Michael569

This. Might just be a common gingivitis or something of that sort. I'd start with checking in with your dentist and maybe booking a hygienist session. It can usually be corrected with some hygienist cleaning and then following proper dental hygiene, especially by cleaning interdental spaces (between teeth). Electric toothbrush seems to be better than manual one and a water pick is a nice addition to the interdental brushes.

@ICURBlessings thanks for taking the time to reply. I skimmed through it (I haven't watched the videos yet). I probably disagree with more than I agree with with. There is a lot in your response that warrants deeper scrutiny but it would take hours and hours to continue the conversation so I'll just politely submit my resignation at this point and leave the conversational unfinished. (aware that it was me who started it ) Thanks for the debate and your time writing all the responses!

When you say "weak teeth". Do you mean physically weak as in wobbly and moving in the root when pushed/pulled? Or are you referring to bleeding, sensitivity to touch etc. Or is it more aesthetics, e.g. plaque build-up on or in between?

@tezk hey, sorry. When I said degree, I meant certification lol, my bad. Nutritional Therapy is not an academic degree. It is a certificate received after completing the 3-year course. It includes both academic part and clinical Practice to allow the practitioner see real clients but it is not as strictly regulated as dietetics for example and NTs cannot work in hospital, diagnose nutrition related conditions etc. but I don't mind that, as long as you're careful about what you can and can't do (and say), you're fine.

It might not be as black & white. The highest natural sources of fructose are fruits yet it would probably not make sense to consider fruits unhealthy, even in high amounts. I do agree that concentrated, isolated fructose (e.g. high fructose corn syrup) isn't great and can contribute to health problems. Words like "miraculous", "reversal" "optimal for general performance" are tricky to defend. REVERSAL of diabetes (type 2) can be achieved by a sufficient amount of weight loss so that insulin sensitivity is restored (provided that pancreatic beta cells have not yet been completely destroyed) You can achieve this with any diet as long as the patient loses sufficient weight. Take away the element of weight loss, and the ketogenic diet is not superior to any other diet in that sense. At this stage, the evidence on type 2 diabetes is clear that it is an energy status disease; the body becomes too "fat for its own good" , said in a sort of silly way. Roy Taylor's research has made a great breakthrough on that front. It has nothing to do with ketosis and everything to do with reducing the size of adipose cells. Losing weight without starvation is also achievable on most diets as long as they are planned properly, that's not a secret. What is "optimal for general performance" exactly? Quackery thrives in vagueness, so let's be clear with exact terms. What is it, in human performance, that can be achieved only with ketosis that can't be achieved otherwise? Be precise if you can. If ketosis is a natural state and not the opposite, why are humans naturally pulled towards hunting, foraging, sugar rich and caloric rich foods and basically sourcing food? If not eating was so beneficial and such a pleasure, surely we would have been all more naturally inclined to want to do that more...most of us aren't. Its an interesting story for sure and I don't dispute that it happened or didn't. But lack of pain is not equal to arthritis cure. You can temporarily remove symptoms by removing the trigger for example. I also feel there is more to that story. I would be curious what else the patient was doing that the doctor did not mention because it might have contradicted his bias. Maybe they were put on physiotherapy routine. Maybe tinctures or antiinflammaries were used? Was patient put on any medication by this or other practitioner? Did they also get another therapy? It is an anecdote and those are always interesting but not enough to give us enough certainty to form public guidelines. I had a client with rheumatoid arthritis couple years ago. It was extremely difficult but we did achieve some symptom remission. I wouldn't have considered him cured, but his mobility was greatly improved on a Mediterranean diet, but we also did tons of other things, so it's hard to say. Oh and I wanted to also respond to this in particular. You used the word 'reversed'. In case of Alzhimer's, reverse would mean - regrow dead neurons and restore lost function to the cerebral cortex permanently. Basically, a phenomenon that has never been recorded in medicine. Do you have a source for this? If this is indeed the case, this would have been all over media and this person would have probably received a Nobel Price for Medicine. It might have been temporary improvement in symptoms , that does happen. For example, Alzheimer's patients given certain medication exhibit improved memory and improved spatial orientation. But those effects often wear off quickly. When you say reverse, in case of a disease so irreversible as Alzheimer's I can't help but think that it must have been either some funky article by someone who did not understand what reversal means or what you meant was "improved symptoms" which is possible but not permanent. How do you know that? Studies in ketogenic diets might have actually done just that. Otherwise, how would they know that participants are indeed in ketosis? I don't know the answer to this question, but do you really have 99% certainty that they didn't measure urinary ketones? Which is really simple and cheap thing to do. Throwing your argument back at you. If 99% of studies DO NOT achieve ketosis, how do you know it was ketosis that was responsible for the effect? What if the effect came down to Hawthorn Effect or Observation Bias? Simply being a part of a study that is designed to "help people with depression" while being surrounded by experts, might be enough for some people to already start feeling better. Again...what is the evidence? As far as I know, mental health, in general when approached through dietary protocols tends to go up and down. Confidence Intervals are too wide, there is insufficient meta regression, studies aren't sufficiently powered, this is a known issue in mental health research in general. My bad. I misread that statement Also upon rereading my earlier comment, I realised it might have come off as a bit inflammatory, some of the bits, so for that I apologise. I'll try to keep it balanced

@ICURBlessings thanks! I'll reply to both of your posts a bit later 👍🏻

I think we should be more careful with clustering an entire macro nutrient category into the same bag. What you seem to be referring are refined carbohydrates, not unrefined sources of carbohydrates. If you, at this very moment, attach a continues glucose monitor on your arm and then in the spread of 4 hours ate: 2 croissants vs a bowl of lentils, I can guarantee that your blood sugar response would be very much different. The earlier would produce a rapid spike and a subsequent fall where the later would show more moderated response. It is important to notice that neither is harmful as long as your insulin response works optimally. The later is also beneficial for your energy and your heart and your mind and reduces risk of Alzheimer's (contrary to what you mentioned above) and does not interfere with sleep quality nor mood stability. A lot of people are reading this and thinking "carbs are bad for me, I must do keto" and they may slip into poorer mental health state as a result of that. Keto if done poorly can have detrimental effect on cardiovascular system, cerebrovascular system and digestive health so also keep that in mind. There is no one size fits all. The evidence is clear that in the long term (> 24 months) , high fat is no more favourable to high carb or moderate carb. Not better for weight loss, not better for heart disease risk mitigation or diabetes or Alzheimer's risk mitigation. Keto studies have the highest dropout rates pass month 24 of all because they are unsustainable for a lot of people compared to more balanced moderate carb moderate fat approaches which consistently show the best results for chronic disease risk mitigation. I saw you are a student of Ayurveda which seems to go along macrobiotic type of diet with hints of Hindu / Chinese / Budhist traditional diets which are all rich in carbohydrates while relatively lower in fat putting emphasis on unrefined carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables and some lean protein. Isn't that contrasting the opinion you're putting out there? I appreciate you may be trying to approach this topic from a more spiritual / energetic perspective rather than perhaps, purely scientific, but you should be a bit more cautious with such umbrella statements. It is very unholistic. Not everyone can do keto. Not everyone can eliminate carbohydrates. And no, carbohydrates are not bad for you, you just need to take time to choose the healthier ones and obviously don't overconsume on anything. Not on carbs, not on protein and not on fat. Btw, comparing carbohydrates to heroin or alcohol like that....... You dismissed the poster's comment in a patronising way in a sort of "hold my beer" type of response. It is unempathetic and it is incredibly inconsiderate to even say something like that, especially from someone who seems to be attempting to take a high ground in this thread

Its a bit shady, I admit but these corporations are filthy rich and they don't really care about you as a person so use their resources, use their money, do the bare minimum work to get by and keep your boss happy. Don't do any extra because these placed don't value hard work. They value connections, shareholder value, stock prices, reputation and power. Use any spare time and spare energy to pour it into something meaningful because one day when you no longer have the energy and time, you'll hate yourself over not doing anything and that feeling will never leave you All the best!

I think I still agree to that to some extend but I no longer consider naturopathy the best way to study health from a non-medical perspective. There is too much funny business being thought there and lot of it is either outdated knowledge or just wrong. That being said, I still think naturopathy combined with a good degree of nutritional therapy as a part of some sort of integrative wellness approach is the way to go for anyone who doesn't want to go directly to medicine. You can take the best of all worlds while leaving the quacky bits on side. Mainstream medicine isn't a bogus but its lack of holism is its greatest blind spot, especially treatment of chronic disease where you can neither operate nor give quick medication to remedy. If modern medicine had an integrative approach embedded into it, it would be phenomenal. In terms of the life purpose direction, there is many ways to take it. I studied nutritional therapy at the naturopathic college so naturally portion of my education was outdated nonsense and I had to correct my knowledge over the years but overall that 3-year study was the best 3 years of my past decade and I'd do it again. Not to mention being one of 2 guys in a class of 30 beautiful and health conscious women was amazing! I'd encourage you to pursue that journey if you feel that calling and you feel like you have a right value set to want to do that. Its not easy to find clients and build a business but when it works and you see a client undergo a journey that you've helped them build, entering the process unwell and leaving it changed and in a better shape, there isn't much in terms of human experience that can beat that. Hope that helps

If a woman let me do that after 10 minutes of meeting me for the first time, I'd be pretty disgusted. Zero class, zero self respect. A high quality woman won't let you touch her without proper courting first. You'll piss her off if you try it. Call me old fashioned but girls who do this are not worth your time and you are just wasting that time that should be spent looking for a high quality partner so that you can finally move on with your life. Finding a girl is not the end goal, it is a milestone on the journey towards your own self actualisation. If you can have someone share that journey with you, it is amazing and you should ideally find her earlier rather than later but hanging out for the purpose of quick sex is just...wrong. I look at some of my friends who used to do this kinda of pick up activity every weekend, Now they are in mid 30s, still single, still dating, still unable to move on. Most of the girls in their age group are married or in relationships. Its a tragedy that we've been told we need to do this to find a life partner, we don't. Night clubs are not where you find high quality women. They hang out in sports classes, libraries, art classes, university clubs, not in bars and night clubs pissing away money on cocktails, letting random dudes grope their ass and breasts. That's such a massive red flag right there. If a quality girl comes into a club it is never to be approached, it is because she wants to have fun and dance with her girlfriends. No hate here, just be mindful that you use your productive time wisely and strategically.

Peace brother, let it go❤️ The world ain't all fucked up and corrupt, try focusing more on the good things. Hope you're well!

@Clabber Girl thanks! The way I see it, you have a potential opportunity to cram in some business time while you're working. The way you wrote the post it seems to me that you're not super loyal to this company so probably wouldn't have a moral conflict with this but let me know if you disagree. that one day WFH could be your prime day and during your time you would dedicate maybe 2-3 hrs per business day to working on your thing, otherwise most days it would be, say, 1 hour it is important that you find a way to block your calendar without being punished, such as adding "focus time", etc. If you cna maybe lock in 45 minutes of focused time twice a day during which you can pretend to be doing accounting but you'll actually be working on your business. If you know you are being observed, you would need to deliberately "clutter" your screens with work stuff and only work on , say, 1/4 of the screen. If you can, for example, use Excel and Word for your business, making it look like you're working, even better. You would have to use your best judgment and make sure nobody sees what you do directly. honestly this is how I graduated from my nutrition school while working full time. It wasn't easy but it was doable. I was a bit lucky that I had a corner seat in the office, and the colleague next to me knew exactly what I was up to, so she didn't mind. It can be more challenging if you work somewhere everybody sees your screen and your work pattern is more predictable (say, all using one software and pulling up anything else is seen as a red flag) in addition to that if you could find extra 25 minutes outside of your work, maybe in the morning, that would be a massive help In terms of those energy levels, optimising that sleep to at least 7 and half up to 8 hours would probably help Let me know your thoughts. Happy to go into more detail if you like. M

@Clabber Girl I can relate to your situation. I'm also working 9-6 corporate job while building a small business on a side as a Nutritional Therapist. A few questions for you? are you a remote worker / hybrid / or full time office? do you work Monday - Friday? do you manage other people? is your management on your timeline or do they join later in the day? Are you busy the whole 8 hours of the work day or could you reprioritise your work to, say, squeeze everything into 4 hour window leaving the other half open for something else. do you have any dependencies? (kids, elder parents etc) if you had the energy, how many hours per week do you think you could dedicate to this? Say 30-miutes a day for a start, could you find that time? how much reserve do you have on your bank account at current expense level? Also a few things regarding your energy and health: do you currently restrict your diet in any way? are you eating regularly and meeting your caloric needs? how is your sleep? do you exercise? do you take sufficient amount of break at work?

Making sure you won't take them again is probably the best thing. Second to them, having a healthy lifestyle and diet can go a long way.

Welcome back and congratulations on the birth of your second son . I appreciate the brutal honesty of your journal. Me and my partner are now starting to plan baby after having got marrier last week and there is a lot to take in consideration. From reading your journal, it seems like no matter how much you prepare, you can never quite be ready for what's coming. Thank you for sharing all this.