December 27, 2010 Al Sears, MD 11903 Southern Blvd., Ste. 208 Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 ⦠I just donât use prescription drugs for anything but short-term problems. The longer I practice medicine, the less faith I have in a drug to address a long-term problem. For chronic problems, you just have to take the old-fashioned approach and get to the root of the problem. My fall-back position for prevention in general is to give yourself back the good nutrition your body needs and physical challenges that mimic our native environment. 1. The Native Way to Feed Your Organs and Muscles Our native ancestors lived on natural foods like fish, meat, nuts, berries, fruits and vegetables. They were robust, full of energy ⦠never fat ⦠and they got all of the nutrients their bodies needed from the food they ate. Your body is 99.99 percent the same as these ancient ancestors, yet the modern way of eating is completely different. Almost everything available at your local grocery store is processed and lacking any sort of nutritional value. To help give your body the proper nutrition it needs to feed your organs and muscles and keep your weight under control, avoid âdietâ and processed foods. The best choices are grass-fed beef, cage-free eggs, free-range chicken and locally grown organic produce. This way you know the food youâre eating is free of toxins and hormones and is pure nourishment for your body. 2. Get Back Your Native Strength Exercise also plays a big role in fighting diabetes, obesity, and believe it or not, pain. A weak body is more susceptible to everyday aches and pains because itâs not strong enough to function properly. But a lean, strong body is better equipped to handle daily tasks with less muscle and joint pain. Letâs go back to our ancient ancestors. Do you think a caveman would hit the gym? How about do a bicep curl with a rock for three sets of 20 reps? Probably not. This is why I believe the majority of people (trainers, included) are exercising the wrong way. They think aerobic exercise and weight training is the way to go, but thatâs simply not the case. Your body isnât meant to do those types of repetitive, isolated movements. Your native ancestors had to be spry and agile to catch food, strong to lift heavy objects and build shelter, and quick to sprint away from predators. They didnât continually run four miles without a break or lift a heavy log 15 times in a row the exact same way to work out their pecs. If you want lean muscle thatâs ready for action at a momentâs notice, and a heart and lungs with the extra capacity to deal with stress, itâs crucial to make your workouts brief but âprogressive.â What do I mean by progressive? You start off easy at whatâs comfortable and then increase the difficulty (pick up the pace or increase the resistance) but not the duration. In this way, youâll be training your heart, lungs and muscle for strength and peak capacity but not endurance. And you can cut fat, stay lean, prevent pain and build real functional strength. To Your Good Health, Al Sears, MD http://www.alsearsmd.com/do-you-know-what-doctors-are-reading/ and Choline (also available at Vitacost, etc): http://www.alsearsmd.com/this-helps-keep-my-mind-clear-all-day/
MAN! When stoney is away the mice do play. After all I have done to SHOW YOU ALL HOW POT HELPS TRADING! AFTER THE DOZENS OF DOZENS OF PERSONAL TRADES GIVEN TO YOU ALL STONED! RESEARCHED STONED! AND SOLD STONED FOR A FAT PROFIT.... How can anyone still ask such a stupid question? (I don't mean syswiz it's the original poster question. Wiz was rebutting some vile comments on herb and drugged out traders since 1970's!) It's really insulting. I'm not going to trot out the scientific truths again but we all know Marijuana can help in making investing decisions by taking away the veil of fear which surrounds committing any amount of money to any one idea. Marijuana helps open up you parallel thinking allowing you to see the world more like an high headed Alien. Everyday news and events are carefully studied, sifted and acted upon and often in the bath. Seeds planted, ideas reaped and more importantly when the market turns.... paranoia and fear in equal measures helps protect gains. Testosterone has it's place in stock society but it creates blowhards with bald heads who push stocks. Cocaine has been used heavily by the stockbroker community for years and continues to be in high demand BUT that drug is never used for actual trading. I love chocolate more than anything but not at 7:00 in the morning. Before surfing through a zillion stock ideas for the right one I must be and have been for over twenty years COMPLETELY BLITZED! And its worked out great. For the most part. The down side? Money is spent very fast when high. Today I got bored and bought two duvet covers from Overstock. I'm looking for old rugs to replace my grandmothers really old and destroyed rugs and I need 4 dining chairs, a new big TV and a Dishwasher and eventually stove... and there's the no small matter of a trip to Nevis I have booked for April... and the meals each day and night and the incredible amount of wine... the two mortgages.... the bird food, the dog food... You don't save much stoned. There's really no way to balance a checkbook stoned, so on the flip side of investment fame, there are some extravagant spending issues to be dealt with. They should teach more school courses about this: Whatever you do folks- don't get stoned and go to Zingerman's .com. I've done a lot of damage there to my waste line and wallet. ~stoney
Trading while on shrooms!?!?!?!?! I HAVE to try that!!! You would probably make so much money! Anyway, Modafinil is more for avoiding sleep than it is for improving decision making. Trading is all about decision making. Stimulants can either put you "in the zone" or they can make you do things you shouldn't be doing. False confidence. I don't think trading on drugs is good. You should be well rested and you should eat breakfast. A cup of coffee can't hurt too much. If you are going to do drugs, do them on the weekends. I agree it is important to get a unique perspective. Can drugs help you get edge? Probably, but you need the know-how / experience as well. Anything that can help you make better decisions is obviously helpful.
Did you see that cnbc special called "marijuana usa?" I had no clue about all of the mj pharmacies in California, Colorado, etc., There are 700+ in Los Angeles alone. It still stuns me that a plant that grows in the dirt, is 100% natural (meaning completely un-adulterated by outside chemicals), and has been used by the Chinese 5,000 years ago for mental disorders, etc., can be illegal in what is a "free" Country, the USA... All the while, I can go to the local pharmacy, buy a LEGAL bottle, and go on a rampage, as I slowly kill myself smoking LEGAL cigarettes with 2,000 different chemical compounds added by man. (yes, I know, buying a bottle of booze and cigarettes in a pharmacy... Ironic huh?) I have a 1st Cousin who works as a Chemist for Phillip Morris in Richmond, VA, and he has told me about the chemicals they use to make certain signature "flavors." Deadly stuff, but legal due to $$$$$... PM was paying .25c/pack in fed taxes back in the early 90's. I cannot imagine how much they pay now! Last, testosterone is a God send to males who are 25-70, and have lower than normal levels. Did you know that low testosterone leads to heart disease, diabetes, adipose tissue in the abdomen (fat belly!), depression, lack of sex drive, lack of concentration, and loss of muscle mass? And oh yes, and in a "free" Country like America, testosterone is also illegal unless it is prescribed by a doctor for men who are low on it. It takes blood tests, and the doctor, if not a hormone replacement specialist/endocrinologist, will usually prescribe-out of fear of the DEA-a dose so low it won't "get the job done." However, if you are a female who wants to grow your clitoris into a small penis, you can have all the testosterone you want. All this in this "free" Country I once fought, and bled for in the US Marine Corps... America needs to wake up, and REGAIN it's freedom imo!
I mix two heaping tablespoons full of Barley Grass in 16oz of water before I start trading, and that stuff, although tastes very horrible, wakes me up and I am ready to GO GO GO. Sometimes throw down some aloe vera juice, which tastes like paint thinner, as a chaser, and always promise myself if I have a bad day of trading, I have to drink this crap after my day is over. I trade so much better now, really I do.
This was a refreshing reply from LEA PUP- I've added a few comments- >>Did you see that cnbc special called "marijuana usa?" I had no clue about all of the mj pharmacies in California, Colorado, etc., There are 700+ in Los Angeles alone. It still stuns me that a plant that grows in the dirt, is 100% natural (meaning completely un-adulterated by outside chemicals), and has been used by the Chinese 5,000 years ago for mental disorders, etc., can be illegal in what is a "free" Country, the USA... >> No I did not see that cnbc special but I have noticed the producers over there do a nice job when they single cover something like coke or mcdonalds. The pharmacy situation out west is out of control and embarrassing; it makes us a world full of wimps and liars. Everybody with the back pain, of course I'm very jealous. Here on the east coast it's still very illegal whereas it's downright legal or quasi legal in lots of other places like Portland. >>All the while, I can go to the local pharmacy, buy a LEGAL bottle, and go on a rampage, as I slowly kill myself smoking LEGAL cigarettes with 2,000 different chemical compounds added by man. (yes, I know, buying a bottle of booze and cigarettes in a pharmacy... Ironic huh?) >> Yes very don't forget your pebble and bam bam vitamins! To your above reflection-- any plant that grows wild in the wood in my book is legal or this isn't my America which it may not be. The ancient Chinese used herb to trade in trinkets too which leads to the automated platform trading of today. >> testosterone is a God send to males who are 25-70, and have lower than normal levels. Did you know that low testosterone leads to heart disease, diabetes, adipose tissue in the abdomen (fat belly!), depression, lack of sex drive, lack of concentration, and loss of muscle mass? >> No I did not! I'm more focused on Serotonan, the happy sauce of the brain, controlling those receptors and emitting more gunk than others is fun! I've often wondered if that rush in the legs that one gets when they run from the cops or even pass a speed trap with one lurking is testosterone or something else more fear based-- it's an adrenalin rush is that what carries testosternone around the body or is adrenalin different... if so it may be adrenalin that we crave and perhaps that regulates some of those bodily functions you mentioned. I am no Dr but I've had that nickname for years! Those of us of my generation, absolute old school, original gangster first year X gen- we were brought up in a peaceful time of no war, thus the psycho sexual and drug wars that we have fought through every day. In the late 80's and early 90's it was really tough. I don't want to build up drugs more than what they are-- a convenient excuse to escape the realities of most people's lives-- the banality of it all... would you like to get up brush your teeth and go to a thankless job or would you like to free lance stay up late, snort coke dance with models and fall asleep while getting blown? It's amazing as long as it's not the hair guy filling in! It's up to each one's own, but living in NYC in the late 80's & 90's with all the great clubs that used to exist, Palladium, Area, Madam Rosas, The Saint... the after hours joints...Save The Robots! It was a special time and a special world, a world reserved for artisticdrop outs, slackers and DJ's-- what a great time... except the blow turned into smoking blow and one night, at my lowest, I tried crack. I sent my dear wife who was just my lady friend at the time back for second trips at 2:00 in the morning to a guys place where I knew there was a gun. A friend of a Friend later collapsed and died at that very apartment, his system overwhelmed with cocaine... So the fun does stop. I just want to make that clear... that's why I just smoke. It's a happy, healthy, natural way to embrace the day and it unleashes that reserve of Serotonan that helps in investing-- YOU MUST LOVE WHAT YOU DO! They always say that, how else could you love the scums in this biz if not stoned? A word on ecstasy- IF and this is a big IF... if you can find a source who does it's own testing and you can be sure you are ingesting the real deal.... WOW what a great drug. Man's best ever if you ask me; a stage ahead of Penicillin. Just one little pill lasts all night and the sex is incredible even if your by yourself. Where was I? Oh yes >>>America needs to wake up, and REGAIN it's freedom imo! Amen bother! ~ stoney