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It's nothing super complicated... just avoid processed high carb, high fat items... cut out things like these: Pizza, cookies, hot pockets, pie, chips, crackers, cereal, cookies, donuts, pop tarts, cake, soda, candy bars (dark chocolate is fine,) ice cream, white bread, french fries, fried chicken, fast food... Eat things like: Meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts, legumes, cultured milk products (kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese), fish Also calories in, calories out is important. If you overeat too much of anything you will get fat. Get your antioxidants from things like berries, coffee, dark beers, chocolate, cinnamon and other spices, dark wines, and certain fruits like Apples. Avoid excessive sun exposure. Don't go tanning thinking it will make you look more sexy because when you get older you will have more facial wrinkles, dark spots, and other side effects that come with excessive oxidation the UVA and UVB rays cause.

Great post. I should add that nofap works because it helps to cultivate self mastery. It's not because of any minerals lost in the semen or anything, it's because like Leo's episode on addiction talks about.. if you are able to sit there with a craving and just observe it mindfully, and not let it control you and not give into the craving, it's a very powerful habit when cultivated. Sex is the strongest drive humans have besides hard drugs when it comes to the dopamine response in the brain, so it's going to be one of the strongest cravings to practice this with. For men it's imperative to cultivate self mastery to be the top of the food chain in desirability and personal growth. A weak man who goes through life giving into hedonistic cravings (fapping, pot, video games day in day out) is not something that personally I find appealing. I've gone through my hedonistic phase. I'm done with that. Learning, growing, eudimonic activities, are what really drive me now going forward. It's one reason I took up musical theory. It's good to have a new habit to replace the old habit to prevent falling back into the old habit.

The best thing to enhance the subconscious memory recall is to practice mindfulness and stress reduction. I've been studying musical theory as a hobby to get away from video games and forums and when trying to recall notes on the grand staff and memorize key signatures it becomes futile if I'm sleep deprived or otherwise stressed out. Cultivating the parasympathetic response, those alpha brain waves, is key. I've found the work of Joe Dispenza useful lately... how to reprogram the limbic response, self mastery, habit forming, using "open focus" as a means of cultivating relaxation... Aside from the mental work, fish oil should work best for memory... salmon, trout, canned mackerel and/or herring. Honestly, the vast majority of health problems people around the world face are not diet related (aside from over-consumption of calories leading to obesity) they are stress related. We over-think too much in many cultures... use our left brains too much... we try to exert too much control over the circumstances in our lives... people need to learn to relax, let go a bit, ride the waves, roll with the punches... it takes a lot of energy to build up all these barriers to try to keep oneself safe...

Whatever a person can do to make themselves self sufficient I applaud them for. If a woman is for example making money selling farts in a jar to desperate men for money, I'm all for that. They are providing a service that someone is purchasing. Great! Similarly I enjoy watching Rust streamers.. they have 5000 hours of experience playing that video game and managed to monetize their efforts. Excellent! Side gigs are great. Being able to support oneself without having to work for someone else and be subject to corporate slavery is great, but some people do have to be corporate slaves. I am a corporate slave, but am good at my job and paid well to do it. What I don't support is entitlement mentality... the idea people should get paid to merely exist without contributing to society. I really should get over that hangup or I'll find myself reincarnating as someone who is depending on handouts. It's part of the reason I'm back here. I want to give up my city-data addiction once and for all. I want to be around people who can expand my perspective a bit.

My main issue with green is that on the one hand this is a forum focused on personal development, and on another hand many of these same stage greens want to have lifetime entitlements for people and try to save everyone. I'm of the opinion you should teach people to fish, and not give them fish, and that we reward bad behavior in society these days. The american left encourage people to "live in the moment" and do whatever one "feels" like and then rewards bad behavior with handouts. I believe in operant/pavlonian conditioning where good (responsible) behavior should be rewarded and things like equity, lifetime welfare, entitlements, bailouts, etc. do the opposite of help to grow a person, they keep them in a state of perpetual victim-hood and give them an entitlement mentality. They don't learn their lesson and by getting bailed out are encouraged to repeat said behavior. You can't save everyone. We can't take in every refugee, feed every starving person, for no other reason than they will breed like rabbits and in a generation we will have to feed three times as many. People need to be taught to be self sufficient and independent. This can be done while still maintaining a community mindset. I just don't support giving people free stuff for nothing for long periods of time. It doesn't help them grow in any way, and burdens the people who are working and paying for these people who don't contribute. Neither political party is worthy of my support in 2022, but I can't vote democrat in their current state. I don't understand for example not giving violent criminals high bails, and the increasing violence they are allowed to get away with in large cities, much less the promotion of prepubescents changing their genders, among other questionable social policy. Basically it's our species that is the problem. Like I've said on city-data I don't have much respect for any of the leadership in any nation right now that the blinders are off to human nature. I see corruption... everywhere. I see people who want to tell each other what to do and have no tolerance for differences. I see increased authoritarian mindset among politicians. I see late stage capitalism making people soft to evolutionary nature.. life is hard, it's not meant to be easy, and people aren't supposed to be coddled. Coddling people doesn't help them grow. I guess I see what I want to see.

People are tired of the identity politics, this obsession with race, critical race theory, pushing transgenderism on children who haven't even reached puberty, cancel culture, the mask mandates, especially in schools, and the list goes on. Also this soft on crime mentality where violent offenders are given low bails... why? https://www.belling.com/april-5-results-a-smashing-victory-for-grass-roots-conservatism-in-southeast-wisconsin/ This and many other things related to this are why a red wave is coming. I'm not a huge fan of republicans, but the left is off their rockers lately. They haven't even hidden this fact and gone moderate during this election cycle... they seem to be as extreme as ever with what they are peddling.

My grandmother was an atheist when she had her near death experience. She was told it was not her time, she had 4 children to raise (my mother and aunts, uncle) I remain skeptical but with an open mind. I've read the journey of souls series of books. I mean if you believe in universal consciousness, oneness, non duality, and don't just believe that a trip with DMT is due to chemical reactions in the brain, it's not a logical next step to then believe in the soul and the concept of reincarnation. Why would a DMT trip be any more valid as far as the truths you would acquire?

I listen to mark belling, a conservative radio talk show host out of Milwaukee. It's the only mainstream news I get. He's more common sense than a lot of them...he got his vaccine and booster and believes in vaccine choice and has always said that "rationalization is the second strongest human drive" ...when I heard Leo bring up rationalizing in recent videos I always think of that quote. I need, I must, get access to all sides of the story so I can find my own truth. I don't want my truth spoon fed to me. I bring him up here because his show, for his market, gets good ratings. (1130 WISN MILWAUKEE MARKET)...it can be streamed on iheart so I wouldn't be able to listen otherwise, living in south Dakota. https://www.talkers.com/category/ratings-takeaways/

My take... Women much more than men often have a desire to "sow their oats" ...that is to say they want to experience the world, have sex with fun bad boys, travel overseas, and get all that "fun" out of their system. For many when they get married too young they feel like they missed out on all that. With modern culture pushing this "experience everything" mentality the temptation will be so great for them not to be able to resist that craving...it's genetic. Best to accept our genetic nature and not try to date a woman for marriage in a western culture if she is too young unless you are absolutely sure she won't develop a midlife crisis like this as she ages. Men can be guilty of this as well but generally speaking men don't need as much social stimulation as women do. Men are content once they have their wife and kids to own a home, work their job, raise their kids, drink their beer, watch their football. Simple and boring, as it should be. I'm working on this myself as I continue to grow and improve... Attracting a mid 20's to early 30's woman who can be a stay at home mom and give me 2 or three kids, all within a year of each other in age so they can socialize and mature at a similar rate. . With all the psychological insights I've acquired I know they will turn out great...and if they don't I'll love them all the same.

There's a lot wrong with the democrat party here that people aren't seeing because they choose not to see it. I'm still in the process of taking space lizards advice. I don't pine over the state of the world like who I dub the "Reddit lefties" who want to keep society masked up for the next 100 years or the righties afraid a vaccine will give them a heart attack or AIDS...I just find the whole game quite stimulating...watching human nature play itself out in the global political arena fascinates me... I'm much more stimulated by intelligent persuits than mindless work gossip about fishing and hunting which is all people in my area like to discuss. Im much more interested in watching the game play out than the outcome of the game, though my one core belief is anti authoritarian in nature, the title I use on the city data forums under this name... More checks and balances to keep human nature in check. No one individual or group of people should have too much power over another...it doesn't matter how good their intentions or how right they think their world view is (like the spiral dynamics greenies that frequent this place. I'm still trying to break my political forum addiction...pointless waste of time...I spent 5 hours yesterday on musical theory, 90 minutes of those practicing guitar. Baby steps... I want to make this forum the only one I visit in time, though I will never be as left leaning as many here.

To a degree this issue exists because sex has been so stigmatized by religions over the generations. What if sex was seen as a gesture of affection akin to just being playful and wasn't culturalized in such a manner as something that was only done by consenting adults? There's an example of our closest related DNA ancestor called a Bonobo that does just this. https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/casual-sex-play-common-among-bonobos You actually do find it in most animal species. Puppies will start to dry hump and most mammal species begin to procreate at puberty, and puberty for humans is around age 12. If you look back at most past cultures their girls were marrying or having kids at age 12-14...like 99% of cultures. I'm not sure what to do about it in 2021 I just understand the science and to a degree some of the psychology behind it. I think too many people are quick to throw the word pedophile around. I'll admit as a man I find 14-15 year old girls attractive...of course I don't do anything about it because I find adult women equally attractive and don't need to risk decades in prison and the associated social stigma. In general I avoid children that are not mine these days because of this obsession people have that someone is going to abduct them. We definitely need to do something about trafficking and abducting women of any age for use in sex rings...the people who abduct women or use fear tactics to keep them virtual slaves need to be in my opinion executed with a knife blade to the throat in a public setting.

It's not too late, but you have to want to change your self destructive habits and this change will bring lots of discomfort. In a stressed out state impulse control is much harder... Our limbic brains will take us through a rollercoaster of cravings and emotions. You have to take the initiative...nobody is going to do it for you. Leo's video on addictions and his video on dealing with strong negative emotions are useful. You have to learn to sit with the craving or emotion mindfully, without letting it control you. Find an apartment. Buy a nice wardrobe. Work on your people skills. Brush up on your ability to draft a resume. Give up the pot and alcohol. Clean up your diet. Start going pullups. MAINTAIN A CONSISTENT SLEEP SCHEDULE. If you do get a job, show up on time every day, no excuses for how you "feel" ...one thing about the nervous system is only exposure therapy and proper mindset will heal it. You don't want to get stuck in a rumination cycle, where you let how you feel dictate how you think in a vicious cycle. I noticed a number of people on this forum do that. They also like to project...they think that if such and such out there in the world was different, suddenly they would be happy. They use what they perceive as the state of the world as an excuse to pine in misery and not take responsibility for their lives. That's not how it works. It's their toxic internal mindset that poisons their well being, not anything going on out there in the world. This article could come in handy. https://www.woujo.com/blog/2020/12/29/woujos-guide-to-anxiety-and-depression There are plenty of jobs in Iowa and South Dakota. I live in eastern South Dakota. I make over $30/hour working at 3M. You shouldn't have problems finding a job regardless of work history. There is a 3M plant in Knoxville IA...all 3Ms pay above average for factory work. Make sure it pays semi decently...don't take anything under $14ish dollars an hour. You could also consider a trade like electrician, or going into nursing. Travel nurses make big bucks. This job market right now is literally one of the best in a long time for people looking to switch careers. There are labor shortages everywhere. You are only 24...you are just a baby! Plenty of time! I myself am taking up guitar playing and studying musical theory as a healthy habit at an older age than you to replace mindless screen time. Cultivate healthy habits... Read the book atomic habits. Small improvements each day lead to exponential gains down the road. Keep in mind the hardest part of a new habit is the first few weeks....the first few days, and backsliding...see Leo's video on backsliding. If you can persist despite your emotions and cravings screaming out in defiance, eventually those feelings will subside and a sense of overwhelming pride of accomplishment will take their place. Good luck.

I use an Oral B electric and floss daily and I have gotten glowing remarks from the dentist ever since, both from a plaque perspective and doing that test of gum integrity where you get numbers like, 1,2,2,3,1 for the gum pockets between teeth. A lot of it will be genetics and gut bacteria composition through...you might just have a good microbiome that supports healthy teeth you may not need to brush as much. Low carb eaters in theory wouldn't need to brush as much. The worst offenders for plaque buildup for me are bananas. In general I wouldn't recommend not brushing and flossing to most people. Pro tip...use a toothpaste with stannous fluoride...it's superior to sodium fluoride. It would help to not be an anti fluoride conspiracy theorist either. It really does help strengthen enamel...the science is as clear as CO2 causing global warming. You can always consume extra iodine to compensate. Im general I like to be green but my one guilty pleasure is using plackers twin line flossers...those plastic disposable flossers with 2 pieces of floss in them. With them the flossing habit is so much smoother.

I think spiral dynamics is being used to stroke the egos of many here (and in progressive society) into thinking their philosophy is the end all, be all of moral superiority and this can be used to justify authoritarian like control over the populace "for their own good" which I disagree with. Trying to thwart our evolutionary nature and suppress the laws of nature such as natural selection actually hinders growth in the long run. On the other hand Leo made a good point in a another post equating rich people to cancer cells...you can't allow really powerful people to have totally unchecked levels of wealth and influence either. It's a balancing act. Out here in rural South Dakota a few families tend to control entire towns and it can become a toxic atmosphere that stifles growth. Ill give credit for Leo criticizing China in his latest video on truth but I see way too many people on the left in modern America trying to "cancel culture" so called conservative or traditional beliefs and I don't believe this idea of "community responsibility" should be used to turn society into a borg collective where everyone must believe the stage greenies because they are so superior. They are not. We need to learn to tolerate our differences. I don't see the left as so much more superior to the right...I think they are both nuts. They both hold their cultlike belief systems that they spend lots of effort to emotionally defend. Sorry but there are clearly some unhappy, emotionally damaged people here who think making the entire planet assimilate to their belief system would solve all the world's problems. It would not. Basically I'm for heavy checks and balances and shaking up the snow globe with relative frequency...never allowing any one group of people to exert too much control over another.

It could be LPR, or silent reflux. Stress will cause the stomach to reflux. People who lead stressful lives or are wired from a young age to have a more sympathetic dominant nervous system can suffer from all sorts of chronic health problems such as reflux, gastropsresis, "chronic Lyme," IBS, fibromyalgia, etc...these are all diseases of the autonomic nervous system in many cases, caused by psychological stress. Loss of appetite is a symptom of stress related conditions also. The fix is rewiring yourself to be parasympathetic while at rest. This can be done by quitting screens and other bad habits like drugs/alcohol, mindful or open focus meditation, laughter/ social connections, deep breathing, proper sleep schedule and carcadian rhythm, and pursing eudonia instead of hedonism. You need to really relax during your downtime...screens are not necessarily relaxing they can stimulate the nervous system (video games, violent TV content) It can take some time for the change to happen....weeks to months of changing habits entirely for hours per day.... A lot of people who have hair trigger emotional responses like Antonio Brown of Tampa Bay, modern day incels, and in general anyone who feels insecure, angry, jealous, etc. in life have some level of sympathetic dominance. This really only totally goes away when someone becomes totally accepting of what is in their lives. Easier said than done. I might direct some people here to this article... https://www.woujo.com/blog/2020/12/29/woujos-guide-to-anxiety-and-depression

Here's my daily Alexa stretching routine.... I start with "pilates piriformis stretch" 90 seconds per leg. I then do a "Combined Psoas & Quadriceps Stretch" 90 seconds each leg. I then do a hamstring stretch where I lay on floor and place one leg at a time on an open doorframe bending the knee to make sure I'm stretching the hamstring and not the sciatic nerve. 2.5 minutes per leg. I then stand up and do standard calf stretches a minute per leg. After that I do arm circles, a combined 2 minutes of going forward and backwards, combining small circles and big ones. I then do 45 seconds of chest flies. After that it's 45 seconds of "the funky chicken" I then do 45 seconds of wrist stretches. I then go into child's pose for 2 minutes. After 1 minute I will give my shoulders a stretch by moving my arms to each side while in the pose. I might add more but for now this is my daily static/ballistic stretch regimen. This regimen was sourced from various sources including the ballistic stretches done where I work, p90x "stretch x" and research done on sciatica and the best stretches for back health. Aggressive p90x programs can be counterproductive. Sometimes less is more when it comes to working out. Work out smarter not harder.

It's not the semen itself it's the dopamine withdraw that drives the human organism to seek the external stimulation to fill the void since you are no longer giving yourself "easy pleasure" ... In fact too much hedonism makes people feel like zombies for this reason...when the humans cravings are satisfied through easy pleasure motivation and zest for life tend to decrease. Try going without a shower for 5 days or shaving if you are used to shaving daily. Try a 3 day water fast, or cutting out anything that tastes sweet....you will get similar interesting results. Try sitting in a room doing nothing for 4 hours...give up screens...

Pull ups with a door frame pull up bar and dips with a portable dip station. Throw in some one legged lunges for leg work and you can maintain a decent enough body with a good diet.. You can also do planks. If you want to get more advanced...get a trap bar, bench, a bar, and some plates. A fair warning that a LOT of adults in their 30's and older end up getting sciatica whether they exercise or not. Practice proper lifting habits when young but more then that stretches done daily that target the psoas, hamstrings, calves, quads, and Lower back can help eliminate this pain. I have a stretching routine I programmed into Alexa that I do daily like clockwork. Part of the self Mastery process...replace old habits with new. It has eliminated sciatica pain in me. Some stretches particularly advanced yoga postures can make things worse. Proper form with lighter weight is more important than sloppy form with more weight or reps. Beware of swinging around kettlebells with improper form especially a rounded lower back.

I'm at the point where I think proof of work mining should be banned worldwide. Coins that use almost no energy have been around for years and bitcoin itself is an outdated relic that creates tech shortages and drives needless consumption of electricity. Ethics in marketing? Take a look at some old magazine from the 1930's. Not a whole lot has changed. I see right wing rags like natural news and the gateway pundit peddling misinformation, and the natural foods industry has done it for years peddling things like alkalizing diets, drinking MMS, expensive supplements for this and that, declustered water, liver flushes, etc. The only truth marketing cares about is getting you to spend your money. Some industries are arguably more ethical than others, but even the plant based industry seems to use whatever means it can to separate you from your money. I encourage people not take any single source of information as gospel...find the little nuggets of truth where you can. Your body regulates it's pH through breathing. It doesn't particularly matter what pH Ash is in the food you eat. ;). In fact the biggest problem in most people's lives that causes health problems is an overactive sympathetic nervous system, from bad daily habits...screen time, lack of social connections, a lack of feeling of fufillment. Evolution and genetics are a bitch, all these irrational drives wired into our limbic brain.

I've chosen to abandon the back and forth drama. In my mind politics is ego candy...the idea that we have to be involved in world affairs to advance spiritually is one where I respectfully disagree with Leo. To me in between the people who want to mask up the entire planet and require digital passports (those on the left) and the people who think vaccines are going to give them micro clots and AIDS lies common sense. Make the vaccines optional, mandatory for elderly in assisted living as covid is mostly a disease that affects the elderly and obese, and let everyone else have a choice to live as they wish. I'm not a fan of this authoritarian push over covid response. I got my booster December 21 and live in an area where 5% wear masks and visited and area where 20% we're wearing them. I haven't put on a mask since November. To a degree I do believe in natural selection and don't think we need to cripple the supply chain by shutting everything down to mainly save people who only have a few years left to live anyways. This is my stance and I don't necessarily think a person has to be a stage green nanny state pacifist who wants to put the entire planet into an umbrella society to advance spiritually. I don't have the experience of DMT use under my belt yet though. I acknowledge I am a sum of my societal programming and could easily have been programmed differently. Alas all of life comes down to trying to control the masses with various programming. The laws of nature dictate the strongest will win. I sit by watching the game play out, preferring not to take sides. To me it's the game itself that is fascinating, not the outcome of it. Will China displace our so called elites in places like the world bank calling for great resets? Will the groups come together in unity? Turn the page. Who will ultimately win the fight between Karen's wanting to spread around their world view? Lots of people like to think their viewpoints are more correct or enlightened... Maybe we can just learn to get along and respect each other's differences instead of saying "you must do it my way or else" which is what people who say "we are in this together" really mean. Ive watched enough of Leo's videos to have heard him talk about personal responsibility vs community responsibility. Ultimately I believe our species is living out it's genetic destiny.

This is my issue with the pro-vaccine crowd is they are rabid so and many of them filled with intolerance and anger for what are legitimate concerns about new vaccine technology. These aren't Covaxin and Sinovac (inactivated virus vaccines) or Novavax (protein subunit technology) ... who's to say they affect everyone the same. They shouldn't downplay side effects if they are occuring. If anything they should make it easier for other vaccine technology to get passed in all countries. This idea that the FDA has to do their own seperate vaccine trials when other reputable health organizations have found them safe is a little silly. It's said Novavax has very little side effects compared to all the vaccines released in the US. I'm pro vaccine but also pro-choice. I don't believe in forcing vaccines. Others can do as they wish. Classical liberalism compared to modern progressives who have taken on a more authoritarian demeanor lately. Not good in a country (the US) set up with extra sets of checks and balances to keep tyranny in check, a nation heavy on state's rights with a culture that has a more alpha, less submissive demeanor that doesn't like to bend over to authority figures or the state without a fight.

I promote the idea of firearm ownership because I don't trust human nature. The more checks and balances we have to keep human nature in check the better. Plus, the number of actual firearm fatalities in the US is rather low compared to say overdoses, abortions, and any other of number causes of death. I usually like to bring up the fact there are 850,000 abortions per year in the US compared to 30,000 non suicide firearm fatalities. AND on top of it, many of the firearm deaths occur in heavily blue cities that do things like hand out signature bonds, go soft on crime, and in general have policy that increases crime and blames it all on systematic racism and makes the problem worse. I wouldn't mind having a registration system that can tie guns to owners to better track the flow of weapons though. The problems is serial numbers can be removed, guns can hit the elicit areas and end up being illegally modified.

The left used to be the biggest naturalists of them all, basically founding forums like curezone. It's amazing to see them flip to ardent supporters of big pharma so quickly. The science doesn't even support continued masking once people are vaccinated, because our body loses immunity to coronaviruses in 6-9 months which is why all these "super colds" are going around because people masking, locking down, they aren't being exposed to these viruses so their immune system loses much of it's strength. Spreading it around so people get it after they are vaccinated would be a better long term idea than the way they keep locking people down. As for the unvaccinated, that should be their choice. Nobody under 30 really needs a vaccine, and kids certainly don't need to be masked up in school all day. The fact is we all die eventually. If an 84 year old lives two more years, is it really worth forever masking society over trying to prevent the spread of an endemic virus that will never go away? Exercise. Eat well. Take Zinc and Vitamin D... or not. Freedom of choice. Give the elderly extra protection... make sure people in nursing homes are getting their boosters, every 6 months. It's the one size fits all solution that doesn't make sense to me.

There's a good article rooted around evolutionary psychology that basically sums up the drive behind human behavior... https://www.woujo.com/blog/2020/12/29/woujos-guide-to-anxiety-and-depression Loneliness is basically an evolutionary sign that a human feels disconnected from a sense of belonging, to being part of a tribe, being loved, being appreciated. Like it or not we are not genetically wired to be loners.

It's a minor inconvenience because not all content creators make great video. One creator's car crash compilation video might not be as good as another's and dislikes are a quick way to figure out if the video is good before watching it. Not that many content creators are getting legit trolled... perhaps the Biden administration is but they can just remove the dislikes from official government organizations if they don't want to allow the freedom of speech or criticism. In any case there's way too much content to consume and too little time to waste to spend it on youtube anyways.