Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
The downs in your life are not mental illnesses or abnormalities to be suppressed with mind-altering psychotropic medications. They are a natural part of the ebb and flow, the yin and yang of life.
If you ever feel that the down is too deep or too long I have written an article containing several ways to address that: https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/?p=14412
And I have more up my sleeve if you wish to erase all the pain from your life so you can be happier and more creative.
You are either happy with the world as it is or you are not.
If you are perfectly happy with your own life and the society around you then probably perceive no need to change. If so, I encourage you to look a little closer then come back to this article.
I your assessment is that the world could stand some improvement, then read on.
Organisations Beat Individuals
I am writing this 9 days after reading the following:
On October 8, 2026, former Kennedy campaign adviser Tiffany Cianci released the MAHA Movement Scorecard, examining 42 commitments involving food, farming, pesticides, toxic chemicals, regulatory capture, and related health policies. The scorecard’s authors classified 37 commitments as broken and five as partially fulfilled, with none fully met.
Those are the scorecard authors’ assessments of the administration’s record, not independent findings that Kennedy personally controlled every disputed decision.
In an October 14 essay, Elizabeth Kucinich, who helped organize Kennedy’s independent presidential campaign, argued that the administration had abandoned important MAHA priorities involving pesticides, environmental protections, agricultural policy, and corporate influence. She wrote:
“This Administration has stabbed RFK Jr. in the back, and we all know it. It has benefited from his credibility and the constituency he brought while advancing policies that undermine his mission. Supporting him means naming that betrayal and demanding a change of course.”
From: https://www.malone.news/p/follow-the-money-the-political-book
Then 4 days ago Calley Means resigned from HHS over lack of progress. Means said,
“I leave with tremendous respect for President Trump and RFK — two historic figures who are committed to confronting a corrupt DC bureaucracy that is doing everything possible to protect the status quo.”
The article continues: “MAHA advocates such as Vani Hari and Kelly Ryerson, outspoken allies of Kennedy and Means, argued that the administration’s actions favored corporate interests over MAHA voters, calling it a gut punch that the movement has yet to recover from.”
From: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/22/calley-means-top-maha-ally-resigns-from-trump-administration-01132073
These results reinforce my view that despite personal charisma and apparently powerful positions, well intentioned, competent individuals will not hold ground against entrenched orgainisational opposition.
Effective change does not stem from the top without substantial support from below.
No, lasting change is most likely to result from a groundswell of change in the public consciousness, a demand from the masses.
And since the masses are made up of individuals, the best way to effect lasting change is to change the actions of individuals, one at a time.
Similarly, you cannot legislate honesty, ethics, morality or sanity. The 25% of people who are destructive do not follow rules. They cannot. Apart from a lack of self-respect, the thing that makes a criminal a criminal is that he cannot adhere to the law.
So, how do the constructively inclined of us change the world for the better? So that change lasts?
My best answer to that question is that each of us work at becoming the best person we can and help others to do the same.
It’s simple pattern to adopt:
-Keep learning
-Apply what you learn so you grow in awareness, competence, power and influence
-Share and help others do the same
-Replicate – ask them to do the same
-Repeat
Learn – Grow – Share – Replicate – Repeat
As an encouragement to pursue personal growth I share the advice of Jessie Potter, the featured speaker at the seventh annual Woman to Woman conference:
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you always get what you’ve always gotten.”
To help you along the road to higher awareness, competence, productivity and effectiveness I have penned a series of article and posted them on my blog https://www.tomgrimshaw.com/tomsblog/ Search for them under the category “Living Your Best Life”.
If you would like an article on another area not yet covered, drop me a line.
Here’s to you. May you flourish and prosper!
Cheers,
Tom Grimshaw
tom@tomgrimshaw.com
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From mid-2024 through 2025, dietitians at a women’s and children’s hospital in Yangzhou, China, randomized 60 women with PCOS to two diets for 12 weeks.
PCOS affects 8 to 13% of women of reproductive age, and 50 to 70% have insulin resistance. The WHO says it cannot be cured. In May 2026, a Lancet consensus renamed it polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.
Thirty went keto: under 50 grams of carbs a day, with fats like avocado, nuts, olive oil and fatty fish. Thirty ate a China-adapted Mediterranean-style diet with whole grains, legumes and fruit, the diet the authors call most widely recommended. Both had matched calorie targets, counseling and exercise advice.
Of 13 keto women with no periods at the start, 12 got them back, versus 5 of 15 on the Mediterranean-style diet. Excluding women already regular (3 versus 12), 26 of 27 reached regular cycles on keto, versus 8 of 18. Insulin resistance fell 72% versus 35%. Frontiers in Nutrition published it in September.
Be straight about it. One hospital, 60 Chinese women, 12 weeks, open label, self-reported cycles, not yet repeated. The keto group lost about 22 pounds more on the same calorie targets, so real intake may have differed, and the authors can’t separate ketosis from weight loss and adherence.
Testosterone didn’t change. Nobody measured ovulation or pregnancy. Diabetes and thyroid patients were excluded. Zero dropouts and unbroken ketosis: unusually tidy data. The authors advise keto first, then Mediterranean long term. Never start, stop or change medication without your doctor.
The point is not that keto cures PCOS, or that the Mediterranean diet failed. Both helped. The point is that for a condition now named for its metabolism, the low-carb plate moved periods and insulin further.
The new name says metabolic. Start at the plate.
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