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Reubaltaich
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| Location: | A nation under duress |
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| Registered on: | 6/25/2006 |
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Minn terrorist street thugs now harassing citizens
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/17/26 at 8:53 am
These communist thugs are starting to get really bold.
Someone way up the chain is putting them up to this AND funding this.
Someone way up the chain is putting them up to this AND funding this.
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re: Woman who doxxed MN ICE agent Jonathan Ross’ address FIRED from her job
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/17/26 at 8:33 am to Ailsa
Facing 5 years in the Pen for a bunch of thieving illegals.
Also a felony on her record for life. These people are downright stoo'pid,
Also a felony on her record for life. These people are downright stoo'pid,
re: Street Scene In Minneapolis Looks Like A Post Apocalyptic Hell Hole:
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/17/26 at 8:31 am to Toomer Deplorable
What a bunch of idjoits. Camped in between 2 fuel stations with a fire?
re: CBK will never coach again to mitigate his buyout…
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/14/26 at 5:58 pm to jasonbr1975
BK has what is called 'generational wealth'.
His family is set for the next few generations if his money is managed right.
I doubt he is worried about landing another coaching gig.
His family is set for the next few generations if his money is managed right.
I doubt he is worried about landing another coaching gig.
re: What are the best solutions for erectile dysfunction? Any good peptides?Penile injections?
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/13/26 at 10:45 pm to Basinhunterfisher
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try L-Arginine, suppose to increase blood flow
Yep.
Also beets and beet juice boosts nitric oxide. Also, arugula boosts nitric oxide.
ED is an early sign of vascular disease. Also, could be a sign of pre-diabetes, and probably due to full blown diabetes. Insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome.
Lack of exercise and a crappy diet.
Even certain medications like SSRI's
Bad cholesterol, aka small, dense particles that will burrow down into the inner layer of the arteries...
Obesity. I had the discussion with my urologist about 3 years ago. He pointed to my big gut and said that is a major factor in ED.
For every pound of fat on our body 5 miles of new tiny blood vessels are formed to supply those extra pounds of fat.
Blood that could be supplying the ole willy.
The blue pill works but at what cost?
Lots of side effects. Surprise surprise.
re: What are the best solutions for erectile dysfunction? Any good peptides?Penile injections?
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/13/26 at 6:14 am to DarthRebel
Nitric oxide is the first step. ED is just a symptom of other issues in your body.
re: Chinese dissedent says China's population is actually under 500M, not 1.4B
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/12/26 at 6:30 am to Jack Ruby
I have no idea BUT I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Rooskies believed the number was somewhere between 700-800 million.
Who knows :dunno:
Who knows :dunno:
re: Eating Half
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/11/26 at 8:07 pm to Gerry Laval
Cut out all the sugars in your diet.
And know that sugar is in a lot of 'foods' that the industrial food complex hides using lots of different names.
Sodas (even diet sodas), energy drinks, sports drinks...
About 80% of all the food-like substances in your local grocery stores is loaded down with sugars, starches, refined flours, all sorts of chemicals like maltodextrin...HFC, fructose...glyphosates and many other pesticides, fungicides, herbicides...
Starchy 'foods' like bread, cereals, biscuits, crackers, pastas, pastries...
Junk with soy protein isolates as an additive is very dangerous that is sprayed with tons of chemicals like glyphosate (round up)
Trans fats like soybean products and seed oils like soy, canola, corn, sunflower, margarine, oleo...
It's in fast foods and restaurants. It's in pre-packaged foods.
*Trans-fats were 'banned' but they have a loophole that the industrialized food industry has.
Here is a tip, if you read hydronated or pre-hydronated on the label, put it back on the shelf. If its in your pantry or refrigerator, throw it out. That stuff is garbage.
And know that sugar is in a lot of 'foods' that the industrial food complex hides using lots of different names.
Sodas (even diet sodas), energy drinks, sports drinks...
About 80% of all the food-like substances in your local grocery stores is loaded down with sugars, starches, refined flours, all sorts of chemicals like maltodextrin...HFC, fructose...glyphosates and many other pesticides, fungicides, herbicides...
Starchy 'foods' like bread, cereals, biscuits, crackers, pastas, pastries...
Junk with soy protein isolates as an additive is very dangerous that is sprayed with tons of chemicals like glyphosate (round up)
Trans fats like soybean products and seed oils like soy, canola, corn, sunflower, margarine, oleo...
It's in fast foods and restaurants. It's in pre-packaged foods.
*Trans-fats were 'banned' but they have a loophole that the industrialized food industry has.
Here is a tip, if you read hydronated or pre-hydronated on the label, put it back on the shelf. If its in your pantry or refrigerator, throw it out. That stuff is garbage.
re: The No Kings financial records have been released - top financier's revealed
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/11/26 at 7:41 pm to Sull
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Ford as in ford motor company?
Nope
You won't find this using google:
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The Ford Foundation’s Ugly, Warped View of America:
Megaphones and Militancy
LINK
re: RFK Jr.'s new US food pyramid puts red meat, veggies & cheese at the top
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/11/26 at 12:24 pm to Shexter
There is a lot coming down the pipeline really quick.
RFKjr has more in the works.
We are really going to start hear squealing from big ag, big pharma and a whole host of others. Those food dyes are only the beginning.
One of the YUGE ones is going to be the closing of the GRAS loophole:
LINK
RFKjr has more in the works.
We are really going to start hear squealing from big ag, big pharma and a whole host of others. Those food dyes are only the beginning.
One of the YUGE ones is going to be the closing of the GRAS loophole:
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Close the GRAS loophole
The GRAS loophole puts public health at risk by leaving the responsibility of food safety to manufacturers. To protect the safety of our food supply, the FDA must close it. Some in Congress are already working toward that goal.
Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) introduced the Ensuring Safe and Toxic-Free Foods Act in 2023. If enacted, it would require food manufacturers to inform the FDA of new GRAS designations. The bill would also ban conflict of interests among experts conducting safety evaluations, prohibit novel substances from claiming GRAS status, and require the FDA to assess certain GRAS substances for safety.
A recent HHS announcement on reviewing the GRAS system falls short of what’s needed. It simply pledges to “take steps to explore” changing a system that has been broken for more than 60 years – that’s not the change consumers rightly expect.
The FDA should take real action to put itself in charge of food chemical safety. Until it does, this announcement is best seen as a “plan to plan,” not real progress toward making food safer.
LINK
re: Mechanic Shortage? WSJ Shreds Ford CEO Complaints
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/11/26 at 12:03 pm to NorCali
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Dealerships are shifting the cost/risk of doing business to the mechanics and yet wonder why they can’t find people that chose to go into the field. Mechanic has to buy expensive tool x, then it is replaced by tool y, the mechanic takes the hit as an employee, not the dealership.
Yep. The auto manufacturers warranty pay is horrendous.
They do these time studies with an ace mechanic/tech that has every tool at their disposal usually in near perfect settings. And then the manufacturers will usually shave off time from the average time of their time studies.
And tools? A decent tech has to have at least $100K if not more, just to do basic mechanical work. And it is usually several times a year that they have to shell out $$ to buy necessary tools to work on the new designs that the manufactures produce.
Just these last few years, I have seen many competent young techs leave the industry because of crappy warranty reimbursement times along with the grueling work that usually leaves a tech physically worn out by the time they hot 40 years old.
With all the electronics, modules, sensors, wiring, computerized crap that is on vehicles, the stress on tech is bad and is getting worse.
A lot of the older techs are starting to retire and there is a huge shortage of qualified, young techs coming into the field.
That's one of the reasons there is 1-2 maybe even 3 weeks or more before the dealer can start to even look at a vehicle.
re: Type 2 Diabetes
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/10/26 at 2:55 pm to VandyBoysWhistler
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Really interested in a diabetic diet. Doc is going to put me on one of the GLP1’s starting next week.
Check out Dr Jason Fung. He has tons of youtube videos; LINK
Cut out all the sugars in your diet and know that there are well over 300 different names that the industrialized 'food' complex puts in the junk that we eat every day.
Its in a lot, and I mean a lot of different foods that most don't even think about. Canned foods like peas, corn beans
These are just a few:
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Dextrose
Fructose
Galactose
Glucose
Lactose
Maltose
Sucrose
Solid or Granulated Sugars:
Beet sugar
Brown sugar
Cane juice crystals
Cane sugar
Castor sugar
quote:
LINK
Next is refined flour and starches. Once again, the industrial food complex hides it in many different ways using tricky and hard to understand names.
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Unbleached Enriched Flour (Refined) White Flour
Enriched Flour (Refined) White Flour
Wheat Flour (without the word whole) (Refined) White Flour
Semolina / Semolina Wheat (Refined) White Flour
Wheat Shell Pasta (Refined) White Flour Pasta
Enriched Macaroni Product (Refined) White Flour Pasta
Whole Wheat / Whole Wheat Flour Whole Grain Flour (made from wheat)
Whole Grain Wheat /Whole Grain Wheat Flour Whole Grain Flour (made from wheat)
Whole Durum Wheat / Whole Durum Wheat Flour Whole Grain Flour (made from wheat)
Whole Wheat Shell Pasta Whole Grain Pasta (made from wheat)
Whole Grain Soft White Wheat Whole Grain Flour (made from wheat)
Rice Refined White Rice
Brown Rice Whole Grain Rice
Oats Whole Grain Oats (whether rolled, steel-cut, quick cooking, etc.)
Oat Bran Not the whole grain - just the bran
Whole Grain Corn Whole Grain Corn
Whole Grain Cornmeal / Whole Grain Corn Flour Whole Grain Corn Meal/Flour
Popcorn Whole Grain Corn
Cornmeal / Enriched Cornmeal Refined Corn
Corn Flour Refined Corn
Degerminated Corn Refined Corn
Corn Starch Refined Corn
Quinoa Whole Grain (usually only sold whole)
LINK
Start looking out for those garbage seed oils, aka canola, soy, corn, sunflower...
Yep, its a punch in the gut but don't despair, for the most part Type 2 Diabetes can be reversed. Its been done millions of times, my grandfather and mother were both diabetic and once they lost weight and started eating right, they didn't have to take the meds.
GLP-1 agonists? Beware friend. There are already lawsuits making their way through the courts because of side-effects.
Ozempic gives side effects warnings right on their website:
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Ozempic® may cause serious side effects, including:
Possible thyroid tumors, including cancer. Tell your health care provider if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, hoarseness, trouble swallowing, or shortness of breath. These may be symptoms of thyroid cancer. In studies with rodents, Ozempic® and medicines that work like Ozempic® caused thyroid tumors, including thyroid cancer. It is not known if Ozempic® will cause thyroid tumors or a type of thyroid cancer called medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in people
Do not use Ozempic® if you or any of your family have ever had MTC, or if you have an endocrine system condition called Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN 2)
LINK
re: RIP MTv - it was a huge Gen -X staple
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/9/26 at 5:23 pm to Mr Clean
re: Supplements
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/7/26 at 9:54 pm to LSUFanHouston
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I’ve read some stuff on this. In relation to cayenne / capsaicin
Do you know anything about that?
This is very interesting. Doing a little reading on it, it seems to help with blood flow.
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1. Cayenne Pepper
The spicy flavor that is possessed by cayenne pepper results from capsaicin. Capsaicin happens to be very effective in the promotion of blood circulation to your tissues. It does this by reducing your blood pressure and triggering nitric oxide release, as well as, other blood vessel expanding compounds (Vasodilators). This increases blood flow by causing the muscles in the walls of your blood vessels to relax.
LINK
re: Very high LPA
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/7/26 at 8:46 pm to calcotron
quote:
I can't find LPa in my labs, I guess I can ask about it. Is it calculated from other stats?
From what I can tell, the LPa is a separate test from the standard lipid panel.
You will have to request a separate LPa blood test.
Get one from your Dr or you can get it done through an independent testing center like Labcorp.
re: Very high LPA
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/7/26 at 8:04 pm to warm
Wow, hate to hear that.
Here are a couple of things to look into:
LINK
LINK
Here are a couple of things to look into:
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Lipoprotein Apheresis
Lipoprotein apheresis is currently the only therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for lowering Lp(a) in the United States. It is only approved for people with all three of the following:
Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH)
LDL cholesterol higher than 100 mg/dL andLp(a) higher than 60 mg/dL
Either coronary artery disease or peripheral artery disease.
Estrogen, niacin, and PCSK9 inhibitors are known to lower Lp(a) levels. However, estrogen and niacin have not been shown to protect you against developing heart disease if you have high Lp(a). Preliminary evidence suggests that the cardiac benefit seen with PCSK9 inhibitors is because of both LDL and Lp(a) reduction, but more evidence is needed at this time. Studies specifically looking at PCSK9 inhibitors and Lp(a) are underway.
LINK
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Therapies to lower Lp(a)
Most of the drugs in development for lowering Lp(a) work by interfering with RNA, the molecule that copies and transfers genetic instructions from DNA, the cell's genetic blueprint. Currently, there are four RNA-based drugs that effectively silence the gene that makes Lp(a) in liver cells: lepodisiran, olpasiran, pelacarsen, and zerlasiran. All are administered by injection every one to six months and have been shown to lower Lp(a) levels 80% and 100%. The side effects appear to be limited to mild, short-lived pain at the injection site. Larger, longer trials looking at whether these drugs will help prevent heart-related problems are currently under way, with results expected within the next one to two years, says Dr. O'Donoghue, who is a lead investigator on the clinical trials of olpasiran.
Preliminary results also look promising for another experimental drug called muvalapin, which works by preventing the assembly of the Lp(a) particle. Like the RNA-based drugs, muvalapin also leads to dramatic drops in Lp(a), but it is taken as a daily pill. Side effects include headache, back pain, and fatigue. While some people prefer pills over shots, injectable drugs have the advantage of much less frequent dosing, Dr. O'Donoghue notes.
LINK
re: What are your tips to maintain energy throughout the day?
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/7/26 at 7:37 pm to RickAstley
quote:
My typical workday is sitting behind a desk 6-8 hours just as an added reference.
Get up every now and then to stretch.
And yes, big lunches is definitely a huge driver of crashing you out. Especially food that is high carbs in content.
Believe it or not, intermittent fasting works great. It will take a while to get used to it though.
re: Supplements
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/7/26 at 7:31 pm to LSUFanHouston
Nitric Oxide. Something like L-Citrulline. Do your research and try a little at a time.
Beets and beet-juice, it tastes like crap though.
Pomegranate juice, the real stuff. Watch out for the stuff loaded down with sugar and other additives.
YMMV
Beets and beet-juice, it tastes like crap though.
Pomegranate juice, the real stuff. Watch out for the stuff loaded down with sugar and other additives.
YMMV
re: Where does everyone order their blood work?
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/6/26 at 6:16 pm to meeple
I go to my GP yearly, but he recently retired so I am trying to find a GP that I like.
The place I work for allows us one wellness visit per year.
I have an appointment with a new GPs Nurse Practitioner.
Which ever way you go, make sure you request these tests as well:
*Homocysteine levels: helps to assess cardiovascular disease risk, diagnose vitamin B deficiencies (B6, B9, B12), and identify rare genetic conditions like homocystinuria, with high levels suggesting potential heart/stroke risk or vitamin lack.
* hsC-reactive protein (CRP): detects inflammation in the body, helping doctors diagnose infections (bacterial, fungal), monitor inflammatory or autoimmune diseases (like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, IBD), check for flare-ups after surgery, or assess cardiovascular risk by indicating arterial inflammation
The standard cholesterol panel is outdated and doesn't show the whole story. But trichlorides levels are very important indicator.
Request Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) : an advanced blood test that goes beyond standard lipid panels by directly counting and sizing cholesterol-carrying particles (VLDL, LDL, HDL) in your blood.
The size and density of cholesterol is a better indicator. The small dense particles burrow down into the inner lining of the arteries, which eventually rupture like a pimple and cause clotting, which can cause blockages leading to a heart attack, stroke or an embolism.
A few others that are very well worth requesting: A1C, C-Peptides, fasting insulin. Magnesium and phosphorus levels.
An EKG is still a very accurate indicator of heart health but there can be false readings. But overall, request it from your GP.
The place I work for allows us one wellness visit per year.
I have an appointment with a new GPs Nurse Practitioner.
Which ever way you go, make sure you request these tests as well:
*Homocysteine levels: helps to assess cardiovascular disease risk, diagnose vitamin B deficiencies (B6, B9, B12), and identify rare genetic conditions like homocystinuria, with high levels suggesting potential heart/stroke risk or vitamin lack.
* hsC-reactive protein (CRP): detects inflammation in the body, helping doctors diagnose infections (bacterial, fungal), monitor inflammatory or autoimmune diseases (like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, IBD), check for flare-ups after surgery, or assess cardiovascular risk by indicating arterial inflammation
The standard cholesterol panel is outdated and doesn't show the whole story. But trichlorides levels are very important indicator.
Request Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) : an advanced blood test that goes beyond standard lipid panels by directly counting and sizing cholesterol-carrying particles (VLDL, LDL, HDL) in your blood.
The size and density of cholesterol is a better indicator. The small dense particles burrow down into the inner lining of the arteries, which eventually rupture like a pimple and cause clotting, which can cause blockages leading to a heart attack, stroke or an embolism.
A few others that are very well worth requesting: A1C, C-Peptides, fasting insulin. Magnesium and phosphorus levels.
An EKG is still a very accurate indicator of heart health but there can be false readings. But overall, request it from your GP.
re: MAGA women have a look.
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/6/26 at 6:03 am to Geekboy
'Jasmine has what appears to be a turd wrapped around the front of her head.'
:bow: :rotflmao:
:bow: :rotflmao:
re: Chyna's $100 Billion gamble in Venezuela
Posted by Reubaltaich on 1/5/26 at 6:42 am to Nosevens
quote:
Latest tally I understand was 15 billion
IDK. That sounds a lot on the light side of what the chi-coms had in VZ.
This is starting to look like the Japanese in WWII. The invested heavily and gambled on world domination & lost big time.
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