If you have been following this
blog for the past years you might have noticed that over the year of 2016 I
haven’t said much. The writing of my PhD thesis, preparing for my viva,
searching for a job and promoting both my science serious games company and our
very first product “Adna’s Lab” occupied most of my time. Add to that my
beautiful 2-year-old and preparing the coming product of my company, and you
have an idea that updating this toxicology blog was ever so hard.
The year is starting to burn the
very first Autumn sticks and most of my personal and professional projects have
known a turning point. I submitted my thesis, passed my viva, finished the
suggested minor corrections that I will finally submit this 20th of
October, SciBoard Games reached the final of the 4th International
Educational Games Competition at ECGBL 2016, I was offered the role of
multilingual medical information officer at the ProPharma Group and I’m
travelling to Germany (as I write) to exhibit “Adna’s Lab” at the Spiel 2016
(Essen).
In addition, I’m having a little
girl this December. She will be with us very close to Christmas Day. What a
present I’d say… a little girl… I am going to be the proud father of a
beautiful ever so smart and artistic kiddo and his newborn sister right at the
hype of Christmas. Add to that the possibility of finally selling the rights of
our game to a good publisher and the year of 2016 gave me pretty much all I
prayed for. In addition, I can also stress that as a Sjogren’s syndrome patient
I had an incredible year after all the changes I produced in my diet. Strictly
no alcohol, replacing sucrose for stevia, adding chocolate based on xylitol, no
spicy food, drinking loads of water, exercising at least twice a week,
replacing dairy products for coconut and rice milk and soy yogurts, and
eating loads of avocados, walnuts and brown bread.
The year 2016 gave me so far
pretty much 90% of the best I could wish for. But I want more, I deserve more,
and I will get more. Now that the levels of stress and anxiety are behind, I am
enjoying having transitioned from academia to the industry, or at least to a
more corporate-based professional context. I am happy, my company looks solid
in their market position and their investment on training their employees is so
far the most appealing factor I could come across. What I have experienced with
them so far isn’t but a very positive attitude towards preparing their
employees to deliver immaculate professional results. Contrarily to the
chaotic/autistic training approach left behind in academia, this industry so
far has really caught my heart.
But I need to write more. Writing
and researching scientific subjects is part of my DNA. I cannot live without
knowing more and helping others know more and do informed decisions. For that
matter I will try and look for a post every 10 days, even if the amount of
information isn’t too big, at least I’ll deliver informative and modern topics
trice a month.… and if you knew what I have in store for you guys!!! To start
with, my fellow American readers are crazy about Bay Leaf. They crave for
information and that is what I’ll be doing over the coming weeks, i.e.,
responding to a pile of questions that have been stacking in the past bay leaf
posts. There are very pertinent and interesting questions hanging for a while
and I really want to make sure I don’t let those readers down.
Then, a personal opinion article
on the possible link between hypercortisolism and the onset of Sjogren’s
syndrome. That followed by another research post looking a bit more into the
amphibiotic behaviour of Helicobacter
pylori, the bacteria’s camouflage strategies and other examples of
amphibiotic resistance from bacteria.
But there is lots and lots more of interesting subjects to cover. Stick around.
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