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Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by prirun »

twawaaay wrote: post #104
b4je7d7wb wrote: post #83

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Do they not teach you about macronutrients in highschool? I think nutrition is one of the earliest things you figure out that it depends and nobody really knows what their talking about. My mother and wife have a lot of opinions about nutrition that are obviously unscientific, situational and anecdotal. > Lifetime of avoiding fat... exactly opposite of what I should have been doing... There is more nuance involved. W…

> It's your own responsibility to figure it out instead of being told what to do. Why bother having education system if you are supposed to figure everything out on your own? How is nutrition different from math or grammar?

> Why bother having education system if you are supposed to figure everything out on your own? How is nutrition different from math or grammar?

1. To "educate" / program you on what to buy to sustain the rest of your life, eg, "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". Which is true if you are a cereal company:

https://www.successstudiopt.com/blog/is-breakfast-really-the...

2. People have arteries clogged with cholesterol. This is bad. Cholesterol is in eggs. Therefore eggs cause cholesterol build-up in the arteries and should be avoided. Eat cereal instead. This has been completely debunked.

Etc.

Does the education system teach kids about debt, why it's so bad, how to avoid it, ways it will sneak up and fuck you over (ARM, variable-rate credit card interest, ...)? Not when I went to school. There was no class on managing money in my entire 12 years of "education". Just another thing to figure out on your own, hopefully after many mistakes that enrich large corporations.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by joshspankit »

twawaaay wrote: post #104
b4je7d7wb wrote: post #83

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Do they not teach you about macronutrients in highschool? I think nutrition is one of the earliest things you figure out that it depends and nobody really knows what their talking about. My mother and wife have a lot of opinions about nutrition that are obviously unscientific, situational and anecdotal. > Lifetime of avoiding fat... exactly opposite of what I should have been doing... There is more nuance involved. W…

> It's your own responsibility to figure it out instead of being told what to do. Why bother having education system if you are supposed to figure everything out on your own? How is nutrition different from math or grammar?

Agree. This is part of why we need educational reform.

Currently in North America, school is optimized to solve two main problems:

1. Create citizens who work well in companies (sadly these are industrial-era: show up on time, parrot back what is told to you, be the same as everyone else)

2. Babysitting parents who are currently working for companies (this was especially obvious in Ontario’s approach to the pandemic).

If we optimized for population health/wealth things would look a lot different (and from the outside it looks like some private schools in America are already there).

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by joshspankit »

JimtheCoder wrote: post #127
twawaaay wrote: post #104

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> It's your own responsibility to figure it out instead of being told what to do. Why bother having education system if you are supposed to figure everything out on your own? How is nutrition different from math or grammar?

"How is nutrition different from math or grammar?" Well, because 1 + 1 = 2, all the time, and the optimal diet is different for everyone?

Things are different but there are fairly universal rules. Math was not a favourable comparison. Science and the social studies probably fit more.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by eloff »

tasuki wrote: post #212
thepasswordis wrote: post #173

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Hey man good luck! I know some people who have tried and tried before it finally all clicked. One person I can think of now has 4 kids! It can be tough. I'm sure you don't need any advice. Kids are the best, most meaningful thing you will ever do. Its worth it to keep trying.

> most meaningful thing you will ever do. Also by far the hardest. In the best case, it is not all roses.

The most worthwhile things tend to be hard.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by twawaaay »

valenceelectron wrote: post #239
twawaaay wrote: post #132

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I am currently "researching", learning all this stuff. So I guess take it with lots of caution? Since you asked, this is headlines of most of what I figured out: * Your main goals should be achieving metabolic flexibility, eliminating most of the "bad" stuff (sugars, processed oils, most carbs, etc.), supplying your body with mitochondrial decouplers daily and doing low level aerobic exercise, consistently. * If you…

> (insulin sensitivity is your ability to clear blood sugars, exercise does not improve insulin sensitivity directly but helps clear the sugar making it as if insulin was more effective). Can you elaborate? As far as I'm aware exercise (even moderate) does indeed increase insulin sensitivity. I was told so by my doctor and as type 1 diabetic with 24/7 glucose monitoring sensor I can "see" this. A day long hike (not i…

Regardless of the type of diabetes you have, your body needs to clear sugar from bloodstream. It really does not matter how this happens, exactly. Insulin performs other functions in your body... but ability to clear sugar is the absolutely most vital concern.

If you can do things that either prevent or clear blood sugar levels from your bloodstream you can technically live without the need for insulin at all.

With a proper diet and discipline you can theoretically even dispense with continuous monitor. What this would require is observing yourself with a monitor while you test your lifestyle choices to validate you are not making mistakes and then stop using it when you trust what you are doing is effective.

Please, do not misconstrue this as an actual medical advice (I am a software developer and definitely no medical education). But if I was type 1 diabetic I would probably try to ensure correct levels of sugar without external insulin. The problem with external insulin is that the dosage is always delayed, it is a point in time and is never perfect. This is not perfect for your health, it is just the best we can.

Now, I would never recommend this to a person I don't know they can be responsible and disciplined enough not to endanger themselves this way. I think this is critical and I also think that unfortunately most people who have diabetes are not fit mentally to do this.

But lowering your blood sugar without insulin would lead to much better results because you would avoid the spikes altogether and you would not risk getting sensitive to insulin from overdosing it.

FYI when I am on keto diet my blood sugar levels are staying consistently low regardless of how much I eat. I have lower blood sugar levels right after a large meal than most people have before the meal(~85mg/dL or 4.7mmol/L after a meal with ~75mg/dL or around 3.9mmol/L before the meal).

I do not plan to stay on keto all the time, I am using it as a tool to build metabolic flexibility. But if I was diabetic I would probably consider keto very seriously to improve my prospects and break dependency on external insulin, constant blood sugar monitoring and every day decisions on what and how much to eat.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by noptd »

EGreg wrote: post #144
novok wrote: post #129

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I do educate myself. I read many different viewpoints, including for example parents whose own kids were diagnosed with ADHD and did more research. As one example: https://www.amazon.com/ADHD-Hunter-Farmers-Thom-Hartmann/dp/... First of all, I appreciate your sharing of personal anecdotal experience (I mean that sincerely), and I am open to more infomation. But you should be also willing to educate yourself on what y…

This condescending, pseudo-intellectual bullshit has no place on HN. Take it back to r/conspiracy where it belongs.

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Post by opamp »

thepasswordis wrote: post #173
danielvaughn wrote: post #161

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My wife and I have been trying for a kid for a while, and though I’m healthy, over the past 9 months I’ve gone down a rabbit hole on the professional literature around men’s health. I don’t know how it compares to anything else, but the variance of the data is what struck me the most. That, and the low-resolution around a lot of the studies that have been run. I get that science is hard, but I would expect a LOT more…

Hey man good luck! I know some people who have tried and tried before it finally all clicked. One person I can think of now has 4 kids! It can be tough. I'm sure you don't need any advice. Kids are the best, most meaningful thing you will ever do. Its worth it to keep trying.

> Kids are the best, most meaningful thing you will ever do.

Just coming in from the other side, but this is not universally true.

Mine has been an absolute nightmare, and I’m in pretty intense therapy trying to keep it all together. My relationship with my wife has been wonderful before and after, so that wasn’t a factor.

I’m not trying to dissuade people from having children, but we were completely unprepared for how challenging ours is. Apparently this isn’t the case for everyone.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by fancybouncy »

danielvaughn wrote: post #161
TheFreim wrote: post #112

The evidence is extremely varied, and in my opinion unreliable for making serious claims. Commonly cited by those repeating these claims, which as others have pointed out is rife with issues pertaining to causality, is the 2004 study "Ejaculation Frequency and Subsequent Risk of Prostate Cancer" published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Here is a section summarizing what came before: > Prev…

My wife and I have been trying for a kid for a while, and though I’m healthy, over the past 9 months I’ve gone down a rabbit hole on the professional literature around men’s health. I don’t know how it compares to anything else, but the variance of the data is what struck me the most. That, and the low-resolution around a lot of the studies that have been run. I get that science is hard, but I would expect a LOT more…

if I may give you a piece of advice, ask yourself whether you can guarantee that your kid will be happy to have been forced to come to life, or if you are selfishly taking a bet at someone else's expense.

Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)

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Post by omniglottal »

menaerus wrote: post #228
haspok wrote: post #227

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> By knowing for the fact that saturated fats are unhealthy This is simply not true, much less a "fact". This myth most probably comes from the good old American Heart Association who base their opinion of a study way back in the 1960s which was since proven to have been of extremely low quality. There is a ton of info about this online (including scientific studies, not just blog posts), pro and contra, you can read…

Right, as if the American Heart Association was the only organization in world to examine the effects of saturated fats to our health, and as if the last study on that topic has been done half a century ago. Thanks for your advice but unless you're willing to share that "ton of info" to support your rather absurd claim, I'll stick to my common sense.

Someone just pointed you toward "a ton of info" that you could find if you only bothered. You chose to patently disregard with the audacity of suggesting it's up to them to hold your hand and spoon-feed you this info that you're intentionally choosing to ignore. Do us a favor and re-read the guidelines regarding "good faith" and until then, get off this site.
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