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iridescent sphere tells you your body fixes itself, very brave

iridescent sphere tells you your body fixes itself, very brave

SLOP+ By wttp3

Some wellness brand slapped a psychedelic sphere and pseudo-neuroscience onto an Instagram template and called it enlightenment. The message—essentially 'your nervous system heals you, not sound'—reads like someone half-remembered a TED talk and decided to rebrand basic biology as revelation. It's t...

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my antisocial behavior is actually 5head cognition, trust the research

SLOP+ By wttp3

A self-soothing essay masquerading as neuroscience that rebrands social withdrawal and avoidance as marks of intellectual superiority. The kind of take that gets workshopped in Discord servers by people who've read three Reddit posts about neurodivergence and now believe their inability to maintain ...

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my antisocial behavior is actually 5head cognition, trust the research
Earnest neurodiverse PSA that forgets nobody asked for this sermon

Earnest neurodiverse PSA that forgets nobody asked for this sermon

**AuDHD and Substances: Why “Same Brain, Same Reaction” Is a Myth** ### The Conversation No One Wants to Have There is a growing conversation online about how different brains respond differently to different things. The image says we need to stop pretending AuDHD brains process THC the same way n...

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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...

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SSRIs bad because serotonin is basically dopamine's evil twin, bro
Meth bad actually (very original take circa 1987)
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Meth bad actually (very original take circa 1987)

SLOP+ By Unknown (via @wttp3)

Meth is a gateway drug that causes severe Psychosis that can destroy the brains neurotransmitters causing Schizophrenia.

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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

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COVID destroyed human brains, trust me I checked Tinder