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"Science sense" list trashes celebrity health tips

It's amazing what people choose to believe.

LONDON (Reuters) – Science campaigners laid bare some of the most dubious celebrity-endorsed health tips on Wednesday, rubbishing ideas such as reabsorbing sperm and wearing silicone bracelets to boost energy.

In an annual list of what it sees as the year's worst abuses against science, the Sense About Science (SAS) campaign group debunked diet and exercise suggestions made by actors, pop stars and others in the public eye in an effort "to help the celebrities realize where they are going wrong and to help the public make sense of celebrity claims."
read on for some nutty ideas. Reabsorbing sperm is a good one.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101229/lf_nm_life/us_science_celebrities
 
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Evo said:
read on for some nutty ideas. Reabsorbing sperm is a good one.

Yeah it’s nuts , but I wouldn’t take a cage fighters "advice" too seriously. Probably most of his brains have long ago been "absorbed" by an even crazier competitor... :smile:

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Evo said:
read on for some nutty ideas. Reabsorbing sperm is a good one.

Sure, this is idiotic. But the myth may have originated in the advice of of many coaches not to have sex a week before the competition. And this advice may, just may, have a physiological basis, related to the dynamics of testosterone in a male following an ejaculation.
 


DanP said:
Sure, this is idiotic. But the myth may have originated in the advice of of many coaches not to have sex a week before the competition. And this advice may, just may, have a physiological basis, related to the dynamics of testosterone in a male following an ejaculation.

chinese study. after ejaculation, male testosterone drops, then rises over the next seven days to a plateau.