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@BlessedLion why do you think you need to detox?

Losing 20% of your body mass in two weeks is anything but normal. The appetite loss could be a consequence of something else that you're not addressing. I'm not trying to fearmonger but a human body is not meant to go through such extreme changes so rapidly. People take 6 months to lose 10 kilos. These sorts of metabolic rollercoasters will decimate your musculoskeletal health if you don't do something about it because your body is having to rapidly adapt. Its your body and none of us can tell you what to do but please be careful and work with a professional on a methodological approach

You lost 10 kilos in 2 weeks?? Please start by speaking to your doctor.

Very interesting perspective. My journey is actually the other way around. I see my Life Purpose as one of the largest blocks of the self actualization journey and I don't think I could truly ever embody the higher tiers without satisfying this first for couple of years. Maybe in your case those two could align? You can certainly build your life purpose around the pursuit of spirituality and epistemology and lot of people do that. And maybe not and the journey you're on is perfect for you, only you would know

@Ima Freeman important to look at the units too. There are conversion rates between for example pmol/L and ng/dL. Your fT4 is measured in ng/dL - if you look at ThyroidUK for example, an evidence based organisation you'll see 0.7 - 1.4 as a recommended levels in which you are sitting well. Your fT3 is 2.54 pg/ml - according to the above, looking at the correct unit, it should be 3.1 minimum but that doesn't immediately put you at a clinical stage, it is low but probably not low enough for most endocrinologists to diagnose you with anything. TSH being just above 2 would still be within the range although I agree with you that you would ideally want to be below 2 but 2.12 definitely does not signify hypothyroidism , there is a progression to that condition and there are degrees of hypofunction. Maybes yours is like 10% compared to someone who comes with a result of 6. I respect the opinion of the German expert, just caution advised not to peg yourself into thyroid diagnosis in the absence of more testing. The next tests you should know more about are the thyroid antiboides to see if there is an autoimmune risk - see more on the above link. Couple of other things to think about with thyroid; iron levels - if low, increases risk of hypothyroidism selenium and zinc intake - same as above do you live in a country where salt is commonly iodised? vitamin D levels overall psychological stress, and oxidative stress in the body I hope you finds the answers you're looking for.

Sure thing, when I was a fat kid who was just getting into exercise I probably tried all the fat burners in the local store and not once did the sales assistant as "yo kid, why are you taking all this"..he was glad to get more business. And this is for all the supplement companies who are profiting from all this crap (which is probably 60-80% of supplements on the global market at the moment) that basically does nothing other than create an expensive urine. They'll take your money and if it ever shows up that those supplements were harmful or contaminated or (best case scenario) useless, they'll just quietly raise their arms saying "but FDA didn't ban it" There is very very few "health" companies out there who genuinely care about their consumer's wellbeing.

The problem with fun measurements is that Bryan has a huge amount of people following his content who can't tell a difference between what is objectively studied and what is some made up metric. Like, by default assume that , in general, most people know almost nothing about biology, anatomy, nutrition and biochemistry. Him making claims such as "I now celebrate my bday every 19 months" is not just odd, it is almost unethical because we have no accurate way of predicting lifespan at the moment and the metrics being used such as telomere lengths, antioxidant pools, translation & transcription efficiency are completely volatile and useless in humans outside of in-vivo mice studies who live in controlled laboratory environments. Why aren't we talking about the metrics where we actually have ROBUST HUMAN DATA on all-cause mortality risk reduction such as - Low ApoB levels, avoidance of insulin resistance, avoidance of hypertension, V02 Max, lower body strength, bone-mineral density, grip strength and smoking cessation. Guys will literally take this that Bryan has just extended his lifespan and they will be seeking this out themselves pumping their bodies with chemicals, pharmaceuticals and supplements from China. We have no idea what injecting yourself with follistatin does to your body in the next 5-20 years. What's gonna happen now is, young men all over the world will be flocking to these therapies to have more muscle and become immortal. What if it proves that high levels of follistatin increase the risk of prostate cancer? How is this thinking different from taking anabolic steroids? Once upon a time we used to think that injecting mercury was therapeutic. We also used to attach leeches to people believing they cure blood disease and at one point, nobody believed that the reason Marie Currie and her husband died was extreme uranium irradiation - we didn't have the evidence and a lot of people had to die for us to get it. Now we have a guy setting trends for a whole generation and the scientists are scratching their heads thinking "is this even safe?" My side hassle is a nutritional therapist and even in my limited pool of clients, I already get asked lot of questions about Bryan and once I had a discovery call with a guy who literally wanted to do the whole protocol. This guy had no developed healthy habits, poor nutrition, no exercise, drank alcohol, vaped like a chimney and all he wanted to do was take a cocktail of supplements, peptides and eat broccoli and lentils....he was not interested in any sort of health optimisation advice at all and I had to reject him even tho he wanted to buy my most expensive package this is how far the bullshit has travelled and this is what I'm saying. people will ignore his advice around nutrition, lifestyle, sleep, routines, stress management and all of that and direct their attention to the flashy bits like injecting hormone blockers, taking metformin and 50 supplements per day, half of which are proabbly coming from some CHinese factories. I think Bryan is onto something, he is brave for doing what he does and it might, in some way, help advance the knowledge of medicine but in the absence of more knowledge, it would be prudent to be a bit more responsible with the way he communicates these things to the public....otherwise it all seems like one big sales pitch and a part of his marketing strategy on how to become rich and famous.

@Brent Rothwell thanks for taking time to reply to all of those. I think, there are a few potential ways to look towards. Profesionally, there is often a trade off between passion and income. Meaning some people earn a lot but are not particularly happy with what they do and a lot of people are passionate about what they do and for example run a small business but tend to often struggle because they are not pegged in an existing corporate chain which is what you get when employed at a big company like Mercer or E&Y. So the first question is - which of the skills you already have, you could use. And I would say the combination of previous customer service rep with decent knowledge of Outlook & Excel is the easiest answer. That alone qualifies you for a variety of roles in sales back office, in business administration, marketing coordination, purchasing and of course customer service. You can ofcourse also consider roles where you would need to upskill a little bit like front line sales (if you have the personality), marketing (if you are of a more creative nature), supply chain (can mostly be learned) etc. The second question is - would you rather do something where you have an existing passion? Personal trainer, some sort of aesthetics / visual side of things such as hairdresser, some kind of a personal care specialist, maybe some form of health coaching, pickup coaching etc - the problem with these is that they all require additional training (but not necessarily) but could help you pursue something that already gives you joy. I'd say the quickest way to get to a market is to polish your existing IT skills, mainly in MS Office, create a LinkedIn profile, create a good CV with the help of GPT and get yourself visible to recruitment managers by starting to apply for positions. Maybe ask GPT, given your skillset, to tell you what titles to look for on Linkedin, what keywords and then go and apply, connect with people. Sooner or later, scoring a 40K+ job is more than doable. You just have to take the first step, nobody can do that for you. Than, over time once you accrue a little bit of capital, you can move out, travel and do all the fun stuff but first step is to make some money, at least 10K savings. hope that helps !

You buys need to learn some proper cooking As a part of, for example, Coconut Garam Massala, Tarka Dahl or a Mexican risotto, lentils taste divine. Its all about practice and getting some advice from a decent cookbook.

could you summarise a few things for us? what is your highest attained education degree? what job experience have you had (include everything) can you operate computer to reasonable degree? can you use Outlook and Excel to some degree? what other programs are you comfortable using? what are you good at? Thinks outside of work experience, in life general? Maybe there are some transferable skills you already have and don't know you could market where do you live? what is your minimum accepted annual salary? (if comfortable sharing) what is your current financial situation (please include any debts, bonds, shares, bitcoin, etc) How much money would you be able to spend, per month on additional education (if needed)? if needed, would you be able to relocate to a bigger city with better opportunities? Say within 300 mile radius?

I think those are all looking pretty normal, mid range. I wouldn't say they are low or high, not even borderline off charts. That fatigue is likely coming from elsewhere. @undeather hold me accountable to correct interpretation? I recall when I was having panic attacks, I lose all appetite and almost stopped eating for up to 3 days. Are you still eating at least twice a day?

Could be down to a variety of factors in your lifestyle, diet, habits or health in general. It is really hard to tell without more information. From my experience, the top 3 to blame are usually: diet pattern inconsistent sleep schedule some kind of ongoing condition (iron deficiency , hypothyroidism, lack of other vitamins) But could be none of those and could be all of those + other factors.

@cjoseph90 why not for cooking also?

Are you eating enough calories? I don't know for sure but isn't Bryan making his diet to be slightly hypocaloric for the purpose of longevity? It may happen that a rapid transition to what he does might give you a crash. It takes some time to adjust to a legume heavy plant based diet. Microbiome adaptation is just one of many things that need to happen and that takes months, sometimes a year. I remember when I started experimenting with this transition about 6 years ago, I felt like a zombie. It is easy to underestimate how much you actually need to eat once you start moving away from steaks and a meat heavy diet.

Why don't you just get a Britta? It is not as powerful as RO but nowadays they remove quite a few contaminants. it is better than nothing. Boiling won't remove any contaminants excepts bacteria and parasites and those aren't in our water anymore due to UV eradiation and chloritization, at least not in 1st world countries. I think we are taking the polluted water fearmongering a bit too far on this forum, please don't run into dehydration issues.

Congrats on the new commitment. All the best on your journey 🤞🏻

I hope you'll feel better soon, sounds like you've been through a lot 🙏 As someone who's gone through panic attacks in the past, i can empathize with your suffering, it is not nice but it will pass, give it time. Pace yourself slowly and try to go easy on all forms of stimulation if possible. Can I ask, when you said your thyroid levels were low, do you happen to have the results? (If comfortable sharing).

Still waiting for that episode to be released

Alan Watts was an alcoholic, maybe you should try a bottle of absynth a day, see what happens. Are you asking our permission so you can continue pissing on your health? Then maybe allow the rest of us to piss on it as well? I think you probably know all the answers already, you need not ask 🙏 be well 🙏

I think when it comes to money, you're doing reeeealy well for a 26 year old dude I think the reason for unhappiness might be that you've fallen for too scammy courses that promises you 30 grand a month. Or maybe the question you need to be asking yourself is this ecommerce business is aligned with your values or you subconsciously feel that you are "taking value" rather than" adding it" to people's life? Ecommerce can be a low consciousness way to make money because it is basically based on adding little to no value to your customer's life and just sort of pegging yourself into an existing supply chain of a multinational corporation like Amazon hoping to earn from it, kinda like Crypto. (not saying this is you btw, just my observation from what a few people I know do) ...Its not bad or anything like that, lot of people do it, but it could, deep down, if you are in touch with your soul, be hurting you and distracting you from working on your true passion. Sounds like you need to do some journaling and self inquiry, I don't think the money itself is the issue, at least not the only issue.

There is something going on between SHBG and Total T. Given that SHBG and albumin are your transporters for main androgen hormones (including Testosterone, DHEA and E2) it might be that your body is pushing higher SHBG because total Testosterone is higher and maybe if your SHBB was lower, your free T would be very high - but that might be a speculation. I think it would help to know your DHEA and maybe also DHT It could be that it is compensating for albumin - have you ever had albumin measured? (again, another stab in the dark) Another theory is that they were elevated back then and are no longer elevated at the present It could also be that looking at this is a red herring and the issue is coming from something else entirely I found a 1990 study summarising the prior knowledge on SHBG before 1990, have a look at the "SHBG Concentration in Disease section" , they make some interesting arguments there Sex Hormone Binding Globulin: Origin, Function and Clinical Significance (sagepub.com) Have you throughout your life had any issue with testicular health? (torsion, late descending etc) But I think we are all stabbing in dark here. I know you had lots of tests done. I'd honestly have to pin everything to a whiteboard together with a timeline of your symptoms and start there. I feel like this is just a part of the full story that needs to be uncovered.

That's the kind of a stunt that destroys decades of a methodical organic growth . Most people have plenty of other content to watch. While I think Leo's content is some of the best there is out there, even as a hardcore listener I would be discouraged by that move. I'd rather buy all his products and occasionally sub on Patreon. Consider his free videos a hook for the purchase of life purpose course, the book list and maybe a support on the Patreon. If 0.5 - 0.8% of his audience purchase the course and the book list at some point, that's more than enough money than he needs to get by for the next 20 years given his audience grows, people talk and share and the passive income tap always flows. In all honesty, most people don't need more than 5K a month to have a perfect life with everything they need even with a family and mortgage, many get buy with much less. I think he is way past that point that more money does not equal more happiness.

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Do you have any evidence that oxidised LDL CAUSES atherosclerosis? Not as a consequence after getting trapped at proteoglycan structure but as causative factor. None of those will ever be done and you probably know that. In a way you are requesting an evidence that cannot be provided to you because this would be a type of Joseph Mengele research. I think it would be interesting but we are unlikely to ever get that. In the absence of this evidence, wouldn't you agree that the most cautious approach is to go for the second best we have which is a variety of existing clinical trials (a few of which are even randomized where people are being fed foods an ingredients with PUFA sources masked in them and still finding benefit) and an abundance of prospective data? - That data shows relatively benign even positive effect of PUFA rich oils on the risk and odds (both RR and HR and OR) on the development of ASCVD and cancer. Otherwise you are asking people basically just to take your word for it because providing the evidence you wish would be unethical. As a health practitioner, if you, say recommended a cardiac client to follow a protocol where PUFA is being replaced by SFA sources such as using more lard and using fewer veg oils, and they have a heart attack and the post mortem investigation confirms that your recommendation was directly violating the current health guidelines, this would not only get your license to practice cancelled but potentially get you to a prison for unethical practice - I'm not trying to fearmonger but it wouldn't be the first time something like that happened. I understand your point of view which is aiming at oxidised cascade as the main cause of atherosclerosis and I think you correlate that with consumption of seed oils mainly? But do you think, even if that argument was true, that most people consume enough of these oils for that to have a significantly negative effect? And if that's so, I'm again asking, where is that evidence? Why don't we have it yet? - What if the opposite is true? What if consuming those oils is of a benefit? How would we know which direction is the effect true? If you say the current prospective data we have is skewed or unreliable, then what else can we do with borderline of ethical science, to confirm this? (I am genuinely asking, I don't know) I think we have this evidence but in reverse and mostly in prospective and retrospective data which I believe wouldn't satisfy the criteria? You know I would love to watch you debate a good debator who is well versed in the evidence on this topic so he could argument better than us on the forum who are not great debators or maybe not fully versed in the current evidence. I am not. Someone like Nutrivore would maybe be worth challenging? I know Nick is always open to debates and his style has definitely changed to more compassionate and less aggressive over the last year. Just throwing it out there. Would be nice to get visibility to your channel as well. I don't have a horse in that race at all Jason. I see seed oils as such a tiny fragment of someone's diet that I don't believe they are source of harm in a way currently consumed even for those who are at the highest percentile of consumption. And for those who get most of their calories from shit like Mcdonalds and Burger King, I think the problems could be down to other factors like salt and caloric excess and overally really bad lifestyle etc. I've reviewed much of the prospective evidence myself at different times when creating client plans and for the purpose of self education, and it seems that overwhelmingly the data we have right now, point to similar direction although you will find outliers such as Sydney Diet study and Minnesota Coronary Experiment. I've reviewed a lot of the evidence on SFA sources such red meat, lard, coconut and butter to also believe them to be rather harmful than beneficial. - Full disclosure I am by no means an expert on critically evaluating evidence although I've had a decent training, so that's a major limitation. I think that's a skill that takes years to develop. Overall, I am just finding it hard to believe that a single ingredient can cause this much havoc as you claim, but, same as you, I am open to changing my opinion if I see direction of effect changing with influx of new data. But overall, outside of this, I think our opinions on what constitutes a healthy lifestyle would agree up to 90% so maybe we are over zooming on this niche topic.