bpizzi

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by bpizzi 1y ago
It is just something we, the children of those who fought, promised to our grand parents on their deathbed. Such things matters.
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by bpizzi 1y ago
I think you may be forgetting the big picture, which is to never have Europe spawning a World War again. In that regard, the fears (rational and irrational) of those with tendencies for isolationism are simply not relevant.
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by bpizzi 1y ago
Bulgaria has already pegged its currency (the lev) to the euro through a currency board since 1997. This means it already lacks independent monetary policy, and joining the euro wouldn’t significantly change that. The exchange rate is fixed
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by bpizzi 2y ago
> (Github Copilot allows selecting different models, but I didn't check more carefully whether that also includes a local one, anyone knows?). To my knowledge, it doesn't. On Emacs there's gptel which integrates quiet nice
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by bpizzi 2y ago
> looking at VO2 max in relation to all-cause mortality, we see a very clear trend. Simply bringing your VO2 max from ‘low’ (bottom 25th percentile) to ‘below average’ (25th to 50th percentile) is associated with a 50% reduction in all-c
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by bpizzi 2y ago
Yeah, I'm in Team Rowing (indoor) myself, and 30min of HIIT every week is HELL. My next session is in 1h...
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by bpizzi 2y ago
There's also value in spending some time in zone 5 [1]: this is where the heart is really trained as a muscle, and where the cardiovascular system is pushed to its limit (the famous vo2max: increasing vo2max is done in zone 5, for ex.
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by bpizzi 4y ago
I’m all ear actually, if you could kindly point me to the relevant material.
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by bpizzi 4y ago
Meta-analyses are not a panacea, that's clear. As I suspect you know well, two further meta-analysis came to the same conclusion: Chowdhury 2014 [0], De Souza 2015 [1]. More recently, Kang in 2018 [2] and Zhu in 2019 are also stating t
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by bpizzi 4y ago
> If the diet is (too) high in saturated fat, increased cardio vascular risk. You may want to take a look at this meta-study [0]. > “A meta-analysis of prospective epidemiologic studies showed that there is no significant evidence for
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by bpizzi 4y ago
Yes, we are borg, we will adapt.
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by bpizzi 5y ago
> or do you include it as an epigenetic factor? Well, in my mind `epigenetic = biological age * food intake`, where `food intake` is 'is he eating a consistent healthy diet, given that a typical person not eating healthy will surely
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by bpizzi 5y ago
That's terrible, I hope you're recovering to the best possible. Do you happen to know what was your blood pressure prior to the heart attack, and/or your apob level? At least you should have it checked now (I assume that&#x27
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by bpizzi 5y ago
Not really Fukushima, more likely Chernobyl and the disastrous handling of governments trying to hide things instead of taking action, explaining complexities and planning further education. That let a wide open hole for every naysayer for
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by bpizzi 5y ago
> I can say something like ‘a tiger is just a lion with stripes’ to a 3 year old and they now ‘understand’ what a tiger is almost as well as if they saw a picture of one. They could definitely identify one from a picture now. Assuming th
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by bpizzi 5y ago
I'm curious: do you have noticed any connection between what you eat (macro and micro) and the symptoms level? Because what you're describing could match dysbiosis and/or leaky gut, and you seem to have already dug really wel
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by bpizzi 5y ago
> You were generalizing, The GP was! > I'm sorry, I can't agree with your point. At least we're getting somewhere! gp: Screens are extremely addictive to kids me: wrong, any kid will not like train video you: wrong, min
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by bpizzi 5y ago
> Wrong. My 2-year old loves videos of trains, both from this perspective and showing the trains themselves. She can last longer than 30 seconds, and is thrilled by them way longer than me (the videos are pretty, but I find trains boring
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by bpizzi 5y ago
> Screens are extremely addictive to kids. (Adults too, I suppose, but that's their own responsibility.) No, wrong. What can be addictive is the content displayed by the screen and the eventual interaction that the kid have with thi
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by bpizzi 5y ago
> Once the body is starving for carbohydrates it begins a process to break down fats and even protein into an energy source. This produces toxins, ketones. You may want to read some (hopefully) unbiased information on that subject : htt
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by bpizzi 5y ago
> but secondly the auto-antibodies that caused the destruction of the beta cells can often be detected in their blood. That's actually really interesting, I still have got much to learn (and you seems to know that stuff pretty well,
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by bpizzi 5y ago
I second that. Looks to me that the author is more knowledgeable in T1 than T2, and is almost categorizing the latter as a subspecies of the former, for example: > Some type 2 patients wrongly associate insulin with personal failure surr
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by bpizzi 6y ago
> I got sick, I lost 8 more kg (16lb) in weight in 5 days: when I got out of hospital I over-ate sugar and carbs for two weeks and got fitter, faster than anyone would believe. If you lost that much so fast it's because before being
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by bpizzi 6y ago
> Is a glas of (pure) orange juice the same as a glas of coke? About the same, both are high on fructose (orange's being nature made, whereas coke's is added from corn syrup), and fructose is the #1 culprit in fatty liver. Both
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by bpizzi 6y ago
> We've been eating bread for millenia According to wikipedia [0]: approximately from 10,000 to 30,000 years ago. Let's take an average reproduction age of 25y and you've got roughly 1000 human generations eating bread. Bu
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by bpizzi 6y ago
> If you fail to see the moral difference between typing on a computer and "curing ageing"... I don't know what to say to be honest GP's not alone, maybe you're not too, but the point is, GP's point of view
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by bpizzi 6y ago
Moreover, there's no correlation between the LDL ingested and the degradated LDL that freely floats in arteries.
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by bpizzi 6y ago
> From an athletic or 'health' perspective, [...] You can get 93+% lean beef with 3-4 grams of fat per 20~ grams of protein Well, from a health perspective, what you really want as your main drive is high, low omega 6 vs omega
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by bpizzi 6y ago
Damn, I’m exactly on the same boat! I found that wearing a dental splint at night help a lot.
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by bpizzi 6y ago
Ha, I think I can read David Sinclair's words there! (not a bad thing at all IMHO) @see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan:_Why_We_Age_%E2%80%93...

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