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Sex, Scholars and the Syphilitic Superpower

Mathew Maavak
Sott.net
Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:55 UTC
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So much 'Murica
A civilization where women and children are sexually commoditized is one in terminal decline. The next enduring superpower will be one that had successfully shielded its women and children from the ongoing epidemic of mass-mediated sexualisation. Any futurist worth his salt will vouch for this axiom, as well as note the inverse correlation between the enfeeblement of the current superpower and the procession of phallic chevrons that accompany its military compulsions abroad.

But the faculty of reason - and of cause and effect - is inevitably lost on a society where adjunct professors may resort to prostitution in order to make ends meet. And believe it or not, this is exactly what is happening in the United States.

Professorial Prostitutes

According to a Sept 28 report in The Guardian, a quarter of part-time college academics or "adjuncts" in the United States are subsisting on public welfare programs such as Medicaid, food banks and charities while they live off the streets, in shacks or in their cars. "Adjuncting" is the result of runaway capitalism that has benefited a privileged 1% at the expense of an overworked and underpaid rabble. It is a convenient way of providing substandard teaching for higher fees and revenue at US universities and colleges.
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Can mushrooms make you feel fuller longer?

Heather Callaghan
Natural Blaze
Sat, 28 Oct 2017 15:17 UTC
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Try an experiment - eat your typical breakfast one day. Whether it has meat or is plant-based doesn't matter. Note how you feel. On the next day, displace some of your regular ingredients with mushrooms. Now see if you feel fuller for longer.

I did the experiment and I believe it works. On days where I add sauteed shiitake mushrooms and onions to my breakfast potato-spinach plate I feel as though I can work for a longer period without snacking. Mushrooms have become my go-to replacement for meat ever since I did another personal experiment at one of my favorite restaurants. They made an amazing burger either with meat - or a portobello "steak." While both options are amazing, I never think twice about ordering the mushroom "burger" since I feel just as satiated but with no indigestion or heaviness.

Turns out that mushrooms contain much nutrients and protein which may explain their ability to make people feel fuller longer.

A new study on satiety published in the October issue of the journal Appetite indicates that eating a mushroom-rich breakfast may result in less hunger and a greater feeling of fullness after the mushroom breakfast compared to the meat breakfast.
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Healthy 90 year-olds found to have the same gut bacteria as 30 year-olds

Karen Foster
Prevent Disease
Thu, 26 Oct 2017 15:10 UTC
gut bacteria
In one of the largest microbiota studies conducted in humans, scientists have shown a potential link between healthy aging and a healthy gut - finding that the overall microbiome composition of healthy elderly people was similar to that of people decades younger, and that the gut microbiota differed little between individuals from the ages of 30 to over 100.

There are over 400 species of bacteria in your belly right now that can be the key to health or disease.

Health care of the future may include personalized diagnosis of an individual's "microbiome" to determine what probiotics are needed to provide balance and prevent disease. They're thought to encode more than 3 million genes in the body, and this complexity of bugs may also be responsible for immune dysfunction that begins with a "failure to communicate" in the human gut, scientists say.

Led by researchers from the Lawson Health Research Institute at Western University, Canada, and Tianyi Health Science Institute in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China the study analysed gut bacteria in a cohort of more than 1,000 Chinese individuals in a variety of age-ranges from 3 to over 100 years-old who were self-selected to be extremely healthy with no known health issues and no family history of disease.

The results showed a direct correlation between health and the microbes in the intestine.
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Gut-brain connection case study: Woman experiences psychosis when consuming gluten

Sara G. Miller
Live Science
Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:26 UTC
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Gluten has been implicated in a number of symptoms related to celiac disease that go beyond the digestive system, including rashes, anemia and headaches. But according to a recent case report, the wheat protein played a role in one woman's severe psychosis.

The 37-year-old woman, whose case was described in the report, was studying for her Ph.D. when she started having delusions. Her symptoms began with a belief that people were talking about her as part of a conspiracy in which friends, family members and strangers were acting out scenes for her in a "game," the doctors who treated the woman wrote in their report, published May 12 in The New England Journal of Medicine.

After making threats against her family, the patient was admitted to a psychiatric hospital and was diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, the doctors wrote. She was prescribed anti-psychotic medications to help control her symptoms, but they did not work very well, according to the report.
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Glyphosate levels have skyrocketed in older Americans over past 23 years

Bradley J. Fikes
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 18:14 UTC
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Levels of the herbicide glyphosate have soared in older Americans in 23 years, according to a study led by University of California researchers.

The study wasn't designed to detect any potential harm from the increased exposure, but it will help with future studies to determine if any such link exists, said Paul J. Mills, a UC San Diego professor of family medicine and public health.

The study used data from the long-running and influential Rancho Bernardo Study of Healthy Aging, established in 1972. It was published as a research letter Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study can be found at j.mp/roundupucsd.

Environmental activists have attacked the widespread use of glyphosate as causing cancer and other diseases. Some studies have suggested a potential link, but none have actually demonstrated a causal effect in humans. Other studies have found no correlation.

Opponents say animal research shows the potential for harm.

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Visual snow, hallucinations and floating halos may be clues your eyesight is acting up

Erin Dean
Daily Mail
Mon, 26 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC
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For ten years Laura Richardson knew that as darkness fell her vision would change. Her eyes would fill with dancing dots that looked like static on a television screen.

She also found bright light painful. However trips to the optician, GP and an ophthalmologist couldn't identify any physical problem.

So she learned to manage the symptoms herself, by installing dimmer lights at home that she kept switched low, and wearing tinted glasses - made for her by an optician - which she wore whenever in bright artificial light.

'I became very depressed and felt that no one truly understood what it was like to see through my eyes,' says Laura, 30, a counselling student from St Helens in Merseyside.
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The Health & Wellness Show: Flu Season: Don't believe the hype


Sott.net
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:00 UTC
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It's flu season folks, and the yearly hype and scare-mongering are upon us. How such a relatively benign and short-lived cluster of symptoms that nearly everyone on Earth experiences from time to time can generate such maniacal focus boggles the mind. It seems that every year there are warnings that this flu season will be the worst and we must prepare for a possible pandemic. The CDC's guesstimated statistic that 36 thousand people a year die from the flu is trotted out with almost clock-like regularity and quoted by esteemed health 'experts' nationwide in order to pressure people into obtaining their flu shot.

On this episode of The Health and Wellness Show we'll examine the flu, flu propaganda, flu shots, flu prevention, flu treatment and all other things flu-y. Join us!

And stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment where the topic will be upper respiratory infections in cats.

Running Time: 01:28:28

Download: MP3

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Plague outbreak in Madagascar is getting worse and is spreading to urban areas, say officials

Patrick Knox and Danny Collins
The Sun
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 23:31 UTC
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Staff at at Black Death treatment centre wear gloves and masks to protect themselves from catching the killer bug. And health officials have warned things will get worse before they get better.
World health experts today warned an outbreak of the Black Death in Madagascar will get even worse.

More than 100 have been killed and 1,300 infected with the pneumonic plague since August - leading UK authorities to warn Brits off visiting the African wildlife paradise.

And now health officials are warning things will get even worse before they get better.

Olivier Le Guillou of Action Again Hunger said: "We have not yet reached the peak."

Health officials say the disease has now become much more contagious because it is now being transmitted from person-to-person through the air as well as from animals to humans through infected flea bites.

The disease, which contributed to the deaths of more than 50 million people in Europe during the Middle Ages, has spread from rural areas into urban areas which are not usually affected.

Comment: One wonders if this is truly the bubonic plague or just another example of disease hitting poor people with compromised immunity due to nutritional deficits and lack of proper sanitation.

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Nutrition plays a critical role in the healing and prevention of mental illness

Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com
Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00 UTC
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Some mental health struggles may actually be a nutrient deficiency
Can you use specific nutrients to improve your mental health? Yes, you can. William Walsh, Ph.D., president of the nonprofit Walsh Research Institute in Naperville, Illinois, and author of "Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain," specializes in nutrient-based psychiatry and nutritional medicine.

He and I are both fellows of the American College of Nutrition. He's designed nutritional programs for Olympic athletes, NBA players and major league baseball players. More importantly, he's spent a great deal of his career seeking to improve mental health through nutrition.
"I started off in the hard science. I was an experimentalist," Walsh says. "I worked, in the beginning, in the nuclear field ... with places like Los Alamos, the Institute for Atomic Research and University of Michigan Research Institute. I wound up at Argonne National Laboratory. While working as a scientist there, I started a volunteer project at the local prison, Stateville Penitentiary.

I eventually got really interested in why people were violent ... [W]hen we started the ex-offender program, I got to meet the families that had produced a criminal. I found some wonderful families, caring and capable families, that have other children who turned out just fine ...

I began to realize we didn't understand why people had bad behavior. We then asked the question, 'Could it be something related to their brain chemistry or the body chemistry?'... I started doing lab studies of their blood, their urine and hair. I found out that they were very, very different from the rest of the population. That's how I got started."
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Stem cell injections could bring relief to millions with lower back pain and cut reliance on opioids

Andy Coghlan
New Scientist
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:41 UTC
back pain
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An injection could finally bring relief to millions of people with chronic lower back pain. If it works, the stem cell treatment could be a crucial tool for fighting the opioid epidemic killing thousands in the US.

Opioids accounted for 33,000 deaths in the US in 2015 alone. Many of those deaths occur as a result of people becoming addicted to opioids prescribed for lower back pain, which affects around 28 million people in the US and accounts for around half of all opioid painkiller prescriptions there.

Stem cells might change that. Injected into damaged discs between the vertebrae of the spine, each dose contains around 6 million cells. Called mesenchymal precursor cells, they dampen down inflammation and secrete factors that help rebuild damaged tissue.

In experiments in sheep, these cells completely rebuilt damaged vertebral discs, prompting Silviu Itescu of the firm Mesoblast in Melbourne, Australia, and his team to try the technique in people. "In 100 patients, we've shown substantial improvements in function and pain relief that last two years or more," he says.
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