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No, provided that you can digest them well and do not react thi things such as high FODMAP carbohydrates, neither grains not legumes nor any of that stuff is bad for you. Obviously, some carbs are better than other but I would not demonise the whole group and throw them in the "evil" bucket. Leo has said many times that he cannot tolerate them due to ongoing gastrointestinal issues, that' a different story. Wholegrains and legumes are inversely associated with chronic disease outcomes and everybody needs to eat more of them.

Start here, leave out the other 3 questions for now. You can't sell a course to cold audience unless you can spend 10,000 a month on online marketing. Figure out, who is it for an how to start reaching out to these people. Nail down your nische audience to the finest detail. Easier said then done, I know... I'm elbows deep in trying to figure this out too. Creating the course itself is actually the easy part. Plenty of places to host it such as Udemy, Thinkific, most website hosting platforms have some sort of functionality like this.

What about practising marketing as a way to bring content to people who are already interested in hearing about it and just using things like ads to make sure the algorithm (e.g. on FB) does not work against you but for you, that they actually see it. I'm not talking about annoying cold audience by spamming random adds to 500,000 random people or manipulating market in one's gain. Or do you not believe there is such thing as conscious marketing whatsoever?

Your microbiome can restore on its own, you don't really need to do anything as long as this is a single course. Just keep eating high-fibre diet with some prObiotic food and you'll get it all back. For education, you could get the book by Justin & Erica Sonnenburg - The Good Gut. These two are one of the leading microbiome researchers in the world and Justin has recently been hosted on Hubberman Lab Podcast as well although that one wasn't as interesting as the lecture Erica delivered here: * moving to health subforum,

There's plenty one can do including everything you listed already. Keeping a healthy BMI, avoiding smoking, alcohol, excessive microplastic exposure and keeping saturated fats and salt low will probably help. In terms of synthetic support, you can either have medically administered testosterone replacement therapy or exogenous synthetic growth hormone. They target different systems and are taken at different doses. Where TRT is aimed to maintain basic physiological functions and taken at levels comparable to standard male levels, anabolic steroids are hyperdosed in order to stimulate extreme muscle protein synthesis. Both therapies have risks associated with them. There is a potential link between TRT and early-onset heart disease but I've never taken a deep dive into this topic to know the risk: benefit ratio. The risk of anabolic steroids is cardiac arrest, prostate cancer & other malignancies due to excessive cell cycle stimulation, sepsis (when guys use dirty needles) and gradual narrowing of arteries because growth factors also stimulate the growth of soft muscle tissue inside tunica media. Commit to a life of health & physical activity and you'll be just fine. If you smoke, then stop. If you drink, then don't. Don't become fat and don't become diabetic. Everything else is mostly fluff.

It's several layers of arguments as to why not eat at Mcdonald's but if I was to summarise it to a single point it would be "processed beef"

I think it requires a certain level of awareness and consciousness development to be able to work with mental health condition, especially a complex one such as Bipolar, Schizophrenia or major depression. Medications are there to ease life for people who do not have tools, knowledge or resources to handle these holistically. Medication prevent people from killing themselves during states of mania and hyperarrousal. If you are a highly developed individual, chances are you can, for example deal with a panic attack through a breath work and introspection but for people in spiral dynamics stage blue who are not aware of such practices even existing, medication is what helps them and keeps them from making a suicide attempt. They are not ideal and for moderate conditions such as mild to moderate depression, they do not work as well but for extreme conditions, meds are actually very helpful. The problem is that once people are put on meds, they do not receive further support. Meds should be used to alleviate major symptoms so that core issues can be addressed, which is where an integrative approach such as IFS comes in. It's like asking someone to hold a carpet while you vacuum clean underneath

Ask and it shall be delivered, boys and girls. The episode we have been patiently waiting for AthlenX on Hubberman Lab Podcast

ah, in that case, i'm sure protein is not a concern then

Sure thing, there is much you can do to slow down that decline such as remaining physically active, lean, keeping healthy BMI and maintaining a decent lean muscle mass but only to a degree. I am yet to conduct a deep dive into the topic myself so perhaps you are right that it is not inevitable in all men. There is also a dark side of keeping testosterone too high (especially synthetically) in older age and that is an increased risk of prostate growth through the DHT pathway but the last time I checked, this has not been confirmed. Anyway, I think the focus is too much on testosterone and not enough on things like blood sugar management, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, BMI, waste:hip ratio or ApoB, markers that, in my opinion, matter way more once you get pass 50s. Rapid decline in testosterone may be caused by a disease state as well and where that happens, it needs to be investigated. Exactly as you said I am not a huge fan of antiageing because a lot of it is just mechanistic fuckery, marketing and fearmongering but I am a huge fan of healthy ageing rather than falling apart and relying on meds the last 30 years of one's life. That's imo more important than keeping testosterone at certain range.

The question is "what would be a meaningful business for you?" You can offer a high-quality service even on a budget The danger here is investing in something purely for maximising revenue and selling your soul to the devil by screwing over customers for maximising your margins. Or you can use that money to get the education necessary to offer a type of service that you will be proud of.

It may take a while to get the right ratio if you are athletic and especially if you prefer to get most of your protein from plants but what I found, just bulk ordering wholegrains and legumes and then always soaking few bowls of beans and lentils, pressure cooking large batches and then freezing them in small bags has been a way to go. Once you find a level of efficiency to do this, then in combination with organic tofu, which is becoming more and more affordable you should be all sorted. If you eat animal foods then by default you are probably eating more protein then vegetarian or vegan person so I wouldn't worry too much unless you are a competitive athlete. The protein concerns are just way way out of proportion due to all the industry propaganda, marketing and social media. In reality, most of us are eating more than we need.

Yes testosterone levels decline with age which is why some men choose to undergo TRT after 50s. Main role of testosterone in your body is for reproductive purposes, spermatogenesis, maintenance of erection and sperm motility and to maintain primal sexual characteristics, once you are past reproductive age, natural selection kicks in and you lose the ability to reproduce. Same way women lose gonadal oestrogen production post-menopausal, there is no need to reproduce any longer. Wanting muscle and stuff like that, which is associated with testosterone these days is a modern invention, evolution is still driven by the survival of species and once your reproductive window is done, evolution does not care about you anymore and your body starts ageing and losing its primal sexual features as well as its vigour. Even longevity is a modern thing, humans would rarely live past reproductive prime in ancient times.

@Aimblack look at their ingredient list, its full of chemical, glucose syrups, additives, caking agents, thickeners. I understand why they are there but companies Like Vivo or Huel are now using more wholefood ingredients instead these days. Secondly, that low price has to come at a cost somewhere else. I'm up for affordable products but they seem to push it too far. Either they are monopolising the market in some way and eating up small competitors, or cutting down employee payments, or screwing over suppliers or screwing over the farmer's market or getting the cheapest most garbage ingredients they can, importing whey from god knows where. Their website has no language on 3rd party and metal testing. I don't trust them, never have and never will. I don't recommend my clients protein powder anymore unless they specifically want to take them. And since most of my clients are not pro athletes or bodybulders, most people can get their protein from food. Still, if you want some, I'd go for something organic, tested, vegan and that is neither soy protein nor animal protein. Or just get a pressure cooker and bulk up on lentils and beans and you won't need any of this.

The problem with this is that you are seeing a clean diet as a choir or burden and junk food as your salvation. This type of thinking does not allow you to create health as your core value because you not being serious with it. Eventually the amount of junk food grows as you make more and more exceptions, you get lazier, your willpower drains and before you know it 40% of your diet is made of junk, sugar and crisps. Once you start to truly value health, you won't even crave those things. Like, it won't even cross your mind to stop in Mcdonalds unless you are starvcing and there is no food for miles around. Even then, I'd rather hold a fast then eat at Mcdonald's ..maybe with the exception of their veggie wrap. Doesn't mean you are not fun to be around but just because other people piss on their health, you don;t have to. There are always way to have healthy food even if you are out and you can still see as a treat. It's all about building that mindset. If you don't have it, making exceptions soon becomes the norm. if you have friends who eat shit and drink and treat their digestive system as a garbage disposal bag, find better friends. Eventually all of them will end up sick and so will you if you let them lead you. Unless your standards are strict and built around a strong core value, you will be compromising all the time.

@Jannes I'd rather gouge my eye with a teaspoon than consume something from myprotein

By dehydrated do you mean unusually bright yellow urine? That's not dehydration, it's a biproduct of Riboflavin that colours the urine yellow, don't worry about it. Not harmful.

Yeah, this is a potential problem. I'm a little bit disheartened by how Vivo have been increasing their prices lately. They have a great product but it is getting to a point where they are unaffordable for a lot of people unless you wanna commit to regular bulk ordering. You can always just not use protein powders and max up on your dietary sources. Might even be healthier

No, just with the book. You could totally find a therapist but I found the book is a greastep-by-step guide to do this work yourself. Ofcourse you don't get a feedback that a therapist would give you and the depth of going solo is limited but it is a good start and you will see whether this stuff works for you or not and if it does you can always go private to go deeper and further. But really, all these tips we are all sharing are just tools. From my experience, mental health usually requires a set of "tools" to be corrected. No one things works on its own. Diet does not work on its own neither does trauma work nor does chelation. You gotta combine things, but I know you already are doing that. From what I observed it seems tho that you are looking for that ONE holy grail. The ultimate probiotic or the ultimate technique and the truth is that it may be a set of practices, things and techniques. Mental health requires a combination of biochemical, lifestyle, spiritual and psychological approach. I don't believe one of those alone will do it. Both physical and spiritual body need to be addressed at the same time and if this is something that's been going on for a while, it may take some time to be corrected.

I would defer with the answer to guys who have done the protocol and have way more knowledge about the chelation process than I do @Average Investor @Space @The0Self Also what @Ulax said above. Internal Family Systems is a method worth exploring. I have recently started applying this method to myself and it feels like vacuum cleaning your house with a weak machine for years and then getting a Dyson. "holly shit where is all this stuff coming from, I thought I did all the work" that's how it felt. Would highly recommend giving IFS a shot alongside what you already do in terms of health recovery. A good way to start is to read "no bad parts" by Richard Schwartz. But you gotta do the exercises, this is not a "read only" book. This is a workbook and you can't skip a single exercise.

absolutely agreed

You could have just given it to a random kid on the street. Lot of resources went into making that thing. Talk about wasteful capitalism ? Still, good for you !

Approach your life with kindness and compassion. For yourself and for others. It's all about tiny steps. Forget the bigger picture for now. Forget what others are doing. Compare yourself with no one. Everyone has their own shit they are dealing with regardless of how happy or successful they seem. EVERYONE. Maybe you can just start writing. Journal and try to understand your mind. Right now it is possible that the different parts of your mind are out of sync, each wanting a different thing. Journaling can help you pull those back and integrate them as one. A good book to try if you have time is "No bad parts by Richard Schwartz". All the best

No phone is going to fix this issue because the problem is deeper than the technology. The problem of social media addiction is a disconnection to one's core and one's purpose. The issue is also that the parts that do not appreciate mastery and growth are weaker than the parts that like fleeting entertainment and distraction. It is an internal problem. Given enough internal motivation and drive towards seeking something greater in life you'll start to see social media as a fleeting distraction and it will start losing its magic. Sure you'll get stuck in a Youtube loop every now and then but it will be easier to resist in the first place. They have their usefulness if you are building a business want to connect with an audience, selling products etc but the typical scrolling behaviour is usually being bored (lack of purpose) or procrastinating on facing a more existential question which is "what the f.. should I to do with my life" Still, getting back to old phones is a good way to start retaining your mind. Dumbphones with WhatsApp seem like a great step away from all this

My sister worked for Amazon for 6 months. She had to leave due to mounting anxieties and an increasing amount of panic attacks due to the unrealistic workload, overtime and constant head bashing from her management over underperformance. Worth mentioning that NOBODY in the team was able to fulfill the monthly KPIs Maybe you'll look back in a few months and congratulate yourself on not getting this job. It is not a company I would want to work with. The next day prime delivery comes at a cost that employees and the environment have to suck up the most. They pay you well, but they will take more than they give in return...in terms of your mental wellbeing and your health.