Pain, Pain, Go Away!

Tuesday morning found me at an urgent care center for a dog bite. The PA (physician's assistant) was impressed with the lack of swelling, noting that dog bites almost always get infected.  Two days earlier, I took in a stray dog walking by my house. When I've done this in the past, I've posted pictures of the dog online and heard from the owner within a few hours. Not so with this dog--he must have been dumped.  The next day, he and my dog got into a scrap over a food bowl and when I tried to push him away, he bit me. Have I mentioned the dog is an American bully, weighing about 50 pounds? It broke the skin and made my hand sore--I'm lucky it wasn't worse. Sometimes I have more courage than sense. The PA didn't recommend a rabies shot even though I don't know whether the dog is vaccinated. She did recommend a tetanus shot, since  my last one was just over 10 years ago , and wrote a prescription for Augmentin (an antibiotic). I got the tetanus shot but haven&

Move over, juicers: there's a new elixir in town. Boil some bones for a day, along with vinegar to extract the nutrients, and voila--you have the latest health drink. Well, you have it if you're willing to spend a whole day cooking it or pay $8 for a little carton of it. After all, it's water that bones were boiled in . Photo from  https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-skull-table-decor-417049/ Hold on, says Dr. Davis. He reports that bone broth is high in lead, and the ideal amount of ingested lead is zero. There's also not that much nutrition in bone broth. Who'd have guessed? Nutrients in bone broth. Note the vegetable ingredients, the source vitamins A and C. Click to enlarge. Source:  https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/551729/nutrients When he said this at the last meetup, some members in the chat said, "What about organic bone broth?" Does it matter? Let's discuss. Even if organic bone broth isn't infused with (much) lead, it

 If you've had a bad reaction to L. reuteri or SIBO yogurt, it's not just you. Here's my video on what to do.

The quacks failed dieters, they failed diabetics, they failed thyroid patients, and now they're failing the vaccine injured. Quack doctors--meaning most doctors--handle difficult, non-emergency cases like this: Question whether there's really a problem Run tests that almost always come back "normal" Suggest the problem is psychological, or somehow the patient's fault Public health! Photo from Pexels . Why can't they just admit they don't know? I listened to a meeting of vaccine-injured people where one seemed to think that doctors knew what the problem really was, but wouldn't say. No--they really don't know. When endocrinologists (hormone doctors) have no idea how to treat diabetes or thyroid problems, dead common hormonal conditions with good protocols established decades ago, they're not going to know about anything about a brand-new condition.  Having suffered with headaches and GI problems doctors couldn't fix, I can understand why peo

Dad didn't like doctors. Long ago, Mom was in the hospital after abdominal surgery--for a mistaken diagnosis of appendicitis, if I remember right. She wasn't recovering from surgery, in fact, she was getting worse. When the hospital either couldn't or wouldn't do anything to help, Dad took her to another hospital, where they found her intestines had been put back in wrong. One of the nuns told Mom they almost lost her. At age 19 and with a 9th grade education, Dad had better judgment than the doctors at the first hospital. Doctors were mostly quacks then; doctors are mostly quacks now. That so many lined up for an experimental shot with an absolute risk reduction of symptomatic COVID of about 1% and a horrendous adverse events profile and then forced it on staff, patients and everyone else they could strong-arm should tell you all you need to know. The continued mask mandates at hospitals should remove all doubt.  The Cochrane Collaboration just published their findings

Cartoonist Scott Adams admitted the other day that the "anti-vaxxers"--meaning people who didn't want an experimental COVID shot--had "won." Like Emily "we were all in the dark" Oster , he chalked up his loss to bad luck instead of his own bad judgment.  I would like to publicly apologize for continuously ignoring the "accurate data" on Covid that people sent me for three years. But just so I don't make that mistake again, is there a separate list of the strangers I should trust to know which data is the good stuff? — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 24, 2023   Sorry, Scott, but there's no substitute for doing your own research using primary sources and learning how to read those sources. It's like the first three rules from Joel Greenblatt's book You can be a Stock Market Genius : Do your own work. Don't trust anyone over 30. Don't trust anyone 30 or under.  Get it? Sinking your fortune or your health into somet

The current-thing people who want to ban gas stoves have convinced me: I'm getting rid of my stove. I've hated it since I moved here, but thought I'd wait until it wore out before I replaced it. But thanks to the current-thing crowd, I've just put in an order for this baby: Yes, those are gas burners. Photo from Home Depot. I'm going with a basic model, not the automatic. Internet meme. The last time I bought a stove , it was second-hand. But when I shopped for one yesterday, I only found two gas stoves in white, and one of them looked like it was made about the time Julia Child was on TV. But second-hand stores were full of detestable glass-top electric stoves like the one I'm getting rid of. The one I just bought is back-ordered for a month. I'm not worried about getting asthma. For one thing, I cooked on a gas stove for 19 years and didn't get asthma. Before that, I was a prep cook and didn't get asthma (restaurants use gas). Heck, I worked on a l