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    It's calories, period.
    People overconsume calorie dense products - if you control for calories and on average eat less than you spend - you will lose bodymass. That's just basic thermodynamics right there. In the literature, there are countless examples of individuals losing weight under a calorie-deficient "Twinkie" or "McDonalds" diet. The reason why most diets fail is because of physiological/psychological factors (satiety, cravings, emotional eating, lack of willpower..).There are some other factors like hormonal influences, but it's secondary to the total fuel you put in (obviously).

    I dont know where your intuition comes from that 2000/2500 calories is "a lot of food". Maybe you are just a sparse eater. Most people would have no problem eating a whole pizza as dinner and thats at least 1000 calories right there. Add softdrinks, snacks and 2 more whole meals to that and you are way above that limit. Processed, calorie dense foods are usually based on simple carbohydrates abd trenched in hypercaloric oils. Calories add up really fast that way. 

    That's why eating whole foods is such a great way to cut calories. You gonna get way more "mass" for much fewer calories.

  4. Posted · Edited by undeather

    39 minutes ago, Jason Actualization said:

    Amazing man. What is your height, weight, and approximate body fat percentage currently?

    Currently 6feet2" (187cm), around 87kg and I would guess around 15% body fat
    As I mentioned, I havent been on a vegan diet for 5+ yeras, but I was way leaner back than because I took training and calorie intake much more seriously

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    10 hours ago, D2sage said:

    So you think eating meat is necessary? Or is the BCAA from seeds and peanuts enough to do the job?

    Its rare to see a buffed up vegan, thought.

    It's definitely not "necessary" to eat meat for optimal health.
    There is an individual component to it, meaning some people seem to do better with some form of animal product in their diet - but there are plenty of vegans and vegetarians who are doing great. There are a shitload of plant based athletes nowadays. I know many buffed vegans, including myself when I went vegan for a year. However, I enjoy eating meat too much ;)

  6. Posted · Edited by undeather

    TJ went down the deep end after his YT-channel. (which was called Deathproof)
    He had some really good content on there because he was pretty intelligent and also highly charismatic.
    I remember that he started websites called deathproofuniversity (a paid program) and deathproof-solutions (a forum basically) in like 2018/2019.I was part of it at the beginning, but holy moly - that was a conspiracy cesspool like you haven't seen before. Everything was a conspiracy. EVERY. THING! He believed literally every nonsense out there - from chemtrails to flathearth to zionistic holocaust denialism to Bill Gates wants to kill us all with his vaccine. I once questioned some of the stuff he said (because he literally taught "question everything"), which led him to ban me indefinitely.
    He became increasingly mean towards other figures I respected, like Leo. I remember his video where he was "analyzing" Leo's 5-MeO-content and calling him the nastiest names for like 90 minutes straight.

    He deleted his facebook recently, I have been friends with him on that for quite a long time.
    He married his conspiracy partner in crime and they have have a daughter.

    Without a doubt a smart but propably highly narcissistic and conspiratorial mind.

  8. Posted · Edited by undeather

    3 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    I don't ignore those factors. Those factors matter, but they assume a decent genetic foundation.

    People who hyper-focus on nutrition and exercise are actually people who have great baseline genetics and they fool themselves that it's their nutrition and exercise which gave it to them, when that's not the case. This is a very common point of self-deception within the whole health industry.

    A person with bad genetics will never be as healthy as a person with good genetics no matter how good he eats and no matter how bad the healthy person eats.

    This is true. Some genetic impacts can be influenced or even turned around through meticulous life-style changes, others are just penetrating to a degree where they won't respond to anything you do. A particular family we used to treat comes to my mind - The father had a heart attack in his mid 40's despite being a low-risk lifestyle (very fit, pretty healthy diet). Turned out he had a severe case of familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic lipid  disorder which made his LDL go up to 400-500 (Healthy levels are below 100). In fact, a family history unveiled that almost every family member on his side had at least one cardiovascular event before the age of 50. We screened his children and other close relatives - around 3/4 of them had the same disorder with extremely high lipid-parametres. The 20 year old son alerady had severe atherosclerotic plaque build up in his carotid arteries.

    The scary thing is that it was almost impossible to lower through any lifestyle changes whatsoever. They have tried an absurd number of different diets and alternative practices. Some of them made the problem even worse. Even statins did not seem to help. What finally changed the game was an agressive therapy with PSCK-9 inhibitors, a relatively new class of drug which mimics the genetic component in a positive way. 

  9. Posted · Edited by undeather

    A beloved fever-reducing intervention from naturopathy are so called leg wraps.  Recommended are wraps made of three layers. For each layer, you should use natural fabrics, as synthetic fibers do not allow air or moisture to pass through.

    Here's how to proceed:

    1. For the first layer, soak two thin linen or cotton cloths (such as kitchen towels) in cool water, gently wring them out, and wrap one cloth tightly around each calf.

    2. For the second layer, you can, for example, place two dry cotton towels over the damp wraps.

    3. The final layer should be a warming one. For this, scarves or wool blankets, for instance, are suitable."

    4. Lie down and repeat the process every 30 minutes until the fever goes down.

    However, if your fever is approaching 40°C - take the medication and don't play around.
    Ibuprofen, aspirin or paracetamol are perfectly safe medications if you use them for a short period of time.

  10. Posted · Edited by undeather

    Besides some very penetrating conditions (OP mentioned Huntington) we know next to nothing about the true weight of nature vs. nurture in most health problems. We do have ideas, trends and sometimes even educated guesses, but most of what we call "genetic" is based on a hypercomplex, combinatorially explosive set of influences. 

    On the other side, I can totally relate with @Leo Gura. I also suffer from a very annoying health issue and after consulting a shitton of medical practitioners (orthodox and alternative) while also being a MD myself I find myself in position where it just feels like a genetic cause. 

     

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    8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    This is absurd. Bottled water is run through RO filters. It makes no sense to run your entire house's water supply through RO filters. This would be very wasteful of resources. Your toilet water in Europe is not RO water. Tap water is toilet water.

    It's pretty easy to find out. The water we have here in Austria, especially in my hometown has equal or lower concetrantions of nitrades, pesticides, drug-residues & other chemicals than most bottled versions.

    This has been proven by numerous independent tests. 
     

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    3 hours ago, SQAAD said:

    @undeather

    Judson Brewer talks about the number needed to treat which according to him is 1 in 5. You can watch videos about him on YouTube. I really don't know the full details. But the videos below are really mind boggling. 

     

    NNT is propably one of the most misunderstood concepts in medicine.
    Because it highly depends on the underlying studying design and follow up period.
    I will explain this in detail once I find a time window
     

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    6 minutes ago, integral said:

    That data does not represent the real world, your in a scientific ecochamber. 

    I think you are a tragic case of someone who thinks he is "beyond" science but actually regressed into a pre-rational state.
    Going beyond the scientific echochamber (which exists) is possible, but requires a deep & specific expertise thereof.

    In every discussion we have had so far, you have not only shown a complete lack of knowledge relating to the basic epistemologlical processes of science and medical data interpretation, but also a willful ignorance towards fact that you are clueless. Science can be corrupt, scientists can be dogmatic assholes and scientism will lead you astray - but if you can't grasp the absolute necessity of the scientific method and good data approximating real world phenomena, then you are just another dude who has lost the plot in a complex world. 

    It's tragic, because I have read some pretty smart things from you and I still think you are a smart guy.

     

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    Psychiatric drugs work on average for 1 to 5 people according to Judson Brewer. 

    Do you have a source for that Judson Brewer statement?
    I highly doubt that he would say the whole class of psychiatric drugs has a 20% success rate on average. 
    That would be a ridicolous cliam. Different medications with different indications have all different outcomes.

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    Another reason they prescribe these drugs is because that's their only solution under the materialist paradigm. 

    It's really sad when you see people zombiefied and all messed up because of this line of treatment. 

    I'm not against these medications. But it shouldn't be the only tool used. 

     

    There are many potential modalities in psychiatry beside drugs (psychotherapy, EMDR, light therapy, movement-therapy, ECT...)
    Psychodelics knocking on the door of the mainstream as well.

    It "zombifies" SOME people - yes. On the other hand, I think the internet often distorts how well some patients do on psychiatric drugs.
    It's a sampling bias. Those with terrible side effects are getting most of the attention while a large majority is doing fine.

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    20 minutes ago, SQAAD said:

    @undeather

    Most psychiatrists here in Greece, prescribe medications carelessly like candies without giving any warnings. 

    That's what they have been trained to do basically. Anytime you got an issue, immediately here is a drug for it. 

    A friend of mine has gotten all messed up because of medications he takes. 

    It seems that many, if not most of these psychiatric drugs, solve one problem, only to cause another one. 

    Well, I mean the reason psychiatrists are giving out pharmaceuticals left and right is because they work.
    Not for everyone and defintiely not all the time - but in general, this is obviously the case.

    That said, psychiatric drugs are propably one of the most side effect prone substances known in modern medicine.
    Most of the drugs I perscribe as an internal medicine doctor, like statins or antihypertensives, are magnitudes below the side effect profile of your average antipsychotic.

    This is why good patient education is important and even ethically indicated.

     

  20. Posted · Edited by undeather

    I have been here since the beginning.
    Hence, I agree with the premise.

    It's a classic blind leading the blind scenario. 
    You have got it all - the good, the bad and the ugly.
    Or how you called it..

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    All i see is a small portion of people searching for their answers, others claiming they have answers, and the rest are just blatantly toxic.

     

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    12 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    You shouldn't drink tap water even from 1st world countries. There is no such thing as safe tap water.

    That's nonsense. Tap water in high income EU-countries (Finland, Switzerland, Austria..) is usually way cleaner than any bottled or filtered variant  you can purchase on the market. I live in a region where the tap water get's bottled and sold as "healing remedy" throughout the world (also called "Granderwasser")

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    10 hours ago, mmKay said:

    Thanks for taking time to anwser guys. Before COVID i would get sick maybe once a year. Pretty much never.

    For those years I have been working in a very busy tourist restaurant, where the clients wouldnt ever wear mask. Many of them obviously sick.

    Every 3 - 4 months almost everyone in the restaurant ( all the staff of 30 ) would get sick at once, múltiple of them testing positive. Chefs using no gloves at coughing at the food. 

    I did not check myself so there is a chance it. wasnt COVID. But im way too familiar with the symptoms to say its all coincidence and I got something else. Ofc i can still be wrong. But its allways the same symptoms but slightly different.

    Mucus at the roof of your nose that you cant swallow nor blow out. . No taste , no smell, or neither. Fever, more or less intense. Mucus that drips into your lungs that if you dont spit out It gets stuck there and It makes you cough for days. Body weakness , brain fog...  

     

     

    Overall I sleep pretty ok and I'm almost never stressed.

    I havent lifted weights for the last half year but I do 10-15 thousand steps almost every day. Ive allways been very lean. 179cm 63Kg . I dont look bony . I carry a little muscle, but it's extremely difficult for me to put on weight.

    My gut health is good. No problems with digestión pretty much. Perhaps a little lack apetite. I dont really like eating that much.

    I could eat way more fruits and veggies, thats missing.

     

    I never talked with a doctor about this. I wanted to a few times but It was really difficult to get in contact with one here.

     

    The point of my post is to ask if if its worth taking medicine when sick with covid, and your thoughts of taking more vaxx in spite of my terrible initial experience.

     

     

    I cant be 100% sure of what had caused that chronic  heart pinching that I described before.

    I went to the ER and they checked my heart and said It was only muscular in my chest and my heart is OK. But I felt huge pain with every few heartbeats.

    It was exactly two weeks after taking the first and only vaxx i had taken. Coincideince? Who knows, but I was scared shitless to take another one.

     

    Thanks for reading guys


    Yes, you can take Ibuprofen or Paracetamol for symptomatic control.
    However, this is more about making the infection less annoying and not beucase you "should take it". Feel free to take those antinflammatory drugs if there is no history of allergic reactions to them of course.

    No, I would not reccommend you to get another shot at the moment. In fact, if the story is true and you really cought Covid19 multiple times in a row (even if it wasn't just Covid), you should have gathered quite an antibody-base from those infections. Your risk of dying from the disease in it's current form is miniscule anyway. 

    Also, your heart issues - I have seen this exact pattern in other young patients - it's not unconnom. Some short amount of time after the vaccination, they complain about unusual pains in the chest area. However, I can comfort you that in most of those cases I have seen, no damage to the heart was detectable. You went to the ER - my guess is that they did a ECG and maybe a blood test? 

    So here would be my advice for you:
    1) Visit your family doctor and tell him him about this. When somebody becomes ill that often, you should definitely make some screening efforts to see if there is any underlying condition playing a role in this. If you feel exhausted, weak, knocked off or sweat a lot during the night - tell him  as well. The minimum he should do is a mid-range blood lab including some of the crucial immunogenic vitamins/minerals like VitaminD3 and zinc. 

    2) Tell him about your vaccine-reaction as well. In the near future I would recommend you to visit an internal medicine doctor who can do an ultrasound on your heart. This is a very inexpensive and fast way to evaluate if there something wrong with the organ. If they did this in the ER, forget about it. I am almost sure there isn't something wrong, but this is just to be on the safe side.

    3) The vaccine is great and saved millions of lifes. However, I would categorize your experience as a potential adverse vaccine reaction. Yes, we don't know exactly what caused your chest-aches (it could have been caused by the chest muscle), but you should really think about getting further vaccination doses. You are young, propably healthy and therefore not really in great danger of dying from the infection. If the virus does not mutate into a super deadly one, it's propably safer for you to not get another mRNA-shot. Bare in mind that this is an internet opinion. I dont know you, so I have to work with limited infromation. This is why it's important for you to visit a doctor in your city that can evaluate you properly.