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Aldarion

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This is the tip of the iceberg, the stuff they couldnt deny any longer.

Its turtles all the way down.
 
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The source of that tweet has a pretty large bias (dude is tweeting Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson garbage lol). For some context, Wiley purchased Hindawi and Hindawi reportedly had a lot of issues with journals, which Wiley has been attempting to clean up
 

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Brett is the good Weinstein. Or the best of the two at least.
 
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Brett is the good Weinstein. Or the best of the two at least.
I haven’t heard nearly as much of Brett as Eric. Seems like his drunk ahis share of looks is sometimes.

I’m a little more than 1/3 of the way through the podcast, really enjoying it actually. Eric is doing an awesome job of trying to understand what Terrance is talking about and explaining how it works/doesn’t without being condescending at all. Respect the hell out of how he’s going about this. Need more of it out there for people to watch or be a part of.
 
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That Terrence Howard video is sooooo long, it's hard to get through, but the 14 minute clip they posted up was much more manageable (that the google algo got me with).

I then went to the full video and watched about 40 minutes more from the end of the clip. It reminded me of student who thinks he has it all figured out, then the professor trying to explain how his thinking is wrong. It's a difficult rope to walk, but Weinstein seems to do it much better than Neil deGrasse Tyson was able too.

The 14m clip:
 
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Burns

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Roughly first half of video is Eric Weinstein talking about the controversy of him even being on the show with Terrence and more comments about how wrong Terrance is. Second half is talking about how science and peer review have been harmed by non-scientific claims by public health during the pandemic, plus some comments about college science departments purging dissenting opinions:
 
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Anyone paying attention to this work?

Haven’t been following Sinclair closely as of late, but remember when they first announced reversing age related vision issues in mice. His appearance on the usual podcasts as well as his own that mirrored his book came along right as I was starting to try and get serious about health as the years are adding up.
 
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How often people poop, they found, can have a large influence on one’s physiology and health.
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Bowel movement frequency (BMF) directly impacts the gut microbiota and is linked to diseases like chronic kidney disease or dementia. In particular, prior work has shown that constipation is associated with an ecosystem-wide switch from fiber fermentation and short-chain fatty acid production to more detrimental protein fermentation and toxin production. Here, we analyze multi-omic data from generally healthy adults to see how BMF affects their molecular phenotypes, in a pre-disease context. Results show differential abundances of gut microbial genera, blood metabolites, and variation in lifestyle factors across BMF categories. These differences relate to inflammation, heart health, liver function, and kidney function. Causal mediation analysis indicates that the association between lower BMF and reduced kidney function is partially mediated by the microbially derived toxin 3-indoxyl sulfate (3-IS). This result, in a generally healthy context, suggests that the accumulation of microbiota-derived toxins associated with abnormal BMF precede organ damage and may be drivers of chronic, aging-related diseases.

If you don't poop at a normal frequency, microbes in your gut run out of soluble fiber and switch to fermenting amino acids, which leads to toxin production.

The biggest surprise to me in this study: there are people out there who only poop 2-3 times a week but consider themselves healthy. Its the "healthy at any size" equivelent in the world of digestive physiology. Holy shit man, if you're only pooping 2-3 times a week take the day off work TODAY and see a doctor TODAY.
 
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If you don't poop at a normal frequency, microbes in your gut run out of soluble fiber and switch to fermenting amino acids, which leads to toxin production.

The biggest surprise to me in this study: there are people out there who only poop 2-3 times a week but consider themselves healthy. Its the "healthy at any size" equivelent in the world of digestive physiology. Holy shit man, if you're only pooping 2-3 times a week take the day off work TODAY and see a doctor TODAY.
Low/Zero carb diet people be like "2-3x a week? I wish."
 
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Cybsled

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Sometimes you just don’t feel like you gotta poop. Pooping every day always seemed odd to me because always felt like you had to force daily poops
 
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