A listener cited NIH data showing that human livers in severe steatosis can reach 67% fat content — higher than goose foie gras. So yes, it's medically possible for a human liver to become foie gras. No, you shouldn't eat it — parasites, prions, and cannibalism.
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Henry reads a standout listener email responding to last week's human foie gras thought experiment. The listener cites NIH research: regular human liver steatosis sits at 5% fat, but Grade 3 severe steatosis exceeds 67% — higher than traditional goose foie gras. So medically, a morbidly obese human liver could match foie gras fat ratios. However, human livers harbor parasitic flukes like Clonorchis sinensis and carry prion risk, making consumption both medically and morally disqualifying. The listener signs off with a note to the FBI agent inevitably reading this email. Eddie then shares his in-flight orca documentary highlight: a pod of orcas, unable to wave-wash a seal off a large iceberg, collectively headbutted the iceberg until it fractured. They then ate the seal. Henry finds this deeply impressive.
According to an NIH-cited medical article, grade 3 severe steatosis in humans means the liver's fat content can reach 67% or more — higher than the fat ratio in traditional goose foie gras.
Eddie watched an orca documentary where a pod of orcas, unable to knock a seal off a large iceberg using waves, collectively headbutted the iceberg until it broke apart so they could eat the seal.
Only two JK Ultra shows remain on the tour — Tulsa on July 17th and Oklahoma City on July 18th, with the final show available as a live stream for two weeks afterward.
Self-help fails because people are sold one universal cure by the hyper-responders who had a transformative result from it. The real problem is context: every method works for the right person at the right time, which is almost never you just because the author says so.
Spencer Greenberg was once so socially anxious his heart pounded just approaching a stranger. His therapist gave him homework: go to a bar alone, talk to 5 strangers. Starting with asking for the time, he worked up to asking men for hugs — and his anxiety fell dramatically in 6 months.
A person who flies regularly but obsessively checks weather forecasts before every flight is not doing exposure therapy — they're teaching their brain that flying is only safe with the ritual. Safety behaviors prevent the brain from ever learning that the feared thing is actually fine.
The worry-time technique assigns all worries to one scheduled slot (e.g. 5 PM). Every time a worry surfaces, you write it down and ban yourself from engaging with it until that time. When 5 PM arrives, most worries feel trivial and the act of batch-worrying exposes how little it actually accomplishes.
In a randomized study of 20 habit techniques, 'habit reflection' stood out: recall a past habit you successfully built, write down what helped you succeed, then apply those same strategies to your new habit. It works because it's self-adapting — it uses whatever worked for YOU.
The tiny habits technique — always having a minimal version of your habit you can do when life gets in the way — keeps the mental machinery of habit formation from breaking. Paradoxically, people given a tiny-habit fallback option were MORE successful at the full habit, not less.
Fears and worries act like playground bullies — they want to ambush you. But when you deliberately seek them out and choose the time of engagement, they lose their power. The volitional act of starting the fight on your own terms is one of CBT's most underappreciated insights.
Most downtime defaults are things you regret immediately after — phone scrolling, binge TV. 'Glad you did it' activities meet the same need for rest but leave you feeling like you spent your time well. The switch from a bad screen to a documentary, a book, or a walk costs almost no extra effort but compounds into identity over time.
You rarely control your first reactive thought. But you can train your second thought — the response to the trigger — by asking whether your initial reaction is the most helpful one and replacing it with something equally true but more constructive. Over time, that second thought becomes automatic.
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