Michael569

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  1. I found it to work exactly the same way for me. After the first minute, it actually starts to appear pretty warm even if I bump it up to the coldest it gets. Funny how rapidly adaptable the human body is. Need more pix of the aurora pls
  2. I occasionally use a sort of empty plastic syringe (without needle) and with warm water flush them through. Last year one of my years got really stuffed after I used earbud that I literally lost 50% hearing for 24 hours. The syringe thingy fixed it and since then I do not own cotton buds. Wish I knew before. Something like this is super helpful. It could also be that you are listening to music too loud? That may create a sort of mechanical pressure on the microbiome in the ear forcing the buildup of ear wax? I know this sounds funny but try less earphone time generally and less volume and see if that helps?
  3. Hopefully, this won't be upsetting advice but I'd be careful with falling into SEO trap. I don't mean to undermine your efforts but SEO is a pyramid scheme (legal one of course). There are only so many articles on Page 1 of google search and those will in 99.999% cases be captured by Healthline, WebMD and other big names. It is extremely difficult to compete with these organisations if you are just one person with limited capital. What you are trying to do is to spread your time into many extreme and many separated markets. As a one person you may find this extremely challenging. Instead, I'd focus on one specific topic (e.g. joint health for athletes, or joint health for football players....something like that but possibly even more specific and even more nische) and only sticking to that and making it your core focus. Otherwise, if you want to win on Google searches you will be facing giants who have hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of dollars to put into marketing. Alternatively, you can find your small group of perfect audience who will want to read to what you have to say. Maybe become active on football forums and get in touch with people who play it or watch it regularly, those who are interested in what you have to say, build a tiny community and grow it organically. Facebook groups for example are good for this.
  4. Oh Absolutely. On numerous levels. 1. Depletion of major antioxidants (glutathione, catalase SOD) so the brain becomes more vulnerable to inflammation & free radical ( waste molecules of normal metabolism) damage 2. HM bind to NMDA receptors creating a state of hyperexcitation which can lead to depletion of certain uplifting neurotransmitters leaving the person kinda zombie-like or to damaging of the receptors which can then make the person difficult to get excited for anything in life because the stimulatory pathway is not working properly. 3. disruption of blood sugar balance by damaging insulin signalling 4. BDNF depletion which switches off neuroplasticity 5. Disruption and opening up of the blood brain barrier -> this can cause a flow of shitstorm in the brain that would have never got there otherwise. Things like LPS (waste of dead bacteria)
  5. What is your diet like? Sleep? Hydration? Coffee intake?
  6. Interesting! I've never heard about this but then AGEs are basically a demon child of carbohydrate and protein created through a devilish and ungodly lovemaking so perhaps it is possible that through the radiation there is sort of a collapse of the molecular boundaries & then reforming of the bridges between DNA structures to form a new molecule. Definitely possible but I don't have any evidence to back this up
  7. My grandfather used to say: "never marry a girl you don't consider beautiful or you'll spend the rest of your life suffering everytime you look at her" Beauty is subjective and very superficial but being in a relationship with someone you genuinely consider attractive makes life more enjoyable as harsh as that sounds. I agree with everyone who says that personality, values etc are more important...they are. But if the person is unattractive to you, that will mess up your sex life and if that doesn't work most relationships will fail. Let her go, somebody else will find her beautiful and you should wait for the one you genuinely consider beautiful. it is worth the wait,
  8. eh...let's fix the root cause shall
  9. nothing does. Unless you can move out to a small village or find a cabin in the woods, there is no escaping pollution.
  10. This was good suggestion by @UDT, ketogenic diet can indeed be keeping you awake at night. There is not a lot of research evidence for this but glucose deprivation can sometimes trigger these adrenaline & cortisol spike at night due to your brain possibly panicking that it has no substrates for energy production. Also your brain alone burns somewhere around 150g of glucose a day (perhaps even more) and if that is hard to come by for example by missing substrates for gluconeogenesis (making energy from non-carb sources) such as various B-vitamins, L-carnitine, alpha-lipoic acid (not suggesting you supplement) or other stuff. A lot of people doing IF have deficiencies of essential nutrients require for energy production because they rely on protein-heavy (but micronutrient poor) foods in that one eating window to match caloric needs. This gets even worse if vegan or vegetarian does IF and relies on a single meal of beans or lentils with few veggies to carrier them through. This is how metabolism is wrecked. It may be that your brain perceived itself as being starved and will wake you up to go and find food. Also, it appears that being in ketosis can be heavy on your adrenal glands (stress hormone-producing gland) because ketosis is a deprivation & starvation state, not a thriving state (yes this is controversial I know). Think about ketosis as your emergency mode kinda like hospital having a short-term power supply in case there is a power cut. You shouldn't live in emergency mode. It is there to keep you alive in times where (historically) sugar would have been scarce (such as famine, winter etc) but once again this is not something I was able to find a lot of research so it remains speculation from my side. TOO LONG DID NOT READ Try seeing if you can do cortisol :DHEA testing. Like I said it HAS TO be salivary. Doctors only do blood cortisol but that's useless because serum cortisol is tightly regulated and does not show discrepancies. It may also be called along the lines of "HPA test" or "stress test". This helps you to identify whether your stress hormones are spiking up unnaturally at night or whether your HPA-Axis (brain to adrenal gland communication) is being disrupted. If that proves to be so, post it back on the topic and we'll try to help you out Sorry if this post is overwhelming, I am not sure how to write this in an easy way, working on that Good luck!
  11. @Member not sure if you are joking or not.. but that's some pretty unsafe advice .@electroBeam consider looking into cortisol:dhea testing. It may be that you have a rapid spike of adrenal hormones at night. Sometimes people experience this. Make sure to do salivary not blood test.
  12. What are to you experiencing?
  13. You can always buy a high quality respirator with replaceable filters. Bike out of peak hours or out of town completely. It is generally much safer to use public transport in big cities and in most cases is fairly economical. But other than that there is not much else to be done. Do your best to stay off the main roads when you can.
  14. Upvoting and thumbing used to be a feature of the forum a while ago. It lead to too many of us being obsessed with likes and nobody reading posts with low amount of upvotes. Short after a chimp-rating system was introduced but Leo removed that short after. As a form of nostalgia I haven't changed my pic since then.
  15. Read this ☝️ guy's diary. @fridjonk is the king of examplary sleeping schedule
  16. There are worse things people do to themselves than bunch of vegetable oils. Love your mom with all her faults & imperfections. That's the most you can do for her. You mean well but she may see it as an offence if she is locked in stage blue. Let go of needing to improve her diet. If she is ever interested she'll ask you.
  17. Ferritin might give you a hint You could ask if cortisol : DHEA is an option so assess adrenal function HbA1C for long term blood sugar balance Other than that could also be down to dietary deficiency or improper diet.
  18. How's your digestion? Most autoimmune conditions start in the gut.
  19. I don't know how useful this is but look for cheap spaces to hire. Like a garage or a basement or maybe some old office? Lot of people rent space they own but don't use. Maybe someone somewhere won't mind you practicing if you throw 100 euros a month at them.
  20. @actualizing25 what makes you assume you have heavy metal toxicity? Don't jump on the fear-bandwagon straight away. Do you have history of occupational exposure? (mechanic, welder, miner etc...)
  21. Beautiful! I absolutely love nature trail types of paintings
  22. I think we will agree that the Western diet is the worst possible diet on the planet and what wherever place you come from it will make it worse. I have never taken deep dive into Inui diet but found this piece where they explored few mummies from the 16th century and despite being very young had a progressive arterial plaque. Now they don't mention too much but this could be something you could relate to as "traditional inui diet". Small sample I know but it shows something https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6991216/ Weston Price is commonly referred to as almighty researcher but we have many other who have proven benefits of more plant-based dominated diets in their own research such as Natan Prittikin or Dean Ornish.
  23. The problem with most heavy metal tests is that they are largely inaccurate. The common ones including hair or nail ones can be really tricky to get right as the sensitivity ratio is really unreliable. DMSA as a form of test appears to have the greatest validity but I wouldn't do that on my own. Maybe you can find a medical institution that would be willing to help you with this for a fee.
  24. A good place to start is to explore housing. Molds for example are very pro allergenic and asthma (in many cases) is just a progressed untreated allergy. Same as dustmites and other allergens around the house. As @UDT said it is a systemic inflammatory condition meaning if the inflammation is treated properly and root cause identified, it can be healed. It is usually multifactorial which means one thing (like one supplement or herb) won't do anything and it needs to be addressed systematically and holistically by removing obstacles to healing before any healing is even attempted. Few things that make asthma worse or that can create it in the first place stress obesity systemic toxicity having allergies & living in hyperallergenic environment Excess Omega 6 over Omega 3 ratio (can override resolvin activity and create a sort of wildfire scenario where the body cannot switch off its own inflammation long after it has served its purpose) low fibre diet (especially low fruits & berries) too much animal foods in diet Poor nutrition and deficiencies messed up gut microbiome and poor diversity from either having taken many antibiotics or not having fibre in the diet lack of exercise being born to a smoker or living with a smoker being born by c-section or into water tub having taken antibiotics before the age of 3 having been born to a sterile environment (hypercleaning) Having taken corticosteroids for long time can actually make asthma worse Certain medication can wreck your immunity Immune disruption (this is a bit too complex to explain)