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Do you ever examine a random person out in the wild and are left with more questions than answers? : runescape
Main Post: Do you ever examine a random person out in the wild and are left with more questions than answers? : runescape
Does anybody have Examine.com guides/databases or know how to bypass paywall? : Piracy
Main Post: Does anybody have Examine.com guides/databases or know how to bypass paywall? : Piracy
Examine.com Updated Their Website
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In case you haven't seen it, Examine.com launched their new site. For those of that don't know, it's a website that had it's beginnings in this very community about a decade ago because the creators were tired of all the misinformation around nutrition and supplements in the fitness community. Since then they all haven't stopped working and have been expanding more and more, adding new supplements and all the relevant research at what seems like a weekly basis. It's basically a heavily researched/cited Supplements wiki.
They just came out with their new and possibly improved? website design, which is the first update in years. Looks like instead of just focusing on supplements they're also going to be expanding their horizons. Looks pretty cool.
As a healthcare provider I use the website somewhat regularly because my patients always have questions and while I try to be well read, it's impossible to keep up with everything by yourself. So I do a dive, and tell them what stuff their sketchy naturopath prescribed them is actually just a huge waste of money/cash grab, and what actually might help. I always of course always stress that healthy eating habits, exercise, adequate sleep, and reducing causes for stress are always the four pillars, but on top of that supplements can help for stuff, particularly in certain situations (living far enough north of the equator/working indoors during the day and Vitamin D supplementing, if you can't get enough protein from regular food, supplementing, if you can't get enough fiber from food, supplement, and so on).
Linking directly to the actual studies has always been the biggest thing for me, because sometimes you want to just do the deep dive lit review. But I like the increasing information on the website as well for the times when I'm feeling lazy. I like how it looks quite a bit more streamlined/things are more integrated.
Not feeling the purple colour, but maybe it'll grow on me, I am still partial to the old blue, heh.
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Hi I'm Sol, co-founder of Examine.
I posted about our new site over in r/supplements, and hopefully this gives some context.
Everything has been revamped - the codebase, the structure, the design, and even the content.
We have a more in-depth guide here, but I thought I'd quickly explain some of the rationales and listen to any feedback.
First, we've been working on this for about 2.5 years (we started the planning in Jan 2020). We've been expanding from supplements into nutrition and health for a while, and this is the next step: interlinking all the various health topics with each other.
I often tell people that TVTropes is an inspiration - once users get on the site, they keep discovering new things by clicking around.
We're also in a unique spot - due to Examine+, we don't have to worry about ads or outside influences or drive nonstop traffic (our Google traffic is 20% of what it was 3 years ago, but our research team is 3x what it was 3 years ago).
So, the new site aims to classify all the various aspects of health in to categories, conditions, and outcomes (we spent dozens of hours debating the best catch-all phrase here).
This all came from extensive interviews with our users (both paid and unpaid) to understand how we could best solve their problems. I've outlined the whole process on my blog - we could not just do one thing at a time; it was all too intertwined.
The goal of Examine 2.0 is you can dig into any health topic you're interested in, be it broad (cardiovascular health) or esoteric (airway inflation markers).
We then provide answers to the most common questions. This is an ongoing process that has no end.
All of this connects to our flow of incoming studies - the most interesting ones get summarized into our Study Summaries/Research Feed, and the others (and the ones we summarize) get added to our Examine Database (formerly HEM).
We then provide letter grades on the evidence. They are only available on the outcomes, but we are working on adding them to the conditions pages.
The long-term goal is to have our website become a beehive of activity, with our Updates page telling you about the latest A) site and B) content updates. You'll be able to follow pages, add your own notes (ala Medium) that can be public/private, and have an on-site discussion (for those that used the original Examine back in 2011 - as we had back then).
We will also add more advanced filtering in the search, the Examine Database, and more (you can already see it in action in how we let you filter study details).
Even the Study Summaries are moving from a once-a-month update to a rolling-update version.
There are definitely things we need to re-add and things we need to fix, but I think you can see the bones of what we're building. We've also simplified our products — it's just one subscription that gives you access to everything — no confusion around multiple products and all that jazz.
Long-term, imagine being able to look up any health topic, finding answers to your most frequent questions, seeing the evidence of any interventions on said health topic, and then also being able to read the latest research on the topic.
It's a lot of work, and we're far from perfect. We'll make mistakes, but we will try our best to give you accurate information. And now that the new site is here, we're going to start expanding the research team more to achieve this sooner than later, hopefully :)
Any questions, comments, feedback, bugs, etc - I'll do my best to answer 'em (as you can imagine, things are busy!).
I need help
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If someone has already been to this location (Agricultural Workshop), please tell me where the poltergeist is, I've been running for an hour and can't find it!!!
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Short Answer: 3rd floor of the main building.
Long answer/compound guide: So this area is actually pretty involved, and the game doesn't explain how to do it at all.
Step 1: First thing you need to do is go to the main building on the north side of the compound (BLDG 1) get a key off a dead guy. He's at the end of the catwalk in the room with all the electrical anomalies.
Step 2: Go to the smaller building (BLDG 2) at the south west of the compound. The key will allow you to unlock the stairwell to that building.
Step 3: Go to the 3rd floor of BLDG 2 and make your way through it. You'll find an outdoor metal stairwell. Jump down from the metal stairwell onto the construction platform next to it. Crawl into the open window. Inside you'll find another dead body. There will be another key on a counter next to him.
Step 4: Leave that room and go across the skybridge that connects BLDG 1 and BLDG 2. The double doors at the end of the skybridge need that second key to open.
Step 5: The poltergeist is in this floor. You can view the room he's in through a doorway blocked by some pallets. From here, you can shoot a padlock that is locking the door on the opposite wall of you.
Congrats, you can now beat the snot of the poltergeist. There is another key in this room as well, and is a quest item, I'm pretty sure. I don't have this quest, so I don't know what it goes to.
Jury told to examine evidence even if they hate McGregor
Main Post: Jury told to examine evidence even if they hate McGregor
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Every lawyer in the world would say this if they were defending a controversial figure.
Cross-referencing Huberman’s supplements with Examine.com
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Huberman mentions the site Examine.com which is a fantastic tool for validating / invalidating claims about specific supplements. However, I’ve found that many of the supplements he takes have very weak evidence for improving mental acuity, etc. on Examine.com. For example, Alpha GPC seems to have a very small cognitive effect (based on the research). I’m not sure how to square these two things. Any thoughts?
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I've found the same. He seems to be keenly interested in the underlying mechanisms and so on, but this often conveys more weight in terms of efficacy than is actually there.
He provides a reasonable starting point, but examine.com and chagtp w/ ScholarAI plugin are good next steps to really assess the weight of available evidence.