I had MRIs done, and my spine is improving. My ruptured L4/L5 disc was causing severe nerve pinching in February. At this severity, both chiropractor and spine doctor thought it was unlikely to fix, and that I'd need surgery. My recent MRI shows much less pinching. Treatment first included high dose celery juice (>32 oz/d) from April to May, ala @MedicalMedium. Down to 20% pain within a couple weeks. I switched to @T_R_Heisenberg's HG7 detox stack at very high, customized doses from June to now (lowtoxinforum.com/threads/th…). Down to <5% pain after a week or two. Both interventions likely reduced inflammation, since they were highly effective at reducing the intense sciatica pain radiating down the legs. They were as effective as if I had done a steroid injection in my nerve. I managed to avoid this and surgery. I also didn't take painkillers. Other things I did that didn't offer as quick relief were physical therapy, chiropractor, acupuncture, anti-inflammatory foods (though ginger was good), inversion table, and red light therapy pads. I don't know when the disc ruptured. Nerve pain is absent unless the nerve is inflamed. I've had back issues for a decade. I didn't do recent heavy lifting that would suggest a clear disc injury. However, I do understand what caused the pain: a supplement experiment last winter involving lots of glucose, molybdenum, and vitamin C that went quite wrong. That is likely what inflamed my nerve, perhaps through drastic copper depletion that left a bunch of unbound iron in my system. EGCG is what helps the pain most, and this is a strong iron chelator. The pain isn't totally gone yet, but I'm nearly back to normal. I'll update later if I manage to beat it altogether.

If AI doesn't produce enough value compared to the investment, it might just crash and be a blip in history. Of what could be possible in a world of infinite resources, that isn't ours

A little heart to heart bc I am still shaken by what I witnessed on here yesterday. I would NEVER have expected so many people to openly celebrate a human being being mauled to death by a tiger. I am still trying to comprehend it and frankly struggling. I grew up with the understanding that human life has an inherent sanctity. That when another human being is being torn apart by a predator, our first instinct should be to SAVE HIM. Not to debate whether the animal’s life is more valuable. I could understand a handful of reactions from people whose religious or cultural traditions attach particular significance to certain animals, like idk India or something. Somewhere where they pray to cows or whatever else they do. But the sheer number of people on here siding with the tiger shocked me to my core. What level of dehumanisation does it take to get here? It reminds me of the communist-era dehumanisation I’ve heard about from my own family, where the individual human life becomes expendable in service of some supposedly higher ideal. Are we living in some sort of neo-communist dehumanisation era? I mean a lot points to it certainly. And before someone deliberately misunderstands me AGAIN: I am not advocating killing the tiger now. That would serve absolutely no purpose. I’m saying that while a human being was actively being mauled to death, I believe every necessary measure should have been taken to save his life, including shooting the animal if there was no other way to stop the attack. Any man (who doesn’t pray to cows) with a spine should be absolutely clear and united on this, no? I really thought that was one of the most basic moral instincts we shared. Alas I was mistaken. And yesterday I found myself questioning something far more disturbing than the reactions to this particular tragedy: what happens to a civilisation when its own people no longer feel any instinctive obligation to protect one another? What happens when solidarity with your fellow human beings becomes optional, when belonging to a community carries no particular sense of responsibility and when the suffering of one of your own becomes a spectacle rather than a call to act? Something to uhh definitely think about bc a civilisation is also a moral agreement between people that their lives matter to one another. And I wonder how long that agreement can survive once people stop believing in it.