Health / Medicine / Disease

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Health. Note that, for convenience, posts relating to the 2019 coronavirus outbreak are instead found in here.

Benefits of Psyllium Dietary Fiber in Particular

Brendan Long28 Aug 2024 18:13 UTC

16 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

(www.brendanlong.com)

Rational Toothpaste: A Case Study

badger31 May 2012 0:31 UTC

129 points

60 comments6 min readLW link

Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease

Scott Alexander30 May 2010 21:16 UTC

562 points

356 comments9 min readLW link

Consider Taking Zinc Every Time You Travel

Elizabeth1 Oct 2021 3:50 UTC

51 points

44 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Luck based medicine: my resentful story of becoming a medical miracle

Elizabeth16 Oct 2022 17:40 UTC

495 points

121 comments12 min readLW link 3 reviews

(acesounderglass.com)

The Machine that Broke My Heart

lsusr30 Dec 2021 11:59 UTC

48 points

36 comments2 min readLW link

Tales From the American Medical System

Zvi10 May 2019 0:40 UTC

65 points

48 comments4 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

“Eating Dirt Benefits Kids” is Basically Made Up

Elizabeth8 Oct 2021 8:30 UTC

72 points

13 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Quick Look: Asymptomatic Herpes Shedding

Elizabeth4 Jun 2022 21:40 UTC

38 points

4 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine

jasoncrawford9 Nov 2020 23:06 UTC

123 points

9 comments5 min readLW link 2 reviews

(rootsofprogress.org)

Insulin Resistance and Glycemic Index

lsusr30 Nov 2025 4:42 UTC

51 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Reconsider the anti-cavity bacteria if you are Asian

Lao Mein15 Apr 2024 7:02 UTC

174 points

43 comments4 min readLW link

Black Death at the Golden Gate (book review)

PeterMcCluskey26 Jun 2020 16:09 UTC

17 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

It’s Probably Not Lithium

Natália28 Jun 2022 21:24 UTC

447 points

186 comments28 min readLW link 1 review

Bedbugs are a Solved Problem—DIY Bio-Weapon works.

sapphire30 Nov 2022 3:40 UTC

59 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Luck based medicine: inositol for anxiety and brain fog

Elizabeth22 Sep 2023 20:10 UTC

40 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] What is the literature on long term water fasts?

lc16 May 2023 3:23 UTC

16 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Mar 2013 13:16 UTC

112 points

193 comments6 min readLW link

Vegan Nutrition Testing Project: Interim Report

Elizabeth20 Jan 2023 5:50 UTC

105 points

37 comments8 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Literature-review on cognitive effects of modafinil (my bachelor thesis)

David Althaus8 Jan 2014 19:23 UTC

53 points

42 comments3 min readLW link

What it’s like to dissect a cadaver

Alok Singh10 Nov 2022 6:40 UTC

208 points

24 comments5 min readLW link

(alok.github.io)

Book review: The Checklist Manifesto

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 17 Sep 2021 23:09 UTC

123 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

Activated Charcoal for Hangover Prevention: Way more than you wanted to know

Maxwell Peterson10 Jan 2022 19:26 UTC

87 points

31 comments31 min readLW link 1 review

Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine

NancyLebovitz25 Oct 2010 13:53 UTC

60 points

61 comments3 min readLW link

Curing insanity with malaria

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 2:28 UTC

163 points

8 comments4 min readLW link 1 review

Potato diet: A post mortem and an answer to SMTM’s article

Épiphanie Gédéon14 Jul 2022 23:18 UTC

48 points

34 comments16 min readLW link

Why Doesn’t Healthcare Improve Health?

George3d616 Feb 2022 11:28 UTC

63 points

19 comments12 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

Thirty-three randomly selected bioethics papers

Rob Bensinger22 Mar 2021 21:38 UTC

115 points

46 comments50 min readLW link

Phage therapy in a post-antibiotics world

ChristianKl29 Dec 2019 17:03 UTC

22 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Update: 5 months of Retatrutide

Brendan Long22 Dec 2025 0:02 UTC

22 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Why epidemiology will not correct itself

gwern11 Aug 2011 0:54 UTC

70 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

Another medical miracle

Dentin25 Jun 2023 20:43 UTC

194 points

48 comments3 min readLW link

My IRB Nightmare

Scott Alexander28 Sep 2017 16:47 UTC

60 points

1 comment19 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Please don’t take Lumina’s anticavity probiotic

ROM15 May 2024 18:03 UTC

13 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

(trevorklee.substack.com)

Dying Outside

HalFinney5 Oct 2009 2:45 UTC

403 points

91 comments2 min readLW link

Correct my H5N1 research

Elizabeth9 Dec 2024 19:07 UTC

52 points

24 comments2 min readLW link

Aaron Silverbook on anti-cavity bacteria

DanielFilan20 Nov 2023 3:06 UTC

31 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Machine-Readable Prevalence Estimates

jefftk13 May 2023 0:40 UTC

9 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Does BPC-157 work for healing and tissue repair?

ChristianKl22 May 2025 13:18 UTC

17 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

(somaticsignals.jollyjoyjourney.com)

AI for Bio: State Of The Field

sarahconstantin30 Aug 2024 18:00 UTC

74 points

2 comments15 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

[Question] I’ve become a medical mystery and I don’t know how to effectively get help

CraigMichael9 Jul 2022 6:58 UTC

30 points

53 comments2 min readLW link

Comparing the AirFanta 3Pro to the Coway AP-1512

jefftk16 Dec 2024 1:40 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Is ChatGPT rigth when advising to brush the tongue when brushing teeth?

ChristianKl2 Dec 2022 14:53 UTC

13 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

Why Take Care Of Your Health?

MondSemmel6 Apr 2022 23:11 UTC

49 points

24 comments6 min readLW link

How bad is chlorinated water?

bhauth13 Dec 2023 18:00 UTC

41 points

18 comments3 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Rewilding the Gut VS the Autoimmune Epidemic

GGD16 Aug 2024 18:00 UTC

51 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Book Review: Complications

Annoyance1 Jul 2009 18:39 UTC

13 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

Cognitive Risks of Adolescent Binge Drinking

Elizabeth and Martin Bernstorff

20 Jul 2022 21:10 UTC

70 points

12 comments10 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Prediction-based medicine (PBM)

ChristianKl29 Dec 2016 22:49 UTC

46 points

14 comments4 min readLW link

Curing PMDD with Hair Loss Pills

David Lorell2 Jul 2025 21:35 UTC

103 points

4 comments8 min readLW link

Estimating Norovirus Prevalence

jefftk6 May 2023 11:40 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Long Covid Is Not Necessarily Your Biggest Problem

Elizabeth1 Sep 2021 7:20 UTC

204 points

40 comments10 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Are there any preventive steps someone can take after being exposed to strep throat?

Maxwell Peterson14 Feb 2022 3:01 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Perhaps vastly more people should be on FDA-approved weight loss medication

25Hour14 Aug 2021 17:22 UTC

59 points

30 comments8 min readLW link

Are current LLMs safe for psychotherapy?

CanYouFeelTheBenefits12 Feb 2025 19:16 UTC

5 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What’s up with the recent monkeypox cases?

johnswentworth18 May 2022 22:06 UTC

61 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Can you prevent negative long-term effects of bad trips with sleep deprivation?

EternallyBlissful24 Jun 2023 14:05 UTC

15 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Tabula Bio: towards a future free of disease (& looking for collaborators)

mpoon23 Mar 2025 16:30 UTC

44 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Idea: medical hypotheses app for mysterious chronic illnesses

riceissa19 May 2023 20:49 UTC

64 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

Apollo Neuro Follow Up

Elizabeth22 Jul 2023 17:20 UTC

28 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Should you be worried about H5N1?

gw5 Dec 2024 21:11 UTC

89 points

2 comments5 min readLW link

(www.georgeyw.com)

H5N1

Zvi13 Feb 2023 12:50 UTC

102 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Mini PAPR Review

jefftk12 Dec 2024 19:10 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Amyloid Plaques: Chemical Streetlight, Medical Goodhart

J Bostock26 Aug 2021 21:25 UTC

18 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Will no one rid me of this turbulent pest?

Metacelsus14 Oct 2023 15:27 UTC

154 points

23 comments10 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

War on Cancer II

ChristianKl24 Jun 2021 14:59 UTC

36 points

12 comments14 min readLW link

Review of Examine.com’s vitamin write-ups

Elizabeth and Martin Bernstorff

26 Sep 2022 23:40 UTC

60 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Kitchen Air Purifier Comparison

jefftk22 Jan 2025 3:20 UTC

35 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Nursing doubts

dynomight30 Aug 2024 2:25 UTC

146 points

23 comments9 min readLW link

(dynomight.net)

Bayes for Schizophrenics: Reasoning in Delusional Disorders

Scott Alexander13 Aug 2012 19:22 UTC

154 points

155 comments11 min readLW link

Even if you have a nail, not all hammers are the same

PhilGoetz29 Mar 2010 18:09 UTC

150 points

126 comments6 min readLW link

Apollo Neuro Results

Elizabeth30 Jul 2023 18:40 UTC

85 points

17 comments3 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Luck Based Medicine: No Good Very Bad Winter Cured My Hypothyroidism

Elizabeth8 Dec 2024 20:10 UTC

55 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Estimating the benefits of a new flu drug (BXM)

DirectedEvolution6 Jan 2025 4:31 UTC

41 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Are c-sections underrated?

braces1 Oct 2022 20:32 UTC

47 points

15 comments6 min readLW link

Bednets -- 4 longer malaria studies

Hzn17 Jan 2025 8:47 UTC

4 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Mandatory Post About Monkeypox

Zvi24 May 2022 20:00 UTC

54 points

17 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Quick look: cognitive damage from well-administered anesthesia

Elizabeth2 Dec 2022 0:40 UTC

28 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

The Limits Of Medicine—Part 1 - Small Molecules

George3d61 Dec 2021 15:51 UTC

26 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

My 10-year retrospective on trying SSRIs

Kaj_Sotala22 Sep 2024 20:30 UTC

80 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Experience on Methotrexate

jefftk17 Nov 2021 22:40 UTC

13 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Why is capnometry biofeedback not more widely known?

riceissa21 Dec 2023 2:42 UTC

21 points

22 comments4 min readLW link

Why we need better science, example #6,281

lukeprog10 Dec 2011 23:25 UTC

43 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Why we sleep

Richard_Ngo19 Sep 2018 22:36 UTC

53 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Alternatives to Masks for Infectious Aerosols

jefftk8 Dec 2024 14:00 UTC

25 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Ivermectin: Much Less Than You Needed To Know

George3d63 Oct 2022 15:02 UTC

31 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(doyourownresearch.substack.com)

[Question] How do you decide when to change N95/FFP-2 masks?

ChristianKl10 Sep 2021 7:40 UTC

33 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] “The madness of reduced medical diagnostics” by Dynomight

Kenny16 Jun 2022 19:20 UTC

16 points

25 comments1 min readLW link

How Colds Spread

RobertM18 Nov 2025 5:25 UTC

237 points

31 comments10 min readLW link

Ketamine Part 1: Dosing

Elizabeth17 Jul 2025 20:10 UTC

25 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Mental health benefits and downsides of psychedelic use in ACX readers: survey results

RationalElf25 Oct 2021 22:55 UTC

119 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

Niacin as a treatment for covid? (Probably no, but I’m glad we’re checking)

Elizabeth12 Oct 2021 5:40 UTC

24 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Will you let your kid play football?

5hout4 Oct 2022 17:48 UTC

14 points

12 comments2 min readLW link

Inositol Non-Results

Elizabeth29 Nov 2023 21:40 UTC

20 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] What changes should happen in the HHS?

ChristianKl20 Nov 2024 11:04 UTC

0 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Guesstimate Algorithm for Medical Research

Elizabeth14 Sep 2022 17:30 UTC

26 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Experimental Fat Loss

johnlawrenceaspden1 Jun 2023 20:26 UTC

23 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

The Dogma of Evidence-based Medicine

ChristianKl25 Jan 2018 21:15 UTC

16 points

37 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Where should I look for information on gut health?

FinalFormal220 Aug 2024 19:44 UTC

10 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Scott Alexander8 Jul 2014 2:06 UTC

30 points

2 comments27 min readLW link

Traditional Food

lsusr23 Nov 2025 8:07 UTC

108 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Diabetes is Caused by Oxidative Stress

Lorec30 May 2025 21:03 UTC

11 points

11 comments8 min readLW link

Self-experiment: A supraphysiological dosage of testosterone.

shapeshifter26 Jun 2023 10:26 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Lead in Chocolate?

jefftk22 Dec 2022 16:10 UTC

41 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Prediction-based-Medicine instead of E̵v̵i̵d̵e̵n̵c̵e̵ ̵b̵a̵s̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵e̵d̵i̵c̵i̵n̵e̵ Authority-based-Medicine

ChristianKl30 Jul 2021 10:42 UTC

11 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

[Question] If someone you loved was experiencing unremitting suffering (related to a constellation of multi-dimensional factors and processes, those of which include anomalous states of consciousness and an iatrogenic mental health system), what would you think and what would you do?

Sara C3 Jul 2020 21:02 UTC

20 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

On not getting contaminated by the wrong obesity ideas

Natália28 Jan 2023 20:18 UTC

310 points

69 comments30 min readLW link

Literature Review: Risks of MDMA

Elizabeth7 Jul 2025 19:01 UTC

67 points

8 comments4 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

How people stopped dying from diarrhea so much (& other life-saving decisions)

Writer16 Mar 2024 16:00 UTC

45 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

(youtu.be)

Recommendations vs. Guidelines

Scott Alexander13 Apr 2018 4:10 UTC

77 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

(Salt) Water Gargling as an Antiviral

Elizabeth22 Nov 2024 18:00 UTC

88 points

6 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Nose / throat treatments for respiratory infections

juliawise13 Mar 2023 2:41 UTC

47 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Costs and benefits of amniocentesis for normal pregnancies

braces13 May 2022 22:47 UTC

13 points

4 comments3 min readLW link

Where did the 5 micron number come from? Nowhere good. [Wired.com]

Elizabeth9 Nov 2021 7:14 UTC

108 points

8 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

(www.wired.com)

Why is fiber good for you?

braces2 Nov 2022 2:04 UTC

18 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

Preventing atherosclerosis, the easiest way to improve your life expectancy?

Eli_29 Nov 2022 20:05 UTC

24 points

9 comments15 min readLW link

(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jan 2022 6:20 UTC

230 points

79 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

A common misconception about the evolution of viruses

mukashi6 Jan 2022 10:00 UTC

7 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Do you believe in hundred dollar bills lying on the ground? Consider humming

Elizabeth16 May 2024 0:00 UTC

122 points

22 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Melatonin Self-Experiment Results

silentbob25 Jun 2025 15:58 UTC

60 points

5 comments8 min readLW link

Monitoring devices I have loved

Elizabeth31 Dec 2022 22:51 UTC

62 points

13 comments3 min readLW link 1 review

Long Covid Informal Study Results

Elizabeth16 Oct 2021 7:10 UTC

43 points

3 comments5 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Effects of Castration on the Life Expectancy of Contemporary Men

Fluttershy8 Aug 2015 4:37 UTC

16 points

54 comments10 min readLW link

Nitric oxide for covid and other viral infections

Elizabeth7 Feb 2024 21:30 UTC

39 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Unregulated Peptides: Does BPC-157 hold its promises?

ChristianKl15 Jan 2025 23:36 UTC

28 points

7 comments4 min readLW link

MRI tracers

bhauth7 Jun 2025 23:03 UTC

28 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

[Question] For reducing caffeine dependence, does daily maximum matter more, or does total daily intake matter more?

Maxwell Peterson9 Jul 2021 15:40 UTC

14 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

Should doctors be neutral?

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 4 Aug 2021 20:37 UTC

31 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

in defense of Linus Pauling

bhauth3 Jun 2024 21:27 UTC

49 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Multiplex Gene Editing: Where Are We Now?

sarahconstantin16 Jul 2024 20:50 UTC

73 points

6 comments7 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Cognitive Enhancers: Mechanisms And Tradeoffs

Scott Alexander23 Oct 2018 18:40 UTC

46 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(slatestarcodex.com)

PSA: For Chronic Infections, Check Teeth

Algon20 Nov 2025 23:14 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Measuring Drug Target Success

sarahconstantin16 Dec 2025 21:00 UTC

19 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Taking vitamin D3 with K2 in the morning

ChristianKl30 Nov 2018 19:00 UTC

54 points

47 comments4 min readLW link

Follow up to medical miracle

Elizabeth4 Nov 2022 18:00 UTC

77 points

5 comments6 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Thoughts on seed oil

dynomight20 Apr 2024 12:29 UTC

360 points

131 comments17 min readLW link 1 review

(dynomight.net)

cancer rates after gene therapy

bhauth16 Oct 2024 15:32 UTC

54 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

Learned pain as a leading cause of chronic pain

SoerenMind9 Apr 2025 11:57 UTC

216 points

39 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] How to get nerds fascinated about mysterious chronic illness research?

riceissa27 May 2024 22:58 UTC

95 points

50 comments2 min readLW link

It Takes Two Paracetamol?

Eli_13 Dec 2022 16:29 UTC

39 points

11 comments2 min readLW link

The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Work

Elizabeth14 Oct 2025 16:00 UTC

82 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

Iron deficiencies are very bad and you should treat them

Elizabeth12 Jan 2023 9:10 UTC

108 points

34 comments11 min readLW link 1 review

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] How do health systems work in adequate worlds?

mukashi9 Feb 2024 0:54 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Vegetarianism and depression

Maggy10 Oct 2022 9:11 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

My hour of memoryless lucidity

Eric Neyman4 May 2024 1:40 UTC

377 points

37 comments5 min readLW link

(ericneyman.wordpress.com)

Biden should be applauded for appointing Renee Wegrzyn for ARPA-H

ChristianKl18 Sep 2022 19:57 UTC

34 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

Best in Class Life Improvement

sapphire4 Apr 2024 1:51 UTC

77 points

20 comments1 min readLW link

New Water Quality x Obesity Dataset Available

Elizabeth27 May 2022 19:50 UTC

74 points

14 comments2 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Should I treat pain differently if it’s “all in my head?”

jp5 Sep 2021 8:06 UTC

19 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Broad-Spectrum Cancer Treatments

sarahconstantin3 Jun 2025 19:40 UTC

146 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Exercise is Good, Actually

Gordon Seidoh Worley2 Feb 2023 0:09 UTC

92 points

27 comments3 min readLW link

The Cancer Resolution?

PeterMcCluskey24 Jul 2024 0:25 UTC

34 points

25 comments6 min readLW link

(bayesianinvestor.com)

Pandemic Prediction Checklist: H5N1 (6/14)

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2023 3:26 UTC

50 points

10 comments7 min readLW link

The rare, deadly virus lurking in the Southwest US, and the bigger picture

eukaryote14 Nov 2025 3:27 UTC

56 points

1 comment17 min readLW link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Is Light Drinking Protective?

jefftk31 Jul 2023 3:00 UTC

45 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Chemical (hunger) argument paraphrased

lemonhope18 Dec 2025 18:58 UTC

8 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

Ketamine part 2: What do in vitro studies tell us about safety?

Elizabeth7 Sep 2025 17:10 UTC

44 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

introduction to cancer vaccines

bhauth5 May 2024 1:06 UTC

113 points

19 comments5 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Notes on Fitness

David Gross21 Dec 2020 16:51 UTC

18 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

The “mind-body vicious cycle” model of RSI & back pain

Steven Byrnes9 Jun 2022 12:30 UTC

93 points

32 comments12 min readLW link

The Zombie Preacher of Somerset

Scott Alexander28 Mar 2009 22:29 UTC

120 points

36 comments5 min readLW link

Updates and Reflections on Optimal Exercise after Nearly a Decade

romeostevensit8 Jun 2023 23:02 UTC

213 points

57 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

When to Get the Booster?

jefftk3 Oct 2023 21:00 UTC

50 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)

Personalized Medicine For Real

sarahconstantin4 Mar 2019 22:40 UTC

215 points

16 comments5 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Medical Roundup #3

Zvi9 Jul 2024 13:10 UTC

39 points

4 comments19 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Intention to Treat

Alicorn20 Mar 2025 20:01 UTC

201 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Health & Lifestyle Interventions With Heavy-Tailed Outcomes?

MondSemmel6 Jun 2022 16:26 UTC

13 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Stomach Ulcers and Dental Cavities

Metacelsus5 Aug 2023 14:08 UTC

57 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

(denovo.substack.com)

cold aluminum for medicine

bhauth16 Dec 2023 14:38 UTC

42 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

(www.bhauth.com)

Fibromyalgia, Pain & Depression. How much is due to physical misalignment?

leggi29 Oct 2019 14:58 UTC

7 points

4 comments18 min readLW link

on bacteria, on teeth

bhauth30 Sep 2024 15:56 UTC

62 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

(bhauth.com)

30 Days of Retatrutide

Brendan Long4 Sep 2025 16:39 UTC

78 points

13 comments5 min readLW link

There’s some chance oral herpes is pretty bad for you?

GradientDissenter3 Nov 2025 6:30 UTC

33 points

4 comments6 min readLW link

Things that can kill you quickly: What everyone should know about first aid

jasoncrawford27 Dec 2022 16:23 UTC

167 points

21 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

(jasoncrawford.org)

The Limits Of Medicine—Part 2 - Homogeneity Assumptions

George3d62 Mar 2022 16:45 UTC

15 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

(www.epistem.ink)

How predictive processing solved my wrist pain

max_shen4 Jul 2024 1:56 UTC

36 points

8 comments8 min readLW link

A Step-by-step Guide to Finding a (Good!) Therapist

squidious18 Jul 2018 1:50 UTC

46 points

5 comments9 min readLW link

(opalsandbonobos.blogspot.com)

A Sarno-Hanson Synthesis

moridinamael12 Jul 2018 16:13 UTC

52 points

15 comments4 min readLW link

An appeal for vitamin D supplementation as a prophylactic for coronaviruses and influenza and a simple evolutionary theory for why this is plausible.

Michael A22 Dec 2020 19:40 UTC

11 points

1 comment9 min readLW link

Microplastics: Much Less Than You Wanted To Know

jenn, kaleb and Brent

15 Feb 2025 19:08 UTC

94 points

10 comments13 min readLW link

Resource on alcohol problems

juliawise27 Feb 2020 18:17 UTC

26 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

Epistemic Spot Check: The Dorito Effect (Mark Schatzker)

Elizabeth3 Oct 2018 17:10 UTC

43 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Are there easy, low cost, ways to freeze personal cell samples for future therapies? And is this a good idea?

Eli Tyre9 Jul 2019 21:57 UTC

20 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

The Architecture of the Narcissistic False Self

Dawn Drescher8 Oct 2025 17:39 UTC

4 points

0 comments12 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

How can I reconcile these COVID test false-negative numbers?

Optimization Process27 Oct 2020 23:56 UTC

15 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Theories of Pain

mingyuan26 Aug 2018 22:05 UTC

35 points

10 comments9 min readLW link

Analytical Validation of Biomarkers is Not the Full Story

mnarayan7 Nov 2025 18:39 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(blog.neurostats.org)

Are healthy choices effective for improving live expectancy anymore?

Christopher King8 May 2023 21:25 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond Biomarkers: Understanding Multiscale Causality

Matěj Nekoranec7 Jul 2024 9:56 UTC

13 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

AI and Biological Risk: Forecasting Key Capability Thresholds

Alvin Ånestrand2 Oct 2025 14:06 UTC

7 points

4 comments11 min readLW link

(forecastingaifutures.substack.com)

Quantified Risks of Gay Male Sex

pianoforte61118 Aug 2014 23:55 UTC

56 points

40 comments6 min readLW link

The Fountain of Health: a First Principles Guide to Rejuvenation

PhilJackson7 Jan 2023 18:34 UTC

115 points

39 comments41 min readLW link

Is latent Toxoplasmosis worth doing something about?

jsalvatier17 Nov 2011 17:04 UTC

38 points

29 comments1 min readLW link

Metastatic Cancer Treatment Since 2010: The Success Stories

sarahconstantin4 Nov 2024 22:50 UTC

51 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

Miracle Mineral Supplement

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Nov 2012 21:17 UTC

29 points

82 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Drugs

lukeprog1 Oct 2011 11:20 UTC

43 points

122 comments5 min readLW link

Some Thoughts on My Psychiatry Practice

Laura B16 Jan 2019 23:16 UTC

155 points

43 comments4 min readLW link 2 reviews

Fantasy-Forbidding Expert Opinion

yamabiko10 Aug 2020 0:01 UTC

20 points

9 comments3 min readLW link

[LINK] Claustrum Stimulation Temporarily Turns Off Consciousness in an otherwise Awake Patient

Shmi4 Jul 2014 20:00 UTC

51 points

43 comments1 min readLW link

Complex Signs Bad

Evenstar3 Jul 2023 13:09 UTC

5 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

The Five Main Muscles for a Full Range of Natural Movement, Dynamic Alignment & Balance.

leggi1 Sep 2019 3:22 UTC

15 points

10 comments10 min readLW link

Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging

Abhishaike Mahajan5 Nov 2024 14:51 UTC

29 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

[Link] How doctors die

Morendil6 Dec 2011 13:22 UTC

29 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

so you have a chronic health issue

agencypilled26 Jan 2025 19:00 UTC

23 points

9 comments5 min readLW link

Black Box Biology

GeneSmith29 Nov 2023 2:27 UTC

65 points

30 comments2 min readLW link

The benefits of madness: A positive account of arationality

Skatche22 Apr 2011 19:43 UTC

131 points

122 comments14 min readLW link

FMT: a great opportunity for (soon-to-be) parents

EternallyBlissful16 May 2024 13:24 UTC

13 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

[Question] H5N1. Just how bad is the situation?

Q Home8 Jul 2023 22:09 UTC

16 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

What Depression Is Like

Sable27 Aug 2024 17:43 UTC

90 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

[Question] Is it worthwhile to save the cord blood and tissue?

Alexei11 Jan 2020 21:52 UTC

22 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

An X-Ray is Worth 15 Features: Sparse Autoencoders for Interpretable Radiology Report Generation

hugofry, Ahmed Abdulaal, NMontanaBrown and a-ijishakin

7 Oct 2024 8:53 UTC

40 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

6 non-obvious mental health issues specific to AI safety

Igor Ivanov18 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC

147 points

24 comments4 min readLW link

Impending AGI doesn’t make everything else unimportant

Igor Ivanov4 Sep 2023 12:34 UTC

29 points

12 comments5 min readLW link

Sleep Quality: Strategies that work for me

Lukas Trötzmüller15 Feb 2023 0:17 UTC

16 points

3 comments7 min readLW link

H5N1 - thread for information sharing, planning, and action

MathiasKB5 Feb 2023 12:44 UTC

31 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Prediction is hard, especially of medicine

gwern23 Dec 2011 20:34 UTC

72 points

48 comments23 min readLW link

Nuace Tablets: Effective Antiretroviral Solution for Patients

saradavis8 Sep 2025 10:03 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

High Variance Productivity Advice

lynettebye1 Mar 2020 7:05 UTC

87 points

6 comments8 min readLW link

Celiacs don’t need to live in fear

Jarrah18 Feb 2024 2:30 UTC

16 points

4 comments4 min readLW link

Monkeypox: explaining the jump to Europe

DirectedEvolution23 May 2022 9:53 UTC

44 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

No, the Polymarket price does not mean we can immediately conclude what the probability of a bird flu pandemic is. We also need to know the interest rate!

Christopher King28 Dec 2024 16:05 UTC

9 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Semaglutide and Muscle

5hout28 Jul 2023 18:36 UTC

14 points

14 comments5 min readLW link

Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death [link]

Dr_Manhattan27 Mar 2014 16:33 UTC

37 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

Book review: Trick or treatment (2008)

Fleece Minutia6 Jan 2024 15:40 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readLW link

Some Things That Increase Blood Flow to the Brain

romeostevensit27 Mar 2024 21:48 UTC

31 points

15 comments1 min readLW link

Looking for feedback on proposed AI health risk scoring framework

Yasmin27 Sep 2025 19:29 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Pulse Oximetry & the Oxygen–Haemoglobin Dissociation Curve

leggi22 Mar 2020 7:05 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

Mike Darwin on Steve Jobs’s hypocritical stance towards death

Synaptic8 Oct 2011 3:32 UTC

33 points

78 comments1 min readLW link

Medlife Crisis: “Why Do People Keep Falling For Things That Don’t Work?”

RomanHauksson21 Feb 2023 6:22 UTC

12 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Informed Consent as the Sole Criterion for Medical Treatment

Chara#273621 Nov 2025 1:39 UTC

7 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

Blindspot in Sport’s Data-Driven Age

Matěj Nekoranec25 May 2024 20:17 UTC

2 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Too good to be true

PhilGoetz11 Jul 2014 20:16 UTC

35 points

121 comments4 min readLW link

Altruistic Kidney Donation

jefftk17 Jun 2012 20:02 UTC

28 points

43 comments3 min readLW link

Information in circulation is self-organised critical. Small changes in environment can make large, discontinuous changes in the information space.

puffymist12 Dec 2025 14:16 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Drug development costs can range over two orders of magnitude

rossry3 Nov 2024 23:13 UTC

38 points

0 comments11 min readLW link

Link: Evidence-Based Medicine Has Been Hijacked

Anders_H16 Mar 2016 19:57 UTC

33 points

39 comments1 min readLW link

Environmental allergies are curable? (Sublingual immunotherapy)

Chris Lakin26 Dec 2023 19:05 UTC

48 points

10 comments1 min readLW link

(chrislakin.blog)

Paradigm Shifts—change everything… except almost everything

James Stephen Brown23 Nov 2024 18:34 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

(nonzerosum.games)

How do you improve the quality of your drinking water?

Alex K. Chen (parrot)13 Mar 2024 0:37 UTC

11 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Cancer isn’t the disease—it’s the Symptom

[Error communicating with LW2 server]25 May 2025 17:16 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

Good News for Immunostimulants

sarahconstantin16 Apr 2018 16:10 UTC

26 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Why I don’t believe in the placebo effect

transhumanist_atom_understander10 Jun 2024 2:37 UTC

135 points

22 comments9 min readLW link

[Question] “I Can’t Believe It Both Is and Is Not Encephalitis!” Or: What do you do when the evidence is crazy?

Erhannis19 Mar 2024 22:08 UTC

23 points

3 comments11 min readLW link

How to wash your hands precisely and thoroughly

dkl916 Jul 2024 18:29 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(dkl9.net)

Is Caviar a Risk Factor For Being a Millionaire?

Anders_H9 Dec 2016 16:27 UTC

67 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should I advocate for people to not buy Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 in the Philippines for now?

BrianTan31 Mar 2021 13:59 UTC

8 points

9 comments2 min readLW link

Quantified Health Prize results announced

Zvi19 Feb 2012 8:10 UTC

68 points

65 comments3 min readLW link

Myths about Nonduality and Science by Gary Weber

Vadim Golub15 Jan 2025 18:33 UTC

2 points

0 comments23 min readLW link

Direct Primary Care

sarahconstantin25 Sep 2018 18:00 UTC

42 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

A Medical Mystery: Thyroid Hormones, Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia

johnlawrenceaspden14 Feb 2016 13:14 UTC

43 points

166 comments23 min readLW link

Gradient Anatomy’s—Hallucination Robustness in Medical Q&A

DieSab12 Feb 2025 19:16 UTC

2 points

0 comments10 min readLW link

The Unfriendly Superintelligence next door

jacob_cannell2 Jul 2015 18:46 UTC

68 points

68 comments7 min readLW link

Experts View: Do Autism Questionnaires Truly Work?

Dbwani11 Feb 2024 6:41 UTC

0 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

(www.illnesstests.com)

Longevity Insurance

canadaduane20 Feb 2012 0:30 UTC

24 points

18 comments2 min readLW link

We Need Major, But Not Radical, FDA Reform

Maxwell Tabarrok24 Feb 2024 16:54 UTC

42 points

12 comments7 min readLW link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

Why Recent Protein Folding Advancements Should Change Your Personal Health Strategy

lisperati3 Dec 2020 2:39 UTC

11 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

How did my baby die and what is the probability that my next one will?

deprimita_patro19 Jan 2016 6:24 UTC

37 points

23 comments3 min readLW link

The Narcissistic Spectrum

Dawn Drescher12 Oct 2025 15:46 UTC

32 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

(impartial-priorities.org)

Better antibodies by engineering targets, not engineering antibodies (Nabla Bio)

Abhishaike Mahajan13 Jan 2025 15:05 UTC

4 points

0 comments14 min readLW link

(www.owlposting.com)

Epistemic Hell

rogersbacon27 Jan 2024 17:13 UTC

84 points

20 comments14 min readLW link

What TMS is like

Sable31 Oct 2024 0:44 UTC

223 points

25 comments6 min readLW link

(affablyevil.substack.com)

Interpreting genetic testing

jefftk15 Dec 2018 15:56 UTC

24 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

Med Patient Social Networks Are Better Scientific Institutions

Liron19 Feb 2010 8:11 UTC

46 points

49 comments2 min readLW link

Deliberate Dysentery: Q&A about Human Challenge Trials

Niko_McCarty21 Jan 2024 19:05 UTC

16 points

1 comment18 min readLW link

(www.asimov.press)

[Question] Are parasitic worms an effective weapon against MS?

Demeter23 Jul 2020 13:59 UTC

31 points

11 comments9 min readLW link

Rational Health Optimization

jacob_cannell18 Sep 2010 19:47 UTC

23 points

78 comments8 min readLW link

WTH is Cerebrolysin, actually?

gsfitzgerald and delton137

6 Aug 2024 20:40 UTC

182 points

23 comments17 min readLW link

Can we talk about mental illness?

riparianx8 Mar 2015 8:24 UTC

58 points

108 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How to accelerate recovery from sleep debt with biohacking?

exanova10 Apr 2024 1:27 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Now is the time to eliminate mosquitoes

James_Miller6 Aug 2016 19:10 UTC

33 points

89 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Do you know of any reliable DIY compendium of home physical therapy exercises?

David Gross16 Sep 2023 14:37 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Defeating Ugh Fields In Practice

Psychohistorian19 Jun 2010 19:37 UTC

97 points

95 comments2 min readLW link

Meditations on Momentum

Richard Meadows14 Dec 2018 10:53 UTC

107 points

32 comments10 min readLW link

A Kindness, or The Inevitable Consequence of Perfect Inference (a short story)

samhealy12 Dec 2023 23:03 UTC

6 points

0 comments9 min readLW link

Andrew Huberman on How to Optimize Sleep

Leon Lang2 Feb 2023 20:17 UTC

38 points

6 comments6 min readLW link

The ‘5 Main Muscles of Movement’ Made Easy.

leggi7 Dec 2019 9:17 UTC

5 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Conversations on Alcohol Consumption

Annapurna1 Nov 2022 5:09 UTC

20 points

6 comments9 min readLW link

Parasites (not a metaphor)

lemonhope8 Aug 2024 20:07 UTC

135 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] For fun: How long can you hold your breath?

exanova6 Dec 2023 23:36 UTC

1 point

7 comments1 min readLW link

The dangers of reproducing while old

garymm17 Nov 2023 5:55 UTC

23 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

(www.garymm.org)

Advice to new Doctors starting practice

anandjeyahar7 Aug 2016 8:27 UTC

4 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Going Crazy and Getting Better Again

Evenstar2 Jul 2023 18:55 UTC

139 points

13 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

Effect heterogeneity and external validity in medicine

Anders_H25 Oct 2019 20:53 UTC

49 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

Where is the YIMBY movement for healthcare?

jasoncrawford10 May 2025 20:36 UTC

20 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

(newsletter.rootsofprogress.org)

“No evidence” as a Valley of Bad Rationality

Adam Zerner28 Mar 2020 23:45 UTC

106 points

21 comments2 min readLW link 1 review

Join a LessWrong Team for the Unaging System Challenge

Crissman23 Oct 2024 6:01 UTC

15 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

How Reducing Cognitive Interference Could Revolutionize Stroke Recovery

Rudaiba27 Nov 2025 15:34 UTC

6 points

0 comments27 min readLW link

Jetlag, Nausea, and Diarrhea are Largely Optional

Thomas Kwa21 Mar 2022 22:40 UTC

99 points

32 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] Should I test myself for microplastics?

Augs7 Aug 2023 17:31 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Request for comments/opinions/ideas on safety/ethics for use of tool AI in a large healthcare system.

bokov24 May 2024 20:53 UTC

5 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

A rationalist’s guide to psychoactive drugs

Skatche10 Feb 2011 1:01 UTC

97 points

48 comments17 min readLW link

Case study: Melatonin

gwern7 Jan 2010 18:24 UTC

29 points

176 comments1 min readLW link

Nerve Blisters: A Stoic Response

Jonathan Moregård26 May 2025 15:07 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(honestliving.substack.com)

[linkpost] Why Going to the Doctor Sucks (WaitButWhy)

mike_hawke23 Nov 2021 3:02 UTC

5 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

(waitbutwhy.com)

Cheerios: An “Untested New Drug”

MBlume15 May 2009 2:26 UTC

9 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Should I floss?

willbradshaw24 Dec 2019 16:06 UTC

24 points

11 comments3 min readLW link

Self-modification, morality, and drugs

fubarobfusco10 Apr 2011 0:02 UTC

24 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] How can I help inflammation-based nerve damage be temporary?

Optimization Process2 Feb 2023 19:20 UTC

17 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Rationality Case Study—Ad-36

Perplexed22 Sep 2010 18:32 UTC

32 points

54 comments1 min readLW link

Medical decision making

Elo7 Sep 2025 8:13 UTC

37 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

AI alignment for mental health supports

hiki_t24 Feb 2025 4:21 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readLW link

Sample means, how do they work?

Benquo20 Nov 2016 21:04 UTC

34 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

Ambiguities or the issues we face with AI in medicine

Thehumanproject.ai20 Oct 2024 16:45 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readLW link

Complex systems theory in human performance. New model for conceptualizing training, adaptation and long-term development

Matěj Nekoranec25 May 2024 20:17 UTC

1 point

0 comments7 min readLW link

Suspended Animation Inc. accused of incompetence

CronoDAS18 Nov 2010 0:20 UTC

53 points

139 comments1 min readLW link

Draining the swamp

jasoncrawford28 Jan 2020 21:37 UTC

100 points

1 comment11 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

Useless Medical Disclaimers

Eliezer Yudkowsky19 Mar 2007 16:48 UTC

24 points

15 comments2 min readLW link

Coffee: When it helps, when it hurts

JustinShovelain10 Mar 2010 6:14 UTC

58 points

110 comments1 min readLW link

Charting Deaths: Reality vs Reported

lifelonglearner30 Mar 2018 0:50 UTC

13 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(owenshen24.github.io)

[Link] Low-Hanging Poop

GLaDOS16 Oct 2013 20:51 UTC

46 points

38 comments2 min readLW link

Suicide Prevention Ought To Be Illegal

Chara#273621 Nov 2025 1:39 UTC

2 points

17 comments6 min readLW link

[Question] How Old is Smallpox?

Raemon10 Dec 2018 10:50 UTC

44 points

5 comments2 min readLW link

Were vaccines relevant to 20th century US mortality improvements?

jasoncrawford10 Dec 2019 0:13 UTC

12 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

(rootsofprogress.org)

[Paper] Trajectories through semantic spaces in schizophrenia and the relationship to ripple bursts

bvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbvbv15 Dec 2023 13:37 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.pnas.org)

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