Originally Posted by rcarlberg
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
The Kindle Paperwhite, which is what I have, has a different kind of light source than smart phones or tablets or Kindle Fires. It doesn't affect people the same way.
I refuse to look at the "actual view" of that picture. I don't have a weak stomach but I hate seeing seeing knives/scalpels slice into skin or the aftermath.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
I typically fast one day a week (usually on Monday). I do it mainly for weight control. I eat / drink whatever I want on the weekend and then take 24 hours off. Not sure how healthy it is, but it has worked pretty well for me.
When I first started taking it I did the same thing (although not with Haggis!). I would make up really weird concoctions of food, wake up the next morning with my stomach all messed up, and my wife would find the remains of whatever I had made the night before (we work different shifts so have very different sleep patterns). One night I ate a whole can of kidney beans. The results the next day were not good......
This rarely happens to me anymore though.
And of course you have no idea what you are talking about. Keep pretending that you do.
I hope they warned you about NEVER letting that scar get sunburned. that would be skin cancer waiting to happen.
My wife uses gobs of sunblock on that scar if she ever goes out in the sin in shorts.
Regards,
Duncan
It is funny how clueless you all are. you get a sunburn and think that is cancer waiting to happen. Baby boomers with their PhD in music studies and basic weaving.
It is funny how clueless you all are. you get a sunburn and think that is cancer waiting to happen. Baby boomers with their PhD in music studies and basic weaving.
This isn't going to end well.
It's funny how some random smartass on the Interweb knows more than my dermatologist.It is funny how clueless you all are. you get a sunburn and think that is cancer waiting to happen. Baby boomers with their PhD in music studies and basic weaving.
Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas are usually caused by excessive exposure to the sun, and if left untreated, they can (occasionally) become melanomas - which are life threatening.
I have had countless basal cell and several squamous cell carcinomas cut, burned, frozen, or taken off with Moh's procedures over the years, and in every case, they appear on the parts of the body that get the most exposure to the sun. I used to race sailboats, and you don't only get burned by direct sunlight - but also by sun reflected off the water, and reflected off the sail. Triple-whammy. Predictably, the places I got sunburned the most as a kid are the places where the cancer has appeared the most.
My wife had a knee replacement, and has a scar just like Ian's. Her specialists (you know, the ones with 12-or-more years of study) told her to be very careful of excessive exposure to sunlight precisely because of the fact (that's fact, not opinion) that scar tissue is more susceptible to sun damage and to developing carcinomas.
Quit your f***ing superior attitude. It isn't called for. You could have simply said "I don't think that's how it works" or similar.
Regards,
Duncan
I messed up my 3rd fast because I was going through depression and wanted to get "high" from fasting again. That high I would describe would be like exstacy (MDMA) but not as strong. Years later I tried real MDMA and thought well that was novel, but it reminded me of fasting and if I just maintained by eating highly dense nutrient foods I could experience those waves of exstacy in different parts of the day. So messing up my fast gave me bowel problems for 4 years.
The thing that sucks is that the brain is not engineered to experience extreme amounts of pleasure for long periods of time, that's why drugzz are bad for ya when you are chasing the high. I never got addicted to a particular drug except weed (smoking it every day/all day), but the withdrawals weren't hard to deal with.
And now I know that if I fast again for a period of time it will be different: with prayer. That's the part I didn't understand when I was in my atheist-phase of my life. Psychedelics opened me up to spirituality, but as Alan Watts succinctly put it: “If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.”
I would consider myself a psychonaut, so I tried just about all of them: Salvia Divinorum, LSD, psylocibin mushrooms, iboga, ayahuasca, San Pedro and now I see how intention/prayer is much more important than just trying to trip. Same principle would apply for fasting. Prayer and fasting as Jesus would have done it.
These days I typically do these foods:
Kombucha/Apple Cider Vinegar: Suppresses appetite and my sugar cravings
Juicing: fresh ginger/turmeric and spike it in regular orange juice, don't have time to juice more veggies or fruits
Whey protein powder: Suppresses appetite, cows milk has good stuff in it like lactoferrin
Cacao: There's a reason the Aztecs called it "food of the gods", the real shit not the Hersheys or Big Corp bullshit chocolate
Coconut milk/oil: Great for skin too
Flax seed/Chia/Pumpkin seed grounded up in smoothies
For real meals, I'll eat normie stuff like KFC or Taco Bell. If I could afford Kobe steak or the Finest Sushi from Japan, I would definitely eat it!
For those who naysay natural medicine: try these Google searches <keyword> site:lifeextension.com keywords: turmeric, ginger, CoQ10, cancer, chamomile, etc.
Yeah, 12 years of study. Right.My wife had a knee replacement, and has a scar just like Ian's. Her specialists (you know, the ones with 12-or-more years of study) told her to be very careful of excessive exposure to sunlight precisely because of the fact (that's fact, not opinion) that scar tissue is more susceptible to sun damage and to developing carcinomas.
Quit your f***ing superior attitude. It isn't called for. You could have simply said "I don't think that's how it works" or similar.
I know more than my cardiologist, who has a phd from Harvard, about cutting edge medicine for my heart. He won't look things up, while I will. My background is in physics, which is unrelated, but I am far more curious than he is, and that is what matters. Doctors and you have no idea what is coming in the 2020s because you are not curious.
And the hits just keep on coming
This isn't going to end well.
Take a deep breath, Dunc!
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Absolutely...
Drinking from the fountain of youth is for people who take fantasy prog/metal lyrics a little too seriously
Hopefully, Ian's knee won't turn green like some of those haggies
You been reading yourself lately??It is funny how clueless you all are. you get a sunburn and think that is cancer waiting to happen. Baby boomers with their PhD in music studies and basic weaving.
Maybe Yamie should take a good one too, once he's taken the plunge.And the hits just keep on coming
Take a deep breath, Dunc!
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I had to look up Haggis....
I like offal but the way Haggis preparation is described it doesn't sound appetizing. Lately I'm stir-frying just about anything. The other day I stir-fried some chicken livers with onions and had 'em on a bed of fresh spinach.
Now, Gafilte looks pretty gross in that jar of gel but I've acquired a love for it. I've been known to drink some of the gel whilst......
I realize you know more about biology and longevity than Harvard biologists who have devoted their lives to the area...
"...Professor Sinclair — one of the world’s leading experts on the science of ageing — believes it is the key to not only warding off the process of human ageing but even reversing it.
Now professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, he has spent two decades investigating how to ‘cure’ ageing and believes NMN is by far the best prospect of providing the answer. [NR is very similar.]
His fountain of youth is actually a specialised variant of vitamin B3 that is found in many foods, including broccoli, cucumber and avocado, that helps our cells repair damaged DNA. The latter is believed to be a major cause of natural ageing.
In the body, NMN is converted into a related chemical called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), which is found in every cell of living organisms and is essential for life. NAD is crucial in fuelling the seven different genes in our body that govern ageing.
However, our NAD levels decline by about 50 per cent as we age, turning off the body’s defences against ageing and age-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and Alzheimer’s.
Experiments on mice by Professor Sinclair and his team showed that after just a week of being fed NMN dissolved in their drinking water, the cells of ageing mice were indistinguishable from those of young mice. Their muscles looked and behaved like those of a young mouse, too.
In human terms, it was the equivalent of a 60-year-old’s cells and muscles transforming into those of a 20-year-old. According to the team’s paper in the international journal Science, the mice suffered no negative side-effects.
Professor Sinclair is so convinced of his pill’s safety that not only has he been taking it himself, so has his 77-year-old father.
The results certainly sound encouraging. Before he started taking a 500mg NMN pill every morning, 47-year-old Professor Sinclair had his blood tested and was told his body had a biological age of 58.
After consuming NMN for three months, he was tested again and his biological age was 32.
As for his father, he’s recently been out-pacing the professor’s younger brother on mountaineering expeditions in their native Australia.
‘He’s as vigorous as he was in his 20s and 30s, and he seems to be getting more energetic,’ says Professor Sinclair.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...xir-youth.html
Worst part is that the Scots are actually proud of that "delicacy"... Very odd this comes from the single malt land.I had to look up Haggis....
But let's face it, I think I'll go some haggis (there are many favours, some less disgusting than others), before I eat that rotten Swedish fish.
They may be from Harvard, but working in research institute, I can tell that some scientists are fruitcakes, just like some meds are.
Ever heard of charlatans selling their supposedly medications or trying to convince of their doubtful theories for some fame/publicity?
Age is like time: You can't stop either
One may slow them down by either approaching the speed of light (even that remains to be verified, though) or by feeding mainly/(only?) from those superfoods (like those anti-oxidizing berries), but you can't stop either
let alone reversing these two invariables: I may fantasize as much as I want about being 19 (with my actual knowledge and experience) in Frisco in 67, it's never going to happen, no matter if I invest all of Bill Gates' fortune into it
BTW, the last five lines of your post are purely laughable... soooo much so, that I refused to include them in my quote of your post. Did you even investigate the site's credibility were you read that, coz you didn't give a link
And if you believe that kind of crap, I've got some acquaintances that will gladly include you at the "top" of the pyramidal structure they're backing up.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Cant work out if yami has invested in a miracle cure and is trying to drive business or is just another internet troll.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I'm one of the 212.
Thanks for the info, I'll check with my surgeon when I see him on the 20th.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I'm one of the 212.
before I eat that rotten Swedish fish
that's why I spoke of a pyramidal structure
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I'll stick with the 9 Nobel Prize winners who are endorsing NR, which is very close to NMN that only recently went on sale for a reasonable price. Are 9 Nobel Prize winners crackpots too?And if you believe that kind of crap, I've got some acquaintances that will gladly include you at the "top" of the pyramidal structure they're backing up.
I'm too old to put up with whatever scheme it is. The ignore function is my friend.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
There is such a thing as the Nobel disease.I'll stick with the 9 Nobel Prize winners who are endorsing NR, which is very close to NMN that only recently went on sale for a reasonable price. Are 9 Nobel Prize winners crackpots too?
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
Speaking of age, all of the 9 Nobel Prize winners are over 60 with Martin Karplus the oldest at 88, Eric Kandel is also 88, Daniel Kahnaman is 84,... ... Jack Szostak is 64 (for telomeres), Thomas Sudhof is the youngest at 62.
George Church, 64, of CRISPR fame is also on Elysium's Science advisory board.
Damn, Vic, if you can eat that hideous gel that gefilte fish is packed in (I've never been able to eat gf at all & I'm Jewish).
Hell, if you really like that stuff you've converted to Judaism whether you like it or not
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
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