Sorry I missed teh discussions on the previous thread. Busy evening, between work and parade stuff. Didn't get back to HEP until after 11. But I'll comment to listener that the frequencies cell towers use to communicate with each other are entirely different from the frequencies they use to communicate with cell phones. So if the purpose of these towers is to relay messages from one tower to another, you wouldn't expect them to accept your phone messages.
Well, there is something seriously nutty about a system that could make better use of tower space and isn't. Why not add a tower in that location that would talk to folks down here? Allegedly better coverage for both cell use and high speed internet/wireless are in the offing under the new administration. We will hope.
No not me...the great outdoors. Well, me too, to some extent. :-)
Had my flu shot yesterday and feel kind of uggy today. Not sick, just maybe a tiny bit swollen glandy. It did not come with an information sheet, as usually is the case. They said they never got any with the vaccine!
I'm endeavouring to look up the side effects online, but I have a question. Would this year's flu shot be the 2010 flu shot or the 2011 flu shot? After all, it spans the 2010-2011 winter season. Thanks!
Hmm. Everybody has always told me that civilian flu shots don't produce those symptoms. They are definitely the symptoms that I and everyone else got when the army gave us a flu shot in 1959. But I later learned that was triple the usual civilian strength. (And I have a theory that it is events later in 1959 that account for the fact I have never since had either flu or a flu shot).
--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.
With new lessons being learned every day, it is inevitable that other fascinating new vitamin D observations have yet to be made.
The notion of vitamin D being easily and readily toxic has grabbed hold of many people, including my colleagues who were taught that vitamin D was toxic in medical school based on the skimpiest (and often misinterpreted) observations in a handful of unusual cases.
In my practice and in the Track Your Plaque program, we routinely use doses of 2000-10,000 units per day, occasionally more. We are guided by blood levels of 25(OH) vitamin D3. I have personally never witnessed vitamin D toxicity.
Here's an interesting graph from Dr. Reinhold Vieth. Those of you familiar with the vitamin D argument know that Dr. Vieth is among the few genuine gurus in the vitamin D world.
moar at the link: http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/vitamin-d-toxicity.html
I last had the flu in 1967. I've had colds since, but never the flu. Never had a flu shot, evah. Don't think I'm going to, either, lol! Haven't had so much as a cold since I started the vitamin D regimen.
I think it's important to note that these physicians are not talking about megadoses of vitamin D, but about doses roughly 10 times what you need to avoid deficiency. Dr. Vieth's graph clearly shows that it is entirely possible to get too much vitamin D.
Most doctors would say that 10,000 IU is way too much. The gubmint thinks that 400 is fine (which is the amount needed to avoid rickets. . . .) Catch is that we pretty much stop being able to synthesize it with our skin around 40. From then on, we suffer Vitamin D deficiency. And Davis would say, *GET TESTED* since we are each different.
Sent "Spirits from the Vasty Deep" off to Analog today. Probably foolish, since it's already been rejected by both Asimov's and Weird Tales, but I had a feeling that sending it to Analog was the right thing to do. We'll see.
Yesterday I told my gynecologist I was planning to start taking Vitamin D and she confirmed it's a good idea and recommended at least 800 units per day.
Last I heard, Howard was still first. Correct me if I'm wrong. . . .
ReplyDeleteYou're abasolutely right.
ReplyDeleteSorry I missed teh discussions on the previous thread. Busy evening, between work and parade stuff. Didn't get back to HEP until after 11. But I'll comment to listener that the frequencies cell towers use to communicate with each other are entirely different from the frequencies they use to communicate with cell phones. So if the purpose of these towers is to relay messages from one tower to another, you wouldn't expect them to accept your phone messages.
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ReplyDeleteAnd off to dreamland...
Well, there is something seriously nutty about a system that could make better use of tower space and isn't. Why not add a tower in that location that would talk to folks down here? Allegedly better coverage for both cell use and high speed internet/wireless are in the offing under the new administration. We will hope.
ReplyDeleteToday, in a word: Fog!
ReplyDeleteNo not me...the great outdoors. Well, me too, to some extent. :-)
Had my flu shot yesterday and feel kind of uggy today.
Not sick, just maybe a tiny bit swollen glandy.
It did not come with an information sheet, as usually is the case.
They said they never got any with the vaccine!
I'm endeavouring to look up the side effects online, but I have a question.
ReplyDeleteWould this year's flu shot be the 2010 flu shot or the 2011 flu shot?
After all, it spans the 2010-2011 winter season. Thanks!
Yep. I can attest that these are the symptoms:
ReplyDelete* Soreness, redness, or swelling where the shot was given
* Fever (low grade)
* Aches
(I finally found a site that called it the 2010-2011 flu shot. LOL!)
ReplyDeleteHmm. Everybody has always told me that civilian flu shots don't produce those symptoms. They are definitely the symptoms that I and everyone else got when the army gave us a flu shot in 1959. But I later learned that was triple the usual civilian strength. (And I have a theory that it is events later in 1959 that account for the fact I have never since had either flu or a flu shot).
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/1011_vac_selection.htm
ReplyDeleteWhat are the side effects that could occur?
ReplyDelete* Soreness, redness, or swelling where the shot was given
* Fever (low grade)
* Aches
If these problems occur, they begin soon after the shot and usually last one to two days.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/flushot.htm#whatarethe
--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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
With new lessons being learned every day, it is inevitable that other fascinating new vitamin D observations have yet to be made.
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/unique-vitamin-d-observations.html
Davis practices cardiology in *Wisconsin* brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
ReplyDeleteAlso:
ReplyDeleteVitamin D toxicity
It is the craziest thing.
The notion of vitamin D being easily and readily toxic has grabbed hold of many people, including my colleagues who were taught that vitamin D was toxic in medical school based on the skimpiest (and often misinterpreted) observations in a handful of unusual cases.
In my practice and in the Track Your Plaque program, we routinely use doses of 2000-10,000 units per day, occasionally more. We are guided by blood levels of 25(OH) vitamin D3. I have personally never witnessed vitamin D toxicity.
Here's an interesting graph from Dr. Reinhold Vieth. Those of you familiar with the vitamin D argument know that Dr. Vieth is among the few genuine gurus in the vitamin D world.
moar at the link: http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/vitamin-d-toxicity.html
I last had the flu in 1967. I've had colds since, but never the flu. Never had a flu shot, evah. Don't think I'm going to, either, lol! Haven't had so much as a cold since I started the vitamin D regimen.
ReplyDeleteI think it's important to note that these physicians are not talking about megadoses of vitamin D, but about doses roughly 10 times what you need to avoid deficiency. Dr. Vieth's graph clearly shows that it is entirely possible to get too much vitamin D.
ReplyDeleteMost doctors would say that 10,000 IU is way too much. The gubmint thinks that 400 is fine (which is the amount needed to avoid rickets. . . .) Catch is that we pretty much stop being able to synthesize it with our skin around 40. From then on, we suffer Vitamin D deficiency. And Davis would say, *GET TESTED* since we are each different.
ReplyDelete"How Do I Stop Loving You?"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnwSO7ZEGPc
Quite right!
ReplyDeleteSent "Spirits from the Vasty Deep" off to Analog today. Probably foolish, since it's already been rejected by both Asimov's and Weird Tales, but I had a feeling that sending it to Analog was the right thing to do. We'll see.
ReplyDeleteBeing hopeful is *always* the right thing to do, whatever happens.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Good for you, Cat~! Keep us posted.
ReplyDeleteYesterday I told my gynecologist I was planning to start taking Vitamin D and she confirmed it's a good idea and recommended at least 800 units per day.
ReplyDeleteAs Heinlein said, "Keep sending it out until it's accepted."
ReplyDeleteIt's a doozy of a title--and that can't be understimated!
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