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@LSD-Rumi Yeah the bromine in DXM hydrobromide can make you really tired, and it’s toxic. Definitely not that great of a substance.

It's normal. Happens to me all the time. If you aren't attracted to them, what else can you do other than just treat them as friends/acquaintances that you aren't interested in sexually? I'm perhaps overly nice to people, not in a manipulative way at all, but just naturally gentle and kind, and this often makes women I'm not attracted to think I'm interested in them. One thing you can do is bring one of your gf's to your workplace or your social circle where women under your standards are coming on to you, and when they see that the women you are in relationships with are way out of their league, the women you aren't attracted to will probably be even more attracted, but at least they won't think you are attracted to them, and so they'll be less likely to hit on you (though the really, really confident ones still might, but those women are generally highly rejection-proof... and cool, even if they aren't super attractive). I did this, and the result was lots of women being less friendly with me... but it beats the alternative of leading them on. Or alternatively, just learn and practice game... The confidence and assertiveness you project can get so rock-solid, that women under your standards will likely just be intimidated. Ever since I was a young kid I had an extremely intense emotional reaction (a very strange feeling of intense disgust/contempt mixed with intense elation...) to unwanted interest from girls -- like it's some kind of genetic thing. It's not as intense now.

I still do it these days without even thinking about it. It just works well for me because I'm never that hungry in the morning. But if you're doing a 16+ hour fast every day, it's probably prudent that you consume like 100mg of sodium in the morning or you might feel a little off from low electrolytes or get a little woozy from low blood pressure. But one of the easiest ways to crash your T3 levels is to forgo carbs for long periods, and T3 levels are highly associated with how good your mood is... so this likely is not the best way to eat unless you either just happen to naturally gravitate toward it, or have a hard time staying at a low body weight. I've been about 10% bf no matter what for a decade, so I'm not doing it specifically to lose weight myself -- though I have successfully used IF to get shredded in the past just for fun.

When you fully wake up it's obvious that literally no one else can reach that level of awakening... by any means. Which seems paradoxical, but actually isn't. Collapse of separation between any two things. All there is, is what you are. Of course the character might still go on... playing games.

Not necessarily confusion, but more like doubt due to thinking there’s something left that could blow your mind more than anything ever has before. Kind of. Once you dose 5meo high enough or have a cessation from meditation, or have a god realization, it’s obvious that reality is already infinitely amazing, so there’s nothing left to surprise you in a sense — that seems to be associated with loss of visuals from psychedelics, which leads me to suppose that the visuals are an offshoot of an unfulfilled amazement-appetite (which seems to be fueled by fear of the unknown), in a sense. From what I remember, Leo has described never having gone through the experience of having a progressive loss of visuals — he never had them in the first place. I definitely remember him saying that as a response to me on this forum stating that I no longer get visuals, a couple years back.

I quit a 10-15 cigs per day habit a few years ago. My gf at the time was smoking and I still pulled it off. Can’t tell you much about what I did, but I just made up my mind and stopped. Smoking kills and causes all sorts of health problems, which I didn’t want, so that was that. It was about 4 days of ears ringing and feeling pretty bad, but I’d been through heroin wd so it was basically nothing compared to that (like not even a discernible fraction of a percent of the discomfort). After about 8 days I felt perfectly normal and never looked back, basically. I’ve had a few (as in well under 10 cigs in three years) cigarettes here and there since then, socially, but every time I had one I’d literally feel a mini-wd for 3-4 days after… Now I just don’t do it period. When I quit, I was doing meditation. If you’re not doing that, you’re missing out, frankly. I recommend either TMI or TWIM to start with. Next time you’ve made up your mind to relapse, attempt to convince yourself not to, and if your mind fails that and firmly objects to not smoking, then just get a vape instead — the only addictive chemical therein is nicotine, and it’s not going to cause nearly the issues that smoked tobacco does. Smoked tobacco not only has tar, but also has at least one or two addictive harmaline MAOI alkaloids (essentially a “fast-acting and addictive antidepressant with recreational value”), which are actually responsible for >>80% of the discomfort of cig wd… unbeknownst to seemingly just about everyone, to my utter amazement… ?‍♂️

I have seen a noticeable trend’s worth of purely anecdotal evidence that potassium consumed without food/calories can negatively impact sleep. Interesting. (pretty sure ACV has potassium) It could also perhaps be increased T3 production, which would likely be a very good thing. For those with extensive (and maverick) nutritional-physiological knowledge, it is both sought-after and difficult to increase the T3/T4 ratio — a very good driver of mental well-being — one way to prevent its opposite is to ensure that you consume well over 125g of carbohydrates (not including fiber, of course; “net carbs”) every day (not very hard to do if you’re not doing keto, which IMO is generally ill-advised anyway). Maybe don’t take it too late in the day?

I used to think longer rounds are always better, and in a sense that kind of is true in most cases… but at least for lead, and perhaps even to some extent with the others (arsenic, cadmium, mercury, maybe plutonium and uranium), breaks are useful if not entirely necessary for allowing the sequestered/hidden toxic metal molecules (in bone and in some tissues possibly including the brain) to leech back along the concentration gradient into the (less concentrated after chelation) more-easily-accessible reservoirs of the body (blood and most soft tissues)… not to mention just for general off-time from neutrophil disruption; oxidative stress due to mobilized mercury; etc. It’s necessary because chelation speed is proportional to the heavy metal concentration in those chelator-accessible areas; reservoirs (times the chelator concentration… in those areas)… and those areas will be lead-sparse before you get to the once-recommended-as-optimal 14 days on DMSA+ALA (might only apply if the dose is >25mg of each, every <3 hours). So I would recommend rounds of 5-10 days on / 7-10 days off — longer rounds with less break/off will mean quicker progress with mercury, but not necessarily with the other metals, and certainly not with lead. Generally though, mercury should be the primary focus, as it’s the most damaging metal that’s commonly found in the body (plutonium and uranium are worse but they are less common). I really would not do rounds for less than 5 days though. 72 hours is the break even minimum — You might wonder, why is that? Here’s why: the brain has a higher affinity for mercury than the body, so any time chelator levels drop to zero, there will be net mercury accumulation into the brain for a few hours, so you better hope you got enough out in that round so that in the end, there was net mercury removal from the brain for the entire round as a whole… it’s break-even between hour 60 and 72… so technically the optimal round length is not just “72 hours or more” it’s a bit more like “as far beyond 72 hours as possible.” At 5+ days though, you should be sitting quite pretty ? for that round. That goes for DMSA and ALA. For DMPS, even though there is some evidence that it’s an effective lead chelator, it’s not conclusive, and you can conveniently take DMPS continuously every 8 hours, for months if you wanted to. Technically the best way to use ALA would be continuously dosing every <1-2 hours for months (using all 3 forms of copper control; zinc, molybdenum, and all 4 bile-promoters, each 4 times a day…)… but that’s not very easy. Not to mention, ALA blood levels need to be kept much more steady when DMSA (or DMPS) is not taken along with it! … { The reason for that is the fact that mercury has higher affinity for brain than body, so it’s highly encouraged that you change the concentration gradient to your advantage by binding additional free unbound mercury in the body, with DMSA (or DMPS), rather than having the gradient at equilibrium, which will more strongly favor into-brain travel upon clearance of ALA… It will likely still favor into-brain travel upon ALA clearance even with DMSA elevated, but less so. } -> hopefully you gathered from this another measure you should be taking: always take the DMSA a little bit after stopping the ALA — just a couple doses will do, since ALA clears the body in less than 5 hours… and while not as crucial, it may be best to start the round with DMSA-only as well… Only a couple doses of DMSA-only are needed though, both before and after the ALA+DMSA stretch. … And DMSA should never be taken longer than 14 days… so just take ALA+DMSA every 3 hours or more often, for 5-10 days on / 7-10 (or more if you’re not in any hurry) days off.

Actually, it just occurred to me that Cutler has said that up to about 400mg DMSA per 4 hours; 300mg/3h can be tolerated if the dosing frequency is 100mg every hour. So you could potentially get the lead out quite fast like that with 5 days on / 7-10 days off. But it does take many, many rounds, apparently. Definitely don’t start that high though… especially with elevated mercury. With mercury you could theoretically just do one super long round and get it all out (not that it would be safe), but with lead you have to take the >7-day breaks to allow it to seep from bones, as it only takes 5 days of high-dose DMSA for the blood and tissue lead concentration to drop to well below 50% of the starting level (but almost all of it comes back within 2 weeks after it seeps from bones), and it can take up to 100 rounds to get it all out of the bones…

? ? I’m 28. Half of the people I meet when bar-hopping and clubbing are 25 and older. In a college town… And some are like 50.

It’s a potentially very effective weight-loss or calorie-restriction technique, especially if you’re not a breakfast person. That’s about it. For bloating, you might want to try increasing potassium intake — lightly salted and buttered potatoes, or tomatoes, or maybe even tomato purée, or pure KCl (must be taken with food otherwise it can affect the heart). And of course apple cider vinegar.

It’s not necessarily that I mean to imply that. It’s just that, with me, as I advanced in meditation and insight etc, the visuals seemed to die off. The visuals seem to be associated with doubt of some kind, I don’t know why, and I’m not sure how to better explain how that’s the case. But before around age 23, psychedelics all provided extremely amazing visuals, but around age 23, they started to slowly decrease in visual effect while at the same time increasing in ego-death / consciousness-expansion effects… which was then rapidly accelerated upon trying 5meo for the first time, and then the visual effects were all but totally extinguished after doing an all-day-for-several-days escapade of repeated 5-MeO-DMT dosing, at doses anywhere from 5mg to 40mg. Used about a gram in well under a week… Tolerance literally doesn’t build with it to any meaningful extent, at least when used constantly for less than a week (which is incredibly useful btw, and strange — LSD doesn’t do that; n,n-dmt doesn’t do that).

@Egodeathrow yeah LSD is one of the least visual psychedelics out there — almost entirely consciousness-expanding and no fluff. But 5-MeO-DMT is even far more pure; pretty much zero visuals even for novice psychonauts. LSD still gives some strong visuals until one has a lot of experience and so psychedelics are affecting them so strongly that the visuals no longer happen. But 5meo is so strong, it does that from the very first dose.

I use cannabis like 4-8 times a year or so, either from being offered a dab pen or eating an edible. I don’t particularly like it, at least not nearly as much as some people seem to, but it can be a nice, different experience and can often be fairly insightful. It definitely produces mild wd symptoms upon cessation if you use it multiple times a day, every day, for several months or years, but as soon as I noticed I was getting wd symptoms, I stopped using it frequently, years ago. I certainly wouldn’t recommend it though; there are way better psychedelics out there.

Far more important than keeping the dose steady, is making damn sure you never go more than the maximum recommended time between doses. Not to say that keeping the dose (and blood concentration) rock-steady isn’t ideal (it very much is ideal to keep it as steady as possible), but the most important thing is that you never allow more than 3 hours to pass after each ALA dose before the next one is taken (or 4h for DMSA or 8h for DMPS). And if using ALA with another chelator, you need to take them both every 3h (or more often). And always stop the ALA before any of the other chelators. When ALA levels are changing (being introduced to, or leaving the body), you want the other chelator steady (and elevated)… this is because mercury will travel with the free mercury equilibrium across the blood brain barrier (BBB), and the other chelators (DMSA; DMPS) bind free mercury (rendering some of it “not free”) on the outside of the BBB, meaning there will be less free mercury on the outside of the BBB when the non-ALA chelator is elevated, so that helps ALA move mercury out of the brain… and the opposite is true when the non-ALA chelator is falling to very low levels. *** Do not go more than 3h since any ALA dose before taking the next one, while in a round. One way you can ensure this never happens, is to keep a capsule with you at all times (of each type of chelator you’re taking currently, not just one), and any time throughout the day when you suspect it may possibly be more than 3h before the next dose, take a tiny portion of that powder from the capsule — pour a tiny bit in your mouth and swallow it with water. This is to avoid blood levels of the chelator ever hitting rock bottom levels, which is when redistribution occurs. But why should you be concerned about this ever happening by just being a little late to a dose? Here’s why: You may be under the false impression that the half life of ALA is 3h (since, to keep blood levels steady, Cutler tells you to take it every 3h or more frequently)... This is NOT the case. ALA’s half life is far shorter than that — as little as 30 minutes… Systemic ALA concentration is literally undetectable before just 5 hours post-dose… not “super low,” but undetectable. Frequency of every 3 hours is prescribed simply to avoid rock-bottom levels, not merely to keep blood levels steady, as this frequency wouldn’t even be sufficient for that — luckily, it doesn’t have to be perfectly steady (though it optimally should be), but it does have to be kept far from zero, and you can ensure that by taking a very small amount of powder throughout the day in-between scheduled doses, just in case you were early to a scheduled dose. Round duration must be 72 hours at the absolute minimum, though longer is encouraged — but beyond 2 weeks has not been done by enough people for me to recommend that.

@amanen Fair enough. Yeah they are definitely different for me. The closest one to LSD-25 that I’ve tried is 1P-LSD, which produces effects that feel literally exactly like LSD-25, but 1. it has a slightly shorter duration of effect, and 2. at least for me, the biggest difference is that it’s far less likely to result in full ego death where nothing describable is left. And while it's smart, you don’t have to worry too much about accidentally getting nbome — it has a very strong taste, unlike any lysergamides.

Paranoia is psychosis-lite. And psychosis is insanity as far as I’m concerned. I can say without a doubt that I’ve experienced a form of psychosis that went basically as far as possible (meth overdose), and the recovery consisted of a gradual decline in psychosis, until it would most aptly be described as paranoia, and then that gradually subsided as well. From the acute psychosis event to the point where I was totally normal again took place over the course of 5 full months. I was actually convinced that I was the world’s first AGI and the meth OD was a ruse to get me to come back to headquarters (which was cleverly disguised as a hospital) for updates. But my logical faculties were fully functional — I was just literally seeing stuff that wasn’t there in consensual reality, in extremely deep ways too, like a wormhole to infinity opened up but it was all super real, matter-of-fact, and mundane seeming, unlike a psychedelic trip where everything is indescribable. And it gets SO much weirder but I don’t have all day ?

1P-LSD can’t primarily be a prodrug to LSD-25 — 140ug of 1P only lasts 8 hours for me every time, whereas 110ug of LSD-25 (generally equipotent to 140ug of 1P as far as “superficial trip intensity” effects go) lasts 10h and is a lot more energetically/spiritually intense. Though they both had nearly identical visual/etc effects (though eventually “visuals” all but went away for me, with all psychedelics except… and only to an extent… n,n-dmt [edit: and also, only as of just last night actually, tripping in dreams, interestingly…], and were replaced with something like “god solipsism,” which happened gradually over the course of a year following a week-straight 5meo blast). If 1P’ were a prodrug to ‘25, the duration of effect of the former would either be 1. as long or 2. longer than the latter… in no case would it be shorter. If it indeed somehow is a prodrug for it, then only a small amount converts, that’s for sure. High dose trips of lysergamides never get anywhere near as intense as mild-moderate doses of 5-MeO-DMT, except for LSD-25, which itself can actually resemble a moderate 5meo breakthrough on just 100-125ug — that’s just my experience though, it wasn’t always that way. Maybe you didn’t get real LSD-25? (Don’t get triggered, it’s possible you actually know for sure you got the real thing.) Most can’t tell the difference between it and 1P, because the superficial and visual effects are nearly if not entirely identical — although in my experience, every time I’ve purchased darknet LSD-25, it has been real LSD-25 (I can identify it based on over a decade of experience, which in part includes a lot of use back in 2012-2014 when the only tabs available here were mainly just either 1. tasteless LSD-25 or 2. bitter/metallic tasting 25-x-nbome). But as of around 2014, tasteless tabs that get traded around in-person can very easily be a non-‘25 lysergamide (pretty much all of which are very good clean psychedelics though). Of course there have been the metallic tasting 25-x-nbomes going around for a LONG time, but if you taste anything, just simply spit it out and you can avoid that catastrophe of a wasted trip. At least basically all of the actual lysergamides are pretty damn good, but imo LSD-25 is the best of them by far. But yeah any genuine lysergamides are going to be very good psychedelics. I suppose an ultra high dose of 1P could easily blow out a low dose of 25, but for me specifically, 25 has basically no equal except maybe 5-MeO-DMT, at least for the highest levels. I’ve still had past-life experiences and such on 1P, which not every psychedelic can do… so it’s not like it’s bad by any means, but 25 and 5meo went way beyond past-life experiences. ??

@nuwu that’s probably for intravenous use, but yeah it’s definitely quite short — but there is more to it than half life; can’t remember what it is but it might have to do with the ALA doing something intracellularly, iirc. You read my last comments right? Yes. And basically just use common sense — If you’re taking it 3x less frequently, take 3x the dose, to keep the blood concentration as steady as possible.

^^ this I can answer. But I don’t know about the rest of your questions, and the forum at onibasu.com hasn’t been working lately so I don’t know how to find out what Cutler has said about it. ALA doesn’t disturb much mineral transport. Neither do DMPS and DMSA. EDTA does cause one to lose a lot of calcium and zinc, etc, but ALA mainly just causes copper buildup. Some other minor mineral alterations too, iirc, like selenium, but it didn’t seem to be significant, last time I checked.

Yes to the first part, but no ? they don’t obsess over me right then and there. Once they get to know me, though… then many often do get attached/obsessed and extremely needy.

Last night I had basically a proper trip in a dream for the first time. And it was rather insane. Haven’t taken psychedelics in a long time either so idk what that was about. Maybe there was some kind of energetic thing going on ?

Heaven or enlightenment; truth is [impossible to articulate/fix verb]ing that even if there were no limit, or really even if there is no limit, it’s all good. As good as possible, actually. Infinitely, unimaginably good. No limit = death = everything = already this = nothing. The joke is there’s no one who can actually hold that, you’re already it. No separation, just God/emptiness, or whatever you want to call this. Reading this, it actually doesn’t even merit speaking ? but basically this can be summed up as: “The emptiness goes all the way.” So doubt, attention, people, self, and everything are completely empty of being things. [insert Mario Yippee or WhaHa sound] ? (Buddhism in a nutshell) (But really, what could be “beyond” that anyway… all paths of enlightenment lead to the same place — which doesn’t look like anything special to the one who gains energy from “special” in some personal sense)

@Antor8188 Women can get turned off by that, yes. You don't need to be rich (in fact it's a bit better if you aren't), but you should get your financial situation handled enough to afford cheap dates (the kind you should be going on anyway).

@petar8p It's not brainwashing and it's not filling your mind with positive thoughts, it's simply an insight: I am indeed good enough for any girl. Every girl who spends time with me will be glad she did. Simple as that. Even if that’s not true for you now, trust me it will be soon if you just fake it till you make it — but it’s really not faking it because the confidence to do it is the value in the first place… Eventually you’ll actually see real evidence for it when girls are obsessed with you. And if it’s not true for you, do what you have to in order to get there — every man has the potential to make that not only a feeling, but a reality. Realize that women in general aren't shallow, they just want to connect with someone — particularly, in this context, a man that has a lot to offer, which can easily be you.