Scott - another great post, really enjoy your reflections on your past and the sprinkling of useful knowledge.
Maybe relating to your post about Idaho, this is a story about a black lesbian from LA who ended up moving to Montana. She relates to initially fearing the people with pickup trucks and guns on the back.
I found that I could relate to a lot of things Pierre Kory said, since I also grew up on Long Island with families that originally had NYC ties. I'm also finding a lot of common places with your story, now living in CT not far from where you started out. Had a girlfriend who went to Ithaca college, that is a beautiful area. Daughter attended SUNY ESF in Syracuse, so I drove by the medical center many times. Since moving to NW CT I've taken the ferry to LI many times to visit family.
Glad you are able to find time to write these post!
I really look forward to your Substacks, Scott, & love the vivid pictures you paint of your childhood in the Northeast. I also really appreciate your clinical updates a lot. COVID is not over for many of us, & we need all the interventions we can for vaccine injury & LC.
Great how you transition between topics so smootly. All autobiographical in some way; corroborating the approach I envision for my soon-to‐continued substack; delayed a year during remediation; improving cogitation, mitigating mental aberration; ameliorating motivation.
I, too, couldn’t handle the one-tablespoon of baobab powder mixed with 16 oz of water and sipped over the course of a day. It started upsetting my stomach. I gave it a 1 or 2 week break and then tried one tsp mixed with a glass of water and drunk at breakfast (after some food). I’ve had no problem with this, and it seems to have helped with minor digestion issues. Not sure what other benefits it may be bringing me because I have no way to measure those.
Update: Is it possible that some modest lower back pain that for years has been easily triggered by carrying or moving things has largely gone away due to baobab powder? The timing coincides. Your thoughts, Scott Marsland?
Yes. From the beginnning of this pandemic, because of the dearth of rational and science-based guidance, we have had to identify mechansims of action of different therapeutics, and match these with symptoms and an emerging understanding of pathology. At baseline, Baobab is antiinflammatory. Beyond that, it promotes a diverse and large population of commensal bacteria in the gut, which also help decrease inflammation and modulate immune respone.
One of my patients (87 year old with a 40+ year history of lymphoma) also had one of those lesser quality vibrating devices. Her daughter had bought it for her a few years ago, but her overall health was too compromised to use it then. Now, feeling better with acupuncture & moxibustion, she started using it. I tried it for about five minutes: it was like being in a 5.0 Richter earthquake, or as Scott remarked a paint can shaker. A car chase scene in a movie under the El in Brooklyn also comes to mind. I strongly advised her against its use.
Scott's blog seamlessly weaves solid connections between his personal and clinical experiences. This is how web logs should read.
Scott - another great post, really enjoy your reflections on your past and the sprinkling of useful knowledge.
Maybe relating to your post about Idaho, this is a story about a black lesbian from LA who ended up moving to Montana. She relates to initially fearing the people with pickup trucks and guns on the back.
https://public.substack.com/p/monica-harris-when-it-came-to-race
This is a link to a Chris Martenson interview about Juvent:
https://peakprosperity.com/the-missing-vitamin-necessary-for-optimal-health/
I found that I could relate to a lot of things Pierre Kory said, since I also grew up on Long Island with families that originally had NYC ties. I'm also finding a lot of common places with your story, now living in CT not far from where you started out. Had a girlfriend who went to Ithaca college, that is a beautiful area. Daughter attended SUNY ESF in Syracuse, so I drove by the medical center many times. Since moving to NW CT I've taken the ferry to LI many times to visit family.
Glad you are able to find time to write these post!
Bob
I really look forward to your Substacks, Scott, & love the vivid pictures you paint of your childhood in the Northeast. I also really appreciate your clinical updates a lot. COVID is not over for many of us, & we need all the interventions we can for vaccine injury & LC.
Great how you transition between topics so smootly. All autobiographical in some way; corroborating the approach I envision for my soon-to‐continued substack; delayed a year during remediation; improving cogitation, mitigating mental aberration; ameliorating motivation.
I, too, couldn’t handle the one-tablespoon of baobab powder mixed with 16 oz of water and sipped over the course of a day. It started upsetting my stomach. I gave it a 1 or 2 week break and then tried one tsp mixed with a glass of water and drunk at breakfast (after some food). I’ve had no problem with this, and it seems to have helped with minor digestion issues. Not sure what other benefits it may be bringing me because I have no way to measure those.
Update: Is it possible that some modest lower back pain that for years has been easily triggered by carrying or moving things has largely gone away due to baobab powder? The timing coincides. Your thoughts, Scott Marsland?
Yes. From the beginnning of this pandemic, because of the dearth of rational and science-based guidance, we have had to identify mechansims of action of different therapeutics, and match these with symptoms and an emerging understanding of pathology. At baseline, Baobab is antiinflammatory. Beyond that, it promotes a diverse and large population of commensal bacteria in the gut, which also help decrease inflammation and modulate immune respone.
An anti inflammatory. Thank you! All of this is good to know.
One of my patients (87 year old with a 40+ year history of lymphoma) also had one of those lesser quality vibrating devices. Her daughter had bought it for her a few years ago, but her overall health was too compromised to use it then. Now, feeling better with acupuncture & moxibustion, she started using it. I tried it for about five minutes: it was like being in a 5.0 Richter earthquake, or as Scott remarked a paint can shaker. A car chase scene in a movie under the El in Brooklyn also comes to mind. I strongly advised her against its use.
Scott's blog seamlessly weaves solid connections between his personal and clinical experiences. This is how web logs should read.
Thank you for sharing this example of a knock-off device.