MDMA as a personality repair kit for the emotionally stunted
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Peer-reviewed study of one concludes: my brain's fine actually
SLOP+ By Hugh Mungus (via @wttp3)
Smoking weed all the time makes you retarded. I conducted a study on myself to prove this
sleep bad = broken car, very deep, much science
SLOP+ By Matt Walker (via @wttp3)
Sleep deprivation severs the connection between the prefrontal cortex (brake) and amygdala (accelerator). Like a car with broken brakes, emotions surge irrationally. A full night's sleep is emotional first aid. #SleepScience #EmotionalHealth
Earnest neurodiverse PSA that forgets nobody asked for this sermon
SSRIs bad because serotonin is basically dopamine's evil twin, bro
SLOP+ By Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (via @wttp3)
It’s how they came to be known. The port of entry for TRT and peptides was through bodybuilding. Which is known for extremes and people dying. The port of entry for SSRIs was “standard” psychiatry. It’s been harder to trace specific tragedies to individual Rx drugs. (because the people that take the...
Your yelling literally rewires brains for war (source: trust me bro)
SLOP+ By Shining Science (via @wttp3)
Yelling isn't just yelling. The brain doesn't know the difference. MRI scans show children living in high-conflict homes have hyper-reactive threat centers identical to soldiers with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). Their amygdala stays on constant alert, scanning for danger that isn't there...
Meth bad actually (very original take circa 1987)
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COVID destroyed human brains, trust me I checked Tinder
SLOP+ By James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath (via @wttp3)
If you still believe COVID left the population “unchanged”, open a dating app. It sounds absurd, but stay with me here. The cognitive bluntness is so widespread that the dating platforms themselves have had to acknowledge behavioural deterioration since 2020. It’s not subtle