Benji Bruce

🧬I built a marketing firm and then got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. So I became obsessed with biochem/health

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The more I look into foods the crazier it gets.

Chlorpyrifos is so toxic that farm workers have to wear protective equipment to apply it. 

And you eat the residue with no protection at all. 

It's an organophosphate insecticide. 

The same chemical class as nerve agents. Nerve agents are highly toxic man-made chemicals that disrupt how the nervous system sends messages to organs.

Chlorpyrifos works by blocking the enzyme that turns off nerve signals. In insects, at high doses, that means death. 

In 2015, the EPA's own scientists recommended banning it from foods. And they did at first.

But in 2017, they reversed the decision under pressure from Dow Chemical, the  manufacturer. And guess what? They donated over a million dollars to the inauguration fund. 

A federal court eventually ordered the EPA to ban it in 2021. That ban is currently having legal problems. 

Chlorpyrifos is found on strawberries, apples, and other produce. 

That’s pretty crazy. 

The farm workers have to wear protective gear around this stuff. But hey why not put it on foods.

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@SciImmunology Interesting

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@BahirwaniKrish @EricJorgenson I vote for Thiel too. His way of thinking is very different and secretive

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It’s crazy how a doctor can ask someone two questions and then prescribe a pill

This is what happened to a friend. She’s been to several doctors in different specialities to figure out the source to her hives and the most recent doctor barely did anything

Needless to say, she’s not going to take the pills

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@sjurgis @icanvardar I’ve corrected it soooo many times on biochem I don’t use it anymore

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@Kylechasse @SciencNews There’s a lot of holes in this study. And a 30 day study means nothing

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A lot of people think melatonin is just a ‘sleep pill’

That’s like saying ‘we only use 10% of our brains’. It’s an outdated way of thinking

High dose melatonin does a lot

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@RoyInProgress Salsa dancing

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Why does Claude Fable 5 limit biology answers? It is afraid people will cure disease 🤔

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@MartinShkreli Why would there be safety measures for biology topics?

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@samteic It’s definitely a growth strategy. We do it all the time for startups

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By the time people pay attention to their health it’s often too late

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@Hera_Spoke @alex_lrz_nmv How are you doing the marketing? Why would someone use cursorclip over a more established screen recording tool?

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@Ivan_Borovets @alex_lrz_nmv How are you marketing it? I see the ‘ai writing assistant for non-devs’ tagline but what does that mean? Does it help people write books? Write code? Write YouTube scripts? What’s the offer?

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So many young people getting diagnosed with autoimmune diseases and cancer 🤯

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@rayyy0403 @w_milczynska Ai has helped me more with my MS than any doctor ever did

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@AmazonHelp Well, delivery dates for prime are ‘suggestions’. So…I cancelled prime. There’s literally no purpose to it anymore. Can’t trust a single delivery date anymore because everything gets delayed

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Finally cancelled my @amazon prime membership. So many delayed deliveries. It makes the prime membership useless

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@AmazonHelp Not even shipped