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Why thank you kind Gentleman!
Razor: Grand Shave King Self Lubricating Razor
Blade: Rapira Super Stainless (2nd Shave)
Soap/cream: Sudsy Soapery - Twice Mint
Brush: Asylum Brush Works - Cheswick (Synthetic)
Aftershave: Thayers Coconut Water Witch Hazel
After the Aftershave: Osage Rub
After the After, After Shave - Proraso After Shave Lotion
Other Gear: Captain's Choice Lather Bowl - Tempest
Since yesterday's shave was a mild one, I decided to go ahead and shave again today. Another Three pass and I am feeling good about today! The Grand Shave King is starting to shape up as a better razor than I expected. It's one of those brushes that can give you a decent, maybe not perfect, but a decent care free shave. Definitely one to use if you need to just shave an not worry too much about nicks and cuts. One word on that...yesterday I stated that I don't think it is possible to cut or nick yourself with this razor...well that is not true. Just a tiny little bite that stopped bleeding before the shave was over.
Today's shave is brought to you by Twice Mint Soap! Of all the Sudsy Soaper shaving soaps I have. This is by far my favorite scent! It is sweet and cool and intoxicating. Seriously, if I could eat the soap, I would. For some reason I feel like I can get a really perfect lather from this soap even compared to the other SS products. Pulled out the Asylum synthetic brush. It's one I don't use much, because it is really stiff!. But using this to bowl lather works like a charm. Splashed on some Osage Rub, and what is there not to be excited about! Wonderful feel! Just before I leave for work I will also give myself a very liberal splashing of the Proraso After Shave Lotion.
The Danger Zone:
Again, not much on the home front going on. Just a lot of really hot and dry weather. So I am going to take a few minutes to let you all ponder something about cholesterol. Even with modern medicine coming around and doctors acknowledging that cholesterol is not the villian they once thought it was...there are still those that believe that cholesterol is really bad! Consider this:
In a study that lasted from 2000-2006, 231,986 hospitalizations from 541 hospitals were recorded for patients admitted with heart attacks. Admission lipid levels were documented in 136,905 patients. That is a huge number for any study! Almost 3 out of 4 patients hospitalized had normal levels of Total Cholesterol, Healthy LDL cholesterol levels, and were already taking a cholesterol lowering med or had naturally low cholesterol levels. Half of these patients had LDL levels that were considered optimal.
I think this is amazing really. I will try to find another study that talks about what it means to have high cholesterol or high LDL. I do want to mention though...that evidently after this study came out...experts were saying that because of this...maybe the LDL and Total Cholesterol guidelines were not low enough. I guess is you can't prove you are right...you have to change the rules.
Anyway...here is a link to the study abstract if you are all interested: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19081406
I hope you gents have a wonderful day today!
Blade: Rapira Super Stainless (2nd Shave)
Soap/cream: Sudsy Soapery - Twice Mint
Brush: Asylum Brush Works - Cheswick (Synthetic)
Aftershave: Thayers Coconut Water Witch Hazel
After the Aftershave: Osage Rub
After the After, After Shave - Proraso After Shave Lotion
Other Gear: Captain's Choice Lather Bowl - Tempest
Since yesterday's shave was a mild one, I decided to go ahead and shave again today. Another Three pass and I am feeling good about today! The Grand Shave King is starting to shape up as a better razor than I expected. It's one of those brushes that can give you a decent, maybe not perfect, but a decent care free shave. Definitely one to use if you need to just shave an not worry too much about nicks and cuts. One word on that...yesterday I stated that I don't think it is possible to cut or nick yourself with this razor...well that is not true. Just a tiny little bite that stopped bleeding before the shave was over.
Today's shave is brought to you by Twice Mint Soap! Of all the Sudsy Soaper shaving soaps I have. This is by far my favorite scent! It is sweet and cool and intoxicating. Seriously, if I could eat the soap, I would. For some reason I feel like I can get a really perfect lather from this soap even compared to the other SS products. Pulled out the Asylum synthetic brush. It's one I don't use much, because it is really stiff!. But using this to bowl lather works like a charm. Splashed on some Osage Rub, and what is there not to be excited about! Wonderful feel! Just before I leave for work I will also give myself a very liberal splashing of the Proraso After Shave Lotion.
The Danger Zone:
Again, not much on the home front going on. Just a lot of really hot and dry weather. So I am going to take a few minutes to let you all ponder something about cholesterol. Even with modern medicine coming around and doctors acknowledging that cholesterol is not the villian they once thought it was...there are still those that believe that cholesterol is really bad! Consider this:
In a study that lasted from 2000-2006, 231,986 hospitalizations from 541 hospitals were recorded for patients admitted with heart attacks. Admission lipid levels were documented in 136,905 patients. That is a huge number for any study! Almost 3 out of 4 patients hospitalized had normal levels of Total Cholesterol, Healthy LDL cholesterol levels, and were already taking a cholesterol lowering med or had naturally low cholesterol levels. Half of these patients had LDL levels that were considered optimal.
I think this is amazing really. I will try to find another study that talks about what it means to have high cholesterol or high LDL. I do want to mention though...that evidently after this study came out...experts were saying that because of this...maybe the LDL and Total Cholesterol guidelines were not low enough. I guess is you can't prove you are right...you have to change the rules.
Anyway...here is a link to the study abstract if you are all interested: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19081406
I hope you gents have a wonderful day today!
Yup I'm making my own. I have all my stuff, I'm just trying to figure out when I'm doing it. The process takes a while. I will be using the instant pot. It just makes everything easy. When I do I will make sure I document here .
All caught up, Don. Some nice set ups you've had!
Another way of looking at that, for those taking a cholesterol lowing med, is that instead of them being admitted to the hospital, it would have been to the morgue. I believe we have to be our own best health advocate, but decisions should always be made in concert with one's health practitioner, as you've mentioned many times. For many folk, particularly those that have family history and can't escape genetics, cholesterol lowing meds are working. But that can't be a stand-alone solution; it also requires exercise, eating healthy, avoiding tobacco and excessive booze, etc. Which BTW, the best diet, IMHO, is the simple, and tried and true one: burn more calories than are taken in.
Another way of looking at that, for those taking a cholesterol lowing med, is that instead of them being admitted to the hospital, it would have been to the morgue. I believe we have to be our own best health advocate, but decisions should always be made in concert with one's health practitioner, as you've mentioned many times. For many folk, particularly those that have family history and can't escape genetics, cholesterol lowing meds are working. But that can't be a stand-alone solution; it also requires exercise, eating healthy, avoiding tobacco and excessive booze, etc. Which BTW, the best diet, IMHO, is the simple, and tried and true one: burn more calories than are taken in.
You definitely bring up some good points. There is a place for cholesterol lowering drugs. I'm actually on one currently...it's Vascepa. It specifically targets Triglycerides. I was really against it in the beginning but read up on some studies and looked at the mechinism in how it works. In a nutshell it is a seriously concentrated dose of fish oil (over simplification). So I agreed to take it for a while. I suspect that I will stop taking it at my next visit.
The point of me posting this study was to really emphasize that cholesterol isn't the bad guy we thought it was and doesn't really work how medical professionals thought it did. If you take anything away from this is, the next time you go to the doc, ask him or her why a medication needs to be taken. If he or she doesn't have a good answer and can't back it up with good science...maybe really think about why you need that meds.
I know I have talked about cholesterol a bit...but it seems to be what doctors focus on because it's an easy number to focus on. But do they really know what those numbers mean?
nothing wrong with that set up at all, Nice.
Great shave, sans the seepage, and read Don!
I had a co worker years ago (late 80's), at a health screening his total cholesterol was so high the machine would not read it. That meant it was above 650. They sent him straight to his doctor. If I'm remembering correctly the lab test said 800+. They put him on meds and he immediately started exercising and changed his diet. He was religious about this, scared the crap out of him! Even doing all that he couldn't get below 400, no matter what. So far as I know he is still alive and kicking today.
I had a co worker years ago (late 80's), at a health screening his total cholesterol was so high the machine would not read it. That meant it was above 650. They sent him straight to his doctor. If I'm remembering correctly the lab test said 800+. They put him on meds and he immediately started exercising and changed his diet. He was religious about this, scared the crap out of him! Even doing all that he couldn't get below 400, no matter what. So far as I know he is still alive and kicking today.
Thanks Craig! Yeah, at 800+ I might be a little scared myself. I'm not saying that is a normal number, but we need to really find out what our numbers mean in the context of our health. At 6'3" and 270 pounds with my diet and activity, my cholesterol numbers mean something different than an elite athlete or a 5'2" 110 pound woman. Yet doctors use the same scale when determining what is good or bad for us.
Thanks for reading!
Razor: Grand Shave King Self Lubricating Razor
Blade: Rapira Super Stainless (3rd Shave)
Soap/cream: Cold River Soap Works - Select - Citrus
Brush: Stirling Finest 24 mm Fan
Aftershave: Thayers Coconut Water Witch Hazel
After the Aftershave: Fine - L'Orange Noir!
Other Gear: Captain's Choice Lather Bowl - Tempest
"Orange Dirt Day!" If you have been following Chris @CBLindsy's journal, you will know that he has a hard time repelling the women at his place of work. I hope he is in good with HR or the EO complaint officer...because it's just a matter of time before HE has to make a complaint! I know how he feels...I get much the same reactions from the ladies in my work space too. The stuff just smells that good...especially to others. Continuing with the Grand Shave King Saga...
Made it a fairly quick shave today, only two passes. North to South and South to North. I wanted a little extra time to spend with TSC. You guys are pretty awesome...that or I don't really have any friends! Anyway, lathered up with Cold River Soap Works Select version of their Citrus flavor. I just love the post shave feel on this soap. The overall performance may not be a Tier 1 Box 1 on the @Cvargo sliding scale, but I think it's at least a Box three. The lather could be slightly better...but just slightly. The shave left a little more stubble on the neck than I normally would like...but ain't no one going to be inspecting my neck. But all is well in the universe when the splash (or two or three...I bathe in my after shaves...yes I am that guy) of the liquid "Orange Dirt" baptizes my face. Amen!
The Danger Zone:
A little bad news for the wife. She recently went to the dermatologist to get a check up and a couple items looked at. She recieved a phone call back from the doctor (the doctor actually called her back and spent 20 minutes on the phone with her...I like this doc already) and it turns out that my wife has what is called a Melanocyte that is in a pre-forming cancerous stage. It's not cancer yet, but the doc says that if left alone it WILL become cancerous. In other words it will become an Melanoma. I am not versed that well in this area of biology, but I am going to be looking this up and figuring out exactly what it is and how it interacts with the body around it. Needless to say...out it goes! The doc doesn't even want to take a chance with it, and neither do I. So Tomorrow, she gets it taken out.
I have been reading and researching a bit about industrial oils...otherwise known as Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Vegetable Oil, and others. These oils typically are high polyunsaturated fat and for the past 30 years or more, have been touted as a healthy fat for cooking. The problem with this is that polyunsaturated fats are easily oxidized. Causing a host of medical issues. Anyway...I will get into that later, but I haven't done enough research yet to give it my final opinion. But I did come accross this gem of a video. It's a little on the older side and from the looks of it from the Science Channel...maybe from the 90s? Anyway, they do claim that it is one of the healthiest oils. I think the claims of it lowering cholesterol are technically true...but it doesn't explain how, and if it is total cholesterol that it lowers...well that is just really outdated nonsense. Anyway...take a look at the video and listen to what they say about the process...and tell me if that is something you want to ingest.
Have a wonderful day gents!
Blade: Rapira Super Stainless (3rd Shave)
Soap/cream: Cold River Soap Works - Select - Citrus
Brush: Stirling Finest 24 mm Fan
Aftershave: Thayers Coconut Water Witch Hazel
After the Aftershave: Fine - L'Orange Noir!
Other Gear: Captain's Choice Lather Bowl - Tempest
"Orange Dirt Day!" If you have been following Chris @CBLindsy's journal, you will know that he has a hard time repelling the women at his place of work. I hope he is in good with HR or the EO complaint officer...because it's just a matter of time before HE has to make a complaint! I know how he feels...I get much the same reactions from the ladies in my work space too. The stuff just smells that good...especially to others. Continuing with the Grand Shave King Saga...Made it a fairly quick shave today, only two passes. North to South and South to North. I wanted a little extra time to spend with TSC. You guys are pretty awesome...that or I don't really have any friends! Anyway, lathered up with Cold River Soap Works Select version of their Citrus flavor. I just love the post shave feel on this soap. The overall performance may not be a Tier 1 Box 1 on the @Cvargo sliding scale, but I think it's at least a Box three. The lather could be slightly better...but just slightly. The shave left a little more stubble on the neck than I normally would like...but ain't no one going to be inspecting my neck. But all is well in the universe when the splash (or two or three...I bathe in my after shaves...yes I am that guy) of the liquid "Orange Dirt" baptizes my face. Amen!
The Danger Zone:
A little bad news for the wife. She recently went to the dermatologist to get a check up and a couple items looked at. She recieved a phone call back from the doctor (the doctor actually called her back and spent 20 minutes on the phone with her...I like this doc already) and it turns out that my wife has what is called a Melanocyte that is in a pre-forming cancerous stage. It's not cancer yet, but the doc says that if left alone it WILL become cancerous. In other words it will become an Melanoma. I am not versed that well in this area of biology, but I am going to be looking this up and figuring out exactly what it is and how it interacts with the body around it. Needless to say...out it goes! The doc doesn't even want to take a chance with it, and neither do I. So Tomorrow, she gets it taken out.
I have been reading and researching a bit about industrial oils...otherwise known as Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Vegetable Oil, and others. These oils typically are high polyunsaturated fat and for the past 30 years or more, have been touted as a healthy fat for cooking. The problem with this is that polyunsaturated fats are easily oxidized. Causing a host of medical issues. Anyway...I will get into that later, but I haven't done enough research yet to give it my final opinion. But I did come accross this gem of a video. It's a little on the older side and from the looks of it from the Science Channel...maybe from the 90s? Anyway, they do claim that it is one of the healthiest oils. I think the claims of it lowering cholesterol are technically true...but it doesn't explain how, and if it is total cholesterol that it lowers...well that is just really outdated nonsense. Anyway...take a look at the video and listen to what they say about the process...and tell me if that is something you want to ingest.
Have a wonderful day gents!
Nice read Don. I am glad the doc is being so proactive for your wife.
As to the cooking oil craze... I try to avoid those vegetable based oils such as canola etc. I also do not like Coconut oil I know a lot of people think it is SUPER healthy but I have read some things to lead me to believe otherwise.
We tend to cook in fat (meaning butter, or the fat from the meat), Olive Oil, or Avocado Oil (although not sold on this one yet either)
As to the cooking oil craze... I try to avoid those vegetable based oils such as canola etc. I also do not like Coconut oil I know a lot of people think it is SUPER healthy but I have read some things to lead me to believe otherwise.
We tend to cook in fat (meaning butter, or the fat from the meat), Olive Oil, or Avocado Oil (although not sold on this one yet either)
Cold River Soap Works....I've tried every rendition of their soaps, with the exception of the Olivia, and the new "Glide". The Olivia never really interested me; however, I do have a tin of the Glide en route. I've always been somewhat disappointed with the performance, given the rave reviews, but perhaps it's my water.
