Dan Ostermayer

a common theory is sanitation improves the health of the population leading to the decline, but sanitation doesn't remove "viruses" (they are too small be filters by historic sanitation methods) but if sanitation improves the health of the population so people don't produce the viral particles then it would make sense that cleanliness and toxins being removed from human consumption would decrease the "viral diseases" 📝 f7b2343c…

mortality trends for classic vaccines

https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing tools should be predictable and only draw our attention when they are needed.

definitely a classic influencer post but for some people worth a try. removing the social media apps is probabaly the biggest win for most people. no social media, no need for a phone.

creatine use for nicotine cessation: Only have anecdotal evidence to support this in a handful of people who were all hooked on zyn pouches Smokers had lower concentrations creatine in the medial prefrontal cortex compared to nonsmokers https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33274546/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-02247-0 creatine supplementation increases brain levels https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-023-01870-9 nicotine lowers brain creatine → low brain creatine may impair prefrontal function and self-regulation → creatine supplementation might restore those levels and support cognitive function during withdrawal

two good review articles on the harms of food dyes 1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23026007/ 2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09… Children are considered especially vulnerable due to their lower body weight (they get a greater weight based dose in a day) Production of Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6 leaves behind contamination with benzidine and other carcinogens. Dyes have been associated with a colitis, renal insufficiency, hepatotoxicity, pathological changes in the gut, and oxidative stress.

the joy you get from seeing your children try something new and want to keep at it to get better supersedes all possible happiness your might get from work or material accolades

https://reason.com/2026/03/05/the-tax-loophole-that-made-… the exclusion of employer-sponsored health insurance from taxable income has had unintended consequences (as most gov programs do)

research institutions and professional schools are forced to use high priced research software with terrible UIs because the market is a niche without any competition now with the cost of software approaching zero the people can make useful tools that respect privacy and costs. introducing papertrace.org https://papertrace.org/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29067814/

imho consuming exogenous ketones is a bad idea https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/18/4/675

co sleeping is not associated with sids

i'm pretty sure self sovereignty is going to win with these LLM coding tools. i run one of the large healthcare wikis for emergency medicine (wikem.org) and many AI providers just scrape our data and providers are starting to ask chat boxes what to do on shift rather than reading a wiki page. there is no use fighting them to take down queries with our data especially since it is creative commons. so instead, by using their LLMs i built an LLM powered search for emergency docs https://wikem.ai/

walking after a meal helps with glucose spikes as your muscles contract and use the glucose that is spiking post consumption

During sleep—particularly slow-wave (deep) sleep—your body upregulates mitochondrial biogenesis, creating new, healthy mitochondria to replace aging ones. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29478834/

this is "the mandibles" except at least there was a push for multigenerational households out of necessity 📝 1a203c97…

i use a glass/steel aeropress to get plastic free coffee but here is a drip machine alternative https://puresteelco.com/

I think far too little attention is being given to the effects of abnormal and stressful growth conditions on the plants' natural defense systems. Plants normally synthesize some toxins and inhibitors of digestive enzymes to discourage attacks by bacteria, fungi, insects, and other predators. When a plant is injured or otherwise stressed, it produces more of the defensive substances, and very often they communicate their stress to other plants, and the resulting physiological changes can cause changes in seeds that affect the resistance of the progeny. (Agrawal, 2001) One of many substances produced by plants in response to injury is chitinase, an enzyme that breaks down chitin, a polysaccharide that is a structural component of fungi and insects. Chitinase, which is produced by bacteria and humans, as well as by plants and other organisms, is involved in developmental processes as well as in the innate immune system. In plants, the enzyme is induced by ethylene and salicylate, in animals by estrogen, light damage, and infections, and can be demonstrated in polyps and cancers. -https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/milk.shtml

ignore noise focus on first principles

💯 especially important for the elderly 📝 ae9fd737…