There's a new theory that excessive vitamin C can cause injury as much as too little vitamin C.  The idea is to get just enough inflammation to promote tissue manetenance. That's the leading theory behind the constant ankle issues which began in 2023 & escalated into a ligament tear by 2024.  Experiments varying the vitamin C dose have been promising.  When taking 2g every day, it was basically going nowhere.  Taking 1g every day, there's more pain overall, but promising signs.

Gradually eliminated all the vitamin C besides the multivitamin.  Since dropping back from 2000mg to 60mg per day, the paw seemed to do better.  Quite possible that vitamin C megadosing more than old age or sandals was behind the rash of injuries beginning in 2023.  It might have to be reserved for harder efforts & avoided during recovery phases.  Stepping the speed back up to 9 min/mile would quickly show if vitamin C was the problem.

Another theory is that it was a fracture instead of a ligament tear.  It's been a long time to be a fracture. 

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Lions have come to the conclusion that a portfolio doesn't need to keep up with inflation for an animal who owns a house.  Since housing has been most of the inflation for the last 40 years, while everything else is flat or negative, a homeowner doesn't need to keep up with inflation. 

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 In the quest to avoid the sugar crashes, obesity, & bloating of jello, the lion kingdom tried the most expensive form of protein in the world.  1st of all, it coagulates a bit warmer than natural sugar, so it's a bit harder to prepare.  1.2 oz of sugar free jello + 2 cups of boiling water + 1 cup cold water seem to be optimum protein for 2 tupperwares.  Somehow $6 of jello for 16g of protein feels cheaper than $2 of whey for 50g of protein.  Maybe it adds variety.




1 bite revived memories of a childhood heavy in artificial sweeteners. Artificial sweeteners always had a bitter taste compared to sugar & the taste was believed to be causing headaches. It could be they were just a lot sweeter tasting than natural sugar & the intense aftertaste was making something go crazy.


The introduction of nutrisweet in 1985 was a big deal in lion history. We went all in on sugar free foods then, after years of sugar free foods based on saccarin being deemed unsafe. In 2000, the carcinogenic findings on saccarin were busted & it was legalized again.


The nutrisweet brand went out of business in 2015 & now products simply say aspartame. It's surprising how the sugar free craze of the 80's has largely gone away. Sugar free jello is only at wally. Slowing metabolism has lions revisiting the idea.