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TIDE-HSV

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Your body makes DIM by digesting broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage or kale.

It's good that there a pill you can take :)
Well, one capsule is about the same as a pound of broccoli. I've inherited the accursed "supertaster gene," which affects about 20% of the population. It's an ancient evolutionary defense against being poisoned. Broccoli, for example, to me tastes very bitter, with an aftertaste of iron filings. Tart apples give me salivary gland cramps on the sides of my jaws. To my wife, broccoli tastes sweet only. We don't tend to live as long because we don't eat our veggies. You do realize all those cruciforms are really just cabbage?
 

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Well, one capsule is about the same as a pound of broccoli. I've inherited the accursed "supertaster gene," which affects about 20% of the population. It's an ancient evolutionary defense against being poisoned. Broccoli, for example, to me tastes very bitter, with an aftertaste of iron filings. Tart apples give me salivary gland cramps on the sides of my jaws. To my wife, broccoli tastes sweet only. We don't tend to live as long because we don't eat our veggies. You do realize all those cruciforms are really just cabbage?
i can't eat broccoli at all and really dislike brussels sprouts so don't eat them. i can eat kale and cabbage without any ill effects.
 

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How old do you have to be to go on Medicare?
Generally, Medicare is available for people age 65 or older, younger people with disabilities and people with End Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplant). Medicare has two parts, Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Part B (Medicare Insurance).

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Generally, Medicare is available for people age 65 or older, younger people with disabilities and people with End Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplant). Medicare has two parts, Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Part B (Medicare Insurance).

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I join the club effective September 1.
 

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I join the club effective September 1.
Thanks for the article. Those veggies are some of my favorites. I have passed this to my BIL who has some issues here. CANVAS is my 600 lb gorilla. Among other symptoms, unfortunately, it has robbed me of my sense of taste and smell.

Covering more than one base, I have Medicare A & B plus my Federal BCBS. Since 2018, I qualify for human pin cushion. I also keep all the MRI equipment and personnel in business. Medicare is my primary, with BCBS secondary. Some items Medicare does not cover, but BCBS does. BCBS also covers co-pays. Except for meeting the yearly minimums, I have not any cost. My wife and sons typically cover the yearly minimums since they are all younger than 65. In 2018, I started IVIG treatment at home. This was three days of treatment each month. I did this for two years until I realized that I was longer getting a benefit from the treatment. As an example of the cost of this treatment a single day's IVIG was billed to me for $150,000. This was from BCBS because Medicare did not cover it.

However, the good news was that BCBS had a billing error. Once all the dust had settled, I owed nothing. That was a great weight lifted off my back!!
 

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Good luck to your daughter with the heat and the health condition. Nothing we can do with the weather except talk about it. It is unfortunate that scoundrels have so many buffaloed about the climate. I hope the best for your daughter.
 
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Good luck to your daughter with the heat and the health condition. Nothing we can do with the weather except talk about it. It is unfortunate that scoundrels have so many buffaloed about the climate. I hope the best for your daughter.
Most public buildings in Europe are built to retain heat, not to resist it. She told me yesterday that her room is right by the helipad, which is very busy, since there are 1200 doctors based in the rare disease facility. She says slightly cooler today - 90F. However, they forgot her breakfast and didn't serve her lunch until 1:00...
 
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Walgreens in Spanish Fort still has condoms on the non-pharmacy selves. I purchased some for my 19 and 17 year old men. I am drafting up my spiel to them in coordination with wife so I have not distributed these yet. I am a firm believer in better safe than sorry. What was that Tricky Dick saying? "If you have them by the *****, their heart and mind will follow." I believe this quote was on the Watergate tapes. Teenagers are riding a bucking bronco.
 

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this is why mark cuban's attempts at cutting out PBMs/middlemen in the prescription medication realm has been so helpful for many of my patients. its amazing when you take out those layers of bureaucracy in the prescription medication distribution process how much less meds cost to the patient.
 
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this is why mark cuban's attempts at cutting out PBMs/middlemen in the prescription medication realm has been so helpful for many of my patients. its amazing when you take out those layers of bureaucracy in the prescription medication distribution process how much less meds cost to the patient.
That would be nice on a wider level, were it possible in today's environment. I am glad someone is benefitting.
 
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