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@Ora I wrote a huge response addressing different parts of that message but then I deleted it as I realised I'd just be stirring an argument and a long debate which wouldn't help anybody. We both have different sources, both have done our own research and came to many similar but also many different conclusions. I'll just leave it at that. One thing I'll say thou is...unless you have done your own in-depth research into the literature on saturated fats and cholesterol don't be too tempted to make claims such as "saturated fats is healthy and cholesterol is not unhealthy". There is an extreme amount of research that would contradict you on both points but it needs someone with the capacity and background to be able to dissect all those meta analyses and cohort studies for us. Not cherry-pick, anyone can do that. I don't have those abilities and I presume neither have you (no offence). Don't be Eric Berg who thinks he can make a correlation based on 2 individual studies. It ain't that simple.

Typo ? "soap" not *soup" don't you go diving headfirst into chicken broth

@Mada_ a local organic brand called Beauty Kitchen but not sure if they sell overseas.

Choline being turned into trimethylamine-N oxide (TMAO) in the gut & liver could be the theory? I'm inclined to say , "possibly yes" if you kept that up for the next 20 years but all the largest meta-analyses reviewing egg consumption in relation to heart disease and cancer are just too f-ing inconclusive and contradictory so I can't really tell for sure. I'd probably try to cut it down to 1 per day or 2 every other day and replace the other ones with other food alternatives. Personally, I don't think it is a good idea to consume a large number of eggs and I usually advise my clients to keep it to a lower amount (as indicated above). But I think it also depends on what you eat those eggs with. A typical breakfast made of scramled eggs, bacon and white toast bread is a disaster if eaten frequently but scrambled eggs eaten with a huge bowl of vegetable salad and beans and maybe like a high fibre whole grain seeded bread with hummus is a different story and that fibre and all those polyphenols could possibly mitigate some of those harmful elements...at least theoretically. well if there is one thing bodybuilders know shit about it's nutrition They know carbs and proteins and fats. They are masters at macro calculation & manipulation but most of them don't give rats about potential long term consequences of eating 350 grams of protein a day. Maximise protein minimise carbs is the name of the game. depends where those macros are coming from. But if it was chicken & rice and multivitamin capsule, you'd be possibly setting yourself up for cancer

Coconut oil for face and some natural essential oil soup for body & hair. Some sort of aluminium free deo is a good idea too. Everything else is just marketing and riddled with chemicals. Most global brands of popular skincare like are garbage and chemical cocktail. Skin should be naturally hydrated mostly from the inside through a healthy lifestyle and diet.

My girlfriend is currently doing something similar. Studying for MsA in ecology & sustainability but she is still not sure which way to take it. If you care for environment and want to do something about it, having a degree helps but does not define what you'll do. There are many ways you could take this. We definitely need more conscious people who are concerned and are taking action to help this diseased planet. What does "caring for environment" mean to you? What gives you drive? What makes you passionate? When was the last time you felt truly empowered and on fire? I like the way Cal Newport puts in in "so good they can't ignore you". He says that the passion hypothesis is wrong. That you are not born with A passion. You need to go out there and make something your passion. The popular "fake it till you become it" actually does have a dash of truth. Maybe you just haven't explored this deep enough or haven't had enough practical experience to know what you really like or don't like. Keep exploring. This world needs you so don't you go and withhold your passion and drive from us.

Even if that was true (I don't know, haven't studied the absorption rate of amino acids from different foods), you are getting 6 grams of protein per egg while getting 150 - 250 milligrams of cholesterol. There are just much better ways to obtain that protein while the food being "cleaner" and supplying your body with even more nutritional value. Even if the aim is to be shredded and build muscle, still the typical egg / oat / meat diet is just so outlived and so incredibly limiting. Every single bodybuilder out there eats the same way where there are so many other things they could be eating without gaining fat. For example, if instead of 6 eggs for breakfast you'd do tofu scramble from 250 grams of tofu you'd be getting equal amount of protein, zero cholesterol, zero saturated fat and shitload of calcium, protective phytoestrogens and a decent amount of copper, manganese, iron and phosphorus. Granted 250g of organic tofu will cost 2.5 USD where 6 eggs may cost 1 dollar if you get them from the cheapest factory-farmed hens, it is still a cost I'm willing to pay every single time. Long term health is ALWAYS more important than some short term gains. what you mean?

on vitamin D? This is it https://www.andro-health.com/blog scroll all the way down to the very first post. If it seems too technical just skip to summary at the end Good luck buddy! Let us know if we can help you any further

Love this perspective! There are often alternative ways. Depends on what sort of counseling you'd wan to do, there are also reputable non-university courses for techniques like shadow work, NLP, childhood conditioning, life coaching and really anything you want to do. You could become a certified NLP practitioner for example in about 12-16 months compared to 5 years at uni that will probably cost 80-100K. You could probably do a course like that if you took some lower-paid but peaceful job where you won't have a lot of stress, still get an income but have enough time to focus on your stuff. While this would not be optimal in long-term, many night shift jobs allow a lot of freedom. I'm not exactly sure what the job would be so have a look on Linkedin wat's going on in your area, maybe browse the jobs in your local town/city and also look at the largest recruitment companies posting. These days the job market is actually switching and there seems to be excess of job offer over job demand. At least in Europe. I was super lucky that my permanent job allowed me to also study and so I completed the entire college while working full time, it was all about managing the workload and whenever there was nothing to do, I instantly switched to my lectures and notes. I know many of my schoolmates did the same so in many administrative jobs you will have a degree of freedom which most people spend on social media and news channels and you'd spend that receiving education and training for your LP.

You could try one of those sleeping aps where you put phone next to you to track and see how many waves of deep sleep you get. Could be that your sleep is disturbed by snoring for example. Or if you ate too late, it may impact the quality of sleep. Light or noises as well. And sometimes the body simply needs more time to regenerate if you had a particularly hard day. I'd probably be careful with pushing sleep below 7 hours despite what many biohackers on internet say. We don't have a lot of data that would show sleep restriction is healthy in the long terms just to make sure you don't shoot yourself in the foot and get n early onset of dementia in your early 50s...food for thought And finally, some of that may come down to individual genetics and a variety of genetic polymorphisms. SOme people simply get away with less and others need more for no other reason than genetics.

Agreed, this should definitely be the starter. No harm in adding some 2000-5000 IU of vitamin D or more if you test below 30 but a regular adequate meal serving may indeed help to fix a lot of the problems. It is the cheapest way to find out what's wrong. Maybe at least a portion of those problems will disappear and will show you how much of that is related to other things. @ShardMare a lot of things such as thyroid health, hormonal health, neurotransmitters, depression can be linked to diet. For example lack of dietary iodine can lead to subclinical hypothyroidism. And iodine is often an issue even on balanced diet. Lack of protein may (theoretically) cause tryptophan deprivation which can impact the production of serotonin and make you depressed (theoretically) same as lack of dietary phenylalanine and tyrosine may negatively impact your production of catecholamines such as epinephrine (again theoretically) as well as dopamine (motivation issues) as well as melatonin (I can't remember of the top of my head which amino acid is responsible for melatonin, it might be another one). I saw you mention testosterone, its levels can also (sometimes) be impacted by caloric restriction since all sex hormones are dependant on building materials from the diet. Magnesium deficiency can be a huge huge source of fatigue. Sleep may be impacted by carbohydrate restriction creating cortisol spikes over night and keeping you awake. Vitamin D deficiency unless assessed as mentioned by @Gregory1 can be a contribution factor. We have a large body of systematic studies that show very strong link between depression and vitamin D deficiency. I wrote a researched blog post on this, happy to share if you care. We already talked about iron which is a modern epidemia especially around many vegetarians who are not cautious with what they eat. I would not be surprised if you were getting suboptimal doses of iron per day (based on the diet you described). And iron once it sinks below 30 will impact your mood and energy levels. Also, once iron is deficient, getting it back just with diet it nearly impossible. I know you said you USED TO eat more. But try it again. Make it a commitment to eat at least 2400 calories a day and see if that is any helpful. 3 regular proper meals. From my experience sometimes when people say they eat too much, they actually still eat too little or just to little of specific things like carbohydrates or too little protein. Adding some calisthenics or some more exercise (once you get your energy back) will help you even more as your cells build up more energy-producing mitochondria and improve efficiency of different metabolic processes including energy production cycles. But if you think none of this is relevant or useful, just ignore. I won't open this any further if you feel that this is 100% not gonna help

Yes there might be, potentially. The curve after which eggs bend towards harmful is somewhere around 8-10 eggs per week. Eggs aren't even that great of a protein. Try some tofu scramble you won't notice a difference if you spice it right Wider variety is always beneficial for the body

As long as you compensate that lack of calories with other meals it's ok but from the OP posting I see very little carbs, protein and calories generally. I know IF is popular these days but a lot of people who do IF actually end up dragging themselves through the day relying on coffee and stress hormones. D3 could be an issue but he takes it in a supplemental form. Would need to see the results.

Oh man, there is so much you can do with that. If this is what you are passionate about then invest as much time as you need to become proficient and then get hired as a freelancer or even full-time employee. People are always looking for this sort of content. You can see if companies in your area are hiring designers, a lot of people work remotely these days anyway. I haven't been in the office for 16 months now. Or become a freelancer and register on a variety of designer pages. Setup a Facebook page, make an Instagram account and share designs regularly, you may attract someone who will be interested in your services. You can also reach out to various Instagramers and offer your designs. Basically, social media is where you need to be. Either that or permanent employment as a part of the marketing or PR team.

@Max8 What do you know? Do you have any skills you can sell or be paid for? What is your level of education? What is your salary expectation?

It won't necessarily matter if you eat more 2 days if for 5 days you are starving your body through extreme caloric limitation. Give it a week or two of proper full, balanced meals starting with proper breakfast and see what happens in 2-3 weeks once your body gets a chance to restore all micros & macros. If it won't help at all then naturally, the problems is elsewhere. But from my personal experience nearly always fatigue comes down to food restrictions or long-term sleep deprivation. Occasionally other thing are going on. If your ferritin is for example below 30 that would drive a lot of that as well

there you go! Fix this and you'll get your energy back. The breakfast should be the main and the largest (or the second largest) meal of the day. With single banana you're setting up your metabolism for catabolism & starvation until the first meal. This spikes your cortisol and over time causes a lot of fatigue as stress responses are exhausted Seriously, this one thing may fix all your problems. seriously, more food - much more. . At your weight and height, you need twice the calories you're eating right now. There is probably around 45 grams of protein here and less than 1200 calories. Double that and you'll get your energy and motivation back.

I'm not a freelancer but trying to escape wage slavery by being a small business owner. I'm still balancing full time job and my small business but I think it would be fair assumption that as a freelancer or small business owner you'll be working weekends and holidays quite often. Ofcourse there may be months of no work and no income. That's a burden of going solo and other times you'll have more work than you can handle. at the moment around 9-12 just to do both work and LP thingy but neither is so hard to I would burn out. There is a lot of low-grade stress thou which needs to be carefully managed. About 6 hours per weekend day. SOmetimes none and sometimes more. As a freelancer or small business owner, your free time and your holidays will often be dictated by your clients but it doesn't have to be that way and if you play it right, you can easily have free weekends and even free fridays. And you probably could now but there is always that pressure of "I should probably be doing something now" Maybe in your case you need to spend some time gaining some savings to focus on wage slave job so that later on you can leave it having few thousands on bank account and spend a year 100% focusing on your LF wile living a simple type of life with low cost. Every journey is different and there is no blueprint for this. You might benefit from reading Seth Godin's - Process

Seems like you already know all the most effective answers. Different herbs can be helpful with stress like valerian, chamomile, gotu kola but ideally you'd resolve the source of stress otherwise you'd just be practising green pharmacy. Majority of stress comes from stretching oneself too far and too wide by trying to do too much at the same time. Perhaps something needs to go? There are also acute forms of stress like when moving home, having family crisis etc. Not sure which one is yours. My most effective technique is writing down sources of my stress. The mind is not good at estimating the challenge and so often the stress reaction is exaggerated because there are no tangible actions where it all seems like one giant pile of shit and problems. Break it down and show your brain that things can be dealt with, one at a time.

Very hard to say based on the limited amount of information. Few questions for a start what is your weight & height? what was your iron level on the test? Did they check your B-vitamins? (B12, folate) did they test thyroid? hat were the results? Where your white blood cells and CRP in order? what does your diet look like? Could you share a sample of a typical breakfast, lunch dinner? How is your digestive health? Are you taking any medication? Do you exercise? How? DO you have a sense of passion or purpose in life? Also, this might be a speculation but if you do a job that is draining and that you genuinely hate, having enough energy will be hard. Whenever I have to do some sort of shitty report or analysis at my wage slave job, I feel like somebody has instantly injected my energy and enthusiasm for life out. And then when I work on my clinical stuff, I get that energy tripled. It could be a thing of perspective on life rather than food and health related but I dunno, maybe not

Our mortality is what gives life its meaning, passion, value and beauty. Take that away and life becomes boring knowing you'd be around forever. Why would you want to be immortal lol, seeing everybody around you die over and over and over again. Unless you'd want to spend those years in isolation like an Ent. The limit of our days is what gives this journey a certain perspective. I'm pretty sure he is touching on realising god consciousness, not some sort of physical immortality. I've met only one breatharian in my life and they looked a pitiful excuse of a human being. Skinny, sad, pale with huge bags under eyes. Highly unlikely that guy would be around forever. Guy was living of katabolising his muscle, starving his body and you could clearly see the evidence of it. I think his breatharian thingy borderline with severe anorexia discuisedmas a spiritual pursuit. But hey, lots what we don't know yet so don't let anything be a limiting belief. Just make sure you're not chasing stars and lose your grounding.

fair enough, my bad for misunderstanding. well, criminality has always been and will always be part of any developed society but it shouldn't prevent you from becoming independent...this is what I'm trying to say. Are you going to live with your parents until you're 40 because you're scared of being mugged or robbed? This will significantly hold you back. Maybe you need to start by not being so attache dto your material possessions. Have important data stored on cloud, don't keep valuables in your house, don't buy jewellery and crap like that. Seriously, if my flat was robbed, the most expensive thing here is probably my blender and my laptop, they are free to take both...I would be pissed ofcourse but everything is replaceable as long as your data is stored and the laptop is secured from entry and data abuse. Don't keep your money in your house if you can help it either. It is also possible (and I'm just assuming) that the city you live in has high crime rate? Maybe this should be a stimulus to move out? No, this is not just bout reading books, it takes serious amount of solid work for months to unwind this stuff. I don't know much about this but Emerald does which is why I quoted her there. This might be your step 1 thing that is holding you back in life....maybe, maybe not. I don't know enough about you to tell. legumes are not grains. And whole grains and processed grains are different as well. By "grains for breakfast" are you talking about cornflakes and that sort of rubbish? Yes that stuff will destroy your energy levels like nothing else. Try some whole grains with fruits, nuts and berries and see how your energy is from those.

Yeah, I remember but don't recall which country was it. Anyway, not important right now. I assume (based on your name) - former Yugoslavia or Balkan region. good that saves a lot of money already I'm sorry to hear that... Not something I can advise on but I'm sure there are people who could help you navigate around this challenge and make peace with it in your mind. Your mom has probably grown up in a family with very large scarcity mindset, she is a product of the environment she grew up in which was probably shitty. I'm sure a good book on some shadow work and childhood conditioning could be a dramatic help. I'd also look into some of @Emerald's videos on youtube for some childhood trauma. I'm gonna disagree with you on that. First of all carbs are needed and second of all, carbs in legumes are mostly complex which digest completely different to simple carbs in bread. Seriously, there is nothing in legumes that can hurt you. As long as you plan it well, this can be an option. But just make sure you don't eliminate mportan sources of calories and nutrients that could be affordable on your budget

Ok so you're basically looking at 700 eur / month + some change for miscellaneous expenses. I looked at your profile saying you are Slovenian. From some quick search I found that an average salary in Ljubljana is 1200 euros net (after taxes and deductions). So there are options for better income for sure. The next question is, what would you have to do to get a better salary? What is your age and current level of education? Do you have any university degree or are you trained in any craft? Could you move to a city with better average monthly salary? Do you currently work full time or part-time? Could you take on some extra work? Also I don't know about your current diet, but maybe there are ways to make it cheaper such as buying from bulk food delivery companies. Things like legumes for instance are the cheapest food there is with a nutritional value 10 times what any meat or vegetable will give you. If you eat out a lot, that will take a significant proportion of your finances. Learning to cook in bulk, vegetarian meals based around legumes, root vegetables, local produce is a good option. I probably wouldn't invest in any exotic powders, superfoods and that kind of crap. Another possible saving is (if you live in small area) buying a used bike on Facebook market and not paying for public transport anymore. This way you could potentially get some extra exercise as well. You can buy a decent bike, used for 80 euros, get it serviced for 20 and you're good to go. Other small things are seeing where you have subscriptions you don't need,. pay for programs you don't use, money for idle socialisation (such as spending 30 euros on drinking once a week - not suggesting you do this , it is an example) etc.