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Spiking insulin is only an issue if you have serious health problems. All this research is incredibly ignorant of the fact: if you don't do barbell training, you either don't care about your health or you are ignorant of its benefits. If you send a signal to the body that it has to get strong or it will get hurt, the body will do its best to fix whatever it needs to in order to prevent injury.

For real. I don't use it much now, but almost every time I used it I'd think "how do more people not see this as a valuable psychedelic?" I was beginning to think it simply just affects me differently -- produced vivid God-realization quite a few times.

The first option is probably your best bet, provided you’ll also be doing resistance training and getting adequate protein for the goal of increasing insulin sensitivity — bare minimum 100g/day. I can’t say for sure what you should do. The higher your body fat percentage is right now, the more likely that first option is going to help. Optimal is 12-15%. And resistance training (heavy barbell training, not merely running or “working out“) + adequate protein is generally the most important part of the equation, or close to it.

@benny You're welcome!

We worked it out. They actually correctly label it as amount of mushroom material itself -- they don't imply the mg amounts refer to psilocybin content.

It clearly says 3000mg of mushrooms. Nowhere does it say 3000mg psilocybin. They are not misleading. 3000mg mushrooms will provide about 30mg psilocybin, and some psilocin as well.

250mg (0.25g) psilocybin is the psilocybin content of 25g dried shrooms. Either that dose is inaccurate or you mistook "psilocybin" for "psilocybin-containing mushrooms." Or they're actually dosed that high... which is pretty much impossibly ridiculous. I think you can sensibly assume these contain 3000mg of psilocybin-containing mushrooms, not 3000mg of psilocybin. In which case you could probably be best served by taking the full 3000mg, for an insightful experience.

You misunderstood. Yes, 1500mg is 1.5g, obviously. There is 1.5g psilocybin in 150g shrooms. Jokes on you, unfortunately. Careful next time in order to keep from looking like a fool. It happens.

Those doses seem quite a bit off. 1g dried mushrooms generally contain only 10mg psilocybin, so 1500mg would be like 150g dried mushrooms... "way too much." Perhaps the minute psilocin content of the mushrooms contribute significantly to the psychedelic load and that's responsible for the discrepancy? I'd look into that.

Same, but as a guy. Considered myself a 6-7 for most of my prospectively sexually active life, but supposedly it's more accurately 8-9+ -- was called "gorgeous" one too many times, before finally realizing just how good I had it. Started dating "older" women (as in 29-39yo). Seems to be far more fruitful than dating women around my age (mid 20's) or younger.

You do. You have all powers, necessarily including the power to truly believe you don't. It was the only way (in a sense).

No vitamins; minerals. No nothing. Especially fish oil. Unless it's significantly more than a week or 2, but in that case you'd have bigger problems -- protein will be a necessity; collagen and muscle tissue will break down (even worse for your health than you'd expect). And the multi didn't cause the heart rate issue. Fish oil does that if taken on empty stomach -- by more than one mechanism, no less... one of them being: converts to prostaglandins and decreases progesterone and thyroid activity, causing your CNS and adrenals to make up for it by increasing brain norepinephrine and adrenal epinephrine release, which is why I'd take a guess you were also likely experiencing cold hands during this episode you describe. Only reason to supplement a fast is if it's for fat loss, in which case pure fasting would be a terrible idea when compared with a PSMF -- protein-sparing modified-fast, in which you consume nothing other than virtually-purely protein-containing foods such as egg whites, chicken breast, whey protein, etc... to get <1000 calories a day composed almost entirely of protein (100-250g).

@Eren Eeager You're welcome.

@BlackMaze Look into it for long enough, and you'll eventually see there's very good reason to believe the overall health benefits do not transfer to humans. There is plenty of money behind fasting... Tons of people, including members of certain religious groups for whom fasting is a common practice, have a vested interest in proving the beneficial effects of fasting. They haven't been able to prove or even really suggest benefits in humans outside of its (admittedly, very effective) use as a diet-adherence tool -- i.e. the beneficial effects are purely calorie-restriction-driven. With that said, if there is a specific issue you have and want to fix, fasting may be of use. But don't do it for general health as it is quite clearly not directly efficacious for that purpose. If you wanted to starve certain types of bacteria in the gut, an extended fast could perhaps be of use, but I'm not up to date on that info.

Oh yeah btw... While ALA is the principal chelator of mercury, it will not chelate lead. It only chelates Hg and Fe(III). Also Se and Mn... but those are usually more beneficial than toxic -- you may want to supplement selenium and manganese at some point after taking ALA for a while.

@BlackMaze I occasionally employ intermittent fasting as a diet adherence technique for one of my hobbies (weight training; athletics). It has no benefits outside of being a very simple way to eat larger satisfying meals really close to each other while in a calorie deficit. Benefits beyond that have only been shown in rats but it can be seen that the benefits don’t transfer to humans. For health problems, on the other hand... I believe I researched it briefly in the past, but can’t remember anything particularly remarkable with regard to it. Another hobby of mine is going on random research binges — a good way to start is by googling the letters “ncbi” followed by whatever key words you’d expect to find in the research article containing the info you’re after. I suggest trying that for this topic and letting it take you down rabbit holes but never forget the main task at hand — finding out if dry fasting is right for you.

This is wrong. I am not into SM at all. I do it for women because they appreciate it. Not all of them, sure. But the majority I've been with. Generally, the minority of women that aren't into it are well under 30 years old and inexperienced.

@BlackMaze What are you trying to do with this intervention, exactly? I assume there is some problem you're under the impression a dry fast could serve as a solution for?

Probably wouldn't kill you.

I am accounting for that, which is the only reason for the 7-10 (otherwise it'd be 8-10). Sure, there are perhaps edge cases where the best one could hope for is a 5, but some people just have it really hard. Most women are not in that category, but a 5 is still better than a 2. If a woman with a quite-unattractive face gets the body of a supermodel, she will be at least a 7. When the body looks so fit it causes guys' heartrates to increase with just a glance at their ass, the "ugly" face will then be far more likely to be perceived with compassion; as "sweet/nice," rather than as "ugly." Some have really poor genetics for beauty standards, but with the trifecta of barbell training (heavy deep squats, press, etc), intermittent fasting, and protein-overfeeding (well over 100g a day absolute minimum), any woman can look more similar to a supermodel than 99 percent of women. It's such a powerful intervention because not many women do it, and it produces a body shape that looks irresistible and almost magical to a man -- takes about 3 years but profound results would be noticed within 3-9 months. Note to women: about the intermittent fasting... It isn't a required component like the other 2, it just makes dieting so much easier. If you already feel you're too skinny, there's no point in doing the intermittent fasting, as it has absolutely no benefits outside of diet adherence -- it's easier to eat 3 good sized meals (example meal: milk, eggs, potatoes, and veggies until satisfied) at 3, 6, and 9 PM (won't even feel like a diet) than it is to eat 5 tiny meals that leave you in a state of low-grade starvation at all times... Typical example: Again, that's typical, not special. Went from a 4 (or 5 or whatever one's subjective rating is...) to a 9 like it was nothing.

Men may have a slight advantage because they're more able to increase their attractiveness without changing their looks -- simply by conveying an uncompromising attitude of "I am a man and you are a woman and therefore I have the power to make you whole," an otherwise physically unattractive man/male can seem attractive to most women. But the advantage is only slight, as women can make themselves super physically attractive by simply doing the trifecta: getting very strong with barbells, fasting or using diet techniques, and over-feeding on protein (and never doing "cardio" again) -- it just tends to allow any woman from number 6 all the way down to 1 to turn themselves into a 7-10. It's easy (well... simple, anyway) but not everyone knows how to do it, or even knows that the option is in fact available. It just takes a holistic knowledge base for that task to be completed without great difficulty, but it can be done, and has been done, many times... That option is in fact available (to any woman reading this). If I were a woman, you better believe I'd be turning myself into a 10 or as close to it as possible.

They both have their pros and cons. The main thing preventing most women from attracting men is ignorance (and possibly laziness) though. If a woman is unattractive, she can make herself attractive -- well beyond the lowest standards of many above average men. All it takes is lots of protein + lots of heavy barbell training, and more satiating foods and diet techniques (like intermittent fasting and mindfulness of hunger) if they're overweight -- no matter how unattractive their face is, this intervention can cause their body to be so brutally attractive it won't even matter.

That can certainly freak some people out but that not enlightenment. An insight experience, maybe...which can produce elation; terror; despair...usually primarily just letting-go. Enlightenment, on the other hand, is the apparent, but not actual since there never was duality, end of good/bad, coming/going, in/out, past/future, real/unreal, etc.

@knakoo Just watched it. Yeah... she is truly giving the power to men with this info lol, for men who don't already embody it. Not sure how one could go about faking it, but at least they'll be less confused. In fact, it's so true and helpful, I just noticed something... I feel threatened by this information being out there. I feel exposed. Can't imagine how other women must feel about it. If it's any consolation, I'm not so sure this stuff is anything but intuitive. Perhaps when everyone can see behind the curtain, life will actually be better for us all, but I do actually feel slightly threatened and exposed.

The only part that I'll probably plainly just say isn't true (I haven't watched the whole thing yet), is that this is something women will never tell you. They have told me many times how they appreciate that I'm doing this sort of thing. Edit: Resonated with everything else she said. Subscribed to see what else she might have to say.