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Healthy Soil, Healthy Brain: What a New Global Study Found

by Eric W. Dolan, PsyPost – Psychology News:

“A recent study published in Scientific Reports suggests a notable geographical link between global soil fertility and the average intelligence quotient of nations. The findings provide evidence that the nutritional quality of local soils might play an indirect role in shaping human cognitive development on a worldwide scale.

Human brain development relies heavily on adequate nutrition, particularly the intake of essential minerals and vitamins. Plants and animals absorb these nutrients from the earth, meaning human diets are deeply connected to the health of the ground beneath their feet. When soil lacks vital elements like iron, zinc, or iodine, the food grown in it tends to be nutritionally deficient. Deficiencies in these specific nutrients are known to negatively affect cognitive growth, especially in young children.

Zinc and iron are necessary for the central nervous system to build physical structures and produce the chemicals that allow brain cells to communicate. Severe or long-lasting dietary shortages can lead to persistent cognitive impairments and learning difficulties.”

The results should be interpreted as evidence that soil fertility is one potentially important environmental correlate of human intelligence rather than a dominant or exclusive determinant. Read more about this fascinating study.

Finish reading: https://organicconsumers.org/scientists-have-found-a-geospatial-link-between-soil-fertility-and-national-intelligence-scores/

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Talking To Yourself

Lev Vygotsky

A Russian psychologist spent 10 years proving that the act of talking to yourself out loud is one of the most powerful cognitive tools the human brain has, and almost nobody outside his field has read the work.

His name was Lev Vygotsky.

He worked in Moscow in the 1920s and died of tuberculosis in 1934 at the age of 37. He had no laboratory, no funding, almost no English readers, and a body of work that the Soviet government suppressed for two decades after he died.

He produced the foundational theory of how human cognition actually develops, and the central piece of that theory was a behavior almost every adult is faintly embarrassed about.

Vygotsky noticed that young children talk to themselves constantly. They narrate their own actions, they argue with imaginary opponents, they instruct themselves through tasks out loud.

The dominant theory at the time, from the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, said this was a sign of cognitive immaturity that children would eventually grow out of as they learned to think properly.

Vygotsky said the exact opposite.

He argued that this self-directed speech was the most important cognitive event in the entire developmental window, because it was the moment a child first started to use language as a tool to control their own mind. The child was not failing to think. The child was learning how to think by externalizing the process and listening to themselves do it.

He predicted that as children matured, this out-loud self-talk would not disappear. It would go underground. It would become silent inner speech, which is the running monologue every adult has inside their own head for the rest of their life.

The voice you hear when you read this sentence is the direct descendant of a four-year-old narrating their own block tower.

For 50 years almost nobody outside Russia had access to his work, and the few researchers who did pick it up could not get funding to test it. Then in the early 2000s the experiments finally started to pile up, and what they found was that Vygotsky had been right about something even more important than he knew.

The first major study came from Gary Lupyan at the University of Wisconsin and Daniel Swingley at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. They ran a simple visual search experiment. Participants were shown 20 images at once and asked to find a specific object, like a banana or a chair. In one condition they searched silently. In the other condition they were told to say the name of the object out loud to themselves while looking for it.

The participants who spoke the target name out loud found the object significantly faster, with higher accuracy, than the participants who searched in silence. The effect was strongest when the spoken word matched a familiar object the brain already had a strong category for.

Saying the word out loud literally tuned the visual system to detect that thing better. The researchers called it the label feedback effect, and the implication was that the act of vocalizing a goal physically changes how the brain processes the world while pursuing it.

The second major study came out of the University of Michigan and Michigan State in 2017. The lead researchers were Ethan Kross and Jason Moser, and they used both EEG and fMRI to record what happens inside the brain when people talk to themselves while emotionally upset.

They asked participants to recall painful autobiographical memories and reflect on them in two different ways. Some used the first person, saying things like “why am I feeling this way.” Others used the third person, referring to themselves by their own name, saying things like “why is John feeling this way.”

The brain scans showed that the simple act of switching from first person to third person, even silently, decreased activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, the region responsible for rumination and self-referential pain. Within a single second of using their own name instead of the word I, participants showed measurably lower emotional reactivity. The shift required no extra cognitive effort. It cost the brain nothing. And it worked.

Kross described the mechanism in his interviews. Talking to yourself by name creates a small amount of psychological distance from your own experience. Your brain processes the situation more like a problem belonging to someone else, which means it can analyze it instead of drowning in it.

What Vygotsky had intuited in 1934 turned out to be even more powerful than the developmental theory he built it into. The voice you use to talk to yourself is not background noise. It is one of the most precise cognitive tools the brain has, and you can change how it works just by changing the pronoun you use.

People who talk through problems out loud are not anxious or unstable. They are running an externalized version of a process the rest of us are running silently and worse. The kindergartener narrating their block tower, the surgeon muttering through a procedure, the engineer pacing a hallway describing a bug to nobody, the athlete repeating a cue to themselves before a free throw, they are all using the same ancient mechanism that builds and steers human thought.

You can run the experiment yourself the next time you are stuck on something hard. Stop trying to solve it silently in your head. Say it out loud. Describe what you are seeing. Walk yourself through the steps as if you were explaining it to a colleague who is not in the room.

And when something genuinely upsets you, switch to your own name. Ask why this person is feeling this way, instead of why I am feeling this way.

The voice you have been told to keep quiet your entire life is one of the oldest pieces of cognitive technology you own.

Most people are still embarrassed to use it.

Finish reading: https://x.com/ihtesham2005/status/2063266105733615647?s=20

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Senate Testimony on Vaccine Caused Cancer

Senate Testimony

People cleared of Cancer started relapsing – they all had been given Boosters”

“It’s simple – Boosters repress the T-Cell response.”

“Cancers went up with each Vaccine.”

Wow – The UK’s No.1 News Channel just covered testimony given in US Congress – as to why the Covid Boosters caused Cancer.

Listen to World renowned Oncologist Angus Dalgleish explain.

Click to view the video: https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/2062801301512102190?s=20

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Christine Cotton

Christine Cotton

French biostatistician sounds alarm in suicide note that Covid jab given to public was vastly different from one tested in clinical trials.

‘You were administered a product for which there were absolutely no results, neither of efficacy nor of tolerance.’A French biostatistician who analyzed Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine trial data died by suicide Tuesday, leaving a message reiterating that the vaccine given to the public was not the same as the formulation submitted for testing in clinical trials.

On Tuesday, researcher Christine Cotton published a post on X relaying she would be dead by the time her message was read and imploring people to review her work exposing serious discrepancies in Pfizer’s Covid jab trial data and the version of the jab administered to the public. “It is June 2, 2026. By the time you read these lines, I will have left this world,” Cotton wrote.

“For those who do not know me, my name is Christine Cotton. I am what is known as a whistleblower.”

Cotton’s post went on to explain that she’d made disturbing findings since investigating the jab starting in 2020, leading her to believe the entire vaccine scheme was based on sham science and studies.

“My conclusions are catastrophic, beyond the invalidity of the results due to errors or even manifest frauds,” Cotton wrote. “The Pfizer vaccine that the population received, that you may have received, is not the one from the clinical trial with the 95% efficacy announced by all the politicians, journalists, and TV doctors. You were administered a product for which there were absolutely no results, neither of efficacy nor of tolerance.“ “This message is not intended to create sensationalism on social networks but to inform you of one of the biggest manipulations that humanity has ever known.”

Cotton noted she became severely afflicted with a debilitating illness “at the very moment I filed a complaint against the health authorities,” and that she had attempted various therapies and remedies to no avail.

“For over a year, I have been suffering from excruciating pain starting from the lower back down to my legs, burning sensations in the skin, mainly in the legs and back,” she wrote, adding, “I am at the end of what I can bear.”

Cotton’s conclusion (Chapter 16, page 315) in her latest report established the fundamental flaws in Pfizer’s clinical data, including overestimating efficacy and underestimating the vaccine’s harmful effects, limited to no proof of claims that it actually protected individuals, underreporting of deaths and adverse events, and a failure to establish a risk-benefit analysis for low-risk groups, prompting her to recommend the jabs be withdrawn from the market.

“In light of all these factors, as a biostatistician, former director of a contract research organization specializing in clinical trial data management since 1995, and former quality assurance officer of my company, I not only confirm my conclusions from January 2022 but also call for the withdrawal of all COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech,” she wrote, adding that “Continuing to use the vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech, including the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine COMIRNATY… and other bivalent vaccines in real-world settings presents a significant risk to people’s lives.“

Finish reading: https://x.com/toobaffled/status/2062836111635107962?s=20

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The Levers of Optimal Health

The ANH (Alliance for Natural Health) newsletter started with this:
“This week’s Heartbeat leads with Rob Verkerk PhD’s launchpad for his thoughts towards a unified theory of health — one that is overtly health, not disease-centric, and focused on the most fundamental elements needed to create a healthy underlying terrain that promotes resilience and flourishing, while avoiding the evolutionary mismatches that make us age prematurely and become increasingly susceptible to disease.”

I was struck at how close that seems to click with that chapter on ‘The Levers of Optimal Health’ from my book ‘How To Live The Healthiest Life’. These are the key factors I have identified that contribute to optimal health. Here is that chapter in its entirety. Hope it helps you.

The Levers of Optimal Health

We normally think of a lever as a piece of wood or metal with which to increase the force we can apply to move something.

Additionally, from the Miriam Webster dictionary, definition 1b of lever: an inducing or compelling force. Definition 1a of induce is: to move by persuasion or influence, and 1b is: to call forth or bring about by influence or stimulation.

So what I have identified are these different forces you can apply to compel, influence or stimulate a return to or continuation of your good health.

Once you have ticked the 4 boxes in the previous chapter (3-5 servings of fruit or vegetables, 17 minutes of exercise, maximum of 2 or 3 alcoholic drinks a day and quit smoking), give yourself a pat on the back! You have moved 4 of the primary levers in the right direction.

My reading has led me to the conclusion that you can use the following levers to make a difference to the health of your body and the quality and length of your life. These levers fall into categories.

Body Fuel Levers
Air – Properly inhaled, clean air.
Water – Adequate hydration.
Nutrition – Food and supplements to ensure optimal nutrient intake & absorption for your body at this stage of your life.

Toxin Levers
Physical Toxins – Zero toxin intake (airborne, water borne, personal care products, clothing, medical/recreational drugs, vaccinations, smoking, alcohol and food toxins and additives.)
EMF Toxins – Limiting or countering your Electromagnetic Frequency exposure.

Lifestyle/Environmental Levers
Sleep/Rest and Recovery – Adequate, restful sleep and rest.
Activity – A level of fitness adequate to your age & body use.
Location – The country you live in, the state, county and suburb all make a difference to your health prospects.
Circadian/Lunar Rhythms – Aligning activities with natural cycles.
Sun/Red Light Therapy – Optimal exposure to the sun/red light.
Grounding – Walking barefoot on the earth has a measurable beneficial effect on the body.
Frequency – Different frequencies have an effect on the body.
Vibration – Vibration plates have a documented effect on the body.

Spiritual/Mental Levers
Spiritual Awareness – Being aware that you are a spiritual being, that you are in charge of your body and life.
On Purpose – Knowing and pursuing your basic purpose in life.
Intention – The degree of willingness you are prepared to exercise to overcome inertia, barriers/obstacles and distractions to obtain a desired result.
Sustained Desire For Continuous Improvement – Not letting any area of life go downhill but taking effective action to correct departures from optimum.
Knowledge – If you do not know how to do something you are the effect of that thing, not cause over it.
Attitude – Positive mental attitude or optimism is a key part.
Personal Integrity – The net result of the next three abilities.
Confront – The ability to look and see what is actually there. Not what you would like to be there or wish was there but what IS there.
Self-Discipline – Putting into practice what you know to be optimum despite inconvenience, objections and distractions.
Ethic Level – A result of knowing what is right and having the discipline to do it, regardless of invitations to do otherwise.
Granting Beingness – Allowing the other person to be who they are. This involves kindness, courtesy and eschews invalidation and evaluation.

Relationship Levers
Stress – Experiencing as near as you can, zero stress/suppression.
Being Married – Yes, despite the problems many of us have in this area of our life, divorced and single people do not live as long as married ones.
Friends – Having 5+ close personal friends lengthens your life.
Social Interactions – According to a 2018 study, the more social interactions you have each day, the longer you live.

Whatever is going on with your body, these are the primary levers with which you can work to reduce symptoms, improve body functions and maximize your health. Some levers are positives that will increase your overall health and happiness. Some are negative levers that will lower your overall health score.

You could make a good case for arguing that it is more important to handle the negatives in your life before you push the positive levers. Otherwise the negatives will keep you from attaining the benefits from the positives. Pointless doing a detox without first stopping the intake of toxins.

Many of these levers will be covered in detail as you go through this book but don’t wait to read up on it before starting to make some improvements in these areas. The podcast from where I got the idea of these health factors as levers included Blood Sugar and Inflammation as levers but they are more properly labeled markers of how well you are doing as they are influenced by the levers.

Individually, any of these factors being severely out can reduce the enjoyment in your life substantially and shorten it considerably. So these items are not like blocks stacked on top of one another, the more blocks you have, the higher you go. Or you take one block off and it only reduces your overall quality or length of you life by that one.

It’s more like a team game of ten pin bowling, where each of individuals has a turn and the score of the team is the value of the lowest scoring team member – the weakest link.

Another way to look at it is like you are sailing through life’s tempests in a wooden rowboat, with or without a map (purpose or goal), a compass (moral guide), a sail (intention). You start taking in water as soon as one of them starts to fail. The bigger the failure, the more water you take in, the faster you sink!

So do not ignore any of the levers. In this book I will cover much data I have learned relating to each of them.

If you are firmly convinced that nothing would change your mind that you are nothing but a meat body and there is no spiritual side to life, just skip this concept and apply the others to the best of your ability. If you need more help with one of these lever than this book provides, contact me!

Just in case you wonder why I include medical drugs under toxins to avoid, here’s a quote from the father of modern medicine…
First Duty William Osler
…and although it is often omitted as an item from the leading causes of death iatragenic illness (caused by the medical profession) is the third leading cause of death in the USA.

TARGET: Pick the lever you feel is most needed to be pushed and alter what you are doing in that area of your life.

TARGET: While doing that, look over the rest of the levers and list for each lever, one or more things that you can do to improve that aspect of your life. Rank each of those items as Vital, Desirable or Trivial and progressively add the vitals into your weekly game plans.

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Vitamin D Timing

Vitamin D Timing

Taking vitamin D at midday with your largest meal improves absorption and helps your body use it more effectively for mood, sleep, and brain function.

Normal vitamin D blood levels don’t guarantee results because your body needs to convert it into an active form that your cells can actually use.

A large portion of people struggle with this activation step, which explains why symptoms like fatigue and poor sleep persist despite supplementation.

Sunlight remains the most effective way to produce vitamin D naturally; removing seed oils improves your ability to tolerate midday sun safely.

Pairing vitamin D3 with magnesium and vitamin K2, tracking your levels, and staying physically active helps your body activate and maintain vitamin D year-round.

(Tom: This is why I take my Vitamin D with my K2, a C, Quercetin, Melatonin and a glass of Calcium and Magnesium last thing at night.)

Finish reading:  https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2026/06/06/vitamin-d-timing.aspx