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@Leo Gura It's a bit bitter, but I always take less than a tsp a day. Maybe it's a genetic thing bc it goes down super easily for me. But yeah, citrate is just as good, just have to be aware it only has a 30% bioavailability. Epsom salt USP is great if you have phenol/salicylate intolerance though, as sulfates are needed to process them and some people have low sulfates.

At 210mg/d it's unbeatable. And it's synergistic and effects are maximized when split into 4 doses per day, each taken with: -- Taurine (though apart from vitamin E, this is the only substance that ever produces acne for me, and it does it every time) -- Glycine -- Phosphatidylcholine or lecithin or whole eggs This intervention greatly increases bile flow. To the point where copper deficiency can actually become a problem, so be careful. Eat some nuts every now and then.

Despite its well-known benefits, there is very good reason to avoid this for anything except chelation (wherein it is taken e3h around the clock for a bare minimum of 72 hours running) -- to prevent mercury redistribution. ALA is the most effective mercury chelator there is, and when blood levels fall, some mercury, perhaps trace amounts, will be mobilized into tissues. And if there are any significant mercury sources in the body, such as dental amalgam, the ALA will mobilize this and spread it to tissues, most concerningly the brain, as ALA crosses the BBB. Avoid ALA unless chelating by taking it e3h for 72+ hours straight, with copper control (7.5-10mg zinc and 250-500mcg molybdenum 4x/d). Preferably far longer than 72 hours (weeks, even), to reduce the amount of times the blood concentration falls, which leads to redistribution into tissues including the brain. Please do not take ALA.

Competition in anything.

Certainly, but at least in my view, Meister Eckhart was one of the most conscious people in history, and certainly for his time.

Or Mother Theresa above Meister Eckhart...

I've been feeling absolutely wonderful on: Oats, eggs, milk, meat, white rice, fruit (lots of apples, cantaloupe, and grapes), vegetables, lots of potatoes, occasional peanut butter, and occasional cheese. For occasional social dinners I often go out to southern/barbeque restaurants and eat lots of BBQ, mac n cheese, fries, etc lol but not too often. And lots of fat-free plain Greek yogurt with stevia, unsweetened cocoa powder, and unflavored hydrolyzed whey protein mixed in -- extremely delicious with 42g P / 7g C / ~0g F, if that's what I'm going for on a particular meal. No gut issues or otherwise whatsoever. I'm pretty resilient though, so the only time I truly feel just a bit off is on rare occasion when I eat fast food, mainly Chick-Fil-A.

@Opo You're welcome!

I've done it before. Unremarkable. I think the benefits of a fast are partially associated with the excretion of toxins, so idk why you'd want to retain them.

@Samuel Garcia I struggled to put on weight too until I realized how laughable it was. It's because you're unwilling to consume loads of peanut butter and whole milk -- no one, and I mean no one, struggles to put on weight while consuming unlimited whole milk and peanut butter. Although, putting on weight is pointless without a complete lifting routine with heavy weights / barbell training, otherwise it will be mostly fat. Even with the lifting it'll be mostly fat unless you know what you're doing and really explode under the bar to hit the fast twitch muscle fibers.

It wouldn't weaken them further if one uses low volume and high intensity, it would send a signal to your body: "don't be so quick to eat the muscle, we're going to need it to prevent injury lifting these heavy weights." Of course there won't be growth if there's no protein, and there will almost certainly be a weakening, but lifting would at least slow down the weakening and muscle loss.

@Hardkill Have you made any intuitive connections with protein intake? Protein sources are notoriously expensive, so I always try to just get at least the amount at which diminishing returns present themselves, which seems to be about 100g per day (as in, every little bit below this seems to produce much worse results). But... I can't help but notice: the higher the protein, the better my body composition and recovery. Like all the way up to 240g/d... I want to optimize fitness without needlessly over-consuming protein, so I'm wondering, where do you see diminishing returns? A good balance for me is just aiming for the standard 1g / lb bw. Also, what do you eat? I eat 4 meals a day, each in the ballpark of 50-100g C / 45g P / <20g fat, so C>P>F cals. Oats, eggs, milk, meat, white rice, fruit, vegetables, whey protein, lots of fat-free Greek yogurt with stevia added, lots of potatoes, and occasional peanut butter.

Epsom salt USP. Magnesium sulfate. Take up to a teaspoon a day. 1 tsp yields 495mg elemental magnesium, which may seem high but it doesn't have perfect bioavailability, so not all of that will be retained -- though it does have fairly high bioavailability. Don't take more than 1 tsp. It's ultra cheap and widely available at pharmacies. Basically anything besides magnesium oxide, which has a very poor bioavailability of like 4%. Magnesium chloride is not great either. Magnesium citrate has decent bioavailability at 30%. Buffered magnesium glycinate lysinate chelate seems as though it may have even higher bioavailability than magn. sulfate, but it's usually formulated in tablet form with various binders that are of questionable quality and may not be healthy. Magn. sulfate also functions as a sulfate source, which is necessary for processing salicylates and phenols. The sulfate absorption is somewhat inefficient and can complex with lead, clearing it out of the body -- this is NOT chelation, it only purges lead from your actual current diet / water intake, preventing you from being further poisoned, essentially... (to actually excrete stored lead you need DMSA or DMPS chelation).

@Superfluo A novice program that maximizes protein synthesis uptime, such as Starting Strength 3x5 or Jason Blaha 3x5 ICF 2.0. A complete program includes squat, deadlift, press, bench, and a scapular retraction exercise (row or weighted chin-ups). If you care about aesthetics, throw in lateral raises as well. Body can only support a gain of ~0.5 lb muscle per week, so eat a calorie excess of 100-300 per day -- 3500 cals per pound only refers to fat; 1 lb muscle consists of 600 calories, so you only need an excess of 100-300 a day (less than 100 may seem like it can maximize it, but it can't, since some weight gain will be fat, unless already overweight). Consume an absolute bare minimum of 100g protein per day, but 1g per lb of bodyweight is quite a bit better, albeit expensive -- egg white cartons seem to be a pretty good value -- and whole eggs. It will only be mostly muscle if you're getting stronger and following the 10 percent reset rule so you're always training at 90+ percent capacity, which leads to maximal adaptation. Relentlessly continue adding 5 lb to your 3x5 squat whenever you get all 15 reps. Even from rep 1, explode with the weight as fast as possible, especially in the midst of a reset -- this is the main thing that, if neglected, leads one to have lackluster progress. Eventually you will end up missing reps, while using good form. You'll make your 15 reps and add 5 lb, then miss it next session so keep it the same weight, then make it next session... Eventually you'll miss for 2-3 sessions in a row, at which point you can reduce weight by 10% -- the purpose of this is so you know you're always training at 90+ % capacity, which produces the same adaptation as 100%, so resets are not a waste of time (unless you reset prematurely; before missing reps on 2 sessions in a row for an exercise). On a reset you should time the increases such that you are training at the weight you failed on last in exactly 14 days, then you add beyond it and keep the linear progress going until another reset is warranted. 3-9 months in, minimum effective volume will have increased, you will actually be so strong that you have the capacity to overtrain, and 3-day-per-week-full-body will no longer be optimal. This often, but not always, occurs somewhere around 135 press, 225 bench, 315 squat, 405 deadlift.... for 5 reps... At this point, it is generally best for the remainder of an athlete's career to switch to a 4 day a week upper/lower. Many studies have shown max muscle growth (after the novice phase) to correspond to 5-10 limit-set-equivalents per muscle per session and 10-20 per muscle per week, so hitting them twice weekly with upper/lower allows you to conveniently meet both of those ranges. By limit set equivalents, I mean 4 sets of bench press for 5-10 reps (taken near failure) would count as 4 for pectorals, perhaps 4 for front deltoids, but only 2 for triceps as they are heavily but not maximally stimulated by the bench press, for instance. On an upper/lower, the majority of volume should come from exercises with a high stimulus to fatigue ratio, such as hip thrust, good morning, glute ham raise, reverse hyper, etc, rather than squats, deadlifts, etc. Though you should still at least do a 1 rep max for the squat and deadlift every week. If you feel utterly beat-up and have stalled hard on all lifts at once, take 1 deload week, wherein you reduce weights to 50-80% and reduce sets to 1-2 -- for all exercises... Maybe scrap the deadlift entirely, perhaps replacing it with rows for that week. Then pick up where you left off or slightly under it. I know quite a bit about training as well@Hardkill

It defnitely says yes you can use ALA only if all you need to chelate is mercury. ALA e3h for a bare minimum of 72 hours straight is the foundation for the protocol. Plus copper control. And long rounds are best.

Low thyroid causes your system to correct it via higher catecholamines, which constrict distal blood vessels. Make sure you get at least 125g carbs per day. Substances that increase warmth and decrease sweating and urination: salt, starch. Substances that decrease warmth and increase sweating and urination: fruit, water, potassium, dairy

II read it in high school. It's a waste of time. Just go out and talk to people. If you see an attractive woman, your feet should be moving. Get the pickup phase behind you as fast as possible so you can get rid of any insecurity you have -- so you know that if a girl leaves you, you have the skills to compile a new hookup rotation in 1 week...

@Twega It's not exactly chem 101. The more holistic the foundation, the harder it is to explain things in full, but suffice to say, if it was found to have no negative impact on heavy metals, it isn't a chelator. Proper chelators, like ALA, when used incorrectly, will cause brain damage. If sulforaphane didn't cause at least some bodily stress due to redistribution, then it certainly isn't going to cause increased excretion of heavy metals / chelation -- though it really is useless to even refer to some compound's affect on "heavy metals" rather than the specific ones it actually affects. ALA chelates Hg, As, Fe(III), and Se, the first 2 of which are "heavy metals" -- notice lead is absent. For lead you need DMSA and/or DMPS, but they don't chelate intracellularly. There's much more to it as well but I can't remember every bit of it atm. Every chelator and proposed chelator has a long rap sheet; it's not exactly a mystery anymore what these compounds do. And the thiol double hook issue is entry level understanding before touching the idea of chelation with a 30 foot pole. It's pretty easy to piece together; just takes a while, to actually see how this ends up affecting people in the real world. Any effective single thiol group compound vastly increases the likelihood of a mercury toxic individual being rendered bedridden. Even mentioning glutathione in the context of chelation is bound to make oneself slightly more likely a candidate for brain damage.

Completely different type of tension, man. Tension is just a word/tool/artifact. Fitness/strength and maximum hypertrophy comes from training above minimum effective volume (and below maximum recoverable volume) with 90+ % of max force potential on every rep for every work set with good form. Adaptive response only lasts 48 hours, so train every 48 hours to maximize protein synthesis uptime -- 3 nonconsecutive days a week, e.g. Mon/Wed/Fri. Squat, deadlift, bench, press, and one scapular retraction exercise (weighted chins or rows from the floor) form the foundation of any complete program. This is quite possibly the healthiest thing you can do aside from meditating every day.

@Bogdan Yeah. Holism is the name of the game when it comes to nutrition. Some examples of people with a very holistic approach: Gojiman Ray Peat Andrew Cutler Jason Blaha (as of ~2018 -- even he agrees, as it's when he took it upon himself to throw out all dogma with no exceptions) I don't agree with everything they say, but the degree to which their huge knowledge base is holistic, is so great, you'd be remiss not to at least look into all 4 of them.

@DefinitelyNotARobot I used to think the middle east was the last place ready for this sort of teaching, but after meeting quite a few Muslims at my university (many of them foreign exchange students from Saudi Arabia), I have somewhat changed my view. Sure, these places are generally more conservative, but serendipitously, praying 5 times a day can really overcome a lot, as it's basically a facsimile of meditating 5 times a day -- surely 5 sits every single day for weeks/months/years will have some consciousness-boosting effect in most individuals.

If you really did this and Leo let you, and you made it work... I'd say that'd be a fantastic place to start a great life purpose journey. And to anyone thinking it wouldn't catch-on in Saudi Arabia... I'd beg to differ. I attend university in USA, and the Saudi exchange students are, in terms of consciousness and open-mindedness, at least on par with the Americans. Good luck. Talk to Leo about it.

To me, CBD feels like an anti-psychedelic, whereas THC functions as an alternative psychedelic, complete with an entirely novel way of accumulating insight. THC has many unique qualities, but two very prominent ones include: 1. Very effective, acute (temporary; not with lasting effects) suppression of short- and long-term memory, and therefore context-suppression -- very provoking of an ego-death or ego-softening event. 2. Increased awareness of the energy body -- a feature that makes itself quite prominent by the time one has reached advanced mysticism territory -- weed can give a sneak preview of this aspect of experience. Acute awareness of the energy body (or pain-body) has enormous functional (and even hedonistic) utility, as it can essentially be used as a lighting rod for undesirable emotions. At the energy body's highest development, it can even be used to ground-into-raw-data positive-yet-imperfect emotional charges such as ambition, anger, anticipation, excitement, etc in order to reveal the truly satisfactory state of loving, compassionate, and joyful peace.

If you don't know you are God, then trying to figure out how you are God will be a fruitless endeavor -- you'll be working with two loose variables that you don't have the spiritual traction to grok. It is impossible to both: not know you are God, and know what God is, simultaneously. Do not waste one moment contemplating how you are God. Rather, contemplate: what is God?

Yes. This should definitely be mentioned. From my research it seems damage generally only occurs from daily use of grams, for weeks on end, but after one weekend of using about 1 gram total, I did have very painful sensations in my bladder for about a day. So yeah, probably best make sure you aren't dehydrated for even a moment in the 24 hours following any ketamine session. The bladder pain it can induce is scary -- it can be so bad you want to vomit.