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very interesting. So do you change your wake up time if you’ve gone to bed especially late the night before or are you typically pretty militant about it? and what time do you usually wake up and go to bed and weekends and weekdays, if you don’t mind my asking.
Yeah those seem really cool.
To that list, id probably add
-Raw food diet
-Exploring raw meat and its proponents’ claims
-best biofeedback devices and their purposes
-and a more expansive meditation section that compares and contrasts the different styles of meditation!Wow dude that would actually be something cool to aim for though.
As someone who’s diet changes from one extreme to the other, I’d get pretty happy about an app or program that was able to take all the various advantages I’ve learned from various eating regiments and show me which would be the best for me.
Great post, greg!
Yeah, that makes sense.
I guess I wonder though if there does exist (it seems like it must) a plant, or root, or food of any kind that specifically has similar effects to Viagra/Cialis, or something cognitively stimulatory.
You hear about “horney goat weed” and “tribulus” and MACA. All these various lotions and potions that claim they reign supreme when it comes to getting hot and heavy in the bedroom. I guess I’m just curious if any of these actually have a correlative link to libido in particular. Because I can tell you that if I have 7 coffees, I definitely have more energy, but directing that to sex, I feel would not work out for the best haha.
Something that is energizing may have the opposite effect on sex. You may become anxious, or paranoid etc etc. So I feel that simply because you have more “energy” does not necessarily mean a higher sex drive. Wouldnt you agree there is definitely a time where calming down is actually more beneficial or libido and performance?
TinyCactus, thanks so much for the contribution.
Well, in terms of the nutrient loss, the reason 109 degrees is important is that its about there that especially animal products begin to change molecularly. In different foods, the nutrients are more preserved than others and obviously this is dependent on specific heat exposure and length of exposure.
I can’t tell you off hand the exact nutritional loss from the cooking of the liver, but what I can tell you is that both Riboflavin as well as Folate (two of the biggest reasons to eat liver), do not respond too well to heat. If you’re more interested I can recommend a book about raw eating that may elucidate things even further!
But ultimately I, personally, would say this:
The palatability is definitely a challenge to begin with. However, your palate really does begin to change -quickly. Remember that thousands of years ago, our ancestors would hunt big game animals and basically gorge themselves on their bounties. This included large amounts of uncooked meat, including all organs. From an acestral perspective, even though our palates may initially resist consuming liver raw, we quickly revert to our more acestral selves, which in my experience offers not only a palate more in line with theirs but also a sense of wellbeing closer to what our ancestors enjoyed.
Hope that helped! 😀
Lots of what you said there Matt, was awesome. One thing stuck out to me in particular, actually.
“I also think it takes practice to distinguish drug-like cravings from healthy needs.”
That’s a hugely important point. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m someone who really does love to go overboard when its time to have a cheat meal. In fact, with certain foods and at certain times, its probably closer to a drug-like craving, as you put it, than just really craving a particular food or meal.
How would you suggest someone approach that kind of relationship to some foods? Thanks matty!
I like the idea a lot. The issues as I see them are ones of verification and vandalism.
When it comes to making sure that the information presented actually backed by something legitimate would be a difficult but valuable tool. It couldnt really be a place for a stricly anecdotes as that is basically the function that the forum serves.
By vandalism, I mean that UpRiver would need to prevent anyone from going into the open source articles and changing things that were previously written and accepted.
I don’t have a ton of background in this space, but its something that, if we can make it work around these two issues I’ve raised, would be an incredible contribution to the platform.
September 15, 2020 at 4:38 am in reply to: Most interesting Mindset topic? (anything is fair game) #1010Good question, Matty B.
To be honest, I think that Stoicism is a good Swiss Army Knife of a system. It kind of has an answer, which is usually pretty predictable if you study it, to most daily situations. Now, I do NOT profess to have the kind of mind the ancient great stoics did, but some of my issues would be as follows:
1. Seems very idealistic. –> One kind of needs to learn about Stoicism before it is immediately required. What I mean by this is that if you are currently in a fit of rage, frustration, jealousy or what have you, trying at that moment to look into Stoic values won’t really help. You need to internalize and ideal stoic mindset to have the ability to pull this out of your cognitive toolkit when needed.
2. Doesn’t necessarily encourage emotionality towards good things. –> An issue with being supremely rational all the time, is that to allow yourself to get overly happy with something is allowing yourself to be lead by emotion. This fundamentally goes contrary to the necessary mindset you must adopt and PRACTICE if it is to be successful towards its desired end (which for a lot of ancients is resolve in the face of death).
I will add though, that Seneca has a pretty great saying with respect to stoicism that kind of answers my critiques. He says: “one must use one’s philosophy the way a hunter uses his knife…” I.e. the hunter does not simply attack everything and everyone around him because he carries his weapon. Rather, he uses it in very particular situations when needed. In this light, perhaps it is good to be emotional towards the things that elicit positive and pleasant emotionality from an agent, and only use you ‘stoic knife’ towards the things that render one sad, mad, or whatever else may want to be reasonably disarmed.
Hope that helps!
Hmmmmmmmm. Good questions, dude.
For me, I usually don’t take a cheat day until my body is kind of begging me. But obviously you have to be careful with this because those with an addiction to food will convince themselves that their body is begging them at every waking moment, lol. I will say that when I’m really on my diet, my desire to further my streak or push my results kind of keeps me off cheat days for the most part – that isn’t to say they should be avoided by everyone, however.
Next, I don’t believe one should abstain completely, but I do think that there are substances in some foods that when we adequately examine what they do to our bodies, are not worth their consumption – even one day every week or what have you. Additionally, some things like MSG and Sucralose (to name only 2 of the plethora), leave us craving them so much more the next day. For me, anyway, this usually leads to a 72-hour cheat day if I’m lucky. hahaha. Now maybe I’m just weak, but I’ve heard similar accounts from many different people.
To combat this, I try and limit even what I have on a cheat day (again, not the right approach for everyone). I try and view some foods I really need to dodge, the same way I see most of the stuff in the aisles of Toys R Us: Colorful, inviting, looks to be beautifully packaged by Michaelangelo himself but made of fuckin plastic i.e. NOT FOOD.
Now, if I am to completely abandon what I’ve said above my favorite junk food’s gotta be, Popeye’s chicken, Krispy Kreme’s, some sort of All You Can Eat Sushi (not necessarily junk), and some sort of chocolate hehehehe (yes, probably all in the same day)…
Yeah exactly man. I think also consistency in when you go to bed is best as in time, your body will naturally get you up when you need to.
Alternatively though, if you can’t seem to get to bed at about the same time everyday, avoiding the snooze button in the morning is your next best friend in my opinion. I guess the name of the game is regularity and consistency. Obviously though, its worth sleeping a little more if you went to bed at 7am and your alarm is set for 7:45am or whatever LOL.
Yeah Matt, I gotta agree with you again. Haha. Occasional use if definitely key. Like anything, nootropics can definitely be abused if mis or overused. I think the first approach is mastering diet and sleep in terms of optimizing brain performance.
And Greg, I also agree with you. However, as a forum builds not only will it encourage new conversation, it will contain unique information presented to users in a more casual manner that allows some people who are intimidated by articles to jump on in. 🙂
Yeah, mindset is great.
I think that mindset is probably the cornerstone to any sort of self-improvement. I mean, even in fitness, how can you expect to make any kind of progress if “consistency of mindset” – i.e. the thing that gets you to any long-term goal isn’t present.
However, after that, I’d probably say sleep and then nutrition next. As even if you eat crap, as long as the body is sleeping well, you might still be able to perform at a somewhat decent level. I couldn’t even imagine how miserably one would fail at life if they were to eat really well for 23 hours of a day and only sleep 1… haha!
Funnily enough, though, the sex category kind of starts the cycle all over though because if you came to UpRiver looking to improve your sex life or sexual health, it would be pretty clear that you should read the sex-stream and then go through the mindset stream as it’s estimated that some of the most popular sexual maladies and ailments men face as psychological/mental afflictions, not psychological (think PE, ED, over etc.)
What do you think of this order, Greg?
Ooooh yeah I actually totally agree with you. Carnivore and keto are very cool. To that I would add Paleo, and Veganism. A collection of their benefits and drawbacks. While I won’t reveal my hand just yet, I believe that some definitely have more advantages, while others are totally riddled with nasty drawbacks…
I think also it would be really cool if we were able to add a “nootropics and substances” stream. I think that with movies like “Lucy” and “Limitless” people are becoming more and more interested in if these substances (or ones similar) exist. I think it would be hugely beneficial if UpRiver covered some of the big and smaller names out there when it comes to smart-drugs and substances.
Does that kind of thing interest you, Matt?
September 9, 2020 at 4:26 am in reply to: Most interesting Mindset topic? (anything is fair game) #979Yeah, I’ve gotta say stoicism is amazing. I’d recommend that most people go ahead and make their way through the stoic greats – Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus. These guys are the bomb.
I would add, though, that there definitely are right and wrong translations of these books. It’s funny, while doing my Philosophy degree at U of T, the idea of good and bad translations really became apparent to me and the rest of my colleagues. If anyone if planning on reading any of these stoic heavy-hitters, please hit me up and I’d be happy to share my sources of the best, most readable, and most relatably translated to today’s world, editions of the greats!
September 9, 2020 at 4:18 am in reply to: Any rationale behind the length of time that you sleep? #977Hmm. Yeah, I agree with Matt especially about the regularity and schedule of your sleep. Another thing I’d say is I’ve personally found great benefit in checking out what my sleep chronotype was. In fact, I’ve recommended to lots of people that they all look into it and most of them have reported good results back.
If you really want to find some sort of sweet spot for your sleep routine, I’d also recommend some sort of biofeedback tool. That could be as technological (and freakin expensive) as an Oura Ring, or could be as low tech and intuitive as a sleep journal where you log your bedtime, and hours and look for trends. Try and keep most things controlled and the same, and week after week, change a single variable to see how it affects you. Consider warm or cold before bed, what time you sleep and what time you wake, do you meditate before bed or watch a relaxing video to calm down, pray, eat or fast? The possibilities are endless but using some sort of biofeedback can help a lot!
Hope that helps d00d 🙂
Here’s a curveball for y’all, try it raw! Obviously there’s a lot of talk online about raw meat and its potential dangers, but speaking from personal experience and quite a lot of literature that I’ve been lucky to stumble upon, raw liver has lots of benefits.
The cooking process or the heating of liver beyond 109 degrees breaks down some of the vitamins and minerals your body could be absorbing. I eat about 1-2oz a day.
3 cautionary notes though:
1. The flavour is a lot to handle at first and can be described as “creamy.” – not something a lot of people want their meat to feature lol.
2. Use your nose. If the meat is stinky (different from the normal liver funk) stay away from it. As humans we evolved very well to be able to literally smell out whether we ought to avoid something or not – especially putrid or rancid meat.
3. Make sure your meat is grass-fed, antibiotic and hormone free. As most of the toxins in an organic body of any species tend to concentrate in the organs, fat and skeletal muscle of an animal, we want to be eating the cleanest possible version of them to get a concentration of the GOOD stuff.
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Definitely figuring out the proper diet and sleep regiment for your body.
When it comes to being productive, happy and healthy, it seems to me that these two things are some of the best places to optimize. From everything to homework, to a hobby you’re working on or even physical performance, everything just seems to get better when you sleep and eat as your particular body needs.
Check out the Sleep Stream and the Nutrition Stream in conjunction. They really help and ultimately allow you to create a cornerstone upon which every other self-improvement hack or trick can be built!
One important thing that I’ve realized though: both when it comes to sleep or nutrition, one must take an individualist outlook. Things that work for one person do not necessarily work for everyone. Your ancestry, environment, and particular daily tasks all come together to call for different sleep and food approaches and it takes time, practice and ultimately patience to truly get these things down properly.
Anyone else feel me on this?
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