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@birdabo We learned with Social media that outsourcing your social needs was a recipe for poor social and mental health. It is the same for these tools.
@MattWalshBlog This is only true if you believe the claim that AI can be self directed. It can't. And it likely never will. Every eval and scenario test requires hours and hours of human reinforced learning. Even the "Agents" have to be built with complex deterministic parameters.
@G_S_Bhogal Similarly social media is filling the social need with a pseudo nutrient that has maladaptive affects at scale when replacing real in person social interaction.
Anti-protein science, debunked 🔬
A new analysis just dropped: “Animal and plant protein usual intakes are not adversely associated with all-cause, cardiovascular disease, or cancer-related mortality risk: an NHANES III analysis” (PMID: 40418846).
This paper revisits the same NHANES III dataset used in the infamous 2014 Cell Metabolism paper (PMID: 24606898) that claimed high protein intake increased mortality and cancer risk, the one that fueled a decade of “protein will kill you” headlines.
Back then, I organized responses from leading protein and metabolism experts after that paper came out, because the journal refused to publish their letter to the editor. (You can still read that full expert rebuttal on my site.)
Fast-forward 10 years: Researchers went back, analyzed the same dataset properly, and here’s what they found 👇
📊 Results: • Total animal and plant protein intakes had no association with all-cause, cancer, or cardiovascular mortality • Animal protein slightly reduced cancer mortality risk • IGF-1 levels? no association with any mortality outcomes
In short: Neither animal nor plant protein intake within normal ranges was linked to higher mortality. If anything, animal protein looked protective.
So much for “high protein kills you.” The data just doesn’t back it up.
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