mysticalninja

Dr. Mike is a smart guy and I like a lot of his content, but he overestimates and is super optimistic about the power/future of pharmaceuticals. He doesnt seem to evenly balance the idea that myostation/activin A limit muscle growth for a reason. Its not like the human body evolved to have these just so you cant look jacked on social media. If the effects of these medications are so strong -there will be strong side effects. Also, these new drugs are also monoclonal antibodies so they will likely be injections and very expensive - insurance companies arn't going to pay for you to get muscular for fun. Then do you have to take this expensive Biologics / injection for life just to maintain gains, is getting a larger/ more muscular heart really going to be good for your health. He also seems to think a couple further generations of medications seem to eliminate side effects, but thats not how it has historically worked. We are on generation three of antihistamine(allergy) medications and people still say benedryl(diphenhydramine) works best - that was FDA approved in 1946. This trend is true for most classes of medications, diabetes/cholesterol/high BP/psychiatric conditions are all still difficult to treat effectively with just medications. We still treat pain with opiods - the same as over 1000 years ago, a better solution still hasnt been found for many people. Thats my rant I got a bit annoyed by his optimism and I feel like he is giving people the wrong idea - maybe there will be some explosion in advancements due AI or something, but I think he is dreaming a bit about the timeline.

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Happy Birthday Leo, i will always be thankful for how your content has helped me steer my life

Pharmacist

The entire TV show Canada's worst Driver was very eye opening . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOM0BgaQwDs

Best Scrabble player in the world (Nigel Richards) just won the Spanish World Championship without speaking spanish. He has also won the French Scrabble Championship twice without speaking the language - just by memorizing the entire dictionary in another language. That on top of winning the USA/UK chamionships 5+ times each.

The only time Lex pushed back was when Trump didnt share his mutual love for Joe Rogan, which made me laugh.

Appreciate the work you put into keeping the forum going, thanks Leo

I watch way too many movies probably of my biggest time wastes. I think lots of good movies are still being released, you just won't see them advertised since its mostly indie stuff or some foreign films. What kind of movies have you liked, I could probably list some stuff. Don't breathe is a decent movie with a similar constant tension, ari aster or jordan peele's movies are also good for that suspense/slightly scary vibe.

Ive been lurking for years, I post about once every few months so people will think, "Who is this dude"

Odds are you would just drop your blood pressure or blood sugar too low and pass out, which is sort of a change of consciousness.

There are tons of great movies, you just have to look a bit deeper for them, the big box office movies are mostly garbage these days. @Leo Gura if you like nick cage. You would probably like Mandy - it's got psychedelics in it and the visuals give off that vibe.

Tell myself - This is not going to go the way you think it will - even if you think this you still have ideas that will end up being wrong so at least be aware and stay humble. Don't assume a psychedelic will help you with trauma - everyone is different. I had gone through an extremely difficult extended ordeal. After it ended my ego was in such a traumatized contracted state for a long period of time, I couldn't get it to unwind or "go back". I tried some psychedelics thinking it could help. I took a lowish dose, in a safe environment, being educated about it. However, my ego or self fought back so hard, I just felt even more contracted during the trip- just to fight that increased consciousness, it was an extremely unpleasant trip the entire time. The problem is maybe a higher dose would "break through" that, but of course to do that is to risk an even worse experience. So its difficult to say and you have to figure this out for oneself - especially if you have a unique brain/experiences. Although of course, I still learned from that experience so its hard to say whether it overall helped me or not. I believe it is super valuable to go into any psychedelic experience without the intention to have fun or feel amazing. I think the more immature/young people do this and it backfires. You cant really fake it either, so don't try and instead aim to just be honest with yourself - of course everyone wants to have a good trip.

Too bad it doesn't seem great, I really like Adam driver.

Leo practicing humor on the forum again . I think it was the orcas.