ravenspeed's comments

> Sleep 8-10 hours per night, eat a good breakfast, don’t use nicotine, exercise every day or almost every day, get some sun. Not only do these help by themselves but they also make medication like phenylpiracetam and adderall (adderall in particular needs a lot of protein to work best) more effective as well.

That makes sense. Since such amphetamines increase the release of dopamine and noradrenaline. And for those two, you need l-dopa and for l-dopa you need tyrosine and for tyrosine, you need protein. So you need to increase your protein. But I don't know by how much, though ... I guess you need to find out by trial and error ...

Consider fact checking, I might be wrong, but here are some correlations:

Neurotransmitters:

- Dopamine (movement, working memory) ~ Tyrosine ~ Protein

- Noradrenaline (alertness) ~ Tyrosine ~ Protein ~ Cold Showers

- Serotonin (mood stabilization) ~ Tryptophan ~ Protein

- Acetylcholine (memory and learning) ~ Choline

- Glutamate (neuronal "on switch") ~ Protein

- GABA (a neuronal "off switch") ~ Dopamine/Noradrenaline Downregulation ~ Lithium Orotate ~ Anxiety

Inside your cells

- Adenosine ~ GABA Release ~ Caffeine (blocks it)

- Adenosine-Di/Tri-Phosphate ~ ADP + phosphate <-> ATP + Energy ~ Creatine (brain cells are cells too)

- DHA/EPA ~ "machine oil for your brain" ~ https://presse.inserm.fr/en/lipids-serving-the-brain/14416/

So with these, you can look up how medications like LDX (dopamine, noradrenaline) and MPH (dopamine) work and start your research from there with these simplistic pointers/correlations in mind.

The human body has way too many variables f(x1, ..., xn) --> ? ? ? yi ? ? ?

You can only see some output (i.e., yi), but you likely cannot see all outputs (i.e., all y's).

Keep in mind: those correlations stem from a layman's simplistic point of view.

Experts (i.e., medical doctors, biologists) can interpret the correlations better (and also might see more outputs/y's).

I therefore, suggest: Gabor Mate (ADHD ~ trauma ~ modern society), Robert Sapolsky (noradrenaline ~ anxiety ~ amygdala).

If "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" by Gilens et al. convinced you, then, you have reason to assume oligarchy in the US. Whether you can assume the same in other well off countries is an open question.

Is it not strange that investment bankers get into state institutions? Is it not strange that those rich countries do not mind your privacy (AMD PSP, Intel, ARM CPUs). As if intelligence agencies form a hidden legislative role and they fear their own citizens. Why is there a need to become like China?

Despite all that, people have many more potential conspiracies.

Popular ones are:

- Leader of the WEF - Soros - Gates

How valid those potential conspiracies are, is another question.

One example, Epstein supposedly killed himself. Some people are sceptical about that. But I would say: beware your confirmation bias. Potential coincidence should not make you disregard due process.

In my estimation, you do not need conspiracies. It is very simple, if you are very rich, you can buy yourself free from your duties (e.g. Amazon) and you can influence policy making (i.e., lobbying). It is also easy to see why the US or rather the intelligence agencies engage in conflict (e.g. Taiwan/TSMC).

To be fair, an article on Vox says that the above finding is false. It is hard to be certain on "truth" or to be "certain" at all. You end up with beliefs (which has many forms: assumptions, trust, axioms, ...). Better stay off politics and news.

Carnivore diet will get you into ketosis. I believe this is the sole reason why it alleviates health issues.

Furthermore, you don't need to be a carnivore to achieve ketosis.

You have more options:

- water fasting (limited amount of studies; but humans in the ancient past did practice water-only fasting) - another form: Buchinger fast, where you limit your calorie intake to 500 kcal. You can drink juices such as coconut water. There is a clinic in Germany where people pay to fast. I think this is a littlle easier for people to get in. Helps you keep your electrolytes up (salt, Mg, K, Ca).

However, I am not sure if fasting alone will help you with a mental condition. It helps your body and brain though, but how much it will alleviate your mental issues is an open question.

I am also unsure if carnivore diet will be good overall for your body. Again, it is a way to get into ketosis, but there are more ways... I would argue more for less carbohydrates and more protein (tyrosine, tryptophane), if on a mental condition. Don't forget choline (acetylcholine). I vote for the Valter Longo approach.

Sounds like a sensitive amygdala to me. I would focus on enhancing my serotonine levels. And also GABA (LiOr) at night for insomnia. Prevent excess noradrenaline release (stress, cold showers).

AFAIK: caffeine blocks the neurochemical adenosine. Adenosine and GABA downregulate neuronal activity such as dopamine, noradrenaline. Dopamine and noradrenaline are the key transmitters where drugs like LDX inhibit their reuptake and causes more release of them. For dopamine (and noradrenaline), you need L-dopa, for L-dopa, you need tyrosine, for tyrosine, you need protein. For setotonin, you need tryptophane and thus protein. For acetylcholine, you need choline. You can also get enhanced release of noradrenaline for 5 h through cold showers. Likely, you need to downregulate your neurons at a certain time. You need GABA. However, taking GABA directly does usually not work. Lithium orothate does.

Creatine is likely also needed. Since creatine provides phosphates for your brain cells which keeps your energy metabolism efficient.