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This is not the first pandemic in the history of humanity nor was it the most brutal one. If you study history you'll know it is a repetitive pattern across centuries of deadly diseases coming and going. Some radically lethal, other somewhat dangerous and many fairly harmless. There are probably billions of frozen bugs, viruses and microbial species frozen in the permafrost of the arctic and subarctic region that have been doormat since the ice age. Most of them we have never seen before, never tested in labs, have no vaccines against, don;t know what symptoms they cause. With global warning, chances are some of them are being released into oceans and potentially multiplying and spreading. It is statistically likely that some of them could cause sudden death even a global pandemic especially if it proves they are water or airborne. The complexity of the global microbial diversity and the endless possibility of mutations pretty much renders humanity to pandemics all the time. But fortunately in most cases they are either caught or stop naturally before developing such as the host zero dying without virus maturing enough to spread. The moment we call something a conspiracy we release ourselves from any form of critical thinking and reasoning. "bro they are trying to kill us all, what can we do" - in such cases, anything goes and anything is a possible argument. Denial of scientific evidence is usually the first culprit.

@Tyler Robinson that's fine, it's none of my concern, just cautious that you are not jumping the gun by self diagnosing with internet. Diabetes requires several levels of assessments and should not be diagnosed based on one marker. Fasting glucose is not sufficient enough on its own.

What is your HBA1c? Did you self diagnose?

oh yes absolutely @integral good luck. Give it time for things to settle.

@Loving Radiance hey, sorry for late reply. I did not see the tag. I think much has already been said by Eric above. While my situation is not identical to you, it is slightly similar. I also find myself in a career where I see no desire to grow, no future potential and no fulfilment...BUT.....it pays my bills, my education and my transition in time when I am not prepared to quit it and go solo to do my health stuff just yet. So I am not able to quit just yet as much as I'd love to but I've kinda become okay with it. Is your current situation of being a biotech student earning you any money? Are you making any income or is it a future planned income? Could you make any side income like a part time job? I can't tell you whether to quit or not. I'm a more cautious person in life and I try not to take radical decisions when I can avoid it. Maybe you are different, it depends really. But in your situation, depending on how many more semesters you got, maybe finishing the studies would be a good idea. Maybe you don't need to go for the best grades and go the extra step to be the top student but just so that you have a degree on your CV. With a degree, it is easier to find jobs even if it was not directly along the line of what you studied. Just pass with ok grades, do the bare minimum and use any spare time for strategising, journalling and planning your alternative route. Maybe you won't be able to transition in the next year or two or five. Career transition may take years and it is important you are prepared for that. I definitely wouldn't consider your path so far wasted, but you just didn't know any better back then. And for all you know that degree might open new doors for you. Sometimes it is enough to have A degree even if irrelevant to the job you do. For me an ideal transition revolves around staying in an environment where you are getting paid and slowly tunneling your way out by getting re-educated, starting some business or getting new skills. You work on mornings, evenings and weekends and slowly takes steps towards freedom. But it takes time. If you can, cut down that commitment of your main income source to part-time or to remote work even better. It may require some work for a company that you despise and some emotional suppression but I don't know if there is another way to "buy freedom" unless your parents can help you or you can obtain resources to pay your bills otherwise. It's not easy. I'm neck buried in this struggle myself and I know many other guys around here are too. But if you don't pursue the correct journey you'll eventually despise yourself for it. Just don't give yourself hard time and simply do what you can with the time you have. Btw you mentioned something about therapy and coaching. There are millions of ways you can pursue this. People suffer from all sorts of problems - physical, mental, spiritual, emotional and you can zoom in on any of those without needing university degree. Maybe journal on that. You could get some sort of yearly or two yearly therapy training, get licensed and try practicing. Not sure what the options are in your country but I think they are plenty For me, for example I don't need about 40% of what I studied compared to what I use today. But I needed the license to practice, that was the biggest takeaway. Hope that works. Sorry if this is not what you wanted to hear

@Tyler Robinson I mean, sure. Eating more fruits and using virgin olive oil is probably reducing your risk of things like liver disease (through a gazillion mechanisms other than flushing your gall bladder) But I don't know if I would attribute all of this specifically to somehow flushing your organs. The only thing that experience flushing is stomach when you drink a lot of water at once. But hey, if it puts your mind at ease and if it stimulates you to eat better, then go flush as if your life depended on it

If that was so, most people would live with gall stones which they clearly don't. Do you think that somehow all that juices and oil is physically "flushing" the gall bladder? Like when you wash the pot after lunch? That's just a severe misunderstanding of the human anatomy. Liquid digestion does not pass through gall bladder upon the way out

bile reservoir. Bile drops in directly from the liver and helps you digest fats better by breaking them into tiny fat particles. You can live without it but having it makes digestion more seamless. good question I'm doubtful of the usefulness but then there is much we don't yet know

duuh ! But not in a tiny ass apartment. You need to be able to both isolate yourselves if you need some headspace or focus time. Have a flat with +1 room or convert a dining area into an office or something like that. Obviously you don't want to be sitting at one table both of you doing your work. It needs a little bit of planning. We've been in a home-based working environment since mid 2020 and it's mostly been alright. In fact, much better than working in an office. But this is just one person's experience so take that maybe as a limited view. I know couples who broke up weeks into quarantine because they were not used to being together or because they shared teeny tiny flat. It depends on the maturity of the relationship, I guess but it can absolutely be done without compromising your growth, but maybe it is not compatible with the hardcore level of stuff you do.

I'd argue that you can do that perfectly fine while living with her. I don't know if you lived with girl before but the day doesn't really involve catering to her needs all the time. You both work on your own shit during the day and mostly just have breakfast, lunch and dinner together, cook together and hang out on weekends. Ofcourse the girl needs to have something she is working towards as well. You guys have distorted view of what a mutual living looks like

I've lived with a girl for about 8+ years and let me tell you i wouldn't have it any other way. I absolutely love sharing our lifes together and the moments have been through will be what I'll remember when I'm dying on my deathbed. First of all I agree with guys who say that it may slow down your progress if your aim is ultimate spiritual awakening. That's very possible, you may need to live alone for that. It may even mean you are done with dating, having a lot of sex with other women and doing pickup. Are you okay with that? Is it trade of you are prepared to take? I don't see myself achieving ultimate awakening probably ever and I'm fine with it. Achieving high level of personal development, financial independence, great health, a healthy family and strong alignment with my life purpose is perfectly enough for me. I always wanted to have a family and if I'm lucky at least one kid. I'm gonna need a girl to live with me to do that ? So you gotta return to what you actually want. Why did you let her move in in the first place? You have to understand that this is what many women are like. They like attention, distraction, fooling around and constantly desiring your time. But you know what, sometimes that exactly what you need and sometimes that's what makes a difference between a miserable day and an acceptable day, especially when you're having a really bad time at work or professionally. + Bonus you get to have all the sex you want without needing to swipe Tinder, pay expensive dates, try to compete with other guys and do all the things guys do to get girls. I think a sexually satisfied guy is more productive guy. With time, the two of you will learn to accept each other's boundaries and how to navigate the living together state. And from that really healthy and mature relationship can grow. Give her time and she'll learn the rules of the game and you'll learn the rules of her game. It's also important that you help her find a purpose of her own, so she feels like she can actually channel her energy towards something for me and my partner, this was a significant step forward. It's unlikely she will find that for herself. But if it really bothers you and you cannot tolerate it, then break up with her or tell her you want to leave alone, but expect that such decision will significantly impair the health of your current relationship as she'll probably take it as a slap across the face and a betrayal - your choice. I would also suggest you consider rereading David Deida's book to better understand why she is the way she is. She is an emotional creature living for the moment and your relationship is significantly more important to her than to you.

My experience with the private dentist has partially been similar to a degree. But on the other hand, they've done amazing work where hygiene is concerned. I think where surgical treatments are required, you might consider getting a second opinion especially where your dentist is part of a larger corporate body. Sometimes larger corporate interest might be driving incentive for expensive procedures that might, perhaps, still be treatable through cheaper methods. Overall, dentistry is definitely not a scam. The evidence between untreated dental problems and the risk of chronic disease (e.g. infective endocarditis, pneumonia and even neurodegeneration) is mounting up so having someone who can identify early osent periodontal disease risk and treat is is absolutely essential. Not to mention tooth loss is proportionally associated with degradation in wellbeing and with malnutrition in people. This is the main point of regular checkups and hygienist checkups. You want to identify future problems early and treat them while you still can relatively painlessly and cheaply. Once you need to go and get grafting and titanium implants, you will very quickly see the bottom of your savings account because the amount of specialists who can do those compared to regular corrective surgery is quite small and hence expensive. But as always, the industry is corrupted by many rotten eggs and you need to be on the lookout for such. Google reviews might be useful or pages like trustpilot.

You would struggle to find any evidence of such claim. Fruits are pretty much unanimously associated with the improvement of diabetes or reduced risk of it and the association is extremely linear, the more fruit people eat, the less likely they are to become diabetic. Even with dried fruits, there is a weak but protective association. Fruit juices can be problematic tho in excess.

It is a complicated topic. Most people who are overweight are very self-cautious about it, they are already giving themselves hard time and having others contribute to it "e.g. do you even know how unhealthy it is?" is rarely helping. Many who are obese have gone on and off diets for decades with little results, and so they sort of slide into a state of perpetual hopelessness. There are a few who somehow embrace it and convince themselves that they just need to love who they are and they stop trying and usually become more obese each year. I agree with the idea of acceptance but not acceptance without taking action. Being stressed about being overweight is not useful other than to a point where that stress can be channelled into a momentum to do something about it, such as seeking dietitian or a mental health therapist. It depends. For some people, stress is paralysing; for others it drives action. There is also the other side that accepting and remaining obese may significantly shorten one's life span, make them prone to chronic disease and even render them handicapped due to poorly treated diabetes, needing a wheelchair in the future and becoming a burden to the family and the social system. Our current treatment of obesity rarely works with the emotional aspect of it. Many obese people (especially women) were molested and abused in childhood or have undergone other form of severe trauma growing up. Dietary interventions are rarely effective and long term lead to remission with such people because the cause remains unaddressed. In other cases where obesity is a consequence of poverty and lack of education, those can be even harder to correct without external support. I think fat shaming for the purpose of shaming is disgusting, useless and reckless. But trying to motivate the person to take action where such effort comes from a place of love and care is fine and should be encouraged. But of course many chronically overweight people automatically assume that any advice is a fat shaming and those can usually not be helped as easily.

@Medhansh maybe you should pay a specialist if you believe this to be the root cause of your health problems. It's unlikely that such person hangs around here

Great advice! Can pretty much make a difference between getting a periodontal disease and not. Some say it is too harsh but with the crap many eat, gentle brushing is just not sufficient anymore. Combining electronic brushing with flossing, oral rinsing, tongue scraping and occasional oral probiotic round should (unless genetically prone to recession) protect gums of most people long into old age. So much systemic health damage is mediated by infected gums and poor oral health it isn't even funny.

Something along those lines, yes. Basically 80% plant-based diets with small amounts (if desired) of low-fat dairy, eggs and oily fish. Lean meats are optional, while sugar-sweetened beverages, refined grains and junk are limited. Basically a guidelines diet. But there are many possible modifications to this.

@bazera it can disrupt the balance indeed if not planned properly. It depends on your lifestyle, if you are not very active and can get away with borderline levels of protein, you can get that, with some planning even on raw diet. With inclusion of a little bit of fatty food, even fats can be obtained at the RDA levels. Some deficiencies can occur after some time but you can choose to supplement things like vitamin D and Omega 3s. Whether fruitarian diet os optimal for humans for long term is questionable, I'd say we benefit from some cooked food. On the other hand, a lot of raw foodies online look emaciated and many have been, in the past, exposed for lying to their audience. So also bear in mind. Extreme weight loss and lean muscle tissue atrophy can happen if calories are not sufficiently compensated for. Maybe go raw food rather than fruit only and include at least nuts and seeds. Or try a more Mediterranean approach.

Psoriasis is a multifactorial condition with multiple suspected causes. Fruit all diet might improve it temporarily but if you won't be able to stick to it for long term, it may come back. I agree with guys above that a more balanced approach that includes both lifestyle and dietary adjustment and potentially some supplementation might work better and be more sustainable. Stress and sleep disruption are common mediators as well as vitamin D deficiency.

What would be signs of such imbalances? How would you know?

There is literally no evidence of any plants causing autoimmune disease. This is just a flat out speculation and quackery in low carb community. Even for gluten, other than for coeliac patients which is a genetic disorder, gluten is not harmful for anyone. Dairy, might, potentially have proinflammatory potential buy it is mostly conditional on people with inborn lactase deficiency or an autoimmune destruction of the brush border enzyme surface. Might also be more prevalent in children who were not breast fed but that's just my speculation I guess when you say toxic you mean that they contain antinutrients? Those actually seem to be mostly beneficial unless overdosed for example making kale juices or cassava soups 3 times a day...same way a rational person will not overdose on anything. Foods that contain highest amounts of lectins, phytates (like beans and whole grains) and stuff like that actually seem to contribute to longevity. For people with plant intolerances who thrive on plant free diets, it is most likely they are just avoiding the issue of damaged microbiome or damaged intestinal liming. Once this os fixed, people can carefully and slowly reintroduce plants. I've seen this happen a few times. It can be done although it is not easy. But to each their own. I don't think we need to propagate myths of "toxic" plants which is clearly a bs. Open to persuasion with a convincing argument.

^ agreed. I think I've been in this state for the past 3 years because I only train solo. I feel like i stopped improving in terms of technique and now it is just cardio training. Definitely worth getting some practice, even if it is an occasional one-off with a coach.

Agreed, I was just editing my previous comment. I wish he would stay away from this part of his content. He has so much to offer but without use of profanity and endless drama, he would attract much more people. I really hate that and it is what made me stop being his Patreon. Still, that put aside, his content is certainly more persuasive that anything else I have seen out there. Maybe the NutritionMadeEasy guy is another exception. I'd say you have as much aversion to watching his content as I do to watching Paul's content. The inherent biases are hard to get over. No studies are perfect. But we should be looking at the data that is close to us. Let's say there are some flaws in human epidemiology, ok. Granted. Maybe Food Frequency Questionnaires are 85% accurate rather than 100%. Maybe epidemiology can only show associations and not causations. But what else do we go? Rat studies? How relevant are those to humans? If we are dismissing human evidence then what's even the point of looking at something else? It is certainly interesting, when nothing else is available but just to dismiss it all. We do the best we can with what we have. It is not perfect, ofcourse. But it's what we got from the generations that have gone before us. How do you know humans in the past did no suffer from chronic disease? Marcus Aurelius is suggested to have suffered from gastric cancer, his chronic digestive pains are well documented. King Alfred The Great was said to have suffered with IBD (chronic autoimmune disease of bowels). This is also well documented in the medieval English archives although, ofcourse, we have no biopsy Mumified bodies with atherosclerosis have been found and dates thousands of years old - there is a lot of evidence for this actually. Why would even something like Traditional Chinese Medicine evolve a thousand years ago if humans were always healthy? Some traditional medicines go way before the birth of Christ. I don't buy this argument that humans were never ill before. We did not have diagnostic tools. Medicine was in its infancy. Humans lived shorter lives and fell prey to infectious diseases more than to heart disease and we don't have as much information about public health from hundreds of years ago as we would have now. they don't say it is the only cause of disease. There are numerous causes of disease, one of them being simply the fact that we live longer. The longer you live, the more prone you are to becoming chronically ill due to simple wear & tear of biological tissue. If most people die in their 30s-40s (as our ancestors did), they don't get to develop heart disease naturally. You can actually find his old videos when he was still a keto guy and fought hard to defend it He says he stopped being keto because he could not defend himself anymore. I'd consider that intellectual honesty. Layne Norton has gone through something similar over the past few years. You know, I find this fascinating, considering he keeps selling carnivore-related content and associated himself with people like the Liver King in a joint venture selling ancestral supplements despite no longer being pure carnivore. To be honest, I don't believe it, deep inside, Paul believes carnivore or even semi carnivore is healthy, but he has gone too far and become too popular to go back. It would cost him a chunk of his audience, and medical Twitter would stump him - he is very aware of this. This happened to John Venus, this happened to Rawvana, this happened to Vegetable Police and a few other ex-vegans who spit in the face of their audience. It is actually a real threat once you become a health influencer. I wouldn't be surprised if,in the middle of the night, Paul is experiencing panic attacks because of all this cognitive dissonance. Obviously we wouldn't know. Just curious, your mentor is the gentleman whose videos you shared on your journal? (no stalking, just curiosity :D) Let me turn your former argument the other way here: " how do you know that he and his menthor are not protected by leading this superhuman lifestyle from the effects of "toxic" saturate fats? How do we know that for carnivores who are not so athletic and learn and active, this is not going to be an extreme problem? And how do we know that if we took people like him and found that they are super healthy that we are not looking at a biased sample of a few superhumans who exercise twice a day, bath in ice etc. What about the rest of population who don't do that but have now become convinced that eating the godless amount of beef (without doing the other bits) is good for them? Are we about to see the greatest rise in heart disease on the expense of a few super-fit individuals who cracked the code? See this is the issue? How do you know they are not a completely biased sample? Maybe being like that protects you from all the negatives and potential damage of a carnivore diet. It is definitely possible. But again, how many people can do that? Could your parents be that way? Most of your friends? Mine certainly couldn't. Most people will always choose the easiest thing which in this case is "eat a lot of saturated fat and you'll be healthy". I guess everything has been said then. Anyways, thanks for the conversation. I appreciate being forced to stretch the limits of my open-mindedness! Likewise if I gather enough evidence that I was wrong, I will admit it. I have been spewing a lot of nonsense on this forum in the past that I no longer believe. I'd like to believe it is all a personal evolution of some sort.

@RendHeaven Here is a response video to Joseph Everet's content. This I someone I would consider an expert in the field even tho he is neither researcher nor academic. I would consider sharing this with your mentor too. I'd love to watch their debate actually. Nick (guy in this vid) does debates as far as I know. His knowledge far exceeds where I'm at currently and the level at which I can argue around this topic. I'm going to be spending more time looking into seed oils, saturate fats, red meat and PUFA studies this year as I am not quite where I'd like to be with this topic and I feel I need to first read all that stuff to really make up my mind about it. I think I've often been arguing from a place of not having 100% of the knowledge I assumed to have. Doesn't mean concession of your points Just putting the discussion on halt until I've had the opportunity to catch up on the evidence. Btw I'd suggest you do the same, perhaps by even looking at the actual sources of the information rather than hearsay. I urge you to look beyond "all studies are confounded by healthy user bias" type of reasoning. In the end it's your health you are gambling with here. That goes for both of us. I could find online articles saying the opposite. "leading experts" could mean anything. It's a marketing statement. I am sure there is plenty of people who are real experts in the field of nutritional science who are not on their check Just because AN organisation drafted A letter, it does not mean, the current level of evidence will be dismissed. This happens all the time. Have you ever looked at the mountain of research backing up the current dietary guidelines? The 1000+ pages of references and studies? I think it is stored somewhere at the the US Department of Health Website but is super difficult to find, I've been looking for it recently. It is there but they don't make it easy to access which does not help to back their argument, I have to admit. btw this is such an arrogant statement that it makes me wanna vomit on my shoes. The absolute self- righteousness and complete lack of self-reflection on that is quite something Worst part is, it is without even bothering to crack open a single study and analyse it but just flat out dismissing all the evidence as confounded by "healthy user bias". Absolutely ridiculous. And he id confidently doing it all by regurgitating Paul Saladino's words (nothing he says is new here, every carnivore you listen to is saying the same words exactly which makes it clear that none of them bother to investigate and they just regurgitate the same stuff over and over) This is a Kruger Dunning masterclass. I think your mentor, I'm sure he is a smart, experienced and knowledgable person, needs to learn some humility and leave a "maybe I'm not always right" back door open occasionally.

I've spent about 4 months together in countries of South-East Asia , working remotely for a few weeks so maybe this will be helpful a bit. You can totally do it. Living in Thailand (outside of tourist hubs like Phuket, Samui, Ao Nang & Krabi) or even Vietnam, Kambodia, Philippines or Malaysia is totally doable, and you sustain yourself for years if you have enough money. A lot of Westerners, Aussies and Kiwis do it. The country is riddled with digital nomads who have figured out a way to make living while travelling. There are a few key points to make this work: you need to have some sort of income, it doesn't need to be a lot. If you are happy sharing hostels and eating local thai food, then you can live off 500-600 USD per month, maybe even less if you are very resourceful and creative If you don't have any income, you can always earn some money locally by teaching English, and working in tourism (they actually REALLY want foreigners who speak proper English to work in their tourism but don't expect to be paid US salary) this is more of a philosophical point, but you should make sure digital nomadism doesn't become your escapism from facing existential questions in your life (this is EXTREMELY common scenario) such as "what should I do with my life" because trust me, those questions will come back to bite you in the ass the moment you return back. But yah totally doable and in fact, if you have the drive and the resources, you should absolutely do it. You can use this time to develop your life purpose or even start a business. Many whites even choose to start a family, marrying a local Thai girl and having a pretty awesome life - if that's your thing, that could be done. Just don't waste all that time by partying & polluting as do many who go there to "re-discover themselves" and end up broke, depressed, with severely damaged health and no plans for future. Hope that helps