for the people who take fish oil what brand do you use and where do you get it from and is it raw i.e. cold pressed or fermented?

I saw this in a local pharmacy http://www.swisse.com.au/Swisse/PRODUCTS/Fish_Oil/default.aspx#/PRODUCTS/Fish_Oil/Product_Range-O/SWISSE_ULTIBOOST_WILD_SALMON_OIL/Benefits-E/

It looks to be perfect, but I'm skeptical since as I said I saw it in a local pharmacy where everything else is garbage lol

The Maori? The Native American were the healthiest

Primarily yes do to little to no access to grass fed organ meets. I would rather eat grass fed muscle meats than grain fed

I had the same problem with availability and with gum bleeding. The gum problems didn't subside so I decided I need to test eating the grain fed organs. The grain fed organs were fine and the gum problems improved immediately. Your gums are deteriorating from nutrient deficiency.

I'm not sure we really know what our natural sleep pattern is. Anybody have more info on this?

IMO we probably slept around 10 hours per day and obviously mostly at night, since darkness permits melatonin

 I'm afraid that nurturist notions have been wholly discounted and that it has been shown that idential twins from the same backgrounds do indeed have similiar IQs:-

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1520-iq-is-inherited-suggests-twin-study.html

Now granted, a twin's IQ could be  stunted through leading a totally  different environment from its other identical twin(such as eating a much less healthy diet, or starving from malnutrition all the time for the first 3 decades of life etc.) But the study did compare smoking identical twins to their non-smoking identical twin counterpart within the same socioeconomic environment, so it's certain that smoking does lower one's IQ.

You can't assume something in a scientific study. There was no proof they had the same IQ unless it was actually tested even if research suggests identical twins have similar IQ. The smoking study should have taken that into consideration. It simply loses credibility for choosing to ignore that imo (though I have read before than identical twins who grew up in different homes in different countries even tend to share similar personality traits, so similar IQ would also make sense)

I wouldn't be surprised if smoking did reduce IQ but that's bad science in the experiment.

Do you ever do very intensive exercise?

Yes I lift weights. I definitely get muscle soreness but that's different to cramps.

Apparently the less salt you eat the more efficient the body becomes with it's sodium. Losing sodium via sweating is perhaps only because there is excess sodium in the body. I never eat salt and don't have cramps.

To me it appears that the main culprit in hair loss is sebum (sebum causing inflammation, constricted blood supply or something). Vitamin A, which is only found in animal liver, lowers sebum which prevents or slows down hair loss. I've been eating copious amounts of grain fed liver, and grass fed dried liver and have has some conclusive hair regrow. Ironically one of the side effects of vitamin A overdose it telogen effluvium - a type of hair loss, so I don't think I will be able to eat as much liver as I am at the moment indefinitely. Based on recent experience the best treatment for Male Pattern Baldness would be to eat as much Liver to lower sebum production as much as you can without reaching toxicity to the point where telogen effluvium will occur (which is of course a variable amount from person to person).

The connection between high testosterone/high DHT and hair loss appears to be that high levels of these hormones increase sebum production even if only in very small quantities so by taking androgen blockers one may not actually notice dry hair, skin etc.

In the states you get cows which spend most of their lives inside sheds eating grain (and other stuff)

I wanted to distinguish between US feed lot beef and free range grain finished beef which we have here.

These are the cow's used for supermarket beef in Sydney. It's good to eat still imo, but definitely not close to 100% grass fed.

pc, maybe you were not having enough fat/water.

It's in his head. Durianrider's charm and humour or something convinced him.

And I also think that eggs yolks are superior to suet...

Thanks for the advice Mr. Vegan.

As the source of energy eggs yolks are not so good. Suet is much better - it gives me long-lasting energy.

Of course suet is better. Mammal fat is perfect food.

Suet isn't really meant to be a huge source of nutrients, organ meats is where you find those. Fat is a carrier of nutrients, allows nutrient absorption, protein synthesis etc. and the body's energy source.

it's an interesting idea. There is some scientific evidence for it in a way, all taken from the concepts of calorie restriction and fasting - this being that ALL food stresses the body and to eat as little as possible. But the fundamental claim though that you can live without eating whatsoever and just off the environment...never seen any plausible explanation.

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Well then i guess I'll keep eating grain fed, I'm a broken overseas student, univ and accommodation are expensive enough  

This morning i found an Asian butcher with very, i mean VERY, good prices (the meat looked clean and fresh) I'd normally think "oh it might be because is grain fed" but now you're saying it's All grain fed  

Yeah the cheap prices is probably because it's from an older cow, or the store just uses low prices to attract customers. The more expensive meat is exactly the same quality (nutritionally), unless the higher price is because it's grass fed, and in that case it will specifically say it is grass fed.

Although I'm not sure some country towns might have grass fed as standard, but seeing as you're a uni student you are definitely in the city (Sydney?) so meat is grain fed 100% of the time unless stated otherwise.