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Triglycerides

For as long as I can remember, my triglycerides number has been very troubling.  Always in the 300+ range and usually generally well into the 300s.  I think I actually had a number in the 400s at one point.

Try as I might, I could never get that number down to even a half way reasonable level.  Never.

But now I’ve been doing 18:6 intermittent fasting for about 12 months.  The entire purpose is to get the body to use ketones (body fat) and not just glucose.  The theory is that after 12 hours from your most recent meal, the body begins to use stored fat in addition to glucose, so with a 18:6 regimen, you get 6 hours with the body burning some stored fat. 

And surprise surprise my most recent triglycerides number is 103.  I did a double take when I saw the number — couldn’t believe it.  But it makes perfect sense — triglycerides measures fat in the blood, and the IF goal is to burn body fat.

 

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A Lost Glove

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A lost glove on the ground,
Its pair equally at a loss somewhere,
Just as a long-lived partner,
Separated by death, soldiers on.

When your soul’s companion departs,
How do you answer when no one replies;
How do you spend time without the other;
How do you accept?

Alone on a solitary journey
Not by choice, but here am I…
Just a lost glove on the ground,
A lost glove, nothing more.

All Poetry — Henry Barnard

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Suppressing Free Speech

Ann Coulter

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro

Tucker Carlson

Candace Owen

Paul Joseph Watson

Victor David Hanson

Katie Hopkins

All brilliant.  All talented debaters.  All conservatives.  No wonder the left wants to suppress free speech or label it hate speech, which is the same thing.  I wouldn’t want to debate any of the above either.

But then the left doesn’t really debate, does it?  It just slanders — skillful at slander, not so much at debate.  So debate is a no-go zone.  Down with free speech.

Yet there was a time when free speech and open debate were revered, and just about everyone concurred in their value.

And way back in the 18th century, one can easily imagine the derivation of our 1st Amendment — the occupying British, no doubt, looked down upon any talk about independence from the British Empire, and were eager to suppress it.

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