Posts made by pittybitty

@_K It is the same for me. There is two important signals for resetting your circadian rhythm, eating and sunlight. Go outside immediately after waking up early in the morning and grab breakfast. Only works if it is sunny though.

Day 3:

• Ended up with acid reflux and then following that a clogged nose and a headache. I assume it was caused by gorging myself on raisin bread with milk in the evening, though not sure what part of it exactly caused it. Need to pay more attention to not overeat.
• In general I thought about portion sizes, in theory eating more will satiate you for longer, but eating less means less time and energy wasted on digestion. So to minimize digestion time I should stop eating exactly once I feel satiated, no sooner but also no later.
• I should make Hercules proud by learning to utilize my (hunger and satiety) instincts better.

Another thing that I think is often overlooked in regard to light is the intensity of it, our perception of light is logarithmic, something that is 10 times as bright is just 3 "steps" brighter to our eyes. This makes us pretty bad at judging about how much light actually hits our body. An 100 lumen light won't have much effect on our chemical or electric balance, but a 10000 lumen light absolutely will

@insufferable The blue light thing is really not that complicated. Darkness induces stress, both red and blue light are protective against this stress. Red light causes Triptophan be converted to Melatonin, blue light does the opposite. Melatonin controls the "phase" of your day/night cycle, the further along the night you are the higher your melatonin. It's not that blue light is "bad", it's just that red light is the only way to have the protective effects of light while still maintaining a natural melatonin progression and thus day/night cycle.

Regarding e-ink I think what you are mostly noticing (aside from maybe better sleep) is the psychological, rather than metabolical effects of color. Internet constantly demands your attention, in part through the use of color and movement, if more of those elements get eliminated you will be less distracted by it.

I still think that longterm skincare does have either no or even negative effects on the health of your skin. Your skin is just a reflection of your general health, improve your health and your skin improves as well. I use only water, nothing else and never had any need to use anything else either.

Day 2:

• Found ripe oranges in a supermarket for 1.29€/kg, this is a stark contrast to my experiences in Germany where supermarkets would sell unripe oranges for double to triple the price. This will be a good basis for my food for this week.
• Spend 4 hours in the city. I am still very tired from traveling all day yesterday. Having such sunny weather in March already was a welcome experience. Pisa is also a very walkable city.
• 2 of those 4 hours were spend walking, this doesn't seem like much but having to carry the 110kg meatwagon that I call my body around with me every step made it quite exhausting. This, plus some chaffing, made me realize that I need to lose some weight fast.

I am taking a big, several month trip across the south-west coast of Europe, starting at Pisa, Italy towards Lisbon, Portugal. I will be traveling by train/bus and staying a couple of days at each location.

The condition of my environment will be constantly changing so I can't follow any strict protocols nor will I always have the ability to weight myself.

A few heuristics I am going to try:

• Protein, starch and fat are expensive to digest and thus slow down metabolism, I will attempt to only eat those in the evening to keep up the metabolism during the day.
• From this follows that I will restrict myself during the day to mostly sugary foods like fruit.
• No calorie counting, I might eat less than usual but I will not go hungry, the reason for this is to be generally lower stress.
• Spend a lot of time outside in the sun. Another goal of this trip is to attempt to become a street artist, so I will be spending a lot of time scouting out locations and drawing in public. The warmer climate of south Europe also helps with this.

One exception to this protocol:

• I will drink one milk coffee in the morning, made from low fat milk. I don't have any basis for this but I think it will make it overall more sustainable.

Starting weight: 110kg @ 183cm

Might want to look into the Tryptophan to Tyrosine ratio. Tyrosine is the precursor to dopamine and Tryptophan the precursor to serotonin and the ratio affects which of the two pathways will become active.

Without the raw muscle mass men have women need a well functioning environment in order to act freely and express themselves. Lacking that they will be be under constant stress, which will look like hypothyroidism.

Being the primary consumers of SSRIs, birth control and antidepressents doesn't help either.

@brad Antibiotic you say... how does it compare to raw garlic as antibiotic?

Seems to be from a infection. Symptoms: increased allergies, bad sleep, general drowsiness, occasionally yellow spit, gum bleeding and diarrhea.

@Razvan Germany is total cuck country. (I am from Germany so I am allowed to say that.)

@eugene Downstream result of A) not properly taking care of your body (PUFA accumulation for example) and B) physiological long term impact of being a wage slave. The hormones of a free man and a slave are wildly different.

@DG Do you know how many dinners with awesome people you can do for $500k? Granted you can't bring back the dead, but still.

@CO3 You make the genuine mistake of seeing everything through a grain farmer lense. Owning pigs was extremely common for common towns folk (e.g. not farmers) to get rid of food waste, you didn't have to buy extra food for them. Same with hens, those can also sustain themselves on food scraps. Cattle can entirely sustain itself on grass, according to your economical hypothesis nomads would have starved to death because they didn't grow any grains for their cattle to eat. I assume poorer people did eat more bread comparatively, but anyone a bit higher on the hierarchy seems to have eaten more meat than bread.

@STH The common link is milk and meat, not starch. Starch was mostly unavailable before agriculture. Nomadic populations like the mongols also didn't eat any significant amount of starch.

If you think that medieval societies were mostly starch based that is also wrong, a lot of sources seem to indicate more meat consumption than bread. https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/medieval-europeans-meat-consumption/

@Chud I think that is just a general supplement thing, either contaminated or due to the fillers and just generally poorly digested.

If you want to get better in fighting then get bigger, more muscles, more fat. The only reason fighting sports have such a wide range of combatants weights is because of the weight class splits, without it the heavier combatants would just pummel everyone else.

@CO3 I will definitely investigate this. Citric acid is in almost everything, including my favorite drink.