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Trevor Klee
Personal blog · trevorklee.comhealthscience
Trevor Klee's personal blog at trevorklee.com covers health and science. Since 2021, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Trevor Klee's blog for explainers on health and research topics, such as a guide to self-diagnosing IBS that pulls together studies. It also appears in lists of well-designed personal blogs.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-25
- Want to reverse aging? Try reversing graying, first2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-10
- My terrible plan for reducing opioid deaths2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a long essay about the same topic and came to similar conclusions as Derek Lowe: https://trevorklee.com/are-mrna-therapies-the-future-of-phar... One thing that I'd like to emphasize is how unbelievably tiny mRNA therapeutics have to be. It's probably around 30 mg, and it's hard to do it more than once every few weeks, at least judging by siRNA therapeutics (which have similar immune issues). 30 mg is really…
Comment linking /are-mrna-therapies-the-future-of-pharmaceuticals/
on “What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t”Submitted Organ transplant patients may not get dementia as a story · 290 points
HN discussionThis is quite the display of unnecessary credentialism. It’s a blog. A nicely-designed and seemingly useful one at that (I’m finding this post on IBS to be a handy summary and pointer to studies: https://trevorklee.com/a-complete-guide-to-self-diagnosing-a... ). From what I can tell, this is a humble, curious, and well-meaning guy that funds his menagerie of research interests with a successful tutoring business (a…
Comment linking /a-complete-guide-to-self-diagnosing-and-self-treating-ibs/
on “Organ transplant patients may not get dementia”Submitted How to spot a good fake ID as a story · 243 points
HN discussionSome links I've saved. That said, there's no accounting for taste: https://tylr.fun/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30440123 https://world.hey.com/dhh/google-suffers-from-a-digital-petr... https://vpostrel.com/ https://h3rald.com/ https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2022/boring/ http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html https://moxie.org/stories.html https://trevorklee.com/my-terrible-plan-for-reducing-opioid-...…
Comment linking /my-terrible-plan-for-reducing-opioid-deaths/
on “Ask HN: What are the best-designed personal blogs you’ve come across?”Submitted A lesser known mechanism for alcohol tolerance as a story · 189 points
HN discussionHere's one exactly in this spirit: "Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy?" [0] HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306559 https://trevorklee.com/why-cant-we-just-give-steroids-to-peo...
Comment linking /why-cant-we-just-give-steroids-to-people-with-muscular-dystrophy/
on “Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links”Submitted Why can't we just give steroids to people with muscular dystrophy? as a story · 153 points
HN discussionSubmitted Want to reverse aging? Try reversing graying, first as a story · 44 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Epstein-Barr virus causes multiple sclerosis. So what? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why isn't being obese worse for your health? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted IBS Diagnosis Table as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Are mRNA therapies the future of pharmaceuticals? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My terrible plan for reducing opioid deaths as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why did they give antidepressants to Covid patients? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How much it costs to develop a drug for cats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aging researchers should try reversing graying first as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Charismatic Megadiseases as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why bigger species live longer and what we can learn from it as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How necessary is inflammation for our immune system, anyways? as a story · 1 points
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