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the pint of science, brought to you by the faculty of science, charles university in prague, department of chemistry. sponsored by the pilsner brewery (plzeåˆskã½ prazdroj). ok. good evening, everybody. my name is jiå™ã­ mã­å¡ek, starvation diet, i'm from here, from the department of organic chemistry, and i'd like to tell you a story today. i want to start of with this picture of this lady. her name is jeanne louise calment. she's french as you can tell from the name. and in this picture she is 20 years old. and this picture was taken 1895. this picture, this is the same lady 100 years later, when she had her 121st birthday and the original thinking and the picture was taken in 1996. and she passed away a year later when she was 122. and she's the oldest, well-documented person that ever lived on earth, and her story is quite amazing. she was born in south of france, in arles. she knew personally vincent van gogh, the painter. she was quite vital when she was 85. she t...

Thyroid Disease is Finally Confirmed

It has taken me a long time to reach this point. I don't really know how I feel about it all . . . just yet. The additional tests that the first nurse practitioner ran came back quite abnormal. But I didn't hear from her until I chased her down a couple of weeks later. She was very confused and was trying to figure it out on her own. In the meantime, everything in my body was racing. My metabolism was high, but the body was in starvation mode, so I don't understand her personal need to figure it all out. Since Cigna's insurance chart said our local Endocrinology clinic was not set up to take Cigna patients until January, I just wanted her to run the blood work for me, so I could decide if it was worth it to pay for the doctor visit myself, or if I should wait until our new insurance became effective in January. Hubby's company is dumping Cigna for a local health insurance company instead. When I didn't hear back, I called the clinic and asked for a copy of my r...