Today we are talking about artificial sweeteners. We are gonna be going over the best and the worst artificial sweeteners We will have a deep dive and expose the information that is available about all the sweeteners Good and bad We will talk about why they still spike your blood sugar, not your but in many people it may spike blood sugar and They still have no calories. So how's that? I'll tell you about some recent research about some artificial sweeteners as well Somewhere towards the end of this video and that will blow your brain cells off You will be surprised about what you are going to hear. So stay tuned Hi, I am Dr. Ahmed Ergin. I'm an endocrinologist at diabetes and a hormone specialist As you know the food industry loves using various Artificial sweeteners which are low in calorie content instead of the high calorie sugar So who else loves them? Guess what? My diabetics You do not have to be diabetic to watch this video But if you are you will for sure be a pro about the sweeteners And you will be able to choose the right one for your diabetes and your health As you know many sweeteners still have controversial health and metabolic effects So then why do people still use sweeteners? Well most sweeteners are sugar substitutes and they are many times sweeter than the sugar It takes a smaller amount of these sugar substitutes to provide the same level of sweetness Some sugar substitutes are low in calories and then some others have little to no calories as a result There is a perceived but unproven benefit to using sweeteners instead of a table sugar You can argue all day long whether they are bad or good for you Which we will talk about however at the end of the day people have a sweet tooth and Occasionally wants to satisfy that sweet tooth with sweeteners instead of real sugar Which I totally understand may spike your blood sugar if you are strict and no Thank-you kind of guy or no fun type of guy You should just move on and not watch this video any further as you know Many of the major goal or the first goal of the major goal of the diabetes is to control blood sugar stuff, right? So sweeteners sometimes can help that but unlike sugar sweeteners don't contribute to Food decay either so there are some benefits to them Most of them don't raise a blood sugar levels and yes some do and especially certain ones that you will talk about But the research that I will talk about will highlight Many of the important points that you have not known before knowing which sweeteners are best Also, maybe helpful if you have diabetes pre-diabetes or insulin resistance Let's start reviewing them one by one So my first one is aspartame. There are two brand names that you're familiar with equal and nutritious sweet They're totally artificial meaning it is not natural at all It's that combination of two amino acids, which are aspartic acid and phenylalanine It gives you four calories per gram, which is the same as sugar. So isn't that insane? Well, wait a minute, but the aspartame is 200 times sweeter than the sugar get it So you use much less aspartame than the sugar and the calories that you use with the aspartame becomes negligible but you will see aspartame nutrition labels of many like yogurts, the chewing gum, the pudding, the soft drinks and Primarily on your table at the restaurant So they even use that in medicine like in their cough syrup and stuff like that But do not use aspartame when you are baking. It loses its sweet taste when heated because it is not stable in heat at all So when it comes to safety, the National Cancer Institute says that there is no evidence that aspartame and other sugar substitutes Approved for use in the United States cause cancer or other serious health problems Medical research studies have shown the sweeteners are safe for most people when used in moderation Well, the question is what is moderation? Some people bake with the sweeteners and some people use it only one time in their morning coffee So that part is a little vague. Also, they do not say that they want to raise your blood sugar either, do they? More on that coming up later. Next on the list is saccharin. Remember the sweeten low? That is saccharin. It is 200 to 500 times Sweeter than the sugar depending on how you use it. Similar to aspartame It provides around 3.6 calories per gram. Although as I just said, it is almost 500 times Sweeter than the regular blood sugar. On the downside, some people may notice a weird Metallic aftertaste when they consume the saccharin. And guess what? When used in processed foods They eliminate that aftertaste by combining saccharin with another sugar substitute Smart. Good thing you can bake with it. Not that I recommend doing so But it is possible. The body does not break it down So it is absorbed and eliminated by the kidneys which is also not a bad thing There has been a hype around this potential cancer thing with saccharin However, again the warnings have been removed as of year 2021 years ago after minor research showing that that was not the case. So forget about that cancer story, okay? What about Akasulfame K? By the way, next is Stivia. So you most of you know Stivia or love Stivia But we'll talk on that in a second. But this one is also 200 times sweeter than the table sugar down You may not have heard this one too often, but manufacturers typically use it this Akasulfame potassium with sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose because of the bitter aftertaste and Akasulfame K is pretty much can be found in every junk food you can imagine So claiming a junk food is low calorie version does just not make it any better, right? Okay, sucralose is the next one. Sucralose is 600 times sweeter than the sucrose and has a pleasant sweet taste It is quality and time-intensive profile is very close to that sucrose. So no wonder why Splenda is so popular. Remember that yellow packet? Yep, that is your sucralose Sucralose is calorie free, but Splenda also contains dextrose a form of glucose and maltodextrin which kind of jacks up the calorie content up to 3.36 calories per gram Well, not bad still considering how much sweeter it is than the sugar per gram Will it spike your blood sugar? More on that coming up in a few minutes Stevia, the most natural of all the sweeteners, right? The stevia. See, well stevia is a plant So it must be natural, but here's the deal There is a big difference between the stevia you buy at the grocery store and the Stevia that you find in nature Stevia products found on grocery store shelves such as the Truvia and so forth But the stevia don't really have the the stevia leaf They're made from a highly refined stevia leaf extract called Rebodiozide. They shorten it with Reb-A. In reality, most stevia products have very little stevia in them But hey, Reb-A is 200 times sweeter than the table sugar The sweeteners that they make with Reb-A are called novel sweeteners because they're mixed with other Sweeteners such as dextrose, which is a form of glucose or Erythritol, which is a sugar alcohol. Now you're thinking that stevia products You have been buying faithfully is not really that natural, huh? Sugar alcohols are the next topic Many sugar alcohols are there in fruits and vegetables. However Most sugar alcohols are processed from the other glucose molecules when they become a sweetener such as the one in cornstarch That makes it a little bit more natural than the artificial sweeteners because it comes from cornstarch Kind of sort of but also the sugar alcohols are different than artificial and low-calorie sweeteners in other ways Why is that? Well sugar alcohols first of all whole calories They're just fewer than the simple sugar and they're still considered Nutritive you probably heard about the xylitol Xylitol is the most common and well researched sugar alcohol It is common in chewing gums and oral care products, etc Now xylitol is about as sweet as regular sugar But has 40% fewer calories Besides that it can give you some stomach upset if you consume it in large amounts But in moderation xylitol is fairly well tolerated Next is erythritol and erythritol is another sugar alcohol that actually has a great taste And it only has 0.2 kilocalories per gram Compared to the 4 calories per gram of glucose. They produce it by fermenting the glucose in cornstarch and it has 70% of the sweetness of the sugar But only 5% of the calories Truvia, which is one of the popular sweetener brand has low-calorie sweetener stevia But also has erythritol as the main ingredient Erythritol does not have the same stomach upset that happens with other sugar alcohols Because it does not get to your large intestine Because it actually absorbed way earlier in the small intestine up to 90% And it's secreted by the kidneys gracefully Most importantly, erythritol has little to no effect on blood sugar and blood insulin levels As a result it is becoming very popular sugar replacement for diabetics Sorbetol has a smooth mouthfeel, which is another sugar alcohol, and a cool taste It is 60% as sweet as the sugar, which is not that sweet with about 40% of the calories Which is not that low So sorbetol is commonly used in the sugar-free foods and drinks as well And it has also very little effect on blood sugar and insulin But may cause quite a bit of digestive distress So be prepared Because you'll have to use much more than the other sweeteners to create the same sweetness that you desire Last but not least on that sugar alcohol topic is maltitol It's basically a processed sugar maltose And it has a very similar taste and feel as regular table sugar Maltolol has 90% of sweetness of the regular sugar with half the calories Mmm, not sure if that's great by the way A lot of products that has maltitol claim, they claim it's sugar-free But unfortunately your body absorbs some of the maltolol and it can lead to blood sugar spikes Well here are some big news about artificial sweeteners that I promised you in the beginning of the video Are you ready? Let's talk about it Recent studies suggest that the artificial sweeteners could actually raise your blood sugar levels More than if you indulge in sugar-sweetened sodas and desserts Wow, what? That has something to do with your gut Didn't I tell you to trust your guts before? Well, research has found that the saccharine for example Which is sweet and low Or even sucralose which is your glorious splenda And the aspartame which is your lovely nutra-sweet or equal Raised blood sugar levels by dramatically changing the makeup of the gut bacteria So what does these bacteria do anyways? Well, these lovely bacteria in your intestines help with nutrition and the immune system There are literally trillions of them Way more than the total cells of your body Actually four pounds of your body weight is bacteria So literally we are kind of full of... Okay, I won't say, okay So let's see how the researchers did the study Well, they added the artificial sweeteners that I just mentioned to the drinking water of mice What did they find? Well, the blood sugar levels of these mice were higher than those who drank regular sugar water After consuming artificial sweeteners for a while Also, it didn't matter if they were on low-fat or high-fat diet Sugar rose so much that it was almost in a diabetic range Now these are mice and we are not We are humans How does this relate to us in terms of how much sweetener that affects us? Well, they calculated that actually The mice fed with artificial sweeteners took in a daily amount Equivalent to what humans get in about four cans of diet soda Now, these are artificial sweeteners Not necessarily stevia or sugar alcohols Can they also change the microorganisms in the gut? That is yet to be found out How do they know also that it was the actually bacteria population changes all those glucose spikes? Well, because after sweetener-fed mice were given antibiotics to kill their gut bacteria Blood sugar levels returned to normal To take it to the next level, the researchers transferred the feces from the mice That drank artificially sweetened water into mice that never had And yes, the blood glucose also went up in those recipient mice Can we apply this mice situation to humans? Well, researchers also studied the 400 people And they found that the gut bacteria in those people who consumed artificial sweeteners regularly Differed from those who did not People who ate artificial sweeteners also had a higher fasting blood sugar levels Which they don't know So finally, they even tested seven subjects Five men and two women who never used artificial sweeteners at all And they tracked their blood sugar levels while they started using a maximum daily recommend dose of saccharin By the seventh day, blood sugar levels went up in four of the seven people When they transferred the feces from these people to mice Not to the other people, to mice The mice blood sugar also went up Confirming that the gut bacteria changes were responsible Here's a caveat that drinking artificial sweeteners did not affect blood sugar levels in all of the mice Or the humans in those studies Which tells us that there may be differences in gut bacteria from person to person Due to genetic differences What could be causing this? Maybe the rest of their diet, maybe genetics Maybe overall health status or even gender Could be all sorts of possible explanations Why some people's blood sugar will spike and some people's won't with artificial sweeteners On the other hand, perhaps not everybody's gut bacteria would be susceptible at all to these sweeteners So if you monitor your blood sugar regularly, which you should And find that artificial sweeteners actually raise your blood sugar Then stay away from it Simple as that Well, if it helps prevent the blood sugar Go ahead and use it, right? So personally, I would recommend using pure stevia or erythritol As I find them a little safer than the artificial sweeteners Like your Splanda and sweetenlau and so forth And yes, although sugar substitutes have fewer calories than the sugar It is still best to limit them and focus on healthy food choices There are a bunch of fruits, vegetables, lean meats are there They're the best source of nutrition for your body Guys, thank you for watching Please give a thumbs up, share and like And we will see you in the next video Hey guys, I hope you're enjoying this channel so far And I hope you subscribed already If you didn't do it And if you did watch this video right there I think that will help you too


President of the United States. Thank you all please be seated Well, good morning. I know you've already heard from Dick Thornberg and Bill Bennett and they're a tough act to follow so I'm taking this opportunity to announce the nomination of my fellow Californian Ferdinand Fernandez to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge Fernandez is currently a federal district judge for the Central District of California And he'll make an outstanding addition to the Ninth Circuit Which is one of the circuits the Judicial Conference recently declared to be in a judicial emergency because of the number of vacancies I trust the Senate will move quickly to confirm this important nomination And speaking of recovery Why don't we a few days ago? I spoke to an Hispanic audience about the traditional values and strong family ties that Hispanics share We've done all we can to support all American families with our efforts to strengthen the economy And so I'm here before you today after 69 straight months of economic expansion And don't let the snake oil salesman blur your minds with false statistics This expansion has benefited Americans of every economic stripe and ethnic origin This expansion has swept the country from north to south east to west Kaya Okoye, do I say that right or is it Ocho? Ocho, all right in Miami to Loisada Avenue in Manhattan and Nowhere have we seen business opportunities expand so as in your own field of Hispanic media with more than 500 television affiliates More than 200 radio stations and 76 newspapers You have created the most vibrant ethnic media this nation has ever seen and Most of this growth has taken place in the last few years As opportunities are opening up everywhere and the same is true everywhere in the Americas Immigrants know better than anyone how precious freedom and democracy are and in the past seven years There's been a democratic explosion throughout the Americas Before George Bush and I came into office less than 30 percent of the population of central and South America lived in democracies Now over 90 percent of the people live in nations that are either fully democratic or well on the way there As most of you know, however, sadly two peoples are struggling to get out from under the suffocating embrace of communist domination The word Glasnost is spoken daily in the Soviet Union, but there's no translation of it for the people of Cuba We're still living under the yoke of Stalinism and of course, there's Nicaragua It happens that today September 15th is Central American Independence Day on this day in 1821 The nations of Central America declared their independence from colonial domination Now 167 years later the Nicaraguan people yearn for a new independence from communist colonialism and aggression a True democratic Nicaraguan declaration of independence would guarantee freedom of speech a human right That's been trampled upon in recent months with a constant intimidation of la prensa It would guarantee freedom of religion a human right. That's been trampled upon by the bullying of radio catalika It would guarantee freedom of assembly a human right that's been trampled upon by the suppression of independent labor unions It would fulfill the promises the Sandinistas made in the or to the Organization of American States in 1979 And it would free the Nicaraguan people from totalitarianism Of course that declaration will not willingly come Those that rule by intimidation do not surrender Dictory dictatorial power willingly Only when they're pressured to do so And that's why I continue to support the freedom fighters in Nicaragua Who represent the best hope that the Nicaraguan declaration of independence will one day be the foundation of a democratic state in? Nicaragua The freedom fighters run out of money on September 30th and Congress must see to it that the freedom fighters are not left without food and supplies I'm also waiting for Congress to send the responsible defense legislation I want legislation that will help my successor continue the policies that have brought the Soviets to the bargaining table and Led them to begin pulling out of Afghanistan as well as prompting a ceasefire in the Persian Gulf and liberating Grenada Secretary Carlucci is prepared to work with Congress to come up with legislation that merits my approval and keeps our defenses strong I Will not stand by and watch this country once again be subjected to the naive and inexperienced liberal ideas That the people have consistently rejected and are completely out of step When I went to Capitol Hill for the State of the Union I vowed that I would never again sign a catch-all spending bill the kind I received last year A 14 pound thousand page monster and I wasn't making believe when I did this after I put it down I had caught my finger it was sore for about three days And this year the House and Senate have passed 13 individual spending bills a far better way of doing business I've signed two of them just received a third and expect to receive three others very soon But the House and Senate are still haggling over the remaining seven bills Even though the new fiscal year is starting in two weeks. I Want to see those remaining seven bills finished on my desk and fit to sign and that includes defense legislation consistent with our policies of advancing freedom and peace through strength the policies that have guided us for the past seven and a half years, but I fear Congress has gotten distracted from the Task of tending to the nation's fiscal business and instead is spending its time trying to score points before returning home for the election I Challenge the congressional leadership To send me all 13 spending bills by October 1st and accomplish something that hasn't been accomplished since 1948 Getting the nation's business done on time Now I'll be happy to take your questions You know it's really tough Do you feel frustrated as you leave the White House that Cuba and Nicaragua are still on the Congress Spreading in the Germanism from this hemisphere although Many countries have gone to the side of democracy and what went wrong when the Congress No support from other Latin American countries and the second part is what is a state in this presidential election? Or central America Well, I think what is at stake is the very policy that from the first we set out I hadn't been here very long when I made a trip down through Central and South America And my trip was one because I believe with the best of intentions in the past Leaders of our country have come up with plans for Friendship and mutual aid and so forth But it was always kind of the big colossus of the north coming up with the idea And wanting everyone to sign on Well, I wanted to make a trip down there and find out What the people are Latin American neighbors? What they thought might work so it was kind of rewarding because every time I'd get there and sort of a kind of austerely people I met with would start by saying well What are you proposing and I said I'm not proposing anything I'm down here to find out what your ideas are and how can we become closer? Here we are in this Western Hemisphere. We all have the common heritage. We all came from other countries and mainly from Europe to create this new world this new earth and We all worship the same God and we're only divided by three Three languages that separate us not the dozens of the rest of the world and so That's what I wanted and what I still want, and I think we should continue and of course There is there's been a great disinformation campaign Abroad and in our land that has confused a great many people about the Nicaraguan situation but we must set them straight and make them realize it is plainly a battle between freedom fighters and Dictatorship so I want that to continue Yes Well, I know how George feels and I think that you would be reassured if you don't about his warm feeling that he has with regard to Hispanics and The three things that you say that that we have done with I Well, I think for one thing I'm thinking overall terms our whole economic policy has been across the board it hasn't just been to benefit one segment of our society and in the improvement in the economy of wages of getting jobs and so forth of The Hispanic Americans have benefited As well and in some instances even better than than the general the general improvement, so I think that the economic Benefits that have accrued the changes that have come about in education and I'm going to be meeting with some of the educators Recognizing those today later. I think all of those have Are different than has our for our past policy has been I Think I better I better Move around here a little I'm Jolanda Jubey, president of the New York and Hispanic Assaults I'm also working in TV 65 in New York and Chicago. I have a question for you It looks as this year being a year of elections It seems that the presidential candidates are making a special effort to appeal to the Hispanic voters We saw it today with Candidate Ducacos in Spanish and we saw it with Candidate Bush Telling us that he was familiar with the Hispanic culture because of his relatives. My question is Assuming that you were running against yourself. Sharon opinion Would you try to make a special appeal to the Hispanic voters and why? Well, I think that's only natural that we do that in a society such as our own because Our country is made up of Every background we've all come all of us from every corner of the world and This country is unique in one sense a man wrote me a letter and explained it as beautifully as anyone could He said you can go to France live in France. You can't become a Frenchman You can go to live in Spain or Germany and you can't become a Spaniard or a German or a Japanese or whatever it might be But he said anyone in the world Can come to America To live and become an American because we all are with a heritage from someplace else and so I think it's natural to know that You appeal to the interests of people in politics as to what they expect from government and what they believe Their problems particular problems may be and so none of us forgot our heritage You don't quit loving your mother because you've taken under yourself a wife So we all of us are proud of where whether we or our ancestors came from and I think it's only natural that you reach out to establish a rapport With these various groups and let them know that you are conscious that they may have in some instances problems that are not general and therefore You want to know and want to find the answers to those particular problems? The Cuban exiles have been high hopes that your administration was going to help them win freedom for their land What do you think has been the major cause that has prevented your administration to? help establish democracy in Cuba specifically Well, I think one of the things we've been working for is The source of Cuba's strength of Castro's strength and that is our dealing with the Soviet Union's The Soviet Union we in all of our dealings they know very definitely how we feel About things of the of this kind and about Cuba and about the help that they have provided to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and so We think that that has been more direct and we've taken some encouragement from the fact that They are now withdrawing their military forces from Afghanistan, but all of this comes up in our discussions With the general secretary and has from the very first, but I've just been told that There wasn't time for any this always happens. Oh, you said one more You have only two more months of presidency and there are several The situation of little Castro Cuba drug transactions drug trafficking coming through Cuba Differtations of our real Cubans the situation of dr. Alonso Bosch in jail in Miami all of these issues are going to be hanging on the air What can we expect in the next administration? Well, I have great confidence because George Bush has been as Vice president a part and a major part of everything that we've done and all the accomplishments that we've had in the economy and everything else and our Building up of our security and all and I am convinced that Basically The policies that have been in effect for these last several years will continue under him And he will in addition do additional things that as problems arise that have to be done I have a feeling that if the election should go the other way that there will be a turnaround That they don't believe at all in what we've accomplished or what we've done and we will be back to trying to solve our problems with higher taxes and that sort of thing and So I think there is a very definite choice here for the people in this election And I as I say of every confidence in in George George Bush and what he will do he spoke a line in his acceptance speech at the convention That I think should be the theme For us of this campaign And that is he said if you're going to change horses in the middle of the stream Don't get on a horse. That's going the opposite way I'm I'm sorry and I always am when I laugh have to leave hands in the air and that I can't take the questions But she is absolutely right You know, there's somebody here in the government I haven't found him yet, but somebody that tells me what I'm going to be doing every 15 minutes of the day So I'm gonna have to go


Hello everyone. Today I'm going to take you through Ercilia, our motivation and our journey so far. So a little bit about me before we start. I am a machine learning engineer and I'm an open source maintainer with Ercilia open source initiative. And I joined them as an outreach intern back in December 2022. So before we start, let's look at a problem. And then I will walk you through the solution and finally the results and our journey so far and the tools that we've developed. So this is the world we all know. And there's a large income disparity across the globe with high income countries being only a few in number. However, this view kind of becomes skewed when we look at other statistics, for example, population, a large part of our world's population does not reside in these high income countries. They reside mainly in low, medium income or low income countries. And this view becomes even more skewed when we look at the burden of disease. A large part of the global south, low income populations residing in low income countries bear the largest burden of communicable and non communicable diseases. And the picture becomes even more bleak when we look at scientific literature, because as expected, it's generated from high income countries due to abundance and infrastructure and resources. And this severely puts a large part of our world at a high disadvantage because these diseases get neglected in mainstream research. So what is the solution and how are we doing our bit to make this world a better place. At Ursulia, we are basically a UK and Spain based non profit, building low or no code tools to facilitate early stage drug discovery research for low resource settings. All of our software is completely open source licensed under GPL 3, we're entirely volunteer driven, including academic and industry volunteers, and industry volunteers, such as companies involving GitHub, which have helped us automate a large part of our work flows entirely and digital ocean, which has provided us infrastructure so graciously so far. And we also do internship based volunteers, such as organizations like Outreachy. In fact, as I mentioned earlier, I was also an Outreachy intern when I joined Ursulia. And we also invest in our contributors by organizing tutorials and workshops. An example of which is an introductory course on drug discovery that was organized in partnership with the Welcome Center for Anti Infectives Research in collaboration with University of Dundee. And our flagship tool, Ursulia Model Hub incorporates AI models from literature across various stages of drug discovery as well as models from research that we carry out in house. So the result, which is the Ursulia Model Hub. Now, the drug discovery pipeline incorporates a lot of stages which are open to several levels of optimization. However, for sake of simplicity, I'm going to talk about the simplest case here. A lot of drug discovery problems can be modeled as binary classification targeting taking some drug candidates that target a pathogen. For example, it could be a malaria parasite or it could be an influenza virus. And with your drug, you would want to describe your drug candidates into some machine representations and then run ML workflows on it. So the Ursulia Model Hub has incorporated a lot of these models from existing research as well as the research that we've carried out in house. And we have included models involving molecular embeddings, activity target predictions and also chemical space exploration which provides us to explore novel drug candidates which have not been synthesized so far. So far in the two more than roughly two years of our existence, we have 5000 commits across all of our repositories. These include the Model Hub in itself and all the AI models that have been incorporated by our contributors and some other tooling that we've built under the Ursulia umbrella. And we have managed to amass a community of over 70 contributors and these are just the code contributors. There are also a lot of non code contributors who are spread across the globe. We work across different time zones, Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa, thereby involving not only the people who provide the resources but also people who can make use of these resources and contribute to making our mission better. So questions. We basically apply for grants and sometimes it's not exactly monetary funding. For example, GitHub set up our GitHub Action Workflows almost entirely free and a lot of the contributors that we get are in the form of interns. So for example, Outreachy program provides 7000 USD for 12 weeks and so you have a lot of students who are excited about or people in like taking a career break or doing a career pivot who are excited about working on this get paid through an external organization but work with Ursulia. So, yes, we do have a lot of work being carried out on developing novel drug candidates for malaria. A lot of our work also happens in Africa. For example, our co founders right now, the reason they couldn't be here are traveling to Cameroon today for basically working on this part so far. There's a lot of publications and we get published across journals like Nature. So you're like free to look them up. Yes, you can connect with us. And I'm Dhan Sri and reach out to us. All right.


ting late. It's almost seven to five. Holy mackerel. He says, uh, he says, uh, now we can't be friends anymore. He was only kidding. I says, don't worry just for today. He was all right. Can't see the wheel. Well, it was, oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I forgot to, I forgot to put it on screen chair. Right. Oh my God. I forgot to put it on screen chair. All right. Let me, you see it now, right? All right. Let me spin it again. Overpaid CEO as well. I know we spoke about this many times. Overrated, overpaid, paper pushes with the golden parachute, sucking up all the profits where there is no trickle down economics. That was always a big lie. The money actually pulls at the top. And actually, you just reminded me of something. I got something that pertains to this. There we go. This is perfect for this question. I'll get on it. Get down on it. If you really want it, get down on it, get down on it. Okay. This is a gem that I say has to do with corporate American CEOs. If our business is successful and achieves excessive profits, we're under no obligation to share that with our workers. Okay. Papa John CEO, John Schnatter, trickle down economics debunked in one sentence. Well, it sure is. It's debunked in one sentence. So much for the pride and joy of the Republican party, trickle down economics, corporate America, providing jobs which incidentally don't pay a living wage or provide adequate benefits. You know, that's it. It's debunked. It is debunked. So on that note, I'm going to depart. I'm getting hungry. I want to order some delectable Chinese food for dinner. Jumbo shrimp, maybe jumbo shrimp in black bean sauce or maybe jumbo shrimp in oyster sauce with brown rice on the side. And maybe I'll get some fish filet, some fried fish filet, so I can, because I have plenty of tartar sauce. You know, it's funny how tartar sauce became the go-to sauce for fish. All it is is mayonnaise, pickle, relish, and lemon juice. That's all it is. And cocktail sauce is ketchup and horseradish ground. Ground horseradish.  But if he can legally do that or not do that, that means every corporate American CEO can say the exact same thing. So there goes trickle down. And if you happen to be, if you happen to have an executive position in that company, well, guess what? Nothing will trickle down to you. You're lucky if it drips down. But in reality, it pulls to the top.  And when the level of red wine is ready to overflow, they just replace it with a bigger wine glass. So you get maybe some condensation from the wine. Yeah. Okay, my friends, Kevin Johnson, Jason Cleveland, Masumi Sid. Sid has been coming on early, but, you know, he leaves. But I'm happy to have him. Western Mike, Mr. Michael Hilton, thank you profusely for joining me. And of course, Ronald J. Theriault, thank you for joining this show. Bart Robinson, thank you for joining this show. And it's been wonderful. It's been a blockbuster. And that's it. Take care, everyone. Have an enjoyable Sunday evening and have a pleasant beginning of a new week. All right? Take care.


In this video, I will describe the pH buffer systems in the body and their importance for pH homeostasis. The pH of human blood is typically about 7.4. The optimal blood pH range is between 7.35 and 7.45. If blood pH falls outside of this range, it can lead to disruption of organ functions. Blood pH below 7.35 is known as acidosis and leads to disruption of the nervous system functions, specifically depression of the central nervous system causing headache, disorientation, and in extreme cases can lead to loss of consciousness or even death. You can see other organ systems are also affected. The respiratory system can be disrupted by acidosis leading to shortness of breath or coughing. The cardiovascular system can be disrupted leading to arrhythmia of the heart or an increase in heart rate. The skeletal muscular system can be disrupted leading to seizures or weakness. The digestive system can be affected by acidosis causing nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. Blood pH greater than 7.45 is known as alkalosis. Alkalosis leads to disruption of the nervous system functions as well, leading to over-excitability of the nervous system which causes abnormal tingling sensations, muscular twitches and spasms, lightheadedness, anxiety, confusion, and in extreme cases, alkalosis can lead to loss of consciousness or even death. You can see the effects of alkalosis also include effects on the digestive system that can cause nausea and vomiting. There is a lot of overlap in the symptoms associated with acidosis and alkalosis, including disruption of the nervous system functions and nausea and vomiting. These symptoms are largely related to disruption in the structure of proteins at the molecular level that results from a blood pH outside of the optimal range. Disrupting the structure of proteins will disrupt the function of proteins and then this will disrupt the function of cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems, ultimately leading to the symptoms observed at the level of the organism. A pH buffer is a chemical system that prevents rapid changes in the pH of a solution by dampening the change in hydrogen ion concentration that occurs as acid or base is introduced into the solution. One of the pH buffering systems in the body is shown in the illustration here, the amino acid buffering system. The amino acids can accept hydrogen ions from solution in order to prevent a decrease in blood pH. Similarly, amino acids can contribute a hydrogen ion to solution in order to help prevent blood pH from becoming too high. While there are some free amino acids found inside the cytosol in cells and in the extracellular fluids and blood plasma, most amino acids in the body are found bound together in polypeptides and proteins, and the protein buffering system accounts for about two thirds of the blood buffering capacity. The most abundant protein in blood plasma is albumin, and hemoglobin is the most abundant protein found within cells in the blood within the erythrocytes. So, albumin and hemoglobin contribute to the pH buffering capacity of blood, as the amino acids within these proteins are able to function as buffers, either absorbing hydrogen ions or releasing hydrogen ions in order to stabilize the pH of the solution. The phosphate buffering system resulting from sodium monohydrogen phosphate and sodium dihydrogen phosphate is another important pH buffer in the blood. Sodium monohydrogen phosphate functions as a weak base to accept hydrogen ions from solution, preventing a decrease in the blood pH. The bicarbonate buffering system is another important pH buffer in the body. Bicarbonate is a weak acid that can accept a hydrogen ion to form carbonic acid. This system accounts for the majority of the pH buffering capacity of the extracellular fluids, which have a relatively low protein concentration, but the bicarbonate buffering system is also very important for the ability of the respiratory and urinary systems to regulate the pH balance of the body, because carbonic acid can be converted to water and carbon dioxide. The enzyme carbonic anhydrase catalyzes this chemical reaction that converts carbonic acid to water and carbon dioxide, as well as the reverse reaction where carbon dioxide and water can be converted to carbonic acid. This is very important because the respiratory system can remove carbon dioxide from the body in the process of external respiration. The urinary system can remove excess hydrogen ions and bicarbonate ions from the body, and so the bicarbonate buffering system is an important place where the respiratory and urinary systems will be able to have an effect to regulate the pH balance of the body by either removing carbon dioxide or removing bicarbonate or hydrogen ions. The respiratory and urinary systems can shift the bicarbonate buffering system either towards bicarbonate or further towards carbonic acid.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with 2020 Top's Inception Baseball. One box, number 21. Now this has two transcendent spots being given away here, so that's pretty wild. It's only a 29 spotter, so, because the Cardinals aren't in here. So let's do the break itself first, ladies and gentlemen. And then we'll re-randomize everybody's names in this blank list right here at the very end of the break to see who wins those two spots. Let's roll it, let's randomize it three times. One, two, three, that's easy. So this is for the break itself. This is Aaron down to BJ Jordan. Speaking of Jordan, we got the Bull Suns game. This looks exciting. Three times for the teams. Twins down to the Blue Jays. Is that Magic Johnson doing color commentary there? All right, there's the first half of the list right there. There's the second half of the list. Now let's alphabetize by team. TWC trade window closed, let's print, let's rip. All right, and behind my guy Walker Bueller is the hit. It's Nick Solak, 70 out of 75, Nick Solak autograph for the Texas Rangers. Nice. And that will be for BJ Jordan. Nice, there you go. And now let's get all the names there. Let's roll it again, different dice roll as usual. And after six, two names on top. Two, three, four, five, and six. After six times, top two, then thanks everyone for getting in, really appreciate it. Top two are gonna be Josh Melton, Ryan Shackleton. Congrats to both of you. You are in transcended, which is sold out. I think it's gonna end up in that maybe 1045-ish time slot, LA time, sometime tonight. It's gonna happen tonight at some point. So there you go. Thanks everyone for watching. Joe for jasperakes.com. I'll see you next time, bye-bye.


Thank you, Swas, thank you, Navtej, for conferring this honor, which I accept with humility. And congratulations to each one of you who have successfully completed your degrees today. I believe many of you in this hall are associated with the discipline of law, the field and practice from which I come. Law, as you know, is the instrument through which power is mediated. More particularly, it is in the silences of law that power is congealed and embedded. Law is thus a site of intense contestation. It does not provide a level-pilling field nor is it a neutral arbiter, a refugee, an immigrant, a retrenched worker, the dispossessed indigenous community, a rape survivor, a transgender person. All these are likely to experience the law and the legal system more as the state of exception that Agamban spoke about rather than as a forum of justice. In such difficult and despairing times, I draw my inspiration and my strength from quote-unquote my clients. When a young indigenous Adivasi woman leader who has suffered custodial sexual torture five years of incarceration and a chemical attack to disfigure her face says she wants to file a complaint against the superior police officer in the district and wants him to be punished. When a 64-year-old Muslim man, survivor of a lynching engineered on a false and fabricated rumour of cow slaughter, says to me, if God has kept me alive, it must be for a reason. I want to go to court and testify. When the workers of the entire automobile plant refuse the special lunch offered for the festival and instead keep a hunger strike in solidarity with their trade union leaders who have been falsely implicated and imprisoned. When the superior court summarily dismisses the appeal against the acquittal of a rape accused for the interpret the refusal to consent of a woman as a feeble no.  That is where I draw my strength from. I want to end with a few lines which I've translated and I'm sure it's not an excellent translation from Hindi of a revolutionary poet from the northern state of Punjab who writes under the name of Pash. The robbery of your labour is not the most dangerous. The beating of the police is not the most dangerous. Betrayal and greed are not the most dangerous. The most dangerous is the death of our dreams. Wishing you all dreams, hope and resistance. Thank you.


I was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne for the replacement of my aorta valve. I remember we went and saw her really quickly when she was still in ICU. You could see she was in herself. Lot of sort of mumbo jumbo, you know, not a lot makes sense. I told them that a gorilla came up in the lift with me. Audrey Curtis was a patient of ours at the hospital who happened to be involved with one of our research projects looking at delirium after cardiac surgery. After visiting ours, I presume I've been settled down into bed. Heavy metal music suddenly came on the television. I've got this band there. It was like a 3D. It was like they came out of the television. I sort of had the feeling that I'd been kidnapped and that I had been wrapped in rope tied to a post. I started to pull at what I thought was the ropes to get them off me. So I pulled everything and it turned out to be the tubes from that were still in my body. By the time I'd finished, I'd pulled every single tube out of my body. I thought, oh gosh, what have I done? So I rang the bell for the nurse to come and I was feeling very guilty because of what I'd done. And anyway, she came and she said to me, look, don't worry about it. This is something that happens. It was a really distressing event for her. An agitated episode of delirium which you remember creates in a person a frightening experience and something akin to a post-traumatic stress disorder.  I can definitely remember the vision of just this hallway with all these beds in. What makes delirium challenging is that it's a disorder of thinking is unpredictable but is more likely to occur in older patients having anesthesia and surgery and the stress associated with that. We know that there's a fourfold increase in mortality in patients who have an episode of delirium. Up to 50% of patients having cardiac surgery might have an episode of delirium. Hyperactive delirium where patients are agitated like that is quite different to hypoactive delirium where patients are a little bit more stuporose, they're very quiet. But in fact, if you ask them, they're very confused. They might be having hallucinations and they tend not to talk about those things unless they're asked. I suppose I've had a chance to come to terms with it but the fact that it has still stayed there, even now, it's 92 years and that memory is still very, very vivid. We still don't know exactly what is the cause of delirium in the brain. One of the most important things is to talk to patients before surgery who are at risk in particular and say, look, this might happen to you. If it does, don't feel afraid. We'll do our best to get you through it. It's really important that older patients have some form of cognitive screening prior to being admitted to hospital for surgery and anesthesia so that we're able to pick up people who are at risk. And we talk to their families and relatives and we can use them as partners in trying to help prevent them from having these episodes because one of the best things you can have is a familiar environment to prevent this occurring. I think at this point in time there isn't a consistent approach but I think we're getting close to that. So with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, we're working with them at the moment to develop an app, an actual patient safety solution based on post-operative delirium in the elderly patient. Over $150 billion is lost every year due to complications associated with delirium in hospital. We really do need to address this and through apps we will be able to, I think, get a broader reach for the prevention and management of delirium. Audrey, she's really committed to trying to make sure this doesn't happen to other people. Being involved has definitely given me some of my life back. Unless you experience anything like this yourself you cannot really understand what the effect of that is on you and it can affect not just you but everybody that's around you.


All right. Hey, how's it going everyone? Welcome back. Welcome back dedicated to financial literacy Russell Moore coming to you live again My doctor called the last time so I ended I ended I ended my segment and so I thought I'd give a little part too and I'm not gonna be as detailed like I said I'm not gonna again this channel is for newbies anybody that's new to financial Financial literacy and just you know, you're just trying to get a handle on what's going on either if it be by stocks bonds crypto Bitcoin right and Budgeting I cover that I just my channel covers a bunch of stuff and I again, I just I Really didn't I didn't start this channel to continue the channel. I started the channel because a few friends during the pandemic We're asking me some questions about investing and I was like, we can't meet we couldn't all hook up So I just decided to do some YouTube. So it's continued on and so I'm gonna continue to do it I Want to do one more kind of like Bible study to as well. So I'll probably do another channel just for that I don't want to mix the two sometimes I do bring in the word and the Lord, but I Want this just to be about finances and that's why I try to keep the videos around 10 15 minutes Not very long hit it and quit it, you know, that's I just want to hit you But what is my saying? What do I always say? Here's what I always say if you don't learn you will not earn and I got another one that I tell a lot of the young people if you don't read you won't lead Everybody wants to lead but nobody wants to read In other words study Okay, so study to show yourself a workman that this won't be ashamed SVB so I want to go back to this whole thing about Silicon Valley the Silicon Valley Bank and I want to kind of explain it a little bit more in kind of detail today Kind of give people some understanding of what happened. So Here now their bank is geared towards Silicon Valley and anybody knows anything about Silicon Valley is in a northern California in the San Francisco area and that whole area is Is is is dedicated to tech? I mean, that's where Facebook and Google and all of these tech companies started It's yahoo everybody was there. It's the tech tech booming industry there And so that's not knowing what much the case any longer. I mean people They've uprooted to go into Texas. There's some that went to South Carolina I mean, they're all over the place Google's actually up here has a facility here in southern California. Why live and so But that's pretty much it so many startups there's a lot of new startups and There would have problems with the the top tier banks getting funding and it's just it's not impossible But you know, it was it's very tough and many of the the well-established tier one banks such as Chase Wells Fargo B of A Morgan Stanley UBS, you know, a lot of the well-established Banks To say the least they wouldn't they just wouldn't give them a time of day a lot of these startups because you got to remember Some of these innovations that haven't been proven Some of them have some of them haven't some of them are in the midst and so you're taking a chance and so So there you have one of the reasons why you have the regional banks a bank like CVB that was established It was specifically for them Now they have other customers and depositors, but a lot of it it was geared towards Innovation and new tech groups and giving them funding giving them loans now Like I said before in the first video I said when you give yourself say just a regular consumer when you give your money to the bank Say you have a you have a job and you have direct deposit it goes to your bank A lot of people might think and I know this is basic But you just never know how many people out there that may not know this. That's why I'm saying it You know, they may not know that when you deposit money into the bank You may think okay, my money is right there in the bank But your money along with other depositors is a lot of times It's it's a group fund and they've taken that money and invested it in other areas and Get this about get it your money is being invested, but you're not benefiting from the investing the bank is I When I told somebody I told one person at one time and they were like what I'm getting my money out of the bank I'm like I didn't tell you that to get your money out of the bank. My point was and That's where the button. That's how the banks grow and that's how they make money is they take your money It's like they're borrowing your money using it to invest Maybe it's stocks bonds land commercial real estate Reads I mean all kinds of things they invest in commodities To turn over more money with your money Yet, you don't get anything from it, but your money should still be there Whenever you need it you put the money in it's money that you've earned Every bank is under the F's the FDIC and federal depository Insurance corporation So I believe that's it's been a while FDIC so What their job is is to regulate To make sure that these small banks large banks all the banks are doing what they're supposed to do that They're complying that they're not making too crazy a risk now SBV here's what or SBB this is what they did they took a portion a good portion of the money and then they invested in bonds Bonds that mature But here's what you need to know about bonds Say a 10 year bond 10 year yield bond After 10 years it matures, so it has 10 years before it matures and say it's 5% 5% yield A lot of bonds right now are at around 4 to 5% well what the bank didn't know was that and I knew this I said this in early 2021 In fact, I was so sure of it that I told my wife we needed to buy a home before 2022 I Said we cannot go into 2022 without a home because I believe the Federal Reserve is going to raise the rates And that's exactly what they did And here's what I said go back and look at some of my videos I said that the Federal Reserve will raise rates begin to raise rates to deal with inflation by the first quarter of 2022 I said this in 2021 everyone was saying late 2023 2024 some people were saying they were gonna raise rates in 2024. I knew just from Just from talking to people and how expensive things have you started getting I Knew that inflation was gonna be way too high and it's a Federal Reserve is gonna have to do something Jerome Powell who's the head of a Federal Reserve. So what did it? What did they do? I said by the first quarter they would raise rates March of 2021 I'm sorry 2022 is when they raise rates It was the last month of the first quarter. I Said wow Did we call it Lord? and so Well, here's how SVB all of those regional banks that have put out all these investments on these bonds Well, when the when the rates were raised The bond yields went down. So say now look at this. We were at zero the rates The the federal rates, okay was at zero They were at zero we are now at about four point seven five four seven five almost five percent Well, when the when the when the Federal Reserve raised the rates each percent Reduces that bond about ten percent So think about that for a second that means the bonds that they purchase we're almost at five five percent That means ten percent per one percent For every one percent the Federal Federal Reserve Raises the rates The bonds get reduced about ten percent. So that's almost fifty percent. They've lost So half the money that they put in and invested in bonds. They've lost But here's what they had to do they have to report that to the SEC When they did that The investors now get this circle the company circle Invested it invested three trillion in that bank. I mean, I'm sorry three billion in that bank Roku and I've said this to in the other video part one of this But I found out Roku how much? 400 million 400 million Roku invested in SVB Roblox, I think of 150 million Sun Run several companies and multiple investors and including VCs venture capitalists a Lot of people have money in there. I'm talking about big money. I'm not talking about little money. Think about that. Just alone Roku the streaming company to streaming Roku 400 million dollars they had can you imagine what so they saw them file it on the SEC? You got to report that it's one of the reasons why they see oh and the CFO that a week two couple of weeks before they did this They they sold shares and see whenever you sell shares of a public company you've got to report that to the SEC It's got to be listed So they sold then it's and then the CMO He sold shares in January and February and get this the CEO from what I've read Was a director of the Federal Reserve in San Francisco So the plot thickens you guys Yes, I believe the Federal of the Federal Reserve. I think I Think pow your own pow had to know about this It's probably it's probably why when Janet Yellen was talking in that first Friday last right? She was saying no, we're not gonna build them out Then she talks to Jerome Powell then all of a sudden they hit up with Biden and now all of a sudden They came up with this plan 25 billion a Plan to get 25 billion for anybody's out there who's jacked up Who's messed up? Who's take their bank their their depositors money and Manege those funds That's why I said in the first video. I'm not telling people what to do. I'm not a financial I'm not a financial. I'm not a broker. I'm not a financial analyst. I'm looking to take some exams It's a financial planner By next year, but I'm not giving you I'm not giving you financial advice I'm just simply reading I'm simply studying this stuff and what I'm saying is What I'm saying is They blew it and so I was telling people look if you got your money in a small bank Like us, you know credit union a regional bank. I Hate to say this because you don't want them to suffer But but there's no transparency. They're not telling the depositors what they're doing You don't know what your bank is doing with the money that they that you bring to them So if I'm in a credit union, I'm gonna at least take 70% of my money out of that and put it in a tier one bank and some people say well I don't trust chasing Wells Fargo. I mean look at Wells Fargo and what they did the corruption that they did several years ago They can't they can't talk B of a they've all had moments of corruption So I you know, I've got to just don't know where I live But I brought some cash home put it in the safe and here's what I'll tell you what I would encourage you to do. I Was looking at historically what gold is doing Everybody's talking about gold is on the rise. It's gonna be on the rise this year It's gonna be the probably the out the the asset that performs everything stocks bonds everything is the prediction I'm not saying that okay, but I I do believe it by looking at some of the research I've looked at a few charts in the 1970s Gold did something it was at about a hundred dollars an ounce And what it did is it went it started trending up and then it consolidated meaning it just Leveled off and didn't go up or down for about two or three years it consolidated and then it took off to 900 $900 an ounce nine times It went up nine times Everybody's predicting it's gonna do that and guess what there was a recession at that time and we're headed for a recession I believe we've already been in a recession But most experts say recession is gonna be in the second second half of this year so Check it out Check it out you guys Recessions coming in the 70s. There was a recession the gold is doing exactly what it did in the 70s It's been consolidating But the last couple of days it's went up. So many people is gonna be it's believe it's gonna get to four to five thousand dollars an ounce It's a great hedge against inflation and cash The more you hear the cash declining the more you hear cash declining you keep hearing that it the more you guys keep hearing that if you keep hearing that That means gold is gonna I'm telling you gold's gonna keep shooting up gold and silver silver It's always outperform gold by the way It doesn't get the highlights because it's an industrial metal and during a recession industrial metals will suffer So that's why it's it's kind of low right now gold is the thing, but I would say silver as well and copper Because you need the cobalt I Mean everything's going EV right batteries electric Nickel and cobalt you're gonna want that so you want copper too. So Look into the commodities. That's what I would encourage you.  No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just saying just be wise I'm gonna encourage everyone to be wise. I'm gonna do another part I'm gonna do another part to this video, but I'm gonna close right here And I just want to share with you guys. So that's kind of what happened When the Federal Reserve rates went up it affected all the regional banks Because many of them were invested in bonds and those bonds begin to they went down The rates went up federal bonds went down if you were invested in bonds, you were hurting at that time Now's a good time because the yield is at about four or five percent, but I'm not talking about I'm not talking about your two-year three-year bonds. All right so and here's the thing there's a couple other banks signature and There's a few others that are coming out there being exposed There's gonna be more you guys what mark my words here. I've said it 317 March 17th, it's around 7 o'clock p.m.  It's called its outflowed, right? They've been there in other places They've been investing and doing other things. Well, if those investments don't come if they don't do well They lose money on those investments. That means your money is lost So that's why you want a great management team over your bank And you can all got to do is go to the website They should have a website if they're a bank and find out who's in leadership and find out their history. What have they done? What did they do before they were the CEO of the bank? Where they homegrown do they come from out of the bank? Did they work at the bank? Do they have a history of work on a bank? Do they have a history in finance? Do they know what they're doing? all right, I Love enough ranting for me. God bless you. Keep moving. Stay strong. Stay prayerful. God's gonna move. All right. I'm out of here Russell


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And this is something that everyone needs to understand because it's something that isn't talked about much, but it is also something that many people around the world are experiencing. And so we need to share our experiences, we need to support each other instead of judging each other for our experiences and recognize that everyone has their own experience. You cannot say what is true or false for someone else if you haven't lived it, if you haven't been through it yourself and that's why I'm here to bring this message not only for people who are going through it but also people who know about it but don't really understand it. Gangstalking is something that happens throughout a person's life when children are in school they may gangstalk one child, they may gang up on just one child and bully him or her. People know this, they accept it, it's a fact that this happens and we also know that it happens in the workplace. People get gangstalked at work, groups of employees gang up against the one person who they don't like. So why is it so hard to believe that this happens outside of the workplace? Why is it so hard to believe that? Gangstalkers are very envious and jealous. They see a person that they don't like because they decided to have the qualities and abilities that they have or the progress and success.   This is true and it shouldn't really be that far fetched, it should be quite simple to understand because we see this in schools, we see this in the workplace, so of course it is going to happen outside in everyday life. In certain neighborhoods, certain communities, it's a real problem that does exist and it's something that needs to be talked about because these people who do this, they have a problem, many of them are narcissists themselves or they have some other cluster B personality disorder. There is something wrong with them because if you put yourself in their shoes, you're not going to go out of your way to bring someone down no matter what it is that they might be doing, you're going to just leave them alone and focus on your own life but that's the thing, the people who do this don't have their own lives. They have no purpose, they have no direction, there's nothing that is more significant to them in their lives than doing this and that is why so many people around the world have to experience this every day, every day of their lives are being followed by people in cars who are flashing their headlights, beeping their horns, they're being followed by red cars, white cars, whatever color they've used to convey some meaning to the target which they will also use for clothing as well. There's just no limit to what these people will do, they will do anything to get your attention because that's really it if you want to know what gangstalkers want, it's your attention, they want to keep you thinking about them. So if you want to defeat a gangstalker just stop thinking about them, put the focus back on yourself and your own life, take your attention away from them and then they will gradually die out and they can't get a reaction out of you, they may up their game, they may ramp up the abuse but the best thing you can do in these situations is just to ignore it, start walking around with your shades on, wear your earphones, headphones, just block them out because trust me if your gangstalking is really that bad, the police are not going to listen to you, they're not going to help you because they may be in on it as well, there are a lot of corrupt police out there, many of them are narcissists and psychopaths, sociopaths themselves so if you are in that type of situation don't even waste your time going to the police or filing a court case, it's not going to work, you are the only one who can save you from this and I'm talking about this from experience, as many of you may know I am also a target of gangstalking, I went through it for many years and all kinds of things happened to me and no one was there for me, no one helped me, I had to help myself, I had no job for three years, couldn't make any money, couldn't do anything and then one day I got in here, I got in YouTube and started making these videos, helping people and then my life completely changed, now I can live the life that I want to live while continuing to help people and I believe that you can do that too, I believe that we all have the power to change our lives, we all have the power to make a difference and if that's something that you would like to do, if you would like to learn more about the gangstalking and understand how you can defeat them and also build a successful business on YouTube to where you can then escape the gangstalking and live your best life, if you would like to do that, I am now available to help you with that, so please send me an email, coaching at Knoxviver the Cuddy UK right now so that we can begin, as I said I believe you all have the power to change your lives despite what you may be going through, I did it, you can do it too, thank you all for joining me on this video about understanding gangstalking, you all have a great day.


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Hawaii business on Think Tech Hawaii. My name is Kathleen Lee and I am your host for this program. Today I am excited to have a special guest on the show, owner, hopefully I got the title right, owner and founder of Sea Glass Mental Health, Jaina of Arzua. Welcome to the show Jaina. Thank you so much for having me Kathleen. I'm so excited to be here. I am excited for you to be here as well and I would also like to thank your partner, husband, Trevor, for giving me a heads up and letting me know about you and your business. So let's launch into this. Jaina tell our viewers a bit about yourself. So my name is Jaina Arzua. Like you already mentioned, I was born and raised in Arizona. I went to Arizona State University for both undergrad and graduate school. I met my husband, Trevor, while we were both living in Arizona. We met in Vegas actually and we were both living in Scottsdale at the time. And he was working more on the political side in Arizona and I was working for a private practice. And I was the director of therapy services for a private practice in Arizona owned by a psychiatrist. And he was expanding his company outside of Arizona. And he was looking for states to start offering services and he enlisted my help to try to figure that out. And at the time I started really realizing that there were a lot of mental health services needed in Hawaii. There was a very big lack of services here in the state. And so he and I worked together and he moved me out here to Hawaii to start offering more services here. And so that is how I ended up on Oahu about two years ago. So we have Trevor to thank for having you here to provide more resources for mental health. That is wonderful. Jaina, tell us how you came up with the company name Sea Glass. So I actually love this story so I'm glad that you asked me about it. When we first moved here, I was working for somebody else's practice and he actually ended up closing up shop just a couple months after we moved here. And so we had just moved here. We had just sold our house and I was jobless and I was very worried about what we were going to do. But I worked with the owner of the previous company and we came to an agreement that rather than letting go of all the therapists and the hundreds and hundreds of clients that we had that I would start my own practice. And so I was trying to figure out the name and I wanted something that kind of connected with the ocean and Hawaii. But I also love the symbolism and the metaphor behind Sea Glass. So Sea Glass starts off as an intact object that goes through some sort of trauma. It gets broken somehow some way and it makes its way out to the sea and it's tumbling through the ocean and it goes through a very long journey but eventually it finds itself on the other side and it finds itself on the beach. And then we consider it a treasure. So it's different than how it started off. But it is still changed and it's a treasure and it's something that we value quite a bit. And it wouldn't be what it is without the trauma and the trials and the tribulations that it went through. And I feel like it's a really beautiful metaphor for humans especially people who are going through therapy and doing the work to come out the other side. A different version than themselves than when they came in but you know still a treasure nonetheless. That is awesome. Thank you for sharing that. Let's pull up the first slide. So this is what people will see when they go on the website. Tell us a bit more or expand onto what Sea Glass Mental Health does for the community. Absolutely. So it is a telehealth private practice and so we offer individual couples and family therapy to clients who are 14 and older. So we use telehealth. So all of our sessions are remote so people can seek out services from home. We are in network with several insurance payers so we're in network with Aetna, Signa, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, United Healthcare and TriCare West. In early 2024 we are aiming to start contracting with HMSA and Medicare so that we're able to make our services affordable to most people regardless of what insurances they have. So that's a super important piece. It's really important to me that the services that we offer are immediate. I'm not sure if you're super familiar with the current landscape of mental health but for a lot of people it can take up to six months to see a therapist. The wait lists are very long and so we really pride ourselves on being able to get clients started with a therapist within the same week. We like it to be accessible which is why telehealth can be so helpful no matter you know where you are, your transportation setup. You can still see your therapist so immediate, accessible and affordable. So even if a client doesn't have insurance and they can't pay the full cash rate we always have one to three interns on the team who offer a significantly reduced cash rate as well. So we really want to be able to meet our clients where they're at. I think that is wonderful Jaina. Let's pull up the photos of your staff. So that's two photos two through six and the first one is a photo of yourself so people who you already see right now but let's talk about your staff. Tell us a bit more about them and what they do when it comes to yeah they're roles in your company. Absolutely so the photos that we'll be looking at are our providers who can see clients who do live in Hawaii. We do also have therapists who are able to see clients in Arizona as well so our practice does serve the residents of Arizona and Hawaii which are those two states that mean the most to me so I feel lucky you know to be able to offer services in both states. So the photos that we just went through Amarin was the first one she's our newest therapist she's starting with us on January 8th. Yep there's Amarin and so she speaks English I think she speaks Taiwanese or do Hindi. She specializes in depression, anxiety, systemic oppression, immigration related issues specifically so she has a little bit more of a niche in her specialty. I think the second therapist that you pulled up was Dr. Debbie Williams she specializes in trauma victims of domestic violence and couples counseling. Let's see I think the third one you pulled up she could bring that photo up again that's Katie um she starts in January as well so depression, anxiety, self-esteem, life adjustments she specializes in working with young adults specifically college age students and then I think Lauren was the last one. Yep there's Lauren so she specializes in trauma she has called herself the co-dependency queen um she does a lot of work with clients who have personality disorders or who are friends or family members of folks with personality disorders and so everyone is more of a generalist therapist so everyone is able to treat depression, anxiety, self-esteem and trauma but what else what else we encourage at Sea Glass is that every therapist has their own specialty and their own niche as well so that they really get to dive in and work with the population that they connect the most with. I think that is wonderful let's pull up photo seven it looks like you and your team have been out and about in the community tell us more about what we're looking at here. Absolutely so this was a freshman move-in event at ASU back in August is about 120 degrees outside so we were absolutely melting but we do recognize that you know college is an amazing experience for so many students but it's a huge transition period in these young adults lives and a lot of freshmen end up dropping out because of mental health issues and so we wanted to make ourselves known on campus to freshmen who were moving in but we're here we're available if not now because now is a very exciting time when they're you know meeting their roommates and finding their dorms and their classes but a month or two down the road if they start feeling stressed or overwhelmed or lonely or lost we're there to help. We have also connected with an ASU representative who actually lives here in Oahu and she's the liaison between high school graduates who are wanting to go to school at ASU and so in August of this year Seguaz is going to be present at the send-off event for Hawaii students who are going to ASU and I think what's really special about Seguaz is that we will be able to offer services to these Hawaii students who are going to ASU and be able to offer services no matter where they are because we do offer services in both states and so it's a huge huge adjustment for students who have lived most of their lives here on the islands going to a university like ASU. ASU is the biggest university in America right now and I think it can feel really easy to feel lost and so we feel really fortunate to be able to offer them that support and helpfully make that transition just a little bit easier for them. The rest of the photos are all from the same event as well we have um it looks like it may be but I'm not just wanted to from that with you because it was eight nine and ten. Is that all from the same event? Yep that was from ASU. Yep these are all from ASU. We did do a freshman event at University of Arizona as well and Tucson and then we were also on campus at a few community colleges in Arizona during the same week so we got to hit most of the biggest colleges all within the same week we got to meet tons of students a lot of international students which was really cool to see um so yeah it felt really good being out in the community this year we plan on participating in the NAMI walk which we're really excited for so it's always fun to go out and and meet the community in person especially because we are a virtual practice. I think that is so wonderful Jaina. As far as age groups go do you see a pattern when it comes to the clientele that see glass mental health services um the people that turn to you folks are they typically like on the college age side since you did mention outreach to ASU or are they is it just like a like a gamut of different ages? Yep the youngest that we see is 14 we've found that younger than 14 um these teens are pre-teens kind of seem to struggle um with the telehealth platform it's really hard to capture their attention for a full hour um so 14 is the youngest I think the oldest client I've had this year is close to 80 years old so it really does run the gamut but most of the clients who we see scheduling with us are between an 18 and 35 age range and this is data pulled from Google Analytics and just kind of what we're seeing um on our end with clientele coming in and so I'm not sure why those are the people who are scheduling with us the most I have some hypotheses I think that maybe some older generations might feel more comfortable um with an in-person therapy experience I think there's still quite a bit of stigma involved with therapy in general with some of the older populations um and I think that 18 to 35 age range feels a lot more comfortable and open with going to therapy um I think that their lifestyles are a little bit more um on the go too I mean it's a going to college and going to work they can go to a therapy session where wherever they are whether they're you know at home sometimes unfortunately in their cars if they're parked and it's safe um and I think that they do feel very comfortable with the telehealth platform especially post COVID so to confirm currently seaglass mental health is available um on the telehealth platform at this time correct yep we have no in-person availability it's all telehealth okay thank you Jaina let's um and I mentioned this to you right before we started the interview I know Hawaii as a collective has gone through a lot of admittedly mental trauma when it comes to the global pandemic which was everyone was affected by it as well as the most recent Maui wildfires wildfires sorry keeping that in mind are there do you see any um clients that come to you because of those big global or you know catastrophic community uh events we haven't yet um and that's something that I find is really unfortunate um and it's not for lack of trying on our end um right after the fires happened in Lahaina I was reaching out to the Hawaii licensing board and trying to figure out how can we help what can we do and I feel like there was a lot of I don't want to say misinformation but not a lot of people really knew how we could help or what we could do um and we're also a telehealth platform and so at the time a lot of the victims of the Lahaina fires they didn't have a computer they didn't have phones at the time you know cell service was down and so talking to other therapists um and like Facebook groups and stuff I got a lot more information about what was going on and the consensus has been that a lot of these folks are in shock and have been in shock since the Lahaina fires happened and therapy is not a top priority right now um right after the fires a priority was clean food um finding a secure stable safe place to live you know figuring out kind of those basic you know survival needs um unfortunately we're seeing a lot of aftermath um with just kind of mental health needs with the population in Maui after the fires um and so I'm hoping that we can figure out a way to connect with these folks that was a big reason why we decided to contract with HMSA so we have reached out to HMSA to say can we expedite this contract so that the folks who do want therapy services that will be covered by their insurance they've agreed to expedite our contract um once we apply which will be January 1st um you know and it's and it's so hard to be able to empathize with what you know these folks are going through I can't even begin to imagine what their needs must be at this time but I hope that they know that there are services ready and available immediate services available to them when they are ready to start reaching out for some help for those who may be listening or watching and may have been affected by those traumatic events that we just mentioned what would you like to tell them in regards to um how to cope and again I do want to say that it's not not to to actually go to a professional um and you guys are but I don't want to have like liability you know and you guys and when it comes to this conversation but as far as you know you as a professional goes in that industry what would you like to tell them when it comes to how to cope with these events currently absolutely so I think step number one is just recognizing the significance of the trauma that has occurred um I think it is very um natural and almost instinctual to try to push the trauma down repress it ignore it do everything that we can to avoid the feelings because we have to do something about it and we have to focus on problem solving um but the problem is if we ignore those feelings or push them away they're not going to go away and in fact our bodies kind of act as a pressure cooker and the pressure builds and builds and builds you know until that pressure cooker explodes and so my recommendation would be to start thinking about reaching out for help sooner rather than later I don't think any time is uh you know gonna be more convenient um than right now and I think the sooner that we can get people connected with services the better they're gonna feel and the better they're gonna feel sooner it's kind of like a damn analogy too once you start going to therapy and reaching out for services you start letting that pressure out a little bit at a time so that not only are you feeling better mentally and emotionally um but physically as well and as you're able to start working through some of this trauma it's gonna start to be easier um to focus on that problem solving with the other areas in your life um because unresolved you know emotions and trauma leads to you know all sorts of consequences like um pain in our bodies or migraines or difficulty sleeping anxiety panic attacks you know you name it so my one tip would be try to get connected with services the sooner the better because they are out there and there are people who are ready willing and able to help and support in any way that we can thanks jana and I would you also say the same thing for people who might be feeling the pressure of the holiday season yeah the holiday season is a super stressful time um I think for a lot of people and you know I think the holiday season kind of comes with a pressure that everyone should be happy and joyful and it's the most wonderful time of the year um and that certainly is true for some people but it's definitely not true for a lot of people um the folks who lost their homes and the in the line of fire this is probably the first you know Christmas they've had outside of their homes or those who have recently lost a loved one you know holidays can be a very triggering time because it kind of highlights what we've lost or what we don't have um and so yes of course you know reach out to support um connect with your therapist to have that extra support if you have one if that's possible um but if you don't have one and then that's not possible for you right now I would just recommend checking in with yourself almost on a daily basis um we ask other people in our worlds how are you probably dozens of times a day um and very rarely do we ask ourselves but how am I how am I doing today how am I doing in this moment and really listening um and if we're struggling and if we're not okay I would highly recommend taking some time or finding some time to take care of ourselves even if it's just going for a walk on our alone and just having 10 or 15 minutes a day of quiet time that can really help kind of ease some of that pressure that we were talking about earlier thank you Jaina and you've already conveyed how passionate you are when it comes to your business but I I'm just going to ask the obvious question what keeps you in it oh my gosh well I think what you said um passion but I also be I love being able to help my clients on an individual one-on-one basis I love being a part of the growth and the transformation in their lives I think there's just something so magical about helping someone become the best and healthiest version of themselves um I also love being a practice owner which I'm not sure is something I ever really first saw for myself in my future but it happened and I'm so glad that it did um but I also love being able to create a practice in an environment for my employees for my therapists we're gonna have 13 therapists in in January um and in our practice there's super high rates of burnout I mean the average therapist is only doing the job for an average of six to seven years before they burn out and they want to quit and do something else and I want to create a practice on the challenges that and changes that and I really believe that if I can take care of the therapists and create an environment that has a healthy work-home life balance and make feel like their needs are heard and understood and met I can create a more sustainable career for them and if they're happy and healthy and they see longevity in their career they will be able to then help their clients more long-term and be able to be their best you know therapist self for their clients so of course I love the individual one-on-one with my clients but I also love being able to see how I can affect exponential healing and change as well. I love how you phrase that Jaina as someone who is running a practice both in Arizona and Hawaii is that correct what are some lessons that you've learned that you would like to share with individuals or entrepreneurs who may want to go the same route that you have? Oh that's a great question um never give up that's a big one um I I think a lesson to be learned to is you know being able to believe in yourself which sounds so cheesy but I never saw myself as being a business owner or practice owner and I studied psychology for six years in school I've never taken one business class um but just believing in yourself that if you want to achieve something um you can make it happen it's going to take a lot of work um but in existential philosophy they have this saying that if you can figure out your why you can figure out almost anyhow so if you have your why why am I building this practice this business why am I doing this the how will fall into place but you have to have a really strong why um because it's it's tough you know it's not easy it's not always fun it's not always like you see you know in movies or documentaries or on podcasts there's some really hard and long days but if you're able to you know ground yourself in that why um the challenge has just become part of the journey and you can start to appreciate the challenges and learn from them I think that is so awesome what a what a great way to end the show um before we do is there anything else that you would like to add oh gosh I don't think so it's just uh this is my first podcast interview so I've just had so much fun with you Kathleen and I just really appreciate you having me on the show I love talking about seaglass mental health and so thank you so much for this opportunity of course and I'm appreciative of you too Jaina let's pull up your website if people would like to get a hold of you or learn more about seaglass mental health where do they go yep so they would just go to seaglassmentalhealth.com um and once you're on the webpage you would just uh go to about and then you click on our Hawaii team you'll be able to see all of the team members you serve our clients in Hawaii and then you can book a free 20 minute consultation to see if that therapist is a good fit or go ahead and book a full hour long um session you can get started and like I said you can get you started within just a few days if that's what you're interested in. Jaina thank you so much for being on the show today we had Jaina Abarzewa owner and founder of seaglass mental health so thank you again and we also want to thank Think Tech Hawaii for making shows like this possible we have Jay Fidel and Carol Lonely to thank as well as Mike and Hayley who helped us run the show so until next time aloha