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The world is full of mysteries, some of which we understand and others that we’re still figuring out. From all the incredible things that happen on our planet, some just seem way too far-fetched to be true. Almost like they can’t be backed up by scientific evidence.

That’s why we put together this list of weird phenomena and crazy happenings that seem extremely fake but are actually real. You better clear your schedule because some of these posts might lead you down an intense rabbit hole of research.

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#1

“Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Most of psychology and neurology sound like absolute b******t once you read into at first, and then there’s just this disgusting mountain of evidence in your face. Like just look at ADHD, for an ADHD person the reason they didn’t do something can QUITE LITERALLY be “my brain didn’t *let* me do it” and it’s not bs, like it’s a thing called executive dysfunction which is the brain not know what or how to do something or start or a lot of other things and then just doesn’t.

It the outside observer it looks like laziness, and that they’re just slacking off scrolling their phone or watching stuff, but inside is an entire monologue of said person screaming at themselves to just do the thing, but they can’t. It’s also not just for important or menial tasks, they’ll “procrastinate” on things they want to do, like playing a video game or reading a good book. It can often feel like “Locked In Syndrome” a condition where you’re locked inside your own body as an observer.

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Feathered Dinosaur
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a person with AuDHD I can confirm. My mom is my executive officer in a literal sense to manage those things my brain simply refuses to do

Sand Ers
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That gives me a hint about why having company makes it possible the break through the barrier when I can’t do it alone. I have a friend coming over tomorrow to help with something I’ve needed to do for months.

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My O My
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd like to add that this kind of problem is not exclusive to ADHD. People suffering from depression for example can experience this too - the reasons are different but for outstanders it looks the same

Sand Ers
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So I get to the plate already two strikes down…

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Nimitz
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I experience this all the time. It can be something as simple as writing a 3 sentence email for something very important, like taxes or the doctor or something that would get me a dream job. I often can't do it. It's like standing before a door and just not being able to reach out and turn the handle. You're just not able to do the thing. And you curse yourself and scream at yourself but you just can't do it. I hate it so much

Otto Katz
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for this. I am 67 years old, and I can still hear my mother telling me "you're LAZY" when I couldn't get something done she wanted me to. Cutting like a knife. It still hurts.

Sand Ers
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“He could do so much if he would just try”. My second grade teacher, from back before ADHD existed and we were just lazy or discipline cases.

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Deborah B
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ADHD + Depression. I can know what I need to do, I can want to do it, it can be something I would enjoy doing....and I still. can't. do. it. Other times, of course, my brain will fixate on something, and refuse to let me stop doing it.

Steph Rs
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! It’s so bizarre - I’m *trying* to do something I *want* to do and my brain just won’t. I’m sure it sounds like a load of excuses to someone who hasn’t been there, but it is very real and very infuriating for those experiencing it.

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BoredPangolin
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To neurotypicals, neurodivergence is a bad excuse for poor behaviour / success :(

Bex
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At 46, I was just dx with ADHD, and this explains so much of my life!

Nina
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish this went out as a worldwide PSA

chamomile tea
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m so lucky I’m a guy and was diagnosed at 8, because I’m not totally sure I’d be able to handle being called lazy by people all the time.

Sand Ers
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, we who experience it certainly understand it. It’s the people who don’t experience it, and also refuse to accept that it’s true who are the problem.

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    #2

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True The illusory truth effect.
    People will believe something *just* because it is repeated, even when they know that what's being said is not true.

    ayatollahofdietcola_ , Roman Kraft Report

    Tucker Cahooter
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Certain politicians have learned that well

    PattyK
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ALL politicians have learned that well!

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    Michelle C
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” - British Prime Minister Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

    Pyla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Welcome to Cult of Trump.

    Shelby Moonheart
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tell your spouse and family that you love them three times every day. And show it by how you treat them.

    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    repetition outvotes verification

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have heard the illusory truth effect described many times so I know it must be true. /J

    Justin Tyme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't believe you. Say it again.

    C.O. Shea
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Vote for sanity. Vote for Kamala.

    Justin Tyme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To quote Kamala Harris, "Haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha."

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    WalterWhiteSavannah
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the pets! And it's a shame..." or pollievre in Canada insisting Singh only cares about his pension... which is currently about a quarter of what pollievres pension is.

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    #3

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True You absorb more nutrients from cooked eggs than you do from raw eggs. People don’t believe it because cooking eggs actually does reduce the amount of nutrients. BUT cooking them changes the protein structures and makes it easier for your body to actually absorb them. It’s called Protein Denaturation and it increases the bioavailability of the proteins. Bioavailability describes what is actually available for your body to digest and absorb.

    More nutrients doesn’t necessarily mean more bioavailability and less nutrients doesn’t necessarily mean less bioavailability.

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    Sky Render
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same thing happens with a lot of food. Especially plants, many of them have complex proteins that are more bioavailable when denatured.

    Nimitz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same for the complex starches and fibers. Cooking softens and breaks things down making them more easily digested and absorbed. There's actually archaeological evidence pointing back 250,000 years to when humans started using fire to cook. The increased nutritional value had marked impacts on our brain size and overall health.

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    Anna Drever
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn’t it the same, or similar with tomatoes. Cooked are better than raw. I’ll stand corrected.

    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you chew your food 30 times rather than 15, you more that double the bioavailability

    LizzieBoredom
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So drinking denatured alcohol makes the booze more bioavailable?

    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just like broccoli and many other foods. Broccoli has vitamin K but it practically useless unless cooked.

    Aballi
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This photo is confusing. Eggs on a rock? With in-shell peanuts sprinkled around?

    Scott Rackley
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hint: There's not a lot of bioavailability in corn, so...

    Steve Hall
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Part of this may be due to the fact that most people do not eat eggs raw.

    BoredPangolin
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't get much nutrients from a raw egg since I would basically throw it up!

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    So many examples on this list might sound absurd at first, until you try and uncover the truth behind them. Like the idea that your personality changes when you switch between languages. The idea behind it is that you might speak in a different language when going to a new environment or culture and that ultimately affects the way you express yourself.

    Compared to that, pseudoscience doesn’t have evidence backing it and is almost always based on flimsy ideas. To understand the difference between what information’s real and what’s fake, Bored Panda reached out to Paul M. Sutter. He is a theoretical cosmologist, NASA advisor, and author of a book called ‘Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt.’

    The most important thing Paul told us about pseudoscience is that it “takes the surface tools of science, like complex jargon and fancy equipment, but misses the deeper soul, like skepticism and openness.” 


    #4

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True The effect on your dopamine receptors from fantasizing/ imagining things. I forget the exact term. As it turns out, you can achieve a pretty high dopamine response from fantasizing/ imagining/ talking about goals, which can provide your brain with enough happy chemicals to actually HINDER your drive to go and achieve those things for real. This sounds like b******t, but it’s true.

    Degen_Boy , olia danilevich Report

    Phine Colella
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This happens a lot with people with adhd

    Mere Cat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can confirm on my part - diagnosis of ADD, I can get lost in my thoughts for hours. Plus side is that I never get bored when I always have my imaginary worlds, downside that I don't get anything done in reality 🫠

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    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're happy just thinking about it, why bother actually doing it?

    Trophy Husband
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That explains 99% of my thoughts... The other 1% is me trying to remember what I'm supposed to be doing.

    Stephanie A Mutti
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It also can mess you up into forming an addiction to other people that you imagine you have a relationship with. Limerence. It's no party.

    Mia Black
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This happens anyways when I look cooking or baking shows. They lead me to look for recipes and inspiration and I'm all for it but then I only end up on the couch, looking the show and feel good for it but bad that I won't do any of the dreamt food

    PeTeH
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I imagine or fantasize about something, winning lottery, buying a house, going on a trip etc. something always goes wrong in it. House get's attacked or I get robbed when on a trip or something. Apparently I don't even deserve to dream... 😄

    nottheactualphoto
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I have a project - either personal or from work - I spend some time thinking about it. Once I've decided on the best way to approach it, and some actual solutions, I lose interest because the problem is solved.

    keyboardtek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And chronic worrying is a mix of that overactive imagination and a touch of OCD that focuses only on negative "what ifs".

    Sky Render
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've known that for years. Many games are far more satisfying to think about how you'd dominate in it than to actually build up the skill necessary to do so. Smaller time investment, better reward.

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    #5

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Mycelium. You're telling me the 'roots' of mushrooms act as a big message delivery system that not only allows information to be sent large distances across a single specimen but can also be used by connected TREES to communicate with each other and swap nutrients??? This is an oversimplification and mycelium absolutely does not think (isn't sentient) like humans do-- however, I am not exaggerating just how implausible it all sounds. There are some amazing mushroom documentaries out there and it still baffles me.

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    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These theories just pop up out of nowhere, but yes, they're linked

    Barbara Burns
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ha ha - I see what you did there, Andrew. Good one.

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    Jan
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you not watched Star Trek Discovery?

    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fungi below the forest is one of the largest living organism on earth - stating unequivocally that it does not think may be missing some important issues

    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fungi are the largest organisms in the world. Mushrooms are the reproductive part of fungi. The real mass is under ground, In Oregon there’s a single honey mushroom that’s 30 some odd square miles or bigger?

    Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They do it through the roots cos there ain't mushroom on top. I'll see myself out.

    Pyla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why does this seem like pseudoscience? It's well researched

    Nils Skirnir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe the pre-Abrahamic religions, particularly animistic ones, were more in tune with reality than the former.

    axle f
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...one mushroom to rule us all

    #6

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True That talk about you changing personalities when switching languages apparently has truth to it.

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    Feathered Dinosaur
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So which language will make my personality bubbly and outgoing? German seems to make it gloomy and sarcastic

    Kaligirl
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I speak German I'm typically more direct, more serious. Can also tell jokes with the well-known German "humor". Whereas when I speak English I'm bubblier ,friendlier, etc. Spanish is a bit flirty and chill, almost like summer. :)

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    Verena
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I worked ten years in an international office with people from 48 nationalities and 45 different languages (some languages like Dutch, French and German are used in several countries as national language). That effect was really, really visible

    martymcmatrix
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whenever I debate in Klingon, I get quite argumentative...🤼

    Pernille
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That might be correct, I'm friendlier in french than in english, and a proper grump in danish, but then again I could just be choking when speaking danish.

    Noltha
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would suppose the brain has to change slightl the way of thinking, when using different grammar rules.

    Mere Cat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That might be very true, different languages have sort of different aspects to things. For instance, in English, I might say "I dropped my fork", but in Finnish, I would say "my fork dropped from me" if it is an accident, pointing the "blame" to the fork. If I said in Finnish I dropped my fork, it would mean I did it on purpose. There are lots of small differences like this in the grammar itself, not to speak of the mentalities of different nations etc.

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    Not-a-Clue (she/her)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've never heard of this! I can see how it might work, though, almost as though you are playing a role.

    Spellflinger
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I work with someone who is bilingual- English/French - and he is much louder in French. Other colleagues who are also bilingual have said they are also louder in French.

    Elladine DesIsles
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a long tendency to switch to French when expressing either affection or discipline/direction toward my kids. I always figured this was a combination of influences from my lovely Franco-Manitoban grandmother and several truly awful high school immersion teachers.

    Trentin Quarantino
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm more lively and emotive when speaking Greek.

    Lihi Porat
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Totally true. I feel like a lighter and nicer person speaking in English or Spanish than my original language.

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    Across the globe, around 60% of folks believe that the average person in their country doesn't care about factual information and just believes what they want. That is quite worrisome, considering how easy it is to pass pseudoscience off as real science and how believable a lot of it seems.

    That’s why we also contacted Melanie Trecek-King to share her views on this topic. Melanie is a speaker, writer, educator, and consultant specializing in critical thinking, information literacy, and science literacy. She is the creator of Thinking Is Power—which empowers individuals with skills to make better decisions and protect themselves from misinformation. 

    She is also an associate professor of biology at Massasoit Community College, the education director for the Mental Immunity Project and CIRCE (Cognitive Immunology Research Collaborative), and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.

    Melanie explained that “pseudoscience masquerades as science but doesn’t adhere to the rigorous processes that make science reliable. Pseudoscience is widespread and can be dangerous. To protect ourselves, we must understand its characteristics and why we’re vulnerable to it.”


    #7

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True The bacteria in your intestine exist to digest the foods you usually eat. If you stop eating those foods, the bacteria will die, so they send a message to your brain, causing you to crave those foods. If you're trying to give up french fries, for example, it will take about 4 weeks to kill all the bacteria accustomed to digesting that food, and you will continue to crave it while they live.

    It also may be possible to lose weight by getting a fecal transplant from a thin person. The only problem is, it is also possible to get a mental illness (potentially) from that same person, so they should be screened carefully.

    SexyFrancesca4365 , Annushka Ahuja Report

    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This explains why I just can't do without chocolate ... but how on Earth does a faecal transplant affect my mental health?

    Otto Katz
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For instance, if they have schizophrenia, the bacteria in their gut could be effecting (I don't mean affecting) their mental health, and it could start that in you. Scientists are still studying that.

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    Stannous Flouride
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are, effectively, just vessels for the bacteria and other germs that make up most of our bodies.

    Zedrapazia
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is by the way the same reason why a long time vegan might get sick from eating meat, or someone who eats a lot of meat will remain hungry when only eating vegetables for some time. Their gut bacteria is simply not adjusted to digest meat/take a sufficient amount of calories just from just greens.

    LizzieBoredom
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't there an easy way to kill off gluttonous bacteria? Drinking denatured alcohol?

    HTakeover
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Full regimen of antibiotics. But that's the nuke-'em-all strategy & you have to start over at that point.

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    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The science behind faecal transplants is still very new, so some studies have found merit in it and others haven't, but the sample size is still small. (hence 'may be possible) I hadn't heard of it in regards to mental illness though, mostly people with autoimmune conditions and IBS.

    axle f
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... you've never heard of someone having 's**t for brains?'

    Pyla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't care, I am NOT taking a poop pill.

    Jan Olsen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Almost correct.....the bacteria doesn't exist TO anything......the just exist

    Steve Hall
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who ever came up with this needs help!

    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, they did (or rather their patients did). I seem to recall a story from years ago about a cancer patient, whose chemo had basically eradicated her intestinal residents, making it almost impossible for her to gain nutrients from food. Her husband was the donor. It worked - so well, in fact, that for the first time in her life she fully appreciated her husband's trouble of "gaining waight just from looking at a full plate". Before cancer she had never had to watch what she ate to keep her weight.

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    #8

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Red heads need more Anaesthesia than non-read heads. (Not sure if this fits the bill, but it’s always been fascinating to me!).

    explorerdoraaaaaa , Old Youth Report

    JB
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a natural redhead, I can confirm. It doesn’t apply to all redheads but for those of us it does, getting work done at the dentist, for example, requires an upfront conversation that injected anesthetic at a “normal” dose is going to wear off part way through the procedure. We start with a slightly higher dose and they are accustomed to me tapping the dentist’s arm when I start to feel pain.

    Bex
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh, yes! Natural redhead and I have it, too. I had gum surgery this past year and the dentist didn't believe me when I said I could still feel him after multiple shots of Novacain. He called me a liar and a d**g seeker, which resulted in them not prescribing me pain meds for afterwards.

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    LizzieBoredom
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Note to self: Dye hair red before any medical encounters that might lead to quality d***s.

    Nadine Debard
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not red-haired but I need more anesthetics, so I tell this to every anesthesist or dentist. *Me who woke up still intubated and paralyzed after my first surgery and usually needs two shots for a molar*

    Roan The Demon Kitty
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is something that worried me, I was born a redhead, and have always been a redhead until recently, due to chemo. My hair had fallen out, but I had to pause my chemo for a while for surgery, and my hair started coming back blonde, just before surgery. Thankfully, they knew I was a redhead, and of course, they do several checks to make sure you're fully out etc... now i'm bald again after finishing the rest of my chemo and now wondering if I'll be blonde again or go back to being ginger. :')

    Thrillion
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Redheads seem to have a higher resistance to many things. My wife is a redhead, she does need more anaesthesia but at the same time she has a very high pain tolerance. She birthed my sons without any pain meds.

    Socks Thecate
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Red haired Mommy here too. I didn't have any pain meds either. Sure, giving birth hurt but I can't really compare my pain with anyone else's. I was just determined to go through it without meds as I wanted everything as natural as possible.

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    Dawn Davison Clements
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a redhead I now refuse to go to the dentist because I've been drilled on too many times by dentists who did not believe me when I told them I did not numb easily.

    Cari Owens
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Redheads also have a higher pain tolerance. There was a Mythbusters episode that tested this.

    Ovata Acronicta
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dad's a redhead and has this problem. I'm not a redhead, but my secret ginger side has come out this summer since I've gotten sun for the first time in many, many years. I'm looking into something that requires anesthesia and I'm a bit...concerned.

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it was going to be greater tolerance for the anesthesia but sounds like it is lower tolerance for pain. Me - (brunette, not redhead) has always needed extra anesthesia and pain meds. They seem to be less effective on me according to some doctors and dentists I've had. So I thought it was like that. From the internet: "Red hair: The gene that causes red hair may also lower pain tolerance, which could mean redheads need more anesthesia"

    El Cucuy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can confirm. I'm not a redhead, but come from from a redhead family and I have many redhead traits (just not the orange hair!). I require 2-3 times the amount of anesthesia than the average person. Same goes for pain medication in any form.

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    #9

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). essentially, you look at a moving light or object in the therapy room as you process painful memories (as in PTSD and related trauma disorders). it's very effective for most people and typically works faster than traditional therapeutic models. sometimes the relief is apparent even after one session.

    it's broadly applied, too. PTSD, anxiety disorders, phobia, dissociative disorders....EMDR is indicated for a wide variety of life challenges.

    privately, i call it the "little miracle". there are times when it appears to be almost mystical, but then, the human mind is vast and endless, and we know very little about it.

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    Feathered Dinosaur
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our brains are sometimes like computers and in PTSD it's like the memory got stored at the wrong place, where it's always accessed by mistake. It needs to be moved to another part of the brain where long term memories belong to fade away eventually

    Tyranamar Seuss
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It just needs to be processed in a non-threatening environment. The eye movement works like a mild hypnosis, dissociating the person from the terror. So when they recall it they can solidify that memory without terror. Ketamine is being used for this too. To get a dissociation then process the trauma without terror. Pretty fascinating stuff. When EMDR first came out we all thought it was bull. But no, it works, very well.

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    Ash
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got EMDR for my Complex PTSD, and it was FANTASTIC. Very effective. So many therapists think they know how to treat trauma and they don't. My EMDR therapist -- who was the THIRTEENTH therapist I tried over the years! -- was the first one I ever met who was truly and genuinely taught how to treat trauma. Her approach was completely different than other therapists'.

    Laura P.
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    EMDR is amazing if it works for you (it does wonderful things for me).

    Matt Du
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has been really good for fellow travellers in mental health groups over the years. But it did not work out well for me at all. I crawled up the wall behind me to get away from what I was seeing, screaming at the top of my lungs. It was a big set back on my recovery for a while. This however was right at the beginning of my time with my psychologist , he has a far better understanding now and I have a few more diagnosed disorders

    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My psychologist suggested this, but then the regular counselling was working well so I decided I didn't need it.

    jjdubs W
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    EMDR is one of the top three recommended by VA as evidenced-based for PTSD. (Unfortunately, training for providers isn't well-funded.) It can be effective, but is better for a specific traumatic stressor rather than multiple. Other identified top choices include Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE). Written Exposure Therapy (unfortunately, "WET") is an up-and-coming option. Unfortunately, there hasn't been enough research yet on psychedelic assisted therapies, because once they come online, they will represent a major boon (done properly, with therapists who are properly trained).

    Sky Render
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess that's why some people find it very therapeutic to look out the window of a moving vehicle while thinking. I wonder if that's contributed to many failed tests due to reviewing test materials on the bus/train on the way to said test though!

    Bryan Montford
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    EMDR is (at best) pseudoscience. I'm happy for those who believe they've benefitted, but whatever helped wasn't the EMDR.

    Nadine Debard
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was very sceptical about this but you can't reject something proven by science.

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    #10

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True It’s not so much a pseudoscience as it is just good old fashioned, under funding for research but Gut microbiome health is way more than just the health of one’s gut.

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    amy lee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We don't know the links we should know because it's deliberately been underfunded. But we do know that the microbiology of our guts impacts our health.

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    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The gut is responsible for more than people know. Not just the bacteria we use to digest food. The gut is also where serotonin is produced. People think all neurotransmitters are made in the brain and that’s not the case at all.

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    #11

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Ever heard of epigenetics? It sounds like pseudoscience with its talk of genes being turned on and off by environmental factors, but it’s a legit field of study. It’s all about how lifestyle and environment can influence gene expression without altering the DNA sequence itself.

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    Tabitha
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of it is how long term stresses can change the chemical makeup of your cells, which can then essentially wake up dormant DNA. So, if you have the DNA for certain cancers, experiencing the right stresses for the right protracted amount of time can wake them up and start them multiplying. This can also affect babies in the womb, as the stresses change the chemical makeup of the mother’s cells she shares with the baby. Additionally, the stresses of womb placement for multiple births can affect it—-there’s usually one dominant baby who ends up getting the lion’s share of nutrients from the mother, leaving little to their siblings. Even monozygotic twins (identical) aren’t 100% identical, and become less so as they grow up, because of differing life experiences. That’s how you can have one twin develop cancer or schizophrenia, and the other not develop it at all. It’s a really fascinating science, and truly answers the nature or nurture questions, by proving that it is a combination of both that shapes us.

    Cat
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm an identical twin and was born smaller and I've always been sickly. I was the baby that got colic and was ill a lot (I'm now disabled after various illnesses) and I have eczema and allergies. My twin has always been healthy apart from appendicitis when we were 7. My mum was convinced we couldn't be identical, despite looking the same, because we were so different health wise. We've since had a DNA test which shows we're definitely identical. Genetics and epigenetics are wild

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    Becky Samuel
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Epigenetics also affects the germ line (sperm and eggs), so experiences in a parent's life can be passed on to children, and even for several generations. The best studied of these is the effects of famine or starvation on descendants of survivors.

    Tyranamar Seuss
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are correct Becky. Don't know why you got downvoted. I was pregnant with my son from a donated embryo. Not my genetics. But I often wonder how much my epigenetics imprinted on him. He's super anxious. I was abused in childhood. Did I phosphylate or methylate some of his genes and turn up the scan for danger genes? I'll never know.

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    Sky Render
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why risk factors aren't 100% assured with certain hereditary disorders. Environmental factors play a real role!

    LizzieBoredom
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to get a chicken and turn on the dinosaur DNA. Think of the savings on eggs!

    Sand Ers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably offset by the increase in the budget for feed.

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    Ash
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stress causes a lot of problems because it affects our epigenetics so much. For instance: the ACEs test measures how many harmful stressors you experienced in your childhood. Statistically, the higher your ACE score, the more likely you are to experience mental and physical health problems in later life. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean

    Katchen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was working in a lab studying epigenetics 20 years ago. Didn’t know the NIH funded pseudoscience, and I’ve never once heard epigenetics referred to as pseudoscience.

    UKGrandad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Epigenetics is neither pseudoscience nor established science; it's an emerging discipline with no definite conclusions.

    Tyranamar Seuss
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are conclusions. Lots of animal studies where they document a gene being methylated or altered and the offspring with the same tweak. Now suddenly everyone's more afraid of bees or something. Can be down regulated too. If junior never experiences bee threats the methylation can fall off. Then the next generation is not afraid of bees. They've done this with many animal models. And it's been known for quite some time now.

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    #12

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Placebo effect - your mind can genuinely heal your body just by believing it works.

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    Feathered Dinosaur
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And nocebo: getting side effects, because you believe in them

    keyboardtek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So don't read the small print on the new medicine commercials!

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    StarCrossedFriday
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like how people with multiple personality disorder may have identities with different allergies or medical needs - fascinating stuff.

    Nils Skirnir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Heal might be too strong a term. Ameliorate symptoms for a time, yes.

    whaaaaaaaaaa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It could actually heal SOME issues. It's not a guaranteed solution for everything but it can actually completely heal some problems

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    Leebo13
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And fake injections work better than fake pills.

    Insomniac
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doesn't always work. But sometimes it does.

    Anne Home
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The coolest thing about placebo is that it can work even when you know you are given a placebo!

    Anne Home
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The brain says to itself, placebo works. This is a placebo, and so it must work

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    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes and no. It’s more distracting your anxiety and focus away from what you think is wrong with your body. Stress itself is harmful to your whole system. Enough stress and it can shut your heart down. It’s called broken heart syndrome for short or Takutsubo acardiomyopathy. Have cause by a rare disease stressing my body but can be cause my mental stress as well.

    Bryan Montford
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    No. You imagine benefit. Placebo provides no benefit. If this were true, literally, we could imagine anything we wanted to become real. 0_0 Read that again. If the brain could make something true from nothing then there would be no barriers preventing us from manifesting anything. Some believe it, but if it is true, they'd have traveled to the future and prevented me from writing this. (Yet, the words are here.)

    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Valid d**g trials require the d**g under test to be compared against a dummy pill. This is because the placebo effect is real. The placebo ("I please") effect is a real thing. The fact that a dummy pill can result in some people getting well when they otherwise wouldn't have doesn't mean that anyone can do anything if only they imagined it. Curing a cold is not the same as sprouting wings and flying.

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    Most of us aren’t scientists, which is why it can be hard to distinguish between fact and fiction. Melanie Trecek-King explained that “the line between science and pseudoscience isn’t always clear, but there are a few telltale signs. Unlike scientific claims, many pseudoscientific claims are so vague that they can’t be tested.”

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    #13

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True When an amputee is experiencing phantom limb pains, massaging their stump and then the space where the limb was actually does help reduce the pains, especially if the person is already on the maximum dosage of pain meds and can't have anymore. Hearing the hands against the sheets where the limb would be tricks the brain into thinking that it's still there, so it stops the nerves from overfiring as much.

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    LizzieBoredom
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'The Massage of the Night' - Phantom of the Limb.

    Cari Owens
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read that book. Absolutely fascinating. The doctor had one patient that kept getting an itchy palm...of the hand he didn't have. The doctor discovered that if the patient scratched one particular part of his cheek, the itch in his nonexistent palm was relieved.

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    ConfusedCub
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Having gone through this myself, absolutely can confirm. It was maddening for the first 8 months trying to get my doctor to listen to me. As if the scar tissue pain wasn't sleep depriving enough, being told you're bonkers just MEAN.

    ConfusedCub
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a side note, I was already on 10mg oxycontin and the surgeon gladly refilled it when I begged to see him. I just wanted off them darn pills. Yuck

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    keyboardtek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. I saw experiments using a mirror to reflect the remaining limb to the patients eyes will get them thinking they still have the missing limb and then they massage it in the mirror and the pain dissipates.

    Becca not Becky
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can confirm. I've done this for lots of my patients and most of them felt relief.

    HTakeover
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    House MD covered this extremely well. The phantom limb box containing a mirror or rubber facsimile can trick your brain into thinking it's real.

    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suppose this would be like the phenomenon shown on QI, where they put a divider with someone's hand on one side and a fake hand on the other. Used a brush to stroke the real hand first, then the fake one, and the person could 'feel' the brush stroking their hand even when it was stroking the fake one.

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    Robert T
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the reverse may also be true, particularly with back pain sufferers. You can get referred pain when there is pressure on a nerve in your spine which you feel in the part of your body where the nerve endings actually are - for example your shin. If you then rub your shin you can get some temporary relief from the referred pain. I get this quite a lot and it is quite difficult to tell yourself that the pain is not in your legs, but coming from your back.

    Pittsburgh rare
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My radiculopathy never manifests in the spine, but next to the the calves. The pain is maddening.

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    Nadine Debard
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I fortunately have all my limbs but I know this kind of pain from nerve pain. For example you feel that your foot aches, but even if you put your hand on it the pain is somewhere else, further away or deep in you flesh. You can't relieve it because you can't touch it. It's an excruciating pain that never modulates, just 10/10. It drives me crazy. Same when my C-section scar regrew nerves, the itching inside my belly, I could have ripped it open to scratch it.

    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That reminds me of the sort of pain I get with restless leg syndrome. Also pain/itching on my moles for no reason.

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    Koalafied to komment
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I knew a nice old lady who lost an arm in childhood. She grew up, had a job, built a family, and through all those years there were times when the phantom pain just came back. She was a grandmother when I met her and still suffered from it from time to time.

    deejak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is because the pain actually maps to a particular brain region--so while the limb may be gone, the "map" remains. As described in many posts here, you can "trick" the brain into overwriting the map.

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    #14

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True I'm no expert but this is based on my firsthand experience:

    Taking vitamin D supplements makes me feel *significantly* less depressed. Like, I have the potential to be normal, if I've consistently taken it. And if I haven't, I will definitely be depressed, even if everything else is going great.

    Now, vitamins aren't exactly pseudo-science. They are, in fact, *actual science*. But I had a hard time taking certain people seriously about them.

    But damned if it doesn't make a demonstrative difference in my life.

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    Shelby Moonheart
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad who was a doctor worked in a nursing home. He would prescribe vitamins to his patients at double the recommended FDA amounts. He said that elderly people were more likely to take the vitamins if they were prescribed and that they needed all that nutrition since they didn't get it in their diet.

    keyboardtek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Before taking a vitamin D supplement first get a blood test to be sure you actually have low levels.

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    Child of the Stars
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is exactly why it's so difficult to treat mental illness. It can absolutely be an emotional disorder all on its own, but it can also be caused by physiological problems (in my case, I found out it was my thyroid). That's why psychiatric care is so hit-or-miss. If it was treated alongside physical health instead of separately, I would imagine it would be far less difficult to find the right combination of medication.

    Tyranamar Seuss
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We can't prove low Vit D causes depression. We've tried. But we have proven depression causes low Vit D. People get depressed and stop going outside. You need sunlight to make Vit D. I like to check Vit D on all my depressed patients. That and thyroid.

    Max Fox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Vitamin D deficiency causes fatigue. In a person who already deals with depression, fatigue can trigger episodes. A person who is not suffering from a vitamin D deficiency will not be helped by taking extra vitamin D.

    Julia Ford
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought I was depressed but it was actually just fatigue. I have thalassemia so it’s a life long fatigue.

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    Koalafied to komment
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can confirm. I had some blood tests and had very low vitamin D, got a high dose prescribed and within hours, I felt that a very dense sadness was taken from me. It felt unreal.

    Devon Archer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I started taking Iron pills and felt like a new person after a couple of days.

    OneHappyPuppy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is true. I got PPD and the first thing my ObGyn suggested was to check my vitD levels.. they were practically nonexistent...

    Insomniac
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Vitamin D and turmeric do amazing things for me.

    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is some evidence this is true. I have low D all the time and need supplements. Since it’s made from skin and sun it can be thought the body associates it with outdoors but that’s theory at this moment.

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    #15

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Having blue eyes can make you prone to sneezing when exposed to bright light.

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    Feathered Dinosaur
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have eyes so dark they're almost black and still sneeze in bright light. The photopic sneeze reflex is due to our optical nerve being very close to the trigeminus nerve coming from the nasal cavity. When the optic nerve gets excited, the trigeminus gets excited alongside it and the result is a sneeze

    Robert Millar
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks for that. I have green eyes, but the same problem.

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    Max Fox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sneezing as a response to bright light is a well known reaction, and is not limited to people with blue eyes.

    keyboardtek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    MIne cause migraine headaches when flashed with a reflection of the sun.

    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you get the aura in those instances. I used to get migraines a lot, often when I was walking to school, not long after leaving the house into the sunlight, but I never thought about that being the trigger. I would get the aura those times. Now I still get migraines but they are completely different and less common and I don't know what triggers them, except for melatonin tablets I tried recently.

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    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All my family have blue eyes. Only myself and two of my brothers get this (known as ACHOO). I haven't had it happen in a long time though.

    Kim Steffen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Photic Sneeze Syndrome. Most common in people with hazel eyes.

    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have green eyes and I got Photostatic Sneeze Reflex all the time when I went from indoors to the outside and saw the sun. As an adult I don’t get it anymore.

    Jocelyn Webster
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Blue eyes tend to be more sensitive to light in general. Example driving after ita snowed, or whilst snowing.

    jade s
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I rarely sneeze once. I always have a sneezing fit of about 15 to 20 sneezes and all quite loud and forceful. Ive pulled my back sneezing and bit my tongue more than once. These can be triggered by sunlight, incense, certain perfumes, peppermint, eating too quickly, eating too much, and occasionally really needing to pee. *The last one can be problematic.

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    #16

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True It's really hard to drown in quicksand, but rather easy in a grain silo.

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    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quicksand can trap you, then you drown when the tide comes in. I live near a part of the coast where this is a very real risk (we have very wide and fairly flat beaches). I also live near a couple of lifeboat stations equipped to rescue people who do get trapped like that. I've seen a documentary on the telly where the presenter volunteered to get trapped by what they typically call "soft sand", and watched how they freed her leg - local to me in NW England. It's genuinely scary stuff and nothing like the Hollywood version.

    Justin Tyme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quicksand isn't always by the ocean. I got stuck in quicksand beside a river.

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    BunnyMommy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was about 6, I was staying with my grandparents. I usually followed my Grandpa every where. At one point I noticed the grain silo's door, and opened it. WOW! If I climb up the side of the wheat, I'll slide down! Nope! Thankfully my Grandpa picked me up and out of the wheat, and calmly explained why that wasn't a good idea. I never forgot the lesson! Both my sets of grandparents were calm, and taught me lots of things, which I value today, at 76 years of age.

    Huddo's sister
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The other problem with silos is the concentration of toxic fumes inside. I don't think there is a high survival rate when people fall in them.

    Justin Tyme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got stuck in quicksand when I was 14 years old. I almost died from exhaustion getting out of it.

    Kraneia The Dancing Dryad
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Think you need fluid to drown, don't you? Not a doctor so feel free to correct me. But I don't think you drown in grain. Asphyxiate, yes. Drown, no.

    deejak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Great, so after already spending a lifetime worrying about getting trapped in quicksand (spoiler alert: didn't happen), *now* I will spend the remainder avoiding grain silos. :sigh:

    Barbara Burns
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry to be pedantic, but you can't drown in grain. You suffocate.

    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suspect you're most likely to drown in the foam at the breaking edge of waves - foam doesn't support your weight, even if you're a great swimmer. Get out of the break zone !

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    #17

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True The lead-crime hypothesis. There was a massive increase in violent crime in a lot of countries between the 60s and the 90s that then disappeared, correlating with the addition and removal of leaded gasoline. You can google some studies that show a range of results, and there’s a good magazine article here. https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-lead-crime-roundup-for-2018/.

    iacte , kat wilcox Report

    Tabitha
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It also had to do with taking lead out of paints used to paint the inside and outside of houses and apartments. When paint oxidizes, it turns to a fine dust that can be inhaled. Additionally, we all know how babies go through a phase where everything goes in their mouths. They found that paint chips that fell in their reach also were ingested. Just like we removed asbestos from our insulation, we removed lead from our paint—-and both were given time limits for abatement that have now long ago passed. If you ever come across old asbestos insulation or leaded paint, you have to have it correctly removed by professionals, and replaced with new. (I worked in real estate when the bulk of the abatement jobs were happening.)

    Nils Skirnir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Indirect results as lead exposure lowers IQ and other measures of intelligence. The human groups with more violent crime tendencies tend to be in the 80-90 IQ range. However, the most effective killers still tend to be politicians and generals with 120+ IQ

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    Lost Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So this is my theory, we have seen a surge of psychological disorders in recent years. Using the information of asbestos = cancer increase, lead = violence increase, maybe microplastics = psychological disorder increase. I have no formal education, so this may just be a whole lot of nonsense, but to me it seems to fit the timeline.

    Ash
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Research has found that microplastics can cause/increase problems like higher levels of dementia or ADHD. https://www.aamc.org/news/microplastics-are-inside-us-all-what-does-mean-our-health

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    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lead isn't exactly good for your brain - and it may be that crime is more likely to occur when thinking is restricted. And do try www.motherjones.com - there's a lot of good stuff there

    Tabitha
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was born in 1960, and was an adult when they phased out leaded gas and put catalytic converters in cars. What pisses me off is the lead in my lungs from leaded gasoline, even though I never lived in a big polluted city, but in small towns and rural areas. People were still driving around in those places, and filling their tanks with leaded gas. None of the agencies that are supposed to know and try to correct environmental stuff like this—-and I am willing to bet good money they knew it for decades before anything was done—- never said one word until the eighties, when I was already in my twenties, and the damage to my lungs was already done. Same goes for the microplastics in our bodies that we just now learned about, even though plastics have been around for more than a f*****g century now.

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    Max Fox
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It also had to do with the increase is unprotected sex plus the absence of legal abortion. As a result, there was an increase in unwanted kids born into poverty.

    Anne Home
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The freakonomics people found a strong correlation between the time of legal abortion and the time of crime downdrop. As far as I remember, it was 15 years between the two, in other words, lots of unwanted poor kids did not grow up to do lots of crime. But I guess we'll see how the statistics move again, fifteen years from the new abortion bans :-/

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    Sand Ers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Correlation is not causation. But it -can- be used to prove causation if the information is granular enough, and you have enough of it. If I’m remembering correctly, studies could track the correlation neighborhood by neighborhood, where the level of lead contamination tracked exactly to the crime rate.

    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lead lowers IQ and causes a propensity to violence among many other problems..

    Devon Archer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fertility is also dropping because of microplastics in foods. A scientist predicted that the movie "Children of Men" will actually happen in a way since people won't really be able to have kids in a couple of decades.

    Deb Dedon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So now I'm wondering if the increase in violent behavior might be linked to lead in processed food and other sources. Could the addition of lead to food be deliberate - an attempt to increase military enlistment perhaps?

    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I doubt people craving violence employ the foresight, discipline, and patience to restrict their outbursts to military training and operations. More like pub brawls, extremist political congregations (where the other side has people with the same cravings, and the convenient pretexts to act on them), and hooliganism. Making people aggro via lead to use them in the military is not a viable solution - especially since a lot of the daily routine in the armed forces - in peace AND war - is less about actually fighting others and more about operating machinery of one kind or another, be it a helicopter, a tank, or a computer, and lead poisoning has a negative impact on intellectual development. So you'd get aggressive hunks who would be difficult to keep in line, and too stupid to be trusted with a gun.

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    #18

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Crazy to think cooling your wrist, behind the knee or inside elbow can cool the whole body due to blood proximity to the surface.

    Stachemaster86 , freepik Report

    Not-a-Clue (she/her)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember learning to run cold water over my wrists to cool my hands when working with pastry. A school cookery lesson in about 1978.

    Blue Mar
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's very refreshing also to get cold water on the back of your neck, I do that when I'm hot or feeling sick

    annalisa favaron
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This also helps me mitigate nausea when I get motion sick :D

    Scott Rackley
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most effective is neck, armpit, and groin/inner thigh

    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm NOT putting an ice cube THERE, young man! And I dare you to tell me you would! 😂

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    Hmmm hmmmm
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Would this work in reverse to warm me up?

    Laura Gillette
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why elephants can cool their whole bodies by flapping their ears.

    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anywhere blood flows closest to the surface of skin, if you submerge in cool water it will eventually cool you down.

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A bit more personal but sticking an ice pack in your crotch also cools you down a lot. Nothing 'sexual'. It just puts the cold back close to your femoral artery. A survival thing they taught us in the military was you could lose up to half of your body heat through your groin or your head. That was more about surviving the elements and the importance of keeping those areas covered/warm but it also works in reverse. Groin for the artery and head because your body tries really hard to keep blood flow to the brain and head in general.

    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not so crazy - change one thing, change results

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    #19

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True VISUALIZING AND MIRROR NEURONs!! Research has showed that visualizing is actually incredibly powerful. It activates both motor neurons and mirror neurons. Watching someone do a squat with good form and visualizing yourself executing that same motion with good form are almost the same to your brain as physically doing it.

    So if you’re working out, learning a dance etc. watch videos of other people doing it. Close your eyes and visualize yourself doing it, moving through the motion and then when you go to do it, it will be easier!

    SadQueerBruja , DC Studio Report

    Sand Ers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aphantasia. I can’t visualize. At best I get an ephemeral shadow, but mostly I just get a close memory.

    keyboardtek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people cannot visualize an object, and some lack any mental interior dialogue. Some lack a conscience or any sense of remorse for their crimes. They become Republican presidential candidates.

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    Tyranamar Seuss
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My son has awful mirroring. Makes him clumsy and decreases his empathy towards others. It's part of his autism. You coo and googoo at the baby. And smile. And the baby didn't coo back. I felt so detached from him. It was weird. You really need these for emotional development and sports.

    Chonky Panda
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if this works for mundane tasks? If I imagine myself throwing out the trash, will it be easier to do it the next time? 🤔😂

    ravn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used this method when I was a competitive archer, and it did seem to help if I was disciplined about it. I used a 10-minute "meditation" before going to the range.

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    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'll remember this for my katas

    Becky Samuel
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's very effective for katas and oher excercises that require form.

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    Ash
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People who have been trained in ballet can pick up other forms of dance much more quickly because ballet forces you to concentrate on very small differences in body position and movement when steps are being demonstrated for you, and it makes it easier to imitate other kinds of dances.

    Alex Ruddies
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This doesn't work that well on me unfortunately...

    Max Fox
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    Further research disproved the existence of Mirror Neurons. It seemed a good theory when first formulated, but it didn't stand up to more extensive research.

    Tyranamar Seuss
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is false. Just google mirror neurons. Tons of studies and tests proving their existence.

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    #20

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True That the water content of bamboo is affected by what phase the moon is in.

    Hardy-fig-dreaming19 , erika m Report

    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    tides in the bamboo - interesting ...

    Sky Render
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tidal forces affect a lot more than just the ocean! Any fluid in motion can and will be affected by them. It's just that usually we don't notice or have developed means to deal with it as "fluctuations".

    Nicole Weymann
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm embarrassed to admit I had to look her up 😂😂 For those who would like to know: https://wiki.lspace.org/Sally_Cambric GNU, Sir Pterry!

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    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bamboo is also the tallest grass plant in the world and the fastest growing. Some grow 3 feet a day.

    Robert T
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So is my computer code! ;-)

    Ash
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    time to BLOODBEND THE BAMBOO

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    #21

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Seeing with your tongue is possible by wearing a special helmet with a camera and an electric plate on your tongue that transmits low-voltage signals via the plate. The brain will interpret that information through the visual cortex.

    The technique has also been used to help people with a malfunctioning cerebellum by helping them restore their balance.

    ChronoLegion2 , freepik Report

    Sand Ers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/device-lets-blind-see-with-tongues/

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    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There’s a condition called Synesthesia that mixes the senses. For example you can taste color or see music. This happened to me a few times when I was sick.

    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    John von Neumann invented what he called a 'hearing glove' which broke spoken sounds into 5 (or 10, depending) frequencies which the brain was trained to understand as speech - for an easy example, put in earplugs, and hold a balloon while someone is talking; you can hear through your fingers

    #22

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Quantum mechanics. All of it, but especially antimatter and the way the little bits pop in and out of existence.

    tralfamadoriest , DC Studio Report

    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    QM makes no sense apart from ... it works ...

    Julia H
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True. I took an intro class. I interpreted QM as, everything everywhere all at once

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    Sky Render
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is how it is when your ability to observe reality is limited to a fraction of all of reality.

    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you can understand it then you have misunderstood..

    JohninND
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Spooky action at a distance"~ Einstein.

    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Entire universes can pop into existence (and disappear) in the vacuum of space as long as it totals as neutral

    Victoria
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both QM and GR have been tested very rigorously and both have been found to be in compliance with their predictions. Higgs Boson and Gravity Waves being the most recent. What's amazing is they're incompatible with each other!!

    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    QM = quantum mechanics. GR = general relativity. QM was developed to describe things at a very small scale. GR was developed to describe things moving fast at a large scale. Odd thing, though: Einstein came up with general relativity, and noticed that it implied energy = mass times the speed of light squared, which is how nuclear bombs work, and that's all down to particle physics and quantum mechanics. Don't ask me, I just live here.

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    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It makes sense if you have deep studied it. Yes it doesn’t coincide with classic physics but there will always be things we can never know because some things will always be a phenomena we can only theorize about. However, replicating evidence has verified many quantum effects.

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    #23

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True If you hold a pencil between your teeth, forcing your mouth into a grin-like shape, it will make you evaluate your mood more positively. Your brain responds to body movements and postures, and this way you can trick the brain into thinking you've been smiling all day.

    rainbow_drab , krakenimages.com Report

    HTakeover
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This works with dogs too - tail position. Fake it 'till you make it works both psychologically and physiologically.

    Verena
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ears of horses. If one of them gets their snake-face, I gently move the ears into the "I am interested"-position. Only recommended if the horse trusts you and you know the snake-face has no actual reason, but is only a bad-hair-day.

    Ash
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would try this on my cat except that I'm pretty sure she'd kill me lol

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    Kelly Scott
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Smiling at customers all day never put me in a good mood. I still always wanted to fist thump the rude ones.

    Ash
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You don't have to hold a pencil between your teeth to do this: I've improved my depressed mood in the past by simply smiling, laughing, and acting happy. It really did work.

    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Be aware you may look a little strange, though ;-)

    deejak
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, speaking with the pencil in your mouth as described is a trick stage actors use to improve their diction and ennunciation.

    Koalafied to komment
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It also works with looking up and not constantly on the pavement when you walk. And straightening your shoulders does it, too. Fake it till you make it is true, somehow

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    #24

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for depression.

    I told my doctor it sounded like pseudoscience once a long time ago, but I later found out that it really is a legit thing.

    I haven't actually done it myself though, and I've heard personal reviews on both ends of the spectrum.

    Linkums , pvproductions Report

    Sand Ers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m scheduled to start next month. I’ll let you know.

    Hey!
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would be really interested to know how this works for you.

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    Gingersnap In Iowa
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've had TMS sessions. It didn't work for me but I encourage everyone to try it out. You never know what will work.

    Hosteshumanigeneris
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've done it twice over a period of two years and I can say that without a doubt... That TMS and Ketamine have saved my life. After a lifetime on various psych meds and years of battling with my mental health, I have been med free for two years now and I no longer have overwhelming anxiety and depression. I did it for my ADHD as well and I am off those meds too!

    Ash
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My roommate also gets ketamine treatments for nerve pain, where they knock her out for a short period of time, and when she wakes up, she feels better. It's like the doctors said, "have you tried turning her off and back on again?"

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    Bremusa4u
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd it done for my depression. It definitely worked. I still get the situational depression (experiencing at the moment) and temporarily take low dose antidepressant. However, I no longer feel the helplessness or hopelessness I used to experience.

    El Dee
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn't this be cheaper than being on meds for many years and potentially the associated costs and lost earnings??

    Sand Ers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot less hassle too. After a while keeping track of and portioning out a bunch of pills every day gets very old. So far it seems to be working.

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    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I went through 2 series, did not help me but I am quite different

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    #25

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Fascia. Biology and anatomy ignored it until pretty recently, and it's probably the #1 cause of most general pain and aches.

    Mrsbennefits , stefamerpik Report

    Sand Ers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is fascia? Fascia is a thin casing of connective tissue that surrounds and holds every organ, blood vessel, bone, nerve fiber and muscle in place. The tissue does more than provide internal structure; fascia has nerves that make it almost as sensitive as skin. . . . . . . . https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/muscle-pain-it-may-actually-be-your-fascia#:~:text=What%20is%20fascia%3F,almost%20as%20sensitive%20as%20skin.

    Hey!
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure of OP's definition of "pretty recently" because I had my therapists (plural, as in physio, RMT, etc.) work on different fascia from 2007 to 2019.

    keyboardtek
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ida Rolf invented body work deep tissue massage therapy back in the 1960's. It saved me from having to undergo painful surgery to correct scoliosis. She realized that fascia can be softened and moved around to free up frozen posture and poorly functioning muscle tissue.

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    Justin Tyme
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay, now I am curious. What are you talking about? What about fascia?

    TribbleThinking
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you cut a piece of red meat, you'll notice whitish semi transparent bit, almost like a tough tissue paper between the red muscles. That's the fascia. Some used to think it served no function, but I think it's now formally recognised as an organ in its own right.

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    Ash
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad had terrible upper back pain for awhile when he was younger, and they discovered that a piece of his fascia had come loose and wrapped around one of his nerves...

    TooTrue
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We do myofascia release in yoga by doing massage on ourselves.

    LCB
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rolfing is goddam AMAZING

    Pyla
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a myofascial massage is heaven.

    Sky Render
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fascia being the layer of connective tissue in the skin.

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    #26

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True That cosmic rays (neutrinos) are responsible for a lot of random computer errors. The smaller components are and the less electricity the need makes them more susceptible to interference. They carry very little electrical charge but enough to flip zeros to ones. The wrong flip, and oops not working correctly.... temporarily. This is why turning things off and on again fixes so many issues.

    Sonova_Vondruke , Alienware Report

    Noltha
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neutrinos do not carry any electric charge - that's why they are called neutrinos (tiny neutral ones in Italian). Also, although some of them come in large numbers from the Sun (and other cosmic sources), usually they are not considered as cosmic rays, due to extremely low chance of interacting. Cosmic rays close to Earth's surface are composed mostly of muons.

    HTakeover
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To add & modify just a little... Cosmic Ray is a catch-all term. We do get bombarded by energetic neutrons from the sun all the time. They don't deliver a charge themselves, but are easy to be grabbed by the atoms of a circuit they're passing through & slowing down. And when they do, they tip the balance just long enough to start a tiny chain reaction that can flip a Bit. It's called a Soft Error and is a pretty well-studied phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error

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    Jorge Gonzalez
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a funny xkcd comic https://xkcd.com/378/

    Jan Olsen
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cosmic rays are not neutrinos.

    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Senior Software Engineer: "Mr. Gates sir, we've done all we can but Windows still randomly borks up from time to time." Bill Gates: "No problem. Tell everyone it is caused by neutrinos from the sun. How are they going to check? Bwa-ha-ha!"

    Zaach
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was cosmic rays (neutrinos?) that forced computer storage to have a check digit - originally, unexplained, random changes to binary code caused a lot of confusion

    Phil Vaive
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If anyone else was confused by how poorly this was written, here's an edited version: Cosmic rays (neutrinos) are responsible for a lot of random computer errors. The smaller a component is, and the less electricity it needs, the more susceptible it is to interference. They carry very little electrical charge - just enough to flip zeros to ones. If it flips at the wrong time, it will temporarily not work properly. This is why turning things off and on again fixes so many issues.

    Phil Vaive
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It grinds my gears when people write how they would speak, because I can't hear the inflection that is happening in their heads as they write. It makes a lot of people's writing quite unintelligible.

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    Sky Render
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the primary cause of data rot on devices that store data as electrical current. This is why verifying the data cache on software that seems to be malfunctioning is useful.

    Forrest Hobbs
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing much stores data as an electric current. Lots of things store data as an electric charge or as a magnetic moment. Neutrinos hardly ever interact with matter; neutrons are totally different particles. Back in the olden days of the 1970s, IIRC, Intel did some research into what exactly was flipping bits in its RAM chips and discovered that it wasn't cosmic rays as some had thought, it was mostly down to alpha particles from the chip packaging material. So they specified new packaging material and the problem went away.

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    #27

    “Redheads Need More Anesthesia”: 27 Incredibly Weird Phenomena That Seem Too Fake To Be True Time moves slower closer to center of masses. So if you were to fly around the world, you're time traveling.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele%E2%80%93Keating_experiment.

    not_a_moogle , Universal Pictures Report

    Andrew Keir
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    GPS has to allow for this on the satellite clocks. It's complicated ;-)

    Sand Ers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The more I think about how GPS works, the more impossible it sounds.

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    David
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anecdotally this feels false. As I have gotten older I have become a much greater center of mass but time seems to be passing more quickly.

    Sky Render
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Spacetime relativity is awesome like that. We actually have to factor in spacetime distortion to a significant degree when the signal is going near major gravity wells like Jupiter.

    Rowan Kohler
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gravity and acceleration are interchangeable. And as for mass it is strongest on the surface of mass. The center of he earth has no gravity. The strongest gravity is in north arctic sea. The further you move from the surface the less affected by gravity you are. The stronger the gravity the slower you experience time as opposed to someone who is at less gravity, just like acceleration. The faster you move the slower through time you experience as opposed to a stationary observer.

    Brian Droste
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you flew counterclockwise. Would you be time traveling?

    Jeremy Klaxon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How to touch an object that's in the past: https://youtu.be/gp8PbIBlC-s

    Christopher Crockett
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If not for time travel, the Delorean would be almost entirely forgotten today.

    Scott Rackley
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Has nothing to do with mass. Has everything to do with the strength of the gravimetric field you are in.

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