A new paper published last week in the Journal of Theoretical Biology mapped out what actually happens in your stomach when you eat processed meat, and offers something practical you can do about it.
Cured meats contain sodium nitrite, added as a preservative and to fix the pink color. In your stomach, that nitrite meets stomach acid and turns into a reactive form. That reactive form attacks proteins from the meal and produces a class of compounds called nitrosamines. NDMA, NDEA, and NMBA are the most studied. They are the same compounds that triggered the FDA recalls of valsartan, ranitidine, and metformin in recent years. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies them as probable human carcinogens, and they are a leading hypothesis for why processed meat consumption tracks with elevated risk of stomach and colorectal cancer in large epidemiologic studies.
Vitamin C disarms this reaction. It converts the reactive nitrite compound back into nitric oxide, which is harmless and diffuses away. This chemistry has been known since the 1970s, which is why the meat industry already adds ascorbic acid during processing. The question is whether you can do anything on your end, after the meat is already in your gut. That is what the new model addressed.
McNicol, Basu, and Layton at the University of Waterloo built a mathematical model that tracks how nitrite, vitamin C, and the resulting chemistry move through saliva, stomach, and intestine over the hours after a meal. They ran simulations across realistic dietary patterns and found two things.
First, when vitamin C is naturally present in the meal, as it is in leafy greens and most fruits and vegetables, the protective effect is substantial. The vitamin C is right there when the chemistry happens. This is likely why dietary nitrate from vegetables does not track with cancer risk the way nitrite from processed meats does.
Second, for meals where vitamin C is not naturally present, like a bacon sandwich or a charcuterie board, taking vitamin C after the meal produced a moderate predicted reduction in nitrosamine formation. Not transformative. Measurable.
A few important things to know. This is a modeling study, not a clinical trial. The model is calibrated against decades of published chemistry, but no trial has yet measured nitrosamine biomarkers in people randomized to take vitamin C after meals versus placebo. Treat the predicted effect as a reasonable hypothesis backed by mechanism, not as proven outcome.
Practical version. If you regularly eat vegetables with your meals, the vitamin C is already there and you are doing most of the work. If you eat cured meats without vegetables in the same sitting, taking 200 to 500 mg of vitamin C with water 30 to 60 minutes after the meal has a defensible mechanistic basis and a modest predicted effect. The dose matters less than the timing. Above about 200 mg in a single oral dose, absorption efficiency drops sharply, so megadoses are not the answer.
The bigger idea is that a meal is a chemical environment you can shape. The same food can be a problem or a non-event depending on what else is in the gut at the same time, and when.
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We finally have the name of the weapon used to manufacture the “official narrative” of the Charlie Kirk assassination. It isn’t a firearm—it’s a Israeli dystopian hacking software called Toka.
The Software:Co-founded by former Israeli PM Ehud Barak (the same man tied to Jeffrey Epstein), Toka is designed to infiltrate any connected camera system. Its specific “selling point” to intelligence agencies? The ability to edit video feeds in real-time or recorded history so seamlessly that forensic investigators can’t find a single digital fingerprint.
The Frame-Up: For months, witnesses have insisted they saw the true “assassin” dressed in all black on the roof. Yet, the “official” footage released to the public showed a person they claim was Tyler Robinson. This is where the technology comes in:
Digital Erasure: Toka allows operators to literally “brush out” an individual—like the assassin in black—and replace them with a background or a different figure entirely.
Real-Time & Retrospective Editing: Experts have confirmed that the software can access any web-connected camera—including those in parking lots, hotels, and airports—and alter both live feeds and past recordings.
Zero Digital Footprint: Unlike other spyware that leaves a “digital fingerprint,” Toka is designed to modify video pixels without leaving any telltale signs of a hack. This makes it impossible for forensic investigators to prove a video has been tampered with.
“Ocean’s Eleven” Capabilities: Media outlets like Haaretz have compared the technology to the heist movie Ocean’s Eleven, where a live feed is diverted to a “mock” version of reality while the real event is happening undetected.
This explains why the footage of “Tyler” on the Losee building rooftop is physically impossible. The figure has no shadow that matches the sun’s position. Why? Because the software is perfect at altering pixels, but it can’t account for the complex physics of light and shadow in a 3D space.
Manufacturing the Narrative: If they can edit the past without leaving a trace, they can “place” Tyler on that roof at the exact moment they need him to be there to satisfy the mainstream media script.
We are witnessing the birth of a new kind of lawfare: Digital Assassination. They don’t just kill the target; they use foreign-funded technology to frame the innocent and erase the guilty.
The pixels are lying, but the physics don’t. It’s time to look past the “official” feed.
Toka’s marketing literally promises to “save operators from exposure.” If a foreign-linked entity wanted to eliminate a political threat like Charlie Kirk while ensuring their operative was never seen, this is the exact tool they would use.
A major flawin the video above is the subject on the roof has no shadow. This provides credence that the Toka technology, which cannot do shadows, was used. ABN
The day will come when AI can answer almost all of our questions.
I doubt it will be able to know on its own what questions we want to ask. In that respect, we will have knowledge or information AI does not have.
AI will also not know what we humans are going to ask each other or say to each other. And only a human interlocutor can answer a subjective question we ask them about themself.
Only humans have complex subjectivity which is difficult for us to figure out. AI may be able to help us with that to some degree.
But how will it help us with the complex subjectivity that exists between two or more humans?
With the help of some sort of brain monitoring device worn or embedded in a human, AI will have some calculable grasp on our subjectivity.
Would it ever be good enough to be a substitute for a human companion?
Is subjectivity anything else but confusion within the human system? Or is it a nonrational transient appraisal or measure of the system?
Subjectivity can be beautiful, ugly, inspiring, boring, intriguing, illusory.
FIML may wind up being the only thing humans can do that AI cannot do. ABN
A research team including scientists and engineers from University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Anschutz and Colorado State University has developed a suite of new therapies that prompt aging or damaged joints to repair themselves within weeks, according to animal studies.
The new osteoarthritis treatments include a single, regenerative injection to a joint and a biomaterial repair kit that recruits the body’s own cells to patch holes in damaged cartilage.
To expedite the research, the federal Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) announced this week that the multidisciplinary team will advance to the next phase of the up to $33.5 million project. The project is under the ARPA-H Novel Innovations for Tissue Regeneration in Osteoarthritis (NITRO) program. NITRO is led by ARPA-H Program Manager Dr. Ross Uhrich.
“In two years, we were able to go from a moonshot idea to developing these therapies to demonstrating that they reverse osteoarthritis in animals,” said principal investigator Stephanie Bryant, professor of chemical and biological engineering at CU Boulder. “Our goal is not just to treat pain and halt progression, but to end this disease.”
THE BALLROOM Trump is building a 90,000 square foot ballroom with a 1,000 person capacity. Hardly adequate for the White House Correspondents Dinner which was attended by 2,600 people. But we’re told that we need the ballroom in order to host events like the WHCD in the future. Bullsh*t.
COST & LOCATION The cost has ballooned to over $300-$400 million. We’re told it’s being privately funded and being sold on that as being a good thing that won’t cost the taxpayers. Here’s the reality: private funding means no congressional oversight or appropriations, no budget hearings, no public scrutiny.
Furthermore, when infrastructure is part of the Executive Office of the President at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, it can be CLASSIFIED under “executive privilege.” The entire executive branch will be able to run this data center without oversight or checks & balances.
…LEAD ARCHITECT Shalom Baranes, a jewish immigrant to the US via the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), has been appointed architect. Previously, Baranes was the architect for the post-911 hardening & rebuilding of a little building called the Pentagon. SCIFs, bomb-proofing, compartmentalization, etc.—the whole 9 yards. Baranes has no expertise designing ballrooms, that I could find. But he did help renovate one at the National Red Cross Headquarters once. Besides his renovation of Pentagon Wedges 2-5, he’s also done the U.S. Treasury Building modernization, and the Department of the Interior Headquarters & GSA National Headquarters renovations. It seems his talents center around building secure federal infrastructure, not event halls.
…CONCLUSION They’re building a Stargate Command bunker under the ballroom, and they need us to buy the ballroom narrative bullsh*t in order to gin up public support to ram this through against the opposition it’s currently facing.
This facility will most likely be the nerve center hub of the new “national security” Palantir spy infrastructure and digital control grid panopticon. In short, an essential facility to continue helping to enslave us, and putting any oversight by WE THE PEOPLE beyond our control. For israel’s benefit, and the jewish global empire-national security state blob.
I don’t think so. I’m America First & Only, and israel/ballroom LAST.
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi lectures on Kabbalistic/Zoharic prophecies about end-times events. He often discusses themes like nations (including America) facing divine judgment or humbling for historical treatment of Jews, the role of exile/redemption, and messianic-era shifts drawn from Zohar passages (e.g., on nations “squaring accounts” or bowing in recognition).
The Zohar (Hebrew: זֹהַר, “Splendor” or “Radiance”) is the central and most influential work of Kabbalistic literature, forming the cornerstone of Jewish mysticism. It is presented as a mystical commentary on the Torah, exploring the nature of God, the structure of the universe, the soul, redemption, and the relationship between the divine and the human.
Traditionally, the Zohar is attributed to the 2nd-century sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who is depicted as the central figure teaching his disciples in the text. According to tradition, he composed parts of it while hiding in a cave from Roman persecution.
However, modern scholarly consensus holds that the Zohar was primarily written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de León, a Jewish mystic. While de León claimed to be revealing an ancient text, most scholars believe he authored it himself between 1280 and 1286, possibly incorporating earlier mystical traditions. The Zohar is written mostly in a unique, artificial form of Aramaic, which supports the view of its medieval origin.
Despite debates over its authorship, the Zohar gained immense authority in Jewish thought by the 15th and 16th centuries and profoundly influenced Jewish spirituality, ethics, and ritual. It consists of multiple sections, including the main Zohar, Tiqqunei ha-Zohar, and Zohar Chadash.
Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi is a Haredi rabbi and public speaker born in 1968 in Israel. He served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) before moving to New York City in his 20s, where he worked in the financial sector. In 1997, he transitioned to full-time Torah study and teaching at the Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva in Monsey, New York, and began producing kiruv (outreach) videos online in 2004, revolutionizing Orthodox Jewish outreach through social media.
Mizrachi is the founder of the non-profit organization Divine Information, established in 1995, which aims to connect Jews to Judaism and Torah through lectures, videos, and educational resources. His website, DivineInformation.com, hosts over 700 lectures and has a global following across more than 50 countries, primarily in the U.S., Israel, Canada, and England. He has delivered over 8,000 lectures worldwide and maintains strong presences on Facebook (over 100,000 followers), YouTube, and Instagram.
Well-worth viewing. Shows Trump has a plan and it looks good. I would add that Israel’s constant disruptions of the Middle East may also be coming to an end, and may also be part of Trump’s plan. He gave Bibi what Bibi wanted, or thought he wanted, but the result appears to be a degradation of Israel’s status and possibly the end of their Greater Israel fantasies. ABN
President Trump’s latest two messages via Truth Social present an interesting geopolitical approach with multiple enmeshed aspects.
First, some background context is needed. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and USTR Jamieson Greer are in Paris to meet with Chinese government officials ahead of a scheduled meeting between Chairman Xi Jinping and President Trump.
The main objective of the pre-summit assembly before President Trump goes to Beijing, is to hammer out the actionable agreement details that can be signed off by Xi and Trump. Bessent and Greer are looking to put a deal together with their Chinese counterparts so that Trump and Xi can announce mutually beneficial outcomes during their summit.
Second, President Trump has already indicated the March 31/April 1 meeting with Xi will be all business. The traditional pomp and splendor will not be present, and Trump will only be visiting Beijing – no sidelines.
Third, Secretary Rubio will be accompanying Trump on this trip to Beijing, which might seem ordinary were it not for the fact that in 2020 China sanctioned and banned Rubio from entering China for criticizing Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
Fourth, there are rumors that President Trump is going to announce a significant weapons deal with Taiwan at some point immediately following the trip. If those rumors are true, it would be a top priority for the Chinese advance team in Paris to stop that from happening.
Regardless of what happens in the next few weeks, President Trump will be meeting with Chairman Xi with full Eagle eye confrontation toward the returning dragon stare. There will be no panda mask on this trip whatsoever; this face to face is an apex predator showdown, while the world watches intently.Everything President Trump does between now and his arrival in Beijing, should be contemplated through this adversarial position. With strong moves in Venezuela and Iran President Trump has already pulled Chairman Xi into the jianshu1circle, showing the soul of his blade.
At about 18 min Col. Douglas Macgregor enters. As of today, there is a distinct paucity of facts about the actual missile strikes and damage caused, so commentators are resorting to theory and history. I have only watched about 20 min of Macgregor and it is interesting because he knows a great deal about war and about that region. ABN
UPDATE: Macgregor has a lot to say and all of it is worth hearing. He provides a good argument/ prediction why USA will definitely not use nuclear weapons but Netanyahu might. If Netanyahu does use nukes, Macgregor says Israel will be destroyed by nukes either made in Iran or brought into Iran from Pakistan. There is no upside to this war. The sooner it ends the better. ABN
For decades, we’ve been looking to the skies for any sign of aliens – but it turns out we may have been missing attempts at contact.
A new study has cast doubt on our radio signal detection methods, arguing that ‘space weather’ could be distorting incoming transmissions.
Until now, most experiments have focused on identifying spikes in radio frequency – signals unlikely to be produced by any other natural processes in space.
But experts have highlighted an overlooked complication.
Even if an extraterrestrial transmitter produces a perfectly narrow radio signal, it may not remain narrow by the time it leaves its home star’s atmosphere.
This distortion, which happens near the point of origin, can ‘smear’ the signal’s frequency, meaning it can be missed by our detectors that are primed to search for more focused radio waves.
‘Searches are often optimized for extremely narrow signals,’ Dr Vishal Gajjar, astronomer at the SETI Institute and lead author of the paper, said.
‘If a signal gets broadened by its own star’s environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it’s there, potentially helping explain some of the radio silence we’ve seen in technosignature searches.’
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