How the 1918 pandemic was conquered without a vaccine.

“You have a random virus jump species from an animal to a human that is spectacularly efficient in spreading from human to human, and has a high degree, relatively speaking, of morbidity and mortality,” ... “We are living in the perfect storm right now.” ft.com/content/57834c…

“We are still thinking about Disease X,” Prof Gilbert says. ft.com/content/d2ae1f…

The rarest (and most valuable) thing on this planet: a clear mind.

"Casanova is a champion for an idea that has been slowly gaining credence among medical researchers for many years: that genetics is always a factor in infectious diseases." quantamagazine.org/our-genes-may-…

III A wise decision is one that is sound both prospectively and retrospectively, in both foresight and hindsight. Our best definition of #Precaution

"...a package of behavioural and drug-based interventions will have saved many lives and will strengthen our preparedness for the next crisis, Pandemic X, which will surely come." ft.com/content/a544c0…

The more you get stuck in the past at past historical slights, the worse your progress. Move on; getting rich is the best revenge. In 1982 Assad (père) & warlord Frangié blew up our house in Amioun. I got rich & we built a bigger one. My way of saying F***k you.

Masks may be giving people Covid19 immunity/making them less sick, according to New England Journal of Medicine researchers. Evidence suggests amount of virus exposure at start of infection may determine severity of illness. Echoing early Nassim Nicholas Taleb insight? telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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If you want to start a startup, it's good to know about multiple, unrelated things. Startups often depend on 4 or 5 different kinds of knowledge, and it's great if they can all be found in 2 founders.

"we show that fructose reprograms cellular metabolic pathways to favour glutaminolysis and oxidative metabolism, which are required to support increased inflammatory cytokine production in both LPS-treated human monocytes and mouse macrophages. " nature.com/articles/s4146…

As you know from reading my study “The Changing World Order,” I have found that most everything that is happening now has happened many times before for basically the same reasons, and that the most recent analogous time to the present was the 1930s. linkedin.com/pulse/biden-ro… 1/2

Here's a timeline of the effects of fasting from our book The Immunity Fix amzn.to/3e8z6TV

MYTH: Dietary salt leads to salt & water retention FACT: REFINED SUGAR elevates insulin causing salt & water retention SOLUTION? Cut the SUGAR, drop the insulin & stop retaining salt & water DON’T BLAME SALT FOR WHAT THE SUGAR DID!

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Much of our feel good neurochemistry is wired for release only after a mental struggle to arrive at some answer or insight. Learning (and applying knowledge) is the ultimate drug.

Your ability to speak clearly is enhanced by reading (not listening) to books and by writing and journaling in complete sentences. Texting, voice dictation and audio books are wonderful but degrade articulation. Conversely, structured writing aids structured speech.

The idea that ingesting some alcohol is better than none is wrong. Past 2 drinks per week, the negative health effects start to surface. The “red wine as a source of key micronutrients” arguments flop. Do as you like but know what you’re doing. More here: hubermanlab.com/what-alcohol-d…

"A jacked-up motorcycle in the middle of the night can easily wake up 10,000 people." More cities in #France install "Méduse" anti-noise radars, which have 4 microphones, camera to automatically ticket vehicles that exceed a certain number of decibels ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loi…