Health and Fitness

[HighlyIrregular II]

The new treadmill is only 1.5 HP but it's great. That's a relief. For walking, a 14" wide belt is apparently fine. For walking or jogging on my old, wider one, I veered way off to the side once and needed every bit of the width, but I feel safe walking on my narrower one, and I tested what happens if my foot goes off the belt. Enough weight is still on the belt that my foot moves with the belt and slides along the edge smoothly enough. With court shoes it may be different, but my running shoes work fine with a misstep. There's a permanent incline, but that's good. I feel it in my calves but I also get better cardio when walking compared to the old flat treadmill. So, now I get thigh work from the bike and calf word from the treadmill. Also, the smaller size and lighter weight of the new treadmill saves me $200 because I could take it up the stairs myself. So could the UPS guy, so I didn't even have to.

[HighlyIrregular II]

My maintenance regimen included chewing xylitol gum for its anti-bacterial properties. Not sure how much good it did but it helped dislodge the center of my left wisdom tooth, which had looked possibly cracked and apparently was. So now I water floss it after every meal....

I have a new regimen for my giant wisdom tooth cavity. I tried buying a tuft-end toothbrush but they sent me flossers instead, so I just made my own. The tuft of the one I wanted to buy may have been too big anyway. I have better control if I make my own with needle nose pliers, and the bristles are extra soft, not regular soft like store bought ones.

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[HighlyIrregular II]

About 40 years after my grandmother separated the red M&Ms after hearing red dye #3 causes cancer, the FDA banned it. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-n ... rcna185479

[HighlyIrregular]

Chat GPT could analyze lab results. And BTW, not bragging but I asked it to calculate my age from sexual function markers alone and the upper range was 40 years old. Forgot the lower. Just to let you know it could do that.

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[Catoptric]

Electrolytes


It turns out with the medical case that the girlfriend is not the only thing that guy shared.

I also wonder about the fine balance between seizures and blood clots, and heart issues (the types of electrolytes for heart function, but also preventing blood clots; things often attributed to inactivity are often the result of the body not being active enough to perspire and remove salts naturally; thus too much sodium can possibly cause blood clots.)

Dogs can have a problem with seizures, but I believe the results can also be caused from a dog not having much salt, while also deficient in other things. And a dog also doesn't perspire like people do, so it's almost never suggested to give a dog salt, and yet at other times it would be suggested to supplement them with it.

https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/wha ... ernatremia


A woman bought tapeworms off the dark web in order to lose weight (possibly the reason RFK Jr acquired them???) and it destroyed her brain.




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Basically, the vast majority of commercially produced avocados are ripened unnaturally, and anything labeled avocado is usually anything but, and most all guacamole is more likely to be artificial (5% might be avocado, the rest is emulsifiers like peas, and 'Avocado Oil' might not have anything as such, and the the US government has always been sleazy when it comes to consumer practices. A significant problem with all oils indifferent of what it is, is oxidation.



It's mentioned that avocados have about 900 mg, and each banana usually has 450 mg (which should have been mentioned.)

On the topic of potassium, it seems that eating too many refined grains will deplete you of it, and it can cause a spike in heart rate.

[HighlyIrregular]

Here's a topic that was discussed on the old forum.

Your toothbrush is bristling with bacteria - is it time to change it?

The toilet plume
Each time you flush the toilet, a plume of tiny droplets of water and faeces are thrown up to 1.5m (5ft) into the air around it. Carried with this aerosol-like spray can be bacteria and infectious viruses such as those that cause flu, Covid-19 and the winter vomiting bug norovirus.

I have to move my toothbrush to the other side of the sink.

And a throwback photo showing how worn I let my toothbrush get back in the day.

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Bristles obviously wear down. Maybe the microplastics mixed with the toothpaste is a case for rinsing the toothpaste out of your mouth. I used to, then I just spit a bunch of times and rinsed my tongue. Maybe I'll go back to rinsing my mouth...with fluoride mouthwash probably.

[Senseye]

I've got my toothbrush on the other side of the sink from the toilet, but it is still not that far away. I'm from the school of "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" when it comes to bacteria and related hygiene so I am not too fussed. My kitchen cleanliness level would appall most folks (certainly any SJ types).

My dentist gives out toothbrushes after checkups so I switch every six months. This was great when I had dental insurance through work, but I am paying out of pocket these days. I still go every six months which is probably overkill. But I can afford it so what the heck.

[HighlyIrregular]

I think none of JFK Jr's stuff that actually got enacted so far was necessarily bad. I may have missed something. Probably did. But the upcoming saturated fat guidance could be different. I read that there's push-back and it may come to nothing but it will be interesting.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rated-fats

I saw a guy in a Youtube video a few months ago say "...it has saturated fat" as though that's a good thing and I didn't know where that came from. And there was another video about the healthiest fast food burger, and they chose Five Guys. I'd seen them ranked by conventional media as having the least healthy burger because it had the highest saturated fat. The Youtube guy said it's the healthiest because the bun is more natural.

[HighlyIrregular]

There was mention of melatonin but I looked up the side effects and even that's scary.

New info on melatonin

"Long-term use of melatonin supplements to support sleep may have negative health effects"