Michael569

As advised above, pack some dried fruits, mix a whole batch with some granola, seeds, nuts and bits of dark chocolate. You can prep some energy balls too, dry flax crackers etc Canned food is an option. You can throw heinz beans in a fire to heat up, i did that in the past during camping. That is...if you will end up having a campfire. Perhaps not during a meditation retreat. But fasting is an option for sure but what if you can't handle 5 days and end up with no food around? Your enjoyment of the experience may be diminished of you are not used to prolonged fasting

But why? ?

It actually sounds like something many of us on here feel. I think once you push yourself a little bit higher on the spiral and start becoming aware of the destructive behaviour and the path others are taking towards "happiness" if your empathy is high enough it will cause suffering and even disgust. But perhaps rather than isolating yourself there is a way to channel that into a mission or a vision? To help elevate other people in one way or another. In a way that is most meaningful. I have seen super high quality content from you on the forum and I know you have a lot to offer. That also would probably help with those anxieties for a few reasons you would feel in control because you are doing something to help you would be honoring your values rather than focus on what is wrong with the world and getting depressed by it you would be focusing on the solution and your mind would be occupied by your thing - otherwise it is easy to ruminate To give you a personal example, for me whenever I stop focusing on my work and start ruminating on why things are not working, how hard it is and how nobody cares about what I do and how this is never going to work, I can easily slide into feeling depressed. But when I am laser focused on the work and stop thinking about all the other shit, my mood elevates and my motivation follows. Ultimately one wants to trancend that and elevate themselves to the highest level of consciousness, but I am nowhere near a place where I would be ready to do that without burning through another karma first. Perhaps there is a karma that you need to burn through first as well This is the most obvious question of all but have you tried the LP course? If so, did you finish it and got something out of it? P.S. Caffeine is a MAJOR source of anxiety triggers. The way it works is that if you are already stressed and tense, caffeine will give you a one-up and push you over the emotional threshold towards full blown panic attack. The effect may be delayed so the connection can be harder to make tho

that was, ofcourse, arranged in advance

@Flowerfaeiry welcome back ?

Do you have any hint as to what's triggering those anxieties? For me, for example a radical change of lifestyle that includes lack of sleep and a lot of stimulation can get me close to a panic attack. In terms of some natural remedies. You could try Chamomile extract. Doses up to 1200mg per day in split doses are safe. I took a deep dive into research on chamomile, feel free to look it up in my blog and evaluate if the magnitude of evidence is worth giving it a shot. Not driving traffic to the website just sharing a summarised review for simplicity. Aswaganadha that you hinted o could also help. I've got an article on that as well. I found ashwagandha to be very effective with sleep for people and the sort of night-time stress. It also seems to have that GABA-ergic effect that can calm people down without the weird side effects of things like benzos Other than that looking at sleep patterns and stress patterns may be useful as well as the use of caffeine. Ofcourse anxieties can come from a feeling of being trapped and having one's values stepped all over by other people. And finally anxieties can be triggered by certain parts within us (the IFS method) that are subconsciously responding to threats that we do not even perceive with our conscious mind. I found the book "no bad parts" extremely useful in this exploration. Good luck with it!

This needs to be looked into. Depression can be associated with nutritional deficiencies and a poor diet can make it significantly worse. Shock therapy can be effective for non-remitting depression but it may not address the root cause if the root cause is either lifestyle or deeply rooted trauma, abandonment or feeling lost in life. Whatever the cause is, they should work with someone to identify it and remedy.

How do you know that ancestral foods are superior just because we evolved on them? Evolution does not care about longevity. Having "evolved" means having reached a reproductive peak window without dying. Longevity and reproductive fitness are two completely different things. I am not an expert on this topic but I'd highly highly recommend giving this a listen. This was a beautiful debate on why the appeal to nature is a poor argument in this case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8p39Gwct1Y&ab_channel=TheNutrivore Of course totally cool if you choose not to The increased disease incidence is probably linked to reduced infant mortality and improvement in longevity due to medical advancement. The longer people live, the more disease you will see....well because if people die prematurely, they get less sick with chronic disease because they do not make it to that age when these problems would start to occur. Agreed, it is a threshold effect. @thenondualtankie Yes, but if you look at the breakdown of the individual cohorts, at the largest quantiles of intake they ate like 15% of SFA of total calories. Calculate that by let's say 2500 calories for adult male. That's like 375 calories worth of saturated fats. If you divide that by 9 (calories per gram of fat) you get about 40-41 grams per day. This is somewhere at the threshold when SFAs start becoming harmful. The amount of saturated fats people in these studies consume may not be sufficient enough to detect the differences in CVD health outcomes. It could be that the meta-analysis isn't powered enough to see those changes. You could also say that that 2010 meta-analysis is superseded by this 2020 one by Hooper and colleagues. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD011737.pub3/full While they show no difference in mortality (the 2010 study did not even look at mortality btw), they clearly show 17% reduction of events (e.g. getting heart attack in the first place but not necessarily dying of it) But still, let's say that that even the 2020 Meta analysis is not persuasive enough either (hypothetically speaking) , let me ask you this: "Knowing that there is a POTENTIAL risk of eating red meat and ending up with colorectal cancer or premature heart attack, is this worth the risk to you of eating such food if 100% of nutrients in it are easily obtained from plants (which have clearly been associated with reduced risk of chronic disease)? Are you gonna put that 1-bullet revolver to your head and see if you click or bang?" I just don't think it is worth it since all of us have access to an abundance of incredible food variety and all this focus on red meat somehow being the new superfood is completely silly. We are not our ancestors anymore living of only what we can grow. We have the privilege of being able to choose. Our ancestors were driven by sheer survival from one day to another. We are not. One would almost say that with all these plant options available, consumption of meat is unethical but this is not an area I want to go into

If you look at most meta-analyses on the intake of red meat they nearly always include a split between regular and processed where they are looking at individual differences. What you see most of the time is that while processed meat is worse, yes. The beef itself is pretty much unanimously associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and colorectal cancer. Here is the most robust monograph published on the topic to date. This is not a blog of some low carb lunatic. These are robust clinical guidelines prepared by WHO's collaboration with IARC. This is the deepest analysis of the data possible. https://www.iarc.who.int/featured-news/media-centre-iarc-news-redmeat/ "A meta-analysis including data from 10 cohort studies reported a statistically significant dose–response association between consumption of red meat and/or processed meat and cancer of the colorectum. The relative risks of cancer of the colorectum were 1.17 (95% CI, 1.05–1.31) for an increase in consumption of red meat of 100 g/day and 1.18 (95% CI, 1.10–1.28) for an increase in consumption of processed meat of 50 g/day" - this is a nice demonstration of how processed beef is very bad but regular is equally harmful, you just need slightly bigger portions. For every 100g eaten per day the risk of CC is increased by 18%. This translates to about a 4-6 mouthfuls of steak. 2) Why do you think seed oils are bad? People who consume more unsaturated fats (in replacement for saturates) have better health outcomes. This has also been pretty persuasively demonstrated now. Seed oils are not the problem here. The ApoB containing lipoproteins triggering early onset of intraarterial inflammation (found in foods like beef and butter) are the real problem. And smothering your steak in butter is probably trippling the risk of adverse health outcomes

get your B12 levels checked. May not be it but if you are severely restricting animal foods and not supplementing, it could be a factor here. Could also have something to do with the hypotension in your other post.

They can be interestesting but it is important to validate your results with great caution and not to dramstise the results too much. E.g. mutation on a gene XYZ that has been shown to cause disease X in knockout mice does not mean you will get the same disease. While some mutations have stronger associations than other the disease and genome interplay isn't as well exolored in terms of human outcome data so always take a step back when interpreting your results. Also sometimes it is genuinely better not to know. Also be VERY cautious if the company selling you the tests starts offering you supplements or "tailored programs" to "mitigate the impact" a lot of them do this and businesses like that are the bottom of the barrel

You have cold my friend. It's ok to get ill occasionally, get over it, you are a human, you will get sick again and again. Fapping has nothing to do with it. Rest, make a nice vegetable soup and be gentle with yourself. No need to take anything, let the body heal itself That stress ain't helping either. Take care!

It might be a reaction to increasing fibre content. Your microbiota might be adapting. Reduce the fibre a little bit and once it becomes tolerable agains, start increasing again. But if it seems unnatural it might also be reaction to high FODMAP carbohydrates which should be further investigated. Make sure not to fall for some shitty naturopathic tests like organic acids or some hair intolerance analysis... those tests are complete quackery. Get a proper medical testing or just experiment with low FODMAP diet and see if it helps. The Monash App os super useful for that. Good luck

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no negative effects unless you are overeating on salted nuts or nuts dipped in chocolate

It's a threshold effect but I would be careful with using words such as DOES NOT. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32827219/ - this is a pretty darn robust Cochrane Review, one of the largest reviews of the topics so far. 15 RCTs over 56 thousand participants were polled in meta-analysis. included long-term trials suggested that reducing dietary saturated fat reduced the risk of combined cardiovascular events by 17% (risk ratio (RR) 0.83; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.70 to 0.98 - Look at the confidence intervals - everybody in the story got better after following SFA replacing diet Meta-regression suggested that greater reductions in saturated fat (reflected in greater reductions in serum cholesterol) resulted in greater reductions in risk of CVD events, explaining most heterogeneity between trials he number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome (NNTB) was 56 in primary prevention trials, so 56 people need to reduce their saturated fat intake for ~four years for one person to avoid experiencing a CVD event. - while this may not seem like much, in a scale of 100 million people we are talking about 1.5 million people who will get to live much longer and a significant cut in premature loss of human life. As @undeather said. These clowns on YouTube who spit in the face of major evidence should actually be put on a trial for causing premature loss of human life and it is sad and scary to see millions of people following their agenda. Saturated fats are one of the major causes of heart disease mainly for increasing the distribution of ApoB containing lipoprotein. These are problematic because they take long time to get rid of. AboB is like these tiny hands on the top of lipoprotein particle (lipoprotein is a shell that carries different particles like fats and nutrients around the body but it also contains cholesterol) AbpoB is like a magnet for the proteins called proteoglycans inside the tunica intima (inside the artery) and they readily and irreversibly bind to it ,which our body does not like happening and so it causes release of immune signals that attract monocytes (white blood cell type) and they start to gobble up these particles gradually turning into foam cells which then trigger a variety of inflammatory pathways one of which are release of growth factors stimulating the growth of the muscular layer of tunica media (the middle layer of the artery). With time as foam cells themselves end up trapped inside tunica intima because they are full of gobbled LDL, they are now being pressed by the growth of the tiny muscle beneath them and also getting crowded with other dead and dying foam cells, all this mess starts bulging u in a lumen (the inside of artery) and plaque starts forming up - early atherosclerosis progresses. The more this happens, the more monocytes are being attracted, the more foam cells produced, the more the tunica media muscular layer grows - and with a few decades atherosclerosis has formed if the process is not slowed down through dietary modification or certain meds (it is infinitely more complex than that and our doc above would be able to explain it much much better) - the mechanism is well described, well studied and very well known. Here is a really good review of the process https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5310383/ It is also funny how we always poo poo on seed oils and toxic vegetable oils but actually the less saturated fats people consume and the more plant oils they replace them for, the less this happens and the lower their ApoB circulating levels get. There is a reason clinical guidelines and public health guidelines have been advising for reduction of SFAs in public food and why you now see oils everywhere rather than fucking butter or margarine. This research has been done decades ago and this is exactly what they were telling us Ofcourse having insulin resistance as you suggested is definitely a contributing factor but perhaps more to diabetes complications (renal damage, peripheral neuropathy and premature blindness) than to atherosclerosis itself.

I've never done any deep dive into the literature on fasting so take this response with a pinch of scepticism but I really like the concept of fasting for 24hrs once a week as a sort of mini-cleanse. Alternatively another option is simply to skip a few dinners during the week or just restrict them to small portions. I don't see much point in water fasting and that sort of stuff unless fighting a chronic disease where it has been shown that fasting can help otherwise one may actually be harming their body's skill to cope such as fasting-induced cachexia during cancer therapy etc.

Yo don't want to eat much of any form of red meat in general. The evidence toward adverse health outcomes is pretty significant at this point. I would not make pork a significant source of calories unless obtaining better sources of calories was not possible or removing pork would result in malnutrition.

i agree with this, the notion that a few light sessions per week here and there are enough is far from what is needed to keep the body healthy and slim with all the sitting most of us do and hyperpalatable foods The differences will start becoming obvious after menopause and andropause the most. Before that we are protected by genetics and hormones a lot

the filter you used, does it detect mould presence? And does it filter all allergens specifically? Some filters are quite selective and some are shit although dyson should probably be pretty reliable so it's just about what it is filtering and what it is NOT filtering. It's hard to kinda give advice about asthma over a forum chat because of how multifactorial this thing is but speak to your doctor again and see if there are any other tests they could run You could experimentally try to take antihistamines for a few days and see if that helps. This way you may be able to tell is the breathlesness is trigger by allergic reaction specifically. Some people also react to pesticides, chemicals, pollution, sulphates etc. So if you happen to live ina polluted area, that could for sure be a contributor. Those might be harder to cut out but you could do a run down of the food you eat most of the time and see if there is anything there loaded with weird stuff that shouldn't be present in the food. Not sure how your diet quality is, but asthmatics do seem to benefit from more plant-based type of a diet for some reason. What's the pattern of the condition? Is it always bad or does it change? is there any chance the condition is driven by psychological factors such as anxieties, stress, holding tension in your body etc?

I'm just curious, what is the product/service you offer to the world at the moment? What do you ship out there? And how much time do you spend marketing it?

Don't worry, it will get resolved eventually Give him time to reply. You didn't lose anything, it will all be worth it

Oh I'm sooo far from overcoming all barriers My biggest obstacle which remains to this day is action planning and time management. Like what to focus on at a given day and prioritising tasks, not getting distracted and avoiding procrastination (such as the forum) . That remains the number one challenge. It's also sort of a fallout from being employed 9-5 where you are basically told what to do all the time and you do more of a reactive work rather than proactively seek it. Excellent! Seems you got it all planned out so my best advice here is: be patient, it's a slow process, one step at a time. The journey is as beautiful as is the destination. One day you'll proudly look back and tell the story over and over, every time someone asks you "how did you do it?"

I feel like the ultimate question here is "how do I drop my belly and get jacked?" The answer was already provided several times here. Start exercising regularly, eat a clean diet in slight surplus and don't jeopardise your sleep quality. Give it a year of consistent effort and you'll get there.

Hope this won't be a bubble bursting comment, but it may take you years, a decade, to get your life purpose to a stage where you will become fully financial independent. The market is huge, there is the most competitive there ever was, the marketing is much harder than it used to be. Yes, you can reach 7 billion people...but so can all your competitors. It is important this does not discourage you but you keep focusing on your craft while figuring out how to market yourself to your niche audience. DO you know who your niche audience is? It can't be everyone. And yes, maybe during this transition you will need a stable 9-5 (or part-time) job to keep the money to pay bills, food, rent etc. I've been on this journey for about 2 years since finishing school and going solo and trust me if I didn't have a stable 9-5 income I would never ever be able to pay all expenses. Going solo is the hardest decision of all because now, you no longer do what others tell you but you have to be the sales person, the marketer, the accountant, the HR person, the motivator, the CFO and the CEO at the same time. It takes time even if you are very good at what you do. Be okay with that, ebrace it. If the journey was easy, everybody would be an entrepreneur. But you chose to walk the thorny road. Maybe the job you find should be something easy where you'll have a lot of time to focus on your thing while doing some mild admin work. You actually want some lame dead-end job where people don't constantly bother you so that you can get paid and focus on your craft too. Ideally something that you can work from home. Some sort of ticketing support bs work where you learn a few tasks and do that over and over is ideal. Gives you plenty of times to work on your own thing. It's ok to have a temporary 9-5 job to keep you going. It's just means to an end. I know a guy who works for a telecoms company as their support guy, works from home, makes 1800 euros a month and plays video games 7 out of his 8 hours. He has ben doing this for 5 years. Imagine where he could have been if he started a business but instead he is obese and depressed and escaping the suffering into a virtual world. What I'm trying to say, there are jobs out there that pay for literally doing very little work. Find a job like this and leverage the tools and the money to build up your musical business. Good luck! you got this