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Create
One who creates has more fun than does the critic.
Have a joyful life!
CREATE!
Chocolate Chip Chick Pea & Peanut Butter Cookies
2 cups chick peas
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/3 cup honey or maple syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Combine the chickpeas, nut butter, maple syrup/honey, vanilla, baking powder, and salt in a bowl or tall container. Blend with an immersion blender (or use a food processor) until completely smooth, scraping down the sides as needed.
3. Fold in the chocolate chips with a spatula.
4. Scoop tablespoon-sized portions onto the sheet and gently flatten them (they barely spread).
5. Bake 12–15 minutes until the edges look lightly golden and the tops are set. They firm up more as they cool—leave them on the pan for 5–10 minutes before moving.
Tips
– Natural (no-stir) nut butters work best.
– Pat the chickpeas very dry so the dough isn’t overly wet.
– Optional: add 2–3 Tbsp oat flour or coconut flour if the mixture seems too soft.
– Store in an airtight container in the fridge; they keep several days and freeze well.
Peanut Butter Alternatives (use the same amount, 1:1)
– Almond butter — Mild, creamy, and the most seamless swap.
– Cashew butter — Even milder and extra creamy.
– Sunflower seed butter (e.g., SunButter) — Best nut-free option; slightly earthier.
– Tahini — Milder savory-nutty note; you may want a touch more sweetener to balance it.
Chickpeas contribute roughly 14 g protein and 12 g fiber per cooked cup, which supports the satiety and gut-health claims, though the nut/seed butter and chocolate chips still add calories and fat. Enjoy as an occasional treat.
Vaccine Insert
They Compared the Spice to the Drug. The Spice Won — Again. (Part 2)
Nature continues to put drugs to shame, yet why has no one heard of this research?
In Part 1, honey beat a steroid fourteen-fold for chronic cough, turmeric stopped prediabetes in 100% of trial participants, and saffron ran even with Prozac. The response told us something: people are hungry for the studies nobody puts in a press release.
So for Part 2, we went back into the archive — 455,000 studies, hand-mapped since 2008 — and pulled ten more. This time we went after the drugs people take every day: the antibiotic for recurrent UTIs, the beta-blocker for blood pressure, the Alzheimer’s blockbuster, the stimulant given to millions of children, the benzodiazepine for sleep, and the antidepressants tens of millions of people take every morning.
Same rules as Part 1. Every study is a human trial. Every one is indexed in our database. Every one links to the long-form article or abstract so you can check the work yourself.
And the same caveat: this is research information, not medical advice. Some of these trials are large and well designed — the St. John’s wort meta-analysis covers 27 trials and 3,808 patients; the mindfulness trial ran in The Lancet. Others are smaller or single studies. I’ve given you the design and the numbers for each so you can weigh them. Never stop a prescribed medication without your practitioner.
Finish reading: https://open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/p/they-compared-the-spice-to-the-drug-5ba
Medical Guidelines Are Not Guardrails, They Are The Cage
How the companies that pay for the trials end up writing the rules your doctor must follow, from the Xigris scandal to ivermectin, and why getting caught never stops them.
https://open.substack.com/pub/pierrekory/p/medical-guidelines-are-not-guardrails
IUDs Emit Hormones
From a friend on Facebook:
Birth control is one of the most common gateway drugs into psychiatry for young women.
I see the pattern over and over. She starts the pill or an IUD. Months later she’s anxious, irritable or depressed. Nobody connects the dots, so she gets a diagnosis and a psych med while the hormones keep destabilizing her mood.
A Danish study followed over 1 million women. Every hormonal method raised the risk of ending up on an antidepressant, and for teens on the hormonal IUD that
Ups and Downs
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.
Lentil Wrap
How To Change The World
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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