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When done properly fasting does likely have some health benefits but as in all things the poison is in the dose.
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For non diabetes insulin control is not a problem and grazing is no more harmful than well spaced meals. Steriods will have an impact on the negative side but being healthy will have an impact on the positive side. As in all things its a matter of balance. some info here that compares Mr Average to sports people with a focus on body builders. Do Pro Bodybuilders Die Younger Than Average? (Updated) - The Barbell WWW.THEBARBELL.COM Are pro bodybuilders dying younger than the average man? What are the most common causes of bodybuilder deaths?
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Indeed, the idea that dead leopards and cougars by the side of the road are going under the radar in the UK is unlikely to say the very least.?
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Stuffed toy in a car in Devon had police out and Essex lion: Was 'Essex lion' which sparked massive police operation just a giant stuffed toy? - Mirror Online WWW.MIRROR.CO.UK Police operation costing tens of thousands of pounds called off after no evidence of big cat is found
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Exactly, if a tarts dressing gown gets splashed across the net imagine if it were a real leopard??
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I'd always keen to learn, absorb information but we're not really getting down to data or answers so one at a time. Shall we start with Road kill. “For the endangered Florida panther, more than 85% of recorded panther deaths were due to vehicles in 2020, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.”. “ In the past 60 months 23 leopards have been recorded as killed due to road accidents in the southern Indian state of Karnataka alone. “ We seem to have a noticeable lack of roadkill in the UK in spite of numerous studies into the subject such as the on
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What?? survival of the fittest for humans went a long time ago, that's why the majorities of babies survive beyond the 1st few weeks. United Kingdom: child mortality rate 1800-2020 | Statista WWW.STATISTA.COM The child mortality rate in the United Kingdom, for children under the age of five, was 329 deaths per thousand births in 1800. and generally life expectancy has improved.
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1st Jan 2023 be better?
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Ah, from a medical viewpoint we would need to separate the hallucinations from the delusions.. can have very different causes and treatments , whilst both give a false reality one is a false sensory perception whilst the other is a false belief. Mind if you start having both your fecked?
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LOL, I don't get forced to do anything, I do what i do after personal consideration of a mixture of common sense and scientific evidence. If I was scared of catching something I wouldn't do what i do, using good evidence and common sense is how we avoid being controlled. Commom sense. I don't like catching the flu, makes you feel shite for a few days so I reduce my risk by getting vaccines. Science. The current vaccine seems to have a good outcome compared to the last years, Australia reporting 60% prevention, but even when it has a lower impact of completely stopping infection it st
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back to Covid chaps. Died Suddenly: A tsunami of antivax misinformation and conspiracy theories SCIENCEBASEDMEDICINE.ORG Everything old is new again when it comes to antivax tropes. Stew Peters' antivax pseudodocumentary Died Suddenly resurrects the old antivax conspiracy that... A clot too far: An embalmer dissects antivax misinformation about blood clots in Died Suddenly SCIENCEBASEDMEDICINE.ORG Two weeks ago, COVID-19 conspiracy theorist Stew Peters released an antivax pseudodocumentary, Di
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That's an interesting idea. i get a flu jab every year and thankfully haven't had flu for a fair few years. This means i don't catch flu, real flu is not very nice, so save myself feeling crap, I don't infect my patients, who are often vulnerable, or family although I'm often in contact with positive people. I don't infect vulnerable people i interact with in the community such as my elderly neighbours or family. Basically the flu vaccine saves a few lives directly plus it saves a lot of money to society in that kids have less time off of school so parents don't have to take time off, peo
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Most auto immune diseases are due to an overly active immune response as in many forms of arthritis so reducing the response is the best management. link with more info below. Autoimmune Diseases: Causes, Symptoms, What Is It & Treatment MY.CLEVELANDCLINIC.ORG Autoimmune diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis happen because your immune system attacks your body instead of...
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Not about its bed but fitness, time etc.
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Rare and elusive but filmed and studied rural areas. The world's smallest leopard is clinging to life in the mountains of Oman | CNN WWW.CNN.COM Fewer than 200 Arabian leopards live in the wild. Conservationists are working to protect the largest... Rare and elusive but filmed and studied in extremely difficult terrain.
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Dartmoor isn't the Rockies, it's pretty small with only about 50% being "wild" Moor. 5 to 10 cougars would have a massive impact and presence in the area. Its heavily studied, as demonstrated in my previous link, dotted with camera traps, filmed with drones day and night, NV and standard, naturalist studying the flora and fauna, rangers, walkers, horse riders hunters poachers etcetc so in 50 years the idea that a population of apex predators would go under the radar is unlikely. As a study area the rockies are a lot more difficult than Dartmoor but still they have a plethora of dat
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There's always been idiots and always will be, alas modern media spreads the actions of the idiots much quicker than the decent people. 50 years ago i knew twats doing the same and in 50 years I expect there will still be idiots doing the same. ps perhaps pushing my luck to say I will be around to see um.
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When I referred to solitary I mean they don't live in isolation within the environment, they would have a major impact. plus pumas are pretty social sharing territories and kills etc. But my point was they are never spotted by the multitude of naturalist that study wildlife pretty closely as in the above link, why? After half a century they are still on the missing list. If they were there surely the multitude of naturalists, rangers, keepers, farmer, photographers etc etc that frequent Dartmoor would have found and studied them by now as they have other elusive creatures and as people do
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Cameras traps, thousands in the UK yet no big cats, whereas in other countries, lots? Watch WWW.(!64.56:886
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3 newly released apex predators aren't feral cats killing a few mice, they would have been having a major impact and likely killed pretty dam quickly. As I say places like Dartmoor are closely studied yet no cats found. An example, perfect cat territory. Deer Survey 2022 – a bird’s eye view – Fingle Woods FINGLEWOODS.ORG.UK Deer, as with everything in the world of wildlife, can be complicated. At Fingle Woods, we spend a lot of time... If an apex predator or predators were present it would be known and studied, they don't live in i
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Her husband discounted the whole tale as nonsense so likely they were sold elsewhere. She was more famous for dodgy deals and bad treatment rather than "born free types". The rumours were stated by the founder of Big cat society, hardly independent. Again is it plausible? 3 half tame pumas would soon have drawn attention to themselves. ? The main food source would be sheep and ponies, enough to feed 3 pumas might get noticed ?. Even in the 70's Dartmoor was well studied by excellent naturalist and hunted, farmed by real countrymen who would soon have noted the appearance of
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Lovely job ?.
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The Science. ( Ignore if science is not your thing.?) Population, reproduction and survival, randomness/stochasticity? What are the factors? Genetic, the smaller the population the greater the vulnerability to random chance causing genetic drift. This results in allele being lost from a population resulting in a reduction in genetic diversity. This leads to inbreeding depression, the proliferation of negative recessive genes reducing adaptive potential. The rule of thumb is a 50/500 rule, ie a population of 50 is needed to prevent inbreeding depression and a population of 500 is
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Please stay on track, the topic is long enough without wandering of into religion, big cats are a measurable living creature that are easily proven with good evidence. I'm happy to debate the likelihood of a small number of individuals rather than a large breeding population, don't need religion....
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Nobody sees a wallaby, it was just a reference to prior plausibility, ie we have good evidence of Wallabies in the UK but not big cats. prior plausibility - The Skeptic's Dictionary SKEPDIC.COM
