Jason Actualization

Beef is divinely healthy. Steer clear of the aisles in your grocery store.

All of the above, with the exception of properly formulated breads such as Ezekiel. People are overfed because they are undernourished. Ultimately this does boil down to chronic caloric surpluses, but the resolution is not to confine oneself to a calorie-restricted prison, but rather, to emphasize food quality, and food quantity will naturally handle itself. What is considered "food" in 2023 is truly abominable, and myriad examples entailing bags, boxes, cans, and containers, are truly perverse and poisoning humanity. Big Food corporations are selling you the problem, and Big Pharmaceutical companies are attempting to sell you the solution. Have you ever appreciated the elegance of how pharmacies are situated inside supermarkets (saying this as a pharmacist myself)? Processed, packaged foods have hijacked our body's satiety mechanisms, and because these Frankenfoods are fundamentally devoid of the nutrients our body yearns for, we fail to feel satiated when consuming them. The solution is to ship at the perimeter of your grocery store of choice, opting for whole, minimally processed foods.

What are you hoping to achieve with this? Fantastic. Generally these are just expensive urine given the lack of bioavailability of the constituents, but I'm more than happy to take a look. My personal philosophy with supplements is to adopt a sniper as opposed to bazooka approach, i.e., rely on your diet to offer the overwhelming majority of your micronutrient needs, and then simply fill in the missing pieces with spot supplementation as opposed to a broad spectrum multivitamin. I would drop supplements 1 and 4, personally. A work of art. Magnesium is generally the first supplement I would have someone explore. Next, I would be curious to know what your vitamin D level is currently and consider a D3 supplement if it's less than 40.

Caffeine is a chemical crutch: it's okay to lean on when you absolutely need it, but long-term it will cripple your baseline state.

100% this.

Ridiculous, indeed. The modern medical establishment is a broken system that serves to keep civilians sick by prescribing chemical crutches that get forever leaned on, and don't allow one to ever embody an optimal, holistic state of health. I've been a pharmacist for the past 5 years, but that time would have been better spent being a farmer, actually producing high quality food for folks on the front end, so they don't have to attempt to buy back their health pharmaceutically on the backend.

Bingo. Likewise. Dr. Berg strikes be as the antithesis of nefarious, he seems quite well-intended and his information far outshines the mainstream medical paradigm. I have dispensed thousands of pharmaceuticals in my life, and I am 100% confident that I could coach any one of the such people dispensed to, how to reverse their chronic condition(s), primarily mediated via dietary changes.

Yeah, there is definitely an adaptation period that you could eventually get past, but I prefer being metabolically flexible by eating plenty of carbohydrates, but also being able to burn ketones by only eating twice daily without snacking in between.

No harm, no foul man. I am very passionate as well and so I understand and appreciate your enthusiasm. I wish you equally well. I am so unshakably confident in my position that I have shared my dietary philosophy with all of my close friends and family members. I will share future imaging studies and laboratory tests on this forum, being 100% transparent, displaying the power of my nutritional paradigm that I have full confidence in.

That's horrifying. Mainstream health advice is horrendous and akin to a map leading to the cliff of your demise. His advice is generally quite good, with the exception being that ketosis is not the optimal state for human performance. Neglecting the carbohydrate macronutrient will not render ideal endocrinological outcomes. The notion that carbohydrates are toxic is complete nonsense.

Yeah, so it would depend on which micronutrient(s) and genetic polymorphisms are being consider. For example, if a person had a 5-MTHFR gene mutation and could not effectively assimilate folic acid, I would ensure that they have a good source of bioactive folate in their diet such as egg yolks.

As Hippocrates said, let food be thy medicine.

Gary Brecka is very intelligent and I'm a fan of the diagnosis he outlines, but not the treatment. The genetic polymorphisms that he draws attention and concern to do not necessitate supplementation to circumnavigate, but rather, the bioavailable forms of the bioactive nutrients from whole foods, i.e., beef, liver, eggs and full-fat dairy.

Yes, and I have a personal relationship with one of those authors, her name is Susan Carlson and she oversees a laboratory in Kansas City, Missouri. She is going to personally assay a sample of my adipose tissue in November. Care to guess how she personally navigates and advises others to navigate the linoleic acid infested world that we inhabit? She avoids it all cost and I have spoken with her ad nauseum about this matter. She is helping me save the world from seed oils by not only assaying my own adipose tissue (to prove that my dietary intake is both what I preach and practice) but also the phospholipid composition of my erythrocytes for social media purposes, i.e., to faciliate the proliferation of this this life-changing information. I'm sorry you feel that way man. In your lifetime, invariably, you are going to be burdened by enduring the same cognitive dissonance that I have in arriving at these conclusions (having been a traditionally trained pharmacist background spanning the past decade). The truth will eventually come to fruition, and I hope you are able to let it land my friend.

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This is a deduction derived from thousands of hours of reading and contemplation. What was once mysterious, became complex, but is now simple.

It's not the higher intake of PUFAs or MUFAs, it's the fact that the people following these guidelines are also engaging in other healthy behaviors because all of these studies were conducted after the indoctrination of this erroneous idea. Epidemiology studies performed in Asia arrive at the opposite conclusion, because meat is associated with wealth and virility. The problem is that all of the people that scientists could study nowadays are already poisoned by PUFA, so even a "low" linoleic acid cohort is already beyond the problematic threshold, so you are merely comparing the degree to which they've followed government-issued "health" guidelines. This is the misunderstanding of the millennium and it's unfortunate that people are still stuck on what they deem to be the importance of saturated fat in and so far as it relates to health outcomes. Saturated fat has been a forever scapegoat for the doings of seed oils, which, when they came to fruition, precisely precipitated the diseases of modern civilization, the consequences of which spanning far and wide that folks now have to contend with. Anyone serious about their health ought to eliminate all industrial seed oils from their diet and advice to the contrary will absolutely compromise your health.

A "real man" is one who expresses themself authentically from a place of inner ease and outcome independence. A "real man" is one who opens a lot of doors in this world, and explores the room on the other side, but does so in a way that he feels at home in his life, because he is so grounded in his own existence and comfortable in his own skin. Of course all men are "real," so a more apt characterization of what's being pointed to is an "actualized man" or as I like to refer to it as, an alpha male 2.0.

The reason for the recent drop off in CVD deaths is due to surgical interventions such as coronary artery bypass grafting, i.e., the prevalence of heart disease remains sky high, every 33 seconds, on average, an American drops dead due to heart failure.

Indeed, yet our dietary guidelines recommend getting between 11 and 22 grams of omega 6 linoleic acid per day, and that's on a 2,000 calorie diet. For me, even while closer to 3,000 calories, I'm getting less than 4 grams of omega 6 daily. The more we eat, the more we store in our body fat. Increased linoleic acid consumption marks the most significant, detrimental change to the human diet over the last 100 years.

They don't exist during sleep because you are no longer aware of them. Once you wake up, you start back where you left off in a sense, in terms of the quality of your physical state. Even if one identifies with Absolute Infinite Consciousness, they still have to contend with the consequences conferred by the way they treat/mistreat their body. For example, I could slip some estrogen (birth control tablets) into something you drink, and that is going to be a not so fun surprise for you to navigate.

I'm flattered. For me, building a better body has always been about cultivating a character who is more capable of contending with the inevitable adversarial nature of life's trials and tribulations. So in a sense, the true goldmine I've struck is the person who I became mentally and spiritually in the process of transforming myself physically. On the surface, it is, indeed, alluring to chase aesthetics externally, but fundamentally, what I've always yearned for is an inner state of ease. I've always wanted to be at ease with myself, comfortable in my own skin, and while building a better body may seem integral to achieving that outcome, I have had to divorce myself from it to find true contentment. To find true peace I've had to relinquish my armor and accept that ultimately I'm not the avatar that I create. Rather, I am the light that shines through, and all else is just smoke and mirrors. That said, with that freedom and peace of mind, I still choose to continue natural bodybuilding out of authentic inspiration, and not a desperate need for it. Without the guidance from many of Leo's antiquated YouTube videos from around 2015, I often wonder what my life experience would entail to this day. I have an undying appreciation and gratitude for the rabbit hole that is Actualized.org, and I hope everyone here has been as positively impacted as I've been fortunate enough to have been. Much love my friends!

Lol, yes that's me. That was a really funny moment in the back of a Target store, haha, it was completely improved, I had no intention to ever do that. As I was putting back the box containing seed oils, the reality dawned on me that someone else was going to walk by and purchase it, and I had a deeply felt sense of the inevitability of that, which moved me toward the act of punting the box haha. Oh yeah, some of his shorts videos have popped up before, did he actually get thrown out of a store!?!?

Yes, food-grade only, and I would only advise using it for brushing and rinsing.

1. As long as the foods you do consume ensure micronutrient sufficiency, (I eat the same handful of things every single day) so it's not variety, per say, but rather, ensuring the nutritional bases have been covered. "Variety" is just a term thrown out into the ether for the average Joe and his family. 2. Yes, but body composition is more important (my BMI is 26, i.e., "overweight" but my body fat percentage is nearly single digit). 3. This is based on a colossal misunderstanding of cardiovascular disease etiology. 4. I consume less than 5 grams of fiber per day (trace amounts from basmati rice). Fiber is helpful for folks have have horrific diets of processed, packaged foods, no doubt, but not if you are eating actual food. 5. Yes, specifically combined fructose/galactose intake from any/all sources should not exceed 50g per day for sedentary folks, and 100g per day for active individuals. 6. Not as important as folks think, you can safely salt to taste. I consume 2 grams per day of sodium and 4-6 grams of potassium. 7. Great advice, I personally prefer zero alcohol and smoking as a hard stop personal standard, but the dose definitely determines the poison. That's a great point actually, and that is right, they are not at all immune to atherosclerosis. While the Maasai are wise to consume a high saturated, low polyunsaturated fat diet, they are severely lacking in antioxidants because they do not consume any fruits or vegetables. What causes cardiovascular disease is not native LDL, but rather, oxidized LDL. This is why, neither the carnivores, nor the plant-based or vegan communities are truly optimized. The optimal omnivore embraces the protection from oxidative stress that saturated fat confers, while also emphasizing the augmentation of his/her own antioxidant status. This is why I would never advise someone to go full blown keto/carnivore, i.e., because they would not be allowed to incorporate the best defense of all, things like 100% pomegranate juice, wild blueberries, and very dark chocolate. Where the Maasai go wrong is that they don't have any such sources of these antioxidants, and they consume a lot of iron-rich blood which is pro oxidative. It's not intermingled because my anecdotes came after the interpretation was performed. I was EXTREMELY fortunate enough to cross paths with a nutritional savant from Australia in 2015. It was that year that I was given the information I am offering you all. This savant named Luke, at the age of 12, tragically lost his maternal grandmother to a sudden heart attack, and he, thereafter, obsessively ruminated about how and why that could ever happen. He devoted this time in his childhood developing a robust, bottoms up nutritional mental model that reconciles absolutely every study and observation available, and he shared this information with me that I then applied and am benefiting from to this day. Luke has been sitting on this mental model for 24 years now, and I am doing my best to disseminate it on his behalf. The scientific literature supporting the notion that we should be replacing saturated fats with poly fats was conducted at a time in which this belief was already indoctrinated into the minds of the people being studied. This means that the people who tend to consume more saturated fat will, on average, engage in the behaviors that precisely protect them from atherosclerosis (things to help fight endogenous oxidation, such as consuming more fruits/vegetables and exercising more). The obsession with saturated fat is derived from the fact that it tends to increase circulating LDL, whereas polyunsaturated fats tend to decrease circulating LDL (because they are hepatotoxic). It is the misunderstanding of heart disease etiology that has kept this obsession alive and well to this day. LDL is not the boogeyman it was once believed to be, and this is why the goal post keeps shifting for the target we strive for, and it will continue to shift forever lower until we realize that we are optimizing for the wrong metric (if it were the true target, it wouldn't need to be adjusted downward). You don't want to optimize for a reduction in LDL, but rather, you want to optimize for resistance to LDL oxidation, meaning, you not only want a high saturated to polyunsaturated fat intake ratio, but you also want the fruits and vegetables necessary to upregulate your antioxidant status.