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Anabolism as opposed to catabolism -- specifically of muscle fibers. Growth stimulus. This is very important when losing fat so that it's almost all fat and not muscle. While whey protein can make it far easier to meet protein intake goal, Michael569 is correct in that it is probably best not to do this. Whey protein has a high concentration of cysteine, which is very anti-thyroid. You want to keep thyroid hormone (specifically T3) high by eating at least 125g carbs a day and having some collagenous foods as part of your daily protein intake. Since you will need to be in a calorie deficit (your stated goal of losing fat without body weight is basically something you'd best forget about), you will be hungry and should eat whole, satiating foods like oats, rice, greek yogurt, eggs, potatoes, lean beef, fat free dairy, chicken, etc. My favorite meals are eggs + baked potato mixed, oats + greek yogurt mixed, and white rice + chicken + vegetables mixed. Skipping breakfast can help get your total calories down quite efficiently. The protein and strength training is crucial. Don't "work out" if you care about your health. "Train."

@Inliytened1 You don't say...

You might be on the wrong forum section. Or perhaps not.

Increase anabolic activity as much as possible + adequate protein. Progressive overload on the muscles. Barbell exercises. You're going to have to lose weight to lose fat at any appreciable rate without anabolic steroids. What you propose is possible but an insanely slow process. You have to give your body a damn good reason to do it, because by God it sure doesn't want to -- extra muscle mass without extra fat increases caloric needs and makes starvation more likely. Your body will fight you tooth and nail to prevent this from happening unless you're basically telling it "well, you're gonna get hurt lifting these heavy weights if you don't." So yeah, lifting heavy is required.

I am the devil. I am God. I don't know anything. It's just me, the infinite ocean, forever. Nothing ever really happens. Whatever is dependent, is not. Boundlessness No meaning or purpose Nothing is as it appears; all experience is projection -- no me = no consciousness. There isn't anyone to do anything, and there never was. This is exactly what is looked for -- sense of separate self seen as a circular paradoxical/illogical pattern / spiral concentrically reaching its center point and realizing it is just part of the show and it's an illusion -- it can never know it's not there. This experience is an infinitesimal drop in an infinite fractal of being. Higher beings are privy to my current state. Merging with the Godhead / higher density complexes is possible. Love is all there is.

Put at least some of it in an equal-weighted (as opposed to cap-weighted) modified S&P500 for safety -- just the S&P but with equal amount in each stock rather than almost all of it in Apple/Google/whatever. It almost always performs quite a bit better than the traditional cap-weighted index (SPY).

Isn't it obvious? If he is literally asking all of them, he's effectively really asking none of them.

I've had a few surgeries, and also know quite a bit about this, as I was pre-med a few years ago and was very passionate about the whole thing. They usually give you a dissociative anesthetic such as ketamine or nitrous oxide, combined with a GABA-A modulator such as midazolam, for the purpose of producing unconsciousness. For deep anesthesia they'll often give you fentanyl as well, inducing a pseudo-opioid-OD but they'll ventilate you so you don't die; possibly barbiturates and/or propofol. You won't be able to stay aware. The experience will generally be one of feeling the onset of anesthetic effects... and then being told the procedure is over. Unlike sleep, anesthesia doesn't just suppress memory, it actually causes unconsciousness, which from your perspective, doesn't exist, so you just teleport/time-travel in zero time to the point where they take you off the drugs. With only the dissociative (without the GABA-A modulator or the fentanyl) you would very likely remember the experience, and it can be a powerful spiritual experience. But that won't be the case.

@ilja Elite sports is decidedly unnatural. You'd be surprised how much drugs they take. Shocked even. Some of them are basically walking chemical containers.

@ilja A fully vegan diet will prevent 99.9% of athletes from making it to an elite level. It is a hindrance to recovery. This is partially because a plant-based diet results in much lower systemic IGF-1, which is very good for avoiding cancer, but very bad for athleticism. The entire reason for why anabolic steroids work (which by the way, every single elite athlete takes, especially in the Olympics -- there may be a handful exceptions worldwide, but certainly not in sports with a strong strength component...) -- they agonize the androgen receptor in the muscle cell nuclei, which locally releases IGF-1, which causes the adjacent muscle fibers to repair and grow much faster than usual via a chemical cascade involving increased protein synthesis of actin and myosin. If elite athletes manage to succeed on a vegan diet, it's despite the vegan diet, and only with the help of anabolic steroids.

There's a reason you see so few vegan elite athletes. Athleticism and recovery don't necessarily correlate with health. A plant-based diet may be healthier than an omnivore diet (I personally tend to disagree, but that's another topic), but it certainly isn't optimal for recovery, and anyone saying otherwise is not a serious athlete, isn't opening their eyes, just doesn't have much experience with training, or is a genetic freak. Again, you may have the upper hand on health matters, but for athleticism and muscle hypertrophy, a plant-based diet is truly a suboptimal and limiting way to go about it unless athleticism and recovery aren't high up on your list of priorities.

As far as I'm concerned, while there is no real answer, all it takes is some contemplation to see the absurdity of the question.

Enlightened people cannot meditate, since no such entity exists. Meditation is fun.

They don't get turned on slower. The reason I say this is I've found there is a particular thing I can do that especially turns on most, but not all women, and within half a second of doing it their vagina is already sopping wet. Even a man getting hard takes like 3 seconds at least. Course I've only done this after we're both naked so yeah we'd already be well past the initial stages of attraction.

If whey protein helps a muscle recover faster, it means the person was eating a diet deficient in protein. Optimal protein intake (assuming calorie surplus, particularly from a high-carb diet) for people doing resistance training and progressing on their lifts is usually about 120-150g/d. But 80-110g/d is only slightly inferior. Assuming relatively average lean body mass. And that's from serious lifting, not bodyweight or endurance exercises (unless they just started). Other populations might only need 60-100g/d. That's pretty easy to get from milk and eggs, or (if not vegetarian) beef and chicken. In a calorie deficit, protein needs can be a bit higher, but that's when whole foods are going to be even more desirable.

@lmfao Big time. It was about 4 years ago and I basically haven't had any significant fatigue since. Who knows how much of that was chelation vs meditation vs recovering from opioid dependence though.

Many wildlife preserves have animals that are more or less unaware of humans (or at least lack the capacity to tell we are some kind of higher life form). Same thing with us. Just as we respect nature and allow it to develop naturally when we can, other civilizations do the same to humans, but since they already have the technology to travel to or affect other planets light years away, they are FAR more effective at this than we are with animals — they are able to remain unseen exactly as long as they wish, and seen exactly when they wish. And btw, they are in fact choosing to reveal themselves to some of us. Increasingly, these days. There are probably quite a few on this forum who’ve either been contacted in dreams, on psychedelics, during meditation, or just looking at the sky with an open mind. Or in any situation, really. Consider the empty distinction between ET’s and angels.

Definitely check out lawofone.info We are not alone

It’s often thought of as important to strike a balance between insight (seeing everything as impermanent, unsatisfying, and not you) and stillness/happiness (coaxing well-being as if it’s a fire you’re building over time). Also forgiveness and gratitude are very important. And inquiry and surrender can be powerful.

@integral That’s only when running like 1g of test a week. At least 600mg. And even then, it barely affects recovery, it’s more that it allows you to build muscle while sitting on your ass — it does have a synergistic effect with proper training though, and proper protein intake (>120g/d). And btw they often get up to 4 grams a week. Average test production is 50-150mg per week. TRT is 100-150 but you can get docs to go as high as 200-250 if you manipulate the test by just going off completely 3 weeks out every time you know a lab test is coming. You aren’t going to see any benefits from increasing test levels naturally, even if it were by an unheard-of, impossible amount like +40 percent.

@BlackMaze Masturbation has literally no effect on testosterone. It does have an effect on active circulating prolactin for about 10 minutes, but then you produce PIH (prolactin inhibiting hormone; aka dopamine) and that reduces the prolactin. No-fap benefits may be psychological, they may even be physiological, but they have nothing to do with testosterone.

I love Frank Yang but Metta is about the fastest-acting technique there is, after forgiveness and gratitude.

Background practice -- meditation/technique that can be done every waking moment: Self inquiry -- if you're still experiencing, find who does it Noting mental states throughout the day, more or less every second or Metta -- send well-wishing and hope for happiness to everyone you come across, your self or a person you look up to when you're alone, and see them as God. Works very fast By far the quickest is forgiveness and gratitude, but they cap out pretty quickly relative to the first 3 listed

@Dhruv Psychedelics are super weak when you're on serotonergics. The intensity won't come back until about a month after you've been off them. Supposedly it can actually be dangerous to combine them anyway. If you get serotonin syndrome you will want to die -- shivering so hard you look possessed, pouring sweat and feeling like you're falling out of an airplane.

SSRI wd is mild compared to SNRI wd (Effexor/Cymbalta/Kratom). You're lucky. It only lasts a month though so hang tight. I came off Cymbalta a few years ago. And kratom a few times. The emotional lability was the worst part for me -- inability to keep from laughing or crying in inappropriate situations. And the brain shivers when I was trying to sleep, etc.