What is superior to any single diet, supplement or workout

[Carl-Richard]

Being mentally healthy, as in free of mental conflict, with yourself. Because if you are in conflict with yourself, all the resources of your body are turned against themselves. Then it matters less that you better any single resource, because the resource goes into supressing another resource. What you want is all your resources to align under a shared goal. That's what an organism fundamentally is. When a part of the organism deviates from that goal, you have cancer, you have civil war, you have neurosis, inner conflict. It eats itself up. To be healthy, to be whole, the whole organism must be playing on team with itself. Self-determination in behavior, on all levels.

[Leo Gura]

Good genetics.

[Ramasta9]

Environment I'd say is the foundation of overall health, and you can't be mentally healthy if your body is toxic.

We cannot deny the physical. As within so without.

[museumoftrees]

2 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Good genetics.

I've read comments from you multiple times on the forum referring to good genes as the most important thing in endeavors like art, pickup, spirituality, etc and I want to dive deeper. Have you expanded on that idea before somewhere ? 

[AION]

Science says environment is more important than genetics. And with environment it is not just in the coventional sense but one's interperation of the environment.

Obviously one should get good nourishment from our environment: good food, good people, good air and so on. But one can have all of these things and still fuck things up if we aren't a master over our own interperations. I think that is the master key to health.

Most of the people who fucked up their health was their own doing aka wrong judgement. And in the couple of cases it was genetics, it was still their own doing because they lived extreme lives and activated their bad genes instead of living good and activated their good genes. 

Edited 14 hours ago by AION

[VioleGrace]

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Good genetics.

 

I honestly dont trust that,

there is know way to know if you have a good or bad even if it is true,

and it too often become an excuse or a argument when people can't find there mistake or on the contrary the right thing they did, all of that leading to misinformation self deception and false believe.

Why do you trust so much in genetic ? 

I genuinely curious 

Edited 10 hours ago by VioleGrace

[VioleGrace]

8 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Being mentally healthy, as in free of mental conflict, with yourself. Because if you are in conflict with yourself, all the resources of your body are turned against themselves. Then it matters less that you better any single resource, because the resource goes into supressing another resource. What you want is all your resources to align under a shared goal. That's what an organism fundamentally is. When a part of the organism deviates from that goal, you have cancer, you have civil war, you have neurosis, inner conflict. It eats itself up. To be healthy, to be whole, the whole organism must be playing on team with itself. Self-determination in behavior, on all levels.

Well the question your post bring to me is, what is it to be mentally healthy ?

 

[Leo Gura]

5 hours ago, museumoftrees said:

Have you expanded on that idea before somewhere ? 

No.

I have a video planned on this topic but I held off from releasing it because it will be too painful for people and it will be misused.

Edited 9 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Carl-Richard]

8 hours ago, Ramasta9 said:

Environment I'd say is the foundation of overall health, and you can't be mentally healthy if your body is toxic.

We cannot deny the physical. As within so without.

Don't think of mental in the dualistic sense. Think of it like your bodily units are working in a coordinated fashion (their "cognitive lightcones" are aimed in the same overall direction). Even if you have good genes and good environment but you somehow put your bodily units against each other, your body becomes a battleground.

It's true that some genes and some environments, or karma, makes this more or less likely (or more or less impossible). But it's like if you're the richest country in the world with the highest average IQ but there is an insurrection and toppling of the government and collective hysteria and lawlessness, that suddenly doesn't matter as much. Maybe the terms "richest" and "highest" are generalizations that belie a more complicated reality of the environmental and genetic factors, but nevertheless, the master regulator, that is an umbrella term for when genes and environment are leading to favorable outcomes, is the existence of harmony or conflict.

The larger point is really to not look at just one factor but all the factors, and the experience of mental conflict is an indicator of that (because mental conflict is a conflict of all the factors and is reflected in the physical as a physical conflict; there is no true dualistic divide; if you're in mental conflict, there is a fight or fight response in the body, resource expenditure increases, oxidation products and age-related markers increase). If you want to be very dualistic, then you can say chronic fight or flight, chronic stress, that's the big killer.

(But remember that we're talking about "stress" and not "eustress"; the former is destabilizing and chronic, the other is self-consistent and short-lasting — the body is working as an unit, and this difference can be felt, experienced, hence the mental side is a good indicator; see the CATS model).

Edited 8 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[Carl-Richard]

1 hour ago, VioleGrace said:

Well the question your post bring to me is, what is it to be mentally healthy ?

It's in the first sentence: free of mental conflict. Read up on neurosis, psychological flexibility, factors that predict resilience.

[Eskilon]

9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Good genetics.

In other words --- Karma.

Why do God conform to Karma?

Why cant I become Superman right now？

God is lame

Edited 8 hours ago by Eskilon

[Miguel1]

11 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

What you want is all your resources to align under a shared goal.

The older I get, the more I realize that Alignment really is the key to happiness, joy, peace, fulfillment, health and everything you would want from a human life.

Edited 7 hours ago by Miguel1

[Miguel1]

1 hour ago, Leo Gura said:

I have a video planned on this topic but I held off from releasing it because it will be too painful for people and it will be misused.

Title: Alien Black Pill

[UnbornTao]

Consistently moving (exercising) the body.

[Carl-Richard]

14 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Consistently moving (exercising) the body.

That requires the body working as a coordinated unit.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Leo is pretty blackpilled as it turns out tbh in regards to health, genetics are the most likely to be an actual excuse, your lifestyle choices are pretty decisive. You have a lot of wiggle room here to mess things up and to become better, unlike in all other endevours

[museumoftrees]

6 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

No.

I have a video planned on this topic but I held off from releasing it because it will be too painful for people and it will be misused.

I think it will be misinterpreted indeed. Some sort of blackpill moment similar to the incel movement.

I think it would be good to embroid the subject into another one. Example: maybe the video could be about the paradox of hard work vs. genes, maybe there's a profound lesson there. And the video finally becomes a motivational speech just before the end.