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Good grief! I'd never heard of this nonsense till your post. Ignorance is just so rampant...in so many areas <sigh>.

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See desperate need, preferably related to ingrained biological drive and social imperative. Make sh!t up. Sell it. Make money. Move on to the next town before they catch up.

Your well referenced post here is convincing and disheartening, but hopefully saves people from the “cruelty”so aptly labeled.

A different topic entirely, but I had to pause and shake my head while at the pharmacy yesterday (in the city). I saw Neuriva and Prevagen, worthless opportunistic supplements for people desperate to preserve their lives and cognition, locked up presumably because of high demand and risk of customers stealing bottles.

Ironic. Who is stealing?

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Wow I saw those screenshots of social media posts before I read the text at all and my heart jumped. I thought holy cow,

That is so cool!! is this for real?! Is Dr Jen gonna be part of a big reveal of some new discovery here?! We fall for disinformation like this because we so badly want it to be true! This example seems particularly nefarious!!

Thanks for a such a thorough debunking , as well as the Wiki page for naked mole rats!!!

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To quote Danger Mouse (and S. Levin) "Good Grief!". What on earth? I guess it all comes down to "someone wants to sell you something and a fool and her money are soon parted."

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One thing I am trying to get more info on is endometriosis and going on HRT. Dr. Jen do you know where I can find some info?

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