Probably because rearing a male child takes way more resources than a female child, so a woman's body would generally abort a male fetus if she was starving and unable to bear the burden.

In modern times, due to access to far better nutrition, this innate adaptation has swung the other way.

Nah, I'm just talking out of my ass.

Even more like a parasite, leeching off the host body, mind-controlling it using hormones.

lol no unless you plant the rice in the fucking river, you have to have mechanisms to pump that water out into the fields. And precisely control the level of water as well.

Also, white rice is a very recent cultivar. Black and red rice used to be the norm, and they tasted like crap.

Well, the west is slowly realizing that maybe medical knowledge refined over thousands, if not tens of thousands, of years might not be all bullshit (Ayurveda).

Turmeric latte, charcoal and salt toothpastes, ashwagandha, what have you.

Traditional chinese medicine (like a fuckin cobra drowned in a bottle of cheap wine) is still utter bullshit, though.

Wheat and rice is a recent development in India (and most of the world, for that matter).

Millets were the staple crop in most of India up till the mid 20th century.

Wheat and rice are just too risky to grow in most places without modern technology.

Europe didn't necessarily loose all of the fertility of its lands with the collapse of the roman empire, yet it suddenly became a lot less prosperous.

A civilization's success depends on many factors, and fertile lands are just one of them. You need some pretty sophisticated bureaucracy to run it all.

Man these copypastas are getting better

>Pharmacological vitamin C (VC) is a potential natural compound for cancer treatment.

Pretty sure they are the same thing (abscorbic acid). Chemistry's chemistry, whether it be from a fruit or from someone's lab

So vitamin C might be a viable and safe alternative to rampamycin for cleaning out your cells, nice.

Hopefully the rise in renewables will clear India's air quality. Would've been nice if the farmer's bill had passed. We'd have fewer morons burning crop stubble to plant rice in a hurry.

>But I’d imagine the higher risk comes into play if you have a NAFLD already.

What do you mean by that? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19811343/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20452916/

And you are right, I have a low body fat, and no underlying health issues.

>metformin has also been shown to have beneficial effects on multiple otherdisorders such as cancer, anxiety, polycystic ovary syndrome,cardiovascular and Alzheimer diseases

According to the linked paper in this post.

I've never heard about metformin affecting the liver, only the kidneys through lactic acidosis. I don't have diabetes, and have been on metformin for 4+ years now. Had a full medical checkup 5 months ago, with an exhaustive blood test. Everything was more than optimal, no liver issues either.

Never had that problem, myself.

I see, so while metformin will prevent your muscles from degrading, it might also make it harder for you to built up muscle.

Guess you either bulk up before starting metformin, or take it with an anabolic like testosterone.

Either way, the benefits of metformin completely outweigh the cons.

The further science progresses, the more ancient practices and traditions seem valid.

Discovery through the scientific method converging with thousand of years of trial and error.

That's why you take B12 supplements while on metformin

Won't dissuade psychopathic serial killers, though

So, it's like a gun, huh? Neat.

We have equipment at work that requires accuracy down to mere millimeters, and that takes hours to calibrate using conventional GPS.

I believe that's called rimming

It's called the underdog effect, dawg. Appears in competitive sports all the time.

IIRC type B provides resistance to gastric illnesses, like cholera.

Also interesting to note is that India has a rather uniform distribution of blood types, unlike nearly all Western countries, who lean heavily towards O.

Yeah, stop buying stuff from India until our government enacts similar stringent environmental policies. Exports don't really help the common person, and we're more of a service-based economy anyways.

Probably not, since the current structure of the universe was caused by non-deterministic quantum fluctuations during the big bang, and will never repeat again.

Until the robots take that job away as well

An army of 34 million men with a strong right arm or a loose rear sphincter.