Over on the mothership, some of the usual suspects are loudly demanding that everyone must credit Biden for the deal.
Cynthia encouraged some jocularity by awarding points to a clever punster, a handle I don't recognize. This is a good idea. Expand the base. Let people know that badinage is a thing in the comments. And it does sneak a little oxygen away from the outrage and troll types, does it not?
I think it's reasonable to say, "Your article does not include my point of view, and I am annoyed." Pointless, maybe, but the whole exercise is, pretty much.
It's not reasonable to say, "Your article does not include my point of view, and you are horrible, horrible people."
I let Cynthia be the bigger person over there while I pointed out the absurdity of the idea that Biden should get credit for a deal he initially refused to participate in.
I don't think any of them really deserves "credit," as if they did something genuinely worthwhile. However, I think it's pretty clear that Kevin McCarthy was the more successful political operator in this situation.
I take issue with certain pundits on what I consider their blind spots, but they're not horrible people or I wouldn't read their articles at all.
The ones yelling or whining regularly about their point of view not being represented by the writers should perhaps consider whether they're ever going to get enough value for the time and money they spend here. But maybe the opportunity to throw rotten vegetables at someone is the kind of value they are looking for.
Today's ridiculous spams: An "Idelle Abshire" advises me to "withdraw your +14745$, have only 24 hours." I note there is now neither a comma nor a dot in the 5-digit number today. We Americans should learn to put the dollar sign after, so nothing implausible about that part of it. Then a "Ballaba Bah" with a gmail address, not from a commercial domain, sends me a "Transaction Confirmation: Order Placed." Oh, maybe I ordered something in the middle of the night; better find out who from and what it was!
OK. I gotta' ask. What's up with you and all this spam you're getting? I don't get it. Literally. The spam, that is. It sounds like you get more in a day than I get in a year. Maybe two. Please, tell me what I'm doing right, so I can keep on doing it!! :-D
Well, just so you know, if you're gonna' save your spam, according to several sources it will last from 2 to 5 years as long as you don't open it. Once opened, 7 to 10 days if you put your computer in the 'fridge. Of course, Hormel says it's best if used by the "best by" date. And if you ever notice an email starting to bulge or swell, you should definitely delete it unopened.
Today’s special animal friend is the Lookdown, Selene vomer, my favorite fish. Native to the western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, the lookdown can live in salt or brackish water. It adapts to a variety of habitats, from Canada to Uruguay, rocky or sandy sea bottoms, in depths up to about 150 feet. Lookdowns are laterally compressed: tall in the vertical plane, very skinny in the horizontal plane. Their scales are shiny silver, sometimes with elegant silver-on-silver stripes.
They are usually less than a foot in length. The record is about 19 inches, and this specimen weighed over 4 lbs. They swim in shoals or schools, maintaining a neat formation and being all reflective. They eat smaller fish, crustaceans, and worms, usually from the bottom. They can make a grunting noise when they are threatened by expelling air from their swim bladder.
Lookdowns are a popular saltwater aquarium fish because they are so hardy and cool-looking. Due to their large size, they require a large aquarium. Only really committed home aquarists keep them, but they are ubiquitous in public aquariums. They can be bred in captivity.
Lookdowns are considered a “game fish.” Sport fishermen enjoy catching them, and you can cook and eat them if you feel you must. The “Catch, Clean, Cook” videos on this are long and hardly seem worth it. Lookdowns are a species of Least Concern.
Just because the ocean is super weird, here’s a Black Sea Nettle, which is a sea nettle that is black, not a nettle found in the Black Sea. These were filmed in the Pacific:
It’s fun watching the fish swim, and the color is beautiful. I love the way a large group moves together around the aquarium—graceful and peaceful. The ocean is sooo interesting!
I’m going to watch the video a little later, but thank you for linking to it! I’m especially interested in what they have to say about statins. Thank you!
I eat too many carbs and probably not enough protein. Problem is I don’t much care at age 60 to make any drastic changes. I’ve never been overweight and while my cholesterol is in the 220 range, the “good” cholesterol (LDL right?) is high so my doctor has never pushed statins. I have tried multiple times to get my husband to reconsider taking them but he just poo poo’s me, “studies show....” you can’t break that mindset. He won’t ever
From everything I’ve read, some people are simply fortunate and blessed that they don’t have any negative side effects of high carb consumption. If I were in your shoes, I wouldn’t change my behavior one bit either, tbh.
A good friend of mine going back to childhood is about my height and stature, and he’s never been an ounce overweight, never had to turn down any category of foods. He can put away all the bread and cake he wants without obvious problems.
It’s interesting that people can be so different in how they handle calories. I also know that BikerChick is very active. I think she’s probably a bit more careful with how much she eats, too. The thing I’ve run into is the people (especially men) who were able to eat a lot and remain thin in their teens and twenties, but gradually started putting on weight (especially stomach) as they aged because they got desk jobs, and were just a lot less active.
I thought your comment on missing sugar was interesting, too. I like some sugar, but I don’t crave it. I don’t care about candy or baked dessert items, and I quit eating coffee cake and danishes for breakfast (something I really did enjoy) years ago. But, I also like carbs (rice, whole grain cereal, sandwiches, pasta occasionally); I just don’t go crazy.
The friend I talked about who tried all the weird diets often said she was addicted to sugar. I think that might be a big part of the obesity problem.
Sugar is cheap (especially corn syrup) and addictive for some of us: It should come as no surprise that it gets put into *every* packaged food.
If pop (as we call it) was an occasional goodie, today there are more than a few people that consume a bottle with every meal. Most people are in denial about it, but fruit juice contains as much sugar by volume as a sugary soda. Your body doesn’t care if that sugar came from orange juice, apple juice, or a Dr Pepper. It’s just as harmful either way.
My kids never drank apple juice...so much sugar..and so many parents give it to their kids. I remember once my MIL was going to give my older kids apple juice and I told her they never have had it. She said, "you gave it to them all the time when they were little." I beg to differ, woman. Recently we were talking about toys and she said, "I remember you didn't allow me to give your kids gifts that were targeted to a "boy" or "girl." Ummmm...I think you have me mixed up with someone else or you're losing it.
She’s probably confused. None of that sounds like you!
My mom never gave us things like juice, soda, or Koolaid. She would serve a small glass of orange juice for breakfast, but not every morning. Once in awhile she’d make that frozen concentrate lemonade or limeade. That was a treat! I still remember the rare occasions she’d bake some cookies, and cake was just for birthdays!
However, she always had store boughten cookies in the cupboards (the kind she liked), and there was ice cream, but that was another thing we didn’t get all the time.
Yeah, my parents were completely oblivious to “targeted toys.” I remember having a Roy Rogers(?) outfit with a holster and gun (I didn’t like skirts or dresses). I also had that Davy Crocket “coon skin” hat! I had a couple of dolls, but was never all that interested. I don’t know what my brothers were into? (At least when we were young!)
Good morning. The mothership today reports on the debt ceiling "done deal" and on continuing political instability in Pakistan, a country with nuclear weapons.
While the deal has passed the House, it still has to get through that thicket of obstructing rules and obstructionists called the Senate, so it's a bit early to spike the football.
"Here they discuss their own and their patients’ experiences that led them to turn their backs on the conventional modern medical advice for healthy eating. Dr. Berry started the interview in something of a grumpy mood..."
Statins are quite problematic. My ex, who had congenitally high cholesterol (her Dad and Mom both had it and lived well into their 90's) and no other heart disease risk factors, was put on statins by her doctor. She quite soon lost her short term memory, which is an especially bad thing if you're a lawyer involved in high end real estate transactions. She stopped the statins. Her memory came back. Our doctor (a good physician who saved my life at a different time) pooh-poohed that statins were the cause. We were convinced we were right and found a medical paper from UCLA which alerted, years before, of the link between statins and memory loss. She eschewed red meat, took garlic and fish oil pills and brought her cholesterol down to an acceptable level. We discovered many people who had other deleterious effects from statins.
I’ve been on one for many years and sometimes wonder if I should stop. My doc at the time recommended it as a preventative as my family history has a lot of heart disease. My cholesterol was always (and is still) in the normal range. I don’t seem to experience side effects although my wife might laugh about my memory. I think I’ll do some more reading.
Wait. What? If the moon had landed here I *know* I would've heard something. Can't keep anything that big a secret. Stop messin' around. You know how this sort of thing spreads on the 'net.
If you read and/or listen to more info on high cholesterol, it’s not necessarily bad. Also, not all, but most people have higher cholesterol as they age. Mine was always low, and I think it was around the time of menopause that it started going up.
My husband didn’t have any side effects from statins, but I’m glad he’s not taking them now.
That’s funny because I’m suddenly experience a bunch of those damn “ear worms.” I hardly ever listen to music, and yesterday it was “Air Supply;” this morning it’s Neil Diamond. I don’t care for either of them, and they had catchy tunes that keep rolling through my brain! 😩 (Time to listen to a podcast!)
I often have songs in my head. Some of them I enjoy; some I get tired of. I have several go-tos that I would rather have and which have the power to displace one I don't like. "Brown-eyed Girl" and "Come Together" are pretty effective. I have a rotation of others, too. One requirement in such a song is that the opening notes or chords are clear and memorable.
Sometimes a song starts up in my head because something that's going on reminds me of a lyric.
A frequent one is "what am I, what am I supposed to do?" from the song "Anna" recorded early in the Beatles' career. (Because sometimes one gets put in a false position.)
And when I look over the wide selection of tomato plant varieties for sale, the Cherokee Purple always puts a quarter in my mental jukebox. Can anyone guess the song and the performer, or tell me a few lines from it?
Cynthia would probably recommend a Jonah Goldberg "Remnant' podcast which she has mentioned several times. I have always found Jonah a bit of an acquired taste, which I have not fully required. Unless he has a guest, he tends to ramble, sometimes to good affect, sometimes less so.
a) I wear all black socks for walking, so if I lose one, I have 19 others just like it!
b) I deliberately mis-match all my dress socks. I tell people it's a statement. "What's the statement"? "That if they're they same thickness my toes say they match"!
Right. The problem is that different people have different side effects. For my mother, for instance, it wasn't memory, it was a tingling sensation in her extremeties---which went away after she switched to a non-statin.
Found your socks! I'd like a 1-day reprieve from the door. They're nice socks. Be a shame if something happened to them...
The industry has been very good at hushing it up. As they say, there used to be warnings about eye problems, but those have since disappeared. Since the drug companies fund their own research, and since they are permitted to cease research and leave it unpublished if it runs against their claimed benefits, there’s little wonder that the available findings are skewed.
After all the years that our health system has been obsessed with high cholesterol, it’s interesting that the broadest research shows the health risks for people with high overall cholesterol scores are *lower* than for those with supposedly dangerously high levels of cholesterol.
The cholesterol obsession is more about multi-institutional path dependence than actual science or good medicine.
Yes. If there is high cholesterol AND other risk factors for heart disease---obesity, sedentary lifestyle---one must take action. But there are other avenues, such as a change in diet, that one can explore.
Sigh
Over on the mothership, some of the usual suspects are loudly demanding that everyone must credit Biden for the deal.
Cynthia encouraged some jocularity by awarding points to a clever punster, a handle I don't recognize. This is a good idea. Expand the base. Let people know that badinage is a thing in the comments. And it does sneak a little oxygen away from the outrage and troll types, does it not?
I think it's reasonable to say, "Your article does not include my point of view, and I am annoyed." Pointless, maybe, but the whole exercise is, pretty much.
It's not reasonable to say, "Your article does not include my point of view, and you are horrible, horrible people."
I let Cynthia be the bigger person over there while I pointed out the absurdity of the idea that Biden should get credit for a deal he initially refused to participate in.
I don't think any of them really deserves "credit," as if they did something genuinely worthwhile. However, I think it's pretty clear that Kevin McCarthy was the more successful political operator in this situation.
I take issue with certain pundits on what I consider their blind spots, but they're not horrible people or I wouldn't read their articles at all.
The ones yelling or whining regularly about their point of view not being represented by the writers should perhaps consider whether they're ever going to get enough value for the time and money they spend here. But maybe the opportunity to throw rotten vegetables at someone is the kind of value they are looking for.
I support all badinage efforts.
Do Tell!
Today's ridiculous spams: An "Idelle Abshire" advises me to "withdraw your +14745$, have only 24 hours." I note there is now neither a comma nor a dot in the 5-digit number today. We Americans should learn to put the dollar sign after, so nothing implausible about that part of it. Then a "Ballaba Bah" with a gmail address, not from a commercial domain, sends me a "Transaction Confirmation: Order Placed." Oh, maybe I ordered something in the middle of the night; better find out who from and what it was!
OK. I gotta' ask. What's up with you and all this spam you're getting? I don't get it. Literally. The spam, that is. It sounds like you get more in a day than I get in a year. Maybe two. Please, tell me what I'm doing right, so I can keep on doing it!! :-D
Oh, I don't get that many really. Maybe 2 per day. I just save some of them up to make fun of now and then.
Well, just so you know, if you're gonna' save your spam, according to several sources it will last from 2 to 5 years as long as you don't open it. Once opened, 7 to 10 days if you put your computer in the 'fridge. Of course, Hormel says it's best if used by the "best by" date. And if you ever notice an email starting to bulge or swell, you should definitely delete it unopened.
It's pretty good fried, served with some pineapple and some macaroni salad on the side, like they do in Hawaii.
growing up we'd eat it fried drenched in BBQ sauce with a heap of kraft mac-n-cheese and some green beans.
mmmmmm good
Fried w / scrambled eggs and fried (red) tomatoes does it for me. Great camp or fishin' breakfast.
We preferred corned beef hash to Spam.
These sound like names from a post-modernist novel.
Presumably that lends credibility for some people.
I am thinking AI comes up with these names.
Another argument for my definition, Ain't Intelligence
If you ask me, it's the people who believe everything AI says that need to get some more natural intelligence.
Them, too.
Dr. Peter Attia is on the "Honestly" pod today...check it out. "The Pursuit of Forever."
Today’s special animal friend is the Lookdown, Selene vomer, my favorite fish. Native to the western Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, the lookdown can live in salt or brackish water. It adapts to a variety of habitats, from Canada to Uruguay, rocky or sandy sea bottoms, in depths up to about 150 feet. Lookdowns are laterally compressed: tall in the vertical plane, very skinny in the horizontal plane. Their scales are shiny silver, sometimes with elegant silver-on-silver stripes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPxeMALyfn4
They are usually less than a foot in length. The record is about 19 inches, and this specimen weighed over 4 lbs. They swim in shoals or schools, maintaining a neat formation and being all reflective. They eat smaller fish, crustaceans, and worms, usually from the bottom. They can make a grunting noise when they are threatened by expelling air from their swim bladder.
https://saltwater.aqua-fish.net/?mexican-lookdown
Lookdowns are a popular saltwater aquarium fish because they are so hardy and cool-looking. Due to their large size, they require a large aquarium. Only really committed home aquarists keep them, but they are ubiquitous in public aquariums. They can be bred in captivity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT2OtF9N6QE
Lookdowns are considered a “game fish.” Sport fishermen enjoy catching them, and you can cook and eat them if you feel you must. The “Catch, Clean, Cook” videos on this are long and hardly seem worth it. Lookdowns are a species of Least Concern.
Just because the ocean is super weird, here’s a Black Sea Nettle, which is a sea nettle that is black, not a nettle found in the Black Sea. These were filmed in the Pacific:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbtRGBDqByU
That Nettle must feel like the rapper sometime when he's trying to sell lemonade
"Ice-T"?
"It's Lemonade"!
So how to rename it? "Midnight Blue Nettle of the Sea"?
"Black nettle of the Sea"?
Black but not Black Sea Nettle?
"Bob" (we almost named a province in Canada that".
I loved that Ice-T / lemonade thing when it came out.
It’s fun watching the fish swim, and the color is beautiful. I love the way a large group moves together around the aquarium—graceful and peaceful. The ocean is sooo interesting!
I’m going to watch the video a little later, but thank you for linking to it! I’m especially interested in what they have to say about statins. Thank you!
I eat too many carbs and probably not enough protein. Problem is I don’t much care at age 60 to make any drastic changes. I’ve never been overweight and while my cholesterol is in the 220 range, the “good” cholesterol (LDL right?) is high so my doctor has never pushed statins. I have tried multiple times to get my husband to reconsider taking them but he just poo poo’s me, “studies show....” you can’t break that mindset. He won’t ever
consider that maybe those studies were flawed.
From everything I’ve read, some people are simply fortunate and blessed that they don’t have any negative side effects of high carb consumption. If I were in your shoes, I wouldn’t change my behavior one bit either, tbh.
A good friend of mine going back to childhood is about my height and stature, and he’s never been an ounce overweight, never had to turn down any category of foods. He can put away all the bread and cake he wants without obvious problems.
It’s interesting that people can be so different in how they handle calories. I also know that BikerChick is very active. I think she’s probably a bit more careful with how much she eats, too. The thing I’ve run into is the people (especially men) who were able to eat a lot and remain thin in their teens and twenties, but gradually started putting on weight (especially stomach) as they aged because they got desk jobs, and were just a lot less active.
I thought your comment on missing sugar was interesting, too. I like some sugar, but I don’t crave it. I don’t care about candy or baked dessert items, and I quit eating coffee cake and danishes for breakfast (something I really did enjoy) years ago. But, I also like carbs (rice, whole grain cereal, sandwiches, pasta occasionally); I just don’t go crazy.
The friend I talked about who tried all the weird diets often said she was addicted to sugar. I think that might be a big part of the obesity problem.
Sugar is cheap (especially corn syrup) and addictive for some of us: It should come as no surprise that it gets put into *every* packaged food.
If pop (as we call it) was an occasional goodie, today there are more than a few people that consume a bottle with every meal. Most people are in denial about it, but fruit juice contains as much sugar by volume as a sugary soda. Your body doesn’t care if that sugar came from orange juice, apple juice, or a Dr Pepper. It’s just as harmful either way.
And farmers get government subsidies for growing A LOT of corn. We’re surrounded by corn fields here!
Lots of parents give their toddlers those fruit drinks, and I wonder now if that’s where it starts?
My kids never drank apple juice...so much sugar..and so many parents give it to their kids. I remember once my MIL was going to give my older kids apple juice and I told her they never have had it. She said, "you gave it to them all the time when they were little." I beg to differ, woman. Recently we were talking about toys and she said, "I remember you didn't allow me to give your kids gifts that were targeted to a "boy" or "girl." Ummmm...I think you have me mixed up with someone else or you're losing it.
She’s probably confused. None of that sounds like you!
My mom never gave us things like juice, soda, or Koolaid. She would serve a small glass of orange juice for breakfast, but not every morning. Once in awhile she’d make that frozen concentrate lemonade or limeade. That was a treat! I still remember the rare occasions she’d bake some cookies, and cake was just for birthdays!
However, she always had store boughten cookies in the cupboards (the kind she liked), and there was ice cream, but that was another thing we didn’t get all the time.
Yeah, my parents were completely oblivious to “targeted toys.” I remember having a Roy Rogers(?) outfit with a holster and gun (I didn’t like skirts or dresses). I also had that Davy Crocket “coon skin” hat! I had a couple of dolls, but was never all that interested. I don’t know what my brothers were into? (At least when we were young!)
It's been said that if you put 10 economists end-to-end, you won't reach a conclusion.
I've long thought that economists have nothing on nutritionists.
So do what works for you.
I think Dorothy Parker's line is more succient.
"If you laid all the Yale Coeds end-to-end, why I wouldn't be surprised".
Dorothy Parker was a lady with a most un-ladylike wit.
Another of her bon-mots was "Men never make passes at women with glasses."
Times they are a'changin'.
I myself have always enjoyed the certain je ne sais quoi of a woman in glasses.
Maybe I hung out in libraries too much when I was growing up. 😉
What if the glasses are full of wine?
All bets are off.
Maybe the men should just take their glasses off.
*Whose* glasses should a man take off -- his, or the woman's? 🙂
Either way would work. But I found ambiguity in the original statement.
Pretty sure she meant the women had the glasses.
“This is w book not to be tossed lightly aside, but rather hurled with great force.” Iirc.
"She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
Ahhh, I specialized in that, since they were more lonely! It's not just "fish where the fish are" but also "Fish where the other fishermen ain't"....
Good morning. The mothership today reports on the debt ceiling "done deal" and on continuing political instability in Pakistan, a country with nuclear weapons.
While the deal has passed the House, it still has to get through that thicket of obstructing rules and obstructionists called the Senate, so it's a bit early to spike the football.
Good morning.
I'm not feeling quite conscious yet, so I'll leave it at that.
Some days we just have to ease into the flow.
Morning!
"Here they discuss their own and their patients’ experiences that led them to turn their backs on the conventional modern medical advice for healthy eating. Dr. Berry started the interview in something of a grumpy mood..."
Probably needed his sugar fix.
I know! How cruel of life and biochemistry…
Statins are quite problematic. My ex, who had congenitally high cholesterol (her Dad and Mom both had it and lived well into their 90's) and no other heart disease risk factors, was put on statins by her doctor. She quite soon lost her short term memory, which is an especially bad thing if you're a lawyer involved in high end real estate transactions. She stopped the statins. Her memory came back. Our doctor (a good physician who saved my life at a different time) pooh-poohed that statins were the cause. We were convinced we were right and found a medical paper from UCLA which alerted, years before, of the link between statins and memory loss. She eschewed red meat, took garlic and fish oil pills and brought her cholesterol down to an acceptable level. We discovered many people who had other deleterious effects from statins.
I don't eschew red meat, I cook it to medium, then chew it....Once it I first take it off the grill.
mmmmm. grilled meat.
You knew this was coming Jay, and now you must be going -- 🚪
I knew I was gonna get eschewed out on this one...
EhhhhHHH-CHEW!!!
'Scuse me. Sorry. Lots of pollen out today.
Just like a professional tailor, Phil can knot resist the urge to pick at every darned knit.
Must you needle him?
BEGONE!!
I’ve been on one for many years and sometimes wonder if I should stop. My doc at the time recommended it as a preventative as my family history has a lot of heart disease. My cholesterol was always (and is still) in the normal range. I don’t seem to experience side effects although my wife might laugh about my memory. I think I’ll do some more reading.
👍 you realize, of course, that you are taking medical advice from us, right?
Should we tell him the truth about the moon landing yet?
Wait. What? If the moon had landed here I *know* I would've heard something. Can't keep anything that big a secret. Stop messin' around. You know how this sort of thing spreads on the 'net.
You guys believe in the moon?
🤔
If you read and/or listen to more info on high cholesterol, it’s not necessarily bad. Also, not all, but most people have higher cholesterol as they age. Mine was always low, and I think it was around the time of menopause that it started going up.
My husband didn’t have any side effects from statins, but I’m glad he’s not taking them now.
He’s lucky.
Nothing bothers him, it seems. Anything I have to take seems to cause some kind of side effect.
When you break into operatic arias, stop.
That’s funny because I’m suddenly experience a bunch of those damn “ear worms.” I hardly ever listen to music, and yesterday it was “Air Supply;” this morning it’s Neil Diamond. I don’t care for either of them, and they had catchy tunes that keep rolling through my brain! 😩 (Time to listen to a podcast!)
I often have songs in my head. Some of them I enjoy; some I get tired of. I have several go-tos that I would rather have and which have the power to displace one I don't like. "Brown-eyed Girl" and "Come Together" are pretty effective. I have a rotation of others, too. One requirement in such a song is that the opening notes or chords are clear and memorable.
Sometimes a song starts up in my head because something that's going on reminds me of a lyric.
A frequent one is "what am I, what am I supposed to do?" from the song "Anna" recorded early in the Beatles' career. (Because sometimes one gets put in a false position.)
And when I look over the wide selection of tomato plant varieties for sale, the Cherokee Purple always puts a quarter in my mental jukebox. Can anyone guess the song and the performer, or tell me a few lines from it?
Cynthia would probably recommend a Jonah Goldberg "Remnant' podcast which she has mentioned several times. I have always found Jonah a bit of an acquired taste, which I have not fully required. Unless he has a guest, he tends to ramble, sometimes to good affect, sometimes less so.
I've been on atorvastatin for some years and I have no memory problems.
(Now, where did I put my socks?)
I solved that by doing two things.
a) I wear all black socks for walking, so if I lose one, I have 19 others just like it!
b) I deliberately mis-match all my dress socks. I tell people it's a statement. "What's the statement"? "That if they're they same thickness my toes say they match"!
I don't remember having any memory problems.
Other common side effects are joint and muscle pains. Hopefully your doc told you to take co-enzyme Q10 just to be on the safe side.
Right. The problem is that different people have different side effects. For my mother, for instance, it wasn't memory, it was a tingling sensation in her extremeties---which went away after she switched to a non-statin.
Found your socks! I'd like a 1-day reprieve from the door. They're nice socks. Be a shame if something happened to them...
🧦🥳
Good one. Sock it to him. Are we about to be stocking up on these?
And here Josh, you went and spoiled that reprieve Optimum wanted - 🚪
Thanks, Phil and good morning!
Trying to keep him on his toes.
My memory of bad puns is still good - 🚪
No reprieve? Harsh.
👍
It's good for the sole.
Such an arch statement.
Unless you experience a run.
The industry has been very good at hushing it up. As they say, there used to be warnings about eye problems, but those have since disappeared. Since the drug companies fund their own research, and since they are permitted to cease research and leave it unpublished if it runs against their claimed benefits, there’s little wonder that the available findings are skewed.
After all the years that our health system has been obsessed with high cholesterol, it’s interesting that the broadest research shows the health risks for people with high overall cholesterol scores are *lower* than for those with supposedly dangerously high levels of cholesterol.
The cholesterol obsession is more about multi-institutional path dependence than actual science or good medicine.
Yes. If there is high cholesterol AND other risk factors for heart disease---obesity, sedentary lifestyle---one must take action. But there are other avenues, such as a change in diet, that one can explore.