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Thank you and great job! Dr. Heimlich was from Cincinnati and never actually performed his maneuver, but it was his concept. Spell check doesn't like his name. I learn it every couple years in CPR review and hope I have presence of mind to use it in an actual emergency.

To OP - when is it okay then? I think most would agree it's fine to get a cleft palate or broken nose that healed badly fixed. Orthodontics and treatment for bad acne is a change from nature too. Mostly I think natural seems best, but people can do what they want.

You could try kinesiotape in a * pattern over the lump.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001VNE7TK/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1416312697&sr=8-4π=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

I got an inguinal hernia while pregnant and although it was painful surgery of course not advisable then, so I kept it taped which did really help control the lump and I continued for couple months after having baby. It became negligible and now just feel slight swelling if I get a cough or do heavy lifting. This is 10 years later so not completely better, but definitely not worth even considering surgery.

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I'm 44. Read through and imagined BGKA and then Michael S. were about my age, so when it occurred to me that Mythmaker might be about my age I wrote that down- and was way wrong.

Will guess DAO rain TAO as 27.

Actually, it didn't work for any killer instinct. My older son has done football, some karate and now jujitsu. I met Relson Gracie; he's terrific.

Honor!!

I'd say those sports were good for confidence and I didn't push him to do any of them or to be aggressive, but he's not, he is mild mannered, laid back kid. His younger brother is sort of a punk and embarrasses him by talking smack to the cool kids on the bus- and he likes soccer and gymnastics.

True. But for mentality, maybe something competitive like football?

 

Again, he's still young, but perhaps one day...

Yes, but was trying to think of sports for preschoolers. Oh my, I have mixed feelings on football. It's a dumb injury prone sport. My son broke his upper arm last year and this year he choose not too play, partly because shoulder still a little weak and I did my best to talk him out of it. They really do grow up a lot and develop some mental toughness and tight bonds with teammates after a couple years of tackle football though.

Thanks for your answers. I want him to do martial arts but he is too young, its hard enough to get him to concentrate on his swimming class for half an hr with only 5 in the class. The role play idea is good i will try that. From what some people have told me who i know have that instinct is to get angry. I don't feel telling the teacher or relying on others is a good idea, that's no way for him to earn respect. cheers!

How about gymnastics/tumbling? I think one of the most practical aspects of martial arts is it helps people get comfortable with being physical and getting back up when they fall or get knocked down.

I really liked our preschool director. There really weren't any punishments and the teachers were very positive. If one child took a toy another was playing with they would sit down and talk about how would you feel if someone took your toy? so this is how your friend feels too, how else can you work this out? The kids seemed to get along really well. Direction from teachers regarding virtue and compassion unfortunately went straight downhill after those years.

Mostly I love nature, but there are some moments. Last spring, barefoot running on grass trails at the local wetlands park. Mist rising off the ponds, surrounded by meadows of prairie grasses and flowers. Walking back to parking lot, frogs were singing, feeling peace and love with nature. Heard a high chirping in tall grass along the trail and peered down expecting to see some cute creature. It was a little mouse being shoved down a big black snake's mouth. I contemplated rescuing it, but went home and let nature take its course. Sure was a mood buster.

44 (for Mythmaker).

Asking for any known methods of healing that can completely regenerate ligament/cartilage irrespective of damage to within reason. I would think that some time along the millenia that the Taoists or others might have found a way to regenerate bone. Seeing as how common ACL injuries are?

Modern people sit in chairs and are quadriceps dominant (ACL antagonist) and hamstrings (ACL agonist) are unbalanced, weak, and or inflexible, so it probably was less common until last 100 years.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/10831762/

I don't know of any cases where it regrew, but some evidence that training hamstring can give acl deficient knee dynamic support.

I think your book author was wrong. First, it's cool if you have kids, because as they get older you get to talk to them and their friends and help them pursue different ideas and interests and they have music and expression that is new to me all the time. Then, it seems like when kids grow up and live on their own parents start redecorating and pursuing more hobbies and taking time for themselves to try food and travel that is less family oriented. I talked to a 70+ year old guy last week who remarried last year and he told me he and his new wife are hoping to stay healthy as long as possible because they are so happy together and have lots of plans to travel and have fun with their friends and he also wants to build a cabin. Sometimes the same experiences are okay anyway, watching sunrises, working in the yard, and walking around local festivals looking at arts and crafts people have made are things I've done many times and pretty mundane, but still don't seem like tired old entrenched habits.

A lot of really busy people don't seem to actually get much done either. What use is anything? The universe can take care of itself just fine without all these stressed out people.

in which z makes an important discovery

 

How to talk to them? Not "convert" them, but get them to understand their arrogance? To look at things from another perspective? I'm sure many have experienced difficulty with this...?

Received it today, hoping for some weekend reading time. Thanks again to JustaRandomPanda fun game and very kind of you (-:

Three point eight mil hits

But they still never listen

Heard it all before.

Publish or perish

Let's wish same for Popes. Long healthy life for Francis, then that'll be enough of them.

Yay! Thanks Panda! Love to all of you.

Fatherpaul went home for celestial pancakes. I don't know about the rest.

There is a thread going about how scientists are hesitant to study paranormal and mystics, but this seems wilder than anything the mystics have come up with.

from

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-discover-childrens-cells-living-in-mothers-brain/

Scientists Discover Childrens Cells Living in Mothers Brains

The connection between mother and child is ever deeper than thought

Dec 4, 2012 |By Robert Martone

iStock / Анастасия Попова

The link between a mother and child is profound, and new research suggests a physical connection even deeper than anyone thought. The profound psychological and physical bonds shared by the mother and her child begin during gestation when the mother is everything for the developing fetus, supplying warmth and sustenance, while her heartbeat provides a soothing constant rhythm.

The physical connection between mother and fetus is provided by the placenta, an organ, built of cells from both the mother and fetus, which serves as a conduit for the exchange of nutrients, gasses, and wastes. Cells may migrate through the placenta between the mother and the fetus, taking up residence in many organs of the body including the lung, thyroid muscle, liver, heart, kidney and skin. These may have a broad range of impacts, from tissue repair and cancer prevention to sparking immune disorders.

It is remarkable that it is so common for cells from one individual to integrate into the tissues of another distinct person. We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as singular autonomous individuals, and these foreign cells seem to belie that notion, and suggest that most people carry remnants of other individuals. As remarkable as this may be, stunning results from a new study show that cells from other individuals are also found in the brain. In this study, male cells were found in the brains of women and had been living there, in some cases, for several decades. What impact they may have had is now only a guess, but this study revealed that these cells were less common in the brains of women who had Alzheimers disease, suggesting they may be related to the health of the brain.

We all consider our bodies to be our own unique being, so the notion that we may harbor cells from other people in our bodies seems strange. Even stranger is the thought that, although we certainly consider our actions and decisions as originating in the activity of our own individual brains, cells from other individuals are living and functioning in that complex structure. However, the mixing of cells from genetically distinct individuals is not at all uncommon. This condition is called chimerism after the fire-breathing Chimera from Greek mythology, a creature that was part serpent part lion and part goat. Naturally occurring chimeras are far less ominous though, and include such creatures as the slime mold and corals.

Microchimerism is the persistent presence of a few genetically distinct cells in an organism. This was first noticed in humans many years ago when cells containing the male Y chromosome were found circulating in the blood of women after pregnancy. Since these cells are genetically male, they could not have been the womens own, but most likely came from their babies during gestation.

In this new study, scientists observed that microchimeric cells are not only found circulating in the blood, they are also embedded in the brain. They examined the brains of deceased women for the presence of cells containing the male Y chromosome. They found such cells in more than 60 percent of the brains and in multiple brain regions. Since Alzheimers disease is more common in women who have had multiple pregnancies, they suspected that the number of fetal cells would be greater in women with AD compared to those who had no evidence for neurological disease. The results were precisely the opposite: there were fewer fetal-derived cells in women with Alzheimers. The reasons are unclear.

Microchimerism most commonly results from the exchange of cells across the placenta during pregnancy, however there is also evidence that cells may be transferred from mother to infant through nursing. In addition to exchange between mother and fetus, there may be exchange of cells between twins in utero, and there is also the possibility that cells from an older sibling residing in the mother may find their way back across the placenta to a younger sibling during the latters gestation. Women may have microchimeric cells both from their mother as well as from their own pregnancies, and there is even evidence for competition between cells from grandmother and infant within the mother.

What it is that fetal microchimeric cells do in the mothers body is unclear, although there are some intriguing possibilities. For example, fetal microchimeric cells are similar to stem cells in that they are able to become a variety of different tissues and may aid in tissue repair. One research group investigating this possibility followed the activity of fetal microchimeric cells in a mother rat after the maternal heart was injured: they discovered that the fetal cells migrated to the maternal heart and differentiated into heart cells helping to repair the damage. In animal studies, microchimeric cells were found in maternal brains where they became nerve cells, suggesting they might be functionally integrated in the brain. It is possible that the same may true of such cells in the human brain.

These microchimeric cells may also influence the immune system. A fetal microchimeric cell from a pregnancy is recognized by the mothers immune system partly as belonging to the mother, since the fetus is genetically half identical to the mother, but partly foreign, due to the fathers genetic contribution. This may prime the immune system to be alert for cells that are similar to the self, but with some genetic differences. Cancer cells which arise due to genetic mutations are just such cells, and there are studies which suggest that microchimeric cells may stimulate the immune system to stem the growth of tumors. Many more microchimeric cells are found in the blood of healthy women compared to those with breast cancer, for example, suggesting that microchimeric cells can somehow prevent tumor formation. In other circumstances, the immune system turns against the self, causing significant damage. Microchimerism is more common in patients suffering from Multiple Sclerosis than in their healthy siblings, suggesting chimeric cells may have a detrimental role in this disease, perhaps by setting off an autoimmune attack.

This is a burgeoning new field of inquiry with tremendous potential for novel findings as well as for practical applications. But it is also a reminder of our interconnectedness.

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