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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
my big broscience medical conspiracy theory is that tonnes of things are downstream of stress (which have ton tonnes of upstream things- environment, relationships, etc). I believe that chronic stress is more injurious to health than smoking, seed oils, microplastics…
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@QiaochuYuan
my synthesis here is that smoking, seed oils, microplastics, etc. etc. etc. are all themselves different forms of chronic stress; it all seems like kinda the same playing field to me
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@temujin9
That's somewhat like comparing a marmoset to a gorilla and going "but they're both primates it's all the same". My brother in tweets, no. One can rip you in half.
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@temujin9
Yes, but many will feed the gorilla with the corpses of the marmosets, so I can't earnestly recommend marmoset hunting until the gorilla is dead.
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@temujin9
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@QiaochuYuan
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@visakanv
Chronic mental stress is the gorilla. Lots of neurotic people try to cut out smaller external stressors like junk food and cigarettes, and in doing so increase their chronic mental stress enough that they're even worse off.
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