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Read the pdf. it says there that you can.

Well, OK maybe this is the answer on the other two topics: "How do you control your sexual urges" and "Cause, effect and celibacy" http://www.pfsfoundation.org/post-finasteride-syndrome-overview/

Wool is itchy for me, maybe is just me, I am allergic but I heard others saying the same about wool. Like for instance wool blankets are used by the army because they keep very warm in cold weather. Also when I was serving in the army I was wearing winter wool clothes which were the standard clothes in my country and couldn't stand to touch my skin. So wool is ok to wear on the outside layer, while wearing something natural like cotton or linen on the inside near the skin. The answer to the other question is no. Although I wear colors following the taoist colors of the elements

Sorry, I have to explain myself. The idea is that depends on what your body type is and what kind of hormones you have. If you have body hair then you have DHT. If you don't have body hair then you have estrogen. The idea of the thread was how to boost libido. To boost libido you have to boost testosterone. I did that when I was 25, I did squats, ate meat and eggs and everything by the book. I was smelling like a bull, from testosterone. I was doing martial arts, I was having a girlfriend and I was keeping her happy, everything was ok. Then I begun to grow my body hair, I barely had any body hair at that age. At 30 I was almost covered in body hair (except back ) but there are guys that grow body hair on the back too. I know guys that don't have body hair but have baldness. So depends on your hormones, depends what you eat and what you do. At 35 or later at 40, you may have prostate problems like I did. So if you do, saw palmetto is a good anti-androgen, actually is an alpha-inhibitor that inhibits 5-alpha-reductase so that you dont do DHT. If you have body hair you already have too much, so it is better to convert back to estrogen. If you have zinc it will convert back to T, but you need to consume it and to circulate otherwise it will be stuck in the prostate. It is like being too Yang and no Yin. Or too Yin and no Yang. In my opinion is better to be balanced. But depends what you do, what you eat, where you live etc. I did horse stance and zhan zhuang and they both have results, depends what you look for. Horse stance boost the Yang energy. Zhan Zhuang is more balancing, it will gradually increase Yang in the first stage then Yin follows and after a year of practice you may find that it balances your Yin-Yang. By Yin-Yang I mean the cortisol levels are balanced by Serotonine and the adrenaline is balanced by circulating it through the whole body. The Taoists say "Jing replenished - no sex desire, Qi replenished - no hunger". This is the dynamics of Yin-Yang, If you have too much Jing but no Qi then the libido decrease. But then you convert Jing (hormones) into Qi and libido increase. And then when you consume the Jing the libido decrease again because no more Jing left, so you need to replenish again the Jing. And so on the cycle repeats. There are many ways you can manipulate the hormones and energy of your body, there are always limits and optimal levels, which differ from person to person. You just have to look for symptoms and other clues. It's complicated, I agree is not easy. So in conclusion T is good but as everything else "too much of a good thing is a bad thing".

We need to look here at how hormones affect hair. Estrogens promote the growth of scalp hair, while they inhibit the growth of hair elsewhere on the body; DHT, the strong form of testosterone, promotes the growth of body hair, facial hair, but it appears to inhibit the growth of scalp hair. The amount of DHT produced in the skin in turn depends on the amount of the enzyme 5-alpha-reductase available for the conversion of testosterone to DHT. Men with congenital deficiency of 5-alpha-reductase have small prostates, do not develop prostate cancer (no case has ever been reported), have little body hair, and do not grow bald. Women often notice increased hair loss when there is a sudden drop in estrogens: post-partum, after stopping the Pill, and at the onset of menopause. It is estimated that a woman may lose as much as 20% of her hair at menopause. Both post-partum and menopausal hair loss, however, are not classified as androgenic alopecia, but as "endocrine alopecia," which should really be called "estrogen-withdrawal alopecia." Severely hyperandrogenic women, on the other hand, can suffer from male pattern baldness even at a young age. Still, a woman can be hyperandrogenic without necessarily showing signs of androgenic alopecia, but she may have acne and increased facial and body hair. Or a woman can have androgenic alopecia without acne and/or hirsutism. This seems to be a highly individual matter. Typically, however, it is men who start losing hair fairly early in life, sometimes already in their twenties. Men produce a lot more DHT than women do, since obviously men produce a lot more testosterone than women do (DHEA can also serve as a raw material for DHT). But it's not the serum level of DHT that seems to matter, but the local conversion of androgens to DHT in the scalp. Let me stress this point: it is the LOCAL excess DHT production that seems to be the root of the problem. THE SCALP FOLLICLES OF GENETICALLY SUSCEPTIBLE INDIVIDUALS HAVE MORE OF THE ENZYME 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONVERSION OF TESTOSTERONE TO DHT. Most women are protected by having (1) less testosterone, (2) less 5-alpha-reductase needed to convert T to DHT, and also (3) by having more aromatase, the enzyme that converts testosterone to estradiol. It is interesting to note that male teenagers and young men, with their tremendously high testosterone output (T production begins to decline very gradually after the age of 25) tend to have a full head of hair but generally not that much chest hair and facial hair. On the other hand, it's not unusual to see lots of chest hair and a full flowing beard on a severely balding middle-aged man. Apparently the local production of DHT, perhaps as compensation for low serum androgens, is a significant factor here. We do not yet understand how serum DHT and peripheral DHT are related, but one hypothesis is that there is an inverse relationship. It's just a hypothesis. Estrogens are vasodilators: they promote the release of NO from the blood vessel lining. It's also possible that estrogens increase superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity (at least that's one of the effects of the birth-control pill). SOD quenches the superoxide radical, a very nasty little beastie that apparently inhibits NO release. DHT acts in a more perfidious way. Here is one emerging view of it: DHT seems to induce class-II antigens within the follicle. The immune system then perceives the follicle as a "foreign body," and targets it for destruction. Progesterone inhibits 5-alpha-reductase, and it can compete with other androgens for androgen receptors (progesterone could be classified as a "non-masculinizing androgen"). Topical progesterone can thus arrest the progression of baldness, but it doesn't promote regrowth. I repeat: there is no evidence that progesterone promotes regrowth. Just decreasing DHT in the scalp can at best arrest the progression of baldness. Proscar (finasteride) also decreases DHT by inhibiting 5-alpha-reductase. Proscar produces close to 70% reduction in serum DHT, but only about 34% reduction in skin DHT. Still, virtually all men taking Proscar (5 mg finasteride) report that the progression of baldness is arrested. But is a big reduction of serum DHT beneficial, or can it in fact be harmful? (Hint: DHT can't be aromatized to estradiol, and estradiol has been implicated in prostate cancer. We discuss it later in this issue - see the comment by Dr. Zava.) CORTISOL and cortisone, the so-called "stress hormones," are also androgens and are possibly implicated in baldness. We know for sure that they are involved in acne. Anecdotally, stress is known to cause hair loss. One study (Schmidt 1994) did find SIGNIFICANTLY ELEVATED CORTISOL IN ANDROGENIC ALOPECIANS, BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, as compared with controls. It also found alopecians to have significantly elevated androstenedione. In women there was also very frequent hypothyroidism and/or elevated prolactin (it's possible that prolactin stimulates the production of androgens). Balding men, on the other hand, had higher serum estradiol than controls. Schmidt makes a very big point of the finding that women suffering from androgenic alopecia do not necessarily have higher serum androgens (other than cortisol, generally not classified as an androgen, though it should be). She thinks that THE MAIN HORMONAL DISTURBANCE LINKED TO FEMALE ALOPECIA IS HYPOTHYROIDISM. It's likely that hypothyroidism leads to abnormalities in both estrogen and androgen metabolism. I'm amazed that this study didn't look at insulin, since elevated insulin has been linked to alopecia in hyperandrogenic women. Anecdotally, lowering insulin with drugs and/or diet does seem to improve hair growth in both men and women. [Read my paragraphs on insulin resistance in the Nutrition page sidebar. - Tom] As you can see, the situation gets more and more complicated the more hormones you look at. Finally you just want to throw up your hands and say, "OK, it looks like all the hormones are out of whack." To put it more formally, androgenic alopecia is a multi-hormonal disorder. You can't just say "too much DHT." Malnutrition and stress can obviously cause hair loss, but it appears that the primary causes are genetic-hormonal-immunological and vascular (it's not really possible to separate the endocrine system from the immune system from the nervous system and so forth). In other words, to preserve our hair, we must keep DHT and cortisol at bay and strive to preserve clean arteries. http://www.hairloss-reversible.com/biology_of_baldness.htm

I wear only cotton, because it is cooling and I can't stand any acrylic or polyamide or any kind of plastics. Sometimes in the winter I wear acrylic socks but only to heat up. Wool is best for warming but it cannot be worn directly on skin, so I avoid it, although in cold weather is the best. I think linen and hemp are better than cotton for cooling but I couldn't find any clothes in stores.

You can take natural substances that have the same effect like viagra. For example melon juice, you can find lots of recipes on youtube. Peas are high in arginine. Arginine will increase the nitric oxide which is the active substance of viagra. Also if you have body hair or some baldness, this means you convert the testosterone into DHT which is bad, I don't remember what to eat to inhibit DHT production I think they are called alpha-inhibitors, I think it was zinc, all nuts have Zinc, also seafood is rich in zinc. To boost progesterone which is the testosterone precursor you should take some turmeric and walnuts. In fact fish oil is precursor of prostaglandins and cholesterol (animal fat) is the precursor of progesterone which is the precursor of estrogen and testosterone. Also almonds are rich in calcium, I think all nuts are rich in calcium magnesium and zinc. You need calcium, magnesium and zinc to make all those transformations from the precursor to the final hormones. I remembered: Saw Palmetto - Herbal DHT Blocker This is probably the best known natural dht blocker. Studies have shown that saw palmetto is an effective anti-androgen. It acts in a similar way that propecia does. Firstly it lowers levels of DHT in the body by blocking 5 alpha-reductase. Secondly Saw Palmetto block receptor sites on cell membranes required for cells to absorb DHT. So it is good to boost the testosterone but is not good to convert it into DHT, this is the main culprit of baldness and prostate problems later in life. http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/01/18/how-to-increase-testosterone-naturally/

Yes, squats with weights comparable to your body weight, and don't do lower than Jackie Chan there in that picture cause you will damage your knees. Also should wear a belt so that you don't damage your lower spine and herniate a disk or the peritoneum.

Yes, she is the lady. Maybe more like this will boost some testosterone:

It was a woman taobum called Witch who had a formula for boosting the libido, also wrote a book on that, which basically was fish oil + dark chocolate I have to look for the quantities. Later edit: 1600 mg EPA 1300 mg DHA min 5 pills of 1000 mg fish oil each pill should have EPA+DHA>500mg Calcium, magnezium, zinc, vitamin C, Iron 10 mg Dark chocolate min 70%

I don't think you can do anything versus two cops, even if you train with the best martial arts or artists. Except if you run and you are lucky.

This is not about compartmentalization. The article above said something about lateralization. Which means that when you scan the brain you can see regions activated on both sides of the brain. The idea of right vs left is that the regions are ampler with that ratio 80:20, or 70:30, or 49:51 on one side versus the other. The brain functions like a hologram, actually the whole brain is activated more or less to create memories and abstract thoughts. Because when you create a thought you call a lot of ideas from all over the place. The more links you do between different ideas, the more intelligent you are. In his lecture Todd Murphy say that the more you do connections between left and right the better, which means you have links that connects both sides of your brain through the centre, the corpus callosum.

Sifu Cris Matsuo Laoxie : http://dragongatesanctuary.com/gallery/ninjutsu/

No man, it's real, science has no clue what is happening inside your body. Right and left hemispheres are energetically supplied by Ida and Pingala channels, which in turn are supplied by organs energy from dantian and so on. And organs are influenced by elements and so on. Science goes only by double blinded studies that have no meaning, And this please... "a graduate student". I am a graduate student, do you belive me? Search Todd Murphy with his "God and the brain" lecture on youtube. That is science especially when you invent a "God helmet" with electromagnets that are inducing magnetic fields in brain regions and trigger mystical experiences. Like that lady neuroscientist from TED that had a right brained seizure and describes a whole bunch of mystical experiences.

^ Allinone, I am with you on this one, this is the correct way of running MCO.

Come on! 21 is a nice round magical number, is = 3 x 7, so 21 questions instead of 20 is not a big deal.

I am 78% right brained, 22% left brained, I already knew the result, cause I am INFP as personality which is mostly a right brained person.

I found it: Todd Murphy about God and the brain: I highly recommend the whole series, he is talking about chakras, kundalini, psychic powers, enlighteneing and reincarnation among others.

Yes, people who begin to have lucid dreams, sometimes they see that dark silhouette which is actually their own shadow. You have the impression that is a demon or a malefic spirit but in fact is your own psychic or mental shadow. There are some OBE books that mention this, although I don't remember the titles so I cannot recommend. Anyway there is a guy who posted on google video a 7 hour lecture about neuroscience and spiritual experiences, and he too mention this shadow. I have to search for that lecture, but you have to listen the whole set of 7 hours to find that part.

http://thetaobums.com/topic/34850-cause-effect-and-celibacy/?p=548055

Nice article. I noticed this: "In Germany in 1952 she was the Central Governments Senior Expert for fats and pharmaceutical drugs. Shes considered one of the worlds leading authorities on fats and oils. Her research has shown the tremendous effects that commercially processed fats and oils have in destroying cell membranes and lowering the voltage in the cells of our bodies, which then result in chronic and terminal disease. What we have forgotten is that we are body electric. The cells of our body fire electrically. They have a nucleus in the center of the cell which is positively charged, and the cell membrane, which is the outer lining of the cell, is negatively charged. We are all aware of how fats clog up our veins and arteries, and are the leading cause of heart attacks, but we never looked beyond the end of our noses to see how these very dangerous fats and oils are affecting the overall health of our minds and bodies at the cellular level. Dr Budwig discovered that when unsaturated fats have been chemically treated that their unsaturated qualities are destroyed and the field of electrons removed. This Commercial Processing of fats destroys the field of electrons that the cell membranes (60-75 trillion cells) in our bodies must have to fire properly (i.e. function properly). The fats ability to associate with protein and thereby to achieve water solubility in the fluids of the living bodyall this is destroyed. As Dr Budwig put it, the battery is dead because the electrons in these fats and oils recharge it. When the electrons are destroyed the fats are no longer active and cannot flow into the capillaries and through the fine capillary networks. This is when circulation problems arise. Without the proper metabolism of fats in our bodies every vital function and every organ is affected. This includes the generation of new life and new cells. Our bodies produce over 500 million new cells daily. Dr Budwig points out that in growing new cells, there is a dipolarity between the electrically positive nucleus and the electrically negative cell membrane with its high unsaturated fatty acids. During cell division the cell and new daughter cell must contain enough electron rich fatty acids in the cells surface area to divide off completely from the old cell. When this process is interrupted the body begins to die. In essence, these commercially processed fats and oils are shutting down the electrical field of the cells allowing chronic and terminal diseases to take hold of our bodies. A very good example would be tumors. Dr Budwig noted that The formation of tumors usually happens as follows. In those body areas which normally host many growth processes, such as in the skin and membranes, the glandular organs, for example, the liver and pancreas or the glands in the stomach and intestinal tractit is here that the growth processes are brought to a stand still. Because the dipolarity is missing, due to the lack of electron rich highly unsaturated fat, the course of growth is disturbedthe surface-active fats are not present; the substance becomes inactive before the maturing and shedding process of the cells ever takes place, which results in the formation of tumors. She pointed out that this can be reversed by providing the simple foods, cottage cheese and flax seed oil, which revises the stagnated growth processes. This naturally causes the tumor or tumors present to dissolve and the whole range of symptoms which indicate a dead battery are cured. Dr Budwig did not believe in the use of growth inhibiting treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation. She was quoted as saying I flat declare that the usual hospital treatments today, in a case of tumorous growth, most certainly leads to worsening of the disease or a speedier death, and in healthy people, quickly causes cancer. This is Qi.

These are sleeping postures from Shaolin. I am a Kan person according to Feng shui I belong to eastern group so my best direction is N-S but there are other people belong to western group where the best direction is E-W depending on their body energy.

Feng shui is based on the same theory, especially when they say in which direction to put your head when sleeping and which direction to face when working at the office. Just let the earth magnetic lines to do the job naturally and with an millenary old technique.

I have yet to see a book that is closing the gap between neurochemistry and qigong or neigong or taoist cultivation, whatever you may call it. The only one I've seen yet which covers only the spiritual quest is "Darkness technology" by Mantak Chia. But not everyone is interested to find the light in the darkness so it is quite underrated for its huge value. Anyway people prefer to chase rainbow poneys in the clouds instead of a down to earth approach. For instance expressions like "fill your kidney with qi" may mean just a "let your adrenal glands rest and build up the adrenaline reserves". Another example is the iron shirt practitioner that say "suck up the qi into your dantien" is just making a soup of serotonin and adrenaline which both are pain inhibitors and are very useful in fighting, but if you don't fight, then the mechanisms are not triggered and the hormones are not burned and accumulate and stagnate and create a lot of other problems.

That is because Qigong is stimulating serotonin production. Also when too much serotonin is produced it covers the dopamine effect and installs the "mental impotence" or "frigidity". Which occurs naturally if you really know how to manipulate the biochemical mechanism. Also the mechanism can be reversed anytime, maybe with less efficacy for seniors but it is still possible. NEUROTRANSMITTERS are the brain chemicals that communicate information throughout our brain and body. They relay signals between nerve cells, called neurons. The brain uses neurotransmitters to tell your heart to beat, your lungs to breathe, and your stomach to digest. They can also affect mood, sleep, concentration, weight, and can cause adverse symptoms when they are out of balance. Neurotransmitter levels can be depleted many ways. As a matter of fact, it is estimated that 86% of Americans have suboptimal neurotransmitter levels. Stress, poor diet, neurotoxins, genetic predisposition, drugs (prescription and recreational), alcohol and caffeine usage can cause these levels to be out of optimal range. There are two kinds of neurotransmitters INHIBITORY and EXCITATORY. Excitatory neurotransmitters are not necessarily exciting they are what stimulate the brain. Those that calm the brain and help create balance are called inhibitory. Inhibitory neurotransmitters balance mood and are easily depleted when the excitatory neurotransmitters are overactive. Inhibitory Neurotransmitters SEROTONIN is an inhibitory neurotransmitter which means that it does not stimulate the brain. Adequate amounts of serotonin are necessary for a stable mood and to balance any excessive excitatory (stimulating) neurotransmitter firing in the brain. If you use stimulant medications or caffeine in your daily regimen it can cause a depletion of serotonin over time. Serotonin also regulates many other processes such as carbohydrate cravings, sleep cycle, pain control and appropriate digestion. Low serotonin levels are also associated with decreased immune system function. GABA is an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is often referred to as natures VALIUM-like substance. When GABA is out of range (high or low excretion values), it is likely that an excitatory neurotransmitter is firing too often in the brain. GABA will be sent out to attempt to balance this stimulating over-firing. DOPAMINE is a special neurotransmitter because it is considered to be both excitatory and inhibitory. Dopamine helps with depression as well as focus, which you will read about in the excitatory section. Excitatory Neurotransmitters DOPAMINE is our main focus neurotransmitter. When dopamine is either elevated or low we can have focus issues such as not remembering where we put our keys, forgetting what a paragraph said when we just finished reading it or simply daydreaming and not being able to stay on task. Dopamine is also responsible for our drive or desire to get things done or motivation. Stimulants such as medications for ADD/ADHD and caffeine cause dopamine to be pushed into the synapse so that focus is improved. Unfortunately, stimulating dopamine consistently can cause a depletion of dopamine over time. NOREPINEPHRINE is an excitatory neurotransmitter that is responsible for stimulatory processes in the body. Norepinephrine helps to make epinephrine as well. This neurotransmitter can cause ANXIETY at elevated excretion levels as well as some MOOD DAMPENING effects. Low levels of norepinephrine are associated with LOW ENERGY, DECREASED FOCUS ability and sleep cycle problems. EPINEPHRINE is an excitatory neurotransmitter that is reflective of stress. This neurotransmitter will often be elevated when ADHD like symptoms are present. Long term STRESS or INSOMNIA can cause epinephrine levels to be depleted (low). Epinephrine also regulates HEART RATE and BLOOD PRESSURE.