Michael569

Just curious, have you ever had any of your hormones tested? Adrenal fatigue is being thrown around a lot by naturopaths but I am becoming more and more sceptical of this being a real thing. It is possible to get your cortisol tested as well as your sex hormones. Best test for testosterone is serum (blood) and best test for cortisol is salivary - taken in several doses (usually up to 6 samples a day). Do you mean osteopenia (progressive bone loss)? Have you had a DEXA scan to confirm you are losing bone density? Are you dealing with it or treating it with anyway? If bone loss is confirmed, I would really suggest do your best to put stop to it. It is VERY hard to regain bone mass and if untreated puts you at severe risk of kidney stones and osteoporosis not to mention heart problems. Not meaning to be a fearmonger but bone loss is not something I'd ignore. But I may be jumping to conclusion here so apologies if that's the case. Sorry for invasive comments and please feel free to ignore me but if any of these are the case, there are treatments (medical or non-medical) and ideally it is best caught while you are young, the older we get generally, the more difficult it is to deal with our health problems

Damn man, I loved the second entry! That was s a lot of detail for those of us blessed with vivid imagination Happy for you to have found this beauty. But why not try to push it forward if it were to evolve into such? Being in love does not necessarily destroy these experiences, if anything it intensifies them. And with that level of intense passion it would be surprising if you or her feelings don't start to mount up. Anyways, thanks for sharing, this was a pretty hot reading during my boring meeting at work

I don't agree with this. If your life purpose is built around making life better for others, contributing, sharing love and helping, you won't look back this way. If I die knowing I've helped 5,000 people live a better life, I would die at peace and satisfied. As long as your life purpose is not build around making more money. One does not need to become enlightened to be able to die at peace. I agree with the other point if you die having surrounded yourself with money, possessions, careers and just more "stuff" you will die a hollow man

Of course they're not painting the true picture. You, the consumer/listener/reader are a product not a customer and they are trying to sell you to people who pay for the adds, just like they do on social media. That's the point of mainstream media in large. Either that or you pay for their subscription services after which you are partially exempt from that (e.g. youtube premium). The aim is not true, the aim is to make money so they monitor you to see what you like and you'll see more of that. Simple and effective business model. It is impossible to remain informed about everything, not even your country. Hell not even region with so much shit going on. They'll indeed show you a fraction but position it in a way to make it feel like the whole world is going to hell...-caugh - covid - caugh- Couple years ago, during research for one of my school assignments, I went into ER room, sat in the corner and observed for 4 hours. I was pretending to wait for somebody so was not questioned. I wanted to get sense of what it feels like to be in these places. I have never seen so much suffering, blood, fear, pain and stress in my life. This was a more profound experience than any study I could have read. Hard real life experience of seeing paramedics and ER doctors upo their sleeves in blood. Sometimes direct experience speaks more powerful than thousand articles.

Survival & reproduction, everything else is just a mask for society. If you are trying to suppress 2 million ears of evolution you're gonna have a bad time

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yeah, I do find it funny sometimes hearing people bash on vaccines while continuing to munch on processed meats, alcohol, recreational drugs and comfort food. But I guess this goes hand in hand in hand with the western "don't worry about it" type of treatment. We got drugs to keep you healthy so you can enjoy your bacon double cheeseburger with a diet coke

@Preety_India cool beans ? Don't forget the body always knows what it is doing. Ride the wave and let go of control, savour the feeling of being alive.

@Preety_India there are many women who do something called "menstrual coaching or period coaching". Basically, these ladies specialise in the management of PMS, they explain how the cycle works and how to adjust one's lifestyle. Many can be found on Instagram and maybe you could connect with someone like that. If you can find it, you may try experimenting with Agnus Castus extract as well ass something like red clover. Either that or finding a local herbalist to have a chat with, herbs can work really well on hormonal balance. But other than that, journaling may offer some help in exploring these urges and feelings.

@Raphael is this still the case? Do you think it made a difference?

There may be a potential link between the keto diet and the mood. A diet deprived of carbohydrate may potentially be contributing to worsening of mood. This is because in some people gluconeogenesis (creating glucose from non-carb sources) may be lower and so going on keto will effectively deprive your neurons of sufficient energy. In addition ketogenic diet may be more pro-inflammatory in certain cases mainly due to increased intake of animal food and reduced intake of plants. Generally carbohydrate-rich diet has been associated with better progression of depression and anxiety but it is important to go for the right sources of carbs. I am totally with you that simple carbs and refined flour products are crap, nobody needs those in their diet. However if you were open to try adding some carbs, I'd suggest considering adding some sources of complex carbs like beans, whole grains, lentils, chickpeas. That sort of stuff. Also if your diet was generally lower in fibre, you will be missing on the benefit of short-chain fatty acids and those are tightly linked to mental health. As an experiment, you could add fruit, and sources of complex carbs back in for 2 weeks and see if you feel any better. The worst case scenario you can always go back to keto Since you are saying you are an advanced meditator, I assume the cause may indeed be more physiological than psychological.

I think rather than trying to control and take over this natural biological process, I would advise you to let go of control and ride that wave. First of all, I think you can consider yourself being a bit fortunate. The decline of progesterone and oestrogen during the final bit of luteal phase usually makes many women experience depression, cramps, bloating, anger, sadness, acne or just lots of negative symptoms. I think having a spike in libido is actually quite pleasant. This is a good time to take a step back, retrospect, practice some gratitude that your body is healthy, fertile and is about to engage in another way of in-house cleaning. Having a healthy menstrual cycle is not always guaranteed and in my opinion is something to be grateful for considering how incredibly important some of these hormones are for your overall health. Consume some nice herbal teas, stay away from coffee during this period, eat mostly warming food and some good quality chocolate can be comforting as well. Get a hot water flask and a good book to help you push over this period. 100-300 milligrams of magnesium citrate or glycinate can help if there is pain. If the sexual urge starts to interfere with your rational mind....well there are ways to deal with that

@StarfoxEpiphany @Harlen Kelly you guys need to let go of that bickering across different topics. Just agree to disagree and move on

I hope you'll find the answers you are looking for. Keep us updated

@Opo can you tolerate any plants at all? Have you thought about trying something Specific Carbohydrate Diet or Low Fodmap. Less restrictive for sure

I mainly notice the difference in winter. In my home country in Europe there would have been snow each year as long as i can remember. The last 4 winters you could throw a barbecue in the evening in December.No traces of snow on the lowlands We have seriously f..ed this planet and it is not getting better

I agree with @Twega, there is no such thing as dopamine detox or a low-dopamine diet, there is no dopamine in food. In fact destruction of Substantia Nigra, the core dopaminergic centre is associated with Parkinson's (as he said above). What you want to do is to rewire your addictive patterns in certain areas of your brain such as anterior cingulate cortex and that can only come through deliberate avoidance of the stimulus in the first place, e.g. staying away from phone, avoiding junk food, not watching porn etc. There is no easy way to do that and a hard stop and willpower are the only way to push through an addiction. That and a lot of habit rewiring and shadow work ofcourse. But the notion of "dopamine detox" is kinda inaccurate, dopamine is not your enemy, if we didn't have it society would have died out thousands of years ago./

The Lost Spires mod? Holy shit that looks massive. They said it was being made for Skyrim as well

available on Steam?

I always thought when playing Skyrim or Fallout, somebody actually had to go in and organise all this shit in every single room to make it look organised (or chaotic), cosy or really scary. Just decorating a single house in Skyrim with items would probably take 3 hours just so that you can come in and fus-ro-dah the shit out of it. In was specifically looking at abandoned toilet mirrors in Fallout 6 and just for this I identified at least 6 different types of cracked mirrors. And then when you shoot the mirror it makes different sound to when you shoot the sink. And even sink has like 5 different types of mold. It's insane

@Twega You could become a researcher with focus on nutritional science however that would require full academic education up to Phd. You could also focus more on being amateur researcher such as being a video content creator & blogger. You could also create courses or just create your own database of nutritional research. Something like Examine do. Being youtube, doing podcasts and video content can be an attractive way as well. I like what Chris Masterjohn does. He educates people and makes decent money out of signing them up on his educational packages. I was part of his Masterpass for a few months and the content is really brilliant but quite heavy for those who are not clinicians or very knowledgeable in the area. But it does not matter that much as long as you can feel satisfied in that line of career choice and as long as it can sustain you financially. In terms of what skills necessary for this sort of career/purpose: I think being able to interpret research and conduct your own amateur research (e.g. conducting your meta analyses) can be helpful if you want to be sharing these things with people. Making sure you can identify low quality research, biases and spot inaccuracies. There are ways and books to learn that. Critical thinking will be of paramount importance to be able to distinguish information sources and see through agendas and personal interest Being very organised will be crucial so that you can store and manage all your research well and being able to find it quickly retrospectively Being a good communicator helps Being good at marketing yourself will be crucial as well, knowing who your audience is and whom you are trying to speak to. 90% of people won't be interested in any more than absolute surface level of information so you'll have to work to find those 10%

@soos_mite_ah I'm with you. I wouldn't mind living in a house but renting one is perfectly sufficient, at least at this stage of my life. In my home country in Eastern Europe that is unheard of and owning a house along with owning a car and having a family is a part of personal status as we are very blue society. But there are benefits of having your own house somewhere in the countryside which is that once your mortgage is paid you're done and no more rents or payments. You can always sell the house if you decide to move The way I see it it really depends on what you value the most. If security, family and material sufficiency are of great importance then owning your own house will be crucial where for those who value freedom, travel and not being tied more, renting makes more sense.

Because it feels good. Making fun of others, judging, labelling and gossiping puts the one above the other person in their own eyes. It makes you feel better to see that others are inferior. It gives a survival advantage. Gossipping is also generally a good way to maintain a stale conversation when there is little that parties have in common as most people love to gossip or take piss on others. Of course, this is purely fictional and imaginary and if you break it down you'll see it stems from a place of insecurity and lack of love. Saying that you don't make fun or judge others seems like a huge self-deception, maybe you don't see it yet. The role of ego is to prevent the ego from seeing its own biases but to project them on others

depends if dysbiosis (bacterial imbalance) was present. Is one of the IBDs the condition you have? The amount of digestive damage that eating of aged animal products could cause is quite drastic and can take years to reverse. I would definitely stay away from these. Same for cured means, as said above, consumption of processed meats is a significant contributor to colorectal cancer.

Could be an adaptation. Dehydration maybe? Nutritional deficiencies wouldn't come up as quickly. But may also be some sort of gut reaction to all that meat Purely out of curiosity, why carnivore?