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Word of the Day: Penance - Voluntary self-punishment or the dignified donning of afflictions and misfortune in the name of atonement and repentance for past wrongdoings. Health Cookie #5: HIIT is High Intensity Interval Training, a type of training in which you maximize periods of exertion while minimizing periods of rest. The goal is to spike your heart rate as much as possible and thus clean up your cardiovascular machinery significantly, while also getting a huge surge of BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, described in Health Cookie #2). The health benefits of this cannot be overstated, because you're rigorously engaging your entire body and straining the whole thing as much as you possibly can. The hormetic effects (also mentioned in Health Cookie #2) caused by this are numerous, and both your biological and neurological wellbeing will improve significantly as a result of doing it. You might, for example, practice HIIT by having 15 minute periods of extraordinary effort and exertion followed by 3 minute periods of rest, for an hour, twice a week. Repeatedly getting your heart rate very high then letting it come back down again, four consecutive times, with various exercises meant to push your cardio and muscles to their absolute limit. When I took Karate, this was how Sensei Tirrell trained us. We'd have two cycles of 15 minutes of training followed by 3 minutes of rest, performing various high-intensity exercises, then the remainder of the class would be dedicated to practicing technique application. In Jiu Jitsu we would often somersault around the mats repeatedly, 3 minutes of that followed by 1 minute of rest, then we'd crawl-sprint across the floor and back, 3 minutes of that followed by 1 minute of rest. In Muay Thai we'd be shadowboxing or hitting the bag, throwing blows in drills, responding to melee combo calls in sequence, and we'd be having long periods of exertion followed by brief periods of rest and respite. If you drink coffee, do HIIT and have a cold shower, all in one day, then the biological benefit you subsequently reap in regards to your physical health and neurological wellness will be staggering and nigh immeasurable.

Word of the Day: Alacrity - Excited and ecstatic enthusiasm or readiness. Health Cookie #4: Exercise is a crucial part of living a better life. If you were to perform any type of physical training, devotedly, and train really hard for just two years, then the benefits of those two years would span across the entirety of your next two decades. You could take two runs per week, or lift weights twice per week, or take a martial arts class twice per week, and after a couple years of that, you will have become an entirely different person for the rest of your life - a more competent, capable and dependable person. Exercise produces a surge of BDNF for your brain as well, which we covered previously in Health Cookie #2, with the intensity of the exercise determining the amount of BDNF granted to you. This means that there is refined scientific data to support the fact that exercise can help combat mental health ailments and gradually cure mental disorders like depression and anxiety, just like a cold shower can. We will cover HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) in Health Cookie #5. After years of training, it not only becomes very hard to lose the strength you've gained, but it also becomes significantly easier to maintain and grow it; In my personal case, I don't need to do a complex weight-training regimen to target different muscle groups, because I took three different martial arts simultaneously over a few years, and the variety of techniques I learned during that time have become a means for me to give my body an accurate tune-up whenever I need to, without any exercise equipment. I can perform upper blocks to target my bicepts, triceps and even the laterals in my back. I can shadowbox to rapidly accelerate my heart rate and tire my whole body out while engaging in HIIT. Push ups and sit-ups are ol' reliable, of course. But I prefer half sit ups, because they don't irritate my back on the hard floor. I can perform something ridiculous like 30 different karate stretches, to serve as a buffer against potential injury and improve flexibility/relieve joint irritation throughout my body. Regular housework and heavy lifting is never an issue for me, because I became so primed against injury as a result of my mere few years spent training as a teenager. The gains I made years ago in terms of focus and mental framework as well as dexterity and strength all still remain with me today, despite the fact that I took those three martial arts a decade and a half ago, and despite the fact that it was only for a few years. If you want to truly change your entire life, then even just ten minutes of intense training twice a week can accomplish that, even sprinting to the nearest Stop Sign and back is a tremendous boon to your health and longevity; But as with many things, the effort you sow determines the benefits you reap. If you train even harder, take cold showers even more, fast even longer, eliminate even more processed foods from your diet, etc, then you will accelerate the rate at which you become increasingly powerful. Our bodies are genuinely designed to adapt positively after every incurrence of a stressful occurrence. If you fight really hard this year to improve your health and make all the right choices, then just think of how that decision could positively influence and transform your next ten, twenty, or even thirty years of life. Speaking from personal experience, I can promise you this: It only takes six months of making just some of the right choices, to nearly undo all the damages you've incurred after six years of making all the wrong choices.

Word of the day: Discipline - An activity or experience which provides mental or physical training; A personal code of dignified conduct, wherein one conditions oneself to live in a controlled and self-regulated way. Health Cookie #3: Intermittent fasting is extending the time between meals for as long as possible. The benefits of fasting vary greatly, ranging from improved blood pressure, cardiovascular health and stamina, to boosted rates of biological repair for damaged tissues and organs. There have even been testimonies of people allegedly curing mental health ailments or devouring cancers within their bodies by fasting for multiple days at a time, several times per month while engaging in elimination diets, such as the carnivore diet for example (Covered in Health Cookie #7). One could and often should combine intermittent fasting with the carnivore diet, exercise and cold showers for a substantially healthier lifestyle and a remarkably stronger body and mind. One could spend six months reversing six years worth of damage, this way; More over, one wanting to go the extra mile for themselves and their health would research Autophagy to get the most out of their fasting health benefits, but here's the summary: Autophagy is when you go over 24 hours without food, and your body starts consuming and recycling its unwanted cells to repurpose them. This has even been proven to consume and recycle the cells which comprise cancers within the body. On October 3, 2016, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, who discovered the biological mechanism of Autophagy in the human body. Intermittent fasting causes many hormetic effects, most notably providing a surge of BDNF to your brain. We cover Hormetic Effects and BDNF in Health Cookie #2.

Word of the Day: Tenacity - Being very determined and persistent. Health Cookie #2: BDNF is Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, it is a hormone produced by the body whenever it undergoes a form of significant environmental stress. BDNF stimulates the growth of neurons, and can dramatically improve both learning and memory if it is produced by the body on a regular basis. Cold showers, exercise, intermittent fasting, they all cause Hormetic Effects, and Hormetic Effects are, simply put, "benefits to your biology that are obtained through the endurance of environmental stressors". Your muscles becoming stronger after working out, that's a hormetic effect. Your blood circulation improving after a cold shower, that's a hormetic effect. Your body cleaning itself during intermittent fasting or recycling its unwanted cells during Autophagy, those are hormetic effects. Hormetic effects are the positive biological adaptations that occur whenever you expose yourself to extreme conditions, and BDNF production is a crucially important hormetic effect given that it literally empowers your mind and improves neuroplasticity. BDNF is produced by cold showers, exercise, fasting, and most importantly, the consumption of coffee, because the stimulation caused by caffeine is yet another biological stress which has the resultant hormetic effect of producing BDNF. This means you can produce BDNF literally every single day, and cumulatively become increasingly powerful in regards both mental and physical, as long as you do one or many of these practices daily. Intermittent Fasting and autophagy will be the topic for Health Cookie #3, Exercise will be the topic for Health Cookie #4, and we've already covered Cold Showers in Health Cookie #1.

Word of the Day: Redemption - Deliberate present day acts of atonement meant to absolve oneself of the guilt associated with past wrongdoings. Health Cookie #1: Cold showers grant an immediate mood boost, immediate wakefulness, reduced inflammation and muscle soreness, while also improving your blood pressure and strengthening your cardiovascular system. Thirty second freezing shower, three times per week; Definitely the habit of a champion. Cold showers cause many hormetic effects, but perhaps most notable among them is that it provides a surge of BDNF to your brain. Hormetic effects and BDNF will both be the topic for Health Cookie #2.

Word of the Day: Glory - High renown or honor won by notable achievements. Health Cookie #22: What does my channel name mean, Discipline Before Dishonor? It takes a firm decision to wake up in the morning and choose to take a cold shower. I don't always take that shower, nor do I always commit to intermittent fasting every day. Most days I do, but sometimes I need to give myself a little pep-talk, my channel name is that pep-talk. Whenever I'm standing outside the shower, hesitant to embrace winter's chill, I always push myself over the edge with this mantra, by speaking the words "Discipline Before Dishonor": I would rather exhibit discipline and will power in this moment, and do the difficult thing right now, than avoid doing it, and thereby dishonor not only myself but also my true potential, and the magnitude of service that I can be of to both the world and to my family today. Cold showers, fasting, exercise, healthy eating, choosing abstinence when you'd rather smoke weed or masturbate every day, these decisions optimize your capacities, and amplify the influence you can have on the world around you - whether your intentions are good or bad. It just takes that "One Second Decision" as David Goggins would say, wherein I ask myself, plainly and clearly: Am I worthy, or unworthy? Will I confront my desire for comfort to bring forth my true potential and accomplish more for the world, or will I resign myself to comfort-seeking, betraying not only myself but also everything I could do for - or to - the world today? Tell you one thing: On the days where I record an episode, it always starts with a cold shower. Not just because it's healthy, but because it actually spikes my reflexes and cognition, rouses me from post-sleep stupor, and stimulates improved decision making within me. I'm not just taking a cold shower, I'm tapping into a source of inner power and shattering the plateau of my limitations for the day. Whenever you're standing outside of that freezing shower, hesitant to march in there, just remember: It is better to have discipline and do the difficult thing than it is to dishonor yourself every day, because that decision is exactly where the power to manipulate the world around you comes from. Your manipulations can be for the purpose of good, or evil. I'm not here to judge your morality, do whatever you want. What I will judge is your strength of will. Discipline Before Dishonor is my mantra and maybe it can become yours, too. Odin is watching, so don't disappoint Him; You can only curry His favor if you prove yourself worthy of receiving it in the first place. Whether your intentions are good or evil, wasted potential is always a crime against both yourself and God above. So never waste an opportunity to confront your weakness and cultivate your strength inside.

Word of the Day: Reprieve - The suspension or cancellation of someone's punishment or pain. Health Cookie #21: Prayer is a very divisive topic. Some believe prayer is a means by which you can magnify your thoughts and intentions toward an outcome, and gradually conjure that outcome over time via manifestation. Others believe prayer is a literal means of communication with an omnipotent universal consciousness that listens to you, connects with you and provides for you whenever you ask it sincerely and humbly for guidance, assistance and direction. Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman once correlated the act of exercise to that of prayer; If you want to build muscle then you exercise, and over time, the act of exercising gradually builds your muscles. Similarly, if you want to build better life circumstances for yourself then you pray, and over time, that act of prayer gradually reinforces your direction and propels you toward creating that better life for yourself. Whether or not that better life is an outcome of your own conscious design, or a blessing from God, that is all up for healthy discussion. What is not debatable and cannot be refuted is the power of focused thinking patterns, which serve as wind in the sails of your life, providing propulsion toward your acquisition of the circumstances you really want. You are capable of being the architect and arbiter of your own destiny, capable of raising yourself out of perdition, every successful individual knows this to be true. You can choose to believe, cynically, that the world is nothing more than a barless prison within which we are all trapped with no possibility of recourse nor redemption. You can choose to believe, nihilistically, that there is no magic, no meaning, no possibility for underdogs to rise above their current station, and that luck is the only means through which the downtrodden can ever conquer the adversities thrust upon them. But if you harbor those beliefs, then you will always feel imprisoned by destiny, and trapped in worldly circumstances that seem irredeemable and inevitably beyond your control. So why on Earth would you resign yourself to such beliefs? If you never take the reins, because you don't believe you have the power to do so, then you'll always just go wherever the carriage takes you, good or bad. You need to take control, in order to have it. There are only two real possibilities here: Either your mind is extraordinarily powerful, and you can conjure realities and outcomes just by focusing hard on what you want, or, God exists, and he helps those who consistently ask for help and confide in Him. The only certainty resting beyond the shadow of a doubt is that prayer and meditation - the act of focused thought - definitely works. It's not a hotline, you may pray for something today and only see it manifest itself in a few days, weeks, maybe even a few months or years from now. But your muscles don't instantly appear after you exercise, either - they take time to form, it takes effort and consistence for the act of exercising to manifest into the healthier body you truly want to have, and the same can be said about the ability of prayer to metamorphose your perception and your lot in life - it takes time, effort and consistence. Believe to receive, right? If you believe in nothing special then you'll never receive anything special, and this principle constitutes the inevitable downfall of those with poor belief systems. Believing there is nothing special means you will aspire toward - and subsequently achieve - nothing special. But if you believe you can achieve, then you inevitably will, and time will be the only obstacle between you and your wildest dreams.

Word of the Day: Ostensible - Something appearing to be or stated to be true, that may not actually be true. Some examples of ostensible statements are: "Eggs/red meat are bad for you" or "Camel cigarettes are healthy because more doctors smoke Camels than any other brand of cigarette". If something is ostensible, it's basically a lie. Health Cookie #20: Redemption isn't just a word, it's an ambition, an aspiration, a lifestyle for some people. Robert Browning once said "A man's reach should exceed his grasp", and that quote is very fitting when talking about redemption; In order to achieve it, the lengths that you're willing to go to, should exceed what you even believe is possible for you to accomplish. Don't just try to help one person, try to help the entire world in some meaningful way. Small acts of kindness prove contrition, indeed, and their value cannot be overstated. But redemption isn't just holding a door for somebody and then feeling better for the rest of your life, rather it is holding the door for *everybody*, every time you get an opportunity. It is wanting to help as many people as possible, wanting to alter as many misdirected fates as possible, wanting to improve the health and wellness of as many people as possible. Sometimes redemption takes different forms too, sometimes it's waking up to a freezing cold shower rather than waking up to a bong load or cigarette. Sometimes it's choosing to drink tea instead of grabbing another beer or mixing another drink. Why do we take cold showers and try to abuse substances less? Because how we treat our own bodies, and our own minds, often reflects how we treat other people. Treat yourself with apathy and disregard, and you may feel inclined to treat others with apathy and disregard. But care about yourself, understand your past, your weaknesses borne from it, and regard both yourself and your fate as matters of importance, and you'll be likely to regard others with that same concerned mentality.

Word of the Day: Temperance - The quality of moderation or self-restraint; The ability to discipline oneself against temptations. Health Cookie #19: You'd be surprised just how damaging for your psychology regular masturbation really is. If you recall, Health Cookies #17 and 18 were about Dopamine, the neurotransmitter and hormone responsible for providing you with a sense of fulfillment whenever you progress toward - or achieve outright - a definite purpose. Remember how I told you that sometimes it's good to restrict yourself, and dumb-down your achievements in your own head, because there's always a rubber-band effect where large dopamine releases result in an aftermath of short-term depression afterward? Well, masturbating to porn releases tremendous amounts of Dopamine, which means if you masturbate to porn regularly, multiple times a day, then you will be depressed regularly, every single day. But that's only the very beginning of why masturbation is bad for you. Dopamine is meant to make you feel rewarded and motivated to continue achieving, but too much dopamine release over a short period of time will actually depress the shit out of you, and make you less aspiring and less accomplishment oriented, over time. The human condition wasn't meant for constant streams of dopamine release, but rather for long-term goals which provide long-term satisfaction in small doses, just a little bit of self-fulfillment toward that big accomplishment every single day. Masturbation, on the other hand, makes your mind become increasingly addicted to instant-gratification patterns, and just absolutely drains it of its will to invest its energy toward long-haul accomplishments and endeavors. If you regularly masturbate, you will lack the motivation to pursue accomplishments in life; You will cease to aspire toward creativity, finding a suitable romantic partner, making friends, etc. Not only that, but you'll also become visually aroused, as opposed to being sensually aroused. What that means is you might develop erectile dysfunction in actual sexual encounters, because you've conditioned your mind to become aroused only when watching sex, and not when actually having it yourself. I've learned from my own experiences in life that whenever I have a daily grind to work on, such as this channel, masturbation is a non-issue for me. I just don't feel like doing it, and I make love to my wife far more, because my restrained dopamine releases make me feel like more of a man; I'm not overdoing my dopamine releases, which means I never suffer the recoil of depression resulting from excess dopamine release, and I always stay motivated and disciplined toward continued effort in my day to day life. But that's what's funny: If you don't have a definite purpose from which to derive meaningful dopamine releases, then your mind will go wherever the alternative sources of dopamine release are to be found: For some, this is processed food addiction, for others it's masturbation, for others it's marijuana, cigarettes, alcohol, etc, or all/some of the above. During times in my life when I had no ambition, no creative outlet and no daily grind, I would masturbate to porn several times a day, smoke weed, indulge in excessive amounts of junk food, and what's funny is that the regular pattern of masturbation I was committing to was likely the very reason why I lacked the willpower and discipline required to chase my dreams and engage my capacity for creativity daily. It also made me a very selfish lover to my wife. Masturbation is a vampiric habit that feeds off the lifeblood of your very motivation as a human being; It siphons your will to live, your desire to dream and your ability to aspire. It's extraordinarily dangerous, and it devours the potential of countless young men in this day and age. Try not to let yourself be counted among them. Here's the knowledge that matters most: Your brain will seek the secretion of dopamine. If you don't give it a good reason to secrete it, then it will seek out bad reasons to secrete it. This is where addictions come from: Meaningless existences seeking dopamine release from all the wrong places.

Word of the Day: Summit - The highest point of a hill or mountain; The pinnacle of achievement, the highest attainable level of accomplishment. Health Cookie #18: In the previous Health Cookie, we talked about Dopamine, the neurotransmitter and hormone. I'd like to elaborate on Dopamine, and give you more information about it. Andrew Huberman said Dopamine is a "non-infinite yet renewable resource", which means you'll always make more, but it's easy to fully deplete your dopamine reserves through overstimulation; And whenever you fully deplete your reserves, after a lot of effort, accomplishment, high points and high moods or excessive indulgence in pleasures, you then suffer a temporary state of depression, like a rubber-band snapping back after being stretched, a recoil effect to balance the scales. How do you avoid this dopamine crash and ensure a stable baseline level of dopamine all the time? Simple: Downplay and reduce the significance of your achievements. Whenever you take a cold shower in the morning, don't think "Wow I'm amazing, I just accomplished something." Instead, just tell yourself that you've fulfilled a regular duty. All you've done is meet the standard of baseline competence that you demand of yourself, and nothing more. That might seem counter-intuitive, but honestly, this is what you have to do to ensure that you're always ready to keep accomplishing things. Even if you do reach a new plateau or exceed expectations in some way, you don't want to allow yourself to feel too strongly that you have, otherwise you'll disservice your capacity for continued effort. If you've just reached the top, then why would you even keep climbing? Thus there is no top, there is no summit; Your life is the practice of climbing the mountain of your mind in perpetuity and with humility, that is the very essence of what it means to be Promethean. The mountain never ends, thus your struggle to climb never ends, and you'll never be truly special until you've spent your entire life climbing and subsequently died climbing, died dreaming of the continued heights that you were certain to keep reaching if you had the gift of more time. The irony is, when you view life this way and you never let your achievements go to your head, then you never get depressed or become unmotivated, because your dopamine never has that rubber-band recoiling effect. In a sense you forgo the concept of motivation entirely and exchange it for discipline, which is significantly more reliable. Motivation asks "What is my reason to try today? Should I even try?" but discipline asks "Do I even need to feel motivated, just to meet the standard of doing what's expected of me? No, I don't. I will do my duty whether I feel like doing it or not." Funny thing is, this mentality of perpetual humility and the ceaseless downplaying of the significance of your achievements actually makes you more prone to continued achievement, rather than less prone toward it. Excessive indulgence in feelings of self-gratification is just yet another addiction that erodes the foundations of your constitution as an individual, and robs you of your potential.

Word of the Day: Paradox - A statement that seems false at first glance, but upon investigation, may actually be true. For example, pharmaceutical companies want people to be sick; While seeming false at first, and contradictory, upon further investigation you realize that they profit and grow from a prevalence of pestilence and poor health, thus if everybody was healthy tomorrow, they would suddenly go out of business. Harmful side-effects of drugs are actually a positive outcome for companies that manufacture drugs, because then they can create and sell even more drugs to treat those side-effects, making more money, which enables further growth for their technologies and advancement for their industry. It seems contradictory to assume that Healthcare companies would prefer for people to be sick, but there it is, concrete proof contained in corporate reasoning. That is a paradox. Most of the drugs that a cancer patient takes are drugs meant to combat the side-effects of chemo therapy. Pharmaceutical companies love this, cancer patients are cash-cows for them. Doctors aren't taught about the carnivore diet, intermittent fasting nor autophagy, and as a result, those viable avenues of cancer treatment are kept from patients, just so drugs can be sold to them instead, even though recent clinical trial data supports the claim that most cancers can be eradicated through extreme elimination diets and fasting practices. Another definition of a paradox is something that, in its design, is intrinsically contradictory toward its intended or stated purpose; For example, "correctional facilities" are paradoxical, because they claim to correct flawed human behavioral patterns, while simultaneously tormenting inmates' psychologically through persistent fear, anger, and social isolation, thereby worsening their psychological constitution, and thus increasing their behavioral and emotional volatility as well as their potential of recidivism upon release. Correctional facilities are only "correctional" by moniker, but upon keen observation you realize that the actual facilities are anything but correctional, and they contribute to increases in crime rates throughout society through the worsening of the psychological status of everybody that is processed by them. This is why prisons are always overflowing, and crime rates are never down. In Denmark recidivism rates are the lowest in the world, and it's because the focus is on rehabilitation of offenders rather than the abject psychological torture of them. Another example of this definition of paradox is the "Department of Defense" in the United States. If they specialize in creating weapons and tactics of war, then shouldn't it be called the Department of Offense rather than Defense? It's a paradox. Health Cookie #17: Dopamine is a neurotransmitter and hormone. It is released upon accomplishment, to make you feel good about yourself. But according to neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, the most successful people are those who don't feel accomplished upon completing a goal, but rather, those who feel accomplished upon making efforts toward the achievement of that goal. A study was done on children. The children enjoyed drawing and coloring, and they did it regularly. They began to receive little rewards for drawing, like gold stars, candy, shit like that. But eventually the rewards stopped coming, and as a result of that, the children lost interest and stopped drawing entirely; Even though, before the rewards ever started happening, they all enjoyed drawing intrinsically, and required no motivating factor to compel them toward doing it. The thought of no longer being rewarded for it actually ruined their baseline default enjoyment of it, and robbed them of a hobby. This indicates that people actually lose the motivation to work on something, if they care more about the reward than the process of earning it. Don't place as much value on the result, as you place on the work. Focus on the journey not the destination, etc. Also, it's wise to temper yourself upon achievements instead of letting yourself feel too proud of them, because whenever you have a dopamine release there's always a resultant crash which makes you feel sadder and unmotivated afterwards. The problem with touching the clouds is that you fall back down to Earth afterwards; But if you regulate and partially restrain your dopamine releases with conscious intention, then the resultant crash won't be nearly as severe. You could apply this strategy to video game progression, academic achievements, creative endeavors, relationship milestones, etc. Be proud, but only a little proud. Don't go overboard, or else you'll overstimulate your dopamine and suffer a resultant crash, making it harder to stay consistent. You see this in couples all the time: "Our wedding was so magical and now the magic is gone", or "We were so happy when our son was born, and now we're drifting apart". Couples sometimes attach more value to the milestones of their relationship than to the actual relationship itself, which eventually devalues the relationship in their minds. Dopamine is dangerous if you don't apply accurate thought toward controlling it. If you need evidence, then simply peer inside the mind of any drug addict, porn addict, alcoholic, gambler, obese individual, or any other person who's vices outweigh and overpower their virtues with regular consistency, to the detriment of not only themselves but also their families. Discipline before dishonor, my friends. It's not just a name, it's a lifestyle.

I've been catching up on this series... Does someone in chat explain the very large difference between a solar system and a galaxy at some point? I feel like a space explorer should know that.... 😁

that was a great moose hunt. I thought you were gonna lose him for sure. nice kill

Word of the Day: Indefatigable - Used to describe a person who is highly energetic and difficult to exhaust, synonymous with tenacious and persevering. Health Cookie #16: Depopulation is a real thing, and you need to respect it. I once looked at the difference between two different Acetaminophen brands, one was cheaper than the other; The cheaper brand had one extra ingredient that presumably didn't need to be in it, given that the more expensive Acetaminophen brand lacked it. So why the extra chemical? One reason only: To induce greater biological damage in the person who consumed it. Society punishes the poorest people by making the cheapest foods and drugs the most dangerous to their bill of health. The idea is, if poor people buy the cheapest processed goods, then their mental and physical health will become worse at an accelerated rate, thus they will have an increased likelihood of becoming fodder for the pharmaceutical and judicial industries. That's why the cheapest bag of chips has 10 more chemicals than the most expensive bag of chips, it's because society punishes budget spending as well as pleasure-seeking tendencies in people, and focuses all of its depopulative efforts there. In the same way that cheaper processed foods and pharmaceuticals can further induce increased pharmaceutical dependence in a person, prisons are designed to induce greater crime rates in society. Think about it: We psychologically torment inmates, stimulating them with as much fear, anger, resentment and social isolation as possible, to gradually worsen their psychological status and increase the likelihood of their recidivism, because their return-business keeps the policing, judicial and prison industries afloat. As more new criminals come and go, and as more criminals return over and over again, the technologies of those aforementioned three industries can perpetually improve; The pharmaceutical industry, in the same way, does not want to make you truly healthy, because their industry and technologies can only improve in perpetuity if as many people as possible remain sick and keep coming back. As you might guess, most criminals are poor, having sabotaged mental health which stems typically from poverty, and the awful dietary habits associated with it. It's just the way our society works. Why does our society work this way? Well, english economist Thomas Robert Malthus had a theory that, when unconstrained, a population tends to grow too quickly to sustain itself. This is why our world governments and the United Nations have decided upon the intentional depopulation of the masses, and it's why they try to induce sterility and infertility in as many people as possible through pharmaceuticals and processed food; The rate of people dying, to their perspective, absolutely must exceed the rate of people being born. I don't agree with this societal modus operandi either, morally speaking, but don't shoot the messenger, I'm just articulating the objective reality of our civilization. Human society is defined by the simultaneous construction of infrastructure, advancement of industry, development of technology and depopulation of humanity via the circulation of currency. That's simply what our society is, and thus the definition of "rebellion" within our civilization is merely to do whatever it takes to make yourself both healthier and stronger, and also to save your loved ones from the apathetic dietary self-destruction and foolhardy pharmaceutical dependence that the government would much prefer that they opt for every day.

Word of the Day: Mercy - Compassion or forgiveness shown toward someone whom it is within one's power to punish or harm. Health Cookie #15: Tobacco and Nicotine can be a complex topic. On the one hand, Cigarettes and Cigars are objectively bad for people, as smoke causes damage to the body and brain. But on the other hand, neuroscientists have proven that Nicotine has a neuro-protective effect on the brain, improving plasticity, cognition, learning, memory, and overall brain function. But Nicotine itself is also extraordinarily addictive, which is going to reduce your neurological integrity to some degree in how it manipulates your emotional mapping and dopamine systems, and compels you toward a chemical dependence of it. Truth is there are many ways of improving neuroplasticity and boosting your cognition, memory, learning and overall brain function; Cold Showers, Fasting, Meditation and Exercise come to mind, only they come without the added caveat of inducing a chemical need within you that can negatively impact how you treat people whenever you're going through withdrawals. Not only does Nicotine make you withdrawal when you go without it for a prolonged period of time, which adversely effects your social interactions and may make you less kind toward family and friends at times, it also has a negative impact on the Autonomic Nervous System, which is responsible for involuntary biological functions such as Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, Respiration, Digestion, and Sexual Arousal. That is to say, if you go without Nicotine for a while, and you're craving it, then your heart rate becomes irregular, your blood pressure destabilizes, your digestion becomes inefficient resulting in excessive gas, burping and softer stools, and you'll be less intimate with your partner, as well as more emotionally irritable and more inclined to be harsh or rude towards other people even if you ought not be - even if you don't want to be. As a result of this, most people view the decision to quit smoking as a nigh insurmountable task, because it would effect too many various aspects of their personal and professional lives if they merely attempted it - and they might fail the attempt, making it all for naught in the end. But this is why Nicotine, in and of itself, is a horrible thing for you: Not only can you can get whatever Nicotine gives you by other, frankly healthier means, but once you're Nicotine's prisoner, it's extraordinarily difficult to break out of that perdition. In a previous Health Cookie we covered BDNF, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (Health Cookie #2). BDNF is much in the same vein as Nicotine regarding Neuroplasticity and mental improvement, so there's really no upside to using Nicotine instead of using a Cold Shower, Intermittent Fasting, Meditation or Exercise to achieve the same result of acquiring greater neurological capability. You're simply shooting yourself in the foot by smoking instead, and reducing your capabilities in life. I say this as somebody who has struggled with cigarette use since my teen years. I often smoke for 3-4 months of every year, then I have to endure multiple pain-staking attempts to quit, and it's not painful for just me but also for my wife, too. The difficult part for me is that my mom is apathetic about smoking, and always has cartons upon cartons of cheap smokes in the house that I'm permitted to take, so I have unlimited access, and although I can temper myself and discipline myself for a significant chunk of every year, I always seem to break eventually. I'd much rather have never entered this Nicotine-centric prison in the first place, and I pray for the day that I find the strength to just stop for good and never go back. When I do smoke, I keep my numbers low, usually only having an average of 3 cigarettes per day, depending on the day, but that's the best I can do for myself and my health sometimes. The best number is absolute zero, where cigarettes-per-day are concerned. I can quit weed within one week, cease my desire of it and feel better for it in extremely short order; But quitting cigarettes literally requires months of physiological, gastrointestinal and psychological upset, even when you only smoke an average of 3 per day. Yet despite everything it takes away from me, I always eventually end up wanting to go back to smoking, once life has felt too arduous for too long of a stretch. If there's one piece of advice that I need young readers to take from this, here it is: Never smoke, because your life remains much easier if you never do, and once you do smoke, it's forever; You will struggle in perpetuity with the desire to continue doing it for the rest of your life, and even people who've quit cigarettes for 10+ years still daydream about how good it felt.

Word of the day: Contrition - A mental state wherein one feels remorse for wrongdoing, and motivation toward atonement. Health Cookie #14: Alcohol, it's very important that we talk about it. Alcohol is water-soluble and fat-soluble, which means it can flow throughout your body and penetrate your cells and organs, causing tremendous amounts of damage after being ingested. Other substances, when ingested, typically attach to your cells which begins a cascade of events meant to "remove" the attached substance parked onto the cell. But alcohol, in being fat and water soluble, just flows right through your cells and causes substantial damage to them. Although your liver does convert Ethanol (ingestible alcohol) of any form into Acetaldehyde, and then converts that into Acetate - a usable fuel for the body, the conversion of Ethanol into Acetaldehyde actually makes it become more damaging before it can proceed to be converted into Acetate, and your liver cells take a huge beating from the process, because Acetaldehyde kills cells indiscriminately and without exemption. It's actually significantly worse and more damaging than the Ethanol you originally ingested, but it's necessary for your liver to convert Ethanol into Acetaldehyde in order to then convert it into Acetate. The Acetaldehyde your body converts the Ethanol into is actually what causes you to have the feeling of being drunk, because it passes the blood-brain barrier and poisons your brain, and most people never realize the fact that being drunk is actually a poison-induced disruption of your biology and neurology. The damage starts in the gut when you ingest the Ethanol, but then some Acetaldehyde produced by your liver from the Ethanol later on actually crosses your blood-brain barrier, having a direct effect on your neurochemistry. Most things can't cross the blood-brain barrier, but since Alcohol is fat and water soluble, it just flows right through. The effect is has on the gut is profound, it disrupts everything in your stomach, killing off the vast majority of the good gut bacteria responsible for sending signals to your brain to stimulate dopamine and serotonin release, which can have a negative impact on your capacity for positive feelings and motivation. We all know alcohol kills bacteria; You scrap your knee, your mom or dad pours alcohol on it. But alcohol is indiscriminate about which bacteria it kills, it simply eradicates upon contact. As a result of this, your gut lining is disrupted, which causes, for a short time, bad bacteria in the gut to pass out of the gut and into the bloodstream. So, let's recap the consequences of drinking alcohol: Your good gut bacteria is killed, your bad gut bacteria from partially-digested food slips out into your bloodstream, alcohol has a negative impact on every cell it penetrates and it can penetrate every single cell in your body because it is both water and fat soluble, and while being processed in the liver, it becomes Acetaldehyde, which passes the blood-brain barrier, killing brain cells and giving you a euphoric feeling as a result of heavily poisoning and bludgeoning various parts of your body on a cellular and bacterial level. The cherry on top is the fact that this has a net effect of disrupting the neural circuits responsible for regulating your consumption patterns; So, in other words, one of the cumulative effects of alcohol poisoning on your brain is to reduce your inhibitions and stimulate additional alcohol intake. While you can consume fermented foods, such as Kimchi, Saurkraut or Natto to restore your gut bacteria, you can't undo the tremendous amount of damage that your body suffers on a bacterial and cellular level every time you drink. You can restore your body to some extent through the Carnivore Diet and Intermittent Fasting, we all can, indeed; But you've probably seen it in your own life, that once somebody drinks every day - even in small amounts - for just ten years, they become a shadow of their former selves, and they no longer have self-regulation or self-control where their addictions are concerned. This is because they have disrupted those neural circuits responsible for inhibition so consistently for so long that their core personality has changed, becoming more pleasure-seeking and less disciplined to a perpetually increasing extent over time.

Word of the day: Apocalypse - Derived from the latin root words "Apo" meaning un, and "Koluptein" meaning cover, Apocalypse was originally meant to mean not the end of the world or the end of society, but rather the end of deception; The revealing of truth, and uncovering of all that was previously unknown. Thus apocalypse and revelation are two words borne of the same ilk. Health Cookie #13: Substance use is a tricky one to talk about. Even though you could, theoretically, separate alcohol and cigarettes from weed and classify marijuana as the "healthier" substance to use, it's still possible for you to abuse it, hell, you're even likely to abuse it (Health Cookies 14 and 15 are written on the topics of alcohol and tobacco, respectively). It's extraordinarily addictive for thought of the euphoria and focus it provides you with. While not as biologically destructive as the former two substances, marijuana is extraordinarily disruptive psychologically speaking, just as Caffeine can be. One cup of coffee is a tremendous boon to your productivity and can really boost your day, just like one puff of a joint can help you to focus on a creative project and stimulate new ideas within you. But who's out here drinking only one cup of coffee, or taking only one puff of a joint per day? Both substances tend to cascade their own usage, and drive your brain toward an increased consumption. Your brain is like that, the neurotransmitter and hormone called dopamine (Health Cookies 17 and 18 can provide you with more insight into how dopamine works) might have helped spur our evolution, but it can also be weaponized against you, to induce your personal devolution. This is the real risk associated with addiction: The problem isn't the substance itself, rather it's how your brain gradually rewires itself and demands ever-increasing quantities of that substance. This is the best modus operandi I've found throughout my years, regarding substance use: Substance use only becomes substance abuse when you either don't have any plans to stop using it, or when you can't place limitations upon your usage of it. My wife and I used to buy an ounce of weed twice a year and partake in a couple months of shameless indulgence, and I'd even smoke cigarettes during that time. But I know that I can't live like that without beginning to spiral eventually, so we don't do that anymore. I always do intermittent fasting, take cold showers and have some Carnivore diet days, but I would also do those things even during the time periods when I was allowed to have weed and cigarettes; I promoted the wellness of my body and mind, even when - or rather, especially when I'd engage in substance abuse habits that were counterproductive toward my wellness. If you've drank alcohol every day for the past six months, or smoked a cigarette (or many cigarettes) every single day, or smoked weed every day, etc, then you may need to consider that it's no longer just a casual hobby or habit, but rather a huge problem that is gradually creeping around the corners of your psychological constitution, slowly sabotaging and eroding your capacity for introspective growth and discipline, to ever-increasing extents each day. Trust me, I know how hard it is to quit substances and get clean after years of being dirty. I'm health conscious now because I used to be apathetic about it, smoked weed for years on end, abused alcohol in high school to a significant degree, etc. Learning to quit substances is no different than learning to hop into a cold shower every day: When faced with the question of "Do I feel comfortable enough to do this?", you just say "Fuck it, I don't need to feel well enough to do it. I'm going to do it anyway, and suffer through it with dignity, because that's what discipline is." Irony is, after quitting substances you gradually begin feeling significantly better afterwards, because those substances turned out to be the very thing that was holding you down and limiting your mental framework. Just like stepping into a cold shower: Sure, you don't feel like doing it. But you'll be damn glad you've done it, after it's done.

Word of the Day: Armistice - An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; A truce. Health Cookie #12: If you engage in intermittent fasting, especially if you do one meal per day, consider drinking a full glass of water that contains a lot of Himalayan Rock Salt (like a tablespoon) first thing in the morning. It gives you a buffer by providing you with several electrolytes that your body needs to thrive, such as Calcium, Potassium, and Zinc. Many "health experts" claim that the mineral content in Himalayan Rock Salt is negligible, but they are wrong, because since you're fasting all day, and you're not consuming processed foods which deplete your body's stores of minerals at a greatly accelerated rate, then the vitamins and minerals you DO consume will last a lot longer, and do a lot more for you. Himalayan Rock Salt won't make a health difference for somebody who wakes up to something shitty like Oatmeal or Pancakes, but if all you eat is a natural breakfast rich in protein and fat, or if you don't eat at all, then those minerals obtained from a tablespoon of Himalayan Rock Salt will definitely benefit the rest of your day in terms of your alacrity and vivacity. Andrew Huberman's morning routine - praised by a great many people and touted as effective among them all - consists of waking up, consuming a glass of water containing a tablespoon of Himalayan Rock Salt, then stepping outside for 10 minutes to expose yourself to the outdoors, before coming in, having a cold shower, and then having a coffee to wrap it all up. You not only get a surge of BDNF from the cold shower and coffee since they stimulate hormesis in your body, but you also replenish depleted minerals and fully rouse your mind from the burdensome drowsiness associated with post-sleep stupor.

Word of the Day: Indemnity - Exemption from any consequences or culpability in regard to ones own actions. Health Cookie #11: Fruit, bread, pasta and rice really aren't as healthy as everyone mistakenly believes them to be. In fact, they're known in scientific circles to be of great detriment to your biology, whether regarding physical or mental aspects of it. Most fruit is extremely high in carbohydrates or sugar, while most mainstream bread, rice and pasta in grocery stores is refined and processed into oblivion. Those foods would still be unhealthy even if they weren't processed, but the processing makes them even worse. Since over 90% of North Americans are already Insulin Resistant, the last thing they should be snacking on is fruit, bread, pasta or rice. Historically, fruit served a valuable purpose: We would have seasonal access to fruit and binge on it, gaining a lot of weight, which would tide us over through harsh winters. But now we have an obesity epidemic because there are no more harsh winters; Everybody's too well fed, far too often. Insulin is a hormone that your body releases whenever you ingest carbs or sugar, and its role is to help your liver to convert those carbs and sugars into fat, to be stored for later use; The problem is, in order to burn the fat that you've stored, you need to engage in intermittent fasting and/or exercise. While some people do exercise, far too few people engage in the practice of intermittent fasting, and this is why you see fat people who can exercise all they want, yet never lose a pound. It's not because of their genetics, it's only because they're not denying themselves of indulgence often enough, and are likely eating too much refined carbs like bread, pasta or rice, as well as sugar-rich foods like fruit amid the mistaken belief that they're helping their biological wellness to improve by doing so. Your body has two states: Anabolic, and Catabolic. When your body is Anabolic, it is storing things for later; You become anabolic after you eat. When your body is catabolic, it is consuming the fuel that it has already stored; When you fast and go without eating, you become catabolic. People eat too many times a day, and they often eat fruit, bread, pasta or rice, which locks their bodies into the Anabolic state most of the time, and because of that, they never enter the catabolic state, as the two are mutually exclusive bodily states, so they keep storing more and more fat in perpetuity. But once their cells no longer have any more room to store any more fat, the Insulin just decides to dump its payload around the intended delivery site instead, resulting in body fat build-up. If you are obese and you want to slim down, then do regular fasting, exercise, and cut fruit, bread, pasta and rice from your diet, choosing instead to primarily eat meat and eggs, and only eat once per day for four days per week. As long as you get enough protein your muscles won't deteriorate, and as long as you significantly reduce your consumption of carbs and sugar, then your body will consume stored fat to sustain itself rather than constantly adding to the stores of fat.

Instead of hardcore, the streamer uses the lightest possible settings - too frequent blood moons, which allow him to get too much free high-quality loot (From blood moons there is an ultra increased chance of high-quality loot). I.e. it is not hardcore, but nubian and misleading viewers. To level out this lightness and nubility, it is fair to use exclusively new defenses every bloody moon, no old defense buildings.

Your mic is picking her voice in the background and its creating an echo when her voice appears on discord. makes for an unpleasent viewing when you cant properly hear what shes saying.

Word of the Day: Vivacity - The quality of being attractively lively and animated; Energetic and enthusiastic. Health Cookie #10: Many people are deficient in Vitamin B12, a nutrient that improves nerve and blood health, while also producing more DNA, which is the genetic material that you use to both build and repair your body and brain. All meat is a great source of Vitamin B12, in fact, just two eggs can provide you with 50% of your body's weekly requirement to maintain good health. This is why Vegans generally end up looking like the Crypt Keeper, it's because they're always deficient in B12, and a lot of people eat highly processed foods which actually deplete the reserves of Vitamin B12 in their body. That's one of the big dangers of eating processed food; Chemically comprised processed foods have anti-nutrient qualities, requiring your body to consume its vitamins and minerals just to be digested properly. Enriched wheat definitely has this effect, so all types of North American bread and pasta aren't safe, and do count as processed food in this regard. Eating just two eggs twice a week and limiting your processed food intake can ensure that you never want for this nutrient again, nor suffer any diseases which are borne from a lack of it. Fish and seafood are the richest meats in regards to B12 content; But try to avoid predatory fish such as Tuna, Shark, Swordfish or Marlin, etc, because in being predatory, they consume other fish, which results in higher levels of mercury being contained within their meat. Best to have something like Salmon, Sardines, Mackerel, or other non-predatory fish. If you just eat meat or eggs every day, then B12 deficiency will never be an issue for you.

Word of the Day: Perdition - Hell; A place of eternal torment, typically reserved for those who did not feel repentance toward their sinful acts during their lives. Health Cookie #9: Most seed oils like Canola, Sunflower, Rapeseed and Soybean are toxic for your body and mind, especially when heated to high temperatures. Good substitutes are Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Avocado Oil, Coconut Oil, and Butter. In particular, those three aforementioned oils are very stable at high temperatures, whereas the prior four seed oils will emit toxic compounds upon reaching higher temperatures during cooking. Moreover, the processing methods of Canola, Sunflower, Rapeseed and Soybean oil are horrendous, while Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Avocado Oil, Coconut Oil and Butter are very minimally processed, and won't impair your physiology nearly as much. Think about it: You can just squeeze the oil out of an Olive. But you can't just squeeze the oil out of a Sunflower or a Rapeseed, those require far more - sometimes chemical - methods of oil extraction.

Word of the Day: Perplexed - Baffled, confused or puzzled. Health Cookie #8: Vitamin D is a very important resource for the body, it boosts immune strength, reduces inflammation, and helps the body to absorb and retain calcium and phosphorous, contributing to improved bone density. Vitamin D can be absorbed from sunlight, or you could buy and consume tablespoons of Cod Liver Oil, which is rich in both Vitamin D and Omega 3; This is extraordinarily helpful to you, because Omega 3 improves brain function and cardiovascular health. You owe it to yourself to eat a couple tablespoons of Cod Liver Oil once a week, you'll end up feeling significantly better as a result of doing it.

I am enjoying watching these. If you weren't aware, there is an in-game journal where you can write down all of your notes. The default hotkey is J but you can find it in your inventory menu as well. There is a daily log (you can keep notes for individual days) or you can keep general notes. I only say this because I noticed you keep notes in a text document instead which is cool but I figure it's easier to do it in game

Lol. "I'll give you the troll armor, you can use the extra protection." This is both sweet and insulting. 🤣 I started playing Valheim again a couple days ago after a long time off. I stopped playing before Mistlands and Ashlands were even available, I'm a very casual gamer, and advance in games severely slowly, which is why I play alone, but I enjoy myself and I guess that's all that matters. I'm glad you guys are having fun playing together.

Word of the Day: Reticent - The state of preferring to withhold ones thoughts or feelings and keep them private. Health Cookie #7: The carnivore diet is a great way to improve your mental and physical health. Countless chronic diseases and mental illnesses are exacerbated or even entirely caused by external substances being introduced to the body, in various forms, such as drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, processed food, fluoride, pesticides found on crops, enriched wheat and refined carbs, etc. Elimination diets such as the carnivore diet or the ketogenic diet essentially ensure that you get whatever nutrition you need to live, without simultaneously incurring unnecessary damages from unnecessary sources. Various public figures have come out to praise their experiences with the carnivore diet and speak for its ability to cure autoimmune disorders and mental illnesses, like allergies, depression, anxiety, arthritis, etc. Your body isn't starved for essential vitamins or minerals when you only eat meat; In fact, inversely, your body has an easier time regulating its vitamin and mineral levels while on the carnivore diet, because you typically deplete those stores within your body during the digestion of more complex foods such as vegetables, fruits, grains, pasta, bread, processed food, etc. Eliminating those undesirable foods from your diet will make it so you don't have to consume the vitamins and minerals within your body just for the sake of digesting those undesirable foods. Truth be told, the carnivore diet is just the extreme end of doing an elimination diet for health benefits. You could do low-carb keto, and eliminate all processed foods from your diet, and still see your health trajectory improve, even with the occasional slice of bread or bowl of pasta, or cigarette, or alcoholic drink (Speaking of Alcohol and Cigarettes, I cover those in Health Cookies #14 and #15). But ideally, to maximize your health gains over a period of time, you'll do the carnivore diet and regular intermittent fasting with frequent cold showers. If you have horrible autoimmune or mental problems, then combining those three habits has a pretty good chance of improving - if not outright curing - your conditions.

Word of the Day: Perseverance - Steadfast dedication to accomplishing things. Health Cookie #6: Meditation is a versatile hobby. Not only does it boost your mood, stabilize your blood pressure and engage the parasympathetic nervous system, but it also requires no equipment to perform and you can sit yourself nearly anywhere to do it. You can use it to either escape moments of stress or to amplify moments of serenity - or even both simultaneously. Physiologically and neurologically, meditation - when done correctly - can provide you with considerable boons. Essentially all you have to do is sit either cross legged on the ground or with good posture on a chair, keep your back straight but not stiff, relax your whole body and close your eyes, then breathe in deeply through your nose and out through your mouth over and over again. Prolonging the exhale for as long as possible to maximize the engagement of the parasympathetic nervous system, while slow and lengthened inhales will also minimize the activation of your sympathetic nervous system, causing maximum self-sedation and soothing. Meditation has a great many psychological benefits too; Over the long term you will reap enhanced focus and cognition, greater impulse control, and trauma therapy from consistent proper meditation. Even overcoming addiction is a possibility with the power of meditation, because you'll look at your addictive tendencies and the traumas that drive you toward them much differently, if you study both under the microscopic lens of a willfully introspective meditation. While some advocate for an absence of thought while meditating, evading all thoughts in entirety, I practice an approach where once I've entered the "Meditative" state of mind I intentionally contemplate the things that bother me, and sort of "look in the eye" all of the uncomfortable emotions that those contemplations cause. I find that the act of looking at your troubles and studying your emotions under the lens of a meditation can have long-lasting improvements on the severity of negative emotions in your daily life. When you accept something, it somehow begins hurting less; Focused meditation is an expediated method of mitigating the introspective conflicts you feel towards bad things or situations in your life, and ushering in greater internalized acceptance for yourself toward those bad things or situations. The end result is that whenever you think of such bad things or situations outside of the meditative state, the emotional response you feel will be reduced. It's kind of like the psychological parallel of rubbing a papercut that you just got, irritating it intentionally to maximize how much it hurts right now, thus making the persistent pain it causes you later seem lesser and more tolerable by comparison. If you study Wim Hoff's breathing technique, where you perform double-inhales followed by a singular exhale, you'll stumble upon a technique for extraordinary power. The man eliminated endotoxins from his bloodstream after being injected with them, just by meditating them away, in a laboratory setting. He's shattered world records that seemed impossible before he proved them to be possible. His technique is definitely worth looking into.

Word of the Day: Penance - Voluntary self-punishment or the dignified donning of afflictions and misfortune in the name of atonement and repentance for past wrongdoings. Health Cookie #5: HIIT is High Intensity Interval Training, a type of training in which you maximize periods of exertion while minimizing periods of rest. The goal is to spike your heart rate as much as possible and thus clean up your cardiovascular machinery significantly, while also getting a huge surge of BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, described in Health Cookie #2). The health benefits of this cannot be overstated, because you're rigorously engaging your entire body and straining the whole thing as much as you possibly can. The hormetic effects (also mentioned in Health Cookie #2) caused by this are numerous, and both your biological and neurological wellbeing will improve significantly as a result of doing it. You might, for example, practice HIIT by having 15 minute periods of extraordinary effort and exertion followed by 3 minute periods of rest, for an hour, twice a week. Repeatedly getting your heart rate very high then letting it come back down again, four consecutive times, with various exercises meant to push your cardio and muscles to their absolute limit. When I took Karate, this was how Sensei Tirrell trained us. We'd have two cycles of 15 minutes of training followed by 3 minutes of rest, performing various high-intensity exercises, then the remainder of the class would be dedicated to practicing technique application. In Jiu Jitsu we would often somersault around the mats repeatedly, 3 minutes of that followed by 1 minute of rest, then we'd crawl-sprint across the floor and back, 3 minutes of that followed by 1 minute of rest. In Muay Thai we'd be shadowboxing or hitting the bag, throwing blows in drills, responding to melee combo calls in sequence, and we'd be having long periods of exertion followed by brief periods of rest and respite. If you drink coffee, do HIIT and have a cold shower, all in one day, then the biological benefit you subsequently reap in regards to your physical health and neurological wellness will be staggering and nigh immeasurable.

That was an Epic horde!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very welll done mate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry had to leave but glad I watched the play back of that!!!!!!

Word of the Day: Alacrity - Excited and ecstatic enthusiasm or readiness. Health Cookie #4: Exercise is a crucial part of living a better life. If you were to perform any type of physical training, devotedly, and train really hard for just two years, then the benefits of those two years would span across the entirety of your next two decades. You could take two runs per week, or lift weights twice per week, or take a martial arts class twice per week, and after a couple years of that, you will have become an entirely different person for the rest of your life - a more competent, capable and dependable person. Exercise produces a surge of BDNF for your brain as well, which we covered previously in Health Cookie #2, with the intensity of the exercise determining the amount of BDNF granted to you. This means that there is refined scientific data to support the fact that exercise can help combat mental health ailments and gradually cure mental disorders like depression and anxiety, just like a cold shower can. We will cover HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) in Health Cookie #5. After years of training, it not only becomes very hard to lose the strength you've gained, but it also becomes significantly easier to maintain and grow it; In my personal case, I don't need to do a complex weight-training regimen to target different muscle groups, because I took three different martial arts simultaneously over a few years, and the variety of techniques I learned during that time have become a means for me to give my body an accurate tune-up whenever I need to, without any exercise equipment. I can perform upper blocks to target my bicepts, triceps and even the laterals in my back. I can shadowbox to rapidly accelerate my heart rate and tire my whole body out while engaging in HIIT. Push ups and sit-ups are ol' reliable, of course. But I prefer half sit ups, because they don't irritate my back on the hard floor. I can perform something ridiculous like 30 different karate stretches, to serve as a buffer against potential injury and improve flexibility/relieve joint irritation throughout my body. Regular housework and heavy lifting is never an issue for me, because I became so primed against injury as a result of my mere few years spent training as a teenager. The gains I made years ago in terms of focus and mental framework as well as dexterity and strength all still remain with me today, despite the fact that I took those three martial arts a decade and a half ago, and despite the fact that it was only for a few years. If you want to truly change your entire life, then even just ten minutes of intense training twice a week can accomplish that, even sprinting to the nearest Stop Sign and back is a tremendous boon to your health and longevity; But as with many things, the effort you sow determines the benefits you reap. If you train even harder, take cold showers even more, fast even longer, eliminate even more processed foods from your diet, etc, then you will accelerate the rate at which you become increasingly powerful. Our bodies are genuinely designed to adapt positively after every incurrence of a stressful occurrence. If you fight really hard this year to improve your health and make all the right choices, then just think of how that decision could positively influence and transform your next ten, twenty, or even thirty years of life. Speaking from personal experience, I can promise you this: It only takes six months of making just some of the right choices, to nearly undo all the damages you've incurred after six years of making all the wrong choices.

Word of the day: Discipline - An activity or experience which provides mental or physical training; A personal code of dignified conduct, wherein one conditions oneself to live in a controlled and self-regulated way. Health Cookie #3: Intermittent fasting is extending the time between meals for as long as possible. The benefits of fasting vary greatly, ranging from improved blood pressure, cardiovascular health and stamina, to boosted rates of biological repair for damaged tissues and organs. There have even been testimonies of people allegedly curing mental health ailments or devouring cancers within their bodies by fasting for multiple days at a time, several times per month while engaging in elimination diets, such as the carnivore diet for example (Covered in Health Cookie #7). One could and often should combine intermittent fasting with the carnivore diet, exercise and cold showers for a substantially healthier lifestyle and a remarkably stronger body and mind. One could spend six months reversing six years worth of damage, this way; More over, one wanting to go the extra mile for themselves and their health would research Autophagy to get the most out of their fasting health benefits, but here's the summary: Autophagy is when you go over 24 hours without food, and your body starts consuming and recycling its unwanted cells to repurpose them. This has even been proven to consume and recycle the cells which comprise cancers within the body. On October 3, 2016, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi, who discovered the biological mechanism of Autophagy in the human body. Intermittent fasting causes many hormetic effects, most notably providing a surge of BDNF to your brain. We cover Hormetic Effects and BDNF in Health Cookie #2.

Word of the Day: Tenacity - Being very determined and persistent. Health Cookie #2: BDNF is Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, it is a hormone produced by the body whenever it undergoes a form of significant environmental stress. BDNF stimulates the growth of neurons, and can dramatically improve both learning and memory if it is produced by the body on a regular basis. Cold showers, exercise, intermittent fasting, they all cause Hormetic Effects, and Hormetic Effects are, simply put, "benefits to your biology that are obtained through the endurance of environmental stressors". Your muscles becoming stronger after working out, that's a hormetic effect. Your blood circulation improving after a cold shower, that's a hormetic effect. Your body cleaning itself during intermittent fasting or recycling its unwanted cells during Autophagy, those are hormetic effects. Hormetic effects are the positive biological adaptations that occur whenever you expose yourself to extreme conditions, and BDNF production is a crucially important hormetic effect given that it literally empowers your mind and improves neuroplasticity. BDNF is produced by cold showers, exercise, fasting, and most importantly, the consumption of coffee, because the stimulation caused by caffeine is yet another biological stress which has the resultant hormetic effect of producing BDNF. This means you can produce BDNF literally every single day, and cumulatively become increasingly powerful in regards both mental and physical, as long as you do one or many of these practices daily. Intermittent Fasting and autophagy will be the topic for Health Cookie #3, Exercise will be the topic for Health Cookie #4, and we've already covered Cold Showers in Health Cookie #1.

Word of the Day: Redemption - Deliberate present day acts of atonement meant to absolve oneself of the guilt associated with past wrongdoings. Health Cookie #1: Cold showers grant an immediate mood boost, immediate wakefulness, reduced inflammation and muscle soreness, while also improving your blood pressure and strengthening your cardiovascular system. Thirty second freezing shower, three times per week; Definitely the habit of a champion. Cold showers cause many hormetic effects, but perhaps most notable among them is that it provides a surge of BDNF to your brain. Hormetic effects and BDNF will both be the topic for Health Cookie #2.

Word of the Day: Glory - High renown or honor won by notable achievements. Health Cookie #22: What does my channel name mean, Discipline Before Dishonor? It takes a firm decision to wake up in the morning and choose to take a cold shower. I don't always take that shower, nor do I always commit to intermittent fasting every day. Most days I do, but sometimes I need to give myself a little pep-talk, my channel name is that pep-talk. Whenever I'm standing outside the shower, hesitant to embrace winter's chill, I always push myself over the edge with this mantra, by speaking the words "Discipline Before Dishonor": I would rather exhibit discipline and will power in this moment, and do the difficult thing right now, than avoid doing it, and thereby dishonor not only myself but also my true potential, and the magnitude of service that I can be of to both the world and to my family today. Cold showers, fasting, exercise, healthy eating, choosing abstinence when you'd rather smoke weed or masturbate every day, these decisions optimize your capacities, and amplify the influence you can have on the world around you - whether your intentions are good or bad. It just takes that "One Second Decision" as David Goggins would say, wherein I ask myself, plainly and clearly: Am I worthy, or unworthy? Will I confront my desire for comfort to bring forth my true potential and accomplish more for the world, or will I resign myself to comfort-seeking, betraying not only myself but also everything I could do for - or to - the world today? Tell you one thing: On the days where I record an episode, it always starts with a cold shower. Not just because it's healthy, but because it actually spikes my reflexes and cognition, rouses me from post-sleep stupor, and stimulates improved decision making within me. I'm not just taking a cold shower, I'm tapping into a source of inner power and shattering the plateau of my limitations for the day. Whenever you're standing outside of that freezing shower, hesitant to march in there, just remember: It is better to have discipline and do the difficult thing than it is to dishonor yourself every day, because that decision is exactly where the power to manipulate the world around you comes from. Your manipulations can be for the purpose of good, or evil. I'm not here to judge your morality, do whatever you want. What I will judge is your strength of will. Discipline Before Dishonor is my mantra and maybe it can become yours, too. Odin is watching, so don't disappoint Him; You can only curry His favor if you prove yourself worthy of receiving it in the first place. Whether your intentions are good or evil, wasted potential is always a crime against both yourself and God above. So never waste an opportunity to confront your weakness and cultivate your strength inside.

Word of the Day: Reprieve - The suspension or cancellation of someone's punishment or pain. Health Cookie #21: Prayer is a very divisive topic. Some believe prayer is a means by which you can magnify your thoughts and intentions toward an outcome, and gradually conjure that outcome over time via manifestation. Others believe prayer is a literal means of communication with an omnipotent universal consciousness that listens to you, connects with you and provides for you whenever you ask it sincerely and humbly for guidance, assistance and direction. Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman once correlated the act of exercise to that of prayer; If you want to build muscle then you exercise, and over time, the act of exercising gradually builds your muscles. Similarly, if you want to build better life circumstances for yourself then you pray, and over time, that act of prayer gradually reinforces your direction and propels you toward creating that better life for yourself. Whether or not that better life is an outcome of your own conscious design, or a blessing from God, that is all up for healthy discussion. What is not debatable and cannot be refuted is the power of focused thinking patterns, which serve as wind in the sails of your life, providing propulsion toward your acquisition of the circumstances you really want. You are capable of being the architect and arbiter of your own destiny, capable of raising yourself out of perdition, every successful individual knows this to be true. You can choose to believe, cynically, that the world is nothing more than a barless prison within which we are all trapped with no possibility of recourse nor redemption. You can choose to believe, nihilistically, that there is no magic, no meaning, no possibility for underdogs to rise above their current station, and that luck is the only means through which the downtrodden can ever conquer the adversities thrust upon them. But if you harbor those beliefs, then you will always feel imprisoned by destiny, and trapped in worldly circumstances that seem irredeemable and inevitably beyond your control. So why on Earth would you resign yourself to such beliefs? If you never take the reins, because you don't believe you have the power to do so, then you'll always just go wherever the carriage takes you, good or bad. You need to take control, in order to have it. There are only two real possibilities here: Either your mind is extraordinarily powerful, and you can conjure realities and outcomes just by focusing hard on what you want, or, God exists, and he helps those who consistently ask for help and confide in Him. The only certainty resting beyond the shadow of a doubt is that prayer and meditation - the act of focused thought - definitely works. It's not a hotline, you may pray for something today and only see it manifest itself in a few days, weeks, maybe even a few months or years from now. But your muscles don't instantly appear after you exercise, either - they take time to form, it takes effort and consistence for the act of exercising to manifest into the healthier body you truly want to have, and the same can be said about the ability of prayer to metamorphose your perception and your lot in life - it takes time, effort and consistence. Believe to receive, right? If you believe in nothing special then you'll never receive anything special, and this principle constitutes the inevitable downfall of those with poor belief systems. Believing there is nothing special means you will aspire toward - and subsequently achieve - nothing special. But if you believe you can achieve, then you inevitably will, and time will be the only obstacle between you and your wildest dreams.

Word of the Day: Ostensible - Something appearing to be or stated to be true, that may not actually be true. Some examples of ostensible statements are: "Eggs/red meat are bad for you" or "Camel cigarettes are healthy because more doctors smoke Camels than any other brand of cigarette". If something is ostensible, it's basically a lie. Health Cookie #20: Redemption isn't just a word, it's an ambition, an aspiration, a lifestyle for some people. Robert Browning once said "A man's reach should exceed his grasp", and that quote is very fitting when talking about redemption; In order to achieve it, the lengths that you're willing to go to, should exceed what you even believe is possible for you to accomplish. Don't just try to help one person, try to help the entire world in some meaningful way. Small acts of kindness prove contrition, indeed, and their value cannot be overstated. But redemption isn't just holding a door for somebody and then feeling better for the rest of your life, rather it is holding the door for *everybody*, every time you get an opportunity. It is wanting to help as many people as possible, wanting to alter as many misdirected fates as possible, wanting to improve the health and wellness of as many people as possible. Sometimes redemption takes different forms too, sometimes it's waking up to a freezing cold shower rather than waking up to a bong load or cigarette. Sometimes it's choosing to drink tea instead of grabbing another beer or mixing another drink. Why do we take cold showers and try to abuse substances less? Because how we treat our own bodies, and our own minds, often reflects how we treat other people. Treat yourself with apathy and disregard, and you may feel inclined to treat others with apathy and disregard. But care about yourself, understand your past, your weaknesses borne from it, and regard both yourself and your fate as matters of importance, and you'll be likely to regard others with that same concerned mentality.

Nasty language

if your playing permadeath - be extra careful with the plasma launcher if you plan on using it - I died 4 times by my own hand this way - just one slip of the trigger finger and it's over I recommend using modules that don't bounce even though that's not the issue behind self deletion - launching too close to an enemy or a building can be fatal - or an accidental launch

Man that sucks. You were killing it this run. It's crazy how one slip up in one second can change every thing. Can't wait to see the next attempt

Word of the Day: Temperance - The quality of moderation or self-restraint; The ability to discipline oneself against temptations. Health Cookie #19: You'd be surprised just how damaging for your psychology regular masturbation really is. If you recall, Health Cookies #17 and 18 were about Dopamine, the neurotransmitter and hormone responsible for providing you with a sense of fulfillment whenever you progress toward - or achieve outright - a definite purpose. Remember how I told you that sometimes it's good to restrict yourself, and dumb-down your achievements in your own head, because there's always a rubber-band effect where large dopamine releases result in an aftermath of short-term depression afterward? Well, masturbating to porn releases tremendous amounts of Dopamine, which means if you masturbate to porn regularly, multiple times a day, then you will be depressed regularly, every single day. But that's only the very beginning of why masturbation is bad for you. Dopamine is meant to make you feel rewarded and motivated to continue achieving, but too much dopamine release over a short period of time will actually depress the shit out of you, and make you less aspiring and less accomplishment oriented, over time. The human condition wasn't meant for constant streams of dopamine release, but rather for long-term goals which provide long-term satisfaction in small doses, just a little bit of self-fulfillment toward that big accomplishment every single day. Masturbation, on the other hand, makes your mind become increasingly addicted to instant-gratification patterns, and just absolutely drains it of its will to invest its energy toward long-haul accomplishments and endeavors. If you regularly masturbate, you will lack the motivation to pursue accomplishments in life; You will cease to aspire toward creativity, finding a suitable romantic partner, making friends, etc. Not only that, but you'll also become visually aroused, as opposed to being sensually aroused. What that means is you might develop erectile dysfunction in actual sexual encounters, because you've conditioned your mind to become aroused only when watching sex, and not when actually having it yourself. I've learned from my own experiences in life that whenever I have a daily grind to work on, such as this channel, masturbation is a non-issue for me. I just don't feel like doing it, and I make love to my wife far more, because my restrained dopamine releases make me feel like more of a man; I'm not overdoing my dopamine releases, which means I never suffer the recoil of depression resulting from excess dopamine release, and I always stay motivated and disciplined toward continued effort in my day to day life. But that's what's funny: If you don't have a definite purpose from which to derive meaningful dopamine releases, then your mind will go wherever the alternative sources of dopamine release are to be found: For some, this is processed food addiction, for others it's masturbation, for others it's marijuana, cigarettes, alcohol, etc, or all/some of the above. During times in my life when I had no ambition, no creative outlet and no daily grind, I would masturbate to porn several times a day, smoke weed, indulge in excessive amounts of junk food, and what's funny is that the regular pattern of masturbation I was committing to was likely the very reason why I lacked the willpower and discipline required to chase my dreams and engage my capacity for creativity daily. It also made me a very selfish lover to my wife. Masturbation is a vampiric habit that feeds off the lifeblood of your very motivation as a human being; It siphons your will to live, your desire to dream and your ability to aspire. It's extraordinarily dangerous, and it devours the potential of countless young men in this day and age. Try not to let yourself be counted among them. Here's the knowledge that matters most: Your brain will seek the secretion of dopamine. If you don't give it a good reason to secrete it, then it will seek out bad reasons to secrete it. This is where addictions come from: Meaningless existences seeking dopamine release from all the wrong places.

Cant wait for your restart 😎

This has gotta be one of the worst traps in a POI I've seen. Before fighting out of the elevator I pickaxe'd the roof and built an escape with just wood blocks that would allow me to get on the ladder and back up. They ended up breaking thru the elevator doors on 2 different floors and climbing all up. Now my backpack is down there :')

You lost me with your sheer disgustingness. I hope you puke on yourself at the same time as explosively sharting you dirty person

What about trying Raft for a stream

Word of the Day: Summit - The highest point of a hill or mountain; The pinnacle of achievement, the highest attainable level of accomplishment. Health Cookie #18: In the previous Health Cookie, we talked about Dopamine, the neurotransmitter and hormone. I'd like to elaborate on Dopamine, and give you more information about it. Andrew Huberman said Dopamine is a "non-infinite yet renewable resource", which means you'll always make more, but it's easy to fully deplete your dopamine reserves through overstimulation; And whenever you fully deplete your reserves, after a lot of effort, accomplishment, high points and high moods or excessive indulgence in pleasures, you then suffer a temporary state of depression, like a rubber-band snapping back after being stretched, a recoil effect to balance the scales. How do you avoid this dopamine crash and ensure a stable baseline level of dopamine all the time? Simple: Downplay and reduce the significance of your achievements. Whenever you take a cold shower in the morning, don't think "Wow I'm amazing, I just accomplished something." Instead, just tell yourself that you've fulfilled a regular duty. All you've done is meet the standard of baseline competence that you demand of yourself, and nothing more. That might seem counter-intuitive, but honestly, this is what you have to do to ensure that you're always ready to keep accomplishing things. Even if you do reach a new plateau or exceed expectations in some way, you don't want to allow yourself to feel too strongly that you have, otherwise you'll disservice your capacity for continued effort. If you've just reached the top, then why would you even keep climbing? Thus there is no top, there is no summit; Your life is the practice of climbing the mountain of your mind in perpetuity and with humility, that is the very essence of what it means to be Promethean. The mountain never ends, thus your struggle to climb never ends, and you'll never be truly special until you've spent your entire life climbing and subsequently died climbing, died dreaming of the continued heights that you were certain to keep reaching if you had the gift of more time. The irony is, when you view life this way and you never let your achievements go to your head, then you never get depressed or become unmotivated, because your dopamine never has that rubber-band recoiling effect. In a sense you forgo the concept of motivation entirely and exchange it for discipline, which is significantly more reliable. Motivation asks "What is my reason to try today? Should I even try?" but discipline asks "Do I even need to feel motivated, just to meet the standard of doing what's expected of me? No, I don't. I will do my duty whether I feel like doing it or not." Funny thing is, this mentality of perpetual humility and the ceaseless downplaying of the significance of your achievements actually makes you more prone to continued achievement, rather than less prone toward it. Excessive indulgence in feelings of self-gratification is just yet another addiction that erodes the foundations of your constitution as an individual, and robs you of your potential.

Word of the Day: Paradox - A statement that seems false at first glance, but upon investigation, may actually be true. For example, pharmaceutical companies want people to be sick; While seeming false at first, and contradictory, upon further investigation you realize that they profit and grow from a prevalence of pestilence and poor health, thus if everybody was healthy tomorrow, they would suddenly go out of business. Harmful side-effects of drugs are actually a positive outcome for companies that manufacture drugs, because then they can create and sell even more drugs to treat those side-effects, making more money, which enables further growth for their technologies and advancement for their industry. It seems contradictory to assume that Healthcare companies would prefer for people to be sick, but there it is, concrete proof contained in corporate reasoning. That is a paradox. Most of the drugs that a cancer patient takes are drugs meant to combat the side-effects of chemo therapy. Pharmaceutical companies love this, cancer patients are cash-cows for them. Doctors aren't taught about the carnivore diet, intermittent fasting nor autophagy, and as a result, those viable avenues of cancer treatment are kept from patients, just so drugs can be sold to them instead, even though recent clinical trial data supports the claim that most cancers can be eradicated through extreme elimination diets and fasting practices. Another definition of a paradox is something that, in its design, is intrinsically contradictory toward its intended or stated purpose; For example, "correctional facilities" are paradoxical, because they claim to correct flawed human behavioral patterns, while simultaneously tormenting inmates' psychologically through persistent fear, anger, and social isolation, thereby worsening their psychological constitution, and thus increasing their behavioral and emotional volatility as well as their potential of recidivism upon release. Correctional facilities are only "correctional" by moniker, but upon keen observation you realize that the actual facilities are anything but correctional, and they contribute to increases in crime rates throughout society through the worsening of the psychological status of everybody that is processed by them. This is why prisons are always overflowing, and crime rates are never down. In Denmark recidivism rates are the lowest in the world, and it's because the focus is on rehabilitation of offenders rather than the abject psychological torture of them. Another example of this definition of paradox is the "Department of Defense" in the United States. If they specialize in creating weapons and tactics of war, then shouldn't it be called the Department of Offense rather than Defense? It's a paradox. Health Cookie #17: Dopamine is a neurotransmitter and hormone. It is released upon accomplishment, to make you feel good about yourself. But according to neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, the most successful people are those who don't feel accomplished upon completing a goal, but rather, those who feel accomplished upon making efforts toward the achievement of that goal. A study was done on children. The children enjoyed drawing and coloring, and they did it regularly. They began to receive little rewards for drawing, like gold stars, candy, shit like that. But eventually the rewards stopped coming, and as a result of that, the children lost interest and stopped drawing entirely; Even though, before the rewards ever started happening, they all enjoyed drawing intrinsically, and required no motivating factor to compel them toward doing it. The thought of no longer being rewarded for it actually ruined their baseline default enjoyment of it, and robbed them of a hobby. This indicates that people actually lose the motivation to work on something, if they care more about the reward than the process of earning it. Don't place as much value on the result, as you place on the work. Focus on the journey not the destination, etc. Also, it's wise to temper yourself upon achievements instead of letting yourself feel too proud of them, because whenever you have a dopamine release there's always a resultant crash which makes you feel sadder and unmotivated afterwards. The problem with touching the clouds is that you fall back down to Earth afterwards; But if you regulate and partially restrain your dopamine releases with conscious intention, then the resultant crash won't be nearly as severe. You could apply this strategy to video game progression, academic achievements, creative endeavors, relationship milestones, etc. Be proud, but only a little proud. Don't go overboard, or else you'll overstimulate your dopamine and suffer a resultant crash, making it harder to stay consistent. You see this in couples all the time: "Our wedding was so magical and now the magic is gone", or "We were so happy when our son was born, and now we're drifting apart". Couples sometimes attach more value to the milestones of their relationship than to the actual relationship itself, which eventually devalues the relationship in their minds. Dopamine is dangerous if you don't apply accurate thought toward controlling it. If you need evidence, then simply peer inside the mind of any drug addict, porn addict, alcoholic, gambler, obese individual, or any other person who's vices outweigh and overpower their virtues with regular consistency, to the detriment of not only themselves but also their families. Discipline before dishonor, my friends. It's not just a name, it's a lifestyle.

Word of the Day: Indefatigable - Used to describe a person who is highly energetic and difficult to exhaust, synonymous with tenacious and persevering. Health Cookie #16: Depopulation is a real thing, and you need to respect it. I once looked at the difference between two different Acetaminophen brands, one was cheaper than the other; The cheaper brand had one extra ingredient that presumably didn't need to be in it, given that the more expensive Acetaminophen brand lacked it. So why the extra chemical? One reason only: To induce greater biological damage in the person who consumed it. Society punishes the poorest people by making the cheapest foods and drugs the most dangerous to their bill of health. The idea is, if poor people buy the cheapest processed goods, then their mental and physical health will become worse at an accelerated rate, thus they will have an increased likelihood of becoming fodder for the pharmaceutical and judicial industries. That's why the cheapest bag of chips has 10 more chemicals than the most expensive bag of chips, it's because society punishes budget spending as well as pleasure-seeking tendencies in people, and focuses all of its depopulative efforts there. In the same way that cheaper processed foods and pharmaceuticals can further induce increased pharmaceutical dependence in a person, prisons are designed to induce greater crime rates in society. Think about it: We psychologically torment inmates, stimulating them with as much fear, anger, resentment and social isolation as possible, to gradually worsen their psychological status and increase the likelihood of their recidivism, because their return-business keeps the policing, judicial and prison industries afloat. As more new criminals come and go, and as more criminals return over and over again, the technologies of those aforementioned three industries can perpetually improve; The pharmaceutical industry, in the same way, does not want to make you truly healthy, because their industry and technologies can only improve in perpetuity if as many people as possible remain sick and keep coming back. As you might guess, most criminals are poor, having sabotaged mental health which stems typically from poverty, and the awful dietary habits associated with it. It's just the way our society works. Why does our society work this way? Well, english economist Thomas Robert Malthus had a theory that, when unconstrained, a population tends to grow too quickly to sustain itself. This is why our world governments and the United Nations have decided upon the intentional depopulation of the masses, and it's why they try to induce sterility and infertility in as many people as possible through pharmaceuticals and processed food; The rate of people dying, to their perspective, absolutely must exceed the rate of people being born. I don't agree with this societal modus operandi either, morally speaking, but don't shoot the messenger, I'm just articulating the objective reality of our civilization. Human society is defined by the simultaneous construction of infrastructure, advancement of industry, development of technology and depopulation of humanity via the circulation of currency. That's simply what our society is, and thus the definition of "rebellion" within our civilization is merely to do whatever it takes to make yourself both healthier and stronger, and also to save your loved ones from the apathetic dietary self-destruction and foolhardy pharmaceutical dependence that the government would much prefer that they opt for every day.