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  1. Eat more animals, eat less plants. Supplement zinc, magnesium, and optionally quality mushroom extract. Eat during a small limited amount of hours daily and give your intestines a rest. Food deprivation strengthens the immune response generally.
  2. Poured black label Valentina hot sauce all over the beef and sprouted grain bread, then sqaushed some sharp cheddar and sliced tomatoes on it and let loose. Head rush!!!
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCfXDChqu9w LOL. totally missed the ted one. the nervous energy hidden inside of ted and marco comes out when trump badgers them.. so funny
  4. Ted cruz is a weakling He should have pursued a career in car sales not politics.
  5. goddamn it i'm so sad i missed this. I walk by those stores every day as i work just down the road. i would have joined in and done anything sam instructed. That dollar store transparent poncho he's wearing.. Fucking lol
  6. lol P value NOT FOUND. these paper's i am digging up look really bad. certainly not making a strong case for zinc here. little to nothing about the form i'm taking either.
  7. Yes, I was aware of this one after a few quick searches.. I've been at this so long I tend to skip any journalism and go straight for the scientific literature itself when coming up with new ideas. A quick dump (hoping to read more into these tonight): http://www.jtad.org/2007/3/jtad71302a.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Debjit_Bhowmik4/publication/277014212_A_potential_medicinal_importance_of_zinc_in_human_health_and_chronic_disease/links/555ec6ea08ae86c06b5f4d7f.pdf ^^ these two don't look great to me.. i need to check impact factor later a weird mixture called (Testis compositum (lol)): https://ujdigispace.uj.ac.za/handle/10210/8267 stupid homeopathy shit zinc gluconate was not very useful here: http://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/51728 zinc sulphate somewhat beneficial here: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/6163281 a really old paper from british journal of derm: http://tinyurl.com/zzg3ayb zinc sulphate bombed here: http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=538900 sulphate again bombs here: http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/70931 I haven't read the full-text for any of these, will probably start archiving them from lib-gen.. This paper in Dermatologic Therapy hits closer to home, but for some reason they chose to use a mixture. "APC is a novel methionine-based zinc complex with antioxidants" The same research team published another paper discussing the implications of using zinc in the Int. Journal of Dermatology too.. I am already familiar with that journal. Have not read the paper yet.
  8. Yes good advice. However, keep in mind that of all people, I am probably the most skeptical. I can not describe to you the extent that I have been hunting for a way to stop this. The list of things I tried is really, really, really big. It's an absolutely massive list of products, dietary changes, lifestyle changes.. One thing has been consistent through it all: my acne never stops. I can have better days than others but it simply does not stop at all. NOTHING. I've had periods where I feel amazing and my emotional health came a long way, but despite this my acne never changed. I would get my hopes up a lot though. I'm really used to that.. In the week that I began eating this form of zinc, my skin is not acting at all like it ever did. I feel like i'm holding my breath at the moment.. I honestly have no explanation for it right now and just have to wait and see what happens long-term
  9. Well... I don't disagree per say.. Whiny little shits! Cunt Ass Shit Mr. President
  10. I already have a collection of retinoids and retinol cream. My retinoids were prescription and I have concerns about their age, so i'll probably visit the dermatologist to get more. Adapalene and tretinoin just work faster than retinol itself.. the big guns, but do the same thing. Retinoids unfotunately were never able to prevent acne lesions, only help clear the red marks and scar tissue. I gave them up because I develop new lesions faster than they were able to clear. My diet for a long time now has been low carbohydrate. I focus on a steady stream of saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins, and I primarily consume carbohydrate intermittently. I eat meat/eggs -> veggie -> fruit and potatoes -> everything else (nuts,sprouted grain bread, oats, chocolate, fermented dairy, etc).. For a really long time I was absolutely convinced that i would be able to find a diet model that fixed this. The extremes were never helpful.. Vegan, very low carb, ketogenic, etc.. I tried them all for long periods of time over the years. These were perfectly fine diets metabolically (and I prefer borderline ketogenic anyway) but try as I might they never prevented my acne at all. There was nothing special about any of them and none really improved my skin quality any better than the others. I've since given up extremes and resolved myself to just eating low carb generally.. This can range from sub 100g daily to well above 300g even if i'm very active. I consider it low carb still but these days i'm very flexible. I tried giving up dairy for a long time too, as well as nightshades and other potential allergens, but none of that was helpful either. I suspect short-term increase in IGF-1 following dairy may have been exacerbating the cysts specifically but it's absence did nothing to prevent them. I'm also eating bread at the moment, hell i even had jimmy johns a few times this week out of laziness. I ate some cupcakes after doing a bunch of floor exercises.. Treated myself to a dr pepper one night too. Every other meal is either eggs, meat, vegetables, or fruit. I still eat dairy.. had a bunch of cheese a couple days ago. Still eating zinc, and my skin is clearing?? I'm really puzzled at the moment and not able to think clearly about what's happening.. Am I jumping the gun?
  11. I may have somehow discovered the most effective treatment for my acne i've ever been witness to.. turns out it was zinc. Currently taking 90 mg of zinc monomethionine per day and every single active spot (cyst or nodule) on my body has began rapidly shrinking into my skin. I know i'll probably come across as another charlatan on the internet by writing this (I know..), but this is not something I take lightly. I have had treatment resistant acne for many, many years. Been to many dermatology departments and the entire dept at University of Virginia med school ran out of ideas. I endured almost 2 years of very high doses of isotretinoin (accutane) as a last resort and it didn't do a fucking thing. My pores stopped functioning and yet I was still developing cysts/whiteheads/blackheads every week. I don't want to sound the alarm early but i'm really struggling to understand why my skin is doing what it is doing right now. The only thing i've changed in my diet or routine is adding zinc monomethionine. Still drinking coffee, i'm eating l-theanine supplements but that does fuck all for skin. Eating healthy foods like I always do (this has in the past done NOTHING for my skin to stop acne despite my efforts to try and eliminate every variable possible). At the moment I still have lots of red marks, scars, and damage from the active cysts that shrank that will take some time to heal over.. :( Makes me feel weird even posting this because i'm afraid I might be convincing myself ANOTHER SOMETHING MIGHT WORK AGAIN only to get let down and want to shoot myself in the head.. been dropped on the rocks time and time again for my entire adult life now.. I just am having a really, really hard time understanding what is going on here. I've been glancing over some biochemistry to pick this apart and so far what i've come up with is this has something to do with downstream modulation of the immune system. Zinc reportedly accelerates healing of skin and has been used medically for this sometimes? It could be possible that the rapid proliferation of my skin cells is overcoming the slow pace of inflammation induced by the p. acnes organism? Trying to stick to pubmed/google scholar and find research groups working on this but there isn't much out there besides poor quality human trials and a lot of rodent work. Really hesitant to jump the gun.. i'll report back if things go south quickly somehow. I want to post these (embarassing :( ) images for you guys, for anyone curious. Putting it in a spoiler tag because acne is gross and some of you aren't going to want to look. Keep in mind that every red lesion in the photos is an active acne nodule or cyst that as of now dissapeared into my skin leaving the residual inflammation to heal up.. Last week the lesions in the chest photo were actually painful cysts with pus under my skin. There were 6-7 active ones on my chest and probably 5-6 active cysts on my back. They are completely gone except for the tough surface and scarring edit: removing supplement manufacturer. i'm not a shill.
  12. Thanks mate, really heart warming post. Well I'm trying to stay calm and ignore the hateful SMS I've been receiving the past few hours mostly because yeah, I think I did the right thing - and the most reasonable one. It's probably harder to be the one who sees what's wrong. Takes a lot of courage. Good luck with what your dealing with as well Ouch! Still sounds like you did the right thing. Sometimes people will react and realize they need to work on themselves, and sometimes they'll just throw a hissy fit and do fuck all, maybe find another person to leech off of. Either way, it's not your job on this planet to fix someone. Maybe the conditions of your relationship will appear very different now in retrospect. Cheers man
  13. 200 mg l-theanine and a cup of coffee.
  14. Sounds like an active volcano rather than a relationship. Take care of yourself man. Now's your chance!! Study hard and cook yourself some good food.
  15. lol i fucking love tonetta!! i'd totally hang out with that dude and dance with my wang out
  16. Don't sacrifice yourself for someone else's problems. You're not her psychologist/psychiatrist and when a relationship borders on that theme it usually doesn't work out. That or people spend the rest of their miserable lives together then die. You don't have to hold grudge, resent or her for it, or even be nasty about the whole thing. Just make it very, very clear that you need space to continue bettering yourself (uni, friendships). I think sometimes significant others in this situation end up respecting the other party more for it, that they made a decision and went for it when things were going south. Personally i've been rejected really fucking hard for being mental poison, and it wasn't until the other person told me to fuck off and never talk to them again did I re-evaluate what my behavior was doing to them. It actually helped me better myself and realize I wasn't taking care of me. But I don't know her and I don't know any more than your post so keep that in mind..
  17. https://youtu.be/p46yES-rTQM?t=1h59m54s Gotta give the guy credit though, that is absolute perfection. Even the "I love you! Yeah... I love you!!" at the end. He acts like everyone in the room is his best pal and they are all in on it. It's like porn for lonely twisted people who haven't left their town much.
  18. lol amber, that isn't even a stereotype here. it's reality.
  19. Oh okay, that's what I thought you meant. Wasn't trying to retort with factoids or whatever, it just sparked my curiosity about his stance. edit: and I agree. Some conservatives I meet here in Virginia are just really, really high strung and could probably use a doobie or 3000
  20. Why's that Adi? Quick google search found some quotes of his about legalizing to inhibit cartel profits, and he seems to support medical MJ and state's right to legalize.. Can't find anything on his stance federally but i'm willing to bet like anything else he will support whatever makes him popular. lol
  21. fixed.. don't have to use the [youtubehd] tags anymore olo ;) LOL
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