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a few weeks of decreased mood and concentration but be fine overall?

Do you not understand that this make the addiction worse? Because people like you say "no big deal" while these poor people are stuck in thgis addiction being numbed and brainwashed?

You are a fucking jackass and I am tired of your techno-apologists trying to minimize everything bad about what the world has created.

By dang et all...

First, to be addicted to something does not mean there has to be the same profile of withdrawal that we see in other drugs. Most of the diagnbosis only means you have an obsession that effects your day to day life in a way that causes harm.

But I do not understand your cognitive bias and why you will not do a simple search.

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/8/9/3528pdf?bcsi-ac-e192c8b16...

A behavioral addiction such as SNS addiction may thus be seen from a biopsychosocial perspective [16]. Just like substance-related addictions, SNS addiction incorporates the experience of the ‘classic’ addiction symptoms, namely mood modification (i.e., engagement in SNSs leads to a favourable change in emotional states), salience (i.e., behavioral, cognitive, and emotional preoccupation with the SNS usage), tolerance (i.e., ever increasing use of SNSs over time), withdrawal symptoms (i.e., experiencing unpleasant physical and emotional symptoms when SNS use is restricted or stopped), conflict (i.e., interpersonal and intrapsychic problems ensue because of SNS usage), and relapse (i.e., addicts quickly revert back in their excessive SNS usage after an abstinence period).

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muhammad-Qureshi-30/pub...

According to mean withdrawal effects on cognitive skills, 97.6% participants in group A were able to complete task within assigned time before cessation and after cessation only 57% participants were able to do so, while in group B 94% were able to complete task before cessation and only 72% of participants were able to do so after cessation. Lastly, the mean BP reading checked in group A before cessation was 114.54/82.34mmHg and after cessation, it increased to 122.47/90.34mmHg whereas in group B, before cessation the mean BP reading was 118.32/84.88mmHg and after cessation it was 121.42/88.63mmHg. Conclusion: It is concluded that the addiction status of social media users and smokers is almost similar. This leads to the outcome that social network abuse is as harmful as smoking on focus, concentration, cognitive skills and increment of anxiety and BP.

Here are just some of the studies that find physcial changes in brains who show symptoms of internet addiction.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/04/i...

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/06/240604184208.h...

I can’t stop. We can stop it.

So let's add more???

I'd love to be rid of all of it, but that's not how the world works today.

Why do we think the human made world is out of our control? Learned helplessness? We could stop this. We do not need Satrlink.

Starlink will fail. And this will be more likely the more satellites they put up[1][2]. Or the more wars we get in. It will not be hard to cause a major destruction of all Starlink satellites [3].

[1] https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/ [2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-syndrome-crash-clock [3] https://gizmodo.com/russia-is-developing-orbiting-clouds-of-...

We do not care where we get our dopamine hits. The most likely place is the easiest, and right now, for teens, it is social media.

I am afraid this is setting kids up for abusing drugs and alchohol in the future.

Don't you get it? No one is on those sites because they are not addictive. It is like trying top tell an alcoholic to just drink mocktails.

Yet everyone keep choosing it despite being addictive.

Let me fix that for you. Everyone keeps choosing it because it is addictive.

i just dont think addiction by itself is something we should be fighting.

People who say this do not understand how powerful biology is. Nor do they understand that they are putting people with certain genetics more at risk.

"Choice" to people genetically prone to addiction is a trap. So unless you want to figure out the polygenetics of addiction and then have everyone tested for their genetics so they know there risk I will say I strongly disagree with your viewpoint, because there is no informed risk and you are promoting suffering with our beliefs.

But what about Graham Platner?

/s

Yes, save the asset holders, damn the peasants. even Trump said he wants to see housing prices go higher.

These people do not care about you. You need to hate them more.

Now you know why there is war. We have war because the U.S. is failing. Just look at the reversal of the 10 and 30 y bonds over the last 20 years. All the free money that was given to the oligarchs killed our economy.

Maybe USA has more fundamental problems

Yes we do, it is called imperialism. Now with a sprinkle of senile Fascism.

I know a few people who could have used some of that $1 Billion. I mean what is Musk and Altman going to do when they need to be bailed out?

I am homeless currently living with schizoaffective disorder (and OCD) by myself because no one wants to take care of people with mental illness so I have zero to lose.

My nephew died by suicide, I tried my mother and my brother tried. A whole family of pretty evident genes.

You have control over your habits

If you have to change your habits because a secret system is watching over you it means they are already controlling you.

You cannot hide your bank account, where you drive, what you buy, and on and on and on.

And all I need to get your DNA is pick up a cup you drank from or go through your garbage.

Honestly, you don't need someone's genetics for this to happen. They will find out more about you by scraping your socials and spending habits and driving habits.

I think this whole fear is over blown anyway. I am in a genetic out group (schizoaffective disorder and yes my risk is genetic) and the benefits of getting my genetics run twice out weighed any risk that might have befallen me.

I do not get the point of this. Psychedelics work by activating the Serotonin 2A receptor.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10061-7

This is pretty settled science. So what is the big deal about taking a drug that affects a receptor? Will it cure anything? No. Because the body resorts to increasing receptor density for the drug.

Anything that kills yield drives up the cost of food.

You are making an assumption that "organic" = "driving down yields"[1] and that yield is the most important aspect of a food.

[1] https://rodaleinstitute.org/blog/new-research-reveals-organi...

Yes, IMHO, he is overly dramatizing "mild gastritis" and I think he is doing it so all of us sit here yammering on about him like he is some genius.

You know what? "Will share all" except my money is more like it. Because just getting $50,000 from this guy would remove all the stress from my currently homeless living in a minivan life and take away the majority of stress that is a trigger for my schizoaffective disorder. So you know what? Eff this guy.

Yes, that was it for me too. Because anyone who understands neurobiology understands how psychedelics work and wouldn’t bother with them.

First, I could tell you this guy was going to fail, and he will continue to fail because he does not consider genetics in any of his treatments or ideas. We’re all genetically different and that’s gonna determine our diet and where our nutritional deficiencies might occur.

Next, I believe he most likely gave the gastritis to himself because there are many things that can give rise to autoimmune diseases including several medications. If medication can do this, jamming a ton of supplements down your throat can also do it.

Believe me, I’ve been bio hacking myself for the last 20 years as well, but I’m poor. And that’s what it’s probably saved me. But I’ve come to a place to know what I can know and know what I will never know. It’s a happy balance between being healthier but not under the delusion that I will live forever.

No granted I am in a much worse position to start than Brian Johnson. I am poor and I have a serious mental illness, but I think I’ve done way better than him although I am 60 now and the stress of being homeless and suffering under this great separation of wealth has made things harder. I don’t have the money to get rid of my stress so maybe if you’re out there Brian Johnson and you wanna talk, hit me up.

Can I have $100?

After visiting a competent ophthalmologist, they were flabbergasted by what the other did. Ten appointments within 2 weeks later with the new specialist and we're undoing the damage that was easily preventable.

Eeesh...sorry about that. Been there my whole life. It too ten years to get an appointment with a Hematologist and was finally diagnosed with Erythrocytosis which I told them I had but always said my HCT levels were "not really that high". The Hematologist looked at my records and wondered why they did not send me in twenty years ago. I am on Medicare which makes it much more difficult.

Anyhow, hope your brother recovered well.

My whole family disowned me for no other reason than me having a serious mental illness so I do not care. But thanks.

No. This was about ten years ago. But not much has changed as I cannot get CAC score on Medicare even though they wanted to put me on statins. Cardiologist says I am fine. :/

THC increases glutamate release[1], which is most likely the source of this panic. I have psychotic episodes even with a a few big hits but then again I have schizoaffefctive disorder. Glutamate is my arch enemy.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42238-025-00277-9

Many people have had cardiologists say they have perfectly fine hearts go on to have heart attacks months later. My brother was one of these people. He was going in for spinal surgery, cardio said his heart was fine. Two weeks after surgery he was short of breath. Turns out he needed a triple bypass.

And that was a physical change. Heart attacks happen because of electrocardiac issues as well.