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panamastayed · 5 years

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PSA

Hello everyone!

So I’m sure many of you saw this coming seeing as I’ve been talking about it frequently for the past few days but, I’ve officially decided that I’m going move & remake Karter’s blog however I want to explain why exactly this is happening seeing as I imagine for some of you this might be coming rather suddenly so allow me to elaborate:

Lack of Plotting: I’ve tried to work otherwise, but I’ve come to the QUICK realization that I am borderline incapable of keeping up with threads or even mustering replies for threads when I don’t have some frame of reference for where we’re going plot wise and what kind of relationship is in the works. Karter is a difficult character to write to begin with as he’s not the friendliest nor is he the most accommodating to random interactions, thus those first meeting threads or threads with no baseline for where to go end up having no merit as essentially I don’t know how to keep going. So going forward on my new blog I’ll very likely be strongly encouraging ( if not outright requiring ) some level of plotting just for the sake of keeping interactions going.

Feeling Overwhelmed: Going hand in hand with that lack of plotting I’ve also been feeling like I’m constantly buried under the replies I have to do, and that, while of my own making, is a feeling I can’t seem to escape from. I want to interact with everyone yes, but I don’t think I can manage that until I have a fresh start & a clean slate to work from. To mitigate this I’m definitely going to be using my queue more frequently, especially considering that the queue buys me time to clear out other replies before resetting that cycle.

General Lack of Muse: I have to face facts and state that my muse for Karter has been SIGNIFICANTLY lower recently. I couldn’t tell you why and I know for certain I don’t want to give him up, but I am going to undoubtedly be reducing my activity on Karter and rely more heavily on the queue for this remake. This blog feels over-cluttered & just generally like a mess and it’s killing my muse. There are other reasons for my muse being less prominent but the primary one is this feeling of suffocation from being on this blog.

Following / Being Followed By Too Many People: I don’t mean to sound ungrateful because I am MORE than thankful for all the wonderful people I have that I have gotten the chance to write with & become good friends with. I love that so many people get invested in Karter and his story. But the truth is I have a hard time keeping up with all the people I want to write with as it is, and that’s to say NOTHING of this feeling like I’m constantly forgetting & shirking these interactions because I have so many people to keep up with. I’m going to need to cut out people and this goes hand in hand with that UNFOLLOW spree. The bottom line is that I am going to be far more strict going forward with my rule regarding unfollowing. If you follow me and I follow you back, I intend on interacting with you and I give plenty of opportunities to do make that leap, but I can’t keep following people for months on end and never write with them. That’s just clutter for my dash and hence ends up contributing to this problem. That means going forward EVERYONE is going to have one week to reach out in some way shape or form to me–––and I want to be clear. If you aren’t super active, that is perfectly fine with me, all you need to do is give me a heads up that you’re interested and I’m willing to wait until you have some dedicated free time to chat even if it’s only a small window of time, but it just bridges the gap seeing as I don’t want to do the whole “Follow for Follow” deal.

Rules/Bio Being Ignored: This one I think is perhaps another HUGE contributor for my need to move blogs. I can TELL when people don’t read my rules or read my bio. YES. I understand that it’s a very long bio, I wrote the thing. But please understand it’s not there for my health. It is there to illuminate who Karter is as a character and detail what his life was like at different stages. It is supposed to explain WHY Karter is the way he is, and yes I get that it’s a daunting task. I don’t expect people to memorize it. Hell I don’t even expect people to read the whole thing in one sitting. But the bottom line is that the full length bio is the BEST way to understand Karter, and if you intend on writing in Main Verse ( which as I understand it, most people do ) then reading that bio is MANDATORY. On my new blog it WILL be for anyone who expects to write in main verse. And I want to be clear, I always encourage questions. Karter’s main verse canon was built almost entirely from scratch with inspiration from sources related to it, so I get that sometimes part of the bio can be kind of confusing, never be ashamed to ask questions. I would rather spend 20 minutes trying to explain something that you didn’t quite understand in the bio than to end up having to explain it ANYWAY when Karter reacts a certain way that confuses or upsets another writer.

I apologize that this explanation is so long winded and I hope you all understand that this blog move is perhaps more necessary than anything else because at this point I am having a difficult time even coming onto this blog as I feel absolutely overwhelmed beyond any shadow of a doubt. I need a clean slate with a clean start.

For those of you who are still interested in writing with Karter & I after the move I’ll be making a post offering anyone the NEW URL of my blog once I finished getting it ready.

Thank you,

Joey

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myipblog-blog · 4 years

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How to remove malware from Windows 10

Malware on a Windows PC can be dangerous and debilitating, but removing it doesn’t have to be complicated. The potential threats are also more diverse than on other platforms, as Windows machines have traditionally served as punching bags for hackers due to their popularity.

Almost every type of malware can infect a Windows system. People most often get them on their PCs by clicking on links in malicious sites, social media, or emails.

How do you know your computer is infected? Depending on the malware involved, there can be many different symptoms. Check out our blog post for more information on how to tell if you have malware.

Cleaning your Windows PC

How to remove malware from Windows 10? There are countless tools available, but we’re only going to cover the most generally applicable options.

Using Safe Mode

First, start your PC in Safe Mode:

1. Click on the Start button and select Settings.

2. Click on Update & Security.

3. Select Recovery and, under Advanced startup, click Restart now.

4. After restarting, the Choose an option screen will come up.

5. Select Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings and click Restart.

6. Your PC will restart once again and you will see a few options. Press F4 to toggle Safe Mode or F5 to start your PC in Safe Mode with Networking.

When you enter Safe Mode, your computer will run on its most basic settings. If the initial problem is gone, you will most likely be able to get rid of the malware without doing anything drastic like a system reset.

Things you should do to get rid of malware:

1. Uninstall it. Some malware can be removed simply by uninstalling it, so browse the list of programs on your PC and see if there are any that seem suspicious or that you know shouldn’t be there. If the problems began recently, then a recently installed program might be the culprit.

2. Check your browser. Malware ends up on computers mostly through browsers. The most popular browser, Chrome, does not check the extensions added to its Web Store, so you never know whether the extension you install will be safe. If you’ve recently added any new extensions, delete them and see if it improves the performance of your PC or browser.

3. Delete temporary files. A lot of malware use TMP files in your Windows Temp folder to make a copy of itself. Delete them while you’re in Safe Mode. You can use Windows’ native Disk Cleanup app to do so. Launch it by clicking on the Start button and typing “Disk Cleanup”.

Tick the boxes next to Temporary files and click OK.

Scanning your system

If the malware symptoms persist when running in Safe Mode (or Safe Mode with Networking), the malicious code has probably penetrated fairly deep into your system.

You will need to find a reputable system scanner and antivirus and install them onto your PC. You’ll want to scan your system in Safe Mode as well because some malware will interfere with your scanner.

The nuclear option

If the problem persists after you’ve scanned your computer and eliminated any malware that was found, you may have to go deeper. There are more advanced tools to remove a deeply rooted virus, but the most effective one is wiping everything from your hard drive and reinstalling Windows 10.

Before you begin, you’ll have to make some preparations. Back up any vital files you are reasonably sure aren’t infected – or upload them to the cloud so they don’t infect any of your other devices (Note: regular backups are a great idea!). Securely store any passwords or product keys that you’ll need when restoring your PC to a usable state.

Windows 10 allows you to reinstall right from the start menu, giving you a clean slate. Here’s how you can do it:

1. Click on the Start button and select Settings.

2. Click on Update & Security.

3. Select Recovery and, under Reset this PC, click Get started.

4. Select Remove everything.

5. In the next screen, you will choose between simply removing your files or removing the files and formatting your drive. We recommend choosing the Remove the files and clean the drive option. This way, you can be absolutely sure that the malware is gone. Click Reset.

The reset process should take up to four hours. After that, your computer will reboot a few times. Once everything is ready, you will need to go through the standard setup procedure of a new PC.

Dealing with the aftermath

If you had to go through a full factory reset, chances are you’ve had time to think about how to mitigate the damage of your attack.

If you haven’t already, start doing what you can to contain it:

1. Change the passwords to all your online accounts.

2. Contact your friends and family to notify them that they may be at risk (many types of malware try to spread to other computers by sending malicious files).

3. Contact your bank to make sure that there haven’t been any suspicious transactions.

The clues that tipped you off to the malware in the first place may give you an idea of what you must do to minimize its effects. Stay vigilant even when it’s gone — the attacker may still have your data and try to do something with it.

To prevent other malware ending up on your computer, make sure to install a reliable antivirus and set up scheduled scans. Remember to always be careful with anything remotely suspicious online — don’t click on random links in emails or visit suspicious websites. And always install security updates as soon as they’re available.

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cladeymoore · 3 years

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The art of a seamless migration of Coinbase’s internal ledger

Lessons learned from a large cross-database data migration on a critical production system

By Alex Ghise, Staff Software Engineer

If you’re interested in distributed systems and building reliable shared services to power all of Coinbase, the Platform team is hiring!

In 2019, Coinbase set out to strengthen the infrastructure upon which its products are built and to create a solid foundation to support current and future product lines. As part of that effort, we decided to adopt AWS RDS PostgreSQL as our database of choice for relational workloads and AWS DynamoDB as our key-value store.

One of the first areas we decided to focus on was how to keep track of balances and move funds. Our products had each devised their own solutions and some legacy systems were also plagued by tech debt and performance issues. The ability to quickly and accurately process transactions is central to Coinbase’s mission to build an open financial system for the world.

We designed and built a new ledger service to be fast, accurate and serve all current and future needs across products and have undertaken our biggest migration as of yet, moving over 1 billion rows of corporate and customer transaction and balance information from the previous data storage to our new PostgreSQL-based solution, without scheduled maintenance and no perceptible impact to users.

Our key learnings:

Make it repeatable — You may not get it right the first time.

Make it fast — So you can quickly iterate.

Make it uneventful — By designing the process so that it runs without disrupting normal business operations.

Here’s how we did it…

Migration Requirements

Accuracy and Correctness: Since we’re dealing with funds, we knew this would be a very sensitive migration and wanted to take every precaution, make sure that every last satoshi is accounted for.

Repeatable: Additionally, the shape of our data was completely different in the new system vs the legacy system. Further, we had to deal with technical debt and cruft accumulated over time in our monolithic application. We knew we needed to account for the possibility of not getting everything right in a single go, so we wanted to devise a repeatable process that we could iterate on until getting it right.

No Maintenance Downtime: We wanted every transaction on Coinbase to execute while working on this. We didn’t want to do any scheduled maintenance or take any downtime for the transition.

The Setup

We can deconstruct the migration into 2 separate problems: Switching live writes and reads over the new service, and migrating all of the historical data into the new service.

For the migration we decided to take a dual-write / dual-read phased approach. Phase 1 is before the migration, where we only have the legacy system in place. In Phase 2, we introduce the new system. We dual write to both the legacy and new system the read path we read from both, then log discrepancies and return the result from the legacy system. With Phase 3, we’ve built up the confidence in our new setup, so we favor it when returning results. We still have the old system around and can switch back to it if needed. Finally, we phase out unused code to finish the migration (Phase 4).

We won’t go into details about our dual-write implementation, since the general idea has been previously covered by industry blog posts.

What’s interesting is something that happens in between Phase 2 and Phase 3, namely the backfill of all customer data into our new system so that we can achieve parity.

The Repeatable Backfill Process

We considered multiple approaches to backfilling the billion-plus rows that represent all the transactions carried out on Coinbase from its inception, all with pros and cons.

The most straightforward solution would have been to do it all at the application level, leveraging the ledger client implementation we had in place for the dual writes. It has the advantage of exercising the same code paths we have in place for live writes — there would be a single mapping from old to new to maintain. However, we would have had to modify the service interface to allow for the backfill and we would have had to set up long running processes together with a checkpointing mechanism in case of failure. We also benchmarked this solution, and found that it would be too slow to meet our requirements for fast iteration.

We eventually decided to pursue an ETL-based solution. At a high level, this entailed generating the backfill data from the ETL-ed source database, dumping it into S3 and loading it directly into the target Postgres database. One key advantage to this approach is that doing data transformation using SQL is fast and easy. We could run the entire data generation step in ~20 minutes, examine the output, verify internal consistency and do data quality checks directly on the output without having to run the entire backfill pipeline.

Our data platform provider offers a variety of connectors and drivers for programmatic access. This means that we could use our standard software development tools and lifecycle — the code that we wrote for the data transformation was tested, reviewed and checked into a repository.

It also has first-class support for unloading data into S3, which made it easy for us to export the data after provisioning the appropriate resources.

One the other end, AWS provides the aws_s3 postgres extension, which allows bulk importing data into a database from an S3 bucket. Directly importing into live, production tables however proved problematic, since inserting hundreds of millions of rows into indexed tables is slow, and it also affected the latency of live writes.

We solved this problem by creating unindexed copies of the live tables, as follows:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS table1_backfill cascade;

CREATE TABLE table1_backfill (LIKE table1 INCLUDING DEFAULTS INCLUDING STORAGE);

The import now becomes limited by the I/O, which becomes a bottleneck. We ended up slowing it down a bit by splitting the data into multiple files and adding short sleep intervals in between the sequential imports.

Next up, recreating the indexes on the tables. Luckily, Postgres allows for index creation without write-locking the table, by using the CONCURRENT keyword. This allows the table to continue taking writes while the index is being created.

So far, so good. The real complexity however comes from our requirement to have a migration that doesn’t involve scheduled maintenance or halting transaction processing. We want the target database to be able to sustain live writes without missing a single one, and we want the backfilled data to seamlessly connect to the live data. This is further complicated by the fact that every transaction stores information about the cumulative balances of all accounts involved — this makes it easy for us to evaluate and maintain data integrity and to look up point in time balances for any account at any timestamp.

We solved for this by using triggers that replicate inserts, updates, deletes to the live tables into the backfill tables. Our concurrent index generation allows us to write to these tables while the indexes are being created.

After indexing is complete, in a single transaction, we flipped the backfill and live tables, drop the triggers, and drop the now unneeded tables. Live writes continue as if nothing happened.

At the end of this process, we run another script that goes through all of the data and restores data integrity by recreating the cumulative balances and the links between sequential transactions.

Last but not least, we run another round of integrity checks and comparisons against the legacy datastore to make sure that the data is correct and complete.

Putting it all together, the sequence looks as follows:

Clean slate: reset ledger database, start dual writing

Wait for dual written data to be loaded into ETL, so that we have overlap between live written data and backfill data.

Generate backfill data, unload it into S3

Create backfill tables, set up triggers to replicate data into backfill tables.

Import data from S3

Create indexes

Flip tables, drop triggers, drop old tables.

Run repair script

Verify data integrity, correctness, completeness

The process would take 4 to 6 hours to run and was mostly automated. We did this over and over while working through data quality issues and fixing bugs.

The Aftermath

Our final migration and backfill was not a memorable one. We didn’t have a “war room”, no standby on-call engineers, just another run of our process after which we decided that it was time to flip the switch. Most people within the company were blissfully unaware. An uneventful day.

We’ve been live with the ledger service for almost a year now. We have the capacity to sustain orders of magnitude more transactions per second than with our previous system, and with tight bounds on latency. Existing and new features, such as the Coinbase Card, all rely on the ledger service for fast and accurate balances and transactions.

If you’re interested in distributed systems and building reliable shared services to power all of Coinbase, the Platform team is hiring!

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The art of a seamless migration of Coinbase’s internal ledger was originally published in The Coinbase Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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'Transformers' reboot superior, Marvel reboot inferior

Marvel’s Fresh Start Reboot used to be a term thrown around in the realm of computers as the act of re-starting a computer when it acts unusually, acts crazy or simply stalls. After rebooting, the computer returns to an error-free state and works as efficiently as it could, until the memory is again flooded and corrupted with leftover data and buggy code. Nowadays, rebooting also means re-starting or re-doing an old media franchise. The purpose is often to rejuvenate a franchise or updating it to bring in modern and younger fans. Reboots can both be good or bad. The ideas involved in reboots can be cool and fresh but sometimes terrible, lazy and uninspired. Reboots can be a product of love by longtime fans of a franchise but can also be a tool by greedy, unimaginative folks just looking to cash in. There are two upcoming reboots that will affect geek culture and the public in general. One is generally welcome while the other is a mixed bag. The Transformers film franchise and Marvel Comics. The news came out a couple of days ago that Marvel Comics is about to do another soft reboot of its continuity. Something Marvel fans and comic book readers are now quite wary of. Marvel calls it a ‘fresh start’ indicating that several of its titles will be undergoing changes indicative of a reboot. The initiative sounds more like a re-launch. Something Marvel promised about a year ago not to do anymore. For several years, Marvel Comics has been releasing new series, new titles and new volumes of old titles left and right. Aside from that, they keep launching major crossover events one after, the other every other Tuesday much to the chagrin of comic book readers. A series of terrible decisions within the Marvel bullpen has resulted in stagnant comic book sales and more often than not, bad storylines, complicated by mishandling of social justice, politics, and diversity which they used to be good at. Every company enters a slump at some point and to get out of it, Marvel’s new editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski has decided on another relaunch. Not much is known from Marvel’s Fresh Start initiative other than it being another relaunch or soft reboot much like what it did with Secret Wars 2015 which was followed by All-New All-Different Marvel (ANAD). It was a shame that Marvel didn’t completely reboot its continuity after Secret Wars as it was a great opportunity to finally escape their convoluted sliding timeline and bring new readers in and giving old readers something new just like DC did with its New 52. Well, Marvel could have done better than New 52. Unfortunately, Marvel was pre-occupied with race-bending and gender-swapping several of its main characters and seemed to focus more on politics than telling good superhero stories. Marvel is no stranger to politics and social issues but doesn’t seem to have a good handle on those lately. The stellar performance of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is supposed to help boost comic sales, but current returns are the opposite. Marvel Comics was supposed to promote more Steve Rogers Captain America but instead went with Sam Wilson. After the Success of Captain America: Civil War, Marvel comics decides to turn Steve Rogers into a Nazi., seemingly negating the film’s success as if it was a conscious effort. It was a good story but very ill-timed. Thor Odinson would have benefited from Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston’s popularity, but they instead had Jane Foster flying around. Jane Foster as Thor, however, was good storytelling. People are loving Bruce Banner Hulk thanks to Mark Ruffalo, but Marvel readers are greeted with Asian Hulk Amadeus Cho and later had Banner killed by Hawkeye during an obvious cash-in event. And finally, people can’t get enough of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, but when they pick up an Iron Man title, they see Riri Williams. In another time, these would have been cool ideas. Some of these stories are actually good, but the targeted new readers aren’t picking them up because they aren’t relatable. We don’t mind changes to characters as long as they’re nicely timed and executed. The constant reboots and relaunches by Marvel aren’t doing them much good not just with their readers but with their retailers as well. Marvel has about five Avengers title at a given time, and they hardly last 24 issues before they’re replaced with a new volume. So because diversity and politics ‘weren’t working’, Marvel decided to launch the Marvel Legacy initiative. Legacy meaning returning to its roots and bringing back classic characters. This move worked well with DC when DC merged the New 52 reality with post-Crisis reality resulting in DC Rebirth. The aim of Rebirth was to bring back classic continuity as requested by fans, thankfully killing off emo Superman and bringing back the hopeful Blue Boy Scout and most of all, bringing back good, fantastic storytelling. With Legacy, Marvel also promised not to hold any new crossover events for at least 18 months (Venomverse anyone?). However, five months in, with sales still low and more confused readers after the company returned to its classic numbering, Marvel decided to just screw it and do another relaunch, with many news sites calling the move a reboot, perhaps hopefully. Because a reboot would certainly clean things up for both old and new readers. A reboot will certainly help older readers forget about silly events, silly costumes, dialogue that give nosebleeds, bad decisions and retcons fans just can’t wrap their heads around. And a reboot would certainly encourage more new readers to pick up comic books of characters they’ve just seen out of theaters and in TV like Black Panther the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Runaways and the Agents of SHIELD. Marvel just seems deathly afraid of throwing out decades of continuity. Again, Secret Wars could have given Marvel a clean slate to work with, but the company is afraid to let older fans down. Personally, while I’m still invested in the X-Men’s Dark Phoenix Saga, Fatal Attractions, and the Onslaught Saga, I wouldn’t mind an adaptive reset. I enjoyed reading Ghost Rider’s Rise of the Midnight Sone, Road to Vengeance and Midnight Massacre and won’t forget those. But Robbie Reyes’ Hellcharger is the dope and wouldn’t mind a fresh start with new and adaptive adventures. I say adaptive as imaginative writers can always bring in classic events and make them seem like new. They did those fairly well in X-Men: The Animated Series, Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Spectacular Spider-Man. So letting go of old continuity is quite possible and would allow the creativity of Marvel to go wild. Not too wild as Marvel’s editor-in-chief still needs to rein things in and act like a miniature Kevin Feige. Or Marvel will just keep the current continuity but launch its titles again beginning with Number 1s, confusing the readers more and making this fresh start seem like another gimmick in a long series of uninspired cash-ins. We’re not throwing shade at Marvel Comics. Without it and its stories, we wouldn’t be having the time of our lives right now. I wish them luck on this little venture. Hopefully, they come up with something as awesome as DC’s Dark Knights Metal. Transformers Overhaul Meanwhile, in the world of transforming robots, Michael Bay’s film franchise is up for a reboot. Should we be happy with this? After the dismal performance of Transformers: The Last Knight, we should be. Transformers: The Last Knight is definitely the worst Transformers film since Revenge of the Fallen. Though it’s sad to know that there won’t be a cinematic follow-up to the Last Knight to completely wrap up the story we’ve wasted our time on since 2007. The only follow-up to it would be the Bumblebee prequel that’s currently shooting. After the poor performance of the Last film, Michael Bay will be stepping away from the director’s chair. Maybe he himself is already tired of filming the franchise because Last Knight was all over the place. It’s a terrible waste of talent of Sir Anthony Hopkins. The franchise itself is not yet out of steam with Hasbro continuing to launch toy lines and Machinima producing some G1-based web series. While I love Machinima’s generation one robots, it’s stories have much to be desired. Combiner Wars and Titans Return are based on hit IDW Publishing Transformers storylines that birthed Hasbro toy lines of the same name. Perhaps the next good Transformers film should be an animated one. It probably wouldn’t hurt as the best Transformers movie continues to be 1986’s Transformers: The Movie. What critics call a 90-minute rubout commercial has become much-elevated due to the bad taste brought about by Michael Bay’s films. Transformers fans continue to watch this classic wishing that something similar would come out, or simply justifying it as the best, giving Michael Bay the middle finger because a decades-old cartoon still bests the director’s multi-million dollar beasts. We Transformers fans now have a problem as to what stories or how to bring Transformers to the modern audience. Many want to see their favorite G1 incarnations come to life, looking much like their cartoon counterparts instead of the inconsistent, indiscernible pieces of metal Michael Bay pushes out. If so, the new film series could be a 1980s period piece much like the hit Netflix series Stranger Things. The film will please Transformers fans old and new as the period will fascinate the majority millennial audience and show off the beautiful-looking period vehicles. Hopefully, Volkswagen cooperates this time to finally give us a Volkswagen Beetle. Oh right, that’s what the Bumblebee prequel is supposed to look like now. Maybe there should be fewer humans this time as it’s the continuing complaint of all of Michael Bay’s films. The first episode of the G1 cartoon showcased only the robots where Spike and his dad only appeared at the end of the first episode. That’s entirely possible within the new film’s first hour. Spike will then play a mere supporting role for the rest of the film. The humans’ main role would be just to run away screaming while the Decepticons steal energy from power plants and to fail spectacularly while defending said plants. The Autobots meanwhile explore the planet and trying to decide whether they should stay and defend it. There’s plenty of ideas to throw around, hopefully, better than Michael Bay’s creative team of Michael Bay, Michael Bay, and Michael Bay. Poor guy has had enough trashing, and that is not my nature. We are thankful for the guy for rejuvenating this almost dead franchise, but it’s time for another rejuvenation. Time for a renewal, an escape from the convolution of stories and metal parts. Best of luck to the Transformers reboot. It will be very difficult to top the 1986 Transformers: The Movie.

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izayukam · 7 years

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Daisuke Takahashi's words from Brochure of Hyoen (Kabuki on Ice) 2017

DAISUKE TAKAHASHI : as Kuro Hogan Yoshitsune Minamoto

“The surprise with the scale of it that is far greater than I imagined. Everyone working for this production is an outstanding expert.”

I first heard about the initial vision of this “Hyoen” in 2015, when I was studying in New York. I vaguely thought that it must be fun making such a show, but at the time I was away from skating trying to reset things to start with a clean slate, so I could not see specific image of myself to play a role in it. I just thought that it would be nice if I can do such a show some day.

Two years later, today, “Hyoen” has realized. Honestly, it was a surprise that this has taken shape this fast, but more than that I feel a special link by fate that I could get the offer to be a part of it right at the timing I made a new start as a professional skater.

And moreover, once it was revealed, the whole picture of “Hyoen” project totally blew me away. I never thought it would have such a massive level of projection mapping, and it comes with a far greater scale of cast and staff than I imagined. I feel huge pressure but the other cast undoubtedly and probably every member of the staff also feel the same way. Everyone working for this production is an outstanding expert. All the people who never worked with before have come together in one place across categories of business.

This time it is a collaboration of Figure Skating and Kabuki, and I especially found it interesting that no line is drawn between the two, self-contained as “Kabuki actors are for Kabuki and Figure Skaters Figure Skating”. It is the first-time collaboration in the world, and therefore, both sides took off the exact same start line groping around our way to make this together — both sides of the cast tried new challenges in their own fields and had a goal to become one, mixing Kabuki and Figure Skating together — the process of it is very fresh and it is great fun.

This show brought me new discoveries in figure skating through the costume fitted to the character or the motions particular to Kabuki. For one thing, skating costumes are mostly tight-fitted and clingy, and I never knew showing my movement in a costume that is not, and Kimono of all others, was such a hard task. I have been expressing using my whole bodyline without thinking, so it was difficult to build the performances having that line hidden. Also, normally in figure skating, it is very important to make each movement look big in a large rink, but this time, it is the opposite. Instead of making a big movement, motions that are delicate and subtle are required. I struggled to find how I can make an impact in the rink. On top of that, I have scenes with no movement at all that never happens in figure skating (lol). The figures of those are not flashy, and I seriously wondered how on earth I can make them look attractive and cool. I felt that I had to put my creativity into it.

The role I play is Yoshitsune Minamoto, someone every Japanese knows. I was told that I would be playing this role quite some time ago, but to be honest, I had very little idea about this man other than his name, and I could not visualize how I can play this person. He actually has many faces, such as, an image of Ushiwaka-maru (Translator’s notes: a mostly fictional image of his young days meeting his faithful detainer/guard Benkei) and also a tragic image of his death by his own sword after fleeting as a fugitive. Only, however, since Somegoro san relieved my worries by telling me, “Takahashi san, you are OK not to make out a role, but be as yourself”, I felt that I could make a totally new picture of Yoshitsune away from the images already made in the history or in the stories. In this “Basara” story, the characters are from different time periods in the history and this particular Yoshitsune is supposed to be a “symbol of justice”, so I think the answer for this role is to dedicate to that and build a positive image of the persona. Vogue Japan is in charge of the hair styling, and I expected that it was going to be somewhat modern. I have never performed in such a hair or make-up and this excites me a lot (LOL). It was my first time to jump with such a long hair style of course, and I enjoy challenging an unknown experience like that.

I got a lot to learn this time on how I present “space” as well. To us, skaters, we “express” moving and skating, not remaining still. So it is important to adjust the size of movement according to the extent of the rink space. Kabuki, on the other hand, has the beauty to fascinate you by only a slight movement as well as large, flashy motions. In this show, we have the same size of the stage as regular skating shows while we adopt motions in Kabuki style, so we have to think about the balance in managing the space. And moreover, we do not just use the surface of the ice but the space far above in the air, and it must be a key factor that how we make good use of such different layers of spaces.

In those senses above and more, I believe that Hyoen expands new possibilities of ice shows. If we make this show a great success, I expect the next one would come as a fusion with an art of a genre we could never imagine. And above all, I am happy to feel that we could think that “skaters can do such things” ourselves, and that would give us a push to have a next dream, concept and idea for sure.

“The answer to what is asked in professional figure skaters will be found in this show”

Now figure skating as a sport enjoys receiving the unprecedented attention from the people. And yet, while the skaters have more chances to have their names known, it is still the reality that building a second career is simply difficult. The period of time one can be a competitive skater is not long, and the time to be active in the front lines as a professional skater is limited as well. However, as “Hyoen” suggests, with the support of the style to tell a story, or groundbreaking forms of presentation, possibilities for skaters are greatly expanded. That is, possibilities for skaters to be able to have different kind of careers by obtaining a new form of expressing, “acting a character”, not jumps or skating itself. Even though the abilities to perform elements such as jumps go off their highest level, skaters would keep developing in representing what they want to express through their experiences. And that quality is exactly what is demanded by the type of shows such as “Hyoen”. I think if this style of shows spread in Japan and in the world, surely more people can work in figure skating for a longer time. And if more skaters can actively perform in shows, it would boost the entire level of performances of skating population, and even some may aim for this trade — some skaters may seek for performing on this kind of stages, not being the top in competitions. I feel that it is the mission of our generation to find how new careers for skaters are created.

I am feeling very lucky myself that I could be in this show, as I have already had a lot of new discoveries. Every single one of them should be valuable for what I do in the future.

I have a feeling that the answer to what people want from us, professional figure skaters, is found in the “Hyoen” performances as well. I have been thinking for some time now what are supposed to be the things pros only can do, instead of the skating as a competitive sport to compete on the defined elements such as jumps and spins and show the tricks continuously evolving. It is considered that what the audience expect from professionals is a visual “appeal” as rounded and polished entertainment. And although I understand that that is the only quality for pro skaters to be able to surpass the fiery battles of competitive skaters, to be honest, I was still blindly seeking myself what is the attraction only pros hold.

However, as I got to participate in this grand project, now I could reach a conviction. It is the luxury, such as, a generous amount of time the pros only can spend for preparation, great means and vehicles the pros only have access to express through, and high level and innovative tricks only pros can challenge to obtain – this time, such as, Kabuki movements or dancing. That is the privilege allowed only to the professionals. I think the fact that the cast is trying desperately to obtain the new “tricks” and exhibiting them along with the finest staging should give deep fierceness to the show, and that creates an entertainment that gives you thrills different from competitive skating.

In other words, I feel that I am tested here if I can show something only a pro can. And if I am, I will definitely show you I achieve that.

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Looking at your blog has me speculating arc v, and I just realized some shit. Did Kaiba not have any idea of what was happening at Academia? Does he ever find out? How do you think the series would've gone if he was involved?

Interesting question!

The one thing that we should probably always keep in mind is that KaibaCorp was the main force behind the development of duel holograms (season 1 of DM) and later, duel disks (DM through 5Ds). Just as we can’t the separate the contemporary card game from Pegasus, dueling technology can’t be separated from Kaiba. He and his company created the foundation on which every other dueling-related technological advancement stems from.

Which means that no matter what universe we’re talking about, Kaiba had to have existed in it. His life and his work is a ‘fixed point’, so to speak. And we know that although the meat of his story was told in DM, that he had a presence in both 5Ds (through the Momentum Generator) and GX (through Academia). Even in Zexal, the fact that duel gazers existence can be taken as proof that Kaiba was once alive.

Arc V’s version of Academia would not exist without Kaiba. But in order to fully answer this question, we’d have to look at the timeline of the five spinoffs and see how they connect.

@astraldirectrix and I were just talking about this recently, and we came up with a tentative theory. There are some vague points just because there isn’t any canon evidence either to support or refute the theory (though if anyone can think of anything, by all means, jump in). But stick with me, I have a method to my madness.

We know that DM-5Ds was one continuous timeline, but that things started getting dicey in the Zexal era. Unlike the first three, Zexal took place not in some incarnation of Domino City, but in an entirely new setting—Heartland. There were instances of people using Advanced, Fusion, and I thiiiiink even Ritual summoning, but not a word on Synchro. D Wheels were also never mentioned.

It’s almost as though… Zexal is what the world would have become, had Zero Reverse never happened.

Old theory, I know. But again, no matter the timeline, Kaiba exists. Zero Reverse was caused directly by the overload of Momentum, a form of energy developed by the MIDS group… founded and funded by KaibaCorp. So working on the assumption that 5Ds and Zexal are two completely different timelines: Zexal is specifically a version of the world where KaibaCorp never went into developing Momentum.

I know you asked about Kaiba and Academia. Don’t worry, I’m getting there!

Now, we know that one of Kaiba’s main, defining character traits is ambition. He’s a risk taker; the threat of disaster doesn’t deter him if he considers the goal to be worth it. So what would stop him from pursuing the development of Momentum?

We can theorize that in what would become the Zexal timeline, something happened to Kaiba towards the end of GX/the beginning of 5Ds’ backstory. Frankly, the only thing I could picture stopping Kaiba from running his company is death, so let’s go with that. Kaiba dies. Mokuba takes over. He continues to conduct research into dueling technology, but does not pursue Momentum energy. Thus, the development of D Gazers, the absence of D Wheels, XYZ instead of Synchro, ect.

So 5Ds and Zexal take in concert with one another, on alternative timelines. They happen, they end, that’s it.

Remember, DM and GX took place before all of this.

Then… something happens to merge the two timelines back together, thus creating the Original Dimension. The only thing I can think of is the creation of solid vision—a momentous occasion that would give duel monster spirits a physical host in the corporal world. We can theorize that it happened at once, in both timelines, allowing the worlds to merge.

And it’s necessary for this to happen, because both the history of 5Ds and Zexal would need to be present in the Original Dimension—because this is the only way both Synchro and XYZ monsters to exist at the same time.

And then, we all know what happened: Zarc goes wild, Ray stops him, the Original Dimension splits up into 4.

Because of this, the timeline is reset. The events of DM, GX, 5Ds and Zexal never happen. Several characters are reborn/remade to fit this new reality (Asuka, Jack, Crow, Kaito, possibly others). Everything is given a clean slate.

One of my favorite Arc V theories is the one stating that Zarc somehow took out our previous 4 protags, and replaced them with his own reincarnations. He would want to minimize the chances that his revival would be stopped, right? And if he couldn’t take out Ray specifically, then the least he could do was take out 4 proven, capable heroes.

And this is supported by the fact that the boys are all foils to the protags who correspond with their main summoning method. Yuya foils Yugi; Yuri foils Judai; Yugo foils Yusei; Yuto foils Yuma.

Back to Kaiba and Arc V’s Academia: Kaiba became the character we all know and love largely though his interactions with Yugi and Yami. Think back all the way to DM’s first episode: Kaiba attacks Grandpa, Yami duels and defeats him… and as a result, is able to exorcise the evil in Kaiba’s heart.

But in Arc V’s time, Yami isn’t around to do that, because Yugi isn’t there to finish the puzzle. So Kaiba stays just as he was in DM’s first episode, with every ounce of vitriolic evil that comes with it. And because everything happening in the four dimensions is happening in concert, there is no time for him to go through character development by any other means. Evil!Kaiba develops duel holograms, develops duel disks; Leo comes in with solid vision. The Fusion Dimension is morally decayed as a result.

I also believe that evil!Kaiba would have been the founder of Academia—whether or not he intended it to be a military school is unlikely, because even at his worst, he never wanted to be like Gozaboro. He founds it to operate as part duel school, part orphanage (seeing as Serena, Yuri, and possibly Sora were all born and raised there).

He runs the school from afar for a few years. Then Leo, in Standard, regains his memories, and for some reason chooses the Fusion Dimension as his base of operations.

And it’s here that we enter the realm of pure speculation. I… don’t see Kaiba willingly selling the school—evil or not, we know because of his history that he wouldn’t want it to be a place churning out child soldiers. I also don’t see Leo successfully deceiving Kaiba with what his intentions for Academia are, nor would he have been able to con Kaiba out of ownership.

You see where I’m headed, right? Leo likely took Academia from Kaiba by force. There’s no evidence that they were ever in any sort of partnership, and knowing them, they wouldn’t have worked well together anyway. There was probably a duel. Kaiba likely lost that duel. Leo, if he had the technology for it already developed, would have carded Kaiba to keep him out of the way.

So to answer your first two questions: Kaiba likely would have had an idea of what Leo’s plans were. He likely didn’t live long enough to stop them.

Now, for your last question: how would the series have gone had he been involved? Remember, Kaiba is still his early DM (possibly even season 0) self. He’s evil. He may not care for child soldiers or war, but that doesn’t make him a good guy. I could see him entering a partnership with Leo, all the while making plans to dispose of him at the right moment.

Would Leo tell Kaiba about Ray, and what his true plans were? Depends: would Leo know about Mokuba? Would this, their only true source of common ground, be something these two villains would ‘bond’ over?

Keeping in mind that here, Kaiba is evil—as opposed to Leo the anti-villain—I don’t think Kaiba would be sympathetic at all. He would regard Leo as laughably weak for not being able to protect his daughter, or his original home. I think he’d also be one of the few to see plain as day that all Leo’s plans are really doing is accelerating Zarc’s revival.

So things would have been different in that Academia’s internal structure would have been disorganized. There would be staff loyal to Kaiba, and staff loyal to Leo. Leo would have to deploy his troops behind Kaiba’s back. Kaiba, again, would be working constantly to get rid of Leo—because this is his home, his school, his students, his legacy, his domain. To Kaiba, Leo is an interloper who has to go, ASAP.

And let’s say he does get rid of Leo? If it’s before the invasion of Heartland, then fine. Leo’s gone, things go back to normal. Kaiba rules the Fusion D with an iron fist but doesn’t wage total war on a defenseless population—mostly because he’d have no reason to.

But if he isn’t able to do away with Leo until after the invasion? Especially if he’s already taken Ruri and Rin? Then shit just got real—because now the boys know when and how to find each other.

What he’d likely do is stop the invasion and send the girls back home, but… the boys still know how to find each other. Yuri has tasted enough power—and Yuto and Yugo, enough grief—for Zarc to awaken and influence them towards each other. So Zarc will be coming; it’ll just take longer. And by the time it does happen, Kaiba likely won’t intervene (seeing it as not being his problem) until it’s too late and the Supreme Dragon King is destroying Academia proper.

Above all, Kaiba would not be a hero here. He’d only be heroic in that he’d oppose Leo; and he’d only oppose Leo because their goals and values wouldn’t have much overlap.

As for Kaiba’s presence in Standard, the Sycnhro D, and the XYZ D? Kaiba could’ve been the one behind The City’s toxic capitalism-gone-wild political structure. Perhaps Standard is only as good as it is because of Yusho’s influence. We don’t know enough about the XYZ D to say why it’s a utopia, but… well, Zexal is the one world where Kaiba, presumably, wasn’t around to see himself. So maybe that could explain it.

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How Fasting, Calorie Restriction, and a Fasting-Mimicking Diet Can Encourage Longevity

Hi folks, today’s post comes from my friend Max Lugavere, New York Times best-selling author of Genius Foods and The Genius Life, which will be available for purchase on March 17, 2020. Max is a young guy, but he’s accomplished a lot so far, including an impressive bit of research and writing about longevity and how to age optimally with grace. I know you’ll enjoy Max diving into the weeds a bit about the nutrient sensors, proteins, and catalysts that may help us live long, healthy, thriving lives. This post comes from an excerpt from Max’s newest book The Genius Life.

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When it comes to slowing down the clock, life extension is indeed possible. The catch? There are two: it involves calorie restriction, and it has only been successfully demonstrated in lab animals. Studying longevity in humans is a bit more challenging. We don’t sleep in labs, we live a lot longer, and we like to eat. (Correction: we love to eat.) So while most of us would happily opt for a 40 percent increase on our life spans like food-deprived lab rats seem to achieve, we need a better route to get there.1

Thankfully, longevity researchers have begun to look for calorie restriction mimetics—compounds or strategies that can mimic the beneficial effects of prolonged calorie restriction but without the misery that goes along with it. Some emerging food-based candidates include resveratrol, the antioxidant found in red wine; fisetin, found in strawberries and cucumbers; and curcumin, found in turmeric. The most promising of all, however, may derive from a practice as old as humanity itself: fasting.

How do the cells of the body know when we’ve decided to fast? Answering that question has been mission critical for longevity researchers. Why? Because if we’re able to find the signal that tells our cells “food is scarce,” we may be able to activate those signals on demand and reap the myriad cellular benefits that ensue. Plus, we’d be able to do it without committing to a lifetime of starving ourselves. The chief nutrient sensor that our bodies use to assess whether or not we are in a calorie-deprived state is—and it’s a mouthful—adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase or, simply, AMPK.

AMPK senses overall energy (i.e., calorie) availability. You may have heard of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, the basic energy currency of cells. Under normal circumstances, ATP is able to be generated to meet the demands of our activity. But when ATP can’t get replenished fast enough, such as during calorie restriction or high-intensity exercise, AMP builds up in the cell. AMP is an energy-depleted version of ATP, and too much AMP leads to the activation of AMPK.

AMPK sits at the helm of coordinating the body’s response to the sudden lack of energy. It promotes increased fat burning, better glucose handling, improved insulin sensitivity, and reduced inflammation. It also decreases the liver’s synthesis of fats like cholesterol and triglycerides.2 And, since AMPK’s duties include making sure your cells are better prepared for next time, it spurs the creation of healthy, new energy-generating mitochondria (dysfunction of these little power plants is associated with aging and numerous age-related diseases). This is all why activating AMPK is considered a powerful lever for the life-extending properties of calorie restriction.

Other Potential AMPK Activators:

Astaxanthin (in krill oil and wild salmon)

Berberine

Coffee

Cold exposure

Curcumin (in turmeric)

Extra-virgin olive oil

Green tea

Heat (e.g., saunas)

Metformin (a type 2 diabetes drug)

Quercetin (in capers and onions)

Reishi mushroom

Resveratrol

Sulforaphane (in cruciferous veggies)

Vinegar

What might you do to support the activation of AMPK? Calorie restriction, of course. Other than that, high-intensity interval training, which I describe in more detail on page 122 in my book The Genius Life, is a potent AMPK activator, precisely because it creates a temporary state of energy deprivation. And new research suggests that a few hours of daily fasting can also activate this pathway. By simply eating less frequently, we allow AMPK to become active, whereas eating around the clock keeps AMPK perpetually subdued. Avoid food for the first hour or two (or three) after waking up and avoid food for two to three hours before bed.

Slowing the Clock

One pathway that AMPK stimulates is the FOXO family of proteins. One of them, FOXO3, has been proposed as a longevity protein. It boosts stress resilience (important if you want to live a long time) and may help prevent age-related diseases including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. Some lucky people have genes that make their FOXO3 more active, and those people have markedly higher odds of living to one hundred.

Genes or not, you can activate FOXO3 just as easily.

For FOXO3 to activate, it needs a signal, and AMPK is just that. While eating around the clock keeps AMPK chronically deactivated, constraining your feeding window to eight to twelve hours every day encourages AMPK—and subsequently FOXO3—to ramp up. (FOXO3 is also sensitive to insulin, which acts like a nutrient sensor for glucose availability and is discussed on pages 12–13. By keeping insulin within a normal healthy range with a lower carbohydrate diet among other things, we allow FOXO3 to come out of its hole.)

Finally, there’s mTOR, which may be the most potent antiaging protein of all. mTOR was discovered decades ago while scientists were investigating how a strange bacterial compound discovered on Easter Island seemed to exhibit powerful anticancer effects. It appeared to work by inhibiting a protein in the body involved in cell proliferation, which is increased in cancer. The compound was named rapamycin for Rapa Nui, the Polynesian name for the island on which it was discovered, and its target, the anticancer protein, came to be known as mTOR, or mammalian target of rapamycin.3

mTOR promotes storage and growth. As with insulin, this can be highly beneficial when that growth occurs in your muscle tissue, which mTOR helps to achieve. It is also an important player in the formation of synapses—the connections between brain cells—and neuroplasticity, which is your brain’s ability to change over time. These processes all require mTOR-regulated growth.

But mTOR also has a dark side. Too much mTOR activity has been linked with autism, seizures, and certain cancers.4 It can even accelerate aging. When activated, it’s the central gatekeeper to the house-cleaning process known as autophagy. Autophagy clears away old and damaged cell components, such as old mitochondria—the energy generators of your cells—making way for new powerhouses to be created. But by being stuck in an always-on state, this rejuvenation process is blocked. We can see this play out in old mice, whose lives can be extended by up to 60 percent by inhibiting mTOR with rapamycin.5 Rapamycin is not a free lunch, however, and its chronic use is associated with numerous potential side effects such as insulin resistance, the hallmark of type 2 diabetes. This begs the question: is there a healthier way of inhibiting mTOR?

mTOR is sensitive to two things: dietary protein and energy availability. When protein is abundant and energy is flowing, mTOR is revved up. When energy is lacking or protein is restricted, mTOR is inhibited. By limiting our food consumption to eight hours a day—effectively half the feeding time of your average person—we can easily achieve both and spend more time in an mTOR-inhibited state.

And while the story on fasting and longevity is still being written, one proposed method has emerged, with clinical research to back it up.

The Fasting-Mimicking Diet

The raw power of activating AMPK and simultaneously inhibiting mTOR was on display with the results of a fasting protocol devised by scientists at the University of Southern California, led by gerontologist Valter Longo. The research suggests that a periodic very low-calorie diet can not only potentially extend life and health span, but even treat conditions like multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes.

It’s known as the fasting mimicking diet. When it was first tested in mice, Dr. Longo and company witnessed essentially a “resetting” of the immune system. The energy-restricted diet destroyed old and dysfunctional autoimmune cells, which were then re-created in a non-autoimmune state during the refeeding process.6 The rejuvenation of the immune system mimicked what Dr. Longo calls “an embryonic-like program,” causing an increase in healthy new stem cells similar to those seen in development.

We don’t often get to restart with a clean slate, but that’s what fasting seemed to do for these rodents’ immune systems. Moving on to higher-level organisms, the human version of the fasting mimicking diet involved five consecutive days of very low-calorie eating. How low? About half of participants’ normal calorie intake. And the calories were specifically intended to come predominantly from veggies and healthy Mediterranean fats like extra-virgin olive oil. It was then repeated monthly, for a total of three months.

By the end, the subjects had decreased risk factors and biomarkers for aging, diabetes, and neurodegenerative and cardiovascular disease, without any major adverse effects and with just a few days of calorie restriction per month. The diet was also deliberately low in protein, but it’s hard to know whether the benefits seen were due to protein restriction, or calorie restriction in general. Independent of calorie restriction, protein restriction hasn’t yet proved beneficial in humans—quite the opposite, actually—and is likely a recipe for weight gain and muscle loss, especially over the long term.

The takeaway here is that aside from minding your meal timing, occasional low-calorie dieting may be useful for a long and healthy life. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint that our bodies would know what to do once food became scarce, since it’s unlikely our ancestors had successful hunts all year round.

Pick up a copy of Max’s book, The Genius Life, on or after March 17, 2020, or pre-order your copy today and get a number of generous freebies, including “The 10 Supplements for Better Brain Function.”

References

1. Les Dethlefsen et al., “The Pervasive Effects of an Antibiotic on the Human Gut Microbiota, as Revealed by Deep 16S rRNA Sequencing,” PLOS Biology 6, no. 11 (2008): e280, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060280.

2. Tsepo Ramatla et al., “Evaluation of Antibiotic Residues in Raw Meat Using Different Analytical Methods,” Antibiotics 6.4 (2017): 34, doi:10.3390/antibiotics6040034; Khurram Muaz et al., “Antibiotic Residues in Chicken Meat: Global Prevalence, Threats, and Decontamination Strategies: A Review,” Journal of Food Protection 81, no. 4 (2018):619–27.

3. Marcin Bara?ski et al., “Higher Antioxidant and Lower Cadmium Concentrations and Lower Incidence of Pesticide Residues in Organically Grown Crops: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analyses,” British Journal of Nutrition 112, no. 5 (2014):794–811.

4. Jotham Suez et al., “Post-antibiotic Gut Mucosal Microbiome Reconstitution Is Impaired by Probiotics and Improved by Autologous FMT,” Cell 174, no. 6 (2018): 1406–23.

5. Ruth E. Brown et al., “Secular Differences in the Association Between Caloric Intake, Macronutrient Intake, and Physical Activity with Obesity,” Obesity Research & Clinical Practice 10, no. 3 (2016): 243–55.

6. Tetsuhide Ito and Robert T. Jensen, “Association of Long-Term Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy with Bone Fractures and Effects on Absorption of Calcium, Vitamin B12, Iron, and Magnesium,” Current Gastroenterology Reports 12, no. 6 (2010): 448–57, doi:10.1007/s11894-010-0141–0.

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How Fasting, Calorie Restriction, and a Fasting-Mimicking Diet Can Encourage Longevity

Other Potential AMPK Activators:

Astaxanthin (in krill oil and wild salmon)

Berberine

Coffee

Cold exposure

Curcumin (in turmeric)

Extra-virgin olive oil

Green tea

Heat (e.g., saunas)

Metformin (a type 2 diabetes drug)

Quercetin (in capers and onions)

Reishi mushroom

Resveratrol

Sulforaphane (in cruciferous veggies)

Vinegar

Slowing the Clock

Genes or not, you can activate FOXO3 just as easily.

And while the story on fasting and longevity is still being written, one proposed method has emerged, with clinical research to back it up.

The Fasting-Mimicking Diet

References

4. Jotham Suez et al., “Post-antibiotic Gut Mucosal Microbiome Reconstitution Is Impaired by Probiotics and Improved by Autologous FMT,” Cell 174, no. 6 (2018): 1406–23.

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The Empath Series: Earthing Therapy, Flushing and Grounding Yourself

In last month’s Empath Spectrum Series article, Allorah talked about transmutation of energy and the dangers associated to those who have co-dependent tendencies or feel uncomfortable while attempting transmutation. In this month’s installment Allorah discusses the alternative energy expulsion techniques of earthing therapy, flushing, and grounding yourself for those on the empath spectrum.

Earthing Therapy for Empaths

Earthing therapy is often misunderstood. People often use this term interchangeably with grounding but there are some major differences between the two techniques. Earthing therapy is the practice of spiritually attaching yourself to the surface of the earth. There have been many scientific studies that observe the numerous benefits of this practice that include improvement of circadian rhythms, negative ion contact acts as a powerful antioxidant, overall stress relief, and so much more. Here’s just one article on the matter: Could walking barefoot on grass improve your health? Some research suggests it can.

Earthing Therapy is Easier Than Grounding

Earthing therapy is often easier than grounding for those on the empath spectrum. It requires less time, less effort, and can be performed on the go more easily than grounding yourself. The main difference between earthing and grounding is that, when you ground, you ground deep into the earth with your energetic body while earthing is merely connecting your physical and energetic body with the surface of the earth. Earthing therapy is also preferable to empaths because it does not pose the risk of becoming too grounded to the point of stagnation or chakra system blockage.

The Earth’s Charge, Free Radicals and Empathic Health

Because the earth’s surface has a negative charge, it creates a balance for the negative effects of free radicals (atoms that become positively charged instead of neutral after losing an electron) in our systems. When empaths feel or absorb negative emotions, we have a greatly increased chance of stress. Stress, in anyone, causes free radicals which then break down our cells and potentially make us physically sick. Multiply that by the rate and depth at which a person can feel or absorb emotions and you have a ticking time bomb. Therefore, it’s extremely important to maintain a healthy energetic body. Healthy energy body = healthy physical body.

How to Dispel Negative Energy with Earthing Therapy:

Take off your shoes and connect the soles of your feet with the surface of the earth. This can be done indoors but it’s better if you can get outside to do it.

Spend 5 minutes concentrating on your energetic body. Envision that your energetic body is a bubble around you.

Envision that all the negative energy from the energetic body is being neutralised as the bubble swirls around you in a circular motion flowing out of your right foot and ending in your left foot.

Ensure that as you do your visualisation that the energy going into your left foot is white. If it isn’t, allow it to bypass your left foot to be earthed until it does appear white in your mind’s eye.

Flushing Negative Energy

Flushing is another means to rid yourself of unwanted negative energy. Flushing is like both earthing therapy and grounding except for the object that receives the energy and the flow of the energy. Flushing is one of my personal favourite methods because I like using my hands to transfer energy. I can just FEEL it better. Flushing often involves sending negative energy into an object which can then transmute the energy. I learned my favourite methods from a book for empaths which I will share in November’s instalment of the Empath Series: Resources and Community.

2 Parts to Flushing

The important thing to remember about flushing is that there are 2 parts that you must complete or risk lethargy and exhaustion. When you dispose of negative energy by any method, you are expelling some of your energy as well. It’s an unavoidable byproduct. While earthing therapy allows you to utilise the earth’s energies by being energetically connected to its surface, flushing requires a different source of energetic refreshment – source energy.

The Best Objects for Flushing

You can use a wide variety of objects to do this but make sure they are objects that neutralise the negative energy lest you cause damage to a living organism. While I will only detail one object here, try this with bathing water, running water on your wrists, bowls of salt for your hands, tree hugging, etc.

How to Dispel Negative Energy by Flushing:

Wrap your hands around a Himalayan salt lamp.

Close your eyes and envision all the negative energy flowing from around your body down into your hands and into the salt lamp.

Once you feel like you’ve moved the negative energy into the salt lamp, envision a white light coming through your crown chakra. Follow the white light through your body filling each body part and each chakra until it escapes through your feet and surrounds you.

Grounding Yourself

Grounding is probably the method you’ve most likely heard of when it comes to connecting to the earth and centring yourself. While this method is prolific within spiritual practices, it’s not always practical for those who lead a busy life. It takes time and the ability to meditate for a longer period of time. It’s also not Favorited among empaths for regular use as it can be quite jarring to have your feeling senses turned down to minimal volume.

Grounding Yourself as an Occasional Practice for Empaths

However, grounding yourself is recommended as an occasional practice among empaths to generate a clean slate for the energetic body. It acts like a reset button and leaves you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated when it’s not overused. Grounding yourself combines the techniques of earthing therapy and flushing into one symphonic act. It transmutes, expels, and replenishes the energy body all in one go.

There are many ways to ground yourself such as through the use of crystals, food, and physical activity. However, here I provide my personal most effective method.

How to Dispel Energy by Grounding Yourself:

Go out into nature if possible. If nature is a no-go, sit on the floor.

Close your eyes and envision that there are roots growing from your root chakra into the earth.

Envision that these roots are slowly and steadily extending further and further until they are rooted deep within the earth, nearly touching its core.

Imagine white light beaming down into your crown chakra and pushing negative energy out of your light body. Imagine that the white light is transforming negative to positive energy as the source energy meets anything negative in your energy body.

Allow the white light to transmute the negative energy while pushing the flow of the energy through your roots and into the core of the earth.

Empaths Should Learn These Important Techniques

Earthing therapy, flushing, and grounding yourself are all techniques that allow those on the empath spectrum to rid themselves of unwanted negative energies. Earthing and flushing are useful for those with busy lives and are accomplished in as little as 5 minutes. Grounding, though more involved, provides a reset button to leave you feeling refreshed. Science is starting to catch up with spirituality and has shown in research studies that these methods provide enormous benefits to anyone who chooses to use them.

Many of those on the empath spectrum feel chaotic and isolated because they are yet to understand the principles of their own energetic body work and how to provide themselves with proper care. Hopefully this article has provided some much-needed tips and tricks for embracing a healthy self-care practice for your energetic body.

Coming Up in the Empath Series…

Keep following along in the series as November’s article is all about Resources for those on the empath spectrum including books, community websites, courses, and more!

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Boarding House Reach: A Modern Record and a chance for something - anything - to happen moving forward.

I has having an argument a few months ago where my opponents where spouting that Jack White has done the same thing over his entire career, that all his music essentially sounds the same, or at least from their perspective felt the same.

I thought their argument was a bit ridiculous, but I could resonate with their central point, and maybe the one they didn’t know how to articulate, that when you put on a Jack White album, you have a sense of what it will sound like.

You know the sorts of sounds you’ll be hearing. Even though there may be new sounds that are a surprise. Most of the structure and feel is a bluesy or garage feel. Although with Lazaretto I thought that Jack White started to break away a little more creatively into some different eras, and it came across like “I’m a big rockstar and I can do whatever I want, here’s what I’ve made.”

White’s new album Boarding House Reach is truly something brand new from the artist and one no one saw coming. It’s something we haven’t seen from a major rock artist in a long time, a stark departure from the old to try and invigorate a new sound, and that poses a significant challenge to his longtime fans, and the critics who could crucify or adulate him.

This record is a challenge; it poses questions about who Jack White is, what he’s capable of, what you think of his music. It has the highest potential to divide fans and turn people off from his music. It is a break from any sort of niche market where he’s the biggest rockstar around, with his own record press, the nostalgia fetishist, and lover of old-timey Robert Johnson blues or Mississippi Delta… that is betrayed by this electronic and modern album.

This album is a challenge because all of those self-imposed rules with instruments that he plays because they are difficult to play, the technology like Pro Tools which allows for the sound that you no longer have to slave to find, the fellow musicians he didn’t know before playing with, all are reversed. Jack White is challenging himself on this album in the same ways those rules used to challenge him. Now, who is Jack White? He has gone to the underworld.

The fans reaction to this departure is always where your eyes should look, because this sort of rockstar worship, to a much smaller degree today than say 1975, poses the question whether or not they love Jack White for his songs, or for him and his persona and his artistic sense. Do they love the music, or the man behind the music just as much?

This sounds like Jack White challenging himself, asking: What am I after? It sounds nothing like anything he’s worked on before. He’s incorporating many other genres and sound elements to these songs. Most important though, Boarding House Reach sounds modern. It sounds like it came out in 2018.

That is what is most exciting about this record – we’ve not heard this album before. This is not Icky Thump II, nor is it a throw to lo-fi garage; this is a mysterious, strange, surprising, ambitious, challenge and ultimate judge of Jack White and his music. It sounds like a combination of the most popular genres of today, blended together to find some sort of musical synergy, a common thread to unite each of these exotic flavours.

And with songs that border rap – White is truly entering the underworld, turning all expectations of his persona on its ear. If before Jack White the Holy Ghost was just “makin’ the old sound new again” blues with those obvious influences and mentors of his, today he is trying to look into the future and take tools that are around today to make something for today.

Maybe Jack White looks around and sees everyone trying to recapture something, twist it another way that’s passable enough, instead of doing what gets everyone excited about music in the first place and do what the great bands have always done - challenged the listener. That’s what a new sound does – it swipes the slate clean and allows something to come out of it for a whole new generation of artists and musicians who are obviously still listening to the old blues, and The Beatles, and the standards of popular music, to try and create something truly original.

White knows where he comes from. He’s defined himself many different ways, but now, twenty years in the music world, to say: “I’m going to go completely outside of myself, to the great beyond. I have the rules and now I will break them,” is a stunning bit of artistic courage and flair. Conversely it creates a lot less freedom in the moment, for the chance for renewed freedom for many.

White has said that with The White Stripes, him and Meg, thought of each song has three elements. And that intention created a lot of freedom. But without those conditions it can be very difficult to try and create, because limitlessness is very difficult to create out of.

The risk he took was not one he had to take. The altar he stood was comfortable indeed, and people would have no problems continuing to bow to it, they would’ve been happy and content to hear another Blunderbuss or Lazaretto, and would’ve longed perhaps for Elephant II deep down, but would still be pleased with this new, classic Jack White record. No one would criticize him if that’s what happened, he is just doing what Jack White has always done – right?

Someone new could’ve came along and made this sound, and let’s say would’ve been indebted to Jack White, with those classic minimalistic riffs that are absolute ragers, and then combine that with these modern elements – but that’s the artist of the future. Maybe that person isn’t coming. Maybe Jack White sees that this sound will not come unless he does it himself. Why make this album otherwise? He must crave the idea that there is still work to be done.

That thought process is and has been lost of the major artists of the past 20-25 years. The evolution of artists now is much different. They sign these ridiculous record contracts, with looming obligations, and produce similar material to sell albums, and “give the fans what they want,” (an empty phrase if ever there was one). Over time, whatever genre, it starts to become more accessible, and cookie-cutter, and more of your own style, a self-awareness to the point where it could be parody. Metallica and Megadeth were great instances where they turned thrash to rock, hard 70s rock. It’s just rock.

There are few artists today trying to do this. Compare Jack White to Josh Homme. Homme does very creative projects in his own right, but has never foisted an album like this on his fans. Them Crooked Vultures, an album weird enough that I think will get some influence over the years, was not the shock to the system that Boarding House Reach is, nor quite the re-invention. His album with Iggy Pop and Matt Helders of Arctic Monkeys, was sufficiently strange, but didn’t break any new ground at the end of the day. They were just songs. Of course, that is not to condemn Homme for trying. The “Desert Sessions” are highly sought after bootleg releases of creative material, and would probably constitute Homme and his musical cronies most experimental and “out-there”. But never has Homme asked such a question as White has just done.

White’s reinvention and Nietzsche-esque revaluation of all values, tossing away those ideals that he so highly thought of, creates the superior artist. And the artist is someone Nietzsche took very seriously. They strike deeper to his character for what he wants to create with sound. You get the senses now that it’s now just about the sound, but about what sound(s). It’s about the marriage and complexity, or lack thereof, and finding the truth from combining these styles. It’s an unabashed, spitting vocal style, with more production and tracks then usual - an array of originality.

I argue that there could be nothing more exciting. An artist of his caliber challenging you musically: what else would you want? Radiohead, is a comparable artist, that usually presents a challenge to the listener. The progression of their music has evolved to the point where they are difficult to get to know, and are almost their own genre. But it doesn’t feel like White landed here so much as gone off the deep-end.

White is hitting reset on his public life as rocker to put forth a question to his listeners: where is this going? Me as a songwriter and performer, where is this destination that I will land accidentally? And will I want to land there. And also, here’s something I’ve just made.

He’s pushing the puck in a new direction, one where he is merely an accent to the 2018, experimental, looping sound blend.

Rock music is not in a great state right now, especially the commercial end of rock. What is the identity of rock today? Coldplay? Muse? What a sorry state of affairs. The bands I find most interesting are already lumped into their genre and don’t have the oeiginality needed to take the whole music world by storm. These bands are much more like: If you like punk – you’ll like these guys. Psych rock from the 60’s? I’ve got the group.

These opportunities are taken less and less, and that risk is exciting for both artist and listener. People who like rock music should feed off of this energy, and not cling to those morose clothes its worn for the last 15-20 years. If you’re playing rock nowadays, and playing the guitar, it seems you have to act like Kurt Cobain without the great rock songs. You have to be introspective and quiet, self-conscious, instead of bombastic and like a kick in the face. And that’s rock music at its core.

Something like this could open the door to new artists who could try something sounding like this. That’s what makes this an opportunity as much as a statement.

Who knows, though. This is all speculation and could amount to little to the corpse called rock. It’s way too soon to know. But this style of record historically has the potential to influence. Maybe more people will listen to Jack White now, who have typically only listened to experimental or electronic. They might like the blend of rock that’s infused in their domain as well.

Even if you don’t like this album, you should be happy he’s made this record. He’s already made those White Stripes albums; if you enjoy them, put them on whenever you like. We’ve reached a time where there is little that is shocking and surprising in music, that the possibilities have been somewhat exhausted, and any major festival will be short on rock and roll.

So, you can take this, take Greta van Fleet, or take your favourite Aussie band at the moment. Maybe by fiat and force something will come around that will strike it on the head, and all the meaningful stuff will pore out again. But without this album that might be impossible.

The array of possibilities moving forward has more depth than just a few months ago.

-Michael Menzies

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What Role Does a Difficult Past Play in Your Life Now?

For many individuals, the past is not past but remains an ever-present influence in their present life. Even though the physical effects of past events often demand more attention, the psychological legacy may be much more difficult to move on from. If past events are processed as experiences to learn from and grow as a person, pain and upset can be transformed into greater wisdom and strength. However, if not resolved, past challenges keep us hooked into the emotional charge of the time.

Loss and Grief

Traumatic events often involve losses like ill health, reduced mobility, lost opportunities, dashed hopes, the loss of the person you might have been, and many others depending on your circumstances. Grieving for what is no longer possible or available is a completely natural response and there is no rule about the length and depth of grief. However, if grief sets in as depression and withdrawal from life, it becomes problematic. “Snapping out of it” is generally not an option, but a gradual and gentle re-engaging with life is paramount.

Trapped by Blame

While blame is a common response to people or circumstances that have caused suffering, it also traps you into emotional bondage to what has been. It keeps you in a state of helpless anger, sometimes even feelings of hate and thoughts of revenge.

Letting go of blame does not condone what happened but liberates you to begin life afresh unburdened by negative ties to the past. To free yourself practice a form of forgiveness that does not require “feeling positive”, but instead reaches for a state of neutrality where what happened is accepted as fact and you allow yourself to begin again with a clean slate.

Stuck in ‘Analysis Paralysis’

The question “Why?” is so seductive that you may be consumed by searching for an explanation for why something happened the way it did. But many events result from being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people. If you can’t find a satisfactory explanation for past events, accept the not-knowing, let the past be past and turn to the future.

Poisoned by Hindsight and Regret

Speculating about what you should or could have done in the past is a form of self-sabotage. It keeps you focused on the past instead of the present and future. Usually people do the best they can with what they’ve got at the time. But if you went against your better judgment and intuition, you need to accept that you are a fallible human being like everyone else, forgive yourself and if possible make amends.

Haunted by Memories

Painful memories are difficult to resolve, even more so if they invade your sleep in the form of nightmares and flashbacks. Don’t hesitate to get help if you cannot process them by yourself. Talking therapies alone are generally not effective, as painful events do not only get registered mentally and emotionally, but also leave physical traces in the body’s cells, neural pathways in the brain and energy circuits. You might find practices from Energy Psychology, Energy Medicine, Kinesiology, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Yoga and other therapies effective if the practitioner has experience with trauma work.

Suppressing Your Pain.

When past experiences were so painful that processing them is too overwhelming, avoidance behaviours are often adopted as a way out: ignoring or numbing the pain with alcohol, drugs (legal and illegal), sex, workaholism, excessive use of technology etc. However, until you honestly look at your pain, it will hold you in its grip. The only way to resolve painful feelings is to feel and acknowledge them, understand their context and accept them as a wound that may leave scars but does not need to hold you in its grip. Many people achieve this through telling their story in writing, through art or by connecting with others who have overcome similar experiences.

Accepting the Past.

Be quite clear about the distinction between condoning and accepting. When you condone something, you give it your seal of approval. An attitude of acceptance does not include judging past events as okay or insignificant. It simply acknowledges what happened in a matter-of-fact way without being pulled into one of the counter-productive emotions described above.

When you accept the past in such a neutral way, you are detached from its drama and the emotional charge associated with it. Your internal position is that of a witness who knows what happened and recognizes the event for what it was. Most likely you will never forget the experience but emotionally you have made peace with it and are no longer held in its power.

Appreciating Your Progress

There is much to appreciate and be grateful for when you release the hold of the past. This does not have to be in the form of warm fuzzy feelings but rather as an acknowledgment of overcoming difficult odds stacked against you. Take stock of all the good that has come out of a difficult experience: greater strength, a reset of priorities, increased emotional maturity and empathy, not sweating the small stuff and many other gains.

What is your relationship with your past? How have you been able to move on? What new wisdom have you gained? What has held you back?

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What Role Does a Difficult Past Play in Your Life Now?

Loss and Grief

Trapped by Blame

Stuck in ‘Analysis Paralysis’

Poisoned by Hindsight and Regret

Haunted by Memories

Suppressing Your Pain.

Accepting the Past.

Appreciating Your Progress

What is your relationship with your past? How have you been able to move on? What new wisdom have you gained? What has held you back?

from World of Psychology https://psychcentral.com/blog/what-role-does-a-difficult-past-play-in-your-life-now/

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Supporting Your Seasonal Biological Rhythms through Nutrition and Supplementation

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Biological rhythms are the natural cycle of change in our body’s chemicals and functions. Like an internal master “clock,” it takes cues from environmental rhythms (circadian, diurnal, infradian, seasonal rhythms). These function of these rhythms include regulating sleep, appetite, body temperature and the immune system. A common example of disrupted biological rhythms is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). SAD is a type of depression that comes and goes with the seasons, with a typical onset in the late fall and early winter and resolving in the spring when the days get longer. The idea of supporting daily and seasonal rhythms is a foundational aspect of the traditional medicines of India (Ayurvedic) and China (Traditional Chinese Medicine, aka TCM) where the implementation of seasonal diets and routines are adopted in order to maintain optimal health and wellness.

Many of us here in the Pacific Northwest eat intuitively with the elemental pattern of the seasons. For instance, the abundance of leafy greens and berries in the spring helps to reduce inflammation which plays a significant role in counteracting allergens. In the summertime we often enjoy produce that is high in water and antioxidant content such as salads and watermelon, which are perfect antidotes to the intensity and heat of the summer. Autumn is associated cold and flu season and nature responds by providing apples, mushrooms, squashes and collard greens – foods that contain high amounts of vitamins C and A, as well as other immune boosting properties to keep us healthy. When winter hits we crave everything pumpkin and feast on hearty stews filled with onion, garlic and root vegetables. High in vitamins and minerals that they absorb from the ground, root vegetables are full of nutrients and are high in antioxidants which support the body’s immune system, and supports mood and energy during shorter, colder days.

A local, organic, whole food diet is a foundational piece to our health. However, during seasonal transitions, eating well and exercising may not be enough to keep you feeling and performing at your best. Generally there are certain health concerns that are specific to the seasons. Here, we identify common health ailments and provide seasonal recommendations for nutritional supplements that can fill the gap.

AUTUMN:

Through human evolution fall has always been our busiest time; hunting, gathering and preserving foods for the months ahead. Today it is no different: we go back to school, we re-engage with routine and activities that went by the wayside during our summer play. We tend to burn the candle at both ends. Coupled with shorter days, cooler weather it is not uncommon for our energy levels to plummet and even result in the blues. It is also a time where people gather indoors, a natural petri dishes for germs to fester and result in runny noses and coughs. IMMUNITY: ACES & Zinc – Containing vitamins A, C, E, selenium and zinc. These vitamins are natural antioxidants that help boost the immune system against viruses and bacterias. 2 caps 1-2 times daily. Consider discontinuing in the Spring.

ENERGY SUPPORT: Stress B-Complex – B vitamins support our vitality and play an important role in everything from cognitive function and mood to energy production and heart health. This particular formula has extra B5 (pantothenic acid) that is an essential vitamin for healthy adrenal and immune function. Healthy adrenal glands play an important role in effectively managing stress, supporting our mood and mental sharpness, and boosting our energy. 1 cap with breakfast. Consider taking this during other periods of stress throughout the year or discontinue in the Spring.

WINTER:

There is a particular stillness that characterizes winter. The winter season holds the perfect antidote to the fast-paced mobility of the summer and fall. This is a time of retreat and rest, where energy moves inward. This calm, peaceful nature of the winter can also seem a bit oppressive at times, and can leave us feeling weighed down, stagnant, or uninspired. This is also a time of year where many cultures have cozy gatherings promoting interaction with friends and family with plenty of warming, comforting foods.

MOOD: Vitamin D3 – ‘the sunshine vitamin’. Begin supplementing or increasing your dose of Vitamin D3 once the days get noticeably shorter. Consider taking through the Spring as Vitamin D supports our mood as well as our immune health. Studies have shown that people with vitamin D deficiency are 11 times more likely to get a cold or flu, while supplementing with vitamin D can reduce colds and flu by 42 percent. Vit D3 3,000 – 5,000IU/day

SPRING:

Time for spring cleaning! The rejuvenating and cleansing energy often inspires us to clear out the clutter that has accumulated throughout the year. This includes our body too. It is a time for clearing out those heavy, winter foods and toxins that accumulated over the past few months. Additional benefits include improved digestion, reduced inflammation, balanced blood sugar and enhanced immune function. A diet that is low in whites (sugar, flour, dairy) and high in color (berries, veggies) for a period of 2-3 weeks allows the digestive tract to reset itself. Elimination is another essential aspect of a detox cleanse. It is critical you are having daily bowel movements, as this is how we rid the toxic burdens from our system. Having a clean slate will also reduce the inflammatory reactions associated with spring allergies.

CLEANSE: Liver support (Lipotropic Complex) – Very nourishing for the liver, helping it to detox and promote systemic support. 1-2 caps 2 times per day (away from food) x 3 weeks and a Probiotic (HLC Maintenance) If you really want to be healthy from the inside out then probiotics are the answer for all-around health. Probiotics can help to protect against a number of diseases and infections, as well as digestive issues. 1-2 caps with breakfast, this can be taken ongoing, or seasonal during the spring and fall.

ALLERGIES: Aller-C – Begin addressing your allergies before they even begin. I recommend taking 2 caps daily 4 weeks before the onset of your allergy season and then 2 caps 2 times daily during the height of allergy season. Discontinue when the season has passed.

SUMMER:

Nature is at its fullest, our gardens and calendars are bursting. The long days and warm evening lend themselves to shortened hours of sleep. The heat and the sun draws us outdoors. It is a time to play hard and exercise more. In addition to eating light meals, hydrating and protecting our skin, it is also a time to be cognizant of the demands we are putting on our bodies particular in regards to sleep support and joint/muscle health.

VITALITY: Triple Mag – Magnesium is a mineral that is involved in almost every process in your body from muscle relaxation and proper muscle movement to hormone processing. Clinically it is used to treat muscle tension and cramps, sleep difficulties, constipation and chronic stress. 1-2 caps before bed.

Supporting your innate seasonal biorhythms is essential to achieving optimal health and vitality. In order to achieve this BALANCE: eat local, seasonal whole foods, move your body, observe sleep needs and consider rotating the recommended supplements suggested. If you have specific seasonal symptoms or concerns, or desire seasonal wellness visits to maximize your health, consider making an appointment so that we can create a personalized wellness plan for you. We carry many of these recommended supplements at our clinic and also offer an online dispensary through Fullscript, which allows you to order and refill your professional-grade supplements online and have them shipped directly to you.

Helpful Links:

Dr. Krista Brayko, on-staff Naturopathic Physician

The Benefits of Injecting Your B’s

Who Sees a Naturopath?

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Supporting Your Seasonal Biological Rhythms through Nutrition and Supplementation

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Helpful Links:

Dr. Krista Brayko, on-staff Naturopathic Physician

The Benefits of Injecting Your B’s

Who Sees a Naturopath?

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#Health #Medical

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Supporting Your Seasonal Biological Rhythms through Nutrition and Supplementation

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Helpful Links:

Dr. Krista Brayko, on-staff Naturopathic Physician

The Benefits of Injecting Your B’s

Who Sees a Naturopath?

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#healthy living

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