Adam Shaywitz
@adamjshay
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Dad, husband, scientific dilettante.
Joined October 2011
Now out in @timmermanreport & just in time for your long Thanksgiving drive: my annual podcast recs, from @AcquiredFM & @InvestLikeBest to @TheRestHistory & @GlueGuys_Pod! https://t.co/F3Jb1Mn0xN cc @LisaRosenbaum17 @EricTopol @EliLake @HarryStebbings @patrick_oshag @ldtimmerman
timmermanreport.com
It’s time for my annual feature: recommended podcasts (and a few books) for TR readers to consider. As usual, these suggestions generally steer clear of politics; they also aren’t the only podcasts I...
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ICYMI yesterday & looking for w/e reading-my new @statnews on oppy assoc w expanded GLP1 access-influx of newly-hopeful pts re-engaging w/their health. Huge oppy too for hlth platforms-but only if they embrace hlth vision broader than metric optimization
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How the tech world can support the weight-loss drug revolution.
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🚨 Gazans who left the Strip are stuck on the ground inside a plane in South Africa after South African authorities refuse to allow their entry into the country. South Africa file complaints at the ICC about the "genocide in Gaza" but is not willing to take in those fleeing from
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Now that everyone is re-embracing HRT can’t resist a shoutout to my mom who was originally skeptical of the skeptics and published this encouraging research in JAMA about estrogen and brain function… https://t.co/ESOsRPtO9m
@DyslexiaYale @adamjshay
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Context Preclinical studies suggest that estrogen affects neural structure and function in mature animals; clinical studies are less conclusive with many, but not all, studies showing a positive...
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Also on positive impact of estrogen on postmenopausal women, my mom published this study 2003: https://t.co/tR54yxMdfF
@DyslexiaYale @adamjshay
Now that everyone is re-embracing HRT can’t resist a shoutout to my mom who was originally skeptical of the skeptics and published this encouraging research in JAMA about estrogen and brain function… https://t.co/ESOsRPtO9m
@DyslexiaYale @adamjshay
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A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on X — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption. https://t.co/5P8Ueyh25e
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Hasidic Jews help Palestinian store owner catch shoplifter in New York. "You guys are invited anytime...I'll have to give them something Kosher on me."
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Despite the Red Cross’s claims, newly obtained footage filmed after Hamas’s initial “exercise” and not yet released publicly contradicts their version of events. In the new video, Red Cross personnel arrive on site as the body of the kidnapped fallen Israeli is already placed on
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Just out: @WSJ op-ed I wrote on why I see such hope in the longevity movement, despite often dubious science & frequently exaggerated claims; in short: we're embracing agency, recognizing that we have measure of control over long-term health. https://t.co/kBEgRuGaI4 (gift link).
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The science behind the longevity movement is dubious. But the trend is promoting healthy habits.
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My mom and dad got this beauty for me and my brother on a happy day in 1977. Today, I found it buried in a long forgotten box. Things are looking up!
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I have just seen the unedited footage of the October 7th attacks. Please read: What I saw was young men chopping off heads, shooting everything in sight, slaughtering little crying kids calling for their mummy, throwing grenades inside houses and cars and shelters, maiming
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imdb is down. Can someone please tell me where Abe Vigoda went to high school. It’s important.
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BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.
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Who could have imagined that firing live artillery rounds over the planet's second busiest roadway might be a bad idea
New: “A 155-millimeter shell fired during a live-fire demonstration for the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice
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This is utterly shameful To live in a time when Jews cannot have their safety guaranteed and are therefore banned from attending a football match is absolutely disgusting This is literal victim blaming Everyone involved in this decision should hang their heads in shame
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Aging well has increasingly focused on lab values & fitness scores. Often overlooked: engaging w other people. "Why Brains Need Friends" distills the science showing connection fuels resilience, enhances length, quality of life. My @WSJ rev: https://t.co/fTCiO47kZD
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Research shows that social connection improves health and well-being. The challenge of isolation intensifies with age.
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The fact that the world did not immediately and consistently call for the unconditional release of the October 7th hostages and the surrender of Hamas will remain a moral and ethical failure of historic proportions. In that failure, you cost thousands of lives on both sides. You
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