Before you assume that LDL isn’t a good biomarker, read the entire article. Specifically this section:

> Why? In some ways, cholesterol has become a victim of its own success. We now screen the whole population for high cholesterol, give statins to those with high LDL (or ApoB), and so then the majority of people who end up having heart attacks have lower cholesterol than they would naturally have

In other words, in the study population patients who would have had high LDL were likely to be on statins. The had a lower measured LDL value even though they might still be consuming a poor diet and living an unhealthy lifestyle, for example. Statins don't fix everything about poor diet and lifestyle, but they do help with cholesterol.

So don’t go throwing LDL out yet. It’s still the best measure we have, though you should obviously know that LDL measured while on statins is lower than it would be normally.

The headline, therefore, is somewhat clickbait from a company trying to sell these tests to you outside of your insurance. I recommend checking your insurance to see if the tests would be covered before you go the self-pay route.

Edit to add: If your doctor won't order hs-CRP for some reason, you can order it from sites like privatemdlabs.com for $50 (less if you take their 25% off coupon).

I'm less interested in privacy browsers that just use Chromium and then slap some chrome around it.

Instead, what I want is a browser that actively blocks annoying page behaviors. For example, I want a browser that makes all text on a page selectable, prevents a page from trapping right-click, prevents a page from accessing the clipboard, ect, ect.

The Brazilian Supreme Court brought its own case and decided upon on it in a way that banana republics could only dream of doing.

People in the dispensary look better (slimmer) than in the wallmart.

> The researchers found that new cases of diabetes were significantly higher in the cannabis group (1,937; 2.2%) compared to the healthy group (518; 0.6%).

We know there's a path from obesity to diabetes. I think it would be interesting to see if there's a path from cannabis to obesity.

100%. This is working as it should.

Sad to see anti free speech sentiments all over the world. It was constrained to only some areas but now it’s normalized even in places like the UK. I guess with all that’s happening, Nepal doesn’t surprise me.