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nfearurspecimn posted...

MTB = MounTain Biker and Roadie = street biker, right?

No, the mountain biker is the right is right winger, the skinni roadie is the lefty that sips chai latte teas and complains about it being too spicy to the barista

Stallion_Prime posted...

Did you not read what i fucking said..lol

I mean, I'd post tons of videos of antifa kids getting KTO'd but it's against gfaqs terms of service.

Here's a classic, the antifa dude had a weapon, the proudboi just takes the whack, jabs em and pushes his limp torso to the pavementhttps://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/9/AAeURcAAC3ab.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/8/AAeURcAAC3aa.jpg

Xethuminra posted...

comparing outdoorsmen to athletes?

Check yourself.

Oh yeah I don't think much of kids activities where you throw and chase a ball around. I mean they are great for kids and dogs, and beer gut chumps to yell at the TV and sporting some whack jerseys

Stallion_Prime posted...

Right wingers tend to not know how to fight without guns

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/5/5/AAeURcAAC3aX.jpg

Xethuminra posted...

I'd be willing to wager most athletes hold liberal / democratic views..... but take to conservative / republican sponsorship as a result of the viewerbase, which is rightwing majorally.

Pro athletes are nothing but entertainment
Your average trail runner or mountain biker or kayaker is not a prissy whiney complaining lefty

All wrestlers are bastards and druggies

Probably influenza when I was around 8 years old, fever dreams I remember vividly.

Currently staying in from COVID positive test. Day 7 now, symptoms have subsided and returning to work Monday. Worse symptom was a cough and chills at night. Probably had pneumonia.

Take care CE

Last time I got modded for saying what my COVID symptoms were and what I compared it to. However I'm not over 70 years old, I don't drink alcohol nor caffeine, smoke, eat fat, and am easily in top 1% in physical shape on this entire website.

rivers posted...

cool, tracking something in particular, perhaps in a similar kind of experiment, or just trying to stay ahead of the curve?

Total cholesterol right now is 189, HDL 50 (up from 36), LDL 99. That's a pretty typical TC for me; however, although my HDL is up in the short term, it used to average around 90, and LDL more like 70. Some context here is that I'm about 20 pounds heavier than I was for most of those blood tests, presumably that's why my trigs (now declining) were elevated coming into this, so I expect the recent reversal to continue as I shed fat. In fact, until the last week or so, since starting this diet, I've been averaging around 3000 kcals/day, and I haven't been very active. I wanted to prevent weight loss in the beginning in order to prevent that from influencing initial results. I didn't gain any weight despite eating too much. That's not to say everyone would have the same experience.

As far why I started. Short version: felt like crap for a long time even though I was relatively young and lean. Discovered I had sleep apnea a year ago, couldn't tolerate CPAP, got surgery to expand nasal aperture, finally succeeded with CPAP, and started to have more energy and get by without caffeine, but some issues lingered. Signs pointed to biological stress. Went on high-carb, high-sugar diet to reduce stress, with the island of Kitava, Walter Kempner, and Ray Peat as key influences.
Way too long version: well, a little fat loss is a goal, although I'm actually pretty lean and could have done just by eating less on any diet. Basically, I've been interested in health and fitness for a long time, and until recently only had short-term blips of success. I had to limit exercise to once or twice a week or I'd start to feel like crap and not recover between sessions. I had high blood pressure at the doctor's office and at work, but not at home--in fact, at home it was common for me to have low blood pressure, but only while lying down. (This is normal now: 120/75 across positions and heart rate doesn't elevate when standing.) On blood tests, everything usually looked good, although my TSH was usually close to 4--not high enough to be considered hypothyroidism by the general criteria, but it always stood out to me, especially because I had low energy (too low "for me" compared to how I was right before this started in my teens) and cold hands. The median is around 1.5. The other thing that stood out is DHEA-S, which was above the normal range every single time I measured it, regardless of diet. DHEA-S is a marker of biological stress; relevant to the OP, it's an adrenal hormone. This month, for the first time, it was in the middle of the normal range.
I'd known for a while that carbohydrate, especially in the form of sucrose, is anti-stress (Ray Peat), and that high carb diets can be healthy long term (e.g. see the Kitavans, or for an extreme example the work of Walter Kempner, who pioneered the Rice Diet). I benefited from adding carbs, but I never got my carbohydrate:fat ratio much above the typical diet, and I never felt comfortable adding sugar, despite accepting Ray Peat's points. It's just so antithetical to what I've been taught.
Addressing sleep apnea over the last year was huge, but not enough. I finally started getting stronger, but plateaued quickly. I'm still really thin despite the fat I have to lose (visceral), so it's not as if I've exhausted newbie gains. Having tried everything else was what it took to push me to this anti-stress diet, and so far I'm loving it. Starting to gain again and I can work out more often, presumably because I'm no longer constantly catabolic and can actually store glycogen in my muscles.
Looking back, my issues started as a teenager, right around the time my subjective sleep quality started to suffer. My doctor thinks my sleep apnea kicked off all the way back then due to structural changes associated with puberty, and I think it's the long-term damage of undetected sleep apnea that has necessitated an unusual diet.

Keep hammering brother

WingsOfGood posted...

Did they negotiate to pay you less since you had less than the required experience?

No, and I negotiated higher pay due to being a bad mother fucker that can lead a team to exceed expectations. You just have to have this mindset where you kick ass and Excel in life. If you're a sad wimpy sad doge you get treated as such. You gotta be that cocky buff alphadoge dude.

420TwiZtiD420 posted...

If you show up, keep your mouth shut, put in plenty of overtime, your boss will be able to take that second vacation he's been planning.

Yeah isn't it awesome? But you left out where I buy a sweet new ride, and maybe that jetski or dirt bike I've been eyeing

I got a job that "required" 2 years warehouse experience, and had 0.

MrMallard posted...

You mean evangelical Christians are mostly massive bigots? Color me shocked.

Also, if you want to mod me for this - I grew up in a largely Christian society with Christian ideals of decency. I get to punch up at a power structure I've lived under my whole life.

Prejudice and stereotypical, you're a bad person

MushroomMuncher posted...

That just means atheists don't even have a high opinion of themselves lmao. Its been shown Atheists are one of the most hated groups in America, even in the nonreligious circles

Meanwhile its not surprising that Christians have a high opinion and a holier than thou attitude

This is prejudice and stereotypical. You're a bad human being.

You've never been to the middle East, have you? Jews & Muslims live in perfect flawless utopia, it's amazing, and they welcome all Christians and Catholics and treat they like royal guests

Poor mod wouldn't even be able to go on a video stream, let alone a live one on air

Lots of happy customers across the globe

Dakimakura posted...

i like drugs

Drugger

ScazarMeltex posted...

He's what morons think an intellectual is/should be.

Can you name a proper intellectual? Someone you look up to?

Questionmarktarius posted...

then, why is it addictive?

Everything addictive is not a drug

rivers posted...

I'm approaching two months on a diet high in carbohydrate (>80%) with plenty of added sugar. I've done bloodwork twice during this experiment. My blood glucose has been in the low 80s (mg/dl), HbA1c 5%, and triglycerides declining. Also, my TSH has gone from an average of well over 3 down to 1.1, by far the lowest I've ever recorded in over 10 years of testing, rendering my cold hands and feet a thing of the past after 20 years of dealing with them. Even walking outside in sub-zero (F) weather, I swear it feels about 30 degrees warmer to me.
So, I feel pretty good about sugar.
Caffeine is interesting to me. I think that for most people, in moderate amounts, it can be a good thing, and this in part because of its slightly toxic properties. Hormesis.
Unfortunately, I have definitely noticed that I do better without it, including getting more complete sleep starting two or three nights nights after giving it up. I used to consume it very liberally, in part motivated by the fact that I have a fast caffeine metabolism genotype (high CYP1A2 activity). But it turns out that the primary metabolite of caffeine, paraxanthine, which has similar effects to caffeine, itself is metabolized mostly (about two thirds) by a different enzyme, 2A6, which I do not produce at all because of a rare genetic variant. So, my 1A2 has to do the double duty of breaking down caffeine and its byproduct, which may extend the quarter life of systemic effects of caffeine consumption to days.
My 2A6 genotype with effectively zero activity of the enzyme is rare, but there is a minority with reduced activity who probably also shouldn't be taking caffeine very often. I suspect low 2A6 activity is disproportionately high in people who become very enthusiastic about caffeine avoidance.

Variants of CYP2A6 are usually explored for their relationship to smoking. People with low activity of the enzyme are less likely to smoke cigarettes and find it easier to quit because they convert less nicotine to cotinine, its psychoactive byproduct. In my case, I convert none. When I found that out it really made sense: I had experimented with Swedish tobacco, nicotine gum, and vaping in the past, and never felt anything from it.

rivers posted...

I'm approaching two months on a diet high in carbohydrate (>80%) with plenty of added sugar. I've done bloodwork twice during this experiment. My blood glucose has been in the low 80s (mg/dl), HbA1c 5%, and triglycerides declining. Also, my TSH has gone from an average of well over 3 down to 1.1, by far the lowest I've ever recorded in over 10 years of testing, rendering my cold hands and feet a thing of the past after 20 years of dealing with them. Even walking outside in sub-zero (F) weather, I swear it feels about 30 degrees warmer to me.
So, I feel pretty good about sugar.
Caffeine is interesting to me. I think that for most people, in moderate amounts, it can be a good thing, and this in part because of its slightly toxic properties. Hormesis.
Unfortunately, I have definitely noticed that I do better without it, including getting more complete sleep starting two or three nights nights after giving it up. I used to consume it very liberally, in part motivated by the fact that I have a fast caffeine metabolism genotype (high CYP1A2 activity). But it turns out that the primary metabolite of caffeine, paraxanthine, which has similar effects to caffeine, itself is metabolized mostly (about two thirds) by a different enzyme, 2A6, which I do not produce at all because of a rare genetic variant. So, my 1A2 has to do the double duty of breaking down caffeine and its byproduct, which may extend the quarter life of systemic effects of caffeine consumption to days.
My 2A6 genotype with effectively zero activity of the enzyme is rare, but there is a minority with reduced activity who probably also shouldn't be taking caffeine very often. I suspect low 2A6 activity is disproportionately high in people who become very enthusiastic about caffeine avoidance.

Variants of CYP2A6 are usually explored for their relationship to smoking. People with low activity of the enzyme are less likely to smoke cigarettes and find it easier to quit because they convert less nicotine to cotinine, its psychoactive byproduct. In my case, I convert none. When I found that out it really made sense: I had experimented with Swedish tobacco, nicotine gum, and vaping in the past, and never felt anything from it.

rivers posted...

I'm approaching two months on a diet high in carbohydrate (>80%) with plenty of added sugar. I've done bloodwork twice during this experiment. My blood glucose has been in the low 80s (mg/dl), HbA1c 5%, and triglycerides declining. Also, my TSH has gone from an average of well over 3 down to 1.1, by far the lowest I've ever recorded in over 10 years of testing, rendering my cold hands and feet a thing of the past after 20 years of dealing with them. Even walking outside in sub-zero (F) weather, I swear it feels about 30 degrees warmer to me.
So, I feel pretty good about sugar.
Caffeine is interesting to me. I think that for most people, in moderate amounts, it can be a good thing, and this in part because of its slightly toxic properties. Hormesis.
Unfortunately, I have definitely noticed that I do better without it, including getting more complete sleep starting two or three nights nights after giving it up. I used to consume it very liberally, in part motivated by the fact that I have a fast caffeine metabolism genotype (high CYP1A2 activity). But it turns out that the primary metabolite of caffeine, paraxanthine, which has similar effects to caffeine, itself is metabolized mostly (about two thirds) by a different enzyme, 2A6, which I do not produce at all because of a rare genetic variant. So, my 1A2 has to do the double duty of breaking down caffeine and its byproduct, which may extend the quarter life of systemic effects of caffeine consumption to days.
My 2A6 genotype with effectively zero activity of the enzyme is rare, but there is a minority with reduced activity who probably also shouldn't be taking caffeine very often. I suspect low 2A6 activity is disproportionately high in people who become very enthusiastic about caffeine avoidance.

Variants of CYP2A6 are usually explored for their relationship to smoking. People with low activity of the enzyme are less likely to smoke cigarettes and find it easier to quit because they convert less nicotine to cotinine, its psychoactive byproduct. In my case, I convert none. When I found that out it really made sense: I had experimented with Swedish tobacco, nicotine gum, and vaping in the past, and never felt anything from it.

Awesome man. What made you make the change? How are HDL and LDL levels? I get routine blood work done too

Change my mind, if you can.
I'll wait

Poison

Will_VIIII posted...

I have him tagged as an antivaxxer

How do you keep tabs on gfaqs users?

RobertDoback posted...

I'm sorry, I'm not understanding what you're saying.

India had people test positive and still went about their regular life with zero quarantine or even masks or staying away from others

Smashingpmkns posted...

After doing a bunch of research I've basically realized that the difference in quality from $200-$500 products in surround sound or any kind of home theater sound products is almost negligible. Or at least not significant enough to warrant the difference. I'd just get a cheap 5.1 system until you can afford something better.

Doin the wrong research. You just want a simple plig and play but you know that speakers are actually superior

Imagine when the vaccine is expired and they all need new booster VII

Cause forget telling people to lose weight

RobertDoback posted...

Was thinking about that today. Though it'd have to last about a month.

It could have been so different had we done it right.

Why? India and other huge nations across the globe had people faking passports, and lying about positive results because not working means not eating

Hahahahahaha my posts get deleted here
Enjoi the de@th sht

Same
Cause clearly, masks work, social d works, quarantine works, v@|ne works

harley2280 posted...

Sounds like a good epitaph on the tombstones for anti-vaxers.

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The vaccine isn't the cure. It's great for the elderly and obese and diabetic and those that don't want severe symptoms
Not necessary for those that are strong, fit and athletic individuals.

Yeah but all you need to do is order their groceries and supplies

The speakers on soundbars are little 2-3" paper cups. You don't need a 4 foot long narrow box to hold 3" speakers. They have awful tonal qualities compared to actual stand alone speakers.

Soundbars /look/ good but sound subpar. Get actual speakers, 2.1 system you don't need 7.1 for great audio.

Temporal posted...

Ah, the man who is juiced to the gills on a variety of substances is afraid to take the vaccine because it could cause "side effects"

Rogan has been a joke for a long time and it's appalling how many dipshits still revere him.

His body his choice

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