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by InSteady 3y ago
Gotta love the language there. "Very bothersome" sounds so much less problematic than other potential phrasings. Like, "oh dear, I get brain zaps, feel like a zombie, and am having persistent intrusive thoughts that interfere
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by InSteady 3y ago
The phrasing here definitely makes you wonder how big is the group that experiences moderate side effects that are moderately unpleasant and moderately difficult to manage, and what do these qualifying terms actually mean in terms of
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I believe the only thing we are pretty sure about is that we don't know why SSRIs work. What we believe we know is that low serotonin in the brain does not directly cause depression, and artificially lowering serotonin in individuals d
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Greater context, which doesn't seem to line up well with your assertion here: > ...that higher doses and heavier use of cannabis are associated with modest negative effects. These findings are consistent with other systematic review
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Yeah, they really don't know what they are talking about it seems. High CBD strains are relatively new to the scene, at least in popular adoption. Medical cannabis has been around since the 90's, and it was mostly potent strains t
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I am not an "older person" and I was smoking bud a few decades ago, thank you very much. Some of the stuff I got back then was categorically better than a great deal of the dispensary bud found today. Some of the cannabis cup winn
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>Although variability in the cannabis products used, outcomes assessed, and study quality limits the conclusions that can be made, modest reductions in cognitive performance were generally detected with higher doses and heavier lifetime
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Where naturopath is a legally protected term and there is government licensing body, they are given the title ND. As in doctor of naturopathy.
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It varies state by state: https://aanmc.org/licensure/ States with certifying body and licensing requirements have legal protections on using terms such as naturopath, ND, etc.
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Be wary of taking herbal medicines, such as this product containing berberine, on a long term basis. Especially without first consulting a licensed and trusted healthcare professional.
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I agree on both counts. There are still many barriers such as limited access to funding and research infrastructure, but I have high hopes that we will see more peer reviewed science coming from the field of naturopathic medicine, as well a
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Yup. Dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine have all been shown to be produced by microbes in the gut, including fungi in some cases. The gut-serotonin angle has been largely ignored because it does not cross the blood brain barrier, but t
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If you happen to live in a state where naturopath is a legally protected term, with state licensing boards and all that, naturopathic doctors are legit medical professionals, and in my experience they can be far more knowledgeable and help
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It's worth noting that practitioners of western medicine have been scoffing at naturopathic doctors for decades over their focus on the role of C. albicans in some chronic, systemic disorders that are difficult to diagnose and treat. T
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To say nothing of viruses, which make up a huge (but not well understood) portion of our microbiome. Current estimates put the number at over 100,000 unique species and perhaps a few hundred trillion viruses residing in the human microbiome
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>A diet that promotes a healthy microbiome is going to be much more effective than supplementing lactobacilli or whatever. This may be generally true, but there may be situations where it is significantly better to do both, if we are tal
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Some studies show bacteria from fermented foods colonizing the colon and others do not, although regular consumption does tend to marginally increase microbiome diversity (a generic and in many ways crude measure of GI health). In theory, a
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Garlic is both antimicrobial and a rich source of food (oligosaccharides) for many strains of gut bacteria. It happens to be a favorite additive to fermentation recipes for this reason.
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This often gets overlooked, but if California were it's own country it would rank as the 5th largest GDP in the world. $3.6 trillion GDP in 2022.
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Right, but the argument goes there is no amount of carbon capture that will make this process make sense: (subsidized) fossil fuels --> chemical fertilizers --> (subsidized) monocropped corn --> (subsidized) ethanol production --&g
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Average Joe and Jane consumers are quite familiar with data limits, more expensive access to highspeed data, throttled data based on arbitrary stuff, etc. People may not have heard of net neutrality, but that doesn't mean the basic con
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>"high calorie" lards and beef fats on things like the fries, whereas today things use more "low calorie" vegetable oils. This is nonsense. All fat is high calorie at roughly the same rate, 9 calories per gram (unless
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>Survival instinct is to eat everything in front of you. Reduce portion sizes across the board, and people would likely eat less. This is too simplistic and is not true for many people. There are also many people out there who, when face
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You can find this info on https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/ The search function and UI is terrible, though. There used to be a website self.nutritiondata.com that was amazing. Full calorie, carb, fat, and nutrient profiles on all m
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It is a double edged sword though, because a LOT of people, including many health-conscious people, think of fruit and fruit juices as equivalent when they very much are not. You can drink down 4-7 apples/oranges/etc worth of nutr
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By this logic, buying paperback books second hand is also unprincipled and cheap, no? Which is a nice segue into a related topic, that by instituting DRM, publishers have removed the possibility for consumers to buy a book, read it once, an
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>it would seem that consciousnesses are discrete It may seem that way, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is that way. After all, our brains do an incredible amount of filtering and modulating to deliver our conscious experience s
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That's only true if the supremacy of your self and your conscious experience is the lens through which you find things interesting. It's also kind of reductive. We are a collection of germs and molecules. We share a lot of commo
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>It’s a fantasy that this law is going to make prices go down. The Nobel prize in 2001 was awarded to 3 economists (including Joseph Stiglitz) who characterized market inefficiencies driven by asymmetric information. The price of a good
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I'm sure this won't be enjoyable to many people, and only works well for certain meals, but my secret weapon is gelatin powder. Mix with water until paste forms in your bowl then put steaming hot food on top and it will turn into

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