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by TeaBrain 3y ago
There may be better anti-aging drugs that have yet to be tested or discovered, but Rapamycin currently has the best data backing it up. It is the only drug which has consistently increased both median and maximum lifespan across organisms,
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by TeaBrain 3y ago
To my knowledge, soy has never been considered estrogenic because it affects levels of endogenous hormones, but because soy isoflavones directly agonize estrogen receptors. "Isoflavones are phytoestrogens with potent estrogenic activit
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by TeaBrain 3y ago
Green Lacewing larvae, aka trash bugs, place the exoskeletons of dead prey on their backs. https://www.uaex.uada.edu/environment-nature/anr-blog/posts/...
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
Other than the artists I mentioned, I also enjoy Masayoshi Takanaka, Kazumi Watanabe, Horii Katsumi Project, Dimension, Trix, Prism, and Fragile. Which reminds me that Fragile's drummer, Kozo Suganuma, also died relatively young a cou
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
A number of prolific Japanese Jazz keyboardists/pianists have died relatively young. Hirotaka Izumi, who played keyboards for T-Square and Pyramid, died from acute heart failure at 62. The Japanese Jazz composer and pianist Jun Fu
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
A fair amount of human DNA originated from viruses that infected our ancestors. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/virus-genes-hu...
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
Reminds me of the Primer from Neal Stephenson's A Diamond Age. Passage from Nell's first experience with the Primer: The book spoke in a lovely contralto, with an accent like the very finest Vickys. The voice was like a real perso
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
At least in the US, the public was more united in its support for the wars in the middle east at their outset in the early 2000s than they have been for anything since. The war in Afghanistan initially had 88% support[1] and the war in Ira
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
Acetaminophen is simply an analgesic. It isn't considered to be an nsaid.
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
Learned about DNP from the Peter Attia podcast. As I recall, it was discovered in part due to factory workers who worked with DNP losing significant amounts of weight.
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
The Laughing Man is an antagonist in the 2004 tv series, not the original film.
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
Links have previously been made in multiple studies between the use of anti-microbial mouthwash and increased mortality risk. One hypothesis is that it disrupts the nitrate-nitrite-nitric acid pathway as the below linked review article goe
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
Glucose can be converted to fructose in the body via the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate isomerase. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose-6-phosphate_isomeras...
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
It occurs to me that Serge Bramly, the author, is Italian, so the same may be true for Italian audiences.
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
The biography I read on Leonardo da Vinci, is simply titled "Leonardo: The Artist and the Man". Leonardo is a unique enough name to non-Italian audiences that using it alone in reference to a inventor/scientist/artist is
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
I took that as being their joke.
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by TeaBrain 4y ago
Their "payphones" are described as free to use. "Payphone" was probably just used as the moniker due to the association that "payphone" has as an installed public telephone.