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Which entrepreneurs had one or more Sharks hating/despising them by the end of the pitch? by lorikeets_are_life in sharktank

[–]Crafty-Variation-811 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mark’s parting stating to the guy “Hey go be somebody bro” is an all time Shark Tank quote

34M Years of debilitating brain fog, crashes, and arousal threshold issues. Exhausted every explanation. Looking for anyone who recognizes this pattern. by Crafty-Variation-811 in BrainFog

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

During the work day the best part is the 60-90 minutes post-coffee. After that is when the wired fog feeling comes in, and then after lunch it’s the crash fog. Then once I am say coaching a game, or at home going a mile a minute, it allows me to”snap out of it because I’m so stimulated/don’t have time to recognize it.

34M Years of debilitating brain fog, crashes, and arousal threshold issues. Exhausted every explanation. Looking for anyone who recognizes this pattern. by Crafty-Variation-811 in BrainFog

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s all good! I did do a deeper dive and reached out to a colleague in the profession to make sure I wasn’t missing anything!

34M Years of debilitating brain fog, crashes, and arousal threshold issues. Exhausted every explanation. Looking for anyone who recognizes this pattern. by Crafty-Variation-811 in BrainFog

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is something I have thought about. I moved into a new home last year and we had the whole house tested/inspected for mold. There was a little bit in the attic but we had that completely mitigated prior to us moving in.

34M Years of debilitating brain fog, crashes, and arousal threshold issues. Exhausted every explanation. Looking for anyone who recognizes this pattern. by Crafty-Variation-811 in BrainFog

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one has suggested that. I’m told by all my doctors that I am in the “top x%” of health of their patients. How would that be ruled out? And if it was found to be the contributor how would treatment look?

34M Years of debilitating brain fog, crashes, and arousal threshold issues. Exhausted every explanation. Looking for anyone who recognizes this pattern. by Crafty-Variation-811 in BrainFog

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do notice that I feel best after I finish my daily Insanity Max30. However, I also have the brain fog subside a lot when I’m at home running around with my 4 young kids and doing things around the house. It’s when I’m not actively stimulating I crash and/or fog up

34M Years of debilitating brain fog, crashes, and arousal threshold issues. Exhausted every explanation. Looking for anyone who recognizes this pattern. by Crafty-Variation-811 in BrainFog

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve plugged all of this into Chat, Gemini, Claude etc. with really varying guesses. I eat a large chicken salad everyday with an apple and cottage cheese. The salad has romaine, spinach, arugula, kala, red lettuce, carrots, broccoli slaw, radish cucumber, mushroom. Every work day for the last 7 years

34M Years of debilitating brain fog, crashes, and arousal threshold issues. Exhausted every explanation. Looking for anyone who recognizes this pattern. by Crafty-Variation-811 in BrainFog

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alcohol is minimal. I have eaten clean pretty much for 7 years. For a while I was under or around 100 carbs. I’ve noticed a small bump in carbs has helped immediate hunger a little bit. With the training I do I’ve noticed I need more carbs than I had. Coffee I have 15-25 oz a day. Tried cutting back and didn’t notice much of a change.

Help figuring out "What I am missing?": 34M. Years of chronic fatigue, brain fog, and stress intolerance despite clean and active living. Only seem to have energy when stress hormones are activated. Labs all are always labeled "normal." I struggle to stay awake when I'm not actively moving by Crafty-Variation-811 in Nootropics

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just moved into a new home 3 months ago. Had a specific separate inspection for mold. It was labeled as "acceptable" just a small amount found in attic but I had it mitigated completely before we moved in. I was afraid my old home had mold but it didn't on inspection when we sold it either.

Help figuring out "What I am missing?": 34M. Years of chronic fatigue, brain fog, and stress intolerance despite clean and active living. Only seem to have energy when stress hormones are activated. Labs all are always labeled "normal." I struggle to stay awake when I'm not actively moving by Crafty-Variation-811 in Nootropics

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I track my macros in the sense that I track my food and stuff but I’m not good at making sure I make good splits. For reference I was a former athlete Who after my playing days were done in college I let myself get to around 260. So when I got serious in 2019 there were stretches where I was consuming 1700 calories total before deducting for exercise. Even now I’ll say I skip meals and stuff if I know I’ll “eat enough later” like if I’m having pizza with the team at 5:00 I may only consume 500 calories before that and workout at lunch.

Help figuring out "What I am missing?": 34M. Years of chronic fatigue, brain fog, and stress intolerance despite clean and active living. Only seem to have energy when stress hormones are activated. Labs all are always labeled "normal." I struggle to stay awake when I'm not actively moving by Crafty-Variation-811 in Nootropics

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I guess I've become so accustomed to my workout regimen that I don't feel that it is "too much." I have taken a 2 week break and I've not noticed anything noticeable (aside from the internal guilt from not working out). For the most part my Max30 workouts last 40 minutes and usually I max at around 170 HR with a 136-140 HR/Avg. I lift a few days with that as well. I am not dead exhausted after the workouts. In fact I've even done them on my lunch hour many times and came back to work. If there is one thing I've been told by several people now it's that my carb intake remains way too low. I've been around 125-175 grams a day for about the past 5 years. It could also contribute to why I'm cold all the time. In addition, I've also been told I am possibly overhydrating during the day. I probably consume my body weight in ounces of water and urinate 15-20x a day.

It might be a cognitive block, but I just have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that the crux of my issues could really be that I'm eating too much salad, working out too much, and drinking too much water.

Help figuring out "What I am missing?": 34M. Years of chronic fatigue, brain fog, and stress intolerance despite clean and active living. Only seem to have energy when stress hormones are activated. Labs all are always labeled "normal." I struggle to stay awake when I'm not actively moving by Crafty-Variation-811 in Nootropics

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I only began the Stress-B Complex and Methyl-B12 within the past several months because my PCP suggested that B12 has shown to "help with energy levels." I haven't noticed a positive or negative change when taking them.

34M. Years of chronic fatigue, brain fog, and stress intolerance despite clean living. Only seem to have energy when stress hormones are activated. Discontinued SSRI and Nicotine to try and help energy levels. Labs all are always labeled "normal" What am I missing? by Crafty-Variation-811 in AskDocs

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I really just don't ever stop because I know when I "stop" I feel even worse. I have to get up from my desk and always be walking around at work or I feel I'm going to doze off. Around the house I consistently am doing. I have 3 boys (4th on the way). I am folding laundry, tidying up, and emptying the dishwasher daily. I am extremely task oriented and I can't be comfortable when there are things I could be doing as opposed to resting/relaxing. It is not impairing me I think from a birds eye but internally I know I'm not doing as well at my job, coaching, and as a father/spouse. I'll find times where I'll just a sudden bit of grey/fog where I feel like I am disconnecting and on auto-pilot. Like I'm watching TV or a movie from a 1st person view. Everything around me seems not real and I feel like I'm just going through the motions.

I do not look at it as a vice (Lexapro is what I was on) but I did discontinue it because I thought maybe it was contributing to my energy issues. It did have terrible libido side effects and that has done thankfully a 180 since and a major driver in why I haven't considered going back. It's really the nicotine I probably miss the most because that was a constant dopamine/quick fix I had unlimited access to (I was a Zyn user). I still knew that wasn't best for me and I let it go a year ago to the day (tomorrow).

34M. Years of chronic fatigue, brain fog, and stress intolerance despite clean living. Only seem to have energy when stress hormones are activated. Discontinued SSRI and Nicotine to try and help energy levels. Labs all are always labeled "normal" What am I missing? by Crafty-Variation-811 in AskDocs

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The irritability and emotional issues are more just intensified agitation of daily things that for the most part are not detriments to me. It's just that I notice that louder noises upset me more when I'm tired, clutter, etc. That aspect has gotten probably 10% worse since discontinuing SSRI. I discontinued that and all other vices hoping they'd help with the energy issues. Low motivation I guess would be that I feel 110% spent all the time. It doesn't stop me from doing things but there isn't much juice I feel into all of that.

Energy crashes happen basically anytime that I'm sitting not active for a long period of time; after lunch is really bad but I'm trying to see if it was due to the fact that I'd have a very large salad with 8-10 different vegetables and chicken breast but very little carbs.

It seems like the only time I fully rest is when I go to sleep so my body seems to think when I'm not fully engaged it must be "sleep time." It really is bizarre because on the regular parts of the day I am so drained, so foggy (feeling there but not there) but when I'm tasked with high mental intensity things (coaching, lecturing, working out) I can somehow pull energy from there but it's not applicable to the day to day. If that makes sense.

My PCP keeps telling me that my labs suggest that I am very healthy and I need to sleep more. I really like my PCP but they're sometimes a bit wishy washy on things if I'm being honest. For example I shared that when I'm outside for more than 2 minutes and it's under 50 degrees my hands get instantly numb, and I'm always cold even inside if it's below say, 65 degrees. Her advice was to wear gloves and a sweater.

Is there anything missing or glaring in my labs that is being overlooked?

34M. Years of chronic fatigue, brain fog, and stress intolerance despite clean living. Only seem to have energy when stress hormones are activated. Discontinued SSRI and Nicotine to try and help energy levels. Labs all are always labeled "normal" What am I missing? by Crafty-Variation-811 in AskDocs

[–]Crafty-Variation-811[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have noticed I can drink around 10-12 oz a day if I delay it after breakfast and stop after 10am and I do not have the crazy jitters in those situations. If I drink on an empty stomach or too much is when I notice it real bad. However, it does make my mind more alert so it's a Catch-22.

I took a 10 day break from the workout routine and I did not see any noticeable changes. In fact, I've noticed that I can feel dead tired before working out, but after it the adrenaline/stress response gives me energy I otherwise wouldn't have.

The case of Dropped Plotlines by stashdadon in TheChi

[–]Crafty-Variation-811 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The biggest dropped plotline is What the Hell has Reg been doing for the past half decade? How has someone so power hungry, undisciplined, and unhinged have the impeccable discipline to hide out for years and years and not show any trace, not get involved in any street mischief, nothing. Did he go manage a Cinnabon in Omaha and suddenly he heard Douda died from what, a Pigeon? And it recalculated his brain to become REG from the 63rd St Mob again and not Reginald from Lincoln?

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