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  1. Re:Just what we need by RevDobbs · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Slashback: Pie, Election, Alarm

    FWIW, I know that I feel much better after four hours of sleep than I do after six; I always assumed that the reason the extra sleep left me groggy was that I was being jarred awake from deep sleep (details here). I find sleep fascinating, and always enjoy reading the disussions on it -- especially on how to get the most out of it. It seems like quite a safe tuning parameter to optimize, and a lot easier to get into than nootropics.

    I gladly, and with out hesitation, welcome our brain-monitoring alarm clock overlords.

  2. Re:Weakness by ricka0 · · Score: 1 · on Robotic Arm Controlled By Monkey Thoughts

    Are you really getting everything you need from it though? Or maybe too much even?

    Quick example, TPN typically included Manganese as it is an essential trace element necessary for good nutrition and contained in unrefined cereals and green leafy vegetables. "...the tiniest amount of manganese typically added to TPN is responsible for the same kind of toxic effects on patients with liver failure as have been seen in miners with prolonged exposure to ore, in whom manganese poisoning was first described."

    Also, "In addition to thiamine deficiency in both short- and long-term TPN patients, deficiencies of vitamins A, D, and E have been reported."

    Although those total nutrition foods are great for people, it's not a good long-term plan at the moment. We still don't know near enough about how the body matabalizes food even (for example glucose levels vary for individual diabetics on different foods because of how their body digests it. So an apple might throw one person off the charts while only mildly effecting another. It's not a science yet, it's still an art.)

  3. Re:Univ N. Dakota Medical school GO THERE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness

    UPMC has a Division of Infectious Diseases.

    Phone: 800-533-UPMC (8762)
    Roster: here

  4. Re:Antirejection drugs by Dirus · · Score: 1 · on Six Months Old, Eight New Organs
    People don't have to stay on immunosuppressant drugs as once thought. IIRC the doctor who first pioneered the use of drugs that control organ rejection is now saying people don't have to be on immunosuppressant drugs their whole life. I remember some controversy a few (5?) years back about how he shouldn't be taking his patients off the immunosuppressant drugs. He was saying they don't need to be on them for their entire life and had successfully taken a lot of his patients off their drugs. I'm not good with names but I think that man might be Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD.

    Although not the article I wanted to find, here is an article about some of the research: http://newsbureau.upmc.com/tx/Weanbg.htm

    There seems to be little medical information on the web compared to the amount of information on other fields of knowledge. I'm guessing people are probably afraid of getting sued for something when it's new and when it's old and proven there isn't much a point to write about it as all in the medical feild know about it by then. I found an article on the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health matter-a-factly talking about taking kids off their antirejection drugs:

    In the 10 months since the transplant, Madeline has been hospitalized just once. She is growing and developing well and is also off medication. Tolerance research has found that some transplant recipients, when taken off their immunosuppressant drugs during times of infection, are able to stay off the drugs.