There is no notable evidence here, just theoretical hints. Sympathetic magic, translated into modern context.
Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
You took a left-turn: Nicotine is on-par with caffeine in isolation. It’s the rest of the crap in smokes and vapes to be concerned with. I was surprised to learn nicotine is used by functional doctors to treat CFS-adjacent conditions, and the mechanisms therein.
> You took a left-turn I certainly didn't; I simply quoted a sentence from the article. (I've noticed that some people have difficulty distinguishing between the person who quotes something and the person being quoted ... it might be a Sally-Anne effect.) > It’s the rest of the crap in smokes and vapes to be concerned with. Yes, which makes this article even less reliable.
The part where you said nicotine was a bad habit seemed to be your words,
an unquoted section.
You can attribute that opinion to the author, or society, or whoever now, if you choose,
regardless my point remains: nicotine shouldn’t be filed under “bad habit” by default.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you ignore "good" and "bad" then it's just "traits can be passed through this mechanism" egg seems a lot more reasonable.
But shouldn’t there have been an evolutionary advantage for such a thing to develop?
Not necessarily for the individual.
Some trees have mechanisms, for instance, where they die quickly but signal other trees if exposed to certain issues, allowing the other trees to put up a better defense.
Ants and other insects sometimes do the same thing.
Essentially a ‘jumps on the grenade’ gene.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
> nicotine is significantly more harmful than caffeine “ Significantly ” is an opinion. It’s more toxic by weight, yes. Messes with vascular more than caffeine. Both are an excellent way to screw up heart health. > let’s not get started on the CFS stuff, treatments for functional disorders are often placebo-resembling. Personally haven’t needed or wanted to use nicotine, but I have recovered from an array of chronic…
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Off-topic completely now,
but for your information, one last question:
does your opinion cover patents who have blood test results showing Lyme, and one or more known coinfections like Bab, Bart, (all known, and treatable bacterial infections),
or are you another Reddit regurgitation expert?
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#166> “This study shows that paternal exercise can confer benefits — enhanced endurance and metabolic health — to offspring,” So good habits can be good for offspring. > For instance, mouse fathers exposed to nicotine(opens a new tab) sire male pups with livers that are good at disarming not just nicotine but cocaine and other toxins as well. So bad habits can be good for offspring. > “We just don’t have really any under…
Also “mouse models”. The only purpose mouse models serve is to fill the popular press with sensational findings and torture a lot of mice.
They’re mice. I wouldn’t worry a whole lot about them.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think trying to "tune" your kids in any way is asking to be disappointed. My three kids could not be more different and they all have the same mother, grew up in the same house, etc. If "microRNA" profiles have any influence, I would wager it's very small.
> they all have the same mother, grew up in the same house, etc. I’m pretty sure the first one didn’t have siblings, and the second only had one. Also their mother is not the same person after raising the first kid, or raising two. Parenting never have reproducible conditions.
An adjacent point but despite ubiquitous birth order superstitions quality literature consensus seems to be that birth order is not a large driver of predictable differences. Example:
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#168assuming this is true, perhaps it's best to freeze sperm regularly with labels that way if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self? some possible times - right before college, right after college, after you meet someone you think you'd marry (but before you do), after marriage. seems like a neat premise for a sci fi novella.
> assuming this is true, perhaps it's best to freeze sperm regularly with labels that way if you go off the deep end you can snapshot quite literally your best self?
Then you'll probably have kids who resemble Wim Hof
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
nicotine is significantly more harmful than caffeine, although it is definitely way better than the other stuff in tobacco and not a carcinogen. let’s not get started on the CFS stuff, treatments for functional disorders are often placebo-resembling.
> nicotine is significantly more harmful than caffeine “ Significantly ” is an opinion. It’s more toxic by weight, yes. Messes with vascular more than caffeine. Both are an excellent way to screw up heart health. > let’s not get started on the CFS stuff, treatments for functional disorders are often placebo-resembling. Personally haven’t needed or wanted to use nicotine, but I have recovered from an array of chronic…
> Both are an excellent way to screw up heart health.
Plain black coffee has, somewhat surprisingly, been repeatedly demonstrated to be very healthy - with substantial reductions in all-cause mortality as well as the chances of developing cardiovascular disease. I tend to live somewhat spartanly in terms of consumption, and wanted to drop my coffee habit which looks something like this [1], but looking up the data on it left me dropping that idea real fast.
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#170It makes a kind of intuitive sense to me. Given I have no real understanding of the topic. Perfect click bait to get me to feel smart waxing intellectual on the toilet.
It’s interesting to think this information being passed is something like “Heads up. This dude does a lot of exercise which means it must be crucial to survival wherever we are.”