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Is NAD+ the Immortality Molecule?

Listening to people like world-renowned anti-aging researcher David Sinclair Ph.D. of Harvard you certainly might think so. The scientists who have looked the hardest at NAD+ think it may be the key to unlocking lifespans of greater than 120 years. It’s a very special molecule that has everything to do with why we age and the corresponding declines we experience in quality of life and mind.

Why is NAD+ so interesting to those crazy enough to think that we may one day live as long as we want to?

* NAD+ is a crucial cofactor of epigenetic function. Epigenetics is our genome’s capacity to turn on or off the right genes at the right time.

* NAD+ supports Mitochondrial function. Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, the underlying energy generation system of the body.

* Decreasing NAD+ level is also associated with age-related DNA damage, according to a 2019 Therapeutic Applications paper. In the toxic soup of modernity, our DNA struggles to replicate itself perfectly, the shoddier the replication the more risk of cancer. NAD+ protects the DNA from all the nasty toxins and free radicals that threaten our health.

* NAD+ tunes your immune system like a master tuner tuning a grand piano. It can also modulate down the immune system which mitigates various autoimmune disorders.

* NAD+ comes from Vitamin B3 which is found in space. NASA scientists have actually identified Vitamin B3 in meteorites, adding credence to the Panspermia theory for the emergence of life on this planet.

Dr. Philip Milgram of the NAD Treatment Center in San Diego, California believes...

"NAD will turn out to be one of the greatest advances in medical science since Fleming invented penicillin."

A big question that anti-aging pragmatists, holistic health practitioners, and biohackers are asking is...

What is the safest, most effective, and most practical way to supplement NAD+?

NAD+ itself is not orally bioavailable, if you want to supplement it directly you need to get it injected intravenously, right in your bloodstream. Which is pricey (about $600) and needs to be done in a NAD clinic by a professional. Fortunately, there are several other ways to supplement NAD+ that are a lot more practical and economical.

Here we’ll compare them so you can decide which represents the best biological bang for your buck...

Niacin (Vitamin B3)

Of all the B-Vitamins this is the one whose history I found both fascinating and tragic. It was experimented with by Abram Hoffer, Ph.D., MD. a real visionary healer who played a role in founding Alcoholics Anonymous. I find B3 tragic because Dr. Hoffer believed it had real potential to heal the trauma of a hurting world, but the medical and scientific institutions with their billions and billions of dollars in public funding never cared to really explore its promise.

* Around the internet, you’ll find a bunch of fancy Mitochondrial function supplements but B vitamins like B3 are actually one of the best things you can supplement to support your Mitochondria.

* Its users consistently report that B3 increases appetite. You’ll be eating more and maybe experience food cravings. If you’re trying to gain weight B3 is a good Vitamin to take.

* The problem with Vitamin B3 is that it causes an unpleasant skin flush, it makes your skin visibly red and you feel uncomfortably hot. You can buy non-flush B3 but its efficacy is debated by the experts.

Dosage: 500 - 1500 milligrams dailyCost: It’s very inexpensive, $12 for a 500 milligram 240 capsule supply, between an 8-month and 2-and-a-half-month supply.

NR (Nicotinamide Riboside)

NIAGEN® is a patented and popular supplemental form of NR that has been researched at Cambridge University, Northwestern University, and Duke University. While a newer discovery in the anti-aging field, there are five NR human clinical trials.

* As you can see from the NAD+ metabolism diagrams, NR is two steps removed from NAD+.

* At 300 milligrams daily NR increases NAD by 40%-50% in just 8 weeks.

* The sentiment among users seems to be that it does improve health noticeably but doesn’t have an energizing or stimulating immediate effect.

Dosage: 300 - 900 milligrams dailyCost: The best value NR is ninety 300 milligram capsules for $120, a 1 - 3 month supply.

NMN (Nicotinamide Mononucleotide)

NMN while newer on the anti-aging scene has attained much acclaim by scientists and self-experimenters alike. It’s currently undergoing a human clinical trial in Japan.

* NMN is one step removed from NAD+, which it converts directly into.

* In regards to epigenetics, NMN activates the Sirtuin SIRT3 while NR does not.

* In a thorough sentiment analysis of the numerous anecdotes posted around the internet, I found NMN frequently described a classic Nootropic. Two-thirds of Biohackers who responded to a survey agreed that it had Nootropic effects (enhanced cognition, motivation and wakefulness).

Dosage: 250 - 1000 milligrams dailyCost: Sixty 125-milligram capsules are $50, a 1-month to 1-week supply. Powdered NMN is even more affordable, 15 grams for $69, 2 months - 15 days.

To me, NMN is most appealing because of its...

* Reasonable cost (powdered it’s less expensive than NR).

* Lack of negative side effects.

* And purported Nootropic effect; it’s a doubly good value if it both empowers my health and enhances my productivity.

Sources of lab-tested pure NMN

What people are saying about NMN’s antiaging effects...

57 going on 30 years old - D. Speight

“I may be the "youngest looking" 57 year old in Florida, but my body rarely feels like the 30 year old it resembles. When I read a few of the reviews about how quickly one could feel the results, I was skeptical. Not anymore! So the supplement option was already appealing to me. While I don't expect this to be an instant "fountain of youth," I'm optimistic it might come close in the long term.”

Want to feel younger with a boost of energy? - Angelo

“Infinite Age's PURE NMN supplement should be included in anyone's supplement regimen. I noticed clearer thoughts, increase energy levels, and improved recovery time. I am half a century old and being able to keep pushing throughout the everyday grind, it allows me to reach my goal of retirement much sooner; Infinite Age PURE NMN is one supplement to give a try.”

Fantastic Product, Great Effects - Logan Tibbetts

“I have many years of experience trying a broad range of supplements, and so I have a lot of experience testing for effects and avoiding placebo, as well as many points for comparison. When starting, I was expecting a slight increase in energy or mild effects on my cognition. Instead, I have felt a substantial boost of (non-stimulating) energy, meaningfully improved clarity and quality of my thoughts, brightened mood, and most surprising to me, a pretty noticeable reduction in the day-to-day aches and pains that I, unfortunately, live with. Overall, I have been pleasantly surprised and impressed with Infinite Age's NMN.”

Didn’t expect it to work so quickly!! - Eric G

“I have tried many supplements over the years and have yet to come across something as profound as this!!! Within about 1 hour out of nowhere, I felt this sense of positivity and just overall felt great. Something I couldn't explain as I never just felt "good" without being able to point out exactly why of how. I feel naturally energetic and the normal nagging pain in my neck isn’t there...”

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Another Racetam hailing from the Land of the Rising Sun.

Nefiracetam, a scion of Piracetam the godfather of smart drugs, is structurally most similar to Aniracetam. It's a millennial Nootropic, being under 20-years-old.

This article is mostly going to focus on decoding what the human studies are saying about Nefiracetam and how this squares up with the anecdotal experiences of Biohackers online.

Cognition

A Japanese study identifies it as a cognitive enhancer...

Nefiracetam (NEF) is a novel pyrrolidonetype nootropic agent, and it has been reported to possess various pharmacologic effects as well as cognition-enhancing effects.

One meticulous Swedish Biohacker reported (quite hyperbolically) about its effect on cognition:

From my first dose, I knew nefiracetam was wonder drug... I would take it in a capsule and minutes later my senses would light up, almost as if I was waking up from a perpetual semi-conscious state... I simply felt very awake, aware, and present, which was just the right state for me to be productive. It precisely counteracted the effects of the ADHD inattentiveness.

Another user found that 300 - 500 milligrams daily was the sweet spot for treating ADHD:

An upside for me was that it had no effect on my emotions or mood. It gave me a very calm and focused state of mind. The effects seemed to be immediate rather than having to wait days for the loading phase that accompanies many of the other racetams... I say it was effective for my ADD not because it necessarily motivated me to accomplish tasks, but because it removed the appeal of distractions. Even involuntary eye-movements (AKA, scanning a page while reading/typing) stopped on their own. When a distracting thought would come to mind it didn't carry the same compulsory appeal that it usually does. I literally "chose" to continue what I was doing. It was effortless focus... not driven or intense, but clear and calm.

Memory

Similar to Piracetam, it's likely a long-term memory Biohack. Particularly for relearning a previously learned task, from an animal study out of Philadelphia...

Significant relearning was observed in the 10 mg/kg nefiracetam group 1 and 5 weeks after initial acquisition... The effect of nefiracetam upon the ability of older rabbits to relearn a previously learned task is apparent up to 5 weeks after drug administration. Under normal conditions, a drug is administered continuously. In this experiment, nefiracetam had a significant effect long after drug administration had ceased.

The studies suggest that its effect on memory does not occur until after 7 days of dosing, so don't expect an effect after just a few days of using it.

It may be something of a Neuroplasticity biohack, from a 2006 University College Dublin study:

nefiracetam, and... drugs that augment cholinergic function, increases the basal frequency of dentate polysialylated neurons in a manner similar to the enhanced neuroplasticity achieved through complex environment rearing. While both drug-treated and complex environment reared animals continue to exhibit memory-associated activation of hippocampal polysialylated neurons, the magnitude is significantly reduced suggesting that such interventions induce a more robust memory pathway that can acquire and consolidate new information more efficiently. This hypothesis is supported by our findings of improved learning behavior and enhanced resistance to cholinergic deficits seen following either intervention. Furthermore, the level of enhancement of basal neuroplastic status achieved by either drug or environmental intervention correlates directly with improved spatial learning ability...

Vs Stroke-Induced Apathy

Feeling apathetic about life?

900 milligrams of Nefiracetam a day for 4 weeks may restore a sense of meaning for you.

From a 2009 Iowa study of 137 patients...

Nefiracetam is a novel pyrrolidone-type nootropic compound shown in preliminary trials to increase blood flow and improve patient outlook and energy following stroke... Patients taking 900 mg nefiracetam had a significantly greater change in Apathy Scale scores compared to 600 mg of nefiracetam or placebo.

From a follow-up study out of the same university:

Apathy is a frequent neuropsychiatric complication of stroke that, although often associated with depression and cognitive impairment, may occur independently of both. Its presence has been consistently associated with greater functional decline.

So the next year clarified that post-stroke, there is about a 25% chance of apathy setting in. It suggested these Nootropics as an option...

Cholinesterase inhibitors and nefiracetam may significantly reduce apathetic symptoms. However, their efficacy was examined in relatively small clinical trials that require replication.

Depression

Now in the Iowa study mentioned above, it did help those suffering from post-stroke depression with apathy but it would seem that for otherwise healthy people it has the contrary effect; more than a handful of people reported that it caused them a bit of episodic depression.

One of the most prolific anonymous Biohackers ScienceGuy reported:

Side Effects Experienced: INCREASED anxiety; SEXUAL SIDES (reduced libido, reduced seminal volume); SLEEP DISRUPTION; IRRITABILITY; MOOD DISRUPTION; DEPRESSION; LOSS OF SELF-CONFIDENCE; AMOTIVATION

This is why it's important to research anecdotal Biohacker's experiences along with human studies. You cannot always extrapolate what a drug will do for healthy people based on what it does for sick people. Drugs like Piracetam imbue the kinds of benefits to healthy people that you would expect them to based upon what they do combating cognitive decline and then there are drugs like Nefiracetam that merely bring sick people back to baseline. This is why anecdotal reports matter, and why I take the time to read as many of them as I can before I reach my conclusions.

Vs Schizophrenia

At least a couple of users have reported that it relieves the symptoms of Schizophrenia, but they come right back after the dose wears off, and over time the Nefiracetam tolerance increases. So it's not much of a sustainable solution for Schizophrenia but perhaps a good idea to keep a little bit of Nefiracetam around for episodic use.

Mechanism of Action

Another Iowa study identified its mechanism as having to do with delivering more blood to the brain

...nefiracetam, a gamma aminobutyric compound, enhanced blood flow and improved mood following stroke.

Like many Nootropics that have a vasodilation effect, it's probably not a good idea to drink on it, as you'll likely get intoxicated faster.

The study out of Chicago focusing on Alzheimer's highlights its mechanism of enhancing Acetylcholine currents. For our bodies and minds to function Acetylcholine has to travel through our bodies from one extremity to another at tremendous velocity.

Nefiracetam has been shown to potentiate ACh currents in the alpha4beta2 receptor of rat cortical neurons with a bell-shaped dose-response relationship... Nefiracetam also potentiated NMDA currents with the maximum effect at 10 nM via interaction with the glycine-binding site of the receptor...

The study concluded that it also has a beneficial effect on the receptor sites that may result in the kind of performance-enhancing effect that Biohackers will be interested in.

[Nefiracetam] potentiate[s] the activity not only of the cholinergic system but also of the NMDA system, thereby stimulating the downregulated nACh receptors and NMDA receptors to improve patients' learning, cognition, and memory.

A Gabaergic Racetam

From a Northwestern University paper:

Nefiracetam-induced transient potentiation and acceleration of desensitization of GABA-induced currents may involve other pathways. The nefiracetam modulation of the GABAA receptor function will result in a nootropic effect on the central nervous system through modification of synaptic transmission.

GABAA refers to its interaction with the Gaba-a receptor.

It is a Gaba Receptor Agonist so there's some addiction concer…

2024 update: The "ethics crisis" for the Biohacking industry that I predicted back in 2014 is something I WAS WRONG about. The ethical standards in the industry are relatively high and there's been no great scandal in my time in the business. Especially compared with the other business I dable in, cryptocurrency! BUT I think this message is still worth repeating and relaying to my fellow entrepreneurs in the biohacking space.

A blogger in the Biohacking space, Mans Denton of TheHackedMind.com, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for the theft of historical holocaust documents. Apparently, Mans had worked at The Mazal Holocaust Library in San Antonio, Texas and he pilfered several thousand documents with the intent to sell them to the highest bidder online.

When I first heard this story, I had three quite contrary reactions:

* Disgust - At this man adding insult to injury to an entire people, by trying to profit from the theft of such ethnically sensitive documents.

* Fascination - The part of me that's probably seen too many heist movies and enjoyed reading the autobiography of a thief who stole $30 million in jewelry wonders how it went down. Did he just pack everything up in his backpack? Did he have to sneak in during the dead of the night? Was it a one-man job or were there accomplices?

* Curiosity - What Nootropic stack was he on? What inspired him to do this? Is this a case of smart drugs gone bad? How much did he make off the sale of the documents?

Just a week before his sentencing he was interviewed on one of the voices of the industry, the Smart Drug Smarts podcast. I encourage you to listen to his interview, he comes across as a level-headed and articulate normal guy (well, normal for a Biohacker!)

Thankfully the mainstream media's coverage of the story didn't make the connection between Denton's dabbling in the smart drugs industry and his diabolical crime. However, Mans's crime is an excellent example of how ripe a target our industry is for a highly publicized ethics crisis that destroys the credibility of products that genuinely make people happier and healthier.

Consider the respective reputations of these industries...

Pickup Artist industryThe closest thing to a sustainable men's personal development movement yet constantly demonized by the media and mainstream culture. One of the bestselling books of the past decade hilariously threw the whole industry under the bus.

Search Engine Optimization industryAsk any small business owner, who labors away 60-80 hours a week serving customers how they feel about "SEO Experts" and the adverbs they use will be eerily similar to how hard-working small business owners used to describe snake oil and yellow pages salesmen.

The "Business Opportunity" industryHas grown up quite a lot from the scammy pamphlets you used to get in the mail, promising to show you how to "get rich quick" to excellent educational programs like Pat Flynn's Smart Passive Income. This industry has been so unethical for so long that anyone teaching Entrepreneurship or real estate investing is met with great skepticism almost universally. Consider the old maxim: The easiest way to get rich is to teach people to get rich.

Financial Services industryRegarded as a morally bankrupt industry; strict government regulations and watchdog groups exist to police and protect consumers from this industry.

What do these industries have in common?

* Male-dominated - The Entrepreneurs, employees, and customer base are overwhelmingly male, with a lot of younger, single, high-energy, and aggressive young men.

* Geeky - These industries are almost completely dependent upon technology and the Internet, just like the Entrepreneurs and consumers driving them. Everyone comes from computer science or IT backgrounds and spends most of their waking life staring at glowing screens.

* Hacker mindset - Whether it's data analysis, ninja ad copywriting, specialized knowledge of psychology, hot new software, a proprietary process, or outsourcing to a digital sweatshop in another country you rarely hear people in these businesses say that their strategy for massive success is to: work hard, for a long time, creating valuable products, and providing excellent service to customers.

* Spectacular advertising claims - The advertising headlines in these industries frequently straddle hyperbole and puffery (advertising statements that no reasonable person would take seriously, like "Redbull gives you wings"). SEO experts promise to place you in front of thousands of new potential customers monthly, stockbrokers pitch a stock at $15 that is going over $100, Internet marketing gurus promise you a 4-hour work-week, and a pickup artist on Youtube is going to show you how to meet a girl on the street, make out with her in five minutes and bring her home for sex within an hour.

Obviously, the above attributes describe the burgeoning Biohacking industry, to an extent. Nootropics are rocket fuel for the hubris and ambition of young men, who are notorious for failing to empathize with anyone - especially their future selves.

The lifehacking philosophy and value propositions of Biohacking products have yet to make it into the sphere of public thought and awareness.

Does the average stressed-out, overworked, multi-tasking person think...?

Wow! I'm stressed out today and have a ton to do! I should take some Piracetam along with doing 10 minutes of Heart Rate Variability meditation to get coherent and maybe finish the day with some Dual N-Back training to better habituate mental compartmentalization.

Highly unlikely. Most will just cope with bad habits...

Wow! I'm stressed out today and have a ton to do! A mega-slice of pizza at lunch will make me feel better and then this evening I will have a beer or two (or three!) while watching Game of Thrones! Maybe I'll pick up a pack of smokes, just to get me through the day!

Someone with a modicum of health consciousness will think...

Wow! I'm stressed out today and have a ton to do! I will make sure to take my multivitamin and hit the gym HARD this evening!

We have a golden opportunity to solve these people's problems and turn them into loyal, repeat consumers of Biohacking products while at the same time giving them the gifts of happiness, health, and life extension. However, given the spectacular effects of our products, we are just a few well-publicized bad calls away from being labeled con men and liars and raked over the coals in the court of public opinion. Numerous mainstream media pieces have already tried to scandalize the widespread phenomenon of college students using cognitive enhancers to improve academic performance. I'm concerned that the first time a potential new consumer hears about Biohacking will be in the context of a "Helpful new product is actually bad" style nightly news attack piece (sandwiched in between commercials for soap and shampoo) or cleverly demonized to a laugh track on a popular sitcom.

What can we do to prevent an ethics crisis that sets our industry back?

It's about habituating ethics on a personal basis; balancing narcissism with altruism, Biohacking willpower, practicing intermittent sobriety and ethical hedonism along with studying philosophy.

What can those in the industry do to minimize moral hazard?

Talk about ethicsI would like to see ethics become more a part of the conversation about Biohacking. It may even be good to introduce a pledge or ethical practice doctrine that Entrepreneurs in the industry who share these values can sign.

Say No! to MLMWhile Biohacking products and philosophies are fairly well-aligned with the way MLM companies work this is a surefire way to destroy the credibility of our transformational offerings. MLM is not an intrinsically good or bad business model but if we had to pick one industry with the worst reputation it would undoubtedly be multi-level/networking marketing.

Market to and hire womenWomen add a caring and preserving energy to organizations, the feminine balances out the masculine. The advantage…

In this Q&A, my blue-tongued (thanks to Methylene Blue) wife and I answer your questions about everything ranging from libido hacks for women, fixing the gut after antibiotics, and psychedelics for self-knowledge to the real way to create a more harmonious civilization and rapidly upgrading male performance to satisfy a voracious wife.

Listen to the full Q&A podcast on the go with Castbox, here

For the longest time, I have wanted to introduce something new and innovative in the Biohacking/Anti-aging/Personal development space...

So earlier this year I read this great entrepreneurship book, 10x Is Easier Than 2x, about exponential growth hacking in business and life. And I was getting really uncomfortable as I read it because it was calling out all the things I've been doing wrong with Limitless Mindset. All the ways I'd been limiting myself and the good I could do for you. It showed me how small I've been thinking. I've long prided myself on being a rule-breaker, a dissident, and an innovator but this book showed me how I'm falling far short of my potential because mostly I'm unoriginal in my endeavors. This book reminded me that I must find what I can do uniquely well that virtually no one else on Earth is doing.

After closing 10x Is Easier Than 2x one night, as I was going to the bathroom before bed, it hit me in one moment! In one of the few epiphany moments of my life, I knew how to align my strengths with my mission in life - which is to give individuals the means to reclaim their divine right to free will. Free will is that spark of Promethean flame in us all and the one thing that makes us really special as a species on this planet. Yet so few truly yield it! And so much about modern life deprives us of our free will, that the only way to truly take it back is by Biohacking; using the kinds of transformative tools that I've obsessively studied and self-experimented with for over 12 years now. That's my mission, and in that instant, I knew how to take it to the next level by combining my strengths to offer something truly unique to a small number of very special people - to you perhaps!

Soon I will be announcing something very cool and original - it's not another supplement, gadget, app, or AI thing. It's going to be a strikingly beautiful and enduring thing that a select few of you will proudly display in your homes. My crafting and production of this for a small, special group of people will entail a shift in how I spend my time and energies that will allow me to better serve all of you.

I'm going to first share it semi-privately with my previous Biohacking clients, customers, and supporters because their feedback will, no doubt, give me great insight into how to introduce this "moonshot mission" to a wider audience. If you're a Limitless Mindset client or customer keep an eye out for a very special message from me sometime soon!

Disclaimer

What you find on this website is NOT medical advice. I'm not a doctor. I'm just an experienced unlicensed self-experimenter practicing free speech in talking about my own extensive experiences and my interpretations of published science. Please see my guide on How to Biohack Smart and Safe. You should consult a doctor about any biohacking you're doing and ideally, also get a second opinion.

#40 Questions

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I want to enjoy sex more. Since quitting weed I can't get out of my head and I'm just lacking pleasure overall. Phenibut helps but I don't want to be dependent on that to enjoy sex either.YES I love sexual pleasure, losing this aspect of myself I don't know why? Age? trauma? getting off cannabis? stress? I used to get so much pleasure out of dating and sex...My short-term solution Is combining maca, mucuna pruriens, rhodiola, and ginseng in my morning and afternoon drink as opposed to coffee. I've been noticing some great results now that the withdrawals are subsiding from the caffeine. Along with switching to green tea if I do need caffeine, has only significantly reduced my social anxiety and stress levels.AndThe main question I would have left if you'd like to address it in a Q&A would be regarding how I could sit down to work on my creative projects (writing and art) —if there is a nootropic that could help me with that. But, I'm wondering if I need to limit my use of social media and screen time and just let boredom take over until the energy, inspiration, and desire build in me naturally. Which will be my focus in the coming weeks and months.I love your podcast! It has had a major impact on me and I've noticed a dramatic increase in my self-worth since tuning in.

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RecommendationsHormone-supporting herbs: Maca, Schisandra, Irish Sea Moss, and legit Panax Ginseng

The probiotic strain lactobacillus reuteri 

Increase testosterone by supplementing Zinc, increasing protein intake, and exercising - resistance training specifically

A monogamous relationship (maybe via the Tantra scene?)

Creativity Biohacks: Nicotine, Caffeine, Binaural beats (Brain.FM), and Piracetam

Social media limiter apps: AppBlock (for Android and iOS), Freedom: Screen Time Control (for iOS and Android), SelfControl (for MacOS), and/or the News Feed Eradicator browser extension; which gets rid of the time-wasting, clogged-with-ads newsfeeds on social media sites.

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Hello, I got some health problems after I did antibiotics/chemo drugs some years ago. Have really dry skin and dandruff, inflamed gut, and liver problems. How to heal from this?AndWhat's the best way to detox the body? From ex hypervitaminosis which I i think have, any supplements u recommend?

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RecommendationsMicrobiome stool testing to determine which probiotic strains are deficient

Test for hypervitaminosis

For dry skin: Collagen and Exomitin 

TUDCA the "Bear" of Liver Biohacks and eating a lot of beats

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I've heard people use psilocybin to get out of a mental rut any truth to that? Like it helps you get out of your own way...

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Recommendations

Before turning to psychedelics, do some self-knowledge work - I recommend the protocols in Men's Work by Conor Beaton 

Checkout neurodoses.com - a resource on using psychedelics for personal growth

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I've recently discovered this exciting product (Ultimate Methylene Blue by Earth Harmony) and I'm interested to hear your thoughts/impressions about it ..!!! I've been using it for a couple of weeks now and it tastes much "smoother" than the normal stuff plus I feel its subtle effects in a different way BTW my pee is green instead of the normal blue.AndThoughts on The golden touch?

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Recommendations

Why not just wear quality gold or silver jewelry? Or use a sterling silver spoon (starts at about $100).

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Responding to Atlantis Existed.

America is a substandard civilization; I'm looking for a better socioeconomic model. Life could be swell if there was a seamless transition from birth to a healthy community ecosystem to a harmonious civilization. Let's say humans were part of a tribe, people that aim to support each other's needs. The tribe exists to support the people inside it (two heads are better than one; force multiplier) — division of labor, specialization, comparative advantage, i.e. maximum efficiency. Let's say the tribe organizes as a resource-based economy. This means people continually learn skills to improve the community and efficiently mobilize to fulfill their needs, prioritizing from basic to higher-order needs (hierarchy of needs). Once this civilization is running smoothly..."Life could be a dream. If l could take you to a paradise up above."🎶A

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RecommendationsThe Future by Stefan Molyneux

Skin in the game direct democracy via DAOs

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is there any great eye medicines topically or orally that are underrated?

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Visomitin - mitochondrial antioxidant eye drops

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‘Olfactory Training’ during Sleep Could Help Your Memory - Scientific American

Twenty participants—all older than 60 years and generally healthy—received six months of overnight olfactory enrichment, and all significantly improved their ability to recall lists of words compared with a contr…

Do you find motivation elusive?

Do you start a new project and work intensely for a few days, weeks, or months only to lose steam before seeing the project through to fruition? Here we’ll break down seven mental hacks for mastering motivation...

1. Negative Visualization

You hear endlessly about positive visualization, but fear is a stronger emotion and it can be yielded for motivation. Fear can be our friend when it comes to motivation.We tend to hope for the best and try to stay positive but anxiety builds and our unconscious mind rebels when we mentally retreat away from threats into delusional cognitive dissonance. In the 2020 global COVID-19 pandemic, examples of this are abundant, we all know someone who is choosing navette; they claim “It’s no worse than the common flu,” they refuse to food prep and are totally cavalier about their immune health. But they are far from unworried, they are noticeably anxious, stressed, and binging on fear-mongering media all day long. Maybe they share memes on Facebook acronymizing fear into...FalseEvidenceAppearingRealThey are misapplying the advice of the stoic philosopher Seneca, who wrote

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The stoic philosophy is NOT to ignore fear, but instead to face fear, visualize the worst possible scenario and if possible find a way to simulate that scenario, then take deliberate action. Seneca, apparently, would spend time regularly living like a homeless derelict even though he was a wealthy man, just so that he could immunize himself psychologically to the possibility of abject failure.Fast forward to the present, how would a stoic face the global pandemic?

Imagine the worst. Imagine you and your family getting the disease. How would that feel? What would you have to do to stay alive? What if the crisis causes civilizational collapse? How bad could it get? How would you keep a roof over your head and food on your plate? How would you protect your family?

Importantly

* Instead of just doing negative visualization, journal, or write it out.

* Once you have a worst-case scenario start preparing for it, take action!

* Don’t overindulge in rumination and negative visualization. Once you’ve countenanced the worst-case scenario, take action, prepare, and move on mentally.

“Visualization is the human beings vehicle to the future – good, bad or indifferent. It’s strictly in our control.” - Earl Nightingale

2. Meditate in a Cemetery

People always look at me funny when I suggest this. A lot of philosophy of psychology revolves around this idea of existential anxiety - that we all have an inescapable fear of death. That is all theoretical of course, but considering our own demise has a tremendous motivational and clarifying effect.

How would you live if you knew that you were dying in 5 years? 1 year? 1 week? Tomorrow?Deeply considering that one day, you’ll have no more time left, would you want to spend your finite time using social media, playing video games, watching sports, or in crappy relationships with low-quality people.

Death really puts all the silly distractions, amusements, and trivial worries we have into perspective.To yield this fear of death as a motivational tool, search for a cemetery near you and go visit on. Find someplace quiet and semi-private to sit (sitting in the grass is not great as bugs will crawl on you) and do 20-30 minutes of meditation.

* You would want to start with eyes-open meditation, just take in the scene while breathing deeply. Listen to the birds chirping and the wind rustling the trees. Cemeteries are usually serenely beautiful places.

* Look at the tombstones around you, consider the dead. Imagine all those coffins in the ground that surround you. Imagine the decomposing bodies within them. Death literally surrounds you!

* Consider that you will eventually be just like them. You will be in a box in the ground. Philosophy and science and are pretty divided on the possibility of an afterlife, it’s certainly worth hoping for but death may just end up being eternal slumber.

* Meditate on gratitude, and be thankful for being above ground. Give thanks for the good things you have in your life.

“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace.” - Nelson Mandela

3. Don’t Fantasize, Plan

It's all too easy to while our lives away looking at pretty girls, expensive cars, or travelporn on Instagram or television. Perhaps you go to bed wishing you had the perfect girlfriend or boyfriend, house, or dream job. All this fantasizing doesn’t accomplish much other than making you feel inadequate. Instead, plan and create medium-term goals for yourself. I suggest using a mind-mapping tool to visually map out what you want your future to look like. Make realistic, yet optimistic predictions of how your life could look in these areas...

* What you’ll do for work - how you will make money.

* What sorts of hobbies will you have?

* Your health condition. How you’ll stay in shape.

* Where will you live?

* What sort of relationships you’ll have. Will you have a girlfriend, wife, husband, or maybe even a family of your own?

Here’s mine...

4. After Planning, Habituate

A flowchart that visually breaks down a best-case 5-year outlook is useless if it’s not accompanied by a lot of action. You need to translate your 5-year goals into daily and weekly must-do’s that you can habituate and measure, like

* Spend an hour daily working on my book.

* Go to the gym three times a week.

* Make love to my wife four times a week.

* Limit alcohol consumption to twice weekly.

I like the tool Coach.me for this it. It’s a free (and ad-free) smartphone and web app for habit tracking. I’ve used it for years and it’s made me remarkably disciplined.

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.” - Warren Buffet

5. Do a Productivity Sprint

1-3 month productivity sprints are a lot more effective than marathons. If you say to yourself...

For the next 5 years, I’m going to wake up at 6:00 AM and work to become a successful entrepreneur!

You are almost sure to fail. You want to plan your year around several productivity sprints lasting not more than three months.

* Come up with an ambitious goal that you can realistically accomplish during the sprint.

* Stay totally disciplined and commit to doing all your positive habits daily.

* Importantly, during the sprint abstain from everything that makes you weak; junk food, alcohol, weed, and porn along with time-wasting and petty friends or family.

It’s a whole lot easier to stay motivated and consistent when you know that you only have to do this for 90 days or less. You can look forward to savoring some well-deserved indulgent hedonism when the sprint is up.

“Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you” - Thomas Jefferson

6. Don’t Brag, Yet

In the first week of January, what do you see a lot of on Facebook? People announcing their New Year’s resolutions and maybe posting photos of themselves taking those first steps toward them, like getting a badly needed workout in at the gym. A deluge of Likes and supportive comments reward Jim for his first week sober and Susan for her first month off sugar but consistently they backslide. Six months later Jim is hungover on a Wednesday and Susan is back to enjoying her daily $9 mocha-frappucino venti with an insane amount of sweet additives in it. This is because often, the bragging demotivates us, we get a bunch of praise from our friends and family and as a result, we stop working so hard. Social validation is a hell of a drug. And social media is a scary good technology for tricking us into thinking that we’ve accomplished something meaningful. Think of a guy who would like a girlfriend but he’s addicted to porn, he’s getting his needs met digitally so he never really makes the necessary effort out there in the real world. The same thing happens when you brag about your goals on social media.Instead, keep yo…

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In this episode, I'm joined by a 20-year veteran of the US Navy SEALs, Commander Mark Divine. Mark operates SEALFIT, a firm that physically and psychologically prepares Special Forces candidates with a 100% placement rate. We discuss everything from Hell Week and gamifying situational awareness to mediation and preparing to hike Machu Pichu.

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The city is a nice change of pace from the dreary capitals of Eastern Europe where I’ve been spending time.

The center of the city is quite clean and scenic with the beautiful Sava river, wide pedestrian streets, and elegant orthodox churches.

The Women

When I lived in South America, other digital nomads would tell me that two cities in the world had the most beautiful women; Medellín, Colombia, and Belgrade. Well, yet again Medellín has set my standards so high that other cities fail to measure up. There are some very beautiful Serbian women to be found in swanky clubs, bars, and the cosmopolitan shopping district downtown, but the stereotypical knockout, big-boobed Serbian beauty is not so common. Young Serbian women are on average skinny and doll-faced. Booty is a little more prevalent here, but if you are really into curvy women you’ll need to head to further south latitudes.

The City

This hilly Grad has a well-developed center; big boulevards lined with trendy shops, cafes, and restaurants. I didn’t need to use taxis or public transportation much because it’s such a walkable city center. For being an aesthetically very cosmopolitan city overflowing with bars and cafes I was somewhat disappointed in the networking scene there; a big part of my game is attending public events and meetups, where it’s easy to build a social circle and make friends. There’s just a single weekly couchsurfing meetup that’s well attended and a couple of Facebook groups I joined that seemed to put on well-attended events. Check out…https://www.facebook.com/groups/bgfvc/https://www.facebook.com/primera.belgrade/https://www.facebook.com/timbaocubanosalsa/

Unfortunately, as beautiful as the city and its women are there are a few significant issues that I think disqualify it as a lifestyle city that I’d like to spend more than a few weeks in…

1. The Smoking

Serbians REALLY like to smoke, when they wake up, before they go to bed, after lunch, before dinner, while strolling down the street, on their lunch break, with a beer, while driving your taxi, at trendy “healthy” restaurants, while dancing at a disco, before foreplay, after sex — it’s pretty fair to assume they just give them to their children as soon as little Serbians are capable of lighting one up! In this otherwise nice country, they maintain the totally backward policy (Serbian authorities keep teasing an indoor smoking ban) of allowing it indoors in 90% of bars, cafes, and restaurants.The first Serbian girl I had an instant date with smoked about 8 cigarettes in 45 minutes while showing me pictures of her cat on her smartphone — yes, it was brutal! The things we do for love… If you intend to come here and pick up Serbian chicks prepare yourself to swim deeply in the taste and scent of cigarettes, as clouds of second-hand smoke will embrace you in nearly every social setting. If you’re not cool with that, don’t come here.

This is a major strike against Belgrade because at least for me it disqualifies Serbia as a place to meet wife-material or long-term relationship material, I really can’t imagine myself being in a relationship longer than a few nights with an ashtray mouth. While I disdain smoking, I'm a big of nicotine, check out this video about it that I made there in Belgrade...

I found this semi-accurate list of non-smoking venues on the Belgrade Facebook group:Cafe Moskva — hotel MoskvaCafe knjižara Delfi — ResavskaKlub studenata tehnikeGreenet — NušićevaCafe Zmaj, corner Zmajeve, and Čika Ljubine, basementKorto in Nušićeva, bottom floorLeila records and books in Kralja Petra 41, bottom floorLorca organic cafe, bottom floorVesele domaćice — Cvetni Trg, a separate roomKošnica/Hive in MlatišuminaUšće shopping centerSuperNatural Bar — Gospodar Jevremova 23Belgrade Art HotelDelfi — Trg republikeApropo knjižaraSmall TreeGreenet — Beograđanka

2. The Wi-Fi

In contrast to a lot of the capitals of Eastern Europe, the wifi is generally ni dobre (not good) in Belgrade. I visited several trendy coworking spaces that had surprisingly bad wifi. I had to pound cement and search quite a bit for the minimum 20 megabits up/down that I require to do my work, I eventually found it at the Snack Bar at Jump Inn Hotel, but I’ve yet to find a place that qualifies as a real digital nomad friendly cafe with fast wifi, good coffee, a place to stand, decent service, comfy seats, and NO smoking.

3. The coffee is quite bad

Damn you Medellín for spoiling me! Only Uzitak Coffee came close to meeting my lofty standards for the dark nectar. I guess I’ll stick to black tea and smart drugs.

The Culture

Serbians in general are not very friendly. One way I gauge the friendliness of a country is strangers’ willingness to greet you passing on the street. I figured out that the formula for getting a positive response on the street is to make eye contact when they are about 10 meters away, smile just a little bit, and at about 3 meters greet them. They should respond just as you are passing each other.In North America and certainly in South America if you say good afternoon, good morning, or good evening to a perfect stranger passing on the street, they will respond in kind, often in Latin America, you will even get into random conversations with people.Here in Eastern Europe and especially in Serbia, this doesn’t work though, I make eye contact, greet them in whatever language is appropriate and they just give me a fuck off, foreigner look. Same thing when trying to greet your neighbors in the elevator or on the stairs of your building.

Older people are grumpy and perhaps a bit skeptical of foreigners. At least amongst the trendy young people that I spent most of my time with there was no perceivable anti-American sentiment despite our relatively recent bombing of the country during the Kosovo conflict.

Serbians are relatively religious for being Europeans. I remember the Serbian girl who led the walking tour stopping at a cathedral and declaring basically that the Orthodox church was the truth, the way, and the life here — a stark contrast to the flimsy belief systems that most European nations subscribe to.

Serbians are pretty good at making babies, while daygaming you’ll be dodging plenty of mothers pushing their baby carriages down the boulevard and little whippersnappers running around. Thankfully, young single mothers are pretty rare in Serbia, I haven’t met any.

Turbo Folk is like the reggaeton of Serbia. Young Serbians pretend to hate it until they’ve had 11 shots of Rakia. Check it out…

And this lovely music video captures a day in the life of the average young Serbian girl you are going to be gaming…

The Language

Where Serbian and its dialects are spoken

Serbian is not really worth learning as most of the people you will want to talk to speak English quite well. A couple of useful phrases worth learning anyway…

Opa — My favorite word, it’s an expression for something novel or fun.Drago Minye — Nice to meet you.Koala (Yes, like a koala bear) — Thanks.

Transportation

Taxis are very cheap, just make sure to negotiate the rate before getting in the cab or just use the Taxify app.

Dating and Marrying Exotic Foreign Women — is it for you?

As an 8-year digital nomad dude/nomadic seducer, I encountered dozens, if not hundreds, of men who traveled to exotic places and then failed to get girlfriends or even get laid. In the book, I have a deep dive chapter breaking down just what they did wrong on their international skirt-chasing missions. If you’re going to spend the money and time to come to Serbia (or elsewhere in the world) with the aim of seducing the local girls, at least read the chapter, Dating and Marrying Exotic Foreign Women.

You’ll also want to listen to this podcast, a witty and in-depth discussion with my hot Bulgarian wife about Western men dating abroad, seeking asylum from modernity with the unashamedly feminine women that can be found…

In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Cory Reddish a Naturopathic Doctor, Entrepreneur, and infamous enabler of people having a damn good time at Burning Man.

We are going to be discussing 18 life hacks for rock-solid self-control along with how to biohack the negative effects on our minds from consuming alcohol and even hard party drugs. It also includes a quick interview with Dr. Kelly Goldsmith, author of the landmark study on self-control, When Guilt Begets Pleasure: The Positive Effect of a Negative Emotion.

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