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Continue reading →: Opportunity: An Outcome of Your, not Political, ChoiceLife is opportunity. Outcome concludes it. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, before refined language existed, Headmistress Eve taught her learner-human students that life was “a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do lots of things.” As Eurasians developed single words to encapsulate complex concepts, “opportunity” perfectly captured…
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Continue reading →: Springboks and Squatter CampsA Springbok jersey can’t cover a broken country. Vincent Tshituka’s Springboks call-up is the stuff of dreams—a black kid from the DRC, now a national rugby hero in a country that worships its ‘Boks. It’s a poster-boy moment. Proof, they say, that South Africa has come a long way since…
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Continue reading →: Banking on Community Shaped Human ProgressFrom promoting community wealth to enriching the few, trapping the majority You walk into your local bank. Touch screens greet you, forms pop up, your financial future is decided by algorithms in distant data centres. The most personal interaction is the security guard’s nod. It wasn’t always this way. The…
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Continue reading →: Addiction’s Ancient WhisperAddiction isn’t new—humans have always chased highs. Throughout history, our ancestors shared stories, sang ancient hymns, and, on special occasions, partook in mind-altering substances. The Sumerians sipped beer 7,000 years ago, while cannabis appears regularly in ancient records across the world. Opium, too, has ancient roots in Mesopotamia and later…
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Continue reading →: Cravings, Addiction, and the CarnivoreAddiction ruled—until steak, eggs, and butter set me free. Twenty years ago, I was losing a war I’d been fighting for three decades—against alcohol and cigarettes. Patches, gum, distraction, pure grit—I tried them all. Nothing stuck. Then one day, survival threw me a line. “Now or never.” I quit drinking…
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Continue reading →: A Guide to Ancestral NutritionTestosterone, dementia, autism and ADHD, depression share a common thread Throughout our series on brain health—from dementia to ADHD and autism, from prenatal development to adolescent mental health and the compromised thinking of folk with low testosterone—one fundamental truth emerges: the human brain operates optimally when fuelled according to its…
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Continue reading →: Testosterone, Violence, NonsenseThe misunderstood hormone: when what we eat shapes who we are. An anguished shout, a cry, parted the people rushing along the pavement. Sipho rushed up to the school fence as the young man was no more. Some stopped—in sympathetic acknowledgment perhaps. One lady declared she’d phone the police, but…
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Continue reading →: Born Broken: How Diet Programs Brain Health Before BirthWe’re medicating symptoms created by our forks—the generational brain crisis we can still reverse. Ten years ago, I was terrified by what was happening to my mind—until I went carnivore, embracing our ancestral lifestyle of fuelling up with meat, fat, and eggs, updated with real butter. I was so frightened…
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Continue reading →: Teen Minds in CrisisWhen your brain starves in a land of plenty The early years are traumatic, but sadly nowadays, they’re often just a stepping stone to adolescent brain crisis. We’ve a silent epidemic on our hands. Last month district school counsellors shared the same alarming pattern: skyrocketing mental health crises among teenagers…
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Continue reading →: The ADHD, Autism ExplosionWhat if your child’s psychiatric diagnosis isn’t a disorder but the brain’s desperate cry for the nutrition evolution designed it to have? ADHD wasn’t officially recognized until 1968. In the 1950s, the children of my generation were simply “hellcats.” At my junior school, even girls played Bulldog—a rough game of…
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My Grandfather’s Fireside Tales emerge from a lifetime of learning and unlearning. In an age where adults often remain stuck at superficial understanding, and follow a preset political agenda, these stories challenge young people to think deeper, question assumptions, and look beyond convenient narratives. They’re for minds still open to take fresh perspectives, lay them on the table before their elders and ask, “so what about this?”
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