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Sometimes the path of self-love is one which involves a strong stance against a certain condition, rather than passively accepting it. We are not talking about a birth deffect or other irreversible deformities - we are talking about androgenetic hair loss, which is treatable for the most part. Its of course not a disease, but a rather cruel joke from mother nature. Fix what you can and accept/love the heck out of that which you can't. Or dont. Its really up to the individual. You will pay a certain price regardless of your decision. What you are saying is of course, at the root of it all, true. It is a mental dynamic of insecurities, ego & conditioning. However, the path to self-love is polyaxial and sometimes, the net positive for someones life is taking the extrinsic route. I love myself even more for taking action and not just "accepting" it. I really dislike this monotonous way of seeing complex issues. OP needs to come to his own conclusions. Thats why I told him not to listen to anyones advice. It's really up to his invidual expression and patterns and not something we can chose for him. Cheers

Yes, especially finasteride and minoxodil work wonders. They are FDA approved for that indication. I would advice for topical solutions in both cases. Sure. You can also accept/(self-)love that you are 200kg overweight. Or you can do something about it. This might not be the same thing but both it shows that the nature of the question is not either/or. I am defintiely better off with hair than without. There is just no question about it.

Ignore all the advice. They dont know you. Just because someone else shaved their head and did fine afterwards doesnt mean that this is the right solution for you. I also started suffering from male pattern hair loss in my early 20's and THANK GOD I did not listen to all the family members and internet experts who told me to "just shave it bro". I am not telling you to keep your hair either. It really depends on many things - your headshape, your beard status, how much you care about being physically attractive, your job situation and so on... Some guys look way better bald than balding. Others suffer from the slaphead curse. If you want to be proactive, then there are many ways to stop and even reverse your lost hair.

Neo-Advaita is a reductio ad absurdum-view on reality. Its a perspective held up as some sort of undeniable "truth". I dont think its healthy - most spiritual emergencies emerge from this particular line of thought. Intelligent people lose their way to relate wuith the world, such as seen with the sad downfall of Nahm - one of the prior actualized.org moderators. (context: https://imgur.com/3WKAELm) There are healthier ways to engage with spirituality - some which include the truth of no-self but also transcend and inclunde prior stages. You dont want to become an adveita-bear after all:

I can connect you both

I can connect you both

Our therapeutic understanding surrounding the gut-microbiome is still in its infancy. Studies about supplementation show mixed results. Our best data actually comes from stool transplants, which can be extremely effective in some patients. There are multiple case reports & anecdotes about certain individuals fucking up their micriobiome through supplementation. This can cause all sorts of issues down the road. I personally advice my patients to build up their biome through mostly food-focused resources (fermented vegetables, sourcrout, berries) and use supplemebtive solutions only in exceptional cases.

Thats exactly what my post is poiting to

Both are possible solutions. My personal go to as a MD is, first and foremost, evidence based medicine - which is mostly based on drug-related interventions. However, I think that holistic solutions are greatly underapprechiated in our modern medical paradigm - and this is especially true when it comes to mentah health conditions. It also comes down to the individual patient since everyone has different goals and ideas about the healing process. Depending on your condition and the severity of the symptoms, its perfectly fine to try alternative solutions at first. And if you want to try mainstream medication, than thats perfectly fine as well - taking a drug is not a cop out. Your decision should not be based on shame or avoiding shame - thats not how good medicine works.

Quite the contrary. Admitting defeat is nothing like what you just described. For me, an individual who has given up on him/herself is someone who wouldnt even consider taking any action. Its actually really brave to seek help - and this is especially true for someone who suffers from a debillitating mental condition. We do have an expanding arsenal of tools to deal with with specific issues and I dont see one reason why you shouldnt give them a try. Psychiatric drugs are real life changers in some cases, while other minds need a different approach. There is a lot of stigma around these drugs, esepcially on the internet - but its usually a lot of noise from online-experts who have no real clue about the topic, nor have they ever treated a patient. How about this: Keep the drug-approach as some sort of last resort and try out some of the alternatives to deal with your condition. You will always know that if shit really hits the fan, you can go back and take the medication. It can be your safety net and you can still put up your best fight. However, if you just want to feel better and life just sucks - you can start with the pills right now. Its not shameful, its not admitting defeat - its just one way of dealing with a condition. It doesnt mean that you should keep taking them for the rest of your life if thats what you are worried about. I know patients, who after years of consistent SSRI-therapy, got off the drug and healed their depression with a psilocybin trip. Also, keep in mind that the drug-approach doesnt mean that you stop implementing alternative add-ons. Psychophysiological practices like breathwork/meditation/yoga or NSDR can work real wonders. Movement, sun exposure and diet are also no brainers. Just never combine oral drugs with psychdelics or other nootropic/psychotropic remedies Last but not least, a small anecdote out of my own life: I started suffering from really strong allergies about a year ago. It became so bad that I could barely breathe at night - so I got myself an asthma-inhaler which I used 2 times a day. I was annoyed because I didnt want to use this stupid inhaler for the rest of my life - so I kept applying it until my lung recovered from the stress. I had similar thoughts like you described in your post. After a month or two, I started doing research and tried out some alternative treatment options. Breathwork + cold exposure managed to decrease symptom severity by about 90% and I managed to get off the inhaler after 4 months.

This question of right or wrong doesn't really make sense in this case. I mean - wrong for what? for whom? for which purpuse? in what quantity? in what sense?.... If we cant contextualize our qustion about food, then any answer will be inherently unsatisfactory.

Stop taking the supplement and watch what happens to your symptom. Could be as simple as a nocebo-effect as well. I looked through the ingredients & dosages, no major red flags. Maybe, just maybe the pantothenic acid, delivered as d-calcium panthothenate could increase your serum calcium which would cause increased thirst. Anyway, if you feel better without the supplement I would recommend cessation.

Here is a meta analysis ragarding weed & IQ Effects are highly significant but only translate to an average decline of 2 IQ points following exposure to cannabis in youth. Also, bear in mind that we are talking about epidemiological research, so this does not prove anything beyond association. What it really takes to prove this hypothesis is a high quality randomized, placebo-controlled trial with a decent follow up period. However, i dont see this passing any ethical review committee Actually, the more I think about it, the more doubts come up...I can think of multiple cofactors that would intervene with said study protocol. For example, smoking a joint will greatly impact your REM-sleep quantity/quality in subsequent sleep cycles. This will also have an apparent effect on your IQ-measurement and I dont see this point adequately controlled for in the statistical analysis. This is just ONE argument and it already makes the findings very shaky....i There are many good reasons to not smoke weed regularly, especially as an adolescent. I doubt we will see the same findings about IQ in a high quality trial - but you never know. Keep it as low THC% and infrequent as possible- that would be my advice.

So thats where my dick rash is comming from

Both are Pizzas... But only one is a high quality product with traditional ingridients and minimal processing... Only one is made of delicious hand-crafted sourdough, fresh tomatoes and organic "fior di latte" Only one contains the high quality extra virgin olive oil that is full of antioxidants and polyphenols One of them will make you feel amazing, the other one like shit

You can die doing that.

Used to love his interviews & the documentary with London Real back when they produced good content and didnt scam people out of their money with crazy conspiracies and crypto-nonsense. Glad to see him on Huberman!

Healing is possible but not guaranteed. Whatever you do, the basis of your treatment must always be rooted in evidence based medicine - meaning mainstream onocology! In some cases we are getting really close to curing cancer. Couple of days ago, a landmark study was published about a new monoclonal antibody which completely reversed locally advanced rectal cancer in 100% of the cases with almost no side effects (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201445). Anyway, what you do from there to support your system is another question. An integrative/holistic healing approach includes multiple facets ranging from nutritional solutions, psycho/trauma-therapy, psychospiritual-interventions, interpersonal work & alternative treatment regimes like for example NAD+/Vit-D infusions or other orthomolecular approaches. What you need as an individual is highly subjective and as @Michael569 already mentioned, your best guess is to find someone who specializes in holistic cancer treatments. Beware of the snake oil salesmen that are ubiquitous in the alternative medicine space. There are countless cases of complete remissions after some old trauma got worked up or the right nutritional approach was impleneted. Never stop believing that healing is possible.

This is an incredible complex topic which I researched deeply 2-3 years ago. If I find some free time, I will go into detail with some naunce. The short answer is: Yes, sometimes and especially in the hippocampus and certain nuclei. Dont confuse "growing neurons" with plasticity. Also, Huberman usually knows his shit but the brain/neuroscience is far from figured out.

Lets stop demonizing food groups...its nonsense! Take 3 fruits: Watermelon, Blueberries & apples -> One will spike your blood sugar (watermelon) -> The other will stabilize (apples) -> Blueberries can even lower the glycaemic impact of other foods In general: especially if you dont suffer from insulin-intolerance..

Both are great! The exercises are really simple, you just need to follow through on them! Good luck with your issues!

The Kneesovertoesguy @ youtube or https://www.atgonlinecoaching.com/ or His book Can highly recommend this guy's work - healed my knee issues in 3 months.

I know countless of vegans among my acquaintances and they all look great.... Stop believing this nonsense. What you see on youtube is not reality. Plant based diets have been studied intensively and its not a question anymore of its healthy or not. Also, "vegan" is such a vague label. I could eat only potate chips, that would make me a vegan. I could only eat fruits and get like 10g of protein a day, that would make me a vegan as well. I could eat a 100% plant based, unprocessed diet, with a rich variety of different macro and micronutrients from a huge range of food items and take care of potential deficiencies in a smart way. Only one of those will keep you healthy in the long run.

Sv3rige is mentally ill and a well known liar, manipulator and deceiver. The individuals presetend in his collages are for a huge part the worst examples you can find, often on longstanding, weird elimination diets like frugivores with severe malnutrition-tendencies and other issues. He also deliberately alters clips with filters to make skin and wrinkles more prominent than they actually are. Taking nutritonal advice from Sv3rige is like taking health advice from McDonalds. Pure BS.