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Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study

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Re: Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study

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Post by aszantu »

IanSanders wrote: post #198
icandoit wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being the kind of person that is willing to experiment to solve their problems is better than being a person that is miserable and changes nothing. A random walk may not get you out a bad situation, but staying put is strictly worse less likely to get you out. What would a reinforcement learning agent do?

I'm just trying to understand the connection between >some of the depression might just be nutrient deficiency. >Can be tested by fasting for 4 days

anti nutrients causing inflammation(body uses nutrients to fight inflammation), leaving them out calms the inflammation and the body can use the nutrients it has better. Btw. supplementing zinc and magnesium seems to help ppl with depression. Lectins(all seeds) as in beans, nuts, corn and wheat are binding to iron and zinc, I forgot what was with the magnesium, but it played a role as well...

Re: Depression and suicide linked to air pollution in new global study

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Post by drderidder »

icandoit wrote: post #152
drderidder wrote: post #136

No doubt pollution will make you sick, but I'm inclined to think that depression has a lot to do with just living in an over-crowded, unattractive, big industrial city environment, having little contact with the natural world.

Suicide rates are higher in rural America than in urban America. https://www.cdc.gov/ruralhealth/Suicide.html Why imagine what is true when you can take a second and find out what is true? The truth is external to you, look for it. I don't want to be a jerk, but you have generated a hypothesis(great), why not test it against the facts available to you? Maybe you owe it to yourself. According to this, it is also true…

That's a fair and valid point. I should have expanded on the list of possible factors to include living in a "bad" environment in general, where "bad" can be defined by a huge number of things, including poverty, hopelessness, and a million other things to numerous to mention... other than the one single factor of "air pollution" that this article suggests is the reason for depression and suicide. That was, after all, the point of my comment, in case you missed it; that idea which the article seems to promote - that air pollution causes suicide - is highly questionable.

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Post by cookingrobot »

blaser-waffle wrote: post #164
elhudy wrote: post #151

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Auto immune diseases as a whole have increased over just the past 30 years; I'd speculate asthma is a part of this. It will be interesting to see the driving environmental causalities behind these autoimmune disease increases if pollution is not a key variable.

The immune system is a use-it-or-lose-it thing. Lots of healthy bodies mean the immune system has to go after something...

Is that true? Would frequent vaccines help give the immune system something to do?
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