@dostendorff Probably going to step on a toe or two- but I am pretty sure the deacons were doing that stuff in Acts! Some churches treat their pastoral staff like slaves…and some pastors act like lords (lol) so, the enemy works through all of our frailties.
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I'm a cardiologist. I need to tell you something that will change how you think about heart disease screening.
The standard approach — EKGs, echocardiograms, stress tests, basic labs, a cholesterol panel — misses approximately 75% of people who will go on to have a heart attack, stroke, or cardiac death.
These tests check how your heart functions. They do not check what's quietly building inside your arteries.
And the arteries are where plaque accumulates silently for decades before you feel the first chest pain. By then, the event is already happening.
Most heart attacks aren't caused by severely blocked arteries. They're caused by soft, inflamed, rupture-prone plaque that no stress test on earth will detect.
There is a better way. I use it in my practice. Here are the tests that actually find the disease before it finds you.
The fairest argument is that banning screens in schools is marginal: I agree. Parental culture matters the most
The next Anxious Generation movement needs to push a full analog culture at home: Physical media ONLY
This is my personal goal in the next few years
I took my husband off statins over 20 yrs ago after none of his drs connected his growing, severe leg pain and ultimately inability to walk.. to his recent statin prescription.
I was covering statin controversies for CBS News and it dawned on me one day that my husband had the same debilitating symptoms as people I interviewed.
He was suffering from rhabdomyolysis but no doctor had even asked him about his meds. They were giving him steroid shots in his knees over and over.
Thank goodness with in a couple of weeks of stopping, he got much better, though his legs never went back to normal strength and size.
A year or so later, his heart doctor gave him another statin. I objected. The dr said that patients who can't tolerate one can often tolerate another brand.
My husband wanted to take his doctor's advice.
Within a short period of time, I found my husband crawling up the stairs and in a great deal of pain.
I took him off statins again. Thank goodness, he improved a lot. No more crawling.
Throughout the next two decades, multiple drs tried to put him on statins again even though I strictly said he must never be on them again and explained why.
@KatTimpf 2)However, the good thing, the thing to cling to, is that man amazing parent has prepared you to make it through this. and you will. Hang in there.
@KatTimpf 1 Just add me to the list of people here who will tell you: you will absolutely never be the same. Losing a parent is really hard, but losing an amazing parent is a true tragedy. You will be a different person than you were a few days ago.
@LeaderJohnThune@TaxCuts Since Leader Thune REFUSES to give us the SAVE America Act,
I ask every Republican in Louisiana to DEFEAT Senator Cassidy on
🗓️ Saturday, May 16th
I ask every Republican in Texas to DEFEAT Senator Cornyn by electing Ken Paxton on
🗓️ Tuesday, May 26th
AI companions are the next frontier.
A survey of teens found:
30% ranked AI conversations as equally or more satisfying than human conversations.
1/3 have chosen to talk to AI over a real person about something important.
This is not harmless.