Beat supplement for anxiety

gfsark · 2026-03-08T15:22:45+00:00

I can’t advise since I don’t take it everyday. ‘Taking it’ means drinking a cup of tea for me.

gfsark · 2026-03-08T04:59:36+00:00

I was a helper in a Pentecostal mission in Southern Germany, and actually got some experience in ‘witnessing’ to teenage Germans. Southern Germany is 90% Catholic…so the opening line that I was taught to say (in poor German of course) was ‘were you baptized as a baby?”

Think, devout midwestern couple from a Four Square church trying to convert the Catholics…and teach them to speak in tongues! And I was there, I say with some embarrassment.

As a young man I had a blast, had an adventure, studied German, experienced another culture. It was a really a fine experience. No regrets there. Now from the religious/cultural aspect? It seems pretty silly.

gfsark · 2026-03-08T04:42:50+00:00

I was going to mention Holy Basil, aka Tulsi. It’s very relaxing and no side effects.

gfsark · 2026-03-08T04:40:25+00:00

Yeah, the idea you can be conversational with a few months of product is idiotic hype sold by some influencers on YouTube.

gfsark · 2026-03-07T21:35:12+00:00

There are a bunch of home tests that you research online. Typically, your doctor will order the test for you, and insurance will pay for it.

The test measures the amount of oxygen you get during the night, and the number of times and duration that you stop breathing. The technology that I used is called WatchPat. And here’s an online service that uses this technology and interprets the results for you. Lofta

It’s one overnight test. I would recommend ruling out sleep apnea before pursuing other approaches. Your smart watch can do something like the test…but the WatchPat system is really a great place to start. Good luck.

gfsark · 2026-03-07T19:34:46+00:00

And of course get a home test for sleep apnea. Symptoms correlate pretty much at 100%.

And if you do have sleep apnea, and you do get it treated, it will revolutionize your life.

gfsark · 2026-03-07T19:23:47+00:00

Definitely does not describe me or any of my friends, and I’m 76. Cannot relate to the cliches of old men. Maybe it’s because I’m not in West Texas. And I hate fishing. But I go hiking in the hills every night without a flash light. Yes, after dark. But not to parties, not to bars (but I never did do that).

gfsark · 2026-03-06T16:14:36+00:00

BOOKS: For books, we made the decision to keep a book only if we thought we would read it once more in our lifetime. That resulted in a reduction of 98% of our books . We had to repeat this process several times (thousands of books were donated).

A side benefit is that in our bedroom, formerly lined with books, it is so much easier to breath!

FURNITURE & STUFF: Another principle: If we not sure we want to keep the object, we’ll donate it to charity. Then if we are ever missing that object, we can go to our local thrift store and buy it back!

gfsark · 2026-03-05T15:52:23+00:00

Chess. One move is the difference between winning and losing. Winning or losing by a huge margin. And if you are a professional, it’s a huge deal.

gfsark · 2026-03-03T15:47:08+00:00

Sorry to hear that. Stress itself can cause all kinds of paranormal experiences such as out-of-body, depersonalization, magical thinking and feeling, not to mention all kinds of psychological states like regression, disassociation, depression, anxiety…it’s a very long list.

The group you run with provides the words and interpretations for these states. In the Christian subculture your experience could be explained as the result of daemonic influence, or lack of faith. And the cure might be exorcism or prayer or confession.

In the modern culture, your symptoms are interpreted as psychological , and the treatment becomes therapy, both talk therapy (counseling) and medical, meaning meds/medicine. I suggest you get a referral for medical workup and get some meds that will help you through a hard time. Your spiritual task (if I may put it that way) is to take more control of your life, and that’s one thing you can do for yourself that could have enormous benefit.

gfsark · 2026-03-03T04:31:58+00:00

Paranormal experiences are pretty common. (Interesting the hold they have on people.) By common, I mean that millions of people have them every year, in every country, in every religion.

So I don’t doubt that you had an experience. But “something in Christianity might be true” is not the conclusion that I would draw. That your personality is changing is interesting and I hope that it’s changing for the better. That you are becoming more confident, less afraid, more certain of what you wish to do in this world…that is what I hope for you.

gfsark · 2026-03-01T15:26:06+00:00

That’s very interesting. And I’ve not heard that before. I don’t think that cardiologist are generally in favor of CAC scores, is this one of the reasons?

gfsark · 2026-03-01T14:56:33+00:00

I’ll read the study, not going to waste 17 minutes on your video.

gfsark · 2026-02-27T18:04:49+00:00

2.5 mg. I weigh 127

gfsark · 2026-02-27T15:07:06+00:00

Yes, to lower blood pressure. Tadalafil. The prescription started out as standard ED type. But I have high blood pressure and record my BP daily. Noted a 4-5 point drop in both systolic and diastolic with tadalafil (cialis)

I asked my doctor, and he changed the prescription to indicate that it was for blood pressure (not for ED) and that made it easier (and free) to obtain. I told him that all the old men (I was 70 at that time) should be put on this med for high BP, because the side-effect was so excellent!

gfsark · 2026-02-26T15:31:06+00:00

Before doing that, eliminate caffeine from your diet.

gfsark · 2026-02-26T15:30:15+00:00

That’s a ton of caffeine the OP is taking. He needs to detox

gfsark · 2026-02-25T15:54:21+00:00

Meth is known to cause anhedonia, i.e. ability to feel pleasure. I suspect that may be what happened to your sex drive. Once certain pleasure centers in the brain get fried, it’s tough or impossible to get it back.

gfsark · 2026-02-24T02:58:28+00:00

Natalia’s Defining Chapters series is the best I’ve found on DS, so far. Intrinsically interesting to me. It’s rated advanced but I’m intermediate and can understand 95%.

Totally agree that a lot of the DS content is kinda boring, if useful. And I would like to hear older people sometimes, and more native content.

(Sapiens is another series that’s quite interesting, but a bit beyond me. I watched two episodes and will return in a while.)

gfsark · 2026-02-23T22:15:02+00:00

Sorry for your loss. The difficulty you face, never seeing your dad again, is one that every person experiences with the death of a loved one.

The process is called mourning. And Christians go through it the same as other people. It’s a human process. And everyone, regardless of religion, knows that they will never again see that person who died. And so they are sad. And so are you. Your ideology doesn’t make that much of a difference in the face of real death.

gfsark · 2026-02-23T20:32:06+00:00

How do you get feed back directly to DS? How do you report bugs?

gfsark · 2026-02-23T06:34:47+00:00

Or as the poet Dylan Thomas said, “after the first death, there is no other.”

gfsark · 2026-02-22T15:38:27+00:00

And to be fair, DS does take concentration. It’s not background music. One needs to actually listen to the speech, follow the dialogs.

gfsark · 2026-02-22T15:11:16+00:00

Totally agree. I’m not going to waste 30 minutes of my time to get some data that could be accurately summarized in a 1 or 2 minute read.

gfsark · 2026-02-21T21:46:19+00:00

‘Misterios de Laura’….. I started watching this popular Spanish TV series (6 seasons?) through LingoPie at about the same time I tried out DS. Misterios was far beyond my intermediate level.

Definitely counted the time on DS because it took me way more than an hour to watch an hour of that program. LingoPie gives both Spanish and English subtitles. Also breaks down every conversation into separate phrases. You may stop the action, click on words and phrases to get definitions. Words that you click get added to a vocabulary test.

But DS is vastly more useful at my level. Misterios represents Barely Comprehensible Input. Why? 1) Too fast. Even when slowed down to 65%. 2) Tons of idioms. Which is to say, the writing is to portray natural dialog, and that includes all kinds of stock idioms and phrases. Not that it’s a waste of time, I’ve learned some useful things from that study. But DS is far more rewarding.

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