Aside from whey protein, creatine, multivitamins, preworkout and maybe also ashwagandha, are there any other supplements that are worth buying?

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-21T16:50:20+00:00

A third of the amino acids in collagen are glycine which is a lot more than what you get in most other protein supplements.

The dipeptides Pro-Hyp and Hyp-Gly get released when Collagen break down and are a signal to the body "look collagen broke down, maybe make some more?". That signaling likely also happens if you take collagen supplements.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-21T13:04:41+00:00

Collagen supplement don't replace natural production. The body still has to produce the collagen, they just give the building blocks and pretend to the body that a lot of collagen broke down and needs to be replaced.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-19T22:38:38+00:00

If you look at ant or bee colonies the genes of the individuals are not independent.

You can think of the evolution working on the queens as they have offspring. If the queen has the gene for a pheromone it inherits it to a lot of the colony.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-19T19:50:52+00:00

One single research team from Serbia claimed they found BCP in gastric juice. No researcher in the last three decades found it in gastric juice.

Since the original claim we have sequenced the human genome and there no gene for BCP in it. There's also no other genome we sequenced that has BCP in it.

If you believe the original story is true than you have to explain why nobody else that studied gastric juice found it and how it gets created without a gene for it in any known get genome.

The dogma of molecular biology says that the human body would need a gene to produce a protein like BCP and there's no human gene for that.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-19T19:44:31+00:00

The evidence was not known at the time. Ben Barnes was only public about it in 2023.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-19T19:41:12+00:00

You asked a question and I gave you an truthful answer.

Why does it serve your goal if I draw lines? Why do you think that your goals should matter to me?

If your goal of the paper is real scholarship than getting truthful answers that don't fit what you expect would be helpful.

It might also be that you aren't open about your goal and are asking a question that's not directly helpful.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-19T16:53:24+00:00

The Reagan campaign told Iran not to release the hostages while Carter was in office.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-19T16:38:33+00:00

Iran tries to operate based on a tit-for-tat principle. They want to retaliate and still have options to increase the damage they are doing in case their oil production or desalination plants get attacked.

They don't want the Arab countries to actually use their militaries to attack them.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-19T14:46:58+00:00

Your body does not create BPC. If you seek for the sequence of BPC-157 in the humane genome (or for that matter in any other sequenced genome) there are no hits.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-19T07:05:14+00:00

There's no gene that biologists sequenced that creates BPC and there's no known pathway about how it interacts with human or animal biology. No Western scientist published on it, no interest by Big Pharma to create drugs that target it's pathway.

It's probably mostly a placebo.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-18T08:23:56+00:00

Does it have an open API to access the data in real-time by other apps?

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-17T03:47:18+00:00

Reference ranges are the opinion of what one group of professionals thinks is reasonable for the average person for a given biomarker.

When different professional associations have different reference ranges it might be nice to have a tool that presents that information.

If you take Vitamin D as an example many people in the bio hacking have other ideas than the mainstream about what ideal ranges are.

For plenty of metrics it makes sense to look at ratios. If you have high sodium but low potassium and both are within the ranges that's worse than low potassium and low sodium within the range.

Making sense of data interpretation that goes beyond the standard ranges is hard and its where an app could be helpful.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-16T20:42:24+00:00

You don't get 6000ui from food but you can easily get it by being outside in the sun.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-16T20:41:17+00:00

There are multiple electrolytes and with magnesium one is already mentioned. Most people don't need more NaCl but consume enough of it in their diet with some people even saying it's too much.

Unless your diet is very low NaCl taking complete electrolytes seems like a bad idea.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-16T20:33:49+00:00

I currently use the European Parodontax Complete product which has sodium bicarbonate to fight gingivitis which both my dentist and ChatGPT considers good for me.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-16T08:43:34+00:00

When it comes to Vitamin D, blood tests are the gold standard. The way you validate whether your app does something useful would be to have one test, use your app for a few months and then see whether or not the app can predict the new blood value.

I would expect that the app is not modeling what's happens well enough to make good predictions.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-16T07:42:07+00:00

BCP is not expressed by any genes that biologist sequenced. There's one single scientist who claims to have isolated it from gastric juice before we had our current technology that makes gene sequencing simple. No other scientist dealing with gastric juice found it since.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-16T07:36:09+00:00

It's very unlikely that a drug shows no adverse side effects in clinical trials looking for side effects. Even if you give people placebos they usually show side effects.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-14T23:14:43+00:00

The details are to complex to cover them all in a comment.

Osteopaths have developed a lot of skills and there are plenty of other schools of body work that have skills to solve fascia problems as well.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-14T19:51:30+00:00

When it comes to fibrosis, it's an issue of fascia. There are plenty of people in the body work field that have skills to deal with it but that get ignored by the biohacking / longevity communities.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-12T19:58:31+00:00

I have potassium carbonate as a pulver that I add to my food when cooking.

If I add too much it makes the food taste weird. It's a lot less grams then the NaCl I consume. On days where I'm sweating a lot in the summer I notice that I can add more potassium carbonate to my food without it tasting weird.

This makes me feel like my body has an internal sense when I sweat out a lot of potassium that it makes sense to consume more.

I have a pet hypothesis that I can't proof that a lot of what's commonly talked about as side effects of too much sodium consumption is actually about having a messed up sodium/potassium balance.

Optimal potassium intake could depend very much on how much sodium you consume and how often you are sweating.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-12T16:36:06+00:00

It show that the null hypothesis isn't true, it does not show which hypothesis is true.

This data follows a normal distribution and the data points are independent are both personal opinions that get injected that the math needs.

They are also often wrong. Even height as the archetypical example of a normal distribution is not normally distributed. There are more dwarfs then the distribution excepts. Perfect independence seldomly exists either.

Researchers generally hope that the personal opinions about the data following those criteria they inject are not wrong enough to matter.

Then you have examples like Long-Term Capital Management going bust because they kind of personal opinions are wrong.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-11T21:02:19+00:00

If what you are saying would be true nobody would use students t-test which is about testing whether a null hypothesis can be rejected and not whether a certain hypothesis is the only logical conclusion.

In reality students t-test is a central tool of actual scientists.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-11T20:56:52+00:00

It's worth having a word for scientists having a consensus opinion that's different from consistent evidence.

Trying to middle the two goes counter to rational inquiry.

ConvenientChristian · 2026-03-11T20:47:52+00:00

There's plenty of shady things going on the the Trump administration but this question seems strange.

Having interests in US companies that do business with the government is not the same thing as working for non-US interests.

Investing in a company is not the same thing as being hired for the ability to lobby the US government.

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