Interesting observation regarding the link to vision. Have you considered supplementing with NAC to help repair your lung tissues?
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I am now... I've heard of it but never used it. From searching it, it is a protein that you could be deficient in if you don't eat enough meat. I just don't eat enough, but I do focus on meat and avoid dangerous vegetables - there's a whole multi page list of vegetables I have to avoid because I get kidney stones. These health problems compound, I tell ya... Each one you get makes it easier to get another...
Yes, the cascade of downward health trend is remarkable when you consider how each thing contributed to the next and so on. Cut it off at the root and hopefully save all that trouble. Qapla' 👀
I've been battling leaky gut for years. The negative feedback loop of related health issues is brutal.
The chronic stress from the gut issues kills your mitochondria which ruins your sleep which raises your stress levels around and around until you are a zombie shell of your former self.
I think more of medicine should focus on breaking these negative feedback loops that our bodies fall into.
Yes, big yes. Doctors never fail to disappoint. The medicate and fail to educate, which is ironic because the Latin root for doctor means teacher.
Seconding the NAC suggestion. I suffered from a bad nasal drip, lots of gagging. It's gone. Even if catch a cold I barely feel it, can still breath through my nose, clear lungs. If you have acess to NAC then getting seasonal allergies and colds basically becomes a choice.
gets harder every day for me to relate to people who still are worried about catching COVID. I have basically treated it as a myth for the past three years and have had no negative consequences. I've never lost my sense of smell. Hell, I don't even wash my hands that often unless they get sticky. Everyone got brainwashed into forgetting how a immune system works. Not nearly enough people understood the lesson of the Emperor's new clothes.
There have been suggestions that NAC can even help the immune system break down remaining spike protein accumulations and eliminate any rogue cells still producing spikes // TBD if that's wishful thinking but maybe // it's clear these spikes have done more harm than good 👀
probably fasting helps too then, since it induces autophagy, which naturally is going to reduce the number of modified cells.
This has always seemed like the overlooked key. Long covid and vaccine issues are basically the same symptoms. They have the spikes in common.
It is crazy to me that ideology on both sides prevents people from seeing that and starting down that path of research.
i thought NAC was something that was good for improving metabolism?
NAC is a precursor to glutathione which is super important for a lot of functions most especially the immune system and supporting liver and lung functions -- I haven't heard much by way of metabolic improvement; perhaps you are thinking of methylene blue or possibly high-dose thiamine? 👀
carnitine has a definite effect on increasing ketosis and thus also in general energy utilization. i don't know the details of the suspected mechanisms but i know that's a major selling point for it, you can find carnitine and NAC in most body building supplement suppliers catalogs.
the N-acetyl ester is just more bioavailable form of carnitine, for similar reasons that diacetyl morphine is more bioavailable than morphine (the brand name "heroin" is literally the same modification of morphine as NAC is to carnitine). of course, backyard chemists can't get access to the easy reagent for doing this, there is other ways involving halo-substituted acetyls and such.
Fascinating. I had no idea carnitine and NAC were so similar but it makes sense! 👀
Reduced weight and BMI but not bf% equals lost muscle mass. Sketchy since grip strength and the strength to get up off the floor require muscle mass and are better correlated to independent lifespan than BMI or weight.
I think I'll skip this one and stick with my current plan.
Well there's another thing... My grip strength is less than a few years ago, despite my now lifting more and jogging longer. I'm the same weight, same body fat %, but I guess denser, except my grip is weak. Idk how to fix grip..
well there is a few things involved in fast twitch and sustained resistance. nerves are a part of this too. i'm pretty sure my vision problem is mostly nerves and very little muscle (some issue with electrolyte metabolism) and very little also with lens hardening, actually, the main problem is convergence, without correct convergence the brain can't send the right focus signal either (which can be caused by issues related to the kidneys as well, again linking back to electrolytes).
the other thing is grip is controlled by the muscles that make our forearms thick at the elbow side. fingers are not muscular hardly at all, they are just tied to strings mostly.
Any recommendations for improving forearm muscle? It is something my workouts miss
definitely pull-ups are a thing. you could also do stuff with swinging and batting stuff, that works the whole area. probably stuff like ... what's it called, the samourai sword dueling thing? but probably even things like practising throwing rocks would help, there's a lot more work going on with this stuff in that area than it looks like, because it has to coil up longer than the rest of the arm to get the explosive power.
Oh I like the rock throwing idea, I'm gonna go find a suitable big rock
yeah, i think that shit with flipping over tractor tyres also is related to this
Yeah but idk where to get a tractor tire and couldn't get it home even if I did (car-less)
Huh. Tire and tyre are different words... My resolution just gained a pixel.
yeah, british english uses "tyre" and that's also the name of a place ... ah, it is a city in lebanon.
the spelling is different in english to distinguish in text between "to become exhausted" versus "rubber ring/balloon wrapped around a wheel"
Its a good distinction. A very rare instance where I think we should copy the bri-ish
goot tinkink
Sounds vaguely German but I can't read it... Dutch detected
haha 'goot' means gutter in dutch.
there are tiles on the ground in amsterdam that say "hond in de goot" referring to them doing their poopies
Oddly, now I'm thinking of candies and pastries on a blue plate, because my dutch grandparents always made these dutch sounds and always had Dutch treats on dutch plates.
dutch treats, meaning lots of fruit and ginger right? or even literally very dutch things like salty licorice, pofertjes and other disgusting things like stroopwafelen
Licorice and stroopwaffel and "bonquette," however the f that's spelled. I was surprised to find that they use the exact same sugary almond paste in those treats they eat in China... The name escapes me right now... They eat shitloads of them around the Chinese new year. Moon... Something.
i think if you made a reasonable, adequate 30-40 character alphabet that covers all of the european language phonemes (bulgarian and russian and serbian combined have all of them, i think) and then render the phonetic form of every european language in this text, you'd be quite surprised to learn how many common sounds, and direct or orthogonal meanings there is.
it was one of the most amusing things after getting quite decent at bulgarian, going to serbia, and how many ways the languages were similar, by being opposite.
like:
zato shto
za shtoto
both of these words (serbian first, bulgarian second) means the same thing
the bulgarian word i put the space to show where the accented syllable is, it's written all as one word using the W symbol with the tail on it, SHT.
za to shto
zash to to
it's a tongue twister trying to say one word after you learn the other word.
there's a lot of funny connections between sounds too, like "baixo" (bai-sho) meaning "low" sounds a lot like the southern slavic word for father - bashta, and in serbian "bash" means "extremely"
there is a generally accepted hypothesis that all of the eurasian languages have a common ancestor and they have all been jumbled up. funny that. like it describes in genesis with the tower of babel. which sounds a lot like ... skyscrapers... and then a disaster that blew them up including mainly stuff falling out of the sky and the ground shaking.
it was kinda shocking to me reading the Book of Jasher how many references to modern european places it makes. Lombardy, the Seine river, and several other words that are clearly mangled versions of modern versions of european place names.
Book of Jasher... I better read it. I think I searched it once after you mentioned it before.
I definitely prefer "zato shto" - easier to pronounce, looks like maybe the same shto as Russian.
Baixo looks Chinese... It even works with meaning below - xo/sho could be a version of xia, which is below in Chinese. That was my first and most memorable Chinese lesson - one of my bosses couldn't speak English, and started teaching me Chinese. "Shang" "Xia" while indicating above and below a book. Very nice lady.
yeah, shto is related to the latin word 'est' also, but it means "why", in bulgarian they say "zashto" which basically sounds like "for why" and so "zashtoto" is "the why" because -to means "the" similar to the scheme that they also use in nordic countries with the postfix definite article, to, ta, and ut/at.
as a rule, serbian is much easier to pronounce for an english or west european speaker, compared to bulgarian, and bulgarian is like russian but faster and more staccato. russians can pretty much understand what serbs are saying without learning serbian also, and i have heard it referred to as being like "baby russian"
and yeah, that whole thing wish jest, which is written ECT in russian is the same as the latin "est" and there is some similar uses in portuguese too, it basically means "it is" and it's the same as the root of the english word "yes" and sounds very similar, yes, yest, yeste, eshte.
other words that are very close along these are "za" "fuer" "para" "por" the word "for" in english. that word "zato" means "for it" more or less literally, to is the neuter second person pronoun, what you use when refering to a child.
More staccato, eh? I might be good at it then. My Russian pronunciation always sounded like Italian. The rythm...
the hardest part is the rolled R, for me it was anyway. i did eventually get used to it, most southern and eastern european languages have it.
bulgarian's voicing rules makes it so you don't have to stop between syllables at all. in dutch they have similar rules but bulgarian takes it to an extreme.
Will people understand if your R-rolls are bad? I never aim for fluency. I have a trick, which is basically "talk too fast for my pronunciation to matter." And I know its annoying! But it works... Usually.
they can generally understand if you can't roll well, it's more about the vowels that makes it hard to understand.
Grip is heavily CNS based. It varies a lot from day to day depending on how much pent up stress you have.
This is something that bothers me about every fitness tracker. They are currently all only about the aerobic system. The musculoskeletal system and central nervous system also have independent stress and adaptation cycles. So your tracker can't tell at all if you are ready to deadlift again, only if you are ready for a jog. Of course they don't tell you that so it is easy to go burn yourself out deadlifting and your tracker won't notice until you have dug a hole so deep your CNS loses control of your resting heart rate.
everyone's metabolism is crinkled in different ways
until a few years ago i constantly had a problem of excess thermogenesis. made me a pariah in social situations, i couldn't have showered often enough to not be sweaty. i know my liver is a he-man of a liver which explains a lot of things. i've beaten his ass pretty bad in the last 20 years tho. i'm giving him some TLC these days. a little, anyway.
I'm really glad you brought up NAC... I've been reading about it and it seems like the doctor really should've recommended it for my kidneys. It speeds up the breakdown of toxins and reduces inflammation - my kidney function is about half what it should be, so I probably always have more toxins in my blood than I should have. I did an albumin test a few months ago and it showed I'm leaking protein, which I think is kindof evidence by proxy that toxins are not breaking down or leaving fast enough.
I supplement with arginine, citrulline and ornithine amino acids to improve metabolism. My metabolism is now like it was when I was in my twenties, maybe better.