PolyD_ 🥪 | 10 years in the desert

Folic Acid has been shown by RCT to more than double the risk of prostate cancer. The mandatory "fortification" (new speak for contamination) of our food with a synthetic drug that causes serious harm is an unethical violation of informed consent. It must be stopped.

ところで恥を忍んで告白するのですが、私、Googleから垢BANされました。昔描いた漫画のデータをドライブにアップしている時に警告が出て、再審査請求も却下され、見事垢BAN。 まじで、困るよ。いろんなサイトやサービスにGoogleアカウントを使っていたので。 良い子のみんなには関係ないかもしれないけど、「俺、良い子…かな？」って人は気をつけてくれよな！

Babe wake up, the 22-year C-section follow up data just dropped, and it’s *much* worse than the public was led to believe. 1 in 3 American babies are born this way.

it’s funny because this is genuinely the best approach Simply not thinking about stressful situations makes you less stressed

In his book “The Undead,” science writer Dick Teresi exposed the fact that brain death is not death. Here’s how he answered an interviewer’s question about whether better protocols would fix this: “Not really. It’s true that as much as 65 percent of brain death exams are done incorrectly, and many doctors could not list the criteria for brain death correctly. Doctors I talked to said not to worry about patients moving about on the table or their blood pressure or heart rate spiking during harvest. These were just post-death reflexes, not an indication of pain or awareness. And yet the Harvard Criteria, the ur-text of brain death published in 1968, specifically state that there should be no reflexes and no movement. But the bigger problem is that brain death as death per se is a fiction. There is no scientific purpose for brain death. It’s a serious, serious kind of coma, but not death. It was made death for practical reasons. The heart of a brain-dead person still beats, and circulates blood to the organs, keeping them fresh for their future owners. And though the 1981 UDDA (Uniform Determination of Death Act) states that the “whole brain” must be dead, the whole brain is rarely tested. Usually, only activity in the brain stem is tested, not the cortex or higher structures of the brain, where consciousness, pain, and pleasure are interpreted.” When asked whether this was a conspiracy between the transplant community and those who determine when a patient is dead, Teresi answered: “Conspiracy is such a harsh word. Let’s say there’s a happy confluence of coincidences that results in $27 billion of revenue per year (in 2012) for the transplant business and incomes unheard of in other medical specialties.”

When your parents die you will, if you're lucky, be an adult with a home full of your own possessions and all of a sudden you have to fairly swiftly deal with your parents home and all of their possessions and you absolutely cannot cram all of the latter into the former.

How could carrots affect estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, fertility, cancer, and gut bacteria? ✪ “A woman at a clinic for fertility accidentally found out that giving the infertile women an antibiotic, a lot of them said their headaches were cured by taking the antibiotic. And they looked at their blood hormones and saw that where they had had previously high cortisol and estrogen and low progesterone in their blood, the antibiotic had reversed that pattern, increased their progesterone, and lowered both their estrogen and cortisol. And they figured out that the antibiotic had stopped a bacterial process that was blocking the liver's detoxifying action. When your thyroid is low, the liver excretes estrogen into the gut, trying to get rid of it. But a low thyroid person has sluggish digestion, and that excreted estrogen is reabsorbed from the gut back into the liver and creates stress hormones and accumulated high estrogen, blocking progesterone production. And so the antibiotic was improving their intestinal health and, therefore, their hormonal health. And I tested the idea of just eating a big carrot every day and had women with this pattern of high stress hormones, estrogen, and low progesterone. And within three days of a daily carrot salad, they had experienced the same hormonal change that taking an antibiotic did. (Add) any vinegar and basically any fairly saturated oil (like coconut oil).” Ray Peat

interview today they asked me what i do to cope with stressful situations and i replied "nothing in particular i just focus on the next task" and i got the vibe that this was a very bad answer

If you're a boomer in your 60s and 70s and you own property and are well off but your children are struggling and can't even buy a home, what the hell are you doin? Your time is over. It's their time. Help them. Be a good parent, do whatever it is you need to do... sell the house if you need to, give them some kickbacks to help buy their first home, etc. Life is short. Be a good parent and don't squat on stuff that doesn't matter. Give them their time.

When someone teaches you something you didn't ask to learn, your brain reacts like it's in physical pain. UCLA scientists watched it happen on brain scans in 2003. The same wiring that fires when you stub your toe also fires when someone treats you like you need fixing. Naomi Eisenberger and Matthew Lieberman ran the study and published it in Science. The brain region is the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, which is just the fancy name for your main pain alarm. It doesn't care whether the threat is a hot stove or a friend telling you how to live. A neuroscientist named David Rock built a framework around this in 2008. Five things make the brain feel safe in social moments: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness. Take away any of those and the alarm fires. Rock wrote that one of the easiest ways to dent someone's status is to give them advice they didn't ask for. Even hinting that they're doing something wrong is enough. When people are told what to do, they often do the opposite, even when the advice was good. The psychologist Jack Brehm noticed this in 1966, and sixty years of follow-up have confirmed it. The brain is trying to keep your life feeling like your own. Close friends cut each other off with unsolicited advice in about 70% of supportive conversations, often before the friend has even finished explaining the problem. That number comes from a 2016 study by Bo Feng and Eran Magen in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. The closer the friendship, the worse it gets. And the advice tends to make them more stressed, more depressed, and more lonely, not less. Giving advice gives the giver a sense of power, even when nobody asked for it. Michael Schaerer and his co-authors, working across Harvard, Duke, INSEAD, USC, and Singapore Management, published this in 2018 after four experiments with about 700 people. People who chase power volunteer advice more often than others. Whether the student actually improves is a side effect, if it happens at all. So when you feel the urge to teach somebody who never asked, that urge is mostly about you. You walk away feeling a little more powerful. They walk away feeling like they were just told they can't run their own life. Most uninvited teaching is one person's ego dressed up as kindness.