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by tcj_phx 9y ago
A friend was oscillating between drunk & sober... She told me that her neighbor had offered to smoke up with her. "You're going to, right?" She protested that she might need to take a drug test. I replied that she was nev
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Not really an expert in these matters, I'm just somewhat familiar with the theory presented in the linked article. I don't feel capable of responding to your specific questions with anything more than speculations, so I apologize
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When the mitochondria are fermenting sugar instead of burning it, the cells don't have enough ATP to fully repair themselves.
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I think it's safer to supplement the precursors than testosterone itself... This comment is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15290462
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> What happened in the 70s that made it so much more common? In the 70's Doctors ramped up their prescriptions of Horse Estrogen because they were tricked into thinking it helped. PREMARIN is made from PREgnant MAres' uRINe: &g
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This piece opens strong, wanders in the darkness, then has a strong conclusion: > Damaged mitochondria can also cause cancer even when their DNA is intact, and Seyfried (after Warburg) makes a strong case that mitochondrial damage is the
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
The only thing that fellow could really do for himself was buy some coconut oil. The brains of alcoholics become insulin-resistant and switch to running on acetate, one of the breakdown products of ethanol. The medium-chain-triglycerides in
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> There is, it's usually pretty easy to tell the difference. Doubt anyone would mistake them, and I doubt the OP is. A few months ago a young man (early 20's) came into a shop I sometimes hang out at. "What brought you to
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> Depressed people move more slowly, in a characteristic pattern called “psychomotor retardation”. They display perceptual abnormalities. They’re more likely to get sick. There are lots of results like this. > Depression has to be abo
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> He strongly suspects the system has made him even less sane and even more unstable. This is the core of Robert Whitaker's thesis: psychiatric medications take a episodic condition and make it chronic. Ref: anatomy of an epidemic (
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My friend is currently at her second 'rehab' center... The first one was a disaster for her because all they did was go to 12-step meetings, and charged her $25,000 or $30,000 for the month. Talking about drugs all the time is a g
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
Thanks for this link - it gives a good summary of the state of the industry... which hasn't changed much since 2013 (when this piece was published).
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> I'd guess it's a combination of this and the overweight/obesity rate climbing I agree, but for a different reason. Excess fat is an endocrine disruptor: adipose tissue makes Aromatase [1], which converts testosterone -&g
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Hi, thanks again for your comments. I am trying to better understand the mindset behind the medical status quo, and you've given some good insights. > I am not a cardiologist so I don't know the full details on the statins, but
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Thanks for responding, and for the links. > I've seen patients spiraling down into an abyss of pain after repeated failed surgeries. I think surgery is commonly seen as better than doing nothing. Someone I know has some deterioratio
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> An interesting development is that there is generally an increased acceptance for psychiatric diagnoses. Psychiatry is the only medical specialty that has a resistance movement and survivors groups. I think psychiatrists do okay with d
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I've heard suboxone doctors are difficult to find, because of artificial restrictions... How did you find your suboxone doctor? (Are you in the US?) My friend was on Methadone when I met her. After six months she realized she "hat
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
Malcolm Gladwell's recent Revisionist History podcast was about how McDonald's was bullied/tricked into ruining their french fries: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/19-mcdonalds-broke-my...
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People make the best choices they can with the information available to them. Malcolm Gladwell recently had a podcast about how McDonalds ruined their French fries when they got bullied into changing their fryer oil from stable saturated fa
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This page has a write up about folate & mental health: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-integrationist/2014...
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> Other research has revealed that the brains of people with panic disorders produce elevated levels of lactate—an acidic source of fuel that is constantly produced and consumed in the energy-hungry brain. For me, this further confirms t
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There are some serious problems in the science industry. The biggest of these is that some otherwise-intelligent people don't realize that they're sometimes "useful idiots". For example, while modern medical practitioner
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A year and a half ago I had to call emergency services to revive my friend. She'd gotten herself a court order for mental health treatment, and the mental health professionals thought she'd benefit from getting addicted to benzodi
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> > Some people defend the current contraceptive status-quo by reasoning "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one." > Yes. This is how modern medicine works. Nearly every medication will cause an a
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Some people defend the current contraceptive status-quo by reasoning "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one." > is absolutely not comparable to chemical castration. Yes, the article is about Nexplanon,
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> Equating temporary and removable birth control with "castration" is ludicrous. The 'chemical castration' comment was about Depo Provera specifically. The injection is NOT removable: you're basically stuck with
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Some women have a severe adverse reaction to "hormonal" birth control. These products actually use hormone analogues that disrupt the steroid pathways. This diagram shows how cholesterol is turned into the steroids: https:/&
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This has a pretty comprehensive overview of a variety of interventions that can help. I didn't find anything new, but I've been learning about addiction secondhand for several years now... Connection and meaning are two of the mos
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Thanks for sharing your experience. I agree that there's a sort of negative feedback loop for people who exhibit symptoms of schizophrenia. A few years ago I went to visit someone in jail whom I'd only known from an internet messa
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(This Medscape article was posted on February 18, 2015. I was able to read it by searching for the title on twitter.) Dr. Lieberman's book, Shrinks , was reviewed by Paul McHugh, M.D.: The Doctor Isn’t In - https://www.co

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