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Ethan J. Weiss

7 years

"This is what happens when people become attached to a theory. They fit the evidence to the theory rather than the theory to the evidence...

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Ethan J. Weiss

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4 years

I guess @united is relaxing their social distancing policy these days? Every seat full on this 737

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Remember when hardly anyone knew someone who had had COVID?

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Ethan J. Weiss

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3 years

Every once in a while you discover something that makes you stop and reflect that practically everything we argue about is meaningless

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We are about to land & I just wanted to say a few things. 1) people on this plane are scared/ shocked. 2) I have no idea why most of them are traveling. 3)I am with a group of 25 nurses and doctors who have been working in NYC hospitals for the past 2-4 weeks. We are coming home

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This is the last time I’ll be flying again for a very long time

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Also I guess a lot has changed in 10 days

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5) they could have avoided this by just communicating better. They literally just sent an email 10 days ago telling all of us the middle seats would be empty

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5 years

Call me fucking insane, but I don’t think the second amendment is working out very well

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4 years

Wow @UCSF is sending a team of clinicians to NY tomorrow for a month!

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1/ Today is Yom Kippur. Many Jewish people are fasting. I am not But I still want to talk about fasting…

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I don't think there is a way I can watch this too many times

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FAUCI to Sen. Paul: "You are not listening ... If you believe that 22% is 'herd immunity', I believe you're alone in that."

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4) United flew us here for free. They got a lot of great PR for taking great care of us on the way out including from me. Even from me:

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And a whole group of people were there to greet us. It was not necessary but also very nice. Thank you @united . It meant a lot

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I don’t understand why people are so bothered by the fact that metabolic disease can be treated by medicines. It’s not that lifestyle solutions can’t work; they can! It’s that they don’t work for a very large number of people…

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Ethan J. Weiss

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8 years

Say what you want about her delivery, but for a year, 16 men tried & failed to hobble Trump. Tonight Hillary completely eviscerated him

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4 years

Also, this was the departure board at Newark when we were there around 12 noon. Not a lot of flights

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4 years

Day 3 (sorry) Day 4: Not the fucking flu

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2 years

What’s the closest you’ve ever been to being in a cult?

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4 years

How’s everyone’s alcoholism going?

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6 years

Those who know me also know that I love to brag on my kickass 11 year-old daughter, Ruthie, who is legally blind. She inspires me with shit like this every day

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4 years

Because we all need to laugh... ...and holy shit did this make me laugh as hard as I have in long time. No idea where it came from or who did it but this deserves an Academy Award for best short

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Ethan J. Weiss

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3 years

Out for a run this morning on a gloriously empty beach and sending buckets of love to the “I’m leaving San Francisco because it sucks”crowd

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4 years

I've said it before: It is astonishing we could pass universal seatbelt laws - an intervention that helps only the wearer - but we cannot enforce mask wearing - an intervention that helps everyone

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Asked if Trump should encourage Americans to wear masks through his Twitter account, Graham said: "Listen, I don't think he's going to change where he's at on masks.“

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Ethan J. Weiss

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3 years

It is shocking that democracy survived the totalitarianism brought on by seat belt laws now 30 years ago

Michigan seat belt law turns 30 after bitter battle

Cradle of auto industry was poised for U.S.'s 1st seat belt law in early '80s, but mandate faced a bitter battle.

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29/ We were surprised by these results. At that time, I had been doing 16:8 TRE for ~7 years. I stopped. This study taught me a lot. More later but the take home lessons for me are: 1) it is possible to do RCTs in nutrition; 2) ignore all nutrition studies without a control group

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Ethan J. Weiss

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4 years

I was asked to write a perspective on the potential use of CRISPR for genetic diseases/disorders. What came was very personal. It is not proscriptive. It is a perspective that I have now that I could not have had before

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Ethan J. Weiss

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6 years

I wanted to make a joke here but really there’s nothing remotely funny about this garbage

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Ethan J. Weiss

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8 years

If a President Trump scares you, chew on a President Trump with a Republican House and Senate

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Ethan J. Weiss

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5 years

I saw one of my favorite patients today who was explaining to me why he loves his primary care doctor (English not his 1st language): "You feel already better when you leave his office but you do not take a pill" I aspire to be this kind of doctor

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Ethan J. Weiss

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4 years

I kinda miss the days when @ScottGottliebMD used to scare the shit out of us for leaving the egg salad out for too long

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Ethan J. Weiss

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5 years

My life is not complete until I write a sentence like this in the @NEJM - "the urine was found to be in color a light straw, transparent, like highly clarified wine, wholly without odor, of a very pleasant sweet taste, resembling exactly a solution of loaf sugar in pure water

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5 years

From the #NEJMArchive : Notes of a Case of Diabetes Mellitus (Feb. 3, 1829)

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This map is obscene

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4 years

Amazing fact of the day: of the 58 patients admitted (to date) to UCSF with documented COVID, 16 remain in the hospital, 41 recovered and were discharged and just 1 (one) has died

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Joseph Costa, ICU doctor at Mercy Medical Center, dies of the coronavirus he worked to help others overcome

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Ethan J. Weiss

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4 years

An update Day 0:

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Too tired for a post tonight. Typically I hate national anything day but really it is such the right time to celebrate nurses. Being here in NY and seeing it up close - nobody would believe what these people do. Thank you nurses!! Thank you so much!!! #NationalNursesDay

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Ethan J. Weiss

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4 years

Someone named Ethan Weiss reached out to me by DM on Instagram and said "Love the name". He then added me to a group of 20 Ethan Weisses. It's insane

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Ethan J. Weiss

@ethanjweiss

4 years

Yeah it sucks here

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4 years

Americans love America. They don’t want their neighborhoods turning into San Francisco.

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Ethan J. Weiss

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4 years

What a freaking disaster

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Ethan J. Weiss

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2 years

Self-care

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Ethan J. Weiss

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4 years

Very interesting data here: A Detailed Map of Who Is Wearing Masks in the U.S. “The big takeaway of all of the data is partisanship is the big determinant of all of the behavior,” she said. “It’s not age. It’s not where you live.”

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28/ So in summary: 1) no matter how you slice it, prescription of TRE is not a very effective weight loss strategy; 2) There was no advantage to TRE when compared to a proper control group; 3) What weight was lost looked to come more from muscle mass than fat mass

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I was asked by the wonderful people at @statnews to adapt my much longer piece on gene editing (). With great help, we landed here... Should ‘broken’ genes be fixed? My daughter changed the way I think about that question

Should 'broken' genes be fixed? My daughter changed the way I think about that question

I'm a doctor. I strive to fix things that are broken. Hearts, mostly. But my daughter Ruthie has forever changed my thinking about what needs to be fixed.

www.statnews.com

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The networks have a strong incentive to keep this story alive as long as possible. I don't blame them. I just choose to ignore them. The race is over. It has been for days. I have moved on. Congrats President-Elect Biden

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Ethan J. Weiss

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As some of you may know and some of you may wish not to know, I started a little experiment about 10 months ago and began eating a low-carb and high fat diet for the first time in my life. I have not been tracking macros specifically but I can say a few things:

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Ethan J. Weiss

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3 years

I am at the "my next tweet is going to get me fired" phase of 2021

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Ethan J. Weiss

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4 years

31/ Lastly, there is so much left to learn here. We are going to stay at it and try to answer some of the obvious next questions. Really this is just the beginning. But again, massive thank you to Dylan who is a star clinical researcher in the making

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4 years

Day 2: Baby Steps

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4 years

It’s 8:20AM

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Ethan J. Weiss

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7 years

1. I have a story to tell about our healthcare system and how it's not working very well

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Ethan J. Weiss

@ethanjweiss

2 years

80 mg Lipitor for < $5/month. That’s less than most copays. Wow

Mark Cuban

@mcuban

2 years

If you need to buy generic drugs, sign up and try our pricing. EVERYTHING we sell is cost plus 15%.

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Ethan J. Weiss

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3 years

I have come to know and respect @ProfEmilyOster well. I think of her as a friend. So I have bias. I thought her piece was provocative and interesting. I don’t think it was prescriptive. Whatever one thinks, the reaction to it has been gross. It’s been fucking embarrassing

Emily Oster

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3 years

Obviously that Atlantic article was upsetting to many people, many of whom I respect and admire. I wanted to respond. My goal in the article was to help parents understand what many people say when they say children are "low risk" (1/n)

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Ethan J. Weiss

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3 years

When you wonder why people are so angry

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson

3 years

This is the most heartbreaking thing I have watched in 2020. These people are monsters Wow.

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Ethan J. Weiss

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4 years

A gentle reminder: when you’re out on a walk or a run & dutifully keeping your safe distance from others, it’s still acceptable to look that person you pass in the eye & SMILE - even if you are both wearing masks. We need it now more than ever

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Ethan J. Weiss

@ethanjweiss

6 years

Kids, let this be a lesson: When you have sex with a Playboy model days after your 3rd wife gives birth to your 5th child & then you want to arrange to pay $ to keep such model quiet, be sure that the ethics of the thug lawyer you hire to execute the transaction are impeccable

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped - can this be so? Too bad!

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1 year

@bigfatsurprise Nina, are you seriously trying to connect this poor kid's fentanyl addiction and his utterly bleak outlook to the fact that he is eating cereal? Please tell me this is some kind of performance art because otherwise it is pretty freaking gross

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6 years

BREAKING: Pretty much all my WTF receptors have been permanently downregulated

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5 years

The eggs are definitely the problem...

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Ethan J. Weiss

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3 years

Hall of fame level smugness here

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

3 years

It's also pretty embarrassing for the public health profession that it's largely outsiders like me and @zeynep and @mattyglesias who are **actually looking at the scientific evidence** and pointing out these obvious problems and that there aren't more critiques from within.

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4 years

1. Literally nobody recognizes me 2. I was happy to find half of my @OslerResidency intern uniform. Can’t find the short white coat. 3. The mood here in the hospital is good. It’s reassuring 4. Off to round...

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19/ We enrolled/compeletd this trial quickly (about a year) with the incredibly hard work of Dylan and the study team This morning the paper is finally published!

Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Parameters in Patients With Overweight...

This randomized clinical trial examines the effect of 16:8-hour time-restricted eating on weight loss and metabolic risk markers.

jamanetwork.com

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1 year

We should celebrate that more people have solutions that can work for them. Not doing so is the height of arrogance

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5 years

The truth about eggs is that there will never be truth about eggs, so either eat them and enjoy them, or don’t eat them and enjoy not eating them. But maybe we can all just stop talking about it like - forever

John Speakman

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The truth about eggs and health.... Given the confusion about eggs and health I searched the internet for the definitive answer. here it is.....

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2/ Today we are finally publishing the results of a study on Time Restricted Eating (TRE), which is a form of intermittent fasting. The study is called the TREAT Study. More on that later…

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3 years

Simply wow Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity | NEJM

Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults with Overweight or Obesity | NEJM

Obesity is a global health challenge with few pharmacologic options. Whether adults with obesity can achieve weight loss with once-weekly semaglutide at a dose of 2.4 mg as an adjunct to lifestyle ...

www.nejm.org

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Ethan J. Weiss

@ethanjweiss

5 years

Not as crowded as intermittent fasting but nearly full room here at the low-carbohydrate nutrition session at #ADA2019 - yes you read that correctly. There is a low-carb session at the ADA

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4 years

I've done an OK job staying away from politics recently. Some will say that now is not the time for partisanship. And I disagree strongly. If there is ever a time to highlight the utter incompetence of this foolish blowhard, it is now. We need a leader and we have a fucking clown

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4 years

Day 1: Spirit

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5 years

Thread: This job is humbling

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Hey Jack, I hate to be this kind of asshole but actually I feel pretty strongly about this topic, so what the hell. In your discussions about "healthspan", did you get a chance to ask Ben about this?

jack

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Thanks Ben! Great conversation, and appreciate all you do to simplify the mountain of research focused on increasing one’s healthspan! Grateful for you

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4 years

An old friend just messaged me to ask me if I was being sarcastic here. I guess if Dr. Fauci is a disaster then almost all of us would also aspire to be such disasters. So yes, in case it is not clear, I am being sarcastic. He is a hero

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4 years

On a conference call just now: "If we are accused in a few weeks of overreacting, we will welcome that" Seems right...

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10/ Long story short, Dylan joined the group to lead the TREAT Study. To say he was fundamental in the design, implementation and completion of the study would be a dramatic understatement. He was the study. Also...

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It also seems relatively uncontroversial to acknowledge that medicines are a life-saving solution for those with hypertension who cannot control their blood pressure with lifestyle alone

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I want to tell a two-part story. I'll allow that I have no way of knowing what is "right" here. I just want to share the story. So I have a patient who is in his late 70's. He has extensive CAD with multiple stents and is post-CABG. He first came to see me a few years ago

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Ethan J. Weiss

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2 years

Aside from the fact that there is zero evidence that fasting does anything to improve even one meaningful clinical outcome, something I’ve never understood is why you’d need an app to tell you not to eat. Can’t you just not eat and like look at your watch?

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7 years

It's almost 9AM and I've not yet had a cup of coffee. This must be what it feels like to be septic

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Somewhere in the "How to handle a press crisis" handbook, there must be a chapter on arguing with celebrities on Twitter

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I had a conversation this week during which I bet someone that I could completely make up a diet and promote it and that it would end up a best seller. Then someone else pointed out that @AlanLevinovitz actually did this…

They Swore by the Diet I Created — but I Completely Made It Up

How exposure to misinformation inoculation sometimes makes things worse

elemental.medium.com

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4 years

I sequenced my genome this morning. I found out that I am homozygous for a loss of function allele in the “I give 2 shits about rockets” gene

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5 years

I have added a question that I now ask all new patients when I see them: "What percentage of meals that you eat on a weekly basis do you prepare or are prepared by a family member?" I am not sure what I'll do with it but people seem to like the question and I learn a lot

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20/ What did we find? Well, let’s start with the bottom line. This was a negative study. TRE did not lead to a statistically significant difference in weight loss at 12 weeks. First, the good news. It was relatively easy to comply at least by self-report. So it’s doable

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3 years

Admittedly, it’s a small sample size, but 2021 has a very 2020ish feel to it, so far

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2 years

When you can get a month of life saving medicine for less than the cost of a single grande latte at Starbucks, you are winning

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July 1, 1998 was my first official day at UCSF when I started as a Cardiology Fellow (in the lab). I was 29 & single & moved to California from Baltimore never expecting I’d still call it home 20 years later. Now this...

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How many times has Obamacare almost died? Someone should sequence its genome or study its microbiome or something

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4 years

22/ This is important. If this had been an uncontrolled study, we'd be saying there was a significant decrease in weight. But there was that pesky control arm. We know that people in clinical trials to lose weight no matter what you do. Including the control arm was important

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24/ If you squint, maybe you can convince yourself more people lost weight in the TRE group, but having squint is never a good thing in science

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We are nowhere near out of this, but the news here is not horrible (ok?) - The number of cases in hospitals here seems stable. The surge may yet come but each passing day without it is encouraging - If and when the surge comes, we will be prepared

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30/ 3) focusing just on weight loss may lead one to assume benefit when there could be harm. The lean mass example is a good one. Losing 1 kg of mass =/= a kg of fat. Indeed, if one loses .65 kg of lean mass and only .35 kg fat mass, that is an intervention I’d probably pass on

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Visiting family in NC. Stopped for gas. My children now understand that we do indeed live in a bubble

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4 years

More and more patients come in telling me they prefer to take Red Rice Yeast Extract instead of statins

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I've been talking to my friend and colleague here at the UCSF CVRI about Zinc. These are musings and please don't think that I am suggesting people take it. I don't though full disclosure, Bill does...

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@realDonaldTrump They are carrying out a silent and peaceful act that we might choose to reflect on. We could stop and ask why they’re protesting

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CDC says the coronavirus pandemic could be under control in four to eight weeks if everyone wore a mask starting now

Face Masks Really Do Matter. The Scientific Evidence Is Growing.

Face masks are emerging as one of the most powerful weapons to fight the novel coronavirus, with growing evidence that facial coverings help prevent transmission—even if an infected wearer is in...

www.wsj.com

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Just did my first video visit and I am somewhat stunned to admit that I liked it. I would like to be able to get an ECG and I'm sure it would be nice to have vitals and listen to heart/lungs but really overall I give it a 9/10

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5AM (me to my wife): “We should drink less. Tonight let’s have just one.” Her (to me): “Definitely!” 5PM (me to my wife): “About that drinking thing I said this morning, we should start tomorrow.” Her (to me): “Definitely!”

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And a whole group of people were there to greet us. It was not necessary but also very nice. Thank you @united . It meant a lot

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@realDonaldTrump But our President does not. Instead, he chooses to make a series of cold and calculated statements clearly motivated for political gain

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This was about 12 days before he tested positive. What a sad and unnecessary death

The Cain Gang

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Here’s just a few of the #BlackVoicesForTrump at tonight’s rally! Having a fantastic time! #TulsaRally2020 #Trumptulsa #TulsaTrumprally #MAGA #Trump2020 #Trump2020Landslide

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