GrapeApe5555

"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it." - Morpheus

CO2 baths reduce pain and increase oxygen supply and blood flow in patients with peripheral artery disease. The researchers wanted to know whether soaking the legs in CO₂-enriched water (fizzy, carbonated water) could help people with intermittent claudication, aka peripheral artery disease — a condition in which blocked leg arteries cause painful cramping when walking. 24 patients were split into two groups: Group 1 soaked their legs in CO₂-enriched water (very fizzy — 1000mg CO₂/kg) Group 2 soaked their legs in plain fresh water Peak blood flow, oxygen recovery time, skin oxygenation, and pain-free walking distance improved in the CO2 group only. Peak blood flow and pain-free walking distance both improved by around 50%. In the procedure, the legs were immersed in 40 cm deep, warm water (33°C) with CO2-producing tablets (Actibath). It was done for 30 minutes/day, 5 days/week for 4 weeks. CO₂ absorbed through the skin causes blood vessels to dilate (vasodilation). It opens up tiny capillaries that weren't working properly. It shifts the oxygen–hemoglobin curve (the Bohr effect), allowing red blood cells to release oxygen more readily to tissues. It reduces blood viscosity (makes blood less thick/sticky). It’s probably possible to achieve the same effect by putting the legs in a bag filled with CO2. [Inhaling pure CO2 gas can be fatal.] “The serial application of carbon-dioxide-enriched water increased arterial peak flow (reactive hyperemia), transcutaneous oxygen tension (basal value and half-recovery-time), and pain-free walking distance. The serial fresh water application did not change these values. The authors conclude that serial carbon dioxide application can be clinically effective in patients with arterial obstructions in the lower extremities.” They didn’t show the setup in the paper, so the images are from other papers using a CO2 water bath. Ref: Effects of Serial Percutaneous Application of Carbon Dioxide in Intermittent Claudication: Results of a Controlled Trial Acute vascular effects of carbonated warm water lower leg immersion in healthy young adults Effect of leg immersion in mild warm carbonated water on skin and muscle blood flow

“GERD is usually associated with disturbed muscle action of the whole stomach and intestine and gall bladder. High estrogen, serotonin, prostaglandins, low thyroid, inflammation, and bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine are often involved. Stimulating the intestine with a daily raw carrot often helps.” — Ray Peat “GI motility dysfunction develops following reduced esophageal sphincter pressure and lowered contraction amplitude in esophageal body leading to reflux and dysphagia. Thyroid disease treatment show improvement in such symptoms.” PMID: 38803365 “A 65-year-old woman suffered from both chronic gastroesophageal reflux, which was complicated by columnar metaplasia (Barrett's epithelium), and profound hypothyroidism. An esophageal motility tracing showed absence of peristalsis in the lower esophagus and the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) could not be identified. Thyroid replacement therapy, in conjunction with antacid and cimetidine treatment, was associated not only with improvement in the gastroesophageal reflux symptoms, but also with a return of esophageal peristalsis and LES pressure to normal. To support our clinical observations, we rendered four cats hypothyroid with 131I and documented a fall in LES pressure. We propose that abnormal smooth-muscle function of the esophagus may be another manifestation of the gastrointestinal motility disturbances which are associated with hypothyroidism.” PMID: 7119407

A boy watches TV for the first time in an appliance store window, 1948.

MARSHALL, AK — Abp. Alexei of Sitka and Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) issued a pastoral letter supporting closure of the Marshall liquor store, urging the community toward healing, sobriety, and peace for future generations. The letter accompanies a petition effort to shut down the liquor store from local residents. Describing alcoholism as a spiritual wound affecting families and homes, His Eminence called on residents to stand together in compassion and mutual care. "Therefore, we speak today not against our brothers and sisters who struggle, but for them," Abp. Alexei said. "Those wounded by alcohol are not strangers. They are beloved children of God. They are our relatives, our neighbors, our friends, our own flesh and blood."

The waste of time surely lives rent-free enough for you to save furries in latex on your phone. I’ve seen your earlier slander of me sent by friends, and have ignored it, but let’s settle one of them: I do not hold to or promote “sola fide,” & Abp. Theophan Prokopovich does not simply teach “Lutheran sola fide.” Had you read his dogmatics instead of outsourcing your theology to 20th-century liberal “scholars” and then mistaking their summaries for revelation, you would have noticed the obvious: Prokopovich is certainly Lutheran-leaning on initial justification, but his doctrine as a whole is not Lutheran. Why? Because for him justification is not exhausted by an initial forensic declaration. There is also subsequent/final justification, and in that final justification works are not merely decorative “evidence” tacked on after the fact. They are a necessary criterion of the Final Judgment. He writes: “Justification is twofold—one initial, which takes place simultaneously with regeneration in this life; the other final, which takes place in the complete abolition of death after bodily death […] to the former is joined adoption and accordingly the promise of eternal life, yet a conditional promise.” He also says: “Good works are necessary fruits of living or justifying faith.” That part, taken by itself, sounds Lutheran. But he does not stop there: “Good works are necessary for salvation as true criteria by which all in the Final Judgment will recognise that the gift of faith was received and rightly preserved to the end.” And even more explicitly: “This discourse concerns the second or final justification, which is nothing other than the proof of the first justification received and preserved by grace in this life—to which certainly works alone, since faith no longer has a place, are necessary.” –Abp. Theophan (Prokopovich), On Justification So the honest reading is not “Prokopovich teaches Lutheran sola fide.” Rather that he makes use of a Lutheran-leaning account of initial justification (which is not necessarily irreconcilable with Orthodoxy), decisively departing from confessional Lutheranism by making final justification involve works as necessary criteria, with initial justification only carrying a conditional promise of eternal life. Another thing to be pointed out is his affirmation that initial justification is tied up to and is not conferred outside of baptism, with mortal sin stripping the believer of justification rather than strictly loss of faith—another departure from the Lutheran view.