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Placebo absolutely works even if someone is aware of the effect being a thing. Just at the top of the page I put, "or worse, think knowing of its existence somehow is a prophylactic from it - it isn't." That said, no. When I said it is an ethical question, I mean open in the field of medical ethics itself, where it is…

There's actual ethical questions about recommending treatments for a placebo effect. That gets magnified if it something like massage from another person that has an actual cost attached to it. There's even more issues with something like the image you attached. Cryotherapy and compression indeed do help recovery. That…

I don't know, people put in their profile and I feel like I'm without a paddle and just can't go with the flow. Could be worse. Some people talk about loving sarcasm like it really is something rare. The worst are the people that say they like to have fun - I always want to ask those people who've the met that dislikes fun…

Actually never heard of hinge, thanks. All I ever got out of Bumble was a laugh at finding my older sister's friend's profile and telling her I treated it Baptists in the liquor store: I didn't see her there, she didn't see me. The first 3 things I described were on OkCupid. The two after PoF were on Tinder. The Russian…

Well now that this has been bumped... I'm noticing there is a thread of people saying massage works because of anecdote. I think even well intentioned and aware people forget the power of the placebo effect, or worse, think knowing of its existence somehow is a prophylactic from it - it isn't. To truly know if massage…

I have not found it very fruitful. I've used tried various sites off and on for the 7 years now since my wife left. Over that time, I've * Met up with someone once, have her as FB friend but barely interact with her * Been messaged by one woman who was a Young Earth Creationist while my profile indicated I'm an atheist. I…

What is the difference between IF with an 8 hour feeding window, and skipping breakfast to start eating lunch at noon, and not eating after a dinner finished by 8? Does physiology care about labels?

Lot more variables than are they a child and doing intermittent fasting. What is the child's age? What level of fasting / what kind of window? Is the child actually overweight and how much? Like if someone wants to put their 5 year old who's underweight on alternate day fasting, the answer isn't just no, it is, "hello,…

When at home, it might help to try putting all foods away, particularly putting snacks out of sight and in harder to reach spots that you actively need to work to go to. That tends to be part of what pushes the mindless snacking when stuck at home, beyond just the stress reactions. It can also help to use measuring and…

You're still making progress, so don't be discouraged. Composition tests are more useful for tracking changes than giving an absolute response. The testing can be off too in either direction. I just recently was listening to the story about how Ray Williams, a powerlifter, was measured at 24.3%. Ray's a strong guy and…

I'm just intrigued you have an easy way to know your hormones are balanced, as in all of them when there are almost certainly hormones we don't know of yet, let alone know what a balance of hormones is for all the ones we are aware of already. Though I'm not surprised the diet made you feel better. If you did no exercise…

I'm a dad, so I guess I have a dad bod, but I prefer to think of it as having a father figure.

No, I eat them back impersonally. The calories never made it personal about being burned off, why should I make it personal about putting them back in? Odd, I was under the impression exercise tended to generate physiological changes - for example, increasing the volume of aerobic activity leads to higher aerobic capacity.…

He didn't say honey is unnatural. He said it is processed. Bees do indeed do a kind of processing when making honey. He also clarifies that the issue is when sugar is uncoupled from fiber. It becomes easier to over consume sugar when it isn't with fiber, and it doesn't really matter to your taste buds if the fiber is…

He starts off by agreeing calories in versus calories out. It looks like as it goes on, he's just saying there is a difference in TEF for unprocessed food. One study he cites gives it as about 100 calories a day more for a more whoel foods diet. Okay. So are you agree calories in versus calories out? Or are you just picked…

Well, in hindsight, it wasn't the optimal time to have a surgery. At this point I'm essentially off restrictions, just supposed to not do anything I feel is hurting the area. So I'm back to exercise, both lifting and running. Not nearly back to where I was before the surgery, though to be expected just from time off, let…

Gale, you're far too old to not understand that is not how conversation works. Please be a better human being than that.

Sure, to the same extent all foods are anti-viral as starvation is a pretty bad for the immune system. Beyond that, no idea what you're on about with that.

We do not agree. The idea that we're seeing some kind of massive fix to the ecosystem actually comes from several false stories. Yes, as humans are indoors more, animals are outdoors more, but a lot of the images of them retake the planet are faked. Pretty much any economic downturn involves reduced CO2 output. That's just…

I'd suspect the women sending men creepy messages on MFP is probably higher than a lot of other platforms. As a diet site, the user base is going to be skewed towards women. There is a tendency in populations with higher female to male ratios, women become bolder.

I just last year got a plug-in hybrid. Gas prices have dropped so low it is cheaper for me to just use it as purely a gas / hybrid vehicle, but I still charge it at home. With all the working from home, I rarely make a drive that uses much of the gas, so charging at home means I avoid touching a pump for a long time, even…

Not a single one, even though I have the back photo going on. Then again, I almost never post in Chit-Chat or Fun-and-Games and I think that's part of why. The other part might be my posting style - probably not fun to DM someone you think will write out multiple paragraphs and cite studies in response to your message.

Ok, I'm a little late, but even as an analogy, why is "sandpaper in veins" a bad thing? Sandpaper isn't used to destroy things; it smooths things to make them better. So is the person inadvertently saying sugar will cause your veins to have less surface error, better flow, therefore less blood pressure and less cholesterol…

I spent my whole relationship with my ex-wife at around 285 pounds. I lost my weight when she left and divorced and haven't really managed a date since then, even when I've been single digit body fat. There's a lot more elements to what makes someone attractive than the scale. Are you actually having people that are…

You people have it all wrong. Korea has a national assembly. Japan has a Diet.

State government ordered all public gyms closed. I haven't stopped going because of it though - I stopped going because of surgery. Kind of funny to have a squat rack and what not at home so I could continue, but I'm not touching weights until probably April 21st.

Who cares about what most people say versus what is true? If I take hips to be the gluteus medius instead of including the maximus, it is 3 times the size of the biceps. Have you ever heard of anyone claiming you can't grow arms? Every YOLO ding-dong male in the gym manages to at least grow his arms some because it is dead…

In comparing 92 calories of French bread to 142 calories of Beef sirloin, trimmed to 0" fat The bread has more Thiamin (9% vs 4%) Folate (12% vs 3%)5 Manganese (8% vs 1) So I fail to see how one can carte blanche say beef has more nutrition simplicitor. Clearly if someone's diet is low in any of those three, bread is more…

Look, if you're going to be skeptical of the ability to assess calories based on the fact that he's male without knowing his exact weight, why aren't you just as bad for assessing it based on weight without knowing his composition? Or even if you knew composition, not knowing his actual BMR from an accurate met cart? Maybe…

I finally had my procedure after fighting unsuccessfully to get insurance to cover it, followed by having to reschedule for having the flu hit the night before the original date. I had a circumferential abdominoplasty / 360 body lift. I went into surgery Feb 25th. I was scheduled for 1pm, but the OR stayed busy, and I…