Ah, man, a few trees where over the last few years I had trimmed major branches or multi-trunks and opened up big gaps in the canopy but told myself the adjacent stuff would grow to fill in and this year yeah.

Taking off lower branching also saw to it that root-reserve spring growth was preferentially focused up high, there was one pinnate-leafed one where I found that one branch doesn’t fully block sun and all the parallel ones had been additive, but having thinned them out the remaining ones sent off lateral shoots that are growing to thatch the whole canopy together.

fatsexybitch:

kontextmaschine:

There is one specific symptom it is useful for: difficulties in processing blood sugar into ATP energy, where it helps by replacing with energy derived from breaking down stored fat. Over my (9 now, I think) cases I’ve encountered other fatigue symptoms, including one that was really an iron deficiency and one I suspect was “post-exertional malaise”, the creatine did nothing for them.

Creatine is pretty safe though, your body makes some naturally all the time, if you took a bucketload on the reg it might gratuitously let you burn too much fat doing exercise and then starve in a famine.

I would say it’s worth trying once – take say 4 scoops, it’ll take effect within 20 minutes, if that clears it up yay, take it every day and it’ll burn fat to keep you on until the symptom clears, if it makes you feel a bit better but not totally try some more until you find your level, if that’s not it sorry but maybe suggest it to other people with fatigue.

Honestly when I first read about you using creatine for fatigue I was like “such a dude bro solution, doubt it will work” but then I read some articles on long covid and CFS that showed the energy limitations are heavily tied to a lack of anaerobic energy production and was like “weird”

But it’s one of the most studied supplements on the market and a proven safety record even in really high doses, and long-term high dose usage over years hasn’t shown any negative impacts.

So I decided to try it. I’ve got Fibro and (likely) long covid, and started off w really low doses (like 1/3 the ‘recommended’ dose on the package) and started upping weekly and had great results.

I don’t need my lunchtime nap anymore, and I’ve still got energy at the end of the workday for little chores around the house. I haven’t had a bad brain fog day for nearly 3 months. I usually spend weekends working for 20-30 mins on chores and resting for about the same time. Now I can work for a few hours before a short 20-30min rest, and I don’t suffer the rebound (PEM) in the following day.

I’m still only taking ~4 scoops per day so I’m not seeing any weight loss or gain, but i was pre-diabetic when I started (managing w diet and exercise) and now my blood sugar is way more stable with no food or exercise changes, just a slight increase in baseline activity. I have noticed some reduction in my largest fat deposits, but I think I’m probably losing fat/gaining muscle equally.

I ran out on Tuesday this week and didn’t have time to go to the store, and the difference in fatigue and reduction in endurance was immediate, but no other difference. I haven’t noticed any side effects or w/d symptoms, so I’d rate it safe for self experimentation, fwiw. (Obviously, I am NOT a Dr and YMMV)

Mostly, I’m a little peeved you solved chronic fatigue with bodybuilders powder.

The one thing I’m concerned about is that insofar as it DOES give you more energy that DOES come from breaking down fat, and it took a while for me to first notice my reserves being depleted but that is a finite resource.

In my case this one Covid symptom is receding at a rate such that if I keep this treatment up I expect to end up stylishly slim, but for a chronic, permanent thing I couldn’t maintain it indefinitely, I’d become emaciated.

(I’m also not sure I can store new fat until it fully clears, scheduled a year or so on, I suspect my blood sugar’s just getting converted to nonsense molecules and pissed out, if that’s different for you maybe it’s more sustainable? This seems like exactly the thing a nutritionist might be helpful for.)

localairport:

Giving the planes a pre flight saftey kiss ♥️

Huh, my place switched from 150/152s to Katanas the last year or so I was taking lessons and I don’t remember that part of the preflight

thedovetailinginterests:

poisonnightmares:

NEED

waitineedaname:

I simply don’t think that’s true eBooks.com but thank you anyway

oceaxe-ifdawn:

leona-florianova:

cursedgreendayimages:

the next time someone asks what this country is like i’ll just send them this

-  Velký noční hlídač / Watchman

- author of the videomaping Milan Cais 

-photography ©ČTK,  ©David Peltán, MAFRA.

how do we get them to stop doing that

zvaigzdelasas:

bodies & spaces ass job description. sure ill apply to that

autogynocrat:

customer569330:

A 1950s/early 60s period advert for “Methedrine” (a brand name for Methamphetamine), commonly prescribed as a diet pill and antidepressant.

we have to go back

Ah, man, the silk sheets are great in general, but they’re amazing the night after being washed

The Thing is Jewish, right?

So he’s the circumcised Thing

ty

Just had cause to be reminded of one more LA peculiarity, “afterparties”. It was totally normal, might even be a planned & scheduled thing to leave one event and go to another that almost might be an unwinding from that one, event 1’s planners are totally not responsible for and can now enjoy, etc.

Whereas basically anywhere else (not Vegas or the Indio Valley, party-wise they’re part of Greater LA) “wow this party’s winding down, better ask everyone if they know of any other parties or bars people are going to” is actually a kinda pathetic alcoholic thing to think

femmenietzsche:

So that Rome should not pass the year without war, however, a minor foray was made into Umbria when reports kept arriving of raids on the countryside being made by armed bands from a certain cavern. The Romans entered the cavern with their standards, and in it numerous wounds were inflicted on them because of the darkness of the place, especially from stones that were hurled at them. Eventually, the other entrance to the cavern was discovered—it was open at both ends—and wood was heaped up at both orifices and set alight. As a consequence, up to two thousand armed men were killed inside the cave by the smoke and the heat when, eventually, they rushed straight into the flames in their efforts to get out.

That “up to” is doing a lot of work there I think

Fuckin’ Skyrim-ass encounter

Just explained the concept of “double albums” to a Zoomer in the context of Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

Watching old Westerns, constantly have to remind myself that they’re not making Red Dead Redemption references, they’re both just riffing on the same locations that exist in reality north of Los Angeles

After all the time in LA weird when even the midnight kitchen workers speaking Spanish are white

There is one specific symptom it is useful for: difficulties in processing blood sugar into ATP energy, where it helps by replacing with energy derived from breaking down stored fat. Over my (9 now, I think) cases I’ve encountered other fatigue symptoms, including one that was really an iron deficiency and one I suspect was “post-exertional malaise”, the creatine did nothing for them.

Creatine is pretty safe though, your body makes some naturally all the time, if you took a bucketload on the reg it might gratuitously let you burn too much fat doing exercise and then starve in a famine.

I would say it’s worth trying once – take say 4 scoops, it’ll take effect within 20 minutes, if that clears it up yay, take it every day and it’ll burn fat to keep you on until the symptom clears, if it makes you feel a bit better but not totally try some more until you find your level, if that’s not it sorry but maybe suggest it to other people with fatigue.

kontextmaschine:

One of the new Star Wars trilogy on TNT and even mute with no story watching the cinematography, what in the scene in spatial and thematic relation to the protagonists they consider important

That’s not a Star Wars

The live slug reaction!

One of the new Star Wars trilogy on TNT and even mute with no story watching the cinematography, what in the scene in spatial and thematic relation to the protagonists they consider important

That’s not a Star Wars

This bar playing Motown and Camelot-era pop and it’s like… do you realize how much of the Boomers’ senses of the ambient culture they were born into was actually derived from these Jewish songwriters ventriloquizing Negros?