Limitless Mindset

In the current year, it certainly feels like we’re all hurtling into a Dystopian cyberpunk future. Doesn’t it?

Being chauffeured through a decaying urban center in a self-driving taxi is no longer an unsettling novelty. Your smartwatch vibrates as you doomscroll videos of soldiers fleeing drones across a forlorn battlefield, warning you that your heart rate variability is non-optimal. You take Nootropic cognitive enhancers for the edge you desperately need at work; hopefully the soulless megacorporation you work for won’t replace you with AI agents. An ad pops up for the exact thing you mentioned to your girlfriend, in bed last night, while you thought your phone was off.It’s not just you; it’s getting weirder out there—we’re just a few holidays away from your socially awkward cousin bringing a robot girlfriend home. (Yes, I just em-dashed—UNAPOLOGETICALLY—I em-dashed before AI did and will continue to dose my hyphens with Viagra whenever I damn well please).

For decades, science fiction has issued us a warning: Don’t succumb completely to the siren song of technology. A warning we’ve collectively failed to heed. That siren song serenades us with the promise of abundance. Abundant energy, food, information, and health. Abundance that might just be... for all of us.

Like you, I don’t quite doomscroll, but often find myself mesmerized by and bemoaning the techno-absurdistan of modernity. It seems like everything, everywhere is getting worse--technology is making life for us humans too weird, too fast. But maybe the popular pessimism about progress (pervasive in nearly any media we consume and then confirmed by our anecdotal experiences) is dead wrong. As a pragmatic realist who leans optimistic when I can, I wanted a dose of optimism about the future, so I cracked open We Are As Gods, A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance, by Peter H. Diamandis (whose face will probably appear if you do a Google: techno-optimist) and Steven Kotler, whose work on flowstate has been of keen interest to me as a Biohacker.

I got the dose of optimism I wanted from We Are As Gods, and I’ll second-hand deal it to you here. But I got more: inspiration to endure and aspire because--spoiler alert--the age of abundance is not for all, but for the avaricious.

We are as gods

Yes, really, as gods—lowercase g because the book opens with a comparison of dozens of godlike powers from our mythology to what modern technology now enables. Omniscience (all-knowing): you’ve now got that in your pocket with Google and the AI assistant on your phone. Omnipresence: as I broadcast my words, image, and voice to you wirelessly via the internet, I’m, in a sense, present there with you. The blind are made to see, and the deaf hear via neural implants. Resurrection of the dead--happens in hospitals all the time. And even immortality, an attribute long reserved for deities and demigods, is increasingly within the grasp of mere humans (take your NMN!)

Diamandis and Kotler introduce us to the abundance paradox...

Each new solution unleashes a host of new problem. Only now, it’s accelerating. In the twenty-first century, the issues of abundance aren’t arriving in four thousand years or even forty. Try forty days. That’s about how long it took for social media to impact mental health. For AI to fake voices. For large language models to flood the web with synthetic noise.

And ask us: What happens when abundance is the rule rather than the exception?

Imagine a “post-scarcity world,” where nearly anything and everything becomes available through the combined

Here’s where we have to get clear-eyed about human nature. In the post-scarcity world, too many will succumb to comfort. And comfort, I contend, is toxic. Modern society is plagued by diseases of comfort and eerily mirrors the darker days of Calhoun’s famously dystopian Mouse Utopia experiment, which is described...

By day 600, normal social behaviors were breaking down. Infant mortality approached 100 percent in some areas, as mothers either abandoned their nests or attacked their young. Violence became random, unmoored from the usual patterns of territorial defense. Cannibalism was observed. Sexual behaviors became confused and nonreproductive. On day 660, Calhoun noted: “Population growth has stopped entirely, even with abundant space in the lower areas. They’re crowding into population centers. Reproductive behavior has virtually ceased.”

So, is more technology, hastening the acceleration of these accelerationist times, the solution?

Let’s turn our attention to the focus of my new podcast, Limitless Intelligence...

AI: One Billion Times Smarter

Artificial intelligence is more than a “trend”—it’s the birthing of new intelligent species that we will have to share this world with. The authors, who I believe are highly invested in the AI space, present a balanced view of its promise and perils. They comment on the velocopedic pace of the space...

The raw computing power driving AI forward has been compounding every three months since 2022. That’s Moore’s law on steroids. In 2024, AI was a million times more powerful than it was in 2022. By 2030, the numbers experts toss about are nearly incomprehensible.

We know the blistering pace of AI development demands that we consider a future with machines a billion times more intelligent than we are—which, it’s worth noting, is the rough equivalent of the difference between a human and a hamster.

Arthur C. Clarke on AI

In 1964, less than a decade after the Dartmouth AI conference, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke foretold this future with uncanny accuracy: “[T]he most intelligent inhabitants of [the] future world won’t be men or monkeys, they will be machines, the remote descendants of today’s computers. Now the present-day electronic brains are complete morons, but this will not be true in another generation. They will start to think, and eventually they will completely outthink their makers.”

I’ve argued that Transhumanism is a Trap and that, with AI, we are inventing new species that will violently compete with us or enslave us genetically via a slow phenotypic revolution. But might this come down to “good parenting” on our behalf?

Mo Gawdat on training AI

What Gawdat tells us, in his book Scary Smart, is that humanity’s best bet for survival is not to train our AIs. Rather, it’s to raise them. He argues that we should raise AI with the same kindness and love we raise a child. AI is not inherently dangerous, Gawdat maintains, but it learns from us. If we train AI with fear, bias, and hostility, it will replicate those qualities and—“Step away from the airlock, Dave.”

Gawdat’s point: AI’s superintelligence will emerge from its ability to process patterns beyond human comprehension, but its moral compass will be shaped by the behavior it observes in us.

This is why Gawdat’s emphasis on AI parental responsibility is so critical. Just as we teach our children to be empathetic, ethical, curious, and respectful, we need to instill these same values in AI.

On AI’s Emotional Intelligence

AI agents proactively implement your goals, gather information, and get results. Think of them as digital assistants with a very high IQ and—thanks to Kaliouby—a growing EQ. This EQ is critical. The potential of AI agents lies in their ability to integrate into our lives. In the near future, they will be personal assistants, financial advisors, health coaches, and trusted companions. Imagine an AI agent that manages your schedule, automatically rebooking missed appointments, coordinating with other AI agents to plan those meetings at optimal times—then commiserating with you about the poor state of your work-life balance. The system will analyze activities and recommend adjustments, improving productivity and suggesting wellness interventions based on your health data (i.e., “Step away from the airlock, Dave, it’s time for your afternoon nap”).

Lest you think AI is only good social media “slop” and …

Every cell in your body demands Iodine--all 30 trillion of them. And when you’re negligent and deny them this essential fuel, they protest. But when cells protest, we, too often, ignore their dire need.

Their protest is not polite; it manifests as: fatigue, hair loss, dry skin, frequent seasonal illness, weight gain, increased sensitivity to cold, languid libido, and/or persistent brain fog. And slowly, like 90% of Western populations who are at least subclinically Iodine deficient, you succumb to what seems like a natural decline in vivacity, while your doctor tells you that your endocrinology results are “within the healthy range” and recommends getting better sleep. Is reversing this decline as simple as dropping a dose of Iodine daily?

To answer that, I’m joined by Ian Clark, who is above ground today thanks to Iodine and 15 master keys that he’s identified for growing younger than yesterday.

His own journey from the reaper’s breath on the back of his neck to brilliant health at (68 years young) resulted in Activation Products, which is not just another e-commerce store! They operate a multi-million dollar facility in Ontario, where they obsessively test a highly curated suite of bio-identical longevity solutions.

Mentioned in this interview

Iodine - Read my meta-analysis: Iodine: An Instant “Body Intelligence” Upgrade

Activation Products' Perfect Iodine - The gold standard of pure molecular Iodine (and one of the highest rated on Amazon)

Activation Products' Solaris - Gentle daily cleanup. Gut, liver and skin. No harsh flush. Five plant oils backing up the cleanup work your body already does every day.

Potassium Iodide - a good Bio-prep. Potassium Iodide “Nuke Pills” are portrayed in the excellent mini-series Chernobyl

Homeopathic Thyroid medication - downloaded into drinking water with this device

L-Tyrosine - An "unsexy" Nootropic workhorse

My articles on Biohacking thyroid

When you’re waiting on things to load... Do a Soleus push-up

The Activator Seat Cushion to prevent blood-pooling - coming soon to Activation Products

Supporting NAD - with Sublingual NAD+

Book: We Are As Gods, A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler

The Mandelbrot set discovered by Benoît Mandelbrot

Listener takeaway question

Given the blazing pace of progress in the longevity space, there’s a good chance that you may live to see the year 2400. What should you be doing now so that those centuries are full of adventure and meaning?

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Episode #1 of my new show Limitless Intelligence: An AI Podcast. Subscribe to it on your preferred podcast platform

A revolution is upon us, and whenever a revolution occurs, a new aristocracy is minted. The new aristocracy will be an aristocracy of intelligence.

Intelligence has always been the human resource--from the first flight on Kittyhawk beach to footsteps on the moon; from humans living in a state of stark barbarism and despotism for millennia to universal human rights so close to our grasp today--it was intelligence that got from there to here.

In the velocopdic era of modernity, we have built digital gods that would make our ancestors tremble; with omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence that would rival nearly any mythological deity. I’m talking about artificial intelligence, of course. Thanks to AI, the resource our species needs to thrive is now seemingly limitless. With intelligence unlimited, we can build an economy of abundance, make governments sane again (if we need them at all), cure disease, and make death an option instead of the inevitability. With intelligence inexhaustible, our descendants can sprinkle the cosmos with human brilliance. And I, for one, plan to one day swing dance with my wife on the peak of Olympus Mons!

But is that all direly naive? Will AI instead take all our jobs? And usher us into a cyberpunk dystopia that the greatest science fiction writers of the past century could scarcely fathom, chain-smoking at 2 AM on their seventh cup of coffee? With the invention of general artificial intelligence within sight, with this revolution, have we instead summoned the demon, opened the last Pandora’s box, and birthed “the Borg?”

I think that comes down to the question we’ve all asked: is AI conscious?

AI Consciousness

Many are now asking a very big question: Is AI conscious?

Recently, I watched an excellent documentary, AM I? Which approaches this question with the trepidation it deserves...

The Silicon Valley types grappling with this question seem to view it through a narrow scientific materialist lens. I suspect this bias has made them ignore the very consciousness science that would ultimately answer the question: Is AI conscious or sentient in the same way that other higher mammals and we are?

I’ll advance a provocative hypothesis: Human consciousness hacks reality; therefore, AI must demonstrate the ability to hack reality to prove its consciousness.

If you’re a spiritual person of faith, you’re nodding along, saying: “Of course, human consciousness hacks reality!” But if you’re a skeptical materialist, I need to present evidence for my extraordinary claim.

Consciousness hacks reality

This is the most scientifically proven fact by the highest quality of science. Hundreds of thousands of gold-standard clinical trials, encompassing many millions of human participants, have demonstrated the power of belief in the ever-present placebo effect. The placebo effect can be partially explained by neuropeptides communicating with the epigenome, but there remain examples of the placebo effect doing things that cannot be explained. Some mind-blowing examples from “You Are the Placebo” by Dr. Joe Dispenza...

* The author’s own story, his back was badly broken as a young man when a car hit him while he was cycling, he was told by doctors that he would never walk again unless he received invasive surgery. Instead, he chose to heal himself with the power of the mind. He went home, spent hours daily meditating and visualizing his body healing and amazingly in 12 weeks his severe back injury was totally healed and he was back to lifting weights!

* In a 2002 trial of 180 patients (that’s statistically significant), some received sham placebo surgery, and amazingly their knees healed themselves, their pain went away and the patients could walk again, neither of the two groups who actually had the surgery improved any more than the patients who received the placebo surgery—and this held true even after two years.

* Fake heart surgery is similarly effective, 67 percent of the patients who had received the actual surgery felt less pain and needed less medication, while 83 percent of those who had received the sham surgery enjoyed the same level of improvement. The placebo surgery had actually worked better than the real surgery!

* A Harvard study of elderly men who were placed in an environment for several days that was meticulously and convincingly designed to feel like it was from 22 years earlier and the men’s biological aging markers when measured showed a positive regression towards a more youthful state. They felt and acted younger and amazingly various symptoms of aging disappeared in just a few days.

* A wheelchair-bound woman suffering from crippling multiple sclerosis who healed herself and reversed her condition just by the power of meditation.

* People who died of cancer that upon autopsy didn’t actually have cancer.

The awesome power of the placebo is the most well-established phenomenon in science. In your own experience (or that of those close to you), you can probably think of examples of the placebo effect working. The placebo effect is so common that over 160,000 published clinical trials mention it prominently; it’s a universal factor in our health.

Science seeks truth, but does not claim to have captured it. Science is the endeavor of asymptotically approaching the truth of reality. The veridical asymptote that has stood the test of thousands of clinical trials is that belief hacks physical reality. Jesus turned water into wine, and if I put water in a bottle of Grey Goose vodka and convince you it’s vodka, you’ll likely get drunk because human consciousness hacks physical reality.

But the placebo effect is not the only example; there are many others...

The Consciousness-Related Double-Slit Experiment

While the standard observer effect in physics often refers to the mechanical interaction of a measurement device, Dean Radin’s studies (replicated over decades) involve human intention.

* The Study: Participants are asked to mentally “visualize” the path of a photon in a double-slit apparatus.

* The Result: A statistically significant decrease in the interference pattern (indicating a collapse of the wave function) was observed when humans focused on the device, compared to control periods. This suggests that attention itself can act as a measurement tool.

There’s a particularly good documentary that details the replication of the Double-Slit Experiment, The Simulation Hypothesis by Kent Forbes.

These experiments, often associated with Dean Radin and Dick Bierman, suggest that consciousness “leaks” from the future into the present.

* The Study: Subjects are shown randomly selected “calm” or “violent” images. Their skin conductance and heart rate are monitored.

* The Result: A physiological spike occurs 2–3 seconds before the computer even chooses the violent image. This implies that the human consciousness has a non-linear relationship with time.

This connects to Daryl Bem’s “Feeling the future” experiments, where they discovered “time traveling porn,” yes. I’ll let Grok describe it...

Skin conductance, heart rate, pupil dilation, or EEG changes appear before randomly selected emotional (vs. calm) images or stimuli. Meta-analyses of presentiment-style work have reported small effects; Bem’s 2011 JPSP package of nine experiments claimed retroactive influence.

I actually used this as the basis for the “time hacking” mechanic of a science fiction novel I wrote--I’ll tell you more about that later.

The Global Consciousness Project (GCP)

This project utilizes a global network of Random Number Generators (RNGs) or “eggs.”

* The Study: RNGs produce a stream of 0s and 1s based on quantum noise (true randomness).

* The Result: During major global events (like the moon landing or 9/11), the RNGs deviate significantly from expected randomness, showing a “coherence” in the data that mirrors the collective emotional focus o…

I’ll make the case that Modafinil is a real-life cheat code for myself and many other high-performers: entrepreneurs, writers, celebrities, athletes, and even politicians.

Many of us spent a lot of time in our youth gaming: rescuing princesses in pixelated towers, furnishing our Sim’s houses, fighting aliens in space battles, killing monsters in Black Mesa, leveling up our character’s skills, or building Roman cities.

And most of us used cheat codes from time to time. I belong to the generation that gamed before the internet proliferated into every aspect of life. Often you actually could NOT find cheat codes on the internet. The only place you could find cheat codes was in the back of the game’s cheat guide, which you had to buy separately. You would spend hours and hours trying to figure out a puzzle or build up enough resources to go to war with the Mongols or whatever, and after failing repeatedly, you would walk back down to the video game store and have to pony up another $12 for the cheat guide.

But we wouldn’t buy games just to cheat; we would cheat so that we could get ahead in the game. If you’re like me, you really resisted using cheat codes, preferred to earn your progress, and used cheat codes sparingly so that you could build some momentum of progress through the game and actually enjoy it as opposed to getting bogged down in one level and unmotivated.

The cognitive enhancer Modafinil is highly analogous to this; I’ll make the case here that it’s a real-life cheat code for many other high performers and me: entrepreneurs, writers, celebrities, athletes, and even politicians. Here’s why...

Jocko Willink, a highly decorated retired US Navy SEAL and bestselling author, is perhaps most famous for saying that...

Discipline equals freedom.

Similarly, I like to say that...

Discipline is the ultimate lifehack because discipline gives you any other thing that you desire.

Do you desire wealth and money to enjoy the finer things in life? Work persistently with discipline and focus to provide value to the world, and you’ll be rewarded richly.

Do you desire a sexy girlfriend (or boyfriend)?Discipline will make you the kind of person who attracts somebody really attractive - that’s how it worked out for me!

Do you desire a good-looking body and physique that people stare at with longing and jealousy?With long, disciplined hours spent in the gym or exercising, you can sculpt just such a body.

Do you desire fame, celebrity, influence, and public notoriety?With discipline, you can build an attention-worthy personal brand that will attract millions of social media followers, likes, raving fans, and bitter haters.

Do you desire health and vitality?With discipline, you can fix almost any health problem that holds you back and habituate good habits that make you happy and energetic all the time.

Do you desire a happy, loving family?Discipline is crucial to healthy familial relationships. Without it, your family life will be a cauldron of dysfunction.

Or perhaps you’re more altruistic instead? You desire more than anything else to leave the world better than you found it and make a positive impact.Social revolutionaries and thought leaders without discipline consistently make the world much worse despite their good intentions.

Discipline gives you the freedom to do or be whatever you want.

Discipline will give you the freedom to flourish in the career and vocation of your choosing.Discipline will give you the resources to be free to go and do whatever you want.Discipline will give you freedom from the petty tyrants in your personal life.Discipline will free you from the vices and bad habits that hold you back.Perhaps you lack political freedom and are oppressed by the powers that be where you live. Discipline will give you the power and resources to fight back, change the system, and resist tyranny, or the means to pack up, leave, and go somewhere freer.

The problem with discipline

If you don’t already have it, it’s damned hard to get.If you don’t have discipline, you’ll fail over and over in your plans and ambitious projects.You’ll frustratingly repeat your own personal history cycle of hope, striving, failure, and crushing disappointment.You’ll rationalize and come up with elaborate excuses for your failure and lack of follow-through. You’ll believe in conspiracy theories about a system of oppression that’s holding you down.You’ll talk about working smart instead of working hard, but the truth is that you do neither.You may go to personal development events or hire coaches that motivate you for a few days or weeks, but the clarity of purpose, focus, and intensity will not last long enough for you to accomplish anything meaningful.You’ll grow a little more cynical and bitter every year; your self-loathing will gestate into bouts of depression and illness.

Yet when you have discipline, you have momentum. You slowly but surely accomplish your goals. You become happier, which makes you less needy, which makes you more attractive to other people. People call you out of the blue with great opportunities. Your success begets more success.

Discipline evokes a stereotype of a hard-nosed, workaholic old man, but the truth is that when you have discipline, life is way more fun. When you’re working, you really work, but when you’re relaxing and playing, life is sublimely beautiful. You’re free of petty time-wasting chores, tasks, obligations, and worries that suck the joy out of life.

We’ve all met old or middle-aged people who were, honestly, losers.

They were in dead-end careers that sucked the life out of them. They had health problems and bad habits. They looked bad and smelled bad. They had an awkward, creepy way of communicating. Their personal lives were a wreck; they complained about their failed marriages, and their children hated them.This is the life that awaits you if you fail to become disciplined.

Discipline is hard to get

Some of us were lucky to have parents or a community that spent years or decades instilling discipline, but many of us have to learn discipline as adults.

Jocko acquired the discipline that now makes him a successful author and entrepreneur thanks to decades of military training and service. That’s one way to get it, but the cost is very high; you may even pay with your life on the battlefield of a foreign land.

There are other paths to discipline...

* Exercise and fitness.

* Entrepreneurship and business.

* Mastery of technology; learning programming, building websites, or tinkering with hardware.

* Martial arts

* Many young men devote years of their lives to learning the art of seduction; practicing social dynamics.

* Spiritual or religious devotion to a church, movement, or mindfulness practice.

* Studying seriously in college to prepare for a serious profession (that you may end up hating!)

If you’ve embarked on one of these paths, you know that you don’t get that far without discipline. But discipline can be quite the catch-22; you need discipline to get discipline, but if you don’t have discipline, you really struggle to get discipline.

Luckily, there is a shortcut to discipline

A class of safe, non-addictive legal drugs called Nootropics, or smart drugs, that consistently improve focus and motivation. Modafinil is one of the most popular and praised Nootropics.

Modafinil is a cheat code for discipline.

I’m not suggesting that you use these drugs forever and become dependent upon them for your productivity; I certainly don’t. I’m suggesting that you use these drugs like a cheat code; as a short-term measure to build momentum towards your goals and to jump-start your discipline with practicing habits that produce more discipline.

Modafinil is a wakefulness drug

Modafinil’s pharmacological purpose is a wakefulness drug for narcoleptic people. To quote from an interesting 2017 UK paper on military surgical teams dealing with the challenge of sleep deprivation:

Modafinil is an alerting substance, also used to treat excessive sleepiness due to narcolepsy, obstr…

Once upon a time, I published a meta-analysis video about Kratom and, funnily enough, it made the internet more angry at me than anything else I’ve published. The enraged comments flooded into my comments section when I called it an Opioid, a non-Nootropic performance enhancer, and criticized it for a lack of human clinical trials.

Then in 2016, I was actually Donald Trump representative in a 90-minute televised debate. And I offhandedly made the libertarian case for the legality and harm reduction potential of Kratom, which my debate opponent didn’t like. I feel politically vindicated on that one because the Trump administration has generally moved public health in a more libertarian direction, and Kratom remained legal, giving millions the herb they need for chronic pain management or to resist succumbing to more harmful Opioids.

Since then, there have been human clinical trials of Kratom. That’s the good news. But there’s plenty of bad news. Namely, the sordid state of the industry, which is largely unconcerned with the well-being of its customers. Fly-by-night vendors abound, and chemists create ultra-addictive forms of the herb which marketers slap silly labels on and then sell at gas stations. And really, the only thing you should be buying at gas stations is gas!

This brings me to an important and pragmatic red pill. In a more libertarian world, there are fewer persnickety rules barring greedy corporations from preying on consumers. That’s the big trade-off, but those corporations still need us to click the buy button. A serious responsibility falls on you to make smarter choices about what you buy or put in your body--especially when it comes to things like Kratom.

Today, I’m joined by Brandon Hayes of Tribe Botanics based in New Jersey. Which I think stands out because of their transparency and quality standards: every batch is third-party lab tested, and full COAs and exact mitragynine % are published on each product page. That’s what we look for as Biohackers! In this interview, we get into the promise and perils of Kratom along with the recent science.

Mentioned in this interview

My meta-analysis -- Kratom: An opioid-based non-nootropic performance enhancer with a dark side

Recent Kratom science: 4 clinical trials

AVOID 7-OH Kratom

HRV trackers - use these to determine how things affect you

History of coffee--explained in the documentary series Black Coffee

The Social Anxiety Protocol for Biohacking Confidence

Phenibut: The Socially Lubricating Anti-Anxiety Smart Drug Cosmonauts Used

Kava: A mood enhancer

Alternative chronic pain treatments: Kratom, red light therapy, emotional freedom techniques

Withstand Kratom Withdrawal - with the peptide Selank

Adaptogen herbs: Rhodiola, Horny Goat Weed, Ashwagandha

Nicotine - My favorite addictive Smart Drug

My novel about Biohacking and philosophy, Hourglass

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Tis’ the season to raise our glasses with friends and family! The good news is that the resulting hangovers can be hacked.

Many Biohackers choose to abstain from spirits altogether, but especially during the holidays, they are missing out on a lot of good times, unforgettable memories, and festive fellowship with their loved ones. This article will present a holistic protocol for mitigating all the downsides of rowdy revelry so you can indulge in some drinking guilt-freeand without hating yourself the morning after.

Skip the pre-packaged “Hangover Cures”

Years ago I had a dubious career as a nightclub promoter; my job was to organize and host raucous parties at nightclubs. Several companies offering “hangover cures” sent me ample samples of their funny-tasting dissolving tablets and packets. I did quite a bit of drinking; I tried them all, and they really didn’t do much to mitigate the headache, sluggishness, acid reflux, and cognitive downgrade the morning after. I suspect that a lot of these products don’t contain high-quality, bioactive individual ingredients or just rely on the placebo effect. Hacking a hangover requires a few supplements and vitamins; you’ll want to get these individually from credible sources that ideally verify purity with a publicly published certificate of analysis.

Block the Acetaldehyde

Crucially, you want to take some supplements that will block the alcohol from converting into poisonous Acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is the culprit to blame for much of the damage that alcohol does to our health; it causes cancer, liver damage, fatigue, loss of intelligence (as you’ve certainly experienced after too many drinks), along with skin wrinkles (just go and look at the current Facebook photos of your old drinking friends if you want to see this!)

You’ll want to start your booze biohacking with N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC); take 500 - 1000 milligrams BEFORE drinking.

Vitamin C - Is a notable poor man's boozing biohack (which even an elitist like myself uses). Vitamin C is ascorbic acid, which helps your liver metabolize the liquor and clear the toxins from the body. Take it before or while drinking; serious boozing biohackers will take one Vitamin C tablet with each drink.

Detoxify the Liver

While you’re relaxing and enjoying a drink, your liver is doing the dirty work of processing the booze and filtering out the worst of the toxins in it. You’ll want to take some steps to fortify your liver and detox it.

Glutathione is the master antioxidant

It’s a smart idea to supplement it if you’re going to be doing a little (or a lot of) drinking. In a sense, you always have a mini-hangover as your body is depleting Glutathione all the time, but alcohol is especially costly to your Glutathione stores.

* It’s rocket fuel for your liver function. From a 2017 clinical trial, Glutathione plays crucial roles in the detoxification and antioxidant systems of cells and has been used to treat acute poisoning and chronic liver diseases...

* It’s a powerful intercellular antioxidant. Glutathione, as a molecule, is very charitable with its electrons, thus blocking the oxidizing free radicals that the booze introduces from their rape and pillaging of your biology.

* It enhances immunity. As you may have experienced, alcohol retards immunity. If you’ve ever caught the flu or a cold in the chilly days following some holiday binge drinking, you have only yourself to blame! Glutathione fortifies the immune system. From some German research: The immune system works best if the lymphoid cells have a delicately balanced intermediate level of glutathione.

Double Wood Supplements offers COA-verified pure S-Acetyl L-Glutathione, manufactured in the USA. Glutathione supplements are all the rage, but most Glutathione is not highly orally bioavailable (nor is it cheap), so I suggest you choose the S-Acetyl version, which is better absorbed.

Double Wood’s customers praise it highly as a boozing biohack; Juan reported:

I put it to the test by consuming alcoholic beverages [to] the point of intoxication (in a safe monitored environment) and then immediately took two capsules of the Acetyl L-Glutathione. Surprisingly the next morning my hangover was dramatically reduced. I then repeated the test a week later with the same amount of alcohol without the supplement and my hangover was very bad. I did this 4 more times and every time the hangover was almost nonexistent with the supplement vs not taking it.

From a verified customer review: Works great for detox and hangovers, on Amazon:

I take this with DHM when having a few cocktails. 1 of each before drinking, 1 of each before bed, and 1 of each first thing in the AM. Hangovers are either completely prevented or very short lived!

Take 100-300 milligrams during or after drinking.

Colostrum - Taking your Glutathione hacking to the next level demands the chelation of the heavy metal iron in the gut. Chelation comes from the Latin word Chela, which means Claw, so chelators claw stubborn toxins out of your body. Chelating supplements and foods are a smart idea for any biohacker, but Colostrum contains lactoferrin, a quintessential Glutathione cofactor.

Alpha Lipoic Acid - This is another formidable antioxidant that supports Glutathione. The ALA supplements should be refrigerated. Take 400 milligrams before drinking.

Clean up the Toxins

What makes you hungover is the toxins in the alcohol that hang around in your body, wreaking havoc. There are a couple of supplements you’ll want to take after drinking that have a molecular affinity for toxins; they capture toxins so they can be washed out of your body.

One of the more pharmacologically interesting and effective hangover hacks I’ve tried is Dihydromyricetin (DHM), it’s been widely studied (+200 papers on Pubmed). It has the curious effect of sobering you up when 300 - 900 milligrams are taken after a few drinks.

It was evaluated against a placebo in a 2015 clinical trial of sixty adults with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

We conclude that dihydromyricetin supplementation improves glucose and lipid metabolism as well as various biochemical parameters in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and the therapeutic effects of dihydromyricetin are likely attributable to improved insulin resistance and decreases in the serum levels of tumor necrosis...

What people are reporting...

Mary S.

effective at reducing intoxication and preventing hangover.

Mr D.

Only thing Ive had reduce the heavy hangover after a night of [indulging].

D.

It really works for me. I wake up feeling ready to take on the day. Hangovers get worse as you get older... These have been a lifesaver.

Staci

I am known for terrible hangovers and praying to the porcelain Gods most of the morning, sometimes the whole day. Never a fun experience. After reading reviews on this hangover miracle, I decided to try it out myself. It definitely works!

Mitch U. - Don’t Drink Without It

As I’ve gotten older, my hangovers have gotten much worse. After the equivalent of 2 drinks, I’ll wake up feeling at least a little crummy. As an avid consumer of craft beers, that can sometimes mean that 1 beer is actually closer to 3-4. I’ve now started taking DHM as a way to help make that 3-4 drinks make me feel more like how 1-2 really should the next morning. I’ll also take it whenever we have a bottle share, which can turn a completely useless next day into merely an uncomfortable one.

DHM is a great idea for Asians, who may suffer from Asian Flush while drinking...

I have used other products for hangover relief, but they don’t help with Asian Flush. This condition affects 20-25% of Asians from southern regions. I inherited it from my father, who came from Guangdong, China. The most obvious symptom is that my face turns bright red after only 2 sips of beer, but it also gives me headaches while drinking, and it increases my risk of stomach/esophageal cancer and peptic ulcers due to a genetic inability to efficien…

I hadn’t used Modafinil in quite some time; I’d just received an assortment of Eurogics, which I decided to use to offset a night of bad sleep. Which I don’t recommend generally; Nootropics should not be used regularly to cope with insomnia, but I suffer from insomnia infrequently, and Modafinil can really make a big difference when you’re sleep-deprived.

My personal policy on sleep deprivation is that I wake up early, get to work, and do my best to power through the day. I emerged from a light, dissatisfying slumber around 5:30 AM after tossing and turning for hours as thoughts raced through my mind. Modafinil typically takes an hour or sometimes two to kick in for me, so I took a full 200-milligram capsule of MODAWAKE® and tried to go back to sleep. The Modafinil kicked in as expected; it’s a kind of cool sensation to feel the Modafinil begin to take effect as you are halfway between the dream world and waking life. I cuddled with my wife for a bit and got up.

MODAWAKE® had the effect I’ve grown to expect from Modafinil. For me, Modafinil is not a mood enhancer; I don’t feel particularly good or bad on it. I had a very productive day working on a few articles, a book review delving into a very complex and nuanced subject; I recorded three video blogs (which were honestly not great vlogs; Modafinil is not really conducive to my verbal skills); I had a great workout at the gym; and I enjoyed dinner with my wife. Interestingly, I did not get sweaty on MODAWAKE®. In the past, Modafinil has often made me sweat, even when I’m just working on the computer, not doing anything that should make me sweat. This is a good sign!

How to get to sleep on a Modafinil day

No point in taking Smart Drugs if they do THIS to you

As I’ve experienced several times, Modafinil can wreck your sleep, even 10-12 hours after dosing. If you’re going to use it, you need to be very proactive about your sleep hacking and before-bed regimen. Here’s what I did to fall right asleep and enjoy a night of very restorative sleep after having done 200 milligrams of Modafinil that morning...

* Turn off the tech - I shut down my laptop about 2 hours before bed and resisted the urge to use social media on my smartphone.

* Turn off the wifi - An hour before bed, I just switched off the power strip that powers my wifi router. I disconnected or powered off all the little devices that we have with little green LED lights on them.

* Lighting - For about 2 hours before bed, I got away from all harsh lighting. I turned off the lights in our bedroom and used candles; we ate a candlelit dinner. When I brush and floss my teeth at night, I don’t turn on the bathroom light.

* Meditate and read - I did 15 minutes of meditation, just listening to soothing Brain.FM tunes, then I read a book for about 30 minutes. I do use a tablet to do my reading, as reading an old-fashioned book by candlelight strains my eyes, but I use night mode with white text on a black background; I turn the brightness on the tablet all the way down, and the wifi was off.

* Sleep supplements - I did 1000 milligrams of Magnesium L-Threonate, which is a great sleep hack, and my wife lovingly made me a nice Ashwagandha, Honey, and Apple Cider Vinegar tea.

I did an exhaustive hour-long workout in the mid-evening. Ending your Modafinil days with a workout is an especially good idea because Modafinil enables workaholism; on Modafinil, you’ll tend to work late into the evening. If you have a workout scheduled at 7:30 PM, you have a deadline for finishing your working day, which forces you to work a little smarter. On Modafinil, we are in a more stimulated autonomic mode, and our stress hormone levels will be elevated. The end of the workday is a great time to pour all this energy and motivation into a workout.

Another time that I was sleep-deprived, I did 100 milligrams (a half capsule) of MODAFRESH® around 6:30 AM and proceeded to have the kind of day that subtly reminds me why I don’t really like Modafinil...

I was quite alert and focused until the early afternoon. I completed a very intellectually challenging 5000-word book review, but then the sleep deprivation began to creep back up on me. 100 milligrams was enough to keep me productive for about half the day, but I was frazzled for the second half. There’s probably not a big difference between Modawake, Modafresh, and Modalert.In the future, if I do 100-milligram doses, I’m going to reach for a variety of Armodafinil. I’ve become a bit of a Eurogics snob; in the future, I’ll reach for Armodafinil, the upgraded version of Modafinil.

About Modafinil

It is a next-level smart drug, often compared closely to NZT-48 from Limitless.

It imbues an unfair cognitive advantage to those lifehackers not afraid to dabble with pharmaceuticals, from night-shift working emergency room doctors to programmers and helicopter pilots.

Payment

Their preferred payment method is Bitcoin; there is a 10% discount for paying using the world’s most convenient cryptocurrency!

You can of course also pay with VISA and Mastercard, but there is a 5% surcharge, so what more reason do you need to join your anti-establishmentarian comrades in the Bitcoin revolution? If you’re old-fashioned, you can also use MoneyGram.

Packaging

You might be wondering what the legality is of receiving a shipment of pharmacologically active agents from another country, especially Russia. The truth is that if you’re in a country with very strict drug laws or poor human rights protections, it’s probably not a great idea. However, similar to what I said in my video about traveling with smart drugs, in my 5 years of researching Nootropics, I’ve yet to come across an account of someone who suffered legal repercussions for importing cognitive enhancers for personal use.

Although if you’re importing anything into a place that ranks poorly on the country corruption index, you’re taking a risk that you’ll be taken advantage of. However, RUPharma ships to +30 different countries; they do business like undercover Agent Sasha in the CIA- very discreetly! They ship in such inconspicuous packages that the customs agents will likely just think the package is your Babushka (grandma) sending you cookies!Personally, having lived for years in countries that are best described as dodgy and due to my disdain for paying VAT taxes, I will usually ship my supplements to a friend in the United States who is coming to see me sometime soon, and I compensate them for the hand delivery by sharing my drugs or buying them dinner!

Shipping

In case you’re wondering, yes, you can get Russian Nootropics in the United States. One customer reported:

I have ordered from rupharma twice so far and both times the product was delivered to me very fast without problems. This last order was shipped to California in 7 days! The product is authentic and they are a pleasure to deal with. They always reply quickly to any inquiries and will not hesitate to assist you with any issues. I will definitely keep coming back and highly recommend them to anyone!

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I used Lost Empire Herb’s 8:1 Dual Extract Lion’s Mane for about a month. It adds a pleasant earthy taste to my morning cup of steaming coffee.

* It has a subtle Nootropic effect, although as far as Adaptogens go, I find Chaga or Rhodiola more stimulating. After taking it, I found myself in a productive, focused headspace.

* I’m thankful to have Lion’s Mane in my war chest of immuno-fortifying natural herbs; taking it, I managed to avoid getting the sniffles during the cold, dry Eastern European winter here in Bulgaria.

* I can’t speak much to its Neurogenesis effects; I suspect I’d have to take it for longer for these effects to become apparent.

Summary of Lion’s Mane Science

Nine scientific papers have been published about it in the past year, which I’ll summarize...

The most recent published paper out of the University of Hong Kong focuses on its therapeutic potential in treating depression.

Although antidepressant effects of [Lion’s Mane] have not been validated and compared to the conventional antidepressants, based on the neurotrophic and neurogenic pathophysiology of depression, [Lion’s Mane] may be a potential alternative medicine for the treatment of depression.

A Malaysian study suggests that it’s a neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory agent in neuron-glia environment.

A Chinese study did a genetic analysis of its bioactive metabolites that have anticancer, immunomodulating, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antihypertensive, antidiabetic and neuroprotective properties.

A 13-week Taiwanese animal study gave it to rats and concluded that it was highly safe and that there was an absence of toxicological effects in all the rats during the investigation period.

Another animal study established its antibacterial effect against the superbug H. pylori.

Natural products are sources for exploratory development of new agents to combat the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori. Some edible fungi, such as the lion’s mane mushroom, have been used for several thousand years to treat digestive diseases.

A 2-month Italian animal study found that [Lion’s Mane] increased general locomotor activity but had no effect on spatial memory. It also notes that...

We previously determined that oral supplementation with [Lion’s Mane] results in significant improvements in novelty-seeking behavior and novel object recognition in mice.

So Lion’s Mane might make you a better salsa dancer, but if you want to improve your spatial memory, I would recommend Dual N-Back brain training.

A German study speaks to its effects on BDNF and NGF

We found that erinacines act on [Brain-derived neurotrophic factor], which is a neurotrophic factor that has been reported recently by us to be induced by the corallocins, but as well on [nerve growth factor] expression...

Check out this detailed meta-analysis of the scientific evidence for Lion’s Mane

Purity is a concern with Nutraceuticals

Nutraceuticals come from the natural world; they tend to absorb the toxins in the environment around them, making many of the herbal supplements that you might find possibly Iatrogenic - they may actually do you more harm than good. This is why I wouldn’t buy any old Lion’s Mane that I found on store shelves or online, especially if it’s cheap. I enthusiastically recommend Lost Empire Herbs as they have the highest standards in the industry for quality assurance and purity testing.

Organic Lion’s Mane Dual Extract in an 8:1 proportion

According to at least one paper, an alcohol extract may be best to bring out the NGF activity of Lion’s Mane. (1) But other research disagrees with this. The science around lion’s mane mushroom is still in its infancy.

Still, that’s why we’ve made this dual-extracted (meaning with both alcohol and water) lion’s mane available. Triterpenes, including the hericenones and erinacines, are known to extract better in alcohol. That’s not to say that our other extract isn’t helpful, just that this one MAY be better, especially for the neurological benefits.

In addition to using both alcohol and water, this is an 8:1 extract, meaning it is eight times as powerful. Of course, it started with the same quality, organic, real lion’s mane mushrooms, and not the mycelium.

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Let me confirm something you already know on a gut level...

The supplement industry is a capitalist wild wild west, a profiteers’ paradise, a mostly unregulated free market, and smart consumers should beware.

While the ubiquitous white Nutrition Facts box you see on the labeling of the packaging looks official, anyone with basic word processing software can create such a representation of the ingredients ostensibly in a product. When you realize that no one verifies that the actual individual ingredients are in a given product, you realize how much of a decision to buy and take a supplement is based upon trust.

The Nutrition “Facts”

When supplement companies sell products to consumers, they can count on most consumers not verifying what they are consuming. Sure, the consumers could send products off for testing at a third-party laboratory, but that costs between hundreds and thousands of dollars. While some consumer spectroscopy devices are coming to market that promise to disrupt multiple industries that prey on the voracious consumer, at the current time consumers have virtually no way of personally determining what they are actually putting in their bodies.

The good news: to make almost certain that you are getting the real stuff, insist on always buying pharmaceutical-grade supplements.

Why trust Pharmaceutical Grade?

When a University spends six figures (or more) to conduct a major double-blind, placebo-controlled study with dozens of human participants, they verify that the compounds, ingredients, drugs, or supplements they are using are real. The potential negative repercussions of not doing so are huge...

* A study conducted with illegitimate ingredients would produce inaccurate results. Scientists know that once their study is published in a journal, their colleagues at other universities will recreate their experiments to verify their findings. Not to mention, these scientists have to spend sometimes as much as $30,000 – $40,000 just on the publishing of their studies.

* Many a feud between scientists and universities has its origins in one researcher challenging the conclusions another reached after a study.

* Making a mistake in process or methodology during a study, referred to as having “dirty test tubes,” can result in a researcher being fired, a University’s reputation being damaged, or an organization losing its funding from the government.

These guys are seriously motivated to make certain they are using the real stuff, and in their laboratories, they have the means to do so. They spend extra to get Pharmaceutical Grade and so should you! Pharmaceutical-grade manufacturers and distributors aren’t intrinsically more ethical; it’s just that they know their products are going to be tested for legitimacy and purity by their most important customers - business they stand to lose if they put out anything less than the real thing.

What are the grades of supplements?

Pharmaceutical Grade

The purity, dissolution, and absorption of a given vitamin are third-party tested and verified to meet regulatory standards that come from the national Pharmacopeia. Pharmaceutical Grade can be obtained without a prescription, but typically they are sold by licensed health care practitioners. Companies that distribute this grade will typically be Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) certified, so look for GMP Certified on the labeling and websites of the products you order from. It’s required to be 98-99% pure; you’re never going to get 100% pure, but this grade is required to be within a couple of percentage points of it.

Medical Grade

They are also high-grade, high-purity vitamins, although they may not undergo the stringent third-party verification process that Pharmaceutical Grade vitamins have to. If Pharmaceutical Grade is not available, you will usually be fine taking Medical Grade supplements, and the benefits you experience will be very similar.

Cosmetic / Nutritional Grade

These are what you will typically find on the shelves of health food stores. They are not tested for absorption or purity; indeed, no one actually tests the contents of these products. In this age of convenient eCommerce, you are better off just avoiding this grade altogether and ordering Pharmaceutical grade online. Supplements of this grade will contain some very dubious extra ingredients, like cornstarch, folic acid, and chemical preservatives - some that the FDA does not even require the manufacturer to list on the label.

Food Grade

For additions to food products; think about “healthy breakfast cereals” that boast about being fortified with vitamins and nutrients - typically this will be very low quality. The food business is a doggedly competitive arena, where most consumers make decisions completely on price, so food manufacturers are almost always looking for the lowest-cost individual ingredients.

Feed or Veterinarian Grade

For consumption by our furry friends and industrial animals.

Let’s take a further look at the eight most popular types of Nootropics...

The human brain is an incredibly complex system with thousands of different types of processes occurring at any given moment. For Biohackers, this gives us a lot of different angles to take on cognitive enhancement. These categories represent hundreds of different mechanisms of action that enhance cognition, improve memory, treat depression, empower neuroplasticity, speed up skill acquisition, help with focus, and minimize stress, along with preventing and even reversing cognitive decline.

For my up-to-date, vetted sources of…

* Amino Acids

* Acetylcholine Precursors

* Adaptogens

* Antioxidants

* B Vitamins

* Herbs

* Mitochondrial Support

* Modafinil

* NAD+ Boosters

* Nutraceuticals

* Nutrients

* Peptides

* Racetams

Check out this article here…

Pharmaceutical Grade Stacks?

I’ve been a hardcore consumer of Nootropics for over a decade now, and I’m increasingly less and less of a believer in the majority of Nootropic Stacks. You can’t fit three grams of Piracetam and a gram of choline in a single pill, so manufacturers trying to add 5-10 different ingredients to a single pill will need to decrease the quantities to truly insignificant amounts. I believe in taking Nootropics in the dosages recommended by the human studies that demonstrated a cognition-enhancing effect from them in the first place, and most Nootropic Stacks just don’t offer this.

Also, supplement stack distributors are less likely to have stringent quality standards for individual ingredients; most stack distributors are just white-labeling ingredients. This is a business model prone to low quality; let’s say their source of pharmaceutical-grade B vitamins (which comprise 40% of the ingredients in their stack) runs out, are they going to stop selling their product while they look for another source of equal quality? Not likely. What they will typically do is switch to another vendor who can get the raw materials to them as soon as possible, regardless of quality. In contrast, a company that sells a single-ingredient product is much more liable for the quality of that ingredient.

My reservations made, there are several stacks I have been impressed with personally, so I recommend them enthusiastically; they are also confirmed to use pharmaceutical-grade ingredients in their stacks.

Worst Case Scenario?

In the past decade, there have been a couple of highly publicized instances of supplement manufacturers putting out products that harmed the health of their customers, like Fen-Phen and Craze - the popular pre-workout powder that turned out to be meth. The jail sentences and lawsuits resulting from these instances will hopefully motivate even the most unethical, opportunistic …

There’s a dichotomous old dogma I’m sure you reject: that you can develop your mind or develop your body. The mind/body split that the dweebest of philosophers and academics once espoused.But there’s another dichotomy that might be limiting you: the belief that fast equals rushed and “quantity has a quality all its own” when it comes to your time commitment to your health, fitness, and personal growth.“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” right?That’s a saying as old as, well, Rome, I’m sure.But might it now be... wrong?Might you actually have all the time you need to elevate your mind to the divine frequency it’s intended to receive and chisel your body so that every mirror refracts greatness?

That’s a question that I’m going to get really pragmatic on today with PJ Glassey...

PJ is an author, serial entrepreneur, and the creator of the revolutionary high-intensity protocol behind X Gym in Kirkland, Washington (which boasts an almost perfect 4.9-star rating on Google Maps). He’s going to tell us how to fit 7 hours of traditional fitness into two 21-minute sessions a week, along with the neuroscience of neuro-centric movement, brain typing, and how high-efficiency biohacking can rebuild your physique without taxing your schedule.

Mentioned in the interview

PJs Timehacks

7 hours of fitness in two 21-minute sessions - With continuous time under tension. Explained here...

“Exercise snacks” - Doing 1 to 2 minutes of exertion every hour (e.g., using stairs or air squats) to transform metabolism.

Variable resistance training - from the book Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time by Dr. John Jaquish. But continuous time under pressure beats pricey home gym workout gear or products.

Jonathan’s Timehacks

In my first year of parenthood, with a new baby, I managed to run my business, write a book, work out 61 times, do date nights with my wife, and managed to stay in touch with family because I don’t use the “too busy” excuse.

Philosophy: Let small bad things happen. Mundane things: do them fast enough that you make little mistakes.

Workouts and fitness: 10-20 minutes; I would do them at home, squats holding the baby, and I would pair them with whatever knowledge I needed to acquire. For me, any workout time is professional development time. There’s always some topic I need to research: it could be a podcast guest’s book or how to keep my unvaccinated child safe from mumps. So I listen to audiobooks, podcasts, or whatever you can do now--if there’s a topic you need to learn about. Find like 4-5 sources on it: web pages, books, etc. Load these into a Google’s GEMINI AI Notebook, then prompt GEMINI to create a podcast about the topic, BUT in the prompt be very specific about your specific situation and goal. And it will do a scary good job of pinpointing what you need to know from those sources.

Memory hacks: Mnemonics + SuperMemo app - remember more of the knowledge you absorb from books.

Picking the right spouse: My wife knows Jonathan will not wait in a line to buy something.

Buy an hourglass as a reminder of the preciousness of time.

Brain Type Test

Might you be failing to break through glass ceilings in your health, fitness, and life because you’re using the wrong lifehacks for your “brain type?”

About X Gym - “The Timehack Gym”

X Gym is a personal training and small-group training studio in Kirkland, WA (also serving Bellevue and the Eastside), founded in 1998. Using proprietary high-intensity protocols, clients train just 21 minutes, twice a week in studio or online.

Check out their informative YouTube channel or PJ’s blogs on Zone Two cardio, exercise snacks, and more.

XGYM Video Workout App

Built just for people who want to do workouts whenever and wherever they like!

Dozens of Workout Videos! And more videos added every month

PJ Glassey, X Gym Founder, Is Your Trainer! - (It will feel like he’s in your head - yet not in a creepy way)

Filter Your Xercise Videos! By muscle focus, Xercise method, equipment, and more

Xercise Videos Formatted For Any Device! - Watch on your phone, tablet, computer, TV, etc.

Xtra Fast And Intuitive! Log in and GO - even if it’s for just one Xercise!

My conversation with PJ inspired this song about time management...

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