@haidut Empathy is a tricky process, especially in our culture that negates it. It requires good health, and ample biological energy. If the organism is faced with a detrimental situation in which most of the energy is required to keep itself alive, less energy can be used for the perception of other minds. In Mind and Tissue Ray talks about forming a "dominant" for other people as a brain process for acquiring impressions of other people`s internal life. It is probably one of the most energy-requiring process in the cerebral cortex, and something like endotoxin should be able to switch it off almost immediately.

“You know, the hardest thing in the world for a person may be to free himself of his
double, his automatic tendency to see himself, his faults, his shortcomings, his secret
deviance in everyone he meets; but even more difficult is to liberate himself from the
constant company of his double! And only from the moment when the double is
overcome is the road open to free communication with another! "It is then for the first
time that mind, heart, and word are revealed, making it possible truly to hear what it is
that makes the person one has encountered tick….An open heart and open and intelligent
hearing detect and understand in the other that which the individual had been unaware
of in himself, and which merely dully exhausted and tormented him from some
undiscovered part of his insides!" (Ukhtomksky)

@haidut very interesting there has long been studies showing a connection between low membrane unsaturation in animals and life exptency. Low membrane unsaturation causes uncoupling, so that checks out.

Btw calling DNP a benign uncoupler is problematic.
I know what you mean by it (being the mechanism of action). But many people will read this as :

"haidut said it's safe so I can buy some random yellow powder from China, hope that it's DNP, and take way too much of it."

I've had that discussion before and it's surprisingly hard to convince some people that taking DNP might kill you.
A simple dosing error on bad day might do that. DNP accumulates from day to day making overdosing more likely. You have no idea what you get from China, if it's not tested. And people go on body building forums and get their dosing recommendations from those type of guys. Maybe the reason for them not posting anymore after a while is not just that because they loose interest in following up if you know what I mean...

@haidut Fascinating !
The researchers mentioning wood animals made me think of T3 as an anti-hibernation hormone. When animals seek to hibernate they can't use curiosity so they seek out certain foods high in PUFA to decrease thyroid hormone.

What about so called progesterone positive cancers. I never bought the story of progesterone positive.

Cool to see that get through finally after decades of people talking about this . (& for its effect on teeth, my sensitivity went away when i stopped using toothpaste with this in it)

Taurine gives protection against fluoride (if dont get along with it well at 500mg lower doses probably work well too, even <100mg is protective against mercury toxicity)

and ~300mg GABA can reverse most of its impact on thyroid (lower dose works best) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330609672_Analysis_of_the_protective_effects_of_g-aminobutyric_acid_during_fluoride-induced_hypothyroidism_in_male_Kunming_mice