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Dentist in New Zealand. Interested in a bit of everything.

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No. The only one of know of is Tooth Mousse which has some repair ability for porous enamel

22.10.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Indigenous populations, in decline following introduction to European pathogens, started to recover when structural changes were made to their way of living.

In our context, this means changing to reduce transmission. This includes a society-wide adoption, ongoing, of air quality measures.

22.10.2025 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Thread by @ZdenekVrozina on Thread Reader App @ZdenekVrozina: A major new review from Yale (Moen, Baker, Iwasaki, 2025) offers the most comprehensive picture yet of what SARS-CoV-2 does to the nervous system. The conclusion is stark: Long COVID i...

By Zdenek Vrozina

A major new review from Yale (Moen, Baker, Iwasaki, 2025) offers the most comprehensive picture yet of what SARS-CoV-2 does to the nervous system.

The conclusion is stark:

Long COVID is a chronic neuroimmune disorder affecting brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves.

20.06.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Gotta watch the Focal Sepsis theory. Whole generations of dental amputees can be the result. Wouldn't want that history to repeat.

05.06.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

ArtificialΒ² is still artificial.

It doesn't somehow stop being artifical just by having two layers.

05.06.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

$5 or 0 in New Zealand. Everyone has government-funded access.

04.06.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just common, everyday Zombieosis.

04.06.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tell it like it is for you. Every voice is valid. One day, we'll have far better knowledge.

26.05.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No-one likes hair loss. As a man, people love pointing it out to us. We'll i guess that means at least someone is getting something out of it!
Hope yours comes back soon.

26.05.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good to see you on this, Dr. Anna.
SARS2 Complex Disease/Long Covid is extremely variable, ranging from a lingering sense of being sub-par to severe physical and neuro-psych effects.
The LC term, if useful at all, now needs to be qualified in terms of severity, persistence, signs, and symptoms.

29.04.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not yet!
We hope to get around NZ, to visit these places over the next few years.

29.04.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We have tax relief for employers buying ebikes for their staff, in New Zealand.

19.04.2025 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Crisp edging there.
Promising conditions for an easter egg hunt.

19.04.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm over here, man.

19.04.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How's that going for you?
It must be very strange for Canada at the moment.

New Zealand has a somewhat similar relationship with Australia.
Many NZers come and go from Australia all the time. The Australian government has a bit of a superior attitude when it comes to NZ

04.04.2025 10:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No 'awkward silences'.
No risk of 'blowing one's own trumpet' too much.

24.11.2024 00:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I do get performance better than hopeless, I'm exceedingly grateful.
Eventually this will send me to retirement.

24.11.2024 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Massively worse in my experience. I've had ongoing turnover when people just can't maintain their health or brain-function at an adequate level to perform. They give up and leave.
There's been a worker shortage, so no fear of unemployment until very recently.
One 'went mad' and defrauded me of $ks.

23.11.2024 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They thoughtfully provided shade for you.

23.11.2024 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inflammatory mediators in major depression and bipolar disorder - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - Inflammatory mediators in major depression and bipolar disorder

It's all about inflammation, look Andrew

During the last years, increasing evidence for the involvement of immune dysregulations in mood disorders has been accumulating with a focus on the inflammatory response system (IRS),

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

22.11.2024 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The behavioural incidents are getting noticed in so many areas.
Airline cabin staff are seeing a big uptick in passengers losing control of their emotions and being police-escorted off.

22.11.2024 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

In pharma as in all technology industries, profit is the mother of invention.
This isn't sociopathy. This is reality.
Big pharma has pushed the prices too high, especially in wealthy countries like the USA.
But the profit motive is a major driver of innovation and should be accepted at some level.

21.11.2024 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not when they are bots.

21.11.2024 17:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The power of a fictional character on a fake-reality TV show.
The culture of celebrity is very influential.

21.11.2024 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hopefully it's just a singularity that will get resolved.
It's good here to have dialogue. But over there still has a few open minded people who can be helped to be safe.

21.11.2024 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He literally said people would only have to vote for him once. Was noone listening?

20.11.2024 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

'Coffee boiled is coffee spoiled'. - my mum.

20.11.2024 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I can't recommend heating coffee that way.

20.11.2024 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

'Vox' would be my pick

20.11.2024 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No. Skeet is lame.
Why give Twitter a nod?

20.11.2024 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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