By listening to american podcast and american media, you’d think american males are the world’s best experts on health.

John, AI developer from San Jose: “I take creatine and peptides. Most AI CEOs do this. It’s great”

Hunter, engineer from Michigan: “You don’t check your biomarkers? Are you fucking stupid? Biomarkers are so important”

Taylor, venture capitalist from San Francisco: “I fucking love protein. Everyone should eat more protein. I eat red meat every single day as part of my Paleo diet”

Robert Cohen, New York doctor: “Are you sad? Do you feel sad? Have you considered taking a dose of Ketamine mixed with hallucinogenic mushrooms? I’m doing research on this. It actually works”*

Joe Rogan from Austin, Texas: “Wow… You are saying Raw milk is good and big milk banned it? I didn’t know that!!”

😂😂😂😂😂

This biomarkers/peptides/creatine/paleo/raw milk crap is freaking hilarious 🤣

Ironically, american men don’t actually seem very healthy.

They are the LAST people on earth that I would ask for advice.

  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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    58 minutes ago

    Your mistake is listening to podcasts instead of qualified professionals. Weak information literacy seems more a you problem.

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    8 hours ago

    We’re not a monolith. And yeah, if you listen to shills you’re going to hear them hawk stuff.

    As for health in the US, it’s actually very location specific. California, Colorado, Florida, and the Northeast are more healthy on average than the rest of the country. The worst offenders are the south and midwest.

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    We do have multiple brilliant epidemiologists who give good health advice. You just need to understand who a credible source is and what people are trained to do. Eg. your typical medical doctor only receives 3 credit hours in nutrition. It’s almost never their speciality. Just like you wouldn’t trust an eye doctor to do surgery on your heart, you shouldn’t trust a heart doctor to be intimately familiar with nutrition epidemiology.

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    Theres nothing “wrong” with the paleo diet… it just avoids certain things that are proven to be bad. Like rapeseed oil and other such crap. (And then theres the extremists i guess)

    Rawmilk is illegal in my country, i assume it is for a reason

    And personally i dont think supplements are good. Just eat healthy nutrient dense foods, instead of… supplements and french fries

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      Rawmilk is illegal in my country, i assume it is for a reason

      Yeah, because listeria exists. If anyone actually stopped to think about how gross cow udders are in the morning when they’ve spent all night pissing and shitting and having said shit and piss splash up onto their udders for 12 hours straight I think they’d reexamine their love of raw milk.