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It would NOT help to consume B12-rich foods. I've been doing just that for months.
This afternoon at just my first consultation with what I regard as an uncommonly astute Neurologist, she ordered a blood test for a Vitamin B12 metabolite. I'll have to ask again what its name was, then write it down.
To more-concisely state my own HYPOTHETICAL addition to my exceedingly astute Neurologist's HYPOTHESIS. That is, I am not _yet_ cured of Broca's Aphasia, Short-Term Memory Loss, Long-Term Memory Loss, Brain Seizures and Dissociative Fugues:
I am genetically predisposed to Pernicious Anemia, a once-fatal genetic inability to metabolize Vitamin B12. It was ultimately cured by daily Vitamin B12 Injections. The original cure to Pernicious Anemia was to eat vast quantities of raw liver every single day! :-0
If I _do_ have Pernicious Anemia, it hasn't killed me because only my Great-Grandfather had it - but he _died_ of it. His DNA's contribution to my genome would be no more than one-eighth, because I had eight grandparents. But _chronic_ B12 deficiency is _quite_ certain to lead to bizarre, unexplainable brain disorders. Just eating such B12-rich foods as beef or yogurt is insufficient.
We know that chronic B12 Deficiency 707a11ee FUX0R5 the brain because from time to time, a Vegan doesn't clue in to that B12 is _only_ found in animal products, and doesn't know to eat Nutritional Yeast.
It's widely - and yes I Am Absolutely Serious - that fungus makes B12, but it does not. Rather, Nutritional Yeast is nutritious in other ways, and _quite_ tasty so it's common for people whose feet don't reach all the way down to the ground to season their food with it.
If your a Vegan, you don't eat _fortified_ Nutritional Yeast and you don't take B12 supplements then your entire brain will go totally on the fritz; it could even kill you.
If I understand correctly, while natural B12 is Methylcobalamin, it works just fine to take Cyanocobalamin supplements, which in my understanding can be economically synthesized whereas industrial production of Methylcobalamin cannot. But that's OK because it's the Cobalamin group that's the actual nutrient as employed by the body after being absorbed by the intestine.
Vitamin B12 Deficiency Anemia - in addition to Pernicious there are some other types - can cause "numbness in the hands and feet". I got a Code 3 ride in an ambulance Saturday evening: Lights And Sirens, but I'm afraid I didn't get to enjoy the ride. Among some other bizarre symptoms, I had numbness in my lips and the soles of my feet.
ALL the ER docs and EMTs are by now completely convinced that this is purely psychiatric. I made plain that I regarded its being due to My Sparky Brain as eminently reasonable, but pointed out that "Just knowing that won't make it go away".
They are all convinced that It's All In My Head because _all_ my symptoms are perfectly symmetric between the right and left sides of my body; Dr. Hamburg gave me a far more extensive neurological exam today, but _every_ component of that exam was intended to detect neural asymmetries. It Found None.
BUT!
Systemic brain disease in the case of B12 deficiency is actually a _blood_ disorder. Again my previous understanding was incomplete, in that I've read repeatedly that B12 is "required to make red blood cells". While strictly speaking true, B12 is required to make _every_ kind of human bodily cell.
That it's so crucial to Red Blood Cells is due to their average lifetime of forty days. That means our Red Blood Cells consume B12 far out of proportion to all our other cells.
Cobalamin is a key part of the process that transcribes DNA into Amino Acid Chains.
It happens that I'm quite certain that I have - or perhaps "had" by now - an l-Tryptophan deficiency. I'll explain this in more detail late tomorrow night, but my self-diagnosis I'm quite certain is correct due to my diet having been exceedingly poor since my divorce with Bonita.
Simply Put: cooking for one makes me miserable, I far prefer to each cold chili directly from the can with a spoon.
I've been working around my I Hate Cooking blockage by carefully and methodically selecting then eating vast quantities Of Truly Fat-Ass Lazy Yet Nutritionally Balanced Foods.
In the specific case, that's Chickpeas and Sesame Seeds - Hummus - Soy Beans - Tofu - and Sardines.
I've had a problem with my sardines so far, the ones I've got were cured with salt; I cannot tolerate eating a sardine all by itself. Just now I found it minimally acceptable to eat sardines on bread, but tomorrow I'll chop some up then stir them into Spaghetti Sauces.
This Time For Sure:
Nighty-Night! Don't Let The Code Bugs Byte. ZZZzzz...
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:07PM (1 child)
I'm playing the world's very smallest violin.
Let me tell you about my friend Stefan:
His father died when Stefan was three years old. His mother was now the single mother of a baby and a toddler, an Irish woman in England at a time when there was widespread hatred of and discrimination against the Irish.
Stefan managed to score a job doing sales for IBM. Before his management would even _permit_ Stefan to make any sales calls, he had to learn each of - and get really good at - each of FORTRAN, COBOL, 360 Assembly Code and JCL.
When he was starting up his graphics hardware company - he sold individually matched high-end cards and monitors - he "worked mind-numbing" hours.
He went on to bet the farm on a hardware product that didn't work out, so he moved into a small cabin way the hell out in the middle of the Santa Cruz Mountains, then each day would drive his Camaro to his job as a construction laborer. NOT a carpenter: the laborers do stuff like tote lumber around. Have a google at "hod carrier" as that work was once known.
At some point he was using a plastic sandwich bag for a wallet.
These days he and his brother honor the memories of their father and the men they served with by _relentlessly_ building an astoundingly valuable historical website [aircrewremembered.com] funded only by donations and Amazon Associate referrals.
Get back to me when your first Mobile App is in your choice of the App Store, Google Play, or even Cydia's App Store.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @09:43PM
Yes I see what you're doing here. You're telling the same old disingenuous story about the value of hard work told by every old asshole. The problem with your story and every story told by an old asshole like you is the opportunities of the good old days no longer exist in the 21st century.
You tell me a tale about some lucky idiot who only needed to learn four coding languages to get a sales job at a company which is now irrelevant. I can code in four times four coding languages and I can't get a single job using any one of them.
You're not the only one in this conversation who can code device drivers for Mac and Linux. I've done both at various times, and I can't get a single job doing either one.
You tell me a tale about some lucky idiot who got paid to work mind numbing hours at a company that failed. I have worked mind numbing hours for free on a certain open source project that ceased to exist when the project leader embezzled every penny of donations.
I worked mind numbing hours for years on a certain other open source project which I started because certain lying recruiters told me that starting my own open source project was a sure way to get a job. Not only did I produce fully documented and useful software but I also fully commented my code and contributed back to the open source libraries I used. My contributions were ignored completely. No one ever acknowledges the existence of any open source work on my resume. And it never helped me to get a job. I learned three things from those years:
1. Never ever comment any code. Nobody reads it.
2. Never ever contribute to the open source community. "Community" does not exist in open source.
3. Never ever believe anything from recruiters. Recruiters are lying motherfucking shitscum.
You presume I don't use a plastic bag as a wallet. Guess what: I do.
Again you tell me to make it big on an app store, which is something you yourself have utterly failed to do.
I use all of one app, which happens to be open source, and which I have modifed, and I dutifully contributed my changes back to the maintainer against my own better judgement. Of course my contribution was ignored, because the open source community is utter fucking bullshit. My contribution was ignored despite the fact that I made the app twice as fast, complete with empirical proof of the improvement.
The root of the problem, dear darling dickhead, is hard work does not pay. Many fools make many apps which are ultimately abandoned because hard work does not pay. Hard work to create software is a worthless waste of time because HARD WORK DOES NOT PAY.
The only thing that creates money is money, not hard work, and definitely not writing software. Software companies understand the value of money, which is why they make their money by scamming investors instead of wasting money to pay fools to write software. The actual work to create enough value to trick investors into investing is ultimately done by young naive students who are willing to write open source software for free only because they still believe jobs exist, and then software companies rip off open source projects for profit. Those young naive students will never ever get a job writing software, because the JOBS DO NOT EXIST.
Fuck MDC