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Eric Jain's avatar

Unless you are immobilized, with your eyes closed and face relaxed, I don't see how you could get any signal out of the noise... But it's possible that you can use what is in affect EMG (rather than EEG) data to detect when you are in need of a break!

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Richard Sprague's avatar

Yeah, I don't know exactly how it works but they claim they "use AI" and that it tracks closely to real EEG. But this is only the first of many, many new companies trying similar non-invasive brain-computer interfaces, so it's a safe bet that it'll only get better.

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Conor's avatar

The Goldilocks overview of methylene blue is good, but if you want to understand how it works I suggest the always in-depth Mr. Chris Masterjohn: https://open.substack.com/pub/chrismasterjohnphd/p/methylene-blue-on-the-airplane

tl/dr; MB is an electron acceptor/donor that can bypass parts of the mitochondria that are overwhelmed or not working well. It cannot generate more energy than your mitochondria would if they were healthy, so a safer approach ideally would be to understand what is limiting the mitochondria and fix that….

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Richard Sprague's avatar

Thanks, I keep hearing about MB so I'll check out Chris Masterjohn's post.

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