Posts made by aeblyve

@Pulastye Carbon monoxide from smoking is probably negative, but nicotine is a pretty great substance.

Personally I have some nicotine lozenges maybe once every three months.

Take care to seperate tobacco smoking from nicotine.

@skylark Personally I'm really stuck on this idea of using water lining. An advantage could be brain protection from any number of EMF sources, higher portability, looking a bit less crazy. Has anybody done work on this?

@Mulloch94 Considering that cranial volume, my man probably needs more glucose than he's getting.

I slept with my head on the other side of the bed today, to avoid the mold inside the drywall on the other side, but when I woke up today I felt absolutely horrible. I honestly think that this is because orienting my head moved it closer to the coaxial termination box mounted on the wall outside.... applying inverse square law of field strength, the difference here may well be significant.

Is there any way to protect myself from EMF that actually works? Using some kind of metallic-weave fabric runs the risk of creating a dish antenna and making the problem worse (http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/), especially in a highly urban environment... I've personally been wondering if some way of harnessing water would be effective, given that water rapidly absorbs signal (as well as nuclear radiation): https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1336/what-thickness-depth-of-water-would-be-required-to-provide-radiation-shielding-i.

In that case, I would contemplate creating some kind of brain-protective water shield using ziploc bags or something, place in a nightcap, LOL.

And yes, I will be moving out of here as soon as possible.

@CO3 It gives me now the means to feed myself.

@Kvirion

What about eggs, gelatin, and orange juice?

I tend to have these whenever my girlfriend is over, since she likes to cook, and this brings her to the grocery store, and this gets me some self-selected variety. She gets a bit concerned whenever I'm just drinking milk and coffee -- whenever I'm living on my own this is what I do, since I don't want to spend time cooking or thinking about food.

Haidut also often mentions that's good to take a break from daily routine.

I have found that taking day trips even to neighboring towns can be extremely stimulating. I have done this recently whilst searching for a new place to live.

In my experience, I may feel "not in the flow" or unemotional when I don't provide enough ADEK and B vitamins (from foods or supplements)...

Doesn't milk supply sufficient numbers of all of those? Maybe not E.

If you don't like to go out, do you at least have a red light lamp?

I do have a red light lamp. I'm a big fan of it.

And make a break from duties to read/watch books or movies unrelated to work?

I don't really have an interest in them, so no. It feels kind of degenerate to be honest. Most of what I can read in a book I can garner from Wikipedia/google, or even an LLM if I don't need to know the details (I used to read very much and was somewhat proud of it then)... movies are just pure "entertainment" with no use-value. Shouldn't we be striving towards a life which is entertaining enough in itself? The word that comes to mind here is "bourgeois", which I think is at odds with the material basis of bioenergetics.

@milkgains_bro

Low estrogen actually occurred to me. I once knew an interesting fellow that actually supplemented estrogen (AND testosterone -- not transgender) for the explicit purpose of having more emotions.

I take all of those you mention about once per week.

@dan-dominic
I mostly just drink milk and coffee to be honest. I have little taste for beef but I also have that every so often. Maybe it's a low iron issue? I seem to recall that heme iron plays some role in dopamine synthesis.

@Regina
I mostly just stay inside all day and work technology. I'm developing something of a hobby-startup right now, and I'm full-time employed as a sysadmin. Walking outside here is possible but not very comfortable. I don't like being solicited for money, breathing in car exhaust, listening to food-delivery mopeds, and the like.

To elaborate, I do work on this startup, but the texture of the experience I have is not like I used to have before. It doesn't help that the work has a lot of "blocking time" where I can't make meaningful progress (waiting on orders, etc) so a flow state is not consistently there. Sometimes I wonder if I've taken on a bit too much lead from the work. x)

@pittybitty
Interesting, I will consider this.

A while ago, I got interested in living on the least expensive, least time-consuming food possible while still hitting all nutritional requirements. Of course the notion of nutrition requirement is itself a bit ideological. It was made worse by my striving for FDA requirements, where saturated fat, cholesterol, is to be limited, and grain == sugar.

That said, in the new framework, what's an appropriate meal that I could reasonable have each and every single day? Would just plain milk be sufficient? At that rate I would probably consume 2.5L per day for a price of $12.5 daily. I would ideally like to keep the price to at most ten dollars per day, but I live in a city, so it is more difficult. Addly, I would be somewhat concerned about any irritants in commercial milk if it becomes my sole food (it has been during stressful periods in the past, when I had absolutely no time to cook and digest, given deadlines)

Any thoughts? I want to eat to live, not live to eat.

I've been Peating for about six months now to great effect when it comes to eliminating depression, ocd, adhd type issues.

At the same time, I feel much less emotionally engaged than I used to before. A number of "sacred cows" of mine, such as a fixation on free software, repairable computer hardware, and the study of low level computing, have been dissolved. If happenstance causes me to work these things again, the result comes much easier than before, but the passing through is almost less satisfying than the previous manic interpretation.

I liken this happening to the reduction of serotonin and estrogen caused by eliminating PUFA and starch, and increasing DHT and T. At the same time, I haven't had a strong feeling of joy in some time now. It is also possible that I underestimate the severity of full time employment in permitting emotional freedom.

What is the way forward? I identify three possible issues:

1. I'm "doing it wrong". There is some element of Peating which I have missed, causing me to feel this way, emotionally flat.
2. I do not have appropriate stimulation in my life. My previous "fixations" have to be developed, replaced, or added onto in order to derive engagement from them, and this will produce emotionality.
3. I should target emotionality as a thing in itself, endeavoring to produce and consume intrinsically emotional work along the lines of art.

Or, even, that I have grown so used to stress that I have not yet adjusted to what it is like to operate aside it.

@CO3 Kindly elaborate. Which conditions would make it worthwhile? I feel quite good as it is.

Only somewhat related -- would there be any benefit to my taking progesterone as a 22 year old male? I have a bottle for my girlfriend, she seems to like it a lot, but maybe there would be some benefit to me as well? What's the conditional here?

@Mulloch94 This halotherapy is interesting. Is it safe and effective?

At this time I am also considering if they prescribed her the "wrong" antibiotic, and another would help her instead.

In any event, I am sending her to be with her mother out-of-town to reduce the stress of our urban environment here.

@CO3 @Mulloch94

I understand that her COVID, per a test at urgent care, has cleared at this time. This is why I am considering a secondary opportunistic infection as the culprit.

@Mulloch94 I've been having her take orange juice with vitamin C. Frankly, I'm a bit nervous with such a high vitC dose. Wouldn't the body of this water-soluble vitamin just be urinated out anyway?

The antibiotics don't seem to help at all. I'm considering an opportunistic fungal infection of the pulmonary system at this point. I think I'll have to get serious and use a blood test.

Welcoming any advice.

I can advise that tinnitus could potentially be aggravated by postural or structural dysfunction of the cervical spine and jaw.

For instance -- I can reliably induce tinnitus (on the right side) if I move my head all the way to the left, or all the way to the right. This side also has some slight jaw dysfunction: clicking while chewing and "locking" open rather than opening smoothly. These things are all likely working together to produce the nerve impingement that is interpreted by the brain as tinnitus.

I would avoid aggressive therapies like chiropractors, but paying attention to posture could likely help in the long term.

MSK neurology has some interesting articles on this topic.

https://mskneurology.com/association-tinnitus-neck-tmj/

Hello all,

About a month ago now, I caught covid from a work conference. What can you do.

I got away just about unscathed, with no lingering issues.

My girlfriend though has had some health problems since. Per her:

Low grade fever 2 weeks
Waking up covered in sweat every morning 1 week 
Body aches 2 weeks, somewhat bettyer except period youch 
Headache on/off 2 weeks sometimes behind eyes sometimes at base of skull 
Nausea accompanying headache  
Lethargy 2 weeks

Doctors have her on a course of doxycycline for a few days now, which has ended throat/tonsil soreness.

Any ideas as to therapies that could be useful? I've been having her consume more supportive foods, like ice cream, drinking baking soda in water, but not anything more.