Breakthroughs will occur faster than you think.
I hope they occur faster than I hope, but at least I’m in good shape for my age.
Category Archives: Health
My Calcium Score
I had a scan done on Monday, and my score came out as a total of 17, most of it in my right coronary artery (my left was zero). This is in the bottom quartile, particularly for my age, but they still say I should get my cholesterol down to 200 (it’s currently about 240, with a good ratio and low tryglycerides, and has been for years) with medication, and cut out the saturated fat from my diet. What BS.
From A Physician At A Government Health Center
“Why I no longer believe that government healthcare can work.”
After many decades, we need to reintroduce markets to the healthcare industry.
Joe Biden
…is not going nuts. According to Joe Biden.
Because who is a better judge of whether or not someone is crazy than the crazy person?
I wish he wasn’t collapsing so fast. I wanted him to hang on at least through the convention.
Health-Care Costs
How to dramatically reduce costs, without “Medicare For All” (which would quickly mean Medicare For None).
One of the infuriating things about the health debate was the false notion that we who don’t want the government to take it over think that the system is fine, or don’t have any ideas how to fix it. The Left just doesn’t like them, and as with climate, it’s not about the policy, it’s about control.
Jeff Goldstein
A long-time blogger needs help.
I haven’t been tracking it, but I’m sure I no longer have the readership I once did either. The Internet moves on.
[Tuesday-afternoon update]
As Andrew W. notes in comments, things are looking less grim for them, but he could still use some help.
Epigenetic Programming
Is it the key to longevity? Some encouraging results, though there’s still a lot to learn.,
A Vegan President?
“I vote ‘No.’“
I was thinking this the other day, and even tweeted about it, I think. Booker is an asshat on many levels, but I’m pretty sure that voting for a vegan would be more controversial than voting for a gay president. Pretty sure we’ve never had one in the White House. Vegans should go back to Vega.
Former Vegans
“As soon as I started eating meat, my health improved,” she said. “My mental acuity stepped up, I lost weight, my acne cleared up, my hair got better. I felt like a fog lifted.” All of the meat was from healthy, grass-fed animals reared on the farms where she worked.
Other former vegetarians reported that they, too, felt better after introducing grass-fed meat into their diets: Ms. Kavanaugh said eating meat again helped with her depression. Mr. Applestone said he felt far more energetic.
“It can be hard to balance your diet as a vegetarian, especially when you’re younger, and I wasn’t doing it right,” he said.
I continue to hold out hope that we’ll be able to grow grass-fed beef in a lab.
Repairing Heart-Attack Damage
…with stem cells.
Faster, please. Interesting to read this in the context of going to get an echo cardiogram this afternoon.
[Update Thursday afternoon]
For those curious, I got a clean bill of health. One slightly leaky valve, which the cardiologist said was no big deal.