Michael569

I think a little bit of phone user experience optimisation when tagging users. That function misbehaves often on a phone and tagged names usually cannot be deleted. Maybe quick tips section for new users including some key navigation points. Or maybe a short intro video for new users made by you? A button "Privatise" in journal section that will lock the journal from ability to comment but can still be modded if the user shit talks about other members. OR The ability for journal owner to delete comments from other users.

It might be your brain that got desensitized by seeing unrealistic images of surgically enhanced female bodies for years, this is pretty common. Reduce your porn time and try to use your fantasy instead a bit more. Occupy your mind with other things so that it doesn't slide to needing so much relief whenever you feel a boredom

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/03/qatar-world-cup-of-shame/ Not sure how much of this is true but if so, then this is one fucked up event

What sort of business so you plan to start? In general you either need to be a good marketer or have someone give you a leg up with an injection of capital and help you spread awareness Everything else is secondary.

Go travel to countries where budhism is practiced and speak to people who live it to understand the essence. Maybe live with Monks for a few weeks in northern Thailand and sweap the leaves of their monasteries for 4 hours a day while giving up connection to the modern world. If you think posers like Tate can teach you budhism you might be heading severally off the course and need some proper inspiration to recalibrate you. Good luck

@Barbara been there and can relate. Wanting very much for your biz to become successful can lead you to working yourself out especially if you're just starting. It is important to become comfortable with the fact that it may take you 10 years to get it done. Pace yourself slowly and be disciplined with working and not working. Take time off regularly. Business progress often cannot be rushed with more work time. I found that small bits of highly focused work (for example 3*90 minutes) lead to getting more done compared to working 9 hours straight and spending half of that procrastinating. Cal Newport's Deep Work helped me establish this routine on combination with his Digital Detox book. If you're gonna go back you need to be ruthless with your schedule and put barriers on your working time to balance time off. Otherwise second anxiety attack will be inevitable. Happy to chat about it more, feel free to hit me up if you have questions

Why don't you cut the IF and eat 3 meals instead. Sugar cravings are most likely a sign of hunger and general caloric deficiency. If you restrict your food too much, your metabolism may slow down and crave more sugar. No need to change composition of food, I'd keep it relatively high carb moderate protein and fat just add one additional meal and those cravings may go. Ideally make that meal a breakfast and then have small dinner. Also sometimes i found that sugar cravings is boredom in disguise l. Perhaps consider if that could be the case sometimes. May work well for you

@Jannes probably not. These guys are from another planet ?

I've practiced judo for 14 years and kick boxing for 4. Throughout this time I've came across women so tough and strong they would serve you your balls for lunch. I've lost many friendly matches to women pro competitors in judo competitions over the years and it is never seen as a shame. Many of them commonly spar with men because they have no completion among other women. Some female Eastern European pros can easily bench 80kg and perform 16 wide pullups while being 60-70kg. So it depends. If you got into the ring with Valentina Schevchenko you would have to try hard not to end up in the ER.

@Someone here perhaps a complete change of scenery? How much money do you have saved? Could you, for example, go travel for 6 months across south east asia? Traveling can open your mind and help you get a different perspective on subjective issues. Eradicating smoking in an environment that favours status quo and that does not like to rock the boat will be difficult

@preventingdiabetes yes he literally went 100% vegan over a period of maybe 48 hours (mostly out of sheer desperation) and he reported first symptoms diseapeared in about 2-3 days? (Ok, not exactly overnight ?) I have no idea what happened. We have many theories raging from dairy intolerance to histamine issues but it might have also been fully psychological in some weird way. So far his symptoms haven't come back but it's only been about 2 months so hard to say of this was a permanent solution

@preventingdiabetes it would be interesting to see if your asthma gets better of you spend some time away from your home. If so it would be a strong indication that mould is your trigger.

If it helps you eat healthier food, save on buying daily or save on cooking daily then whatever damage it causes (which I don't believe it does as everyone uses it so we would know by mow) is worth it. For people who don't know how to cook it is the only way to still make something warm other than getting takeaways

@Ulax as said by everyone above the causes could be numerous. From the most obvious to the most complex I have a client who for 4 months responded to nothing we did. Then i put him experimentally on 100% vegan diet and his symptoms (including symptoms of autoimmune inflammation of his spine) literally diseapeared overnight as well as fatigue and brain fog). You have to investigate deeper on all levels starting from the surface. Go to doctor's and get a full blood count done. That could give you some indication where to start.

this is so interesting! This has definitely been my experience growing up and significant hair loss has occurred between the age 12-18. I've never heard about this theory before. It would match the experience of many other young men I knew where I grew up as masculinity repression was quite common. As hard to believe as it is, perhaps having your masculine core harmed could even impact your hormonal levels. As long as it is true, which we don't know but it is certainly something worth entertaining.

I've been thinking more about this lately. Is it really the "processed" bit? Or is it the fact that we simply overconsume because they are hyper-palatable? If we assume that the processing itself is the problem, it would indicate that there is something in the wholefood that isn't in the processed food which makes it somewhat bad. But then dark chocolate and tofu are ultra-processed foods and I'd argue that both are health-promoting. Same for let's say chickpea pasta, tomato puree, pumpkin puree, baba ganoush, or even a wholegrain tortilla. I think the real issue is: high sodium content (although this is being reduced across the board, at least in EU) high palatability which drives overconsumption and that leads to weight gain and weight gain leads to increased chronic disease risk low volume (occupies less space in the stomach and high caloric content per 100 grams of a portion

that could be a possible indication of mould but it could also be sensitivity to other allergens such as dust or even something you eat. How is your breathing? Do you get chest tightness towards the end of the day or when you lay down? Do you experience any wheezing? pretty much, yes. In general, do you feel better when you go outside of your home for a few days?

I doubt we have a reliable testing method or any standardisation although, of course, you will be sold on all sorts of tests, especially by people who gain a commission by sending their clients for overpriced tests with little evidence. Mould may be one of those where your nose and eyes will tell you more than the urine test. Check in places where you usually wouldn't. Mould often triggers allergic symptoms and wheeziness & chest tightness before the mental fog kicks in. So if you have unexplained allergic reactions to nothing, in particular, mould may be a potential cause. It is also a good idea to check the whole house for stuffy smell and if so, hiring a mould removal service. But it is equally possible that no allergic reaction will occur. Owning a HEPA filter that can filter mould can be a great investment. Or wear a high-quality respirator. Heating appears to reduce the spread while wetness and cold increase it. All in all the first step is to move away from the mouldy place (if you rent) or have it cleaned if it is your own house, which will make up for rapid and significant improvement. Other than that the research is shit so I would focus on things like high-fibre diet, activities that induce sweating (sauna, exercise), good hydration, reduction of foods that can have high aflatoxin content and spending more time outside. Going easy on liver-demanding activities like alcohol is a good idea too. Perhaps taking some multi may help. Any expensive "detox cure" will be experimentation by the practitioner rather than an evidence-based decision so keep that in mind as you pay for a multitude of supplements that may have little to no value in this particular case. Mould is everywhere to a small degree, and always has been perhaps even in times when we lived in caves so this may be like hydrocarbons that we naturally developed a strong detoxification potential (here, I am just speculating). I believe this is the reason why lung cancer takes so long to build up and why pollution does not cause more damage to health than it does, because regardless of your location, chances are that for thousands of years your ancestors were breathing charred wood particles and smoke and over the millennia we got good at getting rid of it. Equally, it is also important to consider that your symptoms may have nothing to do with mould. But exhaust this are before moving on so that you know for sure.

@Judy2 good question. I don't know if there is any fundamental difference other than the overconsumption. Sugar itself isn't the enemy. It's the consecutive weight gain. So if you use date sugar too much and it causes weight gain then date sugar becomes harmful. (I assume we are talking about extracted sugar, not the actual dates) I'd assume people using date sugar already having a pre existing awareness and using it sporadically where a typical user of sucrose will often overconsume due to lack of health awareness..so that may skew the results. But whether there is something in date sugar that isn't in regular one? No idea, maybe.

What's your additional requirement? Could you just up your dietary intake?

@aurum he is right, it is not the LDL per se. As in high serum LDL somehow clogs veins. The mechanisms of ApoB is that it irreversibly binds to a structure called Proteoglycans located in an area called tunica intima inside the artery. This basically raises an alarm bell and your immune cells start getting inside as well and as it gobbles up the LDLs it starts turning into fat gorged cell called foam cell. As the foam cell grows, it cannot get out anymore and just accumulates inside the artery. With more ApoB getting in and more Foam cells being formed, an atheroma starts forming, bulging like an erect dick under tight trousers, causing a gradual obstacle in the artery. Alongside that inflammation is now spreading, more cells getting in and accumulating in a graveyard that triggers atherogenesis, the hallmark of heart disease (this is a hyper simplified explanation). The LDL is a proxy for ApoB potential. Like of you have more cars on a highway the odds of collision are higher. I don't exactly know if all LDL contains ApoB. Tom Dayspring probably (an actual board certified lipidologist) has a video on that somewhere. Btw Paul has been called out for his stuff by lipidologists and he notoriously rejects debates with people who he knows would crush him in 5 minutes like Nick Hieber or Avi Bitterman. Worth checking out Gil Carvalho's take as well. These are the nerds who actually contact reseachers to correct data in pre reviewed studies. Paul is a populist and a quack who is connected with Liver King in a business venture selling shit supplements to insecure young men. If you wanna go a step further, check the review of Carnivore Code on Redpenreviews. Scientific accuracy is like 30%. Thanks for sharing the Peter Attila's video, I haven't listened to that one but had it shared by multiple people. The podcast with Layne Norton was pretty good as well. I'm not against red meat in some sort of religious zealotry. Small amounts are probably fine. I just don't like the selfish and hyenic way the data is being manipulated for the sake of profit.

@aurum i was mainly reacting to the claim that "tons" of it are beneficial. The study you linked does actually show strong association with stroke and borderline association with diabetes (with trend towards harm although the confidence intervals do not fully cross 0 mark ) even for red meat although CHD was non significant. Also this is an old study superceded by newer evidence sich as Hooper 2020. I agree with you that we need to look at the bigger picture. For example in certain cultures whereas malnutrition is common, consumption of some red meat reduces premature mortality and heart disease linked to poor nutrition and malnutrition. That's a well documented thing. We have to look at each of these systematic reviews individually and break them apart. * What's the average consumption across population of each cohort? * What's the average BMI, Age etc * How much saturated fats do they consume per week on average? Is that average enough to cross the threshold effect? In American and European studies those outcomes often show harmful associations because red meat is frequently consumed alongside a hypercaloric diets and if replaced by things like polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates it will probably show benefits The thing with red meat might he the high content of saturated fats and ApoB containing lipoproteins that accelerate atherogenesis.l (this is a pathophysiology of heart disease) At lower thresholds, <30g, saturated fats do not have this effect it seems and many systematic reviews pool low exposure and high exposure studies together, effectively diluting the data. Not to mention lot of people fry red meat on saturated fats like butter and coconut effectively increasing the SFA load. Considering its consumption is something more of a luxury rather than the necessity in developed countries , and also considering that the association is probably neutral at best and probably harmful at worst, it may just not be worth the risk. Anyone who eats it fairly regularly does so let's say 2-3 times a week at portions of 150-300 grams per portion, at those amounts, the statistical risk is crossing the safe dosage. But hey, to each their own. We always need to account for other things but where high saturated fats food is concerned factors like being active may not be enough to offset the damage Guess I'll leave it there

Not to mention the carnivores on Twitter coming down with 300+ LDL and requiring bypasses ? The damage to the human health and premature shortage of human life that quacks like Paul Saladino and Shawn Baker are causing may one day result in criminal persecution, it probably should because the evidence is there to prove it. Red meat is one of the very few foods where the link to chronic disease is so strong that it is probably causative.

Hey, It is hard to answer that question without knowing more about your lifestyle, diet etc. What heart medication were you prescribed? I assume this wasn't for hypertension or hyperlipidemia in your age. And what brain medication? What sort of underlining health problems are you facing right now? At your age most of those symptoms may disappear with some dietary optimization. I've seen that happen over and over. Are you still a vegan? What does your diet look like now?

@Jannes look, you don't need them. I assume you are a healthy dude with low sugar diet. You are not the core group of this discussion. But for people who are at lifetime risk of diabetes due to drinking sugar and bring unable to unwire his habit, this basically helps reduce that and reduce the risk of diabetes -related complications such as blindness, kidney failure and gangrene. The costs of managing diabetes are absolutely astronomical to the health services so if getting a bit of ADD while having less gangrene helps, this is a trade-off worth doing. This is a public health discussion not how to optimize health of the 0.2% of health freaks like you and i. I don't think sweeteners are something that healthy people caring about longevity need, in fact you should not need to sweeten your liquids in any way. But again, this stuff is not something you should even need to cocern yourself about if you are health nut Does that make sense?