Michael569

Very subjective question that depends on individual beliefs, culture and current state of health..... but for yourself personally, I think you already answered the question.

absolutely not , that's a very orange perspective and one that will lead you to early grave. who talked about cigarettes and why would you even bring that in. Cigarette smoking is absolutely and directly linked to lung cancer. If X amount is risky it does not mean that X/3 is not. "everything in moderation" is a typical excuse of people who have weak willpower. Completely anecdotal evidence. 55 is not even that old. Usually smokers start getting respiratory problems in mid 60s, some even later. By the time they start seing little bits of their lungs appearing on their palm every time they sneeze it is 20 years too late. If you love your father you will do everything in your power to cut that down. Look at the large epidemiological studies done on hundreds of thousands of people. There is clear indication of dramatically increased risk. Some people are more reistant than other by having stronger genetic resilience and more active P450 enzyme family. Your father may be one of them. On the other hand are tens of thousands of men currently undergoing chemotherapy for metastatic lung cancer that is destroying their life, happiness, eating up their savings and ruining peace in family. Would you rather play russian rulette with your genetics and risk a disease that has 15% survival rate? What I read are lots of poor excuses steming from insufficient willpower and willingness to do hard work.

Mocked meats are processed and loaded with rancid oils. I'd definitely go for tempeh Few conversations have been made here around soy and it is not as harmful as people think. As long as it is organic, soy products can be very therapeutic.

Thank you for sharing your story. I think there is a lot that can be done here and with some good adjustments to diet, you may start seeing decent improvements. It may be worth considering to work with a nutritional therapist in a long term to help you polish your diet, add some recipes and recommend private testing if needed. First of It would be advisable go see your doctor, to get a full picture of what is happening on the inside. Ask for full blood count including ferritin(iron) and get your cholesterol and thyroid checked by them as well. Some dietary tips: Note: if you see yourself getting bloated from these new adjustments, there is definitely something going on in your small intestine and will need to be investigated by your doctor or a nutritionist. Very slowly start reducing the amounts of ibuprofen you take. While it does fight inflammation, it also suppresses the natural production of mucus that protects your stomach and your gut lining which may result in ulcers and malabsorption. Analgesics also deplete a large variety of nutrients in your body. Dental inflammation might be caused by a lack of flossing or excessive sugar intake. Definitely see a dentist for this. There are some herbal mouthwashes that help fight dental plague without obliterating your oral beneficial microbiota. Out with mountain dew. That stuff is 30% sugar and sugar is highly pro-inflammatory. It will also give you put you in insulin rollercoaster of spiking your blood sugar levels several times a day which often results in severe hypoglycaemia and need for more sugar. If you can't go cold turkey, start slowly by reducing daily consumption by one third every week. Ideally, you are aiming to drink only water and herbal teas eventually Try to up your fibre to help with the bowel movements. 30 grams per day is a good start. 50 if you can. Cronometer.com can help you track this. See if that helps but I suspect the diarrhoea/constipation is related to something else either digestive or endocrine. Start introducing fruits into your diet. Gradually aim for 5-10 pieces a day of large variety. Think less bananas and more berries, peaches, plums, kiwis, pears, oranges...variety is the key here. Fruit is a potent regulator of blood pressure and inflammation and can be helpful in your case. Up your intake of vegetables to at least 1-2 cups of chopped mixed vegetables with every meal. The darker colours are more powerful with higher antioxidant content. Play around with different colours, the larger colour variety the better. Increase your dark leafy green vegetables to at least 1-2 cups per day. These are kale, spinach, rocket, baby greens, mustard greens, collard greens, green cabbage. Introduce more plant protein sources: beans, lentils, chickpeas, edamame, tofu. It would be wise to cut down the intake of animal products by more than half of the current intake. These will be increasing your blood pressure not to mention that a lot of them are loaded with salt which is contributing to hypertension. Stuff like mac'n cheese, meatloaf, and mozzarella sticks needs to be reduced if the blood profile is to improve. There are nowadays plant-based mac n cheese recipes, recipes involving cauliflower that resemble cheese taste, plan-based meatloaf from quinoa is quite popular. A good cookbook will have plenty of plant-based recipes. Try adding whole grains: these also improve blood pressure: quinoa, buckwheat, millet, amaranth, brown rice, wild rice. To replace mashed potatoes and white rice. Sweet potatoes are good substitution as well. if you can, replace any milk you drink with plant-based milk. These are amazing additions for breakfast such as oatmeals, smoothies or chia puddings. For Reynaud's: there isn't much evidence on dietary impact but I'd try adding foods and herbs that improve circulation and vascular relaxation. Ginger teas, cayenne pepper, other spices, rosemary, beet, turmeric. Also, Omega 3 rich diet has been shown to help (oily fish e.g. salmon, mackerel, ground flax seeds, walnuts). Exercise may definitely help with improving circulation. Or light yoga if you struggle with energy levels. Sauna is also great for increasing circulation. Daily walks combined with some light stretching movements (when nobody is watching ) If you have a sedentary job, make time to stand up and go for a walk outside every now and then. Add a lot of finger stretching and basic finger movement exercises to drive the blood in these areas. For reflux: definitely reducing intake of high fat animal products for this one (mostly cheese and high fat meats such as steaks) These foods weaken the oesophageal sphincter on the top of your stomach that may be causing the reflux (heartburn). For Bloating & constipation/diarrhoea: if this prevails even after you up your fibre, consider getting investigated for IBS and SIBO by your doctor. If they don't want to, consider private testing. If you test positive on either (or both) a low FODMAP diet will need to be done to balance your gut bacterial overgtowth. Try implementing these changes with weeks to come not all at once. Gradually add new foods in favour of the previous and I bet you will start feeling better and more energised in no time Private Testing: Later on (4-6 weeks) if the energy levels are not picking up, I would also consider adrenal testing. Adrenal Glands are small pair of glands sitting on top of your kidneys that produce adrenaline, cortisol and few other hormones that keep your energy levels stable and your alertness durign the day. If adrenals are weakened you may struggle with low energy, foul mood and lot of inflammation. There is private salivary cortisol testing as well as Adrenal Stress Test by companies such as Genova (link). But I would wait for this only if nothing else helps as these tests are expensive. Definitely try dietary adjustments first and any testing that your doctor will do for free especially iron. Good luck !!! Shout with any questions

@flowboy yeah Siberian (not Korean) Ginseng would be my go-to first. If you can, go for tincture rather than a supplement and aim for 1:2 or 1:1 ratio. There is a lot of useless diluted crap on the market so make sure to get organic and concentrated blend...might be bit more pricey though but you pay for quality.

Marihuana use is (potentially) associated with increased risk of lung cancer and inflammation of the respiratory tract. I would say that beats any potential benefit?

Strong adaptogenic herbs then. I wouldn't touch melatonin personally.

Why don't we start with the obvious: "Why are you sleep deprived"? Don't go burning candle from both ends while ignoring the underlining issue.

Do you (or have you in the past) have any issue with any of the following organs? Liver (past hepatitis, cirhosis, gal bladder problems, hromonal, other) lungs (asthma, bronchitis, past pneumonia, other...) small intestine (sibo, IBS, IBD, other..) bladder (frequent cystitis, other )

You can compensate by looking at something called "Dirty Dozen" These are the ones you want organic. The other ones you can buy non-organic. I'd rather eat fruit that is not organic then start avoiding it. Your liver is very potent in cleaving of toxins and POPs excreting them in bile or urine. The benefits of even non-organic fruits and veggies outweigh the cost. You can support your liver detoxification ability by staying away from frying, barbecuing, alcohol, smoking, excessive animal foods and ensuring sufficient supply of greens, cruciferous vegetables and alium vegetables that are powerful inducers of Liver enzymes. Staying well hydrated and sweating regularly through saunas or exercise is also a good idea.

Agreed with Pluto, it is best to focus on alkaline aspects of the diet and make sure that your water is as purified as possible without needing to alter the PH. The concern with alkalizing water is that you are massively diluting your stomach acid and alkalizing an environment that is supposed to be acidic. This pushes your body to work harder to compensate. It impacts your first line of digestion and also makes it easier for ingested pathogens to enter the body as they will not be destroyed by the hydrochloric acid as they would normally be.

@Anna1 thank you for sharing the inspiring story. The only person I heard about being able to regenerate people's CNS lesions was Robert Morse on the fruitarian diet and herbs. It appears the human body is a miraculous object and it seems we have other means of healing then using drugs. Wishing you all the best in the future and further healing !

This is incredible !! I've read a lot about MS and haven't heard of many cases of slowing down. Always thaught the lessions in central nervous system were irreversible. Without wanting su to hijack OP's post, I'm wondering if you would be able to share a bit more of your journey and what do you think helped you with recovery?

Welcome to the "confused land" please take a ticket and stand in a queue.

Really? Sorry, dude wasn't aware of that.....wonder why.

while it is important to have a passion and vision for one's life beyond that of being stuck in cubicle it is also important to pace oneself slowly. I don't know what your skillset is and what you experience in your new career trajectory might be but would highly encourage you to be sure you can sustain yourself without a solid income for some time. It will take months (maybe years) before your youtube channel gains enough attention as you are competing with hundreds of thousands of people for eyeballs. In between of that you may need to invest in technology, courses, software and further education all costing thousands of dollars. Absolutely not trying to discourage you. I am all for escaping rat-race (I am also in the middle of that effort) and finding one's purpose but that needs to be done gradually as sudden transition may not always be wise. You may run out of money before your new endeavour earns you enough to sustain yourself. Unless you come from wealthy family or can afford to share your parent's home to safe on rent of course. You may also benefit from reading (or listening) Cal Newport's - "So good they can't ignore you". The book talks a lot about career transition and how to go around slowly transitioning. Wishing you all the bes t!

Vivo life? The most health / environment conscious company producing plant-based protein powders I know of. They are going for 100% recyclable packaging by jan 2020. They support numerous young youtubers who promote avoidance of animal slaughter and health. You can access their heavy metal and contaminant testing (which recently showed excelent results) of their products online + their proteins are often enriched with natural plan enzymes and adaptogenic herbs such as Reishi. The price is reasonable in my opinion and if you purchase more than 1 there is a nice discount.

Electronics of all sort. All of it should go 2 hours prior to your sleep. Any blue light in your house will disrupt sleep as well. Blue light blocking glasses can helo. It seems the pineal gland is extremely sensitive to blue light and it impacts melatonin production drastically. This is also my tip for Question 1. Not a fan of this tbh. Trying to quantify sleep too much will just raise your cortisol whenever you realize your sleep today is worse than your sleep yesterday or that you are still awake by the time you were asleep yesterday. Same reason most sport trackers are toxic. it creates too much stress and need for comparison and competition. Oh and of course it serves the ego most of all. And finally (I am not sure how much I believe this yet) I think that each human being operates on certain frequency (energetic circulation) and that this is getting disrupted by electronics especially those we put close to ou body such as bluetooth headphones and trackers and phones. Again, this may be new age hippie bullshit but perhaps not Lot of diseases stem from blockage of energetic circulations and there are lots of natural remedies that operate on this levels such as bachflower and bushflower remedies.

How to have faith that what you do (life purpose) will produce results in the future and that you are not just chasing butterflies? How to make difficult, life-changing decisions and why is the status quo pulling us back so hard when we try to do that? (e.g. career trasition) How to stop living on autopilot?

no and no. Stop being so superficial and get to know the girl. A subjective ranking of girl's beauty will skyrocket once you get to know and like her personality. I don't know how it is possible but I've seen that happen many times in my life. Girls who were moderately attractive became beautiful once I got to know their amazing personalities. PUA is a pitiful low-consciousness game. These boys are clowns who pretend they are masculine men. NEVER listen to any advice from one. A truly masculine man does not need to play games and manipulate. He is confident and highly driven by his purpose. Trying to steal another man's partner is disgusting, selfish and will bite you in the ass. if the girl is willing with a wrong guy, she needs to realize it. Not only are you risking in her doing the same to you but you will create an enemy.

Most of Orange folks will never awaken to higher stages. First of all, because they are oblivious to the existence of spiral dynamics. They do not know how much they suffer because everybody around them is suffering the same way so it feells like "business as usual". Once you have been unconscious for so long that you have produced unconscious offspring and married and unconscious person, while being trapped in some shallow corporate job, you are literally f***ed. The system is designed to prevent people from seeing over the "orange wall" and demonises all those who have succeeded or those who consider it. Secondly, most Orange people see states above them as woo-woo something that the weird hippie people do and this single notion will prevent them from entering higher stages till the day they die when they all become turquoise. The few who will won't make it very far because they often come across Orange wearing Green cloak who will just confirm their bias that Green is a greedy devil and will slip back.

Get them oranges inspired by adding few studies and monetary benefits . Nobody has time for some hippie-as gay spirituality. But yeah, you are right.

What are you trying to heal?

Interesting, thank you for sharing ! It does seem to be taught from an orange perspective aimed at achieving KPI and (indirectly) manipulating people by exploiting their Spiral stage... which may skew the whole point of this. Craps like this usually sends acid up my throat but I might be misjudging the whole thing: "Corporate leaders, their teams, executive coaches and organizations around the world are able to more easily become change ready, reaching their KPIs, get promoted, and having their teams and clients firing on all cylinders. Natasha helps you get to the heart of what stands in the way of evolving and accomplishing organizational and professional outcomes. "

Awesome ! Time to start repaying for years of free life-changing advice. @Leo Gura how about a monthly life Q&A with your Patreons?