Texon
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@ecstatichamster @DaveFoster I'd rather have hundreds or even thousands of years of anecdotal experience than a bunch of studies any day. As Mark Twain famously said, "There are lies, damn lies and statistics."Peatarians are obsessed with a few specific data points, at the expense of everything else. They mock mainstream science fo being reductionistic but they are actually even more reductionistic themselves. Everything seems to come down to how anything affects one or two different hormones in the body. Does something appear to be unhealthy? Yes, but according to a couple of studies it actually lowers stress hormones, so thefore it's actually a good thing. There are many studies and anecdotes about its negative effects, but it lowers cortisol so that means it's good. Oh and if it actually makes you more stressed it's because you're deficient in nutrient X, based on this study on mongolian rats in the 1940s.