Hello everyone. Greetings from Dallas. Instead of my normal whining about the weather, which has been gorgeous for the past few days, I’ll put up this tweet I reposted on my X account. We dodged a bullet by not being in California right now. SOURCE Calley Means, Ozempic, and Tucker
I watched the Tucker Carlson video right off the bat and wow, what a lot of information. It reminded me of the movie The China Syndrome, I kept thinking of this guy as Jack Lemmon. It would only be a matter of time before someone was cutting his brake line and running him off the road to keep him from getting this information out.
Seems like an executive order of stopping the pharmaceutical industry from advertising on television would be a great start. Kind of like when they stopped letting cigarette companies advertise on television.
As you have stated many times before the pharmaceutical industry is now the main force behind medical training for doctors now. If they step out of line, they are isolating themselves and putting themselves on the outside.
In addition to turning obesity into addiction, the monster corporations flogging Ozempic and its variants are also providing cover to Big Food. They can continue to use High Fructose Corn Syrup and seed oils to maintain their profit levels. The perception of the public is that the drugs can "fix" obesity, so there is no need to worry about what's in the case of soda they drink every week.
Mike, I've just been prompted to renew my Arrow subscription. This I will gladly do, but now that you have shown us what you can do (amazing you haven't revisited drawing and sculpting in 40 years!), maybe there is more? I, and many readers would love hand drawn biochemical pathways from now on; you could sell numbered sets, ala the late Frank Netter. And, for myself personally, I would love busts of Gus McCrea, Woodrow Call, and Larry McMurtry too. I really mean that, I love those guys. I doubt you have slow days, but if you did....
Just saw my first TV ad for a law firm looking for people who have taken Wegovy or Ozempic for diabetes or weight loss and how they can join a lawsuit if they experienced any severe side effects like nausea, constant vomiting, stomach paralysis, etc. We knew it would happen sooner or later!
My daughters (25 yrs. old) BFs brother (23 yrs. old and 330 pounds) is in the hospital right now. He actually went into the hospital back in September for stomach pain for a few days, believed to be from the Ozempic. Well, he got out and went back on Ozempic. And he went back into the hospital a few days ago. My daughter just sent text saying he may need to eat and poop through a tube. I asked if that's permanent or while in the hospital. Have not heard back. BUT the kids mother thinks this was all caused by a trip in August to the Dominican Republic and not the Ozempic.... oh forgot to mention that he had issues before the trip. My daughter and her BF took the kid to a gastroenterologist appointment BEFORE they went to the DR because he was having pain. Some people refuse to see....
"As I say, I had no idea. If I had thought about it, I would probably have figured it out". You must have read Marcia Angell's 'The Truth About the Drug Companies'. It's the same tactic used as used for the journals. Pharma pays a huge sum apparently for a service that then becomes the main income for the organization.
Mike - another content home run - love those additional items to look at (you keep us busy all weekend with your info). No surprise about the CDC - which makes me wonder why anyone believes anything they say. But since research from the University of Michigan claims that growing your own food is worse for the environment than buying conventionally grown big ag food (noted in Heather Heying's latest post: Things That Caught My Eye #6)) makes me wonder what I should believe anymore. Thank God for the Arrow! And finally - no way could I watch that last video, even knowing that it never would've been posted had he fallen off into space. I get jelly legs watching a tv show where someone's standing on a building ledge - while telling myself that they're probably 6 inches from the ground. The real stunner in this Arrow was your artwork, which ability I would guess is what makes you a good scientist/doctor/researcher - the ability to see things in 3D - all the way around a subject - instead of a one-dimensional view of the world.
Given this list, you must have been really anxious to watch the Putin interview!
Did you mean to have Casey Means in the header for this section since it's Calley's interview with Tucker?
Therefor all YouTube would be doing
Therefore, all . . . .
gut..and sometimes
Isn't an ellipsis usually a space, 3 evenly spaced dots, and another space?
Remember the mosquito and the chain link fence analogy.
. . . chain link fence analogy?
the “science” is wrong in systematic review.
. . . in the systematic review.
Although the amount of fat we eating right now
. . . fat we are eating
an incredible important factor in healthy aging.
an incredibly important factor
health reasons (fools!). their French fries weren’t for crap.
Don't need a period after the closed parens
Did you want to put a headline in after the WeeP section where you switch to talking about Tucker's interview with Putin?
which had a much large circulation than Civil War Times
. . . a much larger circulation
in short order I discover the violin was totally different beast
. . . I discovered the violin
a couple of hours digging into a medical paper than I would do a drawing.
Small question. I bought two pound plastic jars of beef tallow a couple years ago and have kept them in the fridge since. That makes it a pain to use since tallow is quite solid when refrigerated and once I've used half, the remaining half is a struggle to get out a spoon at a time. In the videos for the Wagyu it show the stuff at room temp. Does beef tallow need to be refrigerated?
I agree with Kathy below. MD keeps ours in the fridge, though she doesn't have to. She takes it out and lets it soften before she uses it. It's strange in that she grew up with a jar of bacon grease always sitting beside the stove and never refrigerated.
Under the Q&A section of the Amazon page for the tallow, it says it does NOT need to be refrigerated, but to keep it away from heat. I have a friend who is a homesteader who researches everything, and she says tallow and lard do not need to be refrigerated. Which makes sense, since tallow and lard have been used for generations before refrigeration was available.
Very few people are as smart as they think they are (lol). Have only read FBR and Black Swan so can't comment on later work. Didn't know he was conned by Kung Flu False Flag. Just goes to show. Think you and others will "enjoy" Kunstler TLE.
Morning Doc - Highly recommend that you and all your other readers purchase and read two books: Jim Kunstler's "The Long Emergency" and Nassim Taleb's "Fooled By Randomness".
I haven't read the Kunstler book, but I have read "Fooled by Randomness." As far as I'm concerned, it is Taleb's best book. Probably because it had an editor. It was his first one, so he really had no choice. After it became a bestseller, Taleb decided he didn't need an editor, because, in Taleb's mind, he is smarter than everyone else, so why should he need someone to improve or correct his book. And every book after that has been an overwritten piece of crap as far as I'm concerned. They all could have been shortened, cleaned up of all the repetition, and would have been as good as FBR, but, alas, they aren't. And they contain valuable information. I've read all of them, but only about a third of each. That's all it takes to understand what they're all about. The rest is simply repetition. I always thought Taleb was smart, but a poor judge of his own writing abilities. Once I saw how he was so taken in by the Covid scam, I decided he wasn't as smart as I thought he was.
Impressive art! I have the opposite of the art gene...in my college drafting class I struggled to draw a straight line with a ruler.
I bet you saw the video in Kevin Kelly's Recommendo newsletter. I had seen the same artist's diorama of Michael Jackson's hair catching fire last year but never watched the Mel Gibson episode.
Love your drawings and sculpture... looks talented to me...
As to the Vegetable oils being complicit in the obesity issue, I do agree... Kris Knobbe's videos make a pretty good case in supportl I am torn between Veg oils and fructose as the main cause. Both certainly contribute.
Finally, do you have any thoughts on why vitamin D seems to be very protective for a lot of health issues but when a randomized study is done, the effect seems minuscule ?
Chris Knobbe is a friend of mine, so I know his work well.
Re Vit D... Sometimes the process is what makes the difference, not the end product. Perhaps it's the sun exposure that creates both the advantage AND the elevated vit D levels. But in RCTs in which vit D is given orally, not real advantage emerges.
Here in the UK when studies are done to see if vitamin D has a protective effect on health, invariably they give too low a dose to study participants - the NHS/NICE still consider the daily amount of D3 should be 400 or 800 iu which is only enough to protect against rickets.
I watched the Tucker Carlson video right off the bat and wow, what a lot of information. It reminded me of the movie The China Syndrome, I kept thinking of this guy as Jack Lemmon. It would only be a matter of time before someone was cutting his brake line and running him off the road to keep him from getting this information out.
Seems like an executive order of stopping the pharmaceutical industry from advertising on television would be a great start. Kind of like when they stopped letting cigarette companies advertise on television.
As you have stated many times before the pharmaceutical industry is now the main force behind medical training for doctors now. If they step out of line, they are isolating themselves and putting themselves on the outside.
I think stopping pharmaceutical ads would be a big step in the right direction.
In addition to turning obesity into addiction, the monster corporations flogging Ozempic and its variants are also providing cover to Big Food. They can continue to use High Fructose Corn Syrup and seed oils to maintain their profit levels. The perception of the public is that the drugs can "fix" obesity, so there is no need to worry about what's in the case of soda they drink every week.
You are correct. They all support one another.
Mike, I've just been prompted to renew my Arrow subscription. This I will gladly do, but now that you have shown us what you can do (amazing you haven't revisited drawing and sculpting in 40 years!), maybe there is more? I, and many readers would love hand drawn biochemical pathways from now on; you could sell numbered sets, ala the late Frank Netter. And, for myself personally, I would love busts of Gus McCrea, Woodrow Call, and Larry McMurtry too. I really mean that, I love those guys. I doubt you have slow days, but if you did....
I love those guys, too. Lonesome Dove was one of my favorite books ever. I love the last line.
And thanks for renewing. I appreciate it.
The last line from the show or the book? They're different. My sentimental favorite from Larry is Leaving Cheyenne.
Just saw my first TV ad for a law firm looking for people who have taken Wegovy or Ozempic for diabetes or weight loss and how they can join a lawsuit if they experienced any severe side effects like nausea, constant vomiting, stomach paralysis, etc. We knew it would happen sooner or later!
Pretty soon it will be a deluge.
My daughters (25 yrs. old) BFs brother (23 yrs. old and 330 pounds) is in the hospital right now. He actually went into the hospital back in September for stomach pain for a few days, believed to be from the Ozempic. Well, he got out and went back on Ozempic. And he went back into the hospital a few days ago. My daughter just sent text saying he may need to eat and poop through a tube. I asked if that's permanent or while in the hospital. Have not heard back. BUT the kids mother thinks this was all caused by a trip in August to the Dominican Republic and not the Ozempic.... oh forgot to mention that he had issues before the trip. My daughter and her BF took the kid to a gastroenterologist appointment BEFORE they went to the DR because he was having pain. Some people refuse to see....
What a terrible story. I hope he ends up pulling out of it.
Yes. I starting seeing those ads 3-4 months ago.
"As I say, I had no idea. If I had thought about it, I would probably have figured it out". You must have read Marcia Angell's 'The Truth About the Drug Companies'. It's the same tactic used as used for the journals. Pharma pays a huge sum apparently for a service that then becomes the main income for the organization.
Yep.
Mike - another content home run - love those additional items to look at (you keep us busy all weekend with your info). No surprise about the CDC - which makes me wonder why anyone believes anything they say. But since research from the University of Michigan claims that growing your own food is worse for the environment than buying conventionally grown big ag food (noted in Heather Heying's latest post: Things That Caught My Eye #6)) makes me wonder what I should believe anymore. Thank God for the Arrow! And finally - no way could I watch that last video, even knowing that it never would've been posted had he fallen off into space. I get jelly legs watching a tv show where someone's standing on a building ledge - while telling myself that they're probably 6 inches from the ground. The real stunner in this Arrow was your artwork, which ability I would guess is what makes you a good scientist/doctor/researcher - the ability to see things in 3D - all the way around a subject - instead of a one-dimensional view of the world.
Given this list, you must have been really anxious to watch the Putin interview!
Did you mean to have Casey Means in the header for this section since it's Calley's interview with Tucker?
Therefor all YouTube would be doing
Therefore, all . . . .
gut..and sometimes
Isn't an ellipsis usually a space, 3 evenly spaced dots, and another space?
Remember the mosquito and the chain link fence analogy.
. . . chain link fence analogy?
the “science” is wrong in systematic review.
. . . in the systematic review.
Although the amount of fat we eating right now
. . . fat we are eating
an incredible important factor in healthy aging.
an incredibly important factor
health reasons (fools!). their French fries weren’t for crap.
Don't need a period after the closed parens
Did you want to put a headline in after the WeeP section where you switch to talking about Tucker's interview with Putin?
which had a much large circulation than Civil War Times
. . . a much larger circulation
in short order I discover the violin was totally different beast
. . . I discovered the violin
a couple of hours digging into a medical paper than I would do a drawing.
. . . than I would doing a drawing.
Yes, I also am learning to click on the added links. Interesting content.
Small question. I bought two pound plastic jars of beef tallow a couple years ago and have kept them in the fridge since. That makes it a pain to use since tallow is quite solid when refrigerated and once I've used half, the remaining half is a struggle to get out a spoon at a time. In the videos for the Wagyu it show the stuff at room temp. Does beef tallow need to be refrigerated?
I agree with Kathy below. MD keeps ours in the fridge, though she doesn't have to. She takes it out and lets it soften before she uses it. It's strange in that she grew up with a jar of bacon grease always sitting beside the stove and never refrigerated.
Under the Q&A section of the Amazon page for the tallow, it says it does NOT need to be refrigerated, but to keep it away from heat. I have a friend who is a homesteader who researches everything, and she says tallow and lard do not need to be refrigerated. Which makes sense, since tallow and lard have been used for generations before refrigeration was available.
Thanks for the information about beef tallow.
How about lard? It's high in monounsaturated fat.
Maybe not enough saturated fat?
Thanks for all you do.
Mark, MD
We use lard a lot, too. I just like the flavor beef tallow imparts better. Plus it's got more saturated fat, which I like.
Very few people are as smart as they think they are (lol). Have only read FBR and Black Swan so can't comment on later work. Didn't know he was conned by Kung Flu False Flag. Just goes to show. Think you and others will "enjoy" Kunstler TLE.
Thanks for the tip on the Kunstler. I'll add him to my list.
Occasional use sure tastes good tho. Mostly use butter or olive oil.
Cooking with lard also works.
Yep, though not as well as beef tallow. Lard contains a fair amount of PUFA. Much more so than beef tallow.
Morning Doc - Highly recommend that you and all your other readers purchase and read two books: Jim Kunstler's "The Long Emergency" and Nassim Taleb's "Fooled By Randomness".
I haven't read the Kunstler book, but I have read "Fooled by Randomness." As far as I'm concerned, it is Taleb's best book. Probably because it had an editor. It was his first one, so he really had no choice. After it became a bestseller, Taleb decided he didn't need an editor, because, in Taleb's mind, he is smarter than everyone else, so why should he need someone to improve or correct his book. And every book after that has been an overwritten piece of crap as far as I'm concerned. They all could have been shortened, cleaned up of all the repetition, and would have been as good as FBR, but, alas, they aren't. And they contain valuable information. I've read all of them, but only about a third of each. That's all it takes to understand what they're all about. The rest is simply repetition. I always thought Taleb was smart, but a poor judge of his own writing abilities. Once I saw how he was so taken in by the Covid scam, I decided he wasn't as smart as I thought he was.
Impressive art! I have the opposite of the art gene...in my college drafting class I struggled to draw a straight line with a ruler.
I bet you saw the video in Kevin Kelly's Recommendo newsletter. I had seen the same artist's diorama of Michael Jackson's hair catching fire last year but never watched the Mel Gibson episode.
You are correct. It was Recommendo. Went back and checked. Thanks for this. It's been bugging me.
Our source of beef tallow comes from the trimmings of the briskets we smoke. Dump the trimmings in the crock pot and tallow comes out.
A good source.
Love your drawings and sculpture... looks talented to me...
As to the Vegetable oils being complicit in the obesity issue, I do agree... Kris Knobbe's videos make a pretty good case in supportl I am torn between Veg oils and fructose as the main cause. Both certainly contribute.
Finally, do you have any thoughts on why vitamin D seems to be very protective for a lot of health issues but when a randomized study is done, the effect seems minuscule ?
Chris Knobbe is a friend of mine, so I know his work well.
Re Vit D... Sometimes the process is what makes the difference, not the end product. Perhaps it's the sun exposure that creates both the advantage AND the elevated vit D levels. But in RCTs in which vit D is given orally, not real advantage emerges.
Here in the UK when studies are done to see if vitamin D has a protective effect on health, invariably they give too low a dose to study participants - the NHS/NICE still consider the daily amount of D3 should be 400 or 800 iu which is only enough to protect against rickets.
I thought olive oil was OK. Is it not?
Much of the olive oil sold is adulterated. There is vastly more olive oil sold than produced, which means a lot of it is adulterated.