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@Carl-Richard You’re definitely on the right track. Unless your actual goal is to be a competitive marathon runner, forget standard cardio. Waste of time. I prefer to get my cardio via activities like variable resistance training, walking, sauna or cold exposure. If someone insists on during more traditional cardio like biking / swimming / running, than the tier list goes like this: 1) REHIT 2) HIIT 3) Zone 2 The challenge with REHIT is that it tends to be difficult to actually correctly implement. Thus HIIT becomes the pragmatic winner. But I still prefer REHIT if I can get it.

Sounds like Photoreading. Did you have success with this method?

It’s not contradictory at all. Life is what God imagines it to be. God (you) imagines a brain, chelators, heavy metals, symptoms, atoms, Leo’s advice, a forum, etc. And so it is.

Except that's not what the long term research says about veganism. Nor are you likely to get "almost all" your nutrients. So your binary choice is false.

Correct. It is vegan strictly in the sense that it is not an animal-product. If you have another definition of vegan, okay. But this is the most commonly used definition. We don’t know exactly because it hasn’t been invented yet. But we can imagine that with sufficient research, humans will eventually synthesize something in a laboratory that is far superior for human health than anything we are eating now, including meat. That’s only because no one has GMO’d something well enough to be considered “food”. Yet. It should be obvious that what we consider “food” is completely relative and not objective at all. When the day comes that a company lab grows something that is superior for your health than traditional food, we will start to consider it “food”. Or we just will discard the idea of food altogether.

Yes, my decision to go vegan. My point wasn’t that theoretically you couldn’t be optimally healthy and vegan. It’s possible that in the far distant future we will GMO perfect lab food and all be vegan. But the reality for 99% people right now is that they will fail to do so. Even if they happen to be the minority that is extremely diligent. Optimal health is hard enough to achieve even when you do everything right, let alone when you handicap yourself with an inherently nutrient deficient diet like veganism.

@ZenAlex I’m an ex-vegan. It was a trash diet healthwise and did not work for me at all. Some people may be able to make it work with supplements if they’re very good about it, but I still wouldn’t recommend it. Going back to meat has been glorious.

@MarkKol stop prioritizing RDAs and just get bloodwork done. Bloodwork with a competent functional medicine practitioner will answer the majority of questions you have about what to eat. RDAs are just basic guidelines at best. Key indicators to check as far as saturated fat: LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and ApoB. Get a lipro(a) test too, although that one is more just genetic luck.

Up to you really. You could go to a functional / integrative medicine practitioner or a naturopath and they would most likely do it. A standard General Practitioner might as well. You could probably get that covered under health insurance. You could also go a more non-traditional route like using InsideTracker or a LifeForce physician. Not going to be covered by insurance though. Do your research, figure out the pros and cons and then make a choice.

@Insightful27 Don’t really know. I feel that multivitamins are mostly a waste of money anyway, they overload the body with too many vitamins it can’t absorb. Better strategy would be to get blood work and supplement individually for what you need, or just eat a better diet.

@Insightful27 Best best is to hunt for the highest quality sources you can find and then test your own levels. If some ambitious entrepreneur on this forum wants to invent an at home testing kit for heavy metals in your supplements, that be rad.

In the long-term, sure. More community living is probably a good thing so people are less lonely. But that transition is going to take decades to accomplish, if at all. In the mean time, people still need to date.

She makes some good points but it’s a bit lacking as far as practical solutions. The reality is that society is not structured around tribal living and will probably not be in our lifetime. It’s not clear how that would even work given the complexity of the modern world. Unless you’re going to be a Green hippie living in an intentional community, you’re going to have to continue living in a non-tribal society. Which means you need modern, non-tribal solutions for your dating / social needs. The best approach is to figure out what your needs are and delegate them to all different kinds of people in your life. Don’t just rely on your partner for everything. Teal has another video on resourcing people that would be relevant here.

You should be so lucky to have a career successful enough in politics that you even become governor or mayor. You are worrying about something that you are not even remotely close to achieving. This is an irrational fear. Then why can’t you apply that same logic to this scenario? And if you really can’t see yourself being able to handle such a situation, maybe you shouldn’t be governor or a mayor. Leave it to someone else who has the guts for it. Maybe you can clean their office instead and let that be your career in politics, sounds promising. Then you will have made an honest mistake. No one is going to fault you for advocating for victims of mass shootings. And if you’re really still scared, then resolve to continually sharpen your judgment overtime. Work and work and work on discerning truth. That is the best safeguard against what you are describing. Not running away.

I think you are psyching yourself out here. The kind of situations you are describing are pretty rare. In most cases, the most that will be asked of you will be to vote on a criminal justice bill. In which case you will weigh the pros and cons and come to the best decision you can, just like everyone else. Do you really think you can’t handle doing that? Do you really not trust your future judgment? Do you really think it’s worth throwing away a fruitful career you are passionate about and can make a difference in because of some potential vague “what if” scenario? What are you really afraid of here?

@NightHawkBuzz why would this be required of you to work in politics? Politicians are not responsible for dealing with crime and punishment.

It might be worth a read if they are open to it and curious about trauma in general. It’s kind of a long read though, and the majority of it is not about EMDR. To get an experience of EMDR, they are likely better off just seeing a therapist or trying virtual EMDR (https://www.virtualemdr.com/)

@Michael569 EMDR. Bessel talks a lot about its ability to work with nightmares related to trauma in The Body Keeps The Score. Never dealt with these kind of nightmares personally, but in my experience EMDR definitely is effective and worth investigating.

Which platform to post on is less important than actually having something of value to say. What about your message makes it unique or worth listening to?

Did she have some sort of external device like a NES?

According their reports, it’s just enough to offset the hormone loss from the calorie restriction he is on. It’s not meant to push him above normal ranges, like with bodybuilders. I do think this could be an argument against the caloric restriction he is doing. But so far he seems to be managing fine. We will have to see if it crumbles on him. This is a gross effect. Yes, gross effects can be felt. But you cannot feel extremely subtle effects, like the build up of atherosclerosis. Proof is that the vast majority of people who have atherosclerosis have no clue about it. They eat like trash and think everything is going well. If you claim you have an extra level of sensitivity beyond normal humans, fine. Good for you. But that is not 99.9% of people. 99.9% of people need testing and data. That is true to a degree. But you can still find many doctors who are deeply systemic and evolved in the health industry. And even doctors who are overly reductionistic still understand quite a lot in their field.

@koops I’d recommend not getting caught up in the conspiracy theories and anti-elitism around the WEF.

This is what I've been contemplating lately. Your body's feedback system is not really attuned for long-term, subtle effects on the system, like the slow build of atherosclerosis over 40 years. Hence why people drop dead of a heart attack and have no idea. But the feedback system IS highly tuned for acute situations, like stepping on a nail or breaking a bone. That you will definitely most likely feel. The problem becomes when we have long-term goals like longevity, but are relying on short-term, acute feedback. This cannot work. Undoubtably. So far it seems like he has actually been able to put on a ton of muscle and strength. Will be extremely interesting to see where he ends up in 30-40 years.

No you cannot. You can only tell the most gross, obvious effects. More subtle effects will completely allude you. The reality for 99.9% people is they have no idea whether the supplements they are taking are doing what they intend for them to do. The natural feedback system of the body that you can tune into by “listening” is not robust enough. Unless you are a Vipassana interoceptive master or extremely gifted psychic, your intuition is not that strong. And even for these people I would have doubts. To know what effects supplements are having on your body requires not just listening, but rigorous testing. Listening to how you feel is just one piece of data among many other potential pieces of data. It by itself is often incomplete. Maybe. But the point is to use data to sift through these sort of hunches. This is the essence of science. Wellness is too complex for any one human to fully understand. I understand the point. Obviously they don’t have perfect information and could be making errors, even serious errors. But consider the alternative, which is that it only seems impossible from your POV because you lack the level of data, testing and experts on staff that he has.

Well obviously. The whole point of what he is doing is that everything must be rigorously tested. You cannot just copy-paste his exact supplements and meal plan. This kind of thinking is exactly what Blueprint is meant to correct. Granted that it’s possible his health could be a house of cards. But a heart attack or a similar situation is highly unlikely given how well-monitored his health situation. Heart attacks generally do not just happen out of the blue. They are the result of years of slow atherosclerosis. They only seem out of the blue for most people because we are not nearly as well-monitored as him. If he was actually on the verge of a heart attack, his team would more than likely know. They already caught one timebomb with his jugular vein stenosis. That’s why he has 30+ doctors. They certainly have some idea what is good or bad. It’s not completely flying blind, even if it’s not perfect. In his case, his paperwork is better and he feels better. So your point does not really hold. Any thoughts on whether his caloric restriction is sustainable? In my personal experiments with caloric restriction, I hit a wall eventually. It seems he is only able to maintain it through supplements and TRT.