Just took the two grandkids home after a hectic few days of working my behind off. It's Sunday, my favorite day. Seems to me like an afternoon nap would be a richly appreciated treat. So I believe I'll indulge myself today.
Weather here can't decide whether to be cloudy or sunny. It was overcast and starting to sprinkle as I was walking to the hotel where the second day if the kickoff planning meeting for Chicon 7 was being held. It was bright and sunny when I went out for lunch. And it was cloudy again as I was coming home. But regardless of cloudy or sunny, the temperatures are very pleasant -- 71 at 5 o'clock. Not bad for late October.
Chicon 7 is the official name for the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention I have been talkuing about.
Got in a short while ago after a rather rainy ride, and temps almost low enough for snow, over the higher elevations.
It was wonderful to visit with Littlest*Granddaughter! She gave me hugs today and RAN into my arms!! Ah, bliss!
I also got to prime and paint a new exterior door for Daughter. Hubby made a "crib" for some of their wood, and helped sort out the cluttered garage. (We still need to sort out OUR cluttered garage, but one does what one can. LOL!)
Susan! LOL! I'm glad our behinds stay with us. They do come in handy at times. :-D
I also set Eldest*Granddaughter's dollhouse to rights (they have a kitten), and left her a note with a crown on it, for when she got home [a few hours after we left!!] from Disney World. We left her a new book and set her magic wand with the book and note, as we gave her that wand for her birthday last year.
Glad you're home safe and sound. Sound like a lovely weekend. Mine, too. Gots lots of work done, which is a function of feeling just fine. In fact, I'm feeling all around better than I have in about a decade. If I had to give ONE reason, I'd have to say vitamin D3, at about 10,000/day. Even more than lotsa B and lotsa C, though they're next.
--Immunity from viral infections--I first learned of this association from Dr. John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council (www.vitamindcouncil.com). Dr. Cannell recounts his experience with the 2006 flu epidemic in the hospital in northern California, where he is a psychiatrist charged with the health of 200 inpatients held in closed wards. While the flu spread like wildfire to the patients in all the other wards, the 200 patients in Dr. Cannell’s ward failed to contract a single episode of flu while taking 2000 units of vitamin D per day.
I was a little skeptical at first, having been disappointed by the failure of several nutritional agents like zinc, vitamin C (perhaps, at best, a minimal effect). Now, three years into my vitamin D experience, I am absolutely convinced that Dr. Cannells’ early observation was correct: Vitamin D enhances immunity enormously. Not only have I personally not had a virus in several years, the majority of my staff and patients have been happily free of viral infections. There have been a few, to be sure. But the usual winters of hacking, coughing, and sneezing in the office have become largely a memory. It is a rare person who comes to the office with viral symptoms.
Glad you're home safe and sound. Sound like a lovely weekend. Mine, too. Gots lots of work done, which is a function of feeling just fine. In fact, I'm feeling all around better than I have in about a decade. If I had to give ONE reason, I'd have to say vitamin D3, at about 10,000/day. Even more than lotsa B and lotsa C, though they're next.
--Immunity from viral infections--I first learned of this association from Dr. John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council (www.vitamindcouncil.com). Dr. Cannell recounts his experience with the 2006 flu epidemic in the hospital in northern California, where he is a psychiatrist charged with the health of 200 inpatients held in closed wards. While the flu spread like wildfire to the patients in all the other wards, the 200 patients in Dr. Cannell’s ward failed to contract a single episode of flu while taking 2000 units of vitamin D per day.
I was a little skeptical at first, having been disappointed by the failure of several nutritional agents like zinc, vitamin C (perhaps, at best, a minimal effect). Now, three years into my vitamin D experience, I am absolutely convinced that Dr. Cannells’ early observation was correct: Vitamin D enhances immunity enormously. Not only have I personally not had a virus in several years, the majority of my staff and patients have been happily free of viral infections. There have been a few, to be sure. But the usual winters of hacking, coughing, and sneezing in the office have become largely a memory. It is a rare person who comes to the office with viral symptoms.
I'm carrying around some new, boxed storage pieces in the back of my mini van. When I took the kids home today it provided an interesting counterpoint with all the sliding back and forth. Go (thump), stop (thump), go (thump). I'm re-doing my bedroom to make it feel more peaceful and zen-like and that's what the storage pieces are for. I have so much visual clutter it's hard to calm down. Working on it. The room, that is. Calm is off in the future somewhere.
After a half hour or more of lightening and thunder, the rain has finally started.
But the real news is that I finally heard from my client. The article we were planning on doing isn't quite ready to start yet, but when I mentioned how much I wanted to get back to writing he suggested something a bit different from what we usually do: Prepare an outline of a review article that a certain researcher will then flesh out, after which we will edit what is likely to be a very rough draft. Just doing the ourline will probably about fill the time before we're ready to start on the other article.
I take four thousand units of Vitamin D3 per day. Don't feel all that good, but haven't had so much as a cold in more months than I can remember. Also take "Super B" complex, calcium and Iron. The doctor said only to take the iron when I have my period, but Robert suggested that I might want to start taking it every day again, so I decided to try it for a while. It certainly isn't going to harm me. With Winter approaching I should probably resume Vitamin C as well. Usually take two thousand units of that, when I take it.
Too much iron CAN hurt you. That's why men and postmenopausal women are advised to avoid multivitamuins with iron. I don't really know exactly what the maximum safe dose is, but your doctor isn't just blowing hot air.
The overall topic would be PPAR (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor)-gamma in lung disease. The focus would be on problems with translating all the promising results that have been seen in mice with drugs that activate PPAR-gamma into actual human treatments and some of the approaches that might be taken to overcome these problems.
...and Howard is still first.
ReplyDeleteYou betcha. Also.
ReplyDeleteBright warm day here. Blessed. And a whole week of it on the way. More blessings.
ReplyDeleteJust took the two grandkids home after a hectic few days of working my behind off. It's Sunday, my favorite day. Seems to me like an afternoon nap would be a richly appreciated treat. So I believe I'll indulge myself today.
ReplyDeletep.s.: I didn't *really* work it off. Sadly it still follows me everywhere I go.
ReplyDeleteROFLMEO! Be nice if one *could* laugh or work it off, eh?
ReplyDeleteWeather here can't decide whether to be cloudy or sunny. It was overcast and starting to sprinkle as I was walking to the hotel where the second day if the kickoff planning meeting for Chicon 7 was being held. It was bright and sunny when I went out for lunch. And it was cloudy again as I was coming home. But regardless of cloudy or sunny, the temperatures are very pleasant -- 71 at 5 o'clock. Not bad for late October.
ReplyDeleteChicon 7 is the official name for the 2012 World Science Fiction Convention I have been talkuing about.
We're safely home!
ReplyDeleteGot in a short while ago after a rather rainy ride, and temps almost low enough for snow, over the higher elevations.
It was wonderful to visit with Littlest*Granddaughter!
She gave me hugs today and RAN into my arms!! Ah, bliss!
I also got to prime and paint a new exterior door for Daughter.
Hubby made a "crib" for some of their wood, and helped sort out the cluttered garage.
(We still need to sort out OUR cluttered garage, but one does what one can. LOL!)
Susan! LOL! I'm glad our behinds stay with us. They do come in handy at times. :-D
I also set Eldest*Granddaughter's dollhouse to rights (they have a kitten),
ReplyDeleteand left her a note with a crown on it, for when she got home [a few hours after we left!!] from Disney World.
We left her a new book and set her magic wand with the book and note, as we gave her that wand for her birthday last year.
Glad you're home safe and sound. Sound like a lovely weekend. Mine, too. Gots lots of work done, which is a function of feeling just fine. In fact, I'm feeling all around better than I have in about a decade. If I had to give ONE reason, I'd have to say vitamin D3, at about 10,000/day. Even more than lotsa B and lotsa C, though they're next.
ReplyDelete--Immunity from viral infections--I first learned of this association from Dr. John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council (www.vitamindcouncil.com). Dr. Cannell recounts his experience with the 2006 flu epidemic in the hospital in northern California, where he is a psychiatrist charged with the health of 200 inpatients held in closed wards. While the flu spread like wildfire to the patients in all the other wards, the 200 patients in Dr. Cannell’s ward failed to contract a single episode of flu while taking 2000 units of vitamin D per day.
I was a little skeptical at first, having been disappointed by the failure of several nutritional agents like zinc, vitamin C (perhaps, at best, a minimal effect). Now, three years into my vitamin D experience, I am absolutely convinced that Dr. Cannells’ early observation was correct: Vitamin D enhances immunity enormously. Not only have I personally not had a virus in several years, the majority of my staff and patients have been happily free of viral infections. There have been a few, to be sure. But the usual winters of hacking, coughing, and sneezing in the office have become largely a memory. It is a rare person who comes to the office with viral symptoms.
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/unique-vitamin-d-observations.html
Glad you're home safe and sound. Sound like a lovely weekend. Mine, too. Gots lots of work done, which is a function of feeling just fine. In fact, I'm feeling all around better than I have in about a decade. If I had to give ONE reason, I'd have to say vitamin D3, at about 10,000/day. Even more than lotsa B and lotsa C, though they're next.
ReplyDelete--Immunity from viral infections--I first learned of this association from Dr. John Cannell of the Vitamin D Council (www.vitamindcouncil.com). Dr. Cannell recounts his experience with the 2006 flu epidemic in the hospital in northern California, where he is a psychiatrist charged with the health of 200 inpatients held in closed wards. While the flu spread like wildfire to the patients in all the other wards, the 200 patients in Dr. Cannell’s ward failed to contract a single episode of flu while taking 2000 units of vitamin D per day.
I was a little skeptical at first, having been disappointed by the failure of several nutritional agents like zinc, vitamin C (perhaps, at best, a minimal effect). Now, three years into my vitamin D experience, I am absolutely convinced that Dr. Cannells’ early observation was correct: Vitamin D enhances immunity enormously. Not only have I personally not had a virus in several years, the majority of my staff and patients have been happily free of viral infections. There have been a few, to be sure. But the usual winters of hacking, coughing, and sneezing in the office have become largely a memory. It is a rare person who comes to the office with viral symptoms.
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/unique-vitamin-d-observations.html
Thanks, puddle! And how timely! I'm sitting here with the beginnings of a sore throat. Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteI'm carrying around some new, boxed storage pieces in the back of my mini van. When I took the kids home today it provided an interesting counterpoint with all the sliding back and forth. Go (thump), stop (thump), go (thump). I'm re-doing my bedroom to make it feel more peaceful and zen-like and that's what the storage pieces are for. I have so much visual clutter it's hard to calm down. Working on it. The room, that is. Calm is off in the future somewhere.
ReplyDeleteAfter a half hour or more of lightening and thunder, the rain has finally started.
ReplyDeleteBut the real news is that I finally heard from my client. The article we were planning on doing isn't quite ready to start yet, but when I mentioned how much I wanted to get back to writing he suggested something a bit different from what we usually do: Prepare an outline of a review article that a certain researcher will then flesh out, after which we will edit what is likely to be a very rough draft. Just doing the ourline will probably about fill the time before we're ready to start on the other article.
I hear you got Mike Resnick. Very nice. I always enjoy his stories in Analog.
ReplyDeleteI take four thousand units of Vitamin D3 per day. Don't feel all that good, but haven't had so much as a cold in more months than I can remember. Also take "Super B" complex, calcium and Iron. The doctor said only to take the iron when I have my period, but Robert suggested that I might want to start taking it every day again, so I decided to try it for a while. It certainly isn't going to harm me. With Winter approaching I should probably resume Vitamin C as well. Usually take two thousand units of that, when I take it.
ReplyDeleteThat's a capitol idea!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds interesting. What would the topic be?
ReplyDeleteCat ~
ReplyDeleteToo much iron CAN hurt you. That's why men and postmenopausal women are advised to avoid multivitamuins with iron. I don't really know exactly what the maximum safe dose is, but your doctor isn't just blowing hot air.
Cat ~
ReplyDeleteThe overall topic would be PPAR (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor)-gamma in lung disease. The focus would be on problems with translating all the promising results that have been seen in mice with drugs that activate PPAR-gamma into actual human treatments and some of the approaches that might be taken to overcome these problems.