Social media is flooded with advertisements for popular obesity medications. But how do adults with obesity looking to lose weight avoid online scams selling knockoff versions that may not be safe and effective?

With the FDA’s recent decision to prohibit mass compounding of some obesity medications, there may be even more confusion about consumers’ options.

Here now to talk about what it means for patients and solutions to access authentic medicines are Dr. Clare Lee and Rhonda Pacheco from Eli Lilly and Company.

#clarelee #rhondapacheco #obesitymedication #weightloss #fda

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Her experience with migraine, including anecdotes about missing monumental moments due to migraine, the first attack she experienced, symptoms and the impact it has on everyday activities

Her migraine care journey, including the process of seeking care and finding a preventive treatment

How prevention is important especially during the holiday season

Dr. Bert Vargas, discussed:

What migraine is and its prevalence

Potential benefits of starting a preventive migraine treatment

How patients can talk to their doctor if they believe they are experiencing migraine-related symptoms

Why the holidays are a great time for patients to prioritize their health and seek treatment

Advice for people who think they may have migraine

GUEST Bio’s

Dr. Vargas is a neurologist and headache specialist and Associate Vice President of US Medical Affairs for Neuroscience at Lilly who completed his undergraduate and medical school education at the University of Arizona. He served as a United States Air Force flight surgeon, completed his residency in neurology at New York University and completed his headache medicine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona where he remained for several years before moving his practice to Dallas and UT Southwestern. Bert has been with Lilly since January 2020 based in Indianapolis.

Bert will be included in the SMT to provide information about migraine as a neurological disease and serve as a subject matter expert about understanding when migraine is having too much of an impact on the quality of life and why it’s important for patients to talk to their doctors about migraine prevention.

Kellie, Migraine patient

Kellie is a 51-year-old mother of five and grandmother of 12, who has experienced migraine for over 25 years. This debilitating disease has prevented her from being fully present in life’s milestone moments, including ball games with her grandchildren, wedding preparations with her children and time spent outdoors with her husband. She found an injectable preventive migraine treatment that works for her and has allowed her to get back to life without frequent migraine attacks.

Kellie will be available for the SMT to share her personal journey living with migraine and how it has impacted her life, as well as her experience with preventing migraines after talking to her doctor about the true impact that the disease was having on her life.

Interview is courtesy: Eli Lilly and Company

#migraine #drbertvargas #medicalaffairs #lilly #kelliehuckelberry

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WHAT IS THE S3 SCANNER?
LIGHT, INNOVATED
The patented Pharmanex BioPhotonic Scanner is a cutting edge testing tool that non-invasively measures carotenoid levels in living tissue, providing an immediate indication of a person’s overall antioxidant levels. Everyone can instantly know their own antioxidant status. This empowers individuals to make improvements to their diet and lifestyle, and helps them make an informed decision on which supplements are properly formulated to impact their antioxidant health.

HOW DOES THE SCANNER WORK?
The Pharmanex BioPhotonic Scanner is the world’s first measuring tool that gives you a Skin Carotenoid Score (SCS)—immediate evidence of carotenoid antioxidant activity in your body. By placing the palm of your hand in front of the scanner’s safe, low-energy blue light, within seconds you will obtain a reading of the carotenoid antioxidant levels in your skin—your Skin Carotenoid Scores (SCS)—which has been scientifically correlated to overall antioxidant status.

The technology of the Pharmanex BioPhotonic Scanner is based on an optical method known as Resonant Raman Spectroscopy, which has been used for many years in research laboratories.

The Scanner measures carotenoid levels in human tissue at the skin surface using optical signals. These signals identify the unique molecular structure of carotenoids, allowing their measurement without interference by other molecular substances and providing the person being measured with their own SCS.

In less than one minute you can find out if your diet, lifestyle and supplements provide the antioxidant protection you need for promoting health.

WHAT DOES THE SCANNER MEASURE?
The Scanner technology works on the principle of light and the fundamental particle of light is a photon.

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White light has photons of different wavelengths, which are represented by colors.
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The Scanner produces a narrow beam of light in which all of the photons are the same color-blue.
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The blue light has a wavelength of 478 nanometers(nm).
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When a 478 nm photon of light comes into contact with a carotenoid, something interesting happens. The energy level of a 478 nm photon becomes excited to 518 nm, the wavelength associated with green light. The only molecule in nature that can shift a 478 nm photon to a 518 nm photon is a carotenoid.
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As 478 nm photons strike carotenoids in the skin, they are reflected back as 518 nm photons. This is how the carotenoid concentration in your skin is measured. Because the number of photons reflected at the
518 nm wavelength is proportional to the concentration of carotenoids in the skin, these green photons are then counted to calculate the individuals SCS.
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The incredible S3 Pharmanex BioPhotonic Scanner has transformed the way we look at our health, and has created a business opportunity like no other in the world.

WHAT DOES THE SCANNER DO?
Place the palm of your hand in front of the Scanner’s safe, low-energy blue light, and you will obtain an immediate reading of the carotenoid antioxidant levels in your skin-your Skin Carotenoid Score.

WHY SHOULD I BE SCANNED?
By measuring the stable level of carotenoid antioxidants in your skin and generating your Skin Carotenoid Score, the Scanner provides a more accurate and reliable biomarker of your overall antioxidant health status than other methods of measuring antioxidants. Getting your Skin Carotenoid Score makes you aware of the antioxidant levels in your body-and gives you the push you need to improve your overall antioxidant health.

THE LIFEPAK AND G3 MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
Get your Skin Carotenoid Score measured with the Scanner, take LifePak® or g3 for 60 days, and get your Score measured again. You will have proof that Pharmanex® supplements can improve your antioxidant levels and your overall antioxidant health. In fact, Pharmanex guarantees that your Skin Carotenoid Score will increase as you take LifePak® or g3 regularly as directed.

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HOLIDAY ENTERTAINING IDEAS FROM
ONE OF THE TOP CELEBRITY PARTY PLANNERS

DEBI LILLY SHARES
THE SECRETS OF PARTY PERFECTION

Video & Podcast –

Oprah’s Winfrey’s “Favorite Pro” Entertaining & Design Expert Shares Easy, Elegant & Affordable Ways to Achieve a Beautiful Party this Holiday Season

Debi Lilly is fast becoming a household name and face. Since she became Oprah Winfrey’s “Favorite Party Pro,” Lilly’s design and party planning career has taken off. In fact, Debi was recently named Best Wedding Planners 2015 in the U.S. by Martha Stewart Weddings; Top Event Innovator 2014 by Biz Bash, and Top Pinterest Expert 2015 by Refinery 29. These honors show why Debi is on a one woman mission to inspire, educate and share her twenty years of celebrity party planning and stylist tips, tricks and DIY designs to elevate celebrations for any occasion. On November 16, find out why the entertaining & design expert and author believes in elegant and easy design ideas for all. Lilly will kick off the party season with some early tips for making your holiday parties special.

SOME PARTY HARDY IDEAS FROM DEBI LILLY:
 A Thankful Table – Fast, affordable DIY tips for a no stress, grocery to gorgeous Thanksgiving
 Holiday Hacks – 3 easy changes to turn Thanksgiving into Christmas in minutes
 DIY Dessert Bar – Celebrity-luxe style for less, all from the grocery store

Lilly has planned events for the stars like Lady Gaga and Oprah, including Oprah’s 50th live birthday celebration. She’s also created debi lilly design, an exclusive collection available at Albertsons Companies stores. Debi has also been featured as an entertainment expert in Martha Stewart Weddings, InStyle, Brides and numerous publications. Many of her stylist secrets are shared in her book and magazine, “A Perfect Event.”

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Lilly Ledbetter

Personal life

Ledbetter was born Lilly McDaniel in Jacksonville, Alabama and graduated from Jacksonville High School in 1956. Her father J. C. McDaniel was a mechanic at the Anniston Army Depot. After graduating from high school, Lilly McDaniel married Charles Ledbetter; they had two children and remained married until Charles’s death in December of 2008.^[2][3]In 1968, Lilly Ledbetter passed the H&R Block tax preparation exam and became an associate with H&R Block.^[4] Around the mid-1970s, Ledbetter later became an office manager at an accounting firm in Gadsden and a gynecologist‘s office.^[5]

Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

In 1979, Lilly Ledbetter was hired by Goodyear; she retired from Goodyear in 1998 and then sued the company for paying her significantly less than her male counterparts.^[6] The lawsuit eventually reached the Supreme Court, which denied her claim because she did not file suit 180 days from her first pay check even though she said she didn’t know it at the time.^[7][8][8][9] In dissent, United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote:

Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at Goodyear Tire and Rubber’s plant in Gadsden, Alabama, from 1979 until her retirement in 1998. For most of those years, she worked as an area manager, a position largely occupied by men. Initially, Ledbetter’s salary was in line with the salaries of men performing substantially similar work. Over time, however, her pay slipped in comparison to the pay of male area managers with equal or less seniority. By the end of 1997, Ledbetter was the only woman working as an area manager and the pay discrepancy between Ledbetter and her 15 male counterparts was stark: Ledbetter was paid $3,727 per month; the lowest paid male area manager received $4,286 per month, the highest paid, $5,236.^[8]

Subsequently, the 111th United States Congress passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009 to loosen the timeliness requirements for the filing of a discrimination suit so long as any act of discrimination, including receipt of a paycheck that reflects a past act of discrimination, occurs within the 180 day period of limitations.^[6][10]

Speaking at an interview in 2012, Ledbetter said that the pay disparity further led to inequity in her “overtime pay, contributory retirement, 401(k), and social security.”^[11]

Women’s equality

On August 26, 2008 (Women’s Equality Day) Lilly Ledbetter spoke at the Democratic National Convention, on the topic of pay equity.^[12][13]

In February 2012, Ledbetter released Grace and Grit, a memoir that details her struggle for equal pay.

On September 4, 2012, she spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[14]

On October 31, 2012 Lilly Ledbetter appeared as a guest on the Colbert Report to promote her book, “Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond.” ^[15]

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In the past few seasons, David has led numerous orchestras including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, North Czech Philharmonic, Rouse Philharmonic, Bulgarian Opera, Bourgas, and Hungarian Opera, Cluj, in addition to working with some of his generation’s most exciting artists, such as Stefan Jackiw and Time for Three. As a participant in numerous competitions, he has placed in the semi-finals of the Bartok Opera Competition and was the youngest person to pass the preliminary round of the Cadeques Competition in 2008. In addition, Mr. Glover has held positions as the Ansbacher Fellow to the Salzburg Festival, and as Conductor of the Indiana University All-Campus Orchestra. He holds degrees from the University of Georgia and Boston University in violin performance, as well a master’s degree in instrumental conducting from Indiana University, where he was named an Adjunct Lecturer in 2007.

Starting as a violinist, David Glover began to work extensively on conducting in 2005 when he founded and became Artistic Director of L’Orchestra da Camera, Boston. With this orchestra, he led its inaugural two seasons, which included a complete performance of The Marriage of Figaro. In addition to his ISO duties, he is also currently the Artistic Director of the Wabash Valley Youth Symphony. David resides in Indianapolis with his wife Emily.

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