There goes one of the main arguments why I've been using Android over iPhone
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swe_dima commented on Older Americans Are About to Lose a Lot of Weight theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/paulpauper
Last year I decided to give a try to semaglutides,
at the time I was exercising pretty heavy, both weight lifting and long distance running.
And then I went to vacation to Maldives for a couple of weeks. Not much chance to exercise when you are locked on a tiny island.
I surely lost some fat during these 2 weeks, but the amount of muscles I lost? Jeeez! I think it offset my training goals by 2 months.
I realized how unhealthy it was, you are literally starving and not feeling it, and I kept myself on a low dose!
When you consume food it's not just calories, it's also nutrients, if you eat a lot less you are body is missing out on all the essentials!
So it might be a magic pill in some sense, but in other it's extremely unhealthy.
Later that year I have actually lost more weight by doing more long-distance running, that motherfucker burns calories big time and in a healthier way.
swe_dima commented on Vercel: Improved Infrastructure Pricing vercel.com/blog/improved-... · Posted by u/sarreph
Also seeing a 400% increase in pricing after this.
Mostly due to cache reads / writes if I had to guess, the dashboard isn't showing any data currently.
Overall, it's really not clear how this can be optimized. It's... cache... You could have less cache writes, but it means your users see stale content, which isn't an acceptable solution.
The wording that 92% of people see smaller bills since many people host projects that aren't really being used, anyone who has traffic is going to get higher bills.
swe_dima commented on 11.8M CHF for clinical trials of novel arthritis repair unibas.ch/en/University/F... · Posted by u/taubek
swe_dima commented on 11.8M CHF for clinical trials of novel arthritis repair unibas.ch/en/University/F... · Posted by u/taubek
I have a friend I am advocating for who has degenerative arthritis in their ankles in their early 30s and are on their way to being wheelchair bound. Are there any resources you could recommend that would enable me to improve their outcome? Your comment is very helpful already, I appreciate it.
Just like in programming, the boring but true answer is "it depends", because every situation is different.
A generic advice that I learned is that muscle-strengthening exercises help A LOT. Basically muscles form a protective corset around your knee and reduce the stress on your joints by a lot.
Also, arthritis often happens due to low blood flow, so as painful as it may be, you have to keep moving, try not to sit too much.
Another generic piece of advice is controlling your weight, this is just simple math, the less you weigh, the less stress your knee receives.
What also worked for me was hyaluronic acid injections, when I was in a lot of pain and it was hard to work on my muscles, hyaluronic acid helped to reduce this pain by being a good lubricant. Probably I am going overboard with it now, but I keep having injections every 3 months just to be safe. It can be of different concentration and volume. If you inject something with a smaller % you have to do it multiple times in a row with 5-7 days between, if you inject something with a higher % then a single injection is okay.
The PRP / SVF part you already read about. I am also a 31 yo, so while I am young my body is better at regeneration, I don't think elderly people get the same effect from these. I did 3 sessions x 5 PRP injections with 6 months between sessions. The effect is by no means immediate.
It's certainly a hard road, but better than a wheelchair.
swe_dima commented on 11.8M CHF for clinical trials of novel arthritis repair unibas.ch/en/University/F... · Posted by u/taubek
I read in a previous post of yours that you did 50!! PRP injections. I was also advised to get PRP injections by a doc, he said a lot of top athletes suffer from cartilage damage, and they do these injections to prolong their careers. But then I was held back because it seemed they had a business from doing these PRP shots, I didn't trust them. They were also pretty expensive, around 500 euros/shot, and you needed to do several. But 50? that seems a lot, and a lot of times you had your blood drawn. In the Netherlands where I live, the doc didn't even mention PRPs, he jumped straight to a microfracture surgery. It felt like the guy was looking for someone to practice surgery on, hate these doctors.
I was recently talking to a colleague of mine from Canada who needs to get shoulder surgery but there's no end in sight for the waiting.
I think it's worth it considering getting a paid surgery in a "2nd world" country, like Kazakhstan, Turkey, Russia (pre-war, feels uneasy going there now) and etc. Things there cost 10 times less and most surgeries, where hospitals don't need very advanced equipment, are probably done on the same level as "1st world" countries.
swe_dima commented on 11.8M CHF for clinical trials of novel arthritis repair unibas.ch/en/University/F... · Posted by u/taubek
How did the half marathons go? Any pain?
Managed to finish in the top 10% after 6 months of preparation.
There was no pain during them, but once you cool down you feel all the beating you received.
I mean, I am still not 100% healthy, I get some swelling after exercise, and I don't think I can compete with anyone doing it seriously, I just can't get the same volume of exercise a healthy person can. Like, I can only run 10-16km every 2 days, because I need to give my knee time to recover, while a healthy person can run it every day.
But hell, just some time ago I was looking with jealousy at people running at all.
swe_dima commented on 11.8M CHF for clinical trials of novel arthritis repair unibas.ch/en/University/F... · Posted by u/taubek
I read in a previous post of yours that you did 50!! PRP injections. I was also advised to get PRP injections by a doc, he said a lot of top athletes suffer from cartilage damage, and they do these injections to prolong their careers. But then I was held back because it seemed they had a business from doing these PRP shots, I didn't trust them. They were also pretty expensive, around 500 euros/shot, and you needed to do several. But 50? that seems a lot, and a lot of times you had your blood drawn. In the Netherlands where I live, the doc didn't even mention PRPs, he jumped straight to a microfracture surgery. It felt like the guy was looking for someone to practice surgery on, hate these doctors.
Of those 50 injections around 15 were PRP and the rest were hyaluronic acid injections.
I was doing them back in Russia and a PRP injection there would cost around $80.
I keep doing hyaluronic acid injections every 3 months just to be safe, whatever I am doing it seems to be working, so I continue doing them. Right now I live in Georgia they cost around $105 here ($90 for the syringe, $15 for the doctor).
SVF seemed to have a much stronger effect than PRP, it's hard to quantify, but I would say a single SVF felt close to all the PRPs I did before.
Though if Indonesia has blocked VPNs only now, possibly they only block major providers and don't try to detect the VPN protocol itself, which would make self-hosting any VPN possible.