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of course, whenever possible natural is the way to go in such case hypericum is amazing. And actually SSRIs are not really any better for mild depression than the herb so it was a good choice I'd say.

@Nickyy no personal attack here just wanted to add a larger perspective to the topic before people start avoiding good foods such as spinach or beet out of fear. There is too much of that in nutrition already.

By this thinking we would have to assume that only vegans develop kidney stones which is clearly not the case. 9% of US population was estimated to develop kidney stones in 2010, the number has probably gone up since then. Focusing on oxalates as primary causes of kidney stones is a very reductionist thinking. Yes there is a degree of dietary oxalates and increased risk of certain type of oxalate stones but the mechanism is more complicated than that. Oxalates have to be absorbed for them to cause damage otherwise they are excreted in poo by binding to calcium. (Any basic diet will give you enough to excrete those 10-20 mg of oxalic acid that you have accumulated). Calcium is regulated in the body by parathyroid and thyroid gland. In healthy body the homeostatic mechanism is extremely tightly controlled which should ensure that there is always a bit of calcium running down the digestive tract to mop up oxalates. Magnesium also has high affinity to oxalic acid and can help to bind it and excrete in poo. The paper you referenced (the full text ... not sure if you read the whole study) says that very limited amount of oxalalic acid is absorbed and excessive absorbtion probably means that there is an ongoing gut problem going on that is probably separating gut junctions such as IBD or leaky gut. Low vitamin D may contribute to calcium homeostasis dysregulation which is another contributor High supplemental intake of vitamin C has been linked to increased risk of oxalate stones High consumption of animal protein increases the risk. Low fibre slows down the intestinal transition and increases risk for higher rebsorbtion. If anything vegans have one of the highest intake of fibre on planet. At the same time I am going to agree that we shouldn't push our boundaries and load ourtselves with 10 cups of spinach a day but a reasonable amount is not an issue at all and if an issue occurs, other aspects need to be investigated.

Just finished reading this book and it is such an eye opener into a human psyche !! Thanks again for recomms

Please be extremely careful when taking St.John's Wort if already on antidepressants!! Tricyclic or SSRIs doesn't matter. You may end up with serotonin syndrome, become delusional even suicidal. Agreed that SJW is a beautiful replacement of medication but once you are on them, never take SJW or 5-HTP

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11760788 Nofap increases your testosterone. How about that !

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11760788 Nofap increases your testosterone. How about that !

When climbing Mt Everest, the expeditions are usually returning to the same point several times to adapt to rapid changes of oxygen concentration. From each base camp they climb several times just to come back again. (at least this is what they had to do in the past) ...my point is that your transition should be the same. As guys advised, never go cold turkey. Start by increasing your fibre intake up to 50g/day. Start adding more plants while removing animals from your plates. Don't forget to chew a lot as plant fibre needs the mechanical processing as well as the carbohydrate-digesting amylase in your saliva. If you find yourself getting bloated, it is time to return to base camp. Reduce the plant fibre a bit and pace yourself slower. If you are fine, start increasing doses slowly. The greatest struggle will probably be legumes. Start adapting those slowly. A palm size a day split over few meals. You can soak them sprout instead of buying canned to make them easier to digest. It's all about adapting your microbiota and breeding more of the strains that will help you process fibre better. This may take couple weeks but the reward will be incredible bowel movement and cleaner gut then ever. If you are going in it for a long term, you may need to consider a B12 ( cyanocobalamin or methylocobalamin ) and DHA (algae oil) supplement. Vitamin D3 if you live in cold climate with limited sun as well. And finally don't forget to eat enough. If you feel week or if your libido starts dropping either reduce the amount of exercise while you adapt or increase your portion sizes. Books: Brenda Davis is a dietitian and a strong advocate of veganism. She is in her late 50s and looks fabulous. I would check out her book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Vegan-Comprehensive-Reference-Plant-based/dp/1570672970/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=brenda+davis+diet&qid=1573725776&sr=8-1 Michael Greger has a book called: "How Not to Die - Cookbook" -> this is my favourite plant based go-to book. https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Not-Die-Cookbook-Recipes/dp/1529010810/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=michael+greger&qid=1573725873&sr=8-1 + I'd also subscribe to his Nutrition Facts youtube channel.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123576/ Quite a comprehensive review on all aspects of CR and implication on health

interesting...didn't know about this.

@Hansu patience my dear..patience

It certainly does but the effect is short lived and taxes your body in long term. You either become addicted or avoid it. It is hard to stay away from it once you have tasted its delicate taste and savoured the stimulating effects. It is equally difficult to just have it "every once in a while", the drive to caffeinate oneself is just too powerful...its like another level of horny

There is too much environmental pushback against these and it is very likely we will see dramatic reduction or a change in the way these companies operate. The habitat destruction is just too obvious. The next big hit will be every big city operating a space shuttle launching platform sending 20 shuttles a day for commercial flights to space. Boy, we better be ready for the crap those will be releasing. Orange will always find a way don't you worry child

Unless you suffer from hemochromatosis or supplementing high doses of iron, I can't imagine spinach and broccoli giving you overload unfortunatelly iron-deficiency and/or ID anaemia is a common sign of badly managed animal-free diet.

I am sorry but this is completely anecdotal evidence. First of all lets presume that all of those are indeed you. None of these pictures tell us anything about your health and about the type of vegan diets you had. Oreo and mentos are vegan as well as well as fried mockmeat and dairy free icecream. Having s six pack does NOT equal to being healthy. A slightly chubby person may actually be healthier than an athlete who lives of high protein diet and has an undiagnosed kidney impairment. By saying things like limit your vegetables, I am getting a lot of red flags. What is he going to eat? If vegetables are toxic it means all plants are because most of the crops is sprayed. Should he be eating organic cows steak 3 times a day and end up with iron toxicity and bowel cancer? Thymus decreases in size in all humans in teens and gets replaced by fat tissue. This has nothing to do with being vegan. Vegetables DO NOT create iron overload. Non-Heme iron does not accumulate in the same way a heme iron does. Body can actually regulate it naturally unlike heme-iron that can cause toxicity. Please show me a systemic overview or meta analysis that shows that vegetables cause chronic disease and tissue calcification, this all stinks of scaremongering and hidden agenda. If anything largest epidemiological studies suggest vegetable and fruit being protective against all-cause mortality. According to Global Burden of DIsease (2006 or 2016 not sure right now) fruit is one of the key dietary factors for prevention of unnecessary premature death from all causes.

@RasheedI think you need to educate yourself on different foods, nutrients and some basic biochemistry. You seem to have very uncertain opinions on lots of things and asking here will create even more confusion. Go to a large book store and grab a generic unbiased book on human nutrition. Nothing to do with paleao, vegan, raw or any other agenda. Pure basic dry academic textbook and start reading.

This is more often than not a sign of candida overgrowth. All of us have it laying dormant being in check by the adaptive immune system however perhaps in your case, your immunity took hit after you've had the reaction to cheese after which your microbiome has been damaged by several cycles of antibiotics -> these are perfect tools to unleash candida. To confirm you need a stool testing. Either from your doctor or through a functional testing Also there are ways to confirm SIBO, they shouldn't be putting you on Rifaximin unles it has been confirmed. Again there is a private testing (quite cheap) called Hydrogen/Methane breath testing that is very reliable diagnosis of SIBO. FYI - dont go chugging down probiotics before you have worked on the pathogen removal, you may give yourself trouble. * For SIBO - you need to go on low fodmap diet followed by herbal (or pharmaceutical) antibiotics and then the repopulation starts with powerful probiotics * For Candida - that's a bit more taugh to handle and you'd need to work with a nutritional therapist. So if you are not sure what to do, google places that do: hydrogen/methane testing and stool testing and call them if they could test you and for how much Good luck.

love the website with all the ingredients, so practical! Good stuff in the blend above, thanks for sharing

I feel like to word "nootropics" is now starting to get thrown around too much. Nootropics is the new kid on the block where" superfood" is falling into decadence. Pretty much any substance stimulating brain activity is a nootropic by definition, it just sounds more cool than "cerebral blood vessel dilating substance". Many of them have exotic names and come in expensive bottles but believe or not a beet can give you same effects that a gingko can if you take the right amount of it. A lot of brain fog is caused by diet, sluggish digestion and impaired elimination and can often be fixed by food and exercise. At the same time, some of the substances such as Lion's Mane indeed have an incredible potential if used right so just make sure you are not overspending your money on something that can maybe be fixed by high quality foods

@Scholar if your idea of health is eating the ocean garbage disposals called "mussels" by all means go for it. Talking about the ethics, mussels and small sea creatures that not only clean the waters but they also provide food to larger animals. Is it right to eat them? Don't you go demonising when you have your own devilry to purify. I am not criticising veganism from below as I have been part of it for 4 years, attended demonstrations and debated people endlessly until I realised how dogmatic and ideological I have become, full of hate and judgement. My criticism was towards the blindness and horizontal thinking of many people who are part of this movement. It has become us and them rather than us humans. Us good vegans and them evil meat eaters. Believe it or not but not everyone can stop eating animals. Saying that is an ignorance and lack of knowledge of human physiology, genetics and constitution.

Absolutely! I am pro as much plants in diet as possible. Just by increasing an intake of fibre to 50 grams and drinking 2.5 liters of water a lot of people's problems will go away in a week. I just have the issue of absolutizing for the sake of being special, unique or to have a label. Lots of vegans are deeply suffering because they are traumatised what will happen if they ever touch an animal product. Your surrounding will crucify you if you have demonisted them for eating meat but what if the vegan ends up being the one falling apart? It takes an enormous amount of emotional pain and courage to drop that ideology. Not to mention it prevents one from rising on the spiral beyond green as long as the ideology is deeply rooted in unconsciousness. If one cannot appreciate the variety of perspectives, it will always create suffering and neediness to defend. We have just become so lost listening to experts. doctors and healers that we don't have a sense of our own intuition anymore.

Please share any tips of things that area absolutely essential to master before one can even think of starting up a business. The type is more of a 1:1 therapy business. Thank You !!

This is one of the most controversial topics in nutrition today. Even the most educated people in nutritional science, the PHD academics who have all been through decades of education vastly differ with opinions on plant-based diets. The usual listener with no nutritional training is completely and absolutely confused. You can be a 90% plant based dieter who will enjoy an occasional egg and fish and you can be a militants snappy 100% vegan activist who will not talk to others when they wear leather belt. Now guess which of the two is happier? And what if you vouch never to eat animal in your life and your gums start receding, your libido goes, your hair start thinning and you become bloated like baby seal. All very common on bad vegan diet. If every time you eat, your cortisol goes through the roof because you have turned yourself into orthorectic food hater, you are going to have a terrible life and will probably die a decade before the guy who eats at mcdonald's every sunday. I think everybody needs to find what works for them to provide optimal: digestion & elimination, skin health, energy levels, sex health and overall vigour and enthusiasm. We need to stop labelling ourselves (vegan, carnivore, keto guy keto girl, raw foodie) and start listening to our bodies and observe reactions to food. For example some people have a genetic single nuclear polymorphism (snip) in enzyme called BC01 that reduces their conversion from Beta carotene to Retinol by 80%. This means if this person becomes a bad vegan they can start losing their eyesight due to severe retinol (vitamin A) deficiency. Would you risk it or would you be opened to eating 5 eggs a week to ensure sufficient retinol intake? Should this person be called selfish asshole who is hurting animals?

slightly biased and one-sided same as Game Changers but the message is clear and very supportive to the general public