Posts made by Creuset

@risingfire He only said that recently if I'm not mistaken.

@Isaac Because he was a pioneer, and never claimed to be 100% right about everything or to hold definitive answers and truths in biology. He still lived older than average, in good health, while having suffered heavy health issues when he was younger which is a good indicator that he was in the right direction for a lot of things. It's now our responsability to take his work one step further.

Seems Garett Smith has anger issues, probably from his lack of neurosteroids: https://x.com/MikeFaveScience/status/1769961846037954747?s=20

Reminds me of Walter Sobchak in The Great Lebowski.

@_K How many calories do you eat per day, what's your weight, height and age? I used to suffer from similar problems when I wasn't eating enough calories.

@GreekDemiGod said in Why are Statins bad if your cholesterol puts you in the range of CVD risk:

@Creuset You want to reduce the risk in normal population, who is not mindful of PUFA intake and will never be. People need to be given solutions that work without changing their nutrition or lifestyle much.

I personally don't want anything no, I am not a moralist nor a politician, and I don't consider other humans as cattle that need to be led by a shepherd. I am just trying to describe what we know about a specific topic and to be accurate about it (and I don't claim to hold the absolute truth on a topic, always open to new evidence).

Besides, if the current medical recommendations were actually working to reduce risk of CVD, we would see a reduction, yet we actually see the opposite.

I just got out of the ICU, I'm still in the hospital and getting lots of blood thinners and anti coagulants, honestly, I'm very scared of the future, when I get home or start to work again, bit is not the reason I came here.

I have 1m 70cm, 86kg, strong build but definitely have a dad belly. Since I was a kid I have a very high cholesterol, when it was discovered (10 years old) it was about 800, and I was not a normal kid, my case was even used in a conference to show that body fat is not exactly equal to low cholesterol.

I have a history of heart disease in my father's side, my grandpa had a heart attack at 52 and my father had a defective valve on the aorta, he died in the surgery about 15 years ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/16eocc8/im_27_and_just_had_a_heart_attack/

This is anecdotal evidence. I already posted this earlier, how do you explain it:

There are people that are genetically predisposed to have high LDL and high cholesterol levels, yet they don't get a higher rate of cardiovascular diseases than people with normal cholesterol levels: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512433.2018.1519391

@GreekDemiGod What is your evidence for this statement?

Also, do they only have hypercholesterolemia, or also high oxLDL, triglyclerides, obesity, hypothyroidism, and other metabolic problems?

And how many PUFA are they consumming?

I see many possible confounding variables if you only analyze things from this single angle.

@peatyourmeat Probably because coffee is anti-opioid: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15088081/

Travis on the previous RPF used to talk about this kind of things.

@insufferable said in Metabolism: sloth to a dopaminergic child:

I agree that internet distraction is bad but I've done long days on my LCD working with text only (almost all black and white) with very little distracting internet browsing, and still felt super drained at the end. But on my E-Ink device, I can even watch videos and click around, and still feel very good at the end of the day.

Have you ever tried used an app like f.lux to reduce the blue light emitted by your screen? Would be interested to know if you would feel the same as when using your E-ink screen.

@Nabokov said in Why are Statins bad if your cholesterol puts you in the range of CVD risk:

Ray wrote about the false link between cholesterol and heart disease, but I just came across this study which conclusively links pravastatin to a lowered cardiovascular rate and the data and design look sound. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26864092/

There are many studies on the apparent efficacy of statins, this one isn't particularly special, but it does seem to prove that they work, which Ray disputed. Does anyone have a better understanding of cholesterol, CVD, and statins?

The main problem is oxidized cholesterol, particularly oxLDL (oxidized by PUFA or other oxidative and inflammatory things).

There are people that are genetically predisposed to have high LDL and high cholesterol, yet they don't get a higher rate of cardiovascular diseases: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512433.2018.1519391

Some studies show that statins can be anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial aside from their anti-cholesterol effect, so this might be why some studies find that it lowers CVD:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd1901
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4447369/

@yerrag said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@Creuset said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@yerrag said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@Creuset

Are you saying this because you trust everyone and you leave your house doors and car doors unlocked? Either you live in the boondocks or you are too smart for your own good.

You seem to be assuming too many stuff and on defense mode man, relax, I was not talking about you but about Tara.

I will make it clearer since you didn't understand: Tara used to be a wise member, but when the covid craze hit, she got into full paranoia mode, probably because she is a nurse and everybody around her got afraid. Fear can be very contagious, and make smart people act stupid, especially for women who are usually more easily scared than men. I still remember perfectly when this pandemic hit, everyone around me was freaking out and completely irrational, so I'm not surprised at all that she would act this way.

Not saying that your hypothesis about her or Charlie are necessarily wrong by the way, even though I don't think the likelihood of this happening is high.

Sorry for taking your words out of context. I couldn't see thru the forest here, thanks for clarifying. You make a good point about Tara. Being in the trenches would be traumatic, and her perception could have been affected greatly.

It's still hard to think she could be so rattled. My impression of here was that of someone who has a moderating demeanor, and not one to easily be influenced by noise around her. She was nice to be around, like a fixture at RPF.

No offense taken, thank you for your respectful reply.

I know what you mean about Tara, I was also very surprised by how she reacted. However I've observed intelligent and wise people snap under specific circumstances already, so wouldn't be surprised if that's what happened to her.

@yerrag said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@Creuset

Are you saying this because you trust everyone and you leave your house doors and car doors unlocked? Either you live in the boondocks or you are too smart for your own good.

You seem to be assuming too many stuff and on defense mode man, relax, I was not talking about you but about Tara.

I will make it clearer since you didn't understand: Tara used to be a wise member, but when the covid craze hit, she got into full paranoia mode, probably because she is a nurse and everybody around her got afraid. Fear can be very contagious, and make smart people act stupid, especially for women who are usually more easily scared than men. I still remember perfectly when this pandemic hit, everyone around me was freaking out and completely irrational, so I'm not surprised at all that she would act this way.

Not saying that your hypothesis about her or Charlie are necessarily wrong by the way, even though I don't think the likelihood of this happening is high.

@yerrag said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@Peatful

I feel I know Tara well enough. I know how she writes. Her persona became wooden as seen in her writing. Like someone was ghost writing for her online impersonification. Her being a nurse does not necessarily make her automatically indoctrinated into the COVID Hoax narrative.

Once someone who identity is concealed is targeted, it's just a matter of time for the powers that be to replace the real person behind that online persona. What is all this technology developed by DARPA for but to make the safety of anonymity a honeypot to attract leaders of the genuine opposition, only to entrap and eradicate them when the moment is ripe, the moment being when they start to gain a following that is a budding threat to the established order.

Fear can make even the best of us crazy and stupid.

@risingfire said in New "Mission" of RPF:

@yerrag I'm not sure that a new Charlie is at the helm. Charlie has evolved quite a bit over the years. I saw the biggest change(besides low VA) when he became the "Law and Order Admin." I doubt he would severely change up the forum like he has now unless there was significant financial incentive for him to do so.

I'm not sure if it's traffic to Garrett's site for customers which most likely wouldn't pay that much.

He is the owner of the Lifegivingstore that he has been promoting on the forum for years while never being transparent about it.

@peatyourmeat said in why does the cheap store milk make me feel warm and depressed?:

i found that i can digest the shit cheap skim-2% milk (as low as 1$/gallon) if i use it as the base of a soup with some meat and some plant matter. If i drink it from cup cold or microwaved my stomach explode

It makes me radiate warmth, but feel tired, not sleepy just kind of out of it + sluggish. Also depressive type thoughts at a slow mental pace. I don't think just blood sugar at play, i tried with lot of sugar, and still this effect.

Opioid effect, maybe increasing your prolactin. Many people don't tolerate milk even after years of trying to consume it. Listen to your body, don't force yourself to eat something that doesn't do well with you, no matter what other people say.

@Kvothe said in Beware of the Low Vitamin A Zealots- New Thorough Video by Mike Fave:

Those degenerates are pretty upset about Mike's video getting some attention. Charlie is already doing overtime throwing suitable insults at Mike, and making up random statements of Peaters how they supposedly destroyed their health, teeth, what will you. You can picture him shaking his can of beans in anger as he realizes that participation on his forum is at an all time low, and all but the most retarded customers are slowly disappearing.

Seriously, and then mister holy Lion will say that he is a christian, while being so hateful. The man has no sense of guilt.

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in there is no one source of all your problems:

on the other forum, all your problems are due to vitamin A, or a copper deficiency, or something. I'm not sure. But one thing -- and if you fix that, everything is golden.

However, in the real world, nothing by itself will fix your problems.

It's always lots and lots of things.

Weird how the body works.

A low energy state makes it hard for the brain to see things in context, in a nuanced complex way and from different perspectives. You need energy for that, and it's way easier to think that your problems come from only one cause, and for some people it makes life less scary as they feel they finally understand and have control over what's happening.

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in How libertarian leaning is this forum?:

@Creuset you can make up the concept of collectivism, but there are only individuals. There is only me. I can be fairly certain of my own existence, but not of yours. There really is no "we."

I would tend to think that collectivism is a heuristic and not a concept. However, I wouldn't say that your definition of individuality/individuals "there is only me" is a concept either, you're describing a subjective felt sense and some kind of solipsism which is also a heuristic.

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in Is semen retention energy healthy energy or stress hormones/cortisol?:

@Creuset so this happens when men refrain from ejaculating. Their sperm must meet end of sperm life, and must commit apoptosis and must be resorbed into the body, and this requires the immune system even if it's not as extreme as vasectomy.

I think that I remember you practicing stuff like Karezza and probably tantric sex. Have you ever experienced Kundalini experiences, where it feels that your semen is absorbed through the spine?

I'm wondering if the same negative processes. Btw, I've only experienced this a couple of time in the past while I was trying Brahmacharya, but could not have it happen on demand.

Never seen any scientific research about this kind of thing.

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in How libertarian leaning is this forum?:

@Creuset said in How libertarian leaning is this forum?:

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in How libertarian leaning is this forum?:

@Kvirion that isn't anyone else's business. My contribution to society is my business and nobody else's. There is no such thing as "society". There are ONLY individuals. Society is just another concept used to justify coercion and compulsion.

What's interesting with people that don't understand the use of methodological individualism in the fields of politics, law or economics, is that they will all tell you in unison that humans are social creatures as their only argument to justify the use of methodological holism and collectivism, like if methodological individualism would prevent them from forming groups or was denying that this is a need for most humans (which of course is a strawman of methodological individualism).

They don't even understand that methodological holism and collectivism are irrelevant in the field of politics, by assuming that society is a tangible and homogeneous thing that has a will/consciousness acting on individuals, and that individuals should submit themselves to this will/consciousness, without ever proving any of it of course. Their position is in fact a metaphysical subjective one, pretty similar to that of Hegel, Marx, Nationalism/fascism. Isn't it funny that all of the totalitarian ideas are collectivist and using methodological holism?

On the contrary, methodological individualism in these field is consistent and demonstrated, as with praxeology or Natural Law which are only concerned with individual behaviors and actions. Imagine in a legal context judging a society (full of innocent individuals) for a crime, and not the specific individuals that did the action/took the decision. That's exactly what collectivism and methodological holism leads to in these fields, and none of the collectivists understand why this doesn't make any sense.

And the beautiful thing is that methodological individualism doesn't even deny cybernetic loops and feedback that flow from collective emergence back to individuals, such as cultures, markets or memes. Only collectivism and methodological holism try to restrict individuality by saying that the group is more important than the individual, methodological individualism doesn't claim any of that.

In summary, methodological holism in these fields is simply a fallacy of composition.

I don't understand any of your points. Can you simplify?

Sure, to make it simple, I was just explaining that collectivism or holism aren't consistent in law, politics and economics (although they can probably be in other contexts).

Here is a simple example to illustrate the point: imagine a group of 10 people, in a country of 1 million people, that made a crime. If you apply collectivist methods or holism, you would judge legally the group as a whole, so 1 million people judged for the crime, whereas the people responsible are only 10. This doesn't make sense, but most collectivists don't understand this point whenever we talk about using methodological individualism in these fields.

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in Is semen retention energy healthy energy or stress hormones/cortisol?:

@Creuset there are a number of studies on this, that involve the male being snipped. Vasectomy is an extreme case of not ejaculating.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1541187/
In a group of fifty-two vasectomized men, 1 year post-vasectomy, 73% showed sperm-agglutinating antibodies in the serum with titres of 8 to 1024 in the tray agglutination test, and 42% showed sperm-immobilizing antibodies with titres of 1 to 128 in a micro-immobilization test. 3 months post-operatively, about 75% of the men who were to develop antibodies within the year already possessed them. With sperm agglutinins there was a gradual increase in incidence in the period from 3 months to 1 year, with titres increasing up to the 9 month stage. At 1 year, 68% of the positive titres were 32 or higher. Although no increase in the incidence of sperm-immobilizing antibodies was seen beyond 6 months post-operatively, titres increased up to 1 year. A strong correlation was found between the titres of sperm-agglutinating and sperm-immobilizing antibodies, and all sera with an agglutination titre of at least 128 also showed sperm immobilization. Tail-to-tail agglutination was the most predominant type of agglutination observed. No correlation between the type of agglutination and the presence of sperm-immobilizing antibodies could be found. The total number of spermatozoa in a pre-vasectomy ejaculate (as a measure of antigen dose) could not be correlated with the incidence or titre of sperm-agglutinating or sperm-immobilizing antibodies.

These results are discussed in the context of possible interference with fertility if vasovasostomy is to be performed.

Interesting, thank you.