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PSA: Be Careful When Getting Health & Wellness Info From AI Chatbots! -My Wacky Experience With Grok3

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

PSA: Be Careful When Getting Health & Wellness Info From AI Chatbots! -My Wacky Experience With Grok3
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You Might Want To Take Any AI’s Health Info With A Little Salt:

So most of the people who come here are nerds.

And for that type, what’s more fun than geeking-out on new technology!

So why not try out some new stuff just to see if it can help your work and play?

Well, in addition to Google doing its level-best to kill small websites in a variety of ways,

AI chatbots are also doing their best to make things not just more productive, but more bizarre as well.

And so far, it looks like Grok 3 enjoys getting pretty weird with Health & Wellness info…

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WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE DO THIS!!! I Mean, Cold-Plunges May Be Key To Longer Life. But Also: Torture

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

WHY THE HELL DO PEOPLE DO THIS!!! I Mean, Cold-Plunges May Be Key To Longer Life. But Also: Torture
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Is Cold-Therapy Like Plunges A Stupid That Is Accidentally-Awesome?:

History is full of people doing dumb things.

JNCO jeans, Insane Clown Posse, Prodigy hairstyles, and you know,… (sketchy international econ policies).

But the “YOLO!” silliness isn’t restricted to just Dubstep and Juggalos.

It’s also part of the Health & Wellness space, too. With bro-science and Tik-Tok usually taking the lead.

So this week’s wacky entry should be no surprise.

Originally-conceived for helping serious athletes recover faster, Cold-Plunges have become their own bro-science morning ritual fad.

But this time, the sciencing bros might not be wrong…

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Symptom Checkers & Misdiagnosis: Cyberchondriacs Can Get Things Wrong More Than 50% Of The Time

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

Symptom Checkers & Misdiagnosis: Cyberchondriacs Can Get Things Wrong More Than 50% Of The Time
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Symptom Checkers & Misdiagnosis. Even The Good Ones Miss:
This post is going to sound a bit contradictory on HT, but it’s still important.

While there are plenty of reasons to do research and educate ourselves,

There are at least a few reasons to be cautious on the internet when looking for health information.

Not the least of which are any of the $25,000/visit crazy wasp-based hacks over on GOOP.

More worrisome still than that: a few recent surveys & studies have found that self-diagnosing using the internet may not be such a great thing…

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McDonald’s Fries For Hair Loss: Huge Hair-Transplant Breakthrough Missed By Adorably-Crazy Internet People

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

McDonald’s Fries For Hair Loss: Huge Hair-Transplant Breakthrough Missed By Adorably-Crazy Internet People
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McDonald’s Fries For Hair Loss? Why Not?:
Hair-loss is a touchy subject.

And short of over-the-counter remedies that have some real shortcomings,

There doesn’t seem to be the perfect solution that people need right now.

And according to HairLossBuddy, the best non-drug solution so far has been freeze-dried saw palmetto berries or Beta-Sitosterol.

So that being said, you can forgive people for trying to latch-on to just about anything they can find.

That includes mistaking a scientific breakthrough for a license to make a hat out of McDonald’s French Fries…

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Raw Water, A Dangerous Health Fad Goes At Least 1820s-Retard. Or: Stupidity In The Time Of Cholera

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

Raw Water, A Dangerous Health Fad Goes At Least 1820s-Retard. Or: Stupidity In The Time Of Cholera
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Raw Water’s Risks Shouldn’t Be Part Of “Pick Your Poison”:
Ok, so the non-medical, non bloodwork+antibiotics+mris world of wellness & supplements occasionally gets a little weird.

And that weirdness usually comes from one place:

California.

Well, this time it’s more of the same.

And their new ideas on water are positively mad…

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Bonkers Face & Beauty Hacking Devices Return, Thanks To Crazy Asia! [2 Kinda NSFW]

Filed Under: Aging, Stupid Health Tricks

Bonkers Face & Beauty Hacking Devices Return, Thanks To Crazy Asia! [2 Kinda NSFW]
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What’s Old Is New Again!:
When we look back at the oldest editions of Popular Mechanics, Good Housekeeping, Life Magazine etc.,

The back pages are chockablock with all kinds of hilarious contraptions to reshape, maintain, & massage women’s faces and figures.

And while we make fun of them now, we’re still not past all of that yet.

-Maybe we never will be in our quest for perfection.

Well today, Crazy Japan & Crazy Asia bring you their newest face & beauty tools in the images below!…

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Strange Brew: Why Is Post-Drinking Munchies, or ‘The Aperitif Effect’ So Powerful?

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Stupid Health Tricks

Strange Brew: Why Is Post-Drinking Munchies, or ‘The Aperitif Effect’ So Powerful?
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Legacy Of Alcohol, The Ham-Fist Way:
Over time, we’ve tried to sing the praises of alcohol; from Beer BS to Hangover bro-science.

Along the way, we’ve discovered some strange contradictions, like: Thirst is often mistaken for Hunger, & Mars500 finding a great reason to control your salt-intake.

So in the spirit of Weird, !SCIENCE! brings us another “WTF, Mother Nature?!!”

That contradiction starts with our bizarre need to eat after Animal House-level symphonies of drinking…

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Absinthism For The “Hey Y’All, Watch This!” Crowd. Seriously: Don’t Drink The Hand Sanitizer. Even If You Do Work For Wells Fargo

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Stupid Health Tricks

Absinthism For The “Hey Y’All, Watch This!” Crowd. Seriously: Don’t Drink The Hand Sanitizer. Even If You Do Work For Wells Fargo
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As Stupid As Nascar Cartman:
Every once in awhile, a health news story comes out that is truly inspirational.

Not since Eric Cartman drinking Vagisil in his bid to qualify as a Nascar driver, has something so majestic gone public.

And though in the small “Fail-Army” part of HT there is probably none that will exceed the caution against mixing grenades & sledgehammers.

-Which to be fair, for the rational-minded among you is pretty much the same equation as career blackmail+ impossible sales goals…

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