Being into the Race Realism stuff makes you reconsider a lot of health advice, because you realize just how much pundits arbitrarily pick the direction of causality and don't control for jack.
NoFap is a big example of this. I mean, I agree that you shouldn't be jerkin' your gherkin all the time, but is fapping actually frying your brain and your balls? Or is it that there is a certain profile of people which gets addicted to fapping? I would intuitively go with the latter based on the experiences I have had getting "pilled" on HBD stuff (not just between races, but also between individuals). This is true for some more left-wing health advice too, possibly even moreso. Like, "meat eaters are more unhealthy, ergo eating meat is unhealthy".
CICO + le genetics is still (as far as I know, which I'll admit is not an expert opinion) the most robust model for why people get fat and unhealthy. Humans have always been quite capable of adapting to strange diets for necessity's sake, which makes the whole idea of universal diets pretty strange. It is especially strange hearing a man of Northern European ancestry talk about why he is a carnivore due to the diet of Inuits who live in the Canadian Arctic.
Diets work most of the time because people tend to eat less when their food options are more limited. And like you said, sometimes they also work because of someone's individual needs. When diets aren't compatible with one's individual "optimal diet" they don't shout it from the mountains.
You've taken his .69 bio years per chronological year at face value. Aging clocks aren't clinically validated. Its a vanity metric until we see validation.
>I suspect cutting out all refined sugars would increase overall health, but sugar tastes good, so that must be factored into the utility function as well.
100%. Swapping sugar for sweeteners and high fat for low fat equivalents undeniably reduces your calorie intake. If your aim is to lose weight it's a no brainer. That plus eating high fibre, high protein foods increases satiety relative to calories consumed.
And of course a moderate level of resistance training to build some muscle can help too (I recommend full body superset training 2-3x a week for time efficiency and additional cardio benefits).
For the case of saturated fat there seems to be an S curve for mortality(mentioned in that same Cochrane review). So around 10% there's a significant increase, especially for their statistically significant result for cardiovascular events(also practically significant, roughly 1.5% over 52 months in a middle aged population(a meta-regression with the change in cholesterol increased this to ~1.8-1.9%). Definitely would be interesting to update this with some new RCTs(the review mentioned good quality ones that were underway in 2019), but a null for all cause mortality is not as surprising if the effect is mainly through cardiovascular mortality(only a portion of all deaths), and they're only following for 4 years or so.
Also when it comes to the causes of obesity longitudinally and between countries I think it's mostly increased food availability(nowadays in a globalised world is well produced by income/consumption, historically by agricultural productivity/availability), with some lag effects food culture/caloric intake and then(with some genetic factors for different ethnicities worldwide, including for fat vs muscle increase from increased caloric intake), leads to increasing obesity/body fatness and all the associated risks. Also when you invert BMI to have a linear relationship with body fat percentage(the actual causual variable for morbidity and mortality risks from Obesity) there's been a linear increase since roughly 1900(in the US but probably other western/anglo countries excluding wartime), with a decline before that in the US. https://twitter.com/rcafdm/status/1432490356935991297 and https://twitter.com/rcafdm/status/1780625146513928299
regarding resistance training, there is evidence that you dont need that much of it (once or twice per week for maybe 20 minutes) if you do it in the correct manner, i.e. lifting weights slowly and controlled and doing one set to momentary muscular failure using just a few basic compound exercises: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348824509_Long-term_time-course_of_strength_adaptation_to_minimal_dose_resistance_training_Retrospective_longitudinal_growth_modelling_of_a_large_cohort_through_training_records
this type of resistance training also doubles as cardio due to its high intensity btw
Being into the Race Realism stuff makes you reconsider a lot of health advice, because you realize just how much pundits arbitrarily pick the direction of causality and don't control for jack.
NoFap is a big example of this. I mean, I agree that you shouldn't be jerkin' your gherkin all the time, but is fapping actually frying your brain and your balls? Or is it that there is a certain profile of people which gets addicted to fapping? I would intuitively go with the latter based on the experiences I have had getting "pilled" on HBD stuff (not just between races, but also between individuals). This is true for some more left-wing health advice too, possibly even moreso. Like, "meat eaters are more unhealthy, ergo eating meat is unhealthy".
the only real argument against gooning all the time is that it's a waste of time that could be used more productively.
Yeah, gooning might even be more virtuous than fast masturbation, because it shows restraint
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CICO + le genetics is still (as far as I know, which I'll admit is not an expert opinion) the most robust model for why people get fat and unhealthy. Humans have always been quite capable of adapting to strange diets for necessity's sake, which makes the whole idea of universal diets pretty strange. It is especially strange hearing a man of Northern European ancestry talk about why he is a carnivore due to the diet of Inuits who live in the Canadian Arctic.
Diets work most of the time because people tend to eat less when their food options are more limited. And like you said, sometimes they also work because of someone's individual needs. When diets aren't compatible with one's individual "optimal diet" they don't shout it from the mountains.
You've taken his .69 bio years per chronological year at face value. Aging clocks aren't clinically validated. Its a vanity metric until we see validation.
>I suspect cutting out all refined sugars would increase overall health, but sugar tastes good, so that must be factored into the utility function as well.
Just use aspartame. Embrace moonbrah futurism.
100%. Swapping sugar for sweeteners and high fat for low fat equivalents undeniably reduces your calorie intake. If your aim is to lose weight it's a no brainer. That plus eating high fibre, high protein foods increases satiety relative to calories consumed.
And of course a moderate level of resistance training to build some muscle can help too (I recommend full body superset training 2-3x a week for time efficiency and additional cardio benefits).
For the case of saturated fat there seems to be an S curve for mortality(mentioned in that same Cochrane review). So around 10% there's a significant increase, especially for their statistically significant result for cardiovascular events(also practically significant, roughly 1.5% over 52 months in a middle aged population(a meta-regression with the change in cholesterol increased this to ~1.8-1.9%). Definitely would be interesting to update this with some new RCTs(the review mentioned good quality ones that were underway in 2019), but a null for all cause mortality is not as surprising if the effect is mainly through cardiovascular mortality(only a portion of all deaths), and they're only following for 4 years or so.
Also when it comes to the causes of obesity longitudinally and between countries I think it's mostly increased food availability(nowadays in a globalised world is well produced by income/consumption, historically by agricultural productivity/availability), with some lag effects food culture/caloric intake and then(with some genetic factors for different ethnicities worldwide, including for fat vs muscle increase from increased caloric intake), leads to increasing obesity/body fatness and all the associated risks. Also when you invert BMI to have a linear relationship with body fat percentage(the actual causual variable for morbidity and mortality risks from Obesity) there's been a linear increase since roughly 1900(in the US but probably other western/anglo countries excluding wartime), with a decline before that in the US. https://twitter.com/rcafdm/status/1432490356935991297 and https://twitter.com/rcafdm/status/1780625146513928299
Bryan Johnson claims his current biological age is like ~25? so it's 17+21 years added, taking your 17 years number unchanged.
lots of complexity here too. I wouldn't be surprised if his ways can make him live much much longer