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Our body's software is so hopelessly out of date. It's programmed to preserve fat at all cost: something quite useful, say 2 million years ago when famines wer

Our body's software is so hopelessly out of date. It's programmed to preserve fat at all cost: something quite useful, say 2 million years ago when famines were happening almost every day. Medical and nutritional science needs to advance more quickly in this regard. Currently, it's going at a snail's pace. I mean, we understand the entire creation of the universe, but the most advanced nutritionists in the world are barely aware of the basic mechanisms which govern our fat production, not even understanding how it works. So far, all we have is theories, hypothesis, correlations and some compelling experimentations. Personally, I'm waiting for the iBody app to come out. iBody, will allow us to control our metabolism at a cellular level, dialing it up or down at will. We'll be able to control our appetites and hungers at the push of a button too. But, at this rate, who knows how long it will take to get this off the ground: 100s of years, thousands? Come on investors, this is a multi-trillion dollar market.

dota_fanatic 10y ago
It's utterly easier to just make and advertise addictive food, completely throwing nutritional quality out the window. What if you could even claim your addictive, mostly empty junk is healthy? Therefore funding and studies with the intention of obfuscation and the control of the progress of understanding. The world would have to look very, very different than today's for something like an iBody app to come into being. Where's the money to be made in people having that much control over themselves? The goal is to sell more (eg) donuts, not less. To defect is the norm.
- pascalxus 10y ago
  Yes. Consumers are mainly to blame for this. As long as consumers keep buying the garbage (solutions that don't work/never had any chance of working) they're pumping out, businesses don't have much incentive to create anything that works. It's appalling to me, how people can continue to spend so much money on gimmicks and appetite suppressants that clearly don't work.
- edraferi 10y ago
  There is some very interesting work happening in this area. Specifically: how can we make money by preserving & building health? This is the foundation of the whole pay-for-outcome revolution pushed by the ACA. They want to pay doctors for keeping people healthy, not for the lengths they go to fix you when you're sick. Doing this requires more data than we have now and new market structures.

dota_fanatic 10y ago

It's utterly easier to just make and advertise addictive food, completely throwing nutritional quality out the window. What if you could even claim your addictive, mostly empty junk is healthy? Therefore funding and studies with the intention of obfuscation and the control of the progress of understanding. The world would have to look very, very different than today's for something like an iBody app to come into being. Where's the money to be made in people having that much control over themselves? The goal is to sell more (eg) donuts, not less. To defect is the norm.

pascalxus 10y ago
Yes. Consumers are mainly to blame for this. As long as consumers keep buying the garbage (solutions that don't work/never had any chance of working) they're pumping out, businesses don't have much incentive to create anything that works. It's appalling to me, how people can continue to spend so much money on gimmicks and appetite suppressants that clearly don't work.
edraferi 10y ago
There is some very interesting work happening in this area. Specifically: how can we make money by preserving & building health? This is the foundation of the whole pay-for-outcome revolution pushed by the ACA. They want to pay doctors for keeping people healthy, not for the lengths they go to fix you when you're sick. Doing this requires more data than we have now and new market structures.