sholomar

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  1. Authors such as David Hawkins and others I've read have suggested that people can have food allergies, but they don't manifest unless a person is in a stressed/sympathetic dominant body state, from being stressed, lonely, and anxious. A lot of times this stress feels so normal to people they don't even realize they have it. It's a state of tension they carry with themselves constantly. David Hawkins in his books told of how he cancelled his belief system in having an "allergy" to foods or thinking they were bad for him, and was able to resume eating foods he hadn't eaten for years. I believe it was his book "Healing and Recovery" but it might have also been "Letting Go" There are people with genuine allergies that will end up in a hospital if they end up consuming the item, such as with peanuts and latex, but that's far different than just feeling crappy after eating something. Those type of "allergies" are more a result of being overly stressed out, in my opinion... so stressed out it becomes your default state of being. I can speak from experience. It also comes from analysis paralysis, and using Dr. Google to research "too much" about nutrition and health. Overthinking, overanalyzing, micromanaging. All that is stressful. All that is ego. I'm guilty of all this crap. LOL
  2. Reading this study had me think about the sheer amount of microplastics we must breathe in from our clothing every day, how much of it ends up in the environment as laundry lint... there's no avoiding it. Almost all fabrics contain synthetic fibers of some sort. At some point bacteria will evolve to digest plastic I bet. Those blue masks we had to wear during covid would go through the laundry and come out looking flawless. In any case I told my father to get rid of his plastic cutting board, and I stopped microwaving and cooking food in plastic containers.... because it's an easy change to make. No biggie. They've always been really bad at recycling where I live now. They were better where I used to live 20 years ago than they are where I live now... one of the benefits blues bring to the table.
  3. Going by polyvegal theory I'd say we both have an underactivated ventral vagal response. Like it or not the best way to cultivate that part of the nervous system is through playful socialization. It's why people who don't have a lot of friends will often get a pet. If a person is lacking the ability be playfully social with others, they will tend to always be at a disadvantage in this regard. This is a skill that you can develop, which I'm trying to do by watching content like "chrisma on command" on youtube. It's just important given our biology so I'm forcing the issue. That back and forth banter that Schizophonia and Arabia did as an example... good for the nervous system. That's how normies act, and a lot of Autists and introverts and people with anxiety disorders are not good at it. A lot of men who have problems keeping women are too serious, not playful, they lack a personality. Other then that I'd say keep a fixed healthy sleep schedule and unwind when you are not working, meaning don't spend every waking moment in front of a screen when you are off work. Avoid any content that is negative in nature, anger provoking such as world news/ world events or anything "black pill" related. Practice sitting in a room doing nothing. It's a great nervous system release. If you actually do this you may notice intense feelings come to the surface, like Leo says in his video on "meditation technique do nothing" ... need to be able to let the feelings out without resistance... be the "emotional superconductor" ... You need proper mindset. Thoughts ultimately create feelings over time. A negative mindset will lead to no progress. It just won't. I'm curious what your cholesterol level is... I have a theory that a lot of people in this state have cholesterol that is too low, simply because being stressed out all the time depletes the body's hormones which are made from cholesterol like cortisol. Low cholesterol is often seen in disease states. If you are skinny, vegan, and anxious/depressed, a low cholestrol is likely the result. I eat meat and eggs to try to keep it above 150ish, as it's tested as low as 115 mg/dl ... that low and your body can't produce steroid hormones optimally especially under stress. This webpage is one of the most comprehensive I've come across describing what you mention. http://www.holistichelp.net/dysautonomia-autonomic-nervous-system-dysfunction.html You should also get your testosterone levels tested. If you do, I'd love to hear the results. Low testosterone levels in men might be an issue. I've fixed my nervous system to the point where I can exercise and weight train to failure again. Weight training, especially to failure, used to quickly bring up nervous system fatigue in me. It's a gradual process to fix chronic stress states.
  4. Top favorites: Apples. I try to eat new varieties I come across that are highly rated on the apple rankings website, though my favorites that are widely available are Cosmic Crisp and Honeycrisp. I've had SweetTango and they are one of the best out there. I got some SugarBee right now from Aldi and they really do taste like honey... quite crisp, thin skinned, and delicious. Grapefruit, but a specific variety that I don't know the name of... like oranges, not all grapefruit are created equal. I used to hate grapefruit, but I enjoyed eating warheads. I forced myself to eat them and came to absolutely love them. Oranges of course Pineapple Frozen Broccoli, Cauliflower, Peas, just because they are healthy and low calorie. It should be noted that produce, much like almost everything we eat, is nothing like the produce we evolved eating. Through selective breeding and genetic engineering today's fruits and vegetables are much sweeter and more appealing to the palette than anything our ancestors had. Many didn't even exist. In fact, the only that still resemble their original form are berries like raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries. Another interesting fact... without genetic engineering the banana we currently enjoy (cavendish) will eventually not be able to be used for mass production due to a disease spreading around. It replaced a variety called the Gros Michael that our grandparents got to enjoy that itself got decimated, that tastes similar to what we know of as "artificial banana flavoring" which was actually developed around the Gros Michael banana. Eventually, genetic engineering will create some marvelous produce, I'd imagine. I'm all for it. It's our job as homo sapiens to hijack this simulation and play God, to fix the errors in evolution. To future great tasting GMO food.
  5. Indeed... you have to deal with each stage at their own level, something greens don't understand. If they are not careful, they are going to cause the decay of the west. Overprinting of money by central banks (quantitative easing, a term you should become familiar with as it's the new norm) combined with limitless forced immigration into virtually every developed nation. Voting for either of these parties is no longer an option for me to be honest, as a citizen of the US. They are both terribly off base with their policy. Danioover9000 has a point... there's such thing as "too much freedom" given our genetic makeup. We need checks and balances, more of them, for all "sides" because any monolithic entity that becomes large enough then becomes a threat to the system, whether it's a religion, political party, cultural movement, nation, corporation, government, person with high net worth who then buys influence, or whatever. My big fear is the democrats think that if they just have unlimited power, everything will be better in the US. That is dangerous thinking, and no it won't! Some of their policies are truly inept.
  6. Anyone think these drugs were actually criminalized because they wanted people to be assimilated into the hamster wheel of wage slavery? Taking drugs that make you outcome independent probably doesn't fit well with that.... to see the futility of working 60 hours a week to barely be able to afford rent with the price of housing these days. It's illegal in my state but everyone who wants it uses it anyways. Nobody cares. It's like speed limit laws... they are more suggestions than laws.
  7. The open focus technique from the book Open Focus Brain helped me most here. We tend to use narrow objective focus to bury and distract ourselves from negative emotions. Adjusting attention style to cultivate an alpha brainwave state helps purge those emotions and make me aware of when my emotions are fueled from thought stories since thoughts and emotions feed off each other.
  8. What is the purpose of life? Who's to say who's thinking is "right" or not... it's all open to interpretation and there are many levels of truths. The behavior of human beings is in my opinion mostly genetic programming/destiny. Our egos are computer programs shaped by DNA and culture. It's all quite impersonal in the end, but we are all programmed to make it personal.
  9. Start with hard boiled eggs sliced up into a salad. Eggs contain basically everything deficient in a vegan diet besides zinc and perhaps iron. Eggs, canned smoked oysters, pork rinds.... choline, glycine/collagen, zinc, B12, and iron. Pretty much all your nutritional deficiencies are taken care of along with essential amino acids. Only "certified humane" eggs (not to be confused with "american humane certified") should be bought if you care about animal welfare. https://www.consumerreports.org/food-labels/seals-and-claims
  10. In Germany's Weimar republic I read they had a system where the political parties got power based on the percentage of the total vote, rather than getting all of the win just by getting a majority vote. That seems like a system that could work in theory. It would give smaller parties more of a say rather than the two sided oligarchy we have now. It's not happening any time soon though. Play by the rules of the game you are given. Life isn't terrible in the West. It could be better, it could be worse. No perfect system to manage human nature. The rise of modern monetary theory, quantitative easing, and "crony capitalism" with "too big to fail" and "bail out everything" mentality in my opinion is a negative. It encourages reckless speculation and then bails out the speculators.
  11. Modern monetary theory and perpetual low interest rates pushing consumption and speculative behavior naturally drives wealth up to the top 10% because they take more risks and the loose monetary policy drives asset bubbles giving them greater rewards. They then use this wealth to buy up assets pricing them out of affordability for those in the middle. Thus the phrase, "the top and bottom suck from the middle." Our capitalist system doesn't have enough checks and balances to prevent speculators and scammers from using loopholes built into the system for their own benefit, namely bankruptcy laws, using multiple LLC's, tax writeoffs, bankruptcy laws, charities being run by their donors, private equity doing leveraged buyouts, running companies into the ground while running taking the money and running, etc. If we could get more laws into place keeping people honest, the system would work better. I believe individuals shouldn't be able to use corporate entities to shield their assets, that a person's bad behavior should directly affect their own net worth. Run a company into the ground, your entire net worth gets confiscated. Private equity has become a parasite within the system.
  12. Nice post. I use Tretinoin mixed with Cerave. That's my routine. I get the tretinoin from an online pharmacy.. I believe I have it bookmarked... https://www.alldaychemist.com/tretin-cream-0-05-30gm.html Sunblock in the summer when outdoors also.
  13. I don't believe in absolutes. Longevity research has led me to the conclusion that total exclusion of meat and dairy is detrimental. A person could probably be totally vegan and only eat eggs (and their yolks) and be perfectly fine. I hard boil them using an egg cooker and then slice them up with an egg slicer. The choline and B Vitamins are basically taken care of by eating eggs and their yolks. You can eat 3 eggs per day, everything else being vegan, and it will solve almost all the problems with being vegan. My favorite thing to do is make egg salads out of them with frozen peas, pickle relish, cream of mushroom soup, mayo, italian seasoning, mustard, and potassium salt or 50/50 salt. You need to get "certified humane" (not American humane certified) eggs or buy from a local who raises hens. https://www.consumerreports.org/food-labels/seals-and-claims Greek Yogurt is a complete protein that complements a vegan diet well also.
  14. All vegans really need to do is add eggs to their diet and it would solve most of their deficiencies, namely B Vitamins and Choline. Get "certified humane" eggs if you can, because the animals are treated better. That and Greek Yogurt for high quality complete protein go a long ways, and I have to tell you, milled flaxseed tastes so damn good in greek yogurt. I also mix my glycine in it. Apples taste great dipped in vanilla greek yogurt... my favorite apples being honeycrisp, cosmic crisp, and sweet tango. Hard boiled eggs made into either an egg salad or put onto salads is a staple. This motherfucker gets a lot of use.. https://www.amazon.com/OXO-1271080-1271080V1-Slicer-White/dp/B00FYL4MY0 The meat I eat at this point consists mostly of eggs, sardines, salmon, trout, and costco canned chicken. I only eat steaks and burgers when I'm out with friends or family. For protein powder, I pretty much use Orgain exclusively, because I like the taste and consistency when mixed in water and can pour it in cereal without having to use any type of milk, rather just use water. I also consume pork rinds (for collagen) with oysters (for protein, zinc, and because I like the taste) Anti-aging diet combined with zone 2/5 cardio and some lifting. I honestly don't even crave western processed foods anymore.
  15. My response to this post would be your username.... mm Kay... Honestly not really caught up in using special drinking bottles. I see water. I see a cup. Fill cup up and drink water. A pur faucet mount filter is typically what I use just for the taste.
  16. All of them, except Sanguine. Ideally a healthy, balanced person should have a mixture of different traits. Sanguine is important, probably the most important trait. Of course, someone who lacks a trait they want will tend to inflate it's level of importance.
  17. Women have dozens of mens trying to get their attention at any given time. Don't get so caught up on trying to get the attention of a single woman, obsessing over her, getting a "crush" on her, and just cast your fishing pole over and over until something bites. Young women are attracted to confidence and playfulness. A lot of men are too serious or never developed the ability to playfully tease in a way that turns women on. That is their biggest handicap. Being serious and responsible are not really traits that get a woman into the bedroom, at least not without nailing the ability to cultivate "chemistry" through playfulness and storytelling. This handicap will limit you, but you can still find women who are into more serious, boring guys... it's just harder. I do find the advice to "be yourself" obvious doesn't work for everyone. It's rather bad advice. Better advice would be to "remake yourself" over time into the type of person people want to be around.
  18. My father has this cognitive dissonance where he will tell me I need to stop being so cheap and open up my wallet more when it comes to entertainment (eating out, vacations) such as spending $130 during a single night to eat at a restaurant multiple times per month, but then he'll shower at the gym so he can save $5-10/month on water and electricity, always saying that it's "free" to shower somewhere else. He's always had this complex about keeping the thermostat too high in the winter, lol, which enough men have that family guy made a meme out of it. I suppose we all have these personality quarks and it's easier to see them in others than ourselves. I'd rather take nice long showers at home and cook my own meals. I save more money in the end. Cheap is an ego program, just like blowing money to live in the moment because you can't take it with you is an ego program. Relationships are about two egos learning to grow together, and hopefully each ego can be somewhat flexible to the needs of the other, to come to a healthy balance. If not, maybe the relationship needs to be ended. The trick is self awareness and willingness to change. Inflexibility is a relationship killer in my opinion, unless a woman is willing to submit to the man's frame and have no mind of her own (or vice versa) , which I suppose can work. That said, a sticking point of mine is when women expect men to be mind readers. If something's on your mind that bothers you with your man, tell him point blank. Don't expect him to "just know" and then resent him when he doesn't. Men's brains are wired to see a problem and then fix it, but they often don't have the intuitive awareness to just "know" there is a problem. He asked you if you needed help. You said no, and then resent him for not helping. Sigh. My biggest growth comes from when other men call me out on my bullshit so I can change. If I'm not called out on it, I'm not going to be able to change that easily because it's hard to see one's own flaws sometimes. As a man, I NEED that honest feedback. Sometimes I'll stomp around for a while when I'm called out, but when I realize I'm in the wrong I'll adjust accordingly, and am better off in the end for the candid feedback. Of course not all men are able to take their egos getting bruised and grow from the experience. Those are the ones you break up with.
  19. I wish. I doubt it, though. Frankly I was hoping they'd have unveiled their classified antigravity technology by now and we'd be routinely flying around the solar system not worrying about using primitive rockets and jet fuel to get around. If we really had this technology it would be too financially lucrative to have it hidden in classified installations. It makes me question my previous beliefs that aliens have visited and we have all this classified technology hidden away. Humans love to tell stories. Humans will blatantly make up stories, totally fabricated, and pass them as truth, often to just make money selling content. Some of the most successful people in society are some of the biggest storytellers. Doesn't matter if they are true.. they just need to stimulate the imagination and emotions of the masses. X-Files was my favorite TV series in my youth. Aliens have intervened to stop nuclear wars? Says who? Probably some person who just decided to make it up. I may sound negative, and perhaps being a realist is just an excuse to be negative, lol. Better to be positive and playful and enjoy a good story.
  20. David Hawkins bring up your question in his books, talking about how he cancelled various diseases by changing his mind about them, and enjoying foods he loved again by cancelling belief systems about those foods being "bad" and the like. His books "healing and recovery" and "letting go" mention this. You really have to believe it though... fake it until you make it. Internalize it. To me the biggest "toxin" in people's lives in my opinion is too much ego. That's not to say you should roll over and accept authoritarian rule, but getting distracted with things like being an anti-vaccer, or obsessing over "toxins" in the diet, especially chemicals approved as safe by reputable government agencies in multiple countries.. you end up chaining yourself down with all these "beliefs" ... even fighting for "causes" like wanting to force a vegan diet on everyone... these "should" statements about how reality "should be" and then it upsets you because you see the world as "evil" ... this is all a mental construct... it's giving away one's internal authority to external circumstances. It's robs one of their peace of mind... this idea that "if only X was true, then the world would be good, and I would be happy" .... no you wouldn't. Your ego would find a new cause to latch onto and repeat the cycle. So break the cycle...
  21. You look really good. Congrats on the improvements! Tretinoin bought overseas in pharmacies is the gold standard for those as they get older than you looking to reduce wrinkles. However, you're doing it better. Diet and lifestyle trump chemical band-aids for sure. The number one anti-aging supplement I would add aside from having ample choline intake is glycine (most important component of collagen)
  22. You don't need to use expensive sunscreens. Zinc Oxide sunscreens are fine if you don't mind leaving white residue everywhere. I find they last longer and take water better than chemical sunscreens. They can also be used to deodorize shoes and as underarm deodorant in a pinch. I pick them up end of season when stores clearance them often for under a buck a bottle. If you want to buy a chemical based sunscreen in the US, just pick up a large tub of generic Wal-mart brand. Spending more on fancy products is not required. This one has all the chemicals needed for semi-decent protection but no octinoxate. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Sport-Broad-Spectrum-Sunscreen-Value-Size-SPF-50-32-fl-oz/134418690?from=%2Fsearch That said, better sunscreens are approved overseas where they are classified as cosmetics rather than drugs. The US is still using rather ancient sunscreen technology compared to say "P20 Kids" sunscreen or other options available in Europe/Asia. The main issue is insufficient UVA protection. https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2021/10/ewg-study-uva-protection-most-sunscreens-only-quarter-touted-spf Careful about believing about all these "toxins" in everything. It borderlines on conspiracy theory, just like the anti-vaccers. Most of it is in your head. If it's generally recognized as safe by major government agencies in multiple reputable countries, you can sleep (mostly) fine at night.
  23. The water needs to roll into a ball but not break into pieces... if it breaks into pieces the pan is too hot. That said, I use good quality Teflon most of the time. I've come to learn that there's lots of conspiracies revolving around GMOs, synthetics, chemicals, or anything manmade, that people think they are all bad. Teflon as it's manufactured today (without PFOAs) is relatively harmless. If you think the right are silly for believing vaccines are clotting up the body, well to my perception it's equally silly to avoid chemicals approved by major governments around the world proven safe because of internet conspiracy theories. Generally our government agencies are not trying to kill us, though some would believe otherwise. What you shouldn't do with Teflon is allow it to preheat bare on a stove getting above 500 degrees F, because it will ruin it.
  24. Make sure you get enough sleep and your diet includes enough magnesium, B12, zinc, and choline (great to see someone else mention it) ... the number one problem of a vegan diet is choline deficiency. Taking up eating hard boiled eggs would make a massive difference to most vegans (certified humane of course)... I use an egg slicer to make them into egg salads. Sometimes feelings of irritation, annoyance, and discomfort are simply programmed into the brain. I try not to let these feelings control me, but simply observe them mindfully as I control my thoughts and gradually, over time, reprogram my responses to simuli. It is working... though maybe you are just getting older.
  25. Now is the time to start to embrace smart nuclear technology and actually get some funding for it by governments. Wind and Solar are great, but you still need a backup source for when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. We are overdue for this with the computing power and engineering abilities at our disposal. This outdated notion we are going to have another Chernobyl needs to be put aside. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel