J. D. Stembal

Please explain further how I managed to accidentally offend thee. I mentioned that he was a competitive eater, and before this he was anorexic. He likely eats like a garbage disposal now that he is a bodybuilder, meaning any processed piece of inflammatory food he can get his hot hands on. Cancer is not a surprising diagnosis. I have no issue with bodybuilding, but I endeavor to eat clean, which simply means low-inflammatory, high-fat foods. I don't always succeed in sticking to the path, but at least I am mindful of how my body reacts to the products that I consume. I keep a log of everything I eat, bowel movements, sleep, blood glucose and ketones, and my exercise. I used to keep track of it on Facebook, but then I realized that it was way too much data, and no one gives a shit but me. Store-bought kombucha must be pasteurized per FDA/USDA regulations, and therefore, lacks pro-biotic value unless the bugs are added in later, but then why spend the money of a beverage that may or may not be efficacious to drink? Also, most kombuchas on the shelf are way too sweet for my tastes. I enjoy the sourness and complex flavors of my own brews, plus I get to add in whichever herbs I desire to help my metabolism - licorice root, orange peel, ginger root, ginseng, ashwagandha, and many others are currently in my stable of naturopathic herbal remedies. Kombucha will taste as interesting as your imagination allows. I could go into further detail about all of this, but it would well and truly derail the thread, and we can't have that!

Yes, he's a weightlifter, bodybuilder, and competitive eater as I understand it. BMI, as it has been often stated here, is largely a useless metric for determining health outcomes. I don't intend to precisely answer that question with one photo. If you met me in person, you would see that there is something to what I am saying in this thread. You can tell a person's relative health just by examining them for a few minutes with your eyes. It's called empirical observation. "Veiny like a pornstar's penis" was humor if you were confused. I'd love to chat about kombucha sometime. I'm helping a new friend of mine, Jess, get into homebrewing. P.S. My benchpress is unimpressive (~175 for a one rep max last I checked) and I don't usually like running (I injured my foot a month ago doing just that), but I got my Merrell Trail Gloves in today, and I want to complete the Leadville 100 next season.

There's a reason for that. Listening to his call, it's clear that our fathers have similar qualities. In my personal opinion, my posts have a much more digestible syntax than his do. What's the purpose of the this question? It's a bit confusing to me. Is the reason or principle behind me creating the thread not completely clear to you?

Triglycerides are the blood work metric that matters the most, and the lower, the better. HDL, the higher, the better. High total cholesterol actually correlates with better health outcomes if you watch the video I linked. It's inflammation that people need to avoid like the plague, not dietary cholesterol. The damning of animal based food products needs to stop. Humans are omnivores, and we always have been since the dawn of our species.

It's no longer going to be active in 90 days, so why not? Can a person be healthy without exercise? The answer is no. I do enough reading on my own, and invite you to read the peer-reviewed journals, whatever they may be. I'm amused that you use the hypothetical example of the cross-fitter who gets cancer to dismiss my thesis wholesale. It sounds very familiar to Stefan's assertion that he was simply unlucky to be stricken with lymphoma, as he characterizes himself as a healthy and active man, sometimes lifting weights during his podcasts. I've got good news for everyone. Healthy people don't develop full blown cancer. The body's immune system is designed to suppress it before it is ever a problem. It's a symptom of metabolic disease, which has its roots in chronic high blood sugar levels. I'd rather achieve knowledge regarding health through personal experience, and empirical observation. Check out my progress pictures from today on Facebook. Do I look unhealthy or unfit to you? https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009235102316 "Bigger, smarter, faster, stronger." - J.D. Stembal Making kombucha tea is enjoyable and worthwhile. It saved my ass. Yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, kimchee, pickles, and other fermented foods will help repopulate your gut with healthy bacteria. Recently, I bartered my knowledge for brewing kombucha and a SCOBY for this fermentation jar. What a deal!!!

What I mean is that I have obstacles to overcome that are as much within my mind as within my tortured body. Do you do yoga, weight-lifting, gymnastics, or another related activity? Having command over your body is a demonstration of self-efficacy.

The body cannot produce enough for its needs. It's a biological stopgap measure to fill in nutritional deficits. Here's a great video by David Diamond that popped up in my YT feed on the importance of saturated fats, something which I consume quite a lot of lately, although I'm fasting this week because I'm a nutritional mad scientist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX1vBA9bLNk Skip to 19:00 to find the weenie. Saturated fat consumption correlates quite strongly with lower rates of heart disease (inverse correlation with CVD), the exact opposite of what Ancel Keys faked with his data in the Seven Countries Study.

The fetus becomes a person when it can think for itself. "I think therefore I am." - Rene Descartes There are many reasons why I wish that I was never born, and most of them have to do with how little I was loved as a child. I was not only unloved, but for all practical purposes, I was an unwanted child. My parents' reaction to deFOO is all the proof that I need to know that they never should have had me.

I so very much would like to speak with you about diabetes and ask a lot of questions regarding metabolic disorders and health coaching, if you do not mind, of course. Please give me a call some time. My phone number is 847-219-1105. Pizza, pasta, and breads were staples for me until I was 33. I have never had a diabetic condition, but I can tell that eating a lot of pasta or pizza gives me diarrhea in a matter of a day or two. This is evidence enough that my body cannot handle wheat. My ancestors are reportedly from all over Europe - United Kingdom, Italy, and former Yugoslavia. Even so, decades of exposure to semi-dwarf wheat, through food and alcohol sources, have ravaged my body and gut bacteria. Probiotics are a must in my diet in order to heal and stabilize any lingering imbalances, but I'm trying to find cheaper ways to source natural health foods (i.e. fermenting them at home). While people from Asia, North and South America may have a more extreme sensitivity to wheat products, it is very clear to me that even if your ancestors hailed from Europe, eating modern wheat products is unhealthy for any human being. Put another way, there is little to no white privilege for eating wheat. P.S. I successfully derailed another thread!

The proof is the same as for property rights. The fetus is the property of the female carrying it, thus she can do with it as she pleases. See Briffault's Law for evidence of what this logic implies. I do not consider the question you pose to be important or significant at all. A late term abortion would endanger the health of the mother, and would be avoided at all costs. Why would a women wait so long to rid herself of her unwanted condition? A woman usually suspects and can confirm that she is pregnant in a matter of weeks. The question is a red herring devised to evoke an emotional response because the fetus is only about a month away from becoming a full-fledged human with legal rights if you exclude sexual autonomy.

Unhealthy gut flora are the likely culprit. Did you read Brain Maker? Genetic determinism, in the large majority, is a myth. Genetics and family history may predispose a patient to obesity or another illness, but at the end of the day, a person only gets obese, has a coronary blockage, or falls ill to cancer due to sub-optimal nutrition and health. It would be nice if we could get a Health & Wellness subforum, but my efforts so far have been unsuccessful. Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure what you mean or why this would be. Everyone has a similar level of access to this information. I beat many over the head with it and they still go on living unhealthy lifestyles because they have an emotional attachment to obesity and sloth, much like the ethical vegans in this community. With a healthy metabolism, it does not matter how active you are in the moment. They body partitions fuel for the cells and mitochondria as needed. What do you define as exercise, and what do you do daily? I have followed a ketogenic diet for over a year, and I have no problems performing physical work on an empty stomach. Some days I don't eat much of anything. Saturday, I'm going to start a week long fast to celebrate the change in season. This is where you and I differ, but I am extremely insulin sensitive, meaning that if I eat 2.5 kilograms of bananas my body wants to go do something with the resulting glucose that is being processed by the liver and sent to my skeletal muscles. Nutritional behavior drives activity levels, and then there's a feedback loop in the other direction. If you have just completed a savage workout during the day, chances are that the body will want copious amounts of energy later. We need to stop looking at health as calories in/calories out, and begin to see the body as a living system of organisms and organic molecules working together in concert. Check out Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories or Why We Get Fat if you have not already. These books have a permanent place in my home library. I am so glad that you are not deceased! You seem like a great mother and role model for your children. I would love to chat with you some day soon. I wake up every day pain and stress free, excited to meet the world. I don't need a medical professional to tell me what to do to obtain health. I am so confident in what I'm doing that I don't have health insurance. If it were possible to get coverage only for accidents and injuries while not paying into Obamacare largess, I would do it. Living in Colorado, I am far more likely to fracture a bone or lacerate myself on a sharp rock than develop any metabolic diseases. I am the picture of perfect health. How's that for a healthy attitude?

Logically, abortion cannot be opposed. Every person has free will and autonomy, which is the basis of the non-aggression principle. Saying that there is a religious or social stigma against it is meaningless. It is interesting that many woman bring a child to term that they would have otherwise aborted, and then you have a situation when a child is brought into the world unwanted and unloved. My parents were married six years before I was born, and did not divorce until 2012. Why do I still feel like I should never have been born? Should I have been aborted instead? Perhaps they never should have married, and kept the relationship more casual, then my father could have all the mistresses or girlfriends he wanted.

Join my campaign to end genital mutilation by 2025. https://www.gofundme.com/x93ey2ds

Thank you, Susana. I know about all the Facebook groups. I have also read Real Time Relationships. None of my interpersonal relationships will survive it. I am a year and change guy. I will date women for a year or so before breaking it off. It is my way of protecting myself from having a family, and stems from the lack of the bond with my mother and father. I do not trust women when it comes to family issues. They say they want one thing, and do the opposite. All the anecdotal evidence I have points to this conclusion. It is a bait and switch. My mutilation makes sustaining a long-term relationship even more difficult because I am less interested in sexual intercourse than many women, and that is non-negotiable in relationships. The man has to want it more than the woman or the balance of power shifts away from the eggs, and all hell breaks loose. On a positive note, I received a supportive comment on my document last night just before I kicked off to sleep. I'm not sure where it went, but I thank whomever it was for the very inspiring message. I assume that it was left by a man from Facebook or FDR, and it was anonymous. There are men out there that feel the same way that I do about genital mutilation.

It's not that the person's faculties of reason are won over simply by charm, but that the person is motivated to not ask uncomfortable questions because they often provoke anxiety or anger in others. I've been learning how to ask uncomfortable questions of the people close to me, and to do it fearlessly. The reactions I have received are very telling. Very quickly, I get to the "We're not having this conversation right now," followed by some weak excuse. At that point, I can keep pressing, or back off, but the result is the same.

He's around, but squelched.

I put it in the Promoting Voluntarism Through Genital Integrity thread: https://board.freedomainradio.com/topic/44540-promoting-voluntarism-through-genital-integrity/#entry411719 It's also on my Facebook wall, and Twitter. I'm not sure if it's up on Google Plus, but I have two Google accounts so it's probably on my old account and not my new one ([email protected]). I will have remedy this. I may also have to get an Instagram account. Technically, I have one, but I can't share anything on it without a smart phone. Now that I think of it, I should probably link it to my Skype and FDR profile as my website homepage.

The Google Document is now up and is open to comments. Please examine and leave feedback! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_9UygzCwj_bMJIpN3WRaMjZ2VpERcddaWn2slw50ulA/edit?usp=sharing

The word recovering is misleading, just as in recovering alcoholic. I will always be a narcissist, except that I have adequate self-knowledge to admit it openly. Humans are born curious and are natural skeptics. They say no a lot and ask a ton of question, such as "Why?" in response to everything they do not understand. When parents shut this curiosity down repeatedly, children learn not to be curious about the feelings of others. I don't agree with the author of the video. Empathy cannot be learned past the age of 5-7, when there is a critical threshold that is passed in the brain development of children. Once a narcissist, always a narcissist.

https://www.gofundme.com/gb3mvqm4 A fat, black woman wants to go Sedona to get her yogi certification and raises thousands of dollars. A fit, white man wants to produce a video promoting universal genital integrity, and can't raise a hundred dollars for a used camera.

By any chance, did you mean to write sleazy pick-up artist here?

The only way to lose is to not show up.

I estimate that I've spent $40-50,000 on drugs and alcohol in my lifetime. That puts the thread into perspective, doesn't it? Athens: How did you end up moving in with this hot mess, and why are you sleeping on the floor?

The kind that doesn't mind getting beaten by a woman.

The amusing one for me is Staying at Home to Raise Children. As a feminist, my ex-girlfriend should have been all about letting me stay home with the children to raise them and manage home schooling, becoming a mentor for my children, which is something I never had from my father. When I made a great case against public school and child day care, she changed her tune and suddenly embraced this microsubmission wholeheartedly and talked about taking an extended leave of absence from the University of Colorado. GG, feminism, GG.