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Re: What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

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Post by righthand » Sat, Jul 05, 2025, 2:51 PM UTC

MangoToupe wrote: post #97

righthand wrote: post #91

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It is not difficult to make your own bread as well, so easily avoided eating non-processed bread.

> so easily avoided eating non-processed bread. How do you make bread without flour? Flour is a processed food.

I’m not even talking about the fact that flour is processed in the general sense. The generic sliced grocery store loaf itself has added preservatives, sugar, etc that you wouldn’t find in a homemade loaf. When people talk about eating non-processed foods they usually mean eating whole (ex. Fruits, vegetables) or foods without preservatives and stabilizers.

Re: What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

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Post by jobs_throwaway » Mon, Jul 07, 2025, 3:10 PM UTC

phoronixrly wrote: post #137

jobs_throwaway wrote: post #122

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I found it quite effective in helping me to grind leetcode when I was job hunting while working full-time but YMMV. Perhaps I would've gotten the same gig, but I tried doing a month without it and found my ability to power through was significantly lower than with amphetamines. Maybe it was because the amphetamine gave me an artificially high amount of dopamine which offset the inherently boring nature of the task.

... How are you doing now?

Doing great! I'm doing well in the job - as expected, the actual tasks required of me are ~nothing like leetcode. My sleep is definitely better after discontinuing amphetamine use. Got a massive raise so that alleviates a lot of stress around money as well. No complaints from me, I'd do the exact same thing if I had to do it over again.

Re: What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)

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Post by the_sleaze_ » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 3:20 PM UTC

MangoToupe wrote: post #162

the_sleaze_ wrote: post #158

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While yes, flour is ground and therefore processed - I think we all mean bleached, stabilized and enriched flour.

> I think we all mean bleached, stabilized and enriched flour. The entire point of this conversation is that the meaning of "processed" is entirely unclear, and I still don't understand what beef you have against bleached, stabilized, and enriched flour. I'd put any amount of money that whatever your concerns are can be addressed with the aphorism "everything in moderation".

That's a great point. In the USA the FDA mandates what is acceptable in moderation, individually. There is a maximum dose of a known poison that is considered "ok". The powers at be allow food companies to Micro Poison the public.

A good example is in 2012 big-ag started spraying wheat and oat with glyphosate to improve yield. Glyphosate is, by any available metric, a biohazard. Glyphosate is "ok" in small quantities (-- which by the way it has been measured in consumer food products to be orders of magnitude higher than allowed 100% of the time --). But my point is that each serving of bread will contain the maximum allowable dose. So if you eat 2 servings - you got 2x the dose. That's how the USA calculates it.