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#Compline "Protect us, Lord, as we stay awake; watch over us as we sleep, that awake, we may keep watch with Christ, and asleep, rest in His peace. Amen." 🙏🛐
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Study: Johnston et al., Diabetes Care 2004. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1469…
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In Oct 2017, a pastor's blood sugar hit 519 mg/dl. It was treated as a medical emergency.
He weighed 383 lbs, took insulin (4+ shots a day) and two blood pressure meds.
This is Calvin's story, in his own words. 🧵
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4/4) But there's a bigger story here. One that begins with a text a MD sent me: “Our understanding of heart disease is COMPLETELY backwards.”
In today's deep dive, I unpack the nuances, why inflammation and oxidative stress in the artery wall matter, and what you can do today to protect yours.
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Pope Leo XIV highlights how peace must become once again the "guiding star for all our choices," in a video message to the participants in the International Meeting "Unarmed and Disarming Peace" in Assisi. Forty years ago, Pope St. John Paul II had gathered religious representatives in the Italian town to pray for peace.
"Precisely in these times marked by a 'culture of power,'" Pope Leo continued, "there is a need to cultivate the spirit of Assisi, which entails a rejection of the religious justification of war, a spirit of mediation and dialogue, and contemplative reflection combined with creative action in the service of a future of peace."
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Can type 2 diabetes go into remission? Yes.
Remission means A1C below 6.5% for at least 3 months without glucose-lowering medication.
Remission isn't a cure. Blood sugar can rise again, and ongoing monitoring still matters. #metabolichealth
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‘Weak leadership combined with ideological capture, perceived prestige for the organisation, and fear had all led to children being harmed.’
Gender ideology has spread like wildfire through the NHS. The casualties: kids and whistleblowers.
Free to read.
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Let us continue to pray together for peace. The day after tomorrow, on 27 October, let us join in spirit with the heads of churches and religious leaders who will gather in Assisi to mark the 40th anniversary of the meeting convened by Saint John Paul II. Never before has it been so clear that wars, as well as sowing death and destruction, impoverish and harm the world. May the Lord inspire choices of dialogue and peace! #PrayTogether
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So many good points here. We’ve simplified biology so we can understand it. Staying curious is the way to truly discover what life is about.
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Sharing again. No sub to subscribe to, no pay wall. ⬇️
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The documentary film, Healing Humanity, is out now! As one of its executive producers, I'm honored to have played a small role in bringing this project to the world. This big-hearted independent film was made on a shoe-string and was a true labor of love for Kerry Mann and everyone else involved.
Five years ago, when our family first learned about ketogenic therapy for mental health, there was almost nothing out there to point people toward. No press coverage. No films. No clinical trials in the scientific literature. Just a handful of individuals and clinicians who were seeing how a specific change in nutrition and metabolism could lead to healing the body and mind.
That’s a big part of why I said yes to this film.
Healing Humanity began with Kerry Mann Jr., a homesteader suffering from deep depression, who was 100 pounds overweight and was told his congestive heart failure and arthritis were permanent. When Kerry adopted a what he refers to as a proper human diet, he reclaimed his mental and physical health.
Then he and his co-director Adam Lacy, who has his own long recovery story from traumatic brain injury, spent three years driving around the country with a camera asking one question: who else has a similar story?
The answer turned out to be a lot of people. The film weaves together roughly 60 interviews with physicians, researchers, and ordinary people who got their lives back by returning to a proper human diet. Type 2 diabetes. Depression and anxiety. Autoimmune disease. Chronic pain. Women’s health. Aging. Among the clinicians who sat down with Kerry are @GeorgiaEdeMD, @KenDBerryMD, @SBakerMD, @ifixhearts and @thomasseyfried, and they don’t hold back.
What I love most about this film is that it isn’t a lecture. It’s people telling you, in their own words, what it felt like to be told “there’s nothing more we can do,” and what it felt like to find out that wasn’t true--exactly the journey our son @matthewbaszucki travelled.
This is the same conversation we’ve been having for years: that what we eat shapes our metabolism, that our metabolism shapes our brains, and that millions of people living with chronic physical and mental illness have never once been told that food might be part of the answer. The science is still catching up to the stories. But the stories are real, and they deserve to be heard.
Kerry and Adam made this film independently, funded by thousands of small donors, and they’ve set it up so every dollar from purchases goes first toward giving the film away free to people who can’t afford it. That tells you everything about who they are.
Watch it tonight. Then watch it again with a parent, a sibling, or a friend who has been told their diagnosis is forever. Gift it to someone who needs to know that healing is possible.
@HHDocumentary
Rent or buy here: healinghumanity.movie
#HealingHumanity #FoodIsMedicine #ProperHumanDiet
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Good grief.
Again, I attend the TLM in Rome with the ICKSP and with the FSSP when I'm in the States. I have attended this TLM pilgrimage many times over the years. I am NOT a journalist or blogger who gets paid to rage. I am, however, someone who has been organizing pilgrimages like this for decades and knows exactly how the Vatican and the churches work.
The news over the last few days is that the TLM pilgrimage Mass was not allowed in Saint Peter's Basilica, that the Vatican threw together an event to block them, that the group was denied entry into the basilica to pray, and that they were only allowed one hour at Saint Mary Major at the last minute, with no photos.
Let me break this down...
Celebrations for the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis were being planned as early as 2021. Meetings took place with Pope Francis in 2022 to discuss the events. In January 2025, the Italian government met with Vatican officials to plan the events. In January 2026, Vatican News referenced planned events to take place throughout the year. So despite what some are saying, the Franciscan event that is happening today was not thrown together to block this Mass at the last minute. In fact, this event coincides with a huge event that starts tomorrow in Assisi, where 5,000 people have registered and which Pope Leo was originally scheduled to attend.
When the organizers requested the Mass for this day, they were told the altar was already reserved and offered another day or another location. They chose another location, Saint Mary Major. No scandal.
As for the procession, the group was not banned from entering. They were not allowed to process in. They could not carry their flags and banners and would have to enter through security like everyone else. If you check the photos, you'll see that the line at that time was over an hour long. So if they arrived at their scheduled time of 1 p.m., it would have been difficult to get through security and across town in time for their 3 p.m. Mass.
👏🏻 Props to the PR people who positioned the group for a photo in front of the walls set up for construction of the Nativity scene instead of moving them over a few feet for an unobstructed view of the basilica! 👏🏻
Last year, we were able to process in because there was a dedicated entrance for the Jubilee with very little wait. Anyone could process in (unfortunately), which is why we ended up with some inappropriate processions. But that was an exception during the Jubilee. Normally, groups cannot just process beyond the piazza, as was the case today.
As for the Mass at Saint Mary Major, they allow one hour for Mass. I have been here with cardinals leading pilgrimages of hundreds of people. Do you know how much time they were allowed for Mass? One hour. Saint Mary Major says on their Mass reservation form and in their confirmation emails that private groups are allowed one hour. Could they have made an exception? Sure, but they don't usually for cardinals bringing busloads of people, so why would they here?
And for the photos during Mass, permission to use a professional photographer has to be requested well in advance. Did the organizers know this and make the proper request? I don't know. Professional photos on Vatican property, including Saint Peter's Basilica, Saint Peter's Square, Saint Mary Major, Saint John Lateran, Saint Paul Outside the Walls, and the Scala Santa, require special permission. I've been making these requests for years. It's simple, but getting a reply takes time. It is the Vatican, after all. So perhaps they did not have permission or even ask for permission.
There is plenty to question in the Church, but if you're not looking for clicks, this looks more like poor planning and poor communication, possibly on both sides, than some grand conspiracy.
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Our hearts are heavy with the news of the seven Christians killed in an attack on a church in Jordan yesterday. Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world today. As we attend Mass in Ireland this weekend without fear, we lift them up to God along with the thousands of Christians killed for their faith every year. Today, some 413 million Christians live in countries where religious freedom is severely violated – that’s 18% or about one in five Christians. Of these, approximately 220 million live in countries where they are directly exposed to persecution - that’s 10%, or one in ten of all Christians.
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Our debt is above $40 trillion. We ran a deficit of nearly $2 trillion last year. We now spend more on interest than on national defense. Wanting to stop that shouldn’t make you an outlier. It should be the bare minimum.
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Hidden Treasures
"Far more amazing and beautiful is the hidden treasure in the human heart...God's jewels are often hidden. What a reward they are to any of us who will take the time to perceive!"
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First and foremost, I want to sincerely thank everyone in my community for the compassion and support you've shown me regarding something I've been going through.
I spent a lot of time reading your thoughtful replies, and they brought so much love and warmth to my heart. I want you to know how deeply I appreciate that.
That said, a question came up that I'd been avoiding because I didn't want to give the rumor any oxygen whatsoever. But I will address it.
A critic of our work @realDaveFeldman @AdrianSotoMota is attempting to suggest that I've fabricated or exaggerated my health history: a severe case of inflammatory bowel disease that had me in and out of the hospital, including palliative care.
To my understanding, they're citing an interview from many years ago in which I effectively said, "I don't know how bad it really was. Maybe I was just placed in the palliative care ward because the UK's National Health Service was so overwhelmed."
I said that. Now let me explain why.
For anyone who has experienced significant medical trauma, talking about it can be incredibly difficult. Even in private circles, let alone publicly.
Add to that the shame and embarrassment of having a condition that leaves you literally shitting blood, withdrawing from social situations, and watching your physical decline hurt the people you love.
It's an incredibly painful thing to talk about.
And for me, the hardest part was watching what it did to my parents.
I was the oldest child. I was supposed to set the example.
I'd done everything right on paper to make them and my family proud, to make the most of the support and investment they'd given me. I was valedictorian of my college, had a full scholarship to Oxford, and a place at Harvard Medical School.
And yet, all that promise seemed to be slipping away as I found myself in and out of the hospital.
I remember my mom flying over from Boston to the UK.
There I was, lying in a hospital bed, emaciated and depleted, watching tears roll down her face as she tried to comfort me.
I still haven't let go of that image.
Even writing about it brings me tremendous pain and shame.
So yes, when I'm struggling to communicate about these experiences (and I won't pretend I'm perfect at it) I sometimes put my foot in my mouth. Sometimes I articulate things in ways that reflect how I'm trying to cope with what happened.
Because being transparent about that kind of shit gets to a person. And coping with it isn't easy.
But I want to make one thing absolutely clear.
I have never, not once, lied to you. Nor would I.
In fact, the purpose of my letter this past week was to provide a form of disclosure that I wasn't obligated to make, but felt personally compelled to share because of my own ethics around transparency.
So many of you have entrusted your time and attention to me. And I genuinely feel I owe you that honesty.
But I also have an ulterior motive for making this statement.
And it's not to protect myself.
Frankly, I wear it as a badge of honor that some small-minded critics would go so far out of their way to dig into my medical history and attempt to weaponize it against my credibility. I can only imagine it's because they can't find a better way to critique my ideas.
So, thanks for that.
But more to the point, I'm saying this because I've come to realize how many of us are struggling with something that feels profoundly lonely.
And the more we talk about those struggles, the more we discover that other people are fighting battles we could never have imagined...battles that are, in strange and unexpected ways, remarkably parallel to our own.
Sometimes, being open about our pain gives someone else permission to feel less alone in theirs. And that's why I push myself to be open, even when it's uncomfortable.
Thank you, sincerely.
And have a lovely Saturday.
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On October 18, 2026, Father Samuel Martinez shared a homily in which he remarked on the freedom fostered by just human laws and the threats to that freedom posed by the two proposed state constitutional amendments on Virginia’s ballot this November.
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Well, this essay from Bishop Dolan of Phoeniz is very good.
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