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Dr Alex Kennerly Vasquez

Sep 26, 2022

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Health Homework (1) Go Donate Blood

3 reasons to donate blood: 1. You can save someone’s life… …if they’ve lost too much blood in an accident, surgery, …if they cannot make enough blood due to ill…

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HEALTH HOMEWORK (2) Sprout lentils

Did you already donate blood? See Health Homework no1 Given the international instability unleashed as “Covid” and “the Great Reset”, everybody needs to have already given some basic thought to strategy, planning, and some stocking/survival preparations…

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See also Fascinating biology of sprouting lentils [VIDEOS] at 12, 36, and 48 hours

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Fascinating biology of sprouting lentils [VIDEOS] at 12, 36, and 48 hours

Dear All—I expect to be back in the saddle more consistently now that I have gone through 3 internet service providers in the past month trying to get reliable internet service; as of today (Monday, May 9), I am paying double to have a redundant system for ensured reliability…

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Health Homework (3.1) FEED yourself some BRAIN CANDY [books, audiobooks]

Bonus: This article includes 2 complete PDF books Intellectual growth: If you want to be smart(er), then you have to exercise your mind by exposing yourself to new ideas, new words, new concepts. For a tree to become tall and great, it must twine hard roots around hard rocks…

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Health Homework (3.2) GIFT yourself this BRAIN CANDY VIDEO: War on Sense-making, Schmachtenberger 2019

Sloppy thinking, fake $cience, and psychological manipulation (not diseases and viruses) are the biggest threats to human survival, health, happiness, and freedom. If you want to have a sharp mind and useful insight at the moment of need, then you must train your brain ahead of time…

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Health Homework (3.3) H.O.T.* Brain Candy, Conceptual Expansion w D.Snowden 2016, 2021

Let’s use these four presentations provided below as exercises to push our brains to stretch and grow even more so that we can create more capacity for new ideas that will come in the future. During my last year of medical school, our top-ranked University began a new program which they called …

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Health Homework (4) Buy Test Strips for Urine pH and Ketones

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."* *attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Bruce Lee, and Leonardo da Vinci—if you can provide the exact original source, please leave it below in the comments Everybody thinks their diet is…

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Health Homework (5) Relax and Do Nothing

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind…

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Health Homework (6.1) Overcome Nihilism ... in 2 Easy Steps ... but the first step is recognizing it

“Nihilism stands at the door. Whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?” Friedrich Nietzsche…

2 years ago · 6 likes · Dr Alex Kennerly Vasquez

The second part to the above post is still being written; I was waiting on our items —including books— to arrive from Europe so that I could reference a particular textbook on nihilism.

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Health Homework (7) shop around for some NAC and buy at least 2 bottles…before it disappears

The clinically useful form of the amino acid L-cysteine is called N-acetyl-cysteine, or acetylcysteine, or simply NAC. This particular amino acid has been used safely and effectively for decades and in fact is so safe and effective for such a wide range of conditions that it has been considered one of the “essential medicines…

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Health Homework (8, extended video) TWENTY TIPS for Negotiating Financial-Legal Contracts

This is Part 1 in an upcoming series: Hard-Fought Hard-Won Experience and Advice (TI,LI,SY*) from DrV: part1 on Negotiating Legal Contracts Negotiating Legal Contracts Hiring Attorneys International Business International Bank Accounts, Transfer Services…

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Health Homework (9) Throw away 3 things that are hurting you

“Throw away your low self-esteem clothes.” Julia Cameron, Artist’s Date Book I have mentioned in most of my books the writings and influences of Henry Rollins and Julia Cameron. I chanced upon Henry Rollins’ book One from None at a used record store (Record Rack, Houston Texas) in 1991, which was the same year it was published. To be sure, that book chan…

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Health Homework (10) Live your bucket list now… or at least as soon as possible

Your bucket list isn't going to fulfil itself; you have to live it when you “have” —when you make, when you create, when you force— the time and opportunity. “Jump into experience while you are alive! Think and think while you are alive. What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time before death…

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Health Homework (11) Make peace with Brussels sprouts

“We only make peace with our enemies—that is why it is called making peace.” George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones (season 1, episode 7) I can’t talk about Brussels sprouts without assuming that everyone has been as traumatized as I have been by eating mushy tasteless disgusting Brussels sprouts at some point in their youth or early adulthood…

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Health Homework (12) Take advantage of frozen spinach for easy phytochemical boost

Frozen spinach is easy to work with, stores indefinitely (thereby providing convenience and avoiding wasted money and energy) and perfect for cooking wherein the texture is mostly irrelevant. Although I don’t have any love for fresh spinach especially in salads (because it makes my teeth feel fuzzy, aka "spinach teeth" supposedly because of the oxalic a…

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Health Homework (13) Learn how to protect yourself physically

We take antioxidants to protect ourselves from free radicals (biochemical defense), and we exercise to protect ourselves from weakness (eg, sarcopenia, lack of muscle), depression, cancer and cardiovascular disease (metabolic defense). But most doctors never advocate…

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Health Homework (14) Eat something new ...in a new place ...with new people

Can you name the FIVE FRUITS in this picture? Most people cannot. A world of fruits (and other foods) exists beyond the relative few that we find in American supermarkets. One can imagine the richness of antioxidant, flora-modifying, anti-inflammatory (etc) phytochemicals waiting to be sampled…

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Health Homework (15) Learn how to blow-up (inflate) your pants …and upright a swamped canoe

I hadn’t thought about this (anti-drowning) procedure in many years until I saw a somewhat random video* yesterday. *video provided at the bottom of this page I learned how to blow-up/inflate my pants for flotation purposes when I was about eight or nine years old, around the same time I learned how to upright a swamped canoe, which can actually follow a…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Dr Alex Kennerly Vasquez

The above post is a continuation on the theme of avoiding drowning; see my post from 10Oct2022 when I learned how fast drowning can occur, and this is why I have more respect for this topic of water safety; I nearly drowned at my favorite beach …in my favorite city of San Sebastian… in my favorite region of Pais Vasco, the Basque Region.

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DrV's Health Homework CATALOG

useful and practical information for implementation, or at least strong consideration

This page provides easy and organized access to previous installments in the series on “Health Homework”—useful and practical information for implementation, or at least strong consideration.

This page is up-to-date as of the initial posting (26Sep2022) and will be periodically updated.

See also Fascinating biology of sprouting lentils [VIDEOS] at 12, 36, and 48 hours

The second part to the above post is still being written; I was waiting on our items —including books— to arrive from Europe so that I could reference a particular textbook on nihilism.

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