Thanks again, everyone, for a very interesting session! I have a lot to say this time! I guess we'll have to wait and see for whatever the Quorum has planned. I can't find the words to describe how horrible the situation in Gaza has become. Comets would seem almost too easy for those who have supported the genocide.
(Z...) In the last session, it was asked, "Is there some kind of cosmic law about consuming the young of other creatures?" And the answer was "Close". Does this mean we should refrain from eating all baby animals like piglets, lamb, veal, etc.?
A: No.
Q: (L) Well, is there a follow up for that?
(Joe) There's a contradiction there.
A: Each case is individual. Network to work out the "rules".
Q: (L) So that means you have to think about it. Well, I'm glad I don't have to give up my veal.
(Andromeda) Or lamb.
A: Yes.
Regarding eating the young of other animals, I have the impression/intuition that if it's old enough to look like an adult animal and is capable of living without its mother, it wouldn't break any cosmic rules. Modern veal isn't slaughtered while it's still drinking its mother's milk, for example, so it would be okay. Same for lambs. But suckling pigs would probably not be okay to eat, unless weaned off the mother's milk. Deer are probably old enough once they lose their spots. But I don't think anyone would support eating baby chicks, even though they can live without their mothers. So something like eating balut (boiled duck embryo) would be bad karma.
(L) Yeah. So, were these people all in soul, or were they like organic portals?
A: About same percentage as today. Keep in mind that "time" is selective and variable.
Q: (L) So they just had to bring in the time problem! So what would be 8,000 years...
(Andromeda) at another time in a different environment...
(L) ...might seem like something very different than 8,000 years would seem like to us today.
A: Yes. Exactly.
Q: (Joe) So does that mean that the typical amount of experiences that a person could have had who lived like 2,500 years on average, would be comparable to the kind of experiences we get in 4 score and 10, or 3 score and 10?
A: Close.
Q: (Joe) That's weird. Time must move faster then.
About the lifespans of ancient humans, I played around with some numbers to see how that age of 8000 years would be possible, yet still be about the same number of experiences as a modern human. I'm not the best at math or physics, so it's to be taken with a giant grain of salt. A year is defined as the time it takes for a planet to completely orbit around the sun. On Earth, it's 365 days, on Mars, 687 days, and on Mercury, 88 days. So the ratio of Earth years to Martian years is (365/687) = 0.53, meaning a 30 year old on Earth would be 30*0.53 = 16 years old on Mars. On Mercury, (365/88) = 4.2, so the 30 year old would be 30*4.2 = 126 years old.
Assuming the maximum potential lifespan of a human is 150 years old (which has been proposed by some researchers), and comparing it to the proposed lifespan of 8000, the new ratio of our Earth years to that of this hypothetical Earth would be 150*x = 8000 ---> x = 53.3 . And that might seem reasonable if you think about how people didn't live as long throughout history due to disease, bad weather, childbirth, etc. (Y1*53.3 = 6000 ---> Y1 = 113 years old, Y2*53.3 = 2500 ---> Y2 = 47 years old, Y3*53.3 = 800 ---> 15 years old on average.) So a year on this hypothetical Earth would be only (365/Z) = 53.3 ---> Z = 6.82 days! Must have been quite a ride!
Q: (Jacques) What are the source and causes of endometriosis?
A: Excess estrogen and imbalance of progesterone.
Q: (L) Okay. Well that's the cause or the source. I think the question meant more than just the clinical description. Is there something like diet or something?
A: Diet, yes. Also poisons in food, air and water. Also excess use of hormones by fertile women.
Q: (L) So you mean like birth control pills?
A: Yes.
Q: (Jacques) Is there a cure for it?
A: Balance the hormones, but that is a tall order with so many environmental disruptors.
Q: (L) Well, I'll tell you, I had endometriosis, and it got cured because I got pregnant. And they do say that getting pregnant is one of the ways that you cure it. So I did. I got pregnant with my last child and once she was born, I never had it again, but I had it off and on for years. It was terrible.
Regarding endometriosis, it makes sense to me that progesterone from a pregnancy would help cure it, since progesterone suppresses growth of the endometrium, along with stem cells from the pregnancy promoting healing. But that's not always an option or the best option for women. Progesterone cream could help as a short-term fix, as long as the underlying causes of the estrogen-progesterone imbalance are corrected and the disease isn't advanced enough to require surgery or other medical interventions. Anecdotally, I've heard red raspberry leaf tea helps with menstrual pain in women with endometriosis, despite it being estrogenic. I probably don't have endometriosis, but I have experienced bad menstrual pain that did not improve with consistent supplementation of calcium, thiamine, magnesium, vitamin C, other B vitamins, fish oil, etc.
My experience has been that 1 tsp of pure licorice root as a tea (no extracts) works way better than red raspberry leaf for period pain, despite (or maybe because of) it being highly estrogenic, and I have had little to no pain using it the past few months along with lifestyle changes I made over time. There was even a rat study showing licorice root extract helps reduce endometrial implantations, albeit at doses much higher than anyone would safely consume (
Comparing The Effects of Glycyrrhiza glabra Root Extract, A Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor (Celecoxib) and A Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Analog (Diphereline) In A Rat Model of Endometriosis). It's highly anti-inflammatory (enoxolone is structurally similar to cortisone, as well as licoricidin acting like an NSAID) and reduces blood clotting, but it's contraindicated in people with high blood pressure (as it increases sodium retention and potassium excretion) and for those with estrogen-dependent cancers.
I'd say as long as it's only used during the period in the absence of another condition that would benefit from licorice root (because in my experience higher doses definitely interfere with the estrogen/progesterone balance during the luteal phase), and as long as there is adequate potassium in the diet, it could be worth trying for women with endometriosis needing immediate relief, along with a progesterone cream. (I personally have never used the cream, and use licorice root at varying doses throughout the month to address other health issues that have not been resolved with diet, fasting, and other supplements.)
I think what the C's said lines up with what I learned from Dr. Mindy Pelz (Chiropractor on YouTube) about balancing women's hormones without birth control by changing one's lifestyle: timing various intermittent fasts and ways of exercising to the menstrual cycle, eating unprocessed foods (ketogenic most of the time), managing stress, supporting the microbiome, and detoxing as needed. I think a good amount of her approach is also colinear with the diet and health advice shared on the forum over the years.
I found her work about a year ago after doing OMAD fasting for a few weeks and ending up with probably the most painful period of my life. I mainly just followed the recommendation for timing when to intermittent fast and when not to, along with trying to minimize stress and the use of any estrogenic herbs, supplements, foods, and teas during the progesterone-building phase. (She gives calendar recommendations for fasting, but in my experience, it's simpler than it sounds: don't fast and honor your hunger cues during the hormonal peaks of the cycle, and fast at varying lengths during the hormonal dips.)
I'd say within two cycles, not only did the period pain improve, but my PMS and mood swings improved immensely as well. I realized how much my physiology influences my emotional states, and I think it's criminal that women aren't educated enough about it. In general, I have been much more emotionally stable over the past year as long as I'm able to implement those recommendations. But it's not a cure-all; it's another tool in the toolbox, and sometimes I've needed other tools to resolve difficult issues.
The big caveat about her work is that she oversimplifies concepts (to the point of feminist woo-woo at times, like with the personalities of hormones) and unfortunately does not often provide citations to back up the claims she makes about hormonal physiology (even in her book Fast Like a Girl). I guess it's because her audience is mostly women, especially perimenopausal and menopausal women, looking for an easier way to lose weight. If you want to really understand why her approach works, you have to do extra research on your own and experiment for yourself. (I would have never believed that you will have the most energy and least stress doing HIIT training during your period until I started managing the back-half of my cycle, for example!)
She also doesn't really discuss food intolerances, doesn't often recommend supplementation, doesn't seem to think oxalates are a problem, and lists grass-fed butter as the only healthy animal fat while promoting cold-pressed seed oils for phytoestrogens, so discernment is required. Genetics can also play a role regarding what advice will work for you and what won't, as well as other health challenges, so hormone balancing can be highly individual. I do think her approach more accessible for the majority of women, though.
She has done so many videos and interviews that it's hard to pick from them all. I recommend checking out her Diary of a CEO interviews (
Here is Part 1 and
here is Part 2 for people with more time.) The one below is one of her older videos where she discusses balancing estrogen levels and also mentions estrogen dominance, where endometriosis is one of the diseases of that state of imbalance. There is advice relevant to men with too much estrogen as well.
She recommends different lengths of fasting for fat loss, improving insulin sensitivity, increasing growth hormone and improving estrogen signaling, increasing autophagy (and thus detox, cellular repair, and cancer prevention), and for improving gut health for microbes to break estrogens down. Excess estrogen secreted from body fat can contribute to the imbalance. (I think in the case of endometriosis in a person with a low BMI, lack of progesterone from various causes is likely the biggest contributor, along with diet and endocrine disruptors.) Cutting sugary, processed, pesticide-laden foods, and refined toxic oils (cottonseed, corn, canola, and I'd add soybean too), and adding prebiotic and probiotic foods to support the microbiome can help detox endocrine disruptors. (I don't recommend phytoestrogen-containing oils like flax for estrogen dominance; better to focus on high quality animal fats and cholesterol for proper bile metabolism and hormone synthesis in general.) Removing toxic beauty and personal care products, cleaning products, and other potential endocrine disruptors from plastics and paper products (and your drinking water!), along with detox protocols not addressed in the video, will also help. She mentions elsewhere that women detox more when hormonal levels are highest in the cycle (i.e. ovulation for estrogen and the late luteal phase / week before the period for progesterone), so heavy metals and other toxins can go into greater circulation at those times.
I would say weekly infrared saunas and drinking filtered water with activated charcoal and bentonite clay afterwards (and daily vitamin and mineral supplementation) is probably one of the simplest and most efficient detox methods, especially if you're like me and choose to do a low residue or carnivore diet because your gut becomes inflamed with prebiotics and probiotics (despite doing gut-reset fasts or taking supplements that supposedly repair your gut). IR sauna helps with endocrine disruptors, heavy metals, viruses, and promotes autophagy. She has also recommended castor oil packs for the liver and dry brushing for the lymph in other videos. She has mentioned toxic mold contributing to hormonal imbalances elsewhere as well, and if you don't detox, estrogen dominance and other imbalances will not get fixed no matter how much keto and fasting you do. And stress management is important because excess cortisol leads to imbalances of insulin and the sex hormones.
She also did another video addressing the cause of heavy bleeding during periods, which is a common sign of endometriosis. It's a sign of low progesterone, which can be managed roughly the week before the period. There are comments from women saying managing their progesterone this way has helped resolve their heavy bleeding.
Stress management and self-care are very important for progesterone production. Even in the absence of stress from one's job or personal life, fasting, lack of quality sleep, excess exercise, cold therapy, and other stressors can also throw off progesterone balance. She commonly makes the claim, "As cortisol goes high, progesterone goes shy," but doesn't really explain why in her videos. The book claims DHEA is the precursor to progesterone, but I've looked at different steroid pathway charts and I think she got it backwards while confusing progesterone with pregnenolone, which is the precursor for every steroid hormone. What seems more plausible to me is, because progesterone is required to eventually make cortisol, when you are in a stress response, progesterone will be depleted to make cortisol for your survival.
That also makes sense to me from a reproductive standpoint. Higher progesterone means more potential cortisol available to fight back and protect potential offspring. And when progesterone metabolites (including allopregnanolone) aren't there to promote the GABA uptake in the brain that calms you down, PMS kicks in, and you can unconsciously act like a mama bear! But this obviously isn't ideal, and modern society doesn't consider how women aren't designed to handle chronic stress as well as men (as Dr. Mindy has said before, despite her feminism). Stress management is easier said than done, of course, especially when you have challenging life circumstances (and especially when the Universe reminds you that life isn't fair and throws you lessons the week before your period), so that's where tools like EE, meditation, psychological coping skills, principles from the Fourth Way, etc. can be very helpful.
She also makes the claim that blood glucose needs to be higher for progesterone production and has recommended 100g of net carbs per day the week before the period in other videos. I haven't found that adding carbs has been really necessary in my case, as long as I eat more fat and protein according to my hunger cues to keep up with the increased metabolic demand from progesterone production. I think the important part of that is to maintain stable blood sugar, because cortisol can get triggered in response to hypoglycemia to raise blood sugar levels for homeostasis. (That type of cortisol spike is also why some people wake up at 3am.) Not mentioned in this video are nutrients to support progesterone production, including but not limited to cholesterol, vitamin C, vitamin B6, zinc, vitamin E, magnesium (as a supplement, not just from chocolate), and adequate iodine for thyroid health (and potentially following the iodine protocol mentioned on the forum for detoxing bromines and other endocrine disruptors). And I would add that avoiding phytoestrogens and at least minimizing caffeine (stimulates cortisol) during this time is beneficial for progesterone production as well.
She also did a video on BHT and natural flavorings (which can also have BHT) as endocrine disruptors and cancer promoters. I had never heard of that before so I thought this would be helpful to include. I used to eat salami with BHT and natural flavorings frequently out of convenience. After I saw that video, I cut it out of my diet and started losing weight again, despite eating more meat, fat, and salt. When I reintroduced it after a while, I had an awful mood swing. That convinced me to stay away from it and other processed meats as much as possible (except bacon).
That was pretty long, but I hope it might be helpful for anyone reading with endometriosis or other hormonal imbalances. Like the C's said, hormone balancing is a pretty tall order!
(Sinapi) My grandma was a language teacher, but she had to tell her students that she thought in pictures not German or English.
(L) That must have been difficult to be a language teacher. If you don't think in words.
To add more context to my comment: My grandma would frequently get asked by her students if she thought in German, English, or Spanish. She was very honest (or just didn't think it was weird) and told them she only thought in pictures. By all accounts, being a language teacher wasn't difficult for her at all! She used to be a highly intelligent woman before Alzheimer's began creeping in, and said she always loved learning languages. She was fluent in her native German (both her Bavarian dialect and High German), English, Spanish, and she still remembered a lot of Latin from when they forced German students to learn it. She actually wanted to study economics because she enjoyed bookkeeping, but her mother discouraged her because it was considered a man's field, so she studied languages in college and earned her teaching credential.
She had a long career teaching German and Spanish for high school students and didn't retire until her 70s. Many students respected her, but others thought she was too strict (e.g. no bathroom breaks during class, until someone finally peed in the corner). I remember her emphasizing grammar a lot when I asked language questions and when she tried to teach me Latin (but as a child, I was too bored of grammar to pay attention, unfortunately!). I recall her saying she always liked having good textbooks to help her create lesson plans. Public speaking was never an issue for her while her brain was still healthy, and she has always been very chatty.
I think it's quite amazing and ironic that she said she only thought in pictures; it amazed her students, too. Even more ironic that she developed Alzheimer's and has much more difficulty with language now. I had the thought she might have been an OP when she told me how she thought a long time ago, because it sounded like how an animal would think. Other than the beginnings of cognitive decline, she seemed as normal as any other person. I guess at least some of the parts for language in the brain don't have much to do with soul development.
One thing I thought more about that was a little odd on her part was she never seemed to really like music. She could memorize German nursery rhymes and teach them to students, but she never sang the melodies to them. I remember times at the dinner table, when talking about the German language, she'd deliver the rhymes in a fast monotone voice. My grandpa would then sing the rhymes properly (Grandpa, in contrast, said he had an inner monologue of multiple languages). She could still sing along in a group and would listen to classical music when my grandpa did so, but otherwise she never expressed much interest in it unless it was part of a social activity. I don't know if she was just tone deaf or if that could be another indication of someone being an OP or thinking only in pictures. She claimed she did swing dancing, waltzes, and tangos in her youth, though, so she must have had at least some ear for music.
(On that note, from what I've listened to, Benjamin Britten's works have sounded like cacophony to me and haven't been pleasing to listen to, especially Peter Grimes. So I think the music thing can still be a clue!)
I don't really care if my grandma is an OP, though. I still love her and am grateful for all she has taught me and the kindness she and my grandpa showed me when I otherwise had so little growing up. She has been a better human being than many "souls" I have met, even in her deterioration from Alzheimer's. So, I would say if you do learn someone thinks in pictures, don't automatically look down on them and think you're better than them. OPs can still be good people; they're just on a different point of the learning cycle.
I do have an inner monologue, by the way! (Or inner speech; I didn't think they could be different.) It can just be too chatty at times. I admit that I usually don't think consciously before I talk, though. The words just come out. Sometimes I have a conscious inner narration (e.g. "Okay, I'm going to do x, y, and z"), and other times it's repetitive verbal thoughts on a variety of topics that come through unconsciously. I can choose to ignore the latter when I make the effort. That only seems to stop completely when I do guided meditations, or temporarily when I am practicing self-remembrance and make conscious efforts to focus on my bodily sensations and my immediate environment.
Thanks again, and thanks to everyone who read this to the end (especially the men!).
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