Chocolate Good, Viagra Bad

[Steve_C]

I understand experiments. But the fact remains that often effects are not linear and that was an extreme dive and that was a very heavy dose. Smoking is a risk factor for cancer. But smelling a bit of smoke around a camp fire is a common risk that many take with little apparent harm. Drinking a glass of water is good. Drinking a couple of gallons has killed a number of people. Seeing an effect under extreme conditions may raise a question but it does not establish an actual risk.

 

[redacted]

While it may not establish a risk, it does clearly suggest the possibility of one.

Are you feeling lucky? Well, are you?

 

[Steve_C]

I drink water which has been shown fatal when taken at high doses. I drink a glass of wine which when taken at 20 times the recommended dose has bad affects.

I think a more serious concern than the DCS is that it can give some folks head aches and could interfere with alertness unless there is a longer time interval between intake and dive.

 

[kelemvor]

Are you feeling lucky? Well, are you?

I hope so, if you've taken a viagra.

 

[Altamira]

Deleted. Inadvertent send. See next post.

 

[Altamira]

I hope so, if you've taken a viagra.

If a man has to rely on luck, Viagra is the least of his problems.

 

[mmmbelows]

To be serious for a second, it's not very surprising that the dives the rats were exposed to were extreme. With normal conditions, the differences in a population so small that it can be handled in an experimental setup would probably be too small to be unambiguously significant. Even if the conditions are extreme, they indicate a difference that may well be relevant when the population is large enough.

tl;dr: When the number of datapoints is relatively small, the differences have to be bigger to get a significant result. So, conditions are exaggerated.That's SOP in research.

So you're saying I can or can't pop 4 Viagra and dive devil's throat or not? I need to know, because I have a big time planned in Cozumel on the 31st and this could cause me to have to adjust my plans.

 

[Hatul]

Yes that's what they were trying to do. But at extremes the issue comes up that if you expose someone to a toxic dose of a drug and then put them in an extreme dive it's not surprising they do worse as they've messed up the rat's physiology.

 

[Storker]

you're saying I can or can't pop 4 Viagra and dive devil's throat or not?

Of course you can. Anything's possible. Question is, ought you to?

If I were you, I'd probably pass on the third and the fourth Viagra. Just MHO and a WAG, based on zero first-hand experience.

 

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Or at least switch to side-mount.