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[-Jrabbit]

Dude, it's 2 pages. Everyone can read our posts and can see what we actually said.

JR:

you believe that flirting with a blood sugar crash that might trigger a cardiac event by fasting is an idea worth experimenting with for a heart patient. Weird.'

Berz:

yeah thats what I believe

1. That's insane.
2. I would never share personal medical information on a public internet forum. That's would be insane.
3. There's no strawman, as we're not having an argument.

All I did was point out a perfectly valid exception to your "fasting is healthy" statement. It's really that simple.

I'm done with this topic.

[Berzerker]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1758150674158907425

edited views of the Beirut explosion from a while back

[Berzerker]

High levels of niacin, an essential B vitamin, may raise the risk of heart disease by triggering inflammation and damaging blood vessels, according to new research.

The report, published Monday in Nature Medicine, revealed a previously unknown risk from excessive amounts of the vitamin, which is found in many foods, including meat, fish, nuts, and fortified cereals and breads.

The recommended daily allowance of niacin for men is 16 milligrams per day and for women who are not pregnant is 14 milligrams per day.

[Berzerker]

5,000-12,000 year old cranial deformation in NE China

11 of 25 were deformed, some 1/5th larger than 'normal'

infants heads were bound by 2 wood planks and binding material gradually tightened while the skull becomes elongated

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifi...ered%2C%20also.

The practice is found all over the world, why? Were people mimicking their Gods?

[Berzerker]

La Fiesta, Marcum, MK, Swad, Supreme Tradition and El Chilar brands of ground cinnamon are typically sold at discount stores and contain between 2.03 and 3.4 parts per million of lead, the agency said.

cinnamon recall

[Berzerker]

A deep dive into nearly 12,000 years of violence in the Middle East reveals that bloodshed skyrocketed as proto-states, or state-level society, began to emerge about 6,500 years ago and spiked again as drought and superpowers took hold about 3,200 years ago, according to an analysis of battered human skulls and bones.

The skulls and bones — from over 3,500 people injured in conflicts in the Middle East during pre-Classical times (12000 B.C. to 400 B.C.) — came from the geographical region that includes Turkey, the Levant (the land around the eastern Mediterranean), Mesopotamia and Iran. These human remains were studied by an international research team interested in testing hypotheses about the rise and fall of violence in premodern times, according to a study published Oct. 9 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

[Dauphin]

Bloodshed increased as population size increased. Colour me shocked.

[-Jrabbit]

If it seems like a lot of the coverage of Tesla's Cybertruck is negative, apparently it's because the vehicle has serious issues in all areas -- design, build quality, software (big issues), visibility, steering, tires, offroad performance, rust on the stainless steel finish, and on and on. This summary story on Slate.com has some fun details.

Linky:

Rear Wheels Breaking Off. “Floppy Wet Noodle” Windshield Wipers. Easily Humiliated by a Subaru. This Is the Cybertruck.

Apparently Elon has a lot riding on this vehicle. It was officially rolled out Nov. 30th. I still haven't seen one on the street.

[BeBMan]

I'm still wondering how this thing is "cyber". If it's only about being powered by electricity lotsa stuff would be cybersomething. Like my cybertoaster

[-Jrabbit]

It's certainly impressively different-looking, and it likely does require occasional firmware updates, but I have no interest in a $100,000 pick-up truck.

While I was down the rabbit-hole, I read this review of the 3 electric pickups -- Tesla Cybertruck, Rivian R1T, and Ford F-150 Lightning.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a46031051/2024-tesla-cybertruck-ford-f-150-lightning-rivian-r1t-specs-compared/

[Berzerker]

its fugly as hell trying to look new age but I did see a demo of it I think in Big Bear SoCal after a heavy snow, the torque/power and traction were very impressive as it easily outdid a standard 4x4.

I keep asking Elon/Tesla at X if I buy one of their autopilot cars will I have to watch it run over the neighborhood pets? Not getting an answer

[Berzerker]

Golfers have 3x greater risk of ALS reports The Miami Herald

other hobbies like woodworking and gardening also show a link. The likely suspects are environmental toxins

[Berzerker]

Maybe Rabbit was right

"Scientists at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University of Medicine in China collected information from more than 20,000 American adults whose average age was 49 years old. Study participants were followed for up to 17 years.

Compared to people who ate on a relatively normal schedule — having their meals and snacks over 12 to 16 hours of the day — those who ate during just eight hours of the day were 91% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease. The study also found that, in people who already had cardiovascular disease, fasting for 16 to 14 hours of the day (and eating over an eight- to 10-hour period) was linked to a 66% higher risk of death from heart disease or stroke. Risks of dying of cancer were higher for those who fasted, too."

That's how I fast

"There also isn’t much research on the long-term effects of intermittent fasting and time-restricted eating. Short-term fasting can trigger the same fat-burning process as keto diets, which has been linked to health risks when used long term. Some research suggests 24-hour fasting may lead to muscle loss, Courtney Peterson, an intermittent fasting researcher and associate professor of nutrition sciences at the University of Alabama Birmingham, tells Yahoo Life.

But Peterson is among the experts who tell Yahoo Life that this study alone is not enough to say that intermittent fasting is dangerous. "I’m quite skeptical at the moment because it flies in the face of all other epidemiological and other studies that I’m aware of," Peterson says.

She also flagged concerns about the new study. For instance, more than 27% of the people eating time-restricted diets were smokers, compared to only about 18% of the overall study group. The proportion of Black Americans in the time-restricted eating group was also nearly four times greater than in the overall study population, and Black Americans are 30% more likely to die of heart disease than non-Hispanic white Americans. “There are way more smokers in that group and way more Black Americans, and either of those can easily raise the death rates,” regardless of their eating schedules, Peterson says.

Participants only had to self-report what they ate over a two-day period, so it’s hard to say how consistently or for how long they were following an intermittent fasting schedule. “It’s just a randomized snapshot,” says Peterson.

Both Peterson and Kris-Etherton say more research is needed on the long-term impact of intermittent fasting. “I think we’ve got to be careful here,” Kris-Etherton says. “Should we put a hold on intermittent fasting for now? I don’t know, but this is calling it into question and leaving us wondering what to recommend.”

[Berzerker]

its the great solar eclipse comet, Charlie Brown

On April 21 comet 12P/Ponsbrooks will reach perihelion on its 71 year orbit around the Sun.
On April 8 a solar eclipse will be visible in much of N America

[Berzerker]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07182-w

Bacteria that causes plaque and gum disease in the mouth may not only protect colon cancer but might even cause some cases of it

the mystery is how the bacteria survives stomach acid

there are actually two forms of the bacteria, one hijacks an immune cell and takes it into the cancer cell which then protects the cancer cell from the immune system's T-cells and from chemo.

I've heard gum disease is linked to heart disease but it might prove to be a superhighway for nasty stuff to enter both the bloodstream and intestinal tract. Maybe low or weak stomach acid or the use of acid reducers might be making it easier for the bacteria to survive the stomach. I had a recurring abscess above a canine, got my tooth crowned and it came back. Dentist said the crown isn't 100% and said next step is an implant. At least the crown holds the tooth together and makes it harder for bacteria to get up into the root.

Even when the tooth wasn't collecting fluid it was painful when pressing on the spot. I tried a paste made up of baking soda, salt, peroxide and tea tree oil and coated the front and back of the tooth and gum line. It was gone the next day. The sac drained somehow (into me :-() but there's no more pain, no soft spot. I'm amazed. Tea tree oil is potent stuff so watch out, not to be ingested beyond what slips in during gargling. But it might make for a good mouth wash. The stores now have flossing handles that come with tea tree oil coated string.