brazil84 comments on Lifestyle interventions to increase longevity - Less Wrong

120 Post author: RomeoStevens 28 February 2014 06:28AM

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Comment author: brazil84 01 March 2014 10:06:05AM 0 points [-]

As it turns out, there are actually two types of LDL,

Of course there are. For pretty much every X which is associated with human health, closer investigation will reveal that there are two types of X -- "Good X" and "Bad X."

Comment author: soreff 25 October 2014 07:06:54AM 0 points [-]

for potassium, would potassium-40 be considered the bad kind? :)

Comment author: RomeoStevens 01 March 2014 10:29:29AM 0 points [-]

Sure "healthy" and "unhealthy" as a demarcation gives the reader no info, but I already felt like I was delving into details a bit too much. I didn't want to turn it into a paper on the wonderful world of blood lipids.

Comment author: brazil84 02 March 2014 12:17:27AM 0 points [-]

Yes, I wasn't criticizing your essay so much as making a general observation.