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Monthly Archives: September 2022
Urinary Tract Infections
Let’s look at something different for a change.
A new research report links high blood glucose levels to an increased risk of UTIs.(1)
Excess blood glucose suppresses a natural antibiotic in the body, psoriasin, which provides protection against these infections.
“Essentially, this is a protein that inhibits the binding of bacteria to epithelial cells andendothelial cells, and if these bacteria cannot bind to the epithelial cells of the bladder, then they may not grow. They will be inhibited from growth, and therefore they can’t propagate inside the bladder.”
“When bacteria propagate, that’s when infection occurs because essentially infection is an overgrowth of bacteria within an organ like the bladder, as opposed to a situation in which psoriasin would be inhibiting the growth of the bacteria.”
Dr. S. Adam Ramin
The study was conducted comparing diabetics to non-diabetics, but those with borderline blood glucose conditions should consider discussing this with…
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Reinforcement of why a person left the GOP — Filosofa’s Word
Originally posted on musingsofanoldfart: The following is an interesting article that furthers the message of my previous and earlier posts over my concerns for the Republican party called “I left the GOP because it seemed to be losing it way. Last week convinced me I was right” by Kurt Bardella of NBC News. Here are…
Reinforcement of why a person left the GOP — Filosofa’s Word
Pollution Storm Made Worse By Storms – (Watch out Tampa…)
Phosphogypsum is radioactive and can contain uranium, thorium and radium, which decay into carcinogenic radon. In addition to these radioactive carcinogens, phosphogypsum and process water can contain heavy toxic metals like antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, copper, fluoride, lead, mercury, nickel, silver, sulfur, thallium and zinc.
More than 1 billion tons of the radioactive and toxic waste have already been stored in these stacks, perched precariously atop the Floridan aquifer that supplies drinking water to about 10 million people.
Florida State Department of Environmental Protection records show that Piney Point has about 24 inches (60 centimeters) of rainfall capacity.
A big spill or leak could seriously damage rivers and other wetlands near any of the stacks.
“Phosphate companies have had over 50 years to figure out a way to dispose of the radioactive gypsum wastes in an acceptable manner, they have yet to do so,” according to the environmental nonprofit ManaSota-88. “The EPA should not permit phosphate wastes to be used in Florida landfills, or in construction or agricultural applications.”
The hurricane is expected to produce catastrophic storm surge, destructive winds, and flooding rainfall, The Weather Channel reports.
Where to dump our toxic waste only gets more complicated as our climate continues to change and storms become more intense.
Water

Very soon, our drinking water runs out Yet, they soon expect a million more people, Here ~ someone should think about Looming obvious oneway steeple …
Water
Deaf to Suffering
There’s so much suffering in the world–it outweighs joy by a longshot. It seems everywhere we look there is anguish. It is difficult to admit that …
Deaf to Suffering
Reverence
Who or what do we revere? Do we believe that reverence is earned? Do we believe we are born into it? Do we believe it is hierarchical? Reverence is owed to all living beings, including Mother Earth. We are all intertwined. Rending a part of the life thread rends the whole garment. If we want to be healed we must pay reverence to everyone, the living and the dead and all other life forms including sentient beings and Mother Earth. The wrath of Mother Earth can only be appeased by our atonement.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2022
False allegation surfaces against Democratic candidate in CD2 race – Albuquerque Journal
KVIA, the ABC-affiliate in El Paso that aired the interview, said Monday evening that the misidentification was the result of a “technical error.” Brenda De Anda-Swann, the general manager, said in an email that “James Hall” was superimposed in front of Vasquez by mistake during the live newscast. Hall, a New Mexico State University assistant athletic director, was the next subject to be interviewed in the segment. Hall was also misidentified.
Herrell and other Republicans accused Vasquez of misrepresenting himself and called his positions on police as “radical.”
In the 2020 interview, Vasquez said: “We need serious police reform in this country. It’s not just about defunding police, it’s about defunding a system that privileges white people over everyone else.”
De Anda-Swann said there should have been no name in front of Vasquez in the news segment. She said the station wasn’t contacted by the Free Beacon or the Herrell campaign.
“It really was just a technical error during a live newscast,” she said.
Source: False allegation surfaces against Democratic candidate in CD2 race – Albuquerque Journal
Test predicts which COVID-19 patients will grow worse, Stanford Medicine study find | News Center | Stanford Medicine
A one-time test could predict which people hospitalized with COVID-19 are likely to worsen significantly during their stay, even if they were admitted with relatively mild symptoms, according to a study of more than 2,500 people headed by researchers at Stanford Medicine.
The test measures patient blood levels of a protein on the virus that causes COVID-19. High levels of the protein correlated strongly with an increased need for respiratory support five days later, regardless of the patient’s disease severity when the test was conducted, the researchers found. People whose levels were high were also likely to be hospitalized significantly longer than those with lower levels.
The findings suggest that the virus may continue to replicate in a subset of hospitalized patients, and that those patients might benefit from antiviral treatments like monoclonal antibodies or remdesivir. Such antiviral treatments are now primarily used in outpatient settings after previous clinical trials showed they did not benefit hospitalized patients.
Bus and Urban Transit Workers Have Highest COVID-19 Risk | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network – California
Using state data collected between January 2020 and May 2022, the authors identified 340 confirmed workplace outbreaks, 5641 outbreak-associated COVID-19 cases, and 537 worker deaths. Overall, public transportation industries had about 1.4 times as many COVID-19 outbreaks as did all sectors combined. But certain workers and types of transit work were disproportionately affected. Workplace outbreaks were 5.2 times more common in bus and urban transit and 3.6 times more common in the air transportation industry than in all industries combined. Mortality was also 1.8 times higher in the bus and urban transit industries than in all industries combined. Source: Bus and Urban Transit Workers Have Highest COVID-19 Risk | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
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