Nobody Cares about Your Health

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Apparently, this is still working for you Americans if you have never ordered COVID tests here, It’s free…

https://covidtests.gov/

(Also to bump to top of page.)

 

[Isabeau]

We need a hammer & sickle reaction.

 

[Free]

We need a hammer & sickle reaction.

If we could add 2 or more (reactions) to a post, we could make do with the wrench and screwdriver.

 

[Noodles]

Apparently, this is still working for you Americans if you have never ordered COVID tests here, It’s free…

https://covidtests.gov/

May not even mattwr if you have ordered before. I think Inhave gotten three rounds of tests from them. Maybe 4.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Over the course of the last month, I've had a needle biopsy of a thyroid nodule, a bone density scan, a blood draw to check my A1C, a mammogram, then an ultrasound to check out an "ovoid mass" revealed by the mammogram.

All good, results normal, but damn, staying alive is becoming a full-time job.

 

[Khamon]

If we could add 2 or more (reactions) to a post, we could make do with the wrench and screwdriver.

Posting multiple reactions is the one thing I wish this software would support. We had good times combining those to convey not so subtle meanings back in the day. Memories

 

[Free]

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[Free]

Neuralink Competitor Restores Vision in Blind Patients With Eye Implant

Science Corporation says its retinal implant restored central vision in patients who were legally blind in a clinical trial.

futurism.com

Science Corporation, a biotech startup launched by a Neuralink cofounder, claims that it's achieved a breakthrough in brain-computer interface technology that can help patients with severe vision loss.

In preliminary clinical trials, legally blind patients who had lost their central vision received the company's retina implants, which restored their eyesight and even allowed them to read books and recognize faces, the startup announced last week.

"To my knowledge, this is the first time that restoration of the ability to fluently read has ever been definitively shown in blind patients," CEO Max Hodak, who was president of Neuralink before founding Science Corp, said in a statement.

The device, called Prima, is a small, photovoltaic chip that's surgically implanted under the retina. It combines with a special pair of glasses with a built-in camera that projects visual data into the eye chip using invisible, near-infrared light.

When the near-infrared rays hit the chip's photovoltaic arrays, it not only powers the device, but converts the transmitted data into electrical signals that stimulate the retinal neurons still remaining. These get sent to the brain, and voilà: you have rudimentary eyesight.

Meanwhile, Neuralink is still trying to get it's chip to help with gaming...

 

[Free]

We're in the age of accepting what social media influencers tell us over the science. But not even science - cooks and monks and priests were implementing something like the pasteurization process before they could explain why it worked. Long before Louis refined it.

But hey, if raw milk is a health boon, why bother with cooking anything? Shouldn't you be ALL RAW ALL THE TIME?

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

But hey, if raw milk is a health boon, why bother with cooking anything? Shouldn't you be ALL RAW ALL THE TIME?

there are quite a few wackos who believe EXACTLY THAT. Once stupid people think the discovered a secret, they keep going since they think they are on a roll.

 

[Free]

they keep going since they think they are on a roll.

Or a bisquit.

 

[Casey Pelous]

I'm sorry, but at some point one just has to throw up one's hands and declare, "Darwin in action. Carry on."

I'm about there.

 

[Noodles]

Tweets get posted.

I hassle with opening the links and comverting to xcancel.com.

The replies all 100% remind me that humanity was a mistake and we all absolutely deserve the coming climate collapse and extintion of the human spiecies.

How do we help the cockroach people of 10,000,000 years from now not to be stupid?

 

[Free]

Dudes, we all missed it.

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[Free]

Five Minutes of Extreme Cold Might Help You Sleep Better, Study Finds

Regular exposure to extreme cold could boost your quality of sleep, a new study from researchers in Canada has found.

gizmodo.com

Researchers at the University of Montreal and the University of Poitiers conducted the chilling study, which aimed to track the potential benefits of daily full-body “cryostimulation.” The researchers studied healthy volunteers in the lab, finding that people’s duration and quality of sleep increased while they were undergoing the cold therapy. The findings suggest that cryostimulation could be a viable treatment for those with sleep issues, the researchers say.

The study involved nine women and 11 men, all in their twenties. For five days straight at 6 p.m., the volunteers disrobed and stayed inside a chamber chilled to -130 degrees Fahrenheit (-90 degrees C) for five minutes (for some context, the absolute coldest natural temperature recorded in modern times is -128.6 degrees Fahrenheit). They otherwise lived their day as usual, though without consuming alcohol, caffeine, or anything else that could have affected their sleep. They were then given wearables that tracked their heart rate, brain activity, and sleeping pattern as they went off to bedtime. They also filled out surveys assessing their quality of sleep. As a control for comparison, the volunteers underwent the same tracking routine a second time, but without actually getting any cold therapy before their sleep.

The volunteers seemed to sleep better after cryostimulation, though not at first, since the researchers only noticed an objective difference in outcomes after the fifth day of sessions. The biggest change seen was with slow-wave, or deep, sleep, the most rejuvenative phase of sleeping. On average, people’s deep sleep was increased by 7.3 minutes after receiving cryostimulation, the researchers found (people typically get around two hours of deep sleep a night). The volunteers also reported better sleep quality after going through cryostimulation, though on closer examination, the change was only significant for the women.

So to slightly improve our sleep, we need to have a chamber or room set up that provides temperatures well below that of even a deep freezer, and spend 5 minutes a day in it. Sounds like a plan.

 

[Isabeau]

Yeah, as you say, not sure how practical it is.

Although, I know that when I shovel snow like a maniac out in the cold at night, I do sleep like a log afterwards.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Here ya go ... this beauty can be yours for a mere $48,999* with easy money payments of once a week, twice a week, and never on Sunday!

If you're a cheapskate you can get 10 minutes of "cryosauna" for about $100. All-electric (no nitrogen) model a mere $81,999.

* Taxes, license, delivery, registration, installation, and liquid nitrogen extra. Some restrictions may apply.

 

[Free]

Here ya go ...

Are you gifting it? Is this my xmas present???

 

[Isabeau]

I want one, too, please.

 

[Casey Pelous]

Okay, go ahead and download the picture all you want, but you both sure know how to ruin a surprise.