Rock and Roll Heaven

I was really hoping Amy Winehouse would hang on for a few more years. Find another path out of the torment.

Rest in peace. Don't trash the place...

Field Trip! Save the Date!

Rise up Zombie Hordes!

Zombie Intervention Tactical Operations Start Soon!

Fri October 14 - Sat October 15, 2011

Las Vegas Nevada Stratosphere Hotel

Christina and I have decided to meet up in Vegas during the Narcolepsy Network Conference. Do some passive-aggressive public service work. Show those people there is another way.

We are hoping some of you will join us and make it a real fun experience.

We will be there both nights, but will plan a shindig for Saturday so day-trippers can attend. It won’t be very structured, just a celebration of Zombie Reanimation. I do have some wicked ideas for games and contests and costumes, though.

I will try to find a gluten-free caterer. I’m not going to coordinate travel or rooms though. If you wanna come, you’ll have to arrange that yourself. Just please let us know if you are attending- we would like an idea of how many to plan for…

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Compulsory Annoying Fine Print: If you are my creepy ex-boyfriend stalker- this offer is null and void. Don’t even think about it. I recommend large doses of antibiotics instead.

This is Why

"We will never understand a mind like Levi Aron. Nor should we try. I just read that he is on suicide watch and wish he weren't. If he killed himself it would be no great loss. He is not human anyway."
-Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

A not-so offhand hypothesis

The reason our military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan are having such high rates of mental illness is due to the weather conditions.

They go over there and live in the sunny, dry desert or the cold,dry mountains and get head infections. And by the time they get back, the immumologically susceptible ones are chronically ill.

I'm guessing they put them on low-fat diets too...

Update- look what I just found:
Report: Study finds link between PTSD, compromised immune systems in veterans

Correlation Games

Secondhand smoke tied to kids' behavior problems

Children exposed to secondhand smoke at home may be more likely than their peers to have learning and behavioral problems, according to a new study.

Researchers found that of more than 55,000 U.S. children younger than 12 years, six percent lived with a smoker. And those kids were more likely to have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, a learning disability or "conduct disorder" than children in smoke-free homes.

Read the whole thing. They admit their study is flawed and then cover a range of indirect possibilities as to how this might happen.

Never once do they consider that the same thing which causes smoking also causes ADHD.

These children have the same biological condition as their parents. And it's probably a strep infection.

Brain Eating Zombie of the Day

Should parents lose custody of super obese kids?

Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital Boston, says putting children temporarily in foster care is in some cases more ethical than obesity surgery. State intervention "ideally will support not just the child but the whole family, with the goal of reuniting child and family as soon as possible. That may require instruction on parenting," said Ludwig.

This man needs some antibiotic therapy. His self-righteousness is clearly pathological.

If doctors get this kind of authority, we're all doomed.

Mark the calendar

I am going to recommend a beverage other than coffee:

Stash Fusion Green-White Tea

It seems to neutralize and wash the bacteria away. Very nice.
My mouth/throat stops hurting after a couple cups.

You can put the teabags in your pocket. Handy.
Seems to be available everywhere too.


I have also been putting coconut oil in my coffee and tea. It melts and floats on top, but feels and tastes pretty good.

How to Not be Insane

LUBE YOUR HEAD.

I am beginning to think mouth and nasal ulcers are the most common form of untreated head infections. Coconut oil and omega-3 will prevent and heal them.

I have a whole list of captions for this pic-

• Cranial Kitchen Chemistry
• I'm cleaning my brain.
• What ENT's don't tell you...

Feel free to add your own.
Jeff says Wibble.

Things that make me scream

I can't unsee the pattern.

Bras for the Cause

Bras ARE the Cause.


My best friend had breast cancer. They put a zillion tubes in her boob and pumped her full of radiation. She did that for weeks. She survived and is still cancer free.
Nobody ever told her a bra might restrict lymphatic system circulation.

EVER.

I hate you guys.

Things that make me laugh

We Need More Doctors, Stat!

One family physician told the New York Times, "Everybody with a brain knows we do not have enough doctors."

Zombie of the Day

I was pretty sure he was going to be the lead-off hitter... he posted a few weeks ago that he's allergic to wheat.

Andrew Sullivan

It's been fascinating to watch how my new diet has affected me. Adjusting to fewer carbs has meant a long phase of relative tiredness now beginning to lift. But my muscle-fat ratio has shifted in the right direction a little. The rash is now gone.

I have been writing to him for years, telling him he's a narcoleptic.

Welcome, Andrew. It gets even better.

For the record

This is how I will know they are serious-

When the AMA lobbies for and delivers over-the-counter distribution of valacyclovir.

And not before.

Doctor My Eyes

I went to the ear-nose-throat doctor today to get nasal care tips. I told him about my theory that common facial diseases cause mental illness. He seemed to think this might be a lucrative new market for him.

Guess again, buddy.
Me and the crazy ladies are going to take care of those of us who managed to stay out of your institutions. You, however, really should go in them and rescue those poor souls with massive neglected infections.

By the way- if you want to help us- you're going to have to get a lot better at diagnosing nasal ulcers. Pretty sure we all have them. Hint: you don't need a CT scan...

What is really up with that anyway? Do you get a bonus for ordering tests? Or is it just more fun than looking in noses? I am really curious about that.

Happy Solstice Everyone

It's actually sunny here and the dog and I are going to sit outside all day.

Here's my old song for the day- I can see clearly now

Sorry if you hate it, I have sentimental obligations.

Feel free to add your own selection...

Old Song of the Day

The Logical Song

Heh.

Guerrilla Neuroscience

My Dreams:

I really like the idea of a gluten-free trailer park out in the middle of the desert somewhere.With a train car diner and a school bus filled with books and lots of kitsch. Garden statuary, picket fences and at least three dogs.
Drive-in zombie rehab.

I also have this other favorite rumination about a storefront in New Orleans called "The Sanity Shoppe". With a dental clinic on one side called "The Grateful Head", and a gluten-free cafe/pizzaria on the other side named "Pan de los Muertos". We would sell mouth rinse and coconut oil and ketostix and strep tests and dispense accurate information to ordinary people. We would have bake sales and dental fairs and give out gluten-free food and tooth care kits to homeless people.

But mostly I dream of an alternate universe. Where none of that is even necessary anymore.

Sit down. Buckle Up. Hold On. Here we go...

Through the Looking Glass

Unforgivable

Smoking-pill suicides overlooked in missing reports

From MSNBC:

Hundreds of reports of suicides, psychotic reactions and other serious problems tied to the popular stop-smoking drug Chantix were left out of a crucial government safety review because Pfizer Inc., the drug’s manufacturer, submitted years of data through “improper channels.”

Some 150 suicides — more than doubling those previously known — were among 589 delayed reports of severe issues turned up in a new analysis by the non-profit Institute for Safe Medication Practices.

“We’ve had a major breakdown in safety surveillance,” said Thomas J. Moore, the ISMP senior scientist who analyzed the data. The serious problems — including reports of completed suicides, suicide attempts, aggression and hostility and depression — had been mixed among some 26,000 records of non-serious side effects such as nausea and rashes, with some dating back to 2006, the year Chantix, or varenicline, was approved.

End of the World

From the CDC:

Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse

The rise of zombies in pop culture has given credence to the idea that a zombie apocalypse could happen. In such a scenario zombies would take over entire countries, roaming city streets eating anything living that got in their way. The proliferation of this idea has led many people to wonder “How do I prepare for a zombie apocalypse?”

This is Why

Christina graduated from college last weekend. And she has been accepted to a graduate school to get her PhD.

It just doesn't get any better than that.
Because her doctor told her she was imagining it too.

Ha. She's a zombie brainiac. A neuro-surfing wunderkind. He should have listened to her. She IS the bleeding edge of medicine.

You go, girlfriend. Make those dreams come true.

Brain Eating Zombie of the Day

I wasn't going to start outing people just yet, but this guy annoys me.

Nervous Nellies by Taylor Clark
Girls don't start out more anxious than boys, but they usually end up that way.

He recycles the oldest, tiredest arguments on this subject possible: child rearing and social expectations. And then claims "cutting edge research" corroborates his conclusions. It's all correlative studies and he blatantly dismisses all kinds of direct studies which prove anxiety is governed by physiological processes and affected by sex hormones.

It's just flat out crap.
And then he goes on and gets all pretentious at the end:

"So take heart, women of the world: You're not necessarily bioengineered to be worry machines."

Screw Yourself Buddy. It's attitudes like yours that leave us in this frakking nightmare. You clearly do not understand the first thing about high anxiety women.

Yeah.... such as.... you really shouldn't piss us off...

Silliness

I am deep in the brain tornado. Taking a sanity break.

Zombie Theme Song- I listened to this a lot when constructing the web site.

Zombie Fight Song- The greatest rock song ever recorded. Put on your headphones and get a contact high from 1976. Sadly, Tommy slipped into the abyss later that year.

Acyclovir

Just thought I'd discuss dosing, since I never have.

Standard dosing is 800 mg of acyclovir per day.
I had to take 1200 to suppress my symptoms.

I am now on 1000 Valtrex instead. I like it better.
But if I go out in the sun I need to take another half tablet at night or I get headaches again.

Gluten used to nullify the effects immediately. Within an hour I would have a migraine. This last time it took about a week of cheating to feel the effects. I started getting a lesion so restricted my diet again.

I have another illness right now though. Your mileage may vary.

Anyhow, both my sister and my mother had intractable headaches for many years. I cringe at the thought of all the procedures they endured. They too went into complete remission within a week of acyclovir treatment.

You will have to pry those pills out of our cold dead hands....

Homework Assignment

Anyone with sleep disorders must get this book and read it.

Kiss Your Dentist Goodbye, by Ellie Phillips DDS

Narcolepsy is associated with strep bacteria and those live in your mouth. Sleep disorders cause mouth breathing and increased growth of bacteria.

I am currently writing up a hypothesis on how this all interacts with the gluten and viruses and everything else. In the meantime, do yourself a favor, and read the book.

Bread for Democracy

From Twitter:

mysocedge RT @Alex_Ogle: Gotta do what you gotta do -- amidst the flying rocks in the #Egypt protests, one brave man makes a helmet out of bread

Check this out

The World Health Organization is reviewing the safety of GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix H1N1 flu vaccine after a Finnish study suggested children who got the shot were nine times more likely to suffer from narcolepsy, a rare sleeping disorder.
Researchers at Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare (NIHW) said Tuesday their research suggested it was "most likely" the increase they found in narcolepsy was a joint effect of Pandemrix and some other factor or factors.
Their research, which was described as preliminary, was conducted by the Finnish national narcolepsy committee and published by the NIHW, found an increase in cases of narcolepsy among children aged four to 19 years who had the vaccine.

I got this vaccine last year around this time, and have been having problems ever since. Infections, night sweats, rage, depression. For a while there I had so much trouble working on the kitchen I thought I had Guillain-Barre syndrome....