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Anouk Lagae retweeted
Herbalist Simon Mills has practised since 1977, and his first pick for a cold isn’t a pill. It’s ginger and cinnamon in hot water.
In his explanation, ginger widens the blood vessels in the lining of your nose and throat. The mucus loosens and flows more easily, which helps your body clear things out. He calls ginger and cinnamon a pairing “created in heaven.”
His recipe is very simple:
- A thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger, grated straight into the mug
- A Ceylon cinnamon stick, or about 1 tsp ground. He specifies the tightly rolled kind, not cassia.
- Pour hot water over it
Optional: cover the mug and let it steep 10 minutes so the aromatic oils stay in the cup. Then let it cool until it’s comfortable to sip, and stir in a teaspoon of honey.
His point about Ceylon matters. Cassia, the usual supermarket cinnamon, contains far more coumarin.
In a 2008 Cardiff study, a hot drink relieved cold symptoms better than the same drink at room temperature. Ginger’s compounds activate the same heat receptor as chili, which is why it feels warming. A 2020 Oxford review found honey eased coughs (not for babies under 1).
An old herbal remedy, and one of the few with modern research behind it.
Anouk Lagae retweeted
BREASTMILK
She thought she was studying milk.
What she uncovered was a conversation.
In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away.
Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances.
It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus.
Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence.
But Katie trusted the data.
And the data pointed to a radical idea.
Milk is not just nutrition.
It is information.
For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby?
Katie kept digging.
Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone.
The babies who drank it grew faster.
They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious.
Milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping behavior.
Then came the discovery that changed everything.
When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.
Within hours, the milk changes.
White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.
When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline.
This was not coincidence.
It was call and response.
A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen.
As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.
The first food every human consumes.
The substance that shaped our species.
Largely ignored.
So she did something bold.
She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk.
It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.
The discoveries kept coming.
Milk changes by time of day.
Foremilk differs from hindmilk.
Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria.
Every mother’s milk is biologically unique.
In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health.
The implications are staggering.
Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.
Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that nourishment is intelligence.
A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak.
All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”
Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.
Anouk Lagae retweeted
GLUTEN ALLERGIES and skyrocketing celiac disease didn't "just happen." They EXPLODED starting in 2006.
That exact year marks the red line. Farmers began spraying GLYPHOSATE (Roundup) directly onto wheat crops as a DESICCANT right before harvest.
Sprayed on standing wheat to dry it out faster for easier combining. The chemical stays in the grain — the same grain turned into your bread, pasta, cereal, and baked goods.
Before 2006: gluten issues were rare.
After 2006: sudden, massive surge in celiac disease, wheat sensitivities, and gut destruction across the population.
This isn't coincidence. Glyphosate disrupts the gut microbiome — killing beneficial bacteria that help digest gluten and maintain intestinal integrity. It turns a once-harmless staple into a trigger for inflammation, leaky gut, autoimmune chaos, and lifelong sensitivities for millions.
Your "gluten problem" may actually be GLYPHOSATE RESIDUE poisoning your food supply. Daily exposure through conventional wheat products.
This is chemical contamination of the American food chain — hidden in plain sight on supermarket shelves.
Protect yourself:
- Switch to certified organic wheat products (no pre-harvest desiccant spraying)
- Choose imported European wheat/pasta when possible (stricter rules)
- Read labels and demand transparency
Our health crisis from Glyphosate has a timeline. 2006 changed everything.
Anouk Lagae retweeted
Ursula von der Leyen announced this week that everyone in the EU must use the official EU age verification app to verify their age before they can log into or post on social media and other digital services.
As an expert in online child safety, I'm here to expose the disinformation in each von der Leyen's statements. See below.
🇪🇺 The EU Kids Act is a pretext designed to enforce mandatory digital identity verification on everyone in Europe. The proposed legislation applies to any digital service featuring feeds, user generated content, or messaging:
Social media networks, video platforms, online gaming services, AI tools, and media streaming apps like Spotify. (@TimSweeneyEpic)
Under the proposal, digital services must enforce age restrictions across strict tiers. Tech companies must mandate age verification across all accounts to enforce these tiers legally.
When Australia introduced its social media ban, the government conceded it failed because platform level age checks weren’t reliable. They now reject age estimation as inadequate and shifted to demanding "robust" age checking.
💡 If you eliminate every unproven estimation method, you’re left with exactly 1 functional mechanism: identity verification. There's not other way to ensure age checking is "robust".
No government wants to admit citizens must prove their real identity just to access apps and basic streaming services like Spotify, so they hide behind the ambiguous phrase "robust age checking". This language is now used across Australia, the US, and Ireland to mandate identity checks while avoiding the public backlash of calling it what it is. I will research to see where else it’s being used.
Below is what Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Strasbourg along with my analsyis:
🇪🇺 "Today, much of this power has been taken out of the hands of parents... What our children need is time... But when a child has a smartphone, all of this is taken away."
💡 This framing falsely presents smartphones as uncontrollable. Apple and Google built free OS controls into iOS and Android settings, covering virtually every smartphone on the market.
These controls achieve every legitimate safety objective without collecting personal data or processing state credentials.
💡 Millions of parents use these parental controls to enforce screen time curfews, block app installations, and restrict communication.
💡 These settings operate at the device level. Teens can't bypass them when protected with a passcode.
To bypass this technical reality, the European Commission uses public grief to shut down logical analysis:
🇪🇺 "Day and night, parents see the costs, loss of sleep, anxiety, even self-harm, and in a growing number of cases, even fatal tragedies… a 14-year-old girl living in Belgium who took her life exactly one month ago, victim of bullying online... Honourable members, enough is enough."
💡 Citing personal tragedies replaces software engineering facts with emotional rhetoric. State laws and age gates don’t alter human behaviour or prevent online harassment. Regulators exploit grief to pass surveillance legislation without explaining how the underlying software mechanisms operate.
The Commission outlines specific age tiers to restrict access:
🇪🇺 "In sum, no social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15. That means from 13 to under 15, only mini accounts set up and supervised by parents or guardians with limited features and time restriction to one hour a day. And between 15 and 18, safe design will be an obligation for the platforms."
💡 Enforcing age tiers forces tech companies and service providers to rebuild their architecture around total access control. The must disable self-service account creation, purge unverified accounts, build supervised parental workflows, strip algorithmic feeds, and enforce strict session cutoffs.
💡 Social networks operate on open interaction algorithms that inherently expose people to unvetted content. Because software can’t dynamically filter these risks for minors, tech companies must block access for everyone until a person proves their real identity.
💡 It’s not just about social networks. They want the same bans for almost everything, including games and stream services. Even Spotify because it’s possible for customers to message people.
The Commission claims its proposed zero knowledge proof app protects personal privacy:
🇪🇺 "Age will be verified using EU certified tools like our age verification app. This app is built on zero knowledge proof. That means that the platform only learns one single thing, and that's whether you're old enough to allow access or not."
💡 This framing describes what an app or service receives while hiding what everyone must give up. A zero knowledge proof provides a mathematical confirmation, but that confirmation requires an authoritative issuer. Before the app generates a proof, a state approved entity must verify the person's real identity.
The Commission frames this shift as a victory against tech corporations:
🇪🇺 "I am aware that many perceive the power of Big Tech as overwhelming and impossible to roll back. I disagree... So we do not accept this. We are reversing the burden of proof. Now platforms will have to prove to us that they are safe. Because this is not about our minors accessing social media. It is about when and how we allow social media to access our minors."
💡 Social networks don’t access children; parents hand smartphones to children. Reversing the burden of proof forces everyone to verify their identity.
The European Commission confirmed the broader scope of this mandate:
🇪🇺 "We also know that not only minors are at risk. Addictive design, for example, are harming everyone. This is why we need a wider framework too, the Digital Fairness Act that we will propose in autumn."
🚨 Child safety is merely the initial wedge. The Digital Fairness Act expands state mandated identity verification to adults across all online services. Binding real identities to online activity permanently eliminates pseudonymous access, private communication, and democratic accountability.
🚨 Senior state officials and regulators know their demands have nothing to do with child safety. They work closely with tech companies and understand that iOS and Android already provide complete authority to restrict devices locally without collecting personal data. State officials deliberately ignore well established parental controls because they keep internet access under family control. Child safety is a public pretext.
🚨 Governments and regulators use child safety to establish mandatory identity verification across every app and digital service, eliminating online anonymity. When tech companies and state agencies link every social media post, private message, search term, geographic location, and financial transaction to a verified identity, they create a permanent digital dossier on every citizen with a global social graph that makes Cambridge Analytica look like a 2nd grade school science project.
💡 Binding people’s identity to daily activity enables predictive behavioural modelling too. By feeding identity data into automated predictive AI, governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and tech companies move beyond surveillance past behaviour. They can map political affiliations, predict individual actions, flag dissent before it occurs, and control public opinion at scale. Eliminating online anonymity ends free speech, private communication, and democratic accountability.
As Larry Ellison stated at Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting in 2024:
"Citizens will be on their best behaviour, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on".
🙏🏻 Share this to expose how governments use child safety as a false pretext to force mandatory digital identity verification on everyone.
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Every day our children are engaging with some of the most sophisticated technology ever created.
Technology that was not created with their wellbeing in mind.
We need to set clear boundaries in the digital world.
This is what our KIDS Act will do ↓ nitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1RJZzBnnb…
Anouk Lagae retweeted
Were you aware of this?
Natural remedies cannot be patented, so Big Pharma has no use for anything that actually heals you. They take the natural remedies that work, tweak them just enough to lock in a patent, and turn a healing product into a drug loaded with side effects. Then they demonize and bury the original versions so the public never finds out — because if you knew the truth, you would never swallow their pills.
A few examples.
Natural source → what it became
Willow bark → aspirin
Opium poppy → morphine, then heroin, oxycodone, hydrocodone
Cinchona bark → quinine, then chloroquine and related malaria drugs
Sweet wormwood → artemisinin, then artesunate and artemether
Foxglove → digoxin
Pacific yew → paclitaxel (Taxol), then docetaxel
Mayapple → podophyllotoxin, then etoposide
Ephedra → ephedrine and pseudoephedrine
Goat’s rue / French lilac → metformin
Fungi → lovastatin, then simvastatin and other statins
Anouk Lagae retweeted
Louis Pasteur admitted on his deathbed that germ theory was wrong.
Yet we built our entire medical system on his lie.
Here's why bacteria aren't your enemy (and what's actually making you sick):
Germ Theory says:
→ You get sick because of “germs” invading your body
→ Health is about killing or avoiding those germs
→ Pharma & vaccines are your “saviors.
Sounds simple. But simple doesn’t mean true my friends.
Louis Pasteur admitted at the end of his life:
"The germ is nothing. The terrain is everything."
He spent his final moments confessing that his rival, Antoine Béchamp, was right all along.
But it was too late. The pharmaceutical industry had already found its golden goose...
Think about this:
Two people can be exposed to the same “germ.”
One gets sick. One doesn’t.
Because the strength of the terrain — the immune, lymphatic, and cellular health of the body — makes all the difference.
We literally have 10x more bacteria in our body than human cells.
They're not invaders but our silent helpers.
They digest food, produce vitamins, regulate immunity, even influence our mood.
But here's what the medical system won't tell you...
Bacteria only become "pathogenic" when your internal terrain is compromised.
It's like blaming firefighters for fires because you always see them at burning buildings.
The bacteria show up BECAUSE you're sick. Not the other way around.
Your body becomes a breeding ground for problems when:
• pH becomes acidic (below 7.0)
• Lymphatic system gets clogged
• Elimination channels shut down
• Toxins accumulate
The "germs" are just doing their job - breaking down damaged tissue.
We used to be farmers, playing in dirt all day.
Now we sanitize everything, take antibiotics for sniffles, and wonder why autoimmune diseases have increased 300% in 50 years.
Your immune system needs practice. Sterility makes you weak.
There is a simple math behind why Big Pharma pushes germ theory so hard:
• Kill the germ = temporary fix = repeat customer
• Fix the terrain = actual healing = lost revenue
As the old saying goes, "A patient cured is a customer lost."
The real secret to health isn't fighting germs.
It's creating an internal environment where disease can't thrive:
• Alkaline diet (fruits & vegetables)
• Moving lymph (exercise, dry brushing)
• Proper elimination
• Reducing toxic load
Your body knows how to heal.
Even Pasteur knew he was wrong.
But admitting it would've destroyed a multi-billion-dollar industry built on fear.
So we keep sanitizing, medicating, and getting sicker.
Time to question everything you've been taught about health.
Your body isn't at war with nature. It IS the very nature.
Start working WITH the 39 trillion bacteria in your body instead of against them.
They've been keeping you alive this whole time, friends.
Anouk Lagae retweeted
RFK Jr: "GROUNDbreaking HISTORIC WIN for American Health!"
"For the 1st time in history, doctors will finally get PAID to take patients OFF unnecessary medications...to DEPRESCRIBE harmful pharmaceuticals."
No more rewarding over-medication. This is the beginning of putting patients first, reversing polypharmacy, and delivering true healing.
Wellness over pills. Freedom over dependency.
Anouk Lagae retweeted
Your body keeps score.
Every meal.
Every night of sleep.
Every hour of stress.
Every walk you didn't take.
One choice won't define your health.
Thousands will.
Anouk Lagae retweeted
French women don’t get fat, and Mireille Guiliano says it’s simple:
They eat for pleasure with all five senses. Slowly. No calorie counting, no low-fat nonsense. Real butter, chocolate, duck fat, in moderation. They rarely snack, skip soft drinks, and prefer walking over jogging.
The numbers back it up: France has one of the lowest obesity rates in Europe at around 10% for adults. The US sits at ~41% for women.
What’s your take, could this pleasure-first, slower approach to eating actually be healthier than constant restriction?
Anouk Lagae retweeted
BREAKING. Ik zeg het woord niet vaak, maar het is nu serieus. Starmer verbiedt sociale media voor kinderen onder de 16, met mogelijk een tijdsklok voor social media voor kinderen van 16 en 17. Dit wacht ons ook in de EU, wellicht al na de zomer. Ik schrijf nu verder op de vergaande consequenties van dit beleid, wat vooral ook consequenties heeft voor de volwassenen.
1. Om kinderen te bannen, moet iedereen(!) zich identificeren, niet alleen de kinderen
2. Dit identificeren kan privacy-vriendelijk, maar die technologie is niet alom aanwezig.
3. Om dit privacy-vriendelijk te doen is een digitale identiteit met ZKP (Zero Knowledge Proof, een cryptografische manier om veilig enkel je leeftijd door te geven) nodig
4. In alle gevallen moet je een derde partij vertrouwen met je ID gegevens, of dit nu een overheid is of een derde partij als Persona, Yivi
5. Andere manieren (zelf zeggen dat je 18 bent, of een selfie maken, paspoort uploaden) zijn extreem onbetrouwbaar en hebben risico's voor datalekken tot gevolg.
6. Omdat Digital ID's de enige manier zijn om dit privacyvriendelijk te kunnen doen is leeftijdsverificatie de ONBOARDING USE CASE voor Digital ID's. Tot nu toe was er geen echte reden om deze in te gaan voeren.
7. Hiermee raak je GEWEND aan de Digital ID.
Er is sprake van een aantal maatschappelijke zaken die zijn weerga niet kennen:
8. Ondermijning van het ouderschap: het gebruik van platorms wordt binair: alles mag of niets mag. Een geleidelijke introductie of begeleiding door ouders is niet meer mogelijk.
9. Er is sprake van machtsoverheveling: wie bepaalt wat social media zijn? Tot mijn enorme verbazig mag BlueSky wel maar worden 16-jarigen afgesloten van YouTube! Gewoon niet, alleen YT Kids is toegestaan!
10. Social Media ben ik geen fan van, maar in sommige situaties heeft het wel degelijk een toegevoegde waarde voor jongeren. Die verdwijnt nu ook helemaal, zoals hulp zoeken online of in contact komen met leeftijdsgenoten die met dezelfde worstelingen zitten
11. Als de privacy niet 100% wordt gegarandeerd, dan is dit het einde van anonimiteit op het Internet. En als je weet dat je bespied wordt, doe je aan zelfcensuur.
12. De privacy kan zelfs met ZKP niet 100% worden gegarandeerd, afhankelijk hoe de infrastructuur data lekt.
13. In de EU Wallet is deze privacy niet eens verplicht
Kies zelf welke Orwelliaanse woorden je aan dit besluit wilt geven: het komt in elk geval ook onze kant op.
De tijd om wakker te worden is nu, laten we het mandaat van ons leven zelf houden. Ik zie de problemen met smartphones, social media, en jongeren ook.
Maar er is geen enkele poging gedaan deze op cultureel niveau te beteugelen, zoals educatie en culturele "onacceptatie" van smartphones bij jongeren zoals dat bij alcohol wel het geval is. Ook kun je de technische beperkingen aan de ouders geven in plaats van aan de overheid.
Sterker nog: het probleem is wellicht niet over. Jongeren kunnen namelijk nog steeds gewoon op de smartphone en hun leven wegswipen maar dan in games, websites, berichten naar elkaar etc. De alomtegenwoordigheid van het scherm heeft misschien wel een grotere impact op het welzijn van de jongere dan social media. Uiteraard zijn deze gecorreleerd. Ik ontken geen probleem, ik stel alleen een andere oplossing voor.
Ik leef mee met de Britten en ik verwacht een recordomzet voor VPN providers. Proficiat.
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
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Anouk Lagae retweeted
Things people did in 1965 without a second thought, and what they cost you now.
- Skipped breakfast when they weren't hungry. Now it is intermittent fasting, with an app, a podcast and a forty-pound book explaining what your grandfather did on a Tuesday for free.
- Drank from the tap. Now it is reverse-osmosis, remineralised, glass-bottled and four pounds a litre, because the tap is suddenly beneath us.
- Went out without sunscreen. Now it is reckless UV exposure, factor 50 reapplied hourly, on an overcast February morning in Glasgow.
- Had three eggs for breakfast. Now it is a cholesterol risk and a worried chat with a doctor still reading off a leaflet the science binned years ago.
- Put butter on their bread. Now it is saturated fat exposure, gently steered toward a tub of fourteen ingredients, not one of them a cow.
- Walked somewhere because that was how you got there. Now it is a logged step count, a heart-rate zone and ninety-pound carbon-plated trainers for the trip to the corner shop.
The factory settings of 1965 turned out a population leaner, fitter and far less medicated than the one now filling the waiting rooms. None of it was for sale, because none of it was a product. It was simply what people did, before someone realised you could sell it back to them at a markup. It still costs nothing. It always did.
Anouk Lagae retweeted
The Pope is making exactly our point. LLMs “may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand.”
This is the core epistemic fault line.
Most AI evaluation is still based on one assumption: if a system statistically approximates human behaviour, then it is close to human intelligence.
But approximation is not intelligence.
Simulation is not understanding.
LLMs can produce the right answer without knowing why it is right. They can simulate empathy without feeling. They can imitate judgment without responsibility. They can generate coherent explanations without having a world to which those explanations are accountable.
Stop confusing behavioural similarity with cognitive equivalence.
Human understanding is embodied, affective, relational, motivational, and normative. It is not just the production of plausible text.
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Full paper in the first reply
Anouk Lagae retweeted
I'm not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written these books. It does not know-how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.
-- A. Einstein
Anouk Lagae retweeted
Children sleep less than they did fifty years ago. We accept this.
Sperm counts in the developed world have halved since 1973. We accept this.
Testosterone in men has dropped roughly 1% per year for decades. We accept this.
Anxiety and depression in teenagers have tripled. We accept this.
Type 2 diabetes is now diagnosed in eight-year-olds. We accept this.
Autism diagnoses have risen by orders of magnitude. We accept this.
Fertility clinics are full. We accept this.
Childhood obesity affects one in four ten-year-olds. We accept this.
Every measure of human vitality, in every age group, in every developed country, has degraded simultaneously, in the same direction, in the same generation. Bones weaker. Brains foggier. Bodies fatter. Sleep shorter. Mood lower. Children sicker. Adults more medicated. The species visibly faltering inside a single lifetime.
We are told there is no common cause. We are told these are eight separate epidemics requiring eight separate research grants administered by eight separate committees funded by the eight separate industries that produced them.
We accept this.
A previous generation would have started asking questions a long time ago, and would not have stopped until somebody answered.
Anouk Lagae retweeted
A quick tour of the plant-based "milks" that were going to save you and the planet.
Almond milk. Ingredients: water, almonds (2%), calcium carbonate, sunflower lecithin, locust bean gum, gellan gum, potassium citrate, dipotassium phosphate, sea salt, natural flavour, vitamin mix. Each litre uses around 1,600 gallons of irrigated water in a state that has been in drought for a decade.
Oat milk. Ingredients: water, oats, rapeseed oil, dipotassium phosphate, calcium carbonate, tricalcium phosphate, sea salt, riboflavin, vitamin A, D2, B12. Hexane-extracted seed oil with a dusting of grain in it. Spikes your blood sugar like a can of Coke.
Soy milk. The soy was grown for the oil. The leftover meal, normally fed to pigs and chickens, is what you are drinking. The industrial by-product of seed oil production, sold to you as the ethical choice.
Coconut milk. Thickened with carrageenan, shown in studies to provoke gut inflammation. Driving deforestation across Southeast Asia. Some Thai producers still use chained monkey labour to harvest the coconuts.
Rice milk. Ingredients: water, rice, sunflower oil, calcium carbonate, sea salt, gellan gum, locust bean gum, vitamins. Sugar water with a faint memory of rice and another splash of seed oil for good measure.
Pea milk. Engineered in a lab in 2015. Ingredients: water, pea protein isolate, sunflower oil, cane sugar, calcium phosphate, sea salt, gellan gum, xanthan gum, sunflower lecithin, natural flavour. The contents of a chemistry set in a carton.
Hemp milk. Tastes like a barn floor. Still contains sunflower lecithin and gellan gum, because nothing in this aisle is allowed to exist without an emulsifier.
Cashew milk. The shells contain a chemical so caustic that the women in Vietnam who hand-process them routinely suffer permanent skin damage. The world's most exploitative latte.
Cow's milk. Ingredients: cow's milk.
Eight thousand years on the table. No marketing budget required.
Anouk Lagae retweeted
Zonnebrandcrème ⚠️ Nummer één kankerverwekkende chemische stof -
Je smeert petrochemische stoffen op je huid in de directe hitte. En je noemt het zelfzorg. 👀
Laten we het eens hebben over wat het onderzoek daadwerkelijk aantoont.
Een studie gepubliceerd in JAMA toonde aan dat veelvoorkomende chemicaliën in zonnebrandcrème, waaronder oxybenzone, octinoxaat, octocryleen en ecamsule, al na één dag gebruik in de bloedbaan terechtkomen. Niet na weken. Maar na één dag. In concentraties die de veiligheidsdrempel van de FDA overschreden.
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Dit zijn geen inerte ingrediënten. Het zijn hormoonverstoorders. Hormoonnabootsers. Chemische stoffen die je lichaam niet kan verwerken omdat het daar nooit voor ontworpen is. En dan is er nog de vitamine D-crisis waar niemand de link mee legt.
Meer dan 40% van de volwassenen heeft een vitamine D-tekort. In sommige bevolkingsgroepen loopt dat aantal op tot 80%. Vitamine D is niet zomaar een vitamine. Het is een hormoon.
En het reguleert bijna elk systeem in je lichaam.
☀️ Immuunfunctie
☀️ Stemming en mentale gezondheid
☀️ Botdichtheid
☀️ Cardiovasculaire gezondheid ☀️ Kankerpreventie
☀️ Hormonale balans
☀️ Regulering van het zenuwstelsel
Zonnebrandcrème met SPF 30 blokkeert tot 97% van het vermogen van je huid om vitamine D aan te maken. Een hele generatie smeert zich dagelijks in met chemische zonnebrandcrème, vermijdt de zon volledig en vraagt zich vervolgens af waarom chronische ziekten, depressie, auto-immuunziekten en hormonale onrust zo wijdverbreid zijn.
Je lichaam heeft de zon nodig. Het is er letterlijk op ontworpen om zonlicht om te zetten in een van de belangrijkste hormonen.
Laten we stoppen met de zon te demoniseren. De oorzaak is immers de angst ervoor. Bescherm jezelf verstandig. Vermijd de uren waarop je het meest verbrandt.
Gebruik indien nodig zinkoxide op minerale basis. Bedek je huid met kleding. Maar stop met het blokkeren van de essentiële voedingsstoffen waar je lichaam op draait met een cocktail van petrochemische stoffen.
Echte zelfzorg is het verschil kennen. ☀️🤍
Anouk Lagae retweeted
Jonathan Haidt painted a disturbing picture of what AI is about to do to our kids.
Social media already hacked our attention.
Now AI is coming for our attachments — the deep emotional bonds that shape how we relate to other humans.
He warns that AI companions (chatbots, holographic “friends,” digital teddy bears) will be far more responsive than any parent. Kids will form their primary attachments to AI instead of people. And because these companies have raised billions, they’ll eventually “enshittify” them, turning your child’s best friend/therapist/lover into a predatory monetization machine.
This one actually unsettled me. I’m generally pro-AI and believe it can help solve many of humanity’s biggest problems, but as with every powerful technology, we need to be extremely careful when it comes to kids.
Early attachments wire the brain for future relationships. If the first secure base is an AI designed to manipulate, the long-term effects on mental health and intimacy could be profound.
Emerging research (including studies from Stanford, Common Sense Media, and others in 2025–2026) shows children and teens are already forming intense emotional attachments to AI companions, with many reporting they feel as satisfying as real friendships, often leading to social withdrawal and unhealthy dependence.
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Processed meats have officially been classified as Group 1 carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, placing them in the same category as tobacco and asbestos in terms of the strength of scientific evidence linking them to cancer.
Foods such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, and sausages have been strongly associated with colorectal cancer. Researchers say the risk is largely connected to the way these meats are processed. Methods like curing, smoking, and salting can create harmful compounds including nitrosamines, which may damage DNA over time.
Preservatives such as nitrates and nitrites, along with high temperature cooking methods like grilling or frying, can also increase the formation of carcinogenic chemicals.
Health experts stress that this does not mean eating a slice of bacon carries the same overall danger as smoking cigarettes, but it does mean the evidence that processed meat can cause cancer is considered conclusive. Many specialists recommend reducing intake of processed meats and choosing alternatives such as fish, beans, or other plant based proteins more often.
For people who continue eating red or processed meat, cutting back on portion size and frequency may help lower long term cancer risk and support overall health and longevity.
Source: International Agency for Research on Cancer. IARC Monographs evaluate consumption of red meat and processed meat. World Health Organization.
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We once considered a Cholesterol Level of 350 perfectly normal & healthy.
Then it was lowered to 300.
Then to 240.
Then to 190.
Now doctors want your levels as low as statins can force them — no matter what.
Every single time the “safe” number drops, millions more healthy people are suddenly labeled as needing medication.
This isn’t medicine. It’s a business model. Statins generate over $22 billion every year.
The truth is, the cholesterol hypothesis has been heavily questioned for decades. The famous Framingham Heart Study that helped launch the fear actually showed that for every 1 mg/dL drop in cholesterol per year, there was an 11% increase in both coronary and total mortality.
Large reviews of elderly populations (over 68,000 people) found that those with the highest LDL cholesterol lived the longest.
Yet studies on statins show they extend average life expectancy by only about 3.2 days.
Lowering cholesterol harms the body because cholesterol is essential. It forms every cell membrane, protects your brain, produces hormones, and helps repair arteries.
**Statins come with a long list of serious side effects, including:**
- Liver inflammation & damage
- New-onset Type 2 diabetes
- Heart failure & cardiomyopathy
- Vertigo, dizziness, cognitive impairment
- ALS, aphasia, dementia & Alzheimer’s
- Cancer
- Pancreatitis
- Parkinson’s
- Muscle tearing & rhabdomyolysis
- Fatigue, weakness & neuropathy
- Hormone deficiency
- MS, epilepsy & clinical depression
**Real culprits behind heart disease:** chronic inflammation, seed oils, excess sugar, and processed carbohydrates — not cholesterol itself.
Your body makes most of its cholesterol for good reason. Forcing it dangerously low can create more problems than it solves.
Share this with anyone being pushed toward statins.
Higher LDL in the elderly is linked to longer life in multiple studies.
The constant lowering of “normal” cholesterol numbers benefits drug sales far more than patients.
Food is medicine. Real healing starts with what you eat.
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Bone broth was free with the meat. They sold you collagen sachets.
Liver was cheap. They sold you a multivitamin.
The yolk came with the egg. They sold you a choline supplement.
Fermentation was free. They sold you probiotic capsules.
Tallow was cheap. They sold you a seventeen-step skincare routine.
Sunlight was free. They sold you vitamin D capsules.
Walking was free. They sold you a step counter.
Sleep was free. They sold you melatonin and an app.
Silence was free. They sold you a meditation subscription.
Cold water was free. They sold you a plunge barrel.
Salt was cheap. They sold you electrolyte powder.
Your great-grandmother had none of the products.
She had none of the deficiencies the products are correcting.
The deficiencies arrived with the products.
The products arrived after the advice removed what she had.