the other bracket

THE OTHER BRACKET

there is another ncaa tournament that will start soon
its the womens tournament

now the last few years all you had to do was watch the
last game of the tournament to see the uconn women
win it all

what they should do is just give a special trophy to
the uconn womens team
then
have another trophy that the rest of the field plays for

i like womens basketball
they shoot better it seems than the men
they are better free throw shooters than the men
they actually play defense
they actually run offenses
its like the game use to be in the mens games
most of the players play for four years

i really havent watched much womens basketball this year
i watched all three of the baylor texas games
they sure dont seem to like each other
that baylor coach she sure has fire in her belly
i wouldnt ever want to make her mad at me

i watched bits and pieces of a tennessee game
because of my fondness for their former coach
pat summitt who died from alzheimers

i havent watched any of the uconn womens games
why
only a few were even close
texas got within 4 points of them in their game with them
others got around 10 points
some
lost by like 40-60 pts
they needed a mercy rule in those games
i heard the managers played in those game just to be fair

so this year in the tournament
i will watch all of texass games
probably all of baylors games
that center for baylor is a big girl
how does she always seem to find those big centers
im hoping that somewhere down the line
that baylor will play texas again
can they beat texas 4 times in one season
yes probably

i also will be watching uconn closely in the tournament
when they play a good team
i want to watch that game
to see if they can be beat

they are 32-0 so for
i wonder if they will still have that zero in their record
when this is all over

yep
the other bracket games could be good ones
as long as they dont play uconn

the organicgreen doctor

my biased bracket

MY BIASED BRACKET

i admit im biased when i fill out my ncaa mens basketball bracket
i have my highest bias towards
the arkansas razorbacks and the texas longhorns
two teams i always root for unless they play each other

so lets get this over with
arkansas will win its first game but lose its second to purdue
as will the longhorns as they lose to cincinnati in their second game

now if you take all the teams that had a player get busted for
accepting money from agents and their agents lose
well
i decided i couldnt do that since there would not be many major
teams left

now i didnt pick duke this year
i dont like duke this year
they may have cheated i dont know that they did
but something there doesnt pass the smell test
like old eggs left laying around too long
plus i dont like their tripping player
he got issues that one
hes going to get his long overdues if he goes to the nba
they have a way of taking care of those things

the nba needs to have a larger number of d league teams
those minor league teams to catch those players who want to get
paid more to play
leaving true college sports players to play college ball
maybe give each one of them a stipend for food and entertainment
and clothes etc
at least let them work during the school year in their off season
many of these folks are from poor families who cant afford to
give them money

yep d league and pay the players might help some of the
money corruption thats going on

so looking at the brackets
i see virginia playing tennessee with virginia in the final four
i see north carolina playing xavier and winning their way to the final four
i see villinova beating texas tech  then on to the final four
i see kansas getting beat by michigan state letting the spartans into the final four

then i see villanova playing north carolina in the finals
with the blue
my favorite color
winning it all
north carolina is my pick to win it all this year

let see was i right last year
heck
i cant even remember who won last year

the organicgreen doctor

alzheimers news-predicting your chances

ALZHEIMERS NEWS-PREDICTING YOUR CHANCES

now i know my chances of getting alzheimers disease
its as near 100% as one can get

what about you

my memory has been tested multiple times over the last 8 years
enough that when i do the tests
i know how well i am doing with my memory

over 1 year ago i had a several session evaluation of my memory
to get qualified for the biogen aducanumab study that i am in now

this last wednesday as i wrote in my wednesday blog i did my
1 year followup exam
then
in 6 months ill have it repeated as we end the first part of the
aducanumab study

so
when they started asking me my questions and having me
draw stuff and identify things i knew when i was finished
where i stood with my memory
i dont need no report from the study to know where im at
i know
i have not worsened in the last year
at best i may have improved
but
its not worsening that makes me feel better about things

but
what if you
those of you who have no symptoms
what if there was a way to know if you were going to
get mild cognitive impairment the stage right before
full blown alzheimers
some researchers thinks its the first stage of the disease
thats where i am at right now

but
what if you could be tested

here are the stages of alzheimers disease

prealzheimers   normal memory
mild cognitive impairment mci   mild memory loss
alzheimers disease  memory loss

researchers have found testing that is over 90% accurate
by testing small changes in multiple genes that when they
are all added up can predict whether someone years
before the disease shows up as memory loss
will develop mild cognitive impariment

its called polygenic risk assessment

its available in research now

lets just say that if thats the testing folks would have done in the future
those of you who are really worried
like i was in my 50s
i wanted to know
then
if this becomes available then you could find out
if you will get mild cognitive impairment ie early memory loss

then
what if a treatment for this was available
then
you could be treated years before the disease was
programmed to start
then
you might not get alzheimers

its amazing how it seems that little pieces of the puzzle are
being discovered every day
hopefully
the whole picture can be all fitted together one day
so we can prevent folks from getting this disease

in the meantime until all this becomes available
if you are worried you will get it
then
eat right
quit smoking
exercise
get adequate sleep
be active mentally and socially
control your health like diabetes obesity cholesterol blood pressure
relax
enjoy life
so
you will be ready when the treatment gets here

the organicgreen doctor