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Participant[quote=njtosd][quote=scaredyclassic]Turmeric actually whitens teeth. No coffee or wine seems like less staining.
I’ve been reading a lot of dental health books and literature. I never really thought of my teeth as living things. More like dead bone. The mouth is a pretty complex little system. The dullness of teeth is not turmeric…it’s a lack of nutrition.
I’m very excited for my next dental visit on July 1. I am hoping and planning for tremendous improvement in gum pocket readings. It is interesting to have such a measure able indicator to work on…[/quote]
Amazing. Shows the value of being able to measure something.[/quote]
It’s true. It’s measured in millimeters, and each one is critical. Loose gums means loose teeth. People don’t lose teeth to decay, they lose them from bad gums and bone. I can already feel they’ve tightened up some. When there is no measurement, it saps the will…feels,like progress is unknowable or impossible.
ParticipantI prefer genmaicha, cheap stuff mixed with rice, tastes better to me. Also cheap. I have always had this vague feeling that my dental health was,out of my control. I do not believe that any more.
My motivation is fear. I’m less afraid of death than periodontal problems. My mom has spent tens of thousands on surgeries, implants, pain and suffering involved. I just want to avoid that at all costs.
ParticipantTurmeric actually whitens teeth. No coffee or wine seems like less staining.
I’ve been reading a lot of dental health books and literature. I never really thought of my teeth as living things. More like dead bone. The mouth is a pretty complex little system. The dullness of teeth is not turmeric…it’s a lack of nutrition.
I’m very excited for my next dental visit on July 1. I am hoping and planning for tremendous improvement in gum pocket readings. It is interesting to have such a measure able indicator to work on…
ParticipantMy mom has lived in the same rent controlled apt. In NYC since the 60s. An investing dentist bought her unit in the 80s subject to her rent controlled tenancy. I think she outlived the dentist.
ParticipantHow would you know when she died. Say she sublets it to a relative and moves to points unknown. She could be dead 20 years before u confirm?
ParticipantAre her medical records avail. For review?. For the right level of extreme decrepitude, it could work. Of course, then , she’s probably be in assisted living
ParticipantCost is a funny word. Kind of like free, plus shipping and handling.
If I can get the same product at a lower rate but I pay nothing upfront out of pocket, to get either one, are both loans free, or does the higher rate “cost” anything?
ParticipantI think one can get out by moving abroad?
Participant“People are gonna do what people do.” Louis ck.
Participant[quote=njtosd][quote=scaredyclassic]It’s difficult to live under the shadow of death. I’ve had this fear since 1979.
Probably the only thing we can do while we are waiting for the extinction of everything we are, have known and have loved, is at least to not waste the fish heads.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/07/286881659/why-we-should-quit-tossing-fish-heads-and-eat-em-up-instead-yum%5B/quote%5DFunny – my husband sings that song to (at) me when he wants to be annoying. The fish by products aren’t being wasted, though. They are being recycled in the most biological sense of the word into other marine creatures.
I’m lucky in that I don’t think about death unless something happens to someone close to me. I guess as I get older this will happen more….[/quote]
I think about my own death I’d say six times a day.FISH HEAD SOUP is good for pondering mortality because you have the fish looking at you in the pot. It’s impossible to deny it was a living creature like me, in the way a hamburger is a denial of reality.
FYI. the eyeball tastes good but there’s a hard part in the middle.
Participant[quote=njtosd][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=spdrun]Don’t men fear cancer just as much?[/quote]
Save the tatas not the testes[/quote]
I don’t quite know what scaredy’s response meant, but these statistics from the American Cancer Society suggest men have more to fear:
“Nearly half of all men and a little more than one-third of all women in the United States will have cancer during their lifetimes.”
Men are more likely to die of cancer as well.[/quote]
Lance Armstrong kind of ruined the face of testicular cancer.
ParticipantBuddhists would counter that living the life you want is bound to fail, because the only peace achievable on earth will come from the cessation of desires and wants.
Also it’s difficult to live the life you want when your people are dropping off around you, or travelling away.
Participant[quote=flyer]Interesting excerpt from an article:
“From the beginning of time, people have asked themselves the existential question, “If I am doomed to die, what is the point of my life?” It is a terrifying question and different people have attempted to answer it in different ways.
According to the author Ernest Becker, in his book The Denial of Death, most people put the notion of death out of their awareness and go about living their lives without thinking about their mortality.
However, there are times when the fact of death breaks through to their conscious minds. When that happens they become temporarily terrified until the crisis passes and they achieve a new balance. What causes mortality to break through to consciouness? The death of friends, relatives and loved ones confronts even the greatest deniers of the fact that life is finite.”
Personally, I don’t see any of this as a negative, and, although we can try to preserve ourselves as long as possible in various ways, mortal death is simply a condition of mortal life, and, in the final analysis, there’s nothing any of us can do about it.
What we can do is choose to live the lives we want to live while we’re here.[/quote]
OR in the immortal words of Garth, “party on, wayne.”
Participantabout ten years ago, I thought I had cracked a rib playing in the waves at the beach. My wife did not believe I had broken the rib. So i went to urgent care to get an X-ray to prove that i was worthy of sympathy. So I get the X-ray and the doctors eyes get really big and ushers me into another room. She pointed to a large mass by my intestines and said that i have some sort of tumorous growth and that was why i had this pain. It might very well be cancer she said. I was stunned but not surprised. i always feel I’m going to die. That weekend I was sad, but not extremely sad. I got my papers organized. everything seemed different, unreal. I hadn’t gotten my diagnosis yet but the doctor seemed pretty somber. i assumed the worst and assumed I would die soon …
When I had a radiologist review the X-rays four days later, he said the doctor was an idiot, that it was a large gas bubble.
I’m not sure what the mortal of the story is. Be ready for good or bad news at any time?
it’s unclear whether the rib was cracked. there may have been a hairline fracture but the X-ray was unclear.
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