Weight Room Philosopher

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Nietzsche and Schopenhauer saying don’t trust thoughts you have indoors was them picking up on slowed cognition due to CO2 build up in poorly ventilated dwellings

Open your windows

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@wanted4mogging aren’t you the same guy who said that if you take steroids you better be IFBB Pro level because woman will ridicule you for being on them only to be above average?

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Literally everything you do everyday is science and your life will improve when you start treating it that way

Laundry? Chemistry

Cooking? Biology + Physics + Chemistry

Social Interactions? Psychology + Biology

Cleaning? Chemistry

Exercise? Physics + Biology

Start paying attention to the outcomes you get and what you did to get them. Start tracking the things you do and thinking critically about the principles that govern the world you live in.

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@justalexoki Because the micronutrients are nonexistent

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@FitnessEmpiree Eat less, move more

Really simple

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@sam_gzstrength Hard disagree

It’s literally impossible to tell how much someone can deadlift by looking at them

I’ve seen dudes with stick legs hoist 800

Squat is what will actually do this

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@hollowearthterf There are two dozen of this dude at any commercial gym in America

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HEPA filters can have a deceptively low clean air delivery rate (CADR)

The fineness of the filter restricts the amount of air that can pass through it and can lead to the filter not outpacing the rate at which particulate is produced

In many instances a MERV13 filter with high powered PC fans can deliver a much higher volume of clean air into your space

This is called a corsi-rosenthal box

Something to consider when choosing a purifier

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A cup of coffee in the morning, a takeout container for lunch, disposable plates for dinner could all be slowly poisoning you 

A mouse study examining ingested microplastics through drinking water found that exposure was associated with widespread metabolic changes

Mice given larger quantities of polystyrene microplastics showed:

- Increased daily food intake

- Dose-dependent reductions in liver ATP levels, the molecule responsible for cellular energy storage

- Increased lactate dehydrogenase, a marker associated with cellular stress

- Changes in lipid metabolism, including accumulation of lipid droplets in the liver associated with inflammation 

- Decrease in total cholesterol and triglyceride

- Increased markers involved in oxidative stress responses

Their bodies recognized the particles as metabolic stressors 

Microplastics accumulated in different organs in a size-dependent manner: 

- Larger particles accumulated more heavily in the liver

- Smaller particles accumulated more heavily in the kidney and gut 

This suggests that microplastic size may determine the metabolic consequences of ingesting them 

The particles remained even when exposure stopped 

But the effects were not limited to metabolism

Acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine and regulates nerve signaling, increased with exposure

This could potentially reduce the efficiency of cholinergic neurotransmission, which governs muscular contraction, heart rate regulation, and cognitive processes like memory and attention

Blood phenylalanine levels also decreased

Phenylalanine is a precursor for important molecules like:

- Dopamine

- Adrenaline

- Melanin 

The materials your food comes into contact with can be as important as the macro- and micronutrients it contains 

One of the highest ROI health decisions you can make is investing in a plastic free kitchen

https://t.co/pkD0bKBSh4

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@MichaelAlbertMD You don’t need years of formal training

You need internet access and time

There are schizos on X who likely know more about any given niche field than many formally educated people

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@IALatino @bryan_johnson If you use your critical reading skills you can see exactly what my gripe is with what he said

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@AmmousMD Via what mechanism?

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We need to be extremely cautious when absorbing online info because content is often an opinion masquerading as knowledge

We forget where the idea came from, recollecting someone’s unverified opinion after the context/nuance has faded from our memory and the source has become nebulous

What’s left is a vague impression without traceable origin that eventually becomes treated like a fact we learned or discovered ourselves

We build mental models of the world on foundations that were never properly tested, then use those faulty frameworks to interpret new information ad infinitum

We have to understand WHY we believe things

That’s why immutable scientific principles are often the bedrock for steady heuristics and mental frameworks

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If one of your training goals is strength you need to avoid taking sets of 85%+ of 1RM to failure

When the intensity is high the likelihood of failure due to a technical fault increases

Doing this frequently ingrains poor technical proficiency under heavy load

If you want to mimic “grinding” reps it’s better to artificially fatigue yourself with many sets or many reps

This way you can still mimic a 9-10RPE effort without the excessive neurological fatigue or technical breakdown because the limiting factor will be pure muscular fatigue INSTEAD of an inability to maintain position/technique

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@NutriDetect Rod cells use Vitamin A (retinol) to make the pigments we use to see in low light conditions

So we do need some of it

But excessive doses can cause desquamation of epithelial cells

Which is actually the mechanism of action for accutane

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If you are a man who’s at least an 8/10 and you’re banging 6/10s or lower for the sake of getting laid you are actively ruining society

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@fastrlife All you have is appeals to authority without any knowledge

You try to create issues to sell people nonsense

Why not rebuke my point with an argument instead?

Because you have none

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I know you didn’t watch this video and think any of this banded bullshit built this physique

Not all enhanced physiques have drugs to credit for their magnitude - many anabolic users diet hard, train intelligently, prioritize their recovery, have excellent genetics, etc

Chris Hemsworth is not one of them