Thursday, January 15, 2026

SAMA HOOLE: The populations with highest gout rates aren't eating the most meat. They're drinking the most sugary beverages and eating the most high-fructose corn syrup.

"High meat consumption causes gout from excess uric acid!" Gout is caused by insulin resistance, not dietary purines. Yes, meat contains purines that convert to uric acid. But the primary driver of elevated uric acid is fructose consumption and insulin resistance blocking uric acid excretion. Fructose metabolises directly to uric acid in the liver. More fructose equals more uric acid, regardless of purine intake. The populations with highest gout rates aren't eating the most meat. They're drinking the most sugary beverages and eating the most high-fructose corn syrup. When you fix insulin resistance by removing carbs, your kidneys excrete uric acid efficiently again. Carnivores eating pounds of meat daily typically show normal or low uric acid levels because their insulin sensitivity is excellent. Historical gout was called "disease of kings" because wealthy people ate meat AND sugar, drank port wine, and lived sedentary lives. The gout wasn't from the venison. It was from the dessert, alcohol, and sitting around all day. Modern studies show low-carb diets reduce gout attacks despite higher purine intake because fixing insulin resistance matters more than purine content. If dietary purines caused gout independent of metabolic health, carnivores would be crippled. They're not. They're walking around pain-free while people on "balanced diets" are having gout flares from eating "healthy" fruit juice. Your body can handle purines from meat. It can't handle fructose while insulin-resistant. Fix the insulin resistance, the gout disappears. Keep eating sugar, the gout continues regardless of meat intake.

But telling people to stop drinking Coke doesn't generate pharmaceutical revenue like gout medication does. 

🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Rand Paul is set to file a bill to BAN welfare benefits for refugees, asylees, and illegals TOMORROW

JIM FERGUSON on TIM WALZ: A governor’s job is to cool a crisis — not radicalize it. And tonight, Tim Walz chose to escalate. History shows us exactly how this kind of rhetoric ends.

Walz did something extraordinarily dangerous: He told millions of people that ICE agents are not enforcing the law — they are “kidnapping,” “hunting,” and committing “organized brutality.” He compared federal officers to secret police. He accused them of racial targeting. He claimed they are abducting citizens in unmarked vans. Those are not policy disagreements.

Those are criminal allegations — delivered without evidence — against armed federal officers operating in the middle of a high-tension environment. --Jim Ferguson

🚨 TIM WALZ JUST LIT A MATCH IN A POWDER KEG What we just watched from Minnesota’s governor was not a normal political speech. It was a speech designed to delegitimize federal law enforcement in the eyes of the public. Walz did something extraordinarily dangerous: He told millions of people that ICE agents are not enforcing the law — they are “kidnapping,” “hunting,” and committing “organized brutality.” He compared federal officers to secret police. He accused them of racial targeting. He claimed they are abducting citizens in unmarked vans. Those are not policy disagreements. Those are criminal allegations — delivered without evidence — against armed federal officers operating in the middle of a high-tension environment. Then he went further. He told people to: • track ICE in their neighborhoods • film them • build databases on them • gather “evidence” for future prosecution That is how you turn law enforcement into targets. When you tell a population that federal agents are criminals, and then tell them to identify, track, and document those agents, you are pouring gasoline on a fire. Walz wrapped it in the language of peace — but the effect is the opposite. This is how you create chaos. This is how you invite confrontation. This is how someone gets hurt. A governor’s job is to cool a crisis — not radicalize it. And tonight, Tim Walz chose to escalate. History shows us exactly how this kind of rhetoric ends. And it never ends well.

00:45  Every bad behavior is grief in disguise.

"I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief." - [allegedly] C. S. Lewis

Childhood development triangle.

1.  FRIENDS.  At 8, will I be liked?

2.  SAFETY.  Am I going to be okay?

3.  REWARD.  Am I going to be chosen by someone?  So that's the Childhood Triangle, the entire nervous system architecture from 0-10 years of age. 

Here's how it shows up today.  You're 34, you're at work, your boss doesn't reply to an idea that you have and your brain lights up like it is second grade and you didn't get picked for kickball that's the reward side of the triangle or maybe and you steal your or how you did something and you feel your whole body tense up or brace for something you're not pissed off you're seven and you're waiting to get grounded and that's the safety side of the triangle.  Where you walk into a big party you scan the entire room and instantly feel unworthy you're over analyzing your posture or your body your face your tone, your laughs.  And that's the friend side of the triangle that started when you were like eight or you think you're being emotional or insecure or too sensitive you're not doing any of those things you're running old software it's the triangle that's kind of Taken charge.

To be blunt about this with understanding it overeating somebody who eats too much cheesecake that's not about being hungry that's about something else if I'm over working my ass off for no reason that's not about ambition and being a people pleaser, which every one of us either is or knows one that's not about being kind all of that every single bit of that is a younger version of you trying not to be left behind again it's trying to prove you're worth and those three triangle needs: I need to be liked.  I need to feel safe.  And I want to be chosen.  So if somebody is acting irrational in your life or even dramatic or emotionally unavailable that's not a dysfunction like a lot of people would say psychologist would tell you. That's an encryption of code that's a script that they've learned.  

Let's talk about this word that everybody all of us we love to throw it around it's a word called grown up you hear it all the time when I grow up or the big classic one you're a grown up now let me just tell you something in my estimation, that word is fake.  It's a complete Mirage there is no such thing as a grown up we use it like it's a destination like one day we hit a certain age we get a job maybe we've got kids and boom we're done growing game over train station that's b*******.  Age does not equal maturity.  Responsibilities don't equal healing in any way having a mortgage doesn't mean you've made peace with an 8-year-old living inside of you who still flinches when somebody raises their voice nearby I guarantee you you go on social media right now you'll see a 47-year-old man have a full-blown temper tantrum meltdown because someone cut him off in traffic you'll see maybe a 33-year-old woman for three days because her friend didn't invite her out.


UPDATE: Federal agent hospitalized after attack by Venezuelan illegal alien, accomplices in Minneapolis tonight