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Where To Start With Supplements (If You Know Nothing About Supplements)

March 29, 2020 By Brendon Marotta

If you’ve never used supplements, this guide is for you.

I had someone ask me recently (when they saw my cabinet full of supplements): “What supplements should I be taking?”

This person had never used any kind of supplements before, wanted to take better care of their health, and didn’t know where to start.

The answer I gave them might be helpful if you’re in the same position.

There is a lot of health advice online for hardened “gym bros” or “biohackers” who know what they are doing, but less for those just starting out.

If that’s you, this is your guide.

Disclaimer: I’m not your doctor. This isn’t absolute health advice, just what I’ve found in my own personal experience.

Supplements are meant to supplement, not replace.

First: supplements are meant to supplement, not replace.

Most of your nutrition should come from whole foods.

If you can supplement a vitamin, or get the same vitamin by adding more of a leafy green to your diet, eat the greens.

For example, if you’re low in selenium, you could supplement that or add a few Brazil nuts to your diet. Brazil nuts will be cheaper and better for you.

You might not even need supplements if your diet is good.

That said, the best thing you can do is:

Get comprehensive blood testing.

You can get a blood test that will tell you every nutrient you are deficient in or need to more of.

You can get these through your doctor, or a company I did video for a few years back for called WellnessFX (not affiliate).

For around $200, they will give you a report with everything you are deficient in and set up a phone consultation where someone walks you through what you need to get more of in your diet.

This way you’ll know what you need to supplement and why. (Plus, you won’t waste money on supplements you don’t need.)

The Two Supplements You Probably Need

If you can’t afford a blood test, these are the two best places to start:

Vitamin D – Almost everyone is Vitamin D deficient because Vitamin D only comes from the sun.

If you spend all day indoors or live in a part of the country where it’s cloudy (like the entire Bay Area) or it’s winter and there is not much sunlight… you might need more vitamin D.

Basically, if you aren’t out in the noon-day sun on a regular basis, you might be vitamin D low.

Vitamin D affects mood, testosterone, and a bunch of other things. If you get “low energy” or depressed during the winter, it’s probably vitamin D deficiency.

Greens Supplement – A comprehensive greens supplement is the best thing you can add. I use Green Vibrance, but there are many like it.

These supplements have extracts of all the major greens. Instead of adding vitamin A, they just use spinach extract, which is high in vitamin A.

Drinking this is like taking a pile of extra greens each day.

If you get Vitamin D and a greens supplement, it’ll probably cost you $80 every three months, and cover most things. Best bang for your buck in supplementing.

Supplementing For Specific Goals

But wait – don’t I have a bunch of supplements in my cabinet? Am I deficient in a lot of things?

The other reason to supplement is to reach specific goals or challenges.

For example, if you have trouble sleeping, try adding magnesium before bed. If you are depressed, many people have found HTP5 helpful. If you want to concentrate, there are a range of nootropics.

Don’t even get me started on testosterone supplements. Too many to count.

Here, we go beyond this intro guide. If you want to supplement for specific problems, you’re getting into deeper territory you’ll need another guide for.

But if you’re looking to start… try these:

Summary

  • Get comprehensive blood testing
  • Vitamin D
  • Greens supplement
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People Will Die If The Medical Establishment Censors COVID-19 Discussion

March 26, 2020 By Brendon Marotta

What would you say if during the COVID-19 pandemic there was an organization messaging person after person on social media to tell them that there was no human-to-human transmission of coronavirus?

What if this group was also telling people not to use interventions that worked, like masks, and encouraged interventions that would increase virus transmission?

Would you say this group should be publicly shamed? Banned from social media? Shut-down by the government? Or simply ignored and not trusted in the future?

Do you have an answer?

Good. Hold that answer in mind, because unfortunately there was a group doing all of these things. Not only have they not acknowledged their error, but they are now demanding censorship power over social media in order to silence voices that contradict them.

I’m talking of course about the medical establishment.

Here is what the medical establishment did during the COVID-19 pandemic:

Denying Human-To-Human Transmission

In the earliest days of the COVID-19, the World Health Organization wrote that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus.”

Not only did WHO say there was “no-human-to-human transmission,” but they replied to person after person on social media telling them that there was no transmission.

 

Of course, there is human-to-human transmission of coronavirus. It spreads so easily that many governments put entire cities and states in quarantine to prevent transmission.

Denying Masks Work

The US surgeon told people to “STOP BUYING MASKS” because “they are NOT effective in preventing the general public from catching #Coronavirus.”

Studies show that an 80% mask usage rate “essentially eliminated the influenza outbreak.”
(Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30229968/ )

Mask-wearing countries have done the best during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The evidence is clear: masks work.

The US Surgeon General further complicated their statement by suggesting that masks somehow work for healthcare professionals, but not the general public.

The medical establishment was not prepared, did not have masks, and was not able to get masks.

Rather than admitting they were not prepared, the medical establishment lied to the public about what would keep them safe in order to protect their own interests.

EDIT: Since publishing this, WHO has also engaged in mask-denialism.

 

Increasing Transmission

US Surgeon general also told people to “get your #FluShot.”

The flu vaccine has been found to increase susceptibility to coronavirus.
(Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31607599/)

In other words, the US Surgeon General promoted an intervention to reduce the spread of coronavirus that increased the transmission of COVID-19.

Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the medical establishment lead a campaign against any who questioned vaccines. Major tech companies banned anti-vaccine media and organizations from their platforms. One doctor even suggested anti-vaccine organizations should be labeled as hate groups.

After removing any group that would question vaccine safety, the medical establishment promoted a vaccine that might have increased COVID-19 transmission.

Who Should You Trust

When I shared an early pitch of this article with a friend, he replied that it would not be a good idea to suggest that people are better off looking up information on the internet than trusting the advice of medical experts.

Yet that’s the problem: In the early days of COVID-19, you would have been safer following the advice of bloggers than medical organizations.

In the early days of COVID-19, the medical establishment told people: Coronavirus is not transmitted between humans. You don’t need masks. Don’t prepare.

In the early days of COVID-19, independent online voices said: Coronavirus could disrupt business as usual. Prepare by buying whatever supplies you need now and limiting your exposure.

The medical establishment could not even get masks for themselves in many cases. They were willing to lie to the public to cover for their own lack of preparedness and act against your interests for their own.

There is a line in the film No Country for Old Men where Anton Chigurh asks a character who is about to die: “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”

Similarly, we must ask those saying we should “trust the experts”: if trusting the “experts” brought you to this, of what use were the experts?

Censorship Will Cost Lives

Now, medical organizations are seeking power to censor social media. Twitter has said they will censor content that denies “expert guidance.”

Had this rule been in effect during the beginning of COVID-19, all of the independent voices contradicting WHO, warning that there was human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 would have been censored.

Of course, twitter will not apply this rule universally. Chinese propagandists can still post whatever they want about the virus, and WHO will not be penalized for spreading false information.

The medical establishment claims that members of the public are not capable of understanding medical issues, and will spread misinformation if allowed to have an open conversation.

COVID-19 shows that members of the public understood the pandemic and were better prepared for it than medical organizations. It was the medical establishment that spread misinformation.

If this censorship had been in place prior to COVID-19, more people would have died. I was prepared for the COVID-19 pandemic in February due to the work of independent sources like Mike Cernovich and Balaji Srinivasan. Those who followed “expert guidance” were not.

Credentialism Kills

In the years prior to COVID-19, I made a documentary on circumcision.

When presented with evidence that circumcision was harmful, some doctors would sneer “your google search does not replace my medical degree!”

This is the argument of credentialism. Credentialism is the belief that only those with academic credentials or positions of authority in establishment organizations can have valid opinions on public issues.

Now, the medical establishment is the same argument of credentialism to censor social medial. They want a world in which the only viewpoints heard are those validated by their organizations.

Credentialism is a death cult. Those who support censoring social media or preventing those without credentials from questioning medical issues, support an ideology that will cause people to die, because that is what would happen if independent voices had not been allowed to question the early consensus of the medical establishment on COVID-19.

I know that members of the medical establishment, including those from the organizations that mislead the public about COVID-19, might attack me for writing this. They will say you should not listen to me because I do not have their credentials.

Yet that is the issue: If a person with no credentials could see this issue clearer than them and was better prepared than their organizations, of what use were their credentials?

What that argument points to is that we must open all issues to those without credentials, and evaluate each point of view based on the evidence rather than an appeal to authority. We must keep all debates censorship-free because if we don’t it could cost people their lives.

Consequences For The Establishment

There must be consequences for the medical establishment.

Flip the situation. Suppose a group of Facebook moms told people that coronavirus could not be transmitted between humans, masks don’t work, and encouraged interventions that increased virus transmission.

How would the medical establishment treat them?

Shouldn’t we at least hold the medical establishment to the same standard as Facebook moms? If anything, we should hold them to a higher standard, because they have greater power and influence.

Right now, the medical establishment is trying to pretend like they did not mislead the public during COVID-19 and make this crisis worse.

If any other person or organization did what the medical establishment did, they would bring it up in every future article written about them. “WHO, an organization that told people coronavirus could not be transmitted between humans, said…”

There will not be consequences for the medical establishment unless we do the same. The medical establishment deserves to be held to the same standard they hold others to. People’s lives depend on it.

Brendon Marotta, wearing an N95 mask he bought one year prior to the COVID-19 pandemic

Brendon Marotta is the director of American Circumcision. He has no academic credentials, but many of the people who appear in his film and have praised his work do.


Please share this article anywhere you see credentialism.

Originally published on BrendonMarotta.com. You have my permission to repost it on your website or blog as long as you link back to the original.

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My Fiance And I: What We Love About Each Other

March 11, 2020 By Brendon Marotta

Since many of our friends only know one of us, my fiance and I each wrote something on what we love about the other. Enjoy.

Brendon and Kristeena

Brendon on Kristeena:

Kristeena understands me better than anyone I have ever known. She is kind, loving, and wise. She takes me as a part of herself and makes my needs a priority. We share our values around spirituality, children, and changing the world.

Kristeena will make a great mom and is already a great partner. She makes my life brighter every day. Some of my favorite sounds are when I hear her singing in the kitchen, or when she begins hopping between her feet saying “hun, hun, hun, hun” because she is so excited to share something with me.

Part of what makes our relationship great is the level of trust. Kristeena is a master of attunement. Sometimes I just say “tune in” and she will be able to know what I am feeling and give unconditional presence to it.

One of the first moments I knew I could trust Kristeena was when I got so sick I could not take care of myself. She went into my kitchen and came back with something I didn’t even know could be made with what I had. I was too tired to offer anything in return or even take care of myself, but she was giving and just wanted to take care of me because she loved me.

I think the reason Kristeena loves otters so much because is because she is like an otter. Otters are adorable and family-oriented. I have learned from Kristeena that otters sleep holding hands, and I think if she could, Kristeena would remain permanently cuddled against me.

Together, we have found a deep sense of intimacy and safety that we want to grow in for the rest of our lives.

Kristeena on Brendon:

I knew from the moment that I met Brendon that he was going to be the man that I married.

The connection was instant. It started over the phone and quickly transferred to meeting. Upon meeting I asked him if we were the same person. We showed up wearing the exact same thing.

He was kind, honest, and had a way of connecting to me that I have never really experienced. He gave me the presence that I needed to really be myself. He was always focused on how I felt. He made my feelings the most important thing. The “But I’m fine” or “ok, whatever you want let’s just do that” was met with a deeper dive into what I needed.

Brendon is the most determined person I’ve ever met. Nothing ever stops him whether it’s love, life or whatever he believes in. He is so forward-moving he can be hard to keep up with sometimes. He’s determined in his connection and love with me. If there’s something I want or need he’ll go literally to the end of the earth to find a way to get it for me.

Last year I was reminded of an alarm clock that I had from 1993. It was my favorite alarm clock growing up. I searched eBay, Amazon, and YouTube for it and I couldn’t find it anywhere. The only thing I found was a video of it playing the songs that it played whenever you would wake up.

When I heard the sounds, I had a big emotional reaction and didn’t realize how much I had missed it. He saw how sad I was that I didn’t have it and took it upon himself to enlist all of the Internet to find it. And he did just that, he found it for me.

He makes my needs and wants and desires his own. He has changed my life and giving me the room to be a better person to myself and to others. He’s going to make an amazing father one day. He’s going to show up in their lives as determined as he does mine.

Read More: I Proposed To My Girlfriend

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