Hello friends. Greetings from Dallas. Wishing everyone a belated Happy New Year. I hope yours is full of health and prosperity. On the morning of New Year’s Eve, I awakened at about 4:30. I was wide awake and my brain was humming. I rolled over and cuddled the bride in an effort to get back to sleep for a few hours. Then, as I always do in such situations, I think of what Marcus Aurelius wrote at the beginning of Book 5 in his
Doc, using Occam’s razor (simplest solution) in Antartica cases suggests viruses are not real. It’s just body getting rid of poisons that we bring with food, drugs, chemicals. They never proved any virus infection using Koch Postulates. And no virus was ever isolated, but exosoms and bacteriophages were. But that’s too red pill too swallow for most.
From what I understand (which is very little), no sequence has actually ever been shown to come from a virus. Many sequences are claimed to be viral, of course. Here is an interesting extract from Dr. Mark Bailey's "A Farewell to Virology":
To expose the problems of virology it is crucial to examine the methodology section of any publication and in this case it is no different…Those of us that dispute the virus narrative point out that no RNA (or DNA) sequences have ever been shown to come from inside any specific identifiable particle that fulfils the definition of a virus. Thus all RNAs can only be said to be expressed by a known organism, introduced artificially (e.g. synthetic mRNA injections) or be of unknown provenance. The “mutations” only exist within in silico models that have not been shown to be independent entities in nature. There are other reasons why RNA sequences can and do vary in dynamic biological systems and I can’t imagine that any virologist would disagree with this fact.
Simply detecting RNAs is not enough to draw conclusions about their provenance.
Other experiments are required to make this determination.
Indeed, no amount of genomic or proteomic technology can escape the fact that with regard to such data being supposed evidence of viruses, it is turtles all the way down.
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Please forgive me -- I had to end with that quote because it was from the Arrow that I first learned of the phrase, "turtles all the way down."
“Virologists have never extracted an entire genome from an alleged disease-causing virus and then sequenced it end to end. Nowadays, computer programs are used to artificially assemble thousands of selected DNA or RNA fragments found in patients into a complete ‘viral’ genome, by matching overlapping regions and adding any missing sequences. This is known as ‘in silico’ alignment (meaning that it’s done in a computer).
Scientists typically argue for years about which pieces of genetic code belong to a particular ‘virus’; for the measles virus, this took decades. But it only took a few mouse clicks in the case of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that supposedly causes Covid-19 (a ‘new’ disease with no new symptoms). This involved searching for genetic sequences similar to those classified as belonging to the first SARS coronavirus from 2003 (which has also never been properly isolated) and then instructing a computer to piece them together.”
I took a look at the piece you linked above. The references are less than stellar, so I'm not sure I would put a lot of faith in those. If you want to read a controversial book by a real scientist, read Inventing the AIDS virus by Peter Duesberg. The book is a lesson in real virology by one of the world's experts whose opinions got him dissed by the mainstream.
I read it, on your rec, and than read Dissolving Illusions thats on your night stand. Shouldn't be other way around, that they have to PROVE that viruses exist and cause disease. And yet similar to what Duisberg said in his book they never proved HIV causes AIDS, they never proved using Kochs postulaates that viruses cause any disease. But that doesnt stop world killing people with "medicine" to cure/prevent HIV to develop AIDS and people to get vaccinated etc..
Here is Nick Hudson, who both of us respect, recent post saying he would NOT get vaccine on a market.
Yes agree they are less than stellar, but we know how hard is to be on the other side of the narrative. Duisberg lost everything, didnt get a cent anymore from gov agencies for research. JJ also was out, and I think is working for RF Kennedy now. Something that is over 200 years in collective memory is NOT gonna change that soon. Too many vested interests.
Duesberg never said viruses don't exist. He was/is(?) the world's foremost authority on retroviruses, which is what the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is. He never, ever said viruses don't exist; he said he didn't believe the HIV caused AIDS. He thought HIV was simply a harmless traveler virus.
I agree with Nick Hudson. But I don't think that means he doesn't believe viruses exist. Ask him on Twitter.
Saying viruses don't exist is tantamount to believing the earth is flat. When someone says, No, it's round, flat earthers say Prove it. I didn't think these people really existed, but my kid showed me a 'serious' book by a flat earth organization. They have answers for any argument one might have for why the earth is really round. They believe the moon landings were all staged. It's absolutely incredible some people actually believe all this. And it's how I feel about people who don't believe viruses exist. I suppose there might be a tiny fraction of a percent chance that viruses don't exist. I say that because I'm not an infectious disease specialist, so I'm not well read in that literature. But instead of spending time reading books by non-experts trying to prove viruses don't exist, I think my time would be more productively spent reading and studying nutrition and metabolism, something I do have some expertise in.
That was pretty harsh Doc. And bad analogy. I will leave it here
Maybe after rewatching JJ video you posted, where he says that spreading RNA virus (but not clones ) is very hard you change your mind a bit.
After all after decades of tons of money spent on GoF and similar experiments all over the world, how is that we we a “leak” that’s not even causing epidemic (no excess deaths). And mind you there are a lot of nuclear bombs lost or being accidentally dropped all over the world, showing humans are very prone to sloppiness.
But yes, agree one should focus on his area of competence as Buffett says.
You opened Pandoras box yourself in Arrow 144 with JJ Couey Rumble video, and right there at 1hr11min he explains how this can be done all over the world. And later on he talks about NO virus people and that he is not sure if viruses exist or not. He says that people can expel exosomes which can "infect" other individuals and get a symptoms similar to cold..
Dr. Eades! You made one small comment about the AMA in your discussion of their bought and paid for amicus curae that I believe most people are unaware of. I hope you will say more about the AMA membership in a future post. Most people think all medical doctors are members of the AMA. That's why an endorsement from them carries so much weight. The press prints whatever Big Pharma tells the AMA to endorse. It's like the Communist Party in Soviet Russia. Less than ten percent of Russia's population were members of the Communist Party. I'm curious what percentage of all American doctors are members of the AMA? Keep up the good work! Cheers!
Statistics differ. I've seen numbers ranging from ~11% to as high as 18%. I think it's closer to the lower number because no docs I know are members. And I know a lot of docs.
A beautiful sunrise. We only seem to get those in Los Angeles when there are brush fires that throw a lot of smoke into the air.
I have long loved the Ode to Joy, and have long promised myself to read Schiller from whose poetry it is taken, although I have yet to do so. And I love these "flash mob" performances. They remind me of musical numbers in old movies, where "spontaneously" breaking into song to express something seems perfectly natural and normal.
I at first thought you were being facetious when you said that in those situations your mind goes back to book five of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. Checking my version (from the Harvard Classics, translated by George Long (1800-1879)) it reads much less memorably. I figure I need a more modern translation. I have seen recommendations of four different modern translations of the Meditations, those being by Gregory Hays, Robin Hard, Scot and David Hicks, and Martin Hammond. Do you have a preferred translation and is it one of these, or another?
The flu in the Antarctic group is quite fascinating. If that can happen then there really is no defense other than a robust immune system.
Thanks for the heads-up on the new Gary Taubes book.
Which brings up the question, when is your book coming out?
I have three translations of "Meditations." One by Gregory Hays, one by Maxwell Staniforth from 1964, and one by Robin Waterfield. Of the three, the one by Hays is by far and away the most readable. And it's the one from which the quote I posted was taken. The Waterfield version is pretty literal, so not as easy to read. And the Staniforth one is really clunky. Here's how the Stanisfield starts the quote I posted:
"At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am arising for the work of man." Must I grumble at setting out to do what I was born for, and for the sake of which I have been brought into the world?"
My advice is to go for the Hays.
A robust immune system is the best defense against most anything.
If I hadn't spent so much time writing The Arrow, the book would already be in bookstores. A fact of which my lovely wife never tires of reminding me.
I'm sure your book will make you more money than The Arrow, but I don't see how it will match the density of interesting stuff that you put in The Arrow every week.
Thanks for the Hays recommendation. It's interesting how much of a difference the choices of the translator make not only in readability but in meaning. Almost makes me wish I had studied Latin. Almost.
I think the Gregory Hays version is by far the most widely preferred. My Hays' version was printed by the "Modern Library."
Unfortunately, unless things have changed recently, Amazon doesn't bother to identify translations. You can't even rely on the photograph of the book to match the correct translator to that edition. Caveat emptor.
Agreed re Amazon. I read a review by a scholar of Russian lit on the best translations of Anna Karenina. I had already read the Pevear and Volokhonsky version, so wanted to give the prof's version a try, so I bought it on Kindle. What I got was a completely different translation. This has happened a few times on other books, so buyer beware.
I tried to read a lot of translations, but only managed to read one from Sam Torode. It’s not real translation but his version of it without a lot of duplicates in original text. I have his version of Epictetus Enchiridion too which is also very easy to read.
I've never heard of that one. I'll have to give it a look. I'll have to admit that I wasn't just blown away by Meditations in any form. I came onto it late in adulthood, by which time I had already learned many of its lessons the hard way. I think it is much more appealing to younger people. I was just struck by the part about getting out of bed early. I was always one who loved to marinate in the warmth of a good bed and a good wife, so I hated to get up and get going. So the early morning part was not something I had internalized by the time I first read it.
Eli Lilly to open website to directly distribute Zepbound to patients.
The fox is literally in the hen house. Just another illustration of how Big Pharm is calling the shots and robbing oodles of money from all of us!
"Drugmaker Eli Lilly announced on Thursday a new website that will allow patients to get a weight loss drug prescription through a tele-health provider — a move, the company says, that will improve access to the extremely popular and effective drugs, including its recently approved drug."
“We’re used to buying consumer goods directly from manufacturers all the time on online websites,” said Lilly CEO David Ricks. Ricks said the new platform will make it easier for patients to access the drugs, cutting out the need to go to the doctor to get a prescription and then to a pharmacy to fill it.
Yep. The telemedicine doc will get paid to write the Rx, but the local docs and pharmacies will get cut out of the trade. But, unless the insurance companies and/or Medicare start paying for what they consider lifestyle diseases (overweight and obesity), the patients will still have to pay a pretty penny for Zepbound.
Beautiful sunrise you saw after you remembered what Marcus Aurelius wrote (great photo of the daddy bear too wherever it came from).
Strange how things happen: I was going to email you last week asking about you migrating from Substack to a different platform as you’d mentioned that a while back, and in about a month my subscription to Substack will renew. I decided to wait until the new year and hey presto this first Arrow of 2024 you write about migrating to a new platform ! What about subscriptions to Substack though ? You didn’t mention how that is dealt with…I wouldn’t want to continue to pay Substack.
You won't continue to pay Substack. That's part of the confusion in switching over. I have to switch paid subscribers from Stripe (the credit card processing company) and the rest from Substack. If there is a screw up, which I'm assured there won't be if I follow their instructions, I'll fix it.
I understand that some UCLA scientists requested and received a sample of the virus from the CDC, but they weren't able to see it under their electron microscope, or whatever. Then it was sent on to Stanford and then Harvard with the same non-results.
I've never heard this. According to what I've read, the Chinese were able to sequence the SARS-CoV-2 virus and published it. The vaccine manufacturers then took that sequence and used the part of it that made the spike protein and used that for the vaccine. As far is I know, the vaccine produced spike proteins. Which would give some credibility to the idea that the virus was sequenced.
On the “Are you sick of Covid” poll, yes with comment. I want to see heads roll! I want to see these arrogant buffoons feet held to the fire. My gut tells me there’s as much chance of that as seeing any of the creeps on the Epstein list prosecuted. I guy can wish, can’t he?
I don't know. Fauci is going to be raked over the coals in a two-day closed-door, transcribed hearing starting Monday Jan 8. All the info that has come out via FOIA requests pretty much paints him as a dissembler of the worst order. If he lies through his teeth during this hearing, he may be screwed if there is a regime change after the next election.
I follow Don Laymon (longtime protein researcher) on protein, so I was interested in his carb views, finally covered in a newer video interview.
He doesn't have a strong preference for either high-carb or high-fat, but recommends about a daily 100 carb grams for the typical sedentary person. Say, 20-to-40 carb grams per meal, or even match carb and protein grams per meal.
He says that the muscles prefer to oxidize fat up to about 65% maximum exertion--above that, you start to need to burn carbs. If you play tennis or do HIT, like he does, then you'll need more carbs.
He considers the average person's 300 carb grams per day consumption to be a prescription for obesity and diabetes.
He also thinks that calories need to be reduced as people age--maybe going as low as 1,400 calories per day.
Dom Layman is a friend of mine, and we've had a number of discussions about all this. He's more low-carb than you might think. I'm not sure about the 65% maximal exertion figure. I've got some US military unpublished studies showing there is a point of exertion at which carbs are required for optimal output. But these studies weren't done on carb-adapted subjects. That makes a big difference, and I don't know that there are any studies on maximal output vs carbs on truly carb adapted subjects. I'm also not sure I agree with the 1,400 kcal/day for aging people. Depends upon a lot of variables, so can't really be a one-size-fits-all recommendation.
He had a gleam in his eyes and excitement in his voice when he mentioned green beans for dinner, so I suspect he is a minimalist when it comes to carbs.
They must have only sprayed on that one day, Dec 31, 2023. I've been up many times before sunrise--today, for instance--and I've never seen a sunrise even approximating the one I photographed. Almost all are like today's. They start out grey and become less grey and more sunny as time progresses.
Loved the post - as always, very interesting. Read the book by Claire and enjoyed it. The Ode to Joy flash mob video is one of my favorites, so thank for the repost.
Which software is this, the one you are switching to from Substack? Could I please have the URL of their website? I too am looking for something like this. Thanks
It’s been “hijacked” by the communists (small “c”), exposed to lethal levels of “Ingsoc” and “memoryholing” and so has begun to “DIE”. But those of us born before 1960 and those we have taught know the truth.
Madison is my hometown. I used to work at UW Hospitals and Clinics.
I don’t know why my friends and I called it pop, but when we got to high school, we heard some of the girls call it soda. I think each group just shortened soda pop. My grandmother called it soda pop, come to think of it. Maybe they call it pop in the Pacific Northwest?
I would be very interested in MD’s Substack. Will you be announcing its debut in the Arrow?
Doc, using Occam’s razor (simplest solution) in Antartica cases suggests viruses are not real. It’s just body getting rid of poisons that we bring with food, drugs, chemicals. They never proved any virus infection using Koch Postulates. And no virus was ever isolated, but exosoms and bacteriophages were. But that’s too red pill too swallow for most.
Uh, if viruses aren't real, how can they be sequenced?
Dr. Eades,
From what I understand (which is very little), no sequence has actually ever been shown to come from a virus. Many sequences are claimed to be viral, of course. Here is an interesting extract from Dr. Mark Bailey's "A Farewell to Virology":
To expose the problems of virology it is crucial to examine the methodology section of any publication and in this case it is no different…Those of us that dispute the virus narrative point out that no RNA (or DNA) sequences have ever been shown to come from inside any specific identifiable particle that fulfils the definition of a virus. Thus all RNAs can only be said to be expressed by a known organism, introduced artificially (e.g. synthetic mRNA injections) or be of unknown provenance. The “mutations” only exist within in silico models that have not been shown to be independent entities in nature. There are other reasons why RNA sequences can and do vary in dynamic biological systems and I can’t imagine that any virologist would disagree with this fact.
Simply detecting RNAs is not enough to draw conclusions about their provenance.
Other experiments are required to make this determination.
Indeed, no amount of genomic or proteomic technology can escape the fact that with regard to such data being supposed evidence of viruses, it is turtles all the way down.
----
Please forgive me -- I had to end with that quote because it was from the Arrow that I first learned of the phrase, "turtles all the way down."
If both DNA and RNA exist and can be sequenced (the entire human genome has been sequenced), then why couldn't the DNA or RNA in a virus be sequenced?
“Virologists have never extracted an entire genome from an alleged disease-causing virus and then sequenced it end to end. Nowadays, computer programs are used to artificially assemble thousands of selected DNA or RNA fragments found in patients into a complete ‘viral’ genome, by matching overlapping regions and adding any missing sequences. This is known as ‘in silico’ alignment (meaning that it’s done in a computer).
Scientists typically argue for years about which pieces of genetic code belong to a particular ‘virus’; for the measles virus, this took decades. But it only took a few mouse clicks in the case of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that supposedly causes Covid-19 (a ‘new’ disease with no new symptoms). This involved searching for genetic sequences similar to those classified as belonging to the first SARS coronavirus from 2003 (which has also never been properly isolated) and then instructing a computer to piece them together.”
https://davidpratt.info/reclaim.htm
I took a look at the piece you linked above. The references are less than stellar, so I'm not sure I would put a lot of faith in those. If you want to read a controversial book by a real scientist, read Inventing the AIDS virus by Peter Duesberg. The book is a lesson in real virology by one of the world's experts whose opinions got him dissed by the mainstream.
I read it, on your rec, and than read Dissolving Illusions thats on your night stand. Shouldn't be other way around, that they have to PROVE that viruses exist and cause disease. And yet similar to what Duisberg said in his book they never proved HIV causes AIDS, they never proved using Kochs postulaates that viruses cause any disease. But that doesnt stop world killing people with "medicine" to cure/prevent HIV to develop AIDS and people to get vaccinated etc..
Here is Nick Hudson, who both of us respect, recent post saying he would NOT get vaccine on a market.
https://x.com/NickHudsonCT/status/1743739114212536425?s=20
Yes agree they are less than stellar, but we know how hard is to be on the other side of the narrative. Duisberg lost everything, didnt get a cent anymore from gov agencies for research. JJ also was out, and I think is working for RF Kennedy now. Something that is over 200 years in collective memory is NOT gonna change that soon. Too many vested interests.
Duesberg never said viruses don't exist. He was/is(?) the world's foremost authority on retroviruses, which is what the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is. He never, ever said viruses don't exist; he said he didn't believe the HIV caused AIDS. He thought HIV was simply a harmless traveler virus.
I agree with Nick Hudson. But I don't think that means he doesn't believe viruses exist. Ask him on Twitter.
Saying viruses don't exist is tantamount to believing the earth is flat. When someone says, No, it's round, flat earthers say Prove it. I didn't think these people really existed, but my kid showed me a 'serious' book by a flat earth organization. They have answers for any argument one might have for why the earth is really round. They believe the moon landings were all staged. It's absolutely incredible some people actually believe all this. And it's how I feel about people who don't believe viruses exist. I suppose there might be a tiny fraction of a percent chance that viruses don't exist. I say that because I'm not an infectious disease specialist, so I'm not well read in that literature. But instead of spending time reading books by non-experts trying to prove viruses don't exist, I think my time would be more productively spent reading and studying nutrition and metabolism, something I do have some expertise in.
That was pretty harsh Doc. And bad analogy. I will leave it here
Maybe after rewatching JJ video you posted, where he says that spreading RNA virus (but not clones ) is very hard you change your mind a bit.
After all after decades of tons of money spent on GoF and similar experiments all over the world, how is that we we a “leak” that’s not even causing epidemic (no excess deaths). And mind you there are a lot of nuclear bombs lost or being accidentally dropped all over the world, showing humans are very prone to sloppiness.
But yes, agree one should focus on his area of competence as Buffett says.
You opened Pandoras box yourself in Arrow 144 with JJ Couey Rumble video, and right there at 1hr11min he explains how this can be done all over the world. And later on he talks about NO virus people and that he is not sure if viruses exist or not. He says that people can expel exosomes which can "infect" other individuals and get a symptoms similar to cold..
I'll have to rewatch it. But it will take a lot of persuading before I believe viruses are a myth.
Wow. An international super virus that travels thousands of miles through UV radiation to sicken people.
Jesus wept.
Not just a super virus, but if the study is to be believed, a whole lot of viruses.
Dr. Eades! You made one small comment about the AMA in your discussion of their bought and paid for amicus curae that I believe most people are unaware of. I hope you will say more about the AMA membership in a future post. Most people think all medical doctors are members of the AMA. That's why an endorsement from them carries so much weight. The press prints whatever Big Pharma tells the AMA to endorse. It's like the Communist Party in Soviet Russia. Less than ten percent of Russia's population were members of the Communist Party. I'm curious what percentage of all American doctors are members of the AMA? Keep up the good work! Cheers!
Statistics differ. I've seen numbers ranging from ~11% to as high as 18%. I think it's closer to the lower number because no docs I know are members. And I know a lot of docs.
A beautiful sunrise. We only seem to get those in Los Angeles when there are brush fires that throw a lot of smoke into the air.
I have long loved the Ode to Joy, and have long promised myself to read Schiller from whose poetry it is taken, although I have yet to do so. And I love these "flash mob" performances. They remind me of musical numbers in old movies, where "spontaneously" breaking into song to express something seems perfectly natural and normal.
I at first thought you were being facetious when you said that in those situations your mind goes back to book five of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. Checking my version (from the Harvard Classics, translated by George Long (1800-1879)) it reads much less memorably. I figure I need a more modern translation. I have seen recommendations of four different modern translations of the Meditations, those being by Gregory Hays, Robin Hard, Scot and David Hicks, and Martin Hammond. Do you have a preferred translation and is it one of these, or another?
The flu in the Antarctic group is quite fascinating. If that can happen then there really is no defense other than a robust immune system.
Thanks for the heads-up on the new Gary Taubes book.
Which brings up the question, when is your book coming out?
I have three translations of "Meditations." One by Gregory Hays, one by Maxwell Staniforth from 1964, and one by Robin Waterfield. Of the three, the one by Hays is by far and away the most readable. And it's the one from which the quote I posted was taken. The Waterfield version is pretty literal, so not as easy to read. And the Staniforth one is really clunky. Here's how the Stanisfield starts the quote I posted:
"At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am arising for the work of man." Must I grumble at setting out to do what I was born for, and for the sake of which I have been brought into the world?"
My advice is to go for the Hays.
A robust immune system is the best defense against most anything.
If I hadn't spent so much time writing The Arrow, the book would already be in bookstores. A fact of which my lovely wife never tires of reminding me.
I'm sure your book will make you more money than The Arrow, but I don't see how it will match the density of interesting stuff that you put in The Arrow every week.
Thanks for the Hays recommendation. It's interesting how much of a difference the choices of the translator make not only in readability but in meaning. Almost makes me wish I had studied Latin. Almost.
I think the Gregory Hays version is by far the most widely preferred. My Hays' version was printed by the "Modern Library."
Unfortunately, unless things have changed recently, Amazon doesn't bother to identify translations. You can't even rely on the photograph of the book to match the correct translator to that edition. Caveat emptor.
Agreed re Amazon. I read a review by a scholar of Russian lit on the best translations of Anna Karenina. I had already read the Pevear and Volokhonsky version, so wanted to give the prof's version a try, so I bought it on Kindle. What I got was a completely different translation. This has happened a few times on other books, so buyer beware.
I tried to read a lot of translations, but only managed to read one from Sam Torode. It’s not real translation but his version of it without a lot of duplicates in original text. I have his version of Epictetus Enchiridion too which is also very easy to read.
I've never heard of that one. I'll have to give it a look. I'll have to admit that I wasn't just blown away by Meditations in any form. I came onto it late in adulthood, by which time I had already learned many of its lessons the hard way. I think it is much more appealing to younger people. I was just struck by the part about getting out of bed early. I was always one who loved to marinate in the warmth of a good bed and a good wife, so I hated to get up and get going. So the early morning part was not something I had internalized by the time I first read it.
One of the reasons it has taken so long for PP 2.0 is that I want it to be as interesting as The Arrow, and not just another diet book.
Eli Lilly to open website to directly distribute Zepbound to patients.
The fox is literally in the hen house. Just another illustration of how Big Pharm is calling the shots and robbing oodles of money from all of us!
"Drugmaker Eli Lilly announced on Thursday a new website that will allow patients to get a weight loss drug prescription through a tele-health provider — a move, the company says, that will improve access to the extremely popular and effective drugs, including its recently approved drug."
“We’re used to buying consumer goods directly from manufacturers all the time on online websites,” said Lilly CEO David Ricks. Ricks said the new platform will make it easier for patients to access the drugs, cutting out the need to go to the doctor to get a prescription and then to a pharmacy to fill it.
Zepbound.https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/weight-loss-drug-online-website-eli-lilly-rcna131597?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fnews
Yep. The telemedicine doc will get paid to write the Rx, but the local docs and pharmacies will get cut out of the trade. But, unless the insurance companies and/or Medicare start paying for what they consider lifestyle diseases (overweight and obesity), the patients will still have to pay a pretty penny for Zepbound.
Beautiful sunrise you saw after you remembered what Marcus Aurelius wrote (great photo of the daddy bear too wherever it came from).
Strange how things happen: I was going to email you last week asking about you migrating from Substack to a different platform as you’d mentioned that a while back, and in about a month my subscription to Substack will renew. I decided to wait until the new year and hey presto this first Arrow of 2024 you write about migrating to a new platform ! What about subscriptions to Substack though ? You didn’t mention how that is dealt with…I wouldn’t want to continue to pay Substack.
You won't continue to pay Substack. That's part of the confusion in switching over. I have to switch paid subscribers from Stripe (the credit card processing company) and the rest from Substack. If there is a screw up, which I'm assured there won't be if I follow their instructions, I'll fix it.
Thank you especially for sharing Ode to Joy.
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I understand that some UCLA scientists requested and received a sample of the virus from the CDC, but they weren't able to see it under their electron microscope, or whatever. Then it was sent on to Stanford and then Harvard with the same non-results.
Curious.
I've never heard this. According to what I've read, the Chinese were able to sequence the SARS-CoV-2 virus and published it. The vaccine manufacturers then took that sequence and used the part of it that made the spike protein and used that for the vaccine. As far is I know, the vaccine produced spike proteins. Which would give some credibility to the idea that the virus was sequenced.
It’s impossible for a normally active person to avoid exposure to viruses. The only protection is a healthy immune system.
True.
On the “Are you sick of Covid” poll, yes with comment. I want to see heads roll! I want to see these arrogant buffoons feet held to the fire. My gut tells me there’s as much chance of that as seeing any of the creeps on the Epstein list prosecuted. I guy can wish, can’t he?
I don't know. Fauci is going to be raked over the coals in a two-day closed-door, transcribed hearing starting Monday Jan 8. All the info that has come out via FOIA requests pretty much paints him as a dissembler of the worst order. If he lies through his teeth during this hearing, he may be screwed if there is a regime change after the next election.
I follow Don Laymon (longtime protein researcher) on protein, so I was interested in his carb views, finally covered in a newer video interview.
He doesn't have a strong preference for either high-carb or high-fat, but recommends about a daily 100 carb grams for the typical sedentary person. Say, 20-to-40 carb grams per meal, or even match carb and protein grams per meal.
He says that the muscles prefer to oxidize fat up to about 65% maximum exertion--above that, you start to need to burn carbs. If you play tennis or do HIT, like he does, then you'll need more carbs.
He considers the average person's 300 carb grams per day consumption to be a prescription for obesity and diabetes.
He also thinks that calories need to be reduced as people age--maybe going as low as 1,400 calories per day.
Dom Layman is a friend of mine, and we've had a number of discussions about all this. He's more low-carb than you might think. I'm not sure about the 65% maximal exertion figure. I've got some US military unpublished studies showing there is a point of exertion at which carbs are required for optimal output. But these studies weren't done on carb-adapted subjects. That makes a big difference, and I don't know that there are any studies on maximal output vs carbs on truly carb adapted subjects. I'm also not sure I agree with the 1,400 kcal/day for aging people. Depends upon a lot of variables, so can't really be a one-size-fits-all recommendation.
He had a gleam in his eyes and excitement in his voice when he mentioned green beans for dinner, so I suspect he is a minimalist when it comes to carbs.
Darn you! I had tears in my eyes by the end of the Ode to Joy video!
Mine, too.
The extravagant sunsets are attributed to aerial-spraying by the anti-geoengineering websites.
They must have only sprayed on that one day, Dec 31, 2023. I've been up many times before sunrise--today, for instance--and I've never seen a sunrise even approximating the one I photographed. Almost all are like today's. They start out grey and become less grey and more sunny as time progresses.
Loved the post - as always, very interesting. Read the book by Claire and enjoyed it. The Ode to Joy flash mob video is one of my favorites, so thank for the repost.
Which software is this, the one you are switching to from Substack? Could I please have the URL of their website? I too am looking for something like this. Thanks
It's a paid platform, not a free one like Substack. Here is the link: http://bit.ly/3Sb4gxX
Thanks. Looks like this could be what I'm looking for.
It’s been “hijacked” by the communists (small “c”), exposed to lethal levels of “Ingsoc” and “memoryholing” and so has begun to “DIE”. But those of us born before 1960 and those we have taught know the truth.
Madison is my hometown. I used to work at UW Hospitals and Clinics.
I don’t know why my friends and I called it pop, but when we got to high school, we heard some of the girls call it soda. I think each group just shortened soda pop. My grandmother called it soda pop, come to think of it. Maybe they call it pop in the Pacific Northwest?
I would be very interested in MD’s Substack. Will you be announcing its debut in the Arrow?
Great “chatting” with you, Dr E.
Lynn
I will indeed announce it on The Arrow.