Tanha❤️ $chicken🍖 Rahman
@wrapcast1
1834 Following
1214 Followers
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
0 reply
1 recast
18 reactions
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
3 replies
12 recasts
31 reactions
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
17 replies
29 recasts
195 reactions
0 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
11 replies
1 recast
54 reactions
if you guys liked my cast about european countries yesterday, you'll like my blogpost on other ideas i stand behind: blog.borodutch.com/cardiovascular-diseases-dont-kill-as-many-people-as-stupidity
some excerpts:
- "Conventional wisdom" is mostly random facts made up by "experts" on the spot to sound more intelligent.
- These random facts are mostly wrong and harmful. They either actively harm people by making them do stupid things or prevent them from doing smart things by diverting the only limited resource — time — from what matters.
- These random facts are comforting and rapidly become a part of one's identity. Any evidence contradicting "the fact" becomes a personal attack when you believe "the fact." Even if "the fact" is complete and utter nonsense. Knocking on the wood much? What, you feel personally offended?
- No matter how much logic and evidence you present to a person that believes some "conventional wisdom," they will not change their mind. Feel free to quit citing the sources.
- If you think this doesn't happen to you (i.e., "I'm not stupid"), keep reading this article. You are a part of the problem. Statistically, you are also avoiding education because it hurts your feelings, you special snowflake.
- The best thing we can do is change the educational system. But this will never happen. The second best thing is to try to educate people around you. But this will statistically fail more often than not. Everyone who has tried to change a loved opinion on anything knows this.
and:
- 10,000 steps a day is a lie. 3800 steps per day is enough to reap benefits.
- 8 glasses of water a day is a lie. Drink when you feel like it.
- Nicotine and tobacco don't have a safe dose. They cause cancer. Stop smoking cigarettes, cigars, and vaping. Yes, even occasionally, don't smoke or vape.
- Sugar is terrible for your health. Evaporated can juice is sugar. Honey is sugar. Agave is sugar. Maple syrup is sugar. Pop/soda is sugar. Anything sweet is sugar (except berries, eat as many as possible).
It is crucial to get enough protein per day. It doesn't matter when. 1.4g of protein for 1kg of body weight per day should be enough.
- You must do health checks at least annually. Check your hormone levels and do the usual bloodwork.
- Do genetic testing. It is way cheaper on Black Friday. You're looking for the most obvious genetic disease markers.
- Most fitness trackers nowadays are accurate enough, even the cheapest ones. There are no consumer devices that measure sleep accurately enough.
- Wear sunscreen. Modern sunscreen does not hurt you. It doesn't hurt your vitamins or the essential things you get from the Sun. You will still get all the benefits of sunlight without all the cancers.
- Caffeine after noon kills good sleep. Caffeine comes with coffee, tea, soda, chocolate, cocoa, etc.
- Willpower does not work. If you don't want to do something, make it impossible in your environment (e.g., don't buy sugar if you don't want to eat sugar, not eating sugar starts when grocery shopping). If you're going to do something, make it easy in your environment (e.g., if you want to go to the gym 3 times a week, move to an apartment next door).
and:
- Coffee has no long-term harmful side effects below 400mg per day dose (around 4 cups). Coffee has tremendous benefits for your health unless you're amongst very few caffeine-sensitive people (then drink tea).
- Food that you derive from animals kills you. It gives you cancer, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, etc. Go vegan but watch protein intake, iron, and b12. You're probably low on protein if you don't feel well on a vegan diet.
- The bioavailability of protein is a myth. Plant protein is as good as animal protein at gaining and maintaining lean mass.
Your diet should have fat, protein, and carbs. It should also include a variety of micronutrients like vitamins, minerals, and a lot of antioxidants.
- Keto does not work in the long term. All the benefits are short-term and live for a couple of years. That's why many people praise keto in the short term but never stick to it for longer.
- Sodium leads to cardiovascular diseases. Stop eating salt, and watch out for sodium on the nutritional labels.
- Aliens are real, and they've been to Earth tens of thousands of times. We have thousands of reports from people who only experienced negativity after speaking out. Don't believe me; go read the reports and the official responses. The "rational explanation" is sometimes absurd — e.g., a trained pilot crashing because they were "chasing Venus." Again, go read the reports.
- Alcohol kills you. There is no safe dose. Not even a glass of wine in the evening. The best thing you can do for longevity is to stop drinking any amount of alcohol. I'd suggest even changing the mouthwash to the one without alcohol.
- Fluoride is safe and does not cause harm in the dose in the toothpaste that you spit out anyway. Using fluoride toothpaste decreases cavities drastically.
- Gum health (which is why you need fluoride and flossing) is a direct proxy of overall health. Make sure your gums are healthy.
- Marijuana and psilocybin are safe. They are not gateway drugs. They do not have long-term adverse effects (unless you smoke large doses daily, believe me, you don't). Psilocybin does not affect your bodily functions; it only temporarily affects the psyche.
- Exercising when trying to lose weight helps to gain weight. Do not go to a gym or do cardio on a calorie deficit. "Skinny fat" is a myth — "skinny fat" is just fat.
- The only way to lose weight is calorie restriction. Any diet you pick will only work because when switching, you inadvertently cause a calorie deficit.
- If you count all the calories when losing weight (you should), never trust your judgment like "I know how many calories there are in this dish." No, you do not. Weigh your food.
- Intermittent fasting is safe and healthy. You don't feel hungry outside the eating window due to how Ghrelin works. You cannot get gastroenterological issues by practicing intermittent fasting.
- Exercising when sick or ill only makes your recovery period longer.
- Endurance athletes have worse cardiovascular health than people with healthy diets and habits.
- China must be punished for the genocide of the Uyghurs, specifically by Muslim communities worldwide. This case's silence and inaction tell you everything you need to know.
- Europe (in particular, Sweden) must solve its immigrant crime crisis. Look at how Canada handles refugees and learn from the countries that don't have rising crime but still offer healthy immigration programs.
- The USA must make obtaining and licensing guns similar to Canada and Switzerland. There should be no debate when school shootings happen weekly.
- All the medical care in the world should be social and paid for by the governments.
- "Paid for by the government" means paid by the citizens from the taxes. Government should negotiate with medical workers, not with insurance companies.
- All politicians are paid for by the citizens. All politicians are responsible to all the citizens. Politicians must give up personal life for the service of their people. Politicians must be the most transparent people in the world.
- Free speech must be limited by an independent agent. Otherwise, lie firehosing will win. And it wins right now. Look at how many people in the West believe Russia is somehow winning the war with Ukraine.
- No, Russia is not winning the war. Also, Russian institutes are corrupt and are strong only for shows. Saying that "but Russia does X right" is misleading. Russia does nothing right (I'm talking as a person who grew up there).
- Politicians must face jail time if they don't deliver on promises. This must be strictly enforced.
- In fact, all the laws must be strictly enforced except for formal independent processes of disputing the rulings. It should not matter who you are. You always need to follow the law and be punished for breaking it.
- Epstein did not kill himself. Stop laughing; it's not a meme. Find all people whom he sold underage sex and jail them.
- AI is here, and it's here to stay. If you don't use AI today, you will be lightyears behind in a few years.
- "Can't be evil" is always better than "Don't be evil." The systems must be designed so that institutes cannot do anything evil. If institutes could do evil things, they would, no matter what they say.
- If you're doing something (e.g., acupuncture) that has no effects in clinical trials, you're actively taking away time from doing what does help. You could have spent 30 minutes stretching rather than paying a premium to a person to crack your joints.
- Vaccines work. Do vaccinate. Stop this bullshit with side effects. If there are side effects, clinical trials show them. If there are no short-term severe side effects, chances are, there will be no severe long-term side effects. The alternative is bringing back polio and smallpox, killing 1/3 of the population and blinding or deafening a large portion of the rest.
- There are no "alphas" or "betas," neither in human societies nor in wolf packs. This concept was made up and later debunked by the person who made it up.
- Languages and dialects are fake constructs. There are dialects so different that they could be separate languages, and languages so similar they must be dialects.
- There is no "right" language or dialect. If you're one of these "grammar-nazis," first decide what language you're trying to protect. Today's? Last century's? Previous millennia? Yeah, I thought so; you don't know nothing about your language history that you're trying to protect. That double negation I used? It was a formal way of speaking a hundred years ago. 2 replies
1 recast
21 reactions
28 replies
41 recasts
215 reactions
