Wednesday Bible Study: Introducing The Big Kahuna
In Chapter 17, we meet Elijah, who is arguably the most important figure in the Tanakh. From the Jewish perspective, he is the harbinger of the Messiah, according to the Book of Malachi. He is therefore central to the eschatology of all the faiths that revere the Hebrew Bible, including Christianity and Islam. He is obviously also the inspiration for the Jesus of the Gospels, performing several miracles that prefigure ones attributed to Jesus. (However, Christian theology conflates him with John the Baptist, not Jesus himself.) Elijah appears at the Transfiguration in all three of the synoptic Gospels. (That is Matthew, Ma...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 11, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Distinguishing Home ‐Grown Inflation from Global Inflation
Alan ReynoldsEach country imagines inflation to be anational problem to be entirely blamed on national fiscal authorities or on each nation ' s central bank. Yet March CPI inflation averaged 8.8% for all 38 countries in theOECD, and 7.8% for the 27 EU countries.Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, in theFRBSF Economic Letter, ask a narrower question: "Why is U.S. Inflation Higher Than in Other Countries?" They first begin by acknowledging that there have been some uniquely huge global events driving world pricesdownin 2020 (COVID-19 lockdowns causing long-term loss of productive capacity) and other po...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
Deregulate Home Food Businesses
Chris EdwardsThe pandemic has created lasting changes to the economy. More employees are working from home, videocalls are replacing business travel, and home ‐based entrepreneurship is booming. The internet is a key driver of home entrepreneurship —the number of arts‐and‐crafts businesses on Etsy.com, for example,jumped from 2.6 million in 2019 to 7.5 million by 2021.Another thriving area of internet ‐driven entrepreneurship is home‐based food production for retail sale, often called the cottage food industry. Popular cottage foods include baked goods, canned goods, pickled goods, chocol...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 20, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Whither Covid?
I recommend this Twitter thread by John Burn-Murdoch, as most Americans and their political leaders have apparently decided that the pandemic is over. It isn ' t, although here in the U.S. we are in a better place than we were a year ago. In a nutshell, new cases and hospitalizations are rising in much of the world, including much of Europe. This isn ' t so much because of loosened mitigation measures, but because of the emergence of a new variant, Omicron B.A2 which is evidently even more contagious than the original Omicron and perhaps a bit better at getting around existing immunity. It ' s just starting to show up...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 18, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Coffee Marinated Braised Short Ribs – update
Sometimes a recipe is just so damned good it becomes a family standard. This is one of those recipes. We made it for the first time over 10 years ago for Christmas Eve dinner, and about once a year since then. My mother-in-law Irene adopted the recipe to replace turkey at Thanksgiving, though I’m sure she’s tweaked it someway, as she always does.
Last night I tweaked it by adding two large carrots, diced, at the same time as the onion and garlic. Should have done that years ago, it’s the perfect addition. Next time I’m changing from chicken to beef broth. I never understood why the recipe uses c...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 20, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry braised coffee marinade short ribs Source Type: blogs
Coffee Marinated Braised Short Ribs – update
Sometimes a recipe is just so damned good it becomes a family standard. This is one of those recipes. We made it (and I posted it) for the first time over 10 years ago for Christmas Eve dinner, and about once a year since then. My mother-in-law Irene adopted the recipe to replace turkey at Thanksgiving, though I’m sure she’s tweaked it someway, as she always does.
Last night I tweaked it by adding two large carrots, diced, at the same time as the onion and garlic. Should have done that years ago, it’s the perfect addition. Next time I’m changing from chicken to beef broth. I never understood why...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - February 20, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry braised coffee marinade short ribs Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 21st 2022
In conclusion, clinical trials targeting aging in humans have shown promising but limited results on biomarkers so far.
Mycobacterium Vaccae Immunization as an Anti-Inflammatory Strategy
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/02/mycobacterium-vaccae-immunization-as-an-anti-inflammatory-strategy/
In today's open access paper, researchers discuss immunization with Mycobacterium vaccae as an approach to reduce the inflammatory overactivity of the aged immune system. Researchers have made some initial inroads into studying the way in which this bacteria can alter the function of the immune system, and her...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Quantifying the Effects of Dietary Composition on Human Life Span
In conclusion, a sustained dietary change may give substantial health gains for people of all ages both for optimized and feasible changes. Gains are predicted to be larger the earlier the dietary changes are initiated in life.
Link: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003889 (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - February 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Book of Ten Sayings 6
The sixth entry in the Book of Ten Sayings reminds us what an amazing amount of control we have over our reactions to and feelings about the events of our lives. The Sixth Saying is "Not the event, but the attitude." Let's begin the discussion with a short story I wrote a while back. THE STRANGE ADVENTURE Once upon a time, so long ago that it seems like yesterday, circumstances so occurred that two youths found themselves lost together in the desert and forced to spend the night without the services of modern technology. “What a terrible thing,” said the first one. “We’re...
Source: The Virtual Salt - February 9, 2022 Category: Neurology Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
Can Green Defaults Reduce Meat Consumption?
Johanna Meier (Rhine-Westphalia Institute), Mark A. Andor (Rhine-Westphalia Institute), Friederike Doebbe (Stockholm School of Economics), Neal Haddaway (Stockholm Environment Institute), Lucia A. Reisch (Copenhagen Business School), Can Green Defaults Reduce Meat Consumption?, SSRN (2021): Meat consumption and production cause a... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 29, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
How to choose a probiotic
The world of commercial probiotics is evolving rapidly as the science of the microbiome continues to unfold. Unfortunately, the current crop of commercial probiotics provide limited benefits, as they are generally concocted in a haphazard fashion. Most current commercial probiotics are a slap-dash collection of microbes, each of which is believed to be beneficial or at least not harmful.They provide limited benefits that include helping suppress the proliferation (but not usually eradicating) unhealthy species such as Klebsiella and Staphylococcus, encourage production of intestinal mucus and strengthening the intestinal i...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 23, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open microbiota probiotic super gut Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 24th 2022
In conclusion, senolytic drugs have shown promising results in the elimination of senescent cells and in alleviating various diseases in animal models. However, in patients, there is a paucity in data on the efficacy and safety of senotherapeutics from clinical trials, including systemic effects and side-effects. In this regard it is important to assess the specificity of senolytics in killing targeted senescent cells and their cytotoxic effects, to identify reliable markers for intervention responses, to elucidate interactions with comorbidities and other drugs, and to standardise administration protocols.
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Source: Fight Aging! - January 23, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Avoiding The Plague: Medical Advice from the 14th Century.
The Black Death was a global epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the world of the Middle Ages, killing one third of all the people in Europe. In the 14th Century the esteemed medical faculty of Paris were commissioned to deliver their opinion to furnish recommendations to prevent its transmission. This was before the knowledge of micro-organisms, and medical advice revolves around modifying the air and the diet, as well as personal activity, colonic cleansing and chastity. Here are some highlights, from the reference entitled Hecker’s Epidemics of the Middle Ages:
[K]indle a large fire of vine-wood, green laur...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 18, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Art & Medicine Featured Medical Articles Medical History Source Type: blogs
Avoiding The Plague: Medical Advice from the 14th Century.
Years ago I added a book to my medical library entitled Hecker’s Epidemics of the Middle Ages. Published in 1843, the pages are yellow and fragile, but the COVID-19 Epidemic spurred me to open it up and peruse the contents for lessons relevant to today’s events. Among the more fascinating topics is a section on physician recommendations for avoiding contagion.
The Black Death was a global epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged the world of the Middle Ages, killing one third of all the people in Europe. In the 14th Century the esteemed medical faculty of Paris were commissioned to deliver their opinion to furni...
Source: Jeffrey M. Levine MD | Geriatric Specialist | Wound Care | Pressure Ulcers - January 18, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jeffrey M Levine Tags: Art & Medicine Featured Medical Articles Medical History Source Type: blogs
Theorizing on the Contribution of the Gut Microbiome to Crocodile Longevity
Researchers studying the comparative biology of aging examine differences between species of varying life spans, in search of insights into mechanisms of aging and potential interventions that might slow or reverse aging in our own species. This is a slow process. Even given the discovery of specific mechanisms that likely contribute to greater longevity or resilience in a given species, it tends to be challenging to determine how large a contribution is made by those mechanisms, and quite speculative as to whether any given mechanism can be used as a basis for therapy in our species. Still, there are many areas of ongoing...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 17, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
