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Cold Toes on chronic illness: Our fossilized beauty
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Friday, 5 November 2010. The recent unearthing of my childhood fossils and stones collection has resonated with my belief in the gradual structuring and reinvention of our human body over time. I do not believe that we consist only of our isolated selves, our personal lifelong genes. We are not self-contained, pure and untainted within our skins; and current developments in microbiology. Give me encouragement in believing this. The possibility that some creature could slip a few genes in to another unrel...
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Cold Toes on chronic illness: 01/11/10
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Friday, 5 November 2010. The recent unearthing of my childhood fossils and stones collection has resonated with my belief in the gradual structuring and reinvention of our human body over time. I do not believe that we consist only of our isolated selves, our personal lifelong genes. We are not self-contained, pure and untainted within our skins; and current developments in microbiology. Give me encouragement in believing this. The possibility that some creature could slip a few genes in to another unrel...
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Cold Toes on chronic illness: 01/05/10
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Wednesday, 26 May 2010. Last night I enjoyed being with about thirty five others in an evening of contemplation and meditation. Many people present had never tried this approach to life - which is quite counter-cultural for Britain - and some helpful suggestions were offered for people who want to start. The advice was to practice (in a way we individually find suitable) and persist, slowly increasing the amount of time we stay in contemplation. We all have certain levels of long term pain that we feel w...
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Cold Toes on chronic illness: Life too complicated?
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Saturday, 1 August 2009. I always appreciate the news according to The World Tonight, especially on Robin Lustig's watch. It is vital that we take in a broad sweep of the issues which are important to our everyday lives. But he makes this point: 'We live in a complex, confusing, technologically-challenging world. We lie awake at night and worry: do I know enough, understand enough, to make the right decisions for myself and my family? But the answers are usually as confused as the questions.'. So what wo...
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Cold Toes on chronic illness: 01/07/10
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Friday, 16 July 2010. I think I knew I wasn't cut out for broadcast journalism when I stuttered my way through an interview with Sir Michael Parkinson in his backwater days when he had a talk radio show in London. When I say stuttered, I mean that I paused and muttered "umm" a lot. Afterwards I didn't feel like I had presented a very good image of a professional female journalist, though I was only a cub reporter at the time. To be a stuttering incompetent and simply not up to the job. Unfortunately the ...
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Cold Toes on chronic illness: Gotta add weight
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Monday, 2 May 2011. 160;adds weight to the theory that the body absolutely needs to push fat in to cells. Those patients who had liposuction in one place found that the fat reappeared somewhere else in the body. This makes sense to me, if you consider that a body which does not have a perfectly balanced metabolism of its various proteins, chemicals and hormones will produce an excess of some. Fat cells are a good place to put the extra. Are to blame for their own poor health. And if you are wondering why...
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Cold Toes on chronic illness: Back from the dead!
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010. Back from the dead! All Hallow's Eve approaches and many friends are telling me that they are feeling like death warmed up. It is normal to be worn down by fatigue and and moan that this is a horrible time of year. We wish all these stomach bugs and infections on our chests would go away.and quickly. Why would I be so perverse? To shorten a difficult explanation: because it is a sign that my body is alive and kicking! I am now able to think about working again because the cognit...
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Cold Toes on chronic illness: Naming names
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Friday, 1 October 2010. What's in a name? Well, if someone called you by the wrong name you wouldn't hesitate to correct them. And humans do so love the naming of things. Whole books are written about those individuals who have come up with naming systems for different scientific areas such as. Carolus Linnaeus for botany. Has shown how difficult it can be to put a name on something as shape-shifting as microbes. Evolutionary biologist Jeffrey Townsend at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, told t...
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Cold Toes on chronic illness: 01/12/10
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010. No simple answers for autism or any condition with mental symptoms that shift over time? I have observed that there are many families where different members have diagnoses varying from bi-polar disorder to chronic fatigue syndrome, or from Aspergers to rheumatoid arthritis, and that these change between the family generations. Also many of those given one diagnosis also have another (or even two or three) diagnoses - known as comorbidities. Roll on the medical paradigm shift!
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Cold Toes on chronic illness: Pretty simple, huh?
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Thursday, 19 May 2011. Pretty simple, huh? May be showing pretty pictures of bacteria but they display OLD-STYLE microbiology when we know at a molecular level now that these matters are far more complex than pinpointing the great big "bruisers" of microbes like E coli. Study "provokes reexamination of the traditional view of killing strategies against bacteria" and contains some far more challenging actual shots of bacteria. And this paper. On nanobacteria and others. Posted by HC Hunter. Centre for Act...
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