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Microsoft's Purposeful Marketing Deception About AI's Ability To Beat Physicians In Diagnosis
When you look at the world of scientific research... If you are not careful... You will be fooled into believing things that are not actually supported by the data.
By Dr. Cody Dakota Wooten, DFM, DHM, DAS (hc)20 days ago in Longevity
Day 4 of Quitting
If this is how sobriety feels, maybe it’s better to go through life a little buzzed… this, along with other hits like, I want to kill myself, I wish I was dead, and I’m going to throw myself off a bridge have been the only thoughts on rotation these past few days. I promise myself that if, in a month, I still feel like this (‘this’ meaning despondent, full of rage, and simultaneously numb) I can go back to smoking. Until mid-February though? Nicotine is off the table.
By sleepy drafts3 months ago in Longevity
"I Peacefully Release Whatever Doesn't Serve Me."
In a world full of hate and division, here is a tiny reminder that the load of the loathe ain’t worth it. We saw a public execution of a man that spews separation die by the very words he lived by. It’s sad and a shame no matter which way you spin it. Holding on to hatred does not serve anyone’s higher purpose. There’s no way to ascend while wearing the concrete slippers of ill intent.
By Ariel Celeste7 months ago in Longevity
Feeling Pain? Here's a Hardy Hibiscus Hug
Good morning and welcome to the August 18 edition of my Monday Morning Huddle! Today, it's all about the Hibiscus flower and its lending a hand energy in alleviating pain. Whether physically or emotionally, if you are suffering from pain of any sort, then this post might help a little- at least, that is my hope.
By Marilyn Glover8 months ago in Longevity
Why I Celebrate Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead, also known as Dias de los Muertos, honors our loved ones who have passed on. As a lover of all things Halloween, October 31st has always been my favorite holiday. Yet beyond the tricks and treats, costumes, witchy, ghoul, and goblin vibes, ghosts of another sort took on greater meaning in my life in 2023. Now each year a celebration of one day becomes three, extending to November 2nd honoring lost family members, specifically my aunty Sue.
By Marilyn Gloverabout a year ago in Longevity
Where Am I After Nearly Six Months With A Lethal Cancer
You're Going To Die, Mr. Morton. I'm very sorry. -My doctor It's been nearly six months of living in my new reality. Since then, every day has become part of an unexpected journey. When I look backward, I remember joking about 2024. I told the closest person to me that I just wanted to get through the holidays without anyone dying. Unfortunately, I forgot one other day that stands out.
By Jason Morton2 years ago in Longevity
NO BOUNDARIES, NO CLUE
See that kite? Flying free and easy through the clouds, pushed this way and that by random puffs of wind. That’s me. Upon deep examination of my convoluted and tortured path in life, I’ve realized I have no boundaries and no clue where I’m going or what I’m doing.
By Tina D'Angelo2 years ago in Longevity
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Turning the Ephemeral into the Concrete
Some experiences feel real while they are happening and unreal almost immediately afterward. A conversation that sparks clarity, a realization that reframes a problem, a moment where scattered thoughts suddenly align. In the moment, there is a sense that something solid has been grasped. But without capture, that solidity dissolves. What remains is a faint impression, detached from the reasoning that made it meaningful. The experience was real, but it left no durable trace.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout an hour ago in Longevity
7 Reasons You Can’t Sleep Well (And How to Fix Them Tonight). AI-Generated.
You know that feeling. It’s 2:17 AM. You’ve been lying in bed for hours. Your mind is racing through everything you said today, everything you need to do tomorrow, and that random embarrassing moment from 2015. Your partner is sound asleep. Even the dog is snoring.
By Health Looiabout 15 hours ago in Longevity
Why You Wake Up at 3AM Every Night (And How to Fix It). AI-Generated.
Subtitle 1: The Strange Hour – More Than Just a Broken Clock You’ve been there. You fall asleep peacefully, dreaming of beaches or spreadsheets. Then, without warning, your eyes snap open. You reach for your phone. The screen glows: 3:00 AM. Not 2:00, not 4:00. Exactly 3 AM.
By Health Looiabout 20 hours ago in Longevity
The Doctor Who Prescribes Walking 🚶♀️
THE PRESCRIPTION NOBODY FILLS 💊 Dr. Sarah Mitchell has been practicing internal medicine for twenty-two years and she has stopped prescribing medication as her first intervention for the majority of her patients, not because she is anti-medication but because she has observed over two decades of clinical practice that a daily thirty-minute walk produces equivalent or superior outcomes to pharmaceutical intervention for mild to moderate depression, anxiety, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, chronic pain, insomnia, and cognitive decline, and that patients who adopt walking as their primary health intervention require fewer medications, have fewer hospitalizations, report higher quality of life, and live longer than patients who rely primarily on pharmaceutical management of the same conditions 🏥
By The Curious Writerabout 20 hours ago in Longevity
The Island
What Ikaria's Centenarians Know That Modern Medicine Doesn't THE ISLAND THAT BAFFLED SCIENTISTS 🔬 On the tiny Greek island of Ikaria, located in the Aegean Sea with a population of approximately eight thousand people, residents are four times more likely to reach age ninety than Americans, they experience dementia at one-fifth the rate of the Western world, they have dramatically lower rates of cancer and heart disease, and they remain physically active and socially engaged into their nineties and beyond, and when researchers from the University of Athens first studied this phenomenon in the early 2000s they expected to find some genetic anomaly or miraculous dietary component that explained the extraordinary longevity, but instead they found something far more interesting and far more applicable to the rest of the world: the Ikarians were not doing anything medically remarkable but rather were living in a way that modern Western civilization has systematically abandoned 🌊
By The Curious Writerabout 20 hours ago in Longevity
The Best Male Sexual Enhancer
Male sexual health is often discussed in whispers, jokes, or advertisements, but rarely in a calm and useful way. That is unfortunate, because intimate health is part of overall wellbeing. It is connected to energy, stress, confidence, sleep, circulation, relationships, and everyday lifestyle habits.
By Edward Smitha day ago in Longevity
The Last Voicemail
THE MESSAGE THAT PLAYS EVERY MORNING My father died on a Thursday afternoon in September while I was in a meeting I could have skipped, and the last communication between us was a voicemail he left at 2:47 PM that I saw but did not listen to because I was busy with something I cannot now remember, something that seemed important enough at the time to justify postponing a return call to my father by a few hours, a delay that became permanent when my phone rang at 4:15 PM and my mother's voice told me that he had collapsed in the garden and was gone before the ambulance arrived, and the voicemail I had been too busy to listen to became the last thing he would ever say to me, his final words preserved in digital format on a device I now clutch like a lifeline because it contains the only remaining trace of his living voice.
By The Curious Writera day ago in Longevity
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