Your crap does more than stink…

  Growing up, I know my mom or dad would always make sure I washed my hands when I left the bathroom and also before dinner. What the hell happened to that?  A new story from the BBC (because I love the British slant on it) has more than a cautionary tale why we need …

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A premarital exam for women…

Stock photo, used in WaPo article, no other photo credit found   Ok I was going to write about poor toilet hygiene causing the spread of e-coli, But this cropped up in my feed. Ok, what the actual fuck? Is it the 1900’s and we are looking for a hymen? Are we trying to emulate …

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Under pressure…

Credit. CDC   A new study out in the European Heart Journal. Routine ingestion by hypertensive patients of ≥1 prescribed BP-lowering medications at bedtime, as opposed to upon waking, results in improved ABP control (significantly enhanced decrease in asleep BP and increased sleep-time relative BP decline, i.e., BP dipping) and, most importantly, markedly diminished occurrence …

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I am not the only one…

A patron exhales vapor from an e-cigarette at a store in New York. Juul and other vaping companies face an escalating backlash that threatens to sweep their products off the market. (Frank Franklin II, File)   The Independent ( UK) published an OP-ED validating the message that we have been sending out from the castle. …

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