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If that is indeed what they say, then yeah I would not put much confidence in them. I'm pretty sure any positive health recommendations one finds for corn oil in particular are downstream from lobbying and money and unsavory incentives.

That would be interesting! Yeah as far as I remember the only place where new neurons grow is the hippocampus and dentate gyrus. Antidepressants as well as meditation, cardiovascular activity, and even living in a bigger house or even a bigger city can be highly associated with hippocampal neurogenesis -- connectivity in the prefrontal cortex is probably more important than hippocampal neurogenesis though, for mindfulness and such.

It's the most fundamental identity of the ego. It can be realized with awakening. But there is no identity or ego -- its lie is simply 'I am.' It can burn itself out and give way to liberation. It's a very common resting place -- many are afraid to go beyond it and so they call it the absolute or enlightenment, though they actually believe it, they don't realize there's more.

Well, that would be true, there's just no one separate who has a mind. There's just this timeless infinite -- when it's all one, it's all done/none. There's no true self, so any view which involves a self-other split, experience of moving through time, or ownership, is fabricated.

New neural connections for sure -- all the time new connections are being made, bolstered, weakened, repurposed, etc. Certainly new microglia and satellite-cell-like structures are produced, as well as structures of already existing neurons. Off the top of my head, actual new brain cells in adulthood can only show up in the hippocampus and dentate gyrus -- so not in the prefrontal cortex. I could be wrong.

Gratitude Positive feedback loops such as stillness -> joy -> more stillness -> more joy — find these wherever you can, get your foot in the door, and take off like a rocket. Metta Concentration and insight meditation Authenticity Inquiring into and discerning every thought that arises as coming from either 1. fear or 2. authenticity (fastest and most painful way off the top of my head) — effective awakening or liberation practice doesn’t have a name, but some that point to it are spiritual autolysis; self inquiry; surrender; non-resistance.

That thing that keeps luring you into thinking a next moment will come, and continuing to believe that one will, even though it never happens. That can stop appearing completely, in a sense, yes. Though it doesn’t really stop, because it was always untrue that it was appearing — that was its lie. A remarkably efficient illusion.

It’s not love. It’s non-resistance. Might as well just call it Love ❤️ though. It’s just not a biased love — it’s perfectly unbiased. It could also be described as Pure Faith — faith in absolutely nothing specific; all-inclusive fear-free faith.

While you are the creator, relatively speaking, the totality of God cannot be understood by the finite mind. When liberation happens, the mind is totally disoriented, because it can’t grasp beyond itself. The so-called mind keeps thinking a next moment will come, and continues to believe that one will, even though it never happens. It ensnared you into thinking that the life that just seemed to be lived was yours — like offering the apple to Eve. All the while there’s a constant invitation to see that there’s nowhere else — this is the infinite. But it doesn’t happen in one fell swoop — it’s more like you get backed into a corner that you prayed yourself into but as soon as you pass the point of no return, you’re on a ride, and your one job is to authentically not resist anything.

It can definitely be an uphill battle. There are supplemental alternatives to naturally getting those nutrients from eggs, dairy, and meat though. You could take 1. phosphatidylcholine (do some research on whether anything else is needed for choline deficiency), and 2. creatine monohydrate. Make sure it's a good, clean, quality product. And do some research on which foods give you enough b1, b2, and biotin -- if the need cannot be met with food, supplement.

D-alpha tocopherol (natural vitamin E) is fine. It’s the dl-alpha tocopherol that caused breakouts for me. And taurine. It seems that is not a common side effects for those supplements but that was my experience. IGF-1 and dairy can often be associated with breakouts. All I can say is protein is not an issue in my case — often well over 120g a day. The main thing, that eclipsed everything else, in my experience, was turning the shower temp on max-cold to close my pores, before immediately getting out and drying off (all this after a nice warm shower of course). ?

See when illusory view was active, after the fact, and close that gap until there's no gap; delay; separation. Whatever is being experienced, immediately recognize: "This is thought. You're indulging in it. You're holding onto it. And you can let it go." But really to actually let it go is concurrent with the realization that this is already completely let go. To manifest an almost psychedelic state, you could get creative; maybe imagine your mind saying that whole phrase (primarily feeling its implication) for every frame of reality (one full phrase-insight with regard to every frame or object), or individual discernible object of experience, that arises and passes. Frames per second varies (and is fabricated anyway) but could be, just for instance, 40 per second.

Varied diet. At least 80g protein a day. Fruits, vegetables, Greek yogurt, beef, chicken, potatoes, rice, etc. Generally, nice restaurant food at least once a week, and fast food at least once a week as well. Generally skip breakfast but not always. Barebones barbell training at the moment; trying not to push it very hard at all -- mainly chin ups, overhead press, side laterals, and deadlifts. Two supplements have reliably caused breakouts for me: taurine and synthetic vitamin E (dl-alpha tocopherol). The previous is less relevant compared to the following: I used to have at least one zit/blemish at any given time. I changed two things at once around seven years ago, after which point, to this day, I rarely ever have breakouts/blemishes -- more specifically, if I had to guess I'd say maybe an inconsequential breakout of one or two zits, once every 1-2 months. What were those two things? 1. Started using Nivea for Men Face Wash ( don't worry, I've stopped this for several days at a time and have determined the primary factor is #2) 2. At the end of every shower, every morning, turn the water on as cold as the thing will allow, and cool down entire body with contact with the water (actually cool down every surface; takes at least a minute total), especially the scalp (and face and back, but also everywhere), then when totally cold, shake off and get out and dry off immediately. I've tested #2 by going back to ending on warm/hot/cool, rather than cold. Holy fuck, guys and gals -- never get out of the shower without turning the water on cold first. The difference is insane -- at least in my experience. (If you don't have breakouts, then of course none of this applies -- just keep doing what you're doing.) It seems to me the mechanism for why this is effective is the closing of pores. Some of this is obvious, but the takeaway here should be: if any surface of the body is warm, there will be an associated tendency for pores to open globally/throughout, so it's important to get the whole body cool if pores are to be maximally closed. And if you have a lot of hair, it does indeed seem to take extra time to cool the scalp.

@mmKay One look at the molecular structure of OSR... Yeah, I'd just stick with ALA + DMSA/DMPS. Even EDTA would be better than OSR. By the way, even with ALA, when I really set out to find its true half life, it seems there is some evidence that it might actually be even less than 3 hours, as its principle structure has a half life of only 30 minutes. Its active metabolites have variable half lives up to maybe 2.5-4 hours, so that's the only reason it's not dangerous taking it every 3 hours despite the overall dominant half life possibly being a bit shorter than that. I checked DMSA as well -- its half life might be only 1.9 hours: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8040783/#:~:text=Elimination half-life of total,(2.0 %2B%2F- 0.2 hours). Definitely got to be careful here. I don't think Andy Cutler mentioned anything conclusive about the half lives possibly being shorter than initially estimated. So there's that. So if you're chelating, and you want to be extra careful and responsibly take your health into your own hands to the best of your knowledge, I'd consider dosing ALA and DMSA around the clock every 2 hours -- maybe 3-3.5 hours for the mid-sleep dose, but q2h during the day. Too inconvenient? Then your only other options are 1. taking your chances with q3h dosing for ALA or ALA+DMPS, 2. taking your chances with DMSA-only q4h, 3. DMPS-only q6h (the safest possible option, but without mercury chelation, only lead) or q8h. Fortunately with DMPS, it is highly likely that its true half life is 9 hours (for oral administration). So there's no danger of needing to take it super annoyingly frequently. Every 8 hours is probably fine -- you could probably do that for months without burnout -- but while it may be convenient, it unfortunately only chelates lead, not mercury. But if we're being very conservative, it can be discovered that there may be some evidence that its half life could conditionally be as little as 6 hours... So while Cutler suggests q8h, if you want to take your health into your own hands, it may be prudent to take it every 6 hours 'round the clock -- still super convenient, especially if you don't need more than 6 hours of sleep, but if you absolutely need more than 6 hours sleep, you could do 7 hours for the night time dose + 5 hours for the first of the day + 6 for the other two doses = 24 hours -- or even every 4 hours during the day with a double dose for the pre-bed 8 hour dose. The most important factor, besides taking the chelators frequently enough (at least once per half life), is taking them at that frequency for long enough -- round length must be no less than 72 hours, and 1 week is vastly better... This is because every time blood levels fall, there is redistribution damage. So to decrease the number of times you have to do that, relative to time spent in healthy chelation mode, your only option is longer rounds, keeping in mind that the healing/damage ratio will not be a positive value until round duration exceeds 72 hours. So at least until 72 hours, don't ever be late for a dose... like your life depends on it.

Non-resistance simply can't resist non-resistance. So perhaps, if and when it comes time to let go of your life as you know it, just notice what has never held on -- what isn't entangled with anything going on in your life. God wants for you exactly what you authentically want for you.

Yeah BMI is good for correlating with and predicting all cause mortality and whatnot... so basically just estimating damages. But for daily caloric needs it doesn't tell you much -- that has a lot to do with muscle mass, daily activity level, and variables that pretty much collectively overshadow BMI.

I'm as skeptical of veganism as anyone, and generally advise against it... But the dude who owns that channel seems to have as his main goal in life the discrediting of vegans. I would assume almost all of it is out of context. It's like someone discrediting trans people with a video of every botched transition, so that it engenders disgust in the viewer, and a desire to take up arms against the cause.

If you have a decent amount of muscle mass (if you don't lift, you probably don't, but since you're a male you might), then your calorie needs fluctuate wildly with your level of general light movement throughout the day. And the more muscle you have, the more this fluctuation effect is prominent. You can think of daily life with high-performance muscle on your frame, like driving a supercar as your daily driver around town -- you're gonna have terrible gas mileage... Which is why strength training (if complete; pushing such as overhead barbell press, pulling such as chins, and leg movements such as deadlifts; not wasting time with single joint movements) and muscle gain (maximized with 3-4x/wk multiple sets of 5-15 reps per set barbell/strength training and 120g protein per day) is utterly by far the most effective fat-loss engine, assuming one isn't at total rest all day long. For instance, even if your day consists of 1. just leisurely walking in a circle while reading a book, vs 2. sitting still at a desk without fidgeting, that could be a calorie expenditure differential of 1500 if you're strong and trained -- if not trained at all, then it might be more like a 400 calorie differential. The effect of extra muscle is enormous. You can't separate caloric needs from daily activity level -- and again, this is extremely more prominent the more strength-trained you are.

@Michael569 I have done some experimentation to see what does give me more bowel movements, I just didn’t stick with it — maybe I’m just ignorant of the benefits of having 2+ bowel movements per day. Here were my general findings: My intake of insoluble fiber is pretty much directly correlated with frequency of bowel movements. So yeah the lentils make sense ? ! Black beans, lentils, and various high-insoluble-fiber foods were incredible... hell, even Frosted Mini Wheats cereal had a noticeable effect! That cereal actually had like 7 grams insoluble per serving — basically almost as much as black beans. And soluble fiber had the exact opposite correlation. Seems to oppose insoluble fiber. Just did some quick research and it seems split peas are at the top of the list for highest insoluble/soluble fiber ratio. With lentils pretty high up there as well. Also two things, besides soluble fiber, give me noticeably less regularity: creatine monohydrate, and any multi-vitamin/mineral supplement (I generally use Pure Encapsulations)... strangely, but that’s what I noticed, in a way that cannot be ignored. Almost every time I’d take creatine I’d end up skipping a day of bowel movement. And continued use was associated with a marked decrease in regularity. Strange. Speaking of which... Another strange/idiosyncratic supplement reaction I noted was with both taurine and any racemic vitamin E supplement (i.e. dl-alpha tocopherol; unnatural in this case; now I would only ever take d-alpha tocopherol, gamma/mixed tocotrienols, or seeds... if for some reason I needed extra vit. E) — almost if not every single time I’d take either one of those two, I’d get a break out of at least one or two zits... and my skin was almost always totally clear otherwise. I haven’t seen any notion of a trend of anyone else talking about that reaction to those — on Reddit; etc; anywhere I’ve seen. I wonder what could be going on there? And also, sufficient and extra magnesium intake seemed to noticeably trend toward more bowel movement regularity. I wonder if calcium would have the opposite effect — or perhaps the calcium/phosphate ratio, or maybe even the calcium/magnesium ratio. The taurine blemish reaction thing seems a bit strange to me simply since, like silymarin (Milk Thistle), taurine can effectively increase bile flow, and silymarin seems rather efficacious for acne prevention and treatment... So from that one might think taurine would at least not cause acne! ?

First make sure you're getting plenty of protein (bare minimum 60-80g per day; preferably 80-120g) and B vitamins -> Then add sulfur-rich nutrients, methionine, and nrf2 activators such as broccoli -> Then finally, assuming one is having at least one bowel movement a day, choleretics 4x a day: taurine, glycine, milk thistle (silymarin), and phosphatidylcholine -- taken together, for increased bile flow.

In a sense, yes. It's all about unyielding passion for unfiltered reality, calling upon unseen powerful forces that come to your aid. All your desire must be concentrated down to one single point -- that's what drives you to awaken. But first, it's important to point out: The goal of self inquiry is not about getting rid of a self. It's not even about finding out clearly that there is no self... It's about a shift in identity, which takes the process the rest of the way. That first awakening is very much not no-self or abiding nondual awareness -- it's universal Self. With that said, the universal Self or knower, which must be clarified with self inquiry for awakening to happen, was actually accessible the whole time... it just was almost impossible to see without having exhausted the objective looking... ALMOST impossible... The truth is, it's already all there is to any experience -- illuminating it. It's what you are. It's knowing without any objective knowing. However, any thought (that which appears to be other than me; that which I am aware of) will distract from this, and so... With simple reference to anything and everything that appears to me: It's not reality -- it's something of which I am aware. The thought-overlay is not just thoughts in your head -- it's anything that appears to you... The illusory inner-world screen pervades all of experience without your knowledge, making reality seem as other than it is. Seeking, by definition, means "if I'm aware of it, it's not what I'm looking for" (if what you're aware of is what you're looking for, then you wouldn't be seeking now would you?), so just bring that out in the open and apply it to self inquiry -- whatever I am aware of, it's not me / not what I'm looking for. Instead of allowing doership-effort to waste energy by putting all its energy into hiding itself, just bring it out in the sunlight and allow it to authentically do what it's programmed to do -- if I'm aware of it, it's not what I'm looking for; take the effort away from doership in the world, and apply it either to looking for what is aware (rest in the knowing requiring no object; not the same as focusing on it, because if you're focusing on it you're aware of it, and if you're aware of it then it's not you), or to relaxing all voluntary effort other than the effort to do just that i.e. release any effort when you notice it (if something is already happening, stopping it voluntarily would be an example of an effort that you should release when you notice it).

Yep! This is very important to realize. Every time blood levels fall, it redistributes heavy metals. The only way around this, or at least to mitigate it, is to let blood levels fall less often -- in other words, by doing longer rounds. The break even healing/damage ratio occurs at a round duration of 72 hours. But 1-2 weeks for a round would mean you only let blood levels fall for a few hours out of a whole week or two of chelating. Cutler has talked about that on onibasu, but he also says DMSA rounds should not exceed 2 weeks, though ALA can be taken longer.

They're kind of world's apart, in a way. 1st Jhana: attention gets so steady and mindfulness is so bright that the mind's opposing tasks are stilled, and so energetic bliss pervades, and the attention then gets absorbed in the bliss and breakneck exhilarating pleasure takes off with extreme intensity (1st Jhana begins) 2nd: mind moves away from the exhilaration and the underlying happiness is prominent, which can actually make the exhilaration even more intense, but with the higher level of samadhi relative to 1st Jhana, the focus is the happiness and not the exhilaration 3: the exhilaration/rapture is completely let go of and all that's left is happiness divested of rapture -- an extremely serene condition 4: the extremely fulfilling pleasant happiness is let go of, for the even more subtle and serene pure equanimity (which persists in the later jhanas) 5: materiality is let go of for the more subtle boundless space 6: space is let go of for the more subtle boundless consciousness 7: vast boundless consciousness is let go of for the more subtle perception of no-thing-ness 8: subtle perception of no-thing-ness is let go of for the most subtle -- the imaginary boundary between something and nothing; neither perception nor non-perception Nirvana: cessation; the end of time In the vast majority of cases, this is simply beyond the scope of psychedelics.

7g But LSD-25 is better for consciousness work imo

Damn, really? I've always had one bowel movement a day, and continue to do so. Excepts for years ago when I was on painkillers, it was more like every 2-3 days.