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xdrone··on Scientists discover a cause of lupus, possible way to reverse it
In the vegan community there is lost of discussion of animal products causing auto immune issues. A compromised gut lining will let intact animal proteins into the body. The immune sees the animal foreigners but also attacks our body; us being animals too.

Type 1 diabetes, aka childhood diabetes, is thought to be from casein in A1 milk; where the immune system attacks the beta cells of the pancreas. Seems plausible to me; rates of dairy consumption seem to correlate with type 1. (see Finland).

xdrone··on Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?
Yeah I just learned this from a video. https://youtu.be/HOK3NS2bD3M

Iron deficiency can be your body fighting off a disease, and adding iron is the wrong thing to do.

I also learned excessive iron is worse than low iron, your body can regulate the intake but not expend iron.

Iron is complex.

xdrone··on You're Not Losing Fat Because You're Eating Too Damn Much (2016)
Most studies on the subject of "keto mortality" say otherwise. I wouldn't consider keto safe at all.

Here's a few from a quick search: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7145128/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23372809/

https://www.thelancet.com/article/S2468-2667(18)30135-X/full...

imo, organizations like NutritionalFacts.org offer the best evidence based guidence for health, and weight loss. They site studies for each talking point. There are years of content here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddn8dUxYdgJz3Qr5mjADtA

xdrone··on “This shouldn’t happen”: Inside the virus-hunting nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance
My occam's razor thoughts. Most bad viri have origins from humans using animals for food. Aids from bushmeat, 1918 pandemic is thought to be from birds, same with the common flu. Just look at the latest bird flu sweeping the world, this one isn't affecting humans, but yet another pandemic from raising animals for food.

Most people want to blame a lab, but the obvious answer is more likely imo.

xdrone··on Multiple Sclerosis Causality
Here's a John McDougall talk, he had some close ties to Dr Swank, known for a lot of early MS research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmZdI8jinIw

tldw: When your stomach layer is compromised, unprocessed food gets into your body. Food like animal protein, similar to our proteins, get attacked by the immune system, some of your cells are also mistakenly attacked.

Anyone with the compromised stomach is at greater risk for auto immune diseases. For example look of rates of ms among celiac or crohn's sufferers.

Same goes for type 1 diabetics, also autoimmune. Research suggests casein from dairy gets in the body, your immune system accidentally attacks your pancreas insulin making cells.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5518798/

xdrone··on New research links potentially toxic fat-protein complexes to Alzheimer's
some would say saturated fat is the cause

the mechanism could be atherosclerosis https://youtu.be/t-noCw4LsY4?t=168

linear correlation by country https://youtu.be/Gel4vlG4Jbk?t=68

personally, i think something close to wfpb diet is the best for all things (except gaining weight).

xdrone··on The implications of low cholesterol in depression and suicide (2015)
This article is suspect to me. Only 3 references, none of which are actually studying depression and diet.

If this was true, wouldn't we see depression in communities with lower cholesterol, Communities like the Seventh Day Adventists, many of which are vegetarian or vegan?

Personal opinion, articles of this quality are to keep the public confused on diet and maintain the status quo. The food industry is a giant money machine. It can't survive if you're eating boring old unprocessed plants for the majority of your diet.

Here's a more reputable meta study on the subject of diet and depression. It's long so skip to the conclusion if you want the unsurprising results.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084175/

xdrone··on Eddie Van Halen has died
There's David Lee Roth interview (maybe on joe rogan) where he explains some tricks they used to write solos. They'd record multiple different solos, then switch between the tracks to come up with unexpected progressions. Clever idea.
xdrone··on How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime
after doing some research, i'm not sure if this article is accurate. the price of cocaine plummeted in the late 1980's, but the drop off in homicide didn't start until mid 1990's.
xdrone··on Poll: Paypal or Credit Card for payment processing on webapp
fees might be something to consider too: http://feefighters.com/paypal-calculator
xdrone··on Ask HN: Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?
my css is pretty simplistic like this also.

one thing to do is to place class names based on the url with your id's. the class name can be generated from the request_uri (assuming the html code is in a view/template/include).

example: <div id="container" class="contact_us">

then if you need tweaks to a specific page, just add #container.contact_us { foo: bar... }