Month: August 2023

(Tom: Received this in an email, thought it worth sharing.)

With violence continuing to skyrocket across the nation…

You’ve got to be on your “A” game these days when it comes to situational awareness.

The last thing you want to happen is to suddenly find yourself surrounded by an angry mob.

So today, I want to quickly share with you the 3 dimensions of situational awareness that every spy learns and how you can apply this to your own life.

The first dimension is your immediate vicinity.

Quite literally, anything in arms reach out to about a 15-foot radius.

The second dimension is your surroundings.

For instance, are you attending a church service, are you in a restaurant or at home?

Basically, your second dimension will be your line of sight and auditory range of perception beyond your immediate vicinity.

Your third dimension is outside of your surroundings.

It can be described as exterior to your immediate environment.

For example, if you are attending a church service, your third dimension will include the parking lot, the back of the building and it extends out to any current events that may affect you.

Your third dimension of SA is not described with physical boundaries, rather it includes events that may have a big impact on you.

These events could be things such as a developing military coup in the country you are working or a widespread power outage in your area.

While you can observe your first two dimensions, it is the ability to perceive your third dimension that will be essential in becoming fully aware.

To really be prepared, you need to try and figure out what is likely happening and about to happen in all three dimensions.

You can practice developing skills in all three dimensions as you go about your normal day.

To start, simply take a few moments to realize that all of these dimensions are surrounding you.

Then, be able to describe them to yourself in your mind and be prepared to act in the face of danger.

In other words, the next time you’re at Home Depot or going to the grocery store…

Instead of just mindlessly shopping like most people do, take the time to think about your 3 dimensions of SA and how it might affect your safety.

This is an easy exercise to do, doesn’t take long at all, and can definitely pay off in a crisis situation.

Stay safe,

Jason Hanson

Atrial fibrillation (often abbreviated as AF or AFib) is a common type of arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, where the heart beats too rapidly, irregularly, or both. It specifically affects the heart’s atria, which are the two upper chambers of the heart. This is one of the most common types of arrhythmias and can lead to big problems and complications. In a new study, researchers found that vitamin D could help protect against this AFib, but there’s a catch: it only works at a very high doe.

For a common vitamin, Vitamin D is pretty unusual and controversial. For starters, you get much of the vitamin not from the food you eat, but rather from the Sun. During exposure to sunlight, a substance in your skin is converted to something called “previtamin D3” which, in turn, becomes the vitamin itself. The effects of the vitamin are also pretty striking.

Vitamin D has been linked to everything from melanoma to COVID-19 to autoimmune diseases, but the dose is also controversial. Studies sometimes use very high doses of vitamin D, way over the recommended dose. This could suggest that the recommended dose should be increased, but it could also indicate that the benefits of high doses of the vitamin are not worth it (since high doses of vitamin D can cause issues).

This is exactly the case in this study.

The study was conducted at the University of Eastern Finland over a period of 6 years, from 2012 to 2018. The trial, called the Finnish Vitamin D Trial, or FIND, wanted to explore how vitamin D supplementation affect various cardiovascular diseases and cancers. Overall, the study looked at almost 2500 participants. The participants, either 60-year-old or older men or 65-year-old or older women were split into three groups:

the first group got a supplement of 40 micrograms per day (2x the recommended dosage);
the second group got 80 micrograms per day (4x the recommended dosage);
the third group got a placebo.

All groups were also allowed to take their personal vitamin D supplement, which is up to 20 micrograms per day.

Over the course of the five-ear study, 190 participants were diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. Out of these, 76 are in the placebo group, 59 in the first group, and 40 in the second group. In other words, the risk of attrial fibrilation was about a third lower in all the high-dose groups.

The new study suggests that higher doses could offer some protection, but the high dose is pretty concerning.

“In conclusion, our findings suggest possible benefit in AFib prevention with high-dose vitamin D supplementation in an elderly population, despite the relatively high baseline concentrations,” the researchers write in the study.

(Tom: I have heard that 100 mcg of K2 per 10,000 IU of Vitamin D3 is advised to prevent issues.)

Food is unfathomably powerful in dictating how you feel and what symptoms you’re experiencing, and you will never discern how foods are effecting you if you don’t eliminate them and re-add individually to gauge. This is why the carnivore diet in the short term can be so powerful, because it provides you with a clean baseline that you can experiment on.

You will never know if your joint pain is because of the spinach salads you are eating. your chronic fatigue is from an egg allergy, or if your gut problems are from almonds, unless you eliminate for a period and re-add individually.

I hate that word “balanced” in regards to diet. It’s not about balance, it’s about preparation in regards to plant foods. If you go eat 1lb of raw almonds, you are going to be in a world of hurt and have severe kidney damage. If you ate the same amount of almonds that were soaked, fermented, sun cured, and then roasted, you wouldn’t have the same problem. Preparation reduces the plant toxin defense systems.

With that said, I think there is an objective hard scientific reality in regards to human gut physiology that tells us definitively that we are first and foremost a carnivorous species, but also cyclically and opportunistically omnivorous, and an obligate lipovore species, lipo meaning animal fats.

Yes some people are lucky enough to have a rare strain of oxalate digestive bacteria in their gut, but it doesn’t digest all of it. Ive had a dozen gut microbiome tests, and I have 0 of that bacteria. I coincidentally got 2 kidney stones from drinking a veggie shake every day for a year that contained spinach, kale, almond milk, and blueberries.

You wouldn’t tell a cat or a dog to “eat a balanced diet”, when they are physiologically a carnivorous species. It’s no different for human beings. We are significantly closer to wolves in digestive physiology than we are any herbivore.