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Healing Wounds With Diamonds
A team at Northwestern University, led by Dean Ho, has discovered that nanodiamonds are a wound's best friend. Insulin is very attracted to nanodiamonds and in addition to regulating blood sugar, insulin can accelerate the healing process and stave off infection in wound sites. Since the tiny diamond can be easily placed in a wound without causing further damage, this is an excellent way to get an increased amount of insulin there as well. From the article, "A substantial amount of insulin can be loaded onto the nanodiamonds, which have a high surface area. The nanodiamond-insulin clusters, by releasing insulin in alkaline wound areas, could accelerate the healing process and decrease the incidence of infection. Ho says this ability to release therapeutics from the nanodiamonds on demand represents an exciting strategy towards enhancing the specificity of wound treatment."
I'm sure there's a darn funny off color joke in there about diamonds being a womans best friend... but I'm going to not open up any wounds.
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The article leaves a lot to be desired. Can anyone explain why it is that insulin's attracted to diamonds, or more specifically, nanodiamonds?
Apart from the "insulin = women" comments we're sure to get, I'm seriously wondering why.
In other news...Debeers has just entered the Health care industry.
Good luck getting your HMO to cover diamonds.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Yay! Now when your GF wants a diamond all she has to is fall and scrape a knee...
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Remember when Nelly and a bunch of other Rappers put little bandages on their faces? Now its going to come back... AS BLING...
So in the future, we'll all have superhuman healing abilities and sparkle like our skin is covered in millions of diamonds?
Stephanie Meyer: modern day prophet.
Everyone knows you need a Diamond worth 100gp to raise dead. So how is this news?
At last, I can bling out my internal wounds!
I'd say this is a pretty good step towards the more expensive aspect...
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Blood Diamonds
The power of healing crystals finally comes true. Far out.
Diamonds often help to heal love's wounds as well.
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While it is true that bodybuilders do this - it is also true that it doesn't work.
In a non-diabetic person your body is capable of producing massive amounts of insulin on demand to cover sugar or other carbohydrates. If you want a rush of Insulin then eat a lot of sugar, if your body doesn't cover it keeping your blood-sugar under normal levels, then by definition you are diabetic. If you're a type 1 diabetic like me you already know why you wouldn't want to take Insulin unless you absolutely have to...
I can imagine this being used on band-aids.
Your body already has the right balance of insulin. Periodically injecting it is an incredibly stupid if it's for the sake of vanity. You could end up in the hospital for hypoglycemia. In the long term, you could develop insulin resistance followed by Type II Diabetes.
How easy is it to make nano-diamonds anyways? I'm wondering if there's a cheap way to make graphite on the small scale to order themselves like a diamond for at least a short period of time.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Big Pharma will price this so high that people that could really benefit from this will only be the rich.
First stories in the Onion come true, now South Park's cure for AIDS?
Crazy world.
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Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
Those uninsured already get "free" healthcare at the emergency room. Turning someone away until a problem becomes an emergency is more expensive than providing preventative care.
Imagine what kind of Health insurance you would have to get for diamond treatment. You would have premiums of 10,000.00 a month.
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Of course when we all have to go to Government run health care like Canada, we will have to wait in line for 3months for wound treatment and instead of nano-diamonds, we will have to make do with cubic zirconium dust covered in aspirin.
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Thanks you scientists! It will end up being more effective to pray to Jesus to heal your wounds.
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a significant increase in the number of rappers with oral infections.
You can actually smear diamonds on your face! And it's only $400 a tub! That's, like, what, like, a million diamonds for $400? A million bleeping diamonds!
Make you look nice, too: http://the-op.com/images/episode/202/tobias-glitter_sm.jpg
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but if you end up totally buff and get to bang hot chicks, it was all worth it.
Using a sufficiently large diamond, the emotional pain caused by one's infidelity discovered by one's wife can be cured. And, given the volatility of said wife, it can simultaneously work to prevent the physical pain of being hit with a lamp.
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She'll pretty much have to
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Yeah but that's not really important for those of us that live on that small island you may have heard of called "the rest of the world" (you may have seen our flag... it's like yours, but on fire) ... that said, Obama's plans for your health service really don't sound as doom and gloom as your local press makes out, just as our politions plans for us and our health service don't seem as doom and gloom as our local press makes out. So chill out, I'm sure they go through the cost/benefit calculations with a lot more rigour than your gut instinct has.
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So if the point is to attract more insulin to the area using nano-diamonds, why not skip the whole diamond step and create an insulin oitment or topical application that essentially does the same thing?
That's not even the main reason why the OP is a big douche bag. There are 51 million people uninsured in the US. Is the original poster saying there are 51 million illegal immigrants in the US as well? Sorry, most uninsured are tax paying Americans. Hell, even illegal immigrants are paying taxes. Also, why are freeways the God given right of the OP and not universal health care? It's about time the US joined the rest of the industrialized world. To reiterate, the OP can go f*ck himself.
Makes my doodie twinkle !
They don't use it to lower body fat. Insulin does one simple thing which is open your cells, both fat and muscle, to glucose. It does this by binding to the cell at the insulin receptor, which causes the cell's internal GLUT-4 protein to come from deep in the cell up to the surface. GLUT-4 opens the gateway for glucose to the cell which will often pull in other things(nutrients, water) along with it. Injecting insulin is not a good thing long term unless you are diabetic. Some body builders end up insulin resistant or diabetic by abusing it. Now the reason that they actually do it is because it's extremely good at what it does which is draw energy into your cells. Insulin is what we call an anabolic hormone and if combined with huge amounts of carbs(usually while on anabolic androgenic steroids as well), your muscles get a lot of glucose which gives you lots of energy, but also enhances growth and recovery if you are training the muscle.
is the diamond antibiotic ointment.
Africa rejoice, a new cure for wounds have been found!
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"I've also heard that bodybuilders use insulin to lower their body fat and make them look leaner. Insulin sounds like a pretty sweet drug, and since it doesn't get you high, I think I should be able to get it without a prescription. And yet - I can't."
I would suggest this as an alternative. You don't need a prescription or anything!!
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Once the healing process was complete, how would one get these nano diamonds out of oneself? Do they remain in your skin attracting clusters of insulin in perpetuity? What happens when they enter your blood stream and travel to various organs?
perhaps this explains the vampire skin in Twilight?
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diamonds in/on there skin stop them burning up in the sun....
Hey, you don't have to have diabetes to enjoy hypoglycemia. There are other conditions that can lead to it. Unfortunately I don't like using the word since it seems to be popular right now. "Oh I'm hungry and feel a bit shaky, I must be hypoglycemic!"
True hypoglycemia, the kind that can be detected by measuring blood sugar, can be very unpleasant and even dangerous.
Having had the joy of experiencing that more than once I do not envy diabetics. It is not some miracle drug, it is part of your body's control systems. Too much or too little are both bad. Applying higher concentrations to specific areas such as wounds may be a good thing, but that doesn't mean increasing the amount in your bloodstream is good. Dosage and delivery matter, a lot.
Just remembered me that: "Diamonds are forever!" and ever! Imagine in a nuclear holocaust: Diamonds will survive...
I'm sure I can throw a rock and hit at least a dozen women who will swear on a stack of bibles that diamonds are capable of healing any and all wounds!
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Kind of reminds me of colloidal silver, a common antibacterial agent before antibiotics became common.
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"A dressing of diamond" - it's a poem by a crazy French woman, who was jailed for anarchist agitation IIRC and wound up dying in jail. She had probably never thought of this; kind of sad.
that there is no better way to administer insulin to a wound.
Nano-anything is likely to have side-effects. After all, the hourly death rates and admissions to ERs is related to the concentration of sub-micron particulates in the air.
...if you have a Cleric with a 5th-level spell slot open.
causes the cell's internal GLUT-4 protein to come from deep in the cell. GLUT-4 opens the gateway for glucose to the cell which will often pull in other things
Oh my. If you change the 'G' in GLUT-4 to an 'S' (and make some other minor adjustments) those few sentences sound downright racy...
when I first glanced at the title I read it as "Healing wounds with dynamite".
Or else are quite young. Pg 429-430 detail mandatory counseling to get the elderly to kill themselves. Other places tell of how the handicapped will be denied treatment, as will people with chronic illnesses. This program is only good as long as you are young and healthy. After that, they come for you. As to nano-diamonds, they are indeed 'easily' creatable synthetically.
shut the fuck up nigger.
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I cannot help wonder what happens if these diamond particles get into your blood flow though. Even though they are stated to be "nano-size", any chance they might get stuck in the nephrons in the kidneys, or capillary blood vessels around the body? I mean, usually the stuff you get into your blood stream are macro-mo
I heard they just inject it once when they get in a fat loss phase to reach a state of ketosis practically overnight.
A bad idea nonetheless, but there are few professional sports that dont ruin your body in the long run.
The idiots don't understand that the largest portion covering this cost comes from those with high income. Those with high income controll all your corporates. Your insurance, medical, media, etc. The miserable people with low income are so stupid that they don't realise the simple fact that while everybody will chip in to make sure nobody gets untreated due to social status, in proportion the majority will still be paid by the wealthy. So they listen to CNN or Fox, run by the same people who are supposed to pay your healthcare with this bill. But please, by all means people, continue listening to them and when you die from treatable pneumonia make sure to say hi to Darwin from me.
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Neglecting MMORPG inflation (bread = 1 gp rather than 1 copper), this morning gold is $928/ounce. IIRC, in original D&D, a gold piece was 1/10 a pound, yielding a value of about $1484.
A 100gp diamond is thus a $148,400.00 diamond.
Checking google, you can get a high quality 7+ carat diamond for about $150k. I presume the gods to whom this is a sacrifice only want high quality diamonds.
So the conclusion is a raise dead spell is "worth" about $150,000 just for the ingredients alone.
Just one more costly item as to why health care spending continues to go up -- new treatments and cures.
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