Posts by Austin Reed42

Patrick Young2 said:Does taking an Aspirin, say once a day, actually help as a preventative measure against the flu?

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Oh, absolutely not. Look, Aspirin works by reducing the synthesis of inflammatory molecules in your body, which might make you feel a little better, but it honestly doesn't have any impact whatsoever on the actual flu virus itself (or really any other virus, for that matter).
If you're looking for something that actually provides a preventative effect, you should be talking about the flu vaccine.

Honestly, I don't have any judgment at all when it comes to people like that. It’s just common sense that we aren't all wired the same way, right? We don't all gravitate toward the same hobbies or social scenes. If you're genuinely convinced that you'd rather skip the crowds and you feel totally content just being "one with yourself," then hey, go for it. Seriously. And if your parents or your buddies can't wrap their heads around the fact that everyone is built differently, then honestly, that's on them, not you.
At the end of the day, you're the one living your life, and if happiness means doing exactly what makes you tick instead of checking boxes to please everyone else, then that's what you should do.
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So, when we're talking about radiation from our laptops, smartphones, TVs, and all those other gadgets, we’re actually dealing with non-ionizing radiation. Basically, this stuff just doesn't have nearly enough energy to actually ionize—you know, rip electrons away from—the big macromolecules that make up our bodies. Because of that, there really isn't any danger of developing cancer from it. The only thing that radiation is really doing is heating up your tissue if you're practically glued to the device, but even then, it shouldn't cause any actual harm.
I mean, obviously, if you have the choice, it's always probably a good idea to limit your exposure to any kind of radiation whenever you can, just to be safe.

From everything I understand, there is absolutely no way you could end up with ovarian issues just because you turned on a laptop; honestly, if someone is feeling that, it’s almost certainly going to be some kind of psychosomatic response.

Look, sugar isn't inherently some kind of poison or a direct carcinogen—I mean, if you don't have a deep dive into biology or biochemistry, you might not realize that all our cells actually rely on glucose, which is just a simple sugar, to function properly.
The real villain here is refined sugar, the stuff you’re finding in almost every processed meal you pick up at the grocery store, because it’s packed with sucrose. Now, sucrose is a disaccharide made up of glucose tied together with fructose via a glycosidic bond. The real problem with sucrose is that fructose component; our bodies don't actually have a functional use for it, and unlike glucose, we can't even use it as an efficient energy source, so it basically just gets converted straight into fat deposits—you know, just pure body fat.