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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @08:42AM (1 child)
Salad:
Chop celery and tomatoes. Put them in a bowl. Put well-drained (shake them dry) alfalfa sprouts on that. Break up the sardines, and sprinkle them on top. Pour the sardine oil all over. Sprinkle it with red wine vinegar.
Pizza:
Open a small can of plain tomato paste. Add a half teaspoon each of dried basil and dried oregano, and an eighth teaspoon of anise seed. (crush the anise between spoons, or grind everything) This is your sauce. Lightly toast the halves of about 3 English muffins, drying the surfaces but not browning them. Get mozzarella cheese ready by chopping up a block or tearing up slices; pre-shredded has excessive starchy gunk. Chop some fresh broccoli. Mix the sardines with the broccoli, oil and all, coating the broccoli to protect it from burning. Quickly assemble the pizza from bottom to top: English muffin, sauce, cheese, broccoli and sardines. Cook it until the cheese melts.
Soup:
Mix together some hot water, instant dashi granules, dried wakame all chopped up, soy sauce, and sardines.
Chowder:
Chop some celery and potatoes. Put them in tomato juice. Heat it until the celery and potatoes are not crunchy. Add the sardines. Optionally add basil, dill, lemon juice, and chopped fresh cilantro. Alternate: you can use pre-cooked rice instead of potatoes.
Taco:
Stir-fry some mushrooms and sesame seeds in the sardine oil. Chop some black olives. Mix all that together, plus the sardines, and put it into lightly heated corn taco shells.
Eggs:
Scramble the eggs with the sardines. Meanwhile, heat up crushed tomatoes in a pan, optionally with okra or basil. When it starts to simmer, turn the heat low and then pour the egg/sardine mixture on top of it, avoiding contact with the pan. Cover it. After the eggs solidify, loosely mix everything and serve it.
Ice cream:
Put vanilla ice cream in a bowl or on a waffle, then top it with chopped sardines.
Chips:
Dunk the sardines in lemon juice. Serve them on tortilla chips.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @10:42PM
I like sardines with whole-grain crackers. Or mix them with hummus and eat with tortilla chips or pretzels.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @09:27AM
Some people lack the enzyme to convert cyanocobalamin to methylcobalamin. That could be you.
Getting levels of all the B12 variants tested could reveal this better than DNA testing could. (can't know all possible DNA problems)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Friday December 07 2018, @07:44PM
Homemade Pizza:
6 Cups Flour
2 Cups Water (Pretty warm, but not too hot to touch.)
2 1/4 tsp Active Dry Yeast (Typically comes in individual packets.)
2 tsp Sugar
2 tsp salt
Preheat Oven to 450F.
Measure out the water, add the sugar, mix it, then add the yeast. Let it sit for about 10 mins, it will get foamy on top. (Forgetting to add the sugar will result in no foam.)
Measure out the flour, add the salt, and mix it. Once the sugar water mix has foamed up, add it to the flour. Stir it up, then knead it for a minute or two.
The dough, shouldn't be sticky. In the event that it's sticky, add a little more flour, kneading as you go until it's not sticky.
Optionally, you can let it sit for a little while (15-30 mins), but I'm usually in too much of a hurry to wait.
Divide Dough into 4 relatively equal parts.
Oil pan (just a light coating), roll dough out onto pan. I usually use a 16" Pizza Pan with no holes in it. This will be a nice thin crust (Not Crunchy and definitely won't be like eating a cracker.), if you want a thicker crust, use 1/2 the dough, instead of 1/4.
Once it's spread out, add a light layer of pasta sauce or whatever you're going to use as the sauce, add toppings, then last, add the cheese.
Bake in Preheated Oven 11 to 12 minutes. Might want to check it at 10 the first time you cook it, to make sure you don't burn it.
I usually keep left over dough in baggies in the fridge up to a few days.
You can also make a Calzone, by putting filling on 1/2 off the crust and folding it over or a stuffed pizza by putting an entire 2nd crust over top of the 1st one with toppings in between them (a little more tricky). Cooking time wasn't much longer. You can also add a little corn meal to the crust, if you want a bit more texture. I've also added flax seed meal to the crust and it was just as delicious as before, with a little extra nutrients.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Informative) by KilroySmith on Sunday December 09 2018, @12:42AM (4 children)
Test for:
B-12
Folic Acid
Homocysteine
Methylmalonic Acid
Intrinsic Factor Antibodies
Parietal cell Antibodies
B-12 levels can be misleading - I measure low normal on B-12 despite being solidly in the PA camp. Homocysteine and Methylmalonic acid are much more sensitive tests - they'll be elevated in the case of B-12 deficiency - but they're not specific because e.g. low Folic Acid will also cause elevated HC/MMA readings. Testing for Folic Acid eliminates one of the major secondary reasons for elevation. IFA and PCA will tell whether your immune system is attacking the cells in the stomach that produce Intrinsic Factor, which permits B-12 absorption.
There's good evidence that high-dose oral B-12 (3000 ug / day) will alleviate PA without injections. There's a secondary absorption path that doesn't use Intrinsic Factor, but it needs high doses to absorb enough B-12 to meet the body's need. Didn't work for me, but such is life.
Good luck.
(Score: 2) by KilroySmith on Sunday December 09 2018, @12:50AM
Oh, and BTW, I found it cheaper to buy B-12 online than pay co-pays at the pharmacy. You can get 10ml bottles for $20 (https://www.buy-otc.com/vitamin-b12-injection/), or 10 1ml vials for $40. I found that the brand-name Sandoz or Cytex product was a bit easier to use - the generic B12 from Turkey or India left a burning sensation after injection.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @11:33AM
Three guys shared the 1934 Medicine Nobel not for discovering B12, but for effectively and safely treating PA with very high consumption of Raw Liver.
NO ONE wanted that so some other folks came up with what it was about raw liver that was so important.
It happens that Methylcobalamin can be had OTC. If I can't find it in Portland I'll buy some online; I once purchased a bottle at a supplement store in Vancouver BC.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @10:07PM
The last couple weeks I've been so fucked up I'd blow Salty Spice if it would make my nausea go away.
I'm going to ask my brother-in-law to spring for a bottle of Methylcobalamin. That bastard has _Prime_.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @11:26PM
I just assumed that a low level of whatever she had tested indicated low B12.
I don't recall what she said she ordered tested, but I do remember that it started with an "M".
For everyone else: a high Methylmalonic Acid level indicates low B12.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:53AM (5 children)
Sure I'm sure you'll dream up some elaborate and lengthy lie for why the internet still exists tonight despite the very critical flaw you and only you discovered. We're safe from cyber terrorists because nobody else except you will ever figure out how to break the entire internet.
Drop dead, you hustling grifter piece of shit.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @11:35AM (4 children)
But I have good reason to believe that I'm the only one who's written an effective exploit.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:24PM (3 children)
Run the exploit.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:55PM (2 children)
so as to take out the smoking radioactive crater of your "I'm Too Cool To Advertise" wannabe-W2 resume.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @07:44PM (1 child)
You don't even have the ability to wipe out SoylentNews, you lying cuck. Go fuck a jailbait barista and go back to jail where you belong, you two bit swindler.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @01:14AM
Tsk, tsk, Salty Spice. Such carnal thoughts from your unemployed heart. Try to be nicer. You never know when it will pay off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:32PM (6 children)
50 applications
10 rejections
3 phone screens
1 interview
0 job offers
Why aren't there any jobs, Soggy Dickhead? Why are you a liar?
I was told that skilled experienced coders are in high demand and I should have my choice of job offers. Instead all you liars perpetuate the myth of jobs for coders when there aren't any jobs for coders anywhere at all.
Fuck MDC
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:58PM (4 children)
So would alcohol if you got ripped before your interview.
Hiring managers can smell Problem Employees like you a mile away.
You're never going to get a job until you stop blaming everybody else but yourself.
I have struggled mightily to work with you, but no more. I must set certain appropriate boundaries:
That you really _are_ unemployable is not in any way the result of a lack of openings for which you would be qualified were you not such a seething pile of radioactively melted down core.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:59PM
How Freudian Of Me.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:21PM (2 children)
I blame myself for getting an education and for learning to code. I didn't need to do either of those things to be unemployable.
I blame myself for "getting good" and "being passionate about coding" as is the vernacular of your brotherly fraternity of cocksucking coderbros.
I blame myself for contributing anything to open source, because you ungrateful motherfuckers are clearly not worth the years of time and effort I wasted writing open source code for free.
I blame myself for continuing to code to this very day because I'm fucking good at it. Open source is full of unfinished projects left behind by aspiring coders who gave up and quit coding when they realized there simply aren't any jobs for coders.
I blame myself for persevering against impossible odds because the entire tech industry is built upon fraud. I receive more than abundant evidence of fraud in every recruiter conversation I ever have, every job I apply for, and every interview I attend.
I blame myself for giving fraudulent employers the benefit of the doubt and bothering to apply for any of their fake jobs. I have heard every single lie there is from every fraudulent employer there is. I've followed every piece of fucking worthless bad advice from shit like you about how to improve my chance of getting a nonexistent job in your fucking fake job market.
You dare to claim you refuse to help me as of now, when the truth is you never helped me or anyone else. You are a scam artist, Crawford, your Soggy Jobs site deserves to be obliterated, and you deserve to drop dead.
I look forward to dancing on your grave, you fucking asshole.
Fuck MDC
(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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @01:18AM
That's only half true - the first half. Since you're such an asocial provocateur the second half of that sentence will never come true.