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  • It’s a horror story and most people would probably go insane rather than manage to do anything with their knowledge. Besides getting rich because you know about what will get big ahead of time you are very different from all your peers. Any childhood crush much less a gf/bf is more perverse than thrilling and you have basically no chance of being able to meet and keep the same long-term partner much less having the same child if you’re a parent.

    There’s a few movie takes on this mentioned in other comments, they always run into paradox problems.


  • It is complex, precise dietary requirements vary person to person (even mouse to mouse but less for lab strains). As a generality women have lower caloric requirements, men higher. Age, height, weight, activity level, genetics, etc all have impacts.

    The timeline of caloric restriction matters. Muscle breakdown occurs first because muscles store glycogen which is a much faster energy source than fat. Fat breakdown can go on for longer as it has a higher density of energy. Simple short-term reduction in calories thus results in muscle before fat. Higher protein intake mitigates or prevents muscle loss in longer-term diets compared to lower protein intake as the muscle cells are used to process/use the protein. Exercise is the best at keeping or growing muscle as it turns them from energy providers to energy users.


  • If caloric intake was higher sure. Muscle breakdown is easier than fat so is a prime target in starvation diets to get energy. Results in long-lasting problems for people who have experienced famine or eating disorders. More moderate caloric deficits are healthier for a reason but obviously takes longer to lose weight.

    There’s a lot of variability in nutrition that can impact things but generally protein in the diet helps maintain and grow muscle but doesn’t affect that when your body is starving for energy muscle tends to go more than fat.

    Nutritional fads including the current lots of protein one are likely bunk or only for certain lifestyles.









  • There are limited if any medical regulations for politics. With the exception of the executive branch where one person is supposed to be in control, in legislative branches no single senator or rep is required for it to function. A dead senator doesnt stop government function and it is up to the voters and state laws for placement or replacement. The US is a gerontocracy for many reasons, a big one is that seniority matters for political power, e.g. committee appointments, name recognition, etc. Multiple important politicians are in their 70s-90s in part from inertia and in part because of the power of the baby boomer voting bloc.