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"As a result, I decided to start supplementing with nattokinase, which can naturally help reduce LDL cholesterol, and it did. In a follow-up test, I could confirm that this strategy worked, my blood lipids are now back where I want them, in range."
"I'd been eating a lot of tuna while also making an effort to eat more leafy greens and supplementing with NAC and acetylcysteine, both of which can support glutathione production and detoxification."
"Well, I use Claude to quiz myself. Claude is really good at generating tests for me on knowledge. So that's where I've been using it the most."
"The particular light pad I use I bought on Amazon. So I place that on the desk in front of me and I turn it on essentially throughout this phase one of the day."
"I stick to olive oil and small amounts of butter and that's because I also think seed oils taste terrible."
"I take vitamin D, D3. I take a lot. I take 5 to 8,000 IUs per day and I get sunlight."
"I'll take alpha-GPC before a workout sometimes or if I need to focus late in the day. Alpha-GPC actually will improve your REM sleep. It's one of the few things I found that can increase energy late in the day and still sleep just fine."
"I have to say after now about 10 years of working at a sit-stand desk, I find I can't sit for too long before I want to stand."
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"Melanotan, which makes people tan from the inside, raises energy and libido dramatically, fat loss dramatically. I have to say those drugs melanotan is very risky. Some of the skin color changes can be permanent."
"I'm on my third hour of scrolling through TikTok and I know and I'm not that then you then you start to worry, right? because now you're going to do damage to yourself for the purpose of consuming this brain candy"
"And if you're somebody who's really keen on blue blockers and you're wearing your blue blockers all day, well, don't wear them outside. And in fact, you're probably doing yourself a disservice by wearing them in the morning and in the daytime."
"People get lichen planus. It's an autoimmune condition where the immune system because of stress and excessively long days etc. looks like bruising on the wrists."
"Many of you have probably heard before, I am not a big fan of melatonin supplementation for a number of reasons, but just as a quick aside, the levels of melatonin that are in most supplements are far too high to really be considered physiological."
"And this is something that we've given up largely because of our smartphones. You're constantly bringing in new sensory"
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Clear filters"People should definitely get your book. Again, I've read it. I've read it cover to cover. The Fertility Formula, take control of your reproductive future."
"the Galpin equation is your body weight in pounds divided by 30 equals the ounces of fluid you should drink every 15 minutes. I think is actually a very good rule of thumb for anytime that you need to engage mental capacity, not just physical performance"
"Animal protein is clearly superior as a quality protein to calorie ratio. You give me an 8 oz piece of steak or you have to eat half a jar of peanut butter."
"One gram of protein per pound of lean or desired body mass is kind of the standard thing now. Some people less, some people a little bit more."
"Regular use of sauna or other forms of deliberate heat exposure can reduce mortality to cardiovascular events, but also to other events, things like stroke and other things that basically can kill us."
"Long exhale breathing which just simply reduces heart rate. So this is the you don't need to do breath work. You just if you want to calm down you do a long exhale."
"And nowadays, there are a lot of sources of red light available just as red light bulbs. You don't need a panel."
"The studies on maca are quite convincing that consumption of two to three grams per day of maca which generally is sold as a powder or a capsule can increase subjective reports of sexual desire independent of hormone systems."
"Previously I've talked about Tongkat Ali taken in 400 milligram per day capsules as a means to increase the amount of free meaning unbound testosterone."
"For those of you that are interested in leveraging play for neuroplasticity and expanding your mind, if you will, I highly recommend picking an activity that will allow you to adopt different roles within that activity where it's not rigidly linear."
"Ed Young wrote a book called An Immense World. He's not a scientist, but he's a science writer, and it's about different sensory modalities that different animals use. And for an animal lover like me, I found it really spectacular."
"I will go on record saying I think this is the definitive book on trauma. And I really encourage people to read it and we'll continue to encourage people to read it."
"with some explanation of reward circuitry and Anna's book, giving them Anna's book, Dopamine Nation"
"For every 45 minutes in which you are focusing on something like a phone or a tablet or a book page or your computer, you want to get into panoramic vision for at least five minutes. And the way that I suggest to do this is actually to take a walk ideally outside."
"The cathedral effect has been discussed well really for many many decades maybe even hundreds of years but formally has been discussed since the early 2000s in which it seemed that people who were in high ceiling environments hence the phrase cathedral would shift their thinking and their ideas to more abstract and creative lofty type thinking."
"40 Hz binaural beats, many many apps, many YouTube scripts out there, probably other resources for binaural beats. Hopefully zero cost so you can access those without any need to shell out any money."
"The easier that you can make it to get started, whether it's scaling a habit down, optimizing the environment, coming up with a better strategy"
"The easier that you can make it to get started, whether it's scaling a habit down, optimizing the environment, coming up with a better strategy"
"Never miss twice is an idea that, it's an encouragement, it's an attitude, right, that you show up and you know, you've been following a new diet for eight days and then on the ninth day you binge eat a pizza and you're like, well, you know, I wish that hadn't happened, but never miss twice. Let's get back on track tomorrow."
"read Atomic Habits if you haven't already, folks. And definitely check out the workbook. I'm going to get the calendar in the workbook."