- The Enhanced Games—an experimental athletic competition that allows performance-enhancing substances—has postponed its inaugural event by one year, indicating ongoing logistical or regulatory hurdles for the transhumanist-leaning sports concept.

- A 1996 PubMed study (PMID 8694025) on “Colonic adaptation to daily lactose feeding in lactose maldigesters” was shared, suggesting that consistent lactose intake can shift gut microbiota toward lactose-metabolizing bacteria and thereby reduce intolerance symptoms.

- Participants speculated that the mechanism behind lactose tolerance adaptation is primarily microbial—specifically, an enrichment of lactose-consuming bacterial populations in the colon.

- A 2018 PMC article (PMC6097542) was highlighted, presenting four case reports that link the common food additive manufactured citric acid (industrially produced via Aspergillus niger fermentation) to significant inflammatory reactions and serious disease states.

- Discussion emphasized that safety studies on Aspergillus-derived citric acid appear to be absent from the literature, and many consumers remain unaware that most commercial citric acid is synthesized by mold fermentation rather than extracted from citrus.