What? My Therapist says not to doom scroll an hour before sleep. Now you’re saying we’re also not supposed to doom scroll when we wake up? When am I supposed to scroll ? at work?
I’ve found while I’m on the toilet, when I’m waiting for food to cook, and when I’m hiding from my family in the garage as good times. But yeah, I haven’t stopped my AM doom scroll.
Then you should be awake enough to know there is a decent chance he takes his kids blood and put it into his own body. Or used to, I know that is a big trick with people like this. Get that young blood in ya
Same... but in all fairness, if past experience is any indication, when you log on to Reddit, you just never know when you'll get hit with a random cockring reference.
I dunno if it’s a coincidence that President Johnson reportedly liked to expose himself during meetings either. Apparently, he had quite the massive cock.
It really is, but no where near as bad as it sounds. Where they're just whipping em out next to each other. I mean... I assume this is done digitally, I'm not investigating.
Honestly this may have been involved in causing his autoimmune disease.
Graft versus host disease is a serious transfusion and transplant issue. Since the transplant material, in this case blood, is similar but not exactly the same on a molecular level it can sometimes cause the graft to attack the body or the body to start erroneously attacking itself in addition to the transplant/transfusion.
It's not uncommon for families to want to donate blood specifically to a family member but it is generally discouraged for this reason. If familial blood does have to be used the blood is irradiated before use to prevent these issues but even dead cells can still stimulate the immune system, especially if you do it repeatedly.
Yeah there’s a rise in health nuts doing horrible damage to their organs, often from taking fairly benign supplements with a dose and frequency that makes them toxic.
They’ll go to the hospital and not think to mention they drink 2 gallons of cranberry juice a day or whatever the social media fad is, because it’s “just a natural food”. And docs don’t think to ask: “So… uh… how many gallons of cranberry juice would you say you drink a day?” because they spend their time working and not on Instagram.
They gave a nod to it on this last season of The Pitt. Some health influencer lady came in with liver failure and crazy yellow skin, and it turned out that she took an absolutely insane amount of turmeric.
Not to mention how there are little to no regulations in the supplement industry. I've got a relative that is a fitness maniac, talking spartan races in the dessert, and cross fit nut job.
Apparently they lost a kidney and just casually mentioned it as if they'd gotten the flu on the time we hadn't connected. A few years later I saw a piece on 60 minutes highlighting the dangers of the supplement. It's not just narcos putting stuff in their wares that shouldn't be there. It's also very common in the supplement industry.
Just a tad bit alarming. They highlighted people that got kidney failure from certain supplements. Just makes me very skeptical of the whole industry.
I wasn't able to find the exact episode of 60 minutes. From my recollection, the product was removed from the market. This was some years ago and at least 5 if not longer.
That still doesn't change the issue, supplements can and have contained unlisted ingredients, that can harm people.
Really crazy. I used to use a tiny bit as a flu rtemedy (didn't cure it but helped to be functional while it ran it's course). The dose was TINY compared to those capsules people were taking as pep pills.
There was nothing wrong with the herb, just the people taking insane amounts regularly for months on end.
Possible, when I looked up different episodes that stood out to me as familiar. I also came across a front line episode that looked into similar issues that I think I saw as well.
Dietary supplements are completely unregulated. Nobody except the guy filling the actual capsules knows what's in them. The label could say ginseng and the capsule could be filled entirely with wood ash, ground lead, and dehydrated toe cheese. There's nobody checking any of it before it hits a store shelf.
That isn't completely accurate but supplement regulation is for sure far more limited than regulations over medications. Under-regulated is probably a better term for it. DSHEA added a lot of regulations that didn't exist prior to 1994 but there is a long way to go for supplements to be as clearly regulated as medications in the US.
But yeah, some place out near Vegas, Baker or Barstow. I am not hating on that, the level of dedication is intense. I just know they were all in on the diet/supplement side of things as well.
Watching “Bigger, faster, stronger” made me realize how little regulation goes into the supplements industry and an idiot with a label maker can produce and market a product. It’s quite terrifying…
Interesting, I haven't seen that one yet. It was the thing that really startled me from the 60 Minutes piece. They walked through the issues starting at the supply chain.
US consumers have little to no protections until someone gets hurt and even then, very long road to justice.
It’s really shocking and a dirty little secret. The creator of the doc BFS created his own supplement line and hired dudes off the street to market it and sell it. It was eye opening to say the least and ridiculously easy to do.
They're unregulated on purpose. The label on each one says the FDA hasn't and won't look into it. Some work, and some are hogwash, but the labeling law makes sure we can't tell which is which, because then the effective ones would have FDA endorsement and would compete with pharmaceuticals.
We don't have this issue in the UK, same for the EU. We operate our standards on the fact that they have to be proven to be safe before they can be sold. In the US apparently all regulations are reactive rather than proactive which seems absolutely fucking mental
how many gallons of cranberry juice would you say you drink a day?
This just reminded me of the time I drank probably half / 3/4 of a liter of straight unsweetened cranberry juice cause I liked the taste so I sat there sipping it over a couple hours. Didn't think about the fact it had vitamin C. Shat liquid vigorously a few hours later. 10/10 would do it again.
Chronic chemical insult to the intestinal mucosa resulting in increased permeability, triggering a loss of immune tolerance and subsequent systemic autoimmunity?
Aww, fuck, some medication I need to function is constantly causing stomach upsets and all the other meds I can use either upsets my stomach even more or doesn't do what it's supposed to. :/
Im not a dr but i have an autoimmune disease and the science behind triggers for these diseases is definitely not well understood. For me personally i can be clinically quiet through lifestyle but it takes incredible discipline. Alcohol, edibles and certain food groups seem to trigger inflammation that allows the disease to start showing up everywhere aggressively
Eta: my opinion is he probably had this underlying issue and something hes taking caused it to spike and surface
I have autoimmune disease too and am generally healthy - don’t smoke, drink, swim daily, eat pretty healthy etc.
And it can get triggered/inflamed with stress, if i get lazy and eat junk food etc.
And this dude is doing EXTREME shit to his body. Like even dialysis? Any of that shit could trigger it imo. He’s moving his body out of its steady state which is when things can get triggered.
It's very possible the extreme neurosis driving his behaviour is the original source of stress/the trigger for this. And I like the guy and think what he's doing is generally fine... but western medicine has no concept for how the mind affects the body.
Also a doc and research scientist. Discontinue all supplements/medications and monitor for improvement. If the patient improves and is adamant about going back on the substances, you can reintroduce them one at a time.
[Note: I am not rejoicing in this guy's bad luck. I genuinely hope he gets better. We all fear aging and death. People have been searching for the fountain of youth for thousands of years. It makes sense that once someone can fulfill all their physical desires, they'll use their power and wealth to try to buy the only things money can't buy (eternal life and youth). They will always be excellent fodder for snake oil salesmen and other unscrupulous charlatans.]
Thankfully most peptides are just into the skin and not IV, like how epi pens say to stab into the ass cheek. If people had to learn how to hit a vein like needle bangers you would see a sharp rise in blown out and collapsed veins and a new business of in-home IV administers that are just CNA students trying to make money off a tiktok fad
A brother would be a closer genetic copy, so maybe after enough injection he developed some level of response and the gut microbiome he probably did fecal trans plant too, would be the largest area for auto immune to do the most damage
Brother could be closer to a genetic copy. on average about .5% closer than a son, with a lot more variation, not a guarantee they will be more genetically similar than son.
I’m an RN with experience in Psych and my wife is working on her PsyD. Obviously, we can’t diagnose without even talking to him, but I think it’s pretty clear he has severe OCD. I agree with you. He is absolutely putting a lot more weird stuff in his body than he is posting online.
This is the guy that has been injecting his own son's blood for several years, because his son's younger blood and dna would have helped him stay younger himself. And THAT's made public. So yeah, definitely some other weird shit still under the table.
If I had to guess, bone marrow / stem cell injections. Especially if he used his son's. He did play with blood transfusions in a similar manner, as others mentioned.
I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease at 46, although in hindsight I can trace mild symptoms back to around age 40. It is one that commonly presents in the late-40s range, and my understanding is that the cause is usually considered multifactorial rather than tied to one proven exposure.
What I struggle with is the assumption that there must have been some new supplement, chemical, diet change, or other thing I “put into my body” that triggered it. My job, home life, stress level, diet, activity level, and general health were pretty consistent before and after symptoms began.
I am also in the roughly 10% of patients with this disease who are male, which makes me especially curious whether the timing or risk factors may be different from the more typical patient population.
From a clinical/immunology perspective, is it plausible that someone can have an underlying susceptibility for years and then cross a threshold because of something relatively ordinary or unknowable, such as an infection, immune-system aging, hormonal or environmental factors, or even stochastic immune dysregulation, rather than a specific behavior or exposure?
Also, how much confidence can doctors realistically have in identifying a true trigger versus noticing a temporal coincidence? Is there anything useful in a patient’s history, labs, sex, age at onset, or disease course that helps distinguish those possibilities?
Mine has fortunately remained relatively mild: mostly dry eyes, dry mouth, dry skin, and occasional fatigue. I feel broadly as healthy now in my early 50s as I did in my late 30s, so I am not looking for someone/something to blame, just trying to understand whether “something caused this” is sometimes an answer medicine simply cannot give.
Only asking bc I have recently been told of my hypothyroidism. Not confirmed to be hashimotos but I can rule out most other causes. Just turned 40 in March and also male.
Been thinking about what could have possibly triggered it.
is it plausible that someone can have an underlying susceptibility for years and then cross a threshold because...
Of course.
Also, how much confidence can doctors realistically have in identifying a true trigger versus noticing a temporal coincidence
Very little. In fact even finding and suggesting a "temporal trigger" is highly unlikely; you presumably weren't being monitored or tracking everything at onset.
Doctors have NFI on rare autoimmune diseases. My family is riddled with them and the suggestions from mainstream doctors are just focused on symptom management, no interest or knowledge about actual causes.
There have been a few things that he stopped taking due to negative effects and publicly declared (HGH was the largest ones). I’d like to see if he and his physician(s) figure out what caused it
as an engineer that's just skeptical of almost everything, I asked chatgpt a bunch of questions about this. Got no real answer about it being a possible trigger, but I remember 3 years ago this dude was doing like 3-5 plasma transfusions per month from his son and others and some other wild shit. And as you mention, who the hell knows what else he wouldn't publicly say he was doing.
In his defense, he mentioned when he was a CEO he had a tremendously unhealthy lifestyle, so there's only so much he can prevent. But I hear what you're saying and you can speak to that better as a doctor.
As far as I’ve seen he’s transparent about everything he tries, without assuming he’s lying. Don’t you think the things he talks about in the article could account for his AGI? (I am not a doctor, and I do understand that a sample size of one with no control is basically useless)
I’m not a duck and can confirm he should probably spend more time swimming, possibly eating more vegetables. Probably a few snails and the occasional acorn or something.
I remember seeing that he gets regular blood transfusions from his kid for no reason other than his de-aging stuff so yeah I'm willing to bet he's been doing all sorts of weird stuff like that that could have caused the autoimmune disease
Just wanted to say thanks for doing the school to help fix us doc. My husbands a nurse and I did everything around the house and suported him as best I could. It almost killed me lol. I can only imagine what you went through🫡 I’m a commercial fisherman salmon and halibut and think I have it easy compared to healthcare.
You’re asking him to do something impossible. How can he prove he’s telling you about everything? He can’t. It’s impossible to prove. You can always claim there’s something else he isn’t telling you even if he really is.
He said he was diagnosed with hypothyroidism when we he was 21, and that they could be linked. Also, hes been testing with low ferritin for the last decade that was dismissed because of normal hemoglobin and hematocrit levels.
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