#if clark was human he would have constant high blood pressure

[loislaneandherhimbohusband]

when it comes to live action my stance is still “lois does in fact lack any and all talent for cooking if she can’t pop it in the microwave or air fryer” like she just doesn’t have a talent for it given the fact that her dad was a military man and they moved around a lot i just assumed it was a skill she never captivated and when she moved out she quickly learned that she also didn’t have a talent for it either. she’s not a total disaster but she is definitely bad at it. she has a few meals that she can manage but other than that she has zero talent. but as far as anything that isn’t live action, all bets are off. as you said she’s lucky if she doesn’t accidentally open a portal or burn down a building.

i just have always thought it was funny if once they start dating and they move in together clark is just like “how are you alive?!” as he watches her devour a tub of ice cream for dinner and she’s just tells him with a mouth full of ice cream “spite.” and clark immediately decides he is now in charge of feeding lois because “clearly she can’t be trusted to do it herself”

Superman Head Canon

Clark does the dishes. Since they started dating, Lois has never touched a single dish.

That's it. That's the head canon.

[qquveg2szck-blog]

Iodine supplementation improved my fitness and quality of life

Disclaimer: The content presented here is offered for informational purposes only, and should not be construed as medical advice. You should consult with your physician/care giver regarding your own medical care. I have no financial interest in any of the products or websites that I mention.

For most of my adult life I took a quality supplement which included the RDA of 150 mcg/day iodine. I lived a healthy lifestyle and never took any medications.

Then at age 50 when I began supplementation with a much higher amount of iodine at 12 mg/day, I immediately noticed a significant change. To my great surprise, it has felt like returning to my peak teenage years, with even better sleep quality and much higher testosterone. I have more energy throughout the day and my recovery from exercise is faster. This higher amount of daily iodine has improved my fitness and quality of life. Truly a joyful discovery!

Before starting, I read a variety of published information and studies about potential health benefits and safety of dosage. I highly recommend Dr. David Brownstein's book "Iodine: Why You Need It, Why You Can't Live Without It".

https://www.drbrownstein.com/iodine-why-you-need-it-p/iodine.htm

"Iodine is the most misunderstood nutrient. After 17 years of practicing medicine, I can say that it is impossible to achieve your optimal health if you do not have adequate iodine levels. I have yet to see any item that is more important to promoting health or optimizing the function of the immune system than iodine. Learn what forms of iodine you need and why there is not enough iodine in salt. See how iodine can help: breast cancer, fibrocystic breast disease, detoxification, fatigue, Graves' disease, and Hashimoto's disease. Find out why iodine deficiency may be the root cause of thyroid problems including hypothyroidism and thyroid cancer. Discover how to get iodine in your diet and improve your immune system." ___

Another book that I found very helpful is "The Iodine Crisis" by Lynne Farrow.

http://lynnefarrow.net/book.html

"Thanks to environmental pollutants Iodine deficiency has become a worldwide epidemic. Everybody knows pollutants cause cancer. What they don't know is that these pollutants cause a deficiency that can make us sick, fat and stupid. Iodized salt--supposedly a solution to iodine deficiency-- is actually a nutritional scam which provides a false sense of security. The Iodine Crisis explains how we became so deficient, then shows the time-tested solution to reversing many conditions. Lynne Farrow reveals how she and thousands of other patient-activists changed their lives by researching and using iodine. Frequently Asked Questions cover everything you need to know about iodine. The proof of iodine's benefit is demonstrated by the dramatic case studies shared in this book." ___

I also found the iodine research studies at Optimox to be highly interesting, especially publications #01, #02, and #04. In their research Dr. Guy Abraham and associates found through laboratory testing that 12 mg/day iodine is enough for most healthy adults to achieve optimal iodine levels throughout the body, with many health benefits.

https://www.optimox.com/iodine-study-4 Excerpt from Guy E. Abraham, MD. The Wolff-Chaikoff Effect: Crying Wolf? The Original Internist, 12(3):112-118, Fall 2005.

"To wrap it up, proper amounts of iodine in the food supply should be considered one of a nation's greatest assets. Removing iodine from the food supply is a form major mistake. Supplying daily intake of iodine for whole body sufficiency (100-400 times the RDA) gives protection against goitrogens and radioactive iodine/iodide fallout; improves immune functions, resulting in an adequate defense system against infection; decreases singlet oxygen formation which is the major cause of oxidative damage to DNA and macromolecules, resulting in an anticarcinogenic effect in every organ in the human body; results in a detoxifying effect by increasing urinary excretion of the toxic metals lead, mercury, cadmium, and aluminum, as well as the goitrogens fluoride and bromide; normalizes hormone receptor functions resulting in improved response to thyroid hormones both endogenous and exogenous; and results in better control of blood sugar in diabetic patients; stabilizes cardiac rhythm, obviating the need for the toxic sustained release form of iodine, amiodarone; and normalizes blood pressure without medication in hypertensive patients. Iodine deficiency is the major cause of cognitive impairment, worldwide. Therefore, iodine sufficiency would result in optimal cognitive function, something of great importance to every nation." ___

Historically the Japanese were estimated to consume a similar high amount of iodine at 5.3-13.8 mg/day, mostly from seaweed. Unfortunately as Lynne Farrow notes in her book, in present day seaweed may be polluted with heavy metals, oil spill dispersants, radiation, or other industrial contaminants from our now-polluted seawater. Dr. David Brownstein had a few different brands of seaweed scientifically analyzed by a laboratory and found that about 50% of the samples had very high levels of mercury and bromide, which he indicates can interfere with the body’s ability to use iodine. Also the longer the seaweed has been stored after processing, the more iodine is lost through sublimation into a gaseous state.

For an inexpensive source of iodine, I purchased USP pharma-grade potassium iodide crystals (in fine powder form) from CarolinaChemical. The product was manufactured by SQM, an established chemical company in Chile which is the largest global producer of iodine.

To make an iodine solution, I add 1/8th US teaspoon of potassium iodide crystals (just scooped and leveled off, not packed down, 940-1030 mg on my Weighmax CT20 milligram scale) into 16 US fluid ounces purified water at room temperature in a labeled jar with lid. I stir until the crystals are dissolved and store the solution in a dark location at room temperature.

1000 mg potassium iodide crystals * 0.7645 (76.45% iodine by weight) = 764.5 mg iodine, divided by 64 (number of 1/2 US tablespoons in 16 US fluid ounces water) = 12 mg iodine

A 1/2 US tablespoon of the solution contains 12 mg iodine. I gradually worked up to that daily intake. I read that if suddenly taking high amounts of iodine, some people experience temporary side effects as iodine helps the body excrete toxic bromide, fluoride, perchlorate, etc.

Included in my daily supplementation are the following which Dr. David Brownstein indicated may help the body more efficiently utilize higher amounts of iodine: vitamin B complex, magnesium 600 mg, zinc 30 mg, selenium 200 mcg. Selenium is especially important for thyroid health. I had already been using these supplements at these dosages for many years, so they were not responsible for the noticeable increase in testosterone. Perhaps the iodine flushed out toxic halogens, as suggested by the following.

https://itestosterone.com/iodine-testosterone/ Excerpt from Robert Clark. Iodine Increases Testosterone and Leydig Cell Functionality. 2017.

"One of the receptors that stores halogens in your body is the 'leydig cells' in your testicles.

Leydig cells are responsible for producing testosterone and because iodine and toxic halogens fight for these same receptors and our bodies are under constant attack from toxic halogens, your leydig cells may be compromised and corrupted.

Because iodine can bind to and force excretion of these toxic halogens and in some cases, is the only way to flush them out, iodine may directly improve your leydig cell functionality, therefore increasing your testosterone production."

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Only Superman Can Save Julian Assange Now? Back in the early 1960s, us kids could not wait to get home from school to catch another TV episode of The Adventures of Superman. Back then TV was all black and white, and so was our view on the world. I’ll never forget the intro to the show and the part that told of the strange visitor from another planet who “fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way.” As I sit here typing this story, only Superman can save the modern Daily Planet publisher Julian Assange. Death to Mild Mannered Reporters Reading and watching news about WikiLeaks whistle-blower Julian Assange these last weeks since his arrest, I’ve come to the conclusion humanity is on its last legs. Forget about oil for money. Don’t even worry about global warming. None of us are going to survive past Phase 2 of the Julian Assange crucifixion, the rolling back of press freedoms and the public’s right to information. The weight and might of the same denizens Superman, aka Clark Kent, fought against in the 50s and 60s, it’s being leveled onto the man who is closest kin to the editor in chief of the mythical Daily Planet, Perry White. Yes, it’s going to take the “man of steel” streaking across the sky and landing on the White House lawn to get the people to pay attention to the trials of Julian Assange. A certification that Assange is being subjected to torture by United Nations special rapporteur on torture and ill-treatment, Nils Melzer hardly stirred the planet. Federal Judge John Koeltl’s dismissal of a ludicrous Democratic National Committee (DNC) case against the WikiLeaks publisher because their accusations were “boundless” has had no tangible effect. People, the organisms Assange has been in self-exile to protect for most of a decade, they just don’t seem to care about his fate. It’s not only sad, it bears a foreboding. Assange is the central figure in a much larger case involving the fate of all humanity. Maybe this is why a superhero may be his only hope. From my perspective as an analyst and reporter on Mr. Assange’s activities, I cannot even fathom how the man is being left to wither away psychologically and physically in Belmarsh Prison. The situation with Assange is intolerable, the UN’s Melzer added in his recent statement, he had: “…never seen a group of democratic states ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonize and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law.” Free Speech Kryptonite The aforementioned Federal Judge Koeltl even brought to bear the central argument for Julian Assange, the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution, and the precedent that bears most fervently on Julian Assange’s innocence. The judge told reporters on the dismissal of the DNC case: “In New York Times Co. v. United States, the landmark ‘Pentagon Papers’ case, the Supreme Court upheld the press’s right to publish information of public concern obtained from documents stolen by a third party.” Let me square something here. I do not even know Julian Assange. What I do know of his personality and past makes me dislike him at face value. He seems typically arrogant, flippant, a self-important smartass if you ask me. But no matter what first impressions may tell us about the WikiLeaks founder, he’s a brave man who did humanity an incalculable service. Few who are reading this will recall Assange’s history as one of the world’s most notable hackers. Assange started “blowing the whistle” on the NSA and other entities way back in 1999 when he cautioned the world about the security agency’s patents on eavesdropping technology. Later, in the intro to his book Cypherpunks (2012), Assange summarized: “The Internet, our greatest tool for emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen” The list of WikiLeaks revelations which the world would know nothing about without Julian Assange is too lengthy to even speak of here. Of all the revelations we’ve been privy to, the gun camera footage of the airstrike of 12 July 2007 in Baghdad, showing the deaths of journalists Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh by a US helicopter is the most poignant. The dastardly conduct of United States servicemen in this raw video rival the Mai Lai debacle from the Vietnam War once you realize it was no isolated incident. If you are an America, I hope your senses force you to ask the question; “How can we have peace in the world by ordering murder in the Middle East or elsewhere?” And the citizen of Atlanta or Des Moines wonders where terrorists come from. For a wider perspective on just who is out to get Julian Assange, the following from a Newsweek report on Assange’s strange meeting with Google CEO Eric Schmidt back in 2011 reveals a comic book level conspiracy at work. The Assange/Schmidt conversation boiled down to this: “For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with U.S. foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to Western companies and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war over the Internet’s future that has only gathered force subsequently.” Now my constant references to the technocrats and their role in the liberal world order become more pertinent. This is “who” is out to annihilate Assange and anyone who stands in their way. Superman No Show Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s, us kids were introduced to Perry White, who headed the newspaper Superman (Clark Kent) worked for. He was a character who maintained very high ethical and journalistic standards. He was the archetype for the journalistic hero, someone who would not bend no matter what pressure was applied. Perry, like Assange, won many awards for leading the charge for truth and justice. Assange reminds me of him for several reasons, but mostly because the forces arrayed against him are evil on an epic scale. I would ask the reader to consider this. How is it that Julian Assange has won countless awards for his journalism and publishing, and he’s sought for crucifixion in the country that is supposed to represent such freedoms? The United States government wants to drain the blood out of a man who’s won the Sam Adams Award, the Le Monde readers’ choice award for person of the year, the Time readers’ choice award for person of the year, the Walkley Award for “Most outstanding contribution to journalism”, the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, the Sydney Peace Foundation Gold Medal for Peace with Justice, the Amnesty International UK Media Award, and many more accolades. Are you feeling the need to point overhead and chanting “Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s Superman?” Assange is the Nelson Mandela of press freedom and the public’s right to truth, and he’s being mentally waterboarded in a Brit prison. If you’re the U.S. president and you want to be remembered, grow a set and pardon Julian Assange before he is even put on trial. Trump can throw off the bonds of being the world’s biggest blowhard by taking up for Assange. And no, I am not the only one who would applaud his intervention. Unfortunately for Julian Assange and free speech, Superman seems to be long dead and gone. There’s no one to rescue Julian Assange. The poor man does not even have a Lois Lane or Jimmy Olsen to visit him in Belmarsh Prison. Just lawyers, interrogators, and Baywatch starlet Pamela Anderson. Hey, maybe Pam can reach Superman or the people of Metropolis one?