@allie__voss I've lost count of the number of young patients I've had critically ill on my unit, who are 300lbs+, directly because of their weight: respiratory failure, pneumonia, blood clots, cancers, septic pressure sores, you name it.
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I don’t know if anyone actually believes you can be “healthy at any size” but I do think young people severely underestimate just how early obesity can take you out
It’s not a matter of dying at 70 instead of 80, we’re talking like 30-40 sometimes
TMZ@TMZ
'My 600-Lb. Life' Star Dolly Martinez Dead at 30 tmz.me/CGHkjtj
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@rcolvile @TomHCalver Really isn't. Want to know why? Because when market forces come into play, our pay skyrockets. I get paid double for locums, and triple for stepdown shifts and WLIs (the latter of which is pegged to private market rates, which the former then has to peg to).
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Excellent piece from @TomHCalver on why doctors are really, really not underpaid thetimes.com/comment/column…
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They're also still all at the peak of human capabilities, like what do you mean there's a South Korean-American former special forces-doctor-astronaut? They'd be called a Mary Sue if it was fictional.
Much like airline pilots, most of the job is 'automated' but you still need a meatsuit in the hotseat if shit goes south.
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The Artemis mission was the perfect place for some harmless affirmative action
Astronauts get to claim all the glory while being the least important part of the mission, they basically just float around for a few days, anybody could do it, sure put a lady up there why not
Dr. Catharine Young@DrCatharineY
So many young girls have found their new role model.
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@HSRdirector @VanityFair This would fall foul of UK media laws (showing smoking to be glamorous, especially on the front page, without context).
Is that the right call though, restricting artistic and free speech in the name of public health? I'm not sure.
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I realize @VanityFair is not in the business of promoting health as a fashion mag but as a physician it grieves me to see smoking promoted like this esp by a young woman influencer
Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
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@GrayfellaNAFO @arthur_spirling Oh..it's now the war not the economy "popping off"🙄
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I think you learn a lot about the UK, and about UK politics—both good and bad—that a hotel costing $260 a night is considered both an extraordinary luxury and a scandal.
Grifty@TheGriftReport
Keir Starmer jetted off for a four-day luxury family Easter break at a £200-a-night four-star boutique hotel in Valencia, complete with rooftop bar and pool. While lounging in the sun and sipping café con leche in a public square, Trump was issuing ultimatums to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants and warning Tehran they’d be “living in Hell.” Starmer stayed put despite the escalating crisis, five years after he slammed Boris Johnson for holidaying as Kabul fell, declaring: “You cannot coordinate an international response from the beach.” Macron spent the weekend on emergency calls with Trump and Iran’s president. Starmer? Not so much. Priorities
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@AdiscoOn @arthur_spirling The USA trying to kick off WWIII might be a tad more important right now.
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@GrayfellaNAFO @arthur_spirling He shouldn't go on holiday until the economy gets better?
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Never understood the opposition to mass adoption of pharmacogenetics. It's dirt cheap to do now. Why not have a better idea of what your risks are and what may work for you?
My wife has all the obesogenic SNPs and has struggled with her weight for years. GLP1s have been miraculous for her.
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If you missed it, a neat study last week showed that genetic variation influences how much weight people lose on drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro. It got a lot of press coverage (see below e.g.).
What I find interesting is that people are quite happy to accept that weight loss response to these drugs may be genetically determined.
BUT say out loud that genetics also influence weight gain and predisposition to obesity, and suddenly the pitchforks come out!
wsj.com/health/pharma/…
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@BritHugoboom @nytimes Not like we're privy to their private lives, but trading a leftist harpy for a happy Latina seems like a good upgrade to me. Was worth literal billions for him to do so, so clearly worth it.
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Was reading the @nytimes piece in the paper this morning about Lauren Sanchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos.
I think it’s very clear that she makes his life much better. They wake up each morning and don’t immediately get on their phones but name 10 things they’re grateful for instead.
They watch the sunrise and drink coffee. She, out of a mug that says “woke up sexy as hell again.”
She comes across as ridiculously happy, whimsical and confident. She loves kids and even encourages her friends to have them. “Do it! I would have another one tomorrow.”
She’s feminine but also is highly respected by him for her thoughts. And both of them rely on each other’s advice.
It’s very obvious to see why a billionaire, who has a ton of options, would want to marry someone like her. As you age, you can’t lose if you stay joyful, happy, and in love.
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@soychotic Tbf, this lady existed. Controlled the largest known pirate fleet. Definitely had that dog in her
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_Yi_…
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@daveweigel Gonna get some mileage out of this meme I think (hated when our end of night song moved from Jimi Jamison's "I'm Always Here" to this)
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to anyone who’s uncultured
here’s how “Mr. Brightside” sounds, which is clearly not yodeling. It’s a form of celebration preformed at weddings and moments of joy all around michigan and iowa learnt from many generations. calling it “weird” or brushing it off is disrespectful.
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to anyone who’s uncultured here’s how a zaghrouta sounds, which is clearly not yodeling. It’s a form of celebration preformed at weddings and moments of joy all around west asia and north africa learnt from many generations. calling it “weird” or brushing it off is disrespectful.
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@Charles95777519 @CoachDanGo Sustained weight loss with blood sugar control is what is needed then: GLP1s and muscle growth best for this.
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@GrayfellaNAFO @CoachDanGo Thanks. Unfortunately I think it is mostly visceral.
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Those deflated fat cells don’t just sit there passively.
They actively work against you.
Shrunken fat cells send out hormonal distress signals that suppress leptin (the hormone that tells your brain when you’re full) and ramp up ghrelin (the hormone that tells your brain you’re starving).
This is why people who have lost a significant amount of weight often feel hungrier than people who have never been overweight at the same body weight.
It’s not that your body is broken. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do: fighting to refill those cells.
That’s why the first 20 lb and the last 20 lb feel so different. The deeper you get into a cut, the louder those cells scream.
The part no one talks about is that fat cells can die.
It takes years of sustained healthy body composition, but apoptosis, aka programmed cell death, does eventually reduce the number of fat cells in the body.
The goal is not to lose weight. The real goal is to keep it off.
weightlossmessiah@shredwithQpid
I just learnt that fat cells shrink when you lose weight but they don't disappear. They sit there, deflated but present, waiting patiently for a calorie surplus to fill them back up.
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@Charles95777519 @CoachDanGo Not an issue if you don't transplant them back. Obviously can't get rid of visceral fat though
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@GrayfellaNAFO @CoachDanGo I worry about lipo causing your body to, should you ever falter, add new fat cells in weird places. My wife has a very odd fat distribution in her belly caused by meds, but I think it wouldn't be a good idea for this reason. Would like to be wrong.
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Every time I start to become a little anti Israeli, some woke brown bitch will post something like this and it will make me want Israel to bomb them even harder.
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@CartoonsHateHer Depends on the shoes and if they're for the male gaze or not.
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My husband is doing his male findom kink with me (not letting me buy $500 shoes)
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@slackkejakke Nah, there's a 3rd group that fancies itself to be Lawrence of Arabia and will autistically immerse themselves. Bonus points if they end up marrying local.
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Time to dig this out again
Ginger Tucci@Ginger_Tucci
There’s no bigger ick than seeing a grown adult on holiday sporting a full football strip and having a full English breakfast. Gross. Eww. Can you just…. Not? Like why are you in another country without enjoying that countries culture and dressed like a 10 year old?
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@bugsandfishes There was a fox on my road at uni who would be around at 2-4am, because he knew drunk students would be coming home and feed him some kebab/fried chicken.
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Urban foxes in the UK are so firmly attempting to domesticate themselves I found this tweet incredibly confusing because what do you mean "extraordinary for a fox", they're all like this???
Ryan Moulton@moultano
We still have the Santa Cruz Island Fox if anyone wants a head start on domesticating a fox that has absolutely no fear of humans. I was ~4 feet from this guy when I took this, which is extraordinary for a fox.
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