oaktrout

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by oaktrout 4y ago
I read the primary study and admittedly skimmed the very long article. So far as I can tell the takeaway is: after baby is 6 months old there are no observed downsides to sleep training, is that correct?
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I guess I don't see the point of your psychiatrist trying to do an n of 1 study on you. Imagine that you has a pnemonia/cancer/whatever that was in remission halfway through treatment with antibiotics/chemotherapy/
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Maybe a hot pocket isn't the best example (I couldn't eat 3 hot pockets per day either, I would probably feel sick). A hot pocket weights about 8oz, for reference the meat alone in a restaurant burger weighs about 5-8oz typically.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Some people are born with 12 fingers. 1700 per day is close the basal metabolic rate (laying in bed all day) for a thin adult male. It is less than 3 hot pockets per day, very few people gain weight eating that much.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I would be curious to hear what you suggest should have been done differently. You state "Nonetheless, clinicians should be more vocal about it", more vocal about what? That it is not always easy to tease out whether it's med
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by oaktrout 4y ago
For those who don't want to read the article, the highlights for me were: 1) esketamine may not work as well as ketamine and 2) esketsmine was invented to make pharm companies money because they couldn't do it with ketamine.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I agree. One has to ask: what is worse for the environment, a car that pollutes more but lasts 400k miles or a car that pollutes less but only lasts 200k. The cost and environmental affects of manufacturing aren't zero.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Yes, this has been shown in other populations already. I think the highlight of this study is that it worked in South Asians also, as some might question if genetics/ culture play a particular role. This adds to the evidence that weigh
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Most doctors know how to heal people with type 2 diabetes, at least if you catch it early enough. It is well known that if you lose weight and eat a healthy diet the insulin resistance is reversible (some others in this thread have provided
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Simply put fat worsens insulin resistance. The mechanism is complex, basically fat causes inflammation that causes cells to not respond appropriately to insulin. This leads to elevated blood glucose and all the effects of diabetes. Remove t
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Well, she was unlocking small pigeon holes so that they could read the labels (reveal the mystery inside), clearly she will do gastroenterology or gynecology.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
So you agree with me then, I was replying to a post that said "no one".
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by oaktrout 4y ago
"no one said it would fall off the earth immediately, that it would cease to function right now" Quite a few people said that it would crash essentially immediately.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I know a lot of doctors and medical students, for the vast majority prestige is not a primary motivator, not sure why you think its the prestige motivating everyone. Knowing these people, I also get the feeling that if pay were worse /
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by oaktrout 4y ago
If you've spent on average ~200K for medical school, how willing will you be to pay to work for 3 to 8 more years before you get a paycheck? Resident doctors already make less than nurses with 4 year undergraduate degrees.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
This makes sense. Albuminuria is heavily associated with poor vascular health and in particular diabetes (diabetics get urinary screening for microalbuminuria). Poor vascular health --> poor brain blood flow --> dementia. Also, no sur
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Consider the magnitude of the immune response. In someone with pre-existing immunity the virus may replicate relatively little before being killed. Compare this to getting the vaccine, where your body will be flooded with spike protein whe
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I am cringing so hard imaging someone injecting something intraperitoneally. Good luck missing your intestines.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I on the other hand went to public school and would send my children to one. Anecdotally, some of the most successful people I know went to public school, many of which had parents that could easily afford to send them to private school.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
It looks like the term "privilege" was used in the 1200s, and even earlier in Latin, so restricting its use to male white privilege in the 2000s seems silly to me.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Most times when this happens its because the patient doesn't have these goals clearly documented, in my experiences hospitals are willing to follow the wishes of the patient. If the patients wishes aren't clearly documented that&#
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by oaktrout 4y ago
That might be understandable, but I'm a lazy skeptic and don't want to make your argument for you. You made the claim, why must I support it? If I find a meta analysis that agrees with your claim, but has obvious methodological fl
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Please share one of these meta-analyses.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Just because something doesn't pop up in the original trials doesn't mean it's not real, that's why they do post-marketing studies. Also the mechanism makes sense, women's period timing is notoriously sensitive to t
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I think calling cannabis bad or good is a false dichotomy. Sometimes peanuts kill children, that doesn't make peanuts "bad". Maybe cannabis causes schizophrenia in rare cases, does that make it "bad"? In this specif
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Thanks, I searched for cannabis specifically which would explain why this didn't show up. I imagine much of the substance use auto amputations are in people who do things like PCP.
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by oaktrout 4y ago
I have a feeling that these individuals (I could only find two in my pubmed search) were suffering from schizophrenia, not cannabis-induced psychosis. Maybe you could make the argument that the cannabis caused the schizophrenia, but that&#x
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Fair, I thought I was replying to the idea that old age must be miserable, but on re-reading I see that the poster I was replying to may have meant something else. Still, smokers not wanting the last 20 do themselves a disservice by disabli
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Probably not. Costs have come down immensely, most HN users could afford a butterfly if they wanted to play around with it. Ultrasound has limited penetration for deeper tissues so you aren't going to see lung cancer with it (especial
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by oaktrout 4y ago
Ahh yes, the evil big vegetable lobby is trying to undermine the good that has been done by poor old Philip Morris.

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