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Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
In the summer of 1865 the man who discovered that doctors' dirty hands were killing mothers was tricked into a Viennese asylum by his own colleagues, beaten by the guards, and dead within two weeks of an infected wound, the same blood poisoning he had spent his life trying to stop.
Ignaz Semmelweis was a Hungarian obstetrician at the Vienna General Hospital in the 1840s, which had two maternity wards. Women on the ward run by doctors and medical students were dying of childbed fever at two or three times the rate of women on the ward run by midwives. Mothers knew it, and some begged on their knees to be put on the midwives' side.
In 1847 a colleague of Semmelweis cut his finger during a post-mortem and died with exactly the same symptoms as the mothers. Semmelweis understood it at once. The doctors were coming straight from dissecting corpses to examining women in labour, carrying death on their hands. He made everyone on his ward wash in chlorinated lime, and deaths fell from around one mother in ten to about one in a hundred.
The profession could not accept it. A doctor was a gentleman, and a gentleman's hands were clean. There were no germs yet, and his idea fitted none of the theories. His contract was not renewed and he went home to Budapest. Over the years he grew bitter and wrote open letters calling the leading obstetricians of Europe murderers, which did not help.
By 1865 his behaviour was erratic, and his colleagues signed the papers to commit him. An old friend, the dermatologist Ferdinand von Hebra, told him they were going to visit a new institute, and delivered him to the asylum at Döbling. When Semmelweis realised where he was and tried to leave, the guards beat him, put him in a straitjacket, doused him with cold water and dosed him with castor oil.
A wound on his right hand turned gangrenous. He died on 13 August 1865, aged 47, of pyaemia: blood poisoning, the very killer he had tracked down on the maternity wards. His body was dissected in the same kind of room where he had found the cause, and few people came to his funeral.
Within a few years Pasteur had shown that germs were real, and Lister was washing his instruments in carbolic acid.
Medicine has a name now for the instinct to reject new evidence because it threatens what everybody already agrees on. They called it the Semmelweis reflex. They named it after the victim.
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
MAHA has reached its most important moment.
Not because it won.
Because Republicans lost.
So now we find out what MAHA actually is.
Is it a Republican movement?
A MAGA movement?
An RFK movement?
Or is it actually a HEALTH movement?
Because if MAHA really means taking on corporate capture, cleaning up our food, questioning conflicts of interest, reducing chronic disease and putting kids’ health ahead of donors… why should any of that belong to one political party?
Maybe the most radical thing MAHA could do next is become politically homeless.
Work with Republicans when they’re right.
Work with Democrats when they’re right.
And call BOTH of them out when donors and corporations come before Americans.
If MAHA survives this moment, I think that’s what it has to become.
Health over party.
Would you still support MAHA if it stopped being Republican?
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
Doctor: Your triglycerides are high. That's the fat in your blood. I want you on a low fat diet.
Patient: Where does the fat in my blood come from?
Doctor: Your diet.
Patient: Straight from the plate into the vein?
Doctor: Not exactly. Most of it's made in the liver.
Patient: Out of what?
Doctor: Whatever's in surplus.
Patient: Which is?
Doctor: Carbohydrate, generally. Sugar, starch, alcohol. The liver packages it as fat and sends it out.
Patient: So the fat in my blood was bread last week.
Doctor: In part.
Patient: And the plan is to take the fat off my plate and leave the bread on it.
Doctor: Low fat is the standard advice for lipids.
Patient: You've just told me the lipid's made from the carbohydrate.
Doctor: Fat is still the most energy-dense.
Patient: I'm not asking what's dense. I'm asking what my liver turns into the stuff you've measured. You said sugar and starch. Then you prescribed sugar and starch.
Doctor: Wholegrain versions.
Patient: Does my liver check the label?
Doctor: ...
Patient: What happens to triglycerides when people cut the carbohydrate instead?
Doctor: They tend to fall. Quite quickly.
Patient: How quickly?
Doctor: Weeks.
Patient: Then write that down and we'll both save a year.
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
I need to say something that I wish more MD's said.
Cold and flu season is NOT actually "a season".
It's Halloween candy followed by Thanksgiving pie, followed by Christmas cookies, followed by New Year's drinks, followed by Valentine's Day chocolate.
Four straight months of sugar, processed foods, stress, and disrupted sleep.
And then we act surprised when everyone gets sick.
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
Anytime you tell someone you don’t trust the medical system, the first response is always the same. But what if you needed X. The only strength is in its emergencies, traumas, accidents and that’s about it. The only path is taking control of your own body.
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
My favorite part of flu season is when the same people who got the flu shot get the flu and say well imagine how bad it would have been without it.
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
Very long article arguing that cholesterol does not cause heart disease and that statin drugs are basically a poison.
"There is a widespread belief that elevated cholesterol is the “cause” of cardiovascular disease. However, a large body of evidence shows that there is no association between the two and the real data shows lower cholesterol significantly increases one’s risk of death."
midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-g…
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
I want everyone to understand what is happening right now with MAHA. Bayer threw a bomb on MAHA. Moderna threw a bomb on MAHA. The Sugar industry threw a bomb on MAHA. The hand grenades are firing left and right inside the White House directed right at us.
Did Republicans lose MAHA?
Is MAHA going to cost Republicans the midterms?
Is MAHA still politically relevant?
STOP.
This is exactly the conversation the corporate establishment wants us to have.
Because the goal is to make MAHA go away.
That's it.
Make MAHA look unsuccessful. Make it look fringe. Make it look like a political liability. Convince the White House that MAHA doesn't matter anymore.
And then quietly go right back to business as usual.
Who benefits from that?
Big Pharma.
Big Food.
Big Chemical.
The same corporate interests that have spent BILLIONS lobbying our government while Americans have gotten sicker and sicker.
Do you really think these industries want MAHA to succeed?
Of course they don't. They want us to fight with each other. Forget the real enemy.
Meanwhile, in boardrooms across America, MAHA is on the agenda. It can't be ignored anymore.
For the first time in decades, Americans started asking VERY uncomfortable questions.
Why are our kids so sick?
Why are we allowing chemicals in our food that other countries don't?
Why are we eating so much ultra-processed food?
Why are controversial pesticides being sprayed on our food?
Why does Big Pharma have so much influence over our healthcare system?
Why do corporations have so much influence over the agencies that are supposed to regulate them?
And perhaps the biggest question of all:
WHO IS PROFITING FROM KEEPING AMERICA SICK?
MAHA started exposing all of it.
And they HATE it.
This is what people need to understand:
MAHA isn't dangerous to Democrats.
MAHA isn't dangerous to Republicans.
MAHA is dangerous to the CORPORATE INTERESTS that have controlled Washington for decades.
And right now, at the most critical hour, I am watching those corporate and special interests gain more and more influence in the White House.
That should terrify every person who voted for change.
Because this is how they make a movement disappear.
First they tell you it isn't popular anymore. It's not working. People aren't seeing change.
Then they tell politicians it's hurting them.
Then they start watering down the policies.
They put industry-friendly people in positions of power.
They delay. They compromise. They protect the donors.
And pretty soon we're right back where we started.
NO.
MAHA was NEVER about winning elections for Republicans.
It was never supposed to be a campaign slogan.
It was about something so much bigger.
It was about finally putting the health of the American people ahead of corporate profits.
That is what millions of Americans voted for.
So don't get distracted by this ridiculous debate over whether Republicans lost MAHA or MAHA lost Republicans an election.
LOOK AT WHO BENEFITS FROM THAT NARRATIVE.
They want MAHA weakened.
They want MAHA sidelined.
They want MAHA forgotten.
Because they want their power back.
And I'm telling you right now:
We cannot let them have it.
MAHA doesn't belong to any political party.
MAHA doesn't belong to the White House.
MAHA belongs to the American people. We want our politicians to out MAHA each other - vying to have the strongest most effective policies to stop letting corporations get away with poisoning us.
Don't get swept up in this bullshit debate. Fiercely defend Americans against the real enemy.
It's People vs. Poison.
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
The most successful drug advert in history said Lipitor cuts the risk of heart attack by 36%, and the truth was in the footnote.
What the headline said:
- 36% fewer heart attacks
What the asterisk said:
- On the sugar pill, 3 people in 100 had a heart attack
- On Lipitor, 2 people in 100 had a heart attack
Both statements describe the same trial. 3 down to 2 is a drop of about a third. It is also a difference of 1 person.
What that means for the 100:
- 1 avoided a heart attack
- 2 had one anyway
- 97 were never going to have one
- 100 took the tablet every day for over three years
- 100 were exposed to the side effects
Nobody sat in a surgery was ever told "this will help 1 in 100 of you." They were told 36%, by a doctor who had been told 36%, by a rep who was paid on it.
Lipitor went on to sell well over $100 billion.
That asterisk is the most expensive piece of punctuation ever printed.
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
Take the cholesterol out of a cell wall and the cell leaks.
Take the cholesterol out of the skin and the sun can shine all summer and make no vitamin D.
Take the cholesterol out of the testicle and there is no testosterone.
Take the cholesterol out of the ovary and there is no oestrogen, no cycle, no baby.
Take the cholesterol out of the adrenal gland and there is no cortisol, and you cannot get out of bed, let alone run from anything.
Take the cholesterol out of the liver and there is no bile, and a chip goes through you like a coin through a machine.
Take the cholesterol out of the brain, which holds a quarter of all the cholesterol in your body, and you are holding a wet sponge.
Take the cholesterol out of a nerve and the wire has no insulation.
Take the cholesterol out of a wound and it does not close.
Take the cholesterol out of your mother's milk and your brain never finishes building.
There is no organ on that list that works without it. There is no plant that contains it. There is no animal that ever went without.
Your liver makes most of it on purpose, every day of your life, whether you eat any or not, because the body has decided this is the one thing it will not run short of.
They found the substance that every cell in you depends on, watched the body guard it with its own factory, and gave you a tablet to switch the factory off.
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
🚨 HOLY CRAP, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary CONFIRMED the FDA purposefully lied to the people for nearly 2 decades against dietary fats to help Big Pharma
People avoided fat and ate MORE SUGAR, so Pharma could sell them more drugs.
RFK Jr. just declared open WAR on added sugar
“They suppressed the data for 16 years…Those in the low-fat group had higher rates of heart attacks!”
“We created a generation of children with low protein, high carbohydrates, sugar addiction, and burdened with ultra-processed foods, and what did we do as a medical field? Drugged them at scale!”
“Those days are OVER. We are telling people the truth about food.”
MAHA WILL WIN!
Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥
CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...”
Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?”
CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...”
Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.”
CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...”
Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?”
CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.”
Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.”
CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...”
Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?”
CNN: “Você está polarizando.”
Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The written dialog doesn’t match the video and is a fabrication of a discussion. While it is amusing, it does not represent any verifiable transcript or source video
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Coach Becker 🥓🥩 💪🏻 retweeted
Bill Maher just said the quiet part out loud.
Liberals are furious Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Their argument: you can’t just rename things to fit a political agenda.
Maher’s reply:
“Just ask any Latinx birthing person.”
They spent a decade renaming women, bathrooms, and entire languages.
Now they’re clutching pearls over a lake.
That’s not principle.
That’s a monopoly on the dictionary they thought they owned.