Mocha, bitter pills, and old hearts.

Diet

Wt was 264.4 this am. After a brief discussion, were dropping one high carb day to a med carb day. Still trying to figure out how my body handles carbs...

Medium carb day: had to turn down free potbelly subs at lunch today... Seriously, THAT was willpower...

Optimum nutrition mocha cappuccino arrived... Tastes like neither mocha nor cappuccino.  Tastes more like burnt marshmallow.  It does mix well with water/coffee and isn't repulsive....


Medicine

Times magazine : Bitter Pill  from March 2013... Read it.

Seriously, if you want to know why we are broke/broken as a healthcare system.

Also got to watch a TAVR procedure today... This is replacing a heart valve through a catheter ( like stenting a clogged vessel... But wedging a valve in there instead....).

Cost of the valve? $35,000...  After deployment, it was leaking... So guess what? Boom.
Another $35,000 valve was deployed on top of the first one. $100,000 on this procedure/ hospital stay alone for a person who is expected to live less than 2 years.

No longevity data on these valves, either. So we don't really know how much time we're buying these folks... Who are already expected to live less than a couple years anyway...

At what point do we say that enough is enough, and we as a society shouldn't pay for things like this? These minor temporizing interventions done in 85+ year old people...

When I reach 80, I'm eating nothing but pizza and ice cream until I die. Fuck it.

Dignity. There are worse things than death.




Lifting week2 upper1 tempo/hypertrophy
Super set pairs

Seated military press 6x6. @. 115 tempo'd
Pull-ups (6 sec eccentric)  6x6 @ bw- only used bands for the last 2 reps of the last two sets...

Wide bench 225 5x6 tempo'd with pauses...
Underhand row 135 5x6  5 sec contract at the top.

Band push-ups 3xfail
Band pull aparts 3xfail(20's)