Stand all day or sit all day, which one is better?

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Is that a rhetorical question? I don't want to trigger anyone....

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What happens if you take the 10/6 and just pay the mortgage as if it were the 30 year fix at the the higher rate?

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Connect with your patients. Compliment them about their tattoos, inquire about their jobs, make queries about their travels. Act or be impressed. When...

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Ah the real flex question. Also probably an indicator of how close you are to death unless you are in the vigorous 72 year old cohort....

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Did people in Japan think their market was inflated in the 80's and how has the persistent Japan(if there are any) DCA'ers been fared since.

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I once sat in front of my HOA board and bloviated(like I do here, everywhere) for 45 minutes. I convinced them that pouring wood chips on my front lawn...

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If it's telemarketers I play piano for them. I saddens me that they don't wait till the end of the song before they hang up.

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Philosophically, for someone who has birthed children for a spouse, what are they materially entitled too? That's the feel good rationalization I go to...

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhya...?sh=1ed60b0811...

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Does crypto trade 24 hrs a day or is it wall street hours?

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We should emulate El Salvador?(rhetorical question of course.)...

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What percentage of all humans in all of history has enjoyed "doing" their dream job/passion? .001%? I think well being comes from within. And...

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Is he really trying to control Europe or perhaps this is the most extreme form of a flex fail?...

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I took a big hit in 2008. The hit I'm taking now is a lot bigger, but I seem to care less. Salary was flat + marginally up through that time. Actually...

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You're not going to get Parkinson's in you 60's. You exercise a lot in activities that don't involve a lot of head trauma....

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Squaring the curve.

I agree, but obviously I'd prefer to be squared off later rather than earlier....

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But everyone is a winner at the same time. Play on.
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Longevity for longevity sake is arguable. Preferably it ought to be accompanied with mental/emotional well being and functionality. Would you rather drop...

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Am a big fan of Hakeem. Ralph Sampson meh. Twin towers? BS. No Hakeem was the man. The guy was a freaking baller. Now I know you're just baiting me now....

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Thank you for the encouragement. If I keep it up and improve 1.5 per month maybe I can. Didn't actually digest this till your remark. I also realized...

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Without and physicial exam or bloodwork biometrics, based on this 70 year olds ability to do 400 consecutive full ab rollers, do you think...

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Then I have hope. Thanks for sharing and correcting my inferiority complex way of thinking....

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I think when not standing we're supposed to asian squat. But that got co-opted by the chair. Kind of like forefoot running got co-opted by the shoe and...

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My brother in law gave me a bottle of Kavala. I would drink it after my evening wine. I liked it.

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Yes longevity genes are worth its weight in gold. The question is can you hack into this phenotype?...

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Any and all metrics you want to use to determine its efficacy or inefficacy....

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Let me clarify, when I say stand all day, you can walk, squat, stretch, or anything that entails being on your feet....

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Something in between is preferable, let's make this poll simple though. At the extremes, in your doctorly opinion, which is better for you?

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Football, basketball, track and field, climbing, swimming. I think mostly bigger people do better. Obviously not in the extreme cases. But not too many...

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No doubt smaller people have advantages, but when it comes to competing and besting others in physical feats/competition... well there's a reason why...

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Yes. I do feel envious of people who physically perform better than me. As a diminutive 5'4" organism, aiming to top others is fool's gold. I recognize...

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For sure true. 30 PR segments today on a mountain bike ride I've been doing for 20 years. I was a slow POS back in the day. I'm still slow compared to...

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Yeah, but it's bait. BTW, thanks for the peak human podcast referral. Am all caught up. It's very good. Not obnoxious like myself.
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In people's opinion here, regardless of cardiopulmonary/musculo/cognitive fitness at age 40,50,60, etc... does the inevitable decline asymptote to 75-80...

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Everyday you get closer to death. It's an inevitability. But paradoxically an unhealthy person A at age 40 could be closer to death/chronic dz than that...

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To be fair, my own equity index portfolio is also cratering. Payday this friday, will throw in in my biweekly contribution into the woodchipper.

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I say yes....

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Yup, buy more. Pray for more pain. Buy more. Pray for the for the fed to jack up the rates. Then buy even more. Don't pray for violence, but if it happens......

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Rieslings and then anything that the Santa Ynez wineries are have case specials only. A trip where we would get 3 cases would last a year. Now it lasts...

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10 year old study from Harvard citing that the more tipping there is the more corrupt that society is:

https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstrea...

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Here in the west we have the western fence lizard which reduces Lyme burden in the environment....

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Tried it twice in med school. Inhaled. Didn't do much for me but my classmates laughed a lot. Though the bruschetta we ate afterwards tasted incredib...

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For miles and hours on end without supervision? And does gender matter? I say 12. My wife is reluctant. My in laws are in full panic attack mode.

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What is it?

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Solar is a feel good act. The only way to really to reduce CO2 emissions(which I don't care about) is to reduce material consumption. I don't see that...

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Sure. I agree. But people act like happiness, dream jobs, blah blah blah is a birthright. This collective mindset will not produce the desired outcom...

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There are jobs available aren't there? Just not dream jobs which is fool's gold IMO.

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I think most of generation z is on discord....

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Are people entitled to happiness?...

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For some kids when you withhold, they have a quantitative hyper response when finally given the device....

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Are people entitled to a fulfilled life?

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Maui and Yellowstone. Problem is that my wife accidentally purchased 2 set of plane tickets. Clicked the purchase button but appeared that it didn't go...

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$50 for parking per month? Isn't that basically the same thing as free?

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My intuition was to freeze both accounts....

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We received a brand new upscale credit card the other day under my wife's name. We did not apply for it. Called the CC company and they replied that someone...

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That is if you don't need any more credit in the near future?

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You're fine. Stop worrying. Worrying is carcinogenic. (persistent elevated cortisol-->persistent elevated glucose-->persistent elevated insulin...

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Reminds me of when a bad attitude patient asked me why so many doctors treated him so poorly. I told him, it's not a doctor thing, it's a "you"...

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Nice. I'm jealous. I wish kayaking was part of my hobby repertoire.
Be careful though. Since danger of physical activities is of concern.
...

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I feel joy when I'm utilizing my odyssey....

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Had my queen palms trimmed 2 months ago. It would have been $50 additional for disposal. They stated that their chipper couldn’t process it. So I had...

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EV?...

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WTF? Is that a wood chipper? Was sure nothing on this thread was going to make me jelly. I stand abruptly corrected.

Here is my woodchipper....

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Do you have to pay for valet! And what kind of ebike do you have(I’m sure this is going to make me jeaous)? How long have you been bike commuting?...

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One of my concussions was veering off track while trying to avoid a snake. My buddy also had his rear tire blown out when a rattlesnake bit his MTB tire....

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Good point. Head trauma can definitely lead to neuronal destruction/implosion. Ferroptosis is a primary intermediary cellular step if you’re interested....

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Still biking to work? It helps with neurodegeneration.


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-021-00222-6...

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Is there an objective market measure of FOMO?

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Just from eyeballing it, it seems ok.

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I don’t do crypto. Now I know why. Thanks. Because of WCI’d influence over the last 5 years I’ve sloughed off most of my ‘I think I can do better’...

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No.

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Do we know with a hundred percent certainty that chondrocytes can't repair itself? While I can't micronize myself and upload an iphone video the machinations...

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I'm under no illusion that I'm approximating anywhere close to being elite by doing this. But from a strength and physical perspective,...

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Is youtube following what I'm typing in WCI?...

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I tell patients that all the time. "It's a wear and tear condition, it's a function of age, not much you can do about it. The decline is inevitable....

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Are high taxes and high prices a way to reduce consumption ie, the ultimate way top reduce carbon emissions, if you believe that's a problem?

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Hard no. Cultural thing. We have slippers, but don't use them and they just collect dust....

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I know everyone is different. But using your expertise/opinion/law of averages can you proffer a general guessitmate at what age is the event horizon...

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Loved roller blading in Central Park(in med school) and on the Beach Boardwalk in socal during residency. Picked it up again 2 years ago with my daughter...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/14/b...,nearly%2011%2...

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Seeking fairness and equity is laudable, even at the notional level. But are the bottom 50 or 10% worse off than the bottom 50/10% 20, 40 or 60 years...

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Is this inflation really that bad? Or is just emotionally bad? As an old person, I remember my parent's having to take out a 30 year fix with 15%+ in...

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WTH? You're rich. Daughter has been asking for a pool for years, instead, I've put wood chips over our lawn and now grow fruit trees. I tell her to trim...

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Because of him I do 10 full nordic hamstring curls a day(no pillows)....

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************************. I'm jealous and I'm triggered....

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Seems ok to me. I'm cheap. But also too lazy to get 3 quotes....

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Are we supposed to wear masks in clinics? I'm wearing it about 50% of the, based to patient preference.

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Am over 50 and I'm hoping for a big correction. Does that make me a bad person?

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Your child would derive more benefit from that ribeye than you. I try to feed my kids steak as much as possible. My opinion. Not fact....

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Usually I'm geocaching but yeah, I'm there for some reason....

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Our household prefers balisongs. At least my son does. Much cheaper than airplane upgrade. And more fun.
...

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Are you asking me? I could speculate but can't say for certain. It's probably in the milieu of why she wants me to got shopping with her even though she...

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Cause my son doesn't care, but my daughter has developed my wife's tastes and that pleases my wife. Happy wife, happy... ok whatever....

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Wife prefers paying for business class. And when by herself(conference, trips meeting with friends) I support her 100%. She works/earns. Go for it. But...

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I didn't know my wife was posting on this board, and under 3 handles no less. Still not a fan for paying for business class though, but that is quickly...

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Western medicine is the fountain of youth. That's why we spend 4 trillion on it a year. When adjusted to inflation, that's how much the Spanish empire...

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I once told a drug rep that more collective good could be done if resources innovating new drugs and were instead used to figure out ways to reduce the...

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https://www.healthline.com/health/pa...OC_TITLE_HDR_1



I know. Cherry picked and likely unconvincing...

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Used to be pro climate. Now I'm ambivalent. And I have batteries, solar, 2 EV's, whole house fan, 3 composters, 5 rain barrels, and bike to work. But...