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Regular creatine intake linked to fewer irregular periods and may support reproductive health in women. Data from 4,500+ women found that those meeting the daily creatine threshold (1g per day for a 170-pound woman) had 25% lower odds of irregular periods and significantly lower odds of poor birth outcomes. The female body synthesizes less creatine than men and tends to consume 30-40% less through diet, despite needing it for: - Hormone balance - Egg maturation - Cellular energy in reproductive tissue - Brain health Always check if its lab tested (4/5 creatine gummies tested were found to contain no actual creatine). We track and share the latest test results on Oasis

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends. A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets. Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses. The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days. Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive. The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away. The investing angle nobody talks about. Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in. Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies. The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates. Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try. (a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

I’ve witnessed fights twice in the past month while getting pizza at the Pie Hole. Police detain these guys only to release them shortly after. Democrats are soft on crime.

For those asking about my prenup. This is the structure Her distributions are capped at 30% of combined assets Distributions are: -$175k per year of marriage (lump sum) -Use of a house worth 5.6x the US median housing price until death or cohabitation of 150 days (House can be financed by me on a mortgage. Full house value counts toward 30% cap) -$75k annual alimony (inflation adjusted) -All her jewelry and personal items -Continued Health and Dental insurance -First choice in pets (must be valued under $50k) If marital distributions exceed 30% then reduce the lump-sum, then housing, then alimony to get below 30% This made sense because 1) I never have to pay more than 10% of NW (since house is mortgaged) and the more I make the less the percent 2) She has no penalty for giving up her career (gets full missed salary as a tax free lump-sum) 3) She’s never “out on the street” with paid for housing and $75k annual

Yet another subscription class action filed this week, this time against supplement brand For Wellness. As usual, the brand's checkout page allegedly violates California's Automatic Renewal Law by failing to make certain disclosures properly, making cancellation too difficult, and failing to send a proper post-purchase acknowledgment.