pepbob
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Hi everyone!
I'm a 26 year old engineer from Toronto.
Background:
For most of my life I have been mostly detached from other people out of choice (maybe not a good one) and what I now understand to be a form of neurodivergence. As a result, I've developed my own set of beliefs, habits and predispositions, some of which have been less beneficial than others. I believe that I started to gain weight as a result of naturally high appetite, fast eating tempo, poor nutrition and low baseline dopamine levels (depression). I have attempted with varying levels of success to break free from this cycle, but due to naturally higher caloric intake during bouts of depression paired with metabolic adaptation, the loss was always short-lived.
Traditionally I have been of the philosophy that nature and by extension the human body are infinitely wiser than the modern world and by extension the pharmaceutical industry. I still believe this to some extent; nature has had billions of years to optimize itself, even if it suffers from a lack of foresight, while the modern world, despite its capacity for planning, often develops too quickly to anticipate the consequences of its own actions. If we are very well-optimized for living inside of our own bodies, why should we use our comparatively limited minds to interfere with them? For this reason, I have been wary of taking medications, until a few years ago when it became apparent to me that the modern world has the capacity not just to nudge us outside of the optimization space of human evolution, but to change the objective function entirely. Usually, when evolution has been bested, it'll show up as a self-stable feedback loop with negative personal consequences. Once you start to look for these in the modern world, they are remarkably common.
I recently began to take nootropics such as modafinil, l-theanine, caffeine and creatine with the primary intent of raising my dopamine floor. To this effect, they have been excellent: my processing speed, willingness to think in depth and overall energy level have increased noticeably. I intend to begin taking peptides for weight loss, visceral fat reduction and training endurance. Ever since I've started to view myself as an engineering problem rather than a delicate piece of glassware, I have been equally excited about learning the biochemistry as I have been about applying it to myself. Looking forward to meeting like-minded individuals
I'm a 26 year old engineer from Toronto.
Background:
For most of my life I have been mostly detached from other people out of choice (maybe not a good one) and what I now understand to be a form of neurodivergence. As a result, I've developed my own set of beliefs, habits and predispositions, some of which have been less beneficial than others. I believe that I started to gain weight as a result of naturally high appetite, fast eating tempo, poor nutrition and low baseline dopamine levels (depression). I have attempted with varying levels of success to break free from this cycle, but due to naturally higher caloric intake during bouts of depression paired with metabolic adaptation, the loss was always short-lived.
Traditionally I have been of the philosophy that nature and by extension the human body are infinitely wiser than the modern world and by extension the pharmaceutical industry. I still believe this to some extent; nature has had billions of years to optimize itself, even if it suffers from a lack of foresight, while the modern world, despite its capacity for planning, often develops too quickly to anticipate the consequences of its own actions. If we are very well-optimized for living inside of our own bodies, why should we use our comparatively limited minds to interfere with them? For this reason, I have been wary of taking medications, until a few years ago when it became apparent to me that the modern world has the capacity not just to nudge us outside of the optimization space of human evolution, but to change the objective function entirely. Usually, when evolution has been bested, it'll show up as a self-stable feedback loop with negative personal consequences. Once you start to look for these in the modern world, they are remarkably common.
I recently began to take nootropics such as modafinil, l-theanine, caffeine and creatine with the primary intent of raising my dopamine floor. To this effect, they have been excellent: my processing speed, willingness to think in depth and overall energy level have increased noticeably. I intend to begin taking peptides for weight loss, visceral fat reduction and training endurance. Ever since I've started to view myself as an engineering problem rather than a delicate piece of glassware, I have been equally excited about learning the biochemistry as I have been about applying it to myself. Looking forward to meeting like-minded individuals
