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The dosage for longevity is supposed to be low enough that this risk is minimized. Lots of things you do modulate your immune system (including e.g. exercise).
by YZF 1y ago
The dosage for longevity is supposed to be low enough that this risk is minimized. Lots of things you do modulate your immune system (including e.g. exercise). It's a risk/reward thing, every time you get into your car you're also taking a longevity risk.
I think there are some proper human trials happening but the jury is still out.
- cactusplant7374 1y ago> I think there are some proper human trials happening but the jury is still out. That's exactly my point. No one really knows the risk that they are taking.
- rscho 1y agoSurprisingly, many people seem to think that pushing a few random pills into a machine optimized over some million years of evolution will tune it so it works better. Go figure...
- Etheryte 1y agoIt works for the majority of modern medicine, so it's not all that black and white.
- rscho 1y agoYes, although even for modern medicine curative and preventative strategies are very distinct. Sure, they'll give you pills to compensate for a problem you already have. But there are few meds that protect you against stuff you'll maybe catch in the future. Vaccines and antibiotics are obvious examples, but I'm not aware of many others. The rest of preventative strategies overwhelmingly consists in correcting deficits or excesses (calories, vitamins, sleep, exercise etc.)
- lokrian 1y agoPeople are still getting nerve damage from too much vitamin B6 in energy drinks and vitamin supplements, and that's a well known and widely taken vitamin. The idea that you can take experimental drugs your entire life at little risk is optimistic.
- cactusplant7374 1y agoI had no idea. At points in my life I consumed a lot of nutritional yeast.