Endurance sports training requires you to practice it as much as possible. I don't train that way but the primary difference between high-intensity and low-intensity is the recovery time needed. Ignore the fat grifter having closeted-homosexual fantasies about you, everyone has different goals.

If you're running all the time, get some really engineered shoes because pavement is not natural so that naturalist grift shoes are a bad idea. No-drop, barefoot ect. If you had a beach to run on then it would be a different story but most people don't have that.

You can raise your cortisol temporarily and not instantly die. So this topic is just "what sport do I enjoy" which is actually kind of a "peaty" concept. Do stuff you enjoy.

I don't know about LSD, but psilocybin has nothing but research showing it's beneficial for all sorts of mental problems, from depression to learned helplessness and even things considered not curable, like alcoholism. There are no long-term effects, as the worst that can happen is a bad trip that lasts an hour or two. John Hopkins Microdosing helps many people become more "creative" and positive in their interpersonal relationships. John Hopkins is on the cutting edge of psychedelic research, despite resistance from the American government, and has basically declared that therapy with psychedelics applied does 100x more than just regular talk therapy since it breaks down the mental blocks you've created to protect yourself from a sick society. Furthermore, even hiring a therapist isn't necessary because if you just lie down and pay attention, it works as self-therapy, which is a big breakthrough because now there's no longer this class division in access to therapy.

So, who opposes it? Pharmaceutical companies don't like it because they can't profit from mushrooms you can grow in a closet. Cuckservatives don't like it because the corporations aren't telling them it's okay yet and then they'll invent some evangelical crap to make up why they don't take it, like they did with weed until the government told them it was okay. Alt-rightoids don't like it because they heard left-wingers say it's beneficial, which it factually can be, so in their mindless contrarianism and victimhood they make up stories about it being bad, like in the pic above along with the Christlarping. I'm sorry, but if your primary argument against all the evidence is that some Christlarper on twitter says it possesses you with the spooky demons, just lol. That's not a respectable take, it's just part of this alternative reality you created along with turbo-racism and flat-earth.

It didn't ruin my health but taking zinc made my hair start going white the last few times I reintroduced it. I read some literature that showed even 15mg supplemental zinc can induce a copper deficiency. The problem reversed itself after I stopped taking it and ate some liver and potatoes for a week or two.

I don't really get the grating part of it because you chew it regardless. It's a pretty useless step if you ask me.

I just sincerely doubt western problems are caused by sweet potatoes or too much (nasty) beef liver consumption. Yeah, I know eating a polar bear liver is toxic, this is basically their only historical event they use, but how does this relate to anything? Nobody eats bear livers. People don't need to disprove a made-up claim by a personal trainer; that person has to demonstrate that it's a legitimate theory first. He can't do that because it's nonsense.

A diet of muscle meat, dairy, microwave pizzas, and fried chicken is low in vitamin A. The standard American diet is low in vitamin A. Blaming health problems on it makes zero sense. Evidence points to the opposite. Ray's position on beta-carotene was also just "it's bad if you don't have enough B12." It's just people dramatizing it.

Carotenemia is not "toxic" either. Anyone claiming that is 100% a grifter trying to scare people. Create problem, sell solution.

I was a big fanboy for Mentzer for a few years. I have two books from him. There are a few issues with his theories. The big one is that the model of training adaptation he uses is severely outdated, even at the time of his HD1 book. The model it uses is the one-factor theory, which was created by a psychiatrist, if I recall correctly, and it basically suggests that you give a stimulus, recover, adapt, and repeat. This suggests a totally linear progression. This is inaccurate, and the actual one we use is a two-factor model that includes the "fitness and fatigue" variables that explain why the more you practice something, the better you get. We know this is true, and we know people are overtrained at the point of their peak performance, in any sport, really.

Two-factor model:

The relevance of this is that he uses the incorrect one-factor model as justification for his pretty hard-core rest periods, like hitting the chest once every 14 days. There's no evidence that suggests it takes this long to recover. He has no proof of this working either, as it was all "phone clients" claiming to make massive gains on that system. I'm not suggesting he's a liar though, as magazines showed him using earlier Heavy Duty methods on himself and clients with great success. Emphasis on "earlier" though as the only actual person I saw document their progress on the "consolidated" routine, got weaker and smaller by doing it.

The other thing is that slow reps make you weaker. The only study comparing the two found that maximal strength (1RM) was way higher for people training at normal rep speeds. The slow reps only made them slightly better at moving a weight slowly. There is also physiology (the size principle) that shows that you can't "trick" the body into thinking a weight is heavier than it is just by moving it slowly. Increasing stimulus is better done by increasing weight or reps. It could be good for people with injuries who are using perfectly greased machines with no sticking points, but that doesn't apply to most of the people following his work.

I do like him though; recovery is where growth occurs, and he's right about that. Genetics are also the prime determinant for your gains. People have gotten big doing every system under the sun. I've come to the conclusion the best routines are just the normal 1x a week split routine or a 2-3x full body routine. The routine should be what you want to do because it really won't make a difference down the road. The workouts being difficult is what matters.

Two things I'm thinking of that aren't blaming it on estrogen are a lack of electrolytes after sweating, which you already know about. I used to get lightheaded when I wasn't deliberately salting things. The second thing I'm thinking of is a lack of oxygen, commonly caused by a deviated septum. The lack of air could cause all of those symptoms. People try to suggest weights have no "cardio" component, but they do, so a lack of oxygen would cause these symptoms to flare up while lifting.

Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" fits. It's all about life and energy. The shots are always flowing into each other, and there are even sequences of cosmic energy eclipsing mankind. For example, ostensibly, it's a family drama, but then it has shots like this:
Hard watch, though. It's a very unconventional movie, like the earlier Solaris suggestion, which is also fantastic.