User:Uthbrian

Presently, I'm a pharmacist living in Texas.

I've been contributing since November 2005.

I participate in the following projects:
 * WikiProject Clinical medicine
 * WikiProject Pharmacology
 * WikiProject Neuroscience
 * Reference desk/Miscellaneous
 * Reference desk/Science

Areas of personal interest

 * Evaluation
 * Observation & Perception
 * Science
 * Biology
 * Biochemistry
 * Cell Biology
 * Microbiology
 * Neuroscience
 * Health
 * Exercise
 * Active Living
 * Walking
 * Gerontology
 * Life extension
 * Senescence
 * Nutrition
 * Calorie restriction
 * Dietary supplements
 * Food
 * Cooking
 * Spices (particularly with regard to medicinal properties)
 * Pharmacy
 * Nootropics
 * Pharmacology (stubs)
 * Scientific method
 * Experiment & Self-experimentation
 * Technology
 * Innovation
 * Thought
 * Philosophy
 * Altruism
 * Eudaimonism
 * Self (philosophy)
 * Personal development
 * Self-actualization
 * Simple living
 * Gardening
 * Composting
 * Food miles & Local food
 * Organic farming & Organic gardening
 * Permaculture
 * Urban agriculture
 * Renewable energy
 * Sustainability (Category:Sustainability)
 * Transhumanism
 * Psychology
 * Cognition
 * Learning
 * Reasoning
 * Flow (psychology)
 * Humanistic psychology
 * Positive psychology
 * Systems thinking
 * Value (personal and cultural)
 * Common good
 * Virtue
 * Happiness
 * Phronesis, Prudence & Wisdom

Interesting pages

 * Category:Notable Wikipedians
 * Active Living
 * Autodidacticism
 * Choice blindness, Choice-supportive bias
 * Creativity techniques
 * Excellence, Arete (excellence)
 * McMansion
 * Nicholas Roerich - A painter whose work is referenced in At the Mountains of Madness
 * Self-awareness, Self-consciousness
 * Small-world network

Contributions of interest

 * All of my contributions

Minor

 * ACE inhibitor - added section on combination therapy with ARBs
 * Cinnamon - described confusion with Cassia with regard to health benefits
 * Clavulanic acid - restructured article
 * Life extension - wikified, added content
 * Licorice - more info about risks of glycyrrhizinic acid
 * Melatonin - info about antioxidant effects
 * Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug - wrote section on use in pregnancy
 * Noscapine - wrote about mechanism of action
 * Oregano - added health benefits
 * Selenium - specified enzymes
 * Ventricular remodeling - wikified

Major

 * Categorization of many Birth control methods into:
 * Barrier contraception
 * Chemical contraception
 * Surgical contraception
 * Categorization of many Drugs

Specific articles:
 * Absorption (Pharmacokinetics) - added a lot of info
 * Acanthamoeba - formatted article, added info about its ability to spread MRSA
 * Alpha blocker - added much information
 * Anti-obesity drug - restructured, add information
 * Beta-lactam antibiotic - added information on resistance
 * Bile acid sequestrant - added much info to stub
 * Blood pressure - added section regarding its endogenous regulation
 * Condom - clarify changes, add information
 * Contact explosive - add info
 * Cosmeceutical - add info
 * Ferulic acid - major rewrite
 * Folic acid - restructured
 * Glucomannan - rewrite with much clinically-relevant information
 * HT-0712 (an experimental nootropic) - added more information
 * Interface (chemistry) - added information to this stub
 * Mentadent - added much information
 * Methyl salicylate - restructured
 * Multivitamin - restructured
 * Neuromuscular-blocking drugs - major rewrite, added much content
 * Parsley - clarify mechanism of action on diuretic effct, potential health concerns
 * Pepsin - cleaned up article, discussed zymogen activation
 * Phentermine - restructured
 * Phosphate binders - added mechanism of action, adverse effects
 * Phosphoenolpyruvate - added much biochemical information
 * Piperine - add information about effects on drug metabolism
 * Plant nutrition - added biochemical information about the different nutrients
 * Postherpetic neuralgia - restructured
 * Sunflower seed - restructured
 * Triclosan - restructured, added mechanism of action

New Pages

 * Abiraterone
 * Dosage form
 * Glycylcycline
 * Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
 * Listeriolysin O
 * Miglitol
 * PEST sequence
 * Phosphogypsum
 * Pramipexole
 * Pyrimethamine
 * Rebound hypertension
 * User:UBX/tea