If you haven't heard before, there was a baseball player named Alexander Rodriguez that was suspended for 162 games and the postseason the was going one at the time. The reason that he was suspended was for doping in order to improve his baseball performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CavPBwBPGZQ
In the video you see his supplier testifying that "A-Rod" had been taking performance enhancing drugs in order to improve performance. In the full interview, he explains how the process worked. He explains how he would text A-Rod when and how to take the drugs. He even explained to him how to beat the tests. It's kind of sad that people would go to such an expense just to be better than their competition. It's even sadder that their competition is more than likely playing the sport as an honest player. It's much better to be someone who plays at the rate of an average player than trying to beat the system. Is there anything that you want bad enough that would make you want to cheat in order to win? Do you think that you would have a price to sell your morality? What do you think of people that do this? Does it make them any less of a person? Does it make you any less of a person that you are judging this person? Should this be allowed? Obviously people had to vote on this in order for it to be a rule, but are they right? Whatever the answer, I hope we're doing it right.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
B1 in a million (Nerve Cells and Nerve Impulses)
The video below shows a cat that has a thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LYW22xnBBo
You may have noticed how the cat could not properly sit down or look at the camera without aid of the nurse. Thiamine deficiency can cause or be a part of causing: Alzheimer's disease, beriberi, alcoholic brain disease, optic neuropathy, and other illnesses. In this particular video we witness a cat diagnosed with a form of beriberi known as dry beriberi. Beriberi is a neurological and cardiovascular disease of which has three major forms: dry beriberi, wet beriberi, and infantile beriberi. Dry beriberi is a symmetric impairment of sensory, motor, and reflex functions affecting distal more than proximal limb segments and causing calf muscle tenderness.
You'll love this video more than the last. I guarantee it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76DVULxJ-kk
The video you just watched is a post-treatment video of the same cat. I must point out that it was wise to use such a unique cat because you cannot just say that it is another cat that is it's brother or relative. It's key trauma to the eye makes it undoubtedly noticeable as the same cat. Also, cats are freakin' adorable haha
Now it gets interesting. As I was reading a book that was assigned by my professor, I stumbled across an interesting side note. "Cancer cells and the testis cells that make sperm also rely overwhelmingly on glucose". In a later sentence it states that "to use glucose, the body needs thiamine". Can you put two and two together? Do you just realize what could happen??!! If you could somehow cause someone that has cancer to become thiamine deficient, you could stop the formation of cancer cells and thus pausing a ticking time bomb. Once the cancer cells have stopped producing, doctors could go in an remove the cancer cells. This will stop the spread of cancer cells throughout the operation and decrease the chance of reformation. Once the procedure is over and done with, they could go ahead and treat the patient with thiamine pills to allow them to become functional again. Boom! Bye-bye cancer.
Here is the million dollar question though. Assuming that my hypothesis is correct, "Is it morally correct to put a cancer patient through this treatment if it means possibly endangering their life in order to save it?"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LYW22xnBBo
You may have noticed how the cat could not properly sit down or look at the camera without aid of the nurse. Thiamine deficiency can cause or be a part of causing: Alzheimer's disease, beriberi, alcoholic brain disease, optic neuropathy, and other illnesses. In this particular video we witness a cat diagnosed with a form of beriberi known as dry beriberi. Beriberi is a neurological and cardiovascular disease of which has three major forms: dry beriberi, wet beriberi, and infantile beriberi. Dry beriberi is a symmetric impairment of sensory, motor, and reflex functions affecting distal more than proximal limb segments and causing calf muscle tenderness.
You'll love this video more than the last. I guarantee it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76DVULxJ-kk
The video you just watched is a post-treatment video of the same cat. I must point out that it was wise to use such a unique cat because you cannot just say that it is another cat that is it's brother or relative. It's key trauma to the eye makes it undoubtedly noticeable as the same cat. Also, cats are freakin' adorable haha
Now it gets interesting. As I was reading a book that was assigned by my professor, I stumbled across an interesting side note. "Cancer cells and the testis cells that make sperm also rely overwhelmingly on glucose". In a later sentence it states that "to use glucose, the body needs thiamine". Can you put two and two together? Do you just realize what could happen??!! If you could somehow cause someone that has cancer to become thiamine deficient, you could stop the formation of cancer cells and thus pausing a ticking time bomb. Once the cancer cells have stopped producing, doctors could go in an remove the cancer cells. This will stop the spread of cancer cells throughout the operation and decrease the chance of reformation. Once the procedure is over and done with, they could go ahead and treat the patient with thiamine pills to allow them to become functional again. Boom! Bye-bye cancer.
Here is the million dollar question though. Assuming that my hypothesis is correct, "Is it morally correct to put a cancer patient through this treatment if it means possibly endangering their life in order to save it?"...
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