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ancient times and they can't really change the ethnicities of the people because it wouldn't be very accurate. Well, it took about 60 seconds into the miniseries before it turned into Brokeback Mountain, Alexander the Great version. I swear to God they turned it into a gay love story, and Alexander the Great is making out with his boyfriend like 60 seconds into the thing. Now, I don't have any p…

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ould just say nice things to each other. I get it. I'll piece it together. And you know, I'm about as far away as you can get from being a prude. It's just unnecessary entertainment because it's never turning you on, right? Like I don't get turned on watching a heterosexual couple make out. I just think, well, you know, I wouldn't mind if that were me. Maybe replacing the guy, just in case you wondered which one I was going to replace in that scene. And I just don't need to see it. I feel like it's lazy writing, I guess that's what it is. You know, I'm a professional writer, sort of, so when I see lazy writing I just go, ah, not another chase scene, not somebody tied to a chair to be tortured, not 10 minutes of watching somebody be sweeter than people are in real life. And they're always like sickeningly sweeter than real life.

Anyway, well here's an evergreen story I'm going to keep bringing up because it keeps helping people. But I keep seeing more evidence from people online that they've experimented with quitting wheat and had tremendous weight loss and inflammation loss and all their pain went away and they became more flexible. And that was my experience. And I've recommended that this is the one thing — well, not the one thing, but it's one thing you could really easily test, meaning you could just try going a month. I think a month is a good number. A month without any wheat. But you really have to go cold turkey. Don't just cut down. I don't think that makes a difference. I think you just have to go no wheat. But also check the ingredients on packages because you could easily get yourself a pizza or something and forget that that's wheat. So you have to go to z

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ero, which is not terrible. You could do it for a month. But just see how you feel. My total overall health tremendously better after a month off of wheat, and I've stayed off wheat. So I had a type of inflammation that was my entire body all the time. So if I exercised it just hurt. It just always hurt. It just went away. And the only thing I changed was taking the wheat out of my diet. So give i…

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