oh wow! hey if you take pills check this out. new medicine taking meta just dropped.

according to these models, out of the 4 tested postures, the best position to digest pills is laying on your right side. standing upright has a similar time to laying in your back at twice as much as laying on the right side, and laying on the left side is the slowest by far.

laying on right side: pill dissolves in around 10 minutes.

standing: pill dissolves in 23 minutes. laying on the back has a similar time.

laying on left side: pill dissolves in up to 100 minutes.

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0096877

definitely worth a lot more research.

if you want your medicine to kick in fast, try laying on your right side! if you want your medicine to kick in slower, try laying on your left side.

This makes sense! I learned from a doc that if you have gas pain or nausea, you turn on your left side to make it easier for your stomach to send stuff through. The goal in turning left is to NOT absorb, but to release.

Turning on your right can make nausea/gas pain worse because it has to fight gravity to exit your stomach/body. So, yeah, lying on your right would make things absorb faster because it's going into the stomach lining, which is the point.

Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey

I was going to reblog this anyway for the useful info but the last addition fucking sent me

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“Martin Luther King Jr. made the forbidden connections between Capitalism, Imperialism, Racism, and the Vietnam War. As a result, after he was assassinated even his memory became toxic, a threat to public order. Foundations and corporations worked hard to remodel his legacy to fit a market-friendly format. The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, with an operational grant of $2 million, was set up by, among others, the Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Mobil, Western Electric, Proctor and Gamble, US Steel, and Monsanto. The center maintains the King Library and Archives of the Civil Rights Movement. Among the many programs the King Center runs have been projects that “work closely with the United States Department of Defense, the Armed Forces Chaplains Board and others.” It cosponsored the Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Series called “The Free Enterprise System: An Agent for Nonviolent Social Change.”

— Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy (via rikodeine)

“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.”

— The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Btw, I care about raw milk so much because I see it as the key to getting people to drink real milk and not nutritionally-inferior alternatives.

A lot of people who are sensitive to milk or even have a variety of other health problems are told that avoiding dairy products is the way to go, but that robs them of the health benefits of milk and pushes them towards things that are less healthy, like fake milk made in factories and oat "milk" that requires additives like canola oil. Then some avoid it because they're told that dairy farming is cruel to animals.

Most people's problems with milk are not caused by milk per se but by their bodies not producing lactase to digest lactose, difficulty digesting the A1A2 beta-casein protein that evolved in European cows a few thousand years ago (this could be why a lot of non-white people have issues with milk), or just modern agricultural practices generally. The problems often go away by turning to organic/grassfed, A2A2 milk (either from A2A2 cows or other animals which are all A2A2) , or raw milk. Raw milk is the gold standard to me because: it is often A2A2, it is usually produced by cows that are raised on pasture, it is usually from farms that use regenerative practices that heal the land, it tastes better because it is non-homogenized and generally comes from cows that produce a higher-fat milk, and it contains the enzymes you need in order to properly digest the milk without feeling icky.

I get very frustrated that some people in politics who claim to care about agriculture are so against raw milk, when expanding access to raw milk would turn people back towards buying from local farms and away from synthetic foods. There are some who even want to ban fake meat while at the same time banning raw milk, which makes no sense. Again, people who think they can't tolerate real milk are likely to be pushed towards fake food. Raw milk is also a "gateway drug" of sorts that gets people into supporting small farms. I think the agricultural system and its defenders are shooting themselves in the foot here.

Articles about raw milk hardly ever explore all these issues, either, instead framing it as a trend for people who want to rebel against the system. For a lot of people, it's actually the only way they can drink real milk at all. And for a lot of people, it's also about supporting sustainable and ethical farming. But the article writers are all probably paid off by Big Ag and Big Food companies anyway.

We are not supposed to dring milk. Selected prehistoric people developed the ability to produce lactase and drink milk beyond their childhood.

It has nothing to do with the cows.

You will still be lactose intolerant to raw milk.

Raw milk is high in bacteria. The process of pasteurization destroys those. Yes, that might include good bacteria, but fermented milk products contain those good bacteria as well. So, no problem. (Fermentation is generally GREAT for gut bacteria. Eat those pickles guys!)

Studies that suggest a link of raw milk to lower rates of asthma and allergies were done mostly on farm families... because they have access to fresh raw milk at a greater rate... and, surprise, they generally have better access to a natural environment with a more diverse range of bacteria and less air pollution. It's not the milk. It's the farm.

Most vitamins in raw milk are very heat stable, except for, iirc B2, which is included in very small amounts. The secret is to not boil it, but to heat it just below boiling point where the TBC, EHEC, e.coli and campylobactor and other bad friends die... but Vitamins don't. The process is called pasteurization. Buying raw milk and boiling it at home destroys quite a few vitamins, for example Vitamin C.

Raw milk can contain the following pathogens:
Campylobacter, listeria, salmonella, tuberculosis, e. coli.

(If you get a cough after drinking raw milk see a doctor IMMEDIATELY and wear masks... chances are, you have tuberculosis and will spread it to the people around you)

Up to 20% of pasteurized milk samples contained destroyed remnants of the above dangerous bacteria.

Why don't you always get sick?

Because you have a functioning immune system and that is doing overtime with this crap. People who have weaker immune systems, like children, pregnant women, chronically ill and elderly people are at a much higher risk.

Each active infection can, btw. lead to immune overreaction and cause autoimmune disease. Often viral infections like Covid or flu, but certain bacteria are also a danger for that. One common culprit is Yersinia enterocolitica (yes, it's losely related to the plague). It's commonly found in raw milk.

Why was pasteurization even invented?

Well, because so many people died from drinking raw cow milk.

Fun fact: Why do so many outbreaks of listeria come from organic farms?

Because cow dung is often used as a fertilizer.

Wash your veggies, people.

And don't feed your children raw animal milk!

Your great-grandparents' sibling didn't die for this shit!

To add onto this, not only is drinking raw milk stupid and dangerous, but those "nutritionally-inferior alternatives" are typically fortified to be nutritionally comparative to dairy milk.

Many popular brands of soy milk are fortified with vitamins and minerals like riboflavin, calcium, and vitamins A, B12, and D. Some plant-based milks even have more calcium and vitamin D per serving than dairy. All you have to do is look at the nutrition facts.

I need you all to onsider this:

There is a 13-20% chance that raw milk will give you a serious bacterial infection that could lead to death, but! it might give you some more vitamins.

Or! You can drink pasturized milk, which has a 0% chance of giving you a serious bacterial infection that could lead to death (when done correctly).

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