Havok and LX bring repeat guest Dr. Kevin Smith, functional medicine practitioner, published author, and founder of the Chronic Conditions Center in Pittsburgh, for another unscripted pass at the question his new book is built on: Why Am I Still Sick? Smith’s argument is blunt. High blood pressure, low thyroid, neuropathy, and a pile of other “chronic” labels usually get managed, not solved. Stop the pills for a couple of days and the dashboard light comes back. In this episode he walks through T4 versus T3, why Hashimoto’s is the default U.S. story, why homesteaders still get waved off iodine testing, and how insurance economics decides your panel before you sit down. LX asks about red light. Havok asks about beetroot, salt, and why roasted pistachios hide sugar in the ingredient list. Then it is gabapentin, GLP-1 rebound, Fen-Phen déjà vu, six pillars of wellness, and the line that should be on a bumper sticker: if your doctor is not trying to cure you, you do not have a doctor. You have a drug dealer. Book: Why Am I Still Sick? by Dr. Kevin Smith, due soon. Guest: Dr. Kevin Smith Chapters 00:18 – Welcome back, Dr. Kevin Smith 02:05 – Why Am I Still Sick? and symptom management vs cure 03:08 – Thyroid 101: T4, T3, and the gas pedal 06:28 – Hypothyroid symptoms from brain fog to missing eyebrows 07:38 – Hashimoto’s, life stress, and the iodine fight 12:08 – Hidden thyroid wreckers: anemia, cortisol, gut, viruses 16:35 – TPO, anti-thyroglobulin, and insurance-designed care 19:46 – Sick care in seven minutes 20:06 – Why Synthroid helps about 17% of people 21:52 – Red light, infrared, and oxygen to the nerves 24:40 – Peripheral neuropathy is not just “take gabapentin” 27:25 – Psoriasis, rheumatoid variants, and starting in the gut 29:23 – Beetroot, nattokinase, and clogged capillaries 31:39 – Curcumin, turmeric tea, and supplement quality 34:07 – Four levels of supplements, from dollar-store junk to GMP 41:39 – Quercetin, L-glutamine, and sneaky gluten 43:39 – Sugar in “just pistachios” and Snackwells tricks 44:27 – Why bread is not the bread from the 70s 48:17 – Corn syrup, ethanol, and trans fats in the bakery 51:42 – The book: symptoms as a check engine light 55:34 – Neuropathy in person, metabolic coaching across state lines 01:00:02 – Six pillars of wellness 01:05:20 – Gabapentin, Lyrica, and the dose treadmill 01:10:36 – Cut sugar and carbs for 30 days 01:12:11 – GLP-1s, rebound fat, and off-label diabetes drugs 01:15:44 – “If they’re not curing you, they’re a drug dealer” 01:17:38 – Moving the blood-pressure goalposts 01:20:57 – Sun-up alarms, chicken time, and daylight savings 01:23:26 – Shout-out: Datis Kharrazian 01:25:01 – metabolicsolutions.net and the free quiz Fountain:

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Welcome back to Space Tomatoes. Havok and LX bring repeat guest Dr. Kevin Smith, functional medicine practitioner, published author, and founder of...

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Was just pondering things and my ponderer pondered why there are not little RaspberryPI boxes (or whatever HW) that are literally plug and pray Nostr relays. Like just set this little guy on your desk boot it add some basic info and boom, home relay without needing a VPS or having to run the stack on your system. I dunno why I thought about this, but seems like a cool idea. Could also be a cool way to increase adoption... maybe. Probably a terrible idea and I am quite certain someone will point out why. <shrug>.

New episode out, this one was pretty fun and some thought provoking discussion, check it out and let me know what you thought. Retired intelligence officer and author Rick Hoppe joins Havok and LX for a deep, no-BS breakdown of modern revolutions. From his 32 years in the intel community (including the Iraq surge) to the eight-stage process that every successful (and failed) revolution has followed since the mid-1700s, Rick lays out the real mechanics of legitimacy, rupture, and why you can’t bomb your way to freedom. We dig into coups vs. true revolutions, color revolutions, the Iran situation, algorithmic cages, and what “stage three” looks like in America and Canada right now. Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/xXpOr05o5o7L9stj59Oh

@A.A.Ron Thank you! That worked so well it muted your reply.

OK How do I find and slap the crap out of the person running the bot doing this? I have blocked it multiple times, not working, really starting to rustle my jimmies. #AskNostr

What happens when a morning-radio veteran trades FCC rules, toxic bosses, and medium-market grind for total creative freedom? You get pure Space Tomatoes chaos. Hosts Havok and LX welcome Jon Francois, host of The Delicious Culture with Jon Francois, for an unscripted deep-dive into six years of podcasting evolution from the goofy “Anything Show,” through a two-year Family Matters rewatch grind (Urkel catchphrases and all), to the current solo format built around three delicious questions. Jon spills on why full-time radio felt overworked and underpaid, the exact moment he walked away cold-turkey in 2024, the best (and most dramatic-llama) Uber/Lyft rides, how he actually got his wife on the mic, and the public-access mentor who let a shy teen interview blankets and smash ice bags for creativity’s sake. Expect radio-industry real talk, shock-jock reflections (Howard Stern respect + reality check, daytime-driver survival tips, and a reminder that independence beats corporate validation every single time. If you’ve ever dreamed of owning your own content (or just need a laugh at late-night dispensary passengers, this one’s juicy.

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OK Folks, I figure I probably have the geek market covered her. Who has a GB10 system? I would love to have a chat with you because I am considering one currently. Let's go fellow Nostriches. #AskNostr

I absolutely love this, we have been in a drought for a while now. Our backyard "lawn" looks pretty good for us not getting much for rain. There is a real reason for this, and we have zero irrigation. The first image shows what everyone seems to love, the next 2 show what every person seems to dread, but I love it. This is a biodiverse system, we have never seeded it, never once put any herbicides or fertilizer on it, we just mow it. It self repairs when dug up and does so in about a week. Feels great on the feet, and we literally do one thing with it, we mow it. Yet another example of the strength that biodiversity brings and that monoculture cannot do.

"I'm tired, Boss." That line from The Green Mile speaks for millions who have reached the end of their patience. They are tired of the lies. Tired of promises that never arrive. Tired of representatives who answer only to power and money. Tired of being watched, catalogued, and scored. Tired of taxes that touch every action outside the body itself. You cannot drink water without paying for it. You cannot even poop (sewer tax) without paying for it. You cannot live without feeding the machine at every turn. Tired of money taken and spent on wars the people never chose. Tired of watching special interests grow fat while infrastructure rots and even the veterans, the people the "patriots" claim to support, die waiting for basic care. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless, yet the flow of resources continues outward. Call it what it is. This is not patriotism. A patriot loves and defends their own country. Sending young people to fight distant conflicts while citizens sleep on sidewalks is not defense. It is extraction. The system offers no real representation. The speeches and rituals exist to maintain compliance. Those who still believe in it sleep through the theft of their own future. We see it clearly. We are done feeding it. We build outside the structure through voluntary exchange and direct cooperation. We will not carry the weight of a machine that serves only itself. We care enough to walk away and create something that actually works.

Now who wins the moral and ethical argument, stands on principles alone, and is unwilling to budge in tense conditions, the small l libertarian, or the big L Libertarian, and why? The small-l libertarian wins on pure principle. Under the strict standard we are using, the small-l position refuses to authorize or install any ruler. It treats the act of electing someone to wield coercive power over others as illegitimate by definition. That refusal does not bend when conditions become tense—war, economic crisis, cultural panic, or political opportunity. The principle remains: no one has the right to rule, and participating in the selection of rulers contradicts that claim. The big-L Libertarian, by contrast, enters the electoral arena. Running candidates, seeking offices, and asking people to vote for individuals to hold state power means accepting and using the very mechanism of rule the philosophy rejects. Even when the platform is radical on paper, the method itself is a compromise: it treats political power as something that can be captured and directed rather than something that must be denied legitimacy. In tense conditions that compromise becomes more tempting—strategic endorsements, lesser-evil voting, coalition deals, “we have to win first” logic. The willingness to play the game is already a budge. Standing on principle alone favors the position that will not authorize rulers under any circumstances. Consistency under pressure is the test. The small-l stance meets it more cleanly because it never grants the premise that someone should hold the office in the first place.

AI stays inside the box. Humans step outside when things break. Derek Crager on Human First AI: Use it to think WITH the human, not FOR the human. Otherwise businesses get brittle fast. Clip from our latest episode with Derek Crager on The Space Tomatoes Podcast. #HumanFirstAI #AI