Wintran, may it be that you dont like your current day job, in as much as you didnt like to go to school? Yes, that is very likely - that pieces of my current life reminds me of the past, and my body enters some kind of defensive state and easier escapes into things. I hear you, especially about th...

I'm a man at 183 cm and 68-70 kg. I normally consume 6 egg yolks per day, sometimes 12 (6 x 2 at different times of the day) if I haven't eaten enough of other foods or have been very active, and sometimes none if I eat munch foods. I always consume my 6 yolks with a banana, and sometimes I feel I s...

Nice, that makes sense! Thanks a lot for the more in-depth explanation.

The most powerful method of oxidizing cholesterol is by heat. Heated egg yolk and milk can produce atheromas in hamsters, an animal known to be resistant to atherosclerosis. Today’s egg industry puts out eggs free of oxidation products. In rabbit feeding, fried or hard-boiled eggs produced the highe...

I've been reading some about the term de novo lipogenesis but not really understood its exact meaning. I read it's the process of converting excessive carbohydrates into fat, but are they actually implying that glucose can itself be converted into fatty acids? According to Wai's article called Food ...

Besides the obvious Scandalous Lies About Cholesterol I've been gathering some other articles and scientific experiments that support the claim that cholesterol is only dangerous in its oxidized form (referred to as oxysterol or oxycholesterol). Feel free to expand the list with additional articles ...

Please tell me, why dont you change your sleeping habits? What keeps you from doing so? You need to create a sleeping plan and stick to that, even if you cant sleep; simply stick to the routine. Eventually, your psyche will adjust to the routine. Hi RRM! It's a good question, and I don't even know ...

Hi all! :) Thinking I would share some of my experiences on sleep: My sleeping habits are really quite terrible, in that they are very irregular in when I wake up and number of sleeping hours. Lately, on average I might go to bed at 3-4 am, but I also sleep to around 1 pm. The problem is not really ...

I recently re-read Wikpedia's article on fructose and was a bit surprised by its quite biased stance regarding negative health effects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose Fructose depends on glucose to carry it into the blood stream via GLUT-5 and then GLUT-2 [1]. Absorption of fructose without g...

I'm sorry if you took my comment personal, I wasn't trying to critizice you at all, I was just trying to post an answer to your opinions, stating my own opinion. If you read my comment again I'm not trying to defend medicine or technology with moral, I'm trying to defend it with reasoning (and scien...

What is not yet proven by science is why the first lifeforms appeared. Yes, it might've been a result of a certain collection of atoms coming together under the right circumstances that created this ability and the need to reproduce, but why would this possibility or need even exist in the first pla...

I think my belief is similar to andyville's in this, but here's a longer answer anyway. :) And intelligence comes in many forms, you can't categorize the myriad ways in which intelligence can be shown, it is like trying to put all the functions of the brain into neat slots, it doesn't work that way....

The more I came to understand the topic, however, I became convinced that the traditional mechanisms underlying evolution - natural selection, survival of the fittest and so on - are becoming outdated. It is my conviction that we are standing on the verge of a new phase of evolution; with the devel...

Well, this is one of the most fundamental aspects of objectivism - to center one's philosophy and one's values on reason alone. Hmm, then I probably am a kind of objectivist, though I find the title a bit misleading (read in Wikipedia that Rand didn't like it either, though ;)). The biggest enemy o...

andyville: That's an interesting observation! Actually, when I came up with this "philosophy" I hadn't read much at all about any other philosophies, so I wasn't inspired by objectivism in that sense. However, after reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29 I notice the similar...