p/health-fitness

Supplements and Vitamins

Microplastics! Sometimes the sky's not falling!

Does Anybody Know What This Is?

Give me your favorite weight lifting exercise

Meat and Fish options

Eating well is the best way to get your vits, imo, but our food isn’t as healthy as it should be, obvs.  Thanks Bill Gates.  I think fish oil is super as well as calcium (women def need to take calcium supplements).  Living in New England I take B12.  I also take Vitamin C, but I am no health expert by any stretch.  I think some vit supplements are bullshit, especially the multi kind.  I try to buy brands that are organic.  For skin rosehip oil and castor oil are nice.

I think I'm still bought in, but I'm also more than willing to admit the problem may range from catastrophic to non-existent. Evidence ultimately needs to be the standard by which we judge the plausibility of a narrative.

Also cooking with herbs as much as possible, cuz they are medicine too.  Even the common herbs have a lot of health benefits, like thyme, rosemary, etc.  and they are easy to grow and maintain.

Well, proposed remedies for the individual, like "eat more kimchi", can't do much harm.   Aside from the microplastic issue, the only tenable disposal method for plastic is incineration.  Here in NoVa, trash gets incinerated by Reworld (formerly Covanta - name changes are stupid).   Plastics burn with no residue (at incineration temps - don't burn at home) vs 10% ash residue for burning wood/paper. In CA, they ordered their trash to power plants to shutdown (" 'cause CO2! "), so their plastic is going in the landfills again.  A quick web search of waste to power shows incinerators in Europe and Skandinavia as well. Friends visiting from NY state (no incinerator) bring compacted plastic "fuel bricks" to "donate" to Reworld.  The marginal fuel cost is negligible. So campaigning for incinerators is one way to reduce plastic pollution of all kinds.  Waste to power companies can make a profit incinerating landfill trash if the removal/transportation cost is low enough.   Transporting "plastic islands" on the ocean to a land based incinerator is cost prohibitive.  However there are some projects for building the incinerator on a barge - the problem there is what to do with the electricity.  Losses for charging industrial batteries (e.g. liquid metal) eat up any profits.

"This isn’t just frustrating — it’s a form of psychological warfare. When people are too afraid to ask questions, society loses its ability to protect the vulnerable.' And not just the vulnerable....anyone at all. The gaslighting is brutal. " But pretending the rise is a mystery we shouldn’t investigate — or worse, a “**celebration of neurodiversity**” that shuts down honest inquiry — isn’t compassion. It’s denial." This 'neurodiversity" is getting out of control...literally. You are making great points.  Peace.