Polls: Health & Fitness

I do, and I'm wondering just how abnormal I am.

Now imagine the same physique with white skin

If you're unfamiliar with peptides, they aren't a medicine, they are a synthetic supplement that replaces what you lose as you age. A year and a half ago I had significant injuries in both knees and both Achilles requiring surgery with long recovery. I couldn't walk and was gaining weight. My doctor had an alternative treatment involving peptides which I started 8 months ago. I started Zepbound to treat weight loss, high blood pressure and sleep apnea but switch to Retatrutide 6 months ago which is the next gen of GLP-1s. My blood pressure went from super high to normal, my wife says I no longer snore and my weight is back to normal. Once the weight was off, four months ago we addressed my injuries with BPC-157 and TB-500 and for the first time in 20 years I no longer have ankle pain or knee pain. I'm not 100% but closer to 90% going 8 weeks on and 4 weeks off of treatment and I should be close to 100% when this cycle ends. Surgery would've been a year long recovery. I had been prescribed TRT but switched to a peptide Kisspeptin-10 so now my body produces enough T on its own. The peptide Semax has reversed what concussions took away and I now have a photographic memory.

There are risks for sure but I get blood tests and regular checkups from a doctor. I buy from a Chinese factory and that can easily go wrong if you don't know what you're doing. But, I feel 16 again. I heal like a teenager, I have energy like a teenager and out of desperation all my aches and pains are gone and for me it was worth the risk. I do not recommend doing this without a doctor and peptides from a reputable manufacture with verified purity tests from an independent lab.

For those of you over 40, if you could take a few needles a week to turn back the clock, no more aches and pains, injuries heal in a couple weeks instead of a few months, be sharp as a tack, and be fit in half the time, would you do it?

After reflecting on how the most bullshitful things i recently talked about all were suggested to me by people i trusted and while i was under stress, though they weren't trying to brainwash me and i wasn't trying to be in a trance, i recognized that stress makes us suggestible from an extreme and unfortunate example.

But the same mechanism still happens among people who have chronic low grade stress (which is >99% of everyone living in the modern world) the more stressed we are the more suggestible we are, no matter how hard we try not to copy others.

So, have you found yourself fighting an uphill battle of trying to stop copying someone? And do you feel emotional pain often (i believe grieving is the only way to purge chronic low grade stress, but we must grieve the very oldest thing we ever repressed)?

Experts say that brushing your tongue is essential for removing bacteria, food debris, and dead cells, helping prevent bad breath and supporting overall oral health.

The tongue harbors bacteria, food particles, and dead cells that can accumulate in the crevices between taste buds and other tongue structures, forming a biofilm that contributes to bad breath and may affect dental health. Studies show that approximately 85% of bad breath cases originate from tongue coating, and regular cleaning can reduce volatile sulfur compounds, the main cause of oral malodor, by up to 75%. Cleaning the tongue also enhances taste perception and can improve the quality of life for individuals with dry mouth.

So, do you also brush your tongue?

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I often wake u in the middle of the night, sometimes to go to the bathroom, sometimes not. I usually fall back asleep in a few minutes and then wake up at the usual time.

So, a fairly ytpical night for me is...

Midnight - go to bed; 3am - Wake up; 330am - Fall back asleep; 7am - Wake up and Get up

What about you?

Do you sleep all night long, or wake up in the middle of the night.

Please vote in the poll, and tell us your story.

if so say yes or no in comments as well as the poll

I could not understand why I'm being told I'm not being "cultural" enough as a kid. Sit straight, legs down. Etc.

Truth be told, when you're yelled at for not sitting right in a way that feels life threatening, it only makes your body involuntarily curl up and put your feet up again. That's just fear response.

Well that's my oldest memory of eating food, a daily occurrence.

But then you do learn to sit straight but you chew really really really fast. And you have old people tell you SLOW DOWN, MY DOCTOR TOLD ME TO CHEW SLOWLY, IT IS HEALTHIER.

I assume that means, when they were younger they lived through the same shit.

And then i would hear on podcasts how chewing slowly makes us digest food better. So? Self torment. Just move like a robot. Sudden movements and pauses. Of course i am exaggerating. And i have to, because i am fully certain that more people in the world do a degree of this than not.

And that is the difference between eating and devouring: baseline stress levels. You think you're fine. You truly do. But your body does not.

And, by the way, i really really hope someone will listen to this piece of advice: Never say "I'm fine" if you have even a smallest, quantum sized doubt that you are.

If you do, we cannot be friends. But you are allowed to say "i just don't know, i do not feel at ease."

Not because i haven't figured it out already. But because it is a lie and is harmful to both parties.

But back to the main topic. I LOATHE devouring food greedily. It disgusts me. As soon as i take a bite too huge, i lose appetite, i remember my dad and his friends devouring foodstuff like pigs. Feeling a sense of disgust is good, feel as much of it as you can to train your body not to repeat it. But it isn't not enough, you also need honesty.

For many years i struggled to be different. Now, i am relaxed and perfectly doing the "cultural" thing they all tried to mimic and failed. Just relax and slowly, quietly eat your biologically blessed food.

It's impossible to forget them once you have grasped. But i heard about them MORE than a 100 times. And still kept forgetting.

No cognitive issues. But it was a defense mechanism. There is no way that to study it as extensively as i did and keep forgetting it is just a coincidence with me also fearing to be changed. Wanting to be changed but there is a huge reason why i became this way, to survive.

Both of my clinger-pusher parents are fearful-avoidant because of their pretty bad traumas growing up, till this day they get scared when complimented, for example.

And i learnt that the most widespread recommendations are very harmful, like; "it's no use overthinking" or "love your parents" These spoken excuses always push the anxiety further down so tightly it overflows out as irrationality.

i rarely see my parents and when i do i cannot bring myself to tell them:

Forgiving should come naturally, not through ideology. Just like breathwork never worked for me until opening up my emotions triggered the breathing changes naturally. It is ok to look like you're possesed for days while pouring out the repressed anxiety.

They still press it down with either "we blamed them, they wronged us, now forgive and move on" (my dad) or "they suck, let's revenge forever" (my mom).

Last time i told mom "i have had this bad habit forever, it is finally going away!" she rudely acknowledged and dismissed it in one same sentence.

I think everyone who refuses to investigate this topic and to persist until trauma psychology becomes as clear as adding 1+1, is afraid of finding out they have issues - even if they know they do - because we developed our issues as a means to survive. letting go of daddy issues frightens us to death, it has been our survival strategy.

The tragedy is that 40% of all adults have UNRESOLVED infancy anxiety issues and seek relationships to cope with them instead of fixing their body's repressed panic.