Notesmost of the people still masking are among the strongest, most self-assured people Iāve known. They are the least concerned about otherās perceptions, the most concerned about others/our collective well-being, are embodying self-care by protecting their health (and mental health), willing to interrogate their choices and motivations, and are committed to accepting and integrating data and new information - even when they want desperately to be wrong about what they learn. They are also among the most alienated, judged, ignored, harassed, invisibilized, and forgotten. FeedUnfurl
NotesIn this landscape, you can feel broken. But the most important truth is that your mind is not. It is a vibrant ecosystem with its own patterns, its own seasons, and its own hard-won beauty. It may never fit self-referential systems, but it was never meant to. Instead, it offers an unconventional, exciting pathāone lined with subtle possibilities forming as you read this. And even if no one else can see them, remember that your world is your own. And that's enough.FeedUnfurl
NotesThe Beeper consitst of three parts: the hardware, the firmware runnning on the hardware, and software running on my work computer. If my computer screen is unlocked for too long, the Beeper starts beeping and because it is situated away from my desk I must get up to silence it. Mission accomplished: I stopped sitting still.Unfurl
NotesI woke up this morning, took a pill, and proceeded to have one of the most productive writing days Iāve had in perhaps years. The day prior, a doctor diagnosed me with Adult ADHD. FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesI am sick of being nice about this shit, and Iām horrified that those fighting in the social justice realm are constantly ignoring what disabled people are telling them about their experiences.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesSo the anti-vaccine advocatesā fears of having the ānatural immunity sterilized out of usā just doesnāt cut it for me. How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time?Unfurl
NotesSurgeons will drain their blood and replace it with freezing saltwater. Without heartbeat and brain activity, the patients will be clinically dead.
And then the surgeons will try to save their lives.Unfurl
NotesWith the onslaught of holiday parties upon us, a bad case of the sniffles could threaten your merrymaking. Luckily science has swooped in with the jolliest solution of all: You can boost your immune system, a new study claims, by drinking that spiked eggnog.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesSome telomeres are too long, and some are too short. Perhaps striking the right balance of caffeine and alcohol is the key to keeping them just rightāas if you needed an excuse to have another hot toddy.Unfurl
NotesThe patient had an infection with , Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch ā a bagel, pasta or even a soda ā the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut. Cordell and McCarthy the case of "auto-brewery syndrome" a few months ago in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.FeedUnfurl
NotesAn outbreak of measles tied to a Texas megachurch where ministers have questioned vaccination has sickened at least 21 people, including a 4-month-old infant -- and itās expected to grow, state and federal health officials said. Unfurl
NotesāTell me what kinds of toxins are in your body, and Iāll tell you how much youāre worth,ā could be the new motto of doctors everywhere.FeedUnfurl
NotesA new study focusing on low-income women in St. Louis, MO concludes that expanding access to free contraception ā just as the health care reform law does through its provision to provide birth control without a co-pay ā leads to significantly lower rates of unintended teen pregnancy and abortion. Researchers found that when women werenāt prohibited by cost, they chose more effective, long-lasting forms of birth control and experienced many fewer unintended pregnancies as a result. Unfurl
Notesabstinence-only education programs have a long history of imparting harmful messages that shame youth about their sexuality instead of teaching them the facts they need to safeguard their healthUnfurl
NotesRobinson writes: āIf they came to work that drunk, weād fire them ā weād rightly see them as a manifest risk to our enterprise, our data, our capital equipment, us and themselves. But we donāt think twice about making an equivalent level of sleep deprivation a condition of continued employment.āUnfurl
NotesMy two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway. My husband had told them exactly what my regular doctor said, and the ER doctor had already warned us what would have to happen. Yet none of this mattered when confronted by the idea that no one needs an abortion. You shouldnāt need to know the details of why a woman aborts to trust her to make the best decision for herself. I donāt regret my abortion, but I would also never use my situation to suggest that the only time another woman should have the procedure is when her life is at stake. After my family found out Iād had an abortion, I got a phone call from a cousin who felt the need to tell me I was wrong to have interfered with Godās plan. And in that moment I understood exactly what kind of people judge a womanās reproductive choices.Unfurl
NotesI suppose we could blame The Curse on The Fall, but then this phylogeny would suggest that Adam and Eve were part of a population of squirrel-like proto-primates living in the early Paleocene. Thatās rather unbiblical, though, and what did the bats and elephant shrews do to deserve this?FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesThis is the true ābombā contained in Obamacare and the one item that will have more impact on the future of how medical care is paid for in this country than anything weāve seen in quite some time. Indeed, it is this aspect of the law that represents the true ādeath panelā found in Obamacareābut not one that is going to lead to the death of American consumers. Rather, the medical loss ratio will, ultimately, lead to the death of large parts of the private, for-profit health insurance industry.
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If you believe that the end of private, for-profit health insurance is some type of nefarious step towards a socialist society, then you might want to attend church this Sunday to mourn the loss of health insurers being able to worm out of covering the bills of a cancer patient because she forgot to write down on her application that she had skin acne for three months when she was a teenager.FeedUnfurl
NotesāIt seems to be one advantage of monogamy: If you have a long-term relationship, that helps you cope with stress. Itās a good thing to do compared to systems where you always have to find a new partner and have no support in such situations,ā said Claudia Wascher, an ethologist at Austriaās Konrad Lorenz Research Station.Unfurl
NotesUltra filtering is a high-tech procedure where honey is heated, sometimes watered down and then forced at high pressure through extremely small filters to remove pollen, which is the only foolproof sign identifying the source of the honey. It is a spin-off of a technique refined by the Chinese, who have illegally dumped tons of their honey - some containing illegal antibiotics - on the U.S. market for years.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesChickenpox lollipops? According to media reports, parents who fear the chickenpox vaccine can try to infect their kids the ānaturalā way by sending off for lollipops licked by kids who have the disease. Apparently, the infected kidsā spit is also available.Unfurl
NotesA ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation of how this decision was made shows that in post-9/11 America, security issues can trump even long-established medical conventions. The final call to deploy the X-ray machines was made not by the FDA, which regulates drugs and medical devices, but by the TSA, an agency whose primary mission is to prevent terrorist attacks. Unfurl
Notes"Intense auditory brain training targeted at the regions of a ratās brain that process sound reversed many aspects of normal, age-related cognitive decline and improved the health of the brain cells, according to a new study from researchers at University of California, San Francisco."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"A study evaluating twenty participants with Sleep Apnea and forty of their undiagnosed relatives showed the disorder to be more prevalent among the group of relatives than within the general population"Unfurl
Notes"This, it turns out, is the real problem. My whole life I've been unable to pick up on the scent that is so overwhelmingly good for cilantro lovers that it trumps any possible bad. I come to a disappointing realization: I am not an X-Man with superkeen sensory abilities. I am a sensory dud who's missing the true nature of cilantro."Unfurl
NotesInjury, or a normal condition of working at Yahoo!? "I got a piece of glass out of my foot this morning and it started bleeding but the blood was purple! Not dark red, it was actually purple! After I cleaned it and put pressure on it it marblized into a bluish colour then went back to red. What just happened?"Unfurl
Notes"This problem is made worse by the fact that actually paying for your health care is a loss from an insurersā point of view ā they actually refer to it as āmedical costs.ā This means both that insurers try to deny as many claims as possible, and that they try to avoid covering people who are actually likely to need care. Both of these strategies use a lot of resources, which is why private insurance has much higher administrative costs than single-payer systems. And since thereās a widespread sense that our fellow citizens should get the care we need ā not everyone agrees, but most do ā this means that private insurance basically spends a lot of money on socially destructive activities."Unfurl
Notes"The use of mercury-contaminated caustic soda in the production of HFCS is common. The contamination occurs when mercury cells are used to produce caustic soda. "Unfurl
NotesStill somewhat freaked out by the whole concept of Lasik surgery, yet intrigued by the opportunity for enhancement. "Once my corneas were cut open and I experienced that initial pain, I was definitely frightened, and escaped to a corner of my mind where I would not think too much about all the things they were doing to my eyes and what my life would be like if I happened to be the "less than 1%" of patients with vision-reducing complications.None of this bothers me much, save the fact that newer, better, safer technology will come around sooner or later, and my eyes may end up as out-of-date as back-to-school iPods. And I do not know if my eyes will be forward-compatible, having already been sliced. Still, for now I remain top-of-the-line, and I would gladly endure 10 times the (mostly imaginary) pain of LASIK to gain the quality of eyesight found in elite Major League Baseball pitchers."Unfurl
Notes"Did I get enough exercise today? How many calories did I burn? Am I getting good quality sleep? How many steps and miles did I walk today? The Fitbit Tracker helps you answer these questions. "Unfurl
Notes"Our study suggests that compounds such as sulforaphane from broccoli may help counter processes linked to the development of vascular disease in diabetes"FeedUnfurl
Notes"In the body, gradients like this strengthen the ends of tendons that attach to bones. Currently, lab-grown tendons put into the body often fail at the attachment end because they lack this property, says GarcĆa. ... His new technique should lead to more lifelike artificially-grown tendons, and better treatments for injuries like ruptured Achilles tendons."Unfurl
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