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  1. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    I've used probiotic vsl3 twice, once after a colonoscopy and once after my yearlyish food intoxication, it's surprisingly good. But certainly not something I'd used in normal situations (2/3 fermented food do the trick).
  2. Gurgeh

    Weight Loss Thread

    No I'm talking about intra cellular melatonin. Melanin is another mecanism through which your skin will adapt to sun exposure. Plenty of shit happening when you expose yourself properly to the sun, all year round, multiples times a day, that no pill will fully compensate. Vit D supplement is...
  3. Gurgeh

    Weight Loss Thread

    Or just walk or do some gardening or whatever but expose yourself to the sun more. Physical activities and the sun will both boost testosterone. That being said, it's next to impossible for most people to get enough sun exposure, a comparable amount to what pre-industrial folks had, so vitD is...
  4. Gurgeh

    Life extension- let’s play EQ1 and keep socking into 2100

    I drink mostly coffee, sometimes I'll go a few months without coffee, sometimes I'll go green tea. Pretty sure green tea is a bit better for the health, and I do find myself having more energy when drinking green tea. But I don't like tea nearly as much as coffee... Pretty much every single...
  5. Gurgeh

    Life extension- let’s play EQ1 and keep socking into 2100

    It's nice, and definitely a lot better than sitting all day long (basicaly, sitting 8+ hours a day is as bad for your health as smoking... Still, it's even better if you can manage to walk 1 hour a day outdoor in the wild, to get the various other benefit associated to it.
  6. Gurgeh

    Life extension- let’s play EQ1 and keep socking into 2100

    Well this thread is about living to 100, it seems, you aren't likely to achieve that by eating frozen pizza and trying to compensate with pills. It does take some effort though, you're right. While 100 years ago it would have been difficult to buy shitty food and to not get the proper amount of...
  7. Gurgeh

    Life extension- let’s play EQ1 and keep socking into 2100

    Taking a pill of caffeine will increase your cortisol level. Green tea is a proven adaptogen, lowering cortisol level. It's precisely what I'm talking about, by trying to pick and choose nutriments from whole food you usually end up in a bad place. Caffeine is bad, ecgc is bad. But packed in...
  8. Gurgeh

    Life extension- let’s play EQ1 and keep socking into 2100

    I meant 3,4 and 5 sorry Well even 2, it depends on what you mean by probiotic, if it's fermented food sure, a supplement, why? Supplement can be nice here and there, but taking a dozens pills daily, I doubt it's going to do anywhere near as good as adapting your food. It's quite documented that...
  9. Gurgeh

    Life extension- let’s play EQ1 and keep socking into 2100

    I would never do 2,3 and 4 daily. Either take the whole damn green tea, or don't. That's a kind of retarded 'hack' which there is no proof it's better than just green tea, which is known to be great. Trying to avoid a bit of theine and ending up taking a supplement which can be harmful..
  10. Gurgeh

    Spring 2024 Anime Thread

    Spice and Wolf is one of the few anime i've watched more than once. This new one doesn't seem very different from the first one, which isn't necessarily bad. The OP isn't nearly as good as the original though.
  11. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    Maybe add some k2? Should help calcium going to the right place: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4566462/ With a gallblader removed, it's rather easy to be déficient in k2.
  12. Gurgeh

    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    I'm on board with the.people saying she isn't withholding but faking insanely high mana. After all, she wasn't a match for the Demon, she cannot be significantly more powerful than Frieren, she's even possibly weaker in combat.
  13. Gurgeh

    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    Makes sense.
  14. Gurgeh

    Weight Loss Thread

    Like every single study showing that "meat is bad", the most likely reason that Buddhist live longer (do they? can't find for sure) is that they eat less calories (I've seen 150 to 300 less calories per day). But even then, living a bit longer isn't such a great thing if you're frail, the older...
  15. Gurgeh

    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    Also I'm not sure I get the 'it's fluctuating'.
  16. Gurgeh

    Weight Loss Thread

    Most people don't even do 30k a week, if they did we'd have a lot less health problem. 30k a day is extreme, that's what hunter gatherers did apparently. Pre-automobile people were walking around 15k a day it seems. That being said, I wish I had a job which allowed me to walk 30k a day, but I...
  17. Gurgeh

    Weight Loss Thread

    Funny, that's literaly the same for me, switching calories from carbs to protein in my 40's allowed me to get over some serious health problem, and I feel like I'm 30 again. Sometimes, I'll eat just one meal a day, that meal will be sardine, beef, cheese and a few fruits... pretty sure that's...
  18. Gurgeh

    Weight Loss Thread

    I used to have serious trouble sleeping, like regularly putting an all nighter, most of the time taking 1-3 hours to fall asleep. Now it's a lot better, and I believe it's because I've increased how much I walk, I was barely putting 30k step a week, now I'm over 100k pretty much every week, and...
  19. Gurgeh

    Weight Loss Thread

    Way to kill one bird with two stones. Sell them shitty food, then tell them it's going to be fine if they take that shitty drug instead of changing their diet. Nestle Pharmaceutical : Let's fuck you digestive system and your metabolism, then sell you shitty drugs to put on bandage on the...
  20. Gurgeh

    Weight Loss Thread

    If you want to profit from selling food, it's best to sell sugar. The pressure from the food industry is tremendous. There is a much more massive bias toward carbohydrates.
  21. Gurgeh

    Weight Loss Thread

    The latest data seem to suggest that the more protein you eat the longer and healthier you live. It's not clear there is a healthy maximum, especialy since the alternative is often sugar as fat calories are hard to get in sufficient ammount. People are different some thrive on carnivore while...
  22. Gurgeh

    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    I thought someone would bring over a mimic.
  23. Gurgeh

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    A. Grothendieck, maybe the greatest mathematician of the modern era. Went full apocalypse now. Got a field's medal. One of his student got it as well.
  24. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    There definitely isn't a diet that fit everyone. Either you ask the tribes you descend from what they ate in their cavern 20.000 years ago, or you experiment a bit... I mean carnivore probably isn't for everyone, but if you have persistent heath issue, there can't be much harm from eating only...
  25. Gurgeh

    Best of times, worst of times

    You've got type 2 diabetes? Scleroderma came after it?
  26. Gurgeh

    Winter 2024 Anime Thread

    Watched apothecary over the last few days, seeing some of you liked it. It's good, but it feels like it's a remake of Saiunkoku Monogatari. Which was great, though.
  27. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    Beef is a nice multivitamin. Eat the offals occasionnaly. Liver is loaded with B12 for instance . And assimilation is less a question when eating actual food.
  28. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    If you don't pay attention, you'll be rubbing on your body a hundred or more different chemical products each morning... No matter how you look at it, it can't be good.
  29. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    I'm not sure that GMO are bad, but I'm not sure either they're fine. M'y grandkid will probably know whether it's fine or not, but I certainly don't trust 'Science' when it tells me 'it's fine'. This stuff is too complicated for us to foresee all the implications. 'There's no reason to think...
  30. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    That, and the lack of diversity in the seeds, GMO possibly,... I heard that it often happen that supposedly gluten intolerant americans eat bread/pasta in France / Italy and are surprised to have no issue. In your average boulangerie in France you'll find actual bread made from different flours...
  31. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    Your body can put up with a lot of bullshit when you're young, getting 40+, bad food habits can really fuck you hard. Trying a very good diet, like a mediteranean one, with carbs coming only from actual fruits, or going full keto, or carnivor, making sure you get a lot of fermented food all this...
  32. Gurgeh

    Parent Thread

    I'm giving a little bit of Iodine as well, it's pretty damn easy to have a diet low on iodine, especialy for kids, as fish is full of heavy metals.. You probably don't want to overdo it. Iodine probably does more for brain development than Omega 3. We know iodine greatly affect brain...
  33. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    When facing an obese patient, with reflux, hbp and high TC, most doctors will prescribe 3 drugs for life, with serious long term effects, rather than even suggesting to lose weight, while we know that the root cause of all 3 problems is very likely to be obesity. It's not entirely their faut...
  34. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    Lower dose might not have an as impressive effect, but is it worth the risk to fuck your brain up in the long run, for something you could almost certainly deal with lifestyle change? It's a bit sad that doctors first answer to trouble like hbp, reflux, high LDL, gout, and many other ailment...
  35. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    Certainly not worth panicking over, you're way closer to optimal than your doctor will put you at with statins. It's worth looking at the link Melicant provided. If you're at 260 TC because of butter, eggs, avocado, olive oil or other good source of fat, you're probably at a very nice level. If...
  36. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    What's super high ? All cause mortality is way higher at 100 than 300, optimal is around 230 it seems...
  37. Gurgeh

    Fall 2023 Anime Thread

    There's some kind of cheating going on with Freiren. The EPs feel like they're 5 minutes long. Not the best anime ever by any stretch but that's one of the most entertaining one in the last few years.
  38. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    You probably want to do something like this to mitigate whatever damage's been done : I don't have any study or anything to back it up, but my guess is that PPI or antibiotic do damages to the gut microbiome, that everyone agrees on. This isn't permanent but a lot of people have a really shitty...
  39. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    Gaviscon is a fairly small dose of anti acids. It's main effect is to make a sort of paste on the top of the stomach liquids, preventing it for moving up. It's half a teaspoon worth of sodium bicarbonate which won't cause that much trouble, especialy if you just take it before bed. Nothing like...
  40. Gurgeh

    Health Problems

    If the sore throat appeared before or shortly after the cough, it's quite unlikely to be cancer or anything in the lung.