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Alex Tizon: The First Intellectual I Ever Met

March 25, 2017 8 Comments

Alex Tizon died in his sleep a couple of nights ago at 58

Filed Under: General Tagged With: alex tizon

A Longevity Juxtaposition: Ron Rosedale vs. Arthur De Vany

March 24, 2017 114 Comments

This is a post for health science geeks.

Filed Under: Food, Health, Living

Using Protein To Rewire Weight Set Point

March 23, 2017 32 Comments

I'll give some meal samples in a bit, but we're targeting two things here. The first is a high degree of satiation from the protein

Filed Under: Health, Food Tagged With: weight loss

Embrace The Coming Slave Economy

March 16, 2017 22 Comments

My point is crazy simple. Humans have always made tools to help them do more with less, and while human slavery was an immoral digression...

Filed Under: General Tagged With: artificial intelligence

MSNBC’s Rachel Mad Cow Takes Donald Trump’s Bait

March 15, 2017 6 Comments

Although, her net worth is estimated at $20 Million, and it's widely reported that she earns $7 million annually from CNBC

Filed Under: Opinion, Politics

When SNL Mocks How Fucking Stupid They Are

March 13, 2017 4 Comments

The only thing that could possibly make this skit better is if Alec Baldwin played the role of the dog.

Filed Under: Opinion

Dr. David Ludwig: Some Fine Dot Connecting

March 11, 2017 11 Comments

I sense a lot more integration and synthesis, indeed honesty, in dealing with all the elements coalescing.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: low carb, Low Fat, michael eades, Protein Power, Stephan Guyenet

Has Everbody Been Wrong About Orange Juice?

March 11, 2017 20 Comments

he discovered that while sugar water, a stand-in for soda, caused inflammation, orange juice—even though it contains plenty of sugar—didn't

Filed Under: Health, Food Tagged With: inflammation, orange juice

What Just Went Down:

March 8, 2017 15 Comments

On Friday, Feb 17, Beatrice got up here to the cabin. A week was in store for us and the doggies. It tuned into a 13-day family medical intervention. Here are the high points.

By Sunday, shit was looking grim. Her mom, mid-80s, with a non aggressive form of lymphoma that had been acting up, was under care and plan to deal with it. A low-dose chemo, pill form.

But, they thought some measures were called for before going on the regimen, and so there were additional prescriptions.

…And within two days, she became so demented she knew not her age, nor how many children she bore (six, is the correct answer), was in chronic pain, and other bad shit.

So, we headed out early Tuesday morning, intending to be back by Sunday, and Bea could get back to school Monday, as scheduled.

The next day, once set up in the AirBNB, I was casually exchanging email on current political events with my buddy Mike Eades, and with no intention whatsoever to ask for help, either I mentioned or he asked if she’s on a diuretic.

Yep.

“She’s dehydrated,” Mike says, and adds that there are three classes of human that can get really dehydrated easy: old, young, sick.

It’s not all he wrote to me, but he gave me enough that within 2 hours, Bea’s mom was admitted to emergency with a husband imperative she be put on IV fluids immediately. She began to improve soon.

It’s so damn easy to understand, once you’re just given a clue into the essentials. She had a bit of leg edema. That’s why the diuretic. But it wasn’t managed. It fixed that, and overshot big.

Most infuriating to me was that the med staff did the tests and lied to Bea and the family. Did it come back as dehydration? Nope, of corse it didn’t. Came back as hypercalcaemia, which in addition to aligning with the onset dementia perfectly, is also chiefly caused by dehydration. Get it? So, “that’s her problem,” and not that they overshot and dehydrated her with a diuretic drug.

You can easily Google all this stuff. Dehydration can easily cause high calcium (any cook who reduced sauces ought understand this), and high calcium can cause your brain to screw up. Don’t know what units of measure, but she was at 14, where 8-10 is normal range. When hydrated enough to dilute calcium to 9, she began making sense again. At 8.1, we had mom back.

…The problem was that the process took a huge physical toll, and once out of the woods, she had to spend about a week in a rehabilitation center where she was too weak to do much of anything.

She’s back home, better, but still not where she was a couple of weeks ago. Do not get old people dehydrated. What in the hell, put an 85-yr-old on a diuretic?

…Bea’s dad bought me shoes. I sent a thank you.

sam

So there you go.

Filed Under: General

Where Out Of Hell Did Liz Wheeler Come From?

March 8, 2017 6 Comments

Holy shit. Who is this chickie hot cake with a big smart brain?

Filed Under: Opinion, Politics Tagged With: feminism

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