There are three dominant factors that determine schizophrenia prevalence around the world: latitude, fish consumption, and rural vs urban living. Blacks are "black" behaviorally because in their natural environment no one else had a stronger dose of all three protective factors.
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That’s the origin story of how they came to be this way but I’m going to transition now into to explaining how dopamine explains a cluster of physical and behavioral traits in blacks: explosive movement, thick and dry skin, and thick hair/eyebrows.
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A quick word on dopamine: the positive symptoms of schizophrenia are treated by dopamine lowering anti-psychotics. Dopamine is often misunderstood as a pleasure neurotransmitter but it really mediates movement, specifically the will to move.
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I read a paper by a doctor who prescribed anti-psychotics all the time and decided to try one himself at his university. He immediately lost the will to keep working, drove home and collapsed into an armchair for hours.
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In the old days before L-DOPA, Parkinson’s patients were reduced to hobbled human statues, sitting alone all day doing nothing. There are however anecdotal reports of them all of a sudden springing into action to escape fires then immediately becoming immobile once out of danger
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I have taken and am taking L-DOPA (I wouldn’t be writing these furious tweetstorms without it). The first weird thing that happened to me when I started was that I began to spontaneous tap my fingers, at first for no reason but then whenever I heard music.
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I honestly didn’t know this, but finger tapping tests are the primary way to measure L-DOPA effectiveness in Parkinsonian’s patients. In addition to the tapping, my reflexes became faster and running all of a sudden became fun because I seemed to bounce off the pavement.
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A lot of armchair racial theorists think that athletic differences between blacks and whites are due to T, but the literature there shows there either very little or no gap at all between races.
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Blacks have longer arms and legs and lower body fat, which their climate allows. But the primary athletic advantage they enjoy is dopamine mediated burst speed.
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Take a super athletic white guy, load him with unhealthy amounts of T and he will still never be able to move like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6iG-TKZE38&t=4m43s … Even black women and children have a natural "bounce" that full grown white men lack.
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Someday I’ll devote a tweetstorm to the totally unique Larry Bird, who shared Jordan’s megalomania, penchant for compulsive betting, and violently fast hands and feet. Bird was a paranoiac who spent his whole life fighting:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axbIoHqFaa8 …
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Blacks have an athletic advantage in almost in almost every big money sport, but the sports that most reward violent, schizophrenic bursts of speed are boxing and basketball.
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The next thing I noticed in my Dopaquest was that about a week in my hair had become as thick as it was when was a teenager and then it kept getting even thicker. My eyebrows also became thick and conspicuously dark.
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Again I really didn’t know this, but L-DOPA and dopamine powerfully enhance growth hormone secretion. It also stimulates ACTH, which darkens skin and hair.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM197012242832602 …
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Blacks have higher pulses of growth hormone than whites do and much of what makes their appearance distinctive is similar to changes seen in acromegaly: thick hair and dry skin, loud, deep voices, large hands.
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This is an old, well established connection between schizophrenia risk and creativity :https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4040/ …
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In all of 1835 Europe I would be surprised if there were 1,000 part black individuals integrated into society, but from this miniscule group emerged the 1/4th black Alexandre Dumas and the 1/8th Alexander Pushkin.
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In whites who are psychotic, creative, or creatively psychotic there is a noticeably increased tendency to have extremely thick dark hair and thick eyebrows. I’ll now put on a slideshow of great creative crazies of this type:pic.twitter.com/kGFHgzBhxf
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Jim Jones hair was so thick and dark that as a child his mother called him "my little Indian"pic.twitter.com/Eh535S6BAE
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This is Syd Barrett, one of a huge number of actually schizophrenic musicians to have the "George Harrison look"pic.twitter.com/0T3URTY5m1
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America's most creatively accomplished/mentally ill president also had ludicrously thick, jet black hair and eyebrows.pic.twitter.com/BvOua6L2Me
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Outside of Africa, the place where this physical type is seen at the greatest frequency is among sun baked Indians, who in their natural environments enjoy very low schizophrenia rates.
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The distinctive Indian pattern of extremely fast, extremely quarrelsome speech likely results from a combination of African like dopaminergic tone while possessing a normal or even superior group IQ.
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Among Europeans specifically there are several populations that display unusually thick hair, thick eye brows, reputations for fast anger and an aptitude for music, dancing, and boxing. You particularly see this type in the fish eating Spanish, south Italians and Cretans.pic.twitter.com/4dm8sluv2H
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But the group that stands apart from their close neighbors in all these ways the most starkly are the Irish. However, they’re very different from the all populations mentioned so far: way up north, little sunlight, not much fish consumption now or in the past.
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The primary clue to uncovering what’s happened is that the Irish represent a European extreme in two other ways: unexposed skin that is lighter than any European people, even Scandinavians, and a continent high frequency of hemochromatosis (iron overload).
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Both of these distinctive features act to preserve bone health under conditions of very high rainfall and little sunlight. Those with light skin are able to produce more Vitamin D after exposure to sunlight than the competition: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Etienne_Cavalier/publication/258054176_Skin_Color_Is_Relevant_to_Vitamin_D_Synthesis/links/544a06e60cf2ea65413426e5/Skin-Color-Is-Relevant-to-Vitamin-D-Synthesis.pdf …
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The European locale that most closely resembles Ireland on maps of rainfall and sunlight is Iceland, which more extreme in both dimensions. Icelanders have also been found to possess abnormally high iron stores:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/089543569190090V …
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I think Ireland and Iceland, both rain soaked and sunless, may be the only two places on earth where alcoholism was selected for because consumption linearly increases ferritin stores in blood. An old farmer may have found it easier to get a hold of booze than animal protein.
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