Vapes Clouds Contain Absolutely Horrifying Chemicals

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“When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken…” Salazar and his colleagues discovered concentrations of toxic forms of metals like nickel, chromium, and antimony in most of the tested vapes. To quickly sum up what makes these metals bad: the type of nickel the researchers detected can cause lung and nasal cancer; chromium is also considered a carcinogen; and antimony can lead to heart and lung problems when inhaled as a dust and cause vomiting when swallowed.

Yikes. https://futurism.com/neoscope/vape-clouds-horrifying-chemicals

I Bet This Is a Big Problem

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Is sports wagering a public health crisis?

“Folks might be familiar with this group at Northeastern, the Public Health Advocacy Institute. It is treating gambling as a public health issue and has deemed it a crisis…

“First of all, lots of people, predominantly young men, are losing more money than they can afford gambling on sports, or are developing either full-blown or sort of borderline gambling addictions. To me, that makes it a public health issue.”

Jonathan D. Cohen on how sports gambling became a public health crisis – https://awfulannouncing.com/gambling/author-jonathan-d-cohen-perils-sports-betting.html

The next major health epidemic in the U.S. will not come from a pathogen. This plague has a potential patient population in the tens of millions, limited effective treatments, and is not widely studied in the medical community. I’m referring to sports gambling, an activity that deeply alarms me as a physician who specializes in addiction. Problem gambling can increase the incidence of depression and anxiety and can lead to bankruptcy, homelessness, or suicide. Why gambling addiction is America’s next health crisis – https://kevinmd.com/2025/06/why-gambling-addiction-is-americas-next-health-crisis.html

Yikes.

Bartonella henselae?

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The case study that caught my attention involved a 26-year-old woman who had experienced mild COVID-19 but continued to suffer from persistent symptoms for five months afterward, including noticeable axillary (armpit) lymph node swelling. When doctors performed a biopsy of the swollen lymph node and analyzed it with clinical metagenomic testing, they discovered something unexpected: Bartonella henselae DNA and RNA. Even more telling was that when the patient was treated with the antibiotic clarithromycin, her symptoms improved.

This case illustrates something I’ve suspected and observed in my practice: COVID-19 may be reactivating latent infections that were previously dormant in the body. The immune dysregulation caused by SARS-CoV-2 appears to create an environment where opportunistic pathogens like Bartonella can resurface and cause symptoms. Hidden Infections Behind Long COVID: Unmasking Bartonella henselae – https://www.jillcarnahan.com/2025/06/21/hidden-infections-behind-long-covid-unmasking-bartonella-henselae/

Hmm… https://www.cdc.gov/bartonella/about/about-bartonella-henselae.html

I’m Taking Your Phone Away (and you didn’t do anything wrong)

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The study found that those who had high and increasing addiction to mobile phones and social media platforms were at a higher risk of suicidal behaviors and thoughts. At year four, almost 18% of kids reported having suicidal thoughts, and 5% said they had suicidal behaviors. Teens with ‘addictive’ phone use more likely to be suicidal: Study – https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5360042-teens-addiction-social-media-phones-suicidal-thoughts/

Here’s the link to the JAMA article https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2835481/

Yikes!