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Garlic... and other things
Last week, I had ill effects from too much restaurant food, be it MSG or high levels of sodium. To help get over it, I increased my water intake and things were good... kinda.
Dinner last night was sauteed mushrooms, onions, spinach and grilled chicken. Tasty it was and I laced it with garlic powder and pepper with watermelon for desert.
After dinner, we walked up and down the main road for 25 minutes and I did a few things at the computer before bed. Usually I wait 2P before actually going to sleep.
Some people know that garlic is a diuretic. Rarely do I have to get up during the night 2P but... The walk and watermelon combined with garlic... It was way to much. I had to get up at least 6 times during the night 2P.
(note to self: don't do that again)
Dinner last night was sauteed mushrooms, onions, spinach and grilled chicken. Tasty it was and I laced it with garlic powder and pepper with watermelon for desert.
After dinner, we walked up and down the main road for 25 minutes and I did a few things at the computer before bed. Usually I wait 2P before actually going to sleep.
Some people know that garlic is a diuretic. Rarely do I have to get up during the night 2P but... The walk and watermelon combined with garlic... It was way to much. I had to get up at least 6 times during the night 2P.
(note to self: don't do that again)
But for the grace of the Goddesses....
there go I... Early morning walks with Bravo---sometimes at sun up. Up ahead, disheveled man in his 50's, staring up a tree. Greetings exchanged, amid the strong smell of alcohol. Seems in the end stages of the "diisease". All the stigmata. Tremor, unsteady gait, rough voice. poor hearing, skin/hair changes, and so on. I ask if he's OK. He says yes, as he pets the dog . "I'm just early morning drunk". We share our stories. I say I nearly lost everything---family, work license, freedom, health, etc., ---and stopped drinking alcoholically just in time, decades ago. He says he HAS lost all those things. But he's able to speak clearly, as he searched the streets/trash bins for bottles and cans to cash redeem. As is our wont, I mention the various forms of help available. His comment, "thanks, but I'm not a preacher". Part after a hug and handshake. Grateful.
Sunscreens - are they safe ????
They are applied to the skin. But it turns out that they don't stay there.
While the largest organ we have, skin is composed of layers of a semipermeable membrane.
So, instead, what we put on the skin can be absorbed by the body and even get into the bloodstream.
Since they are regulated as a cosmetic, toxicology tests on the effects of the body are limited. Thus, we really don't know if they might be doing more harm than good.
Today in Wired;
(Continued in my first comment below)
While the largest organ we have, skin is composed of layers of a semipermeable membrane.
So, instead, what we put on the skin can be absorbed by the body and even get into the bloodstream.
Since they are regulated as a cosmetic, toxicology tests on the effects of the body are limited. Thus, we really don't know if they might be doing more harm than good.
Today in Wired;
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Author: Megan Molteni
science
05.06.19
11:00 am
Sunscreen Chemicals Soak All the Way Into Your Bloodstream
By now, you’ve probably been taught to gird your sun-starved skin for battle with cancer-causing cosmic rays every time you go outside. Choose a spray, choose a lotion, but by heavens, choose something! Legions of doctors, parents, and YouTube beauty influencers are unanimous on this point. But with sunscreen application evolving from a week or two at the beach every year to a constant daily slather, US health regulators want to know more about how all those photoprotective chemicals interact with people’s skin.
If they sink into tissues and get absorbed into the bloodstream, that could be a problem. Then, like other over-the-counter drugs the Food and Drug Administration oversees, sunscreens should be studied to make sure they don’t mess up people’s hormones, affect their reproductive systems, or cause cancer. Such safety testing has never been done on the active ingredients in sunscreen, because those chemicals were approved decades ago, before anyone suspected they could be absorbed into the body. Now we know it’s more than just a suspicion.
Today, researchers at the FDA revealed the results of a small clinical trial designed to test how four of the most common sun-filtering molecules on the market behave after they’ve been sprayed on and rubbed in. The results, published in the journal JAMA, show that contrary to what sunscreen manufacturers have been saying, UV-blocking chemicals do seep into circulation. Now, don’t panic and toss your tubes. There’s no evidence yet that they’re doing anything harmful inside the body. But the revelation will have serious impacts on sunscreen manufacturers going forward, and may change what options you’ll find on drugstore shelves before the year is out.
“Everyone had always thought that because these are intended to work on the surface of the skin that they wouldn’t be absorbed, but they are,” says Theresa Michele, director of the FDA’s division of nonprescription drug products, and coauthor on the FDA-funded study. Her team found that it took only a few hours after the application of sunscreen for the photoprotective chemicals to infiltrate the bloodstream and shoot up to concentrations above the FDA’s toxicology threshold that triggers further safety testing.
The researchers saw the same patterns in all 24 of the volunteers they recruited—12 men and 12 women, who were randomly assigned to apply one of four commercially available sunscreens: two sprays, a lotion, and a cream. The participants applied their potions according to recommended labeling; four times a day for four days to 75 percent of their bodies, roughly the amount of skin you’d be showing in a bathing suit. For those four days, and three days after, the researchers collected blood every few hours to be analyzed for the presence of avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, and ecamsule, 30 samples in all. They discovered that while it took only a few hours for the UV-blocking chemicals to spike over the target, for three of the four formulations, those levels remained elevated through the end of the study—three days after participants had ceased spraying and smearing. Only the cream users saw their chemical concentrations tail off sooner.
Author: Megan Molteni
science
05.06.19
11:00 am
Sunscreen Chemicals Soak All the Way Into Your Bloodstream
By now, you’ve probably been taught to gird your sun-starved skin for battle with cancer-causing cosmic rays every time you go outside. Choose a spray, choose a lotion, but by heavens, choose something! Legions of doctors, parents, and YouTube beauty influencers are unanimous on this point. But with sunscreen application evolving from a week or two at the beach every year to a constant daily slather, US health regulators want to know more about how all those photoprotective chemicals interact with people’s skin.
If they sink into tissues and get absorbed into the bloodstream, that could be a problem. Then, like other over-the-counter drugs the Food and Drug Administration oversees, sunscreens should be studied to make sure they don’t mess up people’s hormones, affect their reproductive systems, or cause cancer. Such safety testing has never been done on the active ingredients in sunscreen, because those chemicals were approved decades ago, before anyone suspected they could be absorbed into the body. Now we know it’s more than just a suspicion.
Today, researchers at the FDA revealed the results of a small clinical trial designed to test how four of the most common sun-filtering molecules on the market behave after they’ve been sprayed on and rubbed in. The results, published in the journal JAMA, show that contrary to what sunscreen manufacturers have been saying, UV-blocking chemicals do seep into circulation. Now, don’t panic and toss your tubes. There’s no evidence yet that they’re doing anything harmful inside the body. But the revelation will have serious impacts on sunscreen manufacturers going forward, and may change what options you’ll find on drugstore shelves before the year is out.
“Everyone had always thought that because these are intended to work on the surface of the skin that they wouldn’t be absorbed, but they are,” says Theresa Michele, director of the FDA’s division of nonprescription drug products, and coauthor on the FDA-funded study. Her team found that it took only a few hours after the application of sunscreen for the photoprotective chemicals to infiltrate the bloodstream and shoot up to concentrations above the FDA’s toxicology threshold that triggers further safety testing.
The researchers saw the same patterns in all 24 of the volunteers they recruited—12 men and 12 women, who were randomly assigned to apply one of four commercially available sunscreens: two sprays, a lotion, and a cream. The participants applied their potions according to recommended labeling; four times a day for four days to 75 percent of their bodies, roughly the amount of skin you’d be showing in a bathing suit. For those four days, and three days after, the researchers collected blood every few hours to be analyzed for the presence of avobenzone, oxybenzone, octocrylene, and ecamsule, 30 samples in all. They discovered that while it took only a few hours for the UV-blocking chemicals to spike over the target, for three of the four formulations, those levels remained elevated through the end of the study—three days after participants had ceased spraying and smearing. Only the cream users saw their chemical concentrations tail off sooner.
(Continued in my first comment below)
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Eat first, then exercise _or_ exercise first then eat...
I'm sure there are dozens of websites posting facts about which one is correct... one way or another. As for me, I prefer the order of exercising first, eating second then relaxing (and possibly taking a nap) third.
Years ago I had a girlfriend who professed her knowledge of healthy living.
Okay... do your thing!
No, I just had a big meal and I don't want to 'walk if off'
Maybe exercise improves your digestion. For me it causes indigestion.
Exercise after a meal steals the energy my body uses to digest food.
I'll get back to you in 30 minutes or less.
Yeah, and I do have an example... a pack of lions chase down their prey, devour it and hang out swatting flies with their tails. It has always been thus...
They don't have internet to tell them otherwise.
Thanks for reading my blog!
Honey... I'm home.
Years ago I had a girlfriend who professed her knowledge of healthy living.
Okay... do your thing!
No, I just had a big meal and I don't want to 'walk if off'
Maybe exercise improves your digestion. For me it causes indigestion.
Exercise after a meal steals the energy my body uses to digest food.
I'll get back to you in 30 minutes or less.
Yeah, and I do have an example... a pack of lions chase down their prey, devour it and hang out swatting flies with their tails. It has always been thus...
They don't have internet to tell them otherwise.
Thanks for reading my blog!
Honey... I'm home.
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How do you tell someone....
That they are too old to do something 
My friends elderly parents he's 82 and she's 75
He is in the early to medium stages of dementia and she's not far behind
He's had his drivers licence taken off him as he can't walk without a stick can't turn his head or concentrate enough to hold a 20 second conversation.
Last week his wife woke to a phone call at 6.30am from the night watchman at the Dr's where he had a 10.30am appointment the following day,saying he was beating on the door wanting to be let in.
He had managed to get up,back the car out and make a 40 min car journey in the dark without headlights
Yet he had left the car running in the car park because he couldn't remember how to turn it off or take the keys out.
Now the wife has to hide the keys and lock them both in the house at night
My friends elderly parents he's 82 and she's 75
He is in the early to medium stages of dementia and she's not far behind
He's had his drivers licence taken off him as he can't walk without a stick can't turn his head or concentrate enough to hold a 20 second conversation.
Last week his wife woke to a phone call at 6.30am from the night watchman at the Dr's where he had a 10.30am appointment the following day,saying he was beating on the door wanting to be let in.
He had managed to get up,back the car out and make a 40 min car journey in the dark without headlights
Yet he had left the car running in the car park because he couldn't remember how to turn it off or take the keys out.
Now the wife has to hide the keys and lock them both in the house at night
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Hey kids, guess what time it is?
No, it's not Howdy Doody time. It's Mosquito time. Time to break out the Mosquito repellent like "OFF" etc or "Avon Skin So Soft" on any exposed skin if you have to work outside especially in the evening. Time to setup the Mosquito traps so if you do happen to get stung at least you can have the satisfaction of killing any of the baby mosquitoes your blood meal enabled.
To make a mosquito trap all you need is a bucket of water, the more stagnant the better, and an empty bucket and a fine mesh splatter screen. Make sure there is no other source of water around so the mosquito will have to use your bucket to lay her eggs in. After the eggs hatch and you can see the little "wigglers" swimming around in your bucket, simply pour the water through the splatter screen into the empty bucket. The mosquito larvae wont fit through the holes in the screen and they will all be squirming on top of the screen. Simply knock them off the screen onto the ground. They can't live out of water and they will dry up and die and the ants will eat them.
One more thing, if you have anything around your house that contains water and is open to the air, you are breeding mosquitoes. This applies especially to bird baths.
CFM---clinical fetus murder......
Alabama and Georgia with their new bans on this deplorable practice are in the deep South. And that was the deranged frantic initial spin of the ueber alt left on this brilliant new political strategy. But wait, Ohio and now Missouri are on board, as well. With others to follow. But one such state would be enough to trigger legal challenges, leading ultimately wither, dear CS friends? That's right, to the SCOTUS, now slanting much more right than when Roe v. Wade came to be some four decades ago. The latest panicy mantra offers phrases like "settled law", a sure sign of their gettting low on argument ammunition. I support CFM, in much more restricted clinical and family circumstances than under Roe, which originally allowed the proceedure up until 20 weeks of gesation, close to the extra uterine viability of the growing, feeling little humans. But we know of the recent beastial legistration in New York. Allow term birth, then snuff out the wiggling, crying, breathing little buggers, if Mom so desires. We also hear that this is the only government action to adversely cut the rights to autonomy and health of a whole gender. Au contraire, peebles. The combat roles in the military are still almost exclusively borne by males, and over most of the history of the world, conscription was an enormous threat to a fellow's health and autonomy. Do as we say, not as we do. CFM is an importand, helpful, and rarely life saving medical proceedure and shoulsd be allowed after rigorous vetting. Sloth with regard to responsible effective contraception doesn't qualify. The near certain SCOTUS review of this issue may not do away with Roe, but perhaps it will take it back a few notches. Get out of my womb, my foot. Women have exclusive rights to prohibit all such gynocological proceedure. But to be a woman is to be able to carry a developing baby. Vastly different from say endometriosis or cervical cancer. Biology is destiny, ladies, deal with it. Privledge and perogative, both.
Gardening for Beginners
I got excited just a bit ago when I read in email that there is a class at the community gardening center that I joined for beginners. I need it. This class should teach us how to uncover our beds, amend the soil and get ready to plant our seedlings the first week of Sept. Remember here in FL we rarely get much of a winter so this fall garden should yield.
I've planted seedlings only to watch them die. I can't even get them big enough to eat them as a sprout so I need classes.
I've planted seedlings only to watch them die. I can't even get them big enough to eat them as a sprout so I need classes.
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LIFE HAS CHANGED, new update
Hello everyone, it has been 4 months since I have been going through with my illness. I have had 3 radiation treatments on my brain, and have had 33 radiation on my lung and 6 chemotherapy. Will be having a MRI on my brain and another scan on my lung to see where I'm at since these treatments. Then I will be going through immunotherapy every 2 weeks for a year.
I feel tired and get dizzy and can loose my balance when standing up, but other than that I feel ok.
I am finally back at my home after 4 months away, there is no place like home.
Thanks everyone for your concern, all the prayers and strong energy sent my way.
I feel tired and get dizzy and can loose my balance when standing up, but other than that I feel ok.
I am finally back at my home after 4 months away, there is no place like home.
Thanks everyone for your concern, all the prayers and strong energy sent my way.
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