The first casualty of war is always _________ . Economics is a battlefield. And the enemy controls the most ground. So logically, most of the world exists in a state of _____________ . #Econ

🤔 idea... Maybe I could encourage neurons to reconnect by always using both hands when I'm feeling temperature (or not, if left hand). That way the brain knows what it *should* be feeling. 🤔🤔

Bam. There, I did it. Sent an email to a lab director who's doing genomic mining. His lab hits everything I'm interested in, all the processes, every door that opens to more stuff, cuz I have ideas and interests already mapped out. I hope he accepts. He's a top researcher at a tier1 research university and he's well cited and talks at conferences. Getting into his lab would be amazing.

I should be studying for the final exam, but instead I'm researching nickel toxicicity and how to reverse it. There's a lot... There's definitely some options. But one thing came up - NAC - that we've probably all heard of from the covid debacle. It looks like if you did 4 main things, you could probably reverse nickel damage to your genome/epigenome and minimize cancer risk and maybe even reverse cancer with a little extra push from some drug. First, get plenty of iron so iron is available to replace the nickel after dislodging it, and yes it must be dislodged cuz it realllllly tightly binds your DNA. Then, simultaneously, focus on a "methylation diet" and in particular go for the B vitamins and Betaine (just in case you have the motherfucker gene). You need all four parts of that diet, but maybe some parts more, depending. Third, use NAC and eat broccoli. Your cells need NAC to upregulate metallothioneins, which grab the Ni2+ off the phosphate they're glued to. The broccoli is good because sulphoraphane opens up the chromatin loops that wound around the Ni. And fourth, have fasting days. That puts the pin in it, remethylating the genes that got demethylated. And exercise, do HIIT - same reason. There's more... A lot more... But those seem most salient. And friends don't let friends drink from stainless steel thermices.

I just experienced an error in the matrix... I can't make this make sense... So, the lab ended at 10am, so I go to the library and studied for 1 hour, then take the elevator up to the testing center to take an exam for my bio class. I'm 100% sure I went up and had by butt in the seat no later than 1105. This test took me a little longer than usual, so after checking all the questions I public a star next to, I exited the test center at 1145. I'm 100% sure of that time because I looked at my phone when I pulled it out of the locker - bags and phones aren't allowed in the testing room. So I had 15 min before my ride would show up, so I went back to the lab to see if anyone was around. I signed in, again looking at my phone for the time. A couple minutes later, in mid conversation, I again look at my phone, and a whole hour has passed. It said 1240-something. I can't account for that hour... Its impossible for me to have spent that time in the test because they have a 75 minute time limit (and i struggle to imagine needing so much time), and its impossible for the time to disappear in mid conversation. Did we just freeze for an hour and then pick up mid sentence without noticing anything? Did the men in black use a neutralizer on me? I'm so confused....