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b65e8bee43c2ed0 | 10 days ago

there are many, many things our bodies could do (or not do) to greatly improve our health at no cost whatsoever.

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bob001|10 days ago

That we think have no cost. The massive failure rate of drug trials and some famous cases of issues discovered only after wide scale deployment indicates we're not that great at knowing ahead of time.

The body is like legacy spaghetti code written by hundreds of teams of outsourced engineers. It mostly works. Just never remove any commented out lines or it may break.

cortesoft|10 days ago

Our body was vibe coded

glial|10 days ago

While possible, there are also many bodily processes that are finely tuned through eons of evolution, and destabilizing pressure leads to disorder. Sometimes it's difficult to know which are which (or at least I don't know).

nradov|10 days ago

Which things?

b65e8bee43c2ed0|10 days ago

the most straightforward example off the top of my head would be that hair follicles have no conceivable reason to react to testosterone. removing DHT receptors from them would have no adverse effect whatsoever.