• HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    This guy pissing away millions on his ongoing psychosis episode should be grounds enough to ban billionaires forever.

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    My favorite thing about the whole myth about people in southern Italy regularly living to be over 100 is that it’s actually just pension fraud.

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    for all the hate the guy gets, I do appreciate that he’s at least taking a science-based approach and publishes what works/doesn’t. The core building blocks he continually pushes people to follow are the basics we already know: good sleep, food and exercise.

    Outside of the common sense he’s tried various protocols and only continues them if the biomarkers they’re tracking show some kind of improvement. He’s spending his millions to test things and publish data for us to use, I don’t see any harm in that. He’s even published basic meals (Super Veggie) that anyone can make to ensure they’re eating healthy and getting the most bang for their buck (nutrient to caloric content ratio).

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    Our bodies have multiple enzymes and antioxidants to keep oxygen from slowly killing us. And this guy wants to concentrate it. Hyperbaric has its uses, making a normal person live longer is not one of them.

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      I remember seeing a meme about what alien life might be like and they say “what do you mean all life on Earth breathes rocket fuel???”

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      It was a complicated time when life switched to oxygen. We still have life without oxygen btw (mostly in the depths). But those damn plants fucked up a good life for everyone back then.

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          90% sounds about right. We’re two legged supports for our bacteria. Without us it would take them ages to go places. That’s why we shit at least once a day. Toilets are our bacteria’s malediction.

          Also you have to breathe more from the belly.

          Edit: those lazy oxygen deniers are squatting the guts of all the land dwelling animals, as it protects them against the new (relatively) toxic atmosphere. We should probably encourage them to face their fear and discover the world. Diarrhoea for all, that’s what I say!

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    Sure he might outlive us, but honestly what’s the fucking point? At this point for him he’s basically just existing. Is he happy? Is he getting any enjoyment out of life? Because it sure doesn’t seem like it

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      Hyperbaric treatment is dangerous, and I haven’t even seen a pseudo-scientific (fake science) reason for doing it if like you don’t have mountain sickness or some other "bizarre’ acute problem with what’s in your blood.

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        It’s also very beneficial to prevent limb loss from trauma that reduces blood flow. Makes a huge difference in the first couple of days to keep the tissue alive.

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      Kinda looks like him and it would be the type of thing Tom Scott would demonstrate but he wouldn’t push pseudoscience so aggressively

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    If you see this dude in person. He looks like an actual case of turning into a zombie. It’s like he lost his soul. He has dead eyes.

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        Those chambers are normally only done around 2 or 2.5 atmosphere, 3 tops. Not enough to kill anyone if it cracked. A small pop and rushing sound at most depending on the crack size.

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          Injury can occur at pressures as low as 2 psig (13.8 kPa) if a person is rapidly decompressed.

          That’s around 0.15 kilo or Bar. That’s astonishingly low.

          Source

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    You think oxygen is your ally, but you merely adopted the oxygen. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see carbon dioxide until I was already a man!

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    You just know he’s going to have some hilariously ironic death like the Segway scooter guy. It’s like learning about the guy who claimed God couldn’t sink the Titanic and deciding, “I’m going to do that! Every day!”

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      Oxygen is so bad for you, too. It literally damages cells. I don’t mean this ironically or anything else. It is physically bad for you to breathe pure oxygen.

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        Oxygen is corrosive as fuck. That’s why people are so obsessed with anti-oxidants. It’s important to cellular respiration because it is do damn volatile, but our bodies have to do a lot to keep it contained and safe.

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      The segway guy is actually a pretty sad story. James Haselden was a genuinely good guy, founder of a company making a type of portable and collapsible barrier, originally intended to shore up canals and rivers but ended up solving a variety of problems around the world.

      He kept manufacturing local to his childhood home, paying significantly above the average to his staff, created jobs and opportunities for many people in a relatively impoverished community.

      Gave many many millions of pounds to charities and good causes.

      He bought the segway company, intending on reviving what had become a failing business and died a pretty tragic and stupid death and now all anyone thinks of him is “haha how ironic”.

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      Wasn’t Apollo I destroyed when a spark caused an explosion on the launchpad due to pressurising the cabin with pure oxygen?

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        No, it was because of shoddy wiring causing a fire inside the capsule in an area that couldn’t be accessed easily from the inside or extinguished from the outside. The egress sequence was also very time consuming (somewhere like 90 seconds). Apollo I also was just a training module, it never got launched.

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        Maybe, but that’s neither here nor there. We can’t draw that correlation to effects of oxygen on the body via respiration.

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      I bet he dies becuase there is some old in the lines or fittings and he’s breathing nothing but moldy air all day long.

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      Hyberbaric chambers have a tendency to explode.

      There was one in the news the other day that tragically exploded with a small child inside.