Posts by rdnielsen@floss.social
(DIR) Post #AhGAygF0Ayp56FYCzg by rdnielsen@floss.social
2024-04-20T14:30:57Z
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A small pilot study finds that a ketogenic diet leads to improvements in both mental health and metabolic health among people experiencing side effects from medication for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: https://www.psypost.org/keto-diet-may-improve-metabolic-and-mental-health-symptoms-in-psychiatric-patients/#Science #Biology #Health #MentalHealth #Keto #Diet #Schizophrenia #Bipolar
(DIR) Post #Ai7ImShDWinO7RxEHo by rdnielsen@floss.social
2024-05-21T13:08:32Z
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@stux The padawan
(DIR) Post #AjK3dHyTFZkkNv2g52 by rdnielsen@floss.social
2024-06-26T14:08:17Z
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Following a diet high in saturated fat, the gut microbiome was altered, gene expression in the brain changed, and anxiety increased:https://www.sciencealert.com/eating-a-high-fat-diet-may-increase-your-anxiety-study-warns#Science #Health #Diet #GutMicrobiome #Anxiety #MentalHealth
(DIR) Post #AjaZ2fZGsBEduHCExE by rdnielsen@floss.social
2024-07-04T13:49:28Z
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@futurebird That's interesting speculation about insect brain efficiency and scaling. Birds also seem to have more efficient brains than mammals, with corvids having intelligence equivalent to great apes. If that scaled with body size, ostriches would be geniuses. But it doesn't necessarily: ostriches are 46 times larger than crows but their brains are only 5.7 times larger (from https://sizegraf.com/blog/list-of-brain-weights-for-animals/). So bigger ants might not be a lot smarter.
(DIR) Post #AkwALx8MbqcKwTadrU by rdnielsen@floss.social
2024-08-13T14:16:22Z
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Averaging 168 km/h (104 mph) for 24 hours on a motorcycle--with no sleep--gets you a Guinness world record.And on a stock Triumph Tiger. Nice bike.https://newatlas.com/motorcycles/guinness-world-record-greatest-distance-motorcycle-24-hours/#Motorcycles
(DIR) Post #ApwmwFr0pFpPBAum00 by rdnielsen@floss.social
2025-01-10T17:16:19Z
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Evaluation of dietary factors and colon cancer incidence in more than 500,000 women over a period of 16 years found the strongest positive association (i.e., more cancer) with alcohol and the strongest negative association with calcium (primarily from dairy products except for cheese and ice cream).https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55219-5#Science #Health #Cancer #ColonCancer #Diet #Alcohol #Calcium #Milk #Dairy
(DIR) Post #Ar17cEI0pO5OOceFCy by rdnielsen@floss.social
2025-02-11T16:12:04Z
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From https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/proof-3#Statistics
(DIR) Post #AteNQ0u9fb6rSG9nRw by rdnielsen@floss.social
2025-04-02T23:20:07Z
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Yet another study confirms that resistance training protects against cognitive decline.Summary: https://neurosciencenews.com/weight-training-alzheimers-aging-28538/Original paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-024-01483-8#Science #Health #Cognition #ResistanceTraining #WeightLifting #Aging #Dementia #Fitness
(DIR) Post #AuYa8mwJTdro698UjI by rdnielsen@floss.social
2025-05-28T15:00:13Z
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The fatty acid pentadecanoic acid appears to decrease some effects of aging through multiple metabolic pathways.https://www.iflscience.com/could-this-molecule-be-the-answer-to-growing-old-gracefully-79328Note that this is a sponsored article, and ends with a plug for a book (which in turn evidently plugs a supplement supplier). But the summary article references studies that may provide some credibility to the claims.#Aging #Diet #PentadecanoicAcid
(DIR) Post #AwT6Voq3xvOUiThhmy by rdnielsen@floss.social
2025-07-24T18:26:37Z
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Vacuously true disjunctions -- From https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/disjunction