@wester130

Did you measure the tissue and blood levels of those hormones of the people you observed? Or did you just intuit what those values were based on some kind of godlike x-ray vision where you could see the levels of hormones in their bodies just by looking at them?

I actually think that there are some observable characteristics that can give some indication of at least some of those hormones. For example, the 2D/4D digit ratio test for pre-natal testosterone exposure.

@gg12

Maybe we should instead think of the following partition:

Scientific People

• Understand that the world is a complicated place
• Are careful about claiming knowledge
• Recognize based on the Copernical principle that we are probably not in the final stage of knowledge, nor even close to it
• Understand that human biology and behavior can not be split into three categories based on estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.

Unscientific people

• Think they have things pretty much figured out
• Claim knowledge based on little real evidence, especially when it confirms the opinion they have at the time of confronting the evidence
• Think that human biology and behavior can be meaningfully split into three categories based on the levels of testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone, especially when they just feel like they know how the categories are supposed to work in the absence of scientific evidence or rigor.

@alfredoolivas I get where you're coming from, but because of its similarity to aspirin, isn't it safe to assume that the chemists began their synthesis with the widely available acetylsalicylic acid? From doing a little looking into it, all they would need to do is to dissolve the acetylsalicylate in water, which will hydrolyze the compound to acetate + salicylate. Then, the salicylate needs to be oxidized (1 step) to form 2,6 DHBA. Possible oxidizing agents are: potassium permanganate and sodium dichromate. Neither manganese, sodium, potassium, nor chromium are toxic in very low quantities for humans.

So, from my POV is unlikely to be high in heavy metals.

@Alomongerpete Obviously

@Kilgore

Shawshank Redemption

Matrix (1999)

The French Connection

Silence of the Lambs

@polba said in Struggling to keep up with the taste-texture of liver:

I don't know if this is a symptom of something I don't know yet but raw foods, specially chicken breast, look really appetising to me, do you season your liver with something before eating raw?

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Nope Just let it thaw out slightly

@sushi_is_cringe

What form of silicon were the chickens given in this study?

@polba I find this utterly foreign to me.

I have had quasai-orgasmic experiences eating raw beef liver. It's one of the most delicious foods on the planet.

@Rah1woot

Liver. That's really the best source. And of course full fat dairy, although the reduced fat milk at least in the U.S is required to have Vitamin A Palmitate added.

@Corngold

My thoughts exactly. This is one of the most nefarious tricks of "high fat diet" studies. Almost all of them are high PUFA. 23% of calories from PUFA is unbelievably high. In a human eating 2300 kcal, that would be 53 GRAMS of PUFA per day.

I usually get about 2-3g per day for context. You will find the same gaslighting when it comes to studies "showing" that high saturated fatty acid diets cause inflammation. All of those "high SFA" diets are confounded by PUFA.