They couldn’t coerce enough people to install the app.
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richcollins commented on Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/ivanvas
Interesting correlation: Eating more meat seems to cause people to grow larger, but there is no strong evidence that being physically larger has intrinsic benefits outside of physical strength (which is arguably not very important). You do however need to eat more, you're more likely to get cancer, heart disease, suffer from chronic inflammation, etc.
Interestingly, statistics about growing larger are often used to support more meat eating by meat advocates. There is a lot of talk about protein quality, and the implication is that smaller people are disadvantaged – as though they must be growing less by all measures, not just stature. It isn't so clear that this is true though, and there's plenty of evidence to suggest we shouldn't strive to grow larger (either in stature or in lean mass).
I'm not saying there is a certain truth in there at all. I do find the correlations fascinating though. It defies a lot of what I understood about nutrition for most of my life so it's definitely something I'd like to see more data on. I'm open to a meat-based diet being superior overall (or any tasty diet, really).
In the people that use meat’s superior satiety to stay lean, you see lower inflammation, IGF-1, insulin … etc. On a purely meat diet with loads of protein, my IGF-1 was 90, a z-score of -1.
richcollins commented on Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe · Posted by u/danrocks
For those who have worked around and at Stripe for the past decade, this is not a surprise. Stripe, and especially the founders, have a quite a poor reputation for screwing over people in and around their orbit.
Almost every fintech startup has the story of Patrick reaching out about an acquisition, mining them for information playing along and then ghosting - same thing for candidates. They leadership team, specifically Patrick and Will Gaybrick are extremely smart but have screwed over a ton of people - be very careful about trusting.
You don't hear anything about this online, they're incredibly effective at squashing hit pieces and have a huge amount of reporters and power brokers under their control. On HN and silicon valley Stripe and Patrick are a PR machine. Patrick has almost direct control over YC and HN, you'll notice that every single Stripe post automatically has pc as the first comment, regardless of anything else. Everything negative gets buried.
With Patrick now living in Woodside, Will on permanent vacation in Malibu and John permanently in Ireland the company is definitely a bit in chaos mode internally. Their entire people team has turned over and they're having major retention issues - so I'm not super surprised that stuff like this is starting to leak out.
I run a $XB fintech, and am afraid to use my name given the backlash.
He tricked me into working for a month without a contract and then wouldn’t answer my calls when I asked him to sign the terms we agreed upon. I had to show up and sit on their couch until he showed up to write me a check to go away. He’s a slippery character.
What I don’t understand about these articles is the focus on HFCS: as I understand it, honey contains the same or more fructose per unit as HFCS, but these articles never seem to address whether we observe the same effects with it.
There are hunter gatherers (hadza, ache, pygmies) that eat substantial amounts of honey without becoming overweight.
I’ve been wondering if water is stored in fat cells? Does the body burn fat for the water content when you get thirsty?
On a high fat ketogenic diet, my thirst is satisfied on ~500ml of water a day. I drink much more when running on glucose, if it's really hot or I exercise intensely.
What to do if you have often spikes of 180 or even 200 mg/ld but it returns to under 140 after 2hours? Can someone share insights. Sure avoid some food. But is it time to take some medicine? Or some radical measures? My consern is a bit that even doctors cant tell since according to the blood tests everything might be looking good.
Lose body fat. Stopping eating refined carbohydrates. Take the Kraft glucose insulin test to see if you have “diabetes in situ” https://www.meridianvalleylab.com/services/kraft-prediabetes...
richcollins commented on The Calorie Paradox of Raw Veganism (1999) beyondveg.com/billings-t/... · Posted by u/skilled
Homo erectus's ability to use cooking to liberate more nutrients from their food was probably a critical factor in the evolution of the huge brains we homo sapiens are able to support.
You can get plenty of calories from raw animal fats. Cooking does help a lot with plants though. Also helps with infectious agents in meat and plants.
richcollins commented on Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding elemental.medium.com/lyme... · Posted by u/sb057
richcollins commented on Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (2017) sapiens.org/body/human-te... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/06/tooth-...
Scientists examined the remains of 52 adults who had lived between roughly 12,000 and 13,000 B.C. and were buried in the cave. An astonishing 49 of them, or 94%, had cavities, which affected more than half of the surviving teeth.
By analyzing plant remains in the cave, Humphrey's team found that residents ate lots of a particularly sweet type of acorn, which becomes soft and sticky when cooked. They also ate wild oats and legumes. Such foods can lead to serious decay,
Doesn't the cold also suppress your immune system, since you're using up calories to warm your body?
Cold is correlated with low sunlight, which leads to less vitamin D production: