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Dietary recall is a bit of a hit and miss way of assessing intake of a vitamin and is open to biased interpretation. Vitamin K MK-4 is taken up rapidly by the brain, Vitamin K MK-7 found in hard cheeses and Natto products doesn’t cross the blood-brain barrier. So, other studies would need to follow it up with set dose supplemented vitamin K of the same type, to get a more reliable result.

"We observed a significant inverse linear relationship between vitamin K intake and depressive symptoms"

CPAP is poorly tolerated?

Not by me

I've taken mushrooms, ketamine, and MDMA recreationally and it's very easy to see the therapeutic benefits. The ease at which they allow the user to 'open up' is almost magical. Be careful with ket and MDMA, though, as they can both be addictive and detrimental to your health if used too often. I personally won't use MDMA more than once every 4 months, but it's usually much longer. IMO, mushrooms are where the real magic is ;)

This isn't sociological. It's interventional psychiatry.

Some things of course cannot be blinded, because well it's an intervention that people know they got. And it will design study you can compare the efficacy of different interventions.

Misuse…? They’re using it correctly. How about we say “overuse” if we’re afraid to call veterans abusers or addicts….

Wonderful research showing that if you only look at those who are deficient in the things which walnuts contain, eating additional walnuts can help. No actual test cases, just looked at the nutrients. It was no surprise to find this was funded by the Californian Walnut Commission.

As someone with severe sleep apnea, I am cautiously interested. I'd much rather be able to take a medication than have to lug around my CPAP machine whenever I go on vacation.

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I was a severe alcoholic for a long time and finally in 2021 I started microdosing psilocybin. My gameplan wasn't to stop drinking or anything, I just suddenly had a regular supply. Well after a few weeks I wasn't drinking nearly as much, and just had a light steady body high. 2 years later I have a beer every now and again, but I'm a far way off of drinking whole handles of whisky a day.

My story is 100% anecdotal, but whether it is psychosomatic or the real deal, I am now healthier than I ever was and have 0 cravings for alcohol.

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and for me, up's the likelihood of kidney stones, i love nuts, but they don't love me, took a while to find the trigger

I was a heavy drinker/smoker when I was young who turned into a 12 pack a week drinker as I progressed through adulthood and into fatherhood. I now no longer drink/smoke aside from a holiday or a truly special occasions and I feel like mushrooms are the main reason why.

I've been taking psychedelics for a long time, but over the past few years my very close friends and I have 3-4 heavy-dosed, therapeutic rejuvenators (tripcations) every year. Crying/laughing, discussing life and its ups and downs without anxiety, discussing things I normally don't discuss with people, becoming closer, and actually working to make things better in my/our lives are just a few of the benefits, or side effects, that have come from these quarterly sessions. Deep diving into health and addictions during our last few trips was the fuel I needed to stop being a regular drinker.

As I type this out, I'm packing my bags for our first therapy session of the year... I can't wait!!

It’s a rapidly growing and highly lucrative industry. I would always look carefully at the ‘conflict of interest’ section at the bottom of any paper - things that are company funded may not be too trustworthy although they still get published. Then things like sample size and methodology.

On the other side, at the moment there appear to be many potential applications of these plants (hemp/cannabis) and I’m happy so much investigation is going on. Many of these studies are generating initial data that will give hints as to whether it’s worth studying them in greater detail. So I Iook forward to any interesting discoveries that emerge - and the larger replicative studies that then back up the initial hypothesis with robust and reliable evidence.

Could you elaborate? The data in table 1 looks ok to me, but I’m no statistician.

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So, a different road to the same destination?

If inequality is the problem why not address that? Medicare for all, higher minimum wage, better retirement, guaranteed time off and maternity leave would close wealth gap. Banning guns only allows more power to the people that have power already, ie: the rich and politicians will not get rid of their / private securitys guns

This is a study done with controlled administration of the psychedelics by therapy professionals. Not just a drug dealer

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The murder rate in the 1920’s was the highest in American history which led to social security and a “safety net,” because society was unstable in the extreme.

With inequality hitting near those records once again, no hope for the poor, and the tools which get one out of poverty are more expensive than ever - it’s no mystery why people are drowning in misery.

The easy solution is the only one Republicans and Obama democrats didn’t want when they had the chance: ban weapons of war from the streets and limit guns. Allow muskets only as the founders, framers, and writers of the constitution intended.

Abstract
In social animals that form flocks, individuals compete or cooperate to gain access to shared resources. In particular, group-foraging individuals frequently engage in aggressive interactions with conspecifics, including threat displays and physical attacks, in order to acquire food resources. Here, we investigated social interactions in flocks of captive tree sparrows (Passer montanus) to observe the formation of dominance hierarchies. We also examined correlations between social status and morphological traits to identify which physical traits act as indicators of dominance. To do so, we recorded aggressive behaviours (attacks and threats) of tree sparrows caught in two distinct regions in the Republic of Korea (Gwangju and Gurye). After merging the two groups, we examined dominance structures using David’s scores for one month, and we recorded 1,051 aggressive interactions at a feeder in a group of 19 individuals. Using the number of aggressions and attack and threat behaviours, we tested whether morphological traits and sex influenced dominance structures. Aggressions were significantly more frequent in males than in females. However, no significant difference was observed the frequency of between- and within-sex aggression. In addition, differences in the frequency of aggression behaviours were observed between capture-site groups. Dominance structure was significantly correlated with certain morphological traits; specifically, the frequency of attacking behaviours was correlated with bill-nose length, and the frequency of threat displays was correlated with sex and badge size. These results suggest that social signals are closely related to morphological traits that are used to form dominance hierarchies in tree sparrow flocks.

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