you guys have no idea how much it amuses me that the ender’s game tag is practically 90% me. you’re all trapped in this room with me and you will have to endure my peterposting. there is no escape.

via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

Welcome to a special, post-debate edition of FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited.

sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): Just seven candidates made the debate stage on Thursday, which means with just weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, the field is slowly winnowing. And this has left us with a lot of questions — even if Thursday’s debate didn’t move the needle that much. For instance, is it really just a four-candidate race between Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg? Or did someone like Klobuchar have a break out performance?

What surprised you the most?

geoffrey.skelley (Geoffrey Skelley, elections analyst): I guess in terms of surprises, it’s that Biden and Sanders didn’t really take much heat in the debate. They had one head-to-head encounter over health care that was notable, with Sanders defending Medicare for All and Biden attacking it for costing too much, but many of the other candidates spent all their time targeting Buttigieg instead.

Buttigieg is narrowly ahead in Iowa, so that probably influenced Klobuchar and Warren’s attempts to go after him. But it’s somewhat remarkable to see the guys with the top polling numbers nationally mostly avoid criticism from other candidates on the stage.

seth.masket (Seth Masket, political science professor at the University of Denver and FiveThirtyEight contributor): What surprised me the most was how different a 7-person stage is from a 10-person stage. The conversations were substantive and useful. I regretted the loss of some earlier voices, but the dialogue last night was impressive overall, as were the criticisms.

geoffrey.skelley: I’ll second that, Seth. It was a richer debate because we heard more from every candidate on stage.

geoffrey.skelley: Considering Iowa is the alpha and omega of Klobuchar’s campaign, her going after Buttigieg as intensely as she did definitely made sense. Warren needs Iowa and New Hampshire, too, so her hits on Buttigieg weren’t a surprise, either, but I am really surprised Biden or Sanders weren’t attacked more.

julia_azari (Julia Azari, political science professor at Marquette University and FiveThirtyEight contributor): I’m struggling to come up with a surprise. Maybe I was perhaps a bit surprised that the moderators mentioned race in the primary as directly as they did, but I also found the difference between the first half and the second a bit jarring. It was pretty collegial until it wasn’t.

Who struggled?

julia_azari: I forgot Biden was there for a while, and Warren’s decision to go after Buttigieg might very well backfire. I do think his criticisms of her wealth and campaign finance decisions illustrated some of the challenges of making populist appeals, though, and that could cut against what seems to be the main justification for her candidacy — her credibility and authenticity on economic issues.

seth.masket: I don’t think Buttigieg had a bad night, necessarily, but he did take a lot of heat. He largely had good retorts, I thought, but his surge may have already run its course and he clearly has some vulnerabilities.

geoffrey.skelley: The main question I have about Buttigieg is how the attacks will be received. And I just don’t know — we’ve seen attacks on Biden work to some extent (Kamala Harris) but also fail (Julián Castro).

sarahf: Yeah, I’m not sure what people will make of Buttigieg’s performance. He got high marks, for instance, after the last debate in our poll with Ipsos, but I wonder if he’ll get high marks this time around. Parrying attacks can be a tricky business, because as Geoff pointed out, it’s not always clear how they’ll land. I think all the #winecave business, regarding Buttigieg’s boozy and expensive fundraiser could backfire, for instance.

geoffrey.skelley: I’ve heard it’s trending on Twitter!

sarahf:

julia_azari: Yeah, political science twitter has been pretty vicious about Buttigieg. But I think it’s likely that he’ll benefit from having been attacked, at least in the media reports if not directly in polls.

Who had a good night?

seth.masket: Biden was good! He acted like a front-runner, mainly sticking to his strengths and areas of comfort, and I think he prioritized not screwing up over making big gains. His answer to the question about working with Republicans was very strong, especially given the impeachment events of this week.

julia_azari: Every time there’s a debate I feel like there’s wide consensus that Klobuchar had a good night, and maybe also that Yang had sort of a good night, so I guess I’m of that mind again.

seth.masket: Klobuchar definitely had some very well-executed moments. Her praise of colleagues’ lawmaking work on congressional committees was a backhanded way of criticizing Buttigieg’s relative inexperience, and it was some high-level shade.

sarahf: I’m curious if any of this will move the needle in the polls, though. To Julia’s point we seem to keep having this conversation around Klobuchar (and Booker when he was on the stage) about her having a strong debate performance — and Klobuchar has gotten relatively high marks in our polling with Ipsos, it has just never seemed to translate to a bump for her nationally. It’s hard for me to imagine it’s any different this time, especially given Biden had such a strong night.

geoffrey.skelley: If I had to pick the best nights on pure performance, I would go with Klobuchar and Sanders. I thought Klobuchar was strong on substance but also made a solid electability case by comparing her track record of winning statewide in Minnesota with Buttigieg’s lack of statewide electoral success: “If you had won in Indiana, that would be one thing. You tried, and you lost by 20 points.”

And Sanders also seemed really at ease, even more so than usual. He was passionate, of course, but also was quick on his feet. While most people may remember Buttigieg and Warren battling it out over #winecave, Sanders inserted himself into the fray by saying that Biden and Buttigieg were in a competition to see who could get the most billionaire donors, and that Buttigieg may be trailing Biden 44 billionaires to 39, but that Buttigieg is “an energetic guy, and a competitive guy” who could “take on Joe on that issue.” It was an attack punctuated with some humor, too.

Did you learn anything new?

seth.masket: Sanders is white?

geoffrey.skelley: South Bend has a river running through it?

seth.masket: But to be serious for a moment, on the identity claims, I was somewhat surprised to see Sanders say he was Jewish, as he hasn’t talked much about being a Jewish American, and Buttigieg to describe himself as a “gay dude in Mike Pence’s Indiana.” Political types know these things, but are they generally known in the population? I’m not sure.

sarahf: Hearing candidates stake out positions on USMCA, the new trade agreement among the U.S., Canada and Mexico that passed the House earlier this week in a bipartisan vote, was notable. It gave me a new lens to think through how some of the candidates would approach bipartisan legislation. Sanders was adamantly against it, arguing that he wouldn’t vote in favor of it because it wouldn’t prevent “outsourcing” or do enough to protect workers, while Klobuchar was in favor of the deal.

julia_azari: I mean, is it remarkable that there was an impeachment vote yesterday and it affected the debate … not at all?

geoffrey.skelley: I guess that speaks to how partisan the impeachment has been. Everyone on stage favored impeaching the president, so it wasn’t really an area to find notable disagreements. If Gabbard had made the stage, though, her “present” vote on both articles might have been fodder for debate.

seth.masket:I wonder if anyone will ask the candidates, “What if your opponent isn’t Donald Trump?” I mean, the odds of that happening are pretty low, but maybe it’s worth discussing?

How did the moderators do?

julia_azari: I thought they were pretty substantive at times, but the race question (why is there only one candidate of color on stage) addressed to Andrew Yang was a sour note, fulfilling stereotypes that non-white candidates bear the primary responsibility for addressing diversity issues.

seth.masket: Given the absence of several candidates of color, the moderators did a good job keeping the conversation focused on race within several issues. But yes, I agree with Julia.

geoffrey.skelley: From a substance standpoint, I thought they did well. There was more foreign policy in this debate — PBS gonna PBS — which is really something we should spend more time on given how much power presidents have in that arena. At the same time, it’s also

territory for many viewers.

julia_azari: They also asked about climate change relatively early on, which is an issue that has been absent from other debates and something that people have complained about.

geoffrey.skelley: That question at the end about gifts and forgiveness was silly, though.

julia_azari: Oh yes. Agreed, Geoffrey. Those closing questions can be so silly.

seth.masket: Yeah, that was a dumb question at the end, but as Renee Ann Cramer noted on Twitter, the answers were fascinating: Basically all the men wanted to gift their books and wisdom, while the women asked forgiveness.

Does the debate change anything in the horse race?

seth.masket: If Buttigieg has peaked (I think the polling trend is hard to discern at this point), I could imagine a Klobuchar surge. But as you all noted earlier, that hasn’t happened yet.

geoffrey.skelley: Depending on how those attacks against Buttigieg land, maybe this debate moves the needle in Iowa.

Remember that plenty of voters still haven’t made up their minds. A national CNN poll released on Thursday found that just 39 percent of Democrats had “definitely” decided on who they’re supporting. And as we get closer to the actual contests, more people will be paying attention, including last night — people could have been tuning in for the very first time. However, I expect the debate in January, when Iowa is right around the corner, will matter more in shifting opinions than last night’s.

julia_azari: The debate might refocus coverage on Buttigieg and give rise to some specific Buttigieg vs. Klobuchar moments or Buttigieg vs. Warren exchanges, which I think opens up a different vein than the Warren/Bernie vs. Biden thing that’s sort of defined the field thus far.

Biden’s closing statement was telling in that he said that everyone on the stage had “big progressive plans.” It seemed to me in this debate that the overall tone of the conversation had shifted left. Some candidates are still making the case for more moderate positions, but I think it’s clear that the left has set the terms of debate.

WHY I DECIDED TO SELL ALL OF MY BITCOIN! DON’T WORRY!!! CHEAP BITCOIN AHEAD!

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

No, this is not clickbait. I did sell all my bitcoin. Why? Because I firmly believe that to buy bitcoin cheaper. Why? Because a half thing is coming up. Institutions who have bought LTC Bitcoin in twenty eighteen forced cheapest three thousand dollars are looking for guaranteed. That’s right. Now guaranteed places, not speculation to where they can put their funds and make money. The stock market doesn’t offer that. Commodities don’t offer that right now. Hell, oil is even off of that right now. But PPE, personal protective equipment, things like medical mask, body bags and ventilators offers that opportunity. So they’re jumping all over that. The Bitcoin has also offered that opportunity. It gives them the opportunity to go in there and trade against the hype. That’s exactly what’s going to happen because they have bitcoin as cheap as three thousand dollars from 2018 is T-C market. They can wreak havoc on the retailers and also the miners who need the price of bitcoin to go up. So what’s gonna happen? You’re gonna see a sell the news kind of event happen in my period and in my opinion, and then that period of time is gonna be an eye-opener. And the reason for my tweets yesterday, if my fans who watch is there such huge false narrative sold about bitcoin being the perfect money for the world. It’s not so perfect money for you and me because we own it. It’s for us. It’s not for businesses like big corporations. It’s not for your central banks. It is not for your government. These entities need a debt-driven system in order to function. That little cell phone that we all carry with us needs a debt-driven system in order to be produced and sold. The microphone I’m using, same thing, the camera you guys are watching me through right now. Debt driven systems, the computer I’m on right now. Debt driven systems allow for the manufacturer and seller of these items without debt-driven systems. You can’t have the world we have today in order for bitcoin to be that kind of money that so many people on Twitter are shilling it to you. Well, you better sacrifice the luxuries. We’ve got to change our way of life. And then bitcoin can be that perfect money. Majority of the narratives you were sold on as far as bitcoin and people encourage you to go out there and buy bitcoin right now or long or short it. Okay. Are those who follow up with a referral link with Vibert or beatniks or Femm X? Okay, now is not the time to go and leverage trade. Now is not the time to worry about buying bitcoin. Right now is the time for you to go and worry about yourself, your family, your loved ones, your friends taking care of the people that matter to you most. Making sure you have access to all the necessities necessary to get through the craziness of this virus, which is moving through like a slow hurricane. So if you’re wondering why I was tweeting, the way tweeted yesterday is because the narratives that people are getting sold are being sold to you by people who are prospering from you going in there and buying and leverage trading and try to live that lifestyle. What most of you do not know is when you see people doing that, the money they have earned from their trades. Most of our very unsuccessful, terrible traders, the money they make from you, the affiliate links that they feel like commissions. Okay. The narratives you’re being sold on are very false. It’s a build-up your hope. You don’t do that. There are more important things to worry about. And I’m telling you, this is trickling down in ways that people have even thought manufacturers markdown down bitcoin miners as price drops right now. Actually, I can buy bitcoin miners top the line miner for 20 percent cheaper. Buy guarantee this at the rate that things are going down. I’m going to be able to buy my miners a guy. Again, this is warming cash. I’m in cash. So I have liquidity. I have the ability to go and buy stocks. American Airlines United go out by buying Disney, go buy Tesla. I want to I have the liquidity to go out there and buy even minors, whatever. The time is perfect and even buy more bitcoin. So right now I’m staying in cash on liquid. Okay. So these bitcoin miners, I guarantee you next month are going to get cheaper, which really frustrating those. Yes, the s 19 is out, but only for China. So freaking frustrating. But they use minor side right now. Use miners are freaking. You can buy that right now. Bittman’s advertising. Yes, 17 plus for fifteen hundred. You can buy a used one for less than $1000 right now. I guarantee you next month you might even buy it for about six or seven hundred dollars it just yet I guarantee you. Watch when the halfling happens and the price of bitcoin doesn’t move and a block away get cut in half and it’s in the price movement of people trying to push it up, gets traded against these miners, will get cheap. And then and there will be a point where bitcoin has to breakout is going to break out at some point. But right now in this, economic uncertainty is the perfect place to go and trade against to make sure if you’re a fund, hedge fund or institution that you’re still profitable. And I’m not the only one that has these theories. I know this makes you make me very unpopular, but I told. You guys, before the virus really got serious, I said the price this is going to impact Bitcoin. This is going to bring the price of Bitcoin down, especially as infrastructure gets shut down. If infrastructure starts getting shutting down and people start not going to work, the price of bitcoins will go down. Everyone’s said all know Krystof you’re wrong, you’re negative. It’s FUD. Guess what happened? The price of bitcoin went down. And I’m trying to tell you again, the spot where people are going to trade against and try to profit. Is this happening now? I’m not the only one again that feels this in this oracle. What to expect when you’re expecting the bitcoin block. Having everything I’ve been saying for months about. We have elements now that never existed before. The institutional elements, the regulatory elements, the the the banking elements. And this just it goes on and on. Right. All the institutional futures that exist. All these elements exist today that never existed. Previous hafnium. And now you start to see people paying attention to that, especially now the price of bitcoin is going down. You realize you’re not bulletproof. They’re talking about all this now like, hey, this hacking event is going to be completely different than before. Imagine if you were an institution and you imagine managing a billion dollars, get your billion dollars and you’re managing these funds and you’re trying to make sure your clients make the most money, but you’re always looking for the guaranteed thing. What is that one thing that’s gonna go up in price that maybe we can leverage against and maximize profits? And he hears about this thing called Bitcoin is having. Tell me you wouldn’t go there and hedge against it. Hedge against it. Make sure you bet against it. Bring the price down at that point that you feel like he’s exhausted by that bottom because you will know where that bottom is going to be of that freaking that that that onslaught right. By that bottom from that point and let it ride itself back up. You just doubled your profits. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen. And this is things that people are talking about right now. I like how he says is when all of these factors are considered. He says it right here. I believe the halving will be more along the lines of selling the news event or possibly even followed by muted prices. And things are so bad right now in the crypto space, everyone thinks it’s the crypto space. Did it get impact? The Bitcoin dot.com, far as 50 percent of its staff as bitcoin cash having approaches is fear factor set in. Here is the thing about bitcoin. Dot.com is held by Roger Ver. No one likes him. I don’t like him because of what he’s done for bitcoin. But you can not take away the fact that he has been an excellent business person. He has done a fantastic job of growing that company. He has done a fantastic job of managing his people to see an entity like that. Go ahead and get rid of 50 percent of their staff tells me that he also is anticipating the same kind of thing to happen to his entity. It’s real. You’re seeing blockchain companies fire people at an unprecedented rate right now. And you have to remember, as far as firing goes, the whole world is experiencing this unemployment rate prior on 13 percent here in the United States alone. Just in the United States, that’s 10 million people unemployed and rising and rising. Disney just announced, for instance, is laying off, furloughing sorry, several thousands of people. They didn’t give an exact number. We have retail companies shutting down, like completely shutting down. They can’t pay their bills. They are already struggling because of online sales. People are getting fired. People are getting fired is not just the United States. It’s also people like China. China’s unemployment crisis. But nobody knows the true number of jobless. They estimate about $205 million, Chinese worker. Right. Workers can’t find jobs right now or are unable to return to previous jobs. Two hundred five million of them. That’s just an estimate. A low ball estimate based off of the available data that people can find right now. There’s not enough retail money to support these things. You see, retail money is one of the biggest supporters, the price of Bitcoin. Many people to understand how the world leveraged trading has actually impacted the price of bitcoin. It’s a revolving door. They need all these new retail money to come in and lose, get liquidated to pump the institutional money and also to control the price of bitcoin. I mean, it’s it’s a vicious, vicious cycle. It is. It’s a dirty, dirty cycle. I’m telling you what, I am staying out of bitcoin for right now. For right now, I firmly feel that we’re going to see it get traded again. I know there was talk about the triangle format. Right. We’re in right now. The centre triangle. I don’t care. We break out of it. I don’t care. We hit eight thousand dollars in the next week. It could happen. I know that is going to be traded against because it’s something that mainstream has known about knows about now. We’ve asked for institutions to come in our space and play in thinking that was going to pump the price of bitcoin. But in fact, all the models are designed to bet against the price of bitcoin, not bitcoin. Self-right, not to help Bitcoin itself, I firmly feel that I will be able to buy back into my Bitcoin. So maybe, maybe less than $2000. Even if it’s just a flash crash, even a crash crash came and speak straight. I feel I’ll have that opportunity. I do. That doesn’t. That’s just my thoughts, my thought, my opinion. I shared these with you guys before it. I’ve been blasted before, but I haven’t been that wrong, have I? Listen, guys, that’s all I got for today. I know that no one likes to hear this kind of stuff, but I haven’t been wrong. I haven’t been wrong about how this was going to react with a virus. I haven’t been wrong as far as well as far as where the price of bitcoin is going to go for this year. OK. I haven’t either. It’s not that I don’t believe in it. We just have too many powers in place. Hurting the price of bitcoin. All right, guys. So listen, stay safe. Stay indoors. Don’t go anywhere, necessarily. See it. See you guys next time. Game it speaks for. And then a video log. Die vs L.

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WHY I DECIDED TO SELL ALL OF MY BITCOIN! DON’T WORRY!!! CHEAP BITCOIN AHEAD!

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

No, this is not clickbait. I did sell all my bitcoin. Why? Because I firmly believe that to buy bitcoin cheaper. Why? Because a half thing is coming up. Institutions who have bought LTC Bitcoin in twenty eighteen forced cheapest three thousand dollars are looking for guaranteed. That’s right. Now guaranteed places, not speculation to where they can put their funds and make money. The stock market doesn’t offer that. Commodities don’t offer that right now. Hell, oil is even off of that right now. But PPE, personal protective equipment, things like medical mask, body bags and ventilators offers that opportunity. So they’re jumping all over that. The Bitcoin has also offered that opportunity. It gives them the opportunity to go in there and trade against the hype. That’s exactly what’s going to happen because they have bitcoin as cheap as three thousand dollars from 2018 is T-C market. They can wreak havoc on the retailers and also the miners who need the price of bitcoin to go up. So what’s gonna happen? You’re gonna see a sell the news kind of event happen in my period and in my opinion, and then that period of time is gonna be an eye-opener. And the reason for my tweets yesterday, if my fans who watch is there such huge false narrative sold about bitcoin being the perfect money for the world. It’s not so perfect money for you and me because we own it. It’s for us. It’s not for businesses like big corporations. It’s not for your central banks. It is not for your government. These entities need a debt-driven system in order to function. That little cell phone that we all carry with us needs a debt-driven system in order to be produced and sold. The microphone I’m using, same thing, the camera you guys are watching me through right now. Debt driven systems, the computer I’m on right now. Debt driven systems allow for the manufacturer and seller of these items without debt-driven systems. You can’t have the world we have today in order for bitcoin to be that kind of money that so many people on Twitter are shilling it to you. Well, you better sacrifice the luxuries. We’ve got to change our way of life. And then bitcoin can be that perfect money. Majority of the narratives you were sold on as far as bitcoin and people encourage you to go out there and buy bitcoin right now or long or short it. Okay. Are those who follow up with a referral link with Vibert or beatniks or Femm X? Okay, now is not the time to go and leverage trade. Now is not the time to worry about buying bitcoin. Right now is the time for you to go and worry about yourself, your family, your loved ones, your friends taking care of the people that matter to you most. Making sure you have access to all the necessities necessary to get through the craziness of this virus, which is moving through like a slow hurricane. So if you’re wondering why I was tweeting, the way tweeted yesterday is because the narratives that people are getting sold are being sold to you by people who are prospering from you going in there and buying and leverage trading and try to live that lifestyle. What most of you do not know is when you see people doing that, the money they have earned from their trades. Most of our very unsuccessful, terrible traders, the money they make from you, the affiliate links that they feel like commissions. Okay. The narratives you’re being sold on are very false. It’s a build-up your hope. You don’t do that. There are more important things to worry about. And I’m telling you, this is trickling down in ways that people have even thought manufacturers markdown down bitcoin miners as price drops right now. Actually, I can buy bitcoin miners top the line miner for 20 percent cheaper. Buy guarantee this at the rate that things are going down. I’m going to be able to buy my miners a guy. Again, this is warming cash. I’m in cash. So I have liquidity. I have the ability to go and buy stocks. American Airlines United go out by buying Disney, go buy Tesla. I want to I have the liquidity to go out there and buy even minors, whatever. The time is perfect and even buy more bitcoin. So right now I’m staying in cash on liquid. Okay. So these bitcoin miners, I guarantee you next month are going to get cheaper, which really frustrating those. Yes, the s 19 is out, but only for China. So freaking frustrating. But they use minor side right now. Use miners are freaking. You can buy that right now. Bittman’s advertising. Yes, 17 plus for fifteen hundred. You can buy a used one for less than $1000 right now. I guarantee you next month you might even buy it for about six or seven hundred dollars it just yet I guarantee you. Watch when the halfling happens and the price of bitcoin doesn’t move and a block away get cut in half and it’s in the price movement of people trying to push it up, gets traded against these miners, will get cheap. And then and there will be a point where bitcoin has to breakout is going to break out at some point. But right now in this, economic uncertainty is the perfect place to go and trade against to make sure if you’re a fund, hedge fund or institution that you’re still profitable. And I’m not the only one that has these theories. I know this makes you make me very unpopular, but I told. You guys, before the virus really got serious, I said the price this is going to impact Bitcoin. This is going to bring the price of Bitcoin down, especially as infrastructure gets shut down. If infrastructure starts getting shutting down and people start not going to work, the price of bitcoins will go down. Everyone’s said all know Krystof you’re wrong, you’re negative. It’s FUD. Guess what happened? The price of bitcoin went down. And I’m trying to tell you again, the spot where people are going to trade against and try to profit. Is this happening now? I’m not the only one again that feels this in this oracle. What to expect when you’re expecting the bitcoin block. Having everything I’ve been saying for months about. We have elements now that never existed before. The institutional elements, the regulatory elements, the the the banking elements. And this just it goes on and on. Right. All the institutional futures that exist. All these elements exist today that never existed. Previous hafnium. And now you start to see people paying attention to that, especially now the price of bitcoin is going down. You realize you’re not bulletproof. They’re talking about all this now like, hey, this hacking event is going to be completely different than before. Imagine if you were an institution and you imagine managing a billion dollars, get your billion dollars and you’re managing these funds and you’re trying to make sure your clients make the most money, but you’re always looking for the guaranteed thing. What is that one thing that’s gonna go up in price that maybe we can leverage against and maximize profits? And he hears about this thing called Bitcoin is having. Tell me you wouldn’t go there and hedge against it. Hedge against it. Make sure you bet against it. Bring the price down at that point that you feel like he’s exhausted by that bottom because you will know where that bottom is going to be of that freaking that that that onslaught right. By that bottom from that point and let it ride itself back up. You just doubled your profits. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen. And this is things that people are talking about right now. I like how he says is when all of these factors are considered. He says it right here. I believe the halving will be more along the lines of selling the news event or possibly even followed by muted prices. And things are so bad right now in the crypto space, everyone thinks it’s the crypto space. Did it get impact? The Bitcoin dot.com, far as 50 percent of its staff as bitcoin cash having approaches is fear factor set in. Here is the thing about bitcoin. Dot.com is held by Roger Ver. No one likes him. I don’t like him because of what he’s done for bitcoin. But you can not take away the fact that he has been an excellent business person. He has done a fantastic job of growing that company. He has done a fantastic job of managing his people to see an entity like that. Go ahead and get rid of 50 percent of their staff tells me that he also is anticipating the same kind of thing to happen to his entity. It’s real. You’re seeing blockchain companies fire people at an unprecedented rate right now. And you have to remember, as far as firing goes, the whole world is experiencing this unemployment rate prior on 13 percent here in the United States alone. Just in the United States, that’s 10 million people unemployed and rising and rising. Disney just announced, for instance, is laying off, furloughing sorry, several thousands of people. They didn’t give an exact number. We have retail companies shutting down, like completely shutting down. They can’t pay their bills. They are already struggling because of online sales. People are getting fired. People are getting fired is not just the United States. It’s also people like China. China’s unemployment crisis. But nobody knows the true number of jobless. They estimate about $205 million, Chinese worker. Right. Workers can’t find jobs right now or are unable to return to previous jobs. Two hundred five million of them. That’s just an estimate. A low ball estimate based off of the available data that people can find right now. There’s not enough retail money to support these things. You see, retail money is one of the biggest supporters, the price of Bitcoin. Many people to understand how the world leveraged trading has actually impacted the price of bitcoin. It’s a revolving door. They need all these new retail money to come in and lose, get liquidated to pump the institutional money and also to control the price of bitcoin. I mean, it’s it’s a vicious, vicious cycle. It is. It’s a dirty, dirty cycle. I’m telling you what, I am staying out of bitcoin for right now. For right now, I firmly feel that we’re going to see it get traded again. I know there was talk about the triangle format. Right. We’re in right now. The centre triangle. I don’t care. We break out of it. I don’t care. We hit eight thousand dollars in the next week. It could happen. I know that is going to be traded against because it’s something that mainstream has known about knows about now. We’ve asked for institutions to come in our space and play in thinking that was going to pump the price of bitcoin. But in fact, all the models are designed to bet against the price of bitcoin, not bitcoin. Self-right, not to help Bitcoin itself, I firmly feel that I will be able to buy back into my Bitcoin. So maybe, maybe less than $2000. Even if it’s just a flash crash, even a crash crash came and speak straight. I feel I’ll have that opportunity. I do. That doesn’t. That’s just my thoughts, my thought, my opinion. I shared these with you guys before it. I’ve been blasted before, but I haven’t been that wrong, have I? Listen, guys, that’s all I got for today. I know that no one likes to hear this kind of stuff, but I haven’t been wrong. I haven’t been wrong about how this was going to react with a virus. I haven’t been wrong as far as well as far as where the price of bitcoin is going to go for this year. OK. I haven’t either. It’s not that I don’t believe in it. We just have too many powers in place. Hurting the price of bitcoin. All right, guys. So listen, stay safe. Stay indoors. Don’t go anywhere, necessarily. See it. See you guys next time. Game it speaks for. And then a video log. Die vs L.

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WHY I DECIDED TO SELL ALL OF MY BITCOIN! DONT WORRY!!! CHEAP BITCOIN AHEAD!

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

No, this is not clickbait. I did sell all my bitcoin. Why? Because I firmly believe that to buy bitcoin cheaper. Why? Because a half thing is coming up. Institutions who have bought LTC Bitcoin in twenty eighteen forced cheapest three thousand dollars are looking for guaranteed. That’s right. Now guaranteed places, not speculation to where they can put their funds and make money. The stock market doesn’t offer that. Commodities don’t offer that right now. Hell, oil is even off of that right now. But PPE, personal protective equipment, things like medical mask, body bags and ventilators offers that opportunity. So they’re jumping all over that. The Bitcoin has also offered that opportunity. It gives them the opportunity to go in there and trade against the hype. That’s exactly what’s going to happen because they have bitcoin as cheap as three thousand dollars from 2018 is T-C market. They can wreak havoc on the retailers and also the miners who need the price of bitcoin to go up. So what’s gonna happen? You’re gonna see a sell the news kind of event happen in my period and in my opinion, and then that period of time is gonna be an eye-opener. And the reason for my tweets yesterday, if my fans who watch is there such huge false narrative sold about bitcoin being the perfect money for the world. It’s not so perfect money for you and me because we own it. It’s for us. It’s not for businesses like big corporations. It’s not for your central banks. It is not for your government. These entities need a debt-driven system in order to function. That little cell phone that we all carry with us needs a debt-driven system in order to be produced and sold. The microphone I’m using, same thing, the camera you guys are watching me through right now. Debt driven systems, the computer I’m on right now. Debt driven systems allow for the manufacturer and seller of these items without debt-driven systems. You can’t have the world we have today in order for bitcoin to be that kind of money that so many people on Twitter are shilling it to you. Well, you better sacrifice the luxuries. We’ve got to change our way of life. And then bitcoin can be that perfect money. Majority of the narratives you were sold on as far as bitcoin and people encourage you to go out there and buy bitcoin right now or long or short it. Okay. Are those who follow up with a referral link with Vibert or beatniks or Femm X? Okay, now is not the time to go and leverage trade. Now is not the time to worry about buying bitcoin. Right now is the time for you to go and worry about yourself, your family, your loved ones, your friends taking care of the people that matter to you most. Making sure you have access to all the necessities necessary to get through the craziness of this virus, which is moving through like a slow hurricane. So if you’re wondering why I was tweeting, the way tweeted yesterday is because the narratives that people are getting sold are being sold to you by people who are prospering from you going in there and buying and leverage trading and try to live that lifestyle. What most of you do not know is when you see people doing that, the money they have earned from their trades. Most of our very unsuccessful, terrible traders, the money they make from you, the affiliate links that they feel like commissions. Okay. The narratives you’re being sold on are very false. It’s a build-up your hope. You don’t do that. There are more important things to worry about. And I’m telling you, this is trickling down in ways that people have even thought manufacturers markdown down bitcoin miners as price drops right now. Actually, I can buy bitcoin miners top the line miner for 20 percent cheaper. Buy guarantee this at the rate that things are going down. I’m going to be able to buy my miners a guy. Again, this is warming cash. I’m in cash. So I have liquidity. I have the ability to go and buy stocks. American Airlines United go out by buying Disney, go buy Tesla. I want to I have the liquidity to go out there and buy even minors, whatever. The time is perfect and even buy more bitcoin. So right now I’m staying in cash on liquid. Okay. So these bitcoin miners, I guarantee you next month are going to get cheaper, which really frustrating those. Yes, the s 19 is out, but only for China. So freaking frustrating. But they use minor side right now. Use miners are freaking. You can buy that right now. Bittman’s advertising. Yes, 17 plus for fifteen hundred. You can buy a used one for less than $1000 right now. I guarantee you next month you might even buy it for about six or seven hundred dollars it just yet I guarantee you. Watch when the halfling happens and the price of bitcoin doesn’t move and a block away get cut in half and it’s in the price movement of people trying to push it up, gets traded against these miners, will get cheap. And then and there will be a point where bitcoin has to breakout is going to break out at some point. But right now in this, economic uncertainty is the perfect place to go and trade against to make sure if you’re a fund, hedge fund or institution that you’re still profitable. And I’m not the only one that has these theories. I know this makes you make me very unpopular, but I told. You guys, before the virus really got serious, I said the price this is going to impact Bitcoin. This is going to bring the price of Bitcoin down, especially as infrastructure gets shut down. If infrastructure starts getting shutting down and people start not going to work, the price of bitcoins will go down. Everyone’s said all know Krystof you’re wrong, you’re negative. It’s FUD. Guess what happened? The price of bitcoin went down. And I’m trying to tell you again, the spot where people are going to trade against and try to profit. Is this happening now? I’m not the only one again that feels this in this oracle. What to expect when you’re expecting the bitcoin block. Having everything I’ve been saying for months about. We have elements now that never existed before. The institutional elements, the regulatory elements, the the the banking elements. And this just it goes on and on. Right. All the institutional futures that exist. All these elements exist today that never existed. Previous hafnium. And now you start to see people paying attention to that, especially now the price of bitcoin is going down. You realize you’re not bulletproof. They’re talking about all this now like, hey, this hacking event is going to be completely different than before. Imagine if you were an institution and you imagine managing a billion dollars, get your billion dollars and you’re managing these funds and you’re trying to make sure your clients make the most money, but you’re always looking for the guaranteed thing. What is that one thing that’s gonna go up in price that maybe we can leverage against and maximize profits? And he hears about this thing called Bitcoin is having. Tell me you wouldn’t go there and hedge against it. Hedge against it. Make sure you bet against it. Bring the price down at that point that you feel like he’s exhausted by that bottom because you will know where that bottom is going to be of that freaking that that that onslaught right. By that bottom from that point and let it ride itself back up. You just doubled your profits. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen. And this is things that people are talking about right now. I like how he says is when all of these factors are considered. He says it right here. I believe the halving will be more along the lines of selling the news event or possibly even followed by muted prices. And things are so bad right now in the crypto space, everyone thinks it’s the crypto space. Did it get impact? The Bitcoin dot.com, far as 50 percent of its staff as bitcoin cash having approaches is fear factor set in. Here is the thing about bitcoin. Dot.com is held by Roger Ver. No one likes him. I don’t like him because of what he’s done for bitcoin. But you can not take away the fact that he has been an excellent business person. He has done a fantastic job of growing that company. He has done a fantastic job of managing his people to see an entity like that. Go ahead and get rid of 50 percent of their staff tells me that he also is anticipating the same kind of thing to happen to his entity. It’s real. You’re seeing blockchain companies fire people at an unprecedented rate right now. And you have to remember, as far as firing goes, the whole world is experiencing this unemployment rate prior on 13 percent here in the United States alone. Just in the United States, that’s 10 million people unemployed and rising and rising. Disney just announced, for instance, is laying off, furloughing sorry, several thousands of people. They didn’t give an exact number. We have retail companies shutting down, like completely shutting down. They can’t pay their bills. They are already struggling because of online sales. People are getting fired. People are getting fired is not just the United States. It’s also people like China. China’s unemployment crisis. But nobody knows the true number of jobless. They estimate about $205 million, Chinese worker. Right. Workers can’t find jobs right now or are unable to return to previous jobs. Two hundred five million of them. That’s just an estimate. A low ball estimate based off of the available data that people can find right now. There’s not enough retail money to support these things. You see, retail money is one of the biggest supporters, the price of Bitcoin. Many people to understand how the world leveraged trading has actually impacted the price of bitcoin. It’s a revolving door. They need all these new retail money to come in and lose, get liquidated to pump the institutional money and also to control the price of bitcoin. I mean, it’s it’s a vicious, vicious cycle. It is. It’s a dirty, dirty cycle. I’m telling you what, I am staying out of bitcoin for right now. For right now, I firmly feel that we’re going to see it get traded again. I know there was talk about the triangle format. Right. We’re in right now. The centre triangle. I don’t care. We break out of it. I don’t care. We hit eight thousand dollars in the next week. It could happen. I know that is going to be traded against because it’s something that mainstream has known about knows about now. We’ve asked for institutions to come in our space and play in thinking that was going to pump the price of bitcoin. But in fact, all the models are designed to bet against the price of bitcoin, not bitcoin. Self-right, not to help Bitcoin itself, I firmly feel that I will be able to buy back into my Bitcoin. So maybe, maybe less than $2000. Even if it’s just a flash crash, even a crash crash came and speak straight. I feel I’ll have that opportunity. I do. That doesn’t. That’s just my thoughts, my thought, my opinion. I shared these with you guys before it. I’ve been blasted before, but I haven’t been that wrong, have I? Listen, guys, that’s all I got for today. I know that no one likes to hear this kind of stuff, but I haven’t been wrong. I haven’t been wrong about how this was going to react with a virus. I haven’t been wrong as far as well as far as where the price of bitcoin is going to go for this year. OK. I haven’t either. It’s not that I don’t believe in it. We just have too many powers in place. Hurting the price of bitcoin. All right, guys. So listen, stay safe. Stay indoors. Don’t go anywhere, necessarily. See it. See you guys next time. Game it speaks for. And then a video log. Die vs L.

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WHY I DECIDED TO SELL ALL OF MY BITCOIN! DON’T WORRY!!! CHEAP BITCOIN AHEAD!

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

No, this is not clickbait. I did sell all my bitcoin. Why? Because I firmly believe that to buy bitcoin cheaper. Why? Because a half thing is coming up. Institutions who have bought LTC Bitcoin in twenty eighteen forced cheapest three thousand dollars are looking for guaranteed. That’s right. Now guaranteed places, not speculation to where they can put their funds and make money. The stock market doesn’t offer that. Commodities don’t offer that right now. Hell, oil is even off of that right now. But PPE, personal protective equipment, things like medical mask, body bags and ventilators offers that opportunity. So they’re jumping all over that. The Bitcoin has also offered that opportunity. It gives them the opportunity to go in there and trade against the hype. That’s exactly what’s going to happen because they have bitcoin as cheap as three thousand dollars from 2018 is T-C market. They can wreak havoc on the retailers and also the miners who need the price of bitcoin to go up. So what’s gonna happen? You’re gonna see a sell the news kind of event happen in my period and in my opinion, and then that period of time is gonna be an eye-opener. And the reason for my tweets yesterday, if my fans who watch is there such huge false narrative sold about bitcoin being the perfect money for the world. It’s not so perfect money for you and me because we own it. It’s for us. It’s not for businesses like big corporations. It’s not for your central banks. It is not for your government. These entities need a debt-driven system in order to function. That little cell phone that we all carry with us needs a debt-driven system in order to be produced and sold. The microphone I’m using, same thing, the camera you guys are watching me through right now. Debt driven systems, the computer I’m on right now. Debt driven systems allow for the manufacturer and seller of these items without debt-driven systems. You can’t have the world we have today in order for bitcoin to be that kind of money that so many people on Twitter are shilling it to you. Well, you better sacrifice the luxuries. We’ve got to change our way of life. And then bitcoin can be that perfect money. Majority of the narratives you were sold on as far as bitcoin and people encourage you to go out there and buy bitcoin right now or long or short it. Okay. Are those who follow up with a referral link with Vibert or beatniks or Femm X? Okay, now is not the time to go and leverage trade. Now is not the time to worry about buying bitcoin. Right now is the time for you to go and worry about yourself, your family, your loved ones, your friends taking care of the people that matter to you most. Making sure you have access to all the necessities necessary to get through the craziness of this virus, which is moving through like a slow hurricane. So if you’re wondering why I was tweeting, the way tweeted yesterday is because the narratives that people are getting sold are being sold to you by people who are prospering from you going in there and buying and leverage trading and try to live that lifestyle. What most of you do not know is when you see people doing that, the money they have earned from their trades. Most of our very unsuccessful, terrible traders, the money they make from you, the affiliate links that they feel like commissions. Okay. The narratives you’re being sold on are very false. It’s a build-up your hope. You don’t do that. There are more important things to worry about. And I’m telling you, this is trickling down in ways that people have even thought manufacturers markdown down bitcoin miners as price drops right now. Actually, I can buy bitcoin miners top the line miner for 20 percent cheaper. Buy guarantee this at the rate that things are going down. I’m going to be able to buy my miners a guy. Again, this is warming cash. I’m in cash. So I have liquidity. I have the ability to go and buy stocks. American Airlines United go out by buying Disney, go buy Tesla. I want to I have the liquidity to go out there and buy even minors, whatever. The time is perfect and even buy more bitcoin. So right now I’m staying in cash on liquid. Okay. So these bitcoin miners, I guarantee you next month are going to get cheaper, which really frustrating those. Yes, the s 19 is out, but only for China. So freaking frustrating. But they use minor side right now. Use miners are freaking. You can buy that right now. Bittman’s advertising. Yes, 17 plus for fifteen hundred. You can buy a used one for less than $1000 right now. I guarantee you next month you might even buy it for about six or seven hundred dollars it just yet I guarantee you. Watch when the halfling happens and the price of bitcoin doesn’t move and a block away get cut in half and it’s in the price movement of people trying to push it up, gets traded against these miners, will get cheap. And then and there will be a point where bitcoin has to breakout is going to break out at some point. But right now in this, economic uncertainty is the perfect place to go and trade against to make sure if you’re a fund, hedge fund or institution that you’re still profitable. And I’m not the only one that has these theories. I know this makes you make me very unpopular, but I told. You guys, before the virus really got serious, I said the price this is going to impact Bitcoin. This is going to bring the price of Bitcoin down, especially as infrastructure gets shut down. If infrastructure starts getting shutting down and people start not going to work, the price of bitcoins will go down. Everyone’s said all know Krystof you’re wrong, you’re negative. It’s FUD. Guess what happened? The price of bitcoin went down. And I’m trying to tell you again, the spot where people are going to trade against and try to profit. Is this happening now? I’m not the only one again that feels this in this oracle. What to expect when you’re expecting the bitcoin block. Having everything I’ve been saying for months about. We have elements now that never existed before. The institutional elements, the regulatory elements, the the the banking elements. And this just it goes on and on. Right. All the institutional futures that exist. All these elements exist today that never existed. Previous hafnium. And now you start to see people paying attention to that, especially now the price of bitcoin is going down. You realize you’re not bulletproof. They’re talking about all this now like, hey, this hacking event is going to be completely different than before. Imagine if you were an institution and you imagine managing a billion dollars, get your billion dollars and you’re managing these funds and you’re trying to make sure your clients make the most money, but you’re always looking for the guaranteed thing. What is that one thing that’s gonna go up in price that maybe we can leverage against and maximize profits? And he hears about this thing called Bitcoin is having. Tell me you wouldn’t go there and hedge against it. Hedge against it. Make sure you bet against it. Bring the price down at that point that you feel like he’s exhausted by that bottom because you will know where that bottom is going to be of that freaking that that that onslaught right. By that bottom from that point and let it ride itself back up. You just doubled your profits. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen. And this is things that people are talking about right now. I like how he says is when all of these factors are considered. He says it right here. I believe the halving will be more along the lines of selling the news event or possibly even followed by muted prices. And things are so bad right now in the crypto space, everyone thinks it’s the crypto space. Did it get impact? The Bitcoin dot.com, far as 50 percent of its staff as bitcoin cash having approaches is fear factor set in. Here is the thing about bitcoin. Dot.com is held by Roger Ver. No one likes him. I don’t like him because of what he’s done for bitcoin. But you can not take away the fact that he has been an excellent business person. He has done a fantastic job of growing that company. He has done a fantastic job of managing his people to see an entity like that. Go ahead and get rid of 50 percent of their staff tells me that he also is anticipating the same kind of thing to happen to his entity. It’s real. You’re seeing blockchain companies fire people at an unprecedented rate right now. And you have to remember, as far as firing goes, the whole world is experiencing this unemployment rate prior on 13 percent here in the United States alone. Just in the United States, that’s 10 million people unemployed and rising and rising. Disney just announced, for instance, is laying off, furloughing sorry, several thousands of people. They didn’t give an exact number. We have retail companies shutting down, like completely shutting down. They can’t pay their bills. They are already struggling because of online sales. People are getting fired. People are getting fired is not just the United States. It’s also people like China. China’s unemployment crisis. But nobody knows the true number of jobless. They estimate about $205 million, Chinese worker. Right. Workers can’t find jobs right now or are unable to return to previous jobs. Two hundred five million of them. That’s just an estimate. A low ball estimate based off of the available data that people can find right now. There’s not enough retail money to support these things. You see, retail money is one of the biggest supporters, the price of Bitcoin. Many people to understand how the world leveraged trading has actually impacted the price of bitcoin. It’s a revolving door. They need all these new retail money to come in and lose, get liquidated to pump the institutional money and also to control the price of bitcoin. I mean, it’s it’s a vicious, vicious cycle. It is. It’s a dirty, dirty cycle. I’m telling you what, I am staying out of bitcoin for right now. For right now, I firmly feel that we’re going to see it get traded again. I know there was talk about the triangle format. Right. We’re in right now. The centre triangle. I don’t care. We break out of it. I don’t care. We hit eight thousand dollars in the next week. It could happen. I know that is going to be traded against because it’s something that mainstream has known about knows about now. We’ve asked for institutions to come in our space and play in thinking that was going to pump the price of bitcoin. But in fact, all the models are designed to bet against the price of bitcoin, not bitcoin. Self-right, not to help Bitcoin itself, I firmly feel that I will be able to buy back into my Bitcoin. So maybe, maybe less than $2000. Even if it’s just a flash crash, even a crash crash came and speak straight. I feel I’ll have that opportunity. I do. That doesn’t. That’s just my thoughts, my thought, my opinion. I shared these with you guys before it. I’ve been blasted before, but I haven’t been that wrong, have I? Listen, guys, that’s all I got for today. I know that no one likes to hear this kind of stuff, but I haven’t been wrong. I haven’t been wrong about how this was going to react with a virus. I haven’t been wrong as far as well as far as where the price of bitcoin is going to go for this year. OK. I haven’t either. It’s not that I don’t believe in it. We just have too many powers in place. Hurting the price of bitcoin. All right, guys. So listen, stay safe. Stay indoors. Don’t go anywhere, necessarily. See it. See you guys next time. Game it speaks for. And then a video log. Die vs L.

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Arthritis

Ron: [00:00:15] Hello and welcome to podcast The Axe, this show. The brief interviews with people just like you whose lives were forever changed by a medical diagnosis. [00:00:24][9.4]

Lita: [00:00:25] I'm Lita. [00:00:26][0.3]

Ron: [00:00:26] I'm Ron. [00:00:26][0.1]

Jean: [00:00:27] And I'm the queen of England. Oh I'm Jean Marie. [00:00:29][1.9]

Lita: [00:00:30] Collectively we are the hosts of podcastD X. [00:00:33][3.0]

Jean: [00:00:34] This podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or treatment and before undertaking a new health care regime. And never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on this podcast. [00:00:55][21.0]

Ron: [00:00:56] Today's show is a forum with just the hosts and we will be talking about arthritis. Last week we touched on osteoarthritis as it relates to sciatica but that's just the tip of the iceberg. [00:01:07][10.6]

Jean: [00:01:08] Indeed. First off we should tell our listeners that there are more than 100 different forms of arthritis and related diseases. The most common are osteoarthritis rheumatoid arthritis and (psoriatic) arthritis. [00:01:22][13.6]

Lita: [00:01:23] I've heard about osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis but psoriatic arthritis is a new one to me. [00:01:29][6.2]

Jean: [00:01:30] Well according to the Arthritis Foundation psoriatic arthritis is an autoimmune inflammatory disease in which the immune system attacks the body causing inflammation and pain. Psoriatic arthritis affects the joints causing arthritis as well as the skin causing psoriasis. And from 30 to 40 percent of the people with psoriasis, the percentage also develops an inflammatory arthritic condition. The symptoms may include joint pain, stiffness, skin rashes, Nail changes, and fatigue, eye problems, swelling and tenderness in the hands and feet as well. [00:02:06][35.9]

Ron: [00:02:07] Wow. If there are seven and a half million people in the United States with psoriasis in 30 to 40 percent of them developed this form of arthritis that means between two and a half to three million people have it? That's not rare at all. [00:02:22][14.9]

Lita: [00:02:22] No I'm kind of surprised I never heard of it. And rheumatoid arthritis affects one and a half million while osteoarthritis, or the degenerative bone disease affects 27 million. That's the it's the killer, no not the killer, it's is the winner that has got, the most people that have it. [00:02:39][17.3]

Jean: [00:02:40] In the arthritis race. [00:02:40][0.7]

Lita: [00:02:41] Yes and in that arthritis race the osteoarthritis wins with 27 million. Oh yeah. [00:02:46][4.7]

Ron: [00:02:46] I Wouldn't want to win. [00:02:47][0.3]

Lita: [00:02:47] No no you're right. Besides being that the most common type, osteoarthritis is acquired from either wear and tear on a joint or from a previous injury to their joint. Rheumatoid or psoriatic arthritis. Oh and psoriatic arthritis they're both diseases that involved the immune system attacking the tendons ligaments and joints. [00:03:09][22.0]

Jean: [00:03:10] Sounds painful. Your own immune system attacking from within seems rather sinister. [00:03:15][4.6]

Lita: [00:03:16] mmhmm. [00:03:16][0.0]

Jean: [00:03:16] The makings of a crime novel but in real life the people suffering from rheumatoid or psoriatic arthritis probably wish it was just a novel instead of something they have to live with day to day. [00:03:26][9.5]

Lita: [00:03:26] Yeah [00:03:26][0.0]

Ron: [00:03:28] While researching for today's topic I read the rheumatoid arthritis can also affect the skin, eyes, lungs, the heart, kidneys, the nerve tissue and also the blood vessels. It can increase your risk of hardened or blocked arteries, inflammation of the sac surrounding your heart. It can scar lung tissue or it can increase your risk of lymphoma. Cancers that develop in the lymph system. [00:03:53][25.1]

Lita: [00:03:54] With the increased risk to these major systems. I imagine that it affects a person's lifespan. [00:03:58][4.4]

Ron: [00:04:00] It can buy as much as 10 to 15 years. It's not as simple achy joint disease. [00:04:05][5.3]

Lita: [00:04:06] No. Right. That's true Ron. And even if it doesn't get to the critical organs the joint deterioration is progressive over time. Jean, can you tell our listeners what treatments are available for rheumatoid arthritis. [00:04:19][13.3]

Jean: [00:04:20] Sure. Again I turned to the Arthritis Foundation for answers. The goals of, for treatment are to stop inflammation, relieve symptoms, prevent organ and joint damage, improve function, and overall well-being. And lastly to reduce long term complications to stop inflammation aggressive treatment as early as possible is recommended. This would include but is not limited to arthritis medication using natural treatments to ease pain and at times surgical intervention is required. Joint surgery may include the total replacement of the joint or the resurfacing or repairing of the damaged areas. [00:04:58][38.2]

Ron: [00:04:59] That right. The natural treatment your doctor may prescribe include Supplements Herbs vitamins and minerals. There's additional information on the Arthritis Foundation Web site and you can find a link on our site Podcast D X dot com. [00:05:16][16.2]

Lita: [00:05:17] Yes. Our Web site will include more information and videos about rheumatoid arthritis. Let's talk a little bit more about osteoarthritis. This is the most prevalent form of arthritis. [00:05:28][10.4]

Jean: [00:05:29] Well I can start us off with some basics. Osteo arthritis is a type of joint disease that results from the breakdown of joint cartilage as well as the bones the cartilage is attached to the most common symptoms are joint pain and stiffness. Early on you may only notice these symptoms following exertion but with the disease as it progresses to the point where you know you might feel pain and stiffness all the time. [00:05:53][24.2]

Ron: [00:05:54] Right. In the most common joints affected are the fingers the neck, lower back knees and the hips. Osteo arthritis may be caused by previous knee injury but can also be due to abnormal joint or limb development, or even inherited factors. It turns into a vicious cycle of pain because as you feel the pain, so you stop using that body part in order to not feel the pain. But then the muscles in that area get weak causing more mechanical stress than the joint in joint inflammation and deterioration. [00:06:25][30.9]

Lita: [00:06:26] Vicious cycle is right even though there's no cure, There are things that you can do to help alleviate the pain and stop the cycle of deterioration. The Arthritis Foundation recommends that you start with hot and cold compresses which Jean was talking about earlier which, they may be beneficial. Heat may help with the stiffness and cold may help reduce the joint pain. Epsom salt baths may also help with inflammation and pain. You can add two cups of epsom salt to a tub of warm water. Exercise is another great way to keep that motion in the affected joint. This is what they do in physical therapy. If you can use a warm therapy pool you'll get the opportunity to exercise and the water's buoyancy helps take your body weight off of the joint while surrounded by warm water. It's a win win win. [00:07:18][51.3]

Jean: [00:07:20] Yay! [00:07:20][0.0]

Lita: [00:07:20] Your doctor may prescribe pain medications or over-the-counter medications such as ibuprofen. [00:07:24][4.5]

Jean: [00:07:26] In addition there are many supportive devices available that can add support to the affected joints. These include braces, canes, grabbing tools, gloves, knee taping and shoe inserts. You can actually find a list of several of these items on our website. As far as natural remedies green tea has been shown to increase cartilage production and help reduce inflammation. But even though it is considered a natural product anything taken in large amounts is not good for you and great amounts of green tea can affect the liver. So it's best to take it a moderation and under the guidance of your doctor and the same warning should come into play with tumoric and ginger both have anti inflammatory properties but are not safe in large doses like we always say check with your doctor first. [00:08:11][45.5]

Ron: [00:08:13] Indeed. Let me add, that from a recreational therapy standpoint, the best type of exercise for osteoarthritis, use light resistance, it improves flexibility and they offer an aerobic element, they're considered to be low impact. Some of these activities include bike riding, swimming, Taichi, walking and yoga. Your doctor would probably suggest starting slowly and building up over time. And if you wear proper footwear your joints will appreciate that. We will be interviewing a sports podiatrist in the coming weeks and we will be sure to ask him specifically what shoes are best for different activities in which shoes you should avoid. [00:08:56][43.0]

Jean: [00:08:57] Wow. We have covered a lot of ground and there is still so much more to learn. For additional information. Talk with your health care team and please go to our Web site and look at the resources page for arthritis. But for now we are going to wrap up today's show just like you'd wrap up a bad ankle. [00:09:15][18.1]

Lita: [00:09:15] OK, or the knee or true, we really needed to just cover the topic in broad strokes. If you have arthritis or know someone that has it and would like to be interviewed for our show please contact us and if you have questions or comments related to today's show you can contact us at podcast dx at yahoo dot com through our Web site. Podcast D X dot com. Our Facebook page. Instagram or Twitter. [00:09:45][29.5]

Ron: [00:09:46] And as always if you have a moment to spare please give us a five star review where ever you get your podcast. Till next time. [00:09:46][0.0]

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