still alive

I know I've been quiet of late. I'm getting the data and illustrations ready for a submission to Nature Medicine and that's taking up all my computer time. Once we get the manuscript submitted in a day or two I'll be back. There's a post I've been waiting to do on food supplements but it's taking too much research time to get done right now. :-(

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srp said…
And here I thought gravity had vanished from North Carolina and you had simply drifted off into space....
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