toilet design for very-low water usage

7.24: gear/toilet/design for very-low water usage:

keyboard tray for reclined use without sliding

7.28: proj.gear/table for kybd in bed/
make a fence to preventing kybd sliding:
. when using the table for kybd in bed
 I like to have the table at a slight angle,
 but then the kybd tends to slide off,
 so the table needs a little fence in front,
 and found just the adapter among my junk hardware:
 there are angle brackets for reinforcing cabinets .
 . I screwed a pair of them into place near the edge .

compressed natural gas will save us

7.7: gear/mobi/compressed natural gas will save us:
. after trying cycling with a mobile home,
it occurred to me that I might need
quite a bit of distance to find safe places to park it
given I spend time at the city's library
but there are often city-wide bans on car-camping .
. the healthiest economical engine
runs on compressed natural gas
and many cars are converting to this
(4 million in latin america).

weightlifting away alzheimers

7.18: news.health/alz/weightlifting away alzheimers:
summary:
. comparing weightlifting to aerobics
for reductions in cognitive decline;
weightlifting was much better for women
at least if they started doing it
before the cognitive decline advanced much .
. the comparison used only women because,
an aerobic study of men found that
among the elderly, only the women
responded cognitively to aerobics .
. while weightlifting was better than aerobics
aerobics can do some good for women,
but only at near-daily application of
an earnest 80% target heart rate;
ie, 4 days per week was interesting,
while 2 days of less intensity was not .
. if she had only 2 days to work,
resistance training is what helped .

. he is welcome to do aerobics
but needs to also do weightlifting,
or needs to complement aerobics with
a diet that optimizes these parameters:
Fasting insulin, cortisol, and IGF-I .
. other tests that male aerobics didn't help
were brain-derived neurotrophic factor,
and β-amyloids 40 and 42 .

. light aerobics in women
did improve one memory test:
the Rey Auditory Visual Learning Test.
( given a list of 15 unrelated words
repeated over five different trials
and are asked to repeat.
Another list of 15 unrelated words are given
and the client must again repeat
the original list of 15 words
and then again after 30 minutes.
Approximately 10 to 15 minutes
is required for the procedure
(not including 30 min. interval)).

another win for heavier aerobics
(walking 45 minutes 3 days per week)
was that at an age where the hippocampus
was normally declining 1.5%,
that level of aerobics was increasing it by 2% !
. it also increased BDNF
(brain-derived neurotrophic factor).

"By midcentury, care for people with Alzheimer's
will cost the U.S. over $1 trillion.

Four Clinical Trials Further Clarify The Role Of
Physical Activity In Cognitive Function And Dementia.

Moderate walking may grow brain region related to memory;
increase nerve growth factor.

Resistance Training Promotes Cognitive and
Functional Brain Plasticity in Seniors With
Probable Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Resistance training and executive functions:
a 12-month randomized controlled trial.
-- contrast Baker's study:
Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Mild Cognitive Impairment

Refining Exercise Prescription
to Promote Executive Functions in Older Adults
using Multi-State Transition Modeling
-- that description matches this study:
Resistance training and executive functions:
a 12-month randomized controlled trial.

online art galleries

7.25: news.wealth/online galleries:
googleartproject.com/
The Web Gallery of Art:

. a virtual museum and searchable database of
European painting and sculpture of the
Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque,
Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850),
currently containing over 29.000 reproductions .

the smithsonian
The Museum of Modern Art
the british museum
France's Louvre
www.louvre.fr/en/selections
[offline at the time]
www.onlineartgallery.org.uk/

huperzine complements

7.20: news.wealth/things that go good with hup:
a reviewer of huperzine commented:

This is one of the best staples in my regime
for concentration and motivation.
Any effects on mood, I can easily
counteract it with Ashwagandha
or even a cup of coffee.
Great to mix with Pine Bark
for an added mental kick and proper dosing.
My concentration improves some,
and my recall / short term is always 100% sharper.

4g huperzine.

MAO-A inhibitors in tribulus

7.30: news.wealth/tribulus/
"reversible" Monoamine Oxidase A inhibitor:
. related to dopamine?
Tribulus extracts may contain "reversible"
inhibitors of Monoamine Oxidase A .
forum.lef.org/
www.springerlink.com/
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

MAO-A can selectively metabolize
adrenaline, noradrenaline, serotonin,
and dopamine to inactive compounds.
Tribulus contains Harmine,
a short-acting, "reversible" MAOI-A inhibitor
The inhibition of MAO-A prevents the degradation of
adrenaline, noradrenaline, serotonin, and dopamine
and the result can be increased mood,
alleviation of depression  and more energy.
High dopamine levels can stimulate the pituitary gland
to release lutenizing hormone (LH)
which leads to an increase in testosterone levels
and thus elevating libido, another mood enhancer.
Harmine is "reversible" because it
does not bind permanently to MAO-A,
thus is not as contraindicated with
tyramine-containing foods (cheese, red wine, etc)
as irreversible MAOI's,
nor does harmine raise levels of tyramine per se
since it allows tyramine to be metabolized.
The short-acting and non-permanency
of it's binding capabilities means that
the anti-depressive effects of harmine
usually cease 24-48 hours after stopping therapy.
. with a half-life of 2.5 hours,
several doses are necessary;
eg 3 * 750 ... 1,500 mg
of standardized 45% steroidal sapponins.

. lef member suggests tribestan .
tribulus at Beyond A Century:
(bac's 1kg, 100g, High-Protodiocin 50g).
9.23:
[. this was added to the health store page
under performance/mood enhanced .]

schiz'ia thought to be related to autism

7.31: co.fb/med/schiz'ia/thought to be related to autism:
How Autism is Changing the World for Everybody     io9.com
[@] news.med/autism/
How Autism is Changing the World for Everybody
There's not much doubt that autism, along with Asperger Syndrome,
is finally becoming accepted as a normal part of the human fabric.
Even if some people still see autism as a condition that needs to be "treated,"
it's increasingly obvious that people on the autism spectrum
are finding ways to...
--
. interesting that an article about
people misunderstanding autism
also noted that some had seen autism
as related to childhood schizophrenia;
because, schiz'ia too is quite misunderstood .
. medicals claim it's all about
being detached from reality:
having delusions about thoughts as objects
-- thoughts being sharable between people .
. the truth is,
not being able to control communications
(because thoughts are given to us
-- not made by us) means that
schiz'ia can be a lonely disease
and one filled with much frustration,
popularly known to end in mass murder
(people who think together, die together!?).
. what makes our medicals think that
this thought sharing is delusional?
. it may be delusional to think you control it,
that's where
a belief in the supernatural makes sense;
a belief in god
apparently makes a lot of sense,
but a belief in the devil is in the bible too,
yet even among many religious,
it's downplayed,
just like rational thought about schiz'ia .