If I didn't know any better, I'm verging towards heart failure. Went riding on my recumbent getting some mild aerobic in, started getting that strange sensation in my chest. Could've been my back.
Then yesterday night, only slept 5 hours, didn't go back to sleep.
Checked my ECG, the QRS complex was intermittently tiny and the trace looked overall sickly. Possible hypoglycemia. I know my body was craving everything sweet lastnight. 1/3 cup dry peas, 3 bananas and some wine didn't seem like enough but I cut it off there anyway; seemed like enough to me.
This "intermittently tiny QRS complex" hasn't been observed before.
And, then, this morning while going for a walk, it started off with that heavy chest sensation.
I know yesterday afternoon is when I learned I will have to use my bike for now, so maybe that's when it "all started". I just don't know.
Anyway, need to get a wooden club going for smacking dogs that be nipping my heals or doing who knows what else. Then I'll have my machete at the ready if more desperate measures are needed (Full on attack). I'm thinking about bringing my gun if I need to protect myself from the owners, lol, but carrying it may be difficult.
Tomorrow morning, I will need to pick up fruit and water, as well as likely carry a box of business supplies back. So, I'll probably need my backpack and plenty of rope; might bring some bags for handlebar mounting. In the morning time, tomorrow, I will likely have to cook up peas for breakfast as I'll be out of fruit. Normally, I would've just drove somewhere tonight to pick up fruit for my mid-week fruit replenishment, but that's not a possibility.
The causes of low voltage complexes on the electrocardiogram (ECG) are variable; however, they are not commonly discussed. An ECG with small QRS amplitudes may initially look unremarkable to the unwary, but some of the underlying conditions may be critical. Although imperfect, the ECG is still a useful, noninvasive and readily available tool for the screening of these underlying conditions. We present two cases with low voltage complexes in the ECG. The first case highlights how the findings on ECG and subsequent echocardiogram led to the diagnosis of a rare case of cardiac amyloidosis. In the second case, a screening electrocardiogram alerted the physicians to a life-threatening condition, that of a large pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade.
Time to research and worry myself needlessly, lol.
Anyway... interesting research on cocoa.
Phenol in cocoa has same effect as clenbuterol
http://ergo-log.com/cacaoclenbuterol.html
What is this clenbuterol?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clenbuterol
Clenbuterol is a β2 agonist with some structural and pharmacological similarities to epinephrine and salbutamol, but its effects are more potent and longer-lasting as a stimulant and thermogenic drug. It causes an increase in aerobic capacity, central nervous system stimulation, blood pressure, and oxygen transportation. It increases the rate at which body fat is metabolized while increasing the body's basal metabolic rate (BMR). It is commonly used for smooth muscle-relaxant properties as a bronchodilator and tocolytic
Oh, interesting, yes, most of this is already known of cocoa's affects.
Although often used by bodybuilders during their "cutting" cycles,[citation needed] the drug has been more recently known to the mainstream, particularly through publicized stories of use by celebrities such as Victoria Beckham,[4] Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan, [7] for its off-label use as a weight-loss drug
Weight loss drug, interesting.
As a β2 sympathomimetic, clenbuterol has also been used as a performance-enhancing drug.
A three-year suspension for taking clenbuterol kept sprinter Katrin Krabbe from competing in the 1992 Summer Olympics, and effectively ended her athletic career.[8][9]
In 2006, San Francisco Giants pitcher Guillermo Mota, while a member of the New York Mets, received a 50-game suspension after testing positive for clenbuterol.[10] In 2012, MLB officials announced they were again suspending Mota for 100 games due a positive test for clenbuterol.[11]
American swimmer Jessica Hardy tested positive at the US trials in 2008. She was subject to a one-year suspension, having claimed she unknowingly took the drug in a contaminated food supplement. Former New York Mets clubhouse employee Kirk Radomski admitted in his plea deal to distributing clenbuterol to dozens of current and former Major League Baseball players and associates.[12] After finishing fourth in the K-2 1000-m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Polish sprint canoer Adam Seroczyński was disqualified for taking this drug, and Chinese cyclist Li Fuyu tested positive for it at the Dwars door Vlaanderen race in Belgium on March 24, 2010.[13]
In 2010, St. Louis Cardinals minor-league shortstop Lainer Bueno received a 50-game suspension for the 2011 season as a result of testing positive for clenbuterol.[14] Cyclist Alberto Contador of Spain was banned for two years from professional cycling after testing positive for the drug at the 2010 Tour de France.[15]
He was later stripped of the 2010 title of the Tour de France and the 2011 title of the Giro d'Italia.[16] CAS found that Contador probably tested positive due to a contaminated food supplement.[17] In 2013, Contador's team-mate on the Team Saxo Bank squad, Michael Rogers, tested positive for clenbuterol at the Japan Cup bike race. In April 2014 the Union Cycliste Internationale announced that it accepted Rogers' explanation that the substance had been ingested by him after consuming contaminated meat whilst competing at the 2013 Tour of Beijing, upholding Rogers' disqualification from the Japan Cup but declining to impose any further sanctions on him.[18]
In 2011, players of the Mexico national football team were found with clenbuterol in their bloodstreams, but were acquitted by WADA after they claimed the clenbuterol came from contaminated food. FIFA has also claimed 109 players from multiple countries who were participating in the Under-17 World Cup in Mexico tested positive for this drug. However, FIFA and the World Anti-Doping Agency declined to prosecute any cases because the weight of evidence pointed to contamination from Mexican meat.[19][20]
In 2013, Mexican boxer Erik Morales was suspended for two years after testing positive for clenbuterol.[21]
In 2014, Toronto Maple Leafs Forward Carter Ashton was suspended from the NHL for 20 games without pay for violating the NHL/NHL Players' Association Performance Enhancing Substances Program after it was determined that he had ingested Clenbuterol. Carter claimed he used an unprescribed asthma inhaler.[22]
In 2014, South Korean swimmer Kim Ji-heun has tested positive for clenbuterol at an out-of-competition test on May 13, 2014. After completion of proceedings by the Korea Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel, Kim received a two-year suspension, back-dated to the day of his positive test.[23]
In 2014, Czech body builder Petr Soukup received a lifetime ban after a positive test for clenbuterol, metenolon, mesterolon, methamphetamine, oxandrolon, stanozolol, nandrolon, fluoxymesterone, DHCMtestosterone and metandienon.[24]
In 2015, Yankees minor league pitching prospect Moises Cedeno tested positive for clenbuterol and was suspended for 72 games.[25]
In 2015, two players from the Collingwood Football Club in Australia were delisted from the club and accepted 2-year bans from all sport in Australia after testing positive to the substance, which they believe may have been in a contaminated illicit drug they consumed.[26][27]
In 2016, Australian heavyweight boxing champion Lucas Browne tested positive for clenbuterol.[28][29]
In 2016, Raul A. Mondesi tested positive for clenbuterol and was suspended 50 games from the Northwest Arkansas Naturals. MLB and the MLBPA agreed to reduce the suspension from 80 games to 50 games after Mondesi claimed it was found in cold medicine.[30]
In 2016, the California State Athletic Commission decided to issue Francisco Vargas a temporary boxing license on a probationary basis after he tested positive for clenbuterol.[31]
And a performance enhancing drug widely used by athletes. Man, if only these athletes knew what The Kuna already knew - drink your cocoa! lol
Anyway, looks like those two disorders are associated with amyloid deposits in the heart (cancer symptom) and fluid pushing on the heart (Mulitiple causes).
I've been wondering about this growth in my lower left abdomen. I can't really tell what it is, but it almost looks like it's part of this giant tumor pervading my lower left abdomen. And, now that I think of it, I have felt strange sensations in that part of my body though I commonly attributed it to "back nerve irritation". Anyway, cancer doesn't seem exceedingly likely, but it's a suspect.
And, it's looking like machetes are effective self-defense against dogs. Remove the teeth, remove the threat. Numerous reports of dogs getting killed by 'em.
Wondering about peremethrin consumption.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679602/
We found no associations between permethrin and all malignant neoplasms combined, or between permethrin and melanoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, or cancers of the colon, rectum, lung, or prostate. We found elevated and statistically significant risks for multiple myeloma in the highest tertiles of both lifetime exposure-days (RR = 5.72; 95% CI, 2.76–11.87) and intensity-weighted lifetime exposure-days (RR = 5.01; 95% CI, 2.41–10.42), compared with applicators reporting they never used permethrin
A confidence interval from 2.41 min - 2.5 min, with 5 likely; that's pretty significant. That's a 150% increased risk, minimum, 400% likely, of multiple myeloma.
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/multiple-myeloma/about/what-is-multiple-myeloma.html
Multiple myeloma is a cancer formed by malignant plasma cells. Normal plasma cells are found in the bone marrow and are an important part of the immune system.
Bone marrow cancer. Interesting. Pericardial effusion as caused by fluid pressure against the heart had one possible cause (of many) of Bone Marrow cancer. And, I've been eating canned spinach which is apparently high in peremethrin for the last 4 months or so. Well, isn't that a coincidence. I would think 4 months is too short of exposure time for symptomatic bone marrow cancer to show symptoms, but... most people don't have an ECG, so they wouldn't likely notice symptoms for some time more. Anyway... will I discontinue the canned spinach... Not getting my leafy greens in just sounds like a bad idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_myeloma
Multiple myeloma, also known as plasma cell myeloma, is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell normally responsible for producing antibodies.[1] Initially, often no symptoms are noticed. When advanced, bone pain, bleeding, frequent infections, and anemia may occur.[2] Complications may include amyloidosis.[3]
Oh, maybe it was amylodosis I was thinking of. Cardiac amyldosis was identified in the first study.
Oh, pain in the lower left abdomen. Yes, that's what the multiple myeloma article is calling "radicular pain". It seems that particular nerve is probably triggered when I stand up from a certain sitting position, as I get strange prickly sensations in center right stomach area that feels like it's piercing the entire depth of the abdomen for some 10-30 seconds, but it usually goes away as I start walk.
https://www.thedodo.com/duke-dog-machete-costa-rica-1943506764.html
The circumstances of the attack remain unclear — like countless others in the country, Duke was a street dog. A person has been identified as the attacker, but charges are unlikely due to insufficient evidence.
Well, if Costa Rican street dogs are like these street dogs (They block all my escapes), they have "territory" that extends some 100-200 feet away from the actual property and if that territory happens to be a public road, oh well; dogs don't discriminate. Likely this guy was walking down the road and this dog challenged him.
Anyway, looking back at the myeloma risk ratio, a 5x increase in risk isn't insiginificant; lifetime risk for the cancer is .7%, so an RR of 5 would increase it to 3.5%. So, persistent ingestion of peremethrin would likely have a significant affect, possibly even more significant since it's going directly in the body instead of being exposed to the skin.
If I got cancer from eating canned spinach for 4 months, that would kind of suck, but not entirely unbelievable. It's just one of those "dang, I knew I should've known I shouldn't have done it", but didn't think that it'd be that risky. Like, jeez, you think pesticides would be more regulated than that, but I guess it's not really that surprising given the nature of the USA.
https://books.google.com/books?id=zyGZ8YgY1gEC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=permethrin+spinach&source=bl&ots=DE6FeVtTQA&sig=0jhvDNVcdvsvVVutiDBjVI5lxIk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDmJqf8JLTAhWE6CYKHRq_DF4Q6AEINjAF#v=onepage&q=permethrin%20spinach&f=false
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Peremthrin was detected in... 79% of canned spinach
Anyway, MM is one bad cancer because it can't be cured currently; it's either rapidly fatal or slowly fatal, but within-a-decade fatality rate of like 100%.
And, you can definitely taste something weird on the canned spinach as compared to organic spinach.
http://www.pickyourown.org/canninggreens.htm
Cool, looks like I could buy the organic spinach and can it myself. This technique would also be useful come the less productive winter months for my own crops.
http://file.scirp.org/pdf/IJCM_2014080613462265.pdf
A 27 year old diagnosed with MM
A 27-year-old man presented 4 months history of an inflammatory pain of cervical spine with radicular pain and later, weakness of both humerus and tibia. The man presented also, vomiting and significant asthenia. Clinical examination showed a young man in fair general health
Oh, isn't that interesting. Yeah, I seem to have that, simultaneous cervical and radicular pain. I thought it was purely a cervical issue, like a neck bone pinching a nerve. (Especially since a particular neck direction seems to evoke it.) If I start getting weakness in the leg bones, I'll know what to suspect.
Asthenia, or pervasive weakness, I wonder if that corresponds to the "small QRS complex" I noticed?
Growing Spinach In Houston
http://urbanharvest.org/documents/118591/149202/V+spinach+in+the+houston+area.pdf/345fc617-06ed-4011-87c4-02866db30238
Growing Spinach in the Houston Area
Ray Sher
Summer 2003
I always thought the only kind of spinach that we could easily grow in the Houston metro area was
Malabar vine spinach, which does quite well and produces an abundance of thick shiny leaves. It can
be eaten fresh in salads when small or steamed or sautéed when the leaves are larger. After talking
with a people who were having success growing standard rosette spinach, I decided to test a few.
I purchased seed for eight varieties, and decided to plant the seed at different times during the
month of September to test germination. I got good germination throughout the entire planting
period. The only problem was a cat that kept digging up the young plants. All varieties that I tested
produced good tasting productive plants, and I recommend them.
I harvested by taking a few of the outer leaves at a time, and this resulted in continued production of
more leaves. By planting several varieties with different maturity and bolt resistance, I was able to
harvest spinach all winter and into the late spring. All the plants were hybrid with the exception of
Steadfast and Bloomsdale, which were open pollinated. And to my surprise, when grown in raised
beds, the leaves were not dirty as they often are in grocery stores. Here is what I found.
Bloomsdale, from Territorial Seed, matured in 50 days. The plants produced thick, succulent, darkgreen,
savored leaves that were very sweet. It is not as bolt resistant as other varieties.
Hector matured in 37 days. It is a small plant with very tender tasting dark green leaves and a
deliciously mild flavor. Get it from Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
Olympia, from Territorial Seed, matured in 45 days. It was productive, smooth leaved spinach. The
dark green leaves were about 6” to 8” long, pointed, and on long stems producing a 10” to 12” tall
rosette. I got abundant production on this slow to bolt plant. It has very good eating quality.
Oriental Giant matured in 40 days. The very large upright plant of 10” long arrow-shaped smooth
leaves produced large quantities of very good tasting spinach. Get it from Territorial Seed.
Space matured in 39 days. It produced quantities of large, slightly crinkled deep-green leaves with
an upright growth. Get it from Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
Spinner matured in 38 days. This upright small plant of triangular, crinkled flavorful leaves produces
high yields. Get it from Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
Steadfast matured in 50 days. It was not as productive as some of the others, but was very bolt
resistant and has excellent taste. It is a small plant, with beautiful, smooth, dark green leaves. Get it
from Territorial Seed.
Tyee matured in 42 days. There is a vigorous growth of savored leaves with an upright growth
pattern, and it was very slow to bolt. Get it from Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
He chose September to start it, that is indeed not the middle of summer or spring time. Ideally I'd have greens growing almost all year long.
Okay, got myself the pressure canner and equipment. Now I just need to figure out the blanching step and pick up some jars from wally world.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01E6583Q2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Yeah, that's what I'm looking for.
To create a "flying insect free" area large enough to put a recliner in for sunbathing, and to have some outdoor working area for things like my bike, wheel or whatever. This looks like it'd fit the bill. The mosquitos and jurassic aggressive wasps here are so disinclining to doing anything "stayish in one placeish" activities outside.
... seems like the study was structured well enough for me. And, I already postsed a study showing that low carb / high protein was no bueno, so I already know of that relationship.
