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Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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I take N-acetylcysteine and it helps with brain fog also! Plus it reduces stress and irritability.

What is your dosage?

I take 1200mg a day, when Im taking it. I think standard/reccomended dosage is 600mg.

Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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“The most surprising part? It all happened within weeks and lasted for months.” That’s an AI tell. It may not be entirely LLM-generated, the various direct quotations help a lot, but there are touches that definitely feel like an LLM had a hand here.

That's not an "AI tell". If you read anything in recent decades, this is a turn of speech human writers wrote for ages and still write.

I guess all AI writing patterns are copied from human writing. The tell is that you get patterns like that more frequently than with human writing and in odd places.

It's funny if you look at the paper https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev... how different it is from the article. They basically tried their spray on 18 month old mice and then dissected their brains at 20.5 months to check inflammation.

Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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I even seen a mouse on youtube with it's own tiny EV sports car driving about!

This one? https://youtube.com/shorts/E74r-ybeQfE Someone needs to put an octopus in a mini vehicle.

That's the one. I used a bit of creative freedom when describing a mouse with an EV sports car; it was a rat and an EV taxi.

Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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What is your dosage?

I take 1200mg a day, when Im taking it. I think standard/reccomended dosage is 600mg.

What's the reason to take it everyday? Does it truly make a difference everyday or could you get away with 1/3 days?

What are the effects on you?

Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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>>The article is also heavily ai generated can you please share your methodology for detecting ai please?

“The most surprising part? It all happened within weeks and lasted for months.” That’s an AI tell. It may not be entirely LLM-generated, the various direct quotations help a lot, but there are touches that definitely feel like an LLM had a hand here.

>>That’s an AI tell

do you have any other explanation other than tells? - maybe your tarot cards might have better explanation.

Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not an "AI tell". If you read anything in recent decades, this is a turn of speech human writers wrote for ages and still write.

I guess all AI writing patterns are copied from human writing. The tell is that you get patterns like that more frequently than with human writing and in odd places. It's funny if you look at the paper https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev... how different it is from the article. They basically tried their spray on 18 month old mice and then dissected their brains at 20.5 months to check inflam…

>>It's funny if you look at the paper https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev... how different it is from the article

i can sense the lack of capacity for reasoning in your comment. it's okay. the paper and the article are written by two very different people. the article is written by someone in the communications team, who communicate "what's going on at the university" to the outside world . the paper is written by the actual scientists.

Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This one? https://youtube.com/shorts/E74r-ybeQfE Someone needs to put an octopus in a mini vehicle.

That's the one. I used a bit of creative freedom when describing a mouse with an EV sports car; it was a rat and an EV taxi.

Close enough

Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess all AI writing patterns are copied from human writing. The tell is that you get patterns like that more frequently than with human writing and in odd places. It's funny if you look at the paper https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev... how different it is from the article. They basically tried their spray on 18 month old mice and then dissected their brains at 20.5 months to check inflam…

>>It's funny if you look at the paper https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev ... how different it is from the article i can sense the lack of capacity for reasoning in your comment. it's okay. the paper and the article are written by two very different people. the article is written by someone in the communications team, who communicate "what's going on at the university" to the outside world .…

>tried their spray on 18 month old mice and then dissected their brains at 20.5 months

is not the same facts as

>It all happened within weeks and lasted for months

I suspect LLM hallucination rather than different people. Or maybe I missed the bit where they tested it lasting for months?

Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not an "AI tell". If you read anything in recent decades, this is a turn of speech human writers wrote for ages and still write.

I guess all AI writing patterns are copied from human writing. The tell is that you get patterns like that more frequently than with human writing and in odd places. It's funny if you look at the paper https://isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jev... how different it is from the article. They basically tried their spray on 18 month old mice and then dissected their brains at 20.5 months to check inflam…

Interesting, I wish I read the paper but somehow didn't encounter links. This takes it from bad writing to terrible journalism to be honest. Can't defend it...

Re: Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

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"Reverse brain aging", sure, in the same sense that taking Vitamin C reverses aging. The nasal spray reduced markers of inflammation in hippocampal microglial cells. A lot of things reduce inflammation. That is not "reversing ageing". Of course, "reduces inflammation" doesn't headline very well...

Asking this honestly...if certain kinds of inflammation tend to accelerate aging, and those inflammations can be controlled or decreased, does that, in effect, at least slow (if not actually reverse) aging? Granted that the headline is sensationalized, it seems like there may still be a point being made that is valid.
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