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find . -type f -exec grep -l "In order to continue, you need to verify that you're not a robot by solving a CAPTCHA puzzle" {} \; | wc -l 2310 Ugh add -exec rm {} + to delete (WITHOUT the wc -l) I'm going to try to rerun now, there's been some time passed since I last did it.

What about the confounder wherein low ldl levels occur with illnesses. I thought that was part of the problem with these studies. Many issues like malnutrition, cancer etc can cause lower ldl levels which would associate it with higher mortality but not be a cause

They're *older* so we don't know their LDL when younger, but high-risk people are at way higher risk of actual heart attacks/arteriosclerosis..

These are all high-risk patients, so I guess that while such high LDL-c values may be optimal for their condition, it doesn't mean it's so for healthy individuals.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10982736/ Looks like moderation in all things! Not to much and not to little! Among primary prevention-type patients aged 50–89 years without diabetes and not on statin therapy, the lowest risk for long-term mortality appears to exist in the wide LDL-C range of 100–189 mg/dL, which is much higher than current recommendations. For counselling these patients, minimal consideration should be given to LDL-C concentration

Thanks for sharing, an additional angle to look on the complex topic is always a great thing. For the sake of curiosity checked the only thing I can assess in my data - serum alpha-amilase, it fluctuates aroung the lower norm in 23-29 U/l (my labs give references 22-80 and 28-100) on a mild CR plants-only regimen. The only time I had it at 14 was when I tried to live at 1700kkal/d and loosing the weight fast. Based on this I thought that this marker is rather bound to food energy/composition intake and not to age but after some googling it seems there is some slight age drift to upper values and the research shared seems supports this. On the other hand - the body size/composition is also a major factor, every enzyme has its purpose and this is usually of a "quantitavie nature". Br, Igor UPDATE: some curious from a book that is not directly related but.. Psychoneuroendocrinology Research Trends 1st Edition by Martina T. Czerbska https://www.amazon.com/Psychoneuroendocrinology-Research-Trends-Martina-Czerbska/dp/160021665X (unfortunately there seems no googlebooks for it, quoting via https://epdf.tips/psychoneuroendocrinology-research-trends.html the link is "unofficial" and could disappear) Later there is also some stress-related info. A bit surprising for me that in the extreme CR cases like eating disorders mentioned the levels of alpha-amylase are at the high side, maybe stress or some disordered functioning of metabolic networks are having their place. Seems unexpected highs of this easy to obtain marker could be a red lamp for overdoers but this is just a guess. If somebody practicing fasting could monitor own values and share it could be interesting. UPDATE2: also curious that https://www.amazon.com/Wallachs-Interpretation-Diagnostic-Tests-Diagnostric/dp/1975105583 doe not mention eating disorders and psycholodical influence on alpha-amylase levels, but maybe it is about well-established things rather than investigations this book (https://books.google.pl/books/about/Accurate_Results_in_the_Clinical_Laborat.html?id=HEBloh3nxiAC&redir_esc=y) mentions them as well as anothor curious thing - lipemia (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3936974/) could cause underreporting for amylase assays, perhaps could be aconcern for keto regimen

I'm asking someone if they could properly scrape crsociety with the proper use of multiple proxies to bypass captchas. There might be a price associated with it - we'll still trying to figure this out.. == archivebot still running.. https://www.crsociety.org/ on 10-28; 174,325.9 MB in 536,936 resp. at 0.7/s, 264,419 in q.; 1 con. w/ 1000 ms delay; igoff == if u do search by user, try https://www.crsociety.org/profile/5068-alex-k-chen/content/page/43/?type=forums_topic_post [page 1 to 43...]

Thanks, Mike. This was a fascinating interview. It piqued my interest because I seem to have weird Amylase values: My pancreatic amylase is OK at around 55 U/L, but my salivary amylase is high, between 90 and 120 U/L. Lipase is normal at around 35 U/L. There is an upward trend over the years, though, although slow. I have never been able to figure out what is the reason for such high salivary amylase values, maybe one of my ancestors really liked starch 😄

bitter supposedly stimulates GLP-1 through gut receptors, maybe this is also why I seem to become GLP-1 resistant..

Mileage also shows large LDL particles really decrease mortality

44 years old...

Hi Ron, that's definitely possible, I mentioned in the video that water filtration is one possibility, but there are others...

This place is DEAD....

Last summer I rigged up a pool in the garden, for my son. However, he only used it a couple of times. So, I'm presently using it as a cold plunge. The temperatures are dropping and the water starts feeling coldish. Especially so this morning. I'm going to buy a water thermometer and some cleaning tools. And keep using it until possible or feasible. The plunge sure feels great but afterwards at times I feel myself anomalously hungry.

(a bit ironically) - metformin of 2024 is semaglutid %) but seriously - I personally hope both these tools could help move forward in research (in addition to do some good work as drugs for those who could benefit of them

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.22.619522v1.full

If someone could help me run httrack or wget on the site, that would be greatly appreciated!! I've included the urls.txt file. cookies.txt is not absolutely necessary but register for an account and login, use claude to convert cookies.sqlite to cookies.txt, and try it here. https://content.invisioncic.com/h253353/monthly_2022_11/image.png.33d7d1fc9f204905918b10aee0560c7e.png ^here's a sample link to an image that needs to be included here are the options: https://www.httrack.com/html/fcguide.html urls.txt

I'll have to buy a suitable dynamometer. Only issue with this kind of measurements is that, it is not a constant, with training you can improve your grip strength substantially. Does this improve your mortality HR in a few weeks? And what if you have to discontinue training? Does it worsen your mortality HR in a short time?

let's just try this: and what if the process terminates: httrack refused to run after some time on DOCN yesterday, I wonder if it has to do with the captcha issue...

My biggest fear find . -type f -exec grep -l "In order to continue, you need to verify that you're not a robot by solving a CAPTCHA puzzle" {} \; | wc -l 2255 :/mnt/c/My Web Sites/crsociety2$ find . -type f -exec grep -l "In order to continue, you need to verify that you're not a robot by solving a CAPTCHA puzzle" {} \; | wc -l 2299 == 938 MB now when I update this, it INCREASES the number of sites with this error message, fuck, I have to use a proxy or smg there's cyotek which I can try. I just got a new VPN but httrack's latest version doesn't even include "don't update already existing files"...

Who knows... I was born in the 1960s and have lived in plenty of old buildings in NYC and the West coast, plus a few years in Europe and the Southern Hemisphere. My point is that unless one grew up pealing and eating lead paint, it doesn't appear that lead or cadmium, or whatever, is a major concern compared to diet and lifestyle. After ConsumerLab used cacao cadmium in their highly successful PR campaign, I started testing and none of my levels are detectable, even though I was consuming daily 40+ grams of cacao nibs at the time. Going whole-food vegan and cutting out stuff like olive oil (or stopping DHA/EPA supplementation) has had a far more pronounced impact on my bloodwork.

managed to download A LOT of the pages within one day (and mostly preserve site organization), HOWEVER, a number of pages [2296 of them] have this error message in them (i suspect all pages with an updated date after a certain time): so I have to re-run the scraper to include external images [+*.content.invisioncic.com/*] *and *imgur.com*and bulk-delete all pages that have this thing above, and then re-run the scraper a bit less aggressively. ==== and figure out a way to make the scraper take in cookies (I know I once got it to take in cookies but cookies have gotten more complicated since httrack was last updated). also want to see if this will check threads (LIKE THIS ONE) for updates each time I run the scraper.. [and then figure out a place to upload it to just in case crsociety.org goes down for good - HOPEFULLY IT WON'T] god, invisionforum is such great software, it's better for organizing my thinking than any other, it makes me wonder if I should put one in a DOCN droplet. == if i set active connections to 2, it slows the scraper down to a damn crawl, damn, I need to increase it (but not to 10 at a time)

Well how old is the apartment you live in? Boston got rid of most of its lead in its pipes, I think

Thanks for the video, Mike. I am, however, inclined to see it mostly as a correlation, at least extrapolating from my own results. My lead levels are below detectable, despite the fact that I have drunk tap water for 6 decades and have consumed large amounts of cacao nibs and cacao powder for at least the past decade. Thus I am a bit leery of attributing your low levels to water filter use.