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has anti aging research actually accomplished anything or is the entire field a grift?
There seems to be some legitimate research into the effectiveness of anti-aging compounds like retinol, also they’ve come out with some good advice like wearing sunscreen, drinking enough water, and eating balanced diets to promote skin health which reduces the signs of what we usually associate with aging, if you count that.
so the actual advice is "don't eat trash less healthy than asbestos"
there are some people claiming that polyphenols, flavins or other pharmalogically mischievous, promiscuous trash like that that is barely soluble in the first place and shredded by liver within minutes after absorption into bloodstream is the Real Secret To Long Life (tm) but it's really proxy for the not-deep-fried-everything diet, or at least that's the impression that i'm getting
one specific strain that boils my piss the most is curcumin peddlers, because they waste everyone's time and it's a part of government-funded altmed disinformation campaign (of India in this case)
I’m annoyed by seed oilers claiming to have prevented sunburn.
seed oilers don't even have an interesting conspiracy theory
heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point: