Hammer Factor – Episode 63, ‘Helmet Technology, Little White Race And IR = High N Dry’

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In this episode, we bring Tom Sherburne from Shred Ready Helmets on the show to discuss helmet technology.  In particular to answer why MIPS technology is not used in whitewater helmets?  From there we, unfortunately, had to dig into a little paddle offset and feather talk.  Finally we expose IR as the manufacturer of High N Dry.  Enjoy and thanks for listening!

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Email On Lymes Disease:

From: Amos Ludwig

Subject: Lyme and Dr. Rocco

Message Body:

Dear John,

I listened to the Lyme Disease episode that you did last year with Dr.

Rocco and was just going to keep my thoughts to myself, until Dr. Rocco

responded to the dissenting email by hiding behind the title of scientist

to support his position. I am by trade a scientist and have performed and

published research. The research that has been performed that suggests that

Lyme cannot persist long term is very limited in scope, and his argument

about symptoms being general and vague is the epitome of anecdotal and

hardly scientific. I’m going to provide you my personal experience with

Lyme not because you asked for it, but because I’m grumpy about the whole

thing. My experience is also anecdotal, but I’m not ruining people’s lives

with my anecdotal experience. Refusing to perform proper scientific

research on lyme persistence is leaving a lot of people suffering and in

some cases ruining their lives. It also dawned on me that Weld may have

even been referring to me as the paddler he knew that had a long battle

with Lyme. So maybe I am also defending myself and experiences. I could

write a book from my experience, but I’ll do my best to be as succinct as

possible. Here goes...

I picked up Lyme disease backpacking on the Appalachian Trail and at the

time knew little to nothing about it. I was diagnosed with several other

ailments before a doctor finally tested me for Lyme Disease. I tested

positive and was given two weeks of doxycycline. I initially felt better

but after the treatment course concluded my symptoms came roaring back. I

returned to the same dr. who prescribed the same dose and duration of

antibiotics. This time my symptoms resolved enough that I was able to

finish the Appalachian Trail. Unfortunately after I returned home the

symptoms returned. This time oral doxycycline was not effective and I was

referred by a friend to a Dr. that treats persistent lyme with prolonged

antibiotic therapy and I was given an IV Rocephin. Improvement was slow but

I could tell over time that it was making a difference. I was then taken

off of the IV and returned to oral treatment with antibiotics. My

improvements were slow but marked and I remained on antibiotics for the

next year and a half. I was feeling well enough that my dr. and I agreed to

end antibiotic therapy. Unfortunately, after a couple weeks without

antibiotics my symptoms came back stronger than ever. Each of these

relapses proved to be more and more difficult to recover from. So here I am

now 7 years later and have been on some form and dose of antibiotics eve...