Awesome stuff!
I can highly second the "loving kindness meditation in front of mirror towards yourself" meditations!
I had some of the most impactful meditations of my life this way!
This sounds like a great stuff for a startup idea/(effective) entrepreneur ship.
But It's probably not a good idea for a cause area. Public perception would be a problem.
I highly second the "longer meditation sessions" thing since I had a similar experience. I feel like many people are giving up on meditation too early, saying "it doesn't do much for me", without ever really having tried it. I spent one year meditating for 20 minutes each day. It probably did make me happier, but not in a dramatic way. Then I went on a 10-day silent meditation retreat and started meditating 1+ hours a day for a while and got dramatic benefits to the point that I feel like picking up meditation is by far the most impactful thing I've ever done to improve my well-being.
Well, but of course not everyone is in a position to meditate that much.
Our microbiomes age with us and gets worse over time. You can actually predict a person's age just by looking at their microbiome.
That's why you want as young as possible donors. And that's why FMT might even be a longevity intervention. You can rejuvenate old mice with FMTs from young ones!
This is amazing! Reading this made me very happy and more hopeful for the future!
Awesome stuff! I can highly second the "loving kindness meditation in front of mirror towards yourself" meditations! I had some of the most impactful meditations of my life this way!
Simce you asked for more resources: Scott Alexander: "Why NOT slow AI progress" https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/why-not-slow-ai-progress
I love it! Someone shoukd make a YouTube video or even a movie or some other media about it!
I do find summaries of audio, especially podcass, extremely useful!
This sounds like a great stuff for a startup idea/(effective) entrepreneur ship. But It's probably not a good idea for a cause area. Public perception would be a problem.
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I highly second the "longer meditation sessions" thing since I had a similar experience. I feel like many people are giving up on meditation too early, saying "it doesn't do much for me", without ever really having tried it. I spent one year meditating for 20 minutes each day. It probably did make me happier, but not in a dramatic way. Then I went on a 10-day silent meditation retreat and started meditating 1+ hours a day for a while and got dramatic benefits to the point that I feel like picking up meditation is by far the most impactful thing I've ever done to improve my well-being.
Well, but of course not everyone is in a position to meditate that much.
fightaging.org on "Towards the Use of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Rejuvenate the Gut Microbiome": https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/07/towards-the-use-of-fecal-microbiota-transplantation-to-rejuvenate-the-gut-microbiome/
Our microbiomes age with us and gets worse over time. You can actually predict a person's age just by looking at their microbiome.
That's why you want as young as possible donors. And that's why FMT might even be a longevity intervention. You can rejuvenate old mice with FMTs from young ones!