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I have ADHD. It doesn’t change the fact that people feign ADHD in order to get access to amphetamines.

We didn’t fully ban them. We just prescribe them to anyone a doctor decides has ADHD.

No. What would be illogical is to assume that because Russia might be motivated to protest for the sake of propaganda, that it is not also, or instead, motivated by not wanting to lose access to a hypothetical backdoor.

Even if you solve for immortality, that wouldn’t mean you will have solved all of the medical ills of humanity.

We might be able to “cheat death” within our lifetimes.

A good apology includes taking responsibility for the negative outcomes you’ve caused as well as how you’ve made changes to ensure the harm doesn’t occur again. Here, you have the latter but not the former. He also didn’t explicitly apologize.

Officers aren’t required to take the ASVAB. Scores affect available career field choices for enlisted soldiers.

Your original statement focused on fertilizer and didn't mention the rotation system. This person pointing out that he didn't invent fertilizer is correct. It's not a big deal.

Why is it nice? Is it that you're used to seeing it and its absence feels wrong? Wouldn't you become accustomed to its absence with exposure? I've found this to be the case for me.

Looks like pg's account has been suspended. :/

Here's what a typical primary care physician will do: prescribe you non-stimulant ADHD medication with potentially terrible side effects and since those don't work for a lot of people, they will move on to prescribing amphetamines with terrible side effects. Most physicians receive little training in nutrition (I believe one class is standard).

You should consider reevaluating your blind faith in physicians (they were an instrumental part of the opioid crisis after all), especially when it drives you to make a dismissive comment like this in response to a benign suggestion about a dietary change that you seemingly haven't evaluated before responding. Here the individual has seen success with this approach for themselves and others and is simply sharing their experience. They're not suggesting anything extreme or dangerous.

I've been trying a ketogenic diet since listening to this episode and over the past few days have noticed an improvement in not only my ADHD symptoms, but a decrease in anxiety as well. I'm very optimistic about this, though I'm skeptical about being on keto in the long term.

I've seen similar effects with intermittent fasting combined with a whole foods plant-based diet. This will likely be my long-term strategy.

Ketogenic diets likely increase insulin sensitivity, which may explain your experience.

I found it useful to keep a text file with organizational and personal goals and to record my accomplishments each day. It helped a ton when review time rolled around, but it also helped me keep in mind if my actions were best serving the organization’s goals.

Prior to that, in ignorance, I thought my productivity and contributions would be self-evident. That is not a great strategy for someone who isn’t inclined to self-promotion.

In general, we're protected from the true costs of our decisions. It's not just consumption of animal products, but negative externalities generally. We're willing to accept terrible things when divorced from the consequences of our actions and, even when made aware of these consequences, we dismiss them to protect our conceptualization of ourselves as "good" people.