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You sat on the paper sheet that crinkles every time you move. The doctor had seven minutes and one eye on the screen.

You told him about the shoulder that grinds when you reach for the top shelf. The knee that makes you grab the stair rail. The first twenty minutes out of bed, when your feet hit the cold floor and you shuffle to the coffee pot like someone twenty years older.

He nodded. Then he said it. “That’s just age.”

A pamphlet. A refill. The door clicks shut behind the doctor.

And you drive home wondering if this is how the rest of it goes.

Because here is what “just age” costs. It is the grandkids yelling “come play” while you stay in the recliner, since getting back up off the carpet is the hard part. It is the Saturday of raking that you pay for until Tuesday, with an ice pack on the couch. It is the hunt you missed, the back nine you sat out, the trip you skipped.

A lot of people try the usual fixes first.

One wrote: “A previous cortisone shot helped for a couple of weeks, but the issue came right back.”

Another went the exercise route: “I did my research and began to do rehab type exercises that really didn’t seem to help.”

And pain pills only quiet things for a few hours.

Then things got better.

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Another: “I can work in my flower garden again!”

And another: “On my trip I went, saw, and did everything that I intended to.”

Still another: “Without Regenerate, I couldn’t do it at age 67”

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What is it exactly?

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– KPV helps keep your body’s normal inflammatory response in balance.

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“But will I even feel it?”

Here is what buyers say. Leah P.: “I noticed a difference after 1 day.” Mary U., about 12 days in: “I’ve noticed that I wake up in less pain. It’s wonderful!” Shirley B., about her shoulder after a week: “Nothing else helped me.”

Not everyone moves that fast. One person wrote it was “too early to make a judgement” after his first stretch. Bodies differ. Give it the full 30-day bottle and pay attention to those first twenty minutes out of bed. That is where most people notice it first.

What’s the cost?

On subscription, Regenerate is $269.99, and you can skip or cancel anytime. That is 30 servings, about $9 a morning. A single bottle is $299.99, about $10 a morning. Shipping is free in the U.S.

Put that next to what you have already tried. According to FairVisitHealth, a cortisone shot without insurance typically runs $100 to $500, and one man said his cortisone shot only helped “for a couple of weeks” before the issue came right back. And rehab is usually more.

Before you try it, think about what a better morning would mean:

• Your feet hit the floor and you walk the dog without shuffling

• The grandkids say “come play” and you get down on the carpet and back up again

• A Saturday of yard work that does not cost you Sunday, Monday and Tuesday

• The truck step and the stairs stop feeling like hurdles

Your doctor said “That’s just age.”

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Note: The information provided on this website is intended for informational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice or used as a substitute for professional healthcare guidance. It is your responsibility to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and guidelines regarding the purchase, possession, and use of prescription medications.

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DHS Chief Markwayne Mullin went off on CBS’s Margaret during an appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation” for attacking ICE agents who pursued and shot a criminal alien in New York City.

Instead of blaming the illegal alien for endangering his own child, Margaret Brennan blamed ICE agents.

Protests erupted in the Bronx on Thursday evening after an ICE agent shot and wounded an illegal alien from the Dominican Republic in Marble Hill.

Video posted to social media shows anti-ICE activists blocking federal vehicles and confronting ICE agents after the officer-involved shooting.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed an ICE agent shot the criminal alien gang member identified as Oscar Belgal.

“On October 8, at approximately 4:00 PM ET, ICE officers were conducting a targeted enforcement operation in the Bronx, New York, to arrest a criminal illegal alien from the Dominican Republic with a prior criminal conviction for grand larceny, and multiple prior arrests for assault, robbery, possession of drugs, and weapons possession. He has associations to the Trinitarios gang, the same gang who brutally shot a CBP officer last year,” DHS said.

“This criminal illegal alien was arrested by the NYPD on December 7, 2023, but was released into the community a few days later by reckless Democrat sanctuary policies that put American lives at risk,” they said.

Oscar Belgal’s five-year-old child was in the car at the time of the ICE-involved shooting.

Margaret Brennan blamed the ICE agents even though Oscar Belgal accelerated his vehicle and rammed two vehicles before targeting officers.

“How come those officers didn’t notice that a child was put in that car?” Margaret Brennan asked Mullin.

Mullin went off on Margaret Brennan.

“You know who did know the kid was in the vehicle? Oscar! As a father of six kids, no way I ever put my kids in danger,” Mullin said.

“I would’ve gotten out of my vehicle to protect my child. No way I would’ve been selfish enough. He absolutely was selfish enough to put his child in danger! He’s the one who decided to accelerate towards officers. That tells you the type of character Oscar is!” Mullin said.

WATCH:

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on Fox and Friends this morning to discuss his recent schooling of Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren in a letter where he savaged her with a happy ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ message.

In more than 100 letters to Bessent, Warren has been hurling accusations at Bessent and demanding information about the Trump Administration’s monetary policy.

Bessent shared his response to one of Warren’s letters on Saturday, slamming her incompetence and obviously politically motivated “letter-writing crusade,” while offering her a “Foreign Exchange for Dummies” course.

Then, he savaged the fake Indian Senator, handwriting at the bottom of his letter, “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day in advance to you and your family.”

Scott Bessent Goes Scorched Earth on Elizabeth Warren – Ends Epic Letter with “Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day”

They don’t teach monetary policy on the reservation.

Bessent and the Fox and Friends hosts had a field day trolling Warren on Sunday.

“Senator Warren loves to write letters. More than writing the letters, she loves to leak them to the press that I read about the letter on Bloomberg and Politico before we receive it, and a lot of these letters are embarrassing,” Bessent said of his pen pal relationship with Warren.

Slamming her as “economically illiterate,” Bessent continued, “she is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee, and she is on Senate Finance. So, like this level of illiteracy, whether it’s her or her staff, is woeful.”

“I wish her Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to her, to her and her family, given some of the past claims she’s made,” he added.

“Maybe the problem is that you keep trying to exchange letters with her, and you should be doing smoke signals, and then she would be able to understand it,” Fox and Friends co-host Charlie Hurt joked.

“Well, I’ll tell you the other shocking thing: not a single legacy media outlet has called her out on this. No one has said like what what is going on in the senior senator from Massachusetts’ office?” Bessent added. “What do they do all day? Do they like sit around and like you know sip herbal tea and think about raising taxes?”

Of his handwritten note, Bessent said he always adds a handwritten note at the end of a letter and described the green ink as “treasury green.”

Bessent further trolled her fake Indian claims and past statements about her family having “high cheekbones like all of the Indians do.”

“I’ve got high cheekbones; all three of you got high cheekbones. It doesn’t make us indigenous people, but that somehow became the Warren family legacy.”

WATCH:

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DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to talk about ICE operations.

Secretary Mullin explained that his agency is simply enforcing the laws that Congress made. Leftist sanctuary politicians have been critical of ICE operations, yet they ignore the victims, including law enforcement officers that have repeatedly been attacked.

A news clip was shown of New York Governor Kathy Hochul criticizing ICE for shooting into a vehicle, even though an illegal alien was endangering the lives of the law enforcement officers who were pursuing him.

“Let’s start with that case, Oscar Belgal, the shooting on Thursday. Here is how Governor Kathy Hochul, there in New York, describes what happened,” Bream said.

“She says she asked you to issue an order that agents not fire into cars. What’s the policy? Will we see bodycam or other footage that may be available?” Bream asked.

“Let me back up on this. When the Governor, the Mayor, all these career, sanctuary politicians, not one of them said anything when their own, the NYPD officer, that was also stabbed seven times in this same neighborhood, in the Bronx, just last week. They were completely silent,” Mullin said.

Mullin explained that immigration detainers were ignored. He also exposed the hypocrisy of these leftist politicians by pointing out that when law enforcement officers are attacked, there is no attention brought to them.

“All of them we had detainers on and asked them to be sent over to us instead of released back on the streets. And when an NYPD officer got stabbed, no one did a press conference, no one was outside protesting. No one said a word,” Mullin continued.

Mullin explained the extent of the illegal alien’s criminal record. Oscar Belgal was only in the country for three years and had a lengthy criminal record.

“When Oscar, an individual that had evaded us last month, has an extensive criminal background. Let me just read it. Has four charges for felony robbery, two charges for assault, felony larceny, misdemeanor assault, weapons possession larceny, possession with stolen property, and two felony charges for drugs. Plus, a strong gang affiliation,” Mullin said.

“They are out there protesting for this guy, and he’s only been in the country for three years, and he has this extensive background, and they were all three released by the Biden administration,” Mullin said.

“It’s absolutely hypocrisy, and ridiculous that they are out here trying to make something big about this,” Mullin continued.

“We don’t make the laws. We simply enforce the laws. We don’t pick and choose, but we are out there every single day trying to keep criminals off our streets that sanctuary states and sanctuary cities release,” Mullin said.

Watch:

WATCH: @SecMullinDHS says of ICE operations, “we’re enforcing the laws Congress passed.” He adds that DHS will cooperate with the investigation into the NYC incident. https://t.co/faxOyC5cUQ

— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) October 11, 2026

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The State Department confirmed that one American was among the 12 reported dead from the Houthis’ Saturday strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The statements released after the attack Saturday and Sunday did not disclose the victim’s name.

The Yemeni front in the wider Middle Eastern war, which has pitted the Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels against the American-aligned Saudis, has seen some of the most intense action in the region over the past week. The internationally recognized Yemeni government claimed Sunday to be advancing to retake territory on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a chokepoint for Red Sea traffic that the Houthis seized in September.

Meanwhile, Iran appeared to continue its campaign against tanker traffic in the Persian Gulf. The UKMTO reported that a projectile struck a tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz Sunday morning.

The ongoing operations in the Strait reflect the diplomatic deadlock between the U.S. and Iran. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, told the state-affiliated Tasnim news agency Sunday that the United States’ responses to Iranian conditions for ending the war contained “ambiguities” and were considered “inadequate.”

Despite improved flows through the Strait, the war’s strain on energy markets has only modestly decreased. AAA reported a national average price per gallon of $4.36 for regular gasoline and $6.28 for diesel.

The post Iran War Day 226: One American Dead in Houthi Attack on Saudi Airport appeared first on The American Conservative.

REMINDER: Ukraine’s Zelensky Was a Total Disrespectful Jerk When He Met with the Trump Team in White House in February 2025

Ukraine’s Zelensky was a disrespectful piece of work in 2025 in the White House.

We shared that the US should stop every bit of support to this madman after his actions at that time.

Zelensky should be immediately escorted out of the White House and immediately exported back to Ukraine. What a disrespectful piece of sh!t this person is. How dare he speak to the President of the United States of America and to the people of America after all #WeThePeople have… https://t.co/AVRvIOsk6e

— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) February 28, 2025

Also disrespectful were the corrupt war-mongering senators who met with Zelensky before he met with President Trump.  What monsters!

Warmonger, slimy snakes met with Zelensky before the Trump meeting.

Disgusting creatures. pic.twitter.com/G3V4w8uxDV

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) February 28, 2025

Yesterday, we reported that a massive Russian terminal was bombed by Ukraine.  The following was reported:

BREAKING: Ukraine has just struck the NZNP Rostovsky oil products export terminal in Rostov-on-Don and set it ablaze, hours after the US-Russia diesel deal and Trump lifting sanctions on Russian fuel exports.

This is a products export terminal, exactly where the diesel would leave Russia under the deal.

Ukrainian military sources said earlier today that the Trump administration’s attempt to use Russian diesel to lower US prices before the midterms “will bear no fruit.”

BREAKING: Ukraine has just struck the NZNP Rostovsky oil products export terminal in Rostov-on-Don and set it ablaze, hours after the US-Russia diesel deal and Trump lifting sanctions on Russian fuel exports.

This is a products export terminal, exactly where the diesel would leave Russia under the deal.

Ukrainian military sources said earlier today that the Trump administration’s attempt to use Russian diesel to lower US prices before the midterms “will bear no fruit.”

— The Hormuz Letter (@HormuzLetter) October 10, 2026

This was after President Trump told Zelensky not to bomb Russia’s oil refineries.

So, which country is America’s enemy and which is our friend again?

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In what can only be described as inevitable, according to a Campus Reform report, “A record-low share of Americans say a college education is ‘very important”

We have reported extensively at The Gateway Pundit on the many documented bias incidents and biased professors on campus. Now, people are coming to the inevitable conclusion that college is a waste.

“A recent Gallup poll found that 31% of U.S. adults now view college as “very important,” which is down from 70% in 2013 and below the 36% Gallup recorded when it first asked the question in 1978.”

Costly schools that indoctrinate instead of educate should not expect to be popular or sought after.

“The decline spans across major demographic groups. Gallup noted that there have been double-digit declines in the percentage of women, Democrats, people of color, and college graduates who view college as “very important.”

Barely anyone holds colleges in esteem anymore.

“The decline comes as higher education faces scrutiny over tuition rates, political agendas, grade inflation, artificial intelligence, and whether colleges are adequately preparing students for the modern workforce.”

“A separate Gallup analysis found that Americans who lack confidence in higher education most often cited political agendas, cost, and poor workforce preparation.”

Lindsie Rank, Director of Campus Rights Advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told Campus Reform that colleges have traditionally been viewed as places where students learn to listen, think, and speak. “But attacks on student speech and academic freedom rights mean students aren’t always coming away with those lessons,” Rank said.

“Rank added that colleges could help rebuild trust by “eradicating censorial policies and practices” and “teaching students the value and discipline of civic discourse.”

This statement is questionable, however, in light of the long-term damage that has been done to the reputations of colleges.

As “Higher Education Policy Advisor at Third Way Colin Kerr told Campus Reform that “there is a growing concern of a misalignment between what college costs and what it delivers in the labor market.”

Most likely, more and more people will opt out of the costly and un-American atmosphere that exists on many college campuses well into the future.

College has become a breeding ground for left-wing and Marxist indoctrination. More and more Americans will choose to forgo this altogether.

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As an able-bodied Christian, it’s actually quite easy for me to say that I’m opposed to assisted suicide.

God made us in His image, giving us dignity and beauty. Why would I ever want to see that snuffed out early — or more alarmingly, why would I ever want the government to decide when to snuff us out early?

But, again, I’m relatively healthy, a few extra pounds around the waist notwithstanding. Assisted suicide laws are something of an abstraction to me.

There is nothing abstract about those laws for Jason J. McGuire, president and CEO of the Christian and conservative New York Families Foundation and New York Families Action.

McGuire is battling Stage IV colorectal cancer, and it does not look great for the Christian leader.

In an article for World News Group, entitled, “Why I will quietly decline,” McGuire opened up about coming to grips with his mortality — and why he’ll still never accept the indignity of assisted suicide.

“My prognosis places me among those eligible under New York’s assisted-suicide law,” McGuire wrote. “After spending more than a decade opposing the law in Albany, I now understand this debate in a way I never wanted to.”

“Cancer has also taught me about suffering,” McGuire continued. “I do not romanticize it. There is nothing beautiful about pain, exhaustion, bowel obstructions, hospital stays, or frightening conversations with physicians. I have earnestly prayed for healing and asked God for more years — many more, if He is willing.”

“But my Christian faith has never promised me a life free from suffering. It has given me something better: the assurance that suffering need not be meaningless.”

And that is the beautiful heart of the matter.

There’s also one major reality McGuire says he has learned from cancer.

“Cancer has also confronted me with the limits of autonomy,” McGuire wrote. “Our culture prizes control — over our bodies, our circumstances, and, increasingly, the timing and manner of our deaths. I understand the appeal better than I once did.”

“There is very little about advanced cancer that feels within my control. I cannot command my cancer to stop growing. I cannot guarantee that treatment will succeed. I cannot guarantee tomorrow.”

“But losing control has not meant losing dignity,” he added.

“Dependence is not indignity. Weakness does not erase purpose.”

“My worth does not rise when I am strong or diminish when I am sick. It is not measured by what I produce, how independently I live, or by how many healthy days remain.”

“My life has value because God gave it to me. And a gift does not cease to be a gift merely because it becomes difficult to carry.”

“I don’t know where this road will lead. Perhaps treatment will give me more time. Perhaps my earthly life is much closer to its end than I want it to be.”

This is how he ended his beautiful piece, which is well worth a read for any Christian: “Tomorrow belongs to God.”

“So, when New York offers me the opportunity to hasten death, I will quietly decline.”

“And if tomorrow comes, I will receive it as the gift it is.”

There’s something profoundly humbling about a man facing his own mortality with this sort of clarity.

McGuire isn’t speaking about suffering from the comfort of a hypothetical debate. He’s living it, enduring the physical pain and emotional anguish that come with a devastating diagnosis.

And yet, even as cancer strips away so much of what he once took for granted, McGuire refuses to surrender the one thing his disease cannot touch — his God-given dignity.

That’s also what makes his testimony such a powerful challenge to the arguments surrounding assisted suicide.

When society begins treating death as a solution to suffering, it risks sending a troubling message to the sick, elderly, and disabled: That lives marked by dependence are somehow less worth living. That needing help makes someone a burden rather than a blessing.

To be clear, compassion for those suffering through terminal illnesses is certainly commendable. Nobody should be expected to celebrate excruciating pain or endure it without proper medical care.

But there’s a world of difference between alleviating suffering through compassionate treatment and deliberately ending the life of the person who is suffering.

I pray that McGuire gets the healing and additional years for which he’s asking God.

But whatever tomorrow holds for him, his testimony offers a reminder that transcends this particular political debate: Human dignity is not something we earn through strength, health, or independence.

It is something we possess simply because we are created in God’s image. And no diagnosis, no disability, and certainly no government can take that away.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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A South Carolina Democrat state lawmaker was arrested on Friday for presenting and pointing a handgun at a Democrat polling location on primary day.

On June 9, State Rep. Michael Rivers (D-St. Helena Island) retrieved a handgun from the glove compartment in his vehicle and pointed it at a relative of his opponent.

Michael Rivers engaged in a “brief verbal altercation” over the political campaign for his seat. He faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for the felony pointing charge.

Rivers lost his primary to Shannon DeLocach.

An attorney for Rivers said his client is innocent.

“Representative Rivers is asserting his innocence to this accusation levied against him by a political opponent. Michael has served admirably in the State Legislature and he is a retired member United States military. He has been an upstanding citizen for nearly seven decades. We ask for the public to withhold judgment until the facts come to light and this matter is resolved in a Court of law,” the attorney, Seth Rose, said in a statement to WIS.

Rivers was released on a $15,000 bond.

The Post and Courier reported:

State Rep. Michael Rivers was formally charged with pointing and presenting a firearm after a June incident in which he allegedly brought out the weapon at a Democratic primary polling place.

Rivers, D-St. Helena Island, was booked into the Colleton County Detention Center Oct. 9 before being released on bond, according to court and jail records.

Rivers said he is innocent and that the accusation, which stems from an altercation at a Colleton County polling location during the June 9 primary, was from a political opponent.

He is alleged to have displayed a handgun at the Green Pond Community Center shortly before 2 p.m. on primary day. An incident report from the Colleton County Sheriff’s Office at the time didn’t provide any details on the alleged confrontation, according to The Post and Courier’s reporting at the time.

According to a State Law Enforcement Division affidavit attached to his arrest warrant, Rivers and another person, whose name is redacted, had a “brief verbal altercation” over the campaign for Rivers’ House District 121 seat.

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McDonald’s was sued in federal court in Chicago over claims that an artificial intelligence pricing system lets the company and its franchisees set menu prices together, and that customers pay more because of it.

Michael Thomas, of DeKalb, Illinois, filed the proposed class action lawsuit on Oct. 2 against McDonald’s Corp. and McDonald’s USA. He wants to represent customers who bought food at the chain.

The complaint says he regularly bought the same items at different restaurants and paid different prices.

McDonald’s hit with lawsuit alleging AI-powered menu price-fixing https://t.co/bTA38Sf7VU https://t.co/fO1Zk4Zh0v

— New York Post (@nypost) October 5, 2026

The suit said about 95 percent of the roughly 14,000 U.S. McDonald’s restaurants are owned by independent franchisees, who are supposed to set their own prices and compete with one another.

It added that since at least 2019, the company has run a machine-learning “pricing engine” that takes in sales data from millions of daily transactions, including franchisees’ confidential figures, and recommends a price for each restaurant.

That engine, the complaint said, does more than cover costs.

It estimates what a restaurant’s customers will pay, uses other McDonald’s locations’ non-public data to gauge price sensitivity, and ties one store’s increases to whether other stores have already raised the same item.

“Independent businesses must set their prices independently,” the filing said.

McDonald’s has been accused of using artificial intelligence to help push up the price of your Big Mac in a bombshell new lawsuit https://t.co/X6EeT10CtW https://t.co/KMM6C6LOfO

— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) October 6, 2026

The complaint added that McDonald’s pressured franchisees to use the tool and, starting in January 2026, required them to use the company’s approved pricing consultant and tools.

It said the company tracks stores that stray from the recommendations and has told investors that “pricing non-compliance” can affect whether a franchisee is considered for renewal or more stores.

Franchisees who fall out of favor risk the investment in their restaurants, the suit alleged.

McDonald’s gains either way, according to the filing, because the company takes the sales at company-owned stores and a royalty on franchise revenue.

A May 29, 2024, company fact sheet was cited for a claim that average menu prices rose about 40 percent from 2019 to 2024. The 2022 and 2023 annual reports are cited as crediting “strategic menu price increases” for the revenue hikes.

The claims for relief are under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, the Illinois Antitrust Act, and the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.

Thomas is seeking treble damages, an injunction, and attorneys’ fees.

One section of the complaint is headed “An $18 Burger.”

Reuters, which reported on the filing Monday, said the suit cites a Sept. 29 Reuters story on the McDonald’s pricing engine, and on other chains using AI for prices and operations.

Similar class action lawsuits have been filed in recent years over hotel rooms and apartment rents, Reuters reported.

McDonald’s called the claims speculative and uninformed. “AI does not set the price of a Big Mac or any other menu item,” the company said.

It insisted that franchisees set their own prices and that recommendation tools are common across numerous industries.

Lark Turner, a lawyer for Thomas, meanwhile said that McDonald’s was “leveraging its troves of data and its franchised system to nickel-and-dime consumers down to the last French fry.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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