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Ahhh, sad. I discovered him years ago, haven’t kept up with his latest. But thanks.

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Discovered whom?

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Dr. B, when I had an iodine deficiency. It was a Godsend at the time.

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Once you figure it out, it is a godsend. :)

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Loved the joke! :)

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Being hearing impaired and needing hearing aids makes movie-going a nightmare, what you see now on TV makes you want to puke.

Even if it's fairly clean, remakes are all wrong. The last one I saw was the newest Tarzan, as I'd read the books, I knew the whole movie was a waste of money. Tame by today's WOKE/CRT standards, not even soap operas escape it.

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Adderal shortages, may the shortages be forever. https://abc7ny.com/adhd-adderall-shortage-medication-what-is/12324115/

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Fun post. XD

But on a serious note, the most addictive, viral memes generally win out and propagate.

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My explanation is no return to Eden. Eden you can't go home to again, Eden is now the forbidden fruit for man with no God. No superior to Ego exists then. Absent Christianity no concept of the human person as a decisive and important spiritual category came into existence Thriving in this situation, tastin ​total freedom at last, all knowing Faustian man triumphantly shouts I Not Thou. There is no Higher Principle than appetite. No morality then or sense of norms we assume day to day. Psychology for it's faults has good writing on I and Thou. When the Thou no longer is the I problems emerge since there is no master over man but nature since there is no Divine.

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Good joke an' agree fully an' that fee-nomenon combines with the reduced span'o' at'ten-shun (i.e. after ten minutes shun the info!).

All the phone-addicted are' addle-brained (or adderall brained...) an' cain't sit for five minutes without checkin' their d-vices. So overly-stimulated, under-informed, inattentive and now drug addicted (to whatever pills'n'potions they'z shellin' out), the last FEW generations r' royal messes.

And o' course yup, turnin' beauty standards upside down and makin' toddlers sex objects (like in Brave New World) makes pro-creation moot! Thatz wat'cher test tubes 'r fer.

Golly this is mighty dystopian! Folks need to fergit lookin' at camels (or two spirit gender folks) as mates. Camels are fulla good sense, the original preppers! They store water and fat an' kin survive purdy well in draughts n' deserts. They move fast too! (unlike most Amerikans today...) Larn from em' and as with all hooved ani-mules, stay away from their backsides!

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Awesome dude.

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Good joke, Ray. 😂

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There are actually two jokes, at least according to my wife! Thank you for calling it into my attention. :)

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As for the stimulation in society, when I want to pray & fast, I shouldn’t food fast because of my health so fasting from social media works. It’s harder than I thought it would be. Before the censorship I was addicted to YouTube, went down a lot of rabbit holes there . Impossible nowadays.

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The first and last thing people might consider doing is make peace with their Maker.

The rest, as already Hamlet observed, is silence. :)

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Absolutely!

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I’m on disability. When I was about 45, my neurontin/ gaba pen tin wasn’t working anymore. I was told I was at my maximum dose, they offered addictive pain killers as an option. I had gotten sober from alcohol at 30. No way was I going to destroy my liver and life with that. I started weaning off all the prescriptions except my thyroid medicine. Many of my issues improved.

I saw my dad tortured by the medical industrial establishment. his doctor went to jail for 8 months then moved to New Jersey and started all over again.

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I hope, you are doing allright. So sad to hear about your condition (that you described previously, but new readers wouldn't know).

Controlling thyroid is all about iodine and, possibly, nuclear exposure... The establishment wouldn't help, because they have no idea about the cause and their direct "treatment" usually doesn't get one anywhere...

Boys will be boys; "doctors" will be doctors...

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I foolishly let them remove my thyroid with radiation. They do it differently nowadays.

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They love biopsies and love removing stuff even more; they are selling the tissues... Kind of like beheading can also cure a headache...

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My doctor has mentioned this to me- it seems like she is encouraging it, but I heard from a few people that they regret it also.

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Mine was completely inactivated. I regret it but at the time, was my only option other than surgery to physically remove the gland. I understand these days they can extract some of the tissue or leave some intact & that may have better results in healing and getting thyroid levels stable.

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That is interesting about the new procedures. It seems like a LOT of folks these days have thyroid issues, most of them women, but some men too. I know a man who recently was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I do believe something is causing this. Like Ray says electronic pollution most likely and radiation from all the devices and cell towers maybe.

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Many hidden studies on it from years and years ago!

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Ray, I also have thyroid disease. Do you have any information on using iodine to control thyroid disease? Also, can you elaborate on the nuclear exposure?

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Overactive or under?

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Both actually. I had low (hypo) for many years and took low dose of levothyroxine for it. Then all of a sudden my tests came back different. I was diagnosed with graves disease. I got referred to an endocrinologist who ran more tests, and I found out I had Hashimoto's. I always thought that meant low thyroid, but she said some people can suddenly get graves disease. So then I was treated for that for a few years with methimazole. Fast forward to this year, and I started going hypo again and now I am back on levothyroxine again. I haven't heard of anyone going back and forth like that, but she said most people will refer back to what they originally had- and for me I was hypothyroid.

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Another thing to check: there's evidence that aspartame (nutrasweet) can cause thyroid issues and some claim to be cured after they stop ingesting it. Some also claim light therapy can improve the thyroid.

https://redlightman.com/blog/red-light-therapy-shown-to-cure-hypothyroidism/

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Sometimes I wonder what aspartame does NOT cause... it turns the person's metabolism upside down for sure...

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& side note: I know many women on antidepressants who probably need a bit of thyroid hormone, not antidepressants!

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Which is extremely important, but I forgot to mention.

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Hope you have access to a good endocrinologist. I had hasimotos and graves. I had mine chemically ablated years ago. I’m on something called n p thyroid, works much better for me than levethyroxin or synthroid. ( I absorb it better, but have to pay extra, insurance won’t cover it) the standard thyroid test is woefully inaccurate. I can’t remember the more efficient test name.

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I will ask about the n p thyroid. My hypothyroid is not that bad, I just hate having to constantly go get blood tests and then follow up Dr. visits. I was thinking about seeing if my primary care doctor could take over my care, to streamline things, but hate to "cut off" my endocrinologist in case I do need that kind of expertise in the future.

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Electronic pollution can also mess up thyroid functions... "Sensitivity" or, better, "being allergic" to radiation blames the victim, as usual.

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So true!

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Ni dieu ni maître!

(Neither God nor master)

Louis-Auguste Blanqui

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Pretty please, explain. :)

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These things should be public knowledge...

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