Tom's Blog on Life and Livingness
“Discipline isn’t punishment — it’s self-respect. It’s choosing your future over your feelings, over and over again.” – Elena Cardone
“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.” – Elbert Hubbard
Here is a blueprint of specific, actionable steps to help you do exactly that: https://howtolivethehealthiestlife.com/
“95% of Gluten Free Foods contained Glyphosate & 2,4-D an ingredient in Agent Orange.”
~Zen Honeycutt
The 660 MILLION people who avoid Gluten & purchase ‘Gluten Free’ food products are being scammed & harmed.
Test results reported by Moms Across America…
Top 5 Most Contaminated with Glyphosate- Gluten-Free Foods Tested:
1)Banza Cavatappi pasta
2)Bob’s Red Mill All-Purpose flour
3)Flax4Life chocolate brownies
4)Pamela’s Figgies and Jammies mission fig cookies
5)Kind Kids Chewy Chocolate Chip bars
Top 5 Most Contaminated with Pesticides – Gluten Free Food Tested:
1)King Arthur Measure for Measure, Certified Gluten-Free Flour
2)Milton’s sea salt crackers
3)Simple Mills Brownie mix
4)Pamela’s gluten-free flour mix
5)Go Macro berry granola bar
Products That Should Be Legally Recalled:
4 out of 46 samples, namely Simple Mills Brownie mix (31.7), Made Good Soft Baked Double Chocolate cookies (56.1), Trader Joe’s Almost Everything Bagels (269.8), and Simple Mills almond flour crackers (59.4), had levels above the FDA allowable 20 ppm of gluten and should legally be recalled.
Click to view the video: https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/2027005732273467762?s=20
In evolutionary biology, the human body does not waste energy building things it doesn’t absolutely need.
If your DNA codes for a specific receptor, it means that whatever fits into that receptor is critical for your survival.
In 2005, scientists made a stunning discovery. They found a specific transport protein in human cells called OCTN1.
They tested hundreds of nutrients to see what this transporter was designed to carry. It ignored almost everything.
It only opened its doors for one rare molecule: L-Ergothioneine (ERGO).
What is L-Ergothioneine?
ERGO is a powerful, rare amino acid that acts as a master antioxidant. But here is the catch: Humans cannot synthesize it. Plants cannot synthesize it. Animals cannot synthesize it.
It is created almost entirely by Fungi (Mushrooms) and certain soil bacteria.
The fact that human genetics evolved a highly specific, customized transportation system just to pull this fungal compound into our red blood cells and central nervous system proves that our ancestors ate massive amounts of mushrooms. Our biology literally expects it.
The “Longevity Vitamin”
Dr. Bruce Ames, an incredibly renowned biochemist at UC Berkeley, proposed classifying ERGO as a “Longevity Vitamin.”
Unlike standard antioxidants (like Vitamin C) which float around the blood and degrade quickly, ERGO is actively pumped inside the cells and stays there for over a month.
It specifically targets the mitochondria and the DNA, acting as an indestructible shield against oxidative stress.
The Clinical Data: Studies comparing blood levels of ERGO across populations show a striking correlation. In regions where mushroom consumption is high (like Japan and Italy), ERGO levels are high, and the rates of neurodegenerative diseases (like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s) are significantly lower than in the US, where mushroom consumption is minimal.
The Soil Depletion Crisis
We used to get ERGO indirectly. Cows would eat grass grown in healthy, fungi-rich soil, and we would get the ERGO from the meat or milk.
But modern industrial agriculture (tilling, fungicides, and synthetic fertilizers) has decimated the mycorrhizal fungi networks in the soil. The ERGO is gone from our food chain.
How to get your ERGO:
To fulfill this genetic requirement, you must actively add fungi back into your diet.
The Best Sources: White button mushrooms have very little. You need to eat Oyster Mushrooms, Shiitake, King Oyster, and Porcini.
The Cooking Rule: Unlike many vitamins, ERGO is incredibly heat stable. Cooking the mushrooms actually helps break down their tough chitin cell walls, making the ERGO more bioavailable.
Supplementation: If you hate eating mushrooms, isolated L-Ergothioneine supplements (often derived from fermented yeast) are now hitting the longevity market. Taking 5mg to 10mg daily saturates your OCTN1 receptors, providing your brain with the fungal shield it was genetically designed to have.
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “Prolonging healthy aging: Longevity vitamins and proteins“, Dr. Bruce Ames.
In evolutionary biology, the human body does not waste energy building things it doesn’t absolutely need.
If your DNA codes for a specific receptor, it means that whatever fits into that receptor is critical for your survival.
In 2005, scientists made a stunning discovery. They found a specific transport protein in human cells called OCTN1.
They tested hundreds of nutrients to see what this transporter was designed to carry. It ignored almost everything.
It only opened its doors for one rare molecule: L-Ergothioneine (ERGO).
What is L-Ergothioneine?
ERGO is a powerful, rare amino acid that acts as a master antioxidant. But here is the catch: Humans cannot synthesize it. Plants cannot synthesize it. Animals cannot synthesize it.
It is created almost entirely by Fungi (Mushrooms) and certain soil bacteria.
The fact that human genetics evolved a highly specific, customized transportation system just to pull this fungal compound into our red blood cells and central nervous system proves that our ancestors ate massive amounts of mushrooms. Our biology literally expects it.
The “Longevity Vitamin”
Dr. Bruce Ames, an incredibly renowned biochemist at UC Berkeley, proposed classifying ERGO as a “Longevity Vitamin.”
Unlike standard antioxidants (like Vitamin C) which float around the blood and degrade quickly, ERGO is actively pumped inside the cells and stays there for over a month.
It specifically targets the mitochondria and the DNA, acting as an indestructible shield against oxidative stress.
The Clinical Data: Studies comparing blood levels of ERGO across populations show a striking correlation. In regions where mushroom consumption is high (like Japan and Italy), ERGO levels are high, and the rates of neurodegenerative diseases (like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s) are significantly lower than in the US, where mushroom consumption is minimal.
The Soil Depletion Crisis
We used to get ERGO indirectly. Cows would eat grass grown in healthy, fungi-rich soil, and we would get the ERGO from the meat or milk.
But modern industrial agriculture (tilling, fungicides, and synthetic fertilizers) has decimated the mycorrhizal fungi networks in the soil. The ERGO is gone from our food chain.
How to get your ERGO:
To fulfill this genetic requirement, you must actively add fungi back into your diet.
The Best Sources: White button mushrooms have very little. You need to eat Oyster Mushrooms, Shiitake, King Oyster, and Porcini.
The Cooking Rule: Unlike many vitamins, ERGO is incredibly heat stable. Cooking the mushrooms actually helps break down their tough chitin cell walls, making the ERGO more bioavailable.
Supplementation: If you hate eating mushrooms, isolated L-Ergothioneine supplements (often derived from fermented yeast) are now hitting the longevity market. Taking 5mg to 10mg daily saturates your OCTN1 receptors, providing your brain with the fungal shield it was genetically designed to have.
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), “Prolonging healthy aging: Longevity vitamins and proteins“, Dr. Bruce Ames.
Medications such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are commonly offered to relieve the pain and inflammation of knee osteoarthritis, but they’re not the only options. Three studies highlight turmeric’s effectiveness for relieving knee osteoarthritis pain and inflammation as well as drugs, and in some cases even better.
They call us invasive.
They call us ugly.
They ignore us completely unless they’re spraying us dead.
But we’ve been healing humans for 4,000 years.
We grow exactly where you’re most likely to get hurt.
We’re your first aid kit, hiding in plain sight.
We’re just trying to live the life meant for us.
THE MEDICINE:
Plantain leaves contain:
Allantoin (promotes cell regeneration)
Aucubin (antimicrobial)
Mucilage (soothes and protects tissue)
This isn’t folklore. These are documented compounds that actually work.
HOW TO USE US:
Got a bee sting? Bug bite? Small cut?
Find a plantain leaf (we’re everywhere)
Chew it until it’s a green mush (saliva activates the compounds)
Apply directly to the wound
Pain decreases. Bleeding slows. Itching stops.
It works. In MINUTES. Your ancestors knew this.
WHERE WE GROW:
We thrive in compacted soil. Pathways. Edges of driveways. Between sidewalk cracks.
Exactly WHERE you walk. WHERE you fall. WHERE you get stung.
We grow where you’re most likely to need us.
Coincidence? Or 4,000 years of co-evolution?
THE GLOBAL PROOF:
Native Americans used us. Europeans used us. Asian cultures used us. Independently. On different continents. For the same purposes.
When EVERYONE agrees something works… it works.
THE IRONY:
You step on us daily. Never notice.
Then you get a bee sting and run inside for Benadryl.
We were right there. Under your foot. Ready to help.
Some data on one of the many ingredients in my NutriBlast Greens Plus.
An experimental AI trading bot was given a crypto wallet and tried to send someone about $500 in digital coins – but due to what looks like a technical mistake, it accidentally sent its entire stash worth about $250,000. The recipient quickly sold the coins for around $40,000, though they’d be worth much more now. The bot is now getting people to do random tasks in exchange for $500 worth of that coin.
Finish reading: https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/rogue-ai-just-yeeted-250000-void?utm_source=daily_newsletter
“The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation’s spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.” – Alexander Solzhenitzyn
Michael Faraday was born in 1791 in Newington Butts, south London, the son of a blacksmith who was frequently too ill to work. The family was often hungry. His education consisted of learning to read, write, and do basic arithmetic at a church Sunday school, and that was where it ended. At the age of 13 he was running errands for a bookbinder and bookseller. At 14 he was apprenticed to the man, George Riebau of Blandford Street, Marylebone, for a seven-year term. Unlike every other apprentice in that shop, Faraday read every book that came in to be bound.
He read the entry on electricity in the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was so captivated that he built himself a crude electrostatic generator out of old bottles and lumber. He read Jane Marcet’s Conversations on Chemistry and began conducting his own chemical experiments. He joined the City Philosophical Society in 1810, a group of young working men who met weekly to hear lectures on science and discuss what they had learned. He was educating himself in the only way available to him, from the inside of a trade he had no intention of staying in.
In 1812, a customer at the bookshop gave the 20-year-old Faraday four tickets to attend lectures at the Royal Institution by Sir Humphry Davy, then the most celebrated chemist in Britain. Faraday attended every one, taking meticulous notes in the careful hand of a man who had taught himself to write properly. He bound those notes into a beautiful 300-page volume and sent them to Davy with a letter asking for any position in science, however small. Davy wrote back kindly but said there was nothing available.
Then, a few months later, Davy’s laboratory assistant was dismissed after getting into a fight. Davy remembered the eager young bookbinder. In March 1813, Faraday was hired as a laboratory assistant at the Royal Institution at 25 shillings a week, two rooms in the attic, and the use of the laboratory. It was, in the judgment of history, one of the most consequential hiring decisions ever made.
Within a year, Davy took Faraday on an 18-month tour of Europe, where he met many of the leading scientists of the age. Back in London, Faraday began his own research. In 1821 he invented the electric motor, demonstrating that electrical current could produce continuous mechanical motion, a concept nobody had achieved before. By 1831 he had made the discovery that would change the world: electromagnetic induction. By passing a magnet through a coil of wire, he generated an electric current. This was the first electrical generator, the foundational principle behind every power station ever built.
He went on to discover the laws of electrolysis, coined the terms electrode, anode, cathode, and ion, discovered benzene, invented the Faraday cage that today lines microwave ovens and MRI scanners, and demonstrated the first known connection between light and magnetism. He had no formal education. He could not write mathematics. He worked entirely through experiment and physical intuition, visualising invisible lines of magnetic force moving through space in ways that mathematical physicists initially dismissed as mystical, and that James Clerk Maxwell later showed to be perfectly correct.
When Faraday was eventually appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, he was offered a knighthood. He turned it down, citing his religious beliefs. Albert Einstein kept a portrait of Faraday on his study wall alongside Isaac Newton and James Clerk Maxwell. Physicist Ernest Rutherford said there was no honour too great to pay to his memory. The man who had spent his teenage years sewing pages together had, without a university, without a degree, and without the language of advanced mathematics, built the intellectual foundations of the electrical age. Every time you switch on a light, start a car engine, or charge a phone, you are using something that traces directly back to a self-educated blacksmith’s son from south London who read every book that passed through his hands.