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Looks like testosterone drops quite a bit after eating.

https://www.discountedlabs.com/blog/testosterone-tests-should-they-be-done-after-fasting

I like incandescent lights but I notice when I use my e-ink screen under incandescents, my eyes hurt a bit. When my screen is lit by daylight through a window, my eyes don't hurt. Reading a book under an incandescent feels good though.

My screen has a glossy coating and I'm pretty sure it's reflecting the IR light from the bulb into my eyes. My eyes definitely hurt less when I angle my screen and my light so that it won't reflect the bulb's light straight into my eyes so directly.

Ray doesn't like too much iron.

https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/iron-dangers.shtml

I don't agree with this. In the past I've experienced anemia symptoms that resolved when I ate more iron rich foods (meat and blackstrap molasses) so I have no interest in reducing iron.

What do you think?

If I understand correctly, your TSH got worse after 6 months of Peating? Whatever you were doing, maybe you should try stopping.

Have you got iron and red blood cell lab work? Perhaps they are low? I disagree with ray about low iron being good. Do you avoid meat now?

No morning sun always gives me an unpleasant sort of prickly feeling like static in my head that I (very unscientifically) associate with prolactin. I've found light to be very important for me, it really makes a big difference.

Are you on your computer a lot?

I love getting lots of sun! Definitely a key to health.

People believe hard exercise and vegetables will make them healthier. Not only is this wrong, it's often harmful.

There should be a clear resource somewhere, probably a book, that helps people find out about this.

I can't really tell someone "you're unhealthy because you run so much, a study found blah blah blah" - people never accept things like that. But if it was in the form of a book, a person can read and mentally digest at his own pace, and maybe be convinced. So I could say to him "you're unhealthy because you run so much, there's a book all about it you can go read"

How many people know that 1/3 of female college athletes have osteoperosis?

How many know that male endurance athletes have very lowered testosterone?

How many people know that their mysterious digestion problems would cease if they stopped with the vegetable smoothies?

I keep watching his videos recently - I like him. Imagine a thousand Goatises swarming every tryhard influencer.

I remember RPF posts that explained this by saying that saturated fat was actually clearing the endotoxin away or something and was actually good for endotoxin reduction. I don't know.

I do know that coconut oil always makes my digestion great.

I love sheep and goats.

@Caray said in Weight gaining:

@cris how is your appetite ? Your stress levels ?

Off the top of my head and expanding on some useful answers already posted...

Carve some "vital space" for yourself. Dedicate some time each day to do what you feel like doing. Be a little bit egoistic.

Get a girlfriend if you don't have one. If you have one, terminate your relationship if you feel/know it's not right for you.
Speak with sincerity. Don't bottle things up in your day to day.
Put yourself in situations where it's easy for you to belly laugh, be it with friends, family, toddlers...
Strike up casual conversations in your neighborhood/classes/general vicinity.
Make someone a little present, no matter how trifle.

The gist is to lean into a feeling of security that brings about self-expression. Or the other way round.

Think of a (good) king of old in his throne: benevolent, regal, prolific and round. A lover of the arts but also a protector of the people. Self-assured.

Maybe you tap into this energy as inspiration, you just have to recognise it in your daily life. Hope it helps.

I like this post!

@Milk-Destroyer said in Does too much internet/screen time cause high serotonin/dopamine?:

@insufferable Yes, real life socialising is probably one of the best things when people aren't using their phones. I don't attend bars or clubs so I can't speak for those who do but finding new friends outside of school/work can be very daunting for most I think.

Last year I had the chance to go wild camping for a week with 4 friends from highschool and it was very fun, even just sitting at a campfire and talking is incredibly stimulating in a positive way I think.

That sounds like a great time.

It's daunting now but it used to be easy. It's easy in a healthy society. There's stats showing americans used to have double or more as many close friends 30 years ago compared to recently.

It's a vicious cycle, less friends and more screen time = sad brain. Sad brain = harder to spend time with friends and more time coping on the screen. And then if everyone around you has the sad brain too, the problem compounds. Very bad Thank you to all the epic big thinkers who destroyed society.

@Milk-Destroyer That's good advice that you have to replace it. I bet socializing is the replacement the brain craves. That and general outside exploratory stimulation, even just taking a drive in the car.

Yes absolutely, I've been there.

I wrote a big post about it here: https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/925/defanging-your-computer

@Comstock said in Metabolism: sloth to a dopaminergic child:

@insufferable Nice!

Love your testosterone charts btw.

Thanks!

@insufferable said in Metabolism: sloth to a dopaminergic child:

@Creuset said in Metabolism: sloth to a dopaminergic child:

@insufferable said in Metabolism: sloth to a dopaminergic child:

I agree that internet distraction is bad but I've done long days on my LCD working with text only (almost all black and white) with very little distracting internet browsing, and still felt super drained at the end. But on my E-Ink device, I can even watch videos and click around, and still feel very good at the end of the day.

Have you ever tried used an app like f.lux to reduce the blue light emitted by your screen? Would be interested to know if you would feel the same as when using your E-ink screen.

That would be a good experiment. I've never tried leaving flux on all day. I used to have it set on max in the evenings and it certainly works very well for allowing sleepiness to occur at the appropriate time. I'll try a full day on LCD but with maxxed flux the whole time and report back.

I was on my LCD all morning (about 5 hours) with flux at 1200K (so red that blues don't really display) Throughout I was sitting by my window and periodically looking at the daylight, as usual. So the screen was the only difference.

• I noticed my eyes feeling not too great after about 15 minutes
• To think about something, I had to kind of take a moment to bring it into my brain, especially true while i was looking at the screen. I would say i had and have some mild brain fog.
• I was more lazy and found myself having kind of browsed through text documents for an hour instead of truly being productive and just doing the stuff to be done.
• I do feel tired and a bit burnt out.
• My eyesight is now a bit blurrier
• Even an hour afterwards, including with time spent outside, I was a bit forgetful and made some cognitive errors (walking to the wrong place to get something)
• However, though I do feel brain fog, I would say i feel less brain fog than i did back when i used to look at the non-flux LCD screen. So either flux does help somewhat or I'm kind of "stocked up" on dopamine from all my e-ink usage.
• Also with flux I don't feel immediately visually "assaulted" by the screen's light the way i do when i look into a non-flux screen blasting light at me.

So an LCD with flux on and maxed out feels better than an LCD without flux, but not as good as E-Ink.

@Comstock Yeah! My paperlike 3 is good enough for any video I've watched. I don't really notice the lower frame rate. Displaying videos wears it out faster apparently, but I think that's over the course of years.

@TexugoDoMel Great response, thank you!

It does mean that you're not getting away without forming eicosanoids though! Which is a good thing cause I guess you'd die without them, without inflammation.

All in all I don't agree with a very low PUFA diet. If your body just forms its own PUFA (mead acid) when dietary PUFA isn't present, then what's the point of fighting it?

I think all the benefits are from avoiding the consumption of PUFA that's already oxidized when you eat it, and that has broken down into aldehydes, which are super toxic to consume. I think the benefits of avoiding seed oil are just the benefits of avoiding aldehydes. by far the most prevalent in deep fried food, and i dont know how prevalent they actually are in unheated seed oil, or even in a fresh walnut, for example. Perhaps drizzling fresh squeezed canola oil (unheated) on your food would be fine (though unpleasant and pointless).

I ask because if the body's innate enzymes that make eicosanoids from PUFA would only work with the EFAs and not with Mead Acid, that would be proof that the "zero dietary PUFA theory" goes against the body's intended design. But it looks like that's not the case.

Are eicosanoids (such as prostaglandins) formed from mead acid? In other words, when you're "EFA deficient" and thus high in mead acid, are the eicosanoids formed from mead acid, or are they simply not formed at all, cause they require EFA for their formation? (cause i think that would cause you to die)

I skimmed this and I may be misunderstanding but it looks like the answer is yes, mead acid forms all the same stuff as EFA, just its own versions of those things.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10576882/