The Ideal Breakfast

I discovered at a relatively young age that a protein rich breakfast will keep me going long into the afternoon before my energy level drops. This is in contrast to cereal which satisfies for about an hour before the effect wears off. Bread with spreads last a little longer, but nothing satisfies quite as much as bacon and egg.

However, we're constantly told that bread or cereal is better for us, not least when it comes to our digestion, so it came as a bit of a surprise to me that a piece of bread with bacon and egg, and not much else, had no bad effect on my digestion.

But one slice of bread is not enough. I've therefore gone back to take a pinch of cumin seeds every morning, and I'm having a bowl of oatmeal porridge as well. To top it off, I make myself a pot of tea.

When these things are combined, my digestion works like clockwork, and I assume that some similar combination will work well for others as well.

There's no point in copying my breakfast completely. If you prefer coffee to tea, I'm sure the effect is no different. Extra slices of dark bread in stead of porridge is probably good as well, and the cumin seeds are probably not essential for most people.

However, the ideal breakfast doesn't come without protein, so bacon and egg it must be, or something similar.

Bacon and Egg

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Ice Increasing in Volume while Decreasing in Extent

Climate alarmists are struggling with the fact that global ice cover has increased in volume for the last six years straight. Snow and ice was supposed to become a thing of the past, yet here we are with more snow and ice than back in the 1990s.

So, the alarmists are now forced to blow the dust off of their science books which clearly state that temperature is but one driver of ice formation.

Precipitation plays an important part in it too, and climate realists have pointed this out from the start. Antarctica is more likely to gain than lose ice in case of higher global temperatures, because Antarctica is a desert with hardly any precipitation. It can only gain in ice if precipitation increases.

The expected result of higher global temperatures is an increase in ice volume on land and a decrease in ice extent on water, because sea ice will melt in warmer water, and more moisture in the air will result in more ice in cold places, especially dry places like Antarctica.

This fact has been known for decades, yet it's only now that the alarmists are pointing this out, desperate as they are to hold onto their core belief in global manmade warming.

But the realists have held this position all along. The alarmists are late to the party. Besides, the supposed negative effect of global warming was desertification and rising sea levels. Now we have a greening planet and stable sea levels. The world is in a better place, so the climate isn't and never was anything to worry about.

Above average ice volume

$ 110,000 Bitcoin

Something odd happened at the peak of Bitcoin mania back in 2017. All of a sudden, all financial papers replaced their gold tickers with Bitcoin tickers. It was not a case of one or two papers doing this. Every mainstream paper did this in unison.

Never mind that the Bitcoin market is a feather-weight relative to the gold market, and Bitcoin has no strategic importance in global politics. Everyone was suddenly rooting for Bitcoin while hiding gold from view.

Search interest for Bitcoin, gold and silver

Predictably, search interest for Bitcoin went parabolic, with small investors drawn into the casino as a consequence.

The spike in interest peaked out just as the price of Bitcoin reached its 2017 peak:

Price  of Bitcoin

What followed was a price collapse, and it wasn't before the pandemic of 2020 that the price of Bitcoin made another peak. People were locked at home with little to do but gamble with their government handouts.

Then, as Covid restrictions were lifted, there was another price collapse that lasted until a new price pump started in 2024, which has sent the price of Bitcoin soaring to new heights for no good reasons at all.

As of writing, the price of Bitcoin has reached a new all time high of $ 110,000. However, Bitcoin hasn't outperformed gold this year. It's up 15% while gold is up 28%. Yet, new Bitcoin highs get covered on TV, while new highs in the price of gold get but an anecdotal mention in financial papers.

The situation for Bitcoin is strange, because it's reaching new highs despite less search interest on Google. Bitcoin isn't going up because of more interest. It's going up despite less interest, and this is happening in the context of main stream media enthusiasm.

What makes this even stranger is that gold has had an important role in finance and geopolitics since the dawn of history, while Bitcoin has no such function. Why then has a unison media decided to promote this newcomer while at the same time hiding the heavyweight old-timer?

Sovereign

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$ 3,000 Gold

Gold has been trading well above $ 3,000 since last quarter, which means that my prediction from late 2023 came true, even if late by a few months. However, 2023 wasn't the first time I mentioned this target. My first prediction dates back to January 2021. That's more than four years ago, so even thought I was right in the end, my call for $ 3,000 was a little too early to be impressive, or even noteworthy.

But now that the target has been reached, it remains to be seen if we'll be stuck in a sideways pattern for a while as predicted back in 2021. So far, new all time highs have eluded us. But will this persist for months on end? Only time will tell. As of now, nothing significant can be read out of the chart as to gold's next big move, and we can therefore assume that it won't be doing much for quite some time still.

Quarterly performance of gold up until May 2025

Early Spring in Oslo, Late Spring in Porto

Spring came early to Oslo this year. Some five weeks early to be exact. The evidence for this can be seen on how green all the trees have become. Compared to the typical mid-May picture of Oslo, the amount of green in April was ahead by more than a month. As I write this, Oslo looks more like it usually looks in June, rather than May.

Southern Norway has been caught in a prolonged spell of warmer than normal weather, and the evidence is clear as day.

The same cannot be said about Porto, which has been caught up in one cold spell after another. Spring has been unusually wet and cool, and this has led to a later than normal spring. The evidence for this is not as easy to spot as in Oslo, but I have flowers on my balcony that can be used for this.

I took this picture of my bougainvillea on April 30 2021, and we're still not that far. I'd say we need another week before it reaches this level of lushness, so that means that spring has been delayed by three weeks down here.

Bougainvillea April 30, 2021

So, Oslo is ahead by five weeks and Porto is delayed by three weeks. This should come as no surprise because our planet on the whole doesn't change its temperature by more than a few decimals of a degree from one year to another. If one area is warmer than normal, other areas have to be cooler.

It's impossible to say anything conclusive about the climate based on any one extreme, because there are for sure other extremes other places weighing the balance the other way.

Reversed Aging with Protein and Exercise

Two years ago, shortly after taking his second Covid booster, my father was diagnosed with cancer, both in his lungs and intestines. This led to surgery on his intestines, which gave him an extra year of life, but with very little in the way of quality. What had been a man of unusually good health for his age, turned into a shadow of his former self. Only his mind escaped the carnage. He stayed lucid until his dying day, some two months ago.

When my father's end was approaching, I went to Oslo to stay with my mother. My timing was perfect, it turned out, because I arrived just in time to be with my father during his final days. What followed was a series of events, including the funeral and associated formalities. But I had plenty of time to myself, and I made sure I made the most of it. I made myself a big breakfast with bacon and egg every morning, and I spent my free time working in my parents' garden, which had decayed into a good deal of chaos over the last few years.

New routine

I had a new routine, and I kept it for the duration of the seven weeks that I spent at my mother's place.

The effects of this routine was a further increase in my wellbeing, and when my wife came to Oslo towards the end of my stay, she could not help noticing the change as well. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say, and there's truth to that it appears. Especially when the period of absence has been used to eat well and engage in relatively strenuous exercise.

My new routine didn't go so far as to completely replace my old routines. I was still doing my Kegel exercises, and I was massaging oil onto troubled skin. However, I did not eat any cumin seeds, nor ingest any other natural medicine. Nor did I eat any oatmeal porridge. Bread, protein and potatoes was the staple of my diet.

Reversed aging

The positive effect of this has been so great that I feel genuinely younger than I did a few years ago, which goes to show that much of what we think of as aging is in fact ailments that can be reversed. This goes for all sorts of things, ranging from skin problem to libido. I've seen a great deal of reversal in both cases. Another thing that has improved by a great deal is a lingering numbness in my right foot. It was getting to a point a few years back when I thought a doctor's visit would be in order. However, daily massaging of the effected areas have reversed this too. My toes are not as stiff in the joints as they were, and my foot is no longer numb, except for a small part of my big toe.

Having returned to Porto, I've kept up my newly acquired habits, and the effect of this seems  to be affecting my wife as well. She joins me in my new eating habits, and she enjoys my youthful libido. This makes her too seem healthier than she has in a while. The secondary effects of my altered lifestyle aren't limited to my body. They extend beyond me, affecting my wife, and by extension, our son and my stepdaughter.

Feeling great

Common Sense Health

Trump's election victory has ushered in chaos in politics. Everything is up for discussion, and no-one can agree on anything. The idea of an elite with a clear vision of what's right and what's wrong is in decline, and as a result people return to thinking for themselves.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the health sector where all sorts of old dogmas are under attack. What used to masquerade as undeniable truths have been thrown into doubt. School medicine, which only cranks doubted a few years ago, is no longer safe from scrutiny.

With the theatre of health-experts no longer operating, people rely more on their common sense. They ask themselves if certain pills are as beneficiary as claimed. The same goes for the notion that tiny injections of poison strengthen us, and make us more rather than less healthy. Not to mention nutrition and food. Red meat is suddenly proclaimed by many to be very healthy, and seed oils are the new bad.

As a big believer in intuition and common sense, I have no doubt that this will lead to better health choices, and that people will live better and longer as a result. The changes will be noticeable within the current election cycle, especially in the USA, and politicians in the chaos camp will be quick to point this out, possibly leading to another four years of reversals in policies of all kinds.

Time will tell if this prediction will pan out, but as I've pointed out many times before, making predictions, and evaluating them over time, is key to success in life, so this fits right into that mindset.

Making predictions

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