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Podgajski··on Ask HN: EMF Exposure from Starlink Satellites?
> It is estimated at 0.000000294 watts per square meter.

Please show math or reference.

> That amount of energy is much smaller than the 1000 watts per square meter of terahertz radiation, sunlight, that would hit you when stand outside in your swimming trunks on a bright cloudless summers day.

Sunlight is not polarized, radiation, millimeter wave radiation from stink is polarized radiation. Big difference. Also, we did not evolve with anthropomorphic millimeter wave radiation yet. We evolved with the sun. Another big difference.

> If you climb on the roof of a building and stand ten feet from a cellphone base station antenna there might be a few watts per square meter hitting your body.

Do I have to show you the FCC references that say this is dangerous? Even more so with 5G cell towers?

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/human-exposure-radio-fr...

Podgajski··on Ask HN: EMF Exposure from Starlink Satellites?
You’re seriously comparing the electromagnetic radiation from a starlink satellite to radio and television broadcasts? Like they’re the same power and the same frequency? And what if they all affect us, is adding more of them doing us any good? It’s not being able to escape them any good?

I’m concerned about this exposure because it affects me in some frequencies affect me more than others. I’ve been affected from this since I was a network engineer at Cisco systems. Which I had to leave, unknowingly to me at the time, because that is when they installed Wi-Fi in the building.

So this problem with Starlink is now I have literally nowhere to hide. Even in places that have no access to cell towers someone can drive within 10 miles of me turning their starlink and it’s like putting a tower right next to me.

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Please remind the others in this thread of the same. Thank you. I apologize for my own behavior. It seems that this was only singled out to me for some reason.
Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
> overwhelming evidence supports the theory that a combination of strength and cardio training leads to better healthspans.

Better for who? That’s my point. Obviously my grandfather didn’t need it right?

But I’m against these simplistic explanations for something much more beautiful happening underneath all this bro science advice.

There is no evidence that strength and cardio ALONE leads to longer life and health spans. what I’m arguing is that there is something beneath what you’re all looking at that would help way more people if we understood it completely. And what that is is the balance and mitigation of oxidative stress. It is quite probable that because my grandfather did not work out, he did not create a lot of oxidative stress, and that’s what helped him live longer. What would be more important for humanity is understanding oxidative stress.

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Maybe get another degree in biology and nutritional genomics before saying anything else about human health then.
Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Yeah, that’s what I thought until I had my hair and serum levels of manganese tested. Which were both low. And taking manganese cured not only my chronic fatigue, but my insomnia and anxiety as well.

Also, there’s a study at Stamford going on right now, looking at manganese levels and illness and they’re finding that these ranges are old and arbitrary.

And that tolerable upper limit is a joke since I had to take 30 mg a day.

Just do a little research and find out where they got those limits and ranges from.

But, regardless, it proves my point, that exercise depletes manganese and that could cause disease in people who don’t have sufficient manganese. So just telling everyone to work out and you’ll live longer is a false statement.

Adding

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3419

There are no reliable and validated biomarkers of manganese intake or status and data on manganese intakes versus health outcomes are not available for DRVs for manganese. As there is insufficient evidence available to derive an average requirement or a population reference intake, an Adequate Intake (AI) is proposed.

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
I didn’t say reactive oxygen species were bad, I said that oxidative stress is bad. And reactive Oxygen species is not an old term but nice try it in an attempt to make me look stupid.

Here are all the papers that use the terms since 2023

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2023&q=reactive+Ox...

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Yes I did, thank you for continuing the conversation.

Those enzymes that it unregulated, those genes that they upregulate… do you know what they are? Let’s talk about one…mnSOD or SOD2.

Do you know that enzyme needs a co-factor and that co-factor is manganese. What do you think happens when you keep exercising, but do not replenish your manganese? mnSOD does not work as fast and this leads to a buildup of superoxides and disease.

Up regulating these enzymes because we’re exercising is not decreasing oxidative stress, it’s getting rid of the oxidative stress that we created. And all that results is that we deplete ourselves in manganese.

Does this happen for everyone? No does this happen for people who might have polymorphisms in there SOD2 genetics? Probably.

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpcell.003...

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
> Tomes of papers support the connection between physical activity, reduced inflammation markers, and decreased all-cause mortality

Correlation, not causation.

What the hell is muscle use above a curent baseline? What does that even mean? I’m pretty sure you’ve never taken a science class in your life.

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Being a standard deviation away is not being in the mid point of the Bell curve.
Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7892233/

Further, whole-body resistance exercise increased oxidative damage. For example, resistance exercise at a 10-repetition maximum load increases the MDA level in the blood [19]. Furthermore, local resistance exercise, which is a single type of resistance training in a specific muscle group, can increase oxidative damage.

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Of course, it’s complicated, but it’s simple as well. It’s just about Balance. Too much inflammation is bad. Too little is bad. we need just to balance them out, and it’s the same with oxidative stress. Reactive oxygen species kill pathogens but they can also kill us. We balanced them using enzymes, and these enzymes need enzymes and cofactors.
Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Here is the science. You are mentally lazy.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7892233/

Further, whole-body resistance exercise increased oxidative damage. For example, resistance exercise at a 10-repetition maximum load increases the MDA level in the blood [19]. Furthermore, local resistance exercise, which is a single type of resistance training in a specific muscle group, can increase oxidative damage.

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
I want you to tell me who is not an outlier on a bell curve? How flat is the bell curve? How tall is it? Aren’t really most of us outliers?
Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Our bodies are quite capable of dealing with when we have the right nutrition and we don’t create too much oxidative stress. I can’t believe how little understanding there is of the impact of distress.

Just being deficient in manganese, zinc and copper could increase superoxides to a point that starts creating DNA damage.

And it’s funny that you don’t think reactive oxygen species damage heart muscles. If there’s too much of them that is. If there’s an imbalance that is.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/omcl/2020/5732956/#

If you’re not exactly sure what reactive oxygen species are, then, why don’t you look them up before you make comments of what you know nothing about. If you’re making fun, about a stupid comma that Siri placed in my sentence then well, that’s just childish. And you’re not serious at all.

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Yeah, everyone is an individual, that’s my point. You can treat us all as a mass, or the midpoint in a bell curve, but we’re not. And the majority of us will be outliers are on any bell curve
Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Listen, the Bros don’t even talk about oxidative stress. What do you think it is that oxidants cholesterol to cause coronary artery disease? What do you think triggers the DNA changes to cause cancer?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5927356/

Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
It’s not science driven if you show a graph, exhibiting correlation, and telling us it’s causation.
Podgajski··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
Ugh. Please… You know, my grandfather was thin as a stick and lived to 99 and was as sharp as a tack.

Muscles need energy. When you use energy you produce waste. The waste in the muscles case is reactive oxygen species,. If you can’t clear that waste, you will become sick and fatigued and have disease.

If you increase muscle mass without making sure you’re getting rid of these reactive, oxygen species Muscle mass won’t do a thing for your longevity.

If you want to live longer, balance your oxidative stress.

Podgajski··on Blueprint health protocol
And maybe omega-3? That’s underplaying the role of long chain PUFAs by a lot.

And when you say annual products, are you talking about all animal products, like seafood? Because there is a vast difference between oysters, muscles, and salmon, and industrial farm raised beef.

And animal products, again, are you excluding the organ meats, which are extremely high in many things that could possibly extend our lifespan? Like riboflavin, manganese, zinc,?

Podgajski··on Blueprint health protocol
This guy spent so much trying not to die that he’s not living at all.
Podgajski··on Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)
DC currents emit a static magnetic field with a frequency of 0Hz. This is not my concern since the magnetic field is so weak from a 12v system. Frequency is the issue with AC currents. because the EMF from AC lines are time varying, they can induce currents and voltages in nearby conductive objects, like people.

The WHO seems to think ICNIRPs concerns are valid:

https://www.icnirp.org/en/frequencies/low-frequency/index.ht...

Read papers 9-12 and let me know if you are still so certain.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2203969/#B9

Podgajski··on Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)
Not to mention the electric and magnetic fields that AC currents release. This alone is a health hazard that is ignored by most modern builders.
Podgajski··on Slow Electricity: The Return of DC Power? (2016)
I agree. Probably 90% of the power I consume is from a 100 watt solar panel and a 12v solar battery as I currently live out of a minivan.
Podgajski··on Pushing It Back
Think about all the hominids that came before us that were intelligent enough to have tools and make structures to live in. They survived over 500,000 years and left barely a trace.

And then look at the last 1000 years. And see how much we’ve destroyed and the plastic layer of garbage they’ll be able to decode 400,000 years from now.

Podgajski··on Fixing annoying blue standby lights
And I’m wondering how much power is wasted by the literally billions of these status indicating LEDs…
Podgajski··on How to run a small social network (2019)
We just decided it’s important. We have no agenda or goals, the only goal is to get together. And to support each other. We have arguments we laugh. It’s all over the place.

You just have to convince people that human socialization in person is important. If you have any exterior motive for doing it, I don’t think it will be as valuable. People need a time to just relax and get things off their chest and talk to people.

Podgajski··on How to run a small social network (2019)
This is the problem. You think it’s a waste, but it’s not. Just because you’re not doing something productive doesn’t mean it’s fulfilling in many invisible ways. It’s great to sit around, seemingly doing nothing but getting so much out of it.

We don’t have to have goals or be productive or have side gigs all the time. Just relax.

Podgajski··on How to run a small social network (2019)
I run a small social network with absolutely no technology at all. Usually consists of six or seven of us sitting in a coffee shop or a bar.

It was never broke so stop trying to fix it.

Podgajski··on Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate
(Big ass kissing sound from tethers lips on the left and right cheeks of the single corporate political party.)
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