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Traditional auyrveda and yoga is great. Cult leaders and wondercures aren't.
So if something legitimate is being promoted by a "cult leader", it makes it illegitimate?
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From what I understand, is that if your body is quite good at fighting infection (and thus creates inflammation) you'll live longer. Seems a bit obvious to me, but what do I know? I'm not an academic scientist...
It's the other way around. Their finding is that lower levels of inflammation correlates with survival, capability and cognition in centenarians.
It's always strange to me how certain studies seem to gain so many upvotes on hackernews....a few thoughts: 1. This is a single study published in 2015, what does the wider literature say? Any dieticians or clinicians recommending anything from this? 2. The journal is EBioMedicine, which is not nothing but not exactly pre-eminent either. 3. This seems like just a common sense conclusion: "In Cox proportional hazard m…
All the things I've listened to regarding health an longevity have a recurring theme - inflammation happens a lot in modern life - and it decreases your lifespan. I think type 2 diabetes is basically an inflammatory disease. More and more people are "pre-diabetes", which is basically lifestyle moving them towards type 2 diabetes.
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There is nothing wrong with hair loss, it is perfectly natural, even when young and it doesn't mean you are getting old, not even a little bit, it even can look good, OK?
I never said it’s not natural or that there’s anything wrong with it. It’s known to be associated with stress so barring other known factors, if you suddenly start losing your hair then stress could be a cause. In contrast to long term loss, short term loss from stress tends to be reversible if it’s caught early enough.
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I think you’re overthinking it. Certain studies gain so many upvotes on HN because they generate interesting discussion, and may be worth storing in our favorites for sharing and/or future reference. I almost always upvote articles when there is interesting discussion (or the potential for interesting discussion) related to the article. I very rarely (but do sometimes) upvote articles solely based on the content of t…
On the other hand, isn't it a peer-reviewed journal? If we have to do the legwork of going around asking what other clinicians think of it, it has failed at its mission as a peer-reviewed journal.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31881765/
I skimmed through that review and it mostly references mice and rats, as well as cell models. There is a huge difference between that and “in most people”. In fact, you’d need a lot studies in actual people(not cell models) of different ages and and conditions to say it works.
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You made a lot of good comments on this article, do you have a background in nutrition?
Nice try, NSA.