Mehdi Saki – Jaar (الأسمرانية). A beautiful rendition of a classic Iraqi Gulf song, with a distinctive Ahwazi touch. 🎶
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Why do testosterone levels appear to be declining among men?
I think a few reasons...
Too little sleep can lower testosterone. Diet may play a role, too, especially if you’re eating a lot of refined sugar and processed foods or getting too little zinc and magnesium. Zinc, for example, helps the body make testosterone.
But I suspect one of the biggest factors is our exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Three I pay attention to are BPA, phthalates, and PFAS. We encounter BPA and phthalates in some plastics, and PFAS, often called “forever chemicals,” in products designed to repel water and oil.
What concerns me is that these chemicals can interfere with how hormones work. That includes sex hormones like testosterone and estrogen, as well as thyroid hormones, which help regulate metabolism.
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Happy people are sleeping better. Indeed, not uncommon to receive these sorts of emails. Great sleep is possible for everyone. Simple steps, done regularly, work.
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I’m a cardiologist. A 24-year-old former Division I field hockey player in “perfect health” just died two miles from the NYC Marathon finish line. Her heart didn’t fail first. Her muscles did.
She collapsed at Mile 24 after texting her dad “Ow” and “Ow ow.” Six hours of CPR and hospital efforts couldn’t save her. This is rhabdomyolysis — and it can kill even the fittest athletes.
ALT Rachel Apa in Bucknell field hockey jersey, athletics portrait
ALT Rachel Apa running NYC Marathon in mint kit with bib 29977
24-year-old Rachel Apa dies after collapsing in Central Park just two miles from completing the New York City Marathon.
Her parents say they were tracking her on the marathon tracking app when she stopped moving at Mile 24.
"Final stretch," her father texted her at Mile 23, but she never replied.
Her parents say they were waiting at Mile 25 and tracking her on the app, but noticed she stopped moving at Mile 24.
After a few minutes, they headed to Mile 24, where they found an ambulance pulling out.
According to The New York Times, Apa collapsed before a social worker ran over and tried to find a pulse. Three people took turns trying to resuscitate her.
She was taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center, where doctors spent six hours trying to save her life.
Apa's father says she died from rhabdomyolysis, a condition that can be caused by exertion, in which skeletal muscle rapidly disintegrates and poisons the blood.
"It’s unfathomable. Perfect health, perfect shape, 24 years old," her father said.
Apa played field hockey at Bucknell University and ran the race for her grandfather, who died from Parkinson’s disease.
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Lock yourself in a room for 10 minutes and read that article. You’ll master something that 95% of people won’t understand.
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I am standing to be Secretary-General because I believe this is a moment to act with greater urgency: to act earlier, bring people together across difference, and drive the work forward until it produces concrete results. That is how we rebuild trust in the United Nations and ensure it delivers meaningful change for the people it exists to serve.
My vision: lananusseibeh.org
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Fermín’s grandma came prepared with a whole bag of things for him to take home 😭❤️.
After Fermín gave his shirt to the little girl, his grandma gave him her raincoat as it was raining.
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接着分享，Anne Carson 在 Louisiana Channel 的访谈里，还有一段很精彩。她谈到Descartes的名言“我思故我在”，作了一个有趣的延伸。
她说：“我刚读到一些关于 Descartes 的东西。Descartes 有一句名言：‘Cogito ergo sum’，也就是‘我思故我在’。这句话大家都知道，在学校里也都学过。
但如果仔细看这句话，它其实是：‘Dubito ergo cogito, ergo sum。’我怀疑，所以我思考，所以我存在。啊，这不是很让人意外吗？我以前也不知道，因为我从来没有查过。你看，‘我思故我在’印在世界各地的 T 恤上，但‘我怀疑’却不怎么受欢迎。这说法很有冲击力。
一切始于怀疑。或者，doubt 也可以表示犹疑，但意思是一样的。”
这也让我想到这两天网上有些人对她获得Nobel文学奖的一些质疑。评价一位作家的文学成就，很难只凭一首诗或某一部作品就下结论。即使还没读过她的书，也可以先了解她的经历和创作，读读相关介绍，听听她的访谈，再评判。
我们常常习惯接受熟悉的说法。怀疑和犹疑，能让我们重新审视那些自以为已经明白的事情。感谢 Anne Carson 启发思考的谈话🙏🏽
今天完整看完了获Nobel文学奖的加拿大作家Anne Carson 的访谈。这段文字写从二十五岁到七十岁的人生，最后落在那扇黑色的门上，令人感动！
“那么，你的人生。
它就在你面前～可能是一条路、一条丝带、一条虚线，也可能是一张地图。
假设你现在二十五岁，开始做出一些决定，经历一些事情，有过挫折，也有过成功，逐渐成为某种人：一个公交车司机，一个印欧语言学教授，一个海盗，一个美容师。
岁月流逝，也许你有了家庭，也许没有；也许快乐，也许不快乐。
然后有一天，你醒来，发现自己已经七十岁了。
向前看，你看见一扇黑色的门。
你开始注意到，那扇黑色的门一直都在那里，在视野的边缘，无论你看不看它。
大多数时刻都包含着它。仿佛每一个时刻，玻璃杯底都沉淀着一层黑色的门。你想知道，别人是不是也看见了它。你问他们。他们说没有。
你问为什么。没有人能告诉你。
就在一分钟前，你还是二十五岁。然后你继续向前，去过自己想要的生活。
有一天，你从二十五岁回望现在，那扇门就在那里，黑色的，等待着。”Grateful ❤️🙏🏽
VC: Louisiana Channel
推荐大家去看完整视频，很值得看。
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This is CRAZY…
A bacterium discovered in the gut of a Japanese tree frog just COMPLETELY ERADICATED CANCER in 100% of treated mice after ONE DOSE.
Ewingella americana even OUTPERFORMED chemotherapy and immunotherapy in the study.
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This! Bullseye by @SahilBloom
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This is one of the many ways the movie defines the three worlds: The Play - the reality and the world we are watching it in. The film tonally contrasts the characters ON stage oversizing for a massive theatre house and yuxtaposes the dialogue and performance when they are OFF, backstage. So the "big" stuff (which has, supeficially and mistakenly been interpreted as a miscalculation) is justified precisely..,
I was seated a bit towards the back right side of the theater (for my 7th watch lol)…… then I realized that the clock ticking sound during the first Emma scene was actually a sound of water dropping from the leaky ceiling of the theater… the sound was coming from back right corner of the theater with an ambient echo, as if I was actually seated in and watching this ‘rehearsal’ of Fossil Fools…
Incredible sound work😵💫
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If you cannot be corrected without being offended, then you will not truly grow in life.
—Professor Richard Feynman
