Month: March 2025

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Understanding Butyrate — The Key to Optimal Health and Well-Being

Butyrate Podcast

  • Butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid produced by gut bacteria when they ferment fiber, serving as the primary energy source for colon cells and maintaining gut barrier strength
  • Healthy butyrate levels support weight management, blood sugar control and brain health, with studies linking butyrate-producing bacteria to reduced Alzheimer’s risk and lower cancer risk
  • A diverse diet rich in various fiber sources, including fruits, vegetables and whole grains, promotes butyrate production, but increases should be gradual if your gut health is compromised
  • The gut barrier weakens with insufficient butyrate, allowing undigested food, bacteria and toxins to enter your bloodstream, triggering systemic inflammation and widespread health problems
  • Gradually increasing fiber intake and reducing mitochondrial toxins for increased cellular energy supports gut health and beneficial gut microbes, enhancing butyrate production and overall health

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/02/23/understanding-butyrate.aspx

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12 high-yield garden crops that give you plenty for sharing

Garden Vegetable Woman Community Produce Bed

You don’t need a large garden to produce a large harvest. Sometimes, turning in armfuls of fresh crops from the garden is just a matter of choosing the right plants in the first place.

Knowing which crops produce the most food per square foot of soil is also a great approach to making the most out of small garden spaces for those residing in cities and urban communities.

Read on to learn more about the best crops that guarantee you a bountiful harvest by the end of the season.

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/self-sufficiency/12-high-yield-garden-crops-that-give-you-plenty-for-sharing/

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Does Europe Yearn for Another General Bloodletting? by John Leake

Napoleonic Wars, Crimean, Franco-Prussian, World War I, World War II. Has it been too long? Do the Europeans now long for the cathartic release of mass killing?

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once remarked that “mankind is doomed to vacillate eternally between boredom and distress.” Have Europe’s leaders grown bored with the long period of peace that has prevailed on most of their Continent since 1945? Do they long for the cathartic release of pent up aggression and negative feelings?

It’s a notable fact that pretty much every serious combat veteran of the Second World War is now gone, which means there is no living witness of the horror of a general war on the European Continent.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has started using Churchillian language since Trump sent Zelensky packing, as though there is a shred of evidence that Vladimir Putin aspires to make a move against Great Britain in the way Hitler did in 1940. I suspect that Starmer is now scheming to escalate hostilities between Russia and Great Britain in whatever way he can.

For three years now I have been posing the question: Why didn’t the Biden administration and its European lackeys at least TRY to work out a neutrality deal like the neutrality deal the Americans and English struck with Russia for Austria in 1955—a deal the Russians have honored ever since?

If Putin had agreed to Ukrainian neutrality and then subsequently violated it, the U.S. and England would have then had a clear casus belli. To this day, not a single member of the pro war faction has even tried to answer my question.

https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/does-europe-yearn-for-another-general

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Cord Storage Hack

Cord Storage Hack

If you find yourself with a lot of cords that are not only hard to keep track of but also constantly get tangled, then we’ve got the perfect idea for you. Just save those empty toilet paper rolls and, after you have enough, place a bunch of them in a big box. Grab your cords and roll them up, then insert them into an empty toilet paper roll.

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Overhead Storage Bins

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With this hack, you’ll be able to store all the items you want in your garage while keeping them out of the way. Just grab some wooden l-beams and a couple of storage containers that have a lip around the edge. Then, simply install the l-beams in a way that leaves enough space for the containers to fit. Afterwards, slide the lipped containers into the l-beams and you’re ready to store.

https://news.hometalk.com/en/simple-no-life-easy-changing?ly=native_one