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Trevor Klee
Personal blog · trevorklee.substack.comsciencehealth
Trevor Klee's personal blog at trevorklee.substack.com covers science and health. Since 2022, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Trevor Klee's Substack posts on Lumina and dental cavities, and on AGI timelines and social factors. Comments mostly cite or link the posts without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Long, niche posts, mostly about biology.
Most-linked posts?
- Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-15
- How I've tried to fix my lower back pain2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-19
What Hacker News says?
Wrote about this in the context of repurposing, which is a pet interest of mine: https://trevorklee.substack.com/p/another-entry-for-the-repu...
Comment linking /p/another-entry-for-the-repurposing
on “Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial”Submitted Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU as a story · 338 points
HN discussionReports like this on the dangers of DEHP is exactly why I started work on NeutraOat ( https://neutraoat.com/ ), a modified oat fiber supplement designed to trap plasticizers in your gut before they can get into your bloodstream. The idea is to give people an easy, safe way to avoid absorbing plasticizers that you've ingested. Link above has a form to sign up for the mailing list. I also have a Substack post summariz…
Comment linking /p/the-evidence-on-plasticizer-health
on “Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics”Submitted Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic as a story · 201 points
HN discussionOP reads like a lazy ripoff of earlier debates around Lumina, principally https://trevorklee.substack.com/p/please-dont-take-luminas-a... , which I don't see acknowledged or linked at all.
Comment linking /p/please-dont-take-luminas-anticavity
on “Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated”Submitted Vets today are like doctors yesterday as a story · 181 points
HN discussionI know this article is about Type 1, but I'll post some links here in the hope that it might help someone. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6399621/ Calorie restriction for long-term remission of type 2 diabetes https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-019-0186-6/ Low-calorie diets in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/eat... A low-calorie di…
Comment linking /p/obesitys-relationship-with-type-2?s=r
on “A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care – what's next?”Submitted I'm making drugs for cats as a story · 170 points
HN discussionThe post is also available at the writer's blog: https://trevorklee.substack.com/p/artificial-general-intelli...
Comment linking /p/artificial-general-intelligence-agi?sd=pf
on “AGI timelines ignore the social factor at their peril”Submitted Lumina's legal threats and my about-face as a story · 121 points
HN discussionSubmitted To improve medical trials, justify exclusion criteria as a story · 83 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obesity's relationship with type 2 diabetes is weird as a story · 18 points
HN discussionSubmitted A miracle drug sold over the counter as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted The FTX Future Fund needs to slow its charitable spending way down as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sulfate cooling the Earth is cheap, doable, and coming soon as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much developing my cat drug has cost so far as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Puzzling Out Elephant Longevity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The place of humans in machine society as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A glimpse inside the world of drug repurposing (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I've tried to fix my lower back pain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I've tried to fix my lower back pain as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fundraising for a drug trial in feline autoimmune disease as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Medical Thought Experiment as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Non-responsive is non-responsive as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pharmacokinetics: Drug Development's Broken Stair as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When rational drug design meets an irrational disease as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is this all the medicine we were promised? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Letter to a Young Biotech Founder as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Manufacture a Drug as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What to do when the tide is going out as a story · 1 points
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