Recent content by Aleser

To answer your question a year late: some resort to using the cheapest insulins on the market, the old generation of -lin insulins that doesn't work as well and doesn't give you the precise control of new -log insulins. Some pay out of pocket. Lantus, humalog, and pen needles cost about 500...

Type 1 diabetes is NOT in any way related to diet, and even if the person consumed no carbs whatsoever, they would still die due to lack of insulin pretty quickly. Type 2 diabetics can and do experience beta cell failure and NEED insulin just as much as type 1s, and die without it. Don't say...

Any hearing aid use, present or past, is an automatic disqualification. You will need to waiver out of it, which is difficult, especially if you don't have a college degree or weren't in the military in the past. No waiver = no entry for anyone who has ever used a hearing aid. You can always...

Your pharmacist is very wrong, and you should not be taking all of your dose at one time! Lyrica needs to be taken three consistently spaced times a day, at the dosage your doctor recommends. If your doctor tells you that you can just take it all once a day, find a new doctor! You will get no...

Two seasons, after which it was canceled.

You can check the status of shows you like even if you're not a member, or get a free trial. My TV doesn't support captions on any h+ shows, but I'd say at least half the shows I want to watch have captions. Going off my playlist: Sadly, the Colbert Report doesn't. :( I crank it up loud...

The word "toned" is magazine speak for "girls who lift five pound weights, stay thin and weak, and quit the gym after a month because they aren't making progress". You wont get big and bulky as a girl. Have you seen female olympians? How many of them look like bulky weightlifting men? Women...

... Other: none of the above. Fuck treating human beings like they're "illegal" for existing. Fuck punishing people who feed and clothe them. Fuck punishing employers who give them jobs so they can live. Fuck spending tax money and resources on a bunch of angry guys with guns at the borders...

There's quite a few other brands of minimalist shoes out there now, including ones without separated toe packets if you're not ready to make the leap. Many stores now carry Nike Frees (although, since nike is arguably responsible for modern running shoes and all their damage, I generally don't...

Running shoes temporarily mask the pain of what you're doing, but they don't prevent the damage nor the force, especially if you're heel striking. Because you don't get the right feedback (pain), you keep doing these negative things (like pounding the ground harder instinctively because your...

The fabric and sides of rubber between each toe (on the KSOs) is all of 1mm, maybe two. It isn't too different from how your toes would be if you were barefoot. Some runners who don't like their pinkies being separate from the toe next to it (because the pinky is bad at responding to threats...

I tried the "jaya" model in store, and it was like walking on two huge disks of rubber padding, and I was actually heel striking in them because of the amount of rubber. A definite and bad departure from the KSO's design, which is only a little reinforced at the balls of the feet and heels.

The idea that a rubber bump can take on the thousands of pounds of force you plunge down on your feet when you run is absurd. What's more absurd is expecting the rubber bump to actually support your arches, which tighten and strengthen as your weight presses down, not as an "arch support"...

I have vibram KSOs, although I like to barefoot it whenever I get the chance as the KSOs aren't quite as natural as the real deal. Getting my VFFs and running in them has been part of a huge turning point in my life. I had no idea that humans, normal humans, could enjoy running before. But...

I would be deeply confused if a doctor didn't think that type 2 was a disease. And yay taking insulin! I'm a huge fan of type 2s using insulin, especially early after diagnosis. It can help get your glucose under control quick (preventing complications), and it might reduce the rate your...