tag > Health
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How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?
"The best available evidence suggests that when psychedelic experiences reduce existential angst and restore a sense of meaning in life, they do so primarily by persuading people of the falsity of a broadly naturalistic worldview" - perhaps because it is false?
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In Chinese mythology, Yaoshou 藥獸 is a kind of divine beast with healing powers. It has an ox body, wears human clothes and a human hat, and looks like a doctor. It is said that if a person is sick and whispers his symptom to Yaoshou, Yaoshou will pick the right herb to cure him.
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This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces - Researchers engineered a hair-thin fabric to create a lightweight, compact, and efficient mechanism to reduce noise transmission in a large room.
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The idea that AI will revolutionize healthcare is popular but likely wrong: The western socio-economic systems has no incentive for "curing patients cheaply" as it isn't a "sustainable business model". AI might make healthcare more profitable for corporations but worse for people.
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Having good health is a fundamental form of success.
Without it, almost all other endeavors become irrelevant. -
Sensory Stimulation Detoxifies the Alzheimer’s Brain: 40-Hz sound and light oscillations activate neural waste-disposal action
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When asked about their hopes for artificial general intelligence (AGI), many proponents cite aspirations to 'make the world a better place'. Upon closer examination, the specifics often involve improving health & reducing suffering globally. Yet, attempting to convey that such aims are achievable today at scale through highly accessible low-tech solutions, mostly falls on deaf ears. Why is that?
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Here's a secret I wish I'd known years ago: Self-massage may not replicate the feeling of someone else's touch, but its effects are remarkably similar. Try it yourself!
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The Adderall Epidemic in the US is absolutely flabbergasting. They had 43 million prescriptions for the drug last year & that's just the official number. The effects of Adderall are completely underestimated and devastating in the mid-term, and it shows.
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Practiced in China for hundreds of years, chinese medicine balls are used by rotating two or more balls repeatedly in either hand. They are intended to encourage healthy hand, wrist, and finger movements, relieve stress and hand pain, improve concentration, finger dexterity, and muscle strengthening.
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French Herbalist Maurice Messegue (1921 - 2017) In France, circa 1960
“The act of healing did not begin in the twentieth century. Granted that science has made such great progress, it is true nonetheless that our ancestors had discovered plenty of methods of treating various afflictions.” -Maurice Mességué
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Hypothesized mechanisms of taVNS in the treatment of depression: direct and indirect modulation of the activity and connectivity of the key brain regions involved in depression, reducing neuroinflammatory sensitization and modulating the autonomic nervous system.
