Alicia Stephenson

Chiropractor, Texas A&M class of 2005, fan of sports large and small.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@DavidPerlmutter 40year old female w moderate concussion from car accident. When do providers need to get a neurologist on board? What would you recommend? What referrals should be made? (Sorry, that’s 3 questions 🫣)

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@rossmclendon This will never cease to amaze me!

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@BrandonLeone I was there in September. So beautiful!

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@propjoesays Day 223 would fall somewhere in … I don’t know, September? Not middle of November. He’s loving every bit of the drama.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

Sweltering?!? We had a cold front yesterday! It’s only 89!

[Formula 1 @F1]

The top-three from a sweltering Austin! 👏🔥

1. Verstappen 🇳🇱
2. Norris 🇬🇧
3. Leclerc 🇲🇨

#F1 #USGP

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

Literally no one will care about this but me, but I hate the way one single marching snare sounds in these pep bands. Send at least two drummers and one fewer trumpet.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

Listen, dudes. If you put your business logo on your truck, you better be a good driver. If you’re on your phone and make me miss a light, I will never do business with you.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@DavidPerlmutter Your body is a giant problem-solving machine. It needs challenges. Change something every few months - timing of meals, # of meals per day, what you eat, exercise, supplements, etc.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@jaydp1138 People who don't own a business have no idea. I had no idea until I owned a business. It's too much. There's no way a regular person can just open a business anymore. Between the federal, state, county, and city requirements that we have to do/file/track/pay, it's ludicrous.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@JonAcuff So many reasons that I procrastinate:
1. Decision fatigue
2. Fear of failure
3. Overestimating the amount of time/money/energy it will take
4. When I was a kid I learned that I could wait until the last minute to write a paper and still get an A, so it became a habit

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@CoachJayArnold I had a high school friend who played for UMHB, and I went to several of his games. So fun!

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

To me, the day after the election is the absolute worst. It is not the end of the world if your preferred candidate lost. It is also not vindication for every opinion you have ever held if your preferred candidate won. It's just another day.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

Tech in '02. My roommate passed out. And then we lost by 1 when we missed a PAT, if my memory serves. Fun!

Close second was CU in Denver two years ago. It wasn't the actual temp; it was the metal stadium that radiated heat like we were sitting on a pizza stone for four hours.

[string @propjoesays]

QT this with the hottest game you've ever been to (besides fresno st 2007)

mine would have to be smu 05

[Casey Means, MD @CaseyMeansMD]

Mainstream media playbook: When the culture seems to be turning TOWARDS health, rapidly spin up a BS article (like this one that was published yesterday in TIME) to:

1. SEED CONFUSION: CONFUSION IS KEY - it makes us doubt our convictions about healthy food. Key here is bringing in “experts” who contradict the science and say it’s sensationalized or impractical to implement.

2. NORMALIZE: talk about how nearly 80% of calories come from ultraprocessed food so it can’t be that bad, right? IGNORE that 50% of children now have a CHRONIC DISEASE. Use a meaningless anecdote like the author of the article eating 80% processed food and feeling just fine! 🤦🏼‍♀️

3. DISTRACT AND SHUT DOWN DISCOURSE BY BRINGING IN SOCIAL JUSTICE: Focus intensely on social justice issues and questions of food access rather than science (“what would people *possibly* eat if we changed the food system towards real food?!”). Rather than focusing on ANY meaningful solutions that are actually good for the health and wellbeing of all people, focus on how changing the current system would lead to more food insecurity. Don’t mention that taxpayer money is what leads these foods and to be cheap through corrupt subsidies, and we actually have a rigged system against people of lower socioeconomic status that is the ACTUAL social justice issue. Don’t mention that we could rapidly steer the billions of dollars of processed food subsidies towards REAL food access for all Americans if there was a will to do so.

4. MINIMIZE THE SCIENCE: mention but then QUICKLY minimize the innumerable studies that say ultraprocessed foods impair hormones, metabolic health, and are associated with early death.

5. DEFINITELY DON’T MENTION CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: certainly don’t talk about funding sources and conflicts of interest at NIH, USDA, FDA, academia, OR THE NEWS OUTLET THAT IS PUBLISHING THE ARTICLE.

DON’T FALL INTO THE TRAP

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@JonAcuff Yes, and it makes zero sense. Why are we more anxious to board when the seats are reserved than when they're not reserved? I am displeased about this Southwest announcement, too.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@jaydp1138 When I graduated, my dentist told me, "managing a staff will be the hardest thing that you do." And boy howdy, was she right.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

@propjoesays @KendallRogers When Kendall said that Mingione was on the search list, I laughed so hard because after what happened with mark Stoops earlier this year, if we hired their baseball coach it would be… awful. And then I thought, I so wish I was a person who didn’t know why that is so funny.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

To all the TCU fans… you’re absolutely right. We turned a blind eye in 2021 because he was wearing our logo and we wanted to win. We didn’t call out corruption in our own ranks, and we got what we deserved.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

Make no mistake: this was not just about a coach. This was Texas sending a message to the rest of the SEC before they join the conference - this is the pecking order. Get ready @GregSankey. You invited the fox into the henhouse.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

Here is what I have learned about men in my time on this earth:

Men will run into enemy gunfire or into a burning building, but men don't have the guts to look another human being in the eye and tell the truth.

[Alicia Stephenson @AliciaS58]

Modern sports (and politics) just give more men a bigger platform to communicate that reality to younger generations.