Greasy Gavin: Cutting Off Children's Body Parts is "Affirming Care" and Pot and Psychadelics Should be Legal and Heroin a Misdemeanor In Small Amounts, But We Have to Keep Weightlifting Teens from Buying Protein Powder and Creatine

Unrelated but urgent: Via gp, the FAA has ordered an emergency stop to all takeoffs.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

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🚨 BREAKING: A NATIONWIDE GROUND STOP has just OFFICIALLY been issued by the FAA, citing "EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES and REASONS OF SAFETY" 🤯

This means effectively ALL flights are blocked from taking off

There's no word yet on how long it will last or what specifically caused it.

Insane.

gp says it extends until 10pm.

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As Amy Curtis says, the Greasy Grifter Governor finally found a reason to demand ID:

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BREAKING: Gavin Newsom bans sales of certain "muscle-building supplements" to Californians under 18, potentially including whey protein & creatine.

Note that whey protein is just protein from, well, milk whey, and creatine is a naturally-occurring substance found in meat.

These supplements -- protein and a substance made up of three amino acids -- may cause dangerous "side effects," says the guy whose made narcotics legal (or just a misdemeanor offense) throughout the state.

New California law will restrict sales of some muscle-building supplements to minors Legislation covers over-the-counter diet pills and weight-loss dietary supplements, taking effect Jan 1

Energy drinks, pre-workout supplements linked to heart attacks, study finds

Gavin Newsom has signed legislation banning the sale of some "muscle-building supplements" to Californians under 18 years of age.

The legislation (AB 2030), which was signed on Sept. 28, covers over-the-counter diet pills and dietary supplements for weight loss or muscle building. It will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.

"Nonprescribed, medically unapproved products may cause dangerous side effects," the governor's office said in its announcement. "Products can be mislabeled or contaminated with substances such as steroids."

Any chance that heroin, which is not a misdemeanor offense, might have some impurities in it, too?

By the way, I really doubt that "steroids" are being mixed into these very common, very safe supplements.

California's law restricts minors' access to supplements marketed for muscle building -- specifically, those that are "labeled, marketed or otherwise represented for the purpose of achieving weight loss or building muscle."

Ah, there's the problem.

Courts may consider whether a product contains "creatine, green tea extract, raspberry ketone, garcinia cambogia or green coffee bean extract," the legislation states.

Possessing cocaine in small quantities is a misdemeanor, but we have to worry about green tea extract, aka "caffeine."

The release cites research indicating that nearly one in 10 adolescents have used such products.

Wow, that many? One in ten?

What a crisis.

The American Herbal Products Association, based in Maryland, released a statement opposing the law.

"Lacking any scientific justification, AB 2030 casts a shadow over safe, beneficial products," said Robert Marriott, the association's vice president of regulatory and government affairs, in the statement.

Kristen Mag @kristenmag

California: "WHEY PROTEIN IS TOO RISKY FOR KIDS!!"

Also California: "Yes actually 14 year old girls are old enough to consent to elective mastectomies."

Dr. Sigrid Wolf, a pediatric sports medicine physician at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, recently addressed the use of creatine products among teenagers, stating that evidence of benefits is limited.

Creatine is the most studied and most-used fitness supplement in the world. There is no question remaining about its efficacy.

"In some cases, they might even be dangerous," wrote Wolf, who is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' sports medicine committee, in an article published on HealthyChildren.org, the American Academy of Pediatrics' parenting website.

"Creatine can come with negative side effects such as weight gain, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea."

By "weight gain," they mean muscle gain, which must be stopped.

As for diarrhea: Creatine can definitely cause that, and I've been suffering from it for a year. But I just fixed it: And the fix is as dumb and obvious as you'd guess: Fiber. I was getting almost zero fiber on a low-carb diet, and that combined with creatine was giving me GI issues. Fiber fixed it immediately.

The left is convinced that physical strength and fitness are right-wing -- they are, but just because the left is physically and mentally unhealthy and actually cultivates physical and mental infirmity as virtuous -- and they want to men weak because they believe, correctly, that weak men join the leftist herd.

Research article

Physical strength as a heuristic cue of political conservatism

Mitch Brown, Donald F. Sacco, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, Ryan E. Tracy

Physically formidable men are motivated to pursue strategies to acquire resources and status through direct competition and the promotion of hierarchical social organization. In service of these priorities, these men support social policies favoring the use of aggressive bargaining and hierarchy-maintenance strategies. Given these associations, we hypothesized physical strength may function as a heuristic cue of political conservatism. Participants in four unique U.S. samples assessed the political orientation of men who varied in physical strength and musculature, considering various facets of what constitutes conservatism. Physically strong men appeared more conservative to perceivers. Neither type of conservatism (social versus fiscal) nor presence of wealth cues moderated effects. Perceivers further regarded liberty as most central to strong men's morality.

Note that study is about how people perceive strong men. It doesn't say anything about whether strength is correlated with conservatism. (But it is, of course.)

The point is, the left hates strong men. Too difficult to dominate.

Pansies at reddit think a lot about strong men:

What are your theories on why gym culture is so rightwing Upvote

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someone asked a similar question about gun ownership in r/MARXISTRA but the answer is the same right-wing culture is self-actualization. that applies to everything, it's essentially ingrained that nobody is gonna do anything for you so you need to make your own money, pave your own way, and defend yourself by any means necessary. as a result, they're probably more likely to have the income and the desire to follow through with a gym routine/proper nourishment/supplemental aid/training. Does this mean you can't do it? Not at all, contrary to what some may tell you, going to the gym is one of the cheapest (and best) hobbies to have. Paying $20-30 for a membership for what means essentially unlimited access to equipment and sometimes training as well, along with the chemical pick up me of endorphins released during a good work out. This is all to say, you can theorize why gym culture is so right wing all day but if you want to change it in a meaningful way, the best way is to step in the gym first

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That same philosophy lead me down a dark path when I was a young teen first getting started in the gym. I'm happy I made it out.

Ze "made it out" of the gym.

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I'm surprised no one else said it because it seems highly obvious to me, but I think it is because of the associations between traditional masculinity and physical power. The right wing is obsessed with masculinity and masculinity is traditionally associated with strength and violence. I think that this intertwines with the individualism aspect that everyone has mentioned to produce an unfortunately right wing, and largely misogynist fitness culture.

A classic:

Some other health items:

Rebuilding lost muscle is easier than building it in the first place.

Muscle memory may also involve adaptations within skeletal muscle fibers themselves.

Unlike most cells in the body, skeletal muscle fibers contain multiple nuclei, known as myonuclei. These nuclei help regulate cellular activity, including the production of proteins necessary for maintaining and developing muscle tissue.

During resistance training, muscle fibers may acquire additional myonuclei through the activity of satellite cells, which are specialized cells involved in muscle repair and adaptation.

Some research suggests that these acquired myonuclei may persist even after muscle fibers decrease in size during periods of inactivity.

If retained, they could potentially support a more rapid hypertrophic response when resistance training resumes.

Something to keep in mind as all of us Nearly 29-year-olds lose a percentage or two of muscle every year.

Also good for the Nearly 29: Sunlight.

It's good for your brain.

Less Than 42 Minutes of Bright Light Daily Is a Stronger Predictor of Dementia Than Obesity, Study Finds

Each morning, when we open our eyes to a bright new day, our brain's 'master clock' synchronizes our body and its rhythms with the Sun.

The more light that we are exposed to on a daily basis, the better it may be for our brains in the long run.

According to recent research among nearly 88,000 older adults, those who are exposed to more daily light are less likely to develop dementia over the next decade or so.

The longer the exposure to light, either natural or artificial, the stronger the association.

In fact, spending at least 42 minutes a day exposed to bright light (5,000 lux or more) was associated with a 17 percent lower relative risk of dementia.

That's a better predictor of dementia than six other traditional risk factors, including obesity, alcohol consumption, air pollution, and hearing loss.

For 'night owls', the association was even stronger. Greater daytime light exposure was linked with up to a 41 percent lower risk of dementia.

The findings, published in General Psychiatry, support the idea that light-based interventions hold promise for people at risk of cognitive decline.

"These findings position daytime light exposure as a novel, robust and measurable indicator of dementia risk," write the study authors, led by researchers at Guangzhou Medical University in China.

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I keep meaning to get ahead in my posts so I can go out for a walk/run at 2pm but I keep falling behind and not getting out until sunset. I gotta do something about that. There is no reason to not get double the bang for the buck.

AIs prove themselves much better at diagnosis than generalists. But note, that's generalists. They don't say how well specialists diagnose within their specialties.

Some good news: New cancer treatment eliminated brain tumors in every mouse it was tried on.

An experimental immune cell therapy has completely eliminated an aggressive childhood brain cancer in mice, succeeding where conventional treatments have struggled. Developed by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the approach uses genetically engineered CAR-T cells that activate their cancer-fighting receptors only after entering the brain.

The treatment, called B-SYNC, cleared tumors in every mouse tested across two models of diffuse midline glioma (DMG). It also provided lasting protection, with treated mice rejecting a second introduction of cancer cells nearly seven weeks later. Researchers are now preparing for human clinical trials that could begin as early as April 2027.

So: Any health improvements?

I've been eating keto and walking/running most days. I want to get back to lifting but my darned shoulder never healed and I guess I'm going to have to see a doctor about it and do physical therapy.

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