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06/28/2024

“How many of you know someone who needs insulin?” Biden asked. “OK, well, guess what? It was costing 400 bucks a month on average. It now costs $35 a month.”

I noticed at the debates he had a long pause then said he bet Medicare. I wondered what he meant so I looked and this makes the statement make sense. He got Medicare to cover all but $35 of the avg $400 that people with diabetes were having to pay. That's how how the statement makes sense.

06/28/2024

The claim: The Social Security Administration will allow workers in the country illegally to claim benefits

In a post rapidly gaining traction on Facebook, a user warns that if not "stopped," the Social Security Administration will soon eat into the fund to provide benefits for some immigrants.

"SOCIAL SECURITY ADMIN plans to pay SS benefits to ILLEGALS from your SS TRUST FUND! Must be STOPPED!” the March 3 post reads. It has been shared over 2,300 times.

Absolutely a baseless claim. Don't fall for it.

03/23/2024

A review of clinical updates focused on the association between consumption of coffee and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The researchers found that moderate coffee consumption leads to a decrease in all-cause and CV-related mortality as well as a decrease in hypertension, cholesterol, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation. However, they found no consistent relationship between consumption of coffee and risk for developing coronary heart disease. They concluded that the most favorable outcomes for CV health are associated with moderate coffee consumption, but they noted the lack of current consensus on a definition for that measure.

Across a median follow-up of 12.5 years, the researchers found that consuming four to five cups of ground coffee per day and habitual coffee intake of up to five cups per day significantly reduced all-cause mortality and CV mortality. No significant difference was found in risk reduction for incidence of CV disease, among intake categories or subtypes of coffee.

The researchers also found that drinking two to three cups of instant coffee daily — but not decaffeinated coffee of any kind — was associated with a significant reduction in incident arrhythmia, including atrial fibrillation.

The researchers also concluded that heavy coffee consumption (but not green tea consumption in any amount) was associated with increased CVD mortality risk among people with severe hypertension, but not people with grade 1 hypertension or those without hypertension.

Medscape articles Cardiology, Caffeine Toxicity, Atrial Fibrillation (AF), Mar 24, 2023 This Week in Cardiology Podcast, Anterior Circulation Stroke, Hypertension, Two Cups of Coffee Increase Heart Dangers With Hypertension, Greater Coffee Intake in Severe HTN Tied to Higher CV Mortality, and Guidelines for Managing Older Adults in the Cardiac ICU (AHA, 2019).

02/11/2024

He and a growing community of scientists recognize the role of inflammation and lipids. "The major finding of my lab is that cholesterol actually drives the synthesis of amyloid via inflammation. In other words, amyloid is downstream of cholesterol. Cholesterol drives the inflammation, and the inflammation drives amyloid," he said.

He cited the " lipid invasion model" as a way of understanding brain lipid dysregulation. This hypothesis posits that AD is driven by external lipids that enter the brain as a result of damage to the blood-brain barrier (BBB).

"Cholesterol in the brain and cholesterol in the periphery — meaning, in the rest of the body, outside the brain — are separate," Hansen explained. "The brain produces its own cholesterol and keeps tight control of it."

-Scott Hansen, PhD, associate professor, Department of Molecular Medicine, Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation and Technology, Florida

SO, Exercise, Balanced diet, andP rudent supplementation is vital. Here's why:

Our arterial blood supply to brain delivers essential oxygen, glucose, other nutrients including lipids, amino acids, mineral salts and vitamins. Our cardiac and brain venous system removes waste products including CO2. Our brain lymph drainage system is critical to maintaining proper brain homeostasis.
Our cardiac/brain artery delivery of nutrients, and venous removal of respiratory wastes, is determined and limited by the proper function of the rest of our cardiovascular system.
How to know? Answer. We need to try to maintain for our entire life a VO2 max of at least 50 millitres of oxygen per kg of body mass per minute.

12/01/2023

The WMO (World Meteorological Organization) said extreme weather had major impacts on all continents. Flooding from Mediterranean cyclone Daniel hit Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey, and killed thousands of people in Libya. Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi suffered one of the world’s longest-lived tropical cyclones, named Freddy, in February and March, while tropical cyclone Mocha, in May, was one of the most intense ever observed in the Bay of Bengal.

2023 was the hottest year. Next year will be hotter but TicTok reels will keep us mesmorized.

America is the biggest polluter putting out more emissions per capita. How can we pretend our lives work while refusing to open the window to see what's going on around us and ignoring the impact developed countries have on others?

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01/25/2023

The testing data, from the Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration, showed that consuming a single meal of freshwater fish could lead to similar PFAS exposure as ingesting store-bought fish every day for a year.