Benefits of gaming?

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First?  If I am gaming, I am not sleeping.  Can't do much, physically.  But can do this.  There has to be a lot of feedback, input, and stimulus.  Or I just... won't stay awake.  Even reading will simply put me to sleep.  I have tried.  And, on my favorite topics, to learn things, and in fiction forms.  I... just can't read much, for long.  My mind just shuts off.  Same with watching shows, too.  Most of them are so... simple.  It's easy to see what is going to happen.  Dull.  And, it takes them a week to get to the simple point, which is usually wrong, anyway.

But this game?  Every single thing is a puzzle.  Some of them I can figure out, others I have to look up.  Some puzzle solutions are easy enough to implement.  Others have to applied over time, through actions.  It's... good for the brain.

Pleasurable?  Honestly?  No.  It's, for me, like work.  The game I am playing has too many variations, too much changeability, can't just play it, sort it, figure it out.  Each time it is played is like a different game.  Some things, bosses, zones, will be there, others won't.  And you can't tell if what you need, or want, is there... until you go in.  Some regions have to be played through, two actually, before you can find out if the final zones in the third region exist, that you want... need.

In a way, it's a bit too much.  But... it's... better than sleeping.  And... I... do sort some things out.  Hmm, an example?  Here is a vid that describes some things.

Well... back to gaming.  Probably should feed Sassy, or clear her litter boxes, change her water, then feed her.  I just had a singe pickled pork hock and a piece of two gizzards.  Just a bit.  Oh, but I do remember... vinegar will reduce blood sugar, when taken with food.  Even, it turns out, if it is simply food drenched in vinegar.

Blood sugar, after coffee, was up to 125, if I hadn't mentioned it?  It will probably go lower, after the pickled meats.  Though can never be sure.  But... my average, after a few days of better eating, has come down to 131.  And I think it will go lower yet.  Remember... my diet isn't to lose weight.  That has merely been a side effect.  It... I had given up on losing weight.  This diet is merely an attempt to control blood sugar, insulin actually, without taking "medicine" for it.

Actually?  I think that is why the doc in SLC was so peeved.  He kept trying to force me to take insulin medicine.  I can't remember the last stuff he had pharmacy send, in spite of me telling him I wouldn't take it.  Those "medicines" are often worse than the diseases, or enhance the diseases (and maintain obesity, making it impossible to escape), or both.  Well, and changing my diet has cut most of the heart medicine they had me on.

He seems furious that I have done exactly what he asked me to do... lose weight, lower my bp and pulse, control my diabetes.  He's just miffed that he isn't getting a cut from big pharma for shoving meds that don't even work at me.  Insulin never really did cut blood sugar.  Well, unless it crashed, requiring me to eat sugar tabs.  What a gig.

My new "doc" doesn't like me much either.  Probably for similar reasons.  He knows I won't be a medical guinea pig.  I'll turn down almost all of their suggestions, flat.  He asked about statins, I all but laughed directly.  Instead, I asked where the largest portion of cholesterol is, in the body.  At least he got that right.

I didn't mention, but it should go without saying, it is far easier for statins  to attack, and remove, that cholesterol, than to eliminate cholesterol mixed with the blood, and inside other cells.  Basically, it will reduce your IQ.  That... can't help.  It may make the test show whatever... if those tests can even be trusted.  But... it... won't be making you an iota healthier.  Just... stupider.  Most... people don't need help with that.  But... choices.

So, there you have it.  Gaming is better for the brain than statins, by a massive amount.  Go figure.  Enjoy your meds.  I'll... enjoy my food, and games.  I might be crippled, but at least I'm not making myself stupider.  Bon enjoyee, Doc!