I’ll get into details with links to studies in another post or perhaps in a free ebook that I’ll post a link to. Each one of these affects all of the others. If one is mismanaged, the others will compensate. The body is resilient and there’s is no need to obsess over these. However, if either is mismanaged too much for too long, the others will eventually fail to compensate which will result in “diseases” such as COVIDs/flus, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, literally every chronic illness. In such cases, it is absolutely important to (with minimal stress) obsess over all of these.
These are The Five Things:
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Stage IV REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, the deep and restorative phase of sleep.
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Inputs. This includes what you eat and don’t eat including chemical residues. It also includes regular and proper fasting and everything you inhale and absorb through your skin—almost all “skincare” and bathing products are poisonous—and mucous membranes like your eyes and in your mouth. Of course, this includes all drugs including pills and injections. Almost all of the food in the grocery store is poisonous. The only healthy food comes from organically managed farms, pasture-raised/grass-fed livestock, the wilderness, and the ocean. The healthy food you eat should be as raw as possible. Most seed oils, even organically produced ones, are poisonous when ingested especially after high temp cooking (like deep frying) but some are beneficial internally and topically. Fruit oils such as olive oil and avocado oil are best for cooking, if you must cook. If you must eat grains, they should be whole, organically grown, and sprouted.
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Radiation. Direct sunlight exposure is critical for proper immune function. This is technically an input but so very important on its own. Microwaves, X-rays, and gamma rays are harmful. Some radio waves can be harmful, too. So is some nuclear radiation.
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Stress. While long-term stress causes immunodeficiency and thus “diseases”, short-term stress can be protective as it prepares us to deal with challenges, mitigating long term stress.
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High intensity interval training and/or strength training. It should hurt (but not injure) and you should push through it. No pain, no gain.
That’s it. As mentioned, I’ll go into detail with citations and links (or perhaps a free ebook) on a future date.
There is a sort of “prerequisite” that greatly enhances healing and disease prevention primarily via stress mitigation but also by providing a sense of purpose or meaning which causes one to thrive maximally:
Be your spirit conscience and not your flesh.
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Now go and do the things.
Edit: Thanks for sticky, mods! Thou art gods. :)
Also, minor edit for clarity on seed oils (much more detail to follow) and added emphasis regarding the body’s resilience.
Edit 2: Wow the shillbots (with alts?) with random/obvious bot names are out in full force! Notice they offer nothing in their pseudo-rebuttals? Still, all feedback is greatly appreciated! As mentioned, I’ll provide much greater detail including links to rigorous scientific studies in a future post.
Everybody please take this one with a YUGE caveat:
It should hurt in the CENTER OF THE MUSCLE, called the belly, NOT AT THE TENDONS WHERE IT CONNECTS TO BONE. And NOT IN THE JOINTS! Whatever you do, DO NOT "push past pain" in the joints.
NOT THE JOINTS. In the joints, no pain IS gain. Repeat forever: NO PAIN, THAT'S SANE.
Pain in tendons (which join muscle to bone) or in ligaments (which join bone to bone) can indicate microtearing of fibers that take many weeks to fully heal instead of a few days like muscle, and do so with fibrous scar tissue made of microfibrils laid down haphazardly and of lower grade than the correctly aligned original fibers.
Pain at muscle insertions can also indicate microavulsion of the periosteum, which is tissue tightly enwrapping bones and is richly innervated. If avulsed it takes months to fully heal, does so with scar tissue tugging on tiny nerve endings, and so tends to provide pain signals indefinitely.
The MUSCLE BELLY can burn and flutter and feel weak and you can keep going. Rock on, iron man and titanium woman! (The only two choices BTW)
Pain the next day or two after a workout is of course also normal, as the body repairs the intentional damage done in the muscle belly. With consistency, hypertrophy (bigger, stronger muscle tissue) results. With inconsistency, you get the pain, but no gain. :)
You would probably dig the X3 bar, by the author of "weightlifting is a waste of time". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhgSMRnhWh8&t=85s
Good point. The "pain" people are talking about (the "good pain") is from lactic acid, which comes from the increased breakdown of glycogen.
This will always be present after an intense workout -- IF THE PERSON EATS CARBOHYDRATES.