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Rats not mice. Still following breadcrumbs
THis is the link to an abbreviated abstract
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ars.2012.5142
To view the whole study, it's 59.0$ for two hours. Not gonna do that, but not giving up either...........
Found a metanalysis study published in 2014 by the same lead author of the study in 2013. Not uncommon for researchers to change from pure research to analysis of published works and publish again. Not sure if they're is a name for it, but it doesn't bode well for pure applied research. In the republishing process the info can start to be accepted as real when the premise hasn't been proven.
In the case of this metanalysis study it still has been applied to people as to whether champagnes phenolic compounds forestall cognitive or cardiovascular decline.
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Still following breadcrumbs, but found this while trailing. It's hot of the publishing press. Expect to hear that coffee helps to prevent Type 2 diabetes
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0142421
Immensely unreadable as it's a study, not an article about the study where a knowledgeable person put's the info into lay language.
Oddly enough, never saw the word Caffeic Acid before the above study. Went on the champagne trail again. Found a chart that broke down all the phenolic compounds in champagne, Caffeic is a phenolic
Chit lost a post:
Found a metanalysis study from 2014 by three of the authors from the 2013 study. It's repackaged study with the conclusion that it has to be proven in humans.
Still tracking to figure out why the Champagne thing is in today's news(11/9/15)
Snagged it. News release from the Sun( likely in other Uk papers too). It clearly states that it's research in rats. They are going to be starting a (Phase1) clinical trial that will last three years.
Problem b/c other media reporters have reported it as being true, people are going to start drinking champagne and promulgating it's value. It may end up being true, but today it isn't. Look for the completed study and publication results in about +- 9 years.
We may see a retraction, but the damage is already done
I imagine those folks in Champagne, France are dancing in the wine vats.
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Sassy, all that is very helpful. I haven't heard anything back either from the neuro or PCP on any of the tests. Not stressing too much about it. Tonight is cancer support group, so I'm conserving energy for that. Amazing how doing one little thing can put me out of commission for days. Beatmon has invited me to go water walking with her, and I am going to try that.
But first, I have two amusing stories for you, since we are into stories now. First is about the sign I posted. Glad you all enjoyed it, but it wasn't so funny when I first found it. Cousin and I had been bugging DH to go to the doctor for weeks last May, as we could see him deteriorating before our eyes. It was frustrating and heartbreaking at the same time. On that fateful day, I was looking at Facebook and ran across that sign. I downloaded it and texted it to my Missouri friend, who, with her hubby, had been worrying too. As I hit send on the text message, there was a crash down the hall. Cousin and I ran to see, and found DH had fallen and hit his head. That was the beginning of three days in the hospital and the subsequent dx of liver disease. He is doing well now, or at least better, but life is never the same when you've seen your rock crumble in front of your eyes.
Second story relates to dementia. Years ago, before we had Krispy Kreme donuts in our area, they were a special treat for us when we would visit DH's family in Indiana. One day we had picked up his elderly aunt and were driving around Indianapolis as DH loved to do, seeing his old haunts from growing up there. We decided to find a KK shop and pick up some donuts. Aunt Myrt was in the back seat. She kept pointing out the Kroger's markets to us as we passed them. Knowing she had dementia, and that she would repeat things she'd said just minutes before, we weren't really paying attention. We went on with our drive, and eventually met other family members for dinner. We were relating the happenings of the day, including Aunt Myrt's ramblings about Kroger's. DH's brother started laughing and told us, they closed down all the KK shops and they only sell them in Kroger's now!
You want stories? I got thousands of stories.
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Mags too too funny about Aunt Myrtle
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Okay finished tracking the report on Champagne. See previous post. Great lesson RE: our news media. Be careful what you read and believe is true
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Cubbie - along with the Lorazepam get some Tension Tamer or Sleepytime teas. Good stuff. Your local grocer should have them. Celestial Seasonings. I need to get my Sleepytime out but I also like the Gingerbread Spice they put out for the holidays - herbal also.
Sassy - I've never heard of Stiff Person's Syndrome. Glad you are feeling somewhat better. I think I'm tired of going places but this week has more stuff to do. Car oil change/inspection. Go into next town to get some tailoring I left and drop off another skirt to be shortened - how tall do they think we are??? I could make 1/2 blouse from what she's going to have to whack off. Church meeting Thurs. night. May go Friday into county seat to pay property taxes. Former hospice co-worker says Fridays good day for her to be in office so maybe we can have lunch. Then Sat. Mexican Food bunch going to one of my fav places.
Resveratrol is the polyphenol found in red wine. The one that was all the rage for heart disease prevention. And yup research being done for dementia prevention. I guess a polyphenol is a polyphenol. Coffee and tea and I would suppose cocoa/chocolate too. Eat more chocolate, forget the eatmore chicken lol.
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/79/5/727.full
I will freely admit I did not read this so anyone can shoot this messenger if they want. My brain is too muddled today to read much scholarly stuff but Mr. Google does great and my fingers can do the walking. But alas no mention of dementia and only ref. to Alzheimers says this article was referenced. (Neat trick - use control F - will bring up a discussion box on bottom L at least on mine it does - and you can search article for terms without reading entire thing - greatest thing ever)
Sassy - wink wink maybe somebody has excess champagne to sell OR it is the holidays coming up. Gives you another reason to imbibe. I'm such a cynic.
Mags - funny Aunt Myrt story. She knew what she wanted. I thought maybe it was just the "K" in the Krogers sign.
Chevster - loved your Theresa story. I remembered bits/pieces. Lovely to have lived in the same place. I wish I had the "sister I never had".
Speaking of sisters (which I don't have either) - had early dinner Sat with DB, SIL, DH and our DD. Lovely time at a place called Tolberts. Named after a Terlingua chile guy. Almost deserted because the power had been off/on and they were just beginning to take customers again. I thought this was in lieu of Thanksgiving but no still have Thanksgiving invite. Have to see if DH has early shift on Black Friday. DD has to work but a token day and she's about 10 min from work. Long drive for us - MemaSue it's all the way to Allen by way of Euless to get DD. She drives from there - navigates that 114 N Airport mess much better than we do.
And how is the vision doing now? DH had only the single vision implants. I bet the bifocal are harder to get used to.
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If the compound is in chocolate and blueberries, I think I'll stick to those. Never liked champagne and have stopped drinking.
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This was posted on my Brother's FB... We used to watch the Ralph Emery show.... and this was with Glenn Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, Roy Clark, and a few others...
My Brother is the drummer.... playing this time with the brushes....
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Hey, lilgoats, precisely my point. bad reporting has now influenced the sale and use of champagne. Phenolic compounds have been heavily studied, but they're is a characteristic within champagne that lifts it up above the others-----------But that's in a RAT study, not humans.
Bad science and bad reporting piss me off. It messes with good science and good reporting.
Glad you have been having so much fun.
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Loverly- I am not stubborn about asking for directions I was rhetorically meaning "men" won't. I know my DH won't. Of course now we have smart phones and you can google directions/ map quest. I don't have a smart phone. Mags I love the story about your Aunt.. KK donuts at Krogers! Too cute. Sassy glad the headache is better. Cubbie take the ativan and get some sleep. Try it at least.
My cat is such a weirdo. She is under my gider rocker rubbing her head along the bottom. This makes the rocker rock and as it comes forward she rubs her face against it.. like it's alive. Zoey is 12, toothless (eats just fine) and wonder about her.
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Mags- I have a dementia story too, a funny one! We moved our mom from CT to CA to live near my sister in a memory impairment assisted living facility. Our mom would tell us both stories about this man who was visiting her and was a the son of a man who lived in her home town. Someone I think she went to school with. Well, my sister and I humored her and thinking "sure mom" and that she was spinning stories as she liked to do sometimes.
One time when I was visiting and my sister was with me, we were sitting with mom in her room and in walks this middle aged man and his girlfriend, with some flowers for our mom. He introduced himself as the son of the man from our home town. My sister and I just looked at each other in stunned silence. His father had passed and he was coming back to take care of things and was bringing flowers around to some of the folks he had visited with. Our mom said to us "you never believed me about that man." We said she was right, but what were the chances? It's a small world.
Now mom told a lot of other stories too about jobs she got while working there. She was laying new flooring for them at the assisted living place in one such story. Pretty sure that one was not true.
Love the Krispy Kreme story! Auntie was on top of it!
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Thanks Sas!!
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we got great news today for my grandson. He saw 2 orthopedic surgeons who both agreed to the amputation of his left leg. He is so happy to finally be able to move on. Don't know yet what day but hopefully in the next 2 weeks. He has suffered with CRPS for over 2 years now and he has an extreme case.
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is it time yet to start celebrating?!
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Indeed, great news!!!! Do they need to get approval from insurance??
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Ah Rose, it all makes sense now. I'm aware that some men stubbornly won't ask for directions. I should have made use of what little neurons I have. Hehehe Thank you for showing me grace. Ok I won't call you stubborn then for that. How about maverick
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Mag and Jazzy, sweet and amusing stories.
Ms. CHEVY, you are truly blessed to have Ms. Theresa. Well, she is also blessed to have you too. Wow, that's a long time to know someone and to be in the person's life! Saw the video and recognized your brother right away. Easy, because he is the only drummer. Ha
Destiny, ok I'm not going to erase that. Simplicity, I typed "Destiny" again. The next time I inadvertently call you that you know who I am referring to. Are you sure you want to go with Simplicity. Just kidding. I like Simplicity.Now I forget what I wanted to say to you. All this dementia talk is scary..........ok, I remember now. My younger Sis had a dadchund mixed. The dog had no mean blood in him, but was not the smartest according to my sister. I beg the differ because I had seen him open the crate to let her other dog out. He would lick you until you get annoyed with him. Unfortunately, she had to put him down because he became paralyzed from the waist down. Could not poo or poop. Poor thing was happy even toward the end.
Cubbie, my smart phone always want autocorrect your name to Vinnie...weird huh? Did u see the discussion about reservatrol? Enjoy your dark chocolate. Just make sure you don't eat too close to bedtime. Hope you are sleeping better today.
Ms. Sas, yay!!! How did you take it the first time and do you notice any hyperactivity with the lower dose this time? We treasure the time when our body parts do what it's supposed to do. I have to remember to be grateful all the time
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Chevy, oh my, your Grandpa making that white lightning! I think you can make wine out of most anything, especially any fruit. Definitely heard of dandelion wine before.
Sas, good to hear the TMJ is better with the medication. You need some relief.
Mags, I was in an exercise class that did water walking back when I was a teenager. It was a lot of fun. The only thing I wished was that we had some kind of water shoes to wear because the pool floor was a bit rough on my feet after a while. Hopefully someone has come up with a fix for that after all these years. I'd love to find a place that does water walking here. We also did water aerobics, which was good, too. We had hand weights, but you could have the water help hold them up as much as you needed.
Loverly, Simplicity, Jazzy, Rose, thanks so much. Maybe I will try just part of a tablet some evening, and see how it affects me. It helps to hear that you've had the random tears thing, too, Simplicity. This is all so scary, it's overwhelming. It's frustrating, this is a time when you realize how much you want to make the most of every day, but then I'm too sad to do much but cry sometimes.
Goats, I'll look for the tea. I plumb forgot when I stopped in the grocery store tonight. Picked up some cranberry juice and trail mix for work, completely forgot to look for the tea.
Wren, the chocolate covered blueberries I had the other day are clearly the solution. No champagne, more chocolate!
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Hey Cubbie, i had to take a break with the post above because I could tell I was about to lose the post. Very slow at typing (one finger typing)on my phone. Look up. I think for me, besides the feelings of being overwhelmed, it was the mourning of the loss of my breast that caused me to cry at random times. But the worst was( I remember now) about 1-2 weeks post MX not 4 weeks as I mentioned before.I was trying to put my shirt on and I was so frustrated I couldn't and THEN I saw how I looked in the mirror and that was it.....
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Cubbie, I have seen shoes meant to be worn in the water. You should check with the pool to see if they would allow them. I always wear shoes when swimming in the ocean.
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Loverly, so reservatrol might be the "active ingredient" in wine? Very interesting.
I think I've found the physical effects of the MX (soreness, numbness and yet that "sunburned" feeling, swelling from fluid) harder than the appearance. For me, the uncertainties of the diagnosis have been weighing heavily on me. I'm an anxious person by nature, anyway.
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Who post multiple times in a short period but me and you Ms. Sas? I blame it on the OCD. Anyway, it's cold and rainy here. I think we skipped fall and went straight to winter...at least that is what it feels like to this Californian. I get cold so easily now. I wonder it's because I have little or no fat tissue on my left chest.
Mitzy is gaining her confidence. She is more mouthy now. Didn't know she could bark so loud. She made this cute howl when she is happy (I think),especially when she sees us coming down the stairs in the morning or when we come home from work or school. I took your advice and moved her to the living room in an area where it faces the stairs. So far she only tore off part of the sleeping bag that we used to cover the crate. It was on Holloween. Went to dinner with a friend and came back to see part of the sleeping back tightly wedged between the wires of the crate. Early tricks treaters probably scared her. This past Sunday she did well in the crate for nearly three hours while we were at church. Slept most of that time.
Here she is all snuggled up
And here, she is annoyed with me for keeping taking her pictures...she made a big sigh before digging her face in the comforter.
And yes, that was a pic of my backyard. It's wild out there thanks to the birds. They "sowed" fig seeds all over after feasting on our neighbors tree. No harvest yet. I'm going to have a orchard of fig. SIGH
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Cubbie, it is found both in wine and dark chocolate. I don't know how to drink wine or champagne. I had tried to look sophisticated drinking wine, you know like in the movies or magazines, but always ended up with an ugly face because my taste buds protested. I will stick to dark chocolate. I can pull a near elegant look with that. I am sorry you are burdened with worries. One day at a time and try not to squeeze weeks or months in one day.
Goats, you are one busy lady. I always imagine you live somewhere like Madison Bridge. I know,I am so random.
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Cubbie, I started with 1/2 of a lorazepam to see how it hit me too. I am up to a whole pill now and still have trouble sleeping. O'yes. The randomness has been bad lately. So many things going on at once. I was in a restaurant the other day, grabbing some food and was going to eat in, but waiting on my food, I felt them coming "please just let me get to my car. Just to my car. NOT NOW!!" Soon as I walked out that door, they poured. This is a very difficult road and that's going to hit you sometimes unexpectedly. Wish I could give you a big hug.
Lol-No worries here
Call me whatever you wantHope all have a great day! Loves to all
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Slipcover arrived today! Considering a quick wash or maybe just tumble it to get wrinkles out. But I love the chintzy feel of the pattern. Loveseat expected within a few days. Now to see if curtains match. Facelift in progress.
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I think the curtains will go well! Got them at Walmart for $8 a panel!
Also, why do I have to keep logging in? When I haven't even left the page?
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Thanks Teka! I have to admit I'm actually excited about this, that hasn't happened in a long time.0
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mom didn't recognize me today. Took awhile for me to convince her before she let me in. Forgot we were going to breakfast with her sister and her hubby and their son. Wonder if she is taking her meds?? She seems to be slipping fast.
But she is happy
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Dear Susan.... You know, as long as she is happy, that's all that matters.... Things might be better some days, and not so good other days..... Like my brother always said...."What is? .... Is"
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Judy called this morning.... I think they are kicking Theresa out of rehab! I can't believe it...! Next week, if she can still take at least 50 steps with her walker, she will go back to Assisted Living.... I just hope they watch her and care for her like they have where she is...... She has to walk quite a ways to go downstairs for her meals....
I just can't see her getting back to the way she was.... I kind of wish she could stay there... She can be pretty stubborn, so might not listen to what is "best" for her..... She has a hard time getting up from the bed or wheel-chair... I just don't want her to fall again, and she is alone so very much of the time in her apartment.... Man, I'm going to go see her Friday.... hope she is improving enough to be "on her own" again.....
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETkzK9pXMio
