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Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by Noaidi »

figmert wrote: post #11

> I'm going to try and solve it. Will share all. Will he share all or will he try to sell you some fad instead? I wish him the best, and hope he recovers, but my money is on him trying to sell something new that won't work.

You know what? "Will share all" except my money is more like it. Because just getting $50,000 from this guy would remove all the stress from my currently homeless living in a minivan life and take away the majority of stress that is a trigger for my schizoaffective disorder. So you know what? Eff this guy.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by Zenbit_UX »

Michelangelo11 wrote: post #41

> Even before this finding, my team had ordered five biopsies to be taken from three regions of my stomach. This is really invasive and I definitely hope there were solid grounds to order this. If not, his team has a pretty gung-ho approach.

Well he just « overhauled » them… which I’m going to interpret as laying off a bunch who didn’t flag this to him earlier. If you just got hired by a billionaire who fired everyone on the prior team for not catching something, and is paying you to be brutally accurate are you going to order 1 biopsy? 2?

One gives you a high potential for false positives or negatives, two data points with opposite results is just as useless. Three is the gold standard to create a consensus among sensors, a lesson Boeing learned with their angle of attack at the cost of many lives.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by WarmWash »

Zenbit_UX wrote: post #47
WarmWash wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a better take would be "He publicly shares everything about his lifestyle and routine rather than paywalling them, so if he is running a scam, he probably needs some pointers" Even his supplements are just concoctions of stuff anyone can buy, the ingredients are fully transparent. Anyone can follow what he does without giving him a penny.

> He publicly shares everything about his lifestyle and routine rather than paywalling them, so if he is running a scam, he probably needs some pointers Disagree. What he does is run a YouTube channel that appears to do that. That makes it an ideal vehicle to advertise supplements with little research or scientific backing to an uninformed and trusting audience.

Each day the stock market likely moves his NW more than the ARR of his supplement company.

Again, if he is trying to run a supplement scam with an NW north of $1B, he needs some pointers. Dude could announce an AI startup tomorrow and get more funding than any of his current companies would make in a lifetime.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by Noaidi »

Yapping7880 wrote: post #16

I really appreciate how the author dramatizes hypothyroidism, which I've also had since 25, and in the modern world, it's like the most treatable, easy to live with condition on earth. Taking a tiny pill once daily, with the lone drawback that as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump. I was reading this and didn't understand the point until I got to this: "I overhauled my medical team earli…

Yes, IMHO, he is overly dramatizing "mild gastritis" and I think he is doing it so all of us sit here yammering on about him like he is some genius.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by WarmWash »

Noaidi wrote: post #49
Jonovono wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to buy his act too but once he started doing psychedelics and live streaming it, it became clear it was all just a scam

Yes, that was it for me too. Because anyone who understands neurobiology understands how psychedelics work and wouldn’t bother with them.

Sarcasm?

https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/research/clinics-and-pr...

https://psychedelics.cornell.edu/

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/research-unit/center-science...

https://psychedelics-study.harvard.edu/research/

https://www.hopkinspsychedelic.org/

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by Noaidi »

WarmWash wrote: post #27
slifin wrote: post #22

I wouldn't be surprised if it's the glyphosate We need to get back to regenerative farming that already has time proven solutions for weeds (ok maybe not the same yield straight away but at least its sustainable) If your soil is just a chemical laden dust bowl then there are 2nd and 3 order effects from that

Anything that kills yield drives up the cost of food. So while organic sustainable farming works and produces food, what is not shared is that the yield per unit work is dramatically higher for the chemical laden stuff.

> Anything that kills yield drives up the cost of food.

You are making an assumption that "organic" = "driving down yields"[1] and that yield is the most important aspect of a food.

[1] https://rodaleinstitute.org/blog/new-research-reveals-organi...

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by ungreased0675 »

slifin wrote: post #22

I wouldn't be surprised if it's the glyphosate We need to get back to regenerative farming that already has time proven solutions for weeds (ok maybe not the same yield straight away but at least its sustainable) If your soil is just a chemical laden dust bowl then there are 2nd and 3 order effects from that

What makes you suspect that in particular? Farms use all kinds of different chemicals besides glyphosate.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by tangenter »

I’m not qualified in the least to discuss this topic.

I think the cocktails of experiments and supplements he’s done might not be good for the body.

There is an underlying fear of death that gets these guys as they age. They’d trade all the wealth they have if they could be $X years younger. That is I think worth “solving” more than some immortality thing.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by WarmWash »

Noaidi wrote: post #56
WarmWash wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anything that kills yield drives up the cost of food. So while organic sustainable farming works and produces food, what is not shared is that the yield per unit work is dramatically higher for the chemical laden stuff.

> Anything that kills yield drives up the cost of food. You are making an assumption that "organic" = "driving down yields"[1] and that yield is the most important aspect of a food. [1] https://rodaleinstitute.org/blog/new-research-reveals-organi...

I am glad that an organic farming non-profit investigated organic farming and found no downsides.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by ck2 »

eth0up wrote: post #43
ck2 wrote: post #5

my 2 cents 1. try taking Saccharomyces Boulardii asap, it is a very different kind of probiotic, a yeast actually, that tends to push out the bad and promote the good 2. JAK-STAT inhibitors are the only known drug to get the body to stop attacking itself from autoimmune diseases, but not a cure and unfortunately they cost an absolute fortune without insurance but importing from Canada and India is possible

I would normally be inclined to jump in and top your recommendation with other, spore forming probiotics, eg Subtilis, Coagulans, etc. My old friend in Aussieland has been struggling with a multitude of ailments, gastrointestinal among them. After doing a few hours of well-intended research, I gave him a list of things I thought might help, all with disclaimers and contraindications noted. He chose to pursue the Coag…

Saccharomyces Boulardii is not like any other probiotic

go ask google or chatgpt to explain why and you'll get it, more than I can narrate here

it will not colonize and can even be taken with antibiotics to help the gut survive

as long as the person is not allergic to yeast they would be fine in theory

once a person stops taking it there is no trace of it in your system 3-5 days later

ps. never take multi-strain probiotics, if you think the supplement world is sketchy there is absolutely no regulation or consistency to the probiotic world

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