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Category Archives: Biomedicine
The Brains that Would Not Die
Can hard-earned knowledge be preserved long enough for a smooth transition of generational skills? Read further for a brief look at brain growth factors and the nootropic peptides that boost them, and how they might help to extend the prosperity … Continue reading
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When Putin Loses His Mind, What Will Russians Think?
They will not know what to think. Someone else will have to tell them. An Embarrassment to Russian Elites Putin has become quite ineffective at collective decision-making, having grown accustomed to assigning tasks to specific confidants who avoid collaborating with … Continue reading
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Nicotinamide Riboside and Cancer Risk: A Manufactured Panic
A popular nutritional supplement, Nicotinamide Riboside, which has been shown to be protective against a wide array of human ailments — including multiple types of cancer — is being accused by popular media sources of being a cause of cancer! … Continue reading
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Approaching the Crux of COVID-19: Variant Armageddon vs. Pandemic Resolution
Geert Vanden Bossche is a virologist with significant experience in vaccine development. Vanden Bossche is warning against a SARS-CoV-2 variant “Armageddon,” due to viral evolution in response to mass vaccination campaigns around the world. He is saying that mass vaccination … Continue reading
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Can Your Cinnamon Do This?
Can your cinnamon prevent Alzheimer’s, cure cancer before it starts, control type II diabetes, reverse some effects of Traumatic Brain Injury, prevent heart disease, make you smarter, and promote healthy weight loss? Cinnamon contains vital oils and derivatives which makes … Continue reading
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More on Breathing
According to the famous Framingham Study, the strongest predictor of longevity is lung capacity. People with small and inefficient lungs tend to get sick and die quicker. Greater lung capacity promises greater living capacity… from Chapter 4 of “Breath” by … Continue reading
Posted in Biomedicine, Longevity
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Wake the F#ck Up!
Parked in my Fiat Bravo at 3AM, I found myself breaking off more white rocks for my crack pipe. I was high, paranoid, and losing the plot. I had not slept in days and my mistrustful thoughts obsessed about the … Continue reading
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Wuhan Coronavirus: Hidden Cases, Hidden Immunity
Only a small percentage of Wuhan coronavirus cases are known to health care systems. Most who have been infected will never know they had the virus, and will never spread the virus to anyone else. And they are likely to … Continue reading
Not Your Grandfather’s Melatonin
Melatonin indirectly regulates ACE2 expression and has been deemed to be a promising agent in the fight against coronavirus in several studies, as it could prevent infection of these cells. At the same time, it also prevents the premature cell … Continue reading
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Good News: Cases Rise… Deaths Fall
While the development has gotten scandalously little news coverage, the daily numbers of deaths with/of COVID has been declining with remarkable consistency for well over two months now. On April 21, the seven-day rolling average for deaths with/of COVID was … Continue reading
Got the Chi-Corona Blues? Look to the Swamp!
How the Swamp mucked up America’s coronavirus response The US General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report detailing the failings of multiple deep state US Departments in dealing with the viral pandemic that originated in Wuhan China. In a report … Continue reading
A Life Full of Fear is Not Worth Living
I will not live in fear of catching a cold . . . I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my … Continue reading
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Hey You! Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?
Experts predicted a veritable holocaust. But even with the wholesale over-counting of deaths, the Wuhan coronavirus is just a blip on top of expected deaths we see every year. There have been 27 million deaths from all causes this year, … Continue reading
Antibody Treatments for Wuhan CoV-19
The highly suspicious virus from Wuhan continues to circulate in populations around the world. Due to continuing large numbers of susceptible persons, effective treatments and preventatives are needed to protect those most at risk. The best prospects for treatment involve … Continue reading
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Contemplating the Aftermath: Round One
The First Round of the Wuhan CoV-19 Pandemic is Approaching Aftermath Stage Update: Everything else is locked down, making riots the only game in town Leftist lockdowns destroyed their businesses, took their jobs, closed their schools, closed their pools and … Continue reading
Life Beyond the Lockdown
Here is an account of a recent visit to a brewpub: Yes, the owner and servers were wearing masks, as mandated by the government. Still, you could almost see the smiles through them. They were practically yelling with delight to … Continue reading
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Finally an Authentic Approach to Anti-Aging
DNA damage is common to our cells, but when we’re young our bodies can fix it pretty easily. Unfortunately we lose that ability over time, leading to many of the symptoms of aging that we know all too well. A … Continue reading
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Tagged dementia, longevity
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The Revolutionary Disulfiram Miracle Cure?
Curing Obesity, Type II Diabetes, and More Disulfiram is also known as “Antabuse,” an old drug sometimes used to combat alcoholism. But this old drug is on the cusp of finding some new and revolutionary uses. “When we first went … Continue reading
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China: The Asshole that Demands Gratitude
China is the country that dishes out death by pandemic, but demands the world’s gratitude. Chinese officials initially covered up the outbreak in Wuhan. They have also appeared to be censoring research into the origins of the virus, and German … Continue reading
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Tagged China reality, coronavir
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Inside the Hell Zones; Is it Bug Out Time?
All objective signs seem to point toward a steady tapering off of pandemic deaths, at least for most of Europe and North America. But there are some who think this is just the beginning . . . of the end. … Continue reading
What is the Real Risk of Death from Coronavirus?
Prolonged Panic and Hysteria Around the World, and Over What? Seroprevalence studies from the coronavirus pandemic in the Netherlands provide important information that the US CDC and the US media apparently choose not to divulge. Why has our government not … Continue reading
Take Comfort in Your Lockdowns, for What it is Worth
Who Is Protected by Lockdowns? In the long run, almost no one it seems. It has become clear that a hard lockdown does not protect old and frail people living in care homes—a population the lockdown was designed to protect. … Continue reading
Naked Asteroid Streaks By Earth: We Never Saw it Coming
It’s Always the Apocalypse You Don’t See Coming On Monday of this week, the asteroid 2020 JJ flew less than 5,000 miles over the Pacific Ocean, well inside the orbits of many artificial satellites — but still far above the … Continue reading
Sweden vs. the Panicked World
Sweden Moves Against the Tide Rather than taking the “one size fits all” prison-nation approach to dealing with the Chinese pandemic, the Swedes boldly chose to face the Wuhan virus as free people. “When you (in the US and elsewhere) … Continue reading
Neil Ferguson Disease Model is Garbage
The COVID-19 disease model from Imperial College shocked politicians around the world into shutting down economies and throwing hundreds of millions of people out of work. It predicted millions of CoV-19 deaths in the US alone. Its author, Neil Ferguson, … Continue reading
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