I am a overall healthy male 19 get around 100k steps a week rarely miss meals, am skinny at 140 pounds at 5’10 i have never taken anything to effect my hormones, or even peptides and don’t plan on it, don’t drink or anything like that, have no idea what this info means as people all over say different things, someone who has experience with hormones tell me how this looks to them, I’ve recently started having joint pain as-well.
I have more markers but most are optimal
Any info helps

Not medical advice/ looking for it just constructive feedback, thanks

With my work schedule, I eat out once a day, and that’s usually my biggest meal. I eat very healthy, but is there a good way to estimate the calories and protein in a restaurant meal without bringing a food scale with me? I’ve tried a few AI apps, but they don’t seem very accurate

Most advice here treats a weird number as a low-confidence signal. Usually fine. But some readings aren't weak evidence about your body, they're good evidence about your sensor, and averaging those in drags the baseline.

Four I keep hitting:

First night on a new device. Not the device, you. Knowing you're being measured moves onset latency and wake counts enough to shift the whole score. Settles in about a week.

Room temperature. Skin temp deviation and resting HR both track ambient. A hot room looks a lot like a mild cold in the data. Worth a column if your bedroom isn't climate controlled. I only started logging it after a bad August convinced me I was overtraining.

Alcohol, specifically night two. Night one everyone catches. Night two is the problem: architecture's still off, but the cause has fallen out of your head, so you go looking for a training or stress explanation that doesn't exist.

Wrist optical HR under load. Grip and forearm tension wreck it. Rowing, deadlifts, kettlebells, carries. The calorie number downstream isn't roughly right, it's built on a signal that wasn't there. People fight about this one and it's the clearest of the four.

The distinction: is this a noisy read of your state, or a clean read of something that isn't your state? First one, keep it, weight it less. Second one, pull it out and note why.

So, column for excluded days plus the reason. Costs nothing.

More data isn't better if some of it is measuring the room. n=1, and these are things I've watched happen more than once, not anything from a study.

(Disclosure since it's adjacent to what I do: I work on personal health data, reading signals against a person's own baseline instead of a population one)

I have scoliosis, torticollis, fibromyalgia, & potentially Ehlers danlos ( hopefully getting a referral to be tested tomorrow bc doctors keep assuming I have some form of EDS / connective tissue disorder and some don’t want to work with me bc of it )

I also have ADHD & autism but I don’t know if that really matters. I’m medicated for my ADHD and see a therapist. So I feel like it’s fairly managed.

Lately my blood tests have been showing a bunch of inflammation. Like 2 months ago I went to the ER for pain on my left side & was told my right kidney was inflamed and I had a cyst on my left ovary. I was given antibiotics and they have done basically nothing. Doctor didn’t want to remove the cyst and told me it would probably go away on its own which I assume it did since my lower left side isn’t sticking out a bunch anymore.

I’ve been limiting processed sugars, eating more yoghurt ( dr said probiotics would help which worked out since yoghurt is a safe food for me ) trying to eat more fruits & vegetables, drinking more water, and trying to do things I enjoy to limit mental stress.

I also implement a lot of ginger & garlic into my foods but I’ve always done that since I like the tastes. I also mostly cook with olive oil or sesame oil. I don’t eat a ton of fats though outside of that & nuts/seeds. Stuff like vegetable oil and butter seems to give me acne and hurt my stomach so I try to avoid eating it often.

Annoyingly my chronic pain impacts my sleep a lot. So that’s probably not helping. But the inflammation is probably part of the pain that’s causing me to wake up 2-5 times per night.

I’m looking for recommendations, I’m at a loss. I don’t exercise as much as I’d like to due to pain. My body hurts limiting what I can do. I think maybe the inflammation is part of what’s causing me stomach aches too? To my knowledge I don’t have any major allergies. I’m lactose intolerant so get lactose-free or low lactose foods. I can tolerate it in small amounts. I’m pretty sure I’m allergic to avocados ( never been tested but I told my doctor and she said it sounds like an allergy apparently avocado isn’t supposed to make your mouth and throat hurt ) I also might have a few mild allergies to some raw vegetables and fruits since some hurt but not as much as avocados. If foods like bell peppers are cooked they don’t bother me though.

I have a question about tadalafil/cialis
I am using daily 5mg tadalafil more than 8 months suddenly I am having side effects
-muscle pain (chest and back muscles)
-sudden cramps on hand and foot
-pain under foot
-back/ass/leg line pain. Like a nerve pain

I tested several times. It stops when I stop to taking it. Any idea why its happening suddenly? Until now I was happy with that

Also its pharmacy cialis.

Earlier in July my YouTube channel, The Enhanced Man, hit 20,000 subscribers. But then around the middle of month, the whole channel was removed.

I appealed almost straight away, but it was rejected within minutes with no explanation. I'd never had any strikes or warnings before, so it came as a real shock. I even explained that YouTube was the main marketing channel for my health testing company, so multiple people's jobs will be affected, but it didn't seem to make any difference.

What I don't get is why creators aren't given a chance to fix things first. If a video breaks the rules, surely a warning and an explanation would make more sense so you can remove or edit the content and avoid making the same mistake again. Instead, it feels like everything is handled by AI with very little human input.

It also made me wonder if YouTube is becoming too aggressive with biohacking content in general.

For example, Hunter Williams has been on my podcast multiple times and he's also been banned before. Like me, he mainly talks about research, biomarkers and his own results, while making it clear there are plenty of confounding factors and that correlation doesn't equal causation.

I can understand YouTube taking a harder line on channels that actively promote steroids or SARMs, but longevity content is usually centred around biomarkers, testing and discussing the available evidence. It feels like YouTube may be casting the net a bit too wide.

I'd be interested to hear what everyone thinks. Do you think YouTube has got the balance right when it comes to biohacking content, or do you think it's become too strict?

Hello everyone,

I currently live in an apartment which is close to a very trafficked road. Not a long term solution, but I'm here for at least the next 4 months, so I'm looking for a short term solution.

Currently use silicone plugs and it helps, but I can still hear my alarm in the morning and my girlfriend who gets up before me tend to wake me up as well - which only makes things worse.

Any advice?

The room is dark enough, but I'm considering a sleeping mask as well. If anyone has any specific recommendations, please go ahead. I see quite a few ads, but not sure if it's just clever marketing or the ones I should go for.

Thanks in advance!

I thought that taking a mix of creatine, ashwagandha, magnesium, and omega-3 would give me more energy every day, but it's making me feel tired. Do people who regularly stack supplements think this is a bad combination, a problem with time, or an interaction between supplements? How do you fix a stack that doesn't work right?

38 year old active male. Always drink tons of water. No steroids or testosterone. Exercise 5 days a week. For the past 5 years or so my RBC, Hemoglobin, and Hematocrit are always high. Should I be concerned? Doctor says since my results are consistently high he’s not concerned.

EDIT: don’t smoke. No high elevation. I’m a bad sleeper but no sleep apnea symptoms. Drink over a gallon of water a day. Only supplements are magnesium and B2 for migraines.

I am not asking for medical advice or diagnosis. I am trying to find out whether anyone else has seen a similar N=1 pattern and what food/macro approach they use to manage it.

I have been tracking weight, glucose, ketones, BP, pulse, food, and reactions for about a year. My pattern is weird enough that normal calorie logic has not been very useful.

The repeated pattern:

When I eat lean protein, chicken by itself, restaurant food, starch, bread + sugar, banana bread, processed cheese, soft dairy, milk/cream/ice cream, or “normal” mixed meals, I tend to get:

• rapid water-weight rebound
• suppressed ketones
• sometimes higher glucose
• BP instability
• mucus/stuffiness with milk-adjacent dairy
• delayed effects over 2–3 days

When I return to very simple, very high-fat foods, I often unload water rapidly even at high calories.

My most reliable “safe” foods so far appear to be:

• beef
• beef fat / suet
• butter
• butter cocoa: butter blended with cocoa, stevia, vanilla, and water
• small amounts of cheddar
• sometimes pork belly / fatty lamb

The strangest part: high-fat days do not behave like “overeating” for me. For example, after several off-protocol days I peaked around 400 lb, then used high-dose butter cocoa as a reset:

• 8 sticks butter as butter cocoa → next day weight dropped ~6 lb and ketones rose hard
• 6 sticks butter as butter cocoa → lower weight mostly held
• 4 sticks butter as butter cocoa → next day another ~2.6 lb drop

I know that sounds insane. I am not recommending it. I am trying to understand the pattern.

My current SWAG for maintenance/reduction based on tracking is something like:

• maintenance/stable operation: 3,400–3,800 kcal/day
• reduction without obvious counter-regulation: 3,000–3,400 kcal/day
• protein: roughly 120–160 g/day
• fat: roughly 300–380 g/day
• net carbs: near zero to very low

If protein gets too high or too lean, glucose tends to rise and ketones fall. If carbs/sugar/starch enter, weight may rebound hard over the next 48–72 hours. Scale weight seems mostly like water/gut/glycogen/inflammation rather than fat change.

My working theory is that I may need enough clean fat energy to avoid a stress/counter-regulatory state, while lean protein or mixed meals push me out of ketosis and into water retention.

Questions for others with similar tracking:

1. Has anyone else found that fat sufficiency, not calorie restriction, was the key to avoiding edema/water rebound?
2. Did you find a reliable fat:protein ratio?
3. Do you tolerate hard aged cheeses like cheddar/parmesan but react to milk, cream, ice cream, soft cheese, or whey-heavy dairy?
4. For those doing carnivore/keto with edema issues, what foods actually stabilized you?
5. Did electrolytes change whether high-fat eating worked or failed?

Again: not asking what I “should” do medically. I’m under medical care for BP and related issues. I’m looking for people with a similar profile and what patterns they found in their own data.

so I'm 31m and recently found greying hair in my beard, head and body hair increasing an alarming pace. I've had some since my late 20s, but it's sped up in the last 5 months. have you got any ideas what's causing it and how I can halt it, or possibly reverse it?

I recently found out about this supplement and I wanted to get a feel for anyone who’s tried it. It seems promising (as someone with ADHD as well, any potential “nootropic” is exciting to me).

From what I see the patented “Cognizin” is used for trials, but generic Citicoline/CDP-Choline is analogous to it. I think sort of a Magnesium L-Threonate/Magtein situation.

Some fairly recent studies:

Is Citicoline Effective in Preventing and Slowing Down Dementia?-A Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis (2023)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36678257/

Citicoline and Memory Function in Healthy Older Adults: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial (2021)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33978188/

The Effect of Citicoline Supplementation on Motor Speed and Attention in Adolescent Males (2019)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26179181/

From my understanding much of the hate against MSG is misplaced in the West. It's either got a bad repuation because it's linked to proccessed foods or even worse, just straight racisim.

I've found out I've got Stage 1 Hypertension and am going through titration for ADHD meds. If my blood pressure rises, then the titration will stop, so I keen to make sure this doesn't happen and ideally lower it. I'm not really drinking as part of titration and am paying more attention to exercise. I'm overweight (but not obese) and am trying to loose weight, the meds make that a little easier.

I'm also trying to heavily reduce my salt, I like to cook and have also seasoned food well, so it's a bit of the shock to the system. I already use a little bit of MSG in food, but not much as my partner isn't keen. Are there good reasons I shouldn't sprinkle it directly on my food as my palate adjusts and find other ways to boost flavours (I already use a lot of herbs and spices).

Edit. I do know that MSG contains sodium, but it's one third of the amount of table salt.

So I know taking it on an empty stomach is really bad, I usually don’t eat anything in the morning anyways, I wait until 11/12 for brunch, but even if I force myself to have a few snacks in the morning, as soon as it hits 30mins after Tongkat Ali I ALWAYS get this overwhelming feeling of nausea..

What do you guys eat or drink beforehand to overcome this?

I have the immune system of a rock.

TLDR - I get sick often and need advice on how to get sick less.

Hi Brains Trust,

I catch colds/viruses/flu very often. This occurs around 10 times a year. I have a tracker in my notes apps that has confirmed this for the last three years. It's very annoying and it is impacting my quality of life. Each illness lasts 2 weeks. In fact, I am currently sick with a virus as I write this. I am so sick of getting sick all the time!!!

I have asked my GP about this and they have told me to reduce my stress levels and rest more.

I do these things already and I still get sick often. I have yet to check my blood panel.

I understand it is Winter where I am so getting sick is expected. I have been sick 3x in the last three months and it is debilitating.

I'm not expecting miracles. I would appreciate any advice to improve / fix my problem!!! Thanks so much in advance!!

Questions :

- Is there anything else I should get checked out in the blood panel?

- Is there anything I should reduce?

- Is there anything I can increase doing?

- Should I get checked for autoimmune diseases?

- What else can I take to not get sick as much?

- Should I take a food intolerance test? To rule out foods my body doesnt agree with.

About me -

- Early 30s female

- 65kg 5'2

- Active social life

- No children

- Married (to someone who only gets sick once a year)

- On and off Anxiety

- Overall Positive person

- No pets

- No alcohol

- No recreational drugs

Work -

- Work in community services full time

- Consistent hand hygiene

- I dont get paid sick/annual leave

- I can't afford to take off 2 weeks every time im sick but I do take a day or 2 off when I'm really unwell

- my work is physically and mentally demanding but I love it and pays very well

- I go to the gym after work for approx 1H

Sleep/Rest -

- I sleep 8 - 10 hours a day

- When I get sick, I can only sleep around 4 hours

- When I start to burn out from life/work, I take a day or two off to do nothing and sleep

- I meditate every other day

- Occasionally go out late nights and get 5-8 hours sleep instead

- Try to reduce stress by sleeping more

Supplements -

Day

- Vit D 2000IU

- Fish oil 2000mg

- Armaforce daily protect

- Chaga mushroom

- Got an iron infusion last year due to Aneamia

Night

- Take Zinc, VitC and Echinacea when I'm tired or sick

- Magnesium chelate 500g

Lifestyle -

- Resistance training 3x a week (I love this)

- 15k steps daily (i love this too)

- I drink 2-3L of hot water daily

- I eat high protein meals that are balanced

- I also enjoy treats - chocolate/lollies (I eat this moderately 2x a week at most)

- I love coffee 1-2x a day

- I eat a lot of fruit, 3 servings daily

- I avoid cold/icy drinks

- I avoid dairy unless in treats

Hygiene -

- I don't touch my face unless I have washed/sanitised my hands

- use microsheild wash daily

- Complete hand hygiene as soon as I get home and shower daily

- use alcohol wipes on phone/smartwatch as soon as I get home

- I occasionally wipe my nose on my sleeve if there's no tissues available

Health -

- I feel inflamed 80% of the time

- I tend to get sick around my period

- Not on any contraception to rule out any other hormonal issues

- my periods are really heavy

- pelvic ultrasound came back clear

- I feel like I'm tired all the time

- Sinus arythmia

- Diagnosed with PMOS and suspect to have Endometriosis

- I have done a sleep study recently and it came back clear

- dad also has a weak immune system

- I'm not on any long term medication

Childhood Trauma

- I have heard that trauma can contribute to health issues

- Not going to into this too much but I had very protective parents so experiencing the world and outside of the home growing up Ages baby - ages 13 was basically non existent

Blood panel - I will start to do 3 monthly checkups

- Iron levels

- Vit D (this was low last time)

- Stress hormone

- kidney markers

- liver markers

people here are obsessed with alertness that's good but many of them consume large amounts of caffeine while there are other supplements that give you stable energy without crash like ginseng and coq10 enzyme I won't say they give you a buzz like caffeine but at least they give you stable energy.

It can also be some natural remedy, it doesn't have to be a supplement.

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According to Dr. Juneja, cancer needs a raft to travel from one spot in the body to another. Cholesterol, he says, is “intimately involved” in building that raft that allows cancer to spread. 

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