Michael569

Sounds a bit overly reductionistic. I'm definitely not an expert but when you read most of the highly regarded books on investing they are trying to steer you away from micromanaging your investments and instead thinking long term. The market has and always had self-correcting mechanisms. You have to be extremely savy and lucky to "beat the market" and to beat compounding interest. Can still be done and people do that but needs a lot of time, skills and experience.

@MarkKol fair enough Northern Italy? You'd have to learn the language which is one of the easier ones and definitely the most beautiful one but you'd get to live close to Swiss (impossible imgration policies), the sea, the mountains, the food, the sun, the climate.

I read that Poland is slowly creeping out of post-war economic burden and their GDP growth has been pretty significant. I'd assume that's only going to improve. What about Warsaw, Poznan or Wroclaw? Or closer to north Slovakian borders to also get mountain access The only downside is potential proximity to Ukraine but, i mean, if it ever came to a conflict it may no longer matter where you live in Europe

I don't care too much about taking part in this conversation, my response was purely zoomed on the graphic she shared. As far as I understand Emerald's position is in defence of vegan ethics which I agree with. All I said is that I don't think there is particular use of sharing these sorts of graphics on this forum because this is not the place and there is a general trend of selective science denialism hiding behind selective non duality (until that no longer becomes convenient).

Posting something like this on this particular forum is a completely futile act as much as I agree with you that this is a a strong argument. The nuances of how profound this is and the 100+ years of academic work that went into putting the hierarchy of evidence together are completely lost here. Its not an uphill battle. It is Leonidas taking his 300 Spartans charging up a mountain where Xerxes and 500 thousand Persians await with rolling rocks, catapults and archers.

Humbly received Wait, is this near the Rocamadour city? Google maps showed it. I attended a wedding nearby in 2022. It was absolutely stunning area!

Loving that forest and the hill in the background. Family house's looking neat too. Looks like you grew up in a great neighbourhood

@Aaron p glad you saw a value in that response. I think you are on a good start and with a bit of tinkering here and there, can totally be made to a viable solution. Sure

I'm not sure how to respond to this

Just for the sake of argument, what if I replace it with 50mg of ferrous glycinate. Pure supplement. Nothing else in there. Why is that a problem? How is that a problem? If the alternative is to eat steak every day, how do we know that's better or worse? Humans have been eating bovine steaks for 100 millions of years despite farming being like 10,000 years old? Not to mention cattle being introduced to America in like 1600s. Anyways, this takes us away from the point but I had to question it

Great observation and yeah, absolutely! The effects of food on your body can be exacerbated by held beliefs about that food. To some extend at least. Some of the The deeper mechanisms, such as, say the impact of food derived antioxidants on your immune system or certain fats on your metabolism may be independent from it tho. But the effects on your mental health, for example where you feel like your diet is in direct violation of your core beliefs(. E.g. being in an environment where you have to eat things you don't believe are good for you) can be devastating.

Deep down on the most very fundamental existential level, this is probably true...at least partially

The plan might work and get you some initial weight loss but it is hard to tell whether it will be sustainable and whether it is the best approach. Once you start restricting carbohydrates, your body will be getting rid of water because muscle glycogen is chemically attached to H20.This is responsible for quick weight loss people get on keto. Its not subcutaneous fat, it is water. You will of course lose weight as long as you exert more calories than you consume so in the grand scheme of things you'll lose weight, it doesn't matter what you eat as long as it is in caloric deficiency.... ...but...there are caveats the diet suggested above is heavily reliant on meal replacement shakes which might work early on but the question is "are you prepared to stay on meal shakes forever? What happens when you go off them in 3 months? the approach is restricting normal food. The food you eat isn't just about calories and macros. You are getting tons of other components like phytochemicals, polyphenols, fibre, essential fatty acids etc. My concern would be that overly restricting natural foods could, for example, restrict your fibre intake which might have negative effect down the line such as microbiom disruption, metabolic damage, increased radical oxidative damage from reduced intake of antioxidants etc etc. Also, and I hope this won't sound judgemental, forgive me if it does. But it seems to me like you're not approaching the issue with the solution, that it is more like you are trying to "cheat" weight loss with meal replacements. It might not be a sustainable long term approach and its like you are not allowing yourself to go through that mental transition of learning deeper about nutrition and the nuances of weight loss, instead it feels as tho you are kinda throwing out the baby with bathwater and getting rid of it all. I can also tell from the need to have cheat meals which tells me that part of your mind considers this too restrictive and needs a break every couple days. Again hope this doesn't seem like I'm critising you, I'm not but sorry if it comes across that way, I think it needs to be pointed out tho. So yeah in a conclusion it might work and probably will early on but just be careful to manage carefully so that you aren't restricting normal food too much and don't cause yourself issues down the line through restriction of fibre and other things.

There is a bit more going on in the brain of person diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Formation of Lewy bodies and Tau proteins isn't necessary linked to acetylcholine. What you may see is loss of neuronal excitability exactly because the functional structure of the brain is being replaced by necrotic tissue and beta amyloid. So its not that ACT deficiency is causing it, it is that there is less activity going on because the cerebral tissue is dying. You can't make the argument that Alzheimer's is basically meat deficiency which the above comment seems to refer to. That would be oversimplifying the issue to the point that it doesn't make it true. In fact, most people with Alzheimer's have probably been eating meat and eggs throughout their whole life if you looked at food frequency questionaire studies.

@integral I don't know if I care enough to continue with this discussion as we aren't getting anywhere useful. Unless we want to bring it back to where it started. "Do we need heme iron in diet? If yes, why? What is the evidence? In healthy adults specifically I mean. I'm not super keen to carry on otherwise as this is just widening the scope and we could go on for a week.