Finals are coming up.
I'm actually studying for one right now...imma use this thread to share with you guys what I'm studying and keep my sanity.

I've found out that I tend to study best in really, really short increments with my distractions readily available.



So ok, Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes and that is where your body doesnt respond to insulin correctly (in contrast to type 1 which is an autoimmune disease).


And there's a test you can get ( A1c eAG) that tells you your average amount of glucose in the blood oin the past few months!!
how cool is that?

11/22/2009 1:46:00 PM

coooool

11/22/2009 1:46:53 PM

why do fat people get type 2 diabetes?

11/22/2009 1:47:10 PM

Studying tip: Log off The Wolf Web.

11/22/2009 1:49:46 PM

so ok....insulin converts sugar to energy.

when someone is eating crappy high sugar foods all of the time your body literally can be come desensitized to it and your body doesn't respond correctly.

it's down regulation i think-which is common in drug addicts.

the recptors on the cells in your body-when they are overloaded with a stimulus-they desstrey some of the receptors so that you don't get the same effect.
the exact opposite is up regulation, when your body doesnt get that much of a stimulus it starts producing more receptors so that even when you have just a little bit-you get a huge effect.




apply that to sugar and blood glucose levels.

fat people generally have crappy diets filled with sugar, so its more a correlation that a cause.




^you would be amazed at how much more i can memorize when my distractions are in front of me. logging off isn't a good option in my opinion.
if i were reading the book, then yeah logging out is preferred.
when im trying to memorize facts -no.

[Edited on November 22, 2009 at 1:54 PM. Reason : oops]

11/22/2009 1:52:14 PM

Dif'rent stokres for different folks, I guess.

I have to lock myself in a isolation tank, practically, in order to study. And even then my mind wanders.

Damn, I wish I could sleep in one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank

11/22/2009 1:56:03 PM

i think thats my problem too. my mind wanders horribly.


im sitting here right now with a bunch of notes i need to have memorized in front of me.
i read through some of them. post on here. and then try and recall them.
if i cant do it then i need to go over them again.



it's like i'm letting my mind wander instead of trying to keep it super focused, and it ultimately helps me.

[Edited on November 22, 2009 at 1:58 PM. Reason : i'd flip out in that tank.]

11/22/2009 1:57:52 PM

type the shit you need to memorize out and post it in this thread

that way you are learning two fold, reading it and writing it down, as well as playing on TWW

multitasking ftw

11/22/2009 2:01:25 PM

Quote :

"stokres"

11/22/2009 2:02:10 PM

i would like for everyone to know that as i read this stuff i am, in fact, pronouncing it "di-a-beet-us" in my head.

11/22/2009 2:03:08 PM

11/22/2009 2:05:30 PM

Quote :

"when someone is eating crappy high sugar foods all of the time your body literally can be come desensitized to it and your body doesn't respond correctly. it's down regulation i think-which is common in drug addicts."

That's part of it--you gradually develop insulin resistance, where you require ever-increasing levels of insulin. As that happens, the pancreatic islet cells are forced to produce more and more insulin to the point where they eventually "burn out" and completely fail, leading to pathophysiologic similarities with a type 1 diabetic.

All of this is incredibly oversimplified, but that's how I usually think about it in a clinical sense.

11/22/2009 2:07:29 PM

OK, people who should be screened for di-a-beet-us

1. adults with bmis >25kg/m2 (also included habitual inactivity, certain ethnicities although i cant remember which ones, delivered a baby greater than 9 lb, and hypertension diagnosis)
2. people with PCOS
3. ppl with HDL <35 and/or TG >250
4. IGT or IFG positive
5. history of cardiovascular disease

^overly simplified is OK for the most part.
im not trying to do a diabetes genomics project

[Edited on November 22, 2009 at 2:11 PM. Reason : twertew]

11/22/2009 2:09:12 PM

this runs in my famiy, thankfully I do not have it.

11/22/2009 2:11:48 PM

11/22/2009 2:12:05 PM

believe it or not google health as been a pretty good tool too.

i need the information presented to me in all ways

pictures, read to me, lists, text etc etc

11/22/2009 2:14:35 PM

I thought you're not starting school until next year.

11/22/2009 2:33:43 PM

DI-UH-BEETUS
walk through buffet doors
and roam all over Cee-Cee's Pizza's floors
I stepped on stage, with Kool Aid
All the people gave us applesauce that paid
And out of speakers I did speak
I wore my sneakers but my wheelchair squeaked
My diabeetus reduces circulation of my whole left hand
with a snack in motion I applied skin lotion
my diabeetus and me both askin P
we make a good team my diabeetus and me
we get around together, rhyme's our issue
and we won't be mad when we amputate dead tissue
Diabeetus..
Diabeetus..
Diabeetus

11/22/2009 2:49:29 PM

i fall asleep when i study. i have been studying organic for the past few hours. i have fallen asleep 3 times.

i am going to fail.

11/22/2009 3:07:30 PM

next time you go to class, look to your left and look to you right.

those two asians are gonna pass

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

11/22/2009 3:08:25 PM

adderal

11/22/2009 3:09:03 PM

^^^feels good on the butt

11/22/2009 3:10:42 PM

i have adderall but i don't like taking it

but i suppose it is better than failing

11/22/2009 3:11:20 PM

HAY JOIE WHERE CAN I GET A SPARE HEADLIGHT CLIP ASSUMING THEY ARE STANDARDIZED, BIOMEDICALLY SPEAKING

11/22/2009 3:11:36 PM

lol

i wish i had adderall.
i have a very, very short attention span, enough to warrant add medication
when i talked to my dr about it he said that i had made it to college without it so i should be fine

the only reason it irked me was because a lot of my friends who were deans-listers took it.

i felt like it was "cheating"

[Edited on November 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM. Reason : i know its a stupid reason, but i KNOW my gpa would have been better if i had it too]

11/22/2009 3:59:19 PM

have you studied any atari 2600 yet??? i heard Ms. PacMan was the best professor for that class

[Edited on November 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM. Reason : hi]

11/22/2009 4:01:04 PM

^^ apparently your doctor thinks that people never change.

11/22/2009 4:07:26 PM

i didn't take it until I was in college. i bombed my first semester and told my dr about it and he was like "oh take these pills"

i got A's after that. but i don't like taking it. so now i don't make A's anymore

11/22/2009 4:12:37 PM

^^funny thing is....he gave them to my mom and told me i should try exercising >.<

^don't like the way they make you feel?



[Edited on November 22, 2009 at 4:17 PM. Reason : ertrte]

11/22/2009 4:17:05 PM

not really. i get super spazzy and can't hold still.

11/22/2009 4:19:38 PM

yeah. that seems to be the consensus.

11/22/2009 4:21:01 PM

I wish I had them now. My school consists of hundreds of pages of "notes" I have to memorize word for word where one word out of a paragraph is the difference between a 100% and an 85%.

11/22/2009 4:25:01 PM

Holy Crap.

I stayed up until almost 3 am last night making an immunology outline.

47 PAGES.
an outline.
47.
and that's just the new material
AND i didn't include HIV
(we just briefly went over HIV, most of next semester id dedicated to it)


alright...onto outline numero 2

(i plan on making outlines for immunology, biochem, and A & P.....calculations and US healthcare I can just glance at class notes )

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 9:17 AM. Reason : etfgtfr]

11/24/2009 9:17:26 AM

that is one helluva an outline

11/24/2009 9:19:44 AM

i know!

it was condensed from god only knows how long.

now im feeling pretty sick today. ive already thrown up my coffee

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 9:22 AM. Reason : fdsfds]

11/24/2009 9:22:07 AM

Quote :

"That's part of it--you gradually develop insulin resistance, where you require ever-increasing levels of insulin. As that happens, the pancreatic islet cells are forced to produce more and more insulin to the point where they eventually "burn out" and completely fail, leading to pathophysiologic similarities with a type 1 diabetic. All of this is incredibly oversimplified, but that's how I usually think about it in a clinical sense."

I have this, and I'm only 22. Was diagnosed at age 19, and wasn't morbidly obese.. Kind of threw the doctors for a loop. Took a glucose test, turns out my body would procrastinate and release the insulin too late. Almost like it was not paying attention then like "OH SHIT" and pumped out wayyy too much. During the test my blood sugar shot up like normal but showed a half-hour to hour delay in insulin release and within an hour of my sugar starting to go down it was around 50 (and it went up to about 140 I think).

YAY. >.>

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 10:11 AM. Reason : .]

11/24/2009 10:10:52 AM

all you have to do to diagnose what type of diabetes a person has is smell their breath

if it smells like acetone, it's type 1

11/24/2009 10:11:49 AM

Ach is secreted by the preganglionic neurons in both sympathetic and parasympathetic NS, but by postganglioic in only parasympathetic.

that sounds like a test question to me!

11/27/2009 1:07:14 PM

[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 1:10 PM. Reason : d]

11/27/2009 1:10:24 PM

lol you and kelsey were the easiest to spot

11/27/2009 1:11:25 PM

norepinephrine is secreted by nearly all sympathetic postganglionic neurons.
(adrenergic fibers secrete it, adrenergic receptors receive it (duuuur) )

alpha-adrenergic receptors are usually excitatory
beta -adrenergic receptors are usually inhibitory

11/27/2009 1:16:33 PM

I wonder why?!?!?!

11/27/2009 1:19:24 PM

hahhaahhahaha

i had already gone through all the trouble of putting them on there (ok, ok it didnt take that long...i was being lazy and didnt want to have to resize another picture)

11/27/2009 1:20:53 PM

it's ok, I understand

I'm flattered, really

11/27/2009 1:21:56 PM

i found it funny it looks like your waving though.

11/27/2009 1:23:45 PM

look, I'm not upset

I'm just wondering why my dome is stuck in some woman's hoohah

11/27/2009 1:24:36 PM

HAHAHHAHAHAHHA i totally didnt notice that until now.

11/27/2009 1:25:18 PM

im wearing a long sleeve shirt and a headband....at a beach


i also appear to be a giant among men...haha

[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 1:52 PM. Reason : f]

11/27/2009 1:49:51 PM

anyone know of a wing place that delivers to the crossroads area?


if not ill be happy to pick up.....good recommendations plz

11/27/2009 2:02:47 PM

no, but

and ----------------> 2

11/27/2009 3:30:55 PM