On some level, calories in calories out has to be true. But these variables are not independent. Bodies respond to exercise by getting hungry and to calorie deficit by getting tired. Even absent that, bodies know how much food they want, and if you don’t give it to them they will tell you at increasing … Continue reading "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Work"| Aceso Under Glass
It’s amazing how much smarter everyone else gets when I take antidepressants. It makes sense that the drugs work on other people, because there’s nothing in me to fix. I am a perfect and wise…| Aceso Under Glass
From 2019 to 2022, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX stole 8-10 billion dollars from customers. In summer 2022, FTX’s charitable arm gave me two grants totaling $33,000. By the time the theft was rev…| Aceso Under Glass
Ketamine is an anesthetic with growing popularity as an antidepressant. As an antidepressant, it’s quite impressive. When it works, it’s often within hours- a huge improvement over giving a suicida…| Aceso Under Glass
I’m going to describe a Type Of Guy starting a business, and you’re going to guess the business: The founder is very young, often under 25. He might work alone or with a founding team, but wh…| Aceso Under Glass
For two years I had the good fortune to work at Sendwave/Wave (they were one company at the time), a company that made remittances cheap and workable in certain African countries. I am proude…| Aceso Under Glass
I’m currently investigating ketamine, with the goal of assessing the risks of chronic use. For reasons I will get into in the real post, this is going to rely mostly on in vitro data, at least for neural damage, which means I need a way to translate real-world dosages into the concentration of ketamine in … Continue reading "Ketamine Part 1: Dosing"| Aceso Under Glass
Tl;dr how can I improve my literature-review based posts? I write a fair number of blog posts that present the data from scientific papers. There’s a balancing act to this- too much detail and peop…| Aceso Under Glass
In this episode of the podcast I talk with Ivan Gayton, former mission head at Doctors Without Borders and currently obsessed with placing mapping technology in the hands of the developing world. I…| Aceso Under Glass
Short version It has always felt like a gift that people read things I write, and I enjoyed reciprocating that by sharing my writing for free. Until recently I had enough income to pull that …| Aceso Under Glass
Before we get started, this is your quarterly reminder that I have no medical credentials and my highest academic credential is a BA in a different part of biology (with a double major in computer …| Aceso Under Glass
