Health

Yikes!

The United States confirmed a case of New World screwworm in Texas, marking the first detection in the state in decades and raising concerns for the livestock industry reut.rs

Flesh-eating parasite confirmed in Texas cattle A New World screwworm has been confirmed in a calf in Texas, threatening the U.S. livestock indsutry and beef prices. weather.com

It is good to know. I shall try to eat more watermelon because my blood pressure is always slightly high…

"Watermelon is a great addition to an overall healthy dietary eating pattern because it provides potassium, lycopene, and citrulline, which synergistically can help support blood pressure and blood flow." — Michelle Routhenstein, preventive cardiology dietitian at EntirelyNourished.

Heart Disease: Eating More Watermelon May Lower Your Risk Research shows that watermelon is a nutrient-rich treat that may offer protection against heart disease when consumed as part of a balanced diet. healthline.com

I think AI Health is great, but I would be cautious with their explanations or advice. Always do your homework to verify or ask your doctor. Sometimes, I just want to understand my results or overall health, like weight/BMI or diabetic sugar levels.

Superpower Health Review: Is AI Good Enough To Be Your Doctor?

Superpower Health provides extensive biomarker testing to assess your health, but its dependence on AI makes its utility questionable.

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Medical tech keeps getting weirder and better. Chewing gum that fights gum disease is apparently a real thing now.

🔁 Reblogged from newscientist.com

A small trial found that chewing gum containing nitrate can ease the symptoms of gum disease by favouring the growth of beneficial mouth bacteria

Prebiotic chewing gum could be helpful for gum disease

via bsky.app

We have the right to be concerned about airborne diseases. However, the Andes strain isn’t new — it spreads through close contact, unlike most hantaviruses. And there’s no approved vaccine for it yet.

Remember what happened when Trump ignored COVID-19 warnings? We don’t want a repeat. Glad we caught this one early.

“This is not Covid, and we don’t want to treat it like Covid. We don’t want to cause a public panic over this. We want to treat it with our hantavirus protocols that were successful at containing outbreaks in the past.” — Acting CDC Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

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RFK Jr. wants to ban fluoride from U.S. drinking water. The science is messy — most studies showing harm involve fluoride levels far higher than what's in American taps. Experts are split, but most agree one thing is missing: solid research on American kids specifically.

“We do need fluoride. We need a good amount, and we should not panic about this.” — Dr. Danelle Fisher, pediatrician

Worth sitting with: should we be overhauling public health policy based on studies that weren't even done on American children?

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Being stranded on a ship in the ocean like that, with all the uncertainty about what is happening, is frightening. I would be scared, too.

“What’s happening right now is very real for all of us here. We’re not just a story. We’re not just headlines." — travel vlogger Jake Rosmarin

via CNN

It is an interesting read.

A little brain training today may help stave off Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia for at least 20 years.

Read more here.

US chicken looks pale and watery next to Icelandic chicken. And American bread molds in a week while Icelandic bread lasts way longer. Shocking, is it? What exactly are we putting in our food over here? 👀

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Amazon isn’t alone. Microsoft just launched Copilot Health and OpenAI has ChatGPT Health — everyone wants to be your AI doctor now. Useful? Maybe. But AI can get things wrong, so I’m treating any advice as a starting point, not a verdict. I’ll always do my own research before acting on anything.