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There may be a potential link between the keto diet and the mood. A diet deprived of carbohydrate may potentially be contributing to worsening of mood. This is because in some people gluconeogenesis (creating glucose from non-carb sources) may be lower and so going on keto will effectively deprive your neurons of sufficient energy. In addition ketogenic diet may be more pro-inflammatory in certain cases mainly due to increased intake of animal food and reduced intake of plants. Generally carbohydrate-rich diet has been associated with better progression of depression and anxiety but it is important to go for the right sources of carbs. I am totally with you that simple carbs and refined flour products are crap, nobody needs those in their diet. However if you were open to try adding some carbs, I'd suggest considering adding some sources of complex carbs like beans, whole grains, lentils, chickpeas. That sort of stuff. Also if your diet was generally lower in fibre, you will be missing on the benefit of short-chain fatty acids and those are tightly linked to mental health. As an experiment, you could add fruit, and sources of complex carbs back in for 2 weeks and see if you feel any better. The worst case scenario you can always go back to keto Since you are saying you are an advanced meditator, I assume the cause may indeed be more physiological than psychological.

I think rather than trying to control and take over this natural biological process, I would advise you to let go of control and ride that wave. First of all, I think you can consider yourself being a bit fortunate. The decline of progesterone and oestrogen during the final bit of luteal phase usually makes many women experience depression, cramps, bloating, anger, sadness, acne or just lots of negative symptoms. I think having a spike in libido is actually quite pleasant. This is a good time to take a step back, retrospect, practice some gratitude that your body is healthy, fertile and is about to engage in another way of in-house cleaning. Having a healthy menstrual cycle is not always guaranteed and in my opinion is something to be grateful for considering how incredibly important some of these hormones are for your overall health. Consume some nice herbal teas, stay away from coffee during this period, eat mostly warming food and some good quality chocolate can be comforting as well. Get a hot water flask and a good book to help you push over this period. 100-300 milligrams of magnesium citrate or glycinate can help if there is pain. If the sexual urge starts to interfere with your rational mind....well there are ways to deal with that

@StarfoxEpiphany @Harlen Kelly you guys need to let go of that bickering across different topics. Just agree to disagree and move on

I hope you'll find the answers you are looking for. Keep us updated

@Opo can you tolerate any plants at all? Have you thought about trying something Specific Carbohydrate Diet or Low Fodmap. Less restrictive for sure

I mainly notice the difference in winter. In my home country in Europe there would have been snow each year as long as i can remember. The last 4 winters you could throw a barbecue in the evening in December.No traces of snow on the lowlands We have seriously f..ed this planet and it is not getting better

I agree with @Twega, there is no such thing as dopamine detox or a low-dopamine diet, there is no dopamine in food. In fact destruction of Substantia Nigra, the core dopaminergic centre is associated with Parkinson's (as he said above). What you want to do is to rewire your addictive patterns in certain areas of your brain such as anterior cingulate cortex and that can only come through deliberate avoidance of the stimulus in the first place, e.g. staying away from phone, avoiding junk food, not watching porn etc. There is no easy way to do that and a hard stop and willpower are the only way to push through an addiction. That and a lot of habit rewiring and shadow work ofcourse. But the notion of "dopamine detox" is kinda inaccurate, dopamine is not your enemy, if we didn't have it society would have died out thousands of years ago./

The Lost Spires mod? Holy shit that looks massive. They said it was being made for Skyrim as well

available on Steam?

I always thought when playing Skyrim or Fallout, somebody actually had to go in and organise all this shit in every single room to make it look organised (or chaotic), cosy or really scary. Just decorating a single house in Skyrim with items would probably take 3 hours just so that you can come in and fus-ro-dah the shit out of it. In was specifically looking at abandoned toilet mirrors in Fallout 6 and just for this I identified at least 6 different types of cracked mirrors. And then when you shoot the mirror it makes different sound to when you shoot the sink. And even sink has like 5 different types of mold. It's insane

@Twega You could become a researcher with focus on nutritional science however that would require full academic education up to Phd. You could also focus more on being amateur researcher such as being a video content creator & blogger. You could also create courses or just create your own database of nutritional research. Something like Examine do. Being youtube, doing podcasts and video content can be an attractive way as well. I like what Chris Masterjohn does. He educates people and makes decent money out of signing them up on his educational packages. I was part of his Masterpass for a few months and the content is really brilliant but quite heavy for those who are not clinicians or very knowledgeable in the area. But it does not matter that much as long as you can feel satisfied in that line of career choice and as long as it can sustain you financially. In terms of what skills necessary for this sort of career/purpose: I think being able to interpret research and conduct your own amateur research (e.g. conducting your meta analyses) can be helpful if you want to be sharing these things with people. Making sure you can identify low quality research, biases and spot inaccuracies. There are ways and books to learn that. Critical thinking will be of paramount importance to be able to distinguish information sources and see through agendas and personal interest Being very organised will be crucial so that you can store and manage all your research well and being able to find it quickly retrospectively Being a good communicator helps Being good at marketing yourself will be crucial as well, knowing who your audience is and whom you are trying to speak to. 90% of people won't be interested in any more than absolute surface level of information so you'll have to work to find those 10%

@soos_mite_ah I'm with you. I wouldn't mind living in a house but renting one is perfectly sufficient, at least at this stage of my life. In my home country in Eastern Europe that is unheard of and owning a house along with owning a car and having a family is a part of personal status as we are very blue society. But there are benefits of having your own house somewhere in the countryside which is that once your mortgage is paid you're done and no more rents or payments. You can always sell the house if you decide to move The way I see it it really depends on what you value the most. If security, family and material sufficiency are of great importance then owning your own house will be crucial where for those who value freedom, travel and not being tied more, renting makes more sense.

Because it feels good. Making fun of others, judging, labelling and gossiping puts the one above the other person in their own eyes. It makes you feel better to see that others are inferior. It gives a survival advantage. Gossipping is also generally a good way to maintain a stale conversation when there is little that parties have in common as most people love to gossip or take piss on others. Of course, this is purely fictional and imaginary and if you break it down you'll see it stems from a place of insecurity and lack of love. Saying that you don't make fun or judge others seems like a huge self-deception, maybe you don't see it yet. The role of ego is to prevent the ego from seeing its own biases but to project them on others

depends if dysbiosis (bacterial imbalance) was present. Is one of the IBDs the condition you have? The amount of digestive damage that eating of aged animal products could cause is quite drastic and can take years to reverse. I would definitely stay away from these. Same for cured means, as said above, consumption of processed meats is a significant contributor to colorectal cancer.

Could be an adaptation. Dehydration maybe? Nutritional deficiencies wouldn't come up as quickly. But may also be some sort of gut reaction to all that meat Purely out of curiosity, why carnivore?

I'll give you 2 simple tips for easy weight loss. 1. 30minutes of physical activity every day 2. cut out your dinners BONUS TIP: drink nothing but water, herbal teas, vegetable juices and black coffee (unless caffeine free) . Nothing else is necessary and most of the other stuff is usually detrimental

I feel like you wanted to type IN-sane?

It's not unhealthy per se. Drinking reasonable amount of it won't make you chronically ill (unless you have enzymatic deficiency in CYPA1 in which case it can make you feel awful). But it is a drug, albeit a mild one, it still causes mild addiction and withdraw. Caffeine habit can cost up to 20$ -$30a day so it costs an awful lot of money per month (but not necessarily if you make it yourself) Coffee may contribute to GERD and can be irritating to gut and causing acute diarrhoea. some also become more anxious and irritable. On the other hand it is protective from certain cancers and helpful to people with chronic depression (not always) so you gotta weight your pros and cons. If coffee is cut out you're not missing out on anything.

Could be that you are simply not eating enough? When you mentioned raw foods, do you base your diet mainly around raw foods or do you also add cooked food?

@Preety_India glad you found it helpful. Good luck with this guy!

exactly! It is ok to let yourself appear a little bit reserved even a bit distant sometimes. If he is attracted it will urge him to take some action.

eh, this sentence serves more as a repellent rather than something to attract him. You gotta maintain distance and some level of integrity in relationships. To most guys a sentence like this translates into "I am needy and I very much need a relationship" most guys would run away after hearing this. I know you meant well but it's not the best thing to say to a guy who you want to be ina relationship with. Give the conversation some natural flow and space. Feels like maybe you are pressing too hard. Take a step back for a while and let him take the steering wheel.

There is a difference between carbohydrates and table sugar. When people say low-carb what they often mean is low-sugar diet e..g no bread no candy no cracker and bullshit cereals. Complex high fibre forms of carbohydrates like fruit, vegetables, legumes and whole grains are actually beneficial. I totally agree with Durianrider that most people need to eat more fruit and less crap. But his advice on needing to eat more refined sugar is totally whacky. Most people already eat too much of that anyways and after hearing this many will be like "oh, let me get extra tablespoon of sugar in my coffee because it is good for me". We already have a great problem in diabetes. People's sugar is through the roof and 1 out of 3 will become diabetic in their lifetime in the west. Children as young as 12 are becoming full-blown diabetics. The last thing we need is more sugar in the general diet. With the rise of high-fructose corn syrup, keeping normal levels of blood glucose is becoming difficult in those who are not aware of its dangers. This advice is missing a more complex and holistic picture which is that carbs are not bad but we need to be picky with our carbohydrate intake. Equally, he is wrong on fat. Fat does not make you fat, we need dietary fat for many reasons such as the health and integrity of myelin sheet covering all your neurons of the central nervous system and for optimal endocrine and glandular function. Only if you overeat, does fat in the diet become the fat around the belly. Also the advice that "sugar that you don't need is peed out" is not as simple and we know that excess sugar causes a rapid release of insulin and sudden hypoglycemia. f that keeps happening, adrenaline has to be released all the time and over years this causes reactive hypoglycemia and often leads to blood sugar management complications as the balancing systems become exhausted. The problem with these theories is that the majority of population have very little nutrition knowledge and so information like this that sounds exciting and comforting is actually quite harmful because people will selectively bias. It is like when Eric Berg says we should all eat beef so people start eating double portions of beef burgers with their fries because "it is good" But what Eric really mean was "eat steak but load it up with a second plate of 1 pound of vegetables". Durianrider has a lot of good content but many of his videos are insane, inaccurate and he has been criticised for making stuff up which is why his account was banned and unbanned many times.

Zinc deficiency can slow down kerarinocyte turnover and so can retinol (vit A) deficiency. Look up some rich foods for both and test them out. Also ensure you consume enough fats in diet especially essential fatty acids. Chronic stress is also not something I'd discount as contributor (if that's a case) Also what @Flowerfaeiry said, water hardness and climate are very relevant

For as long the creator is driven by survival the resources will be biased. Does not mean biased resources have nothing to teach you