A lot of the stuff they absolutely believe.

I have many colleagues who really want the best for children + it breaks their heart what they see as children being harmed by vaccines.

Can't vouch, of course for people I've never met like Prasad or RFK, though in years past his work seemed genuine.

They definitely strongly believe that giving a vaccine at birth for something people don't catch until they are teenagers makes no sense. That it put babies at risk.

On the other side is the explanation from public health that you have to grab the opportunity and that vaccines are not harmful.

Once you add sugar and artificial flavors and colors, I think then I would call it ultra processed.

But interestingly, yogurt you make it home has a higher diversity and abundance of beneficial bacteria.

That's a great question. Many of the added ingredients are harmful, but also useful aspects of food are stripped out in UPFs.

Eg. healthy food feeds our gut bacteria, which create critical substances that benefit all the organs in the body.

UPFs are lacking the components we need for this.

I don't know what this is trying to say, are we judging the healthfulness of a food by the number of calories per 100 g?

Yes, and a lot of it is mediated through the gut microbiome.

The problem is how difficult it is to avoid artificial light at night! I believe one way to reduce the impact is to get some exposure to the sun around sunset.

There are so many things you can do for blood pressure that get at the root of the problem. Stretching, isometric exercise, nitric oxide supplements.
All these are backed by decent research.

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The article multiplies the sense of awe and wonder. Thanks for posting.

What toxicologists (vs. dentists) think: open.substack.com/pub/blanphea...

Here, one of the leading third-party testers found 6/10 brands they tested did not contain any.

The ones that did were some of the more expensive ones costing $1.6-$10/day (similar to what you described since you need 1g/day).
TBF some contain a combination of mitochondrial nutrients.

It's exciting this worked, but this is an extremely expensive supplement, and I wonder what other practices might provide similar benefits.

Urolithin A is a gut bacteria derived metabolite, but you need both the right bacteria and the right food intake.

That's my business, though, and I can tell you there's no country that really does proactive healthcare.

Anyways, public policy, agricultural policy, and the like do more for people's health overall. But we still need medical care, of course.

Other fun fact, we already pay more through various ways for patchy healthcare than people in other countries pay for universal healthcare.

This arose in the context of LDL targets. People with higher LDL have a relative risk of all cause mortality that is lower than 1, but the 95% confidence interval crosses unity.

So, in practice, what should we tell people with higher LDL?