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The Ingredient That Stops Me: Sucralose, DNA Damage, and the Shift Worker’s Snack Dilemma One of the most abused concepts in online nutrition discourse is this: If something shows potential harm at any level, it must be avoided entirely.

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Exploring Petter Attia Outrage: Insights on Performative Outrage and the Algorithm Economy | Nurse Who Writes On Peter Attia, Performative Outrage, and the Algorithm Economy Before I say anything else, let me be clear: I do not endorse degradation, exploitation, sexual misconduct, or abuse of women—full stop....

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#peterattia
#jeffreyepstein

Language Matters: When Words Drift from Description to Dehumanization In public discussions of politics, health, economics, and science, language is not a luxury; it's a civic responsibility.

Illegals......Rapists, Criminals & Murderers

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#alexpretti
#violence
#minnesota

Picture of R.E. Hengsterman, author, standing in hospital corridor. Black shirt, arms folded

One of the biggest things I hear is that everything about me feels impersonal. Truth is, I hate social media.

The Hustle. The Grind. The Grifters. It's all BS.

But as an author, it's required. Otherwise, no one pays attention.

See you next shift

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The Hijacking of “Root Cause”: How Social Media Turned a Medical Principle into a Hashtag But here’s the irony: “root cause” isn’t new. It’s not the property of wellness culture or functional medicine. It’s the foundation of medicine itself.

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How we turned #rootcause into a hashtag

Hustle Monkey Culture Is Hollowing Out Nursing https://open.spotify.com/episode/1MzLmyNlwGvayA1gttwyuF?si=eKTYi2deTMWlexhPGXDtAALet me be clear upfront: this is not personal. I’m sure xxxpreneur Academy and (insert hustle monkey here) are probably...

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#burnout

When Science Bends: The New Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Recommendation and the Quiet Risk We’re Creating https://open.spotify.com/episode/4iniShoBJX3tlFSwPdXvpx?si=SSTGy99BT0KKsiiPMT6XqwThere are moments in healthcare when the ground shifts beneath your feet. You feel it in the pit of your stomach before...

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The long term risk...

Cartilage Regeneration Without Stem Cells: A New Direction for Osteoarthritis Treatment https://open.spotify.com/episode/2k4FHUs7DuL1IXtSWIjvdK?si=Gxa2LvoqQWuKDFlyXpNYxwFor the older nurses in the groupFor decades, osteoarthritis has been treated as an irreversible process. Once cartilag...

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Help for old nurses with old knees

Caffeinated Gum vs Capsules: A Small Sports Study With Big Night-Shift Implications For nurses—especially nights—this is less about gym PRs and more about what we’re really doing with caffeine: trying to manufacture alertness inside a body that wants to sleep.

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Breaking The Seal Momentum is fragile by design. It depends less on motivation than on what surrounds you when motivation is gone.

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#breakingtheseal #willpower

Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States [Nichols, Jonathan, Colbert, Kate] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States

In 2017, the college I taught at, my father taught at, and my brother taught at closed. “Requiem for a College” is the story of what happened and how it connects to the trend of small college closures in the US.
Maybe it can help save your institution. #academicsky
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Every Award Matters—Because Every Author Journey Matters

Any award—large or small—carries weight for an author.

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Every Award Matters—Because Every Author Journey Matters

Any award—large or small—carries weight for an author.

#AuthorLife
#WritingCommunity
#IndependentAuthor
#AmWriting
#WritersOfInstagram
#AuthorJourney
#WritingAwards
#CreativeWork
#SupportAuthors
#AuthorRecognition
#WritersSupportingWriters

Weekly Re-Alignment: Water Is Harder Than It Looks Modern water bottles are absurdly large, and increasingly performative. What began as a practical tool has turned into a rotating identity marker: the flavor-of-the-month brand, the limited-edition c...

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#water #nursing #weightloss

THE BEGINNING (AGAIN) Do I chase the workouts? Do I tighten the nutrition? Do I try to optimize both? We all know the phrase: you can’t out train a bad diet. From an energy and caloric perspective, that’s true enough.

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A One-Year Experiment in Living the Shift Worker’s Paradox A 12-month experiment that focuses on rhythm, repair and resilience. I will give frequent updates, yet not with the goal of being perfect, or of being perfect in the way of being a performer, but rath...

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#nurses #shiftworkers #nursewhowrites #health

When Science Bends: The New Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Recommendation and the Quiet Risk We’re Creating There are moments in healthcare when the ground shifts beneath your feet. You feel it in the pit of your stomach before the policy changes arrive. This week was one of those moments.I Don’t Have a Dog...

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#nursewhowrites #vaccine #hepbvaccine #publichealth

Night Shift, Illness, and HRV: What the Data Reveal Then my heart rate variability (HRV) dropped to 14. That’s not just “a rough stretch.” That’s a real-time signal that my autonomic nervous system—the balance between sympathetic fight-or-flight and p...

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#nurse #nursing #nightshift #shiftworker

The New IsoPSA Test: What Men with Family History Need to Know Those of us living under that biology understand the math: early detection is leverage. The IsoPSA test has become one of the more meaningful developments in that space.

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#menshealth #prostatecancer #psa

The Four-Count Reset: A Night Shift Lesson in Physiology and Survival I remember the night with absolute clarity. A routine shift, until it wasn’t.The room compressed, the air thinned, and my own physiology staged a quiet rebellion. I’m not built for anxiety, if anythin...

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Why The Shift Worker’s Paradox Matters for Every Night-Shift Professional Night work demands more than resilience—it requires understanding what chronic circadian disruption does to your body, mood, cognition, and long-term health.

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Depression, Aging, and the Night Shift: The Weight We Carry Shift work carves its lessons into the body long before we’re ready to understand them. Aging simply unmasks what was always there. The vulnerability becomes harder to outrun, harder to medicate with ...

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The Realities of Night-Shift Work—and Why Understanding Them Matters More Than Ever For nurses, this is not an academic footnote. It is our lived environment.

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#nightshift #nurse #nursewhowrites #shiftworker #cancer

The Business of Discontent: How Nurses Became the New Target Market for Monetized Escape Plans Today, we’ve traded macramé and macrobiotics for ring lights, Canva templates, and digital downloads—but it’s the same old playbook.

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#nurse #nurselife #nurseshortage #nursingcrisis

Staffing Crisis: A Persistent Crisis & Systemic Challenge This isn’t about resilience. Nurses aren’t burning out because they’re insufficiently tough. They’re burning out because the clinical environment has drifted outside the tolerances of human physiology...

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#burnout #staffingcrisis

The Shift Worker's Paradox Book

Looking for fellow nurses and beta readers and shift workers on the platform who work or have worked the night shift and have Amazon with the ability to leave a review and first look at the book. If you are interested please contact me at www. nursewhowrites.com and fill out the contact form.

Props to my cover artist. Turned out amazing. Early copy in hand. Available everywhere 12/10/2025

Preorder for paperback this week. Ebook link in bio.

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#bookcover #shortstory #nursewhowrites #literaryfiction #read

Coffee, Caffeine, and AFib: The Evidence That Upends Decades of Caution What we actually see in epidemiology is that AFib risk is driven far more by age, sex, and comorbidities than by caffeine.

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#CaffeineAndHeartHealth #AFibAwareness #ShiftWorkersParadox #NurseWhoWrites #CardiacHealth #NursingEducation #HeartRhythm #HealthLiteracy #EvidenceBasedPractice #MedicalWriting #CoffeeAndAFib #ScienceOfSleep #NurseLife #HealthResearch #CardiovascularWellness

Refuting the Claims and Reframing the Reality of Nursing The Claims We’ve Heard 1. “The system runs on the back of nurses — breaking themselves to keep it from collapsing.”2. “We (nurses) are the safety net for a system with holes too big to mend.”3. “It’s ...

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#NursingShortageMyth #NurseStaffing #HealthcareEconomics #MedicalErrors #HospitalUnderstaffing #PatientSafety #NurseAdvocacy #HealthcareReform #NurseWhoWrites #ShiftWorkersParadox #SystemicChange #NursingLeadership #WorkforceReality #ClinicalEthics