Michael569

@Nilsi right, gotcha. First of all, I appreciate the criticism, it is certainly pointing some blind spots that I need to work on. Yes, sure, full disclosure, everything I say here has a spin of my own bias - of course it does !!! You do the same and so does everyone around here. We all wear the filters of our own perspective and biases and those shape our perception of the world. You should critically examine everything you read around here automatically. I try to actually be unbiased where I can which is why you see my advice changing over time but sure, there is lot of it there still. With health advice this is tricky. With philosophy (or political theories such as Marxism) for example you might be able to follow all sorts of rabbit holes, try them and then come back and try something new. No harm done. With nutrition, going down wrong rabbit holes for couple years could mean irreversible damage to health and since we only got one of those i am perfectly happy to follow a consensus of the evidence because, well, it's the best we got. It's not perfect, there is lot of garbage there but you can train yourself to spot it. If you wanna put your health in hands of charlatans, by all means but if I have information based on 100s of thousands of people who went before me, and who got the things i would like to avoid, and I can see a certain mathematical probability of X happening if they do YZ, then why not? It would be silly not to. I'm totally willing to put my ego aside in this, there is zero agenda in the type of health advice I share with folks which is probably why people consistently disagree with me, and that's totally cool. I'm always open to debate about this stuff. This is not just about sharing A study. I spend hundreds of hours dissecting this information, studying the methodology, potential biases in those studies. I don't pull stuff out of my ass. To give you an example, I used to be a huuuge seed oil and dairy denier. If you look up my past comments here, they were all against those things in a bit of a dogmatic fashion. But you know what? With more due diligence and more digging I came to realisation that they are not all that bad and a lot of what I share with folks has changed...this happens all the time. This is not about finding clients, in fact i haven't actually acquired a client from around here for over 7 months so it's not like I'm making a buck saying these things. Sure, if someone likes this and need some help, I'm happy to do that but you will not see me agressively promoting business around here other than my signature - which you are free to do as well and so is everyone else. I just really dislike people being told off what we clearly know are health promoting foods because of some made up chemical reaction and then pushed to following what is (probably) a health jeopardising diet. If you wanna call that "having a head in the sand" that's up to you.

@Nilsi can you translate all this jibberish to something practical for me to respond to please? Which part of what I said you disagree with and why?

Do you have any evidence for any of this? I mean actual longitudinal evidence that shows vegans are more likely to be androgen deprived. We can make mechanistic speculations all day long but has any of that actually been demonstrated in humans? Are cultures with highest green tea consumption more likely to have low testo levels? Any RCTs you can share where people are given green tea and their levels drop? Permanently or transiently? If green tea is so bad why is it consistently associated with lower incidents of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, prostate cancer, breast cancer and mental health disease? Even periodontal health is positively impacted by it. If anything, if something was shown to reduce DHT in adults that's a MAJOR benefit. You don't want high DHT post teenage years especially if you have history of prostate cancer in family So If drinking more green tea will ensure i can skip a prostate cancer that men part 65 in my family are getting and the mechanism is DHT reduction (even at the cost of my strength at the gym going 10% down) then I'll say fuck yeah gimme more of that stuff.

Godspeed Matt, hope you'll find the peace you're looking for ?‍♂️

@KobywithaY Two major changes i would do there as per the comment earlier 1. Add some carbohydrates back - all that fatigue and low-ness is likely caused by carb deprivation. Protein can be used for gluconeogenesis but it's dirty, slow and inefficient not to mention (probably) heavy on the elimination system. 2. Cut down on red meat, butter and animal fat SIGNIFICANTLY if you even want to make it to your 70s. Your cholesterol profile is not good and you need to remedy that. In case of butter i would consider going for 100% elimination until you get your LDL in 100s and lower. I would treat that as a main priority for you rather than worrying about testosterone which bit seems alright, i wouldn't worry about it too much. Eating more carbs will push it up if your natural levels are higher.

@universe what about it?

I don't think it is too late. AI can already do a lot but for professional-looking webs, the human touch takes it one step further. I would just be cautious about the "for extra income part". Learning web design is likely going to require a large chunk of time & money so you might consider going into this all-in as a full-time pro. Of course, it will take some time to build it and get clients (unless you would prefer to get employed by someone instead which is easier) but the intention should probably be for it to either be your main income eventually rather than doing it on the side of something even more mentally challenging Or do you have another, bigger, idea that you want to be your main with havign web design as a side?

Seems like you are already trying to see the finish line before you even took the first step. The thing you choose is likely to keep changing. Just start taking action and in time you will learn which skills you need to master and which you can outsource. By doing the thing that makes the most sense to you you will naturally gravitate towards the important activities while cutting out the ones that can go. To give you a personal example, I've recently made a decsion to outsource a large chunk of design work to a designer so that I can liberate more time for my core activities that I want to master. I generally suck at design and havign someone else do it for me who is better and more creative will generate better results anyway as long as I can afford them. Just take the first steps and with time, the question will be answered to you

Hey, thanks for sharing your story. Could you share more details about what your diet looks like? What do you eat for breakfast, lunch dinner? What do you eat and what sort of foods do you avoid? you shouldn't have a high cholesterol at 19, has that been investigated? Being exposed to high circulatory LDL in life drives up your risk of premature atherosclerosis - that's not something you want to have so early. (hope you are not subscribing to "cholesterol doesn't matter" theory shared by a lot of carnivore people) Have you been checked for familial hypercholesterolaemia? Could it be connected to high red meat consumption? What were your LDL and non-HDL cholesterol levels? Did the panel include ApoB? Has your blood sugar been checked? Thyroid? Testosterone? The feelings you describe can be triggered by a variety of things and without more information, it is hard to tell. It could be coming from traumatic experiences early in life, living in a toxic environment, from more biological issues (e.g. gut dysbiosis, nutritional deficiencies) , thyroid issues, hormonal issues. Lack of purpose and vision in life is a common one too. Do you get outside enough?

You should just get one of those soda streamers. Makes just sparkling water, costs next to nothing (other than machine & electricity) and you can sweetened it up yourself.

What did you serve with the eggs? How were they prepared? Does this always happen with eggs? Does it happen with other food? What did you drink alongside it?

Those are your results. There is a non-statistically significant association between mindfulness and physical activity. That's A result. You don't need to find a positive association to have a valid hypothesis and valid research. Post hoc hypothesis is a common practice due to publishing bias but science is not immune to this. It all depends on you. If you think conducting the original experiment would teach you more (despite result being non-statistically significant) then you should follow your original intuition, otherwise, you run the risk of opening yourself up to major biases even while doing the new paper. Also consider that statistically non-significant often indicates lack of evidence rather than the absence of an effect. Sometimes the statistical power is low so confidence intervals are barn door and you don't get what you wanted but then 5 years later the amount of research catches up and it becomes SS (or it doesn't, confidence intervals widen even further and then you will be able to say "yah there is definitely nothing there" Just out of curiosity, how did you assess the SS? Did you run a forest plot in Revman?

That's a fair concern. Not everybody values health on a deeper level, at least not to the degree you would see around here. People know a bit about sugar and heard about saturated fats and processed food and know eating fruit is good but that, in general, is it. Most don't take any extra effort to understand any of the nuances. They simply don't care . You can help her appreciate her health more but there is a limit to what you can achieve without it coming across as criticism - that depends on her level of development, some people are fairly resistant to feedback and get easily offended. One of the ways are cooking together, shopping together and showing her how tasty healthy food can be. The other way people learn is when they become sick. She's unlikely going to change if you push broccoli sprouts and green juices on her so small steps over a long time is more likely.

Sounds like it could become a compatibility issue at some point. Although maybe there are benefits to be had in spending more especially this bit

@integral I'm sure we agree more than we disagree on. The amount of issues with the way medical model works would take a 20-volume encyclopaedia to conduct. I agree with the problems of over prescription, of pharma lobbying and of lack of holistic thinking about health - that's probably just the surface level stuff. The system is rigid. It takes decades for a system as rigid as medical academia to catch up and re-educate doctors. The way doctors operate right now is they recommend protocols that reduce your risk of serious complications. they recommend levothyroxine because it reduces premature build-up of cholesterol in the arteries they recommend surgery for renal stones because it reduces risk of kidney damage and damage to your filtration system - sure, some people can push it out - many can't. If the stone is left in there, they may lose a kidney or end up with stage 2 or 3 kidney disease. with the antacids you were given - the doctor's thinking is not "how do I prevent you from getting bloated" - his thinking is "how do I prevent you from getting oesophageal cancer" - and antacids & PPIs do that for people with GERD problems (the fact that your problems wasn't GERD - is a whole another issue...). It is not the best solution but until the problem is fixed, it helps prevent a larger disaster. Cancer is harder to treat than dysbiosis. I am all in for lifestyle intervention. That's what I do with clients, that's what I believe in. But sometimes people just need to go down that route and somethimes they need to be put on meds...sometimes even for life. Many do and don't get help. Many do and end up worse - all of that is true. But many end up better of. I'm sorry about your dad but being prescribed cardiovascular meds in 15 indicates some serious genetic disease I assume (familial hypercholesterolemia maybe?). If FH people don't get put on statins they can have their first heart attack in 30s. I'll just leave it at that. I agree with you more than I disagree

I think you tagged wrong there btw Ok so by the same thinking - people with asthmatic emergency should be allowed to die rather than receive synthetic epinephrine because the body has made an intelligent decision to shut down its trachea A person with heart attacks should be left out on their own to diet rather than receive a CPR because the body in its endless wisdom is unable to pump blood into the coronary arteries. The person with tuberculosis should not be put on IV because the body, in its intelligence, is killing itself through flushing out its electrolytes - a scenario that results in death in most cases without medical & pharmacological intervention. A pre-diabetic person with zero health knowledge should just be sent home and told to go for a run every now and then rather than being put on metformin which will save his or hers limbs from amputation because the body in its intelligent wisdom is unable to manage blood glucose. Look, what we are saying here is that sometimes you need to manage and stabilise people with these things. Medication, when used right, may help prolong life and delay a disaster. It should not stop there, you should have the opportunity to work on your lifestyle and diet, lose weight etc but simply spitting in the face of all pharmacology saying it is barbaric - even tho we have so much evidence showing they can, in many cases, save lifes...is just silly. Thyroid medication do actually improve the quality of life for people who were previously undiagnosed with hashimoto's thyroiditis or Grave's disease or simple subclinical hypothyroidism and were struggling to even get out of the bed. Don't poo poo everything that isn't "natural. Natural isn't always best. Plaque, disease, stillborn babies and mothers dying during birth are "natural" - that happened before we had medicine all the time. Now it doesn't msot of the time, and that's probably good I'd say. Also consider that not everybody can work on their health, Some people can't. They have no resources, no support, no education and are not even interested in doing that. Should we just let them die 20 years prematurely?

What does she actually eat. Give an example of typical breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Hi, So I might be given a promotion opportunity at my current 9-5 work. It includes some nice salary increases, change of title (I don't care about that at all) but, of course, a change in workload. More work to be specific and more responsibility On the other hand, I am trying to focus as much as I can on building my business and so to ultimately leave this company but that raise would go a long way to provide more capital towards building this thing in the first place. But the way I see this, my side business won't be self-sufficient within the next 5 years. I'm just worried it will take away a lot of time I can invest into my Life Purpose. But maybe by taking this I will actually become more efficient with the time I have because right now I still waste some of it. The opportunity is not clear yet, it might not happen but I will have to apply and from what I know, there might be no other candidates. Has anybody been in this sort of dilemma or similar? Any insights? Thanks a lot !

maybe but the alternative is (for most people) unmanaged TSH levels and as a consequence of that risk of hyperlipidaemia. People with hypothyroidism (unmanaged) have an increased risk of stroke, atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction so thyroid meds are the lesser evil. Ofcourse you still wanna tinker with your health as much as you can but this is one where, until other therapy is proven to be successful I'd err on the side of caution.

@LSD-Rumi isn't that the other way around? T4 -> T3 hence why some people choose to supplement T3 due to potential conversion issues? My knowledge on thyroid pathophysiology is garbage as I don't work with hypo at all but from what I recall it is one of those areas where's genetics are a bitch and nutritional manipulations mostly don't do shit and neither do most other supplements. I've actually never heard about a case of hypothyroidism reversal other than pharmacological management, but that's kinda the case with most health conditions, especially the long-term chronic ones. Most natural, naturopathic, herbal and lifestyle modifications are quite poor for this condition. It's probably because people don't die of hypothyroidism and medicine can manage it pretty well so there is no incentive for much new research compared to something like cardiology or neurodegeneration

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Jesus Christ this is heavy a.f. There is so much to unwrap there that it would take 20 hours to go through all this content and their linked studies and then logically evaluating it and comparing to existing evidence. An important thing with identifying genetic SNP reports is that they are just suggestive. They are not conclusive, not even for ApoE4 carriers. Also we have to appreciate that while this is an absolute giant of a report that includes a lot of studies, most of these are short cross-sectional studies with low internal validity and often superseded by larger meta-analyses. What this means is that, yes maybe people with a genetic mutation XYZ had higher rate of heart disease, we know from mendelian randomization trials that once controlled for things like BMI, dietary factors, red meat consumption, alcohol and physical activity, environment etx, genetic risks do not pan out as much and get superseded by lifestyle factors- meaning you can cheat your genetics with a good lifestyle (to some degree) Knowing about your genetics is nice and it helps but if you create an overall healthy diet in accordance with the human evidence (rather than genetic evidence only) good lifestyle, stress management and good routines, you will be able to mitigate most of these risks regardless how big or small they are. I would focus on maybe reading one factor per day and thinking a bit about what it means and what you can do rather than trying to digest the whole thing in one go ajd magically rearrange your life in a week. You will get absolutely overwhelmed and stressed out. Health manipulation is one step at a time over months and years. Good luck - happy to answer more questions

too complicated, too many steps. No need to fry and no need to sit. Just blitz it all with some tahini, herbs and oat milk and bake seriously tho, homemade plant burgers are the easiest thing and they are way more delicious than any meat I have ever tasted. Once you master your own, anything out there doesn't come close to it and you can even avoid the #toxicseedoilzconspiracy

Could you get some from local farms, local stores etc? Fresh is usually better as dried can often be treated with sulphates and often has a glazing of added sugar as mentioned above. Alternatively, are there any deliveries you could do? Like have bulk fruits and veg delivered, the types that last for a while? Dried fruit is fine but I think if you can get fresh at least some days, it might be better

Unit 731 - one of the biggest (and lesser known) examples of what humans are capable of to eachother the moment you strip away the threat of capital punishment. Not that long ago