Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differentiation and function

Re:Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differ... by vile_wretch on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:25PM (#36105969)

More like a pile of clickbait and quackery. The video from a holistic dentist is enough to invalidate the entire list in my eyes. Holistic dentistry suggests that oil pulling can repair cavities, that cavities disrupt "meridians" in the body and can then cause cancer and other wild ideas. Not to mention the fact that having mercury amalgam fillings removed (a big topic in holistic dentistry) is far more dangerous than having them in your mouth.

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Re:Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differ... by diydsp on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:44PM (#36106144)

Oil pulling is only a recent area of scientific research and is still inconclusive. Feel free to browse through and compile an evidence-based report for everyone: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Oil+pulling

If you would invalidate a theory because one playlist contains one video by one person of an occupation which has some inconclusive beliefs you may be doing yourself a disservice. Imagine evaluating whether SQLite is good based on a playlist of programmers, one of whom likes Plan 9 microkernel architecture.

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Re:Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differ... by coldtea on Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:10PM (#36106350)

You can find papers on anything if you put in the keywords. They'll also study bogus new age things, just to try to settle the actual science (and in some cases the papers will be from subpar journals that still get indexed. Pubmed has a big warning label that a paper being there doesn't mean the contents are endorsed by NIH.

Here are results for homeopathy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22homeopathy%22 and fad diets https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=atkins+diet

In this case, the list is low tier papers and journals, or some systemical survey type papers (or low quality first order papers) that still don't reach any conclusions.

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Re:Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differ... by gordian-mind on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:58PM (#36106251)

Why didn't you do that, instead of collecting clickbait YouTube videos?

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Re:Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differ... by diydsp on Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:45PM (#36106640)

Nice troll account you've got there. Pity if someone were to have saved the results from the recent alias-account finder and unmask you...

Anyway as i said above i have been wanting to go through all of the dozens of references but i have other projects, a long drive to work, and little desire to please others. i have taken the step of standing on others' shoulders and collecting their work. Spoon-feeding it to people who have made up their minds to not consider science has lately sagged on my list of desires.

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Re:Vitamin D: Potent regulator of dopaminergic neuron differ... by vile_wretch on Sunday May 28, 2023 @02:48PM (#36106662)

That's a terrible analogy but sure - if I were evaluating whether "SQLite is good" based on a playlist of programmers and one of them was by one person of an occupation based entirely around pseudoscientific beliefs, some of which are actively harmful, I would probably discount the rest of the videos in the playlist. Especially when many of the other videos are from creators who mainly post clickbait and more pseudoscience.

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