Locklin on science

If you look at the history of vitamins, they were all discovered between 1910 and 1948. Casimir Funk invented the idea and called them “vital amines.” The thing is they ain’t all amines: Vitamin C isn’t, nor is B5 or B7 (I think they’re amides; I never took organic chemistry, sorry not sorry). We’ll stick with the “your body needs it” definition. Vitamins were originally discovered to prevent disease, but also to optimize health. I don’t think there is any acute disease associated with Vitamin-D deficiency (which most indoors people have), though it makes you pretty unhealthy if you don’t have enough of it. Or, conversely, helps you to remain pretty healthy if you have a good amount of it. The fact that there exists such powerful vitamins without acute deficiency syndrome rather indicates that there may be many such cases. Here are a few inexpert suggestions for consideration by people who get paid to think about such things. These are all well-known substances with well-documented effects; I’m not suggesting anything esoteric. Some of ’em I take myself, because spending a few bucks at the supplement shop is cheaper than massive medical intervention later in life, and there’s no obvious downsides other than purity/adulterant concerns (which are ubiquitous with anything you put in your mouth anyway).

Spermidine: yes, shut up about the name, Beavis. This is a substance naturally occurring in many healthy foods: wheat germ, meats, cheeses, mushrooms, various kinds of beans, oats. People who get a lot of it live longer: high levels of it have an antiaging effect in animals and human; especially heart and brain tissue.  You can do pretty well here without supplements; my diet contains large amounts of it (I like beans, fruits and oats). On the other hand I’m willing to bet people who survive on candy and pizza rolls are lacking in it. It wouldn’t be a bad thing to have a RDA in. The Swedes are ahead of the US here, and actually do have a RDA of around 25-30mg which is considerably more than most people get.

CoE-Q10. This is a substance with strong healthspan effects; it does useful stuff for your mitochondria, in particular for those in your heart. Like many non-essential amino acids and other nutrients, the body can synthesize this itself, and it’s in lots of foods (beef, peanuts, organ meats), but as people get older some supplementation may be helpful. Funk would be pleased as it appears to be an amine. It appears to be cardioprotective, has antioxidant effects, is anti-inflammatory, is acutely cardioprotective, increases sperm motility, might have an anti-cancer effect, and has strong anti-aging properties. Considering most people drop dead of heart disease, it’s a no-brainer addition to your supplement stack as you get older: ubiquinol is more easily absorbed than ubiquinone, so make sure you get that one. If your quack has you on statins, you should take this stuff as statins prevent your body from making its own.

Menaquinone-7: yes, it’s part of the K vitamin family and other K vitamins might get turned into this in your gut, but it’s another one that has acute health benefits. K vitamins are good for the hormones, longevity, cancer prevention, fat loss, bone health and over all vitality. MK-7 is particularly exciting as it appears to reverse atherosclerosis, and probably has all the other benefits observed in other K variants. Japanese people live a long time, particularly if they eat this very strange food called natto (rotten soybeans) which is extremely high in it. Nattokinase  is an unrelated enzyme from natto which may also have cardioprotective effects. I take ’em both because they’re cheap and easily found.

Ergothioneine: this is one I found searching the scholarly research. It’s an oddball non-essential amino acid related to histidine. You can find it in oats, beans, mushrooms and organ meats.  It’s non-essential, but it can’t be made in the body, and your tissues seem to require it. It appears to have anti-aging properties: good for skin, joints, circulatory system, aerobic capacity and brain. It might even be good for your testicles. Best source of it is mushrooms; a daily mushroom or two will give you plenty of the stuff. There are also some oddball asian fermented foods with significant quantities. Good review here.

Boron: there is no USRDA on this mineral, but there probably should be, at least for older people. Try it and see; you will almost certainly notice if you’re older and short of it. This paper lists some of the benefits. Good for the brain, the hormones, antioxidant effects, magnesium absorption (everyone who sweats on occasion from exercise or Sauna should probably get some extra magnesium), bone health, wound healing. Its present in some fruits, but topping up with a pill or two on occasion is a good idea.

Sunlight: since they created a cheap vitamin-D blood test, pretty much everyone gets scolded for being short of it, generally from being out of the sun. In high latitudes it can’t be helped in wintertime, so people should supplement, but there’s other things about the sun which make us healthy. At one point in my sojurn in New Hampshire I realized I wasn’t getting much bright light in my day to day, so I bought myself a “corn cob light” -a sort of artificial sun. I assume the body’s melatonin system needs some bright light from time to time to regulate properly; the effect was dramatic. A few minutes in the morning wakes me up properly. Probably other effects as well.

L-Carnosine: this is a simple dipeptide which is present in meats. So, this is mostly something for the vegetarians to consider. Also made in the human body, but rate limited by beta-alanine which is relatively rare in food (there’s 3.2g of beta-alanine in a kilo of beef: it’s higher in organ meats). This is a very cool dipeptide; it has a sort of buffering effect on muscular exertion the way creatine does. It also is anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, cardio-protective, anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, heavy-metal chelating, neuroprotective and overall anti-aging effects. One of the interesting effects is anti-glycation: glycation is protein degradation by having excessive sugar hanging around: why fat people often have terrible skin, but it is a problem which is more than skin-deep: other organs are also negatively effected by glycation. They’re developing an eyedrop form of this substance for the treatment of cataracts and other eye diseases, which is amazing to me. L-carnosine can also be used as a food preservative, which begs the question of “why isn’t it being used as a food preservative?”

Not vitamins, but cool anyway:

Astaxanthin -pretty difficult to get from your diet unless you like salmon or flamingo meat, but very good for you. This is the red coloring in salmon and crab and other seafoods; it comes from algae eaten by sea beasties. Like many of the things listed here, it is an antioxidant, which seems to have decent healthspan effects on skin, cardiovascular system, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer effects, and may help immune response, neural health, eye health and exercise recovery. I don’t know why they don’t just make this the new FDC-red food coloring; seems to be few downsides. As a nice side effect, it’s a decent 5-alpha reductase inhibitor, and it’s a lot better for you than finasteride. I suppose supplementation with it could be an issue if they made it chemically (since racemic mixtures don’t occur in nature), but it mostly seems to be extracted from yeast. This one is kind of a pain in the ass to source where I live, but it’s one I really like for the broad spectrum effects and I started taking it daily this year.

Curcumin -again, unless you like Indian food, you’re probably not getting much of this from a normal diet. Considering the insane things that OTC painkillers do to people, folks should consider this as an alternative. It apparently works just as well, and doesn’t upset your stomach. Unlike most OTC painkillers, this stuff is actively good for you. Much like the litanies above: anti-oxidant, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory, cancer protective, cardio protective, neuro-protective, and general anti-aging properties. Downside to the stuff is it isn’t real bioavailable (as you can tell the next day after a late night curry). Eating it with pepper helps; most supplements include piperine from pepper. I don’t take this regularly, but I do take it for aches and pains and it has the required effects.

Betaine is an old school supplement mostly touted as a digestive aid in HCL form. It’s a methyl donor, like B-vitamins and creatine (sort of). Some people have a genetic condition where they lack methylation capacity. As it turns out this supplement by itself may be anabolic and increase testosterone. Might also help burn fat. Something I occasionally take after a heavy meat meal the way old time bodybuilders took it. If nothing else it seems to aid digestion.

There’s a phenomenon in bitches (canine) called false pregnancy syndrome. Effectively you notice it in bitches when they start exhibiting mothering behavior towards inanimate objects; aggression if you meddle with her “babies” which may be rubber balls or something, nesting, vomiting, abdominal weight gain, swelling of the breasts, food cravings, depression, anxiety and so on. It’s a common condition, and while it is best known among dogs, it seems to have close parallels across most mammals; rats, cats, goats,  killer whales, and presumably there is something like this existing in human females as well. This 4chins greentext is what made me curious about the phenomenon for obvious reasons (open it in a tab if you can’t read it; I’ll wait):

The phenomenon in bitches (canine) is associated with an abnormally long luteal phase. It is also associated with and almost certainly ultimately caused by elevated prolactin in all mammals. This immediately makes one think of birth control pills, though technically there is no luteal phase when a woman is on BC pills. Hormonal birth control pills work  because the hormonal environment fools the body into thinking it is always in the luteal phase of the menses. Dogs and most other mammals are different from people: they only mate when in the luteal phase, so the lengthening of this phase is an evolutionary adaptation to raise the probability of reproduction. The birth control drugs do increase serum prolactin exactly as one might expect.

It’s worth considering other things which increase prolactin. Stress is associated with increases in prolactin: there’s fascinating research with rats on this -their prolactin doubles under stress, especially when they’re taking what amounts to birth control pills. It is a known effect in human beings, male and female: stress raises prolactin levels. I don’t know if people have measured larger increases in prolactin stress response while taking birth control pills, but the rat study is awfully evocative. Other activities which raise prolactin levels: some forms of hypothyroidism -a common female affliction in current year America: seed oils almost certainly play a prominent role in this. Speaking of metabolic disorders common among American females, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) also raises prolactin levels dramatically.  So does obesity in general. There’s a fascinating potential feedback mechanism here too: prolactin is diabetogenic. In other words if you’re a normal fat, stressed out American, your prolactin is likely to be elevated, which is likely to make you insulin resistant, and even more fat. Anything which releases prolactin; all of the above drugs and activities could make you fatter via the diabetogenic activity of prolactin itself.  I don’t think anybody has made the connection between various elevated prolactin levels and the known obesogenic results of BC pills and antidepressants, but it looks plausible, at least as a partial cause. Other medical conditions which cause higher prolactin: pituitary tumors, renal dysfunction, liver damage. Medically irrelevant behaviors can also raise prolactin: nipple stimulation, sexual intercourse (makes sense, right?), masturbation.

Drugs besides birth control pills can also cause prolactin levels to rise; even to dangerous levels. Alcohol is definitely one of them: wine aunts take note. Something like 60% of heavy drinkers have clinical hyperprolactinemia, male or female; it’s one of the reasons why heavy boozing men have a hard time getting boners (and why they get bitch tits). You get giant spikes of prolactin when you drink heavily, even when you don’t do so chronically. Constipation pills can also cause problems as can hypertension drugs. ADHD medications such as risperidone raise prolactin levels, though amphetamine salts do not.  SSRIs all raise prolactin levels significantly: it’s one of the reasons people who take these drugs experience anhedonia, and doctors may prescribe prolactin-lowering drugs to compensate for this. Most antipsychotics also do this, though some of the atypical antipsychotics do not. This may seem an unreasonable thing to focus on, but the population level use of antipsychotics is around 2% in the US at any given moment in time; and they vote. BTW people who take antipsychotics or antidepressants shouldn’t be able to vote.

Anabolic steroids also can raise levels of prolactin, from the relatively benign testosterones to poisonous but commonly used crap like trenbolone and nandrolone. Meat heads take other drugs to hopefully cancel this effect out so they don’t start lactating. These are interesting drugs: mostly used for Parkinsons disease: they reduce prolactin via dopamine channels. They also cause compulsive behavior (most famously in SBF who used a particularly dangerous one as a “nootropic“) and … weight loss, which is some evidence for the speculated weight gain feedback mechanism mentioned above. Other common substances which might raise prolactin: fennel, fenugreek, pretty much all xenoestrogens, I’m sure there are more I haven’t thought of.

Things that reduce prolactin; physical exercise, ergot-derived dopamine agonists as mentioned above (I do not recommend this unless you’re really sick), zinc, vitamin B6, chaste-tree berry, probably vitamin-E, various Chinese herbs, not being vitamin-D deficient. Possibly ‘racetams; at least for stress induced prolactin. I’m guessing cabbage vegetables (broccoli, etc) can help, but didn’t look for evidence of this.  Also not having metabolic disorders like PCOS and obesity and not taking all the toxins listed above.

I think the 4chins meme is a plausible description of reality with decent predictive power. People and dogs aren’t that different biologically, and there is a subset of American women who behave and appear  as the meme describes. These women are often taking psychiatric drugs and experiencing metabolic disorders which make elevated prolactin extremely likely. Anecdotally, I can think of many examples of women experiencing extreme personality changes  when going on or off of hormonal birth control pills; lots of breakups happen when women go on or off the pill.

There are a lot of bonkers bitches (human) out there who act exactly as was described above. They do things which would create the correct hormonal environment for false pregnancy syndrome: they drink too much, take BC pills and antidepressants and other fruit salad drugs, they are beefy, childless, unhealthy, eat garbage foods, probably expose themselves to all manner of xenoestrogens, often suffer from PCOS, they do stressful work, are sexually promiscuous, and have close relationships with their vibrators: all things which elevate prolactin. In turn they display  unhinged aggression (ever notice how angry some contemporary American women are?), mothering behavior towards non-children, restlessness, anxiety, depression, weird collecting of shoes or causes, and they display beefy “false pregnancy” midsections, just like the dogs do, probably through the same physiological mechanisms.

I’m sure someone will accuse me of dehumanizing these women by pointing this out, but the correct attitude towards them should be pity. They’re people who have been psychologically and endocrinologically destroyed by modernity and their own biology. They should be pitied and hopefully eventually treated via non pharmacological interventions. The crazy shitlib female situation would be a lot less crazy if physical and psychological fitness were a national priority. We’ll have to eat less doritos, take fewer pills and go for more walks as a society; also have more children. Certainly people with such debilitating psychological and endocrinological problems should be kept from positions of authority: this usually happens naturally, but in current year, anything goes.

It’s not like people haven’t known about weird aunts and various related sub-categories of crazy ladies through all of human history. Somehow we’re not supposed to notice now, since such women have become an important political faction in the declining superpower. The fact that it comes from lifestyle choices (BC pills, eating too much hot chip, crazy pills, sexual incontinence) is rather interesting though.

A couple of references on False Pregnancy in dogs, so you know I’m not just making all this up:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11928922/

https://huveta.hu/handle/10832/1771

Click to access False%20Pregnancy%20in%20Bitch.pdf

http://lib.osau.edu.ua/jspui/bitstream/123456789/4190/1/Svyatkovyj-ZBIRNYK-FVM_2023.pdf#page=214

“Results and discussion. Pseudocyesis occurred at the end of diestrus and was characterized by mammary hyperplasia, lactation and behavioral changes. Some bitches act as if they have given birth, “nurturing” inanimate objects and refusing food. ”

“Pseudo-pregnancy usually begins with behavioural signs such as restlessness or decreased activity, anorexia, aggression, licking of the abdomen and maternal behaviours (nesting, mothering inanimate objects, adopting puppies from other bitches). Later on, bitches show physical signs such as body mass gain, mammary gland enlargement and milk secretion”

Here are a few crazy ideas which should be examined more deeply. Some of these rise to the level of objective facts, some are merely speculative, but in either case they’re ideas which should be taken seriously. I think the evidence is strong enough to merit further investigations at bare minimum, and you’re probably better off making personal health decisions based on such ideas than by ignoring them.

Statins are useless and possibly harmful. This isn’t a crazy idea at all, and there’s plenty of evidence for it. The cholesterol hypothesis itself rests on questionable data, and human health shouldn’t be managed with cholesterol numbers. Cholesterol is mostly made by the liver, so eating a dozen eggs isn’t going to do much. Statins do something to your liver to make number go down. Well, sometimes. It turns out, Oreo cookies also make number go down. Statins effect on overall heart disease? It is essentially unmeasurable. Examples are numerous; here, have a plot. It may be it has a small positive effect on lifespan unrelated to heart disease, but it may also cause a form of dementia. I suspect the original cholesterol hypothesis will eventually make a nice case study in underlying factor errors. Statins will make a nice case study in scientific regulatory capture.

Related to this; fats aren’t so bad, but sugars are very bad. This is called a “conspiracy theory,” but like many things so-called, it happens to be true. Even the most humble form of linear regression will demonstrate this: lots more fat people now than when people ate more fat. Bodybuilders always knew this; one of the great diets of classic bodybuilding times involved drinking protein powder and half and half pudding.

Nicotine has beneficial effects. Smoking absolutely doesn’t, smoking is so obviously bad for you, your chances of having everything from kidney to ass cancer go up if you smoke. But nicotine qua nicotine is not so bad and sometimes good. Makes your brain work better via acetylcholine receptors, it’s also neuroprotective against Parkinsons disease, and as far as can be told, to the rage of right thinking dipshits who are probably still wearing masks, Covid-19. It does spike blood pressure, which can kill you, but so does drinking coffee.

Gelatin is a health food. Collagens make up 30% of your protein bodyweight. Unless you subsist on a diet of pork rinds or you have bones boiling in your kitchen at all times, you’re probably not eating that much collagen. There’s a huge amount of literature on health promoting effects of glycine which is a 30% of gelatin mass (along with proline and argenine). Since I don’t care for test tube remedies, and I don’t presently have a slow cooker, it’s gelatin for me. Makes the aches and pains go away, and you sleep better. Various nutritional halfwits gabble on about how it’s not a complete protein; yes, that’s true: neither is the collagen in your body: how do you think that got there? Eat whey for muscles, gelatin and collagen for the rest of your meat sack. I remember people used to look in horror at all the old American pre-1970s dishes with aspic and gelatin in them. I think, though, our ancestors knew something we forgot: gelatin is part of the cow and you should eat that too. Lots of old research on its benefits, but it’s just common sense eating the rest of the animal is a good idea.

Mineral content in foods is often much lower than stated. This one should be obvious, but I don’t know as anyone has actually investigated it. Most of the mineral content of common foods was established 100 years ago. If you grow food on the same bit of land for 100 years, it’s likely to have less of those minerals in it. Something like boron or selenium might be less likely to bioaccumulate in apricots or Brazool nuts if you’ve been growing it for a century.

We are poisoning ourselves with chemicals. Pesticides, herbicides, fireproofing chemicals in cloth and furniture, all of these are known to be bad. Some are even known to make the frogs gay. While some pesticides are probably necessary, most herbicides are not, and they’re used everywhere. I’ve always enjoyed beans, but I can’t buy them harvested American style any more. American growers carpet bomb the crops with glyphosate to dry them out more quickly. I noticed the ill effects on my insides before I realized the cause. Now I live in a country which doesn’t do this. Another potential hazard: alloxan, which can be present wherever bleaches hit proteins (aka in white flour, in your food mixed with chlorinated water) might cause diabeetus. Don’t eat bleach, bros. Sorry that modernity makes this impossible. Xenoestrogens, PFUAs there are many such cases. Nobody cares. Doxxing handsome dissidents on the internet is of course of the utmost importance.

We are poisoning ourselves with food. Soy is evil plant semen, and people shouldn’t eat it. Even traditional preparations like miso and soy sauce are questionable if you care about your hormonal health; soy proteins are insane. They give them to babies in baby formula! This, plus BPD psychos on emotion-removing antidepressants probably equals the sudden outbreak of 4 year olds picking a different gender. Corn syrup is diabetes in a jar: and is mandated to be part of US approved baby formula -gee I wonder why kids are so fat now. Soybean oil is reasonable to use … in the machine shop as cutting oil: in humans it literally gives you brain damage. Even IPA beers contain enough estrogenic chemicals to castrate animals. I’m not sure about fluoride in the water, but it is known to be harmful if you have too much of it, and the levels are calculated from average normies drinking a few glasses a day rather than athletes drinking a half gallon or gallon like healthy people should. Chloramine is nuts though; just use chlorine you knobs. At least chlorine goes away when you let it sit for a while.

We are (probably) poisoning our immune systems with vaccines. This is something I never thought much about until they nudged the semi-mandatory, immunologically useless, obviously harmful mRNA thing on us. RFKjr is right in essence even if he’s wrong in detail: look at how many vaccines they give kids now in the USA. Kids are recommended to get 20 of the damn things before they’re 18 months old. 35 shots total; each time you’re doing something to the immune system. Most of the illnesses they give these shots for are harmless or virtually impossible for children to get. And they want you to get 24 more shots afterwords. Why would you immunize a 6 month old against monkeypox or genital warts? What are these imbeciles thinking? They’re not thinking; they’re just pumping product into meat puppets to make line go up.  In my day, kids were given vaccines against a couple of genuinely dangerous things, and that’s it. I have suffered no ill effects from not having a tetanus shot when I was an infant. If you step on a nail, you can just go get a tetanus shot and you’ll be fine. People claim autism might come from something in the vaccination schedules; it might, I’ve never looked into it, but I think there is a very obvious case to be made that food allergies are related to something in this schedule. We have control groups: I am told this problem doesn’t exist in Russia or Africa or among the Amish. Of course food allergies could be something else, but someone should look into it. It’s very plausible that fiddling with kids immune systems while they’re teething could cause such problems.

Antidepressants and psychedelics are cultural poison. They work differently: antidepressants remove normal human emotions of sadness, guilt and anxiety. Those emotions are generally there for reasons: to make you behave differently. Poking yourself in the eye hurts, so you try not to do this. Being depressed is generally a result of a poor life situation you need to fix. Antidepressants allow you to live a shitty life without feeling bad, or really feeling anything. They make you into a sort of psychopath.  Psychopaths have always been with us, but when two-digit percentages of your population are psychopaths, things get weird. Psychedelics make you more brainwashable; that’s what they were developed for. No matter what stupid insights you come up with while on them, it just makes you dumber and more credulous: there are literally no counterexamples. There’s an entire political party who would collapse if its adherents weren’t allowed to take these drugs, or at least if they were deprived of the right to vote, which they absolutely should be. By the way, it’s illegal for such people to own firearms, so they’ve already been deprived of the most important American civil right.

Salt consumption and blood pressure are uncorrelated. Another non-crazy idea, but people look at you as if you’re crazy. Unless you have damaged kidneys, you can eat all the salt you want and nothing will happen to your blood pressure. Like most of these imbecile medical nostrums you can trace this nonsense down to a study on kidney damaged patients eating a diet of nothing but peaches and rice; a very high potassium diet (which lowered their blood pressure, as one might expect). You can test this on your own body. Keep to a normal diet, eat another 2 grams of salt per day, and test your blood pressure. Nothing will happen other than you’ll pee more. It’s so obvious even scientists are starting to notice. Literally no country on earth averages anything like what the knucklehead “authorities” suggest on salt; the world average is more than 2x as “experts recommend.” At a glance, Asian countries eat shitloads of salt and are less fat and live longer than countries where people don’t eat so much. It’s obvious that “experts” are wrong about this, and whatever they’re seeing in their stupid linear regression model assuming they even have one is something else.

Lack of salt makes people fat. I don’t think there is a single factor in the obesity plague, but when I’m fat and on a diet if I have some broth or salty water, I don’t get hungry. I’m not the only one to notice this, though it’s difficult to find it digging through the nutrition literature which is written by a bunch of statistical imbeciles and “head girls” who are more concerned with getting socially acceptable answers than correct ones. Lots of bro science about it while fasting; you can go without food for days, but you need salt to keep moving or you’ll cramp up. I remember being a kid and seeing some movie about soldiers being issued with salt tablets in the desert: obviously people used to know about this, and somehow they no longer do (presumably long distance runners or people in the desert do).

Artificial sweeteners are worse for you than sugar. The imbeciles in the FDA claim to think it’s OK to have 10% of your diet calories as sugar (brought to you by the US corn syrup foundation). This is insane, but because people live like this,  various artificial sweeteners are consumed. Where I live, people love sweets and pastries: no artificial sweeteners, yet nobody is fat in the insane way Americans get fat (there’s also no corn syrup here and portion sizes are bon-bon sized). Saccharin was the sweetener when I was a kid and it was always a lolbert that it said on the package it gives cancer to rats. Now there are dozens of them, and who knows what kind of side effects they have. It’s known that some of them cause insulin release just like sugar does. I’m going to go out on a limb and say they all do, for the simple reason that the pancreas was unlikely to evolve a radically different sugar detector than exists in your mouth (think about this for a moment). This and cancer in rats is  only the beginning though: when you scratch the surface it is a  grim litany. Stevia makes your balls shrink and lowers your testosterone. Makes men and women infertile; the Indians who discovered it used it for birth control. Oh yeah; same insulin response as other sweet crap. They put this shit in protein powder to make it “taste better.” If you must eat sweet things, just eat sugar.

Parasites are more common than is generally accepted and have effects on the nervous system. There’s a 4chan meme, presumably originating with Greg Cochran’s “Gay Germ” hypothesis that parasites cause the gays for example. For whatever reason it’s considered to be worms, but most parasites are protozoans something more like toxoplasmosis (which has known psychological/behavioral effects) or malaria. I think the recent flirtation with ivermectin may have had something to do with people mentioning this a lot recently.

Anti-helmintics are a potential cancer treatment. There is strong evidence antiparasitics are useful in treating, cancers which is pretty bizarre, and may indicate parasites are the origin of some kinds of cancer (for which there is also strong evidence). People started noticing this by feeding their cancerous animals dewormers and the animals getting better. Tumorgenesis may not be parasite related, but the anti-helminth action may make it difficult for cancers to spread. Most of them seem to be useful; ivermectin, fenbendazole, niclosamide, even obsolete ones like santonin and thujone. Maybe the occasional glass of absinthe is healthy after all. One which seems to have the opposite effect is praziquantel and its cousins. There’s even some thought of finding new antiparasitics by looking at effective cancer drugs. It’s one of those bizarre things only retards looking at their dogs could notice; white lab coat types working for drug companies that can’t patent the idea.

Fungal and mold infections are extremely important in chronic health conditions. There are indications that autism is at least comorbid with fungal infections. Black mold is a controversial meme which some doctors think is hypochondria/hysterical women, but the crazies could be right in essence if not in detail. We know about various kinds of fungal infections which afflict healthy and immunocompromised people; it stands to reason that more of these things are out there and trouble people in sneaky ways.

related: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/11/20/us-public-health-problems-which-are-more-serious-than-corona-chan/

Tangential: https://zero-sum.org/greed-doctors-take-money-from-pharmaceutical-firms/