Trihalo42 learns you somethin

We're being hit with a plasma ejection this weekend, sometime around Sunday. Mainstream news isn't telling us to run for survival shelters or anything. An aurora might be visible as far south as New York. But just in case this turns out to be a significant event, I'd like to throw out a little info on electromagnetic disturbances.

The only warnings so far about this one is that transformers at higher elevations might be damaged. The electrical grid can act like a huge antenna, giving an electromagnetic pulse a long enough run to induce a bigger charge. If you wave a permanent magnet over a wire, you induce an electrical flow. Passing that magnet over a tiny piece of wire won't do as much as sweeping it over a long wire, or through a coil of wire.

To protect electronics, simply disconnecting cables should be enough. It's not like lightning is going to arc from the cables or anything. It's just that a few volts increase can overload sensitive electronics. Smaller electronics like hand held radios don't usually have enough metal to allow electromagnetic disturbances to fry them. But if you're worried about your favorite stuff, putting them inside a metal container is recommended. At the very least, wrapping them in aluminum foil can help, as long as the foil isn't touching anything metal on the device.

I do not recommend wrapping your head in aluminum foil, at least not for this particular event.

For more detailed reading, Futurescience LLC did an article on “EMP myths”. It mentions that most of the detailed data on EMPs from nuclear detonations is classified, and that there was so much misinformation in movies and television that the US Air Force commissioned a training video with Bill Nye, The Science Guy to cover what actually happens.

This is a political post, so move along if you’re avoiding politics.

We know Biden has dementia. It’s obvious. But he’s “not Trump” so a large number of people don’t care. But there are people who do care and planned on it being a problem. The 25th amendment says that a president unable to perform their duties can be bypassed / removed. Democrats even tried to use it to remove Trump. Which moves us to the first woman president by technicality.

Not just the first woman president, but a “person of color”. Now Biden has the whole son getting money from China and things that are actually being investigated, but Harris has the “kept black men in prison past the time they should have been released, including for something as simple as marijuana possession while laughing about smoking it herself, so they could be used for prison labor” controversy that too many people chose to ignore. But that’s not the biggest problem.

JFK was assassinated for his political views. Some called him a “commie”, some called him a socialist. The US has been trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government because they’re socialist. Seeing a pattern here? Harris is a socialist.

So for Harris to avoid being killed by our own CIA or a dozen other three letter acronyms, or some sub-section of our military that doesn’t actually answer to anyone anymore, she needs to either exit the whole situation by finding and leaking proof the election was rigged so she can live to fight another day, OR she can set that information up to be leaked upon her death, to discourage people from killing her, or at the least have revenge for it.

One might think, but the presidency would then go to the Speaker of the House, Pelosi, who would also be the now second acting woman president. Whoever rigged this didn’t count on her being removed as Speaker. There are some Democrats who think her policies, particularly her talking about socialism, are a reason Democrats lost seats in the House. If Biden is 25th’d, there’s going to be a strong and immediate push to remove her as Speaker, “just in case”. But the House might still put a Democrat in charge? Not necessarily. If Pelosi is removed as Speaker while Harris’ body is still warm, there won’t be an actual sworn in Speaker and it goes to the next person, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Republican Chuck Grassley from Iowa.

So Republicans are likely to still control things due to a figurative “body count”. But Harris should really get that documentation ready, either as an insurance policy, or for revenge.

I just read an amazing rationalization. Amazing that anyone would believe it. That Jesus only told his disciples to get swords so he would be arrested.

I've written before about how when they went to arrest Jesus that Simon Peter drew his sword and chopped off a man’s ear. Jesus stopped him, said to sheath his sword, and that this was what God had planned. That Jesus did not condemn him for owning a weapon nor did he tell Simon Peter to get rid of it.

But now, the “weapons are evil” people seem to be rationalizing that the only reason that “turn the other cheek” ’s disciples would have weapons is if they were trying to look like bad guys and give the guards a solid reason to arrest Jesus. As if this political upstart, with his growing “cult”, a reference used in historical documents from that time about the growing “Christian cult”, and pressure on Pilot to get rid of Jesus from the same Jewish leaders that wanted him dead long before he told his disciples to get swords, would need to have his people armed to get arrested. 

This is not too different from the mis-translation of “Thou Shalt Not Kill”. In the original documents, the old Hebrew word “ratzah” is used, which means murder, and not “harag” which means to kill. The words murder and kill have two very different moral connotations. The correct translation is “Thou Shalt Not Murder”. This can create moral debate where pacifists argue that all killing is murder, and sane people knowing that killing a murderer who’s trying to kill you and your family is justified killing. The intentional mis-translation of the ancient scripture was done to discourage violence in the unwashed masses, and to keep them from rationalizing the killing of corrupt leaders. It was about controlling the masses, the same as disarming people is about control.

Or it could be people who acknowledge Jesus’s existence as a prophet, but not as the son of God, wanting it to look like the Jewish leaders would never have arrested and crucified him if his people hadn’t been armed. Which takes it from rationalization to propaganda.

Short version: 

Chloroquine and ACE inhibitors for hypertension both affect the ACE pathway. I believe increased heart attack risk is the result of the drugs interacting and causing an inhibitor overdose.

Long version:

Reports have claimed that Chloroquine used in the treatment of Covid19 has increased risk of heart attacks. 

However, according to the American College of Cardiology Foundation

 “...several hundred million courses of chloroquine have been used worldwide making it one of the most widely used drugs in history, without reports of arrhythmic death under World Health Organization surveillance...”. 

To be fair, they did question the quality of monitoring. 

Chloroquine affects the ACE pathway, as does Covid19. A kind of blood pressure medicine called an ACE inhibitor also works along that pathway.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and this is not medical advice. Consult your licensed health care giver before trying anything you read on the internet. Big Brother loves you and wants you to be healthy.

This post is half full of assumptions, and you know what they say about assumptions.

A 1973 study showed simple sugar can slow white blood cell mobility. (Role of sugars in human neutrophilic phagocytosis). Regular carbohydrates did not have this effect. Naturally the junk food industry panicked and paid for studies to contradict it, but mostly just proved that exercise clears excess glucose from the blood.

A chart of the effects given by Dr. Agatha Thrash:

The study stated that the effects last for at least 5 hours.

This brings me to IV bags used to supply patients with calories when they are unable to eat. Short term IVs are usually 5% dextrose and the rate of feed can vary based on the size of the patient, adults vs small children, and other factors. A patient on long term IV nutrition will be given a mixture of dextrose, fats, and amino acids. My following calculations assume that only dextrose is given.

A 150 pound (70 kg) person has about 4 grams of glucose circulating in their blood. Or to make a very rough equivalent, that's about 1 teaspoon of sugar. Think about that next time you start spooning sugar into your coffee.

Here's where I start making some big assumptions.

IF we assume the patient is having their 2000 kcal a day requirement met by dextrose alone, this brings up the question of just how much is being dripped into them per hour, and is it enough to actually impact white blood cell mobility? Again, a more complete nutrition IV drip would have less dextrose and less of an effect.

IF we assume 2000, and IF we assume that's a steady drip over 24 hours, that's about 83 kcal per hour. Assuming sugar is 4 kcal per gram, 83 kcal is the equivalent of about 21 grams, and at 4 grams per teaspoon that's a little over 5 teaspoons. According to the chart, that could cause an almost a 25% reduction in white blood cells' ability to destroy bacteria.

We can assume that's an equal effect on their ability to destroy viruses and even virus infected cells.

Could it be that the food industry's efforts to keep profits up has prevented us from making adjustments to a common medical practice? That we should have long ago stopped using simple sugars in  IV bags and found a safer alternative? Could this be why some people seem to be doing relatively well until they're put in a hospital with a dextrose IV drip? How many times have you heard that someone seemed only a little sick and then died shortly after being admitted to a hospital? Could the interplay between vitamin C and sugar, being chemically similar enough to compete for uptake in white blood cells, mean that people who have low vitamin C levels who then get a dextrose drip have a more powerful lowering of white blood cell mobility?

Or is there something else going on that proves my assumptions are way off? I've been wrong before, and I really hope I'm wrong about this one.

Reference:

This post is about weightlifting. I didn't know the following information when I started lifting in 2002, so I'm sharing this with anyone who might be where I was at that point knowledge wise.

Short Version: 1) In a strict bench press the lats help until the arms are parallel to the torso. That's why some people get stuck halfway up and start bridging. 2) Hams assist in the squat till you go so low they're shortened too much to help. 3) There's two sides to your calves. One works more when your leg is straight, the other when it's bent. If you do bodyweight calf raises, you need to also do them squatting down, similar in appearance to one of Michael Jackson's moves. 4) Overloading your core strength can cause your brain to shut you down to keep you from tearing your spine in half. Strengthening your core, spinal erectors, etc can help prevent this. 5) Bench doesn't let your shoulders rotate forward. Do presses that allow them to. 6) The long head of the triceps is involved with movement at both the arm AND the shoulder, so using different grips does affect activation. People calling it “bro science” don't know science. I've included a quote and link from a buff chiropractor. 7) A few studies have shown that rotating the leg far enough either way puts emphasis on parts of the quads letting you shape them. 8) You can hold the same weight down by your hips longer than you can hold it with arms outstretched. This is important for deltoid work. Because of leverage, doing dumbbell deltoid raises lying on your side can put most of the load on the muscles while they are elongated instead of when the muscle is bunched up. Otherwise you're really only getting a workout at the top of the movement.

Long Version:

Lats and the Bench Press:

The lats attach to the upper arm and pull the upper arm to your side. Lat pulldowns and rows both involve the lats, obviously. But when bench pressing, with the elbows pulled in close, your upper arms go below your body. The lats help until the upper arms are pulled up parallel to the torso, then they can't help anymore. This is why people start to arch their backs and flare out their elbows, so they can include the lats in the movement again. Using proper form, about halfway up your benchpress, you lose the use of two large muscles, so it can be a sticking point.

Squats and Hams:

Your hams do two things. They bend your knee, obviously, and because they're attached up at your pelvis, when the quads are contracting and holding the lower leg extended, the hams wind up helping pull your upper leg backwards, assisting your glutes. When the hams are bunched up, like at the bottom of a squat, they can't help much, so you lose the use of two large muscles.

This effect can also be used to put emphasis on your glutes. Hip thrusts, where you're lying on your back with your feet pulled close to you, or lying across a bench with your knees at about a 90 degree angle, shortens the hams and puts the load on your glutes.

Two Parts to your Calves:

There's two parts to your calves, the soleus and gastrocnemius. Standing calf raises hit the gastrocnemius more, and seated calf raises hit the soleus more. When there's a lack of equipment, some people will just do standing bodyweight calf raises. Basically standing up on their toes. But to hit the soleus more, the knees need to be bent. One of Michael Jackson's signature moves was him squatted down while standing up on his toes. I'm not saying you need to be able to balance on the tips of your toes like he did, but the movement looks similar.

Overloading Your Core Strength is like Hitting a Big Red Emergency Stop Button:

Your deep brain cares more about survival than looking good. If at any point your body feels like what you're doing is about to tear your spine, or something similarly damaging, you'll suddenly become weak as a kitten. Unless you're psychotic and practically immune to pain, in which case you're probably a powerlifter with a long medical history. As for the rest of us, doing one handed pushups and one legged squats strengthens the “core” muscles, spinal erectors, and all those little muscles we don't feel till a lift goes wrong. Your deep down survival parts of your brain feeling safe will keep it from hitting the emergency stop button.

Relevant to this, people who benefit the most from free weight bench presses have bad balance. They're constantly making little corrections using muscles they wouldn't on a machine.

Bench Doesn't Allow for Shoulder Rotation:

With your back on a bench, your scapula (flat parts of your shoulder blades) are pressed against the bench and don't let your shoulders move forward. Doing one handed pushups, even just leaning over at an angle and pressing off your bathroom sink, can strengthen this important muscle group.

Twisted Triceps:

It has been suggested that different hand positions can target different parts of the triceps. This is where some people start claiming “bro science”. Never mind studies done showing rotation of the femur can activate different parts of the quads more. How dare I try to compare apples and oranges. First off, there's research that shows that parts of the triceps are hit more at different shoulder elevations.

The following is from a study listed on the NIH's National Library of Medicine PMC6136322, “The different role of each head of the triceps brachii muscle in elbow extension”. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6136322/

“...Each head of the triceps brachii has a different pattern of force and activity during different shoulder elevations. The long head contributes to elbow extension more at shoulder elevation and the medial head takes over at 90° and above of shoulder elevation. This study provides further understanding of triceps brachii's for clinicians and health trainers who need to investigate the functional role of the triceps brachii in detail...”

This leads to the idea of doing overhead extensions to hit a different area of the triceps, because of the way the heads are attached.

But if we suggest that rotating the arm can alter the way the heads of the triceps are affected, some people get angry and claim there's no “proof”. While I haven't found any studies directly done on humeral rotation and biceps / triceps activation, there's plenty of research on shoulder function and triceps involvement.

Doctor Jordan Shallow DC addressed the idea of arm rotation on his website themuscledoc.com, https://themuscledoc.com/articles/triceps-the-long-and-short-of-it/

“…we must remember that the triceps are a biarticulate muscle- meaning it is responsible for movement at both the elbow and the shoulder. Now this is where some nuanced anatomy comes into play. The triceps extends the elbow and also extends the shoulder; this is more or less common knowledge. But what many people don’t know is when the shoulder is externally rotated the long head of the triceps acts in the motion of shoulder adduction. Let that sink in for a moment.

Now how does that relate to hand position? Well, if we think of the two options of hand positions when performing a triceps extension, we have pronated and supinated grip. Pronation is in essence a fancy term for internal rotation at the wrist (palms facing back in anatomical position). Where as supination is a fancy way of saying external rotation at the wrist (palms facing forward in anatomical position) now even though neither of these positions can effect the insertion point on the Ulna, it can however, effect the ease in which the shoulder can externally rotate.

In a supinated position the shoulder can move into external rotation with greater ease due to the fact that supination is already suggestive of external rotation. Therefore allowing the long head of the triceps to act as an adductor while it extends both the shoulder and the elbow, hence maximally shortening the long head of the muscle.

This explains the “reverse grip bench press”. A common exercise used by powerlifters and bodybuilders alike- the reverse grip which they are referring to is actually a supinated grip, again: suggestive of external rotation which allows for the long head of the triceps to fill its tertiary role as a shoulder adductor.

Admittedly, the details of long head triceps training are intricate and for many beginning lifters the nuance changes wont manifest itself in any noticeable increase of tension. But for advanced lifters looking to expedite both size in strength in their Clydesdale hoof triceps, be sure to try these subtle variations in your next workout...”

Twisted Quads:

If we look at the other end of the body, we find some conflicting research on activation of the four parts of the quadriceps relative to hip rotation.

"The effect of different hip rotation angles on electromyography activity of the quadriceps muscle during closed kinetic chain tasks in healthy females" PMC6110206 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6110206/

(explanation of abbreviations added by me)

“...The results of this study show that the relative activities of RF (rectus femoris), VL (vastus lateralis), and VMO (vastus medialis) are different depending on hip rotation angle in CKC (closed kinetic chain) while standing on the toes. The hypothesis that VMO activity is higher than VL activity was not proven. However, during 15° and 30° of internal rotation, a neutral angle and 15° of external rotation, VL was more active than the other two muscles. At these angles VL activity was significantly higher than RF activity, but not higher than VMO activity. There was no significant difference among VL, VMO, and RF activities in 30° of internal rotation and 30° and 45° of external rotation.

There are similar studies investigating VMO and VL activity at different hip angles with controversial results. Laprade et al. found that in external knee rotation and internal hip rotation, electrical activity was higher in VMO compared to VL. Sykes and Wong compared the straight leg raise (SLR) in internal rotation, external rotation, and neutral position of the hip, and reported higher activity of VMO compared to VL in SLR with hip external rotation...”

So some research indicates it's possible to target parts of the quads by rotating your leg one way or the other.

Twisted Deltoids?:

And then there's the role of the 3 heads of the deltoids in shoulder rotation and how it affects force production that I won't even try to get into. I'll just point out that if you have an imbalance in the strength of your anterior, lateral, and posterior deltoids, it could possibly affect joint health.

However, I will point out how leverage affects the strain on the deltoids using a given weight.

I can hold a bag of groceries slightly away from my hip all day long, but if I try to extend my arm out to my side with that same weight I won't be able to hold it as long. Same weight, different leverage, different amount of force required. When doing a standing lateral raise I get the most strain at the top of the lift. (Going above shoulder level really only raises your shoulder to your ear and doesn't really do much for your lateral deltoid.) But if I lay on my side and lift a dumbbell from my leg towards the ceiling, the maximum strain happens when the muscle is elongated. Relative to this, in an isometric hold, strength gains only carry over about 15 degrees either way. I assume the same effect applies to a varying load due to leverage, meaning that you'll be stronger in the range of motion that took more strength to accomplish. Otherwise, with a standing lateral raise you're really only getting a workout at the top of the movement.

Also it's almost impossible to cheat those reps up, unlike the way some people look like they're trying to do a combination of jumping jacks and lateral raises.

The same concept applies to the posterior deltoids.

Disclaimer: With the hysteria, media hype, and possibly impending martial law, I’m obligated to point out that I am not a doctor and am not giving medical advice. Rather I am quoting studies and medical references written by doctors. Consult your medical professional blah blah blah...

Sugar:

In 1973 a study was done that showed sugar can slow white blood cell mobility. 

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/26/11/1180/4732762

Naturally the food industry funded studies to contradict this. In my opinion all those studies did was show what anyone who knows anything about diabetes already understands, that exercise clears excess glucose from the blood. So if you’re sick and consume a large amount of sugar, just jog around the house a bit and you’ll be fine. (That was sarcasm) Active people have little to worry about from light sugar consumption. Sedentary people who consume a ridiculous amount of sugar likely have more to worry about than just obesity and diabetes.

A chart in reference to that 73 study:

Vitamin C:

Two time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling did research showing that vitamin C improves immune function. Other studies have contradicted that. 

This ties into the study that showed sugar can possibly slow white blood cell mobility. Too many people turn into fussy children when presented with a bitter vitamin C tablet and demand it be drowned in sugar to make it palatable. I partly blame Mary Poppins for this with her “a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down”. Big Pharma ran with that one. One theory is that simple sugars and vitamin C are chemically similar enough that they compete for uptake in white blood cells. So if you’re getting your vitamin C from a sugary beverage, you’re pretty much canceling out any benefit. I assume the studies contradicting Pauling’s research used large amounts of sugar or a heavy IV drip of glucose. I could be wrong.

Regardless, humans are one of the few mammals that do not produce their own vitamin C, so you need to consume vitamin C regularly anyway.

A warning. Large amounts of vitamin C work as a laxative. One Reddit user took 9 grams at once and spent the rest of the night on the toilet.

Garlic:

Fresh crushed garlic produces a chemical called allicin which has strong antimicrobal and antifungal properties.This is a well established fact with studies listed on PubMed. Allicin oxidizes quickly, so you can’t just leave it laying around exposed to air. You can’t just sprinkle garlic salt on your pasta and get the antimicrobal effect. It’s already oxidized.

Covid19 is a virus. Helping your body eliminate bacteria can spare immune resources for fighting viruses. Emergency medical treatment even uses antibiotics in this way, so it’s not a strange concept. However, consuming large amounts of allicin will do about the same thing as large amounts of antibiotics in that you’ll kill off some of your good intestinal bacteria, which is generally a bad thing.

The more obvious problem is you’ll smell like garlic. You’ll taste garlic. And those fussy children types will down a gallon of sugary beverage to get rid of the taste.

Caffeine: 

One selling point for caffeine in diet pills is that it can help release fat. It does this very well. But if you’re not burning that fat it just goes right back into storage. That circulating fat triggers a survival response. Elevated fat levels in the blood cause a short term insulin resistance that is meant to spare glucose for the brain. The body assumes that since there’s all this fat floating around that it must have run out of glucose and the fat stores have been tapped, so it tries to shift the remaining glucose to the brain, which generally runs better off glucose than ketones. Some research on glucose disposal has shown that for a very short duration some people look outright diabetic after consuming a large mount of caffeine. This ties back into that white blood cell slowing effect from elevated glucose levels, particularly when consuming greasy food and a caffeinated sugary beverage. Actual effects will vary based on an individual’s overall health and diet.

Conclusion:

I made the following comment on an article about Nye challenging the idea of terraforming Mars. Feel it’s worth adding to my blog:

NASA is working on plants that can survive on Mars. The atmosphere there is 95% carbon dioxide and near the equator can stay above freezing during the day. NASA has also confirmed that liquid water exists on Mars, with a small amount found in the atmosphere. To provide water for those plants, water condensers or "atmospheric water generators" could be used, which can be effective at temps as low as 65 degrees F, giving a small window during warm days to squeeze some water out of the air. Just need to keep the dust off of them.

I kept coming across articles claiming that people don’t need to eat complete proteins. That the body “stores” proteins. But here’s the thing.

You still have to eat all the different amino acids over time. You cannot just eat one plant all the time because you can eventually deplete whatever amino acids you’re not eating enough of.

This usually leads into arguments about not needing much protein, but I have yet to see anybody recommend anything crazy like less than 10 grams of protein a day. The usual minimum recommended amount is 0.36 grams per pound. So even if you weigh 90 pounds that’s still 32 grams a day.

It’s not that you don’t have to eat a complete mix of amino acids ever. The argument is that you don’t necessarily have to eat them in the same meal. 

The biggest problem I have with this is gluconeogenesis, the process by which the body turns protein into glucose. Your liver is more than happy to strip down protein into glucose through gluconeogenesis and then turn that into fat through lipogenesis. Your body loves to make fat. Fat makes it happy. I don’t have any direct references, but I’m fairly certain that your body isn't going to “store” amino acids for a week till you finally eat the others you need. It’s more likely they’re getting turned into glucose at some point.

Vegans say to eat a “varied diet”. That “varied diet” is eating things that contain all the amino acids. This usually results in some people contradicting themselves by saying you don’t have to eat a complete mix of amino acids every day and then immediately following that by saying to eat a “varied diet”.

If you’re trying to recover from heavy physical exertion, and especially if you’re trying to build muscle, you’re going to want a complete amino acid profile every time you eat. Eating nothing but potatoes today and then beans tomorrow is going to slow your body’s ability to recover / build.

This is a rough version of a string of tweets I made in response to a video of Farrakhan talking about chemicals in the water affecting sperm counts and such. There is science behind his rant.

(TL;DR version: Fluoride affects testosterone levels. 90% of black Africans are lactose intolerant and ingestion of calcium reduces the amount of fluoride absorbed. Chloramine leaches lead from pipes, especially in older buildings.)

1) Suppression of male reproduction in rats after exposure to sodium fluoride during early stages of development https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-007-0224-4#page-1

2) Influence of fluoride on the contents of testosterone and cholesterol http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-ZDFB406.007.htm

3) Induction of Oxidative Stress on Reproductive and Metabolic Organs in Sodium Fluoride-Treated Male Albino Rats: Protective Effect of Testosterone and Vitamin E Coadministration http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15376520590968824#.VZfITvntlBc

4) Experimental study on effect of fluoride on reproductive system of male rats http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL-ZDFB200303001.htm

5) Effects of sodium fluoride on androgen receptor expression in male mice

http://www.fluorideresearch.org/411/files/FJ2008_v41_n1_p010-017.pdf

6) Testicular toxicity in sodium fluoride treated rats: association with oxidative stress https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890623802000382

7) Exposure to high fluoride concentration in drinking water will affect spermatogenesis and steroidogenesis in male albino rats https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10534-005-0336-2#page-1

8) Now consider that 90% of black Africans are lactose intolerant and the fact that ingestion of calcium reduces the amount of fluoride absorbed

Effect of concurrent calcium ingestion on intestinal absorption of fluoride https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/672616

9) Now consider that fluoride is added to the water supply by a mechanical pump, not by careful measurement. If such a mechanical device was adjusted wrong, then fluoride added in that area could exceed recommendations.

10) Chloramine is being used in place of Chlorine and can leach lead from pipes, especially in older buildings where pipes had a higher lead content 

Sitting here dealing with a toothache, I've come to a solid realization. Glutamate is used as an additive that stimulates... usually over-stimulates... nerves and is generally intended to stimulate our taste-buds. Stimulating nerves in a tooth-ache is a really bad idea. I've also realized that sometimes I'm really stupid and let my stomach do the thinking.

As I have pointed out before, Glutamate is used as a neurotransmitter by our bodies. An article in the Journal of Nutrition goes into detail with references to a multitude of studies and research done over 20 years.

Glutamic Acid, Twenty Years Later http://jn.nutrition.org/content/130/4/901S.full

We still hope that understanding how Glutamic Acid works in our bodies might help treat people with neurodegenerative diseases.

And if anyone's confused, according to Truth in Labeling, http://www.truthinlabeling.org/III.What%20is%20MSG.html

“Glutamate is glutamic acid to which a mineral ion has been attached.  (Researchers call this mineral ion a “salt”.)  If the mineral ion is sodium, the glutamic acid becomes sodium glutamate.  If the mineral ion is potassium, the glutamic acid becomes potassium glutamate.”

L-Glutamine is a non-essential amino acid, but people who love to contradict other people easily get it confused with Glutamic Acid. Anyone who does so should immediately have a sign hanged around their neck so that everyone can avoid talking to them.

But again, instant noodles chock full of MSG seems to be a really bad idea when I have a toothache. Also, thinking that canned spaghetti or such would be soft and easier on my toothache also ran into the problem of both MSG and tomato sauce being fairly acidic. I believe that I could chew on sugar cubes and salt and cause myself less pain than eating these things.

Just a repeat of the video clip I included with a previous progress update on my propulsion concept. I didn't see it in my youtube list so I re-uploaded it. 20 second clip used for educational purposes.

And again, many of us have had the same idea of paired gyros acting like propellers, each spinning in the opposite direction. Put them close together, not spaced far apart. Propellers need a long span to get lift, but the tighter a circle gyros turn the stronger the precession effect. Putting them right next to each other would be optimal.

I figure people have been trying to patent the base concept for over 20 years. Due to patent “pirates” who would apply for a patent and then finish the process after someone else was making money off the idea, patents in the US are now from the date of application, not the date of issue. That would mean that if a patent was awarded for the base concept it would go to someone who applied over 20 years ago and immediately become public domain. It might not seem fair, but if they didn’t get a patent then they likely didn’t have a good enough working model to convince the “engineers”. No undeniable unquestionable working model, no patent. I haven’t seen my specific design anywhere and want it to be public domain. Besides that, there’s so much “pre-existing art” and so forth, including the Heretics of Science TV series, that getting a patent decades later is practically impossible. So that pretty well crushes any patent troll’s dreams of quickly filing for a patent, claiming parallel development, and making any money off it. Patent trolls ruined that for all the other trolls years ago.

And also again there’s ancient Indian manuscripts describing flying machines and one that describes a gyroscope used as a propulsion device. It was likely 2 gyros so close together someone assumed it was just 1. I didn’t get inspiration from that, but rather I saw that my design was likely an explanation. And this also qualifies as a pre-existing design available to the public to further crush any patent attempts, dating back at least a few decades in being made available to the general public, and a few centuries otherwise if I recall correctly.

I have more parts and pieces to build a working model, just need to get my head straight and put it all together. It’ll be something more like the above clip with the one gyro pushing the cart along instead of the ones like people keep trying to make fly around the room. Power to weight ratio isn’t likely to be so good it’ll replace propellers on planes and helicopters, but it works perfectly for the vacuum of space and enclosures to prevent kicking up mud / silt underwater, and all I need to illustrate that is something like the one gentleman used in the episode but with hands off operation.

Then we can watch physicists heads spin trying to rewrite Newton’s Laws and half the laws of physics to account for this. Just crushing scientific dogma with an in your face working model is enough for me, and credit for breaking the laws of physics is shared with all the countless other people that have had the same idea over several decades. 

The results of medical research usually depend on who's paying for the study. What's worse is that so many people are desperate to believe that anyone with the title "scientist" is a paragon of virtue that can do no wrong. There are many flawed studies, especially when it comes to health care. Like the one that looked at post exercise oxygen consumption from a heavy workout, but used nothing more than pedaling an exercise bike as a "heavy workout". Here's an example of one that blamed saturated fat for heart disease when there were Kenyans and Inuit that ate large amounts of saturated fat yet had low rates of heart disease:

https://greatist.com/health/saturated-fat-healthy

...But we all make mistakes. This one started in 1970, with the first publication of “The Seven Countries Study .” The research looked at the incidences of saturated fat intake and heart disease among 12,763 men from (you guessed it) seven different countries, and showed a correlation between the two.

Unfortunately, the study was deeply flawed: It didn’t take into account important factors like smoking rates, sugar consumption, and exercise levels, and it left out an awful lot of data from other countries that contradicted the conclusions. The study’s authors actually had access to twenty-two countries’ data, and didn’t discuss any of the populations that followed diets with plenty of saturated fat and barely experienced any heart disease. Such communities include the Kenyan Masai, the Tokelau in Polynesia, and the Arctic Inuit.

Governments followed by making the supposed saturated fat-heart disease connection a matter of public health policy, an ideology which probably culminated with the abominable food pyramid of the 1990s — which recommended up to 11 servings of rice and pasta per day, and about as little fat as possible.

The result? In the past 30 years in the United States, the amount of calories from consumed fat has fallen from 40 percent to 30 percent, while obesity has doubled and heart disease has remained the country’s number one killer...

He basically said "Don't pull it out". The guy had THC in his blood. Stoners claim it has no effect on their reasoning ability. Then they tell their "I was soooo stoned" stories. Stoners are like drunks in that both believe they're perfectly functional while under the influence. Alcohol makes people say "I don't remember what I did last night". Pot makes people say "I don't remember what I just said". Dude was still high, wasn't thinking clearly, reached for something without thinking it would trigger the officer, and got shot. This death wasn't about racism. This death wasn't about police aggression. This death was about a stoner not being able to follow directions.

References:

The Washington Post - “Officer who shot Philando Castile said smell of marijuana made him fear for his life”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/21/officer-who-shot-philando-castile-said-smell-of-marijuana-made-him-fear-for-his-life/

High Times - “Cannabis at Issue in Philando Castile Case—Yet Again”

This is another political post. Since I don’t make many of these I’ll put a Read More break here.

Caffeine reduces brain blood flow in children too.

Caffeine reduces blood flow in the brain. The human brain does not stop developing until around the age of 25, with the prefrontal cortex being the last to fully develop. Chronic caffeine use by minors could be a cause of brain disorders.

References:

1) The effect of daily caffeine use on cerebral blood flow: How much caffeine can we tolerate? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19219847

“...Caffeine reduced CBF by an average of 27% across both caffeine states...Our results suggest a limited ability of the cerebrovascular adenosine system to compensate for high amounts of daily caffeine use...”

2) American Heart Association, Stroke (Vol 16, No 5, September-October 1985) “Caffeine Induced Changes in Cerebral Circulation” http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/strokeaha/16/5/814.full.pdf

“...Cerebral ischemia is of paramount clinical significance since severe reduction in cerebral circulation causes brain damage. Though the CBF reduction following caffeine administration does not seem severe enough to cause symptoms of cerebral ischemia in normal individuals, it is unclear whether it may increase the risk for transient ischemic attacks and cerebral infarction in high risk individuals and in those recovering from cerebrovascular accidents...”

3) The Paleo Diet, Caffeine and the Brain: Part 1 http://thepaleodiet.com/caffeine-brain-part-1

The article includes 31 references and brain scan images of blood flow.

4) Wellness Secrets, “Caffeine, Blood Flow, and the Brain” http://www.wellnesssecrets4u.com/2013/09/24/caffeine-blood-flow-and-the-brain/

The article references Discovery Fit & Health, The Smithsonian, Science Daily, and a piece by ABC news.

"ABC News correspondent, Lisa Stark, drank 4 cups of coffee containing 400mg of caffeine at once. This is the amount that doctors say is a safe level to consume in a day. She took an MRI and experienced a 40% loss of blood flow to her brain."

5) Youtube, ABC News, “This is Your Brain on Caffeine: Images Reveal Startling Mental Effects” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjEXroCD4O8

6) Psychology Today, “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Before 25)” https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-author-speaks/201408/change-your-brain-change-your-life-25

What’s distinct about the brain before 25?