The suicides … Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain, and the latest - Stacey Radin.

http://lawandmore.typepad.com/law_and_more/2018/10/stacey-radins-suicide-by-hanging-lawyers-be-aware-of-copycat-phenomenon.html

Stacey Radin's Suicide By Hanging - Lawyers, Be Aware of CopyCat Phenomenon

October 11, 2018

Extreme success. A New Yorker. Middle-Aged. And, struggling with clinical depression.

Lawyers, if that profile fits you, your colleagues, and/or your loved ones, then recognize that these are The Hanging Times.

In New York City, there has been the third hanging.

High-profile clinical psychologist, best-selling author of "Brave Girls," and animal-rights activist Stacey Radin took her life yesterday. It was by hanging, just like the recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. Both Spade and Bourdain were middle-aged.

Radin was 52. She reportedly battled clinical depression. Here are more details from The New York Post.

There seems to be a copycat phenomenon in play. Hanging is a relatively slow, painful way to die. Also, it's not usual for women to take that route of self-deliverance.

According to the website Lost All Hope, suicide by hanging:

Is effective (leads to death) only 89.5% of the time. That means that a botched job could result in permanent brain or physical injury. In contrast, a gun shot to the head is effective 99%.

The process requires 7 minutes. Those can be a period of both physical (difficulty breathing) and mental (reflection on one's life) agony. In contrast, death by a gun requires only 1.7 minutes.

On a scale of 100, the amount of distress is in the 25.5% slot. When using a gun, that's at 5.5.

Clearly, the method of suicide can provide one of the dots on what might have been the mood at the time this decision was made.

Was the person so lacking in hope at that moment that the act was one of impulse? The mindset could have been: I can't take this one more minute. There's a way I can hang myself right here. In a support group, I have heard that line of thinking often.

Was the person full of self-loathing? In clinical depression there is a tendency to turn on oneself.

And, was the act, in its theatricality, a kind of rebuke to others? There is the thinking that all suicide is homicide. Those committing it are sending a message to those whom they perceive let them down.

A member of my nuclear family left an unfilled bottle of blood pressure medication on the kitchen table. My sister found her in the nearby bedroom dead of a massive heart attack. Some interpreted that as a passive suicide - and act of rage.

Lawyers in all locations, not only New York City, have to recognize the pull power of the hanging ethos in these chaotic times. It is difficult to hold on to anything - a nest egg in a portfolio. a high-powered job, looks when hitting middle age, trust in relationships, and a doable plan for semi-retirement or retirement.

Recently, I asked a 53-year-old colleague who sensed he was going to be forced out of a job, if he planned to kill himself. Maybe because he was stunned, he answered "yes." I made the appointment for him with a cognitive therapist who specializes in displaced professionals. And, as a coach I am helping him navigate the search for how to make a living. He was on the money: He had been forced out. He blamed both his age and that his boss had been fired.

Full Disclosure: I have been clinically depressed since age 11. What I have observed is that the mood can become so dark that it shifts into psychosis. It took relocating from the New York Metro area for me to finally get the upper hand in battling this monster. OF COURSE, I had sought out many traditional modes of treatment. I could teach a course at Harvard Medical School on all that and more.

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UK Gene bank - 1st two scientific papers published

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-papers-based-full-uk-biobank.html

First two papers based on studies using full set of data in the UK Biobank published

by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress report

October 11, 2018

Two teams of researchers have independently published papers describing research conducted using the full set of data in the UK Biobank—both in the journal Nature. The first team comprised researchers from the U.K., Australia and Switzerland—they searched the Biobank looking for associations between genetic variants and features that could be used to fill in gaps in the data. The second team consisted of researchers from Oxford University—they used the Biobank to compare genetic data with an associated 10,000 MRI brain scans. Nature has also published a News and Comment piece by staff writer Matthew Warren—he outlines another way the Biobank and others like it are being used for gene-based research efforts. The two papers are the first to be published describing studies conducted using the UK Biobank.

The UK Biobank is a database that holds genetic data for approximately 500,000 people (between the ages of 40 and 69) living in the U.K. It also includes other data for the same individuals that describe lifestyle, body type and test results done on saliva, blood and urine—as a bonus, it also has thousands of MRI scans. The Biobank started back in 2006, and was put together by a team that will continue to add new data obtained from the original volunteers over the next 30 years. It is based in Manchester, England.

In the first study, the researchers used genotype imputation (a statistical procedure) on markers in the Biobank to fill in gaps in the data. This is expected to assist future researchers who use the Biobank in their efforts. In the second study, the researchers compared genetic information in the Biobank with MRI scans from the same volunteers, looking for patterns. They report that they connected 150 individuals with brain disorders or other abnormalities that showed up on an MRI where relationships were found. They also found connections for genetically based diseases such as multiple sclerosis, which they linked to genes in white matter.

The UK Biobank is expected to be an important tool for genetics researchers in the coming decades due to its size and variety of date. Iit will be open to anyone who wishes to use it at no cost.

More information:

Lloyd T. Elliott et al. Genome-wide association studies of brain imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank, Nature (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0571-7

Clare Bycroft et al. The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data, Nature (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0579-z

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Note that "The UK Biobank … will be open to anyone who wishes to use it at no cost." Got me started thinking about Cabal bloodlines.

The diseases … the cures ….

You've probably seen that Zona Plus gadget on TV that lowers your blood pressure or maybe tried hand grip exercises such as here:

https://highbloodpressurebegone.com/how-to-do-hand-grip-exercises-to-lower-blood-pressure/

The Jews have practiced something similar for ages. See below.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-ritual-orthodox-jewish-men-heart.html

Researchers say ritual for orthodox Jewish men may offer heart benefits

October 11, 2018

University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center

A pilot study led by researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine suggests Jewish men who practice wearing tefillin, which involves the tight wrapping of an arm with leather banding as part of daily prayer, may receive cardiovascular health benefits.

The researchers propose that benefits may occur though remote ischemic preconditioning that results in protection during heart attacks. The results are available online in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology.

Jack Rubinstein, MD, associate professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Health and a UC Health cardiologist, says he enrolled 20 Jewish men living in Greater Cincinnati—nine who wear tefillin daily and 11 non-users of tefillin—in the study. His team of researchers recorded baseline information on all participants during the early morning and then additional data after wearing tefillin for 30 minutes.

They measured the participants' vital signs, drew blood for analysis of circulating cytokines and monocyte function and also measured blood flow in the arm not wrapped with tefillin.

The men participating in the study were between the ages of 18 and 40 and all in good health.

"Tefillin is used for morning prayers for Jewish men over the age of 13 on an almost daily basis," says Rubinstein. "It is placed on the non-dominant arm around the bicep and the forearm in a pretty tight manner. It is never worn in a fashion as to preclude the blood flow. This is worn for about 30 minutes continuously. Prayers are sitting and standing so often you have to retighten the strap around your arm."

The usage of tefillin, also called phylacteries, dates back to scriptural commandments in the books of Deuteronomy and Exodus urging the faithful followers to comply with religious law and to "bind them as a sign upon your arm." Rubinstein says the binding of the arm and the discomfort users often report may serve as a form preconditioning and offer a substantial degree of protection against acute ischemic reperfusion injury (a section of the heart is deprived of oxygen and then damaged when re-oxygenated) that occurs as a result of a heart attack.

"One of the ways that protection occurs is through pain," says Rubinstein, also a member of the UC Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute. "Feeling pain is actually a preconditioning stimulus.

"We found people who wear tefillin in either the short or long term, recorded a measureable positive effect on their blood flow. That has been associated with better outcomes in heart disease," says Rubinstein.

Blood flow was higher for men who wore tefillin daily and improved in all participants after wearing it just once as part of the study, explained Rubinstein. Men who wore tefillin daily also had fewer circulating cytokines—signaling molecules that can cause inflammation and negatively impact the heart—compared to non-users, suggesting that near daily use elicits an effect similar to that observed with other methods of eliciting remote ischemic preconditioning-like effect.

For years researchers have studied preconditioning by inducing small heart attacks in animal models and found that they protected the animal from larger, more serious heart attacks in the future. This same preconditioning could be used by partially occluding blood flow in one part of the body and thus serving as a protective element in another part of the body to lessen the injury, says Rubinstein.

"The problem with translating this to people is we don't know when someone will have the heart attack," says Rubinstein. "It is almost impossible to precondition someone unless they are willing to do something daily to themselves. Tefillin use may in fact offer protection as it's worn on an almost daily basis."

Rubinstein says there are studies out of Israel that have found Orthodox men have a lower risk of dying of heart disease compared to non-Orthodox men. This protection is not found in Orthodox women who usually don't wear tefillin.

More information:

A. Phillip Owens et al. Tefillin Use Induces Remote Ischemic Preconditioning Pathways in Healthy Males, American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology (2018). DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00347.2018

Provided by: University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center