New age four humours

Maybe someone should teach them bloodletting.
- Let all that nasty cortisol flow right out
- Bloodletting is pretty beneficial tho...
  I mean, not everyone donating does it out of the goodness of their heart, there's a health benefit.
  But back when they just let it out... That's still the treatment for lead poisoning and off the top of my head I can't think of a reason it wouldn't help with micro plastics in the same way.
  But when bloodletting was a big thing. So was lead poisoning.
  It wasn't helping for the reason people thought, but it's not up there with surgeons intentionally not washing their hands before surgery
  
  Scientist here. Microplastics in the body are too ingrained in our bodies for bloodletting to do much of anything. They're even found in fetuses.
  The good news (?) is we don't know enough about microplastics to conclusively say they're horrible for our health. The bad news is, I'd bet a lot of money that they are.
  
  The treatment for most acute lead poisoning is not bloodletting, it’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelation_therapy
  Which, as with all medicine has its share of idiots claiming it can fix heart disease or autism or whatever.
  You’re specifically referring to phlebotomy for high iron levels
  https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hemochromatosis/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20351448
  
  Bloodletting is definitely NOT a treatment for lead poisoning, or for anything that you can think of.
  Poisoning by metals is usually treated by using a chelating agent: a molecule that creates an ionic bond with that metal, and makes it easier for the body to excrete it or prevents it from being absorbed further, like dimercaprol or EDTA.
  Guys, we figured all this shit out in the 18th and 19th century. How are we going back to the days of the dumbdumb? This moronic concept of "me think so must be" is dead: we actually test hypothesis now.
  
  Yes, like that. Good job, some idiots may actually believe that. Now post it on wherever those idiots are like instragram and tiktok or whatever.
  
  and off the top of my head I can't think of a reason it wouldn't help with micro plastics in the same way
  That's not a replacement for research. Bloodletting was the subject of one of the first ever clinical trials and we've known since then that it's not effective or even harmful. There's a handful of exceptions where it's still done but never without a solid reason.

She fartin'

The Four Tempers are far more important anyway. Woe, Frolic. Dread. Malice.
- It's all leading up to the reveal of the fifth temper: Heart
- Finale tonight 👀
  
  Of what, now?
  
  I know! I am very anxious

When will trepanning come back?
- It never went away
  
  It's also still useful in some situations. I had a family friend with hydrocephalus that had a hole in his skull.
- Well leeches did make a comeback, there are the ones with the TikTok channel or in politics

Women in my bed only helps temporarily. Is there a more long-term solution?
- Marry her?
  
  That is a final solution of sorts

I just gotta get kinda naked on the internets, beats leaches and purging I guess.

Four humors? Like four types of jokes?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism#Four_humors
  
  Don't, they need to learn how to use the internet and not just use "their shortcuts" like an old person.
- Yea I don’t get it at all. I don’t understand the tweet or the screenshot.
  
  Look up the Four Humors, it predated germ theory.
- Thst would be Boomerism

Which one is Donatello?
- Oxytocin is Leo as the group leader for social bonding, cortisol is Ralph because he's always stressed, dopamine is Donny playing with his machines and tech for the challenge/reward, and serotonin is Michaelangelo the happy party dude.

I know the idea is to be snarky and calling them "new age" somehow makes them less than real science, but the reality is there is some amazing science that has been done that shows how these different chemicals influence our brains and our behaviors. Good video on the topic with in-depth explanations from real scientists:
HAPPINESS: A Guide to the Drugs That Can Help You Get There -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAmgNoWzVk&t=29s
The scientist in the video:
https://www.archventure.com/team/axel-bouchon/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Odekunle
- I mean the point wasn't that these chemicals don't exist or that they're not important for our brain chemistry, but the way influencers just make up shit about them (like in the image).
  
  I get it. We should be skeptical of what we hear from influencers on social media. IMHO the way to debunk pseudoscience is with real science. There is some amazing scientific work done in this area and I wanted to highlight that.