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Cholesterol Truth

Cholesterol Truth

Did you know that one of the most rigorous cholesterol trials in history was kept hidden for 40 years?

I didn’t either and when I learned about it, I was stunned.

Between 1968 and 1973, researchers conducted what should have reshaped nutrition science:

THE MINNESOTA CORONARY EXPERIMENT.

It was a gold-standard, blinded, randomized controlled trial involving 9,423 men and women across six mental institutions and one nursing home. A rare setting allowing precise dietary control

The question was simple:

If saturated fats like butter and beef are replaced with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid, will lowering cholesterol reduce heart disease and save lives?

The intervention worked exactly as intended.

Cholesterol fell by 13.8%.

On paper, this should have been a success but the outcomes shocked researchers.

Lower cholesterol did NOT reduce mortality.

In fact, for every 30 mg/dL drop, the risk of death INCREASED by 22%.

Even more unsettling, autopsy-confirmed data showed heart attacks were nearly twice as common in the low-saturated-fat, high-vegetable-oil group (41% vs 22%).

Let that sink in.

This wasn’t observational data or food questionnaires. It was controlled feeding, randomization, and autopsy-confirmed outcomes.

And then the data disappeared.

Stored on nine-track tapes, forgotten in a basement, it remained unpublished for 40 years until it was finally recovered and published in The BMJ (2016).

To confirm the findings, researchers went further, running a meta-analysis of similar randomized trials (10,800+ participants) that specifically replaced saturated fat with linoleic-acid-rich vegetable oils.

The result?

No reduction in heart disease

No reduction in all-cause mortality

A trend toward worse outcomes

So why didn’t this change the narrative?

Some argue the linoleic acid dose was too high. Others point to possible trans fats. But the uncomfortable truth remains:

Cholesterol fell and outcomes worsened.

Even more striking, the relationship held across both groups: the lower cholesterol dropped, the higher mortality rose, regardless of diet.

The takeaway isn’t that cholesterol doesn’t matter. It’s that biology is more complex than a single biomarker.

Before demonizing foods like butter and beef or issuing sweeping dietary guidelines, we should ask:

What does the totality of evidence really show?

Who benefits and who might be harmed?

Because sometimes, science doesn’t fail.

Sometimes, it just gets buried.

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Doctors Die Differently

Doctors Die Differently

1. Hospice workers see a clear pattern: ordinary people in their final months choose chemotherapy until the end. Resuscitation, tubes, machines. Death in a hospital surrounded by equipment. Families spend tens of thousands on the final weeks. Meanwhile, 80% of doctors facing the same diagnosis refuse aggressive treatment. Almost none agree to resuscitation. Most die at home with family.

2. Here’s why doctors choose differently: they know what actually happens. One oncologist said: “I’ve treated cancer for 30 years. If I get stage four, I won’t do chemotherapy.” Stage four chemo extends life 2-3 months, but those months are nausea, pain, weakness. He’d rather have two good months at home than three terrible months in a hospital. Doctors aren’t choosing death. They’re choosing quality over quantity.

3. A Johns Hopkins study found doctors are three times more likely to sign DNR orders than the general public. They don’t want resuscitation because they’ve performed it. Movies show two minutes and a hug. Reality is broken ribs, brain damage, months on machines, then death anyway. Survival rate for hospital cardiac arrest is 18%. Survival without brain damage is 3%. Doctors know these numbers. Patients don’t.

4. Medical industry won’t emphasize this because end-of-life care is massively profitable. The average American spends more on healthcare in their final year than in the previous 80 years combined. Hospitals profit from aggressive intervention. Doctors who’ve seen the outcomes choose hospice and dignity instead.

5. You’ve probably never considered that the people who understand medicine best choose to die without it. After seeing this pattern for five years, I signed a DNR. No aggressive chemotherapy at stage four. Hospice, family, dignity.

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Sam Elliott In Landman

Sam Elliott In Landman

(Tom: This is what I am working diligently to defer for as long as possible with my diet and exercise regime.)

At 81, Sam Elliott struggled to climb out of a swimming pool and what he said next brought millions to tears.

In a recent episode of Landman, the actor delivered one of TV’s most raw reflections on aging. Playing T.L., an 82-year-old former oil worker and distant father, Elliott’s character finds himself stuck in a pool. His knees and hips no longer have the strength to lift him out, and his son, Tommy, played by Billy Bob Thornton, has to help him.

But what followed was more than just a performance. It felt like lived truth.

Sitting by the pool with his son, T.L. talks about another man at the facility, a man who laughs all the time, yet seems unreachable. “It’s a curse that my mind still works,” T.L. says, tears in his eyes. “I sit here fully aware of every way my body is breaking down. I’m fading while my eyes still see it all.”

When Tommy suggests physical therapy, T.L.’s reply is simple and heartbreaking: “You don’t get it. This body is worn through.”

The scene showed something rare on TV. It showed the quiet sorrow of losing physical independence while the mind stays clear enough to witness each decline. Elliott later admitted he was deeply moved during the season, explaining that the emotion had to come honestly with Taylor Sheridan’s writing.

The moment ends with something small but powerful: T.L. and Tommy share their first hug, a simple gesture signaling the start of a long-delayed reconciliation between father and son.

Elliott has played tough characters in films like Tombstone, Road House, and A Star Is Born. But here, he revealed a different kind of strength, the courage to be vulnerable when physical power fades.

The scene resonated because it reflects something universal: watching our bodies slow down, seeing it happen to our parents, or quietly fearing it for ourselves. Elliott wasn’t creating drama for the sake of it. He allowed the truth to emerge naturally from the moment.

For anyone who has helped a parent stand up, watched a loved one struggle with everyday tasks, or felt their own body push back, the scene holds a painful mirror: we are temporary, and our bodies don’t last forever.

Yet it also offers something gentler: connection, understanding, and the grace of being seen as we are. Sometimes, the strongest thing we can do is admit we need help.

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Katherine Bolkovac

Katherine Bolkovac

Another key PRE-EPSTEIN story. Katherine Bolkovac is a former police detective from Nebraska who became a human rights investigator after uncovering credible evidence of human trafficking and sexual exploitation committed by private security contractors working for the U.S. government in post-invasion Iraq.

She worked as an investigator for DynCorp International, a private U.S. military contractor, and documented cases in which women and girls were trafficked and sexually abused by people working under contract to the U.S. government. When she reported what she found, she faced resistance and was eventually fired. She successfully sued DynCorp for wrongful termination.

Bolkovac’s work became the subject of the book “The Whistleblower” and later a major motion picture of the same name starring Rachel Weisz, which dramatizes her fight to expose the exploitation and seek justice.

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12 Questions For You

I just added a couple of items to my book and in also doing some editing thought of a way I can illustrate the benefit of you having this book handy. So here are a dozen questions that illustrate the type of gems contained in my compilation of 17+ years of data collection.

What eating practice reduces your post-meal glucose spike by 73% despite eating the same type and amount of food? Page 332

What can you do to reduce the loss of anti-cancer nutrients in broccoli from 97% to just 11%? Page 348

The root extract of which herb kills 90% of colon cancer cells within 48 hours? Page 431

What test is regarded as the single best predictor of longevity? Page 937

What activity boosted the ability of NK (Natural Killer) cells to kill invading cells by 50 to 200 percent? Page 937

What can essentially stop cellular aging in its tracks and, in some cases, rejuvenate the cells that repair damage in the body? Page 939

What can you drink before and during your exercise routine that can increase your endurance by 23%? Page 949

What 6 exercises are claimed to fix 97% of body problems? Page 961

What anti-inflammatory is 350 times more powerful than evening primrose oil and is 97% effective in reducing the pain from all forms of arthritis? Page 1168

What is the actual success rate of chemotherapy? Page 1421

What anti-parasitic drug killed 78% of colon cancer cells within 48 hours? Page 1524

97% of terminal cancer patients have previously had what medical procedure? Page 1961

An unexpected benefit of doing the editing was that I felt more positive and happier, recognising how much of what I know I am applying.

My book ‘How To Live The Healthiest Life’ is available at https://howtolivethehealthiestlife.com/

The pdf of it is $77. If you prefer a hard copy for easier reading or to tag quotes or highlight sections or makes notes on, drop me a line.

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Dr. Berg on Plastic

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately… The idea of “recycling” plastic is largely a scam designed to keep you buying plastic items.

Industry documents reveal there was never much hope for plastic recycling to be economically viable. Only about 9% of all plastics can even be recycled. The rest? It’s incinerated or sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

They knew if the public thought recycling was working, we wouldn’t be as concerned about it. This means the plastic industry intentionally misled us.

The real solution isn’t just about recycling, it’s about avoiding plastics altogether to protect the environment AND our health.
– Dr. Berg

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Blackfoot DNA Proves Oral History

Blackfoot DNA Proves Oral History

For 10,000 years, they knew. It took DNA to make the world listen.

The Blackfoot people have always known their connection to the northern Plains runs deeper than memory. Their oral traditions speak of “time immemorial”—of ancestors who hunted bison across glacial valleys, who witnessed ice retreating from mountains, who survived the Great Flood when ancient waters receded.

But for nearly two centuries, Western anthropologists told a different story.

Based on linguistic similarities to Great Lakes tribes, scholars theorized the Blackfoot had migrated westward sometime in the last thousand years. Never mind that Blackfoot oral history contained no memory of such a journey. Never mind the archaeological evidence suggesting far older presence.

The theory became textbook fact. And it threatened something crucial: land and water rights that depend on proving ancestral connection to territory.

So the Blackfoot Confederacy did something remarkable. They partnered with geneticists to let science test what their ancestors had always known.

In April 2024, the results were published in Science Advances. And they didn’t just challenge the migration theory—they shattered it entirely.

DNA analysis revealed that modern Blackfoot people belong to a previously unknown genetic lineage that diverged from all other studied Indigenous groups approximately 18,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.

Let that sink in. While most Native American populations studied share a common ancestral lineage, the Blackfoot split off into genetic isolation nearly 18 millennia ago—and remained in their homeland ever since.

The study was led by Blackfoot community members—Dorothy First Rider, Anna Wolf, and others—working alongside archaeologist Maria Zedeño and geneticist Ripan Malhi. They analyzed DNA from six living Blackfoot individuals and seven ancestral remains dating back 100-200 years.

The findings confirmed genetic continuity: today’s Blackfoot are directly descended from those who lived on this land at European contact, who descended from those who lived there through thousands of years before.

Even more striking: Blackfoot oral traditions contain memories that align with this deep Ice Age ancestry. Dreams and stories passed down describe standing in caves watching glaciers melt. Accounts of crossing ice to reach better lands. Knowledge of extinct megafauna like giant beavers and camels that disappeared 10,000 years ago.

“The Blackfoot can dream of the Ice Age,” explained Andy Blackwater. “Through dreams, people are able to recollect the deep past by bonding to ancestral spirits from long ago.”

This isn’t mysticism. It’s the transmission of ancestral knowledge across timescales Western science once deemed impossible.

Gheri Hall, archaeologist with the Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office, put it perfectly: “This really confirms what we already knew. Now we can use the new science to fight the old science.”

Because here’s the critical point: This wasn’t science finally admitting Indigenous people were right. This was Indigenous communities using scientific tools on their own terms to generate evidence for legal battles over land, water, and sovereignty.

The Blackfoot Confederacy has fought for decades to protect their ancestral territories from governments and energy companies. In 2023, they won a major victory when Solenex LLC relinquished drilling rights in the sacred Badger-Two Medicine area.

Studies like this provide additional legal evidence for treaty rights—but they also expose something uncomfortable: How often has Indigenous knowledge been dismissed as “myth” until Western methods confirmed it?

The question isn’t whether science should lead conversations about the past.

The question is: When will we start listening to the people who never forgot?

Fun Fact: Blackfoot oral traditions describe landscapes from the Ice Age with remarkable accuracy—glacial floods, retreating ice sheets, and extinct megafauna—thousands of years before archaeologists mapped these same events. Knowledge preserved through storytelling proved as reliable as sediment cores and carbon dating.