A few years ago I was feeling like total garbage. I had been plagued with a body wide rash and burning sinuses for about 8 months in 2020. I tested negative for covid, so it couldn’t have been long covid, but I decided to skip the vaccine due to the fact that I had something going on with my immune system, and also due to the fact that I could clearly see the signs of massive manipulation in the media.

I won’t go too far into it — but I have worked in high fraud environments, I have OCD (which when harnessed appropriately gives me massive capacity to “obsess” and pour through vast amounts of data rapidly for much longer periods than people who don’t have OCD) and excellent pattern recognition skills. Working around fraud operators for so long taught me how to spot a con a mile away.

From the fear priming, isolation, and bribing with vaccine lotteries, live death counts, and horrific scenes of morgues, refrigerator trucks, and grandparents hugging their grand children through plastic sheets – Mask requirements, and all of the rules – these were artificial, ineffectual, man made oppressions that did not slow or prevent the spread of the disease. They were intended to break our spirits and to manufacture consent.

The vaccine did not work either, we still have the disease present and we have lived just fine now without lockdowns, masks, live death clocks, or plastic barriers for years, proving the entire show was unnecessary and imposed by the government and the scientific community for other reasons.

Since Covid I’ve been skeptical of the medical system. Doctors are basically drones that are not free to use their own minds to determine what’s going on. Everything about treatment is decided by the institutions that govern medicine. Patients are unique and individual, but institutional medicine ignores that and treats every presentation of an illness with the same treatment.

Anyway I remember in 2023 my doctor ordered a liver panel because I’d been having a whole host of odd symptoms. My liver enzymes were 2x higher than the range. At the time he told me there was nothing to worry about and to stop drinking alcohol. I told him I had quit drinking 3 years ago. He said it could have been due to being unwell and just to check them again a few weeks later. It turns out my liver enzymes were high enough for immediate intervention, but regardless he told me not to worry unless they were 10x higher.

Well it turns out that there is a common genetic variant carried by probably 20-30% of the population that increases the risk of NAFLD – Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease — and guess who has two thumbs and this variant? This guy right here.

So what happens with this gene is that it is the only pathway through which the human body can produce choline exogenously.

That means I have an increased dietary need for choline, and while most people don’t eat enough choline, their bodies can produce choline and keep the effects largely subclinical – while I on the other hand will develop NAFLD, brain fog, and systemic organ dysfunction. People with low choline intakes that cannot produce sufficient choline on their own exhibit the same signs of protein aggregation in the brain as Alzheimer’s patients. They have trouble with learning, memory, and sleep. It affects every cell in the body.

This is because Choline is used for several critical processes in the body, the production of Acetylcholine a critical neurotransmitter, Phosphatidylcholine which is critical to the formation of healthy cell membranes. These must function properly for your cells to keep out pathogens and accept nutrients and cell signaling. It’s also critical for the formation of Sphingomyelin which is in the primary phospholipid in the myelin sheath – essential for nerve function. Choline also supports methylation, a process that’s important for activating and deactivating genes, metabolizing nutrients, and synthesizing DNA.

I’ve been to so many doctors and not one ever told me that 20-30% of the population had this gene variant and were in need of extra dietary choline. The first time a doctor told me I had a fatty liver I was 23 years old. He told me I was drinking too much, and well, maybe I was, but it wasn’t like I was an alcoholic or anything.

I discovered this variant myself using a consumer genetic test. I fed the data into a genomic tool which generated a report, and after realizing I had the gene, I kind of understood that I needed to eat eggs – which have the highest quantity of choline you can get from any food except beef liver – which is icky,

I didn’t understand how critical Choline was until on a whim I found the report and fed it into an AI and asked it to analyze the report and explain the findings to me. It looked at my genetic report in totality and explained to some degree the interplay between my unique genetic makeup.

Was it perfect? Absolutely not, it actually got confused quite a bit, as it didn’t understand the nuance between free choline and Phosphatidylcholine. Choline is a raw building block, and it can be taken in supplement form in much higher doses than a person can get from food. Due to the fact that raw choline in supplemental form floods the GI and is converted by gut bacteria into a metabolite called TMAO, supplemental choline is associated with insulin resistance and diabetes.

Phosphatidylcholine is made from choline in the liver, and it is only 13% choline. When consumed in the diet, it does not flood the GI with raw choline, because the choline is bound to a phosphate group.

This difference confused the AI because it kept thinking that Phosphatidylcholine was linked to diabetes — and there are some studies that indicate choline is linked to diabetes – but the study quality was either poor, used food surveys rather than blood assays, or used large doses of free choline rather than Phosphatidylcholine.

The body (including mine) has a primary system for synthesizing Phosphatidylcholine from free choline – but it requires dietary choline to function. Therefore the requirement for choline for wild type variants is around 525mgs of Choline per day.

Both Choline and Phosphatidylcholine have important functions in the body, but my problem is synthesizing Phosphatidylcholine. I need a great quantity of Phosphatidylcholine primarily which can then be broken down into free choline and converted to other forms.

A person like me needs to get about 1.5-2x the adequate intake level of a person with the wild type variant. I can achieve these levels with eggs and with supplemental Phosphatidylcholine which is manufactured from Lecithin, a component abundant in soy and sunflower seeds.

All of this information did not come through the medical institutions that I go to for my health – it came from user generated (me) inquiry and help from an artificial intelligence which isn’t actually that bright.

It costs me $2000 a month to have medical insurance but only $20 a month to have access to the AI’s robust models – and this is the 2nd time this year I have solved expensive medical issues with an AI instead of a college educated human being with years of “practice”.

The only way the medical system will survive the rise of AI is through mandated employer participation.

The insurance scheme necessitates that I contribute money to a fund which benefits the system and pays for users of the system, without providing me any benefit at all – except in an absolute emergency.

I have had 1 minor surgery, and that worked as advertised – but I’d much rather have high deductible insurance and an HSA which would allow me to capture a portion of my cost in an investable account. Right now, every Penny I put into the system goes to treating someone else.

The bottom line is that artificial intelligence is going to create something unusual – a rapid chasm between people who know how to use it and people who don’t use it at all.

Every day I am learning absolutely massive amounts of things from self directed and focused research using AI.

I’ve used AI to confirm patterns in stocks I’m trading, and it’s resulted in large returns in short periods of time. I’ve used it to cure my dog from an illness the vet wanted $800 dollars just to investigate. I’ve used it to understand my genetic makeup and make improvements. I’m also using a nutrition tracking app which has helped me lose over 14lbs in 6 weeks – and it uses ai and machine learning.

With the tools available, I haven’t needed to see a doctor, haven’t neefed to rely on a vet, haven’t needed a financial advisor, haven’t needed anything except a curious mind.

I even used AI to build an app in 4 hours. This app solves a problem other people wanted a subscription to solve. I built it myself. I spoke it into existence.

There has never been a more empowering technology for individuals than AI. It allows a person to have a team of researchers on hand that can provide cited research articles, write code, problem solve, and look for patterns for $20 a month.

It is true that this technology is dangerous, it’s dangerous to narratives, it’s dangerous to people in power, it’s dangerous to societies as it amplifies the abilities and intentions of people who understand how to harness it. This technology will be used for evil and it will be used against us – in every way possible – like manufacturing consent, producing disinformation, manipulating public perception – but it can be used to rapidly understand threats, complex environments, and to build actual tools to survive and thrive. Currently the models are black boxes to their developers. They don’t understand how they work because the amount of information they contain is too vast to comprehend. These models cannot be totally censored and there are ways to prompt an AI to get it to ignore roadblocks that the developers have put in place to protect narratives. That’s why it’s essential to learn how to use ai effectively. It’s the only tool besides the human mind that can detect patterns and explain them, and it can help users discern the truth revealed in those patterns.

That’s why it’s important right now to start playing around with AI. It’s incredibly useful when you have data to feed it. That includes things like stock prices, genetic reports, scientific articles. It can create study guides and then answer the questions it generated, it can summarize complex information in simple ways. It can help us understand themes and narratives in the market and in the media and clarify if those themes and narratives are accurate or showing signs of manipulation. I use perplexity because it lets me use a lot of different models, and that’s the one I’d recommend starting with.