Me, 2019: I heard from a girl that at age 6 took a big scare from an angry reaction of her dad's. Next day, her neck was so swollen she got breathing problems and was hospitalized. What could physiologically have happened?
Ray: Shock and stress can cause a surge of serotonin in the brain, which stimulates the enlargement of the thyroid gland, and can inhibit secretion of the hormone.
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Me: How important is it for people with NO thyroid gland to still avoid goitrogenic foods?
Ray: The various tissues have their local thyroid activating enzymes producing T3, and some antithyroid agents can block those.
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Me, 2017: I found this book. We have no idea if it is worth anything. It/he seems not mentioned in your work?
Henry R. Harrower, MD | Practical Endocrinology (1932)
www.seleneriverpress.com/images/pdfs/0_PRACTICAL_ENDOCRINOLOGY_1932_HARROWER.pdf
I caught it in the first minute of this video from Dr Darren Schmidt:
Diabetes IS Lactic Acidosis (www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoj46ifKHw)
Ray: Thanks. Besides some of the insights that didn’t become part of the medical culture, I think the main value of books like that is to see how an individual took responsibility for creating an integrated view of his subject. Brown-Sequard, Eugen Steinach, Crile, Selye, and Felix Meerson were others with important personal perspectives on endocrinology.
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[shared this one before in Inclined Bed Therapy - Sleeping With The Head End Of The Bed Elevated]
Me, 2017: Just in case you're familiar with these writings of J.C. Bose too (The Physiology of the Ascent of Sap, 1923; etc.)... I think I've seen ±8 theories for sap flow in trees. There's one in G. Pollack's The Fourth Phase of Water, etc.
Atom Bergstrom has read his share of Bose and feels that Bose probably proved the true workings of sap flow with over 200 experiments... Is that something you would agree with? (~solved long ago, but forgotten?) Or was some percentage still lacking?
Ray: I think Bose was right. The reason people scoffed at his idea was similar to the reason people scoffed at the idea that nerves have a contractile movement during the conduction of an impulse, or that heat generation is continuous, not saltatory, between the nodes of myelinated nerves. The people who explain the movement of sap by transpiration and “capillary attraction” don’t like to think about guttation, which is most obvious at 100% relative humidity when there’s no transpiration. It’s just one place where the ignorance of official biology is very visible, and the funny thing is that biologists aren’t embarrassed by it.
Ray: Shock and stress can cause a surge of serotonin in the brain, which stimulates the enlargement of the thyroid gland, and can inhibit secretion of the hormone.
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Me: How important is it for people with NO thyroid gland to still avoid goitrogenic foods?
Ray: The various tissues have their local thyroid activating enzymes producing T3, and some antithyroid agents can block those.
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Me, 2017: I found this book. We have no idea if it is worth anything. It/he seems not mentioned in your work?
Henry R. Harrower, MD | Practical Endocrinology (1932)
www.seleneriverpress.com/images/pdfs/0_PRACTICAL_ENDOCRINOLOGY_1932_HARROWER.pdf
I caught it in the first minute of this video from Dr Darren Schmidt:
Diabetes IS Lactic Acidosis (www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoj46ifKHw)
Ray: Thanks. Besides some of the insights that didn’t become part of the medical culture, I think the main value of books like that is to see how an individual took responsibility for creating an integrated view of his subject. Brown-Sequard, Eugen Steinach, Crile, Selye, and Felix Meerson were others with important personal perspectives on endocrinology.
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[shared this one before in Inclined Bed Therapy - Sleeping With The Head End Of The Bed Elevated]
Me, 2017: Just in case you're familiar with these writings of J.C. Bose too (The Physiology of the Ascent of Sap, 1923; etc.)... I think I've seen ±8 theories for sap flow in trees. There's one in G. Pollack's The Fourth Phase of Water, etc.
Atom Bergstrom has read his share of Bose and feels that Bose probably proved the true workings of sap flow with over 200 experiments... Is that something you would agree with? (~solved long ago, but forgotten?) Or was some percentage still lacking?
Ray: I think Bose was right. The reason people scoffed at his idea was similar to the reason people scoffed at the idea that nerves have a contractile movement during the conduction of an impulse, or that heat generation is continuous, not saltatory, between the nodes of myelinated nerves. The people who explain the movement of sap by transpiration and “capillary attraction” don’t like to think about guttation, which is most obvious at 100% relative humidity when there’s no transpiration. It’s just one place where the ignorance of official biology is very visible, and the funny thing is that biologists aren’t embarrassed by it.
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