Lawrence Elliot

Reforging Masculine Identity through Psycho-Biological Alchemy. Private Channel ➡️

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

Part.2 for anyone who’s wondered how someone can put on 20 lbs of muscle using a minimal dose of PEDs

While someone else will struggle to gain 5lbs using triple the amount..

https://t.co/inrB2T2SgS

[Sam Empie @sam_empie]

Shout out to @LawrenceElliots writings on AR sensitivity

His Substack post is easily the most comprehensible one on this topic that I’ve read so far

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@doctorcalf For me - somewhere between Memantine & Clonidine

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

The other today I made a post on the paradoxical-fatigue effect some users experience from caffeine

I’ll now list the work arounds:

Caffeine-alternatives for the ‘ADHD’ phenotype 🧵

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

Endless becoming is attractive because it postpones Being

You chase optimisation because it eliminates authorship + absolves you from confrontation with the self.

‘Optimisers’ exist in the liminal - they view themselves through the lens of the ‘prototype’

As long as improvement is procedural, you never have to decide who you are

And if there are no bounds to your becoming, you will never reach a meaningful conclusion.

you just remain an ‘unfinished’ piece in perpetuity.

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

Why are there a number of reports circulating claiming that Melanotan 2 (the 'tanning peptide') is drastically reducing autistic symptoms in diagnosed users?

Turns out Melanotan II isn't just a tanning drug.

Melanotan II hits melanocortin receptors in a non-selective manner

and melanocortin receptor activation not only alters melanin expression..

through convergent effects on oxytocin release, autonomic regulation, neuroimmune signalling, and social reward salience, it alters behavioural expression too...

(hypothetically) For some autistic phenotypes, this 'tanning peptide' may potentially alleviate social ambiguity whilst increasing social fluidity.

Isn't it ironic that mainstream medicine will spend decades testing clean molecules against 'dirty' pathologies

Bodybuilders & 'biohackers' will inject 'dirty' molecules and accidentally discover 'clean' biological relationships

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

The other today I made a post on the paradoxical-fatigue effect some users experience from caffeine

I’ll now list the work arounds:

Caffeine-alternatives for the ‘ADHD’ phenotype 🧵

[asparagoid @asparagoid]

Just remembered the world sauna championship. Was one of the most interesting things I've read about

It used to be hosted in Finland every year until the incident in 2010. Rules were that it started at 110°C (230F). Then 1 litre of water was poured onto the stove every 2 minutes

The last person to walk out under their own power won

In 2010, both finalists had to be dragged out

The russian finalist died, burned all over, and the reigning Finnish champ went into a coma and woke up 6 weeks later with 70% of his skin burned, kidney failure and his airways completely roasted

One peculiar thing about it was there were no prizes. Only in one particular year did the winner get 1 small prize, some special heat resistant speakers that could be used in a sauna

But despite this, participants went to the edge of death every year and would do insane stuff like grow their hair out long specifically to cover their ears so it didn't get burned by the boiling water vapor

It was interesting to me because it's another piece of evidence that as soon as you create a ruleset... no matter how ridiculous it is, no matter how small the group of participants, no matter the extremely chance of death, and no matter a total lack of prizes. There will always be men willing to compete to the point of actually killing themselves

The male brain enters a kind of hypnotic trance where it will completely convince itself of the worthwhileness of the task, so long as it begins to venture seriously down the path of a competitive interest

It's kind of like a hijacking of the programming evolutionary mind, where no incentive makes sense but it happens anyway. You can find a million examples of this for every male interest on the planet. Just the simple act starting down a path confers it meaning to the person, and the more they are surrounded by other men who care about the same thing, the more they learn and compete, the more entranced by it they are, until their identity is fully subsumed by it and stuff like these sauna deaths happen

Seeing lots of things like this taught me to be very careful when I start down the path of any competitive interest or business, because getting hypnotized by what you are doing is essentially guaranteed. So it's good to assume it'll happen and be totally sure the outcome is worth your potential self-destruction

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@SSavson excellent take

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@LifeSaudiArabia I’ve been waiting my entire life for this

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

When you realise the cultural impact of pervasive SSRI use (worsened by GLP’s) , you understand how dystopian these figures are.

SSRI's are prescribed as mood 'stabilisers'..

Really, they are ‘blunting’ tools.

Except blunting doesn’t only mean ‘less sad’

it also means less disgust, less urgency, less attraction, less reaction (+ less intuition about what is ‘wrong’)

What’s the outcome?

A ‘contained’ threat system

The individual maintains at a higher baseline of perceived ‘safety’.

polarity dissolves, the world loses its contrast.

they will now tolerate more and pursue less.

For men, masculine spirit is eviscerated.

SSRI’s essentially serve as a pharmacological-lobotomy, keeping the patient inline whilst severing the innate, universal human desire to ‘expand’.

SSRI’s have no place in modern medicine

[Nicolas Badre @BadreNicolas]

Women are prescribed antidepressants at about twice the rate as men. This has been pretty consistent for decades.

However the rate in both groups has multiplied almost x8 since the early nineties.

[BROTHER LOBO 🐺⚔️ @ellobosalvaje]

Cardio is mostly mental. I’ve believed this for years but I’m finally able to articulate why.

Watch some of the best wrestlers in the world right now. Bo Bassett. Mitchell Messenbrink. Jax Forrest. These guys look like they have unlimited gas. People assume it’s some elite VO2 max, some superior aerobic engine. That’s not what’s happening.

Pay attention to how they move. They’re playing.

Every shot isn’t life or death. Every scramble is an opportunity rather than a life or death crisis. They attack from bad positions. They back out and reset without hesitation if the feeling isn’t there. There’s a looseness to everything they do that looks almost casual, but on the other side of that casual posture is devastating effectiveness.

That looseness isn’t a technique quirk. It’s a performance state. It’s the reason their cardio looks supernatural.

Here’s what I think is actually going on:

Tightness is metabolically expensive. When you’re stressed aka afraid, afraid of giving up position, afraid of losing, afraid of looking bad, your body begins to brace for impact. Muscles that shouldn’t be working are working overtime. Your breathing changes. Your movement loses fluidity. Every action costs more than it should. You’re not gassing because your lungs are small. You’re gassing because fear has a fuel cost.

The playful athlete doesn’t have that overhead. Their nervous system isn’t running a threat response in the background. This makes movement much cheaper. It makes decisions come faster. They can sustain a pace that looks impossible because for them, it actually is easier.

This is why you can’t just coach someone to “attack more.” Coaches can tell their guys to go out and attack. That’s good solid advice. But if the athlete isn’t in a playful state, if they’re tight, if every offensive sequence feels like a high stakes gamble, the instruction won’t translate. The body can’t cooperate. The mind will second guess everything they do. They’ll gas early with no idea as to why.

The fighters that seem to have infinite endurance have trained themselves, or were born with a different relationship to competition. They reduce competition from a high stakes battle to a simple game.

I’ve watched this in myself for years doing jiu jitsu and boxing. The only time I get tired is when I leave that state. When I’m loose, playing, experimenting, being creative, my energy expenditure is different. I do things I didn’t know I could do. Time moves differently. The round ends and I’m surprised it’s over. The moment I get tight, whether it’s ego, whether it’s fear, bad position, someone catching me off guard, my gas disappears almost immediately.

That’s not a coincidence. That’s the mechanism.

And here’s where it gets deeper: some athletes have to almost die to find that state. You’ve seen it in fights. A guy gets badly hurt, nearly finished, he survives and then something releases. The fear burns off. The body stops bracing. And suddenly the guy who looked dead comes back to life and starts performing at a level he couldn’t access before getting dropped.

That state was available the whole time. He didn’t need to get hurt to find it. He just needed to let go of what was costing him.

The best athletes don’t need the near death experience. They walk out already there.

Ali boxed like Ali talked, light, taunting, dancing, impossible to hold. Tyson boxed like Tyson looked, coiled, explosive, total predator. The ring doesn’t create a new person. It reveals the one that’s already there.

Which means the real question isn’t “how do I build more cardio.” It’s “who am I when I compete, and is that person loose enough to play?”

The future of grappling and combat sports belongs to the athletes who figured out play is the highest performance state. Not getting hyped up. Not being ultra aggression. Not discipline grinding through pain.

Play. Loose. Passionate. Present.

Train your nervous system to live there and your “cardio” will take care of itself.

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@AntiDoc Odds on someone claiming the transformation doesn’t count because he’s ‘anonymous’ @Polymarket ?

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@NoahRyanCo starting.

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@BowTiedHRT @AntiDoc This is the kind of insider knowledge I come on here for

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@biohacker How has this not been done

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

They’re slowly catching on..

Mass adoption of biphasic sleep modulation ft daytime naps is coming next

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

The entire sleep-industrial complex has a product to sell you

You now believe you are so biologically precarious that a single disrupted night constitutes neurological damage

The organism that survived the ice age on fragmented, variable, predator-interrupted sleep now requires blackout curtains and a two-hour wind-down routine or it falls apart.

They won’t tell you that prolonged wakefulness increases synaptic adenosine, which upregulates BDNF expression in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.

BDNF = primary driver of synaptic plasticity
(the physical substrate of learning, mood regulation, and cognitive reorganisation).

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

The entire sleep-industrial complex has a product to sell you

You now believe you are so biologically precarious that a single disrupted night constitutes neurological damage

The organism that survived the ice age on fragmented, variable, predator-interrupted sleep now requires blackout curtains and a two-hour wind-down routine or it falls apart.

They won’t tell you that prolonged wakefulness increases synaptic adenosine, which upregulates BDNF expression in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus.

BDNF = primary driver of synaptic plasticity
(the physical substrate of learning, mood regulation, and cognitive reorganisation).

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@biohacker Sir, that’s only if you come off them

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@AbudBakri We’ll get there

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@SeverianoNessus thanks for the input

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

In the context of ‘depression’, engaging with traditional prescriptive therapies and/or SSRI’s have proven obsolete

The vast majority of young males who visit their physician seeking respite from depressive symptoms would benefit from access to androgen treatments.

Most notably, in the form of Halotestin.

Part 2 of the Halo Effect will be released at 5000 followers.

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@ironnfox appreciate it T dog

[Lawrence Elliot @LawrenceElliots]

@AntiDoc Looks like I’ll be saying goodbye to my day of rest tomorrow thanks to you