Dad & husband. USMC Veteran turned Travel Advisor. I design safaris – let me send you on one! 🐘
Topsail, NC
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My 5 y/o and I both got up early to catch this awesome launch from just north of Wilmington, NC.
We woke up and bolted down to the water to catch it from a neighbor’s pier. I had the @SpaceX livestream up as we were running, and right when liftoff was announced I shut it off and we waited for it to appear over the horizon. 3-4 minutes later there it was!
So special to watch him see it all unfold and think about the ideas and dreams that were going through his mind! I always want to encourage him to think big.
Thanks for cool moments like these @elonmusk!
Maybe I’m just naive to the ways of this world, but as a family with three kids under 5 years old, where are your kids even eating if it’s not at the family dinner table? I don’t understand.
Children who eat dinner with their family most nights do better in school, have fewer behavioural problems, and are less likely to develop eating disorders. A 2023 umbrella review in the journal Nutrients combined the results of 57 reviews and found that family mealtimes were consistently linked to better outcomes across every domain measured.
The review found that children who ate with their families regularly had higher fruit and vegetable intake, lower rates of obesity, better academic performance, and fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety. The association held after controlling for income, parental education, and family structure.
The mechanism is not the food. It is the conversation. Family dinner is one of the few remaining settings in modern life where a child sits with adults, without a screen, and practises talking, listening, and being heard. The vocabulary exposure alone is significant: children at the dinner table hear a wider range of words than children who eat alone, and vocabulary at age five is one of the strongest predictors of academic success.
The review also found that the quality of the meal mattered less than the fact of sitting down together. A takeaway pizza eaten at the table with conversation produced similar benefits to a home-cooked meal. The key variable was the shared time, not the menu.
Nobody has time. Everybody is tired. The research says that twenty minutes at a table, phones off, food on plates, talking about nothing in particular, is doing more for your child's brain, body, and mental health than most interventions that cost money and require appointments. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3744…
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A 12 year old boy walks into my office having already seen a psychiatrist, an allergist, a lung doctor, maybe a GI doctor. Seven different drugs by age 12. Kicked out of kindergarten for being disruptive. Diagnosed with ADHD and put on stimulant medication for years.
Nobody connected the dots. He also had asthma, headaches, stomachaches, insomnia. Each doctor treated their one piece and ignored the rest.
I did a full workup instead of writing another prescription. His gut microbiome was a mess. Leaky gut. Elevated gluten antibodies. Reacting to dairy. Fungal overgrowth. Low zinc, low magnesium, low B6, low folate, low omega 3s. Lead toxicity.
He ate only processed food. Never a vegetable in his life.
So we removed the gluten, dairy, sugar and processed food. Rebuilt his microbiome with probiotics. Treated the fungal overgrowth. Chelated the lead. Corrected the nutrient deficiencies with magnesium, zinc, fish oil.
Two months later his mother brought him back. No more symptoms. No more meds. No more behavioral issues.
And his handwriting went from illegible to perfect penmanship. Same kid, same brain, two months apart.
That handwriting change is what made me write The UltraMind Solution. A brain that chaotic and disorganized became coherent and synchronized once we fixed what was happening in his body. The writing on the page was just a reflection of what was happening in his gut.
ADHD is not a brain problem. It's a systemic problem that shows up in the brain. If your kid's brain isn't working right, don't just look north of the neck. Look at what's happening south of the border first.
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Somebody asked me last week why we would "choose" to live on one income when two would be so much easier.
Easier for what, exactly?
The DINK couples I know have beautiful apartments and Sunday brunches. What they usually don't have is anyone depending on them, shaping them, or forcing them to grow up.
Our home is loud. It is expensive in a different way. But every single day it is producing something a bigger paycheck never could: children who know how to read, how to argue well, how to love their neighbor, and how to run a household of their own someday.
Augustine talked about ordo amoris, rightly ordered love. Some things are worth more than money because they were never supposed to be measured in money in the first place.
Which household are you building?
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Earlier this year in a landmark decision, Turkish officials voted unanimously to give a group of American Christians permits to study the remains of Noah’s Ark.
It’s been the greatest pleasure of my life to be a part of one of the most important scientific expeditions in world history. American exploration in the Mountains of Ararat where creation began anew.
It’s been so surreal. The evidence is overwhelming. It’s all real. The Bible is real, the global catastrophic flood happened…and the researchers and scientists at Noah’s Ark Scans are going to prove it to the world.
The Durupınar investigation is a joint project between Noah’s Ark Scans and Prof. Dr. Cenker Atila, Professor of Archaeology at Sivas Cumhuriyet University in Turkey, who serves as President of the project.
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One small step for man, one giant leap for healthy tastiness!
On October 5, Steak n Shake's buns will officially achieve escape velocity from the seed-oil era. The Eagle's buns have landed, and they're unapologetically drenched in pure Grade AA Wisconsin butter.
Since the day man landed on the Moon, he has sought out new and ever greater challenges. The grass-fed, grass-finished Steakburger with seed-oil free buns has broken through to a new frontier.
Our MAHA voyage continues! 🇺🇸🚀🍔
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Democrats: “You can’t just rename Lake Ontario to Lake America. That’s not how reality works!”
Also Democrats: “Anyway, this is Jessica. She used to be Steve.”
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I totally envision Trump renaming the San Andreas Fault to Joe Biden’s Fault, and I am just putting this out there so I can say I predicted it one day.
the way I would patronize the h*ck out of a coffee shop that doesn't relentlessly blast arctic air onto its customers
Wife and I started F45 this week.
She’s a SAHM so she chooses the classes that are around mid day.
We have three boys aged 5, 2, and 1, so she drops them in the childcare room for the 45 min workout. Today it was our three kids plus one of their friends. Soon, another boy came in, sat down with at least 4 different snacks, immediately put over-ear headphones on and watched a show on his iPad in the corner for the duration of the entire class. My 5 y/o tried to say hi twice but got no response or acknowledgement. 🤯
I get parenting is so hard, and maybe today was an exception for that boy, but y’all this is terrifying! My barber even said every single kid who comes in HAS to be watching an iPad while get a haircut.
Parent your kids through hard things.
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Reminder to go touch grass
A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month
The study is incredibly fascinating:
Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route.
Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells.
Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later.
A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.
Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear.
He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year.
The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.
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General Washington issues an order discouraging profanity among his troops:
“The General is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing (a vice heretofore little known in an American Army) is growing into fashion; he hopes the officers will, by example, as well as influence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will reflect, that we can have little hopes of the blessing of Heaven on our Arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense, and character, detests and despises it.”
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As one counterterrorism official put it: “They were all dead before they knew what happened.”
On October 31, 2020, operators from DEVGRU’s Silver Squadron (SEAL Team 6) parachuted into northern Nigeria to free American citizen Philip Walton.
Walton, a 27 year old American farmer and the son of missionaries, had been seized five days earlier from his home in Massalata, Niger, by six armed men riding motorcycles. After he offered them $40, the kidnappers took him anyway. They demanded nearly a million dollars in ransom, raising serious concerns that he might be handed over to al-Qaeda or ISIS-linked groups active in the area.
The United States responded quickly. The CIA located Walton through advanced cell phone tracking. Marine Special Operations units in Africa assisted in refining his position. Then, in the early hours of October 31, roughly 30 Silver Squadron operators jumped from Air Force MC-130 aircraft, hiked three miles to the objective, and assaulted the compound under cover of darkness.
A short but fierce firefight followed. Six of the seven captors were killed. Walton was recovered unharmed, and no Americans were wounded.
This operation reflected the hard earned proficiency built from nearly twenty years of experience during the Global War on Terror.
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Let’s normalize 18 year olds not spending $50k/year trying to figure out what they want to do with their careers