It drew two images. Here's my favorite!
Posted on 05/04/2025 4:36:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Scientists may have identified a way to naturally regulate blood sugar levels and sugar cravings in a similar fashion to drugs like Ozempic.
In mice and humans, the key to unlocking this natural process was found to be a gut microbe and its metabolites – the compounds it produces during digestion.
By increasing the abundance of this one gut microbe in diabetic mice, researchers led by a team at Jiangnan University in China showed they can "orchestrate the secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1".
Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a hormone that is naturally produced by the body and which helps regulate blood sugar levels and feelings of fullness. GLP-1's release is stimulated by certain foods and gut microbes, and its mechanism of action is mimicked by drugs like semaglutide (the ingredient behind Ozempic).
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
Intermittent Fasting will safely lose you about 1 pound per week. Over 50 pounds in a year.
I did the 5/2 fasting plan. Eat whatever 5 days a week. I fasted on Mondays and Thursdays and lost 40 pounds. I now do OMO. One Meal Only and have kept the weight off for over a year.
Cool thing about IF is there is no calorie counting, no kooky diet plans and no carb restrictions. And there are many different types of fasting. Can’t go 24 hours without eating? No problem. Use the 16/8 method.
Where is he getting fiber in a meat and eggs based diet ?
Very creative! Thanks for playing along.
Except for the rhubarb leaves (mildly toxic due to oxalic acid content = kidney stones) it looks like a very plausible recipe, well done!
I just might substitute diced rhubarb stems and see if my kid will try making it...
Funniest headline ever.
Did these “scientists” discover eating less? And skipping fattening foods?
Exercising?
A woman I knew years ago just died at 102. She still looked great. She told people how she was so healthy: Eat mostly fruits and vegetables and exercise at least an hour a day.
My new friend actually does that. Walks 3 - 5 miles every day and is a vegetarian. You should see how totally great she looks at 70. No prescription drugs either.
I’m 88, weigh 116, one prescription drug. I was getting plenty of exercise before idiot governor closed the gyms for “covid”. A bit difficult at my age to get back to the same exercise routine, but I’m building up to it slowly. And I just cannot exist on fruit and veggies only, but eat them every day.
Give it a go.
I call such sessions My Kitchen Experiments.
Aerobic exercise close to 3 hours a week you should be losing some waistline fat.
Thanks for that link. I had an orange tonight and it overcame urges for things much more unhealthy. :)
“How do you like Grok?”
I like it a lot. Easy to use and it assembles information into a coherent story line very quickly from many sources (and provides source references). I HAVE caught it with inconsistencies and small errors. I call it out on them and it goes back and checks sources and corrects the errors. It makes me a bit nervous, though.
One of the really nice things I discovered is that I can instruct it to provide an answer in HTML 2.0 so it’s perfectly formatted for FR. It also generates great HTML 2.0 tables and you can specify the columns, column headings, and column widths.
I’ve noticed it will have an inherent liberal bias on political information. I call it out on that and it will rewrite the answer with a more neutral or conservative slant. The other day I asked it two questions: 1) Tell me why the new LNG plant in Louisiana is going to harm the planet. Then 2) Tell my why the new LNG plant is Louisiana is good for Americans, our trading partners and our standard of living.
I got two very different (and predictable) answers, the first with the typical global warming perspective and the second with a conservative perspective on low energy prices and reducing the trade deficit. Both were well written.
So you can coax or coach it toward the answer you would like to get.
But, what's really stood out to me lately has been ChatGPT. It produced cover art for me for a book I'm writing, and it did it on the first pass. All the other AI image sites I tried produced buggy images.
It drew two images. Here's my favorite!
Thanks, I appreciate your answer. I will give it a try.
I am AMAZED at how many people are willing to INJECT themselves with this drug!! I hate needles so much I can not imagine this happening!!!
For some reason the image isn’t showing on the post you linked to.
For the cover art for my book the prompt I gave was something like this ... “A young Chinese man is using a samurai sword to protect a young Chinese woman from two approaching werewolves on a moonlit, windswept beach. The young man and young woman have shoulder length black hair that is blowing in the wind. He is wearing a white tunic with a black sash and black canvas pants, and she is wearing a long flowing gown. There is a worried look on her face.”
ChatGPT gave me exactly what I had in mind the first time.
Several of the other sites (a couple of them paid sites) could not even draw a werewolf (they just drew wolves). Other sites had other strange affects, like suspending the blade to the sword in space in front of them rather that it being attached to the hilt.
After drawing the image I had it superimpose the title across the top of the image. For the first few attempts the font to the title just looked plain. Finally I said ... “draw the title at the top of the picture using a large, wavy font resembling the title to a 1970’s ‘Doc Savage’ paperback book.”. It thought for few seconds and replied .. “Good choice, would you like a metallic texture for the font?”. I replied “yes”, and the result was a book cover that I couldn’t be happier with.
You may be slimming down anyways. Muscle tissue takes up less volume than fat. If you’re converting it, your weight may not change but you’ll be becoming healthier and trimmer.
I always lose weight on a wheat free diet.
Carbs count, too, but for me, cutting out the wheat, even though I ate oats, rice, and popcorn did it.
Really? You ate rice and that worked?
Wheat free sounds interesting. Sometimes with wheat I’ll get stabbing pains in my lower abdomen — like a thousand small sharp needles stabbing me. Also sometimes after lettuce.
Our bodies are weird.
Really? You ate rice and that worked?
Wheat free sounds interesting. Sometimes with wheat I’ll get stabbing pains in my lower abdomen — like a thousand small sharp needles stabbing me. Also sometimes after lettuce.
Our bodies are weird.
A natural cure for obesity is eat less and exercise...it’s that simple and it saves you money.
Humans have turned to drugs for everything which is pathetic and big pharma keeps coming up with make believe diseases they can make better with their drugs.
What on God's green earth makes you think the doctor knows you any better than an internet source????
Or even knows what a good diet is considering how they teach nutrition in med school.
We all know they're not going to tell you anything but the approved AMA/FDA narrative, and the FDA diet (food pyramid) will destroy your health. It's far too carb heavy.
The current shape more of America is is testament to what following FDA/AMA guidelines will do to one.
That sounds like a disaster. Rhubarb leaves are toxic due to the oxalate levels in them.
The stalks (with their far fewer oxalates) are used in pies, either the old Pieplant Pie or Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie.
They're very tart, like cranberries and need a fair amount of sugar to make them edible.
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