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>any more than the baseline level Again. Can't you see it's a circular argument? How did you determine that it's the 'baseline'? >people are likely getting mo

• eternityforest 4y ago
  "baseline" meaning "the minimal level of activation one gets without any currently-uncommon exogenous thing that activates it.". There are lots of experiments where they give mice a gene for reduced function of something, or knock something out entirely and they actually live longer. To me that shows that some functions might exist for increased performance or endurance, to a degree no longer needed in civilized society, at the cost of more disease risk, and we might not necessarily want everything firing on all cylinders. Without further study, I don't see why we'd assume that activating proteins indicates it's a good thing. That lead thing is from one specific study in Japan. They(Like most places) did not have a long life expectancy before modernization, and they mentioned they probably got it from white lead used by their mothers, which would not be a global universal thing. Their life expectancy was also rather short back then in seems, probably for reasons unrelated to lead, but that still means it's close to impossible to say whether they had good nutrition or not, since even absolutely terrible diets might not have effects for a decade, unless there's enough total food for obesity to happen.
  • Weneedlead 4y ago
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