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Thanks, Mario. Looks nice.

One of the old school tests for hypothyroidism was taking body temperature immediately after waking up. If it was below 36C it was positive. Curiously, another one was cholesterol. High cholesterol = low thyroid. Obviously there are other causes for elevated lipids. However, in conjunction with the ...

Not sure why you are so vested in trying to prove his innocence. I'm not at all vested in proving his innocence; But I do think there is heavy competition as to the cause of Floyd's death. From what I've seen in real life and from ten years on the jiu jitsu mats*, I'm skeptical about the knee on th...

Good luck and get well. It seems you have a good doctor taking care of you. Check out that book, Stop The Thyroid Madness. It is a good overview of problems related to treating hypothyroid patients. Unlikely to change your treatment, but will give you a very good understanding of this condition. JMO.

I have been taking Armour Thyroid (which is a standardized animal desiccated thyroid tissue) for over 10 years now. Personal opinion - it is better than pure T3 as it is a naturally occurring mixture of thyroid hormones. I also think it is important to treat symptoms, not a blood test. The list of s...

Please add a "Biden's America:" header to your post, OP. Thank you in advance! Now, to the question at hand. If I could wave my hands and change ONE thing about modern America, it would be Citizens United v. FEC decision. To me that was the gravest, most damaging thing that has happened t...

‘Fullnaming’ Mozart and Beethoven to fight sexism and racism? Referring to Mozart and Beethoven by their full names, as we might Florence Price or Scott Joplin, is the “only path to social justice in classical music” – so argues a new piece in US magazine Slate, known for its contrarian views, call...

Fat Cat wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:55 pm Baffy is an Asian American so you have now been a victimized by one because of your white supremacy. The circle of life is complete.

China is the enemy....

It will come to this: if we take an average person of similar build and subject him to the same treatment, is it likely to cause death? It is impossible to "prove" it beyond reasonable doubt. Just like it was impossible to prove that Pistorius intentionally shot his girlfriend. So it depen...

Besides the economic growth, which lately seems the only factor that counts, is the decrease in birth rate necessarily bad? What is the limit of the capacity of this planet to sustain the population? The biomass of the Earth is limited, obviously, and the biomass of human population is growing at th...

Johno, I think it is the combination of factors that caused the asphyxia. Awkward position, hands cuffed behind the back, weight on the chest, weight on the neck, anxiety (possibly reinforced by the meth). Fatso, I will be the first to say that the job of the police is very hard. However, once someo...

I think you do. If I ignore a complaint of a patient and it results in a bad outcome I am liable irrespective of the patient's history of feigning the symptoms in the past with other doctors. Even if it happened previously on my watch it is a very weak mitigating factor. So if the arresting officers...

Allowing testimony about the arrest would be a victory for the defense, which plans to argue that Floyd’s drug use contributed to his death. An autopsy showed Floyd had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system. “The similarities are incredible. The exact same behavior in two incidents, almost one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksEJR9EPQ8&t=357s I's the first time I looked at this footage. Three policemen on top of a handcuffed dude with his hands behind the back. What threat did he supposedly pose to them? Chauvin's lawyers will do their hardest to argue the manslaughter. I reckon murd...

You don't need a six-pack, you just need to be able to carry your own weight with ease. I agree wholeheartedly. This is where fat acceptance movement misses its mark. For me, the best assessment of a patient's functional status in the operating room is to watch them getting from the bed to the oper...

One other point. Something that we in the Fire Service talk about but is universal in human behavior: Tunnel Vision. Once you see the situation as X and the prescribed solution as Y, if your first application of Y doesn't produce your desired result, Y harder. Even if the situation was never X or i...

Curiously, after the dust settled it turns out the Russian vaccine may be the best choice out there. Mind you, this is coming from someone who is very sceptical and critical of Russian/Soviet medicine in general.

The topic of vaccination is bigger than just looking at its immediate effects. This article, for example - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404712/ - demonstrates that those who get flu vaccine are more likely to contract other viral infections. From the top of my head, there was anothe...

Transmissions of ALL types of illness at schools with the "layers of mitigation" has just stopped. And it's not only because kids are not coming to school sick anymore. (Not letting them.) Those kids who get sick were in school - presymptomatic - for days. Schools are just not seeing the ...

Looks like a good plan. I agree with Far Cat, it is important to have a place that is unmoderated. And this why I never post anywhere else. Fuck, I tried, but in most places my manners get me banned. So yeah, if moving tge current content to archive is the price for having a reliable forum I am all ...

A decade ago I had a kidney stone, and there was frank blood in my urine at the time. Couple of years later I go to the toilet in the morning and voila, looks like blood again. Annoying more than anything. So I get myself tested with the Dextrostix - all perfect. Then I realised it was the borsh my ...

Getting worried about pissing blood? Are you a girl?

Since the start of Covid epidemic in South Africa the government banned alcohol sales, which was a pretty drastic measure, given the rates of drinking in that country being very high. However, in the next few months crime rate dropped significantly. At least part of it is due to the absence of alcoh...

I liked it as well.

There are afew good crime documentaries on Netflix. How to Fix a Drug Scandal, Trial 4, White Boy, the Ripper. All quite gripping.

Nothing works better than just getting rid of it. As a thought experiment, if everyone grabs 3 weeks of food and goes and isolates for 3 weeks, the virus is gone . Finato. Ex post facto. Fuck you forever, virus. Life returns totally to normal. Unfortunately thought experiments are thought. This is ...