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by brandonb 1y ago
Photos are used to track nutrition -- you choose each photo to upload within the app. Location is only used, in context, to help find healthy meals near you. (You can use the app with or without enabling this location-based feature; if you
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This is honestly a limitation of nearly all nutrition research -- it's based on observational data. Part of the reason we expect fiber to reduce mortality, rather than simply being a marker of other factors correlated with mortality, i
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by brandonb 1y ago
(OP here) - no affiliation with Olipop. But we've tried all the fiber supplements around the office, and we found Olipop is a pretty palatable option compared to, say, psyllium husk (which forms a gel when combined with water).
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Fiber reduces overall mortality by 23%(empirical.health)
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5k steps a day could slow cognitive decline in people with signs of Alzheimer's(statnews.com)
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UnitedHealth pays its own physician groups 17% more than outside ones(statnews.com)
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Oura prepares Apple Watch-like hypertension detection for its smart ring(seattletimes.com)
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Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore?(church.substack.com)
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Soluble for heart disease, insoluble for cancer!
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A recent meta-analysis showed fiber reduces overall mortality by 23%. Surprisingly enough, this isn't just due to the effect on cardiovascular disease via cholesterol -- fiber actually reduced risk of cancer by 22%.
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Fiber(empirical.health)
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Barriers to the adoption of single-cell LLMs in biomedical research(nature.com)
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FWIW, I received several TestFlight invites to a "ChatGPT Ads" app that were actually scams. Apple removed them after a few hours. Check the developer name carefully if you get one of these. This screenshot shows a developer name
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Give Your Gums Some Love(nytimes.com)
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OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool(techcrunch.com)
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The four horsemen from Peter Attia's Outlive(empirical.health)
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Yeah -- it uses deep learning on PPG (heart rate signals). It's most likely picking up on the shape of the pulse wave, pulse wave velocity, and other proxies to blood pressure. It's worth noting that the Apple Watch doesn't g
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Claude for Life Sciences Interview(statnews.com)
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Accuracy of Apple Watch VO2 max measurements: A validation study(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Apple Watch hypertension notifications are now live. What to do if you get one(empirical.health)
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Epic to end startup program that took position in ambient scribe(axios.com)
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UnitedHealthcare's 1999 policy to remove prior auths(healthtechnerds.com)
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Apple's quest to add a heart-rate sensor to AirPods Pro 3(techradar.com)
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This is a fund from the person who started Code for America, helped start the US Digital Service, and served as deputy CTO of the United States in ~2013.
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The Recoding America Fund(eatingpolicy.com)
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Focusing on Healthcare's Administrative Costs Is Misguided(cremieux.xyz)
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Apple Watch's hypertension alert misses half cases, but may boost treatment(statnews.com)
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OpenEvidence, the ChatGPT for doctors, raises $200M at $6B valuation(techcrunch.com)
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Concierge Care for all: What would it look like?(thehealthcareblog.com)
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Grail says new data on multi-cancer screening test show improved performance(statnews.com)
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