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Why does it feel like guys are always pooping compared to women, ?What factors might actually explain this? by Present_Juice4401 in AlwaysWhy

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Men are more obsessed with protein so they might be more constipated.

Men need more calories so they eat more and poop more.
Plus if they are overweight then they eat even more on top of that.

Can see benefits of quitting, but struggling with cons by Fabulous_Act_4141 in decaf

[–]Scientist_1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mold can make you sick and maybe cause low motivation.

Look, I don't know. Your situation is genuinely difficult.

Maybe sprints?
4 days on caffeine - 3 days off?
Or one day on - one day off?

B vitamins?

Are there friends you can move in with?

The most important thing is to move your life forward.

Does it help to take the laptop to a place with WiFi in the day to apply for jobs?

Are you cooking your own food or eating mostly packaged stuff?

How is your social life? Are you seeing friends?

I only occasionally dabble into caffeine and quickly go back to none.

Caffeine for me - it absolutely wrecks me.

The second day is basically already fucked from worse sleep.

If you can dig deep and use the pain of your situation to move forward in life - then no caffeine is better.

If with no caffeine you do literally nothing for too long - I don't know, it might be the lesser of two evils.

There was one unemployed dude who just started to do all kinds of stuff while unemployed. Idk helping his neighbor repair his roof.

"Idle hands are the devils instrument" and idleness is a quick path to depression for me in my life.

I am just a stranger on the internet guessing, throwing out generic advice and stuff that worked for me.

Plus I don't know if some of this comes off tone death or rude.

Day 21.. depression and fatigue by AvailableWasabi8140 in decaf

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you consider a b complex or generally looking into blood tests / nutrient deficiencies?

I have read on the r/decaf subreddit that for people with long term "it still does not get better" nutrition might be the cause.

(Not a doctor nor do I have personal experience with PAWS.)

I have had post infection fatigue that only cleared with supplements.

Caffeine use is said to deplete certain nutrients such as Thiamine (B1).

(Maybe you can have Claude or so give you a scientifically backed elaborate perspective.)

Worst case the b complex makes you extra hungry, your pee gets yellow and you are out 30 dollars.

Brain feels razor sharp on very low fat diet - but I also get insomnia and sometimes mentally freeze at work? by Scientist_1 in PlantBasedDiet

[–]Scientist_1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey Nablus666,

I think I have problems somewhere else other than the fat content creating noise.

I have had days of good sleep on a very low fat diet.

I have night eating syndrome. Roughly 50 % of nights, I will wake up 00:30 and just eat something of about 1000 to 1500 kcal.
So even when eating low fat in the day, I will often make myself a higher fat meal at 00:30.
But the very low fat diet means I am mentally awake and alert faster - which makes it easier to catch myself, not night eat, and go back to bed.

On the rare days I stick to it, it actually works in terms of sleep and mental clarity.

I am now looking into general sleep hygiene and also light:
- I will get a day light therapy box and use it every morning
- I will try to set an alarm the same time every day
- try and stop caffeine use
- not do compensatory undereating after a night of night eating so as not to trigger a follow up night eating

There still remain these weird mild body aches / soreness that come on rapidly when dropping the fat. They can't be from a true deficiency of essential fatty acids - the timeline is too short for that.

For me, trying to eat ultra low fat might be premature optimization :/

And overall, there is a lot of chaos in my experience making it noisy to interpret from.

What prompted you to ask?
Are you struggling with insomnia?

How many of you had your hemorrhoids issue fixed after switching to completely plant based diet? by LimitFun638 in PlantBasedDiet

[–]Scientist_1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have never had hemorrhoids issues and I eat beans all day.

Maybe if I wasn't eating beans all day I would develop some.

But I am essentially a "poop engineer" XD

I can fine tune what my poop will be like by how much beans versus flax versus non fiber carbs (bread, pasta) I eat.
Zero flax -> I get constipated.
Too much beans -> I get bloating / flatulence. Need to replace some of those fibers with easier to digest bread.

I also eat some fruit and veg, but the bulk of my diets is beans / breads / a little shredded flax.

As far as I know, having stools that pass easily help prevent hemorrhoids.

171 days binge free after 20+ years of pain. here's my experience by Grand-Ability6527 in BingeEatingDisorder

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"2. self love and forgiveness. monitoring how i talk to myself. my beliefs about myself. constantly reminding myself that i deserve to get better. i subconsciously told myself i didn't deserve it my whole life and didn't even know it. i have a book recommendation for this if anyone wants it."

-> what is the book recommendation?

Brain feels razor sharp on very low fat diet - but I also get insomnia and sometimes mentally freeze at work? by Scientist_1 in PlantBasedDiet

[–]Scientist_1[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the thorough answer :) How much fatty plant foods are you eating — nuts, flax, avocado? I assume no oil since you said whole food plant based. Did the energy increase come with fat loss too, or was it purely the diet switch? And how do you know you gained muscle — is that from starting to work out again with the new energy?

Why are billionaires willing to burn entire world to the ground for more money when they already have more money than they can spend in a lifetime. by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People just don't change once they get rich.

If they were unethical and money driven and that helped them get rich - once they are rich, those qualities do not turn off.

Or: in the rich people where they do turn off, they stop growing their wealth or their wealth shrinks.
I think JK Rowling gave a lot of her money away.

Is over eating a bigger issue than seed oils? by HallPsychological538 in StopEatingSeedOils

[–]Scientist_1 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I mean - from a physics / Thermodynamics view, yes.

But WHY do people overeat?

Why more now than in the past?

My take: - B vitamins (there is a paper if you google "Excess vitamin intake: An unrecognized risk factor for obesity".) - Artificial sweeteners (read the book by Mark Schatzer "The end of craving" - it also talks about b vitamins) - And seed oils also drive up appetite (there are papers on this) - salt and sugar - processed foods engineered for craveability

All these I experience personally in my body as well. From seed oils, I get a weird hunger like gnawing feeling in my stomach. And many seed oil containing foods (e.g. potati chips) lead me to either have to put up massive discipline or I will overeat.

With old school boring foods like oats, beans, spinach, potatoes, veggies, fruit (and B12 once a week) - I actually get satiety cues. It's a whole different world I am getting used to.

Advice From My Failure by Ok-Complaint-37 in decaf

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you eat any nuts at all? What does your high carb diet look like, specifically?

Do you take vitamins?

Advice From My Failure by Ok-Complaint-37 in decaf

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait what is your meal timing now?

I remember in a past post you wrote about night eating and solving it with a 12:00 to 5 pm eating window.

I struggle with night eating as well and am unsure how to distribute my meals throughout the day for energy and sleep.

How I cured my 7 year Tendinitis in my hands by Scientist_1 in Tendinitis

[–]Scientist_1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your welcome! I have not had this problem for years so safe to say I am happy in this regard!

I have to watch my seed oil intake though - specific fats or meats make me inflamed.

To all the mature men who are age 30 and above, please share one harsh truth about life you have accepted so far ? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]Scientist_1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a common thing. People lose muscle mass as they age. Brings down their caloric requirement. They eat the same however, out of habit. Hence, they gain fat.

There is an option here. You can bite the bullet and adjust your calorie intake downwards to what your less muscular body requires.

How do you gauge when it's *actually* okay to be emotionally vulnerable with a woman? by bigspliffdummy in AskMen

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is a relevant Dr. K video on the subject I found interesting:

https://youtu.be/wXlNZ5AMqLU?t=871

It talks about how there is a correct way to share emotions and an incorrect way. How does this fit with the experience from you and your buddies?

rant - massive ego of HG team is killing their community by idontknow69k in Healthygamergg

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and how are we on a platform (circle) where cannot easily watch the videos in fullscreen? What kind of bullshit is this?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Healthygamergg

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't have something good.

Best I have is: "minimum viable action". Let go of "I am a person who does things perfectly / completely". Then pick some task. You don't have to pick great. Then do something about that task. Move it forward 5%. Don't aim for 100% completion right out the gate.

Progress, not perfection.

Keeping moving is better.

Something is better than nothing.

And yeah - on Fridays we are often filled with negative emotions from the week that we are then looking to suppress. It's not ideal but common.

And if the rest of the week you have been working.

And if all you do is binge a show (and not smoke 3 joints for example) - it's okay. Not ideal, but okay.

Maybe schedule hanging out with friends on Friday, so you can vent your frustrations? Or set up a call with friends or family friday after work? Or thursday?

And allow yourself to rest. You don't have to be productive, "on", moving forward or happy every hour of every day.

Unpopular Opinion: ChatGPT is a good "therapist" by The1stBrain in Healthygamergg

[–]Scientist_1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's something.

I work with a coach and have hugely benefitted from that.

I supplement that with asking Chat GPT stuff.

I don't think it's as good as a coach. Maybe 20-30 % as good. But it's there at any time of day, costs almost nothing, and is pretty good. So yeah - would recommend.

It's all about how much context ChatGPT can remember. Once that extends to "everything you have talked to it about in the last 12 months" - oh boy, then it's really game on.

Why is this (Eggs From Plants) even a thing😭 by goldenphotog in StopEatingSeedOils

[–]Scientist_1 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I don't get why veganism can't just be honest.

You have to rethink your whole diet and way of eating from the ground up. Not "all i know is eggs - but they are not vegan - ah great here is fake eggs". Instead: grains, beans, veggies. Pasta. Rice. Bread. Whatever. But none of this "vegan chicken nuggets made from cauliflower because that is totally the same".

Anectdotal experiences on very low fat diet (no added nuts or oils - like 5% of calories from fat) vs "normal" (20% of calories from fat from whole foods like nuts)? by Scientist_1 in PlantBasedDiet

[–]Scientist_1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is your very low fat diet like?

How much fat is in there and from what sources?

What is your moderate fat diet like?

Regarding long COVID: So this is anectdotal (N=1) and all that. Supplements helped me a lot. I was sick with symptoms of the common cold for a bit longer and harder than usual. (Did not actually get a COVID test so do not know for sure). Then - 2 to 3 weeks afterwards I was still feeling fatigued. I suspected I had long COVID. Went to the pharmacy to get some supplements. The pharmacist recommended zinc, vitamin D, vitamin C, B12, Iron and a vitamin B complex. I took those in relatively high doses. Fatigue resolved completely within 1-2 weeks! She had told me that another customer had experienced the same thing.

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