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robbiep commented on Australia’s gains in wheat-farm productivity reuters.com/investigation... · Posted by u/tiarafawn

> other countries would be wise to adopt that

Until they can't import food and can't feed their people

robbiep · a month ago

In the US and much of Europe, the subsidies are to NOT produce, not to produce more

robbiep commented on What’s on offer at a luxury Bay Area longevity clinic sfchronicle.com/health/ag... · Posted by u/brandonb

brandonb · a month ago

You can get 90% of the benefit of these longevity clinics for 10% of the cost.

First, advanced blood testing can cost <$200. Get ApoB and Lp(a) for heart health. hs-CRP for inflammation, A1c for diabetes, eGFR for kidney health, etc. https://www.empirical.health/product/comprehensive-health-pa...

Then, determine your nutrition goals based on your blood test results. For example, if your ApoB / LDL cholesterol is high, focus on getting more fiber and less saturated fat. If blood pressure is high, focus on potassium and sodium.

Exercise & sleep - use an Apple Watch or similar to track VO2Max and sleep stages.

MRI - I'd probably skip the MRI for cancer screening. While I think this will be the future, the evidence base is just not strong enough today to know what to do with the results. You can do a FIT-based colon cancer screen at home for <$10 (colon cancer is affecting people at younger and younger ages). Mammography and cervical cancer testing in a regular doctor appointment.

CAC scan (assessing calcium buildup in the arteries) - do if ApoB is high. You can book these for $200.

robbiep · a month ago

what exactly are you going to do with a spot hs-CRP?

robbiep commented on An average human breathes out roughly 1kg of carbon dioxide a day twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/tosh

deff · a month ago

If I were to guess, the metabolism generates waste during activity that gets processed and exhaled as CO2 during sleep.

robbiep · a month ago

Bad guess, I am not sure what OP really intends (perhaps you don’t consume whilst you sleep?!) because as you probably are starting to remember from primary school your body maintains homeostasis by continually respiring. It doesn’t suddenly decide to take a dump.

Ok, it does, but even when it does that, in order to do that it has been continually maintaining homeostasis

robbiep commented on In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use news.mit.edu/2025/kids-ee... · Posted by u/LorenDB

kilimounjaro · 4 months ago

Paediatric anaesthesiologist here.

We mostly use propofol/remifent for maintenance of anaesthesia, and there is (some) reasonable evidence that this leads to less emergence delirium than sevoflurane. We use EEG-like monitors in all paralysed patients over a few months old.

Annoyingly I can’t access the full study, but would be interested to know why the kids in the low sevoflurane use group weren’t moving or coughing with surgical stimulation. The commonly used doses of sevoflurane are used because they are supposed to inhibit movement in response to noxious stimulus. So presumably these patients are all being paralysed or given a lot of opioid to stop them moving?

Using sevoflurane instead of propofol for maintenance if you are trying to reduce PAED is not really standard of care and makes me suspicious they are trying to overstate the effectiveness of their device.

robbiep · 4 months ago

Here you go: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y3_fgi0prAUjLugQWUDylZL_TN8...

robbiep commented on Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left fortune.com/article/retai... · Posted by u/andrewfromx

juniperus · 4 months ago

It has to do with countries not buying US treasuries. That used to be how the dollar system worked. Now that countries aren’t, tariffs are being used as an alternative. You can read the war finance article series for some background: https://advisoranalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/zoltan...

robbiep · 4 months ago

There is no issue with countries buying us treasuries. They sail off shelves. Until the current administration started to make it look like there’s a possibility that the country may bankrupt itself, which threw a risk component into US debt for like the first time ever

robbiep commented on Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf, Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/0... · Posted by u/gnabgib

trollbridge · 4 months ago

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robbiep · 4 months ago

Photosynthesis in nature is 1% efficient so it doesn’t need to be greatly better to beat it

robbiep commented on Find the Odd Disk colors2.alessandroroussel... · Posted by u/layer8

z0r · 4 months ago

Sounds like symptoms of impending retinal detachment - ex discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/myopia/comments/o7rhi3/retinal_deta...

robbiep · 4 months ago

The characteristic ‘jagged lines’ of aura is not at all related to the characteristic visual flashes of retinal detachment which an entirely different pathophysiology. Given that the advent of the flashes are new and related to exertion however it wouldn’t be unreasonable for the OP to keep a log of onset and duration and consider neurologist referral if they were to become more common with consideration for screening imaging as there are certain conditions related to exertion that can trigger aura

robbiep commented on Evidence of 22,000-year-old vehicles found at White Sands National Park sfgate.com/national-parks... · Posted by u/nradov

chneu · 5 months ago

lol nobody outside of joe rogaine and tiktok take hancock seriously. dude is an absolute scam artist and liar.

hancock makes you stupid.

robbiep · 5 months ago

I couldn’t agree more, but as a 12 year old fingerprints of the gods got me started

robbiep commented on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water bbc.com/news/articles/c4g... · Posted by u/Jimmc414

jiggawatts · 5 months ago

I initially dismissed it as the same category of stupid as anti-vax beliefs, but it turns out that there are a decent amount of good studies showing a link between fluoride in water and (slightly) lower IQ when pregnant mothers ingest the fluoride. Note that there is no significant effect after birth.

The idea is to remove fluoride from water and advise pregnant women to use fluoride-free toothpaste.

Everyone else can get enough fluoride from modern toothpastes, or regular dentist treatments.

The logic is that fluoride in tap water made sense in the era before toothpaste had it, but now it is “overmedicating” a vulnerable fraction of the population.

robbiep · 5 months ago

The levels of fluoridation in order to cause difference in IQ as I understand it, from the Chinese studies, suggest that basically the effect if true occurs at around 2x+ the concentration found in supplemented water supplies.

My understanding also is that if you’re a dentist wanting to get rich, move somewhere that has unfluoridated water.

robbiep commented on Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water bbc.com/news/articles/c4g... · Posted by u/Jimmc414

like_any_other · 5 months ago

> If you're not prepared to listen to an expert

Who do you think conducted those peer-reviewed systematic reviews? I'm sorry if I don't take the word of some random guy's dentist over multiple meta analyses in major medical journals.

And I don't need an expert to tell me people should have the right to make their own medical decisions.

And finally, I live in a country where public health experts have decided against water fluoridation. This is represents the vast majority of countries. What now? Should I pick some other experts to listen to?

robbiep · 5 months ago

Who do you think conducted those peer-reviewed systematic reviews? I'm sorry if I don't take the word of some random guy's dentist over multiple meta analyses in major medical journals.

I don’t understand what you mean here. Are you just wholly rejecting the concept of expert knowledge, trials, meta analyses, basically the foundations of science, just because in order to participate in it you have to have tainted yourself by rigorously studying it?