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Tea tree oil. The strongest you can get. This stuff is absolutely wonderful for (external) fungal infections. I was struggling with nail fungal infection for years and this stuff helped me clear it out. This is very common in people who spend a lot of time wearing sweaty socks during sports such as football players because those fungal love moist environment. He needs to expose her feet as much as possible, keep them dry and not wear socks at home. The oil should be used up to 5 times a day. If there is fungal overgrowth under nails, that may take fw months to clear, it is recommended to cut his nails as small as possible and then always force the oil behind the nail. But more holistically speaking, this could be sign of weakened immunity, vitamin D deficiency, fungal overgrowth in the gut and other. Ask him if he has anal itching, white-coated tongue and if these things appear elsewhere on the body. You will commonly see spots around the scrotum, armpits and neck. But it may be as simple as doing too much sports and wearing tight shoes for excessive amounts of time

Do you mean 300 grams of carbohydrates per day? Bread and oats are not the only sources, think of fruits, vegetables, whole grain and legumes as well as your carbs. If you make your meals balanced and mostly whole, you'll get all the carbs you need. Of course, carbohydrates are not the only source of calories. 1gram of carbs or 1 gram of protein has 4 calories where 1 gram of fat has 9 so you can also rely partially on fats in food for more calories in the day. DIet is best approached from a more intuitive perspective. The moment you start counting, it becomes a pain in the a.... and can very easily turn into a semi-eating disorder. It is better to observe how particular foods make you feel. If you feel tired during the day it is likely you are not eating enough calories or enough carbs or protein. If you feel fatigued straight after your meals, it is possible that the structure of that meal is not adequate and you need to add more fibre sources. Let your body be the judge. Observe your energy, skin, libido, digestion, mood and brain performance throughout the day. If any of those falter, something needs to change

@Preety_India what's the structure of your meals? Do you eat proper size portions? Do you fast a lot? Got any pictures you'd be willing to share? Vegan diet can totally be nourishing and complete but it has to be planned right.

@machiavelli if you're coming of PPIs, your doctor NEEDS to be aware of it and you need to be careful. The imminent flare-up is pretty much to be expected and the longer you've been on them the more severe it will get. During the initial days you can ask for a prescription of more gentle acid blockers such as H2 blockers or just some over the counter acid blockers (is gaviscon available in India? That could help or something of that sort) these can help with the transition to dropping dependence on PPIs but best way is to find a doctor who is willing to help you navigate this challenge as the last thing you want is unregulated acid reflux. The biggest issues with PPIs is that you pretty much lose your first line of digestion which means increased risk of malabsorbtion, b12 deficiency, iron deficiency and in long term osteopenia. 90% of stomach acid is lost and you become more susceptible to bacterial infections which can then caus e a lot of shitstorm in the proximal duodenum and further. You need to find a good local nutritionist or herbalist to guide you through this process. If you have the money for these services, then go for it. There are always good experts to be found. Your stage blue doctor isn't going to fix you, the poor guy has no idea what to do because he has not received any holistic training. You're in this alone but more holistic guides can always be found just make sure you don;t fall prey to some stage purple crap and snake oil salesmen. Find a certified nutritionist in India who underwent some formal training, look at their website and reviews before calling them. Good luck!!

number one rule of weight loss: cut the big dinners. Dinners are worst time to eat big. Worst insulin sensitivity, slowest metabolic capacity, highest carb to fat conversion, lowest energy expenditure. Eat only a small portion of light meal and go to bed slightly hungry so that you will be looking forward to eating big breakfast Allow yourself to intermittently fast overnight mic drops

I would say the reason for this is just the rapid transformation of lifestyle from a hard-working labour worker to incredibly sedentary (often lazy), fat and eating garbage. Here in UK, 8/10 people in streets are obese or overweight, asthmatic, eat junk, have chronic stress and at least 5 major addictions. These are the main reasons for all the cancers and diabetes. I assume the situation among poor suburban areas in US is even worse. These people make a majority of statistics for cancers and mental disease. Of course there will be some small dose chronic level of toxins but compared to the huge shitload of other lifestyle factors I just can't imagine it being that much of a concern if all the above are fixed. That's not to say you should go and sniff a glue or use the shitties pan but I think the type of coating on the pan is peanuts compared to the other factors that most people haven't even looked at.

they made a new range, maybe you had the old one Charlotte? Their first products were shit and they had a lot of complains. The new range is fairly good. I dunno Leo, we now have a pretty good understanding of the types of things in pans that are toxic. Teflon and perfluorocarbon (PFOAs) being a major concern. Aluminium to a degree as well as iron. There still companies that make products devoid of all these. Not all coating has to be toxic. But I agree that there may be stuff we don't even know about yet....but well so can in stainless steel, Nickel being one of those factors that some research has raised questions about. At the same time I think if people were massively poisoned by cookware , it would have been caught by epidemiology by now since pretty much 90% of households have some sort of teflon stuff in. Not defending any of that stuff just saying maybe there are some good products out there and that its not all black and white....but maybe I'm just kidding myself.

I've got this one So far it is working really well. It should be free from all known toxins including PFOA and PFOS, aluminium etc. Seems similar to the one you posted (the pictures don't quite load for me) I'm really happy with it and seems to be a really good option. Is it 100% toxin free? I don't know but it is more safe than anything else I found and it actually works as well.

Processed grains are giving an issue to a lot of people. The bread today just isn't what it used to be. As a born easter European, the type of bread I used to have as a child is nowhere to be found anymore, at least not here in the West. It has been replaced by this weird 50-ingredient mess. There are better, more whole forms of bread made of gluten-free grains but if it gives you issues, replace it with some of the gluten-free whole grains. Grains are always best eaten as close to their whole form as possible.

This!!!

@darkeconomist you could add elements of calisthenics to it. Maybe take those dumbells to a local calisthenic outdoor gym and combine them with pullups, dips, hanging rows, chin ups etc. You can also try to implement some elements of HIIT training. But for better muscle hypertrophy adding more complex lifts such as benchpress, deadlifts, bent-over rows, squads, lunges and shoulder press are more useful than light weights. 5kilo dumbels are decent for some isolated lifts if you are a beginner but eventually you may find the lack of weight limiting if you want to perform some more complex moves. But again depends on what your goal is. Gym and weights are not necessary if the main goal is more functional strength, for that bodyweight and a pullup bar is all that is needed.

@GGG what do you eat at the moment? breakfast, lunch dinner,. Also, what do you drink besides water?

yeah, pretty much. Drugs are easy to standardise, you have certain amount of milligrams of effective substance per drug and you can produce billion of those pills that will be 100% identical. Herbs cannot be standardised. Depending on how and where they were grown, you can have more or less of the substance and then herbs do not work in isolation, they address a variety of body systems which is what makes them hard to study and basically medicine does not like to use something that cannot be boxed and labelled. Herbs should never be studied same way as drugs by extracting one molecule, such as taking curcumin out of turmeric and feeding it to rats. You need the whole thing and they need to be combined for a more potent effect. Any skilled herbalist will tell you that all research on herbs is pretty much silly because they are just looking at isolated substances. There are many benefits to evidence-based practice but it has many blindspots that it is not acknowledging such as being blind to its own limited view and limited scope of what is "acceptable" and that what is not "scientific" has to be nonsense.

while the carnis do look more bulky on the outside, looks can be deceiving. I'll agree that a poorly managed vegan diet can make people look sickly, the vegans I know who are doing it well are very healthy, super productive and fit. Not all who look strong on the outside are healthy on the inside

Yeah, recently I've been doing that, cutting down on my dinner and sometimes not having it at all end then fasting through night and having proper breakfast at 9 or 10. I definitely notice a large dinner making my sleep worse and then that has a knock-on effect on everything else but otherwise I don't see any real benefits of it. It is more for practical reasons of not disrupting sleep.

definitely! all of them meh, mostly not unless you already fixed everything above. Good for short term boost thou if you need to extra brain time if you ran out of other options (eg. all of the above) then this may be the next step heck yah !! don't have sex to improve brain power ffs have it with the person you love because it is the most intimate connection you can have with them. Masturbation has no impact on brain performance, if anything it just numbs you down. 1 short term boost, risk of long-term chronic fatigue and adrenaline addiction IF is great for boosting BDNF, definitely. Long term fasting will lead to muscle atrophy and with that possibly decline in BDNf and brain power. possibly, works nicely sometimes absolutely! time spent in nature = brain on steroids

There are upsides and downsides. If you want to consume fish for protein, then you can get that from many other safe plant sources. If the reason are Omega 3 fats (ALA, EPA, DHA) then you may add more ground flax seeds and if you fancy add algal oil supplement to the combo, but that may not be necessary. If fish simply makes you feel more satiated, it may be that the diet needs some exptra protein which is where tofu, tempeh and things like red lentils may come in that are easy to make and can help you bulk protein intake. In terms of purity, nearly 100% of seafood is contaminated with something but so is fruits, vegetables and herbs. If we go down that road eventually you could not eat anything and the amount of mental distress the avoidance of all toxins causes can lead to pretty bad depression. If you want to avoid the biggest polluters, stay away from all carnivore fish and stick to sardines, mackerel and occasional salmon. Having salmon once a week won't kill you but yes the mercury is a concern. Eat it with a lot of vegetables as those may help bind and remove some of those contaminants. Don't deep-fry the fish and don't smoke it or barbecue it. If you fry it on pan use Extra Virgin Olive oil or just bake it for 10 minutes at around 160 degrees. A good way to do that is to have a huge baking tray, fill it with vegetables, some cut sweet potatoes to bake and just towards last 10 minutes add on the salmon. That way you have a super high fibre meal with some salmon that will help you minimise the absorption of those pollutants. Hope that helps

Don't forget that for thousands of years there was no "mainstream medicine" and that herbal and natural medicine was what we had for generations and generations. A lot of the current pharmaceuticals are just herbal extracts. A lot of the mainstream medicine knowledge comes from generations of experimentation and using of herbal therapies. Also worth mentioning painkillers - in the past, many were just opioid extracts (e.g. poppy seeds). Research is now showing that things like turmeric or ginger can be as effective as Ibuprofen or Paracetamol. We have some good randomized trials to show for this Aspirin - Salicylic Acid the main ingredient is an extract from White Willow Bark digestive relief medication are often herbal extracts such as peppermint, senna, psyllium husk or ginger other anti-acid medications are really just magnesium and calcium carbonate, common minerals. Psyllium Husk is used as fibre replacement, another common herb St John's Wort is commonly prescribed as an antidepressant to people who cannot tolerate or do not want SSRIs Hawthorn berry has well-documented benefits for Heart function even when compared to things like Digoxin Echinacea is a powerful immunostimulant with well-researched benefits for flu, infections and even Covid 19 symptoms Medicinal mushrooms have been trialed in cancer studies and some of them show very promising results there are many other such examples of herbal remedies being as powerful as pharmaceuticals with less side effects, lower cost and less patient discomfort. Also mention to your dad that medical errors are one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the non-developing courtries. This is very well documented. I don't know what he means by "real conditions" but SIBO is very well recognised in research and medicine now. The "leaky gut" is not a real thing because it is a set of symptoms but a condition called "increased Intestinal permeability" is a real thing and it is now well documented in the research. The two are being used interchangeably but they are not, "leaky gut" is an inaccurate interpretation of intestinal permeability. The last bit is true, medicines are funded by the government through YOUR salary deduction and contribution. They are cheap to produce because of economies of scale and the cost compared to cost of production is tiny where herbs have to be grown, cultivated, harvested properly and ten stored properly. Herbs are not appropriate for acute conditions such as kidney infection similar. For treatment of chronic disease, pharmaceuticals do not improve these conditions. They block variety of pathways, enzymes and molecules that trigger certain process. They do not heal anything. You stop the medication, the disease comes back pretty much straight away. If a person on proton pump inhibitors quits the drug, they'll get the worst acid reflux of their life. There is more to say but I doubt your dad cares, from what you described he ain't changing his mind so it is you who needs to take the next step

More important than the individual monosaccharides, is "what else is in there?". A lot of anti-fruiters focus on studies that look at isolated fructose for example in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. But you gotta remember that to eat the amount of fructose you get in a tablespoon of some concentrated syrup you'd have to eat half a kilo of dates. Yes, if you eat fructose in form of fructose corn syrup you'll end up fat and sick. But the fructose and glucose in fruit come wrapped with fibre and many types of complex polysaccharides that can be only broken apart by the microbiome. There are also plant polyphenols that impact how this stuff is digested and metabolised, none of which you get in isolated fructose. All this reduces how much fructose you absorb and how fast. If you look at the large epidemiological data, fruits are associated with weight loss, improved blood pressure, improved cholesterol and reduced incidence of fatty liver where isolated fructose and sugar (extract of sugar cane) does the opposite. People who eat more fruit live longer, they have better mental health, better BMI, less cancer and less diabetes and obesity. We can talk about in-vitro science, speculations and all sorts of funky pathways as much as we want (just because something happens in a petri dish does not means it happens in the body) but put into practical data, the evidence is absolutely overwhelming in that the fruits ar good for humans pretty much in any quantities. You can't really overeat that stuff because it fills the stomach quickly and all that fibre would make you poop 5 times a day @Max_V not bad per se but there are other more tasty fruits in my opinion, the more diversity you can get in a single day the better for your gut. Also, how the hell do you cram two boxes of dates in a day is beyond me

Doesn't make it any healthier thou. If they didn't deep fry it and added chemicals into it this stuff would make you want to vomit.

lol ofcourse but he'll just cover that up for by making a "Why your cholesterol number is not important" video

@mmKay 250 grams seems like quite a lot. Why not get some wider variety of other fruits rather than a microfocus? Dates are great, I like them as well but could not eat so many in a day :D. I usually take 3-4 when I go for a hike or a bike ride. Dates are not harmful, not even for diabetics, the large population data is quite clear on that. Sugar in fruit, not even in dried fruit does not behave the same way as white sugar, not even close. Where the later is highly inflammatory and disturbing to the metabolism, fruits are actually extremely beneficial. But I wouldn't at too many late at night keep you awake. Just try to add in some other fruits to the mix, you'll enjoy those meals more and it is better for your gut bacteria to introduce large variety of fruits

If you can source the meat from a local small farmer that you know and trust or like a neighbour who keeps a few chickens every year, that's the best but those sources are hard to come by. Most chicken comes from mass farmers and it is hard to trace the quality. I'd say get to know your butcher or your farmer if you want a "clean meat". DOn't just buy it from the shelf in the supermarket. Either that or just be vegetarian or vegan (or any in between such as pescetarian, lactovegetarian, ovo vegetarian, lacto/ovo vegetarian etc). Whatever seems like the right thing for you is fine. The choice should be yours. Here in Wales, for example, we sometimes get eggs from this small farm in the national park we go hike to occasionally. It is an old lady who has like 50 hens and they lay eggs every day so she just sells it. Her animals are kept in perfect condition, on green grass and have a huge area to feed and move around. The birds are there for people to see. I have no issue with eating those sorts of eggs personally.

perhaps you need to listen to your heart & your intuition rather than forcing yourself to accept opinions on youtube just to be "open minded". People come to carnivore usually from a place of very messed up digestion and that usually helps them a lot but I am doubtful of both the healing powers of carnivore and its long term benefits. The human gut is dependant on at least 40grams of fibre a day for our microbiome to survive, you start eliminating that your microbiome profile changes and you end up with way too many proteolytic bacteria to a degree that it can become irreversible and you completely lose the natural balance a human should have. It is an acute elimination diet(same as for example FODMAP diet or Specific Carbohydrate diet or Low Histamine diet or Elemental diet). It work for short term but you need to find the root cause and fix it so that you can start eating a large variety of foods rather than staying carnivore forever and get completely brainwashed by people like Saladino who themselves have not managed to fix their gut. Feed him a salad and he'll spend the night on the toilet.... Healthy gut should be able to process any type of (human) food without too many issues or symptoms.

not being highly informed about a particular topic (e.g. nutrition) does not make one dumb, intelligence or wisdom has nothing to do with knowing a lot of random facts "organic" should mean that the animal was not fed antibiotics, that the farmer had to adhere to certain standards, that the feed was coming from better quality sources and that the standard of living for these animals was generally better such as spending most of their time outdoor and being killed more humanely (I don't believe that last bit to be frank). But there are many ways to go around it so just because something is "organic" on the paper does not mean it is either super healthy or super clean. Large portion of this is marketing and there are many loopholes in the legislations regulation those certifications.