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shadowkat1. In response to co-worker's continuous pestering, I decided to watch "What We Do in the Shadows" via "On Demand", it's not really available elsewhere. And only the last five episodes are available -- which is good, because I tried first two and was somewhat bored.
Episode 6 is rather funny. Episode 7 isn't bad..
They do an ancestry check and the human companion discovers he has Van Helsing blood.
Nando: Van Helsing isn't real is he? Wait, vampires are real ...so. But I like vampires. I wouldn't kill any, well except for those two I already killed..
OR..
Nandor has discovered that he has all these relatives, so hunts them down...and flies up to one old ladies window to give her a gift. He told by another vampire not to tap on the window at all costs. What does he do? He taps on the window, the woman sees him and drops dead from a heart attack (she's in her 80s).
Nandor: I shouldn't have tapped on her window, I wouldn't have if you hadn't goaded me.
Energy Vampire: By goading you, if you mean telling you repeatedly that absolutely under no circumstances are you to tap on her window -- then yeah.
Episode 8..
Apparently Laslo has done porn. Lots of it.
Nadia: There's nothing more depressing than to realize that your husband has done a lot of porn, and it's all boring.
Actually, all porn is boring. There's no story or conflict. It's frankly more interesting watching a naked wrestling match. OR porn tends to be rather funny because well...so was episode 8. I'm not seeing any of the famous guest stars, but maybe I'm not looking closely enough? OR they are all in the episodes I did not see?
Now trying Episode 9...
ETA: I finished it. The guest stars pop up in episode 10. It has some funny laugh out loud moments, and the characters grow on you...sort of like mildew. (Just joking). But I'm not sure the plot works. Also they are clearly parodying a lot of vampire movies. They tried to get Kiefer Sutherland for a guest appearance, but apparently he turned them down, and the others were impossible. I really wish Tom Cruise took them up on it. That would have been hilarious.
It's very campy, but there are some really funny bits in there...so overall, worth a look. But only the last five episodes are available on demand, unfortunately.
The set-up is a bunch of Slavic vampires hiding out on Staten Island, which may be funnier if you are a New Yorker and familiar with Staten Island.
2. The Good Fight -- is not as good as The Good Wife, or maybe I don't find political satire entertaining when I'm living in a political satire?
3. Has Humanity Reached Peak Intelligence?
I hope not. We're still rather dumb in some respects -- actually a lot of respects.
But hey, we've created IQ tests. Shame we haven't created accurate ones ...but that's not what the article is about. That's me snarking about the article.
You may not have noticed, but we are living in an intellectual golden age.
Since the intelligence test was invented more than 100 years ago, our IQ scores have been steadily increasing. Even the average person today would have been considered a genius compared to someone born in 1919 – a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect.
We may have to enjoy it while we can. The most recent evidence suggests that this trend may now be slowing. It may even be reversing, meaning that we have already passed the summit of human intellectual potential.
Can we have really reached peak intelligence? And if that is the case, what can the subsequent decline mean for the future of humanity?
Let’s begin by exploring the ancient origins of human intelligence, from the moment our ancestors began to walk upright more than three million years ago. Scans of fossil skulls suggest that the brains of the first bipedal apes, Australopithecus, were about 400 cubic centimetres – just a third the size of modern humans’.
That comes at a serious cost. The brains of modern humans consume around 20% of the body’s energy, so our bigger brains must have offered some serious benefits to make up for those excess calories.
Cave art of ancient humans suggests a surprising intelligence...
So basically Nethandrals were smart? I guess they'd have to be to survive against the predators back then.
4. Manhattan's West Side had a Power Outtage Saturday night
A power failure plunged a stretch of the West Side of Manhattan into darkness on Saturday night, trapping people in subway cars and elevators for a time, leaving drivers to fend for themselves at intersections with no traffic signals and eerily dimming the lights in a swath of Times Square.
Stores emptied out, and Broadway shows did not go on: Most theaters canceled their performances. In restaurants and bars, people drank by the glow of their smartphones.
But the lights — and, on a warm Saturday night in midsummer, the air conditioning and fans that keep people cool — began to return about 10 p.m. Power was fully restored by midnight, with cheers ringing out on the streets in response.
Con Edison said that the power failed at 6:47 p.m. and that 73,000 customers were in the dark for at least three hours, mainly on the West Side. The blackout stretched from 72nd Street to the West 40s, and from Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River.
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Con Edison said the failure apparently stemmed from a problem at a substation on West 49th Street, and affected six power sectors.
John McAvoy, Con Edison’s chairman and chief executive, suggested it was a mechanical failure but emphasized that the utility would not know the cause until an investigation was completed.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo was more specific, saying the failure started with an explosion and fire at a substation that caused other substations to “lose power and malfunction.”
“Once we get past the emergency, then I want to know what the heck happened,” Mr. Cuomo told WABC-TV, “because this is not the first time we have had a substation issue.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was in Iowa campaigning for his presidential bid, ruled out terrorism or criminal activity.
Con Edison customers “expect to have a system that contemplates, anticipates and prevents foreseeable occurrences,” he said.
The blackout happened on the same date that a large power failure in 1977 plunged the city into darkness. Now as then, Times Square — usually blindingly bright with tourists and crowds strolling to theaters — was dark, and traffic signals were out.
Brings back memories of the 2004 blackout, which I was luckily not employed during so it wasn't that big a problem for me. It last a few days. The subways were out much longer. And it also took out most of the North Eastern Seaboard.
5. Nutritional Psychiatry is the Future of Mental Health Treatment
It is now known that many mental health conditions are caused by inflammation in the brain which ultimately causes our brain cells to die. This inflammatory response starts in our gut and is associated with a lack of nutrients from our food such as magnesium, omega-3 fatty acids, probiotics, vitamins and minerals that are all essential for the optimum functioning of our bodies.
Recent research has shown that food supplements such as zinc, magnesium, omega 3, and vitamins B and D3 can help improve people’s mood, relieve anxiety and depression and improve the mental capacity of people with Alzheimer’s.
Magnesium is one of most important minerals for optimal health, yet many people are lacking in it. One study found that a daily magnesium citrate supplement led to a significant improvement in depression and anxiety, regardless of age, gender or severity of depression. Improvement did not continue when the supplement was stopped.
Omega-3 fatty acids are another nutrient that is critical for the development and function of the central nervous system – and a lack has been associated with low mood, cognitive decline and poor comprehension.
And..
More worrying is the increase in the use of antidepressants by children and young people. In Scotland, 5,572 children under 18 were prescribed antidepressants for anxiety and depression in 2016. This figure has more than doubled since 2009/2010.
But according to British psychopharmacologist Professor David Healy, 29 clinical trials of antidepressant use in young people found no benefits at all. These trials revealed that instead of relieving symptoms of anxiety and depression, antidepressants caused children and young people to feel suicidal.
Healy also challenges their safety and effectiveness in adults. He believes that antidepressants are over-prescribed and that there is little evidence that they are safe for long-term use. Antidepressants are said to create dependency, have unpleasant side effects and cannot be relied upon to always relieve symptoms.
True...I tried them right -- they made it worse. I have a delicate biochemistry, and it can get thrown off easily. Also hormones have an effect, which our society has no clue on how to deal with -- since there's no pill you can safely take that will fix it.
Also Vitamin D deficiency is an issue. I'm taking two Vitamin D supplements a day.
6. Half of FB is still convinced the sky is falling, and posts about it constantly -- every horrible thing they can come up with. The other half is posting cat vids and personal stuff. So I liked and started following comics pages and joined a GH fandom...just to make it more interesting. One gets tired of "crazy cat video", "my great vacation", "oh no the world is going to end"...after a bit.
Episode 6 is rather funny. Episode 7 isn't bad..
They do an ancestry check and the human companion discovers he has Van Helsing blood.
Nando: Van Helsing isn't real is he? Wait, vampires are real ...so. But I like vampires. I wouldn't kill any, well except for those two I already killed..
OR..
Nandor has discovered that he has all these relatives, so hunts them down...and flies up to one old ladies window to give her a gift. He told by another vampire not to tap on the window at all costs. What does he do? He taps on the window, the woman sees him and drops dead from a heart attack (she's in her 80s).
Nandor: I shouldn't have tapped on her window, I wouldn't have if you hadn't goaded me.
Energy Vampire: By goading you, if you mean telling you repeatedly that absolutely under no circumstances are you to tap on her window -- then yeah.
Episode 8..
Apparently Laslo has done porn. Lots of it.
Nadia: There's nothing more depressing than to realize that your husband has done a lot of porn, and it's all boring.
Actually, all porn is boring. There's no story or conflict. It's frankly more interesting watching a naked wrestling match. OR porn tends to be rather funny because well...so was episode 8. I'm not seeing any of the famous guest stars, but maybe I'm not looking closely enough? OR they are all in the episodes I did not see?
Now trying Episode 9...
ETA: I finished it. The guest stars pop up in episode 10. It has some funny laugh out loud moments, and the characters grow on you...sort of like mildew. (Just joking). But I'm not sure the plot works. Also they are clearly parodying a lot of vampire movies. They tried to get Kiefer Sutherland for a guest appearance, but apparently he turned them down, and the others were impossible. I really wish Tom Cruise took them up on it. That would have been hilarious.
It's very campy, but there are some really funny bits in there...so overall, worth a look. But only the last five episodes are available on demand, unfortunately.
The set-up is a bunch of Slavic vampires hiding out on Staten Island, which may be funnier if you are a New Yorker and familiar with Staten Island.
2. The Good Fight -- is not as good as The Good Wife, or maybe I don't find political satire entertaining when I'm living in a political satire?
3. Has Humanity Reached Peak Intelligence?
I hope not. We're still rather dumb in some respects -- actually a lot of respects.
But hey, we've created IQ tests. Shame we haven't created accurate ones ...but that's not what the article is about. That's me snarking about the article.
You may not have noticed, but we are living in an intellectual golden age.
Since the intelligence test was invented more than 100 years ago, our IQ scores have been steadily increasing. Even the average person today would have been considered a genius compared to someone born in 1919 – a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect.
We may have to enjoy it while we can. The most recent evidence suggests that this trend may now be slowing. It may even be reversing, meaning that we have already passed the summit of human intellectual potential.
Can we have really reached peak intelligence? And if that is the case, what can the subsequent decline mean for the future of humanity?
Let’s begin by exploring the ancient origins of human intelligence, from the moment our ancestors began to walk upright more than three million years ago. Scans of fossil skulls suggest that the brains of the first bipedal apes, Australopithecus, were about 400 cubic centimetres – just a third the size of modern humans’.
That comes at a serious cost. The brains of modern humans consume around 20% of the body’s energy, so our bigger brains must have offered some serious benefits to make up for those excess calories.
Cave art of ancient humans suggests a surprising intelligence...
So basically Nethandrals were smart? I guess they'd have to be to survive against the predators back then.
4. Manhattan's West Side had a Power Outtage Saturday night
A power failure plunged a stretch of the West Side of Manhattan into darkness on Saturday night, trapping people in subway cars and elevators for a time, leaving drivers to fend for themselves at intersections with no traffic signals and eerily dimming the lights in a swath of Times Square.
Stores emptied out, and Broadway shows did not go on: Most theaters canceled their performances. In restaurants and bars, people drank by the glow of their smartphones.
But the lights — and, on a warm Saturday night in midsummer, the air conditioning and fans that keep people cool — began to return about 10 p.m. Power was fully restored by midnight, with cheers ringing out on the streets in response.
Con Edison said that the power failed at 6:47 p.m. and that 73,000 customers were in the dark for at least three hours, mainly on the West Side. The blackout stretched from 72nd Street to the West 40s, and from Fifth Avenue to the Hudson River.
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The best things to do in N.Y.C. during the hottest season of the year. This limited-edition newsletter will launch before Memorial Day and run through Labor Day.
Con Edison said the failure apparently stemmed from a problem at a substation on West 49th Street, and affected six power sectors.
John McAvoy, Con Edison’s chairman and chief executive, suggested it was a mechanical failure but emphasized that the utility would not know the cause until an investigation was completed.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo was more specific, saying the failure started with an explosion and fire at a substation that caused other substations to “lose power and malfunction.”
“Once we get past the emergency, then I want to know what the heck happened,” Mr. Cuomo told WABC-TV, “because this is not the first time we have had a substation issue.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was in Iowa campaigning for his presidential bid, ruled out terrorism or criminal activity.
Con Edison customers “expect to have a system that contemplates, anticipates and prevents foreseeable occurrences,” he said.
The blackout happened on the same date that a large power failure in 1977 plunged the city into darkness. Now as then, Times Square — usually blindingly bright with tourists and crowds strolling to theaters — was dark, and traffic signals were out.
Brings back memories of the 2004 blackout, which I was luckily not employed during so it wasn't that big a problem for me. It last a few days. The subways were out much longer. And it also took out most of the North Eastern Seaboard.
5. Nutritional Psychiatry is the Future of Mental Health Treatment
It is now known that many mental health conditions are caused by inflammation in the brain which ultimately causes our brain cells to die. This inflammatory response starts in our gut and is associated with a lack of nutrients from our food such as magnesium, omega-3 fatty acids, probiotics, vitamins and minerals that are all essential for the optimum functioning of our bodies.
Recent research has shown that food supplements such as zinc, magnesium, omega 3, and vitamins B and D3 can help improve people’s mood, relieve anxiety and depression and improve the mental capacity of people with Alzheimer’s.
Magnesium is one of most important minerals for optimal health, yet many people are lacking in it. One study found that a daily magnesium citrate supplement led to a significant improvement in depression and anxiety, regardless of age, gender or severity of depression. Improvement did not continue when the supplement was stopped.
Omega-3 fatty acids are another nutrient that is critical for the development and function of the central nervous system – and a lack has been associated with low mood, cognitive decline and poor comprehension.
And..
More worrying is the increase in the use of antidepressants by children and young people. In Scotland, 5,572 children under 18 were prescribed antidepressants for anxiety and depression in 2016. This figure has more than doubled since 2009/2010.
But according to British psychopharmacologist Professor David Healy, 29 clinical trials of antidepressant use in young people found no benefits at all. These trials revealed that instead of relieving symptoms of anxiety and depression, antidepressants caused children and young people to feel suicidal.
Healy also challenges their safety and effectiveness in adults. He believes that antidepressants are over-prescribed and that there is little evidence that they are safe for long-term use. Antidepressants are said to create dependency, have unpleasant side effects and cannot be relied upon to always relieve symptoms.
True...I tried them right -- they made it worse. I have a delicate biochemistry, and it can get thrown off easily. Also hormones have an effect, which our society has no clue on how to deal with -- since there's no pill you can safely take that will fix it.
Also Vitamin D deficiency is an issue. I'm taking two Vitamin D supplements a day.
6. Half of FB is still convinced the sky is falling, and posts about it constantly -- every horrible thing they can come up with. The other half is posting cat vids and personal stuff. So I liked and started following comics pages and joined a GH fandom...just to make it more interesting. One gets tired of "crazy cat video", "my great vacation", "oh no the world is going to end"...after a bit.
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Date: 2019-07-15 02:04 am (UTC)EGADS!
You can't cure brain chemistry with food. Maybe people who have slight depression caused by poor nutrition can improve, but severe clinical depression does not respond to a change in diet.
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Date: 2019-07-15 02:15 am (UTC)The problem is psychiatry is an inexact science, and they don't always know. A neurologist is usually the best bet, but even they don't know. I had a nitwit give me Paxil and it sent me spiraling into an anxiety attack and almost gave me a heart-attack. I was able to even it out with diet and meditation. My system can't handle those frigging drugs. But I don't have a brain chemistry imbalance, it's gut and hormonal related. There are brain cells in our guts, and if our guts are imbalanced due to things like ceiliac disease or gluten intolerance or an overgrowth of candida or the wrong type of bacteria...that can cause anxiety and depression.
The difficulty is we generalize. We think if A requires meds due to depression and anxiety, B does. Not necessarily. B may become suicidal on psychotropic drugs or meds or have a heart attack, and just needs a nutritional adjustment. While A has a brain chemistry imbalance and being on drugs helps A. Or that magnesium will excerbate it -- because it does in C, but D who has a magnesium deficiency, it really helps -- cleans out the gut and relieves depression.
We also have a tendency to think what works for us will work for someone else. Unlikely. We are different. No human body is created the same.
I think some of the article is accurate, but for people like myself, not someone who has schizophrenia or clinical depression.
ETA: also side effects don't affect everyone the same way. Some don't get them at all. And it often depends on whatever meds you are taking and how your system works. The meds I'm on have a huge list -- they affect me if I'm taking Nexium, but if I take pepcid, I'm fine.
So...you can't diagnose one person by diagnosing another with similar symptoms...it's not possible. Even though doctors do it ALL the time.
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Date: 2019-07-15 03:01 am (UTC)Well, the average person in 1919 would have had a much different educational experience. Likely no kindergarten (even my school district didn't have it till the year after I started first grade), let alone preschool. The percentage of parents with some college education jumped way up as my generation matured, and the percentage of parents with graduate or professional education is a lot higher now than it was when my brother and sister were having kids. The people doing the testing know very well that the home environment makes a big difference in the score a kid will get on an IQ test.
Heck, the SAT has been dumbed down every decade or so for a long time now. The testing company has admitted doing it all along. Does that show intelligence is changing for the worse or that what used be the hardest things on the test maybe were not worth knowing?
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Date: 2019-07-15 08:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-15 10:20 am (UTC)But no article should be out there claiming that nutrition is the answer to depression. In a huge segment of those suffering with depression, only drugs DO help.
I get crazy when people start offering simple solutions to complex problems.
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Date: 2019-07-15 12:34 pm (UTC)I think the mistake with the IQ testing is similar with well -- the article that proper nutrition cures all ills, or meds fix all brain chemical imbalances. The problem is people think differently, and IQ testing doesn't take that into account. It tests for certain things but not others. So, if you think the way that the test is set up for --- then yeah, you could come up with a high IQ for that test, but not say in a situation that requires skills not tested under that test. Or score really low under that test but simply because you don't think spatially, and the test has multiple choice questions and a computer scoresheet, and you are trying to fill in little bubbles, but keep skipping a line with knowing it.
Heck, the SAT has been dumbed down every decade for a long time now. The testing company has admitted doing it all along. Does that show intelligence is changing for the worse or that what used be the hardest things on the test maybe were not worth knowing?
Or that the testing methodology is inaccurate? OR has a high instance of error? When you have a class of say 30 students, and notice that say ten percent of those students do well on written tests, where they have to apply what they've learned or score high on written reports, but when you hand them a multiple choice test or pop quiz style test and they fail -- many professors make the mistake of thinking, oh they must have cheated. When what they aren't looking at is the far more obvious explanation -- the method of the test. The test may be the problem -- not necessarily the content, but the manner in how the people are tested.
Or perhaps the teaching methodology. Lecture - test may work for some, but not for others. This is not a determination of intelligence -- this is just a determination of how differently people process information. For some -- they get more when they see, touch and hear, while others are best if they just sit and listen, while others need to just see it. Is the person with the photographic memory smarter than the person who can see patterns in information, but needs to see, touch and hear? No, they just think differently. The flaw is assuming that the testing methodology is an accurate means of determining intelligence across a broad group, when in reality it may only be able to determine it in small classification of individuals, who in turn may not demonstrate intelligence in other critical arenas.
In short? They don't know how intelligent humans are or if we are more intelligent now than before and have no way of knowing. All they can do is make a lot of educated guesses...which I'm highly skeptical of.
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Date: 2019-07-15 12:37 pm (UTC)See my answer to cactuswatcher.
I think that's probably true. I don't think an IQ test can tell you how intelligent you are any more than those quizzes on the internet can determine your personality. All it tells us is that some people are good at these types of tests because of how they think, and other's aren't. Same with cross-word puzzles -- some can do them, some can't -- has zip to do with IQ.
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Date: 2019-07-15 12:47 pm (UTC)My takeaway from the article is that we can't determine what is best for one person based on what works for another, just because the exhibit similar symptoms. If meds work for A who is say, bi-polar, they may not work for B who is just going through perimenopause, or C who has gut issues.. The medical, psychiatric, and holistic community needs to learn not to treat all people the same.
Most cases of depression aren't brain chemistry related -- actually caused by other issues such as perimenopause, or nutritional deficiencies due to leaky gut syndrome, ceiliac disease, etc. The person may be eating correctly but not getting those nutrients. My sis-in-law has to get a shot of magnesium every three months because her body refuses to absorb it in any other way -- the deficiency has result in severed migraine headaches.
The article is correct in that doctors are over-prescribing psychotropic drugs. A pill cures all things. And they have a tendency to base diagnosis on someone with similar symptoms. This happened to me. And luckily, I was able to tell them to frak off and get a professional -- who looked at me and said, no, you don't need any drugs.
The inability to treat people as individuals not as a group in the medical, holistic, and psychiatric communities -- could result in a person's death. And often has.
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Date: 2019-07-15 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-15 02:16 pm (UTC)Yes, it turns out 'lecture - test' was about ideal for me. In college courses where the lecture covered everything, I did great even if the lectures were more than a little tedious. In courses where the lectures were secondary to the reading, I was pretty mediocre if I found the reading boring. Translation: if it wasn't worth going to class at all, I could be in trouble. I even had an 'honors' class like that! I sympathize with those (including you if I remember correctly) with spacial relationship difficulties. At least when I was a kid the alternative to an IQ test with lots of reading was a test heavy with spacial relationships. I read well enough for the former and was a whiz at the latter.
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Date: 2019-07-15 03:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-15 03:13 pm (UTC)For me? If you gave me a research project, a hand's on interactive assignment, or if the course was an interactive discussion of the material? I'd get an A. I looked at my grades from elementary through law school and saw a pattern -- every course that was writing intensive, required discussion, oral presentation or critical analysis/thinking? I received a B or A. Every course that was a lecture, taking notes, then followed by a multiple choice exam? I received C, D or Failed. Why no one figured this out, I've no clue.
My attention wanders during pod-casts, lectures, concerts - I require a visual. That said, I can't speed read, my eyes skip words or go down a line -- my brain looks at space differently. Often I will read what I see aloud. I often need to play with the information to understand it. I got great grades when I was allowed to apply or work with the material.
That said, I did do well on written exams and short answer -- or if they provided me with the ability to circle the multiple choice option on the booklet and not transfer it to another page. The mistake was in the transference or copying of the information from one space to another. I can't type more than 30 words per minute from a written manuscript, take short hand, or take notes/transcriptions from things -- without repetition. But if I'm asked to analyze it or figure it out? I'm great at that. You give me a mathematical equation that requires pattern analysis or critical analysis, I can do it. Memorization? No.
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Date: 2019-07-15 03:22 pm (UTC)Not possible right now -- coworker and I discussed it, we were both only able to see 6-10, which is all that is available "on demand" for the series. (Note didn't see the movie...so may not get the reference?) But it would at least explain the erotic topiary, which seemed to come out of nowhere in episode 7 or 8.
Co-worker loves it to pieces. Informed me this morning that the song is an old 1960s song that he used to listen to. And he and his wife have been singing it back and forth to each other with glee. He likes it more than I do...;-)
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Date: 2019-07-15 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-16 12:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-16 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-16 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-07-16 02:42 am (UTC)Not saying you're wrong, but I can't find it.
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Date: 2019-07-16 03:04 am (UTC)Ah...found it!
Chelated Magnesium Side Effects
Chelated magnesium side effects
Get emergency medical help if you have signs of an allergic reaction: hives; severe dizziness; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Stop using this product and call your doctor at once if you have:
severe or ongoing diarrhea;
muscle cramps; or
depression, feeling tired or irritable.
Common side effects may include:
diarrhea;
nausea, stomach pain; or
upset stomach.
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Note it is best to discuss with your pharmacist not the doctor, because they don't tell you the same thing -- and doctor's don't always know. And the pharmacist can advise as to when or how they occur and in what scenarios. Often side-effects are included because one in 100 cases got it -- and the pharmaceutical company is covering itself legally. (I know this because I applied for a legal job once to do just that. Didn't get it.)
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Date: 2019-07-16 03:22 am (UTC)The articles I linked did use other forms of magnesium. So I guess that one form is potentially risky but others seem to be beneficial.
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Date: 2019-07-16 10:10 am (UTC)Common side effects may include: diarrhea; nausea, stomach pain; or.
...
Chelated magnesium side effects
severe or ongoing diarrhea;
muscle cramps; or.
depression, feeling tired or irritable.
Sep 15, 2017
Chelated Magnesium Uses, Side Effects & Warnings - Drugs.com
https://www.drugs.com/mtm/chelated-magnesium.html
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Date: 2019-07-16 12:38 pm (UTC)It doesn't -- you have to look for "Side Effects of Chelated Magnesium", if however you just look for Chelated Magnesium or Magnesium, it doesn't come up at all. I know because I initially googled these combinations:
But..
"Side Effects of Chelated Magnesium" - Bingo.
The trick for searching for items on google is specificity and precision. (I used to work for a library reference company that published online databases and search engines -- and their search engine was a lot harder than this -- you had to do boo-lean searches. And be very precise -- or you'd miss it. And I worked with professional indexers who would argue behind me for hours about what word to use to describe a specific item.)
Also in regards to Magnesium. The side effects are only associated with a specific brand of it. They aren't with the supplement in general. So while, a specific brand of chelated magnesium may cause depression, magnesium in of itself does not appear to. It certainly hasn't been the cause of mine and has alleviated it. I should post all the side effects of Prozac, Paxil, and Zoloft...it will scare the daylights out of you. Did me. ;-)
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Date: 2019-07-16 12:40 pm (UTC)It's how you searched for it. I used "side effects of chelated magnesium" and found it. Not just under chelated. It depends on the brand and type.