Grimachia: Housing Pending, Timely Vitamins

You may not know what Grimachia is. That might be traced to my just making it up.

Yes, one of the Joys of Invention is being free enough to make up thinking tools.  Can’t find the absolutely correct word?  No worries!  Missing words and animal sounds are two fertile areas.

This new word of the day follows the usual rules of wordage close enough that A.I. was able to figure it out, even if your coffee hasn’t kicked in yet:

“The prefix “grim-” often relates to something dark, gloomy, or stern, as in “grim” or “grimace.” The suffix “-achia” resembles endings in words like “anarchia” (anarchy) or “monarchia” (monarchy), suggesting a state, condition, or system.”

Honestly, it’s a better term than “news” – which went to hell when liberal pricks spread the false rumor that it meant “north, east, west south.”  Contards – let’s add that one, as well.

“The word “news” actually derives from the Middle English “newes,” from Old French “nouvelles,” meaning “new things,” rooted in Latin “nova” (new). The acronym myth likely emerged as a catchy, but false, explanation for the term’s meaning, possibly in the 20th century, though no specific individual or source is definitively credited with inventing it. A 2015 X post by @OMGFacts promoted this myth, claiming early newspapers used it to boast reports from all directions, while a 2022 post by @GabbbarSingh called it one of the earliest fake news examples. Despite its persistence, the acronym story is widely debunked by linguists and etymologists.”

Ergo, our first grimachia of the day: “News has been fake since at least 2015.”  Although, as a young reporter, I swear it was uttered when Slippery Dick said “I am not a crook,” on November 17, 1973.  If you’re even older, 10-years before that, the Lyin Baines Johnson government was already manufacturing lies in earnest (and Julio) with the Gulf of Tonkin II “attack” reports of August 4, 1964.

Ours is grim coverage.

Free Lunch Takes Canada!

On the erection of a new government in Ottawa, perhaps a 55-gallon drum of KY is in order.  Allies herald democratic values as Liberal Party wins Canadian election.

However pleased our leaderless (even after the voting) neighbors are, we are reminded Mssr. Carney has a revealing name; oh-so-very in your face  linguistically:

“A carney (also spelled “carnie”) is a person who works at a carnival, circus, or midway, typically involved in operating rides, running games, selling food or merchandise, or performing tasks like setup and teardown of attractions. The term derives from “carnival” and emerged in the late 19th to early 20th century in American English. Carnies are often itinerant workers, traveling with the show and living a nomadic lifestyle. They may perform roles like barkers (enticing crowds to games or shows), ride operators, or concessionaires. “

Sure sounds like a prime minister to us…

While we could love to have an all-access pass to read voting machine results, we’re comfortably summing the erection results as a carney-con, and letting it go at that.

Though it’s comforting to know we have circuses in power on both sides (and in the middle) of the borderless borders now. Progress?  You make the call.

From the Ottawa midway we hear Canada will ‘never’ yield to Trump’s threats as Prime Minister Carney declares election victory.  Canada became bipolar about the time it became bilingual.  Which was when? With the passage of the Official Languages Act on September 9, 1969.  Why, back then, the Carney in Chief was only four-years old…and may still be,. We just don’t know.

What we do know is the melting pot concept is still alive, somewhere: Trump administration requires truck drivers to speak English.  Eh hoser?

Circus Echo?

Was Roosevelt a socialist?  Not sure how this is news per se, but a read of By the Workers, for the Workers: Building Economic Democracy – Roosevelt Institute has us wondering why this is timely. I mean, since we are a Constitutional Democratic Republic…wait!

I have it! May Day! May Day! is this week.  I better get the pole set up….

Speaking of socialists and “May day’s” (and reformed commies and that whole tag-cloud):  Putin declares 72-hour ceasefire in Ukraine next week to mark Victory Day in World War II. So, is it all just a PR move?  Depends who you ask… May 8-10 ceasefire on Russia’s Victory Day – what is Putin’s goal and what does Russia want. Which is what you’d expect Ukraine to ask.

Trade Wreck

Just out.  See any impact from Trump Trade Tirades in this?

“The international trade deficit was $162.0 billion in March, up $14.1 billion from $147.8 billion in February. Exports of goods for March were $180.8 billion, $2.2 billion more than February exports. Imports of goods for March were $342.7 billion, $16.3 billion more than February imports.

Housing in a few minutes.

Does Solar Power the Future Work?

Here? Yes.  In Spain and Portugal? Not so much… Power being restored to Portugal and Spain as focus turns to cause of outage. Takeaway:  Don’t believe the net zero hype and leave the nuke plants on hot-standby, right?

Amazon is going after SpaceX: Amazon launches its first internet satellites to compete against SpaceX’s Starlinks.

What ever happened to Froogle?  ChatGPT goes after Google in online shopping.

What about Free Speech?  Congress passes Take It Down Act to combat deepfakes.

Around the Ranch: Timely Vitamins

A surprising amount of comment overnight on the question of when to take vitamins.  People who are new to supplements are often not sure.  There are some simple guidelines, though, that pencil out like this:

• Water-soluble vitamins (e.g., Vitamin C, B vitamins) are best taken in the morning with breakfast to support energy and metabolism throughout the day, as they’re quickly processed and not stored long-term.
• Fat-soluble vitamins (e.g., Vitamins A, D, E, K) should be taken with a meal containing fat, ideally at breakfast or dinner, to enhance absorption, since they dissolve in fat and are stored in the body.
• Multivitamins are typically taken in the morning with food to cover both types and avoid stomach upset.
• Specific cases: Iron supplements are best on an empty stomach (e.g., morning before eating) for better absorption, but with food if nausea occurs; calcium is often split into doses (e.g., morning and evening) due to limited absorption at once.

Where this gets even more complicated is when you’re running several, concurrent, anti-aging protocols.  As you may know, Elaine and I have been running three different protocols for years now and it means having a breakfast and dinner routine.

Our three protocols (no, silly, this ain’t medical advice…remember who invented QuackSmart, right?):

• OTC version of TRIIM-X is the bedtime stack:  Berberines, 5-HTP/melatonin, and low-dose DHEA.  An hour, or so after dinner.
• NMN (if you can still find it).
• And GlyNAC which is widely available.

But, that’s just the core anti-aging approaches. There are a lot of other steps involved. Clearing out “the garbage” in the body (spermidine, fisetin) and the usual’s contained in a good daily multi-vit.

Another area where things get complicated is when it comes to “skip and alt. days.”  Some things, you want to alternate (like spermidine/fisetin).

And because Elaine and I both have the dreaded APOE-4 allele, we do things like PS, PQQ, and Huperzine-A.

In the ebnd, our approach became complex enough that I put it into AI and said schedule it.  Here’s a simplified view:

NMN 500 mg Morning (Fasted)
NAD+ 250 mg Morning (Fasted)
PQQ 10 mg Morning (Fasted)
Urolithin A 500 mg Morning (With Food)
Resveratrol 250 mg Morning (With Fat)
Pterostilbene 50 mg Morning (With Fat)
Quercetin + Zinc 500 mg / 25 mg Zn Morning (With Food)
Vitamin D3 + K2 4000 IU / 200 mcg Morning (With Fat)
Omega-3 DHA 2000 mg Morning (With Food)
Raspberry Ketones 200-400 mg Morning (With Meal)
B-Complex 1 capsule (activated B-vitamins) Morning (With Breakfast)
C60 Fullerenes 1-3 teaspoons (C60 in olive oil) Morning (With Fat-containing meal)
TMG (Trimethylglycine) 500-1000 mg Morning (With NAD+ to support methylation)
AKG (Alpha-Ketoglutarate) 1000 mg Morning (With Vitamin C or Magnesium)
Panax Ginseng 200-400 mg (Every Other Day)Morning (Every Other Day With Food)
Rapamycin (Prescription) 2-6 mg (Once Weekly) Once Weekly (With Food)
CoQ10 (Ubiquinol) 100-200 mg Midday (With Meal)
Curcumin 500 mg (Skip on workout days) Midday (With Fat)
Magnesium L-Threonate 1000 mg Midday (With Food)
Citicoline 500 mg Midday (With Food)
Berberine 500 mg (5 days on, 2 off) Midday (Before Meals)
Spermidine 1 mg Midday (With Food)
Astaxanthin 12 mg (Skip on workout days)Evening (With Food)
Fisetin 500 mg (2x/week) Evening (2x per Week, With Meal)
DHEA 10 mg (5 days on, 2 off) Evening (5 Days On, 2 Off, With Meal)
Alpha Lipoic Acid 300 mg Evening (With Meal)
Baby Aspirin 81 mg (If not taking Omega-3s that day) Evening (Alternate with Omega-3)
Phosphatidylserine 100 mg Evening (With Meal)
Apigenin 50 mg Night (Before Bed)
GlyNAC 1000 mg Glycine + 600 mg NAC Night (Before Bed)
5-HTP 50-100 mg Night (Before Bed)
Lion’s Mane 500 mg Night (Before Bed)

AGAIN…this is NOT medical advise, but we are fairly serious about maintaining our healthspan (the enjoyable part of lifespan) as long as possible.  So use some of those A.I. tools out there to build yourself a really optimized personal plan.

Conventional medicine is not leading in a lot of this stuff – though the research labs are doing great work.  It’s just that there’s a long gap between the lab and the implementation at the individual care provider level.  You can skip most of the delays by reading PubMed.gov twice a month and going for articles on any known problem areas you have genetically.

And yes – that requires having your DNA run – and many people (depending on paranoia levels) don’t want to do that…and to a degree with good reason.  But that’s one of those “balance of risk” decisions in life.  We opted to find out what our specific risks were so we could specifically plan for (and around) them.  Your call may be different and fine with us – it’s what makes life a horse race.

Back with the Housing Report data as its own post shortly.

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net