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They probably don’t know what you’re talking about. Cold approach literally means meeting a human of the opposite sex for the first time with the intention of getting to know them and possibly starting a relationship of however short or long. How could such a broad topic have any negative associations without held-biases or confusion over what’s actually being referred to being a large contributor? It can’t. They’re biased and/or confused over what it means. Good game doesn’t look like game, it looks accidental, because it basically is.

Well here’s how to do that: Be very still for a very long time, in mind and body (really just mind but generally body stillness helps with mind stillness). To spell it out though / In other words : Inquiry. Find the I; the source/base of the false I, to reveal the true Self, to itself — It’s the only thing that is completely still and already present before any thought, and thus, to focus on it merely requires: the non-focus on everything that isn’t always already now… so that, via process-of-elimination (neti-neti), there is a sort of “focus” on a “special object,” the subject; that which is prior to any experience or object. This requires first becoming aware of the whole field, so that every object of experience can be relegated to awareness, without intentional focus on any object. If you try to inquire without first becoming aware of the whole field, then that which you have yet to become aware of will masquerade as the false I, producing a situation wherein you think you’re abiding as the witness but really you’ve just surrendered quite a bit of focus on most of the objects yet for some of the (objects in the) field, you will be attending to it without realizing it; meaning: identified as it. Once you’ve become aware of the whole field, via meditation practice, starting up the inquiry should not feel like a complicated thought move — it should be like one snap of a finger and you’re already doing it fully. Because the focus is the most essential aspect of your experience; that which is always already present, and prior to everything else. If it feels bumpy or jumpy getting it started, like the focus turns on and off repeatedly, just notice how what you’re actually looking for is equally prior to both of those two (on & off) conditions, and retract your focus from those supposed conditions and just be the witness that requires no object (including an object such as one of those conditions). Don’t look for what is already the case but you just aren’t noticing. Look for what is already the case and the only thing you always notice.

Mike Mentzer took 2g of nandrolone a week. His methods aren’t particularly scientific. I’m not saying don’t use them… but definitely research the science so you can fill in the gaps. Look at standard routines used by intermediate lifters. Conjugate and 5/3/1 are probably the most science-based. You see maximum adaptation (growth) with 10-20 hard sets (“hard” meaning <4RIR; within 3 reps from failure) per week per muscle, or 25 effective reps per session 2x/wk (spaced at least 72h apart) per muscle (the last 5 before hitting failure are effective reps) — and that has been shown in studies over and over. He’s not even close to doing too much. Of course the 5x5 squat is a TON, at least for connective tissue and the spine, yes — but not necessarily too much… but besides the 5x5 squat? There’s not even that much. (Check out my routine above… if you want — it’s a very typical Conjugate template.) Certainly nothing that would qualify as “too much.” Scientifically, “too much”, in the context of optimized training, pretty much refers to more than 20 sets a week for a muscle, sometimes more than 10, because not all sets are created equal — 10 hard sets (per week) of back squats would probably almost be too much for most trainees, but 10 sets of belt squats, and certainly 10 sets (even 15-20) of reverse hyper, would almost certainly not be, because there’s no axial loading on those (in fact the reverse hyper has a powerful recovery component because it pulls the spine apart and reverses compression stress — which is why even 15-20 hard sets a week might not be too much). You can stimulate max growth only once every 72 hours, but when you produce growth it only lasts for up to 48 hours post workout (the vast majority of the growth, anyway). But you don’t have to stimulate max growth to grow — for instance, you could stimulate max growth twice a week with 5-6 sets 2x/wk, but the weekly growth would be the same as that provided by 3 sets 4x/wk or 4 sets 3x/wk… stimulating a bit less than max growth but doing it more often… great for beginners since they’ll get nearly the same growth from 3-4 sets as they will from 5-6 in one session… But eventually as one gets more advanced they might need 5+ sets per session to grow at all. A lot factors into it. TL/DR: The more work you do, the more you adapt, right up to the point where you can no longer recover from more work, at which point extra work results in less gains (however it’s not necessarily all for nothing, as doing tons of work does increase your work capacity, giving you more headroom in the future) — this point almost always occurs at 5-12 hard sets per session and 12-26 hard sets per week, per muscle… (though it depends on the muscle — delts, glutes, and triceps can handle more towards the top end of that range; biceps and lats more towards the lower end; quads can handle a bit more too, but there’s an issue with that as hamstrings need to be kept in lockstep ahead of quad strength, for knee health) — that’s just the recovery limit; you’re almost maxed out on gains by the time you’re at 10x limit-1RIR sets per week, or 12-16x 2-3RIR sets per week, and you’re past the point of diminishing returns even by 5-6 limit sets, or 10 sets at 2-3 reps in reserve, per week — and technically per muscle fiber, and not all exercises even hit the same exact fibers directly enough to fatigue them, so this complicates things a bit further, yet it’s relatively insignificant unless you’re chasing the last 2% of gains. Training without injury or imbalance is a very complicated thing that requires dedicating your life to it to truly understand and apply — check out professionals like Matt Wenning, who has powerlifting world records and has never been injured (except for in a car accident that broke his legs before even starting to lift), and see what they have to say about training and you’ll be all set though, after a few hours. I’ll assume you perhaps haven’t heard of the importance of keeping external rotators stronger than internal rotators, and hamstrings stronger than quadriceps, to decrease mileage on the knee and shoulder joint — that is a dire thing to fix if you’re not aware of that already. A lot of people neglect the tibialis anterior, hand extensors, and calf soleus too — other dangerous weaknesses… though the most concerning (and common, coincidentally) weaknesses are probably hamstrings, upper back (includes external rotators), and spinal erectors.

Tue — Upper Speed DB rotations with 10%1rm BP — 2x16+8external-only SS-circuit Band FP-PD-Row WU 2x25 Speed BP 9x3 3wide-med-close 1min (as fast and explosive as possible) { Optimal for all speed work: 32-39%1rm + 15-33%1rm (pref 25%) CHAINS (75 lb chain works with 225 all the way up to 500lb max, but the sweet spot is 25%1rm) /alternate in 3 week blocks with/ 50%1rm + 15-33%1rm (pref 25%) BANDS That is all but 100% optimized, on many levels. The accommodating resistance (AR; band/chain) works against your acceleration allowing you to actually force the bar up without throwing it or injuring yourself — don’t do speed work without AR. } CGBP 5x10 (SS w/ SR) Strict Row Axle Bar 5x10 162.5 max speed (rotste e3w w/ Inverted Row) Chin 3x10 (SS w/ Lateral) (SS) Lateral 3x12-20 seated Tri Long head extension 3x10-20 SS Band Curl 1o Band FP-PD (facepull-pressdown superset) 3x20-35 2red (or doubled orange; elite fts) Wed — Lower Speed Leg swings & bw SQ WU. SQ & GM 45x5 bw 45° back ext 15 or 25 rep sets Chaotic SQ WU 25’s,35’s 2x10 Speed Box 13” 10x2 1min 55%+25%chain (violent) 2,2,2,2,2, 2,2,2,2,2. Speed DL 2” deficit 6x2 :30 40%1rm + 25% chain 2,2, L-underhand 2,2, R 2,2. GM 4x10-20 SS isolateral Calf 2x45+s or 2x10-25 2-1-2 tempo 25lb SS Tibialis Anterior 2x15-35 double o loop, ecc Hamstring Curl 3x10-20 tempo/ratcheted SS Quad Extension same reps & tempo (very slow eccentric at top; toes out) (vary toe positioning on both leg curl & ext) Calf treadmill WU Calf 2x20+ (can SS w/ HLR) HLR 3x2RIR (never skip; need traction since no Rev Hyper — try Belt SQ after BSS stall) Some kettlebell forearm work GPP/restoration Neck stretching/WU and 10 rep bw all 4 sides *** Full reps only, for neck! For now. *** Neck Curl 4x25 SS Neck Extension 4x15 *** GS Forearm Curl (thumbless pronated EZ) or PPC 4x20 Neck Side 2x25 SS-last Neck Oblique 1x25 Vacuums 2x60s Hand Openers 1w 1x150-200, 2w 2-4x50+ 1w 150, 2w 76,76,76. Thur — Off completely (Mon and Sat are light off-day sessions) Fri — Max (ME) Upper Rotator WU (BP 45x5, BP band/chain-only 1x5, then Rotator WU 10 lb 1x10, then…) 21 2x16+8ext-only SS Band FP-PD-Row WU o-o-r 2x25 Max BP pointer + reverse-green band (every single in ramp: max speed) — alternate 12 BP variations, chin, pull-up, and OHP. CGBP middle 4x10 Sometimes use 70% bar wt of the max’s (65-70 if chain; 75-80 if band; 75-85 if rev band), keep the AR on, use same grip, go 2-3RIR for set 1, then do 4-5 sets across (ME-day-only) Maybe legs out (can SS with…) SR Axle 4x10 162.5 max-speed elbow/scap-out OR IR Axle (alt e3w w/ Ring/Bar, and sometimes 3Barbell/Heavy/Cheat Row) 4x2RIR ** soon 5 sets CGBP & RowVar, for 24 total ER’s w/ other 3 set exercises, 2RIR, + 1 max ** (of course that’s assuming the first set dictates the RIR, but it very well may be true that for sets across, set 1 at 2RIR & set 4 at 0RIR may yield >12 ER’s… 2/2/1/0 may yield 15 — 6+ quality sets would be plenty) DB 30° Inc Press 3x10-20 (SS w/ Pull-up) Pull-up medium-wide bw 3x2RIR or 3x10 wt (3wk alt; before Dip and not SS’d if weighted — prob SS w/ SGHP, and then SS Dip w/ Curl) Incline Curl 60-90° & Out & emphasis on midrange 4x8-15 30 (can SS w/ Lateral) Lateral 4x12-20 seated (later 35lb partial, or a little heavier than the curls, prob 4 sets, but for now, starting next week or so, replace with heavy strapped trap builder; SGHP — can do the 3 SGHP SS’d after wt’d Pull-up, or maybe even just after GM on DE Lower **45° Back Ext 2x25 bw (can SS w/ HLR) HLR 2-3x2RIR (actually get 2RIR set 1, but only use perfect form, so it‘ll be much simpler than switching to half rep frog style!) (get ankle weights when exceeding 20 reps) Some kettlebell forearm work (include wrist curl/flexion and extension) FP-PD 3x20-35 (later prob 4x25) (wide FP) 2r high to low wrapped (start w/ doubled o’s) GPP/restoration — for now just 2 sets ea of: ***chaotic SQ 35’s or 45’s+PVC, band rev hyper, maybe band ham curl (moderate), band leg ext (light; tendons; 2x50+). Calf 3 sets standing (on Fri & Mon/[or maybe Tue]; 3-5 sets + 2 sets LP Calf both Lower’s; slow tempo) 25lb SS Tibialis Anterior Neck stretching/WU and 10 rep bw for all neck Neck Curl 4x25 SS Neck Extension 4x25 ***GS Forearm Curl or PPC 4x20 Neck Side 2x25 Neck Oblique 1x25 Some elbows-back curl / slide curl 1-2x8-25 Vacuums 2x45-60sec Hand Openers (180 is prob max reps of any use if 2-3/s) Sun — Max Lower WU: SQ, GM, & optional: 45° BE bw 15 reps, and (if cap ham at 3) ham curl 150x15 tempo Max Back SQ (Rotate 6+ DL and 6+ SQ variations, never maxing more than once every 12wk with any one var) BSS (split squat) left-front-first (alternate every week which leg goes in front first) 3x10-15 SS last w/ 5 GM WU reps at same weight GM (good morning) 4x10-20 SS Calf 2x15+,+1-3x, 2-1-2-1 tempo (a good variation of this is a 4-position ratchet) (pause at top not needed; time at least 1 set) 25lb plate in bag in backpack, use both hands to balance GS SS Tibialis anterior 2x30+,+1-3x, slow eccentric SR 5x10+ 155lb (don’t increase until past 600 DL) max explosive 10 reps 2min (occasional cable rows instead) Hamstring Curl 3x10-20 (cap: 4 sets; 3 if did a set as WU) — very slow tempo/ratcheted SS Leg Extension (not always, but definitely today since only 3 BSS) (match wt/tempo/rep) (Extensions with toes out mostly, but use all 3 positions on both leg curl and ext) *** 45° BE (back extension) 2x15-25+ SS-> *** FP-PD orange 2x50+ (at least 3x/wk) Calf WU: push treadmill with as much heal contact as possible 100 steps Incline Curl 60-90° & Out & emphasis on midrange! 4-5x8-15 30 slow/tempo (pref 3 Inc + 2 high cable or elbow-back db or even machine curl — for contracted position max stim inclusion) (SS w/ calf & hlr) Calf 2x10-20+ slow (2-1-2 tempo; probably same for ham curl; sometimes do ratcheted) HLR 3x2RIR Some kettlebell forearm work Neck (Fri/Sun/Tue, later MonORTue/Fri) (for now: Wed/Fri/SunOrMon) * Neck stretching/WU and 10 rep bw for all neck Neck Curl 4x25 SS Neck Extension 4x15 ***GS Forearm Curl or PPC 4x20 Neck Side 2x25 Neck Oblique 1x25 * GPP/restoration *** o band quad ext if haven’t already — do at end of every session except for the day-prior’s to each main Lower session. Also: Knee joint traction with band! Crushing — use a tennis ball, etc — every Sun; 2-5 sets; make/get a crush grip device soon *** Chaotic Axle BP! (Protein synthesis elevation valley is mitigated by this as well as chaotic SQ on upper day) (muscles only grow up to 48h pwo so you have to hit them every 48h for optimal progress but most only get hit HARD 2x/wk) Vacuums 2x45-60sec (4x/wk) Hand Openers 3-5 sets (4x/wk) Basically, maximum growth requires at least 5 sets, but you can only stimulate max growth every 72h, but unless you’re advanced you can stimulate near-max growth with 3 sets and do it more often like 4x/wk. All muscles should be hit 3x/wk at least but only 2 times should be hard… but neck, biceps, and lats do best with 3 hard sessions (4 direct sets per session each), and forearms, hands, abs, & calves do best with 4x/wk. Need at least 12 sets/wk of horizontal pulling (primarily inverted row and strict row), which leaves up to 8 sets a week of vertical pulling, so as not to exceed 20/wk for rhomboids; lats; etc. Not all sets are created equal though. The strongest training stimulus that can be recovered from is 5x20 on the back squat — both the recovery cost and muscle gain of this will likely eclipse even 10x10 GVT on a low-compressive implement such as the belt squat, and in fact WR holder Matt Wenning uses precisely that (10x10 belt sq) as a mini-deload the week after doing 5x20 back squat. It took me over a decade (of basically doing Starting Strength for 2-4 months, stalling, quitting, and trying again within a year…) to find out what works best. My two best pieces of advice: Don’t be dogmatic Modify, don’t miss Don’t do Starting Strength as written — it NEEDS more hamstring work (hamstring curls OR GHR, AND Good Morning), and external rotation (i.e. facepulls and db rotations). And when you graduate to intermediate, go to 5/3/1 or most-preferably Conjugate (the method I use and have illustrated here), not the Texas Method. And calves take a bit of special work to get them to grow: train them on back to back days, and use very slow tempo to take the stretch reflex out — this is required for calves to grow as they’re the hardest muscle to get stronger (due primarily to their tendency to not be very detrained, since you walk with them all day) other than the spinal erectors (due primarily to their low vascularity). The easiest growing muscles are those of the neck since they’re so detrained in most people. Quads are also relatively easy since almost anything that works the glutes effectively also hits the quads effectively but you have to temper the volume on them because the stronger your hamstrings are relative to quads, the healthier your knees are. Make sure you have structural balance — e.g. if you’re gripping bars all the time, you need to do some kind of rubber-band hand-opener exercise to train the extensors. This is to mitigate “the governor” — the body shuts off growth somewhat when an opposing muscle group is relatively weak, but also for overall structural integrity and joint and CT health; it’s important.

Last section is for lead. Most of this is just reiterations and disclaimers, so if you want to skip to the lead stuff, skip to the end. Unfortunately, the onibasu.com forums, the place where Cutler answers questions, has been broken for some time, and I don't know if it's going to be fixed, so I'll write some of what I remember while I still can. The wiki pages still work (http://onibasu.com/wiki/Cutler_protocol.html#Treating_lead), but the forum sections haven't worked for the past week or so. Disclaimers: One should never take ALA unless it has been at least 3 months since last known mercury exposure or since proper amalgam removal. Minimum frequency of dose: ALA 3h (be aware that 3h is cutting it close, it's just a bit too much to ask that people dose around the clock more frequently than e3h), DMSA 4h (a bit less of a hard limit than ALA's e3h; being 15 minutes late to an e4h DMSA dose is probably fine, but even being just 10min late to an e3h ALA dose is potentially dangerous), DMPS 8h. Minimum round length: 72 hours (longer is highly encouraged). DMPS and DMSA should not be taken concurrently. One can take DMPS continuously, DMSA up to 2 weeks, and ALA up to 2 weeks, in general. DMSA must be taken with free radical scavenger -- at least vitamin C. ALA will raise copper levels and requires both 1. the avoidance of copper-rich foods such as nuts, and 2. on-round 4x daily dosing of zinc and preferably molybdenum -- if either of those are not tolerated, one should increase bile flow with 4x daily dosing of 1. taurine, 2. glycine, 3. silymarin, and 4. phosphatidylcholine. Biotin may be optimal on ALA rounds, as ALA depletes biotin (though not as badly as it causes copper buildup). Never use extended-release chelators (especially ALA, even though it may be tempting with the inconveniently and necessarily frequent dosing), as absorption is not uniform along the entire length of the digestive tract. Never stop taking DMPS or DMSA without having first stopped ALA (not difficult; ALA clears the system in only 5 hours). Oral elimination half-lives: ALA 30-50 minutes, DMSA 3.2 hours, DMPS 6-9 hours... that's partly why ALA is such an effective mercury chelator... it pours rapidly out of your system, carrying mercury with it. A good plan for mercury chelation: DMPS every 8 hours for 2-4+ weeks, as a milder intervention to minimize body (non-brain) mercury -> 1 week off -> Begin DMSA every 4 hours... After at least a couple doses (can be a few days if you like, for reasons we'll get into in the lead section later), begin taking it with ALA, both every 3 hours (or more often), around the clock. 72 hours after that first ALA dose, take your scheduled DMSA+ALA dose, and realize you are now safe to miss a dose without net-damage for this chelation round. Continue taking the chelators every 3 hours as long as you can handle until either 1. it has been 14 days since your first DMSA dose, or 2. you find that you are more than 5 minutes late to a dose... whichever comes first... at which point you will take one more final DMSA dose (and perhaps one more after that if you want) without ALA -- if you have to end the round because you are late to a dose, only take the last DMSA dose if you're less than 1 hour late (meaning the dose is <4h after the previous dose)... but it is very highly recommended that you do take these last 1+ DMSA doses, so try not to ever be late to a dose (and for ALA, trying to not miss is not a luxury you have... if you're late, the round is over for ALA, as e3h leaves no room for error with ALA's 30-50min half-life). Then take a week off, or if the round lasted for x days and x<7, take x days off, and repeat this DMSA+ALA protocol however many times it takes. Lead: Lead chelation needs to be thought of differently than mercury chelation. With mercury chelation: First, you introduce a body (non-brain) chelator (DMSA or DMPS) to bind free-mercury in the body so that the free-mercury on the inside of the blood brain barrier (BBB) is at a higher concentration than on the outside. Then, you introduce a BBB-permeable chelator (ALA) so that the brain mercury can move across that gradient, toward the lower concentration outside the brain. All the while, you're excreting some mercury via your urine (bound to both the DMSA/DMPS and the ALA), but mostly via your feces (bound to ALA) -- Now is not the time to be constipated; take osmotic laxatives if you're not having a daily bowel movement. For at least 72 hours, preferably 2 weeks... It does not work that way for lead. With lead chelation: First, you introduce DMSA, at as a high a dose as you can handle (ramp up; it may take several rounds to determine) -- mercury chelation speed increases nowhere near linearly with dose, and technically neither does lead chelation speed, but lead chelation speed responds far more strongly to dose increases than that of mercury. But here's the main difference: when you chelate mercury, you're just consistently driving it out of the body, and also the brain... but with lead, at a high enough DMSA dose, it only takes a week or so before such a large proportion of tissue and blood lead has been purged, that lead excretion slows down to a snails pace... But then when you take a break for a couple weeks... you blood and tissue levels will be almost as high as they were before you did the round. How can that be? Leaching from the bones -- the main residuum of lead. So you have to do 5+ days on / 7+ days off. Basically, at a very high dose of 30mg/kg/d, it apparently takes 5 days for DMSA to get so much lead out of blood and tissues that chelation slows to a snails pace, at which point a break of at least 7 days must be taken so that the lead can disperse again. But that was using a very dangerous protocol of every 8 hour dosing. You need to dose every 4 hours or more often. At a proper frequency, the dose would probably not have to be as high, and doses that high are dangerous anyway, so for our purposes, we can't perform it like they did in the studies in question... So it's probably going to take more than 5 days to get the lead out each time unless you're prepared to take 2100mg/day. The researchers used 700mg 3x/d for 150 lb of bodyweight -- very ineffective protocol for increasing cognitive function, even though it was successful for its own purpose simply because there was such a high lead burden and they successfully decreased it; we will certainly not be performing it that way though. So if you want to do 5 days on / 7 days off, you'd take like 300mg every 4 hours for 5 days and then take a 7 day break. But as far as I can recall, it's never recommended anywhere in Cutler's writings to take more than about 100mg DMSA per dose... ...so let's bridge those gaps... Here's the protocol for lead: DMSA 100mg e4h for 10 days, then 10 days off. Repeat as many times as it takes. Perhaps once used to that, one could try 200mg e4h for 7 days on / 7-10 days off. Basically, with lead, the breaks themselves become very crucial in the actual chelation process, unlike with mercury wherein the breaks simply serve a recovery purpose. Another important thing to note is that ALA does interfere with DMSA's ability to chelate lead. ALA decreases lead excretion. So to bring it all together, to chelate mercury while also ensuring effective lead chelation, one could do this for total chelation: 5 days DMSA-only, then DMSA+ALA for 5 days, then DMSA-only for 1-4 days, then 10 day break, repeat. That is if one wants to effectively chelate both lead and mercury and be reasonably certain that they are indeed doing so.

Prime content if awakening is even on your radar.

Upon discovering that he isn't already well known here, I am pleased to introduce this gem of a teacher to the forum. He's only been around as a public teacher for like a year -- so it makes sense that this is the first time you're hearing of him -- but he's been awake for many years. Even if you're awake yourself he's still a great guide for the absolute highest stages and embodiment of these most rarified perceptual shifts in identity. If one is interested in awakening, he's the best teacher I've found, in my opinion. And he's an anesthesiologist which is pretty interesting. https://www.youtube.com/c/SimplyAlwaysAwake/featured https://simplyalwaysawake.com/ His first book "Awake" is available. At least one of his students authentically woke up at just age 23: Probably the best introduction to awakening; first video of a highly recommended 5 part series on another channel called ZDoggMD: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=zdogg+awakening%2C+explained

@eTorro Do more research and the picture will become more clear. Way too much to go over. I’m not going to be super mean here, but I do have a responsibility to illuminate a bit of this… For starters, the ”Garlic vs Chelation” example is completely useless considering the chelator wasn’t even EDTA (commonly used in studies but outmatched by another option), much less DMSA… As luck would have it, the safest lead chelator, and the most effective lead chelator, are the same chemical, DMSA — there’s simply no replacement for it; neither pharmaceutical nor natural. Penicillamine, of all things — a very dangerous and inefficient copper chelator (to treat Wilson’s disease) which also can chelate arsenic to some degree (though not as well as many other options) — is the “chelator” used in that example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillamine As you can now probably tell, that’s like comparing the effectiveness of… 1. Oregano with 2. An arm cast … for healing a broken LEG… And then, if any sort of antioxidant/etc effects of the oregano actually had some positive effect… stating that “oregano wins against casts in a head to head match up for the healing of broken bones.” ?‍♂️ Take a moment to reassess… Identify each assumption that led to this situation. Hey… It happens. But I can guarantee it’ll happen again if you don’t figure out what those assumptions were. Same goes for all of us. Chelation is no joke. Getting all the mercury and lead out of your body is an extremely intensive and time-consuming endeavor. Even DMPS, which has been repeatedly shown in the lab to be an effective lead chelator, is still exponentially outmatched by DMSA (for lead, not necessarily mercury)… and DMSA itself can take years to truly get all the lead out. And mercury (and arsenic; cadmium; others) chelation is another thing altogether. You won’t be competent with understanding this overnight or anything. It’s a lot.

The difference between 10mg and 20mg is so vast they can hardly be compared. 20mg is an extremely high dose… I mean, it’s relatively typical for this compound, but this isn’t a typical compound. 8-12mg intranasal is a good dose. Up to 30mg if you’re extremely experienced. Even 3-5mg will be earth shattering for some. (If you’re talking about 5-MeO-DMT)

What did you expect? It doesn’t take much research to find out that 40mg of 5-MeO-DMT is well into heroic dose territory. Comparable to… idk… 3-5 breakthrough LSD trips compressed into half an hour…

Garlic will not help heavy metal toxicity. It may help the symptoms somehow, but it won’t chelate. Pop culture medicine edutainment seems to have propagated this idea that anything with a sulfur molecule or even a proper thiol group somehow purges heavy metals from the body or something — this is false. It is only the double thiol group having molecules that can chelate — DMPS, DMSA, dimercaprol/BAL (not recommended), ALA, etc — the two thiol groups next to each other act as a functional hook… When there’s just one thiol (chlorella, etc), it just stirs stuff around; doesn’t usefully or effectively chelate anything whatsoever.

Lately (past couple weeks; not usual) I wake up at 10a and go to sleep around 2a every day (not optimal) simply because just as you say, yes I do go out late on weekends and was confronted by the exact conundrum you describe. For the past 3+ months, I was going to sleep at 12-1a and waking at 8a five days a week, but then on Friday and Saturday night I’d sleep from 3am to 10am — Really caused a lot of fatigue, so now I’m not going out quite as late, and I’m waking at same time daily… Focusing primarily on weight training probably for another month or two or until habituation. Changing it to sleeping 1-9a now though. Definitely very notably less tired in general when I wake up at the same time every single day though, so even 2-10a works fine — but it’s probably better being asleep from 1-3 rather than just 2-3 of the 1-3am sweet spot. I might also try limiting blue light + not looking at screens after 8 PM, if that’ll even be possible ?

I’m sort of out of the loop on this kind of research now but from what I remember back in my narcolepsy diagnosis days was that normal sleep cycles go like this: Periodically cycling between light, REM, and deep sleep, entering the first REM cycle 10-60 minutes in (narcoleptics entering it immediately upon sleep, hence the hallucinations, and also cataplexy since REM paralyzes muscles so you don’t act out your dreams with your physical sleeping body thus waking it up), not entering the first deep sleep cycle until just under ~4hrs into sleep, that (deep sleep) cycle ending just ~10-15min later at about 4 hours flat — which is why ~4 hours is the absolute minimum anyone can live on; and the sleep dose that one will generally gravitate toward when meditating 100% of waking hours on retreat— the first deep sleep cycle, deep sleep being an essential part of sleep, doesn’t occur until just before the 4 hour mark — after which, the sleeper cycles between light, REM, and deep in increasingly long cycles. And while all that was correct, this one sentence here may not be 100% correct, but I definitely learned it somehow: Eventually, over the course of the night, once the individual’s sleep needs have been exceeded, if sleep continues, it’s pretty much just REM and light (stage 2, I believe) sleep, and no more deep sleep. Some people do best with biphasic sleep. Sleeping 4+ hours for one phase, and 2-5 hours for the other — possibly with just a short break of 1-4 hours between the two daily sleep phases; it doesn’t have to be two equally spaced sleep blocks like 1-5am and 1-5pm… It can be something like this: sleep 7-11pm, wake and get work done, read, meditate, or whatever from 11pm until a little before 1 AM (to wind down and then actually be asleep at 1 AM, not just in bed), then sleep 1-4:30am for 7.5 total hours (probably optimal for most people), or 1-6am for 9 total hours (only ever necessary if doing intense exercise), or 1-3am for 6 total hours, still making sure to be asleep between 1 AM and 3 AM (more on that later) — that trial allows for testing whether biphasic sleep is right for you, and it has all the sleep hours in dark hours, which is best for sleep quality. I would certainly surmise that the benefits of biphasic sleep are probably negated, at least to some degree, when one of the phases is done in the middle of daylight hours… The most important time to be asleep, due to hormones and circadian rhythm, is 1-3AM. The time you go to sleep can vary depending on sleep needs — 4-9hr/day for nearly everyone, but many if not most people do best on about 7.5hrs assuming no high intensity exercise, but with high intensity exercise the sleep needs for optimal health and fitness are usually about 1 additional hour per day — But the time you wake up should be the same every day to minimize daytime sleepiness. The variable that you change should be bed time, not wake time. You want to train your body to rise at the same time daily — it seems to help with energy. You want to time it such that you are always asleep by 1AM, though just getting to sleep well before 3AM, while suboptimal, is miles better than getting to sleep after 3, since the hours of 1-3 AM are the highest bang-for-your-buck sleep hours. For instance, wake up at 8 AM daily, and go to sleep at 12:30-12:50 if sleep needs are not very high, but if doing high volume exercise etc you may want to go to sleep as early as 11 PM; there is rarely if ever any benefit to exceeding 9 hours in one day. A poor night’s rest will affect the next 3 days, so your sleep debt is primarily based upon your past 3 nights sleep. This is why athletes often notice that a poor nights sleep doesn’t affect the next day any more than it affects the day after the next, and also that if you get, say, 8-9 hours for 3 days in a row, getting one day of only 4-5 hours might not affect you that negatively, as long as it’s just one day…. But even ONE night of sleeping significantly less than 4 hours can cause an accumulation the following day of some degree of (possibly permanent) damage and fatigue, because you literally completely skipped getting ANY deep sleep, when coming up ahead is an entire day’s worth of brain and body function… Certainly try to be asleep by 1 AM if you want to maximize your total effective sleep quality.

Beef, Greek yogurt, dairy

Well, yeah. Death is un-fearable. But of course all fear is the fear of death. That’s why all fear is empty.

Bringing body temp down is usually not a good thing. Alcohol at night will lower your body temp the next day though.

Not if every time you had sex with a girl you got soaked from her squirting all over you, screaming. And every time, you break their personal record for greatest number of orgasms in a session, by a lot. Etc. You will not be worried about the size of your dick for a second when that is the case.

It baffles me. Everything else about Owen screams the dude is just about as bad as it gets at game.

It sounds like you misunderstood. “Flatness” in any nondual spiritual context would merely refer to distance and separation being illusory.

Talk only to the girl you like and ignore the others. This usually will not work but quite often it does and in that case you saved a ton of work. If it doesn’t then apologize and introduce yourself to the rest as needed — it will be clear at that point that you like the one particular girl. Isolate the girl and deal with objections from her friends as needed in a patient and fun way. Always address noncompliance with a glance and/or vibe and/or words that confidently (and playfully) convey something to the tune of “Why you being weird?” Just an unwavering straight line to your goal, as if you had narcissistic personality disorder; as if you were unable to even conceive of the idea that the girl doesn’t want to sleep with you. Before you get the hang of it, it seems pretty fucking weird, but that is indeed what gets you laid.

Lots of interesting stuff along the way.

Omg! It’s uncanny! ?

This is fine. But if you don’t want them to misinterpret it as nice guy behavior, just be sure to speak with no filter; tease; talk to them like you’re talking to a guy, but with flirtation if they’re an interest.

If you lose weight without gaining or at least preserving muscle mass, you will gain it all back. At the very least, it will be a struggle to keep it off. Might as well not do that, when the solution is so simple. Focus on barbell training; you will struggle to keep weight on once you’ve built 5 lb of muscle (on an effective program this takes about 20 weeks for women and 10 weeks for men). Muscle is incredibly calorically wasteful. And not for the reason many dieticians and nutritionists seem to think — rather, it’s kind of like how a high-performance car engine with huge cylinders and high power output has horrible gas mileage… it’s not because more muscle increases your BMR (even though it will do that as well)… +10 lb of muscle will only increase your BMR to such an extent that you’ll burn an extra mere 60 kcals a day due to the BMR increase alone… a rounding error. And yet… it will nonetheless increase your daily caloric needs by 500-1200 kcals… or even FAR more, depending on your activity level… Particularly if the muscle mass was added uniformly throughout your entire body, particularly the lower body. And it’s not even because of the extra weight — The car engine analogy is the best explanation for the actual reason behind this phenomenon that all experienced lifters eventually notice. High-performance muscle mass is extremely costly to maintain, calorically speaking. Dieting for fat loss, without paying at least as much attention to building muscle, is simply a huge misunderstanding, and certainly a waste of time. Consuming less than 80-120g protein a day is also a huge impediment to fat loss. Even if you just maintained your muscle mass on a diet (requires barbell training or at least some fitness knowledge to do this with any regularity), you’d be many times more likely to keep the fat off than if you just dieted, and relatively speaking, you wouldn’t even have to try. Don’t waste your effort and time. Life is short.

Anything that gives normies paranoia will very obviously have psychedelic effects in the spiritually inclined.