Capsaicin, the compound that makes chili peppers hot is an evolutionary filter designed to punish mammals and reward birds. Mammals feel it as pain because mammal digestion destroys seeds. Birds don’t have the receptor that detects it, so they eat the fruit, fly off, and deposit the seeds far from the plant from which they […]
Sugar-Free Diet Linked to Metabolic Changes “Completely removing sucrose from a low-fat diet may unexpectedly disrupt gut health and promote inflammation and metabolic dysfunction, highlighting that balanced nutrition is more important than simply eliminating sugar,” said Rasheed Ahmad, Ph.D., principal scientist and head of the Immunology & Microbiology Department at the Dasman Diabetes Institute, in […]
I seriously wonder if there are any original recipes out there. You think to yourself “Let’s make a black bean and corn thing tonight”. So you do what everyone else does and hop on the internet to find numerous recipes that are pretty much the same. Full Disclosure: This recipe is a copycat and my […]
Interesting insights from the oldest of the old. All charts are from the survey report which can downloaded here: https://www.uhc.com/content/dam/uhcdotcom/en/general/100-at-100-Final-Report-Aug2025.pdf
I was in St. Louis on business. One day these things showed up at the office. I had one (OK, two) after breakfast. Yes, they are that good. Memo to Self – Don’t get depressed that you only learned about this delicacy in your 7th decade. I wonder if they deliver to Oklahoma.
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So, after those three months can we be reinfected, or will the phenomenon of recrudescence take place?
The best answer at this point is we don’t know. But if look at the spectrum of infectious diseases the answer is probably yes.
So I’m wondering what will this mean regarding a vaccine? Will it be like influenza, and a vaccine one has to get annually? Or will it be more like HIV, without a vaccine ever?
A vaccine is preferable, like your annual flu shot. But the more we learn about this virus we may end up with drugs along the lines of the anti-virals similar to the ones used for Hepatitis C and HIV. Just my non-medical opinion.
It’s going to be interesting to watch it play out. I so hope they will be able to develop a vaccine. I agree that would be preferable. But it may end up like you said being some thing where some infected people need to take chronic antivirals.