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What do you mean with "increased slightly"? How high was your testosterone in previous measurements? It is evident that most antidepressants can influence testosterone and estrogen level - but a random fluctiation might be more likely.

Enlightened Neo-advaitans & theravada-buddhists when the barbarians have invaded and burnt down their village and captured their wife and enslaved their children:

It's calories, period. People overconsume calorie dense products - if you control for calories and on average eat less than you spend - you will lose bodymass. That's just basic thermodynamics right there. In the literature, there are countless examples of individuals losing weight under a calorie-deficient "Twinkie" or "McDonalds" diet. The reason why most diets fail is because of physiological/psychological factors (satiety, cravings, emotional eating, lack of willpower..).There are some other factors like hormonal influences, but it's secondary to the total fuel you put in (obviously). I dont know where your intuition comes from that 2000/2500 calories is "a lot of food". Maybe you are just a sparse eater. Most people would have no problem eating a whole pizza as dinner and thats at least 1000 calories right there. Add softdrinks, snacks and 2 more whole meals to that and you are way above that limit. Processed, calorie dense foods are usually based on simple carbohydrates abd trenched in hypercaloric oils. Calories add up really fast that way. That's why eating whole foods is such a great way to cut calories. You gonna get way more "mass" for much fewer calories.

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Currently 6feet2" (187cm), around 87kg and I would guess around 15% body fat As I mentioned, I havent been on a vegan diet for 5+ yeras, but I was way leaner back than because I took training and calorie intake much more seriously

It's definitely not "necessary" to eat meat for optimal health. There is an individual component to it, meaning some people seem to do better with some form of animal product in their diet - but there are plenty of vegans and vegetarians who are doing great. There are a shitload of plant based athletes nowadays. I know many buffed vegans, including myself when I went vegan for a year. However, I enjoy eating meat too much

TJ went down the deep end after his YT-channel. (which was called Deathproof) He had some really good content on there because he was pretty intelligent and also highly charismatic. I remember that he started websites called deathproofuniversity (a paid program) and deathproof-solutions (a forum basically) in like 2018/2019.I was part of it at the beginning, but holy moly - that was a conspiracy cesspool like you haven't seen before. Everything was a conspiracy. EVERY. THING! He believed literally every nonsense out there - from chemtrails to flathearth to zionistic holocaust denialism to Bill Gates wants to kill us all with his vaccine. I once questioned some of the stuff he said (because he literally taught "question everything"), which led him to ban me indefinitely. He became increasingly mean towards other figures I respected, like Leo. I remember his video where he was "analyzing" Leo's 5-MeO-content and calling him the nastiest names for like 90 minutes straight. He deleted his facebook recently, I have been friends with him on that for quite a long time. He married his conspiracy partner in crime and they have have a daughter. Without a doubt a smart but propably highly narcissistic and conspiratorial mind.

"t should be noted that the ecstatic phenomenon is not consistently obtained by stimulating the dorsal AIC, as such an effect has not been reproduced in 5 of our other pharmacoresistant patients who were tested in similar conditions. In the past, this phenomenon was induced in a few patients already suffering from ecstatic seizures,"

This is true. Some genetic impacts can be influenced or even turned around through meticulous life-style changes, others are just penetrating to a degree where they won't respond to anything you do. A particular family we used to treat comes to my mind - The father had a heart attack in his mid 40's despite being a low-risk lifestyle (very fit, pretty healthy diet). Turned out he had a severe case of familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic lipid disorder which made his LDL go up to 400-500 (Healthy levels are below 100). In fact, a family history unveiled that almost every family member on his side had at least one cardiovascular event before the age of 50. We screened his children and other close relatives - around 3/4 of them had the same disorder with extremely high lipid-parametres. The 20 year old son alerady had severe atherosclerotic plaque build up in his carotid arteries. The scary thing is that it was almost impossible to lower through any lifestyle changes whatsoever. They have tried an absurd number of different diets and alternative practices. Some of them made the problem even worse. Even statins did not seem to help. What finally changed the game was an agressive therapy with PSCK-9 inhibitors, a relatively new class of drug which mimics the genetic component in a positive way.

A beloved fever-reducing intervention from naturopathy are so called leg wraps. Recommended are wraps made of three layers. For each layer, you should use natural fabrics, as synthetic fibers do not allow air or moisture to pass through. Here's how to proceed: 1. For the first layer, soak two thin linen or cotton cloths (such as kitchen towels) in cool water, gently wring them out, and wrap one cloth tightly around each calf. 2. For the second layer, you can, for example, place two dry cotton towels over the damp wraps. 3. The final layer should be a warming one. For this, scarves or wool blankets, for instance, are suitable." 4. Lie down and repeat the process every 30 minutes until the fever goes down. However, if your fever is approaching 40°C - take the medication and don't play around. Ibuprofen, aspirin or paracetamol are perfectly safe medications if you use them for a short period of time.

Besides some very penetrating conditions (OP mentioned Huntington) we know next to nothing about the true weight of nature vs. nurture in most health problems. We do have ideas, trends and sometimes even educated guesses, but most of what we call "genetic" is based on a hypercomplex, combinatorially explosive set of influences. On the other side, I can totally relate with @Leo Gura. I also suffer from a very annoying health issue and after consulting a shitton of medical practitioners (orthodox and alternative) while also being a MD myself I find myself in position where it just feels like a genetic cause.

It's pretty easy to find out. The water we have here in Austria, especially in my hometown has equal or lower concetrantions of nitrades, pesticides, drug-residues & other chemicals than most bottled versions. This has been proven by numerous independent tests.

NNT is propably one of the most misunderstood concepts in medicine. Because it highly depends on the underlying studying design and follow up period. I will explain this in detail once I find a time window

I dont know - I do have some friends who work with alternative approaches to bipolar disorders and they get pretty decent results with it. However, I am not a psychiatrist - so I am the wrong person to ask that question

I think you are a tragic case of someone who thinks he is "beyond" science but actually regressed into a pre-rational state. Going beyond the scientific echochamber (which exists) is possible, but requires a deep & specific expertise thereof. In every discussion we have had so far, you have not only shown a complete lack of knowledge relating to the basic epistemologlical processes of science and medical data interpretation, but also a willful ignorance towards fact that you are clueless. Science can be corrupt, scientists can be dogmatic assholes and scientism will lead you astray - but if you can't grasp the absolute necessity of the scientific method and good data approximating real world phenomena, then you are just another dude who has lost the plot in a complex world. It's tragic, because I have read some pretty smart things from you and I still think you are a smart guy.

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Do you have a source for that Judson Brewer statement? I highly doubt that he would say the whole class of psychiatric drugs has a 20% success rate on average. That would be a ridicolous cliam. Different medications with different indications have all different outcomes. There are many potential modalities in psychiatry beside drugs (psychotherapy, EMDR, light therapy, movement-therapy, ECT...) Psychodelics knocking on the door of the mainstream as well. It "zombifies" SOME people - yes. On the other hand, I think the internet often distorts how well some patients do on psychiatric drugs. It's a sampling bias. Those with terrible side effects are getting most of the attention while a large majority is doing fine.

Well, I mean the reason psychiatrists are giving out pharmaceuticals left and right is because they work. Not for everyone and defintiely not all the time - but in general, this is obviously the case. That said, psychiatric drugs are propably one of the most side effect prone substances known in modern medicine. Most of the drugs I perscribe as an internal medicine doctor, like statins or antihypertensives, are magnitudes below the side effect profile of your average antipsychotic. This is why good patient education is important and even ethically indicated.

The psychiatrist should have educated you about this extremely common side effect. Bad experiences like this shape peoples distrust in the modern medical system, and that's a problem.

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature. Atheim is the absence of belief in the existence of deities. It's possible to be a materialist theist. In that case, "god" would be made out of matter, just like you and me.

I have been here since the beginning. Hence, I agree with the premise. It's a classic blind leading the blind scenario. You have got it all - the good, the bad and the ugly. Or how you called it..

That's nonsense. Tap water in high income EU-countries (Finland, Switzerland, Austria..) is usually way cleaner than any bottled or filtered variant you can purchase on the market. I live in a region where the tap water get's bottled and sold as "healing remedy" throughout the world (also called "Granderwasser")

Ohh, my bad! I didn't read that properly. In that case, that should't be a cause a major problem!

Pharmakokinetics (the way your body metabolizes/eliminates a pharmaceutical drug) can drastically change under prolonged periods of dehydration.

No, wait until you are complete off any medication before you do water fasting.