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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A big problem now is that the synthetic fentanyls are not responsive to naloxone. At least the ones down here in Florida. So overdoses with these synthetics cannot be reversed with naloxone.
Yikes!
Yes!
I was just reading an article on this. And it’s actually not synthetic fentanyl. It’s another drug that is used to stretch the fentanyl. At least in Florida about 20% of the street fentanyl has a drug called xylazine. It is actually a veterinary tranquilizer. And it is the xylazine that does not respond to Naloxone. Most of the overdoses around here are from drug abuse with xylazine laced, fentanyl and other opioids. https://www.dea.gov/alert/dea-reports-widespread-threat-fentanyl-mixed-xylazine
Thanks for the link. Now this is a Double Yikes!