The Adventures of Bloggard

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An Unusual, Strange Way to Live Longer: Caffeine, Nicotine, Creatine

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As kids, we’ve all been told that coffee would stunt our growth, and you’ve noticed it can give you the jitters. We’ve learned that cigarettes are bad, bad, bad for you (and they are). And we’ve seen creatine being promoted and sold for muscle-building in bodybuilder and men’s health magazines.

But come to find out:

  1. Caffeine in coffee–if the coffee is mold-free, which most coffee IS NOT–actually extends lifespan in well-tested studies.
  2. Nicotine, if it is pharmaceutical grade–and NOT cigarettes, which contain 200-300 other ingredients designed to increase addiction and worse–has been shown in well-constructed studies to extend lifespan. What? !!! Yup. Go figure.
  3. Creatine–in studies done decades before the body-builders got hold of it–has been well-proven to protect your brain!

So the truth is that, done right, microdosing caffeine, nicotine, and creatine makes you live longer! That’s what the science says. I’ve attached a fast overview researching each of these and the studies are identified. You can download it below.

And when you try it … you will feel it! 🙂

Here are the brands and doses that I am using:

  • Mold free coffee: Lifeboost, or Danger brands. Regularly tested and contain no mold. I do one cup per day.
  • Nicotine: Sefudun quit smoking nicotine patches “step 3” (weakest dose, 7mg) cut into 8 pieces for daily use. Stick it on your skin, and cover with a strip of bandage tape. It’s time release.
  • Creatine: most any brand. I got Now brand creatine monohydrate. Dose is 1-1.5 level teaspoons, which is 3-5 grams.

I was dubious when I ran across this information, but it checks out. I’ve made a quick-read summary of what the studies say, complete with the citations, as a pdf document you can save if you wish. You try this unexpected approach, and you will like it!

CLICK to download the Caffeine- Nicotine, and Creatine ReportCLICK BUTTON to download a concise research pdf
detailing longevity & health benefits of these three:
“Longevity benefits of Caffeine, Nicotine, and Creatine”

How to live a long and healthy life?

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August 18, 2024, Mount Shasta, CA: Today, after I’d facebook-posted a chart of longevity-promoting foods, my very smart brother David Strickland posted that he thought the list was propaganda funded by big agricultural corporations. Because in my list, no mention was made for meat or eggs which are some of the most important foods to eat for healthy, long life, he said.

Well, David Strickland, there’s good reason to believe that meat and eggs are FAR healthier than processed foods, inflammatory seed oils, and the cheap ingredients in fast food.
That’s why I eat them. BUT …

Protein Requirements and Long Life

a) The level of protein required for muscle growth, and yet avoiding the mTor-pathway signals that promote inflammation, immune-system difficulties, and the major diseases that kill Americans, is actually rather low. Somewhere between 30-50 grams per pound of bodyweight. (You can calculate how much steak or eggs that translates to using Cronometer, a free online tool.)

b) The longest-living peoples on earth *mostly* fuel their bodies with slow carbs and high-fiber, high-nutrition, anti-inflammation foods. And that’s what’s listed here.

For More Information:

1) About longest life, from demographic studies, research studies, and three other approaches, see Valter Longo, “The Longevity Diet.”

2) About the mTor-signalling pathway, see Longo plus “The Switch” by Clement, which also discusses how to trigger autophagy in your body to remove broken cells … which is related to this subject and long life.

3) About mTor and other stressors that lessen longevity, including toxins, molds, and more see either “The Wahls Protocol” (Terri Wahls), or “The End of Alzheimers Program” (Bredesen). (I’m not concerned with immune disorders or alzheimers, but turns out that the same gut and nutrition hacks underlie repair for, apparently, all or nearly all immune malfunctions.)

Any and all of these books are clear and well-written, and they show how to reduce inflammation, extend life, meter the needful but cancer-promoting food items when over-consumed, and how to operate the body to cycle from building to repair to building. All for longest life.

Note that ALL of these discuss the mTor pathway.

The trick is balance.

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Can You Have a Completely Original Thought?

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August 11, 2024, Facebook profile of Richard Stillwagon …

Here is a challenging question:
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Can you have a completely original thought or idea?

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Or does your upbringing, culture, education, and world experience shape those thoughts and ideas?
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I have been watching and interacting with conversations about education, politics, religion, indoctrination in general, science, and philosophy.
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All of these conversations are skewed by the bias of each person’s education and life experience. This would seem obvious. But, it is tragically not apparent to those speaking! They believe their opinions to be universal truths. They don’t see that the opinions they have come from the collective consciousness of the environment they keep themselves in, and rarely move from that stance when presented new information.
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It takes an intelligent and critical thinking mind to be self-aware of it’s own biases. To understand that you favor one side or another of a topic and be capable of evaluating that bias and adjusting it based on new information is an incredibly rare ability.
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Humans are creatures of habit.

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That is a cliche because it is true. We resist change even though we know and experience the fact that it is constantly happening.
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Why then do we resist the possibility that new information could alter the conditions of a controversial subject? The answers are: fear, pride, prejudice and ego. We fear change. We take pride in what we think we know. We are prejudiced toward what we prefer and against that which we don’t understand or find distasteful. Finally our ego is so fragile, that we can’t stand to be seen as fallible. I experience these things myself, but I try to be aware of them and try to adjust when when compelling information is presented.
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To know that everything we currently believe has been part of an incomplete education since birth can be a freeing understanding. Knowing that everything we have learned could be outdated,incorrect, incomplete, only a portion of the whole, the beginning of a greater understanding, and a continual education should allow you to open your mind to new information. It should protect your ego and allow for adjustments in opinions on subjects.
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If you can explain why you feel strongly about a subject, then, when presented new information that alters that view, you should be able to explain the change in your opinion without fear or embarrassment. I respect that much more than someone that cannot, or worse, will not learn from new evidence that gives a new and additional insight into an issue. It isn’t waffling on your stance. It is the wisdom to adjust an opinion afforded by the opportunity of seeing a more complete and sometimes very complex picture.and adjusting your position based on that new evidence.
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Original thoughts if not impossible, must be exceedingly rare. But I think evolving thoughts and ideas that improve and become more complete are of tremendous value and should be encouraged

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Can a Person have an Original Thought?

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Mount Shasta, CA, August 11, 2024
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A friend of mine has raised an interesting point: Can a person have an original thought?
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Here’s my take on it …
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Like many questions, and most swords, it has two edges.
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On the one hand, most thoughts first come from the subconscious mind. And the subconscious mind is *associative* in nature. It can be triggered by images, or by words, or by feelings. And whatever it is that’s triggered, it’s something that in this moment is associated by the triggering sight, word, or feeling.
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So, right there, a huge lens has been imposed, a vast lens, but a biased lens. Because it can, apparently, only come up with things that are associated. (The subconscious mind regulates your blood pressure and such body changes as well, and those beneath-awareness kinesthetic triggers are also working.) So you’re often unaware of what the association is.
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And that’s also why saying “don’t think of purple elephant” produces a thought of purple elephant. The subconscious cannot process a *not*. It can only process the association.
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How We Create our Unconscious Mind

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The formation of the unconscious/subconscious mind, in my estimation, is actually caused as a byproduct of our learning how to focus. Because in order to focus, we must *withdraw* our awareness/consciousness from the background in order to place the awareness on the thing we’ve chosen to focus upon. As a consequence, over time we withdraw our awareness from regulation of blood pressure, speed of heartbeat, and remembering to take a breath and more and more we place our moment-to-moment awareness on thoughts, feelings, and sights. It was good survival; our ancestors did it; and we creatures sprang from their pattern in the reproductive process. So we do it, too. It works.
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But we are, along the way, “enslaved” by the prior “decisions,” though we do not have an awareness of having made a decision. A 3-month-old has no such awareness, though the learning–and the associations–have already begun. The 2-year-old continues in the same way. The 5-year-old, the 8-year-old, the 12-year-old, and the teenager.
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By the time we begin to reach some autonomous functionality, hundreds of thousands of decisions have been made, but we don’t know we decided. We feel them as “perceptions.” The people with blue eyes are not trustworthy. People with black skin are shiftless. Republicans are trustworthy. Texans are smart. Yankees talk too fast.

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We are now far down stream, paddling our canoes with paddles made of old views we’ve taken on with no particular care, steering by stars that our culture showed us.

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We think we’re navigating the world, but we’re only navigating *a* world. One that our “growing up” and the people and things and experiences painted for us to see.
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How to Write a Book — Quick and Easy.

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June 7, 2023, Mount Shasta, CA: Here’s how to write a book. Done this way, it’s rather easy. And surprisingly quick.

This method took me 40 years to figure out, and it works. My proof is that I’ve published 9 books, written over 500 microstories, 50-60 short stories, 3 novels, and hundreds of thousands of pages of operating manuals, business plans, how-to articles, advertising copy and lots, lots more.

This method makes writing a book fairly effortless. (Each of my nine published books was actually created in only about a week, but these [Read more…]

How to Destroy Writer’s Block

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June 7, 2023, Mount Shasta, CA: If you experience writer’s block, it’s very easy to change that so that you no longer experience writer’s block. Here’s how …

Get up in the morning, go pee if you have to, then sit down and start typing. Don’t do *anything else* before you start typing.

Type anything. Garbage, memories, nonsense. Snippets of your dreams. Any thoughts. Don’t try to channel it in any particular direction.

Within 3 weeks or maybe even less, you will no longer experience writer’s block.

That’s really all there is to it.

I Miss my Long-Gone Friend, Harvey Warnke

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June 3, 1983, Hollywood: The movie “WarGames” was released. My good friend, Harvey Warnke, created these huge display screens that you see in the movie, just as you see them in this famous scene from the film.

That was 40 years ago. He actually created these huge displays with dozens of slide projectors, projecting from behind the set, triggering them remotely, because computers at the time [Read more…]

Why Does Deadly Junk Food Taste Good?

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Poison Content in CocaColaMount Shasta, seen on Facebook, 6/3/2023:

A GOOD QUESTION

My friend, Tom Carterus, asks: So how does something that is so detrimental for your health taste so good? I know that chocolate-craving is a magnesium deficiency. When I supplement with the right kind of magnesium, my chocolate cravings go away and all chocolate tastes like wax to me.

Why do we like coke so much? I don’t drink the stuff now. But those adverts when I was growing up were great. The original coke bottle. Way cool.

So why does my body want to drink poison? The soda pop aisle at the grocery store has now expanded to three aisles. More and more and more.

When I was young and was mowing the grass, about the time I was [Read more…]

 
 

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