According to Harvard research, eating oranges stimulates growth of Faecalibacterium prausnitzia.
This bacteria lives inside the human gut and generates serotonin and dopamine — 2 powerful molecules that elevate your mood.
Harvard is one of the top 5 research universities in the world. Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Where does he work ? Harvard.
If you feel sad, eat an orange 🍊
Do lemons work?
No, those are the fruits of manufactured suffering, not joyous wonders
Wut
You sound depressed.
Can I offer you a lemon in these trying times
We are but that’s besides the point, we actually meant it in a literal way lmao
Lemons are manufactured by mixing a Citron and a Bitter Orange. They’re are not naturally occurring in any way, while the orange is a fully natural occurring fruit. Other than that, lemons are metaphorically seen as struggles or suffering while oranges are shown to be liquid sunshine or joy.
That’s all we meant by lemons being manufactured suffering and oranges being joyous wonders. Was just play on words on our part
I don’t need the serotonin and dopamine inside my gut, I need it in my brain. …Will shoving an orange up my nose work?
look up gut-brain axis and mental health for some new insights
I used to take pieces of orange peel, bend them so the inside turns convex and inhale it through my nose, it helped me stay awake in class.
I do a similar thing but i bend the orange peel inside a short glass to spritz the oils, then occasionally lift the glass to my nose and enjoy.
Oh i forgot i also add ~80ml of whiskey, a squirt of simple syrup and 3 dashes of bitters first.
Im in this picture and i like it
I always just thought it was the sugar in the OJ making me feel better. 🤷♂️
Orange juice also has some magnesium in it which can slightly help with pain and such.
I drink it when I get a migraine and always thought it was the sugar too till I found that out.
I don’t wanna be that guy, but I have to be fair and ask:
Why should I know this?
Because if you’re sad now, but you want to be happy - you should probably eat an orange. It’s a nice thing to know
Yeah I know, but its not in the body of the post per Rule 2. Plenty of really bad YSKs that didnt belong here had the same thing and I called some of them out too. So in order to be fair I have to ask it here too, thats all.
The fediverse is falling into the same “eh, close enough” trap that homogenizes communities. Look at nostupidquestions, it’s already a general questions community devoid of uniqueness
Because you’re in denial about your depression
What if I’m depressed about my denial?
Oh no I’m not.
The study is more correlation than causality. Even though they tried to be careful they did not (and can’t) account for a plethora of confounding factors, which – especially with depression – is particularly problematic.
They provide a plausible explanation for a causal pathway, but did not prove it. This provides a testable hypothesis, which is why I would read this more like “more research needed”, rather than definitive proof. I wouldn’t go as far as to say “eat an orange a day, to keep depression away”. Although it probably wouldn’t hurt to eat some more fruit, given how bad the fruit content in most people’s diet is anyway.
So this is, unfortunately, a rather sensationalist takeaway you’ve provided here, OP. But that’s the curse of how we’re doing capitalism. Even ‘top research universities’ like Harvard need to be sensationalist to attract some publicity and get their research funded.
And they say money doesn’t buy happiness
Does this work with dried oranges?
I drink a tea that has orange in it so it would be awesome if it applies
I mean, this research wouldn’t be able to tell what about oranges makes these bacteria thrive, so would need a separate study for dried oranges or similar variations.
Having said that, your tea likely has so little actual orange in it, that it’s very likely negligible either way.
There’s probably just a tiny bit of orange in each tea bag to begin with, and it might even just be orange peel. And then it’s just traces of that which go into your tea water, too.Of course, drinking tea in general can probably also help with depression in some way. At the very least, it hydrates you and presumably improves blood circulation, which can help get you out of a rut.
YSK is such a pale imitation of TIL. Please disagree, I’ve been baiting all fucking night and you all are way too chill. There is zero lively conversations on Lemmy. “but we don’t have bots” the fuck you don’t, in the mornings I see bots constantly importing reddit threads. I feel like I’m on fucking 1998 usenet. DEBATE ME!
I’ve been baiting all fucking night
Go away, baitin!
You might like to have an orange.
fuck you!
🧡
Sounds like something Big-Citrus would say.
I’ve had chronic pain and depression since I was a kid, I don’t think oranges can fix me, but thanks for the advice, I’m sure it’ll help someone that’s better off.
So I can burn my rage off trying to peel all the damn with off while getting covered in sticky juice?
Agent_nycto has a solution for that problem.
Have a shower orange.
Put orange in fridge to make it cool. Take orange to shower. Observe orange and realize you can eat it as messy and feral as you want. Go full lycanthrope on the orange. Shower off the juice. Go back to being an animal pretending to blend into a society, but now, you know better.
I suggest using a drain filter, then you can just spit out any seeds and just drop the bitter stringy parts.
Those are bitter?? TIL
Aren’t they the same substance used in the white part of the peel below the delicious zest? Though I might be thinking about clementines and the white stringy bits that run from top to bottom along the centre. Been a while since I had a proper orange but don’t they have even more of that white stuff?
I think the membrane that surrounds the little juice packets is also bitter, if you separate it from the good parts.
Honestly, I have no idea, I can’t even taste bitter, I just eat it all haha
Ah lol. What about the peel? The zest is delicious but the white part is awful. You normally gotta be careful if you’re using a shredder or microplane when zesting because if you go too deep it tastes pretty bitter. Though the texture is also not very appealing, though I do wonder how much of that is from the flavour.
Oh, wow, I had no idea. I don’t use zest too often, but I’ll have to keep that in mind next time! I could probably end up making something that I think tastes amazing while being completely off-putting to others if I’m not careful 😅
