Question for caregivers: what's one change you made for your parent's health that made the biggest difference?
Food?
Movement?
A medication review?
More visits?
I'd love to hear it. It may help someone else reading.
BREAKING: REP. THOMAS MASSIE ON US ATTACK ON MINAB CHILDREN'S SCHOOL
"There's no fog of war on the first day! You've had months to identify these targets, yet they picked a school building on a school day with kids in it"
Today, we are informing patients and health care providers of a potential increased risk of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) associated with use of GLP-1 RA medications.
NAION is a rare condition that can result in acute, painless, decreased vision in one eye, including permanent vision loss. Symptoms of NAION include sudden, painless vision loss in one eye that patients may notice upon waking: visual defects such as blind spots, distortion of colors, blurriness, or tunnel vision.
Patients should contact their health care professional right away if they have any of these symptoms. https://t.co/qeTuSSQUzS
The FDA is informing patients and health care providers of a potential increased risk of non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) associated with use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) medications. FDA https://t.co/g5uHrj7LU4
care update: delicate discussion with my elder who takes about 20 meds. Last week her doctors admitted that diabetes remission is a thing that they do...but because she's 78, they're resistant to making any changes...would rather just giver her insulin and watch her waste away
care update: sad today, the day my kindergarten teacher died. having been disowned during covid and not having family of my own, an odd blessing of sorts witnessing actual familial love, connection and mourning. glad that I was of service.
BREAKING: 🚨 FDA slaps MAJOR WARNING on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound.
Both products can decrease blood flow to the optic nerve, increasing the risk of vision loss.
Scientists found a way to flush Alzheimer’s plaque out of the brain in minutes.
Without any surgery and drugs.
Your brain has a waste-clearance network called the glymphatic system. It flushes out toxic proteins and dead cells.
But it only really activates during deep, slow-wave sleep.
If you don't sleep, the trash piles up. Over time, that buildup leads to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's.
Until today.
Researchers just published a paper proving they can manually trigger this cleaning cycle.
Without you ever going to sleep.
They used 40.68 MHz ultrashort waves (USW) beamed non-invasively into the brain.
Within 10 minutes, the brain's fluid flow rapidly accelerated.
The waves artificially synchronized the neurons into a Delta state, the exact frequency of deep sleep. This forced the brain's water channels to open and start flushing out the system.
They tested it on mice with traumatic brain injuries and Alzheimer's pathology.
The brain swelling dropped. The toxic proteins were cleared out. Cognitive deficits actually improved.
No surgery. No massive chemical interventions. Just a frequency.
Ozempic and other GLP-1s are Keto-mimicking drugs; they don't repair/restore anything.
They provide pharmaceutically-induced fasting, thus decreasing the amount of carbs/sugar/junk that people eat, and prolong fasting time each day.
This increases ketosis levels and allows blood vessels time to heal by removing the sugar-laden, chemical-toxic shit-storm that is the standard diet.
🩸 LOW BLOOD PRESSURE
RETA/GLP POTENTIAL SIDE EFFECT
Signs
• Dizziness when standing
• Lightheadedness
• Weakness
• Blurry/grey vision
• Feeling like you might pass out
• Fainting
What to do
• Sit or lie down
• Get up slowly
• Hydrate
• Make sure you’ve eaten
• Check your BP if you can
• Persistent symptoms, fainting, chest pain or severe weakness → get medical help
How common?
Not one of the most common GLP side effects, but decreased blood pressure is a recognized risk and can become more likely with weight loss, dehydration or under-eating.
The FDA is requiring new warnings on GLP-1 drugs, including Ozempic and Zepbound, over a potential risk of NAION, a rare condition that can cause permanent vision loss.
Note: Its analysis found 6.4 cases per 100,000 patient-years among GLP-1 users vs. 3.8 in controls.
$LLY $NVO
Beginning to think that Russell Brand was sentenced just so the evils that be can run an operation testing relative solidarity between men and women, the extent to which we can be weaponized yet again against each other.
Hegseth Articles of Impeachment
Impeaching Peter Brian Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
- Launching the Iran war without a declaration of war, congressional authorization or an attack on the United States
- Defying Congress by continuing the war after both chambers voted to order U.S. forces out of Iran, which the resolution calls a first in American history
- Ignoring War Powers deadlines by fighting on after every legal time limit expired
- Gutting civilian protections before a U.S. strike on an Iranian elementary school killed at least 156 people, including at least 120 children. The resolution says Hegseth “effected the murder of civilians.”
- Extrajudicial killings of at least 243 people in boat strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, including a follow-up strike that killed two survivors clinging to wreckage
- Suppressing free speech by retaliating against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) for telling troops, “You can refuse illegal orders”
- “Kidnapping of a sovereign foreign leader” in the raid that captured Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, which the resolution says was really about oil
- An unlawful war in Yemen that killed an estimated 224 civilians, launched even though Hegseth wrote in the leaked Signal chat that “we can easily pause”
https://t.co/WQ67XSPYnn
🚨BREAKING: FDA now requires a vision-loss warning on every GLP-1 label, from Ozempic and Wegovy to Mounjaro, Zepbound and Foundayo.
The risk is NAION, a rare optic nerve event: 6.4 vs 3.8 cases per 100,000 patient-years across 126 trials.
The Washington Post reported that Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu had developed a reputation among staff at Blair House (the U.S. presidential guesthouse) for bringing bags and suitcases of dirty laundry from Israel to be cleaned free of charge by U.S. staff.
An unnamed U.S. official said, “The Netanyahus are the only ones who bring actual suitcases of dirty laundry for us to clean. After multiple trips, it became clear this was intentional.”