The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
October 13, 2022 Edition-----In the US the recovery from Hurricane Ian, which will take years is starting as nuclear war sadly seems to be coming closer – I hope this is just sabre-rattling and no more!In China there seems to be more instability as Xi moves to term 3 of 5 years in a week or two.Liz Truss still seems to be there!In OZ we have more floods – again – and we are waiting for a new Budget in 2 weeks or so!-----Major Issues.-----https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/defence-gets-ready-for-the-fight-of-our-lives/news-story/4ea89108b822df72194742dc3eec0246Defence gets ready for the fight of our livesAlan D...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Estranged Family Member Is Suddenly Interested in Mom ’s Healthcare
Dear Carol: My life has revolved around caring for our older generations. Dad died last year, and Mom’s now in memory care. While Mom’s good during the day, as evening closes in, she becomes anxious and agitated. Her doctor calls this sundowning. Though my estranged sister has never been involved with care, I regularly update her via email. Last week, she called Mom for the first time in years and told her to stop taking her medications because they were bad for her. Mom takes comfort care medications, nothing more, but now she’s refusing them, calling them poison. Any suggestions? - WR
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Source: Minding Our Elders - October 9, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
90 Fake Family Quotes to Help You Live a Healthier and Happier Life
Dealing with people that drag you down with toxicity and negativity can be bad enough at work or in school.
But it can be even worse when it’s in your family and it's often or always there close to you.
So in today’s post I’d like to share the best two faced fake family quotes.
To help you move away from fake family members and toxic relationships and start building a better, happier and healthier life starting today.
And if you want even more self-loving inspiration and motivation to restart your life in a healthy way then check out this post with quotes on toxic people and this one filled with effort in relationsh...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - October 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
113 Jealousy Quotes to Help You Avoid Envy and Live a Happy and Healthy Life
In this post I’d like to simply share the best and most powerful jealousy and envy quotes.
To help you to not get dragged in and down into those two destructive thought habits anymore (or at least a lot less often).
And to make you see how other people’s envy and jealousy is something you should not take too seriously or engage in because it's their problem and hurts them the most.
I hope you’ll find these quotes as helpful and impactful as I have to live a lighter, kinder and happier life.
And if you want even more helpful inspiration and tips then check out this post with quotes on dealing with toxic people and th...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - September 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 19th 2022
Conclusion
Use of the Khavinson peptides and melatonin in combination in this way, at this dose, negatively impacts the thymus, producing a reduction in active tissue and increase in atrophy to fatty tissue. The degree to which this atrophy occurred is greater than one would expect to take place over nine months of aging at this stage of life.
Why did this outcome occur, given the animal studies showing thymic regrowth, and the studies showing reduced later life mortality following use of thymogen? We can only speculate. Firstly, the dose makes the poison, and the dosing here may have been too high, too frequ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 18, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
On Reverse Cholesterol Transport Solutions to Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerosis, the condition that kills upwards of a quarter of humanity at the present time, is a failure of cholesterol transport. Cholesterol is made in the liver and transported out into the body in the bloodstream, attached to LDL particles. All cells need cholesterol. Some of this LDL-cholesterol ends up stuck in blood vessel walls in too large an amount, or oxidized into toxic forms, aggravating the blood vessel tissues. Macrophage cells ingest this excess cholesterol and then attach it to HDL particles that return the cholesterol to the liver for excretion. The latter part of this complicated system is called rev...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Start the Revolution without Us
BY KIM BELLARD
Well, as usual, there’s a lot going on in healthcare. There’s the (potential) Amazon – One Medical acquisition, the CVS – Signify Health deal, and the Walmart – United Healthcare Medicare Advantage collaboration. Alphabet’s just raised $1b. Digital health funding may be in somewhat of a slump, but that’s only compared to 2021’s crazy numbers. Yep, if you’re a believer that a revolution in healthcare is right around the corner, there’s a lot of encouraging signs.
But I was in a Walmart the other day, and my thought was, these people don’t look like they care much about a r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy AP-NORC Healthcare Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Reporting on a Study of One with Khavinson Peptides and Melatonin for Thymic Regrowth
Conclusion
Use of the Khavinson peptides and melatonin in combination in this way, at this dose, negatively impacts the thymus, producing a reduction in active tissue and increase in atrophy to fatty tissue. The degree to which this atrophy occurred is greater than one would expect to take place over nine months of aging at this stage of life.
Why did this outcome occur, given the animal studies showing thymic regrowth, and the studies showing reduced later life mortality following use of thymogen? We can only speculate. Firstly, the dose makes the poison, and the dosing here may have been too high, too frequ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 12, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Self-Experimentation Source Type: blogs
Clouded Yellow butterflies
In the summer of 2020, just after the first covid lockdown, I visited Waresley Wood, which is a few miles west of the city of Cambridge. The wood itself is good for Silver-washed Fritillary and the adjacent Brown’s Piece has plenty of Marbled White. That summer, there was a small patch of meadowland next to a maize crop where Common Blue and Brown Argus danced among clover, borage, viper’s bugloss and vetch.
Clouded Yellow butterfly Location: ///finalists.legend.exhaled
On that visit, I also spotted a couple of fast-moving and vivid butterflies chasing up and down this ad hoc meadow. They were Clouded Yellow bu...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - July 20, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
On Free Speech, “Lady of Heaven,” and Sectarianism
Mustafa AkyolIn the past few weeks, some Britons had a sense of déjà vu, reminding them the censorship campaign against Salman Rushdie’s blasphemous novel “The Satanic Verses” some thirty‐five years ago. This time, the center of angst was a movie titled, “Lady of Heaven, ” which glorified the story of Lady Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. Yet, in an unmistakably sectarian tone, the movie also demonized some of the most revered figures of Sunni Islam.Hence came protests organized by some Sunni groups, fromBradford to London, in front of movie theaters. There was no violence, but the heated r...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Mustafa Akyol Source Type: blogs
67 Cutting People Off Quotes to Help You Live a Drama-Free and Happy Life
In this post I’d like to share the best cutting people off quotes to help you live a happier life.
Because the daily and weekly environment that you spend your life in will have a big effect on how you think, feel and – as an extension of that – the actions you take or do not take.
The books you read, podcasts you listen to, videos you watch and the people you spend your days with do have a big influence on you and the direction you’re heading.
So consciously create the environment that you want to live in that will lift you up and support you.
To do that you may – from time to time – have to fi...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 16, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
We Love Innovation. Don ’t We?
BY KIM BELLARD
America loves innovation. We prize creativity. We honor inventors. We are the nation of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Jonas Salk, Steve Jobs, and Stephen Spielberg, to name a few luminaries. Silicon Valley is the center of the tech world, Hollywood sets the cultural tone for the world, and Wall Street is preeminent in the financial world. Our intellectual property protection for all that innovation is the envy of the world.
But, as it turns out, maybe not so much. If there’s any doubt, just look at our healthcare system.
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Matt Richtel writes in The New York Time...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy creativity Innovation Kim Bellard patents US Patent Office Source Type: blogs
A scarce flower for Passover and Easter
We took a walk along the Devil’s Dyke hoping to see Green Hairstreaks and perhaps the Dotterals that had been sighted on neighbouring Ditch Farm. We had no luck with either of those, although there were lots of Brimstone butterflies, a few Whitethroats, and our first Willow Warbler of the year.
Almost in passing we noticed a pretty purple flower with a yellow centre. Mrs Sciencebase suggested it might be some kind of anemone and it is indeed in the same sub-family, Ranunculoideae, but it is specifically Pulsatilla vulgaris, known colloquially as the European Pasque Flower. Pasque from the Hebrew word for Passover, Pa...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 15, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs
In Other Words: Some Antagonists Are Heroes
Many of us learned in English class that an antagonist is a person or thing that a hero fights. But in biomedical science, an antagonist is a molecule that binds to a cellular receptor to prevent a response, such as a muscle contraction or hormone release. Antagonists can be important medical treatments, like the antagonist naloxone—also known as
Narcan —that can reverse an opioid overdose.
Credit: NIGMS; Yekaterina Kadyshevskaya, The Scripps Research Institute.
The two main types of antagonists—competitive and noncompetitive—are named for their relationships to agonists, which are molecules th...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 13, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology In Other Words Medicines Source Type: blogs
Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 7 March, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. General Comment ----- Quite a busy week with many interesting stories about. Enjoy the read. ----- https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/anz/act-launches-real-time-prescription-monitoring-system ACT launches real-time prescription monitoring system Canberra Script will replace the existing DORA prescription monitoring system that has operated since ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
