Graham Hamblin
Location Central England
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Earth’s climate changes naturally for many reasons. i recall 1974/75 a new Ice Age was forecast covering cities like New York in ice etc. Still waiting!
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All useful stuff.
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Smoking, epidemiology predicts one in four smokers with get cancer? If correct three out of four won't. Were they told nicotine causes platelets in the blood to become sticky and increase the risk of unwanted blood clots it might be more helpful?
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I would put stress of modern living at the top of the list increased by the cessation of smoking?
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I smoked for over 68 years, cigarettes, a pipe and chewed tobacco and I gave them all up on impulse over 5 years ago. I never understood, no one ever explained why, but quite recently I came across a reason. Nicotine makes the blood platelets sticky and increases the potential for blood clots to form. If correct the nicotine replacement route beggars...
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I suspect my first stable angina attack, 30 years ago, was caused by over prescribing by my GP. Others years later when at rest by the synergy of eating grapefruit with pills I was taking. I have never had the slightest suggestion of one exercising or exerting myself.
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Increased stress levels due to increasing population? Animals go mad when their numbers increase beyond what is tolerable!
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I have clear memories of things, 18 months, three and a half years being the first of many but when I talk to people I lose track of what I am saying half way through a sentence.
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I have a bench, barbell and dumbbells and do an hour three times a week on alternate days. I usually, but not always walk on the other days.
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Oh you two again?
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An excellent course, well presented, I still have a lot to learn!
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The effect of ageing on a prescribed dose is not always taken into account.
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Above my pay grade, very interesting, I may have to re-read some of it again!
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I wash my sinuses out, daily, with a solution of common salt and bicarbonate of soda to prevent a sore throat from infected tonsils(removed in 1947 allegedly).
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I would do as others have suggested after asking what medication the person was taking and checking for side effects.
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........why particularly atopic diseases became so common.......?
Ask why those recorded have increased and it may not be they became so common but the recording of them has been better, more accurate and accounts for the increase? -
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When about 23 years old I suffered multiple wasp stings to my legs and suffered no ill effects at the time. Ten to fourteen days later my body swelled up all over and turned a rosy colour.
My GP first suspected food poisoning, then asked if I had been stung, treated me with antihistamine tablets and advised me to take them should I be stung in future, I... -
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Gout?
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Just interested. Wasp stings 60 years ago caused a delayed reaction two weeks after and I never knew why?
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At eighty years of age all I look forward to, when the time comes, is a quality death and this doesn't look much like it!
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Cutting finger nails to a minimum, no one mentions that?
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I accept what you say but without post mortem examinations and tests for the virus I postulate that it is impossible to tell if the person had died from an existing condition, if death was hasten by the virus or the main cause of death? If my suspicions are correct then the incidence of the virus is under represented in the figures?
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The daily figures of deaths put out by Government Sources in the UK appears to be flawed as it only relates to deaths in hospitals and does not for example include those who die at home, in care homes or elsewhere. They are not testing to confirm the dead have died from or have had the virus?
Similarly the numbers of persons who have or have had the virus...
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Thank you for this excellent course. I have really enjoyed it and now intend to go back through it and have a more detailed look at some of the links. Thanks again.
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Eighty years and still learning!!
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Good revision for me thank you.
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I smoked, mainly a pipe, for sixty eighty and a half years of my life and only stopped five years ago (Yes I started when I was seven), it was a good stress buster and I miss it the whole experience. I have no after effects.
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Wow I had a score of 24!
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I have a suspicion I may well have done this course before ;-)
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I have always found it necessary to aid my memory with note taking, diagrams etc.
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I suppose there maybe a combination of types of dementia in an individual person?
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The aspect of memory loss I find hard to understand is, I forget recent things even what I am saying halfway through a sentence but have a very clear memory of childhood events.
The earliest when I was 18 months old, then from the age of three years and onwards. Pure memory not refreshed by photographs or the like. It's most odd! -
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I am eighty years and wish to understand changes taking place in me and what is happening. I have broached the subject with my daughters who do not take me seriously.
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https://tinyurl.com/tk8nnep
Nördlingen in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, built in an impact crater, and identified as such by Gene Shoemaker?
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Illustrates what the Earth's surface would be like were there no atmosphere?
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Advice is ok, it can be heeded or ignored, but after living 80 years in my body I consider I know it better than others.
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I accept that exercise is beneficial to health but aren’t the rest periods between them where the body recovers essential to improving and maintaining fitness?
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The Dinorwig Power Station, known locally as Electric Mountain, at Llanberis an example of pumped storage.
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At eighty years of age I prefer to enjoy what is left of my life rather than spend it in hospitals, clinics, doctor's surgeries etc.
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The odd thing with memory is I sometimes forget what I am saying half way through a sentence but having very clear memories of an incident when I was 18 months old and several around the age of 3 years. Guess that is something to do with the hippocampi, but I will live with that!
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I would not want to know.
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A small confession, I now remember I have done this course before!
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It’s not sleeping too well, forgetting things you need to remember and remembering things you would sooner forget?
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It doesn’t work for me.
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A headless woman?
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We all die from something in the end just make the best of life while you can!
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Preach the benefits of exercise.
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Don’t look back, don’t look forward just enjoy the present!
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I had a settled attitude to death in my early forties now at 80 years I am surprised to still be around and enjoying life.
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Amazing, now 80years I smoked for sixty eight and a half of them, drank quite heavily, don’t eat fruit but plenty of fat, cheese, butter and meat and still here to tell the tale.
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I am 80 years and interested in learning why!
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They all appear normal happy children to me?
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This is worth looking at, it worked for me.
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Now eighty years I smoked in moderation, mainly a pipe, for sixty eight years and six months as far as I am aware without harm. I knew the risks, sticky platelets etc but pipe smoking helped me deal with my stress levels. My GP who knew me and my family well advised I continue but avoid alcohol.
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If I had to select one of the above it would be stress!
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In addition medicine to treat hypertension can cause angina pains when it’s effect is inadvertently enhanced by some foods, also the effect of age not being fully taken into account with the prescribed dose.
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Hello from a late starter.
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Instead of going to the doctor when ill in the hope of getting better some of us get sent for and given tests and treatment that can make us ill?
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My family, working class, paid threepence a week for the doctor, we could turn up at his surgery without appointment and be seen, get home and night visits. It wasn't all bad.
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I remember pre 1948 and given the choice I would prefer that to today's!
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When my life serves no useful purpose I wish to end it and my remains to be got rid of with the least fuss and agree daughters would be the biggest obstacle. Another is illness, medicine preventing or delaying natural death and being incapable of doing myself a mischief. The only option then refusing food and water if I could and a pretty horrible end
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Thank you doctor James and team.
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They are after your money?
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The advice at the end was the most important?
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Antoinette. Down under I was trying to think of something witty to say but did not want to offend you. I agree with your comments.
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There were two places I fell. In the garden whilst bending forward, now solved I got rid of the garden. Then under the shower when I closed my eyes to avoid the spray. Holding on to a rail stopped this but not the feeling I was going to fall. Going to the bathroom in the night is helped by using a torch to see where I am in relation to objects has...
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Dementia and one job at a time. If I am only capable of doing one job at a time, it's a non sequitur, do I have dementia?
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"compression stockings" Can be bought from fitlegs.com without prescription.
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I would have had problems in losing balance and the potential to fall in most of those tests but already aware of that would avoid such actions.
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I liked the bit, "Doing a course like this can be a good thing". It is and has been for me and I probably would not mention falling to my doctor or the practice nurse on my yearly well man thing! That's a laugh!
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Alcohol. But I do not fall down after imbibing!
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Going to the bathroom in the night and in the dark I have found it useful to use a dimmed torch. Coupled with that my falls in the shower have been avoided by making sure I keep my eyes well and truly open. I proffer these as examples of how best to maintain balance and avoid falling.
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I take notice of my doctor's advice on medication but having lived in my body for eighty years I know it better he/she does after a ten minute consultation. They, unlike my doctor in the early 1940's, have little knowledge of me and probably care even less. He didn't rate the introduction of the NHS and his predictions about it have all proved true. He...
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@HelenB It works for me Helen. The problem is looking through the reading bit, the magnification can make the step look closer than it is and create the potential to miss it and to fall.
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Fitting a rail over the bath for when I use the shower.
Exercise to strengthen my muscles. (Couldn't get off the floor before now I can)
With varifocal glasses I come down stairs backwards which means I am looking through the right bit rather than that used for reading.
Generally thinking about the hazards. -
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18 which is a bit of a worry.
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The consequences of falling? It depends who you tell, personally I would keep my trap shut!
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It's too late when the damage has been done at least learn from the experience.
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A lot of good advice from Rod. I sit down for my last pee at night before going to bed as I find it more conducive to emptying my bladder completely.
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A transient loss of concentration and loss of balance which I cannot recover. That's what happens to me.
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All of them?
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Gravity descent autumn.
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Hello
Eighty years old in five weeks time this is revision for me. It didn't stop me falling but helped me understand why! It's an excellent course -
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The modern theme is that is everybody else’s fault rather than the individual. It isn’t it’s up to us and how we deal with it we need help?
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I did okay.
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As a young man I would have called it something else, inferiority complex, and I dealt with that using booze and tobacco. Now 80 years old I do wonder if the advice should be relax, have a few beers and smokes and enjoy yourself rather than the current puritanical advice and drug therapy?
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I postulate body language is more important than what is said?
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All good stuff but at the end of the day you have to dig yourself out of the hole!
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I look forward to explanations of vivid dreams and memories of them.
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Optical illusions when the brain is fooled in what it believes the eyes have seen?
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I would add understanding others from their body language, it’s an acquired skill?
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I appear to be unable to read the comments of others?
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Hello Yasmin and thank you for your support. Looking after myself rather than relying on the medical profession. At 80 years I know my body better than doctors? @YasminIslam
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No thanks.
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I thank those who have put this excellent course together, I have enjoyed and benefited from it thank you.
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I have already made them and they appear to be working.
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Four years ago I was told I was borderline, offered metformin which I declined. I followed this advice, lost weight and now my HbA1c results are normal. At the time my GP’s surgery was unaware of the research@YasminIslam
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This link too Professor Roy Taylor's work on the subject may be of interest?
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Excellent and well presented. No mention of the effect of alcohol consumption on blood sugar levels? 80 years old and classed as borderline diabetic it doesn't appear to affect mine which remain in the accepted range
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Installing Atom with synaptic in Linux MX was simple enough installing python is a little problematic.
