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not with this one, sorry

The sentiment might go both ways Jason. Always important to be prepared to say "I was wrong" I have held strong opinions over things that turned out to be no so true many times over the years. Thanks god I never based my identity around any of those such as becoming a XYZ-Advocate on social. I'm always prepared to change opinion with influx of new data and always will be. Are you? Will you be able to drop your seed-oil denier identity if it genuinely one day turns out that you were incorrect?

@ZenAlex I do, both with their supplements and their test. I did a calprotectin test with a client once who was not able to get it from a GP and I did the SIBO lactulose test once. Otherwise I haven't done tons of gut tests as most people are able to get what we need from their GP. The tests we did were easy to follow up and results arrived within 2 weeks or so which is standard on the market. Their supplements are also interesting. Some a bit speculative, other with good evidence basis. No other company I know have that much specificity for what each is trying to target. All of their supplements are therapeutic supplements, not necessarily maintenance stuff like probiotics. I've had some moderate results with their Femme section for a client with recurrent UTI but hard to tell if supplements alone did much as we did tons of other things. The BioMe section is also interesting for people with SIBO/IBS Overall, I really like InVivo, they are B-corp certified ethical company, their marketing is not shady, they produce regular impact reports and seem to actually care about the environmental impact. They do tons of practitioner training, their products are GMP certified and they collaborate with specialists in the field to develop new products. I would say they are the Patagonia of the health test/supplement market in the UK.

I don't think this can be answered without answering both questions (poll 2 does not allow blank response) where, I think, the way you intended was that some people would only answer 1 and some both 1 & 2 Also, it is Poll, not Pool

finally quit my 9-5 100% refocus on my business, offering my services at relatively low cost and later on offer free mentoring to starting practitioners buy the house or a flat with some calming view, ideally away from large city buy a high-end mountain bike for myself and my partner and spend more time outdoors biking, camping, hiking invest into something worthy (not sure what that would be) Otherwise my life would remain pretty similar to what it already is

Have a look at InVivo. Pretty good combination of ethics, evidence basis and price. Give them a call and ask to chat to one of their practitioners. https://invivohealthcare.com/

There is couple ways to look at this and a few things to keep at mind when considering that sort of move, whether short term or long-term. This reply might not resonate with you, maybe you are different to me, I tend to be very cautious when making strategic decisions in life. Works for me but not for everyone. 1. Does your company allow cross border working? Does it include South America? How long is the maximum duration before your tax coding has to change? Employee Mobility is a hot topic right now in the corporate world so best be clear on the policy before moving. You don't want to just move without telling anyone as you might get sacked over breaching your contract. Alternatively maybe you could transition to a contractor agreement, that might be able to fix the issue although you would lose company benefits which are usually for FTEs only. If your company does allow moving to Brazil and would continue paying you then that's probably a no brainer, just be sure to speak to HR or your boss to be on the safe site. 2. Second thing is that there are plenty of things you might be able to do for your mood to feel better in the winter. Have a look into the health section, I think this has been discussed many times before. Or chat to AI about some strategies to keep your serotonin high when days are darker and shorter. Things such as good morning routine, plenty of exercise, diet, supplementing vitamin D and making sure your eyes get daylight exposure are just top of the iceberg of all the things you can do. 3. Do you have a plan B if your company says "no, sorry you can't work from Brazil"? Maybe they would allow you to take a sabatical? Unpaid holiday for a month if you could prove that you experience mental health difficulties? Ofcourse ideally you want to do this ethically as a genuine reason being mental health rather than wanting to escape and travel because they would be holding your space when they could offer it to someone who would be generating a value while you're gone since the company is already struggling. 4. Also, I'd say before you approach that topic, prepare a case. Think about this from a prospective of your boss or the CEO of the startup who is probably under tons of pressure to deliver, to pay you and not to have his company sink like Titanic. Why should he/she allow this? Could you present a solid case? Would you be able to demonstrate that working remotely could lead to better productivity? Is there any research you could present to them about employee mobility and the impact on productivity? Could you maybe help the company obtain business over there? (although that probably does not align with your job). Or is there other way the company could benefit from you working from there? 5. And finally, if you have six months savings that's a solid insurance but no enough to be able to go crazy and travel the world for 3-4 months without an income. Think about how long it took you to earn that money and how long it would take you to earn it back if you, say spent 70% of it. Travelling usually burns more money than one anticipates and the last thing you want is to come back to no job and having a 1000 euros on your account. I know people who have done that and they really really struggle now. I am all for exploring but best do it wisely. I love that you are taking the LP course and starting a business and that's definitely and alley you should continue pursuing, I don't know if that biz is somehow tied to your country or if you could do it anywhere and how do you see the potential revenue from it over the next 5 years. If you would like to transition, that's an important factor. Maybe waiting one more year till it is profitable would be worth it? There is also the factor of would moving really benefit your productivity or would it be a distraction? I lived in Greece for 6 months and it was the best time of my life but if I was building a business during that time, I wouldn't have been able to because it was exciting and I was enjoying life where building a biz is anything but enjoyable, sometimes shitty weather and dark days actually help with that in some weird form. The hustle and bustle of tropical Brazil could damage your progress , or maybe it wouldn't. Only you can know, just be brutally honest with yourself. A lot of those Bali digital nomads from US and Auzie have a golden safety net of their parents wealth that they can fall into anytime or they have a massive hedge fund from their parents since birth that generates them 30 grand a year. Building a business and living in Tropics is easier for those people and different to someone who has 15-20 grand on their bank account that took them 5 years to generate. Be adventurous and brave but also be realistic and strategic. Hope you'll make it work one way or another, sounds like a great plan and I wish you success !

looks fabulous, great work! Reminds me that mine needs a refresher, been a while. Also, pls share the link to your YT channel or other sharing media for your art.

if you want people to comment, PLEASE can you put some effort into structure and sequencing this in paragraphs and a few bulletpoints of TLDNR. Or ask GPT to do it for you. This is an unreadable train of thoughts.

@shree @Jannes I've eventually decided to go for reMarkable after speaking to two users and reading reviews where device were compared to each other I wanted something that was not a tablet but had limited connectivity, this seems to work the best

Thank you for raising this Max, i had absolutely no idea, i remember talking to him only briefly be he seemed like a passionate and highly intelligent guy. My heart goes out to his family ❤️

Could it be that before you started being more active you were more accustomed to being...say, on a lower energy side? And that increasing muscle mass increased your energy and you became more mindful of how better you're feeling which came even more apparent after you cut calories again? Also, I think, in general most people would feel pretty bad on such a restriction. Protein is not just for building muscle, amino acids are an essential metabolic cofactors that your body uses in most cellular processes so if you are running short, you'll feel it in your energy, mood, sleep, vigour , later on hair loss and drying skin are also common. It does and if we lived 12,000 years ago in northern Europe as the last remnants of the ice age dissapeared, food was extremely scarce, beign muscular would be a major disadvantage, you are right. Nowadays having more compared to less is beneficial because it does, as you said, consume calories and most people benefit from burning more calories since many of us tend to eat more than we need. On the top of that carrying more muscle is associated with better health overall so it might be a trade of worth making. Still, if it doesn't support your current lifestyle, there are other ways to train that don't lead to hypertrophy but would still result in preservation of good overall fitness, things like calisthenics, swimming (especially focusing on crawl, diving breaststroke or butterfly) but also cross country running that includes hills and valleys (if something like that is available to you) or sprints.

They are very similar with some mild differences. AI can probably help you distinguish I'm going to say no, sorry. I'm not a recruiter and not an expert on building a CV. Not by any stretch. I had other people who are more experts in that help me build mine. Whatever feedback I'd give you, might not be relevant. If you think there is a termination risk, even more the motivation to look outwards. Unless your termination comes with a sweet redundancy bonus like 6 months salary in which case it might be worth it. You'd have to consult your employment agreement.

I am in a somewhat similar situation with my 9-5 job. Also based in a fast-paced corporate role. I think the safest way to do this is to make yourself visible to LinkedIn recruiters by using the Job Seeker badge that only people with the title Recruiter can see (nore - also recruiters in your company may be able to see this). Start connecting with recruiters in your industry, reaching out for confidential discussions. Remember they are also looking to always expand their portfolio of real estate professionals so you are doing each other a service. And basically, start applying for roles while keeping your current job. I assume your leave period isn't longer than 1 month which is pretty standard time for your new employee to completed 3rd party background screening after you've been hired so there is always plenty of time for that organic transition to happen. Of course a polished professional CV is a must. What you are describing is a situation ripe for a change. Your appeal for promotion was rejected, you feel frustrated and unfulfilled. Get out of there. Those people are not worth your time. Your clients will be fine and the company will move on. It may take some time but there are better jobs out there and while I'm not familiar with the market it appears to me that you could do better than 57K as a real estate manager. If you, say, went for a directorship roles which would revolve around 80-120K you might feel more fulfilled and not necessarily more busy as it seems you are already doing work above your pay grade anyway. Good luck!

Do you have symptoms of parasitic infection? Best start there. There are stool tests that can confirm that. If you have a lot of persistent anal itching with diarrhoea, vomiting, regular fevers, malaise etc - then this is certainly a test worth pursuing. I'd always be cautious with jumping into some "cleanse" protocol as you might potentially go from a stage where your digestion was fine to messing up the microflora balance through antiparasitic cleanse. SO before you end up giving yourself enema with garlic-infused, oregano-scented alkaline water, ask yourself if you are sure that there is something going on in the first place.

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Thank you, I've been considering something like this for some time. My nasal apparatus often gets blocked when I lay down after decades of habitual mouth breathing at night. Do you tape over your mouth to enforce nasal breathing as well?

Beautiful lipid profile You know this is the sort of the stuff people should be putting on their dating profile Plant based diet doing wonders for your cardiovascular system when done right. You can't make that up, well done!

Diagnosis first. Make sure you actually have anaemia by getting your full iron panel medically invested. Depending on the severity you may need to go on high dose for a few weeks up to few months. But always start with diagnosis because iron overlord can be quite harmful. If you don't have a GP over there, could you maybe pay a private clinic? With regards to the diet, have you lost any weight recently?

@RendHeaven i think those are very valid and good things to do, and I do those already because, like you said, require no effort so why the heck not. But what about the fact that most of us live within 5G grid, what about your neighbors wifi and wifi in the office and trains and buses etc. I like those quick strategies but honestly that feels like a spit in an ocean compared to the magnitude of the problem. I don't think there is an escape from this unless you can live completely off grid. This is what i mean trying to live without worry because you'd go crazy. @Schizophonia I'll have to read the whole thing but pretty much the first thing that strikes me is urinary measure of neurotransmitters can't determine even remotely the levels in the brain only peripheral nervous system. That's and alpha omega difference. Look guys I'm not opposed to protection i am just not convinced this is something we can honestly do much about and it probably isn't worth the stress besides some small things that are indeed in our control

#iwaswrong What's usually the minimum you'd put a patient on statin for?

@Monkey_in_suit whatever you've been doing the past 4 months, continue doing that, your lipids have improved significantly. Still not there at the ideal but so much better! You could consider a statin for a short term while you continue working on the root cause or some form of supplement with decent evidence of cholesterol reduction. Also i think there is something else going on. Can't tell if you're low on iron, folate or b12 but something is pushing down your red cell profile, hemoglobin and hematocrit. Worth having that looked into in case you feel tired a lot.

Its nice if you can afford it and there might be some benefit which is more about reducing toxin exposure than getting some form of superior nutrition. If you can barely afford healthy food then eating a lot of non-organic fruits and vegetables with be better for you than eating very little and only organic or not eating any at all, that one seems pretty clear at the moment. If you have the money to spend, then maybe selectively choosing either those that have notoriously high pesticide residue or those that you eat the most of. Or just focus on whatever is treated the least in your country, work with GPT to help you put together a list to maximise fibre and antioxidant content and minimise toxin exposure. It is a difficult question. I wouldn't say that it is BS and then spew nonsense about carbon molecules, Brian Clement was the first one to came with this. Organic, amongst general public means something different so there is no need to play a smartass because he has a PhD. Yes, maybe the true scientific meaning is different, but at this stage, who cares. Eat your veggies, eat your fruits. Some is better than none and more is better than some. Enjoy your life, don't sweat the small stuff. Find a nice girl, start a family, find your purpose and live a fulfilling life. Food obsession only leads to a miserable existence (speaking form past personal experience)

@Nick5050 do you want this deleted or moved?

For some of these things we have increasing evidence on humans so I'd say that is a strong indication that something is going on. For example it is becoming clearer and clearer that microplastics are an issue. Similarly for mercury or cadmium, we are getting more clearer on harmful doses, sources etc. I haven't seen anything interesting on EMF other than some speculative nonsense and its been years since this has been flagged as a problem. So its either been looked into and abandoned by academia because there is nothing there (similar to genetic testing and treating people based on genetic profile like 23andme ) or it is impossible to assess due to complexity (also a possibility) or the dosages we are all exposed to aren't significant to be problematic (I think personally it is the latest). Doesn't mean it is not an issue, I don't want to fall into scientism and say NO research = NO harm. But there is certainly bigger fish to fry and most people can barely get their ass to the gym twice a week and eat reasonable amount of vegetables. Getting public focus on these things rather than on harm of eating shit diet and being unfit and lazy is basically doing humanity a disservice. For example, we have, at this stage, perfect public diet guidelines yet even that message hasn't got out there and there are people out there who are actively discouraging public from following the dietary guidelines... we haven't even moved past these basics. The WHO minimum recommendations for 150 minutes of moderate physical activity is met maybe by like 30% of people (maybe less) I see that as a bigger issue. But yeah, if you wanna go crazy, buy an EMF shield, live in Faraday's cage, wear a tinfoil hat and have a desk outside while keeping your feet on the grass, sure go crazy. I'd encourage you to do that if you can. But just make sure you have all the other boxes checked so that it doesn't turn into a neurosis and cause more suffering than benefit. That's all I'll say. Happy for you to disagree.