Living the dream as a blue dot in the reddest county in Texas. I’m in medical research and enjoy dogs, sports, politics, video games, reading, the outdoors and wine.
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Studies directly looking at egg consumption as a prototypical high cholesterol food found no impact on serum cholesterol in over 100k people. Egg consumption was found to even potentially be protective in patients with hypertension. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
So this study doesn’t actually relate to what I’m talking about. A cholesterol lowering diet is not the same as being low in dietary cholesterol. In fact the study you linked included dietary cholesterol as one of 8 dietary factors, including ones proven to lower serum cholesterol independently
Yeah beyond nutritional yeast I can’t do vegan cheese. I have an allergy to chickpeas and beans and too many have something in them. And not all disclose it too which is frustrating
Such a good book!!!! I’ve not listened to the podcast but I recommend the book all the time. Including once to the author, which was embarrassing
So if you’re selling coffee or other ultra processed foods, maybe don’t demonize them?
Luckily they don’t need to cook to use the super greens and whatever shit the wellness influencer is selling while demonizing ultra processed foods
Nutritional yeast is literally gods perfect food idk what you mean. Gah so good and so much protein… add 1/4 c per c dry brown rice and make cheesy rice with an additional 16 G protein
I’ve been trying to focus on health and nutrition for a while and have a few food allergies + and vegetarian so it was kinda hard. I did find nutrivore super helpful as a book but most of the resources are free on the website and it’s like the anti-rabbit hole of bullshit for me tbh
There’s been pretty good research suggesting that dietary cholesterol doesn’t impact serum cholesterol. They made us throw out egg yolks for nothing
Are researchers working on federal grants welcome?
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Has anyone written an article on this? Anything more than a screenshot of a tweet?
Max about to waterboard Hadjar. Going to be nuts #f1 #formula1
I figure he always crashes out at his favorite places in hopes of getting to go fuck around instead of having to race
Comedic relief
Well it finally happened. My husband’s racist grandma was posting her racist shit on Facebook and someone tracked me down to tell me about it. Gahhhhh
His fake splint is sending me
There is not enough time in the day for every person to be an expert on every thing. I hold multiple terminal degrees in biomed & therefore can speak as an expert on topics in medicine and research. But I need to listen to other experts if I want my car repaired or need information on energy policy
The men aren’t lonely enough
Shocking. That lance stroll would make an idiotic mistake and ruin his race… can’t believe it
I don’t love newsom. I’ve never loved any politician. I’d be happy to consider alternatives. I’ve pressed a bunch of progressives to name a single alternative candidate they’d support. Probably 15 different turns and only one person gave me a name - Stacey Abrams…. Who has never held office
Truly bonkers, doesn’t he have a job to do? I’ve got a couple of cancer clinical trials running that he hasn’t defunded
And now government doctors got my entire channel removed. Don’t worry. I won’t base my entire identity around this or claim it is worse than covid. 😂
My YouTube channel has like 300 followers and 99% of it is just videos of our medical establishment. Today, I learned they are trying to censor me, instead of doing their job.
I would guess the first few days of a military occupation are usually accompanied by people laying low
I need a different term for people who I really care about seeing succeed and would deeply miss if I lost the ability to follow them but that I know I don’t actually have a relationship with.
She was like 6 and just was sharing her own beliefs but didn’t do it in a way that is kind or appropriate. So her mom and I talk a lot now about how to give her the skills so that she can understand the world and things like death while also being kind to her friends.
This is kind of the issues she has actually. A couple of years ago her daughter told another kid who just lost her grandparent that heaven isn’t real and she realized she had to do a better job of explaining things
They don’t expand Medicaid They pass laws hostile to OBGYNs They ban medical care Then they wonder why they have poor outcomes
the dc takeover is a distraction from the putin summit is a distraction from epstein is a distraction from the jobs numbers is a distraction from ICE is a distraction from the economy is a distraction from the dc takeover is a distrac
For such a gory, bloody tv show, it’s crazy how player 222 gave birth with absolutely no blood. And in under 15 minutes #SquidGames
I’m an atheist as is one of my good friends. She’s raising her two kids as atheists and we talk all the time about how to explain the weird shit Christian’s do and say to her 9 yo. It isn’t that hard
Still haven’t heard if they’re actually cops yet. Sounded like cop behavior though
I just cannot imagine Cuomo or Adams getting this many people, especially people 40 and under, on a beautiful summer Sunday afternoon to do a scavenger hunts accessible by public transit
Why steal her content instead of quote tweeting it?
America now
Squid Games is obvs about the evil of capitalism and authoritarianism. But it also does a great job of showing why most people are horrible and that for the most part we don’t deserve to be saved.
Pretty striking for the BMJ to run this piece. “[Immunity debt’s] explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year.”
I stopped reading @thehill.com because of articles like this. Too much both sides bullshit
The refs for Kansas v Fresno State seem to have missed a call here…
It isn't until the 26th paragraph that there is mention that what Trump is doing is being challenged as illegal. And it accepts Trump's stated rationale to act. Here is what I think: Trump is illegally deploying the military in blue cities to set the stage to interfere with the 2026 elections.
Headline: Trump mobilizing National Guard in 19 states My mood: They didn’t start off wearing red robes…
Can’t tell if I’m airport drunk or you need a follow up post
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I subscribed to the newsletter but there were a few confusing fields about donations
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
I’ve never really understood the baby boomer generation’s obsession with being blind to race. Like it’s always framed as some moral virtue or a superior way of viewing the world. I’m not saying being race blind is inherently bad but I’ll never understand the idea that it’s a good thing either
It is unclear to me if this book is arguing against the civil rights movement or talking about the anti/civil rights movement from this advertisement
BBC News and others keep saying "land swaps", when no swapping of land is suggested. It's just a Russian propaganda phrase which is being given house room. #bbcpm
Under fueling during the day results in night time binge eating
I was gonna say nothing tastes as good as healthy feels but tbh I fucking love hummus and it tastes so good and I want it so badly but also I have an anaphylactic allergy so eating it would risk my life, the opposite of healthy but man would it taste good
Yeah I live in Texas. What am I imagining?
Egg imports are being arrived at a 10-26% rate. What are you taking about? www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Watching the GOP unenthusiastically take up the Cracker Barrel logo change as their latest "woke" outrage is so fascinating. They got their marching orders, but it didn't include any reasoning as to why the new logo is "woke." No one seems to know. But they got their orders and now must claim it is.
I cannot believe that no one has named the pos narc nurse
Twinkies are mass produced using farmed products that lend themselves to mass production using huge equipment. Avocado trees are expensive to maintain and need manual harvesting. then we deported people who could do that. So it does make some sense. Add on what gets farm subsidies and what doesn’t
Here, fixed it.
This is so cringy oh my god
I just cringed so hard my soul left my body
I live in fear of having to upgrade to a printer that will brick itself when I use non branded ink
Wow, it’s almost like companies will use a broad, inflationary backdrop to hike prices. 🤡 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“No is not a magic word” prosecutors tell a woman who was raped while acknowledging she repeatedly said no www.utahinvestigative.org/woman-says-i...
Why can’t I find the list of 22 mRNA studies defunded? No one seems to have published it. I’ve been searching since the announcement was made and still no list
These would be more interesting and meaningful if done by per person. Qatar has the most natural gas use per person also largest oil per person. The zUd actually uses less gas and oil per person than Canada Same with excess deaths during the pandemic
As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.
My friend who is not trans but has changed her name 3 times and it never occurred to me I was supposed to have a deep or meaningful opinion on it. It seems eccentric to me. But I am an extremely eccentric person in many ways and this friend doesn’t seem to have any deep opinions about it either?
My uber driver in LA is getting $48 of the $120 I’m paying to get from the airport to my hotel. Fucking nuts. Fuck you Uber.
Missouri is already insanely gerrymandered too
Houston just opened up a new terminal at their main airport with the absolute worst security set up I’ve seen in 20 years Extremely long lines and even advertised benefits like premier access don’t do anything to cut down your time. wtf IAH
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
I feel uncultured for not appreciating criticism but I just don’t. I’ve never really enjoyed movie or book reviews
Check his hard drive
“I deserve to bully and abuse trans women because I was bullied and abused by a man” is an insane take
Whet I’d like to see are trigger laws. Redraw the maps, but set it as a trigger law - if Texas districts then it comes into play Even better, set it to force gerrymandered red states to use independent district committees
That he was going to cheat on his wife with this AI and died doing it is so bleak
Right who needs cures for cancer anyways. Cut it!
I’ve had to rewrite two studies they pulled funding from for being to racially and ethnically diverse. They aren’t punishing me bc of woke sociology research. They’re punishing me for including women and non white people in cancer studies bc they want those studies to focus on white men
I am in cancer research, almost all clinical trials the stuff he says is completely apolitical and that clearly the admin shouldn’t be mad about. But they are bc we try to enroll diverse populations in our trials and want them accessible to people who can’t pay for cutting costs for leading edge
it’s honestly astonishing how many peoples politics amounts to “i became fascist because i was made aware of gender in call of duty”
What’s interesting to me about discussions of genocide Gaza aid that even the most pro-Israel people will deny the Holocaust to deny that there could be genocide in Gaza
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
When I was a kid I was sent to the office of my Catholic school because when we were supposed to be cosplaying as martyrs getting tortured to death for Jesus I said I probably would be too scared. My teacher was red in the face mad. But weirdly none of those martyrs are out standing up for right
RFK Jr. doesn’t like that a study of every child born in Denmark from 1997-2018 showed no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 adverse health outcomes. This study included more than a million kids. RFK Jr. wants the study retracted. The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.
Republicans say they want small government- small enough to be in your bedroom to police your sex life, your bookcase to pull the banned books, your classroom to make sure no student uses an unapproved nickname, and your doctor’s office to decide what care you’re allowed.
Shocker they Makary, who wrote a book about physician arrogance covering topics he didn’t understand incorrectly, did not manage an organization he has no experience to run well… his book was right about one thing- some physicians are wildly arrogant
It’s always the same story when they blame “woke.” Kevin Bass received sexual harassment complaints and had made threats of violence before he was kicked out of medical school. It wasn’t anything to do with his right-wing science denialism or his underlying scientific illiteracy and pick-me behavior
History and Article IV’s Guarantee Clause makes clear that a state’s governor cannot remove members of the legislature. No governor has ever claimed such power. It runs against the full history of Texas and American democracy as a whole. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Make your rice ahead of time, cool down according to safety standards, then reheat it. More resistant starch!
I’ve found that many healthier habits become easy small choices when you prep them to be. I buy a 32 oz tub of Greek yogurt and mix with lemon juice pepper dill and garlic. Then I cut up a bunch of bell peppers. Both go in the fridge and become an easy small choice when I’m hungry
We got my husbands grandma an adult tricycle. She was really mad at first because she thought it was childish but she was 76 and just not steady on a bike. Once she got over the insult, she loved it and still does
Gerrymandering handed the GOP majorities in the House in 2022 and 2024.
This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.
a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf
Bluesky folks... can anyone help me figure out who this nice person is? This weekend, me eldest dropped their phone (in a waterproof pouch) in Wright's Lake, and we spent hours hunting the lake for it, only to find it at the ranger's the next day with this photo as the last photo added...
When you see Cuomo attacking Mamdani over his rent stabilized one bedroom in Queens, do recall this please:
Get everything you voted for king. Alligator Alcatraz and Cecot still look good?
Republicans also had no authority to disband USAID, the dept of aid, or to steal research funding from scientists. And yet…
Depp proved it’s a good model