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Basics I’ve Learned being a functional medicine doctor for 5 years and working in the emergency department for 10 years.

Sleep is by far the most important factor to achieving health.

Then food and exercise should be considered equal. Exercise determines the blueprint for what your body will be constructing. Food is the raw materials. It’s really that simple.

You are made out of red meat and a lot of water. Your body works very well with lots of both. Fruit and vegetables feed the bacteria and give the body many nutrients that are required for basic life functions. You aren’t made out of either so a diet that is mostly comprised of fruits and vegetables will never be adequate for optimal health.

Processed foods are garbage.

Sunlight provides hormone synthesis, nitric oxide, and happiness. Don’t burn and get your battery charged daily if possible. Animals move around in the sun early morning and late afternoon. Those are the safest times to be in the sun if you worry about burning.

Goals are necessary for happiness. People working towards something are always my happiest patients.

Do something for yourself everyday. Have fun everyday.

Debt is destructive to your stress management biology. The goal should be to get out of debt as soon as possible.

They aren’t going down without a fight. Better just to start the fight now and collapse the dollar.

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Moment of vulnerability here, wondering if anyone has had a similar experience before.

I completely LOST it on another person's kid today when I thought they had intentionally hurt my daughter, but I was wrong and now I feel horrible.

Context: on a road trip with another family. The other child has behavioral issues and has been known to get physical in the past with others at school and daycare. Over the course of the trip he's been pretty poorly behaved and aggressive but not downright violent... but I had it in the back of my mind that it could happen.

My daughter was playing with him in the other room, then suddenly runs out screaming, bleeding from the mouth and saying that he had hit her. I've never experienced anyone intentionally hurt my little girl and I instantly flew into protective dad mode before properly assessing the situation. In my mind he had punched her in the mouth.

I stormed into the room and flew into a rage, screaming at the absolute top of my lungs, pointing my finger in the kid's face saying to NEVER touch her EVER again. His mom was right behind me. He was likely terrified and I was honestly way beyond any level of anger I've ever felt.

In the next minute or two my daughter then clarified that it was an accident and they had been playing rough but had unintentionally slammed into each other.

The boy cried, his mom was in shock, and she also had tears in her eyes. I feel absolutely awful about the whole situation, I should have had more self control, and I'm a little in shock how quickly I became an absolute monster to a young kid.

I apologized in the moment to both of them and sent a message after saying I should have handled the situation better.

Just really upset about the whole thing, unsure how to proceed now. Any girl dads out there ever have this happen to them?

Nothing wrong with being weary of a kid with behavioral issues. The way you responded is just part of growing up. It will happen again and next time you’ll be better.