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Don't suffer alone, there are people out there who could make an incredible difference to your life. Your depression may be physiological or psychological hard to say. A good naturopath will be able to identify the cause and then tailor a plan for you. They can look at your lifestyle, stress, diet, relationships, emotional health etc. Give it a try. Or life coaching can be extremely beneficial.

I found "Emotional Intelligence 101" to be quite useful.

@LfcCharlie4 great post, thanks. I've read the whole thing and agree on most points. Let's close it here and agree to agree on most points and agree to disagree on few points @Anna1 soz for hijacking the post, back to you.

@LfcCharlie4 I agree that most people will get very good weight loss results with IF because there is only so much calories you can cram in the eating window, it is simple reduction of caloric intake which is the number one goal of weight loss, can't disagree on that. But is it an efficient long-term strategy? Will you do IF for the rest of your life to sustain the weight loss? What happens once you stop and get back to regular eating. We've seen patients in the clinic who did exactly this...weight came back and along with it anxieties of weight gain so they went back which only created vicious cycle and eating disorder, suggesting breakfast to these people was met with same reaction as if I said "I would like you to eat a bowl of dog-poo every morning"> Beginners first of all need to learn how to eat properly, what foods to eat in abundance and what foods only occasionally. Orthorexia and eating disorders are more rampant than ever these days. People are completely scared of carbohydrates and fats so they end up relying on protein for their nutrients eating chicken and vegetables. Even fruit is the new boogeyman. Restricted eating starves microbiome, it sends starvation signals to the body, stimulating the production of Reverse T3 in Thyroid which just slows everything down. Once someone who has been on IF for a while gets back on regular eating the weight starts adding up...the body is constantly trying to avoid a period of starvation and when there is a risk, it will pack every calory it can. Only by regular eating is your metabolism receiving the signal that food is abundant and that weight does not need to be packed and stored around the abdomen. Occasional fasting such as once a week is great to allow your digestive organs to enter autophagy, mop up cellular debris, repair damaged DNA and save some energy to put where it needs to go. I'm not gonna argue about the incredible benefits of not eating, there is the place for that when healing your stomach, healing ulcers, intestinal inflammation, in cancer and other disease but the fast should be an occasional thing rather than the daily pattern. I am open to being wrong of course. Tried the IF, tried 24-hour fasting. Personally, regular eating works the best for me and that is how I've achieved greatest weightloss years ago. Regular meals with slightly reduced portions and regular exercise. We are all the same of course and genetics play a role as does the environment and cultural eating patterns. Btw I agree that prolonged cardio such as 1h on a treadmill can be very detrimental. You want to build lean muscle mass which is metabolically highly active and burns shitload of energy. HIIT is great metabolic shock as well to induce progress in weight loss where weightloss was stuck but should not be done too fast because it produces too many free radical byproducts which taxes kidneys.

Well said ! Women are not supposed to intermittent fast too often, or at least not skip breakfast, it wrecks their hormones. Skipping breakfast puts you into cortisol overdrive. Cortisol steals progesterone because they share the same production pathway and over time hormonal problems as well as reproductive problems may develop. Regular consumption of 3 balanced meals with dinner being the smallest + daily activity including 15,000 steps is the way to weigh loss. IF is a fancy short-sighted strategy that never works long term and can cause more harm than good.

Lol Bobby's Perspective, the carnivore diet has probably given him some parasite in brains...the guy is quite delusional

Would be interesting to see what they tested. Doctor will often look at TSH but that alone does not tell you much. Other than that, there could be a cardiovascular thing going on, something with poor oxygenation (perhaps low iron?), for some reason your body might be getting rid of too much water. Very hard to guess without some testing. You could try working with a functional doctor and look into some tests. I'd defo avoid surgery before investigating further.

Most people have the mindset of needing to do some sort of low-grade, useless job just to be "employed" otherwise they feel worthless. It is a learned sheep-behaviour pattern. While it is necessary to have an income and be self-reliant it is equally important not to end up in some sort of corporate trap just because you are scared of finding what you are passionate about. So don't listen too much to this sort of scaremongering but also make sure you don't use self-deception and poor excuses to be lazy.

have you had your thyroid investigated?

I did, he's a good chap but a bit too fear-driven and ego-driven with all the lifehacks. Lot of unacceptance going on there. His diet and lifestyle advice are brilliant thou, I'm just picking up a lot of shadow in background

Once the epiphyseal growth plan calcifies, no more growth is physiologically possible. Look up a condition called Acromegaly to see what happens to someone who's body stopped growing but get strong pulses of Growth Hormone. Unless you are willing to get the surgical procedure that includes breaking your bones and joints, it is not possible. Be extremely careful with any growth hormone inducing procedures ...you cna give yourself cancer if you start stimulating excessive cell growth. Accept the cards you've been given and turn it into your strong suit. Height is not that important if your personality and consciousness levels are inline.

Sometimes just enjoying the ride without trying to control for too many variables can do that for you. The more we obsess about things the more we feel out of control and out of balance. You can call it "chakra imbalances" and you can call it "endocrine disruptions". Medically speaking everytime you obsess about controlling stuff in your environment, your cortisol is spiking and you are being put into mild-to-medium "fight or flight mode". This is stealing nutrients, and inducing systemic inflammation in your tissues. Cortisol is damaging cell memebranes and causing buildup of free radicals that are like a teenage gang destroying everything around them. Chronic cortisol also damages its own receptors and leads to kinda vicious cycle. If you want more "hippie" outlook than chronic obsession will put you out of inner balance, disrupt your chakras alignment and surround you with negative energy. This will lead to a scarcity mindset and lack-perception inducing disease and unhappiness. Sometimes getting away from all the madness can do a lot. Dumping a toxic corporate job in exchange for lower-paid job out in the coutryside or creating one's source of passive income to have time spending with family, in garden, hiking and being on sun. Divorcing a toxic partner can add a couple decades. Additionally not obsessing about food being this and that, vegan, cholesterol free, keto...what have you. Opening ourselves up to all food choices but making sure some remain "special treats" where other become part of daily choices (mainly those you mentioned above). Taking things slow, socialising, being childish and playful, not needing to manipulate, lie scheme will add many years to longevity. I have no proof for this but also ejaculating too often, in my opinion, shortens one's lifespan. Especially ejaculating during masturbation.

Important to point out that many of these blue zones have had rapid decline in longevity over several decades, probably since around 1980s with introduction of more meat, more dairy, more fast foods and influence of industrialised societies. The concept is beautiful but unfortunately same as the "traditional Mediterranean diet" which is pretty much 98% gone with exception of a few greek islands, blue zones are a dying concept. Their original idea of diet can still be used which you have described amazingly in the post.

I think you could if you included bee pollen as well but since honey is mostly glucose at some time you would start hitting micro-deficiencies. For all that glucose to be turned into ATP (energy) in mitochondria you need a lot of other cofactors that are not found in honey so despite all that energy it is possible you would start running into symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome. Scurvy would also be a possible development as well as beriberi. And than honey has no protein, no essential fatty acids, no calcium, very little magnesium, no fibre so lot of other potential issues down the line. Can't imagine it being to good for your teeth either.

Great and extremely practical list ! Thanks for taking time to post. Love the part about homocysteine, there was a lot of controversy after a Cambridge (or was it oxford? ) study came out showing that vegetarians had high occurence of stroke. Most people guessed this to be cholesterol problems from eggs but in reality this was homocysteine accumulation that was not being cleared out as it needs B12, folate and B6 to be turned into Methionine and to S-Adenosyl Methionine...very interesting stuff!

Cheapest of the cheapest meats chargrilled on open fire creating a lovely cocktail of carcinogenic molecules on its suface. There is few things worse than kebab. At least they give you salad with it which is nice

Hollistic practitioners usually cannot diagnose. Have you had a stool-testing done? Just asking because I've seen leaky gut overdiagnosed simply based on symptoms.

cronometer.com is pretty good for nutrient tracking. The data is pulled from evidence-based sources. You can setup your own values based on where you live and the usage is free. Don't have any recommson fitness, apps. Way too many of them out there. When I started getting into fitness, I used to have simple notebook and pen, worked he best for planning and self-feedback.

I sense a "shadow" in your post. Seen similar patterns in previous posts that you made. Perhaps I am just speculating but seems like there is something in there that keeps you getting into these relationship cycles that end up hurting you. Perhaps disconnecting as you say and doing a little bit of internal "demon hunting", shadow work or NLP might be able to uncover something you have suppressed deep within. Buchflower remedies can be helpful with bringing this out as well. But I might be wrong as I don't really know you at all.

You have to find your own micro-nisch. If you go very broad such as having a "motorcycle channel" or having a "men's health channel" you won't get lot of view cause there are channels stealing all the views already. Those markets are oversaturated on youtube. Think about something extremely specific and specialised. Such as "how to be a good beekeeper in southeastern Bulgaria during Summer"...that's a silly example but you get the idea.

still waiting for the "how to get hot witch girlfriend " video ...

This usually comes down to habit. You can retrain your body to be able to accept breakfast. Because if you skip it than most of your calories will be taken from lunch onwards and that's when chronobiology starts messing around. Basically the earlier you eat, the more calories out of that food will be used to shun into muscle and liver as glycogen rather than fat. The later you eat, the more insulin resistant your muscles become and the more gets shunned into fat stores.

1. Offer to buy healthier alternatives. Make your own cookies without eggs and sugar with nuts and oats. Buy a 90% chocolate, instead of icecream make your own from frozen bananas and cherries and coconut milk. 2. Second tip, what was already said, put a picture of someone that inspires you inside the cupboard with the sweets, as long as your mom is ok with it. Or a small mirror that will put you out of autopilot and remind you that you are strong enough to resist. 3. Have a big bowl of fruit always available in your room. Whenever cravings hit you, grab an apple or two and if that doesn't help and you still want to indulge, go for it. This way you'll be making healthier choices and also nobody has even been harmed from munching on fruit.

Coronavirus is actually a really naive and undeveloped virus because there is a high chance of death once infecting. A "survival" virus will not kill its host but will learn to live with it for the rest of his life leeching of the host but without producing significant symptoms, such as , Herpes, to a degree shingles and other. HIV Virus will probably get to that stage as well in couple hundred years. So for Coronavirus to not be exterminated it has to morph into something less lethal that will be considered as non-harmful such as rhinovirus (the flu virus) that all of us carry but it is extremely rare that it kills someone.

Let's see if we can break this down on physiological level. Stress induces production of noradrenaline, adrenaline and cortisol from adrenal glands through HPA Axis stimulation --> in long term cortisol has been shown to 1. reduce immune cell proliferation 2. reduce secretory IgA (your gut's immune defence) 3. induce chronic inflammation possibly due to destroying cortisol receptors in amygdala & hippocampus and disrupting its own negative feedback (this is also associated with persistent depression which destroys immunity even more) 4. Separate tight junctions in the gut leading to more inflammation and possible autoimmunity --> meditation was found to reduce cortisol secretion as well as adrenaline secretion which will reduce risk of all above So technically, yes meditation helps the immune function.