You’re so sweet! Keep in mind they’re neutral grip, so quite a bit easier than pronated. But they hit the biceps nicely without elbow irritation.
Wild!
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This is a great list and I’m going to have to read it more carefully when I get home. We’re traveling out of state at the moment.
For what it’s worth, I have thyroid issues and I’ve been told numerous times that I’ve got a big personality for someone so small. Lol
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I believe it girlfriend. 
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Anyone irritate the piriformis after a road trip? Sitting for 7-8 hours with minimal breaks didn’t bother my high ham strain as much as it bothered this stupid thing (the smallest, crankiest muscle of the glutes)…
That tiny muscle can cause a world of hurt when you sit too long, and when your 39 year old body thinks it’s 89. And can we talk about the absurdity of Chris being 13 years older and having zero aches and pains while I’m basically debilitated from sitting?
So today’s workout began with a handful of stretches and some abductor work to pump blood into the area. Stretch. Walk around. Pump. Repeat.
Luckily, that seemed to work and my gait loosened up enough to walk like a normal person.
Chest and Shoulders
This would’ve been a full upper body workout but I ran out of time and also felt the need to ease up. (Luteal phase will punish you if you don’t listen to your body.) So despite going to failure on mostly isolation work, it didn’t really feel taxing overall.
• Dip
• Lateral Raise
• Cable Rear Delt Flye Drop Set
• Dumbbell OHP
• Dumbbell Incline Bench
More lower body stretching
Fun With Blood Tests!
Another reason I was intrigued by that weird article I wrote about (above) is because I’m about to get a full thyroid panel this week.
My chiro said it’s a good idea to check those numbers out on occasion. Last year I had a test that showed that my T3 and T4 levels were in the normal range. But those don’t tell the whole story. Also, I wanted someone from a functional background to explain the results.
It ought to be interesting since like half of everyone I know is hypothyroid. So maybe I am too! Who knows?
And why the prevalence? Is it something in our drinking water? Or an endocrine disruptor, like BPA, glyphosate, or some kind of phthalate in our food supply that we can’t escape?
Fluoride is the biggest culprit I keep seeing people mention when it comes to thyroid health, and it’s hard to avoid.
So tomorrow’s tests will be kinda fun.
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I’ve used a lacrosse ball to get at that thing to loosen it up when it gets super tight and I have to peel myself off the ceiling. For a tiny little thing, it can cause some hurt.
The tiny muscles seem to be the ones that are always getting me even though I do a lot of preventative maintenance. I guess that is the trade off for me with lifting fairly heavy most days.
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Oh, that is torture! But you’ve got me looking for our lacrosse ball now. haha!
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Yep like every time I sit in the car for more than 40 mins. This reminds me I need to spend more time on my spikey ball.
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We’re twins! haha so glad I’m not alone on that.
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If we are twins that makes me 10 years younger and whole lot prettier. Thanks for the compliment. LOL
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Not sure, but Flouride that is intentionally added to the drinking water is a good guess, as you mentioned (scary to see that the CDC wholly backs the flouride drinking water while studies have shown significant positive correlation of hypothyroidism and flouride).
Not to mention the xenoestrogens in our drinking water…
7.1. Sources of Exposure to Estrogens
The sources of estrogens in the environment can be diverse. The cattle industry is one major source of estrogens released into the environment, especially because the industry uses growth-regulating steroids to enhance cattle growth rates [265]. Further, estrogens have been detected in solid waste and effluents from livestock and agricultural areas [270]. Moreover, water has been polluted with estrogens released from sewage plants. The human source of estrogens is mainly through urine excretion. For example, pregnant women excrete between 260 and 790 μg/day of estrone, 280 to 600 μg/day of 17β-estradiol, and 6000 and 10,000 μg/day of estriol [265]. Although ethinylestradiol from birth control pills is an additional endocrine disrupting chemical that contributes to the feminization of aquatic species, the contribution of this compound to drinking water estrogenicity has been shown to be less than that from other sources [271]. This could be because the only source of ethinylestradiol in drinking water is assumed to be therapeutic use and this compound transforms to estrone under all but nitrate-reducing conditions [272,273].Estrogens are found in rivers, wastewater, and drinking water. For instance, estrone was the most commonly detected estrogen in water samples derived from streams associated with livestock operations in 12 states in the US [274]. Liu et al. estimated that the amount of estrogens from livestock (56.8 g·d−1) released into water environments was nearly two-fold higher than from humans (35.2 g·d−1) in Shangai [275]. Further, estriol was present in the highest average concentrations (summer: 3.6 ng/L; winter: 2.7 ng/L) followed by 17α-estradiol in analyzed water samples from the Hanjiang River in China [276]. In addition, ethinylestradiol and estriol were the main estrogens responsible for the estrogenic potencies in samples of source and drinking water in eastern China. Moreover, a study revealed the existence of 17β-estradiol and ethinylestradiol in water samples collected from Meiliang Bay, China. Esteban et al. detected estriol 3-sulfate, estrone, and its metabolite at frequencies of 14% and 29% in analyzed samples of sewage treatment plants in the Madrid region [277].
7.2.2. Humans
Exposure to exogenous estrogens has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in women in Spain [286]. Moreover, urinary phytoestrogens levels were associated with idiopathic infertility in men in China [287]. Together, these studies show that estrogens that contaminate surface waters worldwide can negatively influence the fertility and reproductive capacity of non-human animals and humans (Table 8).Besides the information available about relationships between estrogens and adverse reproductive outcomes, data are limited on the levels and types of estrogens in the environment. In addition, the role of estrogen contamination in different ecosystems and populations is still not well understood. Future investigations should be conducted to fill these gaps in knowledge.
8. Conclusions
Growing evidence indicates that anthropogenic contaminants are present in water across the world and that they can impose negative health effects in non-human animals and humans. These environmental toxicants can act directly or indirectly on the reproductive system, impairing development and fertility. Considering that the routes of exposure to these chemicals are not restricted to the ingestion of water, the levels of exposure for some of these compounds can be much higher than those from water alone. Further studies in a wide variety of populations and species are required to explore the long-term consequences of exposure to contaminants present in water and their reproductive effects. Although the effects of chemicals among species may differ, non-human animal models serve as a basis for scientific experimentation as they provide mechanistic, effectiveness, and toxicological information about EDCs. Additionally, it is necessary to consider the effects of mixtures of contaminants from different categories to mimic the normal environmental exposure in domestic animals, wild life, and humans. More studies are needed in a variety of populations to determine if the impacts of environmental chemicals on reproduction differ by populations in different locations worldwide.
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This is why I am putting an RO water system in soon.
Too much extra crap added to our water. I don’t think consuming the chlorine in the water is much good either.
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Scary, but not surprising for some reason. It just seems like our experts and authorities would like us all to be sicker and fatter. There’s a politician fighting to get even more fluoride added to the water supply in his state.
Thank you so much for finding all this info! It’s eye-opening.
Is there a way to filter all that out? I’m looking into getting a whole house filtration thingamajig, but not sure it’d even work with things like xenoestrogens.
What do guys you do?
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I need to know more about this!
Piriformis: massage gun.
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Right now? I deal with it lol. Not a great answer… estrogens aren’t really going to hurt me considering my, umm, pharmaceutical dabblings.
But I will be looking to get a water filtration/purification system once I move into a state that is less anti-people than california.
Not to get all political, but if medical and political authorities actually wanted to save lives during Covid, they would have put more effort into telling people “lose 30lbs, exercise at least 90 minutes weekly, let the sun touch your skin, and supplement vitamin D”. That likely would have saved more lives than getting that 8th booster shot.
Instead, they closed gyms and said “wait for another magic pill to solve all of your self-induced problems”.
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Reserve Osmosis is the first step to a home purification system if you are on city water. It’s even better if you can get an RO/DI (Reverse Osmosis/De-ionizer system).
Places like culligan water will install and maintain them for a monthly fee or you can do it yourself but that’s a bit riskier.
You can get installed right on your incoming line or you can get under sink units for drinking and cooking water.
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Great info, thank you!!
Thanks for the reminder!
Did this last night right before bed. That thing is so dang powerful. I probably wouldn’t have been able to sleep without doing it.
What’s the verb form of getting massage gunned?
Keep us posted. Looks like all the covid restrictions and mask mandates are coming back full-force by October. I imagine those will hit your state pretty hard, and since CO is a mini-CA, we’ll be right there with ya.
Editing this to say, maybe (hopefully) none of this is true and we won’t have a repeat of 2020-2021. But for the past week I’ve seen this prediction from multiple sources.
Nothing you stated is political; it’s the common sense thing people could’ve observed with their own eyes if they were willing to be honest with themselves.
Now what would be political is if you said that the upcoming mandates are corresponding perfectly with the upcoming election. And that all of this manufactured alarmism will be used to change the outcome in 2024. So, maybe don’t say that. It’s too political.
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