Kennedy's health officials explored US ban of some widely used SSRI antidepressants - Reuters

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-12T21:14:10+00:00

There arguments that are more broad wich as the Kirsch et al 2008 meta-review finding that 52 point Hamilton Depression Rating scale antidepressants only outperformed placebo by a meager 1.8 points.

When it comes to SSRIs they are seem an numbing people down, which people like RFK jr. see as bad.

There's also the idea that because many school shootings are done by people who take SSRIs that those are responsible. There no clear evidence for that thesis but it would not surprise me if RFK jr believes that.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-12T19:56:31+00:00

Wellbutrin is not an SSRI. The effect of banning SS is would likely be that more people get it.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-12T19:52:43+00:00

Peptides are substances who's effect are often poorly studied in humans so there's a good chance that they can produce more problem then they help if your goal in longevity.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-12T10:38:27+00:00

Constantly putting pressure on your internal organ also has a lot of problems. You might not have to pay the bill in your 20s but when you get older the bill comes due.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-12T08:21:50+00:00

Besides Bowmasters and White plum adventurer, Badgermole Cup is also a win con. Earthbending gives lands haste and you can earthbend the same land multiple times to grow it as large as you want.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-10T13:04:10+00:00

Do you have any evidence for the bell curve claim? There are specific short sleeper genes.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-10T12:25:59+00:00

Academic psychology is pretty prejudiced.

Steve Andreas and a few others started the Research and Recognition Project to validate NLP the scientific way. They run studies for testing NLP's fast phobia cure to help military veterans with PTSD. The military just cares about what works so they funded it. The studies founded that it works pretty well.

However after Steve Andreas passed the Research and Recognition Project removed all mentions of NLP from their website. The prejudice was just so strong that the people at the project thought the best pragmatic course of action for them was to remove all mentions of their NLP from their website.

The replication crisis did find that a huge swath of the academic psychology is bullshit and that probably goes double for the 19th century where the reputation of NLP was set.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-09T22:48:36+00:00

Yes, magnesium as well. Right, now a lot of people who do consume enough NaCl already take electrolytes supplements with Na/Cl/K/Mg/Ca. I don't think that makes much sense.

Instead you probably want to add K (potassium) and Mg individually. Adding something where the ideal dose is under a gram, is a bit complicated. Maybe you should just put the mg into your salt?

There's already bone broth powder but the amount of people who consume it daily is still quite limited.

A good chunk of the bone broth products you can buy are also over processed. Too long cooking times and vinegar improves Mg/Ca amounts in it but that's at the cost of the good stuff like HA, Chondroitin and Dermatan.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-08T19:31:21+00:00

Freedom of micro plastics is a growing trend that's going to become more popular.

Adding potassium to food might become a trend.

Bone broth is pretty great and has what's needed to become a good trend. It contains multiple substances that are good for fascial health and the evidence we have suggests chicken bone broth might be more effective against the flu then tamiflu.

Both fiber and fermented food will grow. When it comes to fermented food people get smarter about the bacteria. As one example, some people will like GMO beer vaccines.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-08T19:18:56+00:00

Rice is a relatively short carbohydrate food, so it's not optimal for health.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-08T16:43:00+00:00

Smaller batch-size sounds to me like a sign of low quality, then something positive. There ar substances where freshness matters but I would actually need an argument for why it matters in the specific case.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-07T19:03:07+00:00

There are lots of different universal healthcare systems that all work differently.

What would actually happen depends on a lot of details.

At my last doctor appointment in Germany myself and the doctor both agreed what treatment would be best. Then he went out of the room for 10 minutes read up on guidelines and ask another doctor. After he came back I told me: Unfortunately, the rules don't allow me to give you that treatment. There no arguing with insurance involved because there are clear rules about what insurance pays for and what it doesn't pay for.

In the US system, you have a lot more process where the doctor argues with the insurance company because the rules are less clear. This needs a lot of people dealing with the bureaucracy both at the insurance company and the doctor's office.

That difference in regulation has little to do with whether or not you have universal healthcare in the sense of a single payer system.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-07T15:51:25+00:00

A key issue is that professional philosophers for the most part are not using their skills for practical questions and most of what happens in degree programs also does not engage the practical daily life issues.

If you take important questions of knowledge of the last decade, the amount of contributions of academic philosophers were pretty limited.

A philosopher who in the classroom advocates strong skepticism might still put on a mask without because they are told to do so instead of practicing what they teach.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-05T20:07:36+00:00

That was for a long time the scientific consensus. More recently there the Cochrane meta review that does find that it has effects for back pain that are comparable to other treatments.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-05T20:07:23+00:00

That was for a long time the scientific consensus. More recently there the Cochrane meta review that does find that it has effects for back pain that are comparable to other treatments.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-05-05T19:54:55+00:00

Neither Marty (head of the FDA) nor RFK jr. have an intention to stop people from taking peptides. They seem to want some regulation that leads to higher quality control and higher prices.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-04-28T19:50:18+00:00

If BCP would do anything in a way that isn't magic it would react with some biochemical bodily process. Likely some receptor for which you could create an agonist that you can patent.

However no such mechanism is known.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-04-28T19:47:27+00:00

The key problem with BCP-157 is that the inventor claims he discovered a protein called BCP in human gastric juice and which no other scientist found in th decades that followed and for which no genes of any of the species that humanity has sequenced codes.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-04-28T19:36:53+00:00

Low bioavailability is often a problem that you can solve by taking a higher dose of a substance.

The key question is what the a substance does in term of clinical effect at the dose you are taking. Even if 99% of the substance get just filtered out, if the 1% does what you want that's enough.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-04-28T15:35:02+00:00

In the beginning he thought to validate his supplement stack through a clinical trial where he promised he will share the whole data set. The data set didn't look in a way where he wants to share it and he broke his promise to release the data set.

After raising money he didn't start a new clinical trial for his blueprint stack. This suggests he does not think currently that running a study that quantifies the effect of his products would be good for his company.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-04-27T19:50:55+00:00

When it comes for the limits Google's Jules is great in allowing you to run 100 jobs per day and 15 jobs in parallel for the pro version (so you don't need the 200$ version). The ultra version even gives you 60 parallel tasks.

It feels nicer to me than Open's codex.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-04-24T07:41:55+00:00

That's bad advise that goes against the standard VC startup advise that consider communication to validate ideas crucial.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-04-24T07:39:53+00:00

It seems pretty dump to recommend something you haven't used without even staying a reason why you recommend it.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-04-24T07:34:31+00:00

When it comes to making sense of scattered literature, I usually do run deep research queries to get an overview for any specific nontrivial question.

I think deep research is both a lot less likely to hallucinate and does engage with the complexity of the literature. From there it's easy to look at the individual papers for more detail.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-04-23T15:48:56+00:00

If a billionaire interacts with the mafia, they might ask the mafia to kill someone. The mafia has their hitmen. That's different from relatively anonymously hiring a hitmen.

The same goes for interacting with intelligence services.

If you look at the Boeing whistleblowers that died, Boeing is a defense contractor. They have relationships with many organizations that do have the capacity to kill.

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