which will be used to launch a national network of treatment centers for veterans experiencing post-traumatic stress, brain injuries, and substance abuse problems. The Marcus foundation grant was matched by a $20 million grant from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
A Marcus Foundation grant in 2021 was a three-year, $60 million grant to the Jewish Education Fund to support RootOne, which offers Jewish teenagers trips to Israel. RootOne said it would use the grant to provide 10,000 trips for teenagers by 2025 and over 20,000 by 2039.
Marcus Foundation grants of over $5 million in 2019 included Hillel International ($8.7 million), Thomas Jefferson University Hospital ($6.8 million), Marcus Autism Center ($5.7 million), Emory University ($5.1 million), and the Boulder Crest Foundation ($5 million). Center-right public policy organizations receiving over $100,000 included the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies ($3.9 million), Turning Point USA ($500,000), the Federalist Society($150,000), and American Enterprise Institute ($100,000).
