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Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by phendrenad2 »

catchclose8919 wrote: post #204

This is one of the things where it matters more how healthy/unpolluted your environment is . I'd dare to say that a not-so-phisically-active moderate-smoker living in a less polluted environment has way lower cancer risk than a bio-vegan athlete buddhist monk living in a polluted industrial hellhole. I'd wish we lived in a world where we could actually address chemical, air-particulate +/- microplastics pollution ser…

Part of me thinks that "green energy", "saving the environment", "stopping global warming" are all partly promoted by big businesses who know that they're unattainable goals, to keep us focused on some lofty ideal rather than focusing on small-scale environmental dangers. I remember visiting San Francisco, supposedly the liberal utopia of the west, and finding that I was forced to endure choking smog in order to use any public transit. Why are California's public transit stations all built near major highways, at street level, parallel with huge trucks and busses, with no ventilation? Because no one cares about you, it's all about "being green", whatever THAT means.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by bobthepanda »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #277
bobthepanda wrote: post #88

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thick and heavy are generally counterproductive to flying.

You shouldn't fly at all because of the increased exposure to the solar radiation at high altitude, better taxi on the ground.

unless someone comes up with another way to get across the Atlantic in 6 hours affordably, flying will be indispensable.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by themaninthedark »

throwrugtime wrote: post #359
kuhewa wrote: post #336

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> followed by heat dissipation because humans are all 100 watts space heaters. Well that's an.. interesting take

People talk about 'natural resources' and about how we're overpopulated all the time, but don't often want to go into real specifics. My guess is the repressed desire for death and depopulation came first, and the narrative later. English-speaking culture is steeped in Christianity (even modern 'wokeism' is just another, more radical iteration of calvinism), and Christianity is a doomsday cult; we're fascinated by do…

That doesn't jive with most of my experiences. The Christian narrative I see is be fruitful and multiply, nature will provide.

The people that I do see promoting this sort of population limit theory are new age hippies, vegans and the like. Recently seems very popular with more college educated folk. 'How can you think about having kids when you know how bad it is for the environment'

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by ekanes »

ahoka wrote: post #234
ekanes wrote: post #177

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I don’t think when we work out, we get more cell division. Our muscle fibers get stronger and grow wider (vs adding more muscles).

I just checked this once, and both can happen, but it depends on the type of exercise.

Ok thanks!

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by oceanplexian »

paulpauper wrote: post #437
jll29 wrote: post #279

First of all, I'm sorry to learn the author got cancer; I wish her all the best and continued strength. Many contributors have already made good suggestions how to reduce the risk of getting cancer, or how to deal with it; but I found most posts quite _technical_. Speaking in general terms, cancer is not a disease like a common cold. The human body sooner or later is bound to decay, which pretty much starts once one…

There is a lot wrong with this post Speaking in general terms, cancer is not a disease like a common cold. you don't say I am at peace with that, for we need to make space for the next generation (only adding people to planet earth would not be sustainable, as resources are scarce - imagine nobody would ever die). Being on this planet for a limited time period makes it more important to make the right choices, becaus…

It's definitely a form of fatalism; people who hold views like this are viewing it from a certain state of consciousness, and so they see the world through a lens that reflects the negative (Not that there aren't plenty of negative things going on in the world and the environment, but there is much more to be optimistic about).

From my point of view if you look at the state of humanity objectively, it's pretty obvious that most of us are living our best lives compared to any time in history. Even the fact that we understand some of the damage we might be doing to the planet is a huge leap forward, since understanding the problem is the first step to finding a solution. And we have more tools and solutions than ever before in history: earth observation/space travel, genetic engineering, renewable energy, powerful, cheap and abundant computing, rapid prototyping etc, etc.

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Post by themaninthedark »

batch12 wrote: post #330
gameswithgo wrote: post #301

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Life is like poker, not chess. You can make the best choices and often you will still lose.

*always you will still lose. We will all die.

I don't like death and I would be in line just as quick as most people if I could be immortal and reasonably healthy.

But is death loosing?

I don't view death as the antithesis of life, more appropriately I think it mirrors conception/birth.

I think of death more as a finale, the conclusion to your story be it grand or mundane. I also wonder if not for death would we cherish the events in life as greatly as we do? Think of the thinks that gave you pleasure as a child that you no longer care for as they have become stale and boring. Perhaps it would be so with living had we not death.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by samatman »

Noumenon72 wrote: post #406
samatman wrote: post #282

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I don't know if you're expressing a common misconception here, but a lot of Americans also think general anaesthetic is widely used for wisdom teeth removal, and it isn't. What is widely used is deep sedation, a combination of ketamine and benzos which keeps the patient calm and, the nice part, prevents any memories of the event from forming. It's maybe an extra hour of recovery, same-day procedure in either case. Po…

I don't see the joke -- is this entire post untrue then?

Ah no. It hinges on paracetamol and acetaminophen being two names for the same analgesic. Everything but that sentence was perfectly serious.

It's also a rare joke where explaining it won't reduce the effect: by the time a Brit hits the end of the offending sentence, it's too late.

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Post by giantg2 »

umeshunni wrote: post #451
giantg2 wrote: post #435

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"switch to a sustainable diet and ditch intensive farms using chemicals to boost production" Do we know what the population limit would be for us to sustainably support people?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/asia/sri-lanka-orga...

Yeah. I remember seeing WHO estimates that the world can support 8-12 billion with an expected peak around 11 billion. These figures use conventional agriculture and even assumes some advances. That's why I was wondering how many people we can sustainably support. I don't think I've ever heard of a report that looks at it that way.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by cleancasey5564 »

I have no proof to offer, exceptthe report of a video I did watch myself. In 1974 a Dr made a study on animal protein and cancer. In mice test subject in a laboratory he found cancer cells in the mice needed animal protein as food to survive and grow. Versus plant protein as food which they did not grow. I have looked for this study to no avail. I am a vegan now. This is my only post here, as I only read. The ladies story compelled me to share whether it was received or not. I fully believe the government would never let a cure be known unless it was pills and expensive. Good luck. All cancer Dr's put you on a high protein diet of animal flesh. Maybe not all but it is recognized as a path forward.

Re: I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer

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Post by maerF0x0 »

loudtieblahblah wrote: post #446
maerF0x0 wrote: post #397

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It's particularly damning once you begin to age. To pull a number out of my ass and give a piece of advice we all should focus on reducing mTor by 40. David sinclair has a bunch of great material on the subject. On his own youtube channel, in talks with others.

David Sinclair is right about mTor and IGF-1 but i find him to be really untrustworthy. he has so much riding on Resveratrol and has put so much into videos, books, gotten grants and so forth, that when studies came out proving Resveratrol isn't the miracle substance he (and many others) purported it to be, he basically just started doubling down and refusing to engage with other scientists calling him out on it. if…

> Resveratrol

That's a pretty outdated view of him. I've seen him admit resveratrol was thematically the right idea, but admittedly not as revolutionary as hoped. Lately he's been more interested in sirtuins, NMN and the like as ways of dealing with the 4 yamanaka factors etc.

I highly recommend his youtube channel where he puts it into pretty easily consumable content

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