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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14135435/Marshall-Brian-II-HowStuffWorks-North-Carolina-State-University-dead-email.html

RIP Brian.

For the past several months, I’ve been having roughly 120 - 180 ml of blood drawn on a bi-weekly basis. My ferritin count, the protein responsible for the storage of iron, was above the reference range and is now within normal range while other iron blood markers remain fine.

Interestingly, the doctor didn’t even notice this. (Useless profession). I took it upon myself to understand the anomalous blood marker reading. You don’t even need doctors, you just need a lab to run your own tests.

As a reminder: Our bodies are great at recycling iron and life expectancy is much higher than before. Men will have accumulated 3x the amount of iron from age 18 to 40. The accumulation damages the organs, causes hypogonadism, and eventually kills us.

Ferritin levels 600 ug/ml led to an average life expectancy of 55.

Ferritin measures above 300 ug/ml equates to hyperferritinemia.

The longest living people measured the lowest ferritin levels and lived in areas where magnesium was rich in the water supply and they were surrounded by family.

I decided we are going to do Advent of Code this year at GoatMatrix, since it is a little more programmer focused.

If you don't know what Advent of Code is it's basically a coding challenge once a day for every day of December leading up to Christmas. As part of an IRL org I'm part of in real life I'll kind of be having to do this anyway, so I'm doing it on Matrix as well.

So yeah, calling all based programmers who might be interested to join us.

https://goatmatrix.net/s/AdventOfCode

We're actually getting a head start on it and starting with 2023's while we're still in November.

Yes I just lowkey re-branded to goatmatrix in this post.