Carl-Richard

@Ramasta9 Putting how you feel taking the pills aside, as for being skeptical of man-made things, I do share the sentiment, but then you would have to be afraid of substances that cannot be measured or we don't know how to measure, because if you can measure what is in a pill (and they do if you buy the right pills) and you determine it contains >100x less unwanted substances than your food, then the only reasonable arguments left are 1. the fillers, and again, those are typically variations of cellulose and other natural substances like again silica; and 2. the pill structure itself. For that, a pill is really just like a very compressed kind of cake or cracker (or loose powder if it's a capsule). And yes, maybe it goes under "processed food", but we're talking about at most a few grams of these things a day. Maybe indeed a few grams of very compressed substance can throw you off somehow, but then let's weigh it with the benefits. Maybe your last escape route is that taking "too much" vitamins or minerals is not good for you, but then we have to be very specific about what we mean. I could see it for something like vitamin E if you go 3-4x the RDI, but some vitamins you already get way above those amounts for certain foods daily.

I tried it today and I've never been this knocked out before in terms of low energy and weird hyper-serotonergic state. "Normal" magnesium (oxide and citrate) doesn't do this to me. Could it be the glycine? I took 360 mg (pure mineral weight), which adds up to over 2g of glycine. I was debating whether to only take 240mg because the improved absorption makes it roughly equal to the 350mg of oxide and citrate I was taking. So maybe it's also excess magnesium, but again, this does not feel the same as just magnesium. I'm asking because it wasn't the only new thing I took (I also had more E vitamin than usual and a different fish oil supplement), but it feels like it could be the culprit.

"Listen to your body" as opposed to listen to your abstract mind imposing abstract ideas and limitations onto your lifting. Then notions like "slow the eccentric", "pause at the bottom", "slowww slowww slowww" disappear and all that is left is the primal explosivity of your muscle fibers and the instinctive drive to push those muscle fibers until failure. And of course, there is a point where "pushing yourself" seems like a mental thing where you try to push the body beyond its current limits, but that's a much more primal thing than "🤓☝️ we are approaching 2 reps in reserve". I talk like a meathead when I talk about lifting. Deal with it

Different things work for different points on the path.

Be kind to your little brother 😉

This is not insanity. This is sanity. Insanity is losing your marbles over it.

Unless you're Jeff Nippard in his newest program where he did that for 100 days straight and (allegedly) actually gained muscle ON A CUT and ironically does a 180 on his entire training philosophy for the last 10 years. That's as consistent as calling yourself "Dr. Mike" and then doing a 180 on the legitimacy of your PhD after 10 years lol. "Science-based" essentially means "I read a few studies and made a conclusion". That it has been treated as essentially "the science" (which Jeff still refers to it as), i.e. a kind of set of SETTLED and undeniably FACTUAL dogmas or commandments passed down by the Geek God, is just indicative of the pop science mind virus that have been imposed on our culture for the last 200 years. You're just a pussy then. Jeff Nippard has now adopted my training philosophy: "actually, I like going to the gym now, it's fun". If lifting is not fun for you, you're the type of guy that thinks doing anything else than sitting on a literal couch and eating chips is not fun. The fact that you have to use your body (or your mind), your competencies, to do something, IS fun. That is what fun is. There is no such thing as being static or sedentary or not applying yourself when you are a human being. You are in constant motion. Not moving is what you don't want to do. Fun is just what you want to do, and you want to move; moving is fun. Go move.

So I think solipsism is a mental framework, I think enlightenment is possible beyond mere awakening, but other than that, we're quite similar.

You can again be relatively healthy with a slight nutrient deficiency. The question is whether or not they are deficient. There are many who are deeply inculcated with the "modern society traps" but who are skeptical of supplements. It wasn't long ago that even leading health science gurus were completely against taking them. Then there were convincing scientific evidence for their benefits [1]. The study did control for "healthiness" of diet, but they should of course have controlled for organic vs non-organic aswell. But even so, as mentioned, even for organic crops, there is a ~40% reduction in vitamins and minerals from crops over the last half century (and it might not be completely countered by growing your own because it is partially a genetic issue with the foods we've bred for mostly size; you would have to farm more obscure foods). So unless you farm all your food yourself and you eat different foods than you would probably usually eat, you'll be worse off than half a decade ago. And we know staying inside and avoiding the sun does negatively impact vitamin D levels, and where I live, you effectively don't get vitamin D from the sun from October through March. Is the scientific evidence a trap? But again, maybe being relatively deficient doesn't matter much, and maybe it's a phase for me and I'll prefer less supplements over time.

@Deziree Essentially you're doing the thing where you say "everything affects everything else" and then you mention virtually anything you can think of, probably as a way to signal being a "systems thinker" or "Tier 2" person (not intentionally of course, I'm mind-reading your unconscious mind). Reminds me of @Danioover9000. But if you were to choose the most pertinent thing that effects the quality of thoughts, what would that be?

You're like the most interesting person on the forum because you take anything else than Enlightenment as hocus pocus fairytales, beliefs, states, while essentially the rest think temporary awakenings are the real deal. And I appreciate that 😙

"Aroused" 😂

I have not tried any of his programs, but certainly some of his meditation techniques. But it goes back to "reading energy". Sadhguru videos seem to invoke the non-dual state in me. Maybe I can watch any video with enough attention and openness and the same will happen. But I sense I get "pulled into it" by Sadhguru, Rupert Spira, etc. @UnbornTao

@Ramasta9 True indigenous people don't buy commercial produce, be it organic or non-organic. They also come from a culture of mostly hunter-gatherers who eat close to the biosphere and don't mix too many food types in one meal (and again, mixing foods can inhibit absorption of nutrients). They are also out in the sun more. So you can make the case that indigenous people are healthy. But that's the trade-off of living in modern society. The question is: what do you do when you live in modern society?

Maybe you're talking about a different dimension.

@Ramasta9 I might cut out supplements if I feel like it. Then I also live in a country with little sunlight so vitamin D supplementation is virtually a must, unless I want to eat fish with heavy metals in it every other day (or maybe I could research blowing my wallet on some kind of exclusive top-notch fish, but normal fish is already expensive). Even so, organically-grown foods also seem to be affected by the vitamin and mineral decline we've seen in the last 50 years (about 40% drop). And the modern diet of mixing all kinds of ingredients together is in itself a cause for concern; eating something like a banana together with blueberries cuts the polyphenol absorption by 80%. Regardless, I think you can be semi-deficient in nutrients and still feel very good if you're in a non-neurotic mental state and you do healthy things. As for feeling that supplements don't do good things, is it merely a feeling of general discomfort or aesthetic displeasure with the state they cause, or is it something overt like GI issues or fatigue or over-stimulation?

Foods make you high. We're just used to calling it "being full". Try being hungry and then take a massive dose of amphetamine. Now you're full.

Here's a philosophy I have: if I can't take it in the morning, do I really need it?

I had this concern as well, then I looked into the level of relevant contaminants in our food (which is generally many-fold worse), so I thought why not? Unless there are contaminants they are unable to detect which have an effect (which also could be the case for our food), contaminants from supplements are the least of your worry. And the filler compounds tend to be essentially different versions of cellulose and maybe some silicon dioxide (both of which you already eat anyway). You could also question whether the digestive process of dissolving a pill could have some odd effect, but at the end of the day, it's essentially a form of food, and we eat so many types of foods already, you should probably be more concerned about how different foods interact (which is one benefit with supplements; you can separate them temporally). Then it comes down to how you react to them. On that, I tried Mg malate yesterday and today. Yesterday I thought the dose was maybe too big so today I cut it in half but then I felt lower mood than usual. Now I thought maybe to add a quarter dose back in. But I just realized that maybe the first supplement I've been taking (95/5 MgO and Mg Citrate) has an unique effect that I prefer. Even if the Mg in MgO is poorly absorbed, MgO could have beneficial effects down the line in terms of e.g. gut motility (MgO is osmotic), which is related to mood. So maybe I'll do a 180 back to my usual supplement again.

Here's another addition to the "tyranny of the mind": reps in reserve. Mike Israetel and his circle jerk buddies don't just want you to stifle your movement for each rep, they want to stifle the energy output for each set. Instead of going all out gorilla mode until you cannot do anymore, it's "well, that's enough stimulus, I will put down the weight". It's such a beta cucked nerdneck way to train. And again it assumes you know more than the body.

"These problems seem spiritual in nature" is what his daughter claims, insinuating "attacks" from the outside. I've always thought it was from the inside. That said, it's not an easy life he's had the last decade. Last time he came out from the hospital, he was a different man.

Cry if you have to, just don't be a crybaby.

Rupert Sheldrake's study on telephone telepathy.

Da hell does that mean.

Any description is dogma.