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Adrian M Lopez 3 months ago
Woah that’s really cool. My fiancé has been using topical progesterone recently to recover from birth control damage. Could aspirin be used to help too?
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Scoundrel 3 months ago
Fuck drugs. Stop screwing with your body's internal signalling. Live an authentic life.
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Scoundrel 3 months ago
God, I hate how quick people are to look at some stupid "health effect" and completely disregard how those effects are achieved.
Every single thing you do messes with your body's internal signalling. Aspirin is refined willow bark. Probably the most studied drug in history and a net benefit in most cases.
as a regular aspirin user, let me remind you that: 1000mg of asprin a day and you'll be a walking bruise. Be careful with this advice
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Scoundrel 3 months ago
That's not true at all. Almost everything we think of as good that affects us does so through some sort of sensation or sustenance, and does not insert itself into the body's mechanism of internal signaling. The characteristics of our eyes were developed to respond to photons, the traits of our tongues and olfactory senses are determined by their ability to sense and differentiate chemicals, and so on. Our so called "nicotine" receptors are actually characterized by their ability to interact with the endogenous chemical acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that is manufactured and regulated by the human body. Similarly, in a normal, healthy human, the endogenous neurotransmitter adenosine will sometimes carry signals from one place to another. The exogenous chemical caffeine is a foreign chemical which, when introduced into our internal workings, completely screws up this signaling process. Rather than giving us energy, caffeine turns off the part of us that realizes that we are short on energy and might need to conserve it. Do you know why exogenous cannabinoids like THC in marijuana has such a profound subjective effect on people? We have an entire enocannabinoid system for sending signals within our body that runs on a collection of carefully regulated endogenous cannabinoids that we produce and regulate locally. Alcohol... Well, I don't think the mechanism behind alcohol is very well known, but the human body certainly isn't reacting to how "good" it is at sustaining us or signaling about our environment. In fact, there is a lot of activity from our livers that expels that trash from our body as soon as possible, this human behavior is most likely a consequence of how much alcohol screws with our internal signaling. Aspirin and any other anti-inflammatory drugs are not special. They don't fight off any disease. They don't poison bacteria or interfere with virus replication. They don't deposit nutrients to depleted regions of the body. No, all aspirin does is disable the mechanisms that your body was using to heal itself. Inflammation accelerates recovery! People have studied this! It should not be surprising at all that NSAIDs and anti-inflammatory drugs actively prevent healing! In general, the human body is not short on resources to produce all these signaling drugs throughout the body. For reference, the human body is something like 7% blood. Blood transmits lots of important resources throughout the body, and you can be sure that the stem cells in our bone marrow get a generous share of resources to produce this blood. But in the case of neurotransmitters, hormones, and a half dozen other things, all they do is deliver messages! The actual percentage of them is certainly less than 0.1% of us, and we are certainly not short on resources to produce them if they actually had a direct beneficial affect. Listen, if your own immune system is literally killing the pancreatic islet cells that produce the hormone insulin, or if you are literally going to die without injecting some form of exogenous signaling chemical then do it. If you enter cardiac arrest and your blood pressure will nosedive unless someone breaks your sternum by performing CPR on you then they should do that. If your body is broken for some reason or the alternative to taking these drugs is death or great bodily damage then by all means, interfere and play around with the signals your body is sending to itself. If you have a terminal disease whose origin and mechanism is beyond modern medicine, then do whatever it takes to stay alive, no matter how much it subverts, interferes with, or destroys your body's systems. But just because we don't know or can't enact the true solution, don't pretend that everything we are doing to solve it is right. If I can't fix my body's ailments at the place where they first diverge from normal, then I have an obligation to myself to consciously suffer through them. Everybody does. That's the primary function of the human mind and the human brain. Anyone who uses exogenous ligands like aspirin to interfere with their own perception is failing themselves just as much as if they had injured themselves.