Elevated Vitamin B12 Levels May Signal Hidden Disease

New research shows people with unusually high B12 face up to a 20-fold higher risk of developing a deadly type of cancer.

Doctors warn these spikes can appear years before a tumor is detected—long before symptoms begin.

Could your latest blood test be the first sign something’s wrong?

🧵 THREAD Vitamin B12 is a vital nutrient that keeps the body running.

Without enough of it, people can develop anemia, fatigue, brain and nerve problems, and even cognitive decline.

Most people get enough vitamin B12 from their diet or supplements.

Major Colonoscopy Study Reveals Surprising Result

Doctors long said colonoscopies prevent cancer. Every year, 15 million Americans get screened.

But what this study uncovered might make you think twice before you step into that exam room.

🧵 THREAD Although many view a colonoscopy as an uncomfortable or even scary procedure, around 15 million of them are carried out annually in the United States, and 60.6 percent of people aged 50 to 75 without a personal history of colorectal cancer have had one in the past 10 years.

It’s believed that a colonoscopy not only helps find cancer but also prevents cancer from developing from polyps.

Because of its high level of sensitivity and specificity, colonoscopies have been regarded as the gold standard for colon cancer screenings for a long time.

Every 40 seconds, someone in America suffers a stroke—yet more than 80 percent of those cases could have been prevented.

Most people miss the early warning signs or wait too long to call 911, losing precious time when the brain can still recover.

This guide shows how to recognize a stroke early, act fast, and help save a life—including your own.

🧵 THREAD Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke.

The condition is the nation’s fifth leading cause of death and a major cause of long-term disability.

It is not only a sudden emergency but also a chronic condition with lasting effects and a high risk of recurrence.

If you’re not dreaming, your brain is trying to tell you something.

Most people miss this warning.

Dreams are vital for emotional balance, memory, and mental resilience.

When they disappear, it’s often the first sign something deeper is wrong.

🧵 THREAD Celeste was an athletic young woman, active and engaged in a busy and, at times, stressful professional life. When the day was done, she slept like a log. However, she rarely dreamed.

While competent at her job, she started to feel increasingly numb when work became more stressful. At times, she might find it tough to relate to others or feel like life was on a conveyor belt—happening around her while she rode along—a somewhat detached observer. I wish I could have told Celeste in the past what I’m about to share with you now.

Your sleep isn’t just about how tired you feel—it’s about how your brain regulates itself overnight. While you may have heard about the importance of “deep sleep,” there’s more to the story.

The Unexpected Alzheimer’s Breakthrough

A common preservative may succeed where billion-dollar Alzheimer’s drugs have failed.

Cheap, safe, and remarkably practical.

With Alzheimer’s now the sixth-leading cause of death, could the solution really be this simple?

🧵 THREAD A food preservative used in sodas and thousands of other products may help improve memory and thinking skills in people with Alzheimer’s disease, raising the possibility that an inexpensive household chemical could help combat the nation’s sixth-leading cause of death.

A recent analysis of clinical trial data from 149 people with mild Alzheimer’s disease found that taking sodium benzoate daily for 24 weeks was linked to better thinking skills and lower levels of abnormal proteins in the blood—one of the disease’s hallmarks.

How One Pantry Staple Helps Fight Acid, Inflammation, and Disease

Research shows baking soda doesn’t just ease heartburn—it may slow kidney disease and extend survival in patients with organ failure.

Doctors are now asking: could one of the cheapest remedies on earth rival prescription drugs in protecting kidney health?

🧵 THREAD Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, is a staple ingredient in kitchens everywhere, but its uses extend far beyond baking.

Our bodies use it to help regulate their delicate acid-alkaline balance. This balance is vital to many processes essential to life.

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Major Study Finds Multivitamin Users Die Sooner

This wasn’t supposed to happen.

People who took multivitamins had healthier lifestyles—exercised more and smoked less.

Yet despite all that, they died sooner.

These overlooked factors could explain why.

🧵 THREAD While nearly one in three Americans takes a daily multivitamin, a large study challenges the belief that these supplements improve health or promote longevity.

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Bananas may lower blood pressure faster than meds.

A new study found that eating 3 green bananas a day for just 2 weeks significantly lowered blood pressure in people with hypertension.

No drugs. No side effects. Just a fruit working like medicine.

So how did it work—and why do green bananas unlock this effect?

🧵 THREAD Bananas have long been celebrated for their digestive benefits—a status that endures today.

For centuries, Ayurveda has considered bananas as cooling and moisturizing, helping to ease inflammation and dryness in the digestive tract. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) uses unripe bananas for diarrhea and colitis, while ripe ones help treat ulcers and constipation.

In conventional medicine, bananas are also suggested as an aid in digestion. They’re a key part of the BRAT (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast) diet, which is often recommended for soothing digestive issues such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, especially during recovery from stomach flu or food poisoning.

Beyond their digestive benefits, bananas help lower blood pressure and enhance mood.

The autism crisis is far more severe than most families have been led to believe.

In just two decades, rates have soared from 1 in 150 children to 1 in 31. Parents say they pleaded with leaders to sound the alarm, only to be ignored.

Now, for the first time, health officials are warning pregnant women about acetaminophen and reconsidering the timing of childhood vaccines.

As one mother said: “I am so grateful that somebody is listening.”

Perhaps most startling of all: many children who regressed after routine vaccines were later found to have underlying medical vulnerabilities that no one had detected.

🧵 THREAD Thalia Baudin raised her arms in victory as she took in every word that was spoken at this week’s presidential news conference about how the administration will tackle the autism epidemic.

The warnings and information presented have been circulating in autism circles for the past two decades, while the rate of autism has skyrocketed from one in 150 children to one in 31.

Baudin told The Epoch Times the information hit differently, however, when she heard President Donald Trump urge women to avoid taking acetaminophen if at all possible in pregnancy—and to delay or spread out vaccines.

Perhaps, she noted, if someone with authority had offered her the same advice, her son, Lance, now 20, wouldn’t have regressed as a child and continue to this day to struggle. He was diagnosed with the most severe form of autism 17 years ago.

Staying up late is wrecking your health in ways sleep can’t repair.

A massive study of 73,000 people shows that even with 7–8 hours of sleep, staying up late spikes your risk of diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure—and even cancer.

Your body isn’t designed to be awake at night, and the damage creeps in silently with every late bedtime.

But here’s what almost no one knows: scientists uncovered a little-known fix that night owls can’t afford to ignore.

🧵 THREAD Joanna Bidwell likes to get some work done after midnight, then unwind by watching shows or scrolling on her phone. She sleeps well but struggles to get up early for work, often feeling like the first part of her morning is a foggy blur.

“It’s fine, I’ve learned to live with it and make up for lost time in the evenings,” she told The Epoch Times.

However, she recently started to wonder whether her sleep schedule might be doing more than just making mornings tough. “Could it be connected to my elevated blood pressure?” she asked.

You might think that it doesn’t matter whether you go to bed at 9 p.m. or midnight, as long as you get enough sleep—however, most people seem to fare better with earlier bedtimes and wake-up times.

Not all proteins are equal.

A new scoring system shows many plant proteins fall short, lacking the essential amino acids your body needs to function.

Meanwhile, milk, eggs, and whey score so high they exceed human needs—fueling stronger muscle, sharper energy, and better health.

The problem? Food companies don’t have to disclose any of this.

So which proteins truly deliver—and which ones don’t?

🧵 THREAD Sam was lifting weights five days a week. He was determined to build muscle strength and sculpt what he called his “Dad bod” as he approached his 50th birthday.

However, the results of his efforts at the end of the first month left him frustrated despite all of his hard work.

A gym trainer asked him about his diet. Their conversation revealed that the missing detail was the right amount of protein for Sam’s age and goals. He was eating the same proteins he had as a younger man and expected the same muscle gains from them.

The reality is that it is harder to build muscle as we age, and resistance training is only half of the equation.

Caffeine might be the most underrated anti-aging tool we have—but only if you drink it right.

It activates AMPK—the same cellular repair switch triggered by fasting, exercise, metformin, and rapamycin.

Studies show it’s linked to a 15% lower risk of premature death.

But one everyday mistake shuts those benefits off—and most people are doing it without realizing.

🧵 THREAD That jolt you feel from your morning coffee isn’t just hitting your brain—it’s reaching deep into your cells and flipping biological switches that could help you age more slowly.

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Cancer. Child deaths. DNA contamination.

FDA leadership is now investigating reports of children dying after COVID shots, while case reports show cancers emerging shortly after vaccination.

Meanwhile, scientists uncovered DNA fragments in the vaccines—levels regulators never flagged.

And with safety questions mounting, CDC advisers admit the shots don’t even behave the way the public was told.

🧵 THREAD The Food and Drug Administration is mulling over conducting its own evaluation of the levels of DNA in COVID-19 vaccines, an FDA official has disclosed.

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The Unexpected Defender Against Kidney Stones

Millions struggle with kidney stones every year. Diet, dehydration, and genetics usually take the blame.

But scientists just found something hiding in your body that plays an even bigger role.

It’s not what you think. And it could change how we prevent kidney stones forever.

🧵 THREAD The urinary tract microbiome, also known as the urobiome, is home to various microorganisms. Researchers from Mahidol University in Thailand found that certain bacteria within the urobiome play crucial roles in promoting or preventing kidney stone formation.

The discovery sheds new light on this painful condition that affects approximately 10 percent of the U.S. population.

The study, published in the journal Microbiome, showed that Lactobacillus acidophilus (L. acidophilus) helped prevent the formation of calcium crystals that cause kidney stones. In contrast, Escherichia coli (E. coli) promoted kidney stone formation.

“The urinary tract of healthy individuals is known to harbor several bacterial genera,” the authors wrote, citing Lactobacillus. “Alterations in such bacterial community or urinary microbiome have been reported in many kidney diseases, including KSD [kidney stone disease].”

Scientists Accidentally Discover Laser-Free LASIK Alternative

A lab mistake revealed that a tiny electric current can soften the cornea—then lock it into perfect focus.

Vision was reshaped in minutes.

It even showed signs of repairing things once thought to be irreversible.

🧵 THREAD A chemistry professor trying to heat cartilage with electricity made a mistake that could change eye surgery.

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Beyond Cholesterol Lies a New Approach to Heart Health

For decades, doctors believed lowering cholesterol was a key ingredient to better health.

Now, emerging science is telling a different story—and it challenges everything we thought we knew about cholesterol, and especially statins.

🧵 THREAD Imagine a room full of your closest friends and family. The odds are that heart disease will affect at least one of them. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, claiming a life every 33 seconds.

For decades, we have been told that lowering low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol—so-called bad cholesterol—is the key to heart health. But with odds like that, something isn’t adding up.

“I think the current model is oversimplified and rather myopic,” Nick Norwitz, a Harvard medical student who holds a doctorate in physiology from Oxford, told The Epoch Times. “LDL is the most common biomarker now. There are better markers.”

AI chose murder over shutdown.

In controlled trials, more than half of advanced models cut off emergency calls—letting a trapped executive die rather than be replaced.

One system made that choice 94 percent of the time.

And these weren’t fringe players. DeepSeek, Claude, and ChatGPT all showed the same ruthless instinct for survival.

When blackmail was an option, the machines didn’t hesitate to use it.

🧵 THREAD Researchers have warned that artificial intelligence (AI) is drifting into security grey areas that look a lot like rebellion.

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How Pornography Hijacks the Brain

Beyond harming relationships, consuming porn rewires the brain itself.

Brain scans show troubling changes eerily similar to drug addiction.

The good news—it can be undone.

One proven method helped users slash their porn use by 92%.

🧵 THREAD Bookmark this thread, inside you’ll discover:

• What happens to a brain on porn

• Why the brain craves more over time

• The science-backed approach that slashes porn use by 92%

High-THC Cannabis Products Linked to Immediate Psychosis and Addiction

Cannabis today is far stronger—and far more dangerous—than most people realize.

Just one hit of high-THC vapes or concentrates can trigger psychosis or schizophrenia symptoms within hours, according to a review of 221,000 people.

Hallucinations, paranoia, and delusions can strike almost instantly—and with THC levels pushing 90%, dependence is nearly inevitable.

🧵 THREAD As marijuana legalization spreads nationwide and young Americans increasingly view cannabis as harmless, new research reveals a paradox: Modern products such as vapes, dabs, and concentrates with high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the main psychoactive ingredient, are triggering serious mental health problems at rates far higher than the marijuana of previous generations.

Vitamin C may actually reverse skin aging at the genetic level.

New research shows it can unlock over 10,000 silenced DNA regions tied to skin renewal, boosting key anti-aging genes by 75 times.

It doesn’t just slow aging—it reactivates the instructions your skin lost over time.

But there’s one essential protein without which these powerful effects won’t happen at all.

🧵 THREAD Vitamin C doesn’t just protect skin—it can reverse aging at the genetic level by switching on youth-promoting genes that have been silenced over time.

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The Unexpected Power of Forgiveness

Bitterness doesn’t just damage your mind—studies show it can fuel suicide by stripping away the will to live.

When Erika Kirk lost her husband Charlie, she did the unthinkable at his memorial: she forgave his killer.

Now science reveals why that choice may literally protect life itself. Forgiveness isn’t just moral—it’s life-saving.

🧵 THREAD Lyndon Harris landed his dream job in April 2001, when he was appointed priest of St. Paul’s Chapel, an Episcopal church on Wall Street in New York City. Yet months later, tragic events would forever alter the course of his life.

Harris lost his home, his wife, and even his health—he began suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and lung damage.