I had a blood test a few days ago in advance of next week’s wellness visit with my doctor. The results were posted the next day.
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Science Daily: Creatine may help build muscle even without exercise
Research article: Effects of creatine supplementation with and without exercise and diet intervention on body composition cognitive function and markers of health.
CrM [creatine] supplementation without exercise training and diet intervention increased lean tissue mass, strength, and muscular endurance while promoting favor-able changes in selected blood lipids, HbA1c, and selected markers of cognitive function and memory.
Do the reading, but in short, 10 grams of creatine improves physical and mental performance in old folks. Physical exercise enhances the benefits.
The risk is negligible, so I’m going to try it. Coincidentally, I had blood work done yesterday, so will have some numbers to compare.
CDC: 12 Month-ending Provisional Number and Percent Change of Drug Overdose Deaths
It should be a bigger story that drug overdose deaths are down 40%.
Three reasons come to mind:
- Controlling what comes across the border.
- Blowing up drug boats
- Removing illegal immigrants belonging to criminal gangs.
That’s all supply-side. There may be demand-side reasons as well. Everyone should be in favor of this.
PBS: Trump announces all 50 states joining Medicaid drug pricing model
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that all 50 states will join in on a program set to provide Most Favored Nation pricing to some drugs within the Medicaid program, bringing the net price of selected drugs down to prices paid in certain other countries.
Army Soldiers Have 90 Days to Get Measured Under New Height-Weight Rules
Under the new policy, an assessor will measure a soldier’s waist circumference at the navel in inches and divide that figure by the soldier’s height in inches. Anything below 0.55 passes.
It is good to see somebody officially dump the BMI. Medical research didn’t validate BMI as an indicator of overall health, and common sense didn’t either. A muscle-bound jock could fail for being too muscle-bound.
These are a few of the splendid mushrooms that we passed on our morning stroll. There are so many, and some of them look tasty.
Then I remembered something I read in a book. “Dyin’ ain’t a good way to start the day.”
I looked up edible mushroom in our area. There is a poisonous mushroom that looks a little bit like every good kind of mushroom. My mushroom is within the margin-of-error for either species.
All those mushrooms got me thinking.
I just finished the second phase of getting a dental implant.
When he was done, Dr. Morgan showed off the torque wrench he used to set the post in my jawbone. He really likes this torque wrench because it doesn’t need to be calibrated for at least a 100,000 cycles.
I like that Dr. Morgan understands his tools and appreciates quality.
Sparky was spooked by a chipmunk.
I never moved Sparky’s food bowl, and I still like to leave the patio door open so Sparky can wander out when I’m having coffee on the deck. Another chipmunk ran into the house. Or the same one, I don’t know.
While working on the bedroom cabinets, I found this wretched hive in the corner of the garage about 4 feet from my worktable.
A few yellow jackets have been buzzing around for a week. Now I know where they’ve settled. Rather than hose them down with hornet spray or put on the bee suit to play Hulk smash, I dusted them with Sevin insecticide.
In a day or so, they will be back in hell.
The Aussie beagle that ate 1.1kg of jelly snakes
This beagle is so pissed off because she ate 5 to 10% of her body weight in what we’d call gummy bears. She thought she was so clever for stealing a bag of candy, then her owners took her to the vet to induce barfing.
Xylitol is a sugar substitute that spikes insulin in dogs, and can trigger hypoglycemia. A few of grams of xylitol is enough to put the dog in the hospital, and that could be just a few gummy bears.
Fortunately, these jelly snakes had no xylitol, so all the vomiting was for nothing.
The Merck Veterinary Manual has actual scientific information.