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3 votes
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (April 2023)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
13 votes -
Forget the Pokédex, our brains contain a ‘rich cognitive map’ of Pokémon
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
4 votes -
Study finds trash, household crowding increase risk for three dangerous, mosquito-borne illnesses in Kenya
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Bioluminescence helps researchers develop cancer drugs for brain
3 votes -
Book review: From Oversight To Overkill
4 votes -
White House launching $5 billion program to speed coronavirus vaccines
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
2 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
11 votes -
‘I got a brain injury and a life sentence’: The hidden legacy of male violence against women
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Is there a way to do a DNA test anonymously?
Not sure if this is the right spot, but the topic says it. I'd like to get my DNA checked out, but I don't want it connected to my name and all that. Is this actually possible? Am I overreacting?...
Not sure if this is the right spot, but the topic says it. I'd like to get my DNA checked out, but I don't want it connected to my name and all that. Is this actually possible? Am I overreacting?
I'm not even sure what I look to gain from the testing, but I figured I'd look into it. If I can do it safely and privately, I'm game. If not, no loss.
Any thoughts?
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
5 votes -
Things I noticed while visiting the ICU
10 votes -
Gender-based violence is a global pandemic: KEM report
4 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
3 votes -
Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (March 2023)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
7 votes -
One-hour operation could cure prostate cancer by destroying tumours with electric currents
11 votes -
Finland is the European country with the highest proportion of under 25s dying from drugs
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Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Meta, TikTok, and Google
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Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives.
6 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
7 votes -
Covid backlash hobbles US public health and future pandemic response
8 votes -
The shaky foundations of foundation models in healthcare
3 votes -
Dan Wang's 2022 letter
6 votes -
Are cures for some of the world’s deadliest diseases hiding in our sewers?
7 votes -
Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia: Effects of sex, APOE, and baseline cognitive status
7 votes -
Stanford Medicine scientists transform cancer cells into weapons against cancer
6 votes -
Solid proof that parachutes don’t work
17 votes -
Fruity Pebbles and Lucky Charms threaten to block “healthy” food labelling guidelines in court
9 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
7 votes -
Zero-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds
14 votes -
Why it's impossible to find an open squat rack at the gym
7 votes -
The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate (2015)
7 votes -
Isolation combined with an inhospitable environment can be a cause of stress on Greenland – but locals have found a way to deal with it: tuning into nature
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Inside Denmark's opioid crisis – more teens are abusing opioids because they take the pills both to get high and to cope with anxiety
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
7 votes -
Ninety-four women allege a Utah doctor sexually assaulted them. Here’s why a judge threw out their case.
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What to do if your inner voice is cruel. The golden rule of self-compassion: Treat yourself with the same kindness you treat others.
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Steak dinners, sales reps and risky procedures: Inside the big business of clogged arteries
6 votes -
Fifth person confirmed to be cured of HIV
13 votes -
Psychedelic assisted therapy
8 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
7 votes -
The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
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To prepare for future pandemics, we can learn from the OECD's top two performers: New Zealand and Iceland
8 votes -
Long COVID now looks like a neurological disease, helping doctors to focus treatments
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Spain approves menstrual leave, teen abortion and trans laws
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A wonderfully succinct explanation of glucose and T2 diabetes
By Reddit user Vapourtrails89. I wanted to share this exceptionally clear explanation of the mechanisms of blood sugar and diabetes....
By Reddit user Vapourtrails89. I wanted to share this exceptionally clear explanation of the mechanisms of blood sugar and diabetes.
The higher the glycemic index, the faster the carbs are broken down into sugar and absorbed into the blood stream. Simple carbs absorb quickly, which means that your blood glucose level will rapidly increase. This causes the pancreas to release insulin so that cells will absorb the glucose out of the blood, to prevent hyperosmolarity (the blood becoming too sugary and sticky).
The insulin release will cause your blood sugar to crash, and be stored in the cells as glycogen. This has a dual effect. It will mean you get hungry again quickly, as your brain senses the low blood sugar and sends hunger signals, and you will likely crave simple carbs as you will have learnt to associate these with a quick rise in blood sugar, which in turn produces a reward signal in the brain. This leads to a cycle of eating simple carbs, getting hungry quickly, and over eating. Excess glucose in the blood can be converted to adipose tissue, which leads to obesity.
The cells start to reach their limits for glucose storage in the form of glycogen. At this point they start to resist the insulin signal. This is known as insulin resistance. The exact mechanism for insulin resistance is not known. It seems that the more excess adipose tissue you have, the more insulin resistance you will have. It makes sense as if you have excess adipose, your cells will likely be storing as much glycogen as they can, so they are unable to respond to the insulin signal by taking up more.
When your insulin cannot bring your blood sugar under control, you have diabetes.
Diabetes can either be a failure of insulin production (type 1) or a failure of cells to respond to insulin (type 2)
10 votes -
European Commission contacted Swedish authorities after it emerged they were planning to deport a 74-year-old British woman with severe Alzheimers
4 votes