Michael569

I'll give you 2 simple tips for easy weight loss. 1. 30minutes of physical activity every day 2. cut out your dinners BONUS TIP: drink nothing but water, herbal teas, vegetable juices and black coffee (unless caffeine free) . Nothing else is necessary and most of the other stuff is usually detrimental

I feel like you wanted to type IN-sane?

It's not unhealthy per se. Drinking reasonable amount of it won't make you chronically ill (unless you have enzymatic deficiency in CYPA1 in which case it can make you feel awful). But it is a drug, albeit a mild one, it still causes mild addiction and withdraw. Caffeine habit can cost up to 20$ -$30a day so it costs an awful lot of money per month (but not necessarily if you make it yourself) Coffee may contribute to GERD and can be irritating to gut and causing acute diarrhoea. some also become more anxious and irritable. On the other hand it is protective from certain cancers and helpful to people with chronic depression (not always) so you gotta weight your pros and cons. If coffee is cut out you're not missing out on anything.

Could be that you are simply not eating enough? When you mentioned raw foods, do you base your diet mainly around raw foods or do you also add cooked food?

@Preety_India glad you found it helpful. Good luck with this guy!

exactly! It is ok to let yourself appear a little bit reserved even a bit distant sometimes. If he is attracted it will urge him to take some action.

eh, this sentence serves more as a repellent rather than something to attract him. You gotta maintain distance and some level of integrity in relationships. To most guys a sentence like this translates into "I am needy and I very much need a relationship" most guys would run away after hearing this. I know you meant well but it's not the best thing to say to a guy who you want to be ina relationship with. Give the conversation some natural flow and space. Feels like maybe you are pressing too hard. Take a step back for a while and let him take the steering wheel.

There is a difference between carbohydrates and table sugar. When people say low-carb what they often mean is low-sugar diet e..g no bread no candy no cracker and bullshit cereals. Complex high fibre forms of carbohydrates like fruit, vegetables, legumes and whole grains are actually beneficial. I totally agree with Durianrider that most people need to eat more fruit and less crap. But his advice on needing to eat more refined sugar is totally whacky. Most people already eat too much of that anyways and after hearing this many will be like "oh, let me get extra tablespoon of sugar in my coffee because it is good for me". We already have a great problem in diabetes. People's sugar is through the roof and 1 out of 3 will become diabetic in their lifetime in the west. Children as young as 12 are becoming full-blown diabetics. The last thing we need is more sugar in the general diet. With the rise of high-fructose corn syrup, keeping normal levels of blood glucose is becoming difficult in those who are not aware of its dangers. This advice is missing a more complex and holistic picture which is that carbs are not bad but we need to be picky with our carbohydrate intake. Equally, he is wrong on fat. Fat does not make you fat, we need dietary fat for many reasons such as the health and integrity of myelin sheet covering all your neurons of the central nervous system and for optimal endocrine and glandular function. Only if you overeat, does fat in the diet become the fat around the belly. Also the advice that "sugar that you don't need is peed out" is not as simple and we know that excess sugar causes a rapid release of insulin and sudden hypoglycemia. f that keeps happening, adrenaline has to be released all the time and over years this causes reactive hypoglycemia and often leads to blood sugar management complications as the balancing systems become exhausted. The problem with these theories is that the majority of population have very little nutrition knowledge and so information like this that sounds exciting and comforting is actually quite harmful because people will selectively bias. It is like when Eric Berg says we should all eat beef so people start eating double portions of beef burgers with their fries because "it is good" But what Eric really mean was "eat steak but load it up with a second plate of 1 pound of vegetables". Durianrider has a lot of good content but many of his videos are insane, inaccurate and he has been criticised for making stuff up which is why his account was banned and unbanned many times.

Zinc deficiency can slow down kerarinocyte turnover and so can retinol (vit A) deficiency. Look up some rich foods for both and test them out. Also ensure you consume enough fats in diet especially essential fatty acids. Chronic stress is also not something I'd discount as contributor (if that's a case) Also what @Flowerfaeiry said, water hardness and climate are very relevant

For as long the creator is driven by survival the resources will be biased. Does not mean biased resources have nothing to teach you

Maybe you should get in touch with Siim Land. He used to come here in the past as a member, His following has grown immensely in recent years. I know he does a lot of content into biohacking, longevity & autophagy.

Sounds like a wonderful choice of life purpose Whatever form or shape your journey will take, I hope you'll share bits of it with the rest of us on here!

Leo, I'm curious. Are you also doing any herbs or any gut healing protocol or do you see carnivore as a long term solution?

@4201 ah man, just eat a bloody salmon twice a week and you'll be fine ? I admit i didn't read the full Cochrane thing would take few days. You've got some solid line of reasoning there so best personal safety policy is probably to eat some DHA rich foods every now and then

This is an interesting one and it seems there is more use in developing brain (e.g. child) than in adult brain. When we look at some studies that are rated as "top of hierarchy pyramid" meaning systematic trials and meta analysis, there isn't awfully lot of benefit. BRAIN https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26268080/ - no additional benefit for cognitive decline in this systemic trials. This is a review of randomized blinded trials so, very high quality of evidence. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32060571/ - same here CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD003177.pub3/full - this is the best quality study I could find. Cochrane systemic study of 79 randomized trials (112,059 participants). Basically pooling a shitload of data and averaging them out. Cochrane trials are currently considered the most rigorously tested and conducted. Results: Increasing ALA intake probably makes little or no difference to all‐cause mortality (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.84 to 1.20, 19,327 participants; 459 deaths, 5 RCTs),cardiovascular mortality (RR 0.96, 95% CI 0.74 to 1.25, 18,619 participants; 219 cardiovascular deaths, 4 RCTs), and it may make little or no difference to CHD events (RR 1.00, 95% CI 0.80 to 1.22, 19,061 participants, 397 CHD events, 4 RCTs, low‐quality evidence). However, increased ALA may slightly reduce risk of cardiovascular events (from 4.8% to 4.7%, RR 0.95, 95% CI 0.83 to 1.07, 19,327 participants; 884 CVD events, 5 RCTs, low‐quality evidence), and probably reduces risk of CHD mortality (1.1% to 1.0%, RR 0.95, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.26, 18,353 participants; 193 CHD deaths, 3 RCTs), and arrhythmia (3.3% to 2.6%, RR 0.79, 95% CI 0.57 to 1.10, 4,837 participants; 141 events, 1 RCT). Effects on stroke are unclear. So overall not as effective for serious cardiovascular events with some mild benefit here and there. But to be frank, despite all this, I still take Algal Oil 3 times a year as a precaution.

Sorry to hear that, IBDs are not easy to deal with. Can you pinpoint a particular trigger point? Usually, stress is involved to a great degree, infection could be a case, extreme environmental exposure as well. Have you ever been assessed for something like Coeliac disease or other forms of allergy? IBD may also be triggered by undiagnosed or misdiagnosed food allergy that has been unchecked. Having history of smoking, drinking or recerational drugs can also be a trigger point for autoimmunity. Anything that comes to mind?

agreed with this, it would be helpful to ask for a testing of: ferritin (iron), B12 and even folate (B9) for a start. @Preety_IndiaIf you tell your doctor that you are doing vegan diet for an ethical reason but don't feel very well, they may be quite ready to do these tests.

@4201 The entire ALA -> DHA conversion is a bottleneck and there are several factors that can limit it. The most profound one being the competitive use of few enzymes (delta 4, 5,6 desaturase and elongase) as well as few other things that may impact the conversion rate like insulin sensitivity and I believe magnesium and zinc status as well, possibly many other things. The conversion is also very much determined by certain genes and genetic snips as well. That being said, we don't have a lot of good quality data that would show that loading the body with additional DHA has any groundbreaking benefits and it seems sufficient ALA intake should cover the needs. Somebody actually shared some helpful resource the last time I claimed otherwise and when I looked into the research, I was surprised to find that there isn't any convincing data out there to say that eating a lot of algal oil or fish oil gives you additional benefits besides just the regular dietary intake of ALA. But it looks to me like we still need larger amount of data especially more high quality trials. That being said, in order to make the most of the converting enzymes and prevent competition, you can avoid loading your body with high doses of omega 6 foods mainly eggs, meat and dairy or maybe just separate them from meals that are high in ALA. For extra benefit, you can just consider adding few cycles of algal oil a few times a year as a precaution policy.

A "Shit test" is unlikely to reveal any of these qualities. He'll tell you what he thinks you want to hear so that he can end up sleeping with you. I'd just go easy, natural and be you. No faking, no testing. Genuine human conversation. You can usually spot a lack of integrity pretty quickly.

@Soul_Guy Leo discussed his journey on the blog, it was few months ago so you may need to scroll a bit back. I know you asked Leo specifically so feel free to ignore this question but may I ask what the condition is and what have you tried so far?

@Leo Gura thanks for acting quickly and fixing the issue. Anything can be re-written and reposted

Do you plan to use them for particular therapeutic effects? Otherwise, something like Pycnogenol I wouldn't take just for the fun and neither would I really suggest loading your body with Arginine, the latter is used in bodybuilding communities for loading your body with nitric oxide but since this process is a massive bottleneck more is not better and your diet should give you all the arginine you need.

Why don't you start listening to your body to tell you how it feels instead? Gluten is not evil, although some people react to it poorly. If it doesn't sit with you, quite it. It is easy as that. Plenty of good whole-grains are gluten-free. Google a list of gluten-free grains, hit "images" and you'll find neatly organised lists for you. store-bought or home-made? Store bought granola is mostly rubbish full of sugar, palm oil and fried nuts. Make it yourself from millet, nuts, seeds, some cinnamon and some dried pieces of fruit. Better quality and tastes nicer as well. I have high doubts about thiols being an issue. Simply because the problematic molecule in thiol foods is cysteine because it has sulfur bound to its molecule but if that was an issue you wouldn't;t be able to eat anything because any animal food that has a complete amino acid profile also includes cysteine so it would mean you would be reacting to pretty much every meal. And even if that was so, it would still be questionable whether thiols are the problem. Supposedly thiols are the greatest issues in people with the highest mercury levels (I have great doubts about this as well) so best thing to do would be to get it tested before eliminating foods that may be beneficial. ....There are many things that can cause problems in diet and (in my experience) it is often the case that gut needs to be fixed not food eliminated. I'd need a bit more info on the complexity and structure of the meals but it seems like a good start. Track your meals in cronometer.com for few days and share the results after if you'd like. We can help you make sense of it. It is free to use and quite fun I'd say

@Thunder Kiss work on the underlying tendency. Most likely a deeply rooted anxiety or some sort of chronic stress is causing this. As a repellent you can dip your fingers tea tree oil to make them taste gross. But seems like you have some deep work to do on you psyche.