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Grounded Coder. Learner. Java, Microservices, EAI, Integration.
Job seeker looking to travel.
Fighting T2 diabetes and depression.

[Ayurveda With Shyam @shyam_ayurved]

I started adding black rice to My meals a few times a week rich in anthocyanins fibre and antioxidant, it may support heart health steady energy, and healthy aging. Best enjoyed as part of balanced diet.

[Cat's account (Health, Tech) @BaagaddBilla]

@limitlesstack Is 10 mg daily okay for t2 diabetics? Or every alternate day?

5 mg seems to have limited effect. As per research, it peaks after 2-4 hours and reaches half life after 17.5 hrs.

[Dr. Jason Fung @drjasonfung]

Refined carbs are easy to overeat because they are processed foods, not natural foods.

They do not come with the same natural satiety signals.

The problem is not just “carbs.”

The problem is the refining and processing.

[Cat's account (Health, Tech) @BaagaddBilla]

@SamaHoole Every food contains carbs. Not possible to avoid them completely if my understanding is correct.

[Dr. Jason Fung @drjasonfung]

Snacking makes weight loss harder.

Every time you eat, you create pulses of insulin. Those pulses should be followed by long fasting periods.

Constant snacking keeps insulin elevated.

Eating more often won't help you lose weight.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In the driest desert on earth sits a mountain of discarded clothes so vast you can pick it out from space. Most of it is the synthetic fabric sold as fashion's future.

Here is where your wardrobe goes to not die.

- Tens of thousands of tonnes are dumped in Chile's Atacama every year, shipped in from Europe and North America, much of it never worn, tags still on
- A great deal is polyester and acrylic, plastic made from petroleum, the very fibres marketed as the conscious choice
- The rich world sends it here precisely to keep the mess off its own soil. The donated and the unsold alike end up in the sand
- In the bone-dry air it cannot rot, so it is torched instead, the toxic smoke of burning polyester drifting into the poor towns nearby
- Buried or burned, it bleeds microplastics, dye and petrochemicals into the ground and air for two centuries.

Plastic clothing was sold as the planet-friendly option and became a mountain in a desert, glowing on satellite photos and smoking over people's homes. Wool would have gone quietly back into the soil. This just sits there, refusing to leave.

[Cat's account (Health, Tech) @BaagaddBilla]

@SamaHoole Agree with your post though kerala may be a slightly wrong example. They do have high T2D rates (saw a map once).

[Cat's account (Health, Tech) @BaagaddBilla]

@NutriDetect I am worried about what else does it remove apart from arsenic.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"Seed oils lower your cholesterol." True. Now ask them how.

They do it by cramming your LDL full of linoleic acid, a flimsy little fat that oxidises if you so much as look at it funny. And oxidised LDL is the precise form that buries itself in your artery walls and gets the whole rot started.

But never mind that. The number went down. Print the certificate, ring the bell, tell the patient he's thriving.

They've handed you a tidier cholesterol reading and a bloodstream full of fat primed to turn rancid, and they expect a thank you for it.

A lower number on the page. A slow fire in the pipes. They'll only ever show you the page.

[The Androgen Lab @androgen_lab]

Boron is one of the most underrated elements in the male hormonal system.

Taking 10 mg daily for 7 days results in:
→ a 28% increase in free testosterone,
→ a 10% increase in DHT,
→ a 39% decrease in oestradiol,
→ a reduction in SHBG levels,
→ a reduction in inflammation (CRP and TNF-α markers).

Mechanism of action: Boron inhibits the enzymes responsible for the breakdown of free testosterone and reduces aromatase activity. This results in less conversion of testosterone to oestradiol, thereby increasing the amount of free hormone in circulation.

Cycling guidelines:
To avoid accumulation in tissues, follow a 5-day supplementation / 2-day break schedule. For longer cycles, a 5-week supplementation / 1-week break is recommended. The dose should be 10 mg per day – there is no evidence that higher doses produce better results, and there is a risk of exceeding safe limits.

Pre- and post-cycle testing:
It is advisable to test for: total and free testosterone, oestradiol (E2), SHBG and, optionally, DHT.

Precautions:
Boron tends to accumulate in bones and tissues. Kidney disease is a contraindication, as the kidneys are responsible for its elimination. Bear in mind that if your oestradiol levels are already low, boron may lower them even further, which will negatively affect your joints, libido and general well-being. Taking supplements ‘blindly’, without knowing your oestrogen levels, is risky.

Supplement form: Boron glycinate and calcium fructoborate have the highest bioavailability. Boron citrate and boron oxide should be avoided.

[Hans Amato @HansAmato]

Carbs don't cause diabetes.

The inability to handle carbs correctly does.

And the thing causing that inability isn't glucose.
It's excess free fatty acids.

Here's the mechanism everyone gets backwards:

Free fatty acids circulating in the bloodstream directly block glucose uptake at the cellular level. The cell cannot clear glucose properly when FFAs are blocking the receptor. The pancreas responds by releasing more insulin to compensate. Over time, more and more insulin is needed to do the same job.

This is insulin resistance.
Not caused by eating carbs.

Caused by excess FFAs preventing insulin from working.
Here's the proof: reduce dietary fat, inhibit lipolysis, inhibit fat oxidation -> insulin sensitivity improves dramatically. Without touching a single carbohydrate.

The drug that does exactly this (meldonium) is banned in sport as a performance enhancer because athletes using it were performing better.

Not by removing carbs.
By allowing their cells to actually burn them.

[The Androgen Lab @androgen_lab]

Your grandfather didn’t go to the gym. He didn’t take ashwagandha, and he didn’t track his HRV. And yet his testosterone levels were probably higher than yours.

He lived in a world where the “winner’s effect” was the foundation of everyday life. It’s a biological mechanism: every victory raises testosterone and cortisol levels, increasing the chances of further success. Evolution created this system to reward dominance and competition.

Your grandfather:
→ competed physically with other men,
→ created things with his own hands, seeing tangible results,
→ defended his family and territory,
→ faced the real world, where every action had real consequences.

You:
→ mindlessly scroll through your screen,
→ play games where failure costs nothing,
→ work in an office where displays of dominance are suppressed,
→ watch others’ lives instead of living your own.

Your endocrine system doesn’t realize it’s 2026. It’s still waiting for the signal that you’ve triumphed.

Give it that signal.

[George Ferman @Helios_Movement]

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[George Ferman @Helios_Movement]

Social isolation makes us sicker than we can imagine.

It's:

-Similar to smoking 15 cigarettes a day
-More harmful than not exercising
-Similar to being an alcoholic (consuming >6 drinks/day)
-Twice as harmful as obesity for mortality risk

There’s of course even more data such as that it raises cardiovascular mortality risk 61% in men and 31% in women

Connecting with other people is in our DNA.

[Dalton (Analyze & Optimize) @Outdoctrination]

"Normal" signs your overall health is worse than you think:

✧ Can't breathe out of both nostrils / congestion
✧ Time goes by fast
✧ Dizziness or light headedness when you stand up
✧ Low morning appetite
✧ Struggle to get out of bed
✧ Aversion to risk
✧ Thinning eyebrows
✧ Waking up in the middle of the night
✧ Sensitivity to bright light

[Cat's account (Health, Tech) @BaagaddBilla]

@StirlingWisdom How does an enlarged prostate cause PE? I understand that it presses the nerves and causes higher sensitivity. How to get around this without those DHT blocking drugs which cause loss of libido?

[Simmo @yoursimmo11]

Cold milk consumed alongside your eggs or whatever your breakfast of choice is, is one of the worst things you do to your digestion every morning.

Why?

Because milk isn't a drink. It's a dense, anabolic food, closer to a meal than to water.

Your body treats it like one.

The proteins curdle and break down slowly, on their own schedule. Drown that in a stomach already working on bread, fruit, and coffee, and you've handed your gut 2 jobs it digests at different speeds.

Cold on top slows the whole machine further.

The cultures that drank milk for 5,000 years knew this.

Warm.
Alone.
Away from the meal.

This is not superstition, it's the long memory of people who watched what worked. Modern food culture stripped the ritual and kept the convenience.

You got the milk and lost the instructions. Eat it like the food it is, or leave it (in the East, they understand this intricately within, Ayurveda and Chinese medicine but in the West, we get it very wrong).

[Simmo @yoursimmo11]

Cut whole food groups and you manufacture the exact deficiencies the supplement industry is thrilled to sell back.

Carnivore men buying vitamin C and fiber pills to replace the plants they swore off.

The elimination diet and the supplement aisle feed each other.

[Hans Amato @HansAmato]

Cutting carbs doesn't make you metabolically flexible.

It makes you metabolically specialized.

There's a difference.

Metabolic flexibility means the ability to switch between fuel sources on demand -> burning fat when fat is available, burning carbs when carbs are available, transitioning smoothly between both.

Cut carbs long enough and carb oxidation capacity drops. The enzymes downregulate. The machinery gets repurposed. Your body adapts because adaptation is what it does.

Now you're excellent at burning fat.
And increasingly bad at burning carbs.

That's not flexibility. That's a narrowed operating range wearing a health halo.

The man who can only thrive on one fuel source isn't metabolically flexible.

He's metabolically dependent, just on a different substrate than before.

True flexibility means the machinery for both is intact and ready.

You don't build that by eliminating one of them.

[Hans Amato @HansAmato]

You think you need better stress management.

Actually, no. You need to fix what's making you hypersensitive to stress in the first place.

Breathing techniques work. Meditation works. Cold exposure works.

For about forty-five minutes.

Then the same input (an email, a traffic jam, a difficult conversation) triggers the same cascade. Because you never touched the system that's generating the hypersensitivity.

What's generating it: depleted magnesium, zinc, and B6. GABA synthesis impaired. Gut inflammation keeping cortisol chronically elevated. Endotoxin activating TLR4 on immune cells throughout the nervous system.

You can manage an overactive alarm system indefinitely.
Or you can fix the wiring that's making it fire.