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I had no issues working out during the lockdown. I rode my bike most days. Went for long walks just with my kiddo in the evenings. The solitude was kind of nice.

Taught her my version of PT (push ups, sit ups, jumping jacks). Bought some light weights for her. She watched Yoga videos online and would do sessions every other day.

Eating was no issue. I used the time to teach her how to cook in the evenings.

Yeah, the solitude sucked, but even that we dealt with. I made two pods in my front yeard that two of my friends could come to and two of hers. We would sit on the patio and shoot the shit every few days.

 

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32 minutes ago, troph said:

I'm doing fine on all 6 fronts for wellness myself. but if you think pharma, research, medical schools and doctors aren't failing Americans in healthcare then you aren't paying attention to how absolutely fucking broke our healthcare system is.

“I went to the ER for a stab wound and all they did was patch me up and give me some antibiotics. Maybe the pharmaceutical industry should focus on warning us about the dangers of back alley Filipino knife fighting instead of spending all their time making medicines that help alleviate the consequences of my own bad decisions.”

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And to troph’s point: my doctor put my ass on a diet several years ago, making clear what kind of damage I was doing to my health with shitty eating and too much alcohol. Been healthier and happier since then.

But the key is: this lifestyle advice came from a member of the medical establishment. And in particular, one who has consistently advised against taking statins and instead encouraged healthy eating and exercise. 

tl;dr: sounds like @troph needs a better doctor and a copy of the Food Pyramid.

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My current GP gave me a year to get my A1C and other blood work in better shape before as I told her I’m meds adverse. She worked with me and flat out said my exercise program was fine, but my diet was trash based on the spare tire around my belly. I was a fat cyclist.
If your GP isn’t pushing a healthy lifestyle first and foremost, find a new GP.

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9 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

My current GP gave me a year to get my A1C and other blood work in better shape before as I told her I’m meds adverse. She worked with me and flat out said my exercise program was fine, but my diet was trash based on the spare tire around my belly. I was a fat cyclist.
If your GP isn’t pushing a healthy lifestyle first and foremost, find a new GP.

Can’t outrun or out exercise a bad diet 

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the top 5% of folks in society are on this board, no seriously we are going to rank very high on access and knowledge. it's not like that for most. the stats don't lie. our food is shit, our access to health care is shit. and the care is shit... for most of the population. yes at the highest levels of education and access you can get good care, including doctors that will get into diet and exercise beyond telling you to do it. but for the 95% yeah, no. what does that do? leave a breeding ground for misinformation, alt bullshit, etc. 

but in the end I don't give a fuck. I'm fit, healthy, fine. so you guys can win, you're right, US food and healthcare system is top notch, no issues. 

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2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Gyms are inherently gross. People sweat and cough and sneeze and touch everything there. It requires a huge amount of awareness and courteousness for members to wipe down machines and benches after use. And people are fucking selfish and awful. 

Gyms would have needed an entire cleaning crew during operating hours to follow all patrons and wipe machines behind them. Which just puts more people into an enclosed space where the virus was transmitted via droplets.

They didn’t close the outdoors  

 

gym bros in Floriduh demonstrated their need for gyms to reopen by *checks notes* exercising in front of the Floriduh capitol building.

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8 hours ago, troph said:

the top 5% of folks in society are on this board, no seriously we are going to rank very high on access and knowledge. it's not like that for most. the stats don't lie. our food is shit, our access to health care is shit. and the care is shit... for most of the population. yes at the highest levels of education and access you can get good care, including doctors that will get into diet and exercise beyond telling you to do it. but for the 95% yeah, no. what does that do? leave a breeding ground for misinformation, alt bullshit, etc. 

but in the end I don't give a fuck. I'm fit, healthy, fine. so you guys can win, you're right, US food and healthcare system is top notch, no issues. 

There are a ton of factors to consider on #bothsides, but I will say that humans have access to more information than ever in human history, so not sure how most of the blame from you falls on the medical community. 
 

Why are we part of the 5%?  Do we have a better internet than everyone else?

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Speaking of health, my doc recommended I start taking CoQu10 to help my elevated blood pressure. 
 

100mg she recommended and nothing more than 200mg. I see so so many brands and names. What do I get? 

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18 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Speaking of health, my doc recommended I start taking CoQu10 to help my elevated blood pressure. 
 

100mg she recommended and nothing more than 200mg. I see so so many brands and names. What do I get? 

 

Ask her. 

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35 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Speaking of health, my doc recommended I start taking CoQu10 to help my elevated blood pressure. 
 

100mg she recommended and nothing more than 200mg. I see so so many brands and names. What do I get? 

I take a number of supplements from Thorne, pure encapsulations, and designs for health. All really good brands. I think my coQ10 is Thorne and I take 100mg.

you might ask  regarding other supps to take, most humans lack in vitamin D (take D3 with K2) and it’s a damn near miracle vitamin and can help with BP. Omega 3s too, magnesium, vitamin C. Consider cinnamon too though it’s modest at best. All of these even coq10 need more research (good luck with that).  Cross check with medications you take. And you already know alcohol, excess weight and poor diet is a disaster on BP. 

there’s a health thread on the help board it’s pretty good for batting around what’s out there. 

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Speaking of health, my doc recommended I start taking CoQu10 to help my elevated blood pressure. 
 
100mg she recommended and nothing more than 200mg. I see so so many brands and names. What do I get? 

My advice is that every capsule is a suppository if you push hard enough.
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My BP was regularly 135/85 which is borderline hypertension. 

Now that i eat right and drink about a 10th of what i used to my bp is fucking perfection ranging between 100-20 over 20-30. I was actually concerned it was too low and Dr said no thats exactly what it should be. This is amazing because one of the chemo treatments is called "the red devil" because its red and very difficult on the heart.

Guess im made of frontier stock.

Im not getting near the exercise i used to because chemo, but havent gained weight because ive done everything the docs have told me. 

The specter of death will motivate a motherfucker.

My 2 cents. Carry on my surly brethren.

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2 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

An injection of a mixture of asbestos and bleach, with an ivermectin chaser, will cure anything

Don't forget the UV light treatment, either ingested or inhaled.

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2 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

An injection of a mixture of asbestos and bleach, with an ivermectin chaser, will cure anything

You laugh.  We are probably less than a month away from widely disseminated conspiracy bullshit about how asbestos is actually good for you, and the deep state has been hiding it from us all this time.  Which will then be stated verbatim by the fucking Secretary of HHS.

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24 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Don't forget the UV light treatment, either ingested or inhaled.

 

Don't forget topical...

Perineum Sunning Is The Latest Health Craze, AKA: Tanning Your Taint

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2 hours ago, Parliament said:

I’m gonna guess the 2025 version of the vax will not be built to fight this one.

Jokes on you. RFK Jr. isn't going to let them build a vax. 

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On 5/27/2025 at 9:49 PM, Anastasis said:

What is your medical opinion on booster shots for healthy children and healthy pregnant women?

My opinion is everyone is too young to remember living in a world without vaccines. 

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https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/cdcs-once-revered-vaccine-panel-now-a-farce-calls-grow-to-scrap-meeting/

"Meanwhile, Kennedy's anti-vaccine agenda appears to be moving forward undeterred. On Tuesday, the CDC released the final agenda for tomorrow's ACIP meeting. Kennedy had already altered the agenda to add discussions of two long-standing vaccines: certain flu vaccines that use the mercury-based preservative thimerosal and certain measles vaccines. There is no controversy over these vaccines among experts, but they have long been the target of misinformation and fearmongering by anti-vaccine advocates, including Kennedy.

According to the final ACIP agenda, the meeting will also now include a presentation and recommendations on flu vaccines from Lyn Redwood. She is a nurse with no expertise in vaccinations, infectious diseases, or any other relevant field for the ACIP. Rather, she was the president of Kennedy's rabid anti-vaccine organization Children's Health Defense and promotes the debunked falsehood that thimerosal-containing vaccines cause autism."

@Anastasis is filled with glee. 

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CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel now a “farce”—calls grow to scrap meeting

After anti-vaccine advocate and US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 experts who sat on a revered federal vaccine panel and restocked it with eight dubious members, a growing chorus of lawmakers, health experts, and public advocates are calling for a pivotal meeting scheduled for Wednesday to be scrapped and for the panel to be "dissolved" and remade with qualified members.

On June 9, Kennedy unilaterally cleaned out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). Though vetting for the committee has historically taken up to two years, Kenney announced the eight new members two days later. Some of the members are clear anti-vaccine activists, others have espoused contrarian or anti-public health perspectives, and some also have little to no relevant expertise for being on ACIP.

"[T]he reconstituted ACIP is a farce," Robert Steinbrook, a director at consumer rights watchdog Public Citizen, said in a statement. "Rather than further sullying the ACIP and undermining public confidence in vaccines, this week’s meeting should be rescheduled after the Senate has confirmed a new CDC Director who can both appoint an authoritative and representative committee and be able to approve the panel’s recommendations."

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)—a medical doctor who champions vaccines yet provided critical support for Kennedy's confirmation as health secretary despite personal concerns—was among the notable figures calling for ACIP's meeting to be canceled for now.

In one of his most critical statements against Kennedy since his confirmation, Cassidy wrote on social media late Monday that many of the new ACIP members "do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology. In particular, some lack experience studying new technologies such as mRNA vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias against them."

"The meeting should be delayed until the panel is fully staffed with more robust and balanced representation—as required by law—including those with more direct relevant expertise," Cassidy wrote.

“Corrupted”

Vaccine and infectious disease expert Peter Hotez, a dean at Baylor College of Medicine, responded to Cassidy, adding, "Honestly in its current form, the ACIP is mostly devoid of any meaningful expertise in vaccines or infectious diseases. It is organized to pursue a pseudoscience agenda. It’s a waste of taxpayer dollars and should be dissolved. Perhaps down the line it could be resurrected."

One of the CDC's leading vaccine experts, Fiona Havers—who recently resigned from the agency in protest—went further to say the CDC's vaccine processes have been "corrupted in a way that I haven’t seen before."

"If it isn’t stopped, and some of this isn’t reversed, like, immediately, a lot of Americans are going to die as a result of vaccine-preventable diseases," she told The New York Times.

Meanwhile, Kennedy's anti-vaccine agenda appears to be moving forward undeterred. On Tuesday, the CDC released the final agenda for tomorrow's ACIP meeting. Kennedy had already altered the agenda to add discussions of two long-standing vaccines: certain flu vaccines that use the mercury-based preservative thimerosal and certain measles vaccines. There is no controversy over these vaccines among experts, but they have long been the target of misinformation and fearmongering by anti-vaccine advocates, including Kennedy.

According to the final ACIP agenda, the meeting will also now include a presentation and recommendations on flu vaccines from Lyn Redwood. She is a nurse with no expertise in vaccinations, infectious diseases, or any other relevant field for the ACIP. Rather, she was the president of Kennedy's rabid anti-vaccine organization Children's Health Defense and promotes the debunked falsehood that thimerosal-containing vaccines cause autism.

 

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1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

@Anastasis is filled with glee. 

 

They are going to put a vote on thimerosal containing flu vaccines to the committee. I don't have a particularly strong opinion one way or the other on that one. It was removed from most childhood vaccines on the market years ago. I don't recall any crying and lashing out on these boards about it when the FDA did that though. The only remaining formulations that contain thimerosal are primarily flu shot MDVs, which make up like a single digits in terms of flu shots used in the US. It's a total non-issue imo. 

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13 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

The only remaining formulations that contain thimerosal are primarily flu shot MDVs, which make up like a single digits in terms of flu shots used in the US. It's a total non-issue imo. 

Oh, so then there's no real purpose in addressing it... unless you want performative action to stoke your antivax base.

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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

We’re going to deserve whatever hell comes from this stupidity. 

If only the anti-vaccine crowd would cover all of their hospitalization expenses (way too many of whom are probably uninsured), and if their bullshit would only affect (or rather infect) them, it would be great.

But no, the rest of us have to pay increased costs because they read some stupid fucking bullshit on Facebook or saw a dumbass video on TikTok.

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7 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

If only the anti-vaccine crowd would cover all of their hospitalization expenses (way too many of whom are probably uninsured), and if their bullshit would only affect (or rather infect) them, it would be great.

But no, the rest of us have to pay increased costs because they read some stupid fucking bullshit on Facebook or saw a dumbass video on TikTok.

Well, and now their messiah is somehow in charge of the vaccines, more or less. So not only do we have to pay monetarily for their dumb asses, we may end up with less access to vaccines for us and our kids. 

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37 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Interesting novel therapeutic, pan-flu antiviral, one dose last 28 weeks, covers N5H1, not dependent on strain selection, very high effectiveness in phase 2. 

https://www.cidara.com/news/cidara-therapeutics-announces-positive-topline-results-from-its-phase-2b-navigate-trial-evaluating-cd388-a-non-vaccine-preventative-of-seasonal-influenza/

 

That’s great.  No sarcasm.  So let’s be allowed to take both.  Let’s not restrict traditional vax access to those of us who want to take them.

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1 minute ago, Parliament said:

Let’s not restrict traditional vax access to those of us who want to take them.

Oh, my sweet summer child.  It's like you don't even LISTEN to noted vaccine expert Jenny McCarthy.

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