Just tried to listen to one of those Elon interviews.... Couldn't do it. Holy moly, what annoying dude.

My aunt sent me this, and wants to know how much I already knew 😂. All of it... all. But I'm happy she's getting the education. Also look up "Princes of the Yen" on YouTube - skip the book, the yt documentary version is better.

🤔 morning thoughts The human being is an unfinished creation. If you believe in God, why did he make so ridiculously imperfect? If you don't believe, then why did nature put systems in us that appear to solve problems but actually make them worse and kill us instead of healing us? My own starting bias is that we were created with intention, but I try hitting the problem from all angles. I personally have had two major health events in my life - kidney disease (which I think I've cured, which is a medical first, and I absolutely intend to get famous for), and now this stroke. Both events have yielded insight into how poorly designed humans are. With kidney disease, or CKD, the problem is that scar tissue inhibits the kidney's natural ability to heal. The problem is very multifaceted, but basically the nephrons, which are the large structure containing glomeruli, grow scar tissue where damaged, and the fibrous scar tissue blocks healing and even exacerbates the problem, which causes the inevitable decline in kidney function and ultimately kills the person. The kidney keeps trying to heal, but it can't clear the scar tissue. This is actually related to the other problem... The other problem, which I've found from researching this stroke, is that your body has a natural ability to clear thrombotic masses from arteries, but it doesn't work without help from blood thinners. At all times, you have plasmogen in your blood, and if a clot is discovered, that plasmogen gets activated and turns into plasmin, which attaches to fibrin and pulls off chunks. Fibrin is the building block of the fiber that holds clots together, and it grows over time and makes clots harder and even kind of armored against the plasmin that is made to negate it. Your body can clear a clot, aka a thrombosis, in just a few days if you go on a blood thinner within a couple of hours of the stroke. My stroke occurred days after the clot must have appeared, so really you have potentially several days to get the blood thinner - but after a stroke, you need it fast to be able to clear the clot. This tells me that we have the system that's designed to clear clots, and if it worked properly, no one would ever die from the strokes or heart attacks they cause. But the system doesn't work. Its there, but its malfunctioning in all humans. The common denominator in both scenarios is the fibrin and the scar tissue, which is just configured differently in either case. Also that the system designed for that specific scenario exists but fails to work as intended - either as nature or God intended. And, as impressive as the human body is (wildly and mind blowingly impressive), I am forced to conclude that its either incomplete or degraded, and in need of redesign. Slippery slope. Bad stuff will happen if we begin doing it.... But I think we have to. We're not supposed to die at 80. Or 120, and I don't care if a book says God wants us all dead before 120. Our bodies have the systems to live forever - we were obviously originally designed to be clinically immortal - but they don't work anymore. We have to fix it. #Health #medicine