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@hel Yes! Except, I am going on prolonged fast. The longest I went was 4 days so I know I got this.
Buddha mode
You want 800 ng/dl
300-1100 ng/dl is the range I believe
I wonder if NoFap has anything to do with it
Technically 350 is "normal" but it's low.
I mean, I'm not an expert on T levels but I'd trust the doc if he says you're okay
Naw, sleep/cortisol/caffeine/food/lifting
@KenneticEnergy Are activist doctors a thing?
@Deleted User I don't remember exactly when I noticed PC culture but 1992 seems about right.
@KenneticEnergy Don't trust doctors ๐ "High carb low fat is healthy!" No, thanks.
Like activist judges or something.
I graduated high school in '89 and worked in the trades
@The Tradesman Oh definitely, but physiologically no one man is going to have the same T levels
@KenneticEnergy Or... most doctors, at least.
so I did not have much exposure to the office enviornment
@machtyn Actually you do need glucose and carbs to live mate lol
Just don't go crazy and eat like mcdonalds 24-7, moderation is the key
anyway I have to run off for a bit. BBL.
@KenneticEnergy Yes, you do. Your body converts it from fat to run the brain.
You don't need to EAT carbs/sugars.
It also depends on how active you are too, nutrition is highly personable tbh
Yes!
Agreed. I personally eat a little brown rice when I go sparring.
I wanna rewatch Fight Club one of these days
@machtyn Yes you do, to allow the basic metabolic functions of your body to take place. You need carbs and glucose. This is fact
When I lift without brown rice, I am flat in performance but I get a better physical response.
@KenneticEnergy No, you do not.
xDD
The body converts fat into glucose.
As an older guy...you just have to watch the portions. Like when I do get fast food......its a small drink. small fries, and a small burger
The brain needs 100-150 grams of glucose to function. The body taps that from fat stores if no glucose is eaten.
Dude. If I don't get any carbs, or any sodium, or any glucose in my diet I'm quickly gonna become malnourished. Tell me how long you can go with a 0 carb, 0 glucose, and 0 sodium diet. You'll be diabetic before you know it
Moderation, is the key word. Most people OD on carbs, fat, sodium
@KenneticEnergy You will eat a small amount of carbs from vegetables. When did I ever say you needed no sodium/electrolytes?
Weight doesn't "melt" off me anymore
Well it's recommended to take some electrolytes on the keto diet.
Veggies provide the "essential" 20g carbs.
@machtyn My bad, I thought you were advocating for a diet absent of those nutrients lol
@KenneticEnergy Not at all.
@KenneticEnergy It is a myth that you need to eat carbs/sugars to sustain yourself though. You can eat fats and under 20mg carbs via veggies. Also, if you eat more than 40-80 grams of protein that will convert to glucose as well.
@KenneticEnergy So these "carnivore diet" people are actually converting to glucose without realizing it probably.
and sometimes...grabbing a lunch out.....yeah, a salad is the meal, and not some ginorous thing that chicks eat with 1000 pounds of dressing, chicken, cheese.....
I'm not advocating for a carnivore diet, I'm simply saying based off scientific fact you need some ammount of carbs, and glucose to live. Or at least function properly
The optimal diet is different for each individual. I personally have seen the keto (with IF) to be most effective at lowering insulin/inflammation and thus reducing fat accumulation and burning off stored fat. However, you don't perform better than someone eating more carbs probably. I don't think that research has been done.
@machtyn Some people who start diets and have no idea what they're doing end up hurting themselves
@KenneticEnergy I agree. I wasn't saying you advocated carnivore. I was using that as an example.
@machtyn I gotcha. Again it was my bad for misreading
Unless you're eating a cow in a sitting, protein doesn't effect ketosis.
@KenneticEnergy Yes but you're confusing dietary carbs/glucose with bio-available glucose. The body will convert stored fat to glucose. Why do you think engineers in Silicone Valley are fasting and using keto to clear brain fog?
@machtyn True, btw they're also microdosing on some pretty heavy stuff like acid and what not. So I hear lol
You're still in ketosis, yes, but you are converting that protein to glucose for brain function.
seen plenty of overweigh engineers in the SIlicon Valley
Overeating protein will *slow* the rate of ketone production, not increase the rate of glucose production.
@KenneticEnergy Oh, well that would help ๐
@Deleted User Of course. They sit all day.
Worked there for 20 years
@Deleted User Yeah, you were telling me about that. Thanks for the heads up. I won't ever move there but I will work for a company there for good money remotely ๐
@machtyn Yeah, I'm in anatomy right now and we looked at a human brain that was from an individual who died as a result of cocaine abuse. The brain looked black, and that was from the destroyed blood vessels as a result of cocaine use. I was shocked
@KenneticEnergy That is insane.
@KenneticEnergy That is awesome though! What's your career goal?
Kennetic......people are doing LSD again????? WT Freak!
@machtyn Yeah, especially if you think about how toxic blood is to neurons.. def a recipe for disaster.
I'm trying to get into nursing school haha
@Deleted User Yeah, Silicon Valley is apparently full of software engineers and social media engineers who are microdosing on acid and other psychadelics. It's crazy
I am lucky.........my cocaine abuse............I came through it with most of my brain still inatct....but man.....at tax time, following the forms for all the clients I have.....yeah, there was a side effect...I have to go real. real slow
They're doing it as a way to "concentrate" better, but it's insaine. That's like taking vicodin for a minor headache
Have not done LSD since 1992.........
@Deleted User For sure man. I heard back in the 80s/90s it was considered like a "classy" or "rich person's" drug lol
I have several family members who suffered from cocaine addiction. Theyre clean now though
LSD got popular on college campuses at the end of the 1980's......cocaine was and is still expensive. Nasty evil drug
Been clean since 2004
@Deleted User That's awesome for you, yeah I can never imagine ever taking those drugs. Stuff is literally poison
I was raised better and I knew better but still did it anyway.....behaving like a woman.....blaming everything that was wrong in my life on "someone else"
thankfully I got over THAT
What baffles me though, is how strong nicotine is. Apparently it's easier for someone to quit a hard drug like cocaine or heroin than to come off of nicotine
I still smoke cigarettes
debatable.....my dad quit after 45 years of smoking. He just decided he was "done" and this was back in the 1980's
@Deleted User They have some awesome programs out there if you're looking to quit. Statistically they say for most people it takes about 4-5 tries
I really don't want to quit, truth be told
That's amazing. Yeah my dad was the same way, some people are just able to put it down while for others it's worse than coming off of cocaine or heroin
I don't smoke in the apt....even if it was allowed, I would still take it outside. The cost is a ton, and that has reduced my smoking. A pack now lasts me three days. I used to smoke two a day in the 1990's
Cigarettes didn't kill my dad. He died in his sleep back in 2014 from an anuerism
Yeah, there's so many taxes and stuff placed on it it's expensive. And I'm sorry for your loss..
The old man was 84. He died in his chair while taking a nap. Not in a hospital. Not some slow, long, agonizing death...........mom died back in 2010, undected cancer. She felt no pain
until it was too late
@Deleted User At least he wasn't in pain, that's the good thing. And yeah cancer is such a silent killer, a lot of people don't realize they have it until it's stage 2 or 3
mom was like that. didn't smoke or drink.......went to her yearly checkup......her ovaries were huge.....she was past stage two going into stage threee. No pain. Six months later. Gone
@KenneticEnergy That is awesome! Good luck. Nursing is an amazing field. Isn't the base pay for an RN like 70k in most states?
that was a shock. dad.......I was happy for him.......died a way that many will never have. Quietly at home. Book in lap. fell asleep, never woke up
@Deleted User That sounds amazing ๐
@Deleted User Wow.. that's crazy. I had a great aunt who smoked like 5 packs a day every day of her life and never came down with any kind of cancer. Died of old age at 98. Sometimes the cards we're dealt with don't add up
@machtyn Yeah it pays pretty well, but I'm not doing it for the money. When I was getting cancer surgery last year and the nurses made me feel so calm, when I was scared out of my mind. That's when I knew what my calling was
I wanna specialize in med-surg, and do either pre-op or recovery
the tech that they utilize now for surgery and recovery is amazing. I can't even imagine what it's gonna be like in another 20-30 years
@KenneticEnergy Wow that is amazing inspiration.
@machtyn anatomy is kicking my butt right now but it's fascinating stuff haha. I take physiology and microbio next semester
Awesome!
@machtyn How about you? What field or career are you in or trying to get into?
My mom was an RN......35 years with the VA........the last ten years of her career was in OR. She dropped a tool......she then realized, time to retire. Loved her work that woman
@Deleted User I always am amazed at hearing stories from experienced RNs, my anatomy prof has been in the field for like.. 40 years or more. Nursing is a selfless career for sure, and it takes a certain kind of person to do it. I've thought about maybe going into the VA too, there's something about caring for vets that seems so fulfilling
In the 1980's there were "movies" and horror stories about the VA.....yet I knew most of them were false.........the VA where my mom worked was clean, well run, caring........though Reagans' Sec of Veterans affairs back then would dress up as a homeless vet and try to get services to see how he was "treated" by the staff.
VA pasy very well for nursing
*pays
I remember once as a teen going to work with her for the day and "interviewing" some of the old guys from the WW II and a few left from the WW I era for a history project in high school....this was 1982 or thereabouts...it was really fascinating
@KenneticEnergy I am 24. I've been in "systems engineering" and "information security" for the past 5 years. I am finishing a role that lets me shadow/work as different roles within a department. I am trying to figure out my niche. I know it's within engineering/math/tech.
@KenneticEnergy I am sorry to hear about your surgery too. Are you all good now?
Kennetic. My mom was a good RN........she said to me in the 1990's "People can't pass the exams today to be an RN, this is why our country has to import them from India now. It's a demanding field, and too many studying to be a RN have zero passion for it. The test should be hard. People's lives are on the line"
@machtyn Ahh I see, yeah that's definitely a good field to get into. You definitely won't have to worry about compensation, it pays very handsomely I'm sure haha
And I'm cured, for sure it was a rare form of cancer called DFSP. I went in for a general surgery and had the tumor removed. It definitely changed my outlook on life for sure. I'm a minimalist, and I live for the small simple things in life now. I also spend as much time with the good family relationships as I can, and try to foster good friendships. Although it's interesting how less of my friends I see as I get older. That's life I suppose
@Deleted User Oh for sure it's demanding. I mean the science classes alone are enough to put anything through the wringer. Anatomy is beating me up right now but im pulling through
I was trained by my udergrad to be an elementary school teacher. After my student teaching in 1988, there was no way I wanted to be a teacher. ANgry women. Bloated administration, loyalty to a Union and the Democratic Party and a hatred of "men"
I went to grad school and got an MS in storage systems
@Deleted User Jeez, yeah the school work environment now is toxic, I mean I can't imagine any guy wanting to get into it now. I tutored for a few years but was always ticked off by how no one wanted to do the work and just wanted answers given to them lol. I could never be a teacher
the "good" teachers today LEAVE
Oh I agree. And the union involvement in the education system is basically like a mafia. Nursing unfortunately has fallen prey to many of the symptoms that prey the education field too
Education today is nothing more than indoctrination. All of my friends through high school and college turned out to be to the left of Stalin. It's like.. what happened to critical thinking?
@KenneticEnergy how old are they?
They're my age, but even in high school our "school debates" were nothing more than shaming anyone who thought high taxes and big gov was not the best thing in the world. I started high school in 08' and graduated in 12'. So the Obama craze was in full swing. If you disagreed with him, you were a racist
I would like to teach History, but only at the college level
so 24/25 years old
That's the age were most people are hardcore lefties
@Kazemaru The scary part is that for many young people that leftist mentality hasnt gone away, it's almost like doubled-down
The age of "change the world" meh!
@KenneticEnergy Yeah, I'm making 65-70k right now, so it's decent but I am still figuring myself out. I saved $45k this year so I'm pretty happy.
@machtyn teach me sifu
@machtyn That's incredible, most of my friends dont even have $1k saved up lol they spend every dime they get
Yeah, I want eff you money so I decided to just start now.
@Rhunespire Please get into History at the college level and drop some red pills on willing minds
@Rhunespire It's easy. Just pay off all debt, keep all expenses low as possible without depriving yourself and earn more and more income every year.
@machtyn Minimalism FTW. Dave Ramsey is an excellent source of financial advice too
@KenneticEnergy that's the idea, my history professor in college had an inspiring way of teaching - only facts, even the ugly ones
@KenneticEnergy Yes!
@KenneticEnergy I own like 120 items ๐
@Rhunespire I literally had history classes where they taught about the contributions Marx, Stalin and Mao made to humanity
And NO ONE, ever brought up the millions they killed. I was shocked.
That's insane
Stalin is responsible for 30 to 50 million lives more than Hitler. Mao had more than to 50 to 100 million killed
Those are conservative estimates too.. no one knows exactly how many died but they still uncover mass graves to this day
@Rhunespire "We should give marxism a try." This is a legit comment young cunts make to me at work.
Yep
Marxism has been tried and it has failed horribly every time
I don't respond. I just go "uh-huh."
What does work is Capitalism
"We're running out of food. We need to kill people instead of increasing supply."
@Rhunespire I'm convinced that the people advocating for communism/socialism could be commanded by the government to literally dig their own graves and line up to be shot. And they'd do it happily if they thought it was "progressive"
There is no incentive to work.
Considering they drank the commie kool-aid I wouldnt be surprised
I'd shoot them myself happily
Only good commie is a dead one
Yea ๐
These are 19-25 year olds making 70k+ working in a meritocracy and calling for marxism... like they're beyond idiotic.
Like in WW2, no one talks about the hundreds of thousands of Polish officers Stalin had killed, and then he lied and said he didnt know what happened to them
Stalin was a fucking monster
And then decades later, they find the mass graves of the polish officers, and the Russian government only then acknowledges their deaths
Paranoid schizophrenic who had his own son killed
Haa... Those kids need to learn about the different schools of capitslism
Wow.
Well, he may not have been schizophrenic- that's my assessment, but he was definitely paranoid
And not Batman style paranoia
@Rhunespire Yeah seriously. It's the same thing with Che and fucking Castro. People who wear Che shirts dont even know what theyre promoting
Che had gays, lesbians, artists, scientists etc killed
He was an anarcho-communist
Nothing to admire there
Marx apparently was a social outcast himself, and maybe was even autistic. His political theory was based upon his fucked up view of the world, because he couldnt get along with people in society
I wish we annexed Cuba back in the 1800s
@Rhunespire They'd be a hell of a lot better off, I can assure you
There was serious discussion about it. We could have avoided the Cuban missile crisis
Oh! I just thought sonething. Next time that I enconter hardcore leftie, I will say that I suport communism. The chinese conmunism. That will mess their minds ๐
@Rhunespire And it's no wonder why so many self proclaimed "communists" sound autistic in debates. And can resort to nothing other than screaming and violence. Autism, my friend
Modern or traditional chinese communism
I've never met a commie who can stand on two feet in a discussion about communism vs capitalism
@KenneticEnergy Who wasn't a social outcast? It takes 2 seconds to "outcast" someone lol
@Kazemaru Didnt Zhe or whatever the fuck his name is, declare himself president for life? lmao
And the people forced at gunpoint to cheer and clap, it's hilarious.
Oh you mean the current Chinese PM Winnie the Pooh?
Yiping?
@Rhunespire Yes hahaha, Winnie the Pooh
Whatever the fuck his name is.
And yet, chinese economy grows 2 dรญgits by yr
Seriously he takes offense at being called winnie the pooh
Straight shirt-cocking it
@Rhunespire Its been banned in China because he was offended by the joke lol
I wanna send him a winnie the pooh coffee mug
Tell him he can thank capitalism for making his mug
Oh god same thatd be hilarious
lol
I want God-Emperor Trump to call him winnie the pooh on national television
I'm not sure about China as a whole, but Shenzhen is doing very well.
Shenzhen is insanely good.
Yup.
Whose that
It'll be interesting to see what happened in Asia. I think we need to let Japan build up their military again and defend themselves. Hopefully North Korea and South Korea eventually join. We also need to reduce our military bases in S. Korea. No more defending other people's shit if theyre not gonna do it themselves
happens*
Shenzhen is China's deregulated economic zone.
Ohhh
It's a hub of technology development and FUCKING BEAST.
All your mobile phones, sex dolls, electronics, and almost everything comes from Shenzhen.
@The Tradesman Dont kid yourself though, they're only doing it as a way to gain capitol. The government is still totalitarian
I'm using a Xiaomi phone. Mi 6. Cheapest SD 835 phone at the time.
Of course.
I'm waiting for chinas economy to implode
Honestly I dont think China will ever be free, we're talking about a people who have been slaves and fodder for thousands of years under tyrants lol
China is like 90 percent export economy, whereas US is like 80 percent internal economy.
If the US gets cut off from the world, no problem for them.
Well if Apple and fucking Google would get out of China that'd be nice
They wont, they drank the kool-aid
I switched over to android, firefox, and PC. Fuck the tech giants
@Rhunespire Exactly. And the apple sheeple will still pay $1k for a fucking phone, and obsolete tech because it looks cool
@The Tradesman Are you kidding? If the US gets cut off they have no one to sell to lol
I use LineageOS on my phone. Super clean android. AOSP. No Google on my phone.
@machtyn US can sustain itself.
@The Tradesman Oh, yes! I misunderstood. I thought you meant China would be fine.
Do you guys think Trump will break up Amazon and Google with anti-trust laws?
I fucking hope he does
Hello, my name is professor rhunespire PhD in history. My first lesson for you class is this: THE WORLD HATES YOU AND WANTS YOU TO DIE - HORRIBLY AND AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE.
Now, here's how NOT to do that, ready to learn?
If the US cut everyone off, most industry would slow A LOT outside US because the US population is fucking obsessed with spending all their income.
@KenneticEnergy I don't know... I am for it but also against it.
Unlikely
lol
They have to be monopolies first
welp, my life just ended
@Rhunespire Google is basically all the information traffic in the world lol. Amazon is killing Walmart and Target. That should say something
@The Tradesman If I could do 1 thing I'd turn the entire US population into frugal minimalists ๐
@Sam Amari What's up man?
i just lost the support of my family
and i cannot afford my medical issues alone
@Sam Amari what happened?
@machtyn Cut off foreign aid, especially to Israel and stop fighting their wars. End the FED.
You don't need to make them minimalists.
i got cut off man
and i can't afford my medical issues alone
@Sam Amari Damn man.. sorry to hear that
Yeah, they will minimalize themselves @The Tradesman
@The Tradesman True ๐
yep. god. i really dont know what im going to do.
@Sam Amari were you expelled from house?
@Sam Amari Cut off from family or insurance?
What medical issues do you have?
Let's work out a solution and plan for @Sam Amari.
@Sam Amari Is there literally anyone (friend, neighbor, some family) that you can go to? Anyone?
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