Mindconnection eNL, 2025-11-16

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1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good

Prime Rate

There is talk that the Fed will reduce the Prime Rate another 1/4% a their next meeting. The opposition to the idea cites fear of inflation. There is some validity to that, because more money will be created by the private sector through loans and various debt instruments.

But the theory falls short when you consider that the private sector uses funds to create wealth (earn a return). Which means the private sector increases the supply of goods and services more than it increases the money supply.

The problem is the money supply increases first, and the growth follows. If the Fed suddenly dropped the Prime Rate by, say, 5 points, you would see extremely high inflation for a few months. The way around this is to slowly step it down with a series of small cuts. But that also presents a hazard, because then investors would wait it out to get ever cheaper capital.

This is why the Fed likes to play games with rate changes. They need to lower it, cannot lower it rapidly, and do not want people to delay investment due to rate anticipation. We just have to be patient. As President Trump fixes other things, the Prime Rate becomes less and less of an "elephant in the room". It's still important, but it's not urgent.

Celebrating Heroes

It was Veterans Day, recently. It's great we have a day on which to honor those who served in our Armed Forces. But how nice it would be to honor a Vet on some other day as well. If you know a Vet, offer to help that person out; figure out some need they have and fulfill it. What about your local cops, who put their lives on the line every day? Who doesn't light up when hearing some citizen say, "Officer, thank you for wearing that uniform." Firefighters also should be honored. Just a simple Thank You is nice to hear.

Maybe you can be the hero, if you are not a Vet, cop, or firefighter. There is so much negativity in our society today and people don't seem to mind disrespecting each other. Elevate, rather than escalate, by offering a sincere smile or sincere compliment. Think through how what you say might elevate the other person. It isn't a compliment for a man to tell the checkout clerk that she's pretty. It is a compliment for him to tell her, "I have had a good shopping experience here today. Thanks for helping to make that happen."

Recently, I came under a withering personal attack by someone who was just generally angry. I mostly just listened. The attacks were baseless, so it would have been "easy" to factually defend myself. But you cannot reason with a person who is being irrational. This person just needed to vent at someone to feel better. That's not a good strategy, but it is the only strategy some people know. If you are confident you did nothing wrong, then the disrespect and abuse should not emotionally register with you because they are false.

It's OK to interject a counter-statement (but not a counter-attack) periodically and it's also good to ask, "Can you help me understand why you feel that way?". It's even better when you can interject something like, "I agree with you that X is bad and I am glad you're not the kind of person who does X. I appreciate you for that." These kinds of things help elevate, rather than escalate, the situation because they contribute to making the person feel safe, respected, and valued. In this way, you can be a sort of hero. Doing anything that makes the other person feel under attack, disrespected, or belittled will escalate the situation and also validate the negative thoughts and deeds they had attributed to you. One reason why this has a hero effect is it's really hard to do. If you screw this up and say something you later regret, apologize for that to avoid escalation.

Schumer's Shutdown, a Classic Case of Stupid

One effect of Schumer's Shutdown is, according to polls, it has turned large numbers of black and Latino voters into Republicans. Support for communists dropped nine full points among blacks, 7seven full points among Hispanics. This is going to give a big city or three to the Republicans in the mid-terms. The commies were stupid beyond belief to pull this stunt, counting on their mistrusted and deeply discredited lamestream media to con voters into blaming the Republicans. That did not happen. The lamestream media have lost their power, and they are not going to get it back.

There is plenty of time left for the commies to mess up other things and further alienate themselves from what used to be their base. They have lost Big Labor and young men, whom they always counted on to believe lies and then vote against themselves. Being black or Hispanic no longer is a reason to vote commie.

The one demographic the commies can count on is rich white liberal women. These are the same negative IQ people who wear masks while driving and even walk into banks wearing masks. Most of them got the mRNA gene therapy multiple times so they are declining in numbers faster than the general population. They are obnoxious, judgmental, and ridiculous, which causes younger women to avoid them rather than see them as role models. They rant with their TDS and make no sense. Nobody can stand them. And there are not enough of them to carry the vote in a general election. The commies have driven just about everyone else away and continue to work on that with their hate, deceit, and destructiveness.

The Schumer Shutdown further isolated the commies, by making a lot of people suffer for no good reason. This was classic Schumer. Which means it was classic stupid.

Hiding Behind the Filibuster

• I wrote on 06 NOV "They have also made it almost inevitable that the Republicans will end the silent filibuster, which the commies have been abusing so that they can as the minority rule over the majority. If handled correctly by the Republicans, this shutdown will permanently put the communists out of power. If handled incorrectly, it will permanently put the Republicans out of power. There has never been a better opportunity for killing the UCA and bringing our outrageously high medical care costs under control. The communists have handed us that opportunity on a silver platter."
   
• Late Sunday evening on 09NOV, there was some kind of funky bill passed by the Senate that would end the shutdown. This was stupid, because it left the commies with the power to control things despite being the minority power. It's also stupid because it did not end the shutdown, it merely kicked the ball back to the House. The House did pass it, but the Senate could have avoided the delay by ending the filibuster.
   
• Why would Republicans choose such a stupid way forward, when simply killing the filibuster, which they can do with a simple majority vote, would put and end to the subversion of the democratic process in which the commies have so ruthlessly engaged? It's called "self preservation". For a long time, RINOs have hidden behind the filibuster. They could vote against communist goals, knowing the commies would defeat the measure. "Hey, I tried, it was the Democrats". The House and Senate are full of "Republicans" who loathe Trump and do not want to back anything that would drain the swamp, limit their insider trading, or get them off the payrolls of their corporate sponsors. They can safely hide their hatred of Trump by counting on the filibuster to negate their vote. If, on the other hand, a measure passed by majority vote with no filibuster abuse to negate the democratic process, they would be forced to show their hand. In which case, their corruption would be exposed.
   
• It would be much better to have the transparency that, due to the filibuster, we do not now have. It would force the RINOs out of office. There is a risk that a RINO-vacated seat would be taken by a commie, but it's miniscule at best because the voters in that district are voting for what the RINO falsely claims and as long as there is any Republican running and saying similar things there's no vacuum for a commie to fill. The voters already rejected communism by voting the RINO in, they are not going to suddenly switch to supporting communism simply because there's as different person on the ballot running against a communist.
   
• Even though the House voted for the new Senate funky bill and this shutdown ended, the Senate needs to kill the filibuster. This is no longer about this particular shutdown, the issues are much larger than that. This particular shutdown made it abundantly clear that the filibuster option must no longer be available. Period.
   
• Another reason to kill the filibuster is Comrade Jeffries said that House Democrats will not vote for the new bill (even though they did after all). This was another bullying tactic.
   
• The most important reason to kill the filibuster is polls show most Americans believe the lamestream media lie it was a Republican shutdown. The lamestream media neglected to mention the extortion over the Unaffordable Care Act extensions, for example. The communists can keep filibustering and rely upon their propaganda machine (the lamestream media) to blame the Republicans, lie about the relevant issues, and cast the commies in a positive light.

Massive Layoffs

The layoff rate is the highest we have seen since 2023 (the same year in which I got laid off from my last W-2 job). Amazingly, it's not because of the communists. It's for the same reason we had massive layoffs 22 years ago, a disruptive technology. This time, it's Artificial Incompetence, which will (for one thing) replace helpful human service reps with maddeningly unhelpful AI. As always happens when a disruptive technology does its disrupting, it's not long before there are more jobs created than lost. The new jobs typically require higher skill sets and command higher wages.

If we were still under the Communist Occupation, it would play out this way. The federal government would be focusing on intermittent power sources, strangling AI development here. We would lose all those jobs anyhow, but not have the AI development for creating the new ones.

Now, we need to look at the other side of the ledger. Ford has 5,000 job openings for mechanics and these are six-figure jobs. Can't find qualified people. That's just one example, there are dozens of others. We also have 409,000 manufacturing jobs open; I remember when I was the Plant Engineer at an Emerson factory and we had a lot of operator jobs open because the vast majority of applicants could not find 1/4 inch on a ruler and so could not be hired. The illiteracy and innumeracy that leave us with a mismatch are a direct result of the Department of Diseducation, one that President Trump immediately began taking action against after Liberation Day. This is one reason we have 42 million people on SNAP and one reason why Democrats get elected. It's also why Democrats aggressively fight any effort to actually educate via public education. An educated populace would mean the end of the Democrat Party, which has always relied on fake math, lies, and promises of money growing on trees.

Extrapolation

Now the commies are claiming that the American People are rejecting freedom and fiscal responsibility, because in this last election commies won in deeply blue, deeply stupid locales where rich white liberal women turned out in an election that normally has little turnout. The commies are extrapolating from the specific to the general, and thus believe that everybody wants what stupid people want.

Let them believe that. What it really means is retards can show up in big numbers to throw an election to the least capable, most destructive candidate. Which means that we cognitively capable people need to push forward and not become complacent. The 2026 mid-terms will be critical. The 2025 elections didn't change the already diseased areas and didn't spread disease to undiseased areas.

Work NOW on:

• Debrainwashing people via dropping little truth bombs. Because the commies use hate as their messaging basis, make your truth bombs positive. There are hundreds of positive things about Trump that you can mention, along with hundreds of positive developments that have happened since Liberation Day.

• Make a point of repeating axioms such as "Money doesn't grow on trees" or anything else that cuts Marxism at the knees.

• Setting aside some campaign funding donations (e.g., set aside $30 a month into a separate bank account).

• Pushing for election integrity. Simply contact your county election office with a message that you approve of voter ID policies. If your county already has those, this will help protect them. And it will send a general under-message that you want elections to be tamper-resistant.

• Encouraging people to break their addiction to television and the lamestream media. If you have a television, move it out of sight from guest areas, toss a TV cover over it (make your own if you must), sell it, or at least keep it off when guests are present. Share articles from media sources that are outside the fake news system.

It's a process. You don't have to spend a lot of time each day working on this. Just be mindful and hop on opportunities as they arise. We still have almost a year. Let's use it wisely.

Fleeing Communism

"New York and New Jersey hemorrhaged nearly $690 billion in resident income over the past decade as 2.1 million high-earners fled soaring taxes and urban decay for sun-soaked havens like Florida and Texas, according to a stark new Census Bureau analysis." [The Capitalist, 12NOV]

The Capitalist reported on 03 November how Big Money is fleeing New Yoke City (not a misspelling) now that Mamdani is seriously being taken as a candidate for Mayor. That was the day before the election that put this idiot in the Mayor's Office. These four bullet points were in their article:

• Goldman Sachs Builds Texas Campus: The firm is investing $500 million in an 800,000-square-foot Dallas facility opening in 2028, consolidating over 5,000 employees amid New York’s political risks.
• JPMorgan Shifts Staff Southward: Chase now employs 31,000 in Texas versus 24,000 in New York, capitalizing on the state’s no-transaction-tax policy and streamlined permitting.
• Fortress Thrives in Dallas: The $53 billion asset manager opened a 50,000-square-foot headquarters in 2021, praising Texas for 18-month project timelines impossible elsewhere.
• Texas Surpasses NYC Finance Jobs: With 519,000 financial sector roles statewide versus New York’s 507,000, Dallas’s 27-minute commutes and vibrant scene position it as a full rival hub.

Keep in mind that the commies have all but destroyed former NYC Mayor Rudolph Guliani with a vendetta based on no actual infractions. Only on hate. On Guliani's watch, NYC saw crime plummet and many other great things happen with the city (such as successfully dealing with the $2.3 billion deficit he inherited from Dinkins). Bloomberg, who succeeded him, kept things pretty much on track.

Then came DeBlasio, a sociopathic moron who was heartless and inept even for a Democrat. During his reign of error, terror, pain, and suffering, there was a huge exodus from NYC. His socialism, which later morphed into communism, changed New York City into New Yoke City. The yoke of communism, which is just another form of slavery.

The DeBlasio Exodus was the start of the current situation, with Big Money establishing offices in the free states and mostly in Texas. When Eric Adams took over from DeBlasio, things stopped getting worse in NYC though they didn't get much better either. However, Adams, being a Democrat, is mired in corruption and scandal. Can you name a top Democrat who isn't? Neither can I.

You do not have to be a genius to see that being a financial firm within what is effectively a third-world communist country is a risky existence. So these firms are reducing their risk by relocating. I was hoping  Mamdani would come to power, and now he has. The main consequence of such stupidity is you will see this bastion of leftwing lunacy destroyed by its own leftwing lunatics. It will be a horrifying example that will shock and red pill millions of people who have been doing something incredibly stupid for years (voting Democrat).

One thing this idiot wants to do is replace NYPD officers with social workers. He probably cannot just do that, but if the City Council permits such insanity the streets will run red with blood. This stupidity was tried with disastrous consequences following George Floyd's suicide by drug overdose which somehow justified "Defund the Police." As if having fewer police officers would mean reduced drug trafficking, typical liberal "logic".

A big silver lining in watching NYC crumble into chaos is you will likely see communist propaganda outlets like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal go into receivership and then shut down completely, maybe within a year. New York City's next mayor after Mamdani will be someone with at least half a brain. Maybe even a conscience. A similar change will follow Hochul--someone who is not a complete moron and is not a sociopath will follow her into office. The residents of New York City and New York State will demand it.

After the debacle of DeBlasio (2013 - 2021), followed by Adams (2021 - 2025),  the people will have more than their fill of incompetent communists, crooks, and con artists. A recall after a couple of years of total insanity and destruction is not out of the question. But before he's recalled, you can expect to see the city become hellish: sharply increased violent crime, sharply deceased quality of housing, sharply decreased median income, and the chronic stench of urine on the sidewalks.

By the time of Mamdani's recall, it will be too late for the city to prevent the loss of its financial district. Restoring sensible government then won't undo all of the structural damage, and it won't bring back the Big Money firms that have paid so much in taxes over the decades. What happened to Detroit will happen to NYC, but worse. And that will make the rest of the state turn more red. Nobody likes the smell of a clogged toilet in their home, and that's essentially how New Yorkers will view NYC. They will want Democrats out and Republicans in. This will also be a sanity litmus test. Any registered Democrat who doesn't change party affiliation to Republican at this point is clearly not playing with a full deck.

Adding Fuel to the Fire

The People's Republic of California approved a measure to redistrict and it could mean 5 more commies going to Congress. In Maine, they voted against an election integrity measure, which is that you show ID to vote. You can bet most of the "people" who voted against election integrity are not real people. Fake votes to keep fake voting in place.
 

Tucker is Loyal to Truth

Idiot reporter suggests Tucker Carlson should disavow Candace Owens. Tucker's reply is wonderful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG9wxIQDQUw.

Rising Stars of Stupidity

Cackling Kamala has praised Jasmine "Just because a person has committed a crime doesn't mean they are a criminal" Crockett, a contestant for Moron of the Millennium, as a "rising star" within the Communist Party. This should have all registered "Democrats" worried. The Cackler has also praised Mamdani as a rising star, though his ideas are idiotic in the extreme and financial suicide at the very least. This should be one of those things that converts Democrats to Republicans. If two people with negative IQs are "rising stars" just how far has the Communist Party already sunk?

Then again, this evaluation was made by someone with a negative IQ. But does that mean we should consider the source and blow it off? The fact that either of these two morons gets elected is an indictment against the people who voted for them. It's a real problem when a majority will choose people who are so abjectly stupid.

The Future They Intend

In 1966, Harry Harrison wrote a book called "Make Room! Make Room!". In 1973, it was made into the movie Soylent Green. The movie starred our future President (of the NRA), Charlton Heston. It presented a dystopian future in which severe population control measures were invoked. It's worth noting that in 1966, Congress enacted the population control method called Daylight Carnage Time. Back then, there was a fear that the world's population would pass 6 billion and we would all starve to death. Turning people into food seemed like a good solution, if you were the kind of statist sociopath like what we find in today's Communist Party.

The commies are still pushing child sterilization, lethal injections, aid to violent criminals, and other population control measures. Plus their personalities tend to be a form of birth control. Essentially, they took that 1960s overpopulation fear to extremes. We are well past the 6 billion mark and still here. That's not good enough for them. If you look at total deaths from all causes, the communists are the deadliest of all causes. Killing people is just part of their mindset. Each decade, more people die from communism than from the other top ten diseases combined. Communism is a mental illness, and as such it should be added to the DSM (the reference book of mental disorders). It is by far the deadliest of all mental illnesses.

The commies want a future in which the human population is a fraction of its current size, nobody thinks, nobody has human rights, and predators roam freely to instill fear and obedience. Except for the population, that future is now the present in communist-run places like New York City and Chicago.

Here is a link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0vwf_ZPo1k (1:36:44)
 

Prager U Video on Brainless Biden

This is a "soft" history of the dumbest person to ever hold the office of POTUS (5:30): https://www.prageru.com/videos/joe-biden-decline-and-fall

It wasn't age that made him mentally feeble. Nor is it the case that he declined from some former level of competence. It's that he's always been stupid. The video is worth a watch. You could even share it with a Lefty, if you want to soft-pedal the disaster to a reality denier among your friends and family. Because it takes such a kind tone, even the most delusional lefty will see it as factual. And a TDS victim might be able to watch it without going into a TDS rant.

Tariffs

I love President Trump, but his concept of tariffs is completely backwards. According to him, if there's a 15% tariff on Israeli goods then Israel pays the tariff. That is incorrect. The tariff is paid by the importer. So now when my company buys Israeli goods, we pay an extra 15%. Israel doesn't pay an extra penny. The effect of a tariff is to make that country's goods more expensive for an importer to buy. It does not make it more expensive for a firm in the country under tariff to sell. However, if the cost is too high the importer will stop buying from that company in that country. And this is why countries don't like high tariffs on their exports.

Right now, the SCOTUS is debating whether a tariff is a tax. It is. There's nothing to debate. It is a "taking" by the government, therefore it's a tax. This fact may have serious implications for whatever ruling they make on the legal challenges by some TDS-afflicted State Attorneys General.

Prior to 1917, the tariff was the main means of funding our federal government. In 1917, the Federal Reserve Act was passed, and inflation became the main means of funding our government. The federal income tax (1040) does not fund our government, but state income taxes do fund state governments (where levied). Why the difference? Because the compliance costs for the federal version are so enormous, by many reliable estimates >15X, that the deleterious effect on the economy has an overall reductive effect on tax revenue. The high compliance costs are largely attributable to the chronic misconduct of individual gang members of the Institute of Reprobates and Sociopaths, often for their own personal gain.

Taxes have to be levied somehow. Tariffs are a tax on importers of goods, so they act like a sales tax except the consumer usually doesn't pay it. If the importers can't raise their prices to cover the tax, they will stop importing those products. This is why tariffs can be used as a weapon or negotiation tactic. I will note here that a 15% tariff on European goods is far less costly than a war in Europe--not just the cost of armaments and fuel for conducting the war, but also the human costs in death, maiming,  and PTSD. So tariffs are massively cheaper than wars.

The President has successfully used tariffs to correct many problems and to negotiate at least ten ceasefires or peace treaties. He has also used these greatly increased taxes on importers to reduce the monthly budget deficit. So the SCOTUS will have to vote on whether it wants more wars and an increasing federal debt or whether it wants the President to continue with tariffs. It seems like a simple choice, only an idiot would want more wars and more debt. But there are some thornier aspects to this and we will have to see how the SCOTUS handles those.

A Penny Saved

The US Mint pressed its last penny on 12NOV2025. These cost about 4 cents each to produce. Inflation, a tax that is levied by inflating the money supply relative to the basket of goods and services, has diminished our individual units of money so much that penny coins no longer make sense. We will still have pennies digitally (and on checks), but not in coin form. I expect to see the nickel retired in the near future as well. This will leave quarters and dimes as coins. Why do we need other coins? I am not sure that we do. When, for example, did you last put a penny into a vending machine?

This move by the Mint will save about $56 million annually. The "Democrats" will find a way to waste those savings.

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6. Health tip/Fitness tips Age 65 in these pics See all of my climbing videos here: https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel. Some cool climbing  videos: https://youtu.be/s4G0ssyJ3hc https://youtube.com/shorts/5919UDqCXDc https://youtube.com/shorts/jYvKJ9mKyyE My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens. The scale: Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder) Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6 Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10. Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.  Should you cut carbs? I know a lot of athletes. Not a single one of them is "cutting carbs", going on a "low carb diet", or going with the Paleo Diet. A major concern among these athletes is how to get enough carbs. Not fewer carbs. You need carbohydrates: For your brain to work properly. Carbohydrates are its primary fuel. To fuel your workouts. As Arnold said in the movie Pumping Iron, those last few reps of a set are the ones that stimulate growth. You are pushing your body to adapt, and you cannot push if you are out of energy. To fuel performance. As a climber, I am subjected to extreme calorie burns. We frequently have to rest while our muscles recharge with glycogen. I have a similar issue while practicing martial arts and when weight training, just not as extreme. So for me, "eat lots of carbs" is essential. People cut carbs to reduce body fat, and it seems to work. But they are also losing muscle and performing at a reduced level. This is not the best way. It's not even a good way. So what is the solution if you want a strong, lean body and you don't want to be a "butt dragger" throughout the day? First, recognize that the issue is not carbohydrates per se. Carb quality and carb timing are two big issues to focus on. So: 1. Cut out endocrine modifiers, which typically involve "junk carbs". That is, cut out the highly processed foods. Table sugar, wheat, corn, etc. 2. Eat frequently. I have six small meals per day. I also eat a small snack between some of those meals. My total calories are not substantially increased, they are spread across the day.   There's a YouTube commercial in which some "doctor" says oats make you fat. That is true of "quick oats" or oats to which you add processed sugar. I eat uncooked rolled oats. I like to mix them into a coffee cup with a tablespoon of a vegetable-based protein powder, some water, and some raisins. I add creatine to this, since it makes the creatine more palatable than plain water does. (But after a workout, I use the Fundaminos amino acid complex with creatine and L-Glutamine mixed in, plus I open a capsule or two of green coffee bean extract and a capsule of L-Glycine into that and use a big shaker to mix it all up). I have multiple helpings of fruit each day, including a daily banana (or two) and a daily apple. I will also have, depending on what's on hand, a grapefruit, orange, pear, nectarine, etc. mid-morning and another piece of fruit with meal #6. And, of course, I eat avocado each day (also high in fat). Fruit is considered "a carb" yet I remain ripped. Even with those oats.  I will also point out that race horses eat a lot of oats. Do they look fat to you? Granted, we are not race horses and our diets differ, but the same endocrine response plays out in them as in us. And they are not getting fat from oats. The whole foods that are commonly considered "carbs" are fruits and vegetables, and they are loaded with nutrients. It is not beneficial to give these up. "Ah, but some whole foods are still bad for you. Root vegetables, for example!" I disagree. The science disagrees. Eight time Mr. Olympia Lee Haney is 67 years old and still looks great. He loves his sweet potatoes. Those are "root vegetables" which the no carb crowd equates to poison. I eat a sweet potato every day. My significant other does the same, and she has the figure of a much younger woman. Many years ago, I was conned into believing that cooked carrots are bad for you because they are highly glycemic. Many people believe this. But look at the calories in a carrot (look really hard, you will have to strain to see what few there are!). Beets are root vegetables (beet greens are not). I eat both beet roots and beet greens every day. The health benefits are awesome, the athletics-related benefits are even more awesome (Can you say, "nitrogen?"). When it comes to your health, fitness, and physique there is no magic bullet such as "Cut the carbs". There is no easy way, in fact. You have to train hard to stimulate the adaptive response and you're simply not going to do that in a carb-depleted state. What you want to cut is the junk. I noticed that a neighbor of mine had gotten a lot slimmer. So I asked him how he did it. He said, "I cut carbs." My doubts about this were confirmed when I visited his house and noticed the basket of potatoes on his counter and all the fruit he had (including a big bunch of bananas). I asked him a few questions about what greens he had in the fridge, and then he wanted to know why the sudden curiosity. It turns out he didn't really cut carbs, he just stopped buying some processed foods such as "organic" chips in a bag that he used to munch on throughout the day. He was still getting plenty of carbs. Just not junk ones. Early in life, I was conned into believing that orange juice and apple juice were healthy drinks. They are not. They are endocrine modifiers. If you ask any endocrinologist about fruit juices you will get a thumbs down. The sugars are separated from their associated fibers and absorb rapidly. The body has no choice but to secrete an insulin surge to convert these sugars to fat. When insulin is present, testosterone is not. Something the "no carbs" people don't tell you is excess protein is also a carb. Why? Because the body cannot store protein. First, it breaks the protein down into sugar (with a significant load on the kidneys to process out one of the byproducts of this). Then it secretes an insulin surge to convert the sugar to fat. Those big whey protein drinks after a workout? Bad idea. They 100% negate the adaptive response while also adding body fat. This effect from excess protein is why you must spread your meals across the day. If you are trying to lose fat, don't cut carbs but spread out your meals. Making this one change could very well get you to your goal without making any other changes, it's that significant. But what if you need more protein? Unless you are breaking down muscle via intense weight training, you probably don't need more protein. But if you think you need it, one thing you can do to eliminate the downside is to use an Amino formula. Do a search online for "Fundaminos". And when you get to that site, also look at the beets-related products. I don't buy the beets-related products because I eat beets and beet greens twice a day. Unless you are the same kind of outlier I am when it comes to diet, you should probably go with a high quality beets supplement; try it for a couple of months and see how you feel. I've noticed that the same people who fall for the "no carbs" con fall for other cons, such as experimental injections designed to ward off the now extinct flu strain experienced in Australia 6 months ago. Or to go to a gym and consider increasing weight to be a sign of progress when it's actually a sign of deteriorating form. You can avoid all of these cons by asking basic questions such as, "What is the purpose of carbohydrates in the body?" and "Why are so many nutrient-dense foods classified as carbohydrates?" You can also avoid these cons by focusing on the basics of good nutrition, good physical training, and sound sleep; provided you take the time to learn those basics. Good health care (used in the non-Orwellian sense) cannot take place if you proceed on half-truths, false assumptions, and quick fixes. It really is a subject that requires at least as much study as getting a Bachelor's degree, a strong BS detector, discipline, and time. Medical care generally cannot fix health care mistakes. Years of an endocrine modifier diet will leave bones permanently diminished. Months of lifting too heavy in the gym will cause tendon damage that is probably irreversible. And so on. The idea that you should forego nutrient-intense foods like fruit so you can avoid "carbs" is one of those shortcuts that does lots of harm but no actual good.   At www.supplecity.com, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact: The best workouts are short and intense. A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction than the typical American diet.

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8. Thought for the Day

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

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Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything presented as fact can be independently verified. Where sources are not given, they are readily available to anyone who makes the effort. Mark provides information from either research or his own areas of established expertise. Sometimes, what appears to be a personal opinion is the only possibility when applying sound logic--reason it out before judging! (That said, some personal opinions do appear on occasion).

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