Probably Not Placebo
This, from the SLD forums, made me laugh: Ya know its probably NOT placebo. . . . First time I ever did it I could not finish my bowl of oatmeal. Before SLD I had never, not ever, been able to not...
View ArticleShangri-La Diet for Pets
In March, Century posted this on the SLD forums: I’d like to put my dog on SLD by giving him his calories through sugar cubes. Would that work? The dog will whine constantly when he’s hungry. He’s...
View ArticleShaved Head, Good Coffee, and the Shangri-La Diet
How are they similar? Kenneth Anderson at The Volokh Conspiracy writes: I have shaved my head completely, as I have discovered from long experience that even if it doesn’t help me discover my spiritual...
View ArticleThe Monster Is Asleep
This old comment made me laugh me when I reread it recently: It was slightly embarrassing when friends would ask how long I had been on [the Shangri-La Diet]. I lied and said a day – it had only been...
View ArticleA Fourth Thing Elizabeth Kolbert Didn’t Know
Elizabeth Kolbert, the New Yorker staff writer, did not know that Phil Jones, a climate-change scientist, manuevered to keep hidden information that disagreed with his conclusions. Here is what one of...
View ArticleFoot Fungus Cured With Socks
A friend writes: I remember reading on your blog about more socks as a cure for Athlete’s Foot and I had a fungal infection on my foot from climbing around barefoot outside, I think. I tried using two...
View ArticleEczema, Nighttime Cough, Antibiotics, and Fermented Food (more)
This comment was made recently on an earlier post: I am so glad I found this blog. My daughter has had coughing fits for 24 months (she’s 5 1/2 yo). Inhalers, several doctors, nothing helped. She...
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Two Months on the Shangri-La Diet
Good results. In 2 months I’ve lost 13 pounds . . . I have even skipped days due to a hectic work schedule. . . . I was stopped outside church on Sunday by someone who had noticed the weight loss...
View ArticleThe Oncogene Theory of Cancer
I am looking forward to reading Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us — And How to Know When Not to Trust Them by David Freedman because of this sentence in an excerpt: Cancer experts shake their heads...
View ArticleShangri-La Diet Uptick
During the last half of 2010, I noticed today, hits at the Shangri-La Diet forums steadily increased. The number of hits went from about 300,000 in July to about 500,000 in December. Before that the...
View ArticlePersonal Science and Graphic Design
I will always remember the day (today) my work appeared in a graphic-design magazine.
View ArticleAnother Reason the Shangri-La Diet is Not More Popular
On my Psychology Today blog someone left a surprising comment about why the Shangri-La Diet isn’t more popular: Seth, I’ll tell you why. Because we are majorly competitive bitches, we women who care...
View ArticleSeth Roberts Interview About Self-Experimentation
For an article about self-experimentation and self-tracking to appear in Men’s Fitness UK this summer, Mark Bailey sent me several questions. In what ways have the results of your self-experimentation...
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The Curious Amazon Rank of The Shangri-La Diet
When The Shangri-La Diet was published (2006), I enjoyed checking its Amazon rank. The rank got worse. I checked less often. Eventually it was usually above 100,000 and I barely checked at all. A few...
View ArticleA Happy Reader Writes: Yogurt, Butter, Flaxseed Oil
A reader of this blog started taking flaxseed oil, half a stick of butter daily, and yogurt. “This works wonders,” he wrote me. “It feels like lubricant to the mind.”
View ArticleClimategate 2.0: How To Tell When an Expert Exaggerates
The newly-released climate scientist emails (called Climategate 2.0) from University of East Anglia (Phil Jones) and elsewhere (Michael Mann and others) show that top climate scientists agree with me....
View ArticleSurprising Predictions From Self-Measurement
Patrick Tucker, an editor at The Futurist, posted a request on the Quantified Self Forums for “astounding” predictions based on self-quantification. He is writing a book about using data to make...
View ArticleNews You Can Use: Tonsillectomies Are a Bad Idea
A reader named Nicole, who lives in Washington D.C., writes: I have been an avid follower of Seth’s blog since Boingboing.net first posted something about or by him. And when I heard that my brother...
View ArticleLessons of This Blog (2nd of 2)
Yesterday I posted Kristen Marcum’s list of general rules she’d learned from this blog. (For example, “be skeptical of experts.”) Behind her list, I think there is one idea, slightly hidden from view:...
View ArticleNick Szabo is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Inventor of Bitcoin
There were many funny things about Leah Goodman’s claim in Newsweek that a California engineer invented bitcoin. One was her observation that he put two spaces after a period — just like the inventor...
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