Sep 8, 2023·edited Sep 8, 2023Liked by Michael Eades
Dear Mike - I loved this edition of The Arrow, I’d have given it Fantabulous! if you had had a Poll ! I really enjoyed your "text equivalent to thinking out loud” - your thoughts on sleep, the Museum, and childbirth and the terrible infection rate in 1800's prior to doctors realising that infections passed from one patient to the other, your thoughts on the tour, all of it !
Doune Castle - I’ve never seen Outlander but as soon as I saw that photo you took of Doune Castle I thought Monty Python and the Holy Grail ! Sure enough I checked on the internet and lots of scenes in that film were done there including the absolutely hilarious scene, among many hilarious scenes, where King Arthur and Patsy are standing at the base of the wall asking the “French" knight who is on the castle battlements, who has the outrageously funny accent, to see the Holy Grail - one of the funniest scenes in the funniest of films.
There was a fair amount of Holy Grail commentary in the guided tour of Doune Castle. I didn't know till I was going through about the Monty Python connection.
Do Democrats have some mythical virus that has caused them to be 'like this.'
By that I mean to think that because Trump has been indicted ( formally accused - not convicted on anything...) he can't run for president? That they can enforce their view of 'science' on me even if it is false ( RE: Fauci, above). That even though carbon models of climate are not able to track the past they are grounds for setting policy today for the future... and reason to ban such things as incandescent light bulbs...maybe gas stoves...too. Does a mythical virus breed the idiocy that because we can see all the damage done by recent weather events we can order all this stupid stuff to be done in the name of stopping CLIMATE CHANGE- when best science says it is not the real reason?? And Still Biden promotes oil drilling for Iran and Venezuela...and DOES not NOT ban or highly tax US imports form Carbon spewing economies like China? and India Orrr.... If climate change is really an exigent threat (as about 1,000 PhDs just said it wasn't) but if it is and they are wrong...why aren't we taking more dramatic steps? All this needs to be explained it is illogical. ( not Spock-like). If carbon is the reason then we need a better electric grid yesterday....instead we are doing little today. We need green fuel to fire it up...the only ONLY choice on a large scale as MUST bee needed (if you believe...) is nuclear yet. No no no. we do not do that. OK so how does it make sense to let the planet boil and die instead of creating nuclear fuel and spent rods we cannot recycle now but that we might be able to in the future. to SAVE THE PLANET FOR EXCESS CARBON NOW?? Should we really let the planet burn festooned with solar panels (made in carbon-spewing China) and windmills? ( with all those windmills sticking out, from Outer Space the earth will look like the corona virus!!) Surely this 'thinking' is the result of some new unchecked disease. Healthy Democrats can't really think all this makes any sense....and then there is the recent paper here->> https://co2coalition.org/news/two-princeton-mit-scientists-say-epa-climate-regulations-based-on-a-hoax/ by two real scientists calling the carbon paradigm a hoax. They feature a plot of the 'carbon models and how poorly they fit data. clearly you must have BRAIN DAMAGE to use those models as a basis for policy... and now there is the return of Covid - just in time for the upcoming elections season and more mail in ballots form Venus and mars!!! . Joe Biden who cannot tell his left shoe from his right one- is already saying there is a new vaccine and this one will work!! (1) He can't know that and (2) AH HA..a tacit admission that the other ones did not work! and finally...Please do not ban guns. I may soon need to ask someone to shoot me and put me out of my misery... B
Just a short weather comment. I work in Edinburgh and the weather this week has been lovely, so I hope it continues for you! The whole festival period in August was prone to showers. It is a bit misty on the coast today. Enjoy your holiday I look forward to your observations next week.
Here's one idea from a nameless doctor about adapting to sleep problems. If you just can't sleep, then get up and start your day. Maybe, do some cleaning in the garage, or whatever. And don't go back to bed until the next evening when, presumably, you'll be ready for some deep slumber.
I was curious to see if anyone commented on the whole “mythical virus etc.” topic but looks like I may be the first. I believe this is coming mostly from Dr. Thomas Cowan who’s involved with The Weston Price Foundation and has dropped a couple podcasts on their show Wise Traditions and others, Kyle Kingsbury being another one of them.
His theories are quite fascinating to listen to and his books are much of the same where he asks his followers (for lack of a better term), to ask any doctor or virologists to prove to you that viruses exist, “we’ve never actually seen one.” He often references studies where a patient is purposely given a strain of something or a cancer cell (which I realize would be quite different) and nothing happens, thus concluding that it’s only the host that determines what sort of reaction occurs. I’m not sure I can get on board and wish he would explain how Covid or the Flu, etc. would spread throughout the world, even if most of us are not exactly the ideal picture of health. I have no doubts that we create the environment for cancer to proliferate in our bodies, and we’d fair much better against any infectious disease if we knew how to best fortify our body. I believe this knowledge was lost long ago when we started consuming plants in large quantities and who knows what 5G and all these other man made EMFs and chemicals are contributing, but it does get the noodle stirred up and I find it quite fun to think about.
I was happy to see it come up on your radar and glad to see so many others value your feedback like I do. People come up with crazy theories and are able to convince others because they speak so “matter-of-factly,” but after the last few years and the fact that people are still arguing for masks and experimental drugs and others who actually offer legit science and treatments are being censored, I don’t know what to think. Heck, I’m seeing more people driving alone while wearing a mask again which blows my mind. The only thing that keeps me up at night now is the powers that be taking my meat away or making it prohibitively expensive. It has literally saved my life and I don’t want to go back to the suffering I used to endure, even on a healthy “keto diet.” I’m still paying the price for all the Oxalates I ingested but that’s a whole other story. Enjoy the rest of your trip Doc, even if it wasn’t your choice to go. You’re very much appreciated!
There is a theory of infection called the terrain theory, which says that we are constantly being bombarded with infectious agents, and that our ability to withstand these attacks without becoming ill depends upon our underlying health status. If we're fat, diabetic, and run down, it doesn't take as much to mow us over as it would were we in perfect health.
I subscribe to this theory in the sense that the better health one is in, the better one can fight off infection. Which is why smallpox was so deadly in the 1700s and early 1800s. People by and large were suffering from malnutrition and often lived in squalor. All of which made them more prone to infectious diseases. And is probably why after the mid-1900s that all those previously deadly diseases fell way off in terms of deaths. The was better sanitation and less malnutrition.
But, like everything in medicine, there are no 100 percent explanations. The women who ended up on Semmelweis's ward probably had better nutrition and better living conditions than those who went to the midwives. After all, they got treated by physicians. Yet they did at significantly greater rates than those treated by midwives because the doctors infected them.
I guess I did a sleep fast once and it was horrible. Much worse, by far, than a couple seven-day food fasts. By comparison, they were a pleasant walk in the park.
I was moving a household across town and wanted to return the rental truck inside the 48-hour time window to avoid a penalty fee. My *desire* for sleep was excruciating! I guess the continuous physical challenge, including moving the large refrigerator by myself, pushed me over the edge into the chasm of simple, unrelenting misery.
Enjoy Scotland. Sorry...I'm with MD. I read and loved the books then the TV series came out. Slightly different (as always for TV) but good. I was reading Ian Rankin and ran out of material Kobo or Amazon kept suggesting different Scottish writers or tales set in Scotland and I hit on this series. I loved it. A good blend of Sci-fi history and a little on medicine. I liked it less when they moved to the 'Colonies.' But hey such is life. Have fun- hope the weather is good enough for you to golf. when I was there... there were deluges Noah would not have gone out on deck in that rain. No golf for me... Anyway safe travels... B
Mike - I certainly got a lot out of this issue - as another reader says - it's all wonderful and would get fantabulous ratings if you had put in the poll. With fantabulous as a category, obviously. I do think an 87 - with rented clubs and the first time on one of the most difficult courses in Scotland - is something to celebrate. Maybe at The Scotch Whisky Experience (354 Castlehill in Edinburgh) and the Amber Restaurant there? The restaurant used to be glorious - maybe it still is . . . But all in all - thanks for doing this and continue to enjoy your vacation!
Thanks for finding the typo. And, yes, the 87 on the unfamiliar course and rented clubs was surprising. But it could have been even better had I known how to properly play out of pot bunkers. I've ever played on a course that had them. They probably cost me at least 5 strokes. I'll know better next time.
Thanks again as always! Have you ever gone down the rabbit hole of chemtrails? I can't look at your picture of Doune Castle without thinking those ain't clouds! Looking forward to PP2.
It continues to amaze me that various entities are STILL mandating the useless masks and counter-efficacy vaccines. Truly amazing! Evidently, yes, people are that stupid. Or the mandaters are sinister and enforcing it on because they can, for control and meanness.
And no need to apologize for an 87 on an unfamiliar course with rented clubs. Any golfer totally understands and, some of us, are amazed that you did as well as you did.
Dear Mike - I loved this edition of The Arrow, I’d have given it Fantabulous! if you had had a Poll ! I really enjoyed your "text equivalent to thinking out loud” - your thoughts on sleep, the Museum, and childbirth and the terrible infection rate in 1800's prior to doctors realising that infections passed from one patient to the other, your thoughts on the tour, all of it !
Doune Castle - I’ve never seen Outlander but as soon as I saw that photo you took of Doune Castle I thought Monty Python and the Holy Grail ! Sure enough I checked on the internet and lots of scenes in that film were done there including the absolutely hilarious scene, among many hilarious scenes, where King Arthur and Patsy are standing at the base of the wall asking the “French" knight who is on the castle battlements, who has the outrageously funny accent, to see the Holy Grail - one of the funniest scenes in the funniest of films.
I'm glad you enjoyed this week's edition.
There was a fair amount of Holy Grail commentary in the guided tour of Doune Castle. I didn't know till I was going through about the Monty Python connection.
Do Democrats have some mythical virus that has caused them to be 'like this.'
By that I mean to think that because Trump has been indicted ( formally accused - not convicted on anything...) he can't run for president? That they can enforce their view of 'science' on me even if it is false ( RE: Fauci, above). That even though carbon models of climate are not able to track the past they are grounds for setting policy today for the future... and reason to ban such things as incandescent light bulbs...maybe gas stoves...too. Does a mythical virus breed the idiocy that because we can see all the damage done by recent weather events we can order all this stupid stuff to be done in the name of stopping CLIMATE CHANGE- when best science says it is not the real reason?? And Still Biden promotes oil drilling for Iran and Venezuela...and DOES not NOT ban or highly tax US imports form Carbon spewing economies like China? and India Orrr.... If climate change is really an exigent threat (as about 1,000 PhDs just said it wasn't) but if it is and they are wrong...why aren't we taking more dramatic steps? All this needs to be explained it is illogical. ( not Spock-like). If carbon is the reason then we need a better electric grid yesterday....instead we are doing little today. We need green fuel to fire it up...the only ONLY choice on a large scale as MUST bee needed (if you believe...) is nuclear yet. No no no. we do not do that. OK so how does it make sense to let the planet boil and die instead of creating nuclear fuel and spent rods we cannot recycle now but that we might be able to in the future. to SAVE THE PLANET FOR EXCESS CARBON NOW?? Should we really let the planet burn festooned with solar panels (made in carbon-spewing China) and windmills? ( with all those windmills sticking out, from Outer Space the earth will look like the corona virus!!) Surely this 'thinking' is the result of some new unchecked disease. Healthy Democrats can't really think all this makes any sense....and then there is the recent paper here->> https://co2coalition.org/news/two-princeton-mit-scientists-say-epa-climate-regulations-based-on-a-hoax/ by two real scientists calling the carbon paradigm a hoax. They feature a plot of the 'carbon models and how poorly they fit data. clearly you must have BRAIN DAMAGE to use those models as a basis for policy... and now there is the return of Covid - just in time for the upcoming elections season and more mail in ballots form Venus and mars!!! . Joe Biden who cannot tell his left shoe from his right one- is already saying there is a new vaccine and this one will work!! (1) He can't know that and (2) AH HA..a tacit admission that the other ones did not work! and finally...Please do not ban guns. I may soon need to ask someone to shoot me and put me out of my misery... B
I feel your pain.
Just a short weather comment. I work in Edinburgh and the weather this week has been lovely, so I hope it continues for you! The whole festival period in August was prone to showers. It is a bit misty on the coast today. Enjoy your holiday I look forward to your observations next week.
The weather as been spectacular. Thanks for any part you had in providing it. :)
Only problem is, we brought mainly colder weather clothes.
Dear Dr. MIke
I have just sent you a video of a presentation by Denise Minger which you will indubitably find interesting.
Roger Avery
Thanks. I'll give it a watch when I've got the time on this trip. I think I know which one it is, so I've probably seen it already.
https://youtu.be/qBBtQ4QwWxg?si=XQ7EwvqbI8l4mcgJ
denise minger video
Here's one idea from a nameless doctor about adapting to sleep problems. If you just can't sleep, then get up and start your day. Maybe, do some cleaning in the garage, or whatever. And don't go back to bed until the next evening when, presumably, you'll be ready for some deep slumber.
That’s what I do all the time. But that’s different than going 30+ hours without sleep, then experiencing deep, refreshing sleep.
I was curious to see if anyone commented on the whole “mythical virus etc.” topic but looks like I may be the first. I believe this is coming mostly from Dr. Thomas Cowan who’s involved with The Weston Price Foundation and has dropped a couple podcasts on their show Wise Traditions and others, Kyle Kingsbury being another one of them.
His theories are quite fascinating to listen to and his books are much of the same where he asks his followers (for lack of a better term), to ask any doctor or virologists to prove to you that viruses exist, “we’ve never actually seen one.” He often references studies where a patient is purposely given a strain of something or a cancer cell (which I realize would be quite different) and nothing happens, thus concluding that it’s only the host that determines what sort of reaction occurs. I’m not sure I can get on board and wish he would explain how Covid or the Flu, etc. would spread throughout the world, even if most of us are not exactly the ideal picture of health. I have no doubts that we create the environment for cancer to proliferate in our bodies, and we’d fair much better against any infectious disease if we knew how to best fortify our body. I believe this knowledge was lost long ago when we started consuming plants in large quantities and who knows what 5G and all these other man made EMFs and chemicals are contributing, but it does get the noodle stirred up and I find it quite fun to think about.
I was happy to see it come up on your radar and glad to see so many others value your feedback like I do. People come up with crazy theories and are able to convince others because they speak so “matter-of-factly,” but after the last few years and the fact that people are still arguing for masks and experimental drugs and others who actually offer legit science and treatments are being censored, I don’t know what to think. Heck, I’m seeing more people driving alone while wearing a mask again which blows my mind. The only thing that keeps me up at night now is the powers that be taking my meat away or making it prohibitively expensive. It has literally saved my life and I don’t want to go back to the suffering I used to endure, even on a healthy “keto diet.” I’m still paying the price for all the Oxalates I ingested but that’s a whole other story. Enjoy the rest of your trip Doc, even if it wasn’t your choice to go. You’re very much appreciated!
There is a theory of infection called the terrain theory, which says that we are constantly being bombarded with infectious agents, and that our ability to withstand these attacks without becoming ill depends upon our underlying health status. If we're fat, diabetic, and run down, it doesn't take as much to mow us over as it would were we in perfect health.
I subscribe to this theory in the sense that the better health one is in, the better one can fight off infection. Which is why smallpox was so deadly in the 1700s and early 1800s. People by and large were suffering from malnutrition and often lived in squalor. All of which made them more prone to infectious diseases. And is probably why after the mid-1900s that all those previously deadly diseases fell way off in terms of deaths. The was better sanitation and less malnutrition.
But, like everything in medicine, there are no 100 percent explanations. The women who ended up on Semmelweis's ward probably had better nutrition and better living conditions than those who went to the midwives. After all, they got treated by physicians. Yet they did at significantly greater rates than those treated by midwives because the doctors infected them.
I guess I did a sleep fast once and it was horrible. Much worse, by far, than a couple seven-day food fasts. By comparison, they were a pleasant walk in the park.
I was moving a household across town and wanted to return the rental truck inside the 48-hour time window to avoid a penalty fee. My *desire* for sleep was excruciating! I guess the continuous physical challenge, including moving the large refrigerator by myself, pushed me over the edge into the chasm of simple, unrelenting misery.
But how was the sleep after your sleep fast? Did you wake up refreshed and full of energ as I did? Or not?
I think I felt pretty good, and after only a few hours of sleep, because I still needed to return the truck on time.
Ah you'll enjoy it Laddie
I hope not...it's severe.
Enjoy Scotland. Sorry...I'm with MD. I read and loved the books then the TV series came out. Slightly different (as always for TV) but good. I was reading Ian Rankin and ran out of material Kobo or Amazon kept suggesting different Scottish writers or tales set in Scotland and I hit on this series. I loved it. A good blend of Sci-fi history and a little on medicine. I liked it less when they moved to the 'Colonies.' But hey such is life. Have fun- hope the weather is good enough for you to golf. when I was there... there were deluges Noah would not have gone out on deck in that rain. No golf for me... Anyway safe travels... B
We had even more today. Tomorrow it's off to the Culloden battlefield and God only knows where else. Holed up in Inverness tonight.
Mike - I certainly got a lot out of this issue - as another reader says - it's all wonderful and would get fantabulous ratings if you had put in the poll. With fantabulous as a category, obviously. I do think an 87 - with rented clubs and the first time on one of the most difficult courses in Scotland - is something to celebrate. Maybe at The Scotch Whisky Experience (354 Castlehill in Edinburgh) and the Amber Restaurant there? The restaurant used to be glorious - maybe it still is . . . But all in all - thanks for doing this and continue to enjoy your vacation!
Only one niggle that I saw:
she as been kind enough
she has been kind enough
Thanks for finding the typo. And, yes, the 87 on the unfamiliar course and rented clubs was surprising. But it could have been even better had I known how to properly play out of pot bunkers. I've ever played on a course that had them. They probably cost me at least 5 strokes. I'll know better next time.
Thanks again as always! Have you ever gone down the rabbit hole of chemtrails? I can't look at your picture of Doune Castle without thinking those ain't clouds! Looking forward to PP2.
I have not gone down the rabbit hole of chem trails. I have more than enough rabbit holes right now to keep me busy. I don't need any more.
It continues to amaze me that various entities are STILL mandating the useless masks and counter-efficacy vaccines. Truly amazing! Evidently, yes, people are that stupid. Or the mandaters are sinister and enforcing it on because they can, for control and meanness.
And no need to apologize for an 87 on an unfamiliar course with rented clubs. Any golfer totally understands and, some of us, are amazed that you did as well as you did.