Introduction [Reminder: I am an internet weirdo with no medical credentials] A few months ago, I published some crude estimates of the power of nitric oxide nasal spray to hasten recovery from illn…| Aceso Under Glass
2 posts published by Aceso Under Glass during October 2025| Aceso Under Glass
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
Last month I posted about humming as a cheap and convenient way to flood your nose with nitric oxide (NO), a known antiviral. Alas, the economists were right, and the benefits were much smalle…| Aceso Under Glass
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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
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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
I still love and treasure RSS, to the point that I pay money for inoreader. But newsletters are where it’s at right now, especially if you want to be ~~discoverable~~. To that end, I’m mirroring this blog on substack. The Substack will have a slightly more professional angle and lose the bottom ~10% of posts, … Continue reading "Mirroring to Substack"| 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: This $310 vibrating bracelet dramatically improved my sleep and moderately improved my emotional regulation. The return policy is pretty liberal so if this seems at all appealing I r…| Aceso Under Glass
Summary Over the past year I’ve investigated potential interventions against respiratory illnesses. Previous results include “Enovid nasal spray is promising but understudied”, “Povidone iodine is …| 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
Epistemic status: I spent about 5 hours looking into this, and the next day developed covid myself. I did a bit more research plus all of the writing while sick. So in addition to my normal w…| Aceso Under Glass
Summary: Do you have weird digestive symptoms and anxiety or depression? Consider trying inositol (affiliate link), especially if the symptoms started after antibiotics. Epistemic status: I did som…| Aceso Under Glass
The response to my medical miracle post has been really gratifying. Before I published I was quite afraid to talk about my emotional response to the problem, and worried that people would strong ar…| Aceso Under Glass
