Annual bloodwork is one of the best ways to know your health trajectory. Here are the top markers to check:
- Lipid panel (LDL-c, HDL-c, triglycerides, ApoB, ApoA)
- Complete blood count
- Glucose markers (HbA1c, fasting insulin, glucose)
- Liver markers (ALT, AST, GGT)
- Kidney markers (eGFR, cystatin C, creatinine, albumin)
- Sex hormones (testosterone, free T, E2, SHBG)
- Thyroid markers (T3, T4, TSH)
- Vitamin D3
- Inflammation (hsCRP, homocysteine)
- Iron panel (ferritin, serum iron, TIBC, transferrin saturation)
- Electrolytes (sodium, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, bicarbonate, chloride)
- Lp(a) if you haven't tested it ever
Not a comprehensive list of what I would measure, but all the fundamentals are covered.
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It’s good for everyone that women’s rights proponents in the past changed laws such that women could own property, have their own bank accts, etc. That is what “feminism” means to me. The legal playing field was made even.
All the rest of this stuff where men are “bad,” and marriage and kids is some kind of prison, and subscribing to crazy ideas is not any type of feminism to me. It’s rather resentment, insecurity, and mental instability.
There’s no “either you become a devoted housewife and mother and eviscerate your personality and personal hopes and dreams” or “be single your whole life and never have kids and be a ‘boss girl’ and hammer your career.” Those are just silly reductions to some cartoon characters.
Of course you can marry and have children and hold very satisfying jobs and have a husband whom you love and support, as he loves and supports you. You can have children while pursuing things that professionally interest you. These things aren’t “sacrificing your freedom.” That’s silly. They are elements of life that enrich you. They are avenues of experience that bring you closer to a really full picture of who you are, for both the man and the woman.
Don’t believe people saying it’s got to be one way or the other. It’s just nonsense.
I just had the most surprising experience of having a long time good friend of mine tell me that she couldn’t be my friend anymore because she can’t be around anyone who supports Trump. It’s so shocking and so sad to me that some people can actually give up a friendship because of someone’s political views. I never even discussed politics with her because I know our views are so different. I mostly discuss my political views with like-minded people. I never post anything political on Instagram but do on X. I’m not a rabid Trump supporter who loves everything he does or says, but all in all I think he’s done a lot of good things for the country and certainly better than the last administration. Most of us who voted for him wanted the border closed and illegals deported, especially criminals. The left seems to have a terrible problem with that and thinks it’s cruel. Rather, we should just support anyone who wants to come to this country and pay for their schooling, medical bills, welfare, housing, etc. That doesn’t make any sense to anyone except for crazy liberals. He’s gotten so much done during his term, taking away tax on tips has been tremendously helpful to working people and taxes on Social Security for the seniors. The left loves to call him a fascist. That’s their buzz word. Just like calling someone a racist. Conservatives would never end a long friendship because someone’s political views were different. It just makes me shake my head.
Interviewer: "When the mothers tried to protect their children, who did you aim at first?"
"First we shot the parents, then the children. So the parents wouldn't have to see their kids die. The little ones... It's monstrous!
The older children knew their fate. They lay down in the pit. But the little ones tried to crawl over to their dead parents. They crawled on all fours."
Lithuanian Nazi auxiliary rifleman discussing the Jewish genocide, and his role shooting Jewish women and children, on how the Germans orchestrated and supervised the murders, how they brought POWs in to cover the bodies, and how the Germans walked on the bodies afterward, shooting anyone still alive.
Content warning because this is incredibly disturbing. I cut the interview together from different segments in the amazing documentary, Einsatzgruppen: The Death Brigades https://t.co/0EHBZeX6j4.
Russian-speaking Jews knew all along that antizionism was a filthy, bigoted movement; after all, it was one of the forces that drove Soviet Jews out of the Soviet Union. Like all immigrants, Russian-speaking Jews met their American Jewish cousins with a mixture of admiration and disenchantment. They looked up to American Jews because they had drawn the roadmap, proof that in America, "zoological antisemitism" would not keep a Jew from succeeding. But when antizionism arrived in America, unabashed, out in the open, Russian-speaking Jews began to speak up and the disenchantment began to set in: instead of being heard, they were removed from the conversation.
There is a story waiting to be told about the American Jewish response to Soviet Jews, and in many ways it is the story of the Ostjuden all over again: the "unrefined" Eastern European Jews whom their assimilated German cousins once met with embarrassment. American Jews were proud of the role they played in freeing Soviet Jewry. But once they had arrived, carrying their aversion to Marxism, feminism, Third-Worldism, and antizionism, that pride curdled into disdain. These were the Jews of rage who did not understand the value of holding seats at venerated tables or starting emails with "circling back."
There are stories upon stories waiting to be told of how Russian-speaking Jews were met by the very people who had so enthusiastically helped to bring them to America.
Russians are an emotional people. And, irony of ironies, for a people raised under censorship, Soviet Jews do not censor themselves . They find nothing rewarding in bureaucratic language. American Jews, by contrast, are of the polite sort. As one Russian-speaking Jew put it to me on a recent visit to Melbourne, Australia: "We are told by our Jewish leadership that we are not allowed to be angry. When we show anger, our Jewish leaders punish us by removing us from the conversation."
That, in itself, is another story waiting to be told: the story of the Jews of rage. Few know that Elie Wiesel's Night began in Yiddish, as Un di Velt Hot Geshvign ("And the World Remained Silent") and was cut and reshaped almost beyond recognition on its way to the world in translation. Few publishers had an appetite for the original, a text steeped in vengeance. In English, Night is a story of redemption and renewal. In Yiddish, it is a story of revenge. Strange because somewhere along the way, diaspora Jews told themselves that to be heard, a Jew is not allowed to be angry. But other minorities? Their rage is justified. And many American Jews did more than justify it; they supported it and participated in it: the protests, the activism, and yes, the rioting.
I often ask myself: what do we Russian-speaking Jews actually bring to the table? We may know the truth, but if we cannot translate it for a culture willing to listen, what is the point?
For years we have been dismissed or vilified as "right-wingers," "reactionaries," and "racists." Do Russian-speaking Jews tend to vote conservative? Certainly. But perhaps there is a reason, and here the joke writes itself. These onion-loving, borscht-eating cousins arrived carrying the one credential our progressive culture venerates above all others: lived experience.
We do not theorize about socialism from a seminar room; we lived it. We do not debate whether antizionism is criticism of the government or if it "crosses the line into antisemitism" because we know. By every rule of progressive epistemology, we should be the most listened-to Jews in America. Instead, many are dismissed. Recently, there is a movement to shed light on antizionism. And I am glad. But I am still struggling to understand why Jews are not allowed to be angry or put their needs first.
Healthier natural candybars 👇🏻
TRUST ME ON THIS SERIOUSLY
they are not SUPER low in calories about 175 per bar but they satiate and you’re not getting a bunch of processed sugar/ ingredients you can’t read. I make them for my husband and he said if I keep these on hand he will never sneak candy bars again.
Base layer 👇🏻
3/4 cup almond flour
1 serving of vanilla protein powder of your choice
1tbsp honey or maple syrup
Splash of olive oil
Mix this up and push it tightly into a parchment lined bread pan place in freezer for 20 min then layer the rest all at once without freezing between.
Second layer 👇🏻
Organic chunky peanut butter (do a super thin layer maybe 3 tbsp for the whole recipe) MUST BE CHUNKY. If you can’t find REAL peanut butter that is chunky get unsalted peanuts and layer those on top of the peanut butter:)!
3rd layer 👇🏻
Smashed MEDJOOL dates. Must be medjool and layer evenly on the whole thing. I use about 6 smashed dates
Top layer👇🏻
Melted dark chocolate (use a tsp of olive oil in the melting process to make it smooth)
The sprinkle with course salt while still wet
Freeze it all and store it in the freezer as well.
Makes about 8 bars 🩵 they. Are. Insane.
Every crash you hear is a body hitting the ground from someone in the World Trade Center whose best option was to jump. Many of the firefighters you see in this clip did not survive the next few hours, including the chaplain.
I don’t care about your suicidal empathy towards Islam. I don’t care about your stupid trade war. This is an 8-hour drive from Toronto. These are our people, our brothers and sisters.
Call 9/11 what it was.
@just_mindy We moved *from* Florida to Kansas so that my son with DS would be near his sister when we are no longer here. Bonus is being near grandchildren. Many of my generation are caught up in that party scene. I left it years ago and haven’t looked back.
Dr. Omid Hamid is the melanoma specialist who treats Khloe Kardashian and Teddi Mellencamp, and both gave permission to be discussed.
On the SHE MD podcast, he shared 8 things about melanoma people never hear:
1) Melanoma appears where the sun never reaches
I am going to tell you about the single strongest predictor of heart attack that your doctor has probably never mentioned.
It is not LDL. It is not ApoB. It is not total cholesterol.
It is the ratio of your triglycerides to your HDL.
In 1997, Gaziano published in Circulation that this one ratio predicted a 16 fold increase in myocardial infarction in patients with no prior history of heart disease. Sixteen fold. No other lipid marker comes close (Gaziano, Circulation 1997).
So why has your doctor never brought it up? Because there is no drug to sell you.
I do not think these people getting rare and agressive cancer left and right AND being the loudest vaccine voices is a coincidence. I do hope she repents and trusts in Christ … we all heard her ungodly and horrific speech about being pro abortion and committing m*rder on her own child. Sad stuff all around.
This article explains the history of where Ashkenazi Jews come from. “Ashkenazi” was the Hebrew word for “German,” because Mediterranean/Southern European Jews migrated to the German Rhineland and established a community there, which would become the Ashkenazi Jewry we see today.
@abbythelibb_ A family member does this. Also, she’s eight months pregnant with her second. I am finding the current news cycle horrific but all I can do is pray.