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@Lyubov I was dating that girl for a few years. It's a bit of a relief to just allow her to do things. There was stuff that I wasn't a fan of. She nearly got sexually assaulted once. One guy that was sort of a friend would tell her that he liked her, but want to hang out with me lol. They even had hung out a bit and he was around were would hang out a bit. I would tell her straight up that I don't care if she goes with him. Just be straight up with me if you are going to do something more with him. I was a much different person then though too. I wouldn't be hanging around these kind of people anymore. Most things in life are not really set in stone though. Every thing comes and goes. It's really easy to want to lock things in and keep them how they are. That's not to say that I could not find a long term partner and commit. I would just want a level of communication that she would just tell me if she is leaving for another guy. I don't want any guessing games or unclear communication. You might find the sedona method useful if you are struggling letting go of a emotion for similar situations. I think it would be good to have open communication, where both partners are aware of what they are comfortable with too. I haven't dated in a few years now. The more I have sat out and worked on myself, the easier this will be it seems. I don't know maybe if I find that perfect match it will work me up. Even then, I am fairly picky and most girls have done little personal devlopment. So finding a replacement isn't that hard. I think that and I enjoy being by myself a lot now. I have done a ton of work on being lonely. I think having a high quality partner would enhance myself now.

With my last girlfriend, we would go bowling with her guy friend. He seemed like a pretty nice guy. I got along with him pretty good. I skipped going with them one time and he touched her butt. She explicitly asked him not to do anything like that and he escalated to doing it. I am not sure if my girlfriend told me about it to get me jealous or whatever. Plus, I didn't see what happened. I told her, I was done going with them and she could go with him by herself if she wanted. I reached a point where I was just detached from whatever she did. She didn't end up going with him again though. At the same time, I actually had one of my clients invite me in her house because she was home alone. I easily could have had sex with this girl, as she would always hug me etc. I actually had a few female clients that would hug me and expressed some interest lol. This girl made it pretty obvious her intent and feelings for me. It isn't like it is extremely difficult to not have sex with someone or restrain yourself. However, it can be hard not to flirt with people. With the case of my ex, it's hard to say what she did with others. If I was going to even want to cheat, I would break up with my girlfriend first. In the case with the girls, it would be impolite to not hug them if they did it. It takes some work to really detach from feeling like people will cheat. I feel this way in general about having a partner anymore. Although, I don't know maybe if I fall deeply in love with them or something that could change. I am so secure in myself that I don't really care about having a partner or not. If they just leave me that is fine as well.

I have been struggling to really set times for myself to get videos done ahead of time. I am going to make sure by Wednesday that I know the topic I want to shot. That is my biggest issue currently. Life has been going quite well though. I am busy and getting things in order a bit it seems. I am learning a lot about heavy metal chelation right now. Made a really good video considering how much time I had. I think that I could provide a lot of good information on this as I continue to read and learn about this stuff.

If she is making any claims like that, then I would drop all contact with her and move on. Assuming what you said is accurate, then she is likely quite traumatized by her past experience. To even make that kind of claim towards you from doing something innocent should be a massive red flag. Imagine if you end up having sex with this girl, then she claims you raped her. You are close as it is to being done with high school. So a rumor isn't going to be the end of the world if that is what it comes to. I would doubt much would come of it as there is likely a good amount of witnesses around for a dance like that anyway. Something to note as well. It makes someone look more guilty the more they defend themselves. Even if they didn't do anything wrong. Especially, for claims like that.

If you can dream it, you can do it! Keep chipping away at it.

Some investing is wise, but I would not be dumping it into things with that kind of attitude towards it. I have done fairly well investing, but the amount of time I put in, would have been better off put into making a serious business. Very rarely do people just have a lucky break, when they start a new business or investment that gets them huge financial success. It usually requires a long term disciplined strategy. You have to realize even having $80,000 in cash would put you in the top 1% wealthiest in the world for that age of 25. A good amount of people are $80,000 in debt at this age lol. Most people who are in the 1% like that don't sustain it going further anyway. Most people I know at this age that supposedly look successful are just massively pilled with debt, that or they have kids with loads of debt. You are so young and have plenty of time to build some wealth, but how you are going about it is going to be ruff. Less side hustles and find one thing to really knock out of the park. It is easier said than done sometimes, when you have bills to pay. If you are doing too many things you are going to be mediocre at all of them.

Andy's work on it seems very well researched and put together. The main issue with this kind of stuff is it can be hard to determine the accuracy of the results. Not to mention, I have not found this protocol to be extensively documented and tested on patients. That information could be out there, but I have not seen it. So how it might effect someone in 30 years, might be a mystery. It's great to hear that people have started to feel better potentially with the protocol, but it's likely these people are trying other stuff at the same time. So some of the results could literally just be from them improving their diet or something. I personally could not find a large amount of vouches for the effectiveness, but there are some. Also, it poses a lot of dangers to people who don't take it seriously. Even just looking in this sub forum there is a fair amount of people who are just going to try to hop into this protocol without doing much due diligence. So, it isn't something that your doctor is going to recommend. It's hard to even suggest something like this, when most people have not done basic stuff like eating healthy foods, drinking clean water, exercising, and having a good nights sleep. A lot of examples are even on here of that. Society at large cares very little about this kind of stuff. This would not be such a problem if a lot of people cared about toxins, pollution, waste, etc. This would not be something you would have to worry about detoxing if society was more aware and cared about the issue.

What does the rest of your meals look like?

@John Paul Yes, I eat oatmeal daily. I get the thick cut oats and love it. I do pecans, blueberries, walnuts, Ceylon cinnamon, and maple syrup with it. Tofu is really all about how you prepare it. If you have a high quality block of tofu and a good quality air fryer it is amazing. I make mine with jalapeno hot sauce that I air fry onto it.

@John Paul It pairs very nicely with lentils and chickpeas. Avocado is excellent with it as well. I am quite big on making tofu with it as well. I ate quinoa daily for about a year straight or so. I took a break, but I am trying to mix it back in. Brown rice on the other hand tastes a lot better in my opinion. It depends on how you want to prepare it. For whatever reason I thought I did a write up on my quinoa dish here, but I think I forgot. I have not quite made it the same anymore. I might do some sort of healthy meal prep video on it soon. Would be for rice too.

@Terell Kirby After seeing the context of the usage, I think his reply was sarcastic lol.

@Michael569 Thanks! Yeah, pesticides that are used in agriculture actually contain arsenic. Rice is really good at pulling that arsenic out of the soil and into it. That video covers a lot of tips on rice buying and how to actually remove it. I would recommend using for organic rice especially because of the pesticides are much higher quality and there is less of them. That rice will still draw arsenic out of the soil, but it will be a good bit less. The next issue is where the rice is actually coming from. If you are getting your rice from other countries that are using cheap labor, then they are going to cheap out in other areas as well. Even if those places are USDA certified it will still potentially contain a good amount of arsenic. I buy my rice from California from a manufacturer that actually posts up their testing's for arsenic and it is close to 50% of the average rice. Brown basmati rice will be the best for having the lowest amount of arsenic. That style of rice draws up the least from the soil, but it is still an issue. It is a bit softer sushi rice, but still contains a lot of the benefits of brown rice. I personally like it. You can also change up the kind of grains you use more often as well to avoid this. Quinoa is far superior nutrition wise. It is a seed technically, but goes in the grain class. This is one of the healthiest foods you can consume. Still it does contain toxins, but all food does.

Takes quite a bit to do a write up on them. I believe I have a quinoa post somewhere. I will share my rice one sometime soon

Invested a good amount of time into my editing. I am really happy with the results. I have a bunch of more deep research topics to come.

@Leo Gura You could go into the youtube editor and it lets you add sound to an old video. You could just add a small sound effect there if you wanted to remove that piece.

USDA organic has quite high standards. All foods you buy from the store are going to be contaminated with toxins. However, organic produce is going to have significantly less. I have heard numbers as much as 50% or more in reduction for pesticides. There is some soil regulations, which a fair amount of metals and other toxins are coming from the soil, so it should have less theoretically. Organic uses more composts and manure, versus non organic using chemicals to get the same effects. Also, you can find higher quality organic brands that will actually post up their reports on toxins in the food. I buy Lundberg brown rice, which has close to 50% less arsenic in it compared to other brands. You could also buy that same brand non-organic, but you would be getting more pesticides. You definitely get what you pay for. I pay about $8.5 for five cups of organic long grain brown basmati rice.

I stayed up super late to produce some content. I have felt like crap for a bit now. Yesterday in particular I felt like garbage. I felt so much limiting beliefs and just a negative attitude towards it. Still, I did manage to produce some content. I am not quite as happy with it, but I still made something. I really want to get on ahead and actually make content in advance. Right now I am having a hard time finding items to resell, so I could just work more on this and get it ahead. I have actually considered getting a job to help me move. I would be much more likely to get approved for an apartment. Since, my business income and job income would be good. Not only that, right now it would be ideal to really stack up a lot of extra money. Once spring starts to hit I can get a ton of inventory if I move. I notice again, that I am having some backlash to moving. I also hate the idea of working at a job honestly. I have not worked at a job in probably like 5 years or more. Since, they need help here and my time restrictions are not in place. I can tell right now I don't make enough. I did for a few months, but I am just simply not finding much inventory. I sold all of my best items and I am still selling a lot of stuff, but it is not nearly as good of quality. I don't have enough stuff to replenish it. Thrift stores in town are a waste of time right now. I am probably going to travel up to where I want to move and go sourcing once a week. It will be a bit more work, but I can get a bit more of an idea on the kind of thrift route that I want to make. Ideally, I would like to figure out how to just make the money with my reselling business. If I were already living there I would have surplus of inventory. I have like $3,500 saved up or so. I have been taking a beating with returns, taxes, rent, etc. Still that is solid. That is actually enough to move into a place right now if they did not want more upfront. Still, I want a few thousand bucks ready for inventory. I will need it for sure. Ideally, I need a few months extra of rent too. Reselling is not always that consistent, so having something to fall back on is ideal. Consistent efforts would help a lot to level this out, but some seasons are intense if I am buying a lot.

They are in a different class of drugs for a reason. Alcohol does not come close. In fact I would say it puts your mind in much more of a dull state, where psychedelics is expansive.

Personally, I am sensitive to gluten and will get some fatigue if I eat some of it. So it could be worth doing some experiments with an elimination diet to see if anything in particular is causing you issues. Doing some hair tests for mineral deficiencies could be really helpful as well. You might be able to get your Vitamin D checked by your doctor for free as well. It would not hurt to go into the doctor and see if they might be willing to run some other tests. Also, on the note with the black circles under the eyes. My sister has celiac disease and before we knew that she ate gluten. She had black circles under her eyes and was very sick. I have studied heavy metal toxicity and I have not see anything about black circles under the eyes for that. I have seen stuff like yellowing hands and finger nails from a heavy toxic load. However, that is from the liver not being able to process it. Doing a heavy metal detox would be even harder on the liver as it would now have to process out chelation agents and metals too. So it would be well worth testing things before going into a heavy metal chelation protocol.

How many hours a night are you sleeping? How many hours are you working? Do you have time specially to relax? What kind of food are you eating?

@Thought Art Get in there! Lucky if you have the option for in person meetings.

Online has really killed a lot of toastmasters for me. In person toastmasters really helps point out issues in your speaking and pushes you. Still, a good quality group can go a long way. These days the only group I am in most of the members are 70 or older. Some have been a toastmaster for decades. It is pretty solid and I like them, but it has some cons once you get too comfortable. I have zero fears speaking in front of them and could easily just wing a speech on the spot with them. I find myself a bit bored with their pace sometimes. Personally, if I was going to pick another group I would choose one that I felt nervous to speak in front of more. Once, I move I would like to see if I can do in person again. I've been a toastmaster for over two years. I was in two groups at once for over a year. I've done competition for speech evaluations and for a speech. Personally, I can say it has benefited me a lot. You just have to be careful with picking the group. If you can seek out a high quality group that has serious speakers. You don't want to be learning from newbies or people just into it casually. That part is much easier with it being online. You can actually seek out and join groups anywhere in the world. There is a also a lot of good books and training you can do yourself. I find myself progressing faster training myself at home these days. I feel like on some level toastmasters can be a distraction from really grinding out the skill.

Bottled water will have a good amount of micro plastics in it. You will get away from some toxins, but get more plastic into your system. It is also a pain to use bottled water for all of your cooking etc.

I've been working quite hard at making some really good videos now. It has been quite fun doing this and it is pushing me to grow my speaking skills a lot. I wish I had a bit more time to put towards this stuff, but it has been going really good. I am now over a month of being consistent with uploading.

It feels like I am getting my reselling stuff done much better now. I am still working on butting out distractions. That was one thing I wanted to hit on this year and it seems to be doing okay. I feel like I am less stuck on the internet, but I still have more to work on here. My goal has been to work on my speech articulation too and I did miss two days. However, it has been going pretty good. I am making sure that I actually track how much I do and if I miss out. I can tell I have got a bit of progress. I want to work on adding back in my LP stuff that I have slacked on a bit. I have not really been so focused on that. Granted, I feel like I am a little overwhelmed with stuff. I bought myself a little more time here. I am still going to move out, but not having a set date is nice. I have a couple hurdles that I need to address. I need to still put in apartment applications to see what I can get though. If I get something sooner I will take it. It's nice to have the pressure off for a date, but at the same time it is nice. I just don't want to hastily take some crappy place and sell off a bunch of stuff cheap to move faster. This is giving me a bit more pace to finish off my inventory and save up some more money. I have been doing great saving up. I am trying to be able to pay 3 months of rent and have a deposit. Someone might want a a little more, but I think this would be okay. Then ideally a bit of money to invest into reselling and an extra month of rent laying around would be ideal. That would take the pressure off of things once I move. I have been researching what I need and it seems like I can rent through my LLC, so I am not sure what is best yet. I have really thinned down my reselling business too. I have a bit more to work on still though. The situation here has been better just because the focus has been taken off of me for now. My moms boyfriend has brain cancer and it is not looking good. A good bit of the issue here was just my Mom wanting me to do more stuff and since her boyfriend came back, she had him do it all. Well, he might go blind soon and might die. So that kind of took that off the table. I think it made her realize that I do help a lot. I helped him a good bit already with doctors stuff. I am not going to just cab him around though all the time. I feel for him, but it really is not my responsibility. I am not going to have this take off too much focus from moving out. I can see myself really growing and expanding getting out of here. So many new opportunities too. I can't wait to see what kind of inventory I can get too. I did experiment with having a glass of wine a couple times. It's strange in how it effects my mind now. I actually missed my base state a couple times. It's almost strange to have to just relax like that to be okay with it. I feel like I tried to convince myself this stuff was better than what it was. I might buy a bottle or two a year. But it really isn't all that exciting. I don't see anything wrong with having 4oz every now and then.