alt Hacker NewsHi, author of the blog post here! Yes thank you for catching this awful typo, it's fixed now! I did write "4000 or 5000 IU of Vitamin D" everywhere else in the article -- main text, conclusion -- just my luck that the one place I mess up is right at the very start.
(Do not take 5000 mg, that's 200,000,000 IU. You'd have to chug dozens of bottles per day)
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Hi, I’m curious about medicine in general and I’m considering going back to school.
what formal education do you recommend so that I can better understand this data?
It’s clear you’ve dealt with anxiety before, but this analysis is super thorough!
And thank you for quickly fixing that mistake - that could have really harmed someone.
Colon Blow: "It would take over 30,000 bowls. [ a giant pyramid of cereal bowls shoots up from under the man, who yells in terror as it rises ] To eat that much oat bran, you’d have to eat ten bowls a day, every day for eight and a half years."
Let’s hope the LLMs haven’t picked it up yet and are suggesting it to everyone already. :)