My god, you're a ticking time bomb!

I want to wire up a time bomb to the speaking clock. "At the third stroke, it will be Three. Minutes. To Doomsday. Precisely. Dooot--Dooot--Dooot."

Interesting. I know that one treatment for breast cancer is to suppress all the estrogen production. That would be pretty drastic, especially if they don't have strong evidence linking estrogen with breast cancer.

I seem to recall some types of breast cancer are estrogen dependent, and some are not. I think it is something they can determine when biopsying the tumors.

However I think it's a WILD leap to go from suppressing estrogen in women with breast cancer to suppressing it in healthy women.

I seem to recall some types of breast cancer are estrogen dependent, and some are not. I think it is something they can determine when biopsying the tumors.

Me too.

[eta I just skimmed them both & didn't see Gladwell making the argument that the other guy thought he was making, but agree with other guy's initial assumption that less mucking about with the hormones, the better.]

Of course, food-wise we're exposed to incredible levels of hormones. We're already mucking in addition to the menstruating so much more than historically.

OK, I won't worry. I brought up the bp issue when we talked about my options, and the NP thought I'd be fine. We're not thinking long-term, just 4-6 months in hopes my body will get the message that 19-21 day cycles are Not Good. (We're also testing me for anemia and to make sure nothing weird is going on hormonally. NP thinks maybe on the former--"you do look pale"--but no on the latter.)

And on a totally different note:

So, husband-person. Paying any attention to the game? King Felix is pitching rather well again.

I've heard that claim too, but I also thought I'd heard that the evidence was scant. Which is why I went looking for the rebuttal.

Unfortunately for the rebuttal, it's on a site (well, site for a deceased Doctor) that Quackwatch lists. (The site actively pimps "natural" solutions, from what I could tell.)

Gladwell's article didn't actually tell me anything new about hormone research--my mother keeps up on that, so if I'm not tuning her out, I'm hearing about it--but I thought the history of the Pill and the RCC was quite interesting.

I thought the history of the Pill and the RCC was quite interesting.

It was definitely the strongest part of the article -- I thought the rest fell into the same which-is-more-natural business that he started out questioning.

(And oddly, as I write this, I'm getting an ad for Seasonale. Five years after the article, it's the convenience factor that's selling.)

And oddly, as I write this, I'm getting an ad for Seasonale. Five years after the article, it's the convenience factor that's selling

That's pretty funny.

But, hell, it was the convenience (and low hormone dose) factor that sold me on my current method of birth control. Well, that and the potential for no periods for five years. Hard to beat that.

(Pimps Mirena again.)

Dammit, there went the no-hitter.

Rita is now #3 with a bullet on the Most Intense Hurricanes Of All Time list.

They didn't get a good read with the dropsonde, so they think it's 898mb. Only Gilbert's 888 and the Labor Day Hurricane's 892 are ahead of it now.

Monster, people.

And wife, noted that King Felix is pitching pretty well. Home shortly.