Well, howdy there internet peeps and Ruskie Bots
It's Troy again
Up without Breakfast, so Bill's pics are just a tease.
have to go see the vampire today for the annual wellness blood draw. Because wife works for a very large medical lab company, we get all the extras on wellness checks. It will be 8 tubes this time.
So, no food or coffee until after the draw. But I'm still taking my tylenol. Ugh.... another 4 weeks of dealing with this sciatica if the last few times are an indicator.
Got to see the wacky side of chiropractic care yesterday. the doc tried using some kinesiology methods to help find out what mineral and supplements I might need. It was him measuring how hard I could push back against his grip. He'd alternate laying a vial of some minerals on my abdomen, then have me push again with my arm.
He ended up strongly suggesting I take some supplements. Co Q 10 (available anywhere, and it was on my list to ask my GP about), and a different type of magnesium (he recommended mag-citrate with calcium, and I've been taking mag L-threonate without calcium).
Came home, asked Claude about it:
I want to be straightforward with you here rather than soften it: applied kinesiology muscle testing, including the vial-on-abdomen version, has not held up under controlled scientific testing. When studies control for practitioner expectation and patient blinding (i.e., the practitioner doesn't know what's in the vial, or the patient doesn't either), the "muscle weakening" response doesn't reliably correlate with what substance is actually present. It's generally regarded by the broader medical and even much of the chiropractic community as unsupported by evidence — this is a different thing entirely from the soft-tissue/trigger point work his practice page described, and different from standard orthopedic tests (like true resisted strength testing for a specific nerve root, which is a legitimate diagnostic tool that also involves you pressing against resistance, just without the vials).
Claude said there were no contra-indications with the bottle of supplements he sold me to my current meds, and the supplement of Mag Citrate and Calcium is common for my gender/age group.
Another appointment tomorrow. We'll chat about the Kinesiology methods. If he thinks I need supplements, we can discuss without the silly methodology.
Another hour and I'll go shower, then go get the donuts
and coffee for consuming in the parking lot, right after the blood draw. That's my reward for being good and not cussing when the phlebotomist stick a needle in me.
Plus, I want some food in the belly when I take the morning med.
