PsychedelicEagle

Okay, I'm open to this possibility, but then please elaborate on it without using data, or in any other way that makes sense. I wanna learn more. I have been taking Zinc supplements at 20mg daily for the last months as I was not getting enough from my diet (I eat vegan most of the time).

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What are you goals?

I would say bodyweight can be quite heavy depending on what you're doing. So it literally depends on the exercises you pick, and the load you choose. Why not up the reps and do a very slow progressive overload? You could start for example with a load that you can do 30 reps and go from there, slowly increasing the weights over the weeks. Recent research on hypertrophy has shown that it happens even for higher reps, which was thought to not be the case up until recently.

I deliberately sunbathe every (sunny) day for 20 minutes; I try to expose as much skin as possible. I believe in a more natural lifestyle and that exposing ourselves to the sun might (or might not) have benefits beyond just Vitamin D. Make sure you are eating foods that enhance your body's ability to cope with the sun, for example: https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/foods-reverse-sun-damage-skin-protection

Can you please share the data substantiating this fact? Why is the 15-30mg recommended daily supplemental dose incorrect?

Curious to learn that too. @integration journey, just for my info, what test did you do?

In addition to plastic I would be concerned with other side effects chewing might have. Why not try to go chewing-free?

Great point. I've heard the estimated lifetime MDMA trips one should do is 50x (assuming 120mg + 80mg booster), with more than that risking changing sleeping patterns (whatever that means, heard it from a psychedelic researcher). I've done MDMA 3x in my life, in party settings, and all those trips helped me increase my will to be more social. I don't think it's fundamental for healing, but if one wants to do it please test it and weigh it carefully, MDMA requires great care. That said, most healing in my life happened with Ayahuasca. Including childhood & other traumas/perceptions that unlocked me to have more meaningful social interactions. Psychedelics were a big part of my process but really, I think the best medicine is constant social exposure and developing yourself. There are no shortcuts! It is a slow process. @eTorro, at this point in my life I can say I've healed from toxic shame. 7-8 years ago (when I was ~25yo) I was unable to talk to girls that were generally beautiful or of high social status. I felt deeply inadequate. I read "No More Mr. Nice Guy" & many other pickup/relationship books for men. One that helped me A LOT was "How to be a 3% man" from Corey Wayne. Another is "Models" from Mark Manson. I went to personal development forums, consumed thousands of hours of personal development videos (here I have to give proper thanks to @Leo Gura -- I have yet to create a post in this forum sharing the importance that Actualized.org had in my whole life, but I want to do it in a separate post & the proper way -- in the context of this post Actualized.org teachings were fundamental to help me navigate rejection in a mindful way at a crucial moment of my life). I can't remember how many times I cried because a girl rejected me and I could not figure out what was going on or even what was the right way to behave. There was a time when I would cry every night. Now I got to the point where I can easily go and talk to whoever I want. I date beautiful girls I'd never thought I could. The only caveat is that it is a slow process (IME -- it took me 8 years!) and requires you to build confidence through grounded personal development. Once you are following your life purpose, you are happy with your fitness goals, the trajectory of your life, it all becomes a lot easier. Then comes the social exposure, you can have a goal to talk to one person per day, start salsa/dancing classes, it doesn't need to be everything at once. You work in these areas in parallel as your life unfolds and one area helps you become more confident in the others. Apologies for the long post -- there's much more I could share, feel free to ask if anything.

The classic lemon tekk! It does speed up absorption, increasing the peak at the cost of shortening the trip. Once I did 5g mushrooms lemon tekk and it was a very intense trip. I think best if you powder the mushrooms as much as possible so the surface area of the lemon juice interacting with the "spice" is larger. We put the powder in the lemon juice and let it sit for about 20 minutes. Search online and you'll find many tutorials. Great point.

Interesting. Never did 4-AcO-DMT. Now curious to try it out.

I heard from a researcher (who self-experimented with LSD over months) that 2-3 weeks is actually the ideal period. You can still develop tolerance with 2 weeks if done consistently, but not with 3. Of course that was his body, and with LSD. With mushrooms, I'd naively guess tolerance is less pronounced due to the psylocibin being more quickly cleared from your system. No, IME. I've done mushrooms 2 days in a row because I was in the NL and didn't have much time. My second trip was quite strong, I didn't notice any difference.

Interesting. Did you do the Omega 3 Index test or the serum one? Asking cause serum only reflects the last days of eating, but probably you know this. I'm also vegan (most of the time) and taking Omega 3 supplements (800mg/day of DHA+EPA), and eating a lot of freshly-ground flaxseed (I deliberately ground it myself right before eating since I've heard otherwise the Omega 3 can easily get oxidized. Anyway, flaxseed only has ALA. The same (oxidation) can happen for supplements, so I wonder if what I'm taking is good enough.

@BlessedLion, look into Sauna and exercise for more conservative heavy metal elimination methods. I posted about a study comparing the two for several heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, etc. IIRC mercury was greatly excreted by sauna, but others like lead required physical exercise to be eliminated through sweat. Another benefit of sauna is the release of heat-shock proteins. You can also incorporate meditation into your sauna sessions

Another thing to keep in mind is that Vitamin C highly increases iron absorption when both are taken together. Especially for heme iron, I would guess, as it's much more absorbed by the body. Also, heme iron increases non-heme iron absorption, IIRC. I remember these numbers because I deliberately worked to bring my ferritin levels down. IMO the > 100 marker are very common in today's population but I don't think it is really natural, as today people eat a lot more animal protein than in the past. So I deliberately try to stay on the lower end. Keep in mind I'm no nutrition specialist and these are my personal beliefs.

Good to know. So it could be that with the new diet your body is absorbing more iron indeed... Have you looked at the other iron-related measurements such as total binding capacity, latent binding capacity, transferrin saturation, etc? That could give you a better picture (I'm not a specialist but I've had these tested in the past). And, for how long have you started eating animal products? Personally, I believe lower ferritin levels are better. But I don't see how you still relatively low meat intake would affect it that much... Just jotting down my perspective.

I think ferritin gets higher not only due to higher iron stores in the body, but also when there's inflammation. A single ferritin measurement is not reliable as you said. Avoid measuring it when you are sick, it'll perturb the results. When I was not vegan, my ferritin was in the 150 range too. I wasn't as healthy back then. After becoming vegan and some blood donations I hit 40. Could it be that a non-vegan diet incurs higher inflammation?

"Quickly" and "healthily" are often at odds. Why not take your time while consistently ensuring a caloric surplus? Anyway, here are some ideas of highly caloric whole foods, healthier than most if not all processed foods: Driet fruits: dates, figs, etc. Very delicious and high in calories. Bananas. You can make a meshed banana purée mixed with pea protein isolate. Pea protein is very creamy and it should give you a consistency similar to ice cream. Add to this flaxseed, chia seeds, or hemp seeds and you'll have a natural meal rich in Omega 3 & protein. Flaxseed is also rich in many other nutrients like trace minerals. I do this every day w/ 5 bananas (3 meshed, 2 as toppings), 30g pea protein isolate, 60ml ground flaxseed, cacao nibs, cinnamon. It has about 1000 kcal. Nuts. Focus on nuts that have a low Omega6:Omega3 ratio, such as walnuts, macadamia nuts. Brazil nuts are also healthy but you should only eat one per day AFAIK. PS: Don't forget to fix your B12 and Vitamin D defficiencies and to ensure a good macro nutrient profile (10-20% calories from protein, 10-30% calories from fat, 60-80% calories from carbs).

Not true. Organic farming = sustainable agricultural system that uses ecologically based pest controls. It's mostly better for the environment, probably also better for consumers. This. For curiosity, organic seems to yield 25% less than non-organic. Disconsidering differences in pesticide, fertilizer, & other costs, one can use a simple rule of thumb to assess whether the price of an organic food is fair. Personally, I always buy organic because I believe it might be healthier and better for the planet. Which might not be true. If I wasn't able to afford organic I wouldn't matter much about it.

@aurum Yes, great points. An example of this is trace minerals. We grow our foods in soil that is reutilized over and over, with usually only a handful of minerals being replenished. Even whole foods are not as natural anymore. After learning about it, I'm now considering a trace minerals supplement.

Could it be your Cortisol regulation? Usually what makes us jump out of bed in the mornings is the cortisol peak. Not sure what would help to regulate it, but I think doing these things earlier in the day might help: exercising, cold exposure, daylight, etc. The reason is that earlier the peak the lower cortisol will be later in the day. Maybe over time this will either directly regular the cycle or indirectly help you sleep earlier.

Have you looked at the natural hygiene movement? There are some medical phylosophies that take the absence of hunger as an indicative the body needs to fast. Not necessarily suggesting it's your case, just food for thought. Other ideas: Reducing the number of meals. Personally, I eat 2x/day. I find it quite nice because when I eat it's pleasurable and I get to eat significant amounts of food in each meal. Using a blender to get more calories in. Not solving the hunger issue, but an alternative. Trace minerals. Something I became aware of recently. Not sure they can be tested...

@bambi, I honestly think these issues are not taken as seriously as they should. We live in a society where reductionism and scientism are the norm. Anyway I appreciate what Bryan is doing and I think the gradient is positive: Blueprint helps to move society to a healthier place.

The idea is to weigh measurements with other facts. Biomarkers are just one way of informing oneself. Perhaps a quite reliable one, but not infallible. Agreed, this is likely required if we want to optimize health to the extreme. But notice that manipulating highly complex biological systems is not easy. Whenever you decide to go againt nature you are playing at high stakes. Perhaps this is part of Bryan's purpose; if so, that's okay, and his findings will be valuable for humanity. I just wouldn't run the risk myself. The line is drawn arbitrarily of course. To me, the longer some behavior/food/etc. was present during our evolution, the more natural it is. Therefore I favor whole foods vs supplements, for example. Natural is not strictly better, but the standard deviation tends to be smaller: you are less likely to screw yourself by doing things we evolved doing. So we can say natural is more robust.

Indeed. He doesn't even mention meditation in the protocol. Perhaps another hint at his center of gravity still falling under Stage Orange.