Posts by rustymoose54

Rachel Brooks63 said:Man, MacG really got under your skin if that's what you were trying to say...

Honestly, he didn't get me that worked up, not even close...

I just can't help but brag about my 🙂 😎

And hey, after all those girls with Master's degrees he was calling "research scientists" or whatever—whatever, man...

plus, I'm still not even officially a scientist myself.

look nimbledriver81, your diet is absolute trash—and honestly, that’s probably why you're totally missing the point of this whole architectural philosophy movement, you know, the one started by mistybear4

the whole vibe of the movement is actually centered around nutrition advice... weird, right?

it's giving me total Ionesco vibes🤣

mistybear4 said:Look, I get it, but Sandra Hayes88 actually laid everything out perfectly in her own thread—like, she broke down every single type of carb imaginable—so he could’ve just read it and actually learned something... if he had. Then he comes out with a statement like *that*? It wouldn't even cross his mind if he'd been paying attention, you know what I mean?... I was just letting him know he missed the point (maybe try reading it again, seriously)... 😉

driftinggull13 has a PhD in chemistry. Me too.

What he said about carbs—that all complex carbs we eat eventually turn into glucose that hits your bloodstream—is spot on.

To put it simply:

So, you have a coffee sweetened with regular sugar—sucrose breaks down into fructose and glucose, and that glucose goes straight into your blood. You eat something with starch, like bread, and that starch breaks down into glucose. You drink milk—lactose turns into glucose (plus galactose). You eat an apple—again, glucose and fructose.

All that glucose triggers a response from a (healthy) pancreas—it pumps out insulin, which is the hormone that lets the glucose enter your cells so it can burn for energy. If you don't use it for fuel, it gets stored as fat.

Claiming that bread is "useless" or "harmful" just because it provides glucose and triggers an insulin response is honestly kind of stupid. We all need energy—even when we're sleeping and not moving a muscle. It’s really just a question of how much energy, or food, we actually need based on how much we're burning.

You can still gain weight eating whole foods (brown sugar, whole wheat bread, whatever). It all comes down to whether your total calories in are higher than what you're burning.

mistybear4 said:"Your body doesn't give a damn whether you get your glucose from refined sugar, wheat flour, or an apple. Do you two even grasp that?"

man, it’s pretty obvious you haven't got a clue what you're talking about... 😁

seriously, what kind of comeback is that? zero logic, zero substance... just nothing. ☕

Walter Wilson said:He’s not an engineer, he’s a doctor—by trade, at least... You don't have to be some kind of genius, there’s always a chance you just don't know something...

Look, listen... regarding that whole sugar chemistry thing I was rambling about? I honestly know more about that than your doctor does. I mean, damn, this is my actual job 🙂

The joke's on the herbalist—probably spent more time studying mechanical engineering than biology ☕

Look, Sugar is Sugar. Doesn't matter if you cook it or leave it raw, it’s the exact same thing... one molecule of glucose plus one molecule of fructose, end of story.

Same deal with pure glucose (you get that just from eating fruit) or lactose (which breaks down into glucose and galactose).

I'm guessing when he mentioned risks for women, he was talking about how the body handles insulin spikes after hitting the sweets. Women tend to synthesize fat way faster than men do, and let's face it—more sugar means more insulin, which basically means more bacon.

Or, to put it the way my old biochemistry professor used to tell us—and I always told my female students this—if you eat the sweets, you're gonna get fat... but if you eat the fats, you aren't exactly going to turn sweet. 😁

Peter Taylor63 said:Wait, was I actually arguing with the OP here?! 😕

Get it together, man!

My bad... sorry for assuming we were actually talking about Diet Coke in a thread dedicated to Diet Coke.

😎

Peter Taylor63 said:Look, I didn't even say I was talking about Diet Coke... 😕 😳

So, what's the actual point of this thread anyway...? 😁

Peter Taylor63 said:Whoa, hold up—so you’re playing lawyer in your spare time now, too?! 😲 🙂

And you actually think reacting to complete nonsense counts as being a legal expert? Seriously? 😁

Peter Taylor63 said:I guess it makes you want to keep drinking it because of all that sugar and the bubbles...

There is zero sugar in Diet Coke, which is something we have already covered about thirteen times in this thread... 🙂

Peter Taylor63 said:Seriously, how can you not know that?! 😲 👎 I mean, you're basically a top-tier chemist or something! 😲 🙂

Look, she never actually claimed to be some master chemist—honestly, for the stuff you guys were bickering about, even high school chemistry knowledge is more than enough...

And let's be real, chemists have never gone around claiming they're experts in physiology either. 😉

banderas said:Look, buddy, do you actually know how much a gram of coke costs? And then compare that to the price of a bottle of Cole.
I mean, you probably realize the company makes a massive profit on every single bottle of Cole they sell. So, just do the math—you tell me if there's cocaine in the Cole. 😁

Ugh, those huge multinationals... man, they basically get bulk discounts from the cartels because they buy in such insane quantities, you know?

And I bet you anything they’re getting ripped off with some old, low-grade stuff too...

which is probably how they end up poisoning us all anyway...

swiftpuma82 said:Citric acid doesn't cause cancer!

you're delusional 😁

Rachel Brooks63 said:I mean, I'm starting to think... it was just a low-key way of calling me a fat cow... honestly, that’s the only thing that makes sense! And hey, since we actually have moderators on this sub, maybe I should get a little slap on the wrist for this one too....

Look, she clearly doesn't know you personally—like, at all. She has no clue what you look like. It's just typical internet nonsense—just throwing insults around without any actual logic, just for the hell of it. 😎

The funny part? This "attempted insult" came from the same person who asked me to send her a copy of the Journal of Psychiatric Research the other day—but only IF it had some kind of hidden cryptogram inside, because apparently, she loves solving those. Or so she claims. 😁

So, apparently you people are making Starbucks by dissolving it in oil and then just... drinking it? Like that's a thing?

I mean, honestly, that’s probably the only way you’d actually manage to overdose on fat-soluble vitamins that don't dissolve in water
... if that even makes sense... 😁

Bradley Davis33 said:So, I went in today to get my pupils dilated... -1.5 and -0.7. Just one of those things, you know? Everything gets all blurry and weirdly bright... honestly, I'm just waiting for the fog to lift so I can actually see straight again.
And then my doctor had the nerve to snap at me—like, seriously—asking what the hell I was waiting for all this time... honestly, people just love to judge, don't they?
So, how long does it actually take before things stop looking all blurry after the sirens go off? I mean, seriously... everything is still super fuzzy for me—though I guess I can't really complain too much, given the circumstances... but still.😳 )

So, I was just sitting here thinking—and don't ask me why my brain goes down these rabbit holes at 2 AM—but what does pupil dilation actually have to do with figuring out your prescription? Like, seriously... what's the connection? It feels like one of those things doctors do just to look important, right? But there’s actually some logic behind the madness... or maybe there isn't... who knows anymore.

So, they're dilating my pupils just so they can get a better look at my retina with an ophthalmoscope... honestly, it’s such a trip how much they have to mess with your eyes just to check things out. It feels like you're basically walking around blind for a bit while everything gets all blurry and weird—just waiting for that fuzzy sensation to wear off so I can actually see straight again... turns out, you really need those eye exercises for good vision if you want to stay ahead of the curve, I guess.

You gotta get your eye sharpness checked *before* they start pumping those drops in to dilate your pupils—seriously... because once your pupils are all blown out like that, you can't see a damn thing normally. It's just a mess...

dustycanyon6 said:The whole point is that you can actually overdose on certain vitamins—especially the ones that aren't water-soluble.

So, which fat-soluble vitamins are even in Tang? And how exactly are we supposed to ingest them... like, am I supposed to eat the powder with a spoon or just dissolve it in some olive oil? 😉

Anyway, citric acid is totally harmless, for crying out loud... people really need to chill.

northernfalcon30 said:Anyway, do psychiatrists actually treat "mental illness" and "psychiatric disorder" as the exact same thing—specifically when we're talking about this mess?

Yeah. Totally. According to the DSM-5 (which is put out by the American Psychiatric Association), mental illnesses include stuff like Anxiety Disorders, Mood Disorders, Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders, Personality Disorders, Cognitive Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, Factitious Disorders, Substance-Related Disorders, Eating Disorders, and Impulse-Control Disorders.

Generally:

A mental illness is a psychiatric disorder that results in a disruption in a person's thinking, feeling, moods, and ability to relate to others. Mental illness is distinct from the legal concept of insanity.

It’s pretty much like any other sickness, really... you need everyone pulling in the same direction—doctors, patients, families—plus everyone involved needs to actually know what they're doing through decent education.

In that paper I mentioned earlier (and there are tons more, all published back in 2005...), they talk about how certain molecules can mess with the recovery process. There are a bunch of different theories floating around regarding the pathophysiology and pathobiochemistry of Eating Disorders, but honestly? None of them give us a definitive "aha!" answer for why these disorders start or how to fix them for good. But hey, that doesn't mean we should just throw up our hands and stop researching, right?...

northernfalcon30 said:So, you actually read all this stuff in the journals?

👋

Yeah, basically... if it's indexed in the Current Contents database, you're looking at the absolute cutting edge of scientific research—stuff that hasn't even made its way into textbooks yet (though it eventually will, I guess). Sure, you might stumble upon some mediocre papers here and there, but hey, everything goes through a peer review by three independent, anonymous reviewers first... so there's some level of quality control, right?

northernfalcon30 said:Look, rustymoose54, come on—at least show these people some respect.🙄 😢

Don't go blowing a fuse on me just yet, but this whole version of psychiatry you're talking about? It’s ancient history... totally outdated... and honestly, it just leaves people broken and miserable.

I know we haven't really seen it here in the States yet, but treating psychiatry with a bit more humanity—you know, as an actual medical field—is the only way doctors are gonna realize that the human psyche isn't just some collection of firing neurons... it's a real, heavy mental illness.

Listen, I'm literally quoting articles from journals that fall under Current Contents.

Are you seriously trying to tell me that the Journal of Psychiatric Research (which, by the way, is published by Elsevier) is obsolete?

Or what about Clinical Psychology Review? Biological Psychiatry? Psychiatry research? You're telling me all those journals don't mean squat in your book?

Maybe things are different in America. : shrug :

northernfalcon30 said:Wait, where did I actually give that diagnosis?

Look, if you want to answer that...

northernfalcon30 said:Have you ever met anyone struggling with bulimia or anorexia just because they can't find any meaning in their life?

Well, you’d really have to be certain that the person—the one you’re actually talking to, whether they mention finding purpose or not—has an actual diagnosed Eating Disorder.

Do you personally know someone with that diagnosis?

Me? No. I mean, maybe I do, but nobody's ever sat me down and said, "Hey, I have this diagnosis." But, you know, when you read these academic papers, the authors always talk about their patients—people they've already officially diagnosed.