Hello friends

Greetings from Los Angeles, where we’re staying in a hotel. We have an early flight tomorrow morning to the east coast of North Carolina. I’m going to be on a kind of family vacation this coming week, so next week’s Arrow may be a bit abbreviated. We’ll see.

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve received a bunch of emails and a comment or two asking if I would describe the ketogenic diet I’ve been on. I tell all those who ask that it is totally boring. Since I’ve had so many questions, I’ll lay it out But don’t say you weren’t warned.

I love food of all kinds. And I can eat and eat and eat. But I can also content myself with eating a simple diet that doesn’t consist of a lot of variety. Which is what I’ve done since ~ the middle of December. So, I’m a bit over three months on my self-imposed diet.

I can also report on my weight loss. Over the decades that MD and I have been married, we’ve never had a set of scales in our house. We had a nice, expensive, accurate balance scale in our clinic, so if we wanted to weigh ourselves, that’s where we did it.

I’ve been asked how much weight I’ve lost over the last three months, and I don’t really know, because I haven’t weighed. But when we got back to Montecito, I realized that our trusty balance scale that we had in our clinic for years was in our kid’s garage.

So, I weighed myself a couple of days ago.

As I said, I don’t know my exact starting weight because I didn’t have a scale to begin with. And it was just going to be a short experiment to see if I could make it through Christmas without indulging in any Christmas goodies. Over the past three years or so, every time I have weighed myself somewhere, I came in at about 208-210 pounds. I would guess that was my approximate starting weight in mid-December 2024.

When I weighed recently, I came in at 185 pounds on the dot. Which was exactly what I weighed when I met MD four plus decades ago.

I’ve been keeping up with my band workouts and continuing to make progress, so I don’t think I’ve been losing muscle. Plus, I’ve been eating plenty of protein, as I’ll describe.

I’ve got to admit that I was surprised to discover that I had lost that much weight. None of my loved ones are telling me I look gaunt or haggard, so I guess it’s mostly fat I’ve been losing.

Okay, now on to the diet. I’m sure everyone is going to be disappointed, because there really isn’t anything to it.

For breakfast, I have one of the following:

Scrambled eggs with (NBS) cream cheese and four slices of bacon. Or I drink a thick creamy shake made out of ~4 ounces of (NBS) heavy whipping cream with ~25 g of protein from either HLTHCode or a great whey protein I found at Whole Foods and order through Amazon. To the 25 grams of protein, I add about 2.3-3 grams of l-leucine, which is a ketogenic amino acid that triggers muscle growth through its action on mTOR.

After I swill this shake, which I take my time doing, because it has a consistency somewhere between a thick malt and pudding, I rinse the glass with a bit more cream or half and half (both NBS) and throw it back in an effort to get every bit of protein that is in the shake.

That’s it. That’s breakfast. It doesn’t look like much, but it is delicious…to me, at least, and is full of calories. I usually don’t consume it until late in the morning, and I lust for it every moment until I finally throw it back. I don’t really throw it back. It’s more like eating than throwing back. Very thick and tasty.

Depending on how busy I am or what’s going on, I may or may not have lunch in early to mid-afternoon. If I do have lunch it is a charcuterie plate MD puts together with salami, a couple of kinds of cheese, and a few small gherkins or olives. And a half an avocado with some mayonnaise (NBS).

This is a smaller plate than usual. MD scrounged what was left in the larder before our upcoming trip later today. Olives instead of gherkins, and less salami and cheese than usual. I’ll make it up with more macadamia nuts.

If I don’t have lunch, I munch on a few macadamia nuts. And when I say a few, I mean maybe a handful, or two, at most.

Then at dinner, I eat a ribeye steak with a few pats of cultured butter on it. I eat all the fat on the steak. Nothing else. No salad. No veggies. Nothing but steak.

Here is the ribeye with three pats of cultured butter I ate tonight. Moments ago, in fact. It’s not always a steak. Sometimes it is lamb chops. Occasionally chicken if I can’t escape it. Sometimes just a huge glob of ground beef. But it I have my way, it’s steak.

During the day, I drink herbal tea, decaf green tea, decaf coffee, and one full-caf Americano. I may also drink a sparkling water or two.

During winding down time after dinner, I may have a wee dram of Jameson Black Barrel whiskey to sip on. And I mean a wee dram. Sometimes two. But both don’t add up to a full drink. I never come within a mile of being shitfaced.

Here is the wee dram. This is a very small glass.

And, my friends, that is it. I told you it was boring.

Along with this regimen, I’ve been checking my ketone and blood sugar levels with a Keto-Mojo and my RQ (how much fat vs carb I’m burning with a Lumen.

The Lumen pretty consistently shows me burning fat. It almost always reads 75% fat 25% carb or 85% fat and 15% carb. Once it came in at 95% fat and 5% carb, but only once. The Lumen seems to be more consistent than the Keto-Mojo, which is all over the place.

One day I’ll eat the shake, the charcuterie, a few macadamia nuts, and a ribeye. My morning blood sugar will be 75 and my ketones 3.6 mmol. I eat the exact same meals, and the next morning my blood sugar is 110 and my ketones 0.9 mmol. It’s totally frustrating.

Our Keto-Mojo is an old one. We’ve had it for three years or so and haven’t really used it till I started this experiment. I’m wondering if the new test strips I bought don’t work well with the older model. Of it I have to recalibrate the device. We contacted Keto-Mojo to get some advice, because the readings just don’t make sense given the boring sameness of my diet and activity levels. Since we have an older unit, they suggested we calibrate it using new calibration fluid that we have ordered. We didn’t try to calibrate the device with the calibration fluid that came with it, because the fluid was already out of date when we first tried to use use it.

We’ll see if calibration fixes things, or if I have some sort of strange physiology that responds in a weird way to a boringly same-same ketogenic diet. I’ll keep everyone posted.

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Measles Death in Texas?

I just got some fresh information on the little girl who supposedly died of measles in Texas. As it turns out, she did not die of measles; she died from bacterial pneumonia and probably medical malpractice.

Here is a video of an interview with the little girl’s parents.

I learned from Pierre Kory, who has seen her records that the little girl had four siblings. All four of them also got the measles and recovered. The child who died was recovering from measles, as her spots were going away. She then developed a cough and what ultimately turned into a bacterial pneumonia infection.

All kinds of viral upper respiratory infections (URI) can end up setting the table for a bacterial pneumonia. It creates issues for doctors treating these viral URIs, because most of them resolve on their own in a few days. Some, however, end up depressing the immune system and letting a bacterial infection set in. Most of these bacterial infections end up causing patients to start blowing yellow snot out of their noses and even coughing up yellowish phlegm. These are signs of a bacterial infection.

In some cases, these lead to actual bacterial pneumonia, which is bacteria infecting the lungs. Pneumonia can quickly become a life-threatening disorder requiring immediate attention and treatment.

There has been a debate on the best way to treat these viral URIs for years. If a patient comes in with what is obviously a viral URI, it does the patient no good to take an antibiotic, because antibiotics do not kill viruses. And over the last few decades, there has evolved the serious issue of growing antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotics kill bacteria, but bacteria can also develop resistance to antibiotics. Most antibiotics are cleared from the system through the kidneys. When you’ve taken an antibiotic and you pee, you release the antibiotic into the sewage system, from where it can go a lot of places. The large amount of antibiotics free ranging in ground water etc give bacteria the chance to develop immunity against them. Since antibiotics have doubtless saved more lives than any other drugs ever developed, we do not want to have all of the bugs out there to become antibiotic resistant.

Due to the issue of antibiotic resistance, many doctors refuse to prescribe antibiotics for what are obvious viral URIs. Other doctors write a prescription for antibiotics and tell their patients if they don’t get better in a few days, or it they start to cough up yellow phlegm and blow yellow snot, to get the prescription filled. Other doctors yet tell their patients if they don’t get better to come back and get rechecked. Then if they have a bacterial infection, they get a prescription for antibiotics.

MD and I vacillate between the second and third kind of doctor described above. In our clinic, we had our nurses call all of our patients two days after their visit to check on them. If they hadn’t gotten better and/or were hacking up yellow stuff, we called them in an antibiotic.

The bacterial URIs are different than pneumonia. The lungs are the lower respiratory tract, not the upper. People with pneumonia usually are running a pretty high fever and are having difficulty breathing. It could be a life threatening situation and needs prompt treatment.

When you encounter a patient with the above symptoms, you need to take a culture to identify the bacteria causing the problem. But you won’t get the culture back for 24 to 48 hours or so. You can’t let the patient deteriorate in the interim. So you give him/her a couple of antibiotics that cover almost everything. It’s called treating empirically. You don’t exactly know what you’re treating, so you treat it all.

There are a couple of types of drugs you use for this. One is something in the penicillin or cefalexin family, which are antibiotics of a group called beta-lactams that kill by inhibiting the bacterium from making a cell wall, without which it will die. The other is a macrolide that works by interfering with the bacteria’s protein synthesis.

If the patient is infected with a bug that succumbs to penicillin type drugs, you kill it with one of those drugs. If the bug doesn’t have a cell wall, you’ll kill it with the macrolide.

If you get the blood culture back and discover that the bacteria is mycoplasma, which is very common in community acquired pneumonia, then you can ditch the penicillin family drug and just keep the patient on the macrolide.

In the case of the little girl in Texas, there were multiple snafus. When she was admitted to the hospital, she was treated with a potent drug in the beta-lactam, cell-wall-inhibitor family of drugs. But she was also treated with vancomycin, another powerful cell-wall-inhibitor. She was, for whatever reason, not given a macrolide to cover for mycoplasma.

Her condition continued to deteriorate, and the next day when the culture came back, it showed a mycoplasma infection, which neither of the drugs she was given will kill.

Then, inexplicably, the culture results came in at 11 PM, but she was not started on azithromycin, a macrolide drug that kills mycoplasma, until 9 AM the next morning, ten hours later. By that time, the little girl had deteriorated to the point that she was on a ventilator, and it was too late for the antibiotic to deal with her overwhelming infection.

It was a totally preventable tragedy.

And it had nothing to do with the measles. Any little viral infection, flu, RSV, etc can lead to this. It’s true that if she had not been recovering from the measles, she probably wouldn’t have developed the pneumonia. But her cause of death was not measles. It could just as easily been another upper respiratory virus. Her cause of death was medical mismanagement.

If you would like to learn more about this tragic case, you can watch this linked video.

RFK, Jr. and the H5N1 Bird Flu

Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a sad disorder. It completely compromises the brains of those who are afflicted with it and forces them to oppose positions they would normally hold simply because Orangeman Bad holds the same opinions. I’ve read many biographies of tyrants and dictators, and in all cases, none of them have been completely bad. In other words, these awful people have had good ideas and/or have done good things. Their bad works overshadowed their good, but they all did do some good things.

Trump is the only leader I’ve ever read about whose works and thoughts are viewed by some as absolutely wrong no matter what the situation. At least in the minds of those with TDS. Those who suffer from TDS don’t really have to think; they simply need only to wait for Trump to make some kind of decision or announcement, and then they can go against it. No thought required.

And it isn’t just TDS as applied to Trump himself, but to any Trump appointees. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. being a case in point. Had RFK, Jr. continued on with his presidential campaign and decided to drop out when it was obvious he had no chance, then joined with Kamala Harris, he would have been a hero. Had she won and appointed RFK, Jr. head of the NIH, his every word would have been gushed over.

But since that didn’t happen, and he threw in with The Donald instead, he has inspired a sort of second-order TDS. All he has to do is make a statement, and all those with TDS are against it.

Let’s take a look at a recent NY Times piece on the bird flu that has driven the price of eggs so high.

What is RFK’s alarming prescription for dealing with bird flu on poultry farms? It’s the same thing I’ve been saying since the whole so-called epidemic started. And I’m not alone. It’s the same advice given by anyone who knows anything about viral infections and what happens when viruses mutate. Here is what RFK, Jr. thinks should be done in his own words.

Now, I’ve got my own admission to make. I have a strong touch of SHDS (Sean Hannity derangement syndrome) which made it difficult for me to post this video, because it includes Sean Hannity. But I overcame it.

I don’t dislike Sean Hannity for his political positions. In fact, I’m with him a lot of the time. I dislike him because he refuses to shut up and let his guests talk. In my opinion, when you’re a talking head on TV, your job is to interview the real experts on subjects and let them explain their points of view to the audience. Hannity always wants to show how smart he is (or thinks he is) by parroting their positions in detail, then saying, “Am I right?” When the real expert finally gets the chance to talk, his time is almost up.

You can see from the video above that RFR, Jr. believes the flocks should not be culled. In other words, don’t kill all the chickens in a flock in which some have been infected with the bird flu from wild birds. Let the disease run through the flock and kill those it is going to kill. It won’t kill all of them. Some will be left standing, and those are the ones that for whatever reason have natural immunity. They should be the breeding stock.

The TDS journalist writing for the NY Times article headlined above is apoplectic about not culling the birds. She, of course, is a pinhead who calls on various ‘experts’ who are likely to themselves have TDS.

The author of the Times article calls upon her own veterinarians, all of whom are on one government payroll or another, to ensure she hears about how awful and downright stupid anything other than culling the entire flock would be.

(One wonders what she would have written had RFK, Jr. advocated culling the flock?)

As we’ve discussed ad infinitum in the pages of The Arrow the mutational course these viruses follow is to become less virulent and more infective. What you end up with over time is a virus that is so mild that it causes few, if any symptoms, and is more infectious. The viruses want to reproduce and thrive. They can’t do that if they mutate into a more virulent form that kills the host. If the host dies, so does the virus.

When viruses mutate, they do so in all directions. Some, I’m sure, mutate into much more virulent forms. But those mutations kill the host and the virus both. The mutations that decrease the severity of the infection allow the birds to be more active and move through the flock infecting their flock mates. The dead birds that were victimized by the more virulent mutations die and don’t pass the virus on. Over time, more of those birds with milder mutations will live and infect others. The process is called viral attenuation and is well known.

I’m surprised the former state veterinarian from Kansas doesn’t understand that.

RFK, Jr. is also is against vaccinating the birds. We don’t have a sterilizing vaccine for bird flu. And if we don’t have a sterilizing vaccine, we’ll end up with a lot of birds getting sick and turning into mutation factories, he says. I think he is misspeaking here. What he probably means is that the birds getting the non-sterilizing vaccines will be much more prone to come down with bird flu again and again and again. Just like with Covid.

The mRNA Covid vaccines were non-sterilizing vaccines. Those who got the vaccines still ended up getting Covid in many cases. Whether their second, third, or forth time getting Covid was more or less severe, we don’t know, but we do know those who had the most vaccines had more cases of Covid than those who did not receive the vaccine or ended up with fewer shots.

In classic work done at the Cleveland Clinic the difference was clearly obvious. as you can see from the famous graphic that accompanied the paper, those who got the most shots had Covid the most times.

Giving the birds one or more non-sterilizing vaccines during this or subsequent outbreaks would, I suspect, end up with a lot more sick birds over time. And a lot more income for the maker of the bird flu vaccine.

RFK, Jr., Beef Tallow, and Seed Oils

In the video below, RFK, Jr. sits down with the much-despised Sean Hannity to eat some French fries at the Shake and Steak, an American fast food place that has thrown over seed oils in favor of beef tallow for all its frying.

My hope is that as the Secretary at Health and Human Services, Kennedy funds some studies looking at seed oils in humans. There are a lot of animal studies looking at all kinds of things and some human studies showing the negative health effects of consuming oxidized seed oils. But very few showing definitively that non-oxidized seed oils cause issues. Not necessarily because they don’t, but because those careful studies have not been done. At least to my knowledge. If my friend Tucker Goodrich reads this, he’ll inundate me with studies. It’s the old proverb that says if you want to learn anything, just be wrong on the internet, and you’ll be set straight.

My default view is that seed oils are problematic. But where in the spectrum do they fall?

If you load subjects with a lot of sugar over the years, I can pretty much guarantee you that a good portion of them will develop insulin resistance, obesity, metabolic syndrome and all the rest. Even if they don’t consume a single molecule of seed oil

If, however, you plied a similar group of subjects with seed oils and no sugar over the same period of time, would you end up with the same degree of insulin resistance, obesity and metabolic syndrome? My bet is that you wouldn’t. But that’s just a guess.

The problem is that the surge in carbs starting in the late 1970s, early 1980s accompanied a surge in seed oil intake. And the intake of ultra-processed foods, which are typically loaded with both carbs and seed oils kicked off at about the same time. It would really be nice to know the contribution of each to the current obesity and chronic disease epidemic.

RFK, Jr., GRAS, and Infant Formulas

I hate to bombard you with so much RFK, Jr. stuff, but he was a busy boy this past week. He announced that HHS was going to look at foods considered GRAS (generally regarded as safe) and make food companies prove they are safe instead of simply declaring them safe. It’s almost unbelievable that food companies can simply declare based on their in-house studies that various chemicals are GRAS, and the HHS goes along with it.

When food safety laws were passed years ago, government regulators saw no need to do a lot of studies to confirm foods safe that had been consumed for ages without issue. Salt, baking powder, spices, etc. everyone figured were safe for cooking, so they let the food companies christen these as generally generally regarded as safe. But, as the old saying goes, give ‘em an inch and they’ll take a mile. The food companies have managed to get thousands of chemicals through the approval process by labeling them GRAS.

RFK, Jr. is going to put a stop to it. Here is a brief statement on what he plans to do.

But wait, it gets even better. What could be more important to the childhood health of our youngest citizens than proper feeding. RFK, Jr. has initiated Operation Stork Speed to analyze and bring-up-to-snuff the various baby formulas on the market.

Here is screenshot of a tweet about it. The actual tweet truncates when I try to publish it. I’ll link to it below.

Here is the full press release of the announcement.

To say I’m happy about this is a gross understatement. Those of you who have been long-time readers know I’ve had my worries about Bobby, but so far, he is vastly surpassing all my expectations.

The Low-Carb Food Pyramid

My friend, the indefatigable Nina Teicholz, has come up with yet another paper. This one includes a low-carb food pyramid. Had we all been following this food pyramid instead of the original USDA Food Pyramid, I can assure you, the health of the US citizenry would be vastly better.

As those of us who have followed low-carb diets know, falsehoods about them abound out there. And although more and more people are following some form of low-carb diet, the overall percentages are tiny. A paper came out not long ago that I discussed in these pages showing that out of over 30,000 dieting subjects who were queried, only 1.4 percent reported following a low-carb diet. When the researchers took a look at the actual diets these 1.4 percent of subjects were following, they realized that only 4.1 percent of that 1.4 percent were actually cutting the carbs to the point their diet could be considered low-carb. So 4.1 percent times 1.4 percent means that only a bit over one half of one percent of people are actually following a true low-carb diet.

There are many unfounded reasons people fear low-carb diets.

For instance, it you go out to a burger joint with a friend, and you order a burger and an iced tea, then proceed to remove the bun from the burger, your friend might ask, “Are you following one of those dangerous high-protein, low-carb diets? All that fat will clog your arteries.” I’ve had this said to me.

The other party is eating the full hamburger, bun and all, an order of fries, and a soft drink. I’m eliminating the carbs from the bun, the seed-oil-and-carb-laden fries, and the HFCS in the soft drink, yet I’m following a dangerous diet? I’m actually eating less protein than my dining partner, because he has a little in the bun and a little in the fries that I don’t have.

Some people just go nuts when confronted with a low-carb diet.

The paper by Teicholz et al gives you a script to read from every time you encounter an idiot such as the one I described above.

Just the introduction tells you a lot.

Although all the diabetic organizations prefer the low-calorie approach (a major mistake in my view), the Obesity Medicine Association and the American Heart Association come down on the side of the low-carb diet, simply because the results are better.

My only gripe with this paper is the upper limit of what the authors consider a low-carbohydrate diet. They define low-carbohydrate diet as one

130 grams of carb is a little too rich for me. And probably for any metabolically unbalanced person trying to heal themselves with food. But I suppose when someone cuts back from 400 grams per day to 130, it must seem like a huge reduction. If I ate 130 g of carb in a day, I would think I was on a carb binge.

If you work your way through this easy-to-read paper, you will know everything there is to know about low-carb dieting. It’s all referenced, so you can see the substantiation. It’s a terrific paper.

As a part of the paper, the authors included a low-carb pyramid.

I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that based on my almost 45 years of practice using low-carb diets, that were this the food pyramid back in the day instead of the one with all the servings of bread, cereals, and wheat at the bottom, we would be vastly better off health-wise as a country today.

Many people blew off the food pyramid back then saying it didn’t really have any affect on them. Same with the nutritional guidelines. Who reads them? Who cares? That’s the attitude. But the nutritional guidelines and the pyramid built from them end up feeding millions of people daily. And they influence the food manufacturers as to what foods they end up producing.

I don’t know how many of you remember Bill O’Reilly from the O’Reilly Factor on Fox back in the day. He was their big star. Anyway, he asked me the same question when I went on his show. Watch and you will learn the answer.

Odds and Ends

• Cop delivers pizza after warning delivery driver that there is an 8-foot alligator hiding under customer's car. Customer seems kind of brain dead.

• Joseph Stalin’s bizarre death from stroke(?) may well have been helped along by a little poison.

• Five ancient sites built to align with the Spring Equinox.

• New study shows gorilla’s may have more self awareness than previously thought. In fact, they may have as much self awareness as chimpanzees.

• An ancient Egyptian temple was dedicated to the creator god Khnum and has now been restored. It is spectacular.

• When did humans first speak? New genetic clues point to ~135,000 years ago.

• Exciting new study finds cells lining organs and skin generate electricity when injured; discovery may lead to new wound-healing therapies.

• For the third year in a row, the French bulldog tops the rankings of the most popular pure dog breeds in the US. I don’t get the attraction, but that’s just me.

• 94 years ago yesterday, the Nevada state legislature voted to legalize gambling in an effort to help the state recover from the Great Depression. I thought it had always been legal there.

• Climate change has a very small net negative effect on agricultural output, but the declining trend in malnutrition is so strong it won't be noticed.

• Modern humans may have descended from at least two ancestral populations, which diverged 1.5 million years ago and then reconnected 300,000 years ago.

• In a new Australian study researchers propose a more nuanced fiber classification based on five key features: backbone structure, water-holding-capacity, structural charge, fiber matrix and fermentation rate.

• 98 percent of polio cases in 2023, the most recent year for which we have full data, were caused by the polio vaccine.

• A practicing scientists discusses what often happens in academic ‘science’. It ain’t pretty, but it is how it is. Not every study, of course, but enough to be troubling.

• Why muscle power—the ability to quickly generate force—Is the key to healthy aging.

• Dolphins surround SpaceX capsule after ocean splashdown as NASA astronauts return to Earth.

• Federal appeals court rules copyright can be granted only to artworks originally created by humans; AI generated content doesn’t count.

• 380-million-year-old fossils dumped in landfill after N.J. college didn't pay UPS bill. Now you know what happens to UPS packages that don’t get delivered. God only knows what else is in those landfills.

• “What if I told you that increasing annual influenza vaccination of the elderly is associated with increased influenza-related death in the elderly?”

• If this article is accurate, Japanese scientists are on the verge of a dental miracle: Humans may be able to grow new teeth within just five years.

Newsletter Recommendations

I’ve got to recommend again one of my favorite book sites Alex & Books Newsletter. It come out every Sunday morning and provides reviews of personal help books, but others, too. I read every issue and always find something that makes me think. It’s absolutely free, so give it a try. You won’t be disappointed it. It’s written much more sparingly than The Arrow, but for some, that is a virtue.

I also follow another newsletter called Book & Biceps. It’s written by and for those who love to strength train AND love to read. That’s probably a small overlap in a Venn diagram. It’s weekly newsletter written by a professional writer who also works out a lot. He always comes up with a lot of good info on a variety of books, not just books on muscle building. It does have the occasional paywall, but you still get a lot of useful info if you’re into books.

Video of the Week

Okay, I had a few musical videos in mind, but while trying to select my favorite one to put up, my kid sent me an Instagram video that took the cake. Especially given today’s discussion. It’s a video on measles then and now. I’ve been going nuts trying to figure out why people are so getting their panties wadded about the frigging measles. It finally dawned on me that I have lived through the measles. I had had my own case several year before the vaccines were even developed.

I watched people get measles from kindergarten through 7th grade, when I finally got them. It was no big deal. I’m sure a few kids here and there had a problem, but no one did in my extended family or in any of the many schools I attended. No one gave much thought to it. It was just the measles. Something you had to go through once, then you had immunity.

Not many doctors practicing today have seen as many measles cases as I have. Those who are my age or older have, but none of the younger docs have. Had they lived through what I lived through, they wouldn’t be as over-the-top worried and frightened as they are now.

This short clip shows the difference.

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