#because i'm 80% certain that there is no one on this planet that would actually buy nearly one of every keychain

[gamebunny-advance]

Ha.

So, the other day when I was placing the order, I double-checked the survey to make sure the numbers were about right, yeah?

Well, to me, there is no funnier answer to that survey than someone selecting that they want all of the characters except for Kliff XP.

Like, I know why that is, but it always feels like people answer that way just to spite me XP.

[therealeagal]

Hades

You know, I've mentioned before that I don't care for certain genres of video games. It's because I'm a scrub who hates losing and a fake gamer who likes games that are easy, and in neither case have I the patience to Git Gud.

On the other hand, I've also mentioned that I am endlessly fascinated by Greek mythology because I'm a nerd. It's always interesting, if a bit over-exposed. How about a game about mythology other than the bloody Greeks and the Norse? I'm lookin' at you, Kratos.

I guess there was that one Hinduism game some years ago. What was it again? The dude with the multiple arms and the giant planet sized dude who tries to crush the hero with his finger. I think it started with an N...ok I found it. Asura's Wrath. I was way off.

Didn't get enough credit if you ask me.

If one were to make a game based on mythology, perhaps there's something from Africa that would make for an interesting concept. I don't know, I'm just spitballing. Preferably one that doesn't involve freaking Anansi, because he's overexposed too.

ANYWAY.

So I picked up Hades on the strength of being a nerd, not because I had a sudden change of heart viz a viz rogue-likes.

Cast in the role of protagonist, one Zagreus, son of Hades and (so he formerly believed) Nyx, respectively the god of the Underworld and the goddess of the night.

But some how that I forget, young Zaggy discovered that Nyx is not truly his mother. His true mother is actually named Persephone and that's a whole thing, but suffice it to say, she left the underworld at some point because reasons and hasn't been seen since.

Anyway, so then young Zaggy must fight his way out of the underworld in search of his mother. Along the way, he receives help from several of the gods who reside upon Mount Olympus, who are his uncles and assorted cousins as well as his grandmother (who doesn't know she's his grandmother. It's a very top secret hush hush sort of thing), Demeter.

Then middle middle middle, everyone lives happily ever after. Except not really because they're doing a sequel, but I'm sure that game will have everyone living happily ever after. Except for the Titans, I guess, but fuck them anyway.

====

So anyway, as to the gameplay, I was prepared for a slog, and mightily did I toil until - while searching the settings for the volume controls (it's a very loud game) I discovered a nifty little option in the settings menu called God Mode. Fake gamer that I am, I naturally took the opportunity to activate it, providing 20% damage reduction, which reduction would grow incrementally 'pon my inevitable death, capped at 80% and rarely did I turn it back off.

It really does make a world of difference. What once promised to be an unbearable slog was now instead an enjoyable game.

The deaths I still suffer on occasion (on account of being a fake gamer) still manage to advance the story 9 times out of 10, and always manage to entertain and at no point do I feel overwhelmed or frustrated by needless difficulty that the devs refuse to accomodate. Well, except when using the bow. I know it's supposed to be the strongest weapon, but I'm more of a button mash kinda gamer. Perils of being a filthy casual, I guess. Gimme Excalibur any day of the week.

The only thing missing is a sword beam and a Japanese highschooler who wants to be a hero.

That's a reference by the way. It shows that I am very clever. But it's an anime reference, which cancels out the cleverness and instead shows that I'm a jackass.

P.S. If you are offended by my use of God Mode, which invalidates everything that you - as a REAL gamer - went through to Git Gud, then please remember that I warned you several times throughout this post that I am both a filthy casual and a fake gamer, so... well, I won't tell you to eat all of the shit and then die, because I am a nice person, but I will think it. Really hard.

P.P.S. This is totally unrelated, but WHY DID THEY CHANGE THE WAY THAT POSTS ARE MADE? I HATE THIS FORMAT (is that the right word?). WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE OLD WAY!? NEW IS BAD! CHANGE IS SCARY! ARGNOEHAOAFEHJKHSGDGSHGJKDHGJKDGHDK!

[theha1rarch]

🔥 - i'm evil ... so ... steve

( send the fire emoji for an unpopular opinion )

oooh boy oh-ho-ho, okay buckle in everyone - this is gonna be a long ride -

1 - gonna go ahead & get this one out of the way ... steve would in no universe, under any circumstance, in any way - shape - or form ... date fucking b.illy h.argrove. i really feel like i don't need to explain this one but yeah thanks, he would never. he wouldn't even CRUSH on him (eddie is his one & only (canon) bi awakening thank you!!!)

2 - steve is not an asshole. he can be bitchy, he was a douche in school & definitely not the greatest person - but he is not an actual mean person. like - maybe if he was in a bad mood or in a fight with someone, he could say something really mean - but it's not something he'd do normally. like he's not just some giant asshole who treats people like shit

3 - steve wouldn't accept anyone being an ass to nancy. he wouldn't accept robin shunning her bc of their past. he forgave nancy a long time ago & expects other people to as well. just because she hurt him, if he forgave her - they need to as well. after all it's HIM she hurt & it's not like it was done intentionally

4 - steve isn't stupid. he struggles with learning & school, yes. he's not the most booksmart, yes. but he's not fucking stupid. he's not some braindead idiot who can't tell right from left. he might not always spell things right, he might not know big words but acting like he's a five year old child who's never been on the planet earth before is a bit much. not to mention he canonically showed off his smarts SEVERAL times. everyone forgets if it wasn't for him, they never would've figured out the russians were working at/under the mall

5 - steve being in love with nancy still, or again, in s4 was lazy & stupid writing & never should've happened & makes no sense. he was canonically over here & trying to move on a season before. literally admitted while on TRUTH SERUM that he wasn't in love with her anymore. it literally shows no growth for him to just reduce him back to a shipping box & have him revolve around nancy again. especially when nancy herself has moved on & is in a happy relationship

6 - everyone claims steve is the d.uffer bros favorite, but he is NOT. he might be a fan favorite but the duffers don't give af about him. they wouldn't have done above if they did. they wouldn't continuously put him through hell & back if they did. he's literally a marketing ploy to them/st in general/netflix. they know everyone eats him up & uses those stupid 'steve harrington has to live' or whatever type marketing things to bring in the money

7 - calling steve a 'fan favorite' is even a bit of a stretch because genuinely most people only like him because he's hot. or bc joe is. & they crush on him & think he's attractive & the whole babysitter thing does it for them. or they also just think of him as 'haha goofy stupid funny hot guy who gets beat up all the time'. that's how most people outside of the actual steve stans see him, people don't give him depth - including the writers themselves

8 - FOR ST/CANON/80S VERSE SPECIFIC - i genuinely don't think steve would know what being bi was or that 'liking both' is an option or whatever without meeting robin. or another 'already have figured out they're queer' person. like i just simply don't think he'd just have that already known without some help. like - maybe he could know he liked guys for certain ships getting together pre-robin & all but i don't think he'd know the details of stuff already without a queer person in his life

9 - slight usfw but probably one of my most controversial, in the steve/steddie/st fandom at least, STEVE IS A SUB, & HE'S ALSO A BOTTOM. THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

10 - this is going to be the most controversial thing i've ever said on this blog bc it's going to surprise & shock the fuck out of so many of you & no one's going to believe i'm actually saying it but .....................

steve should've died in s4 instead of eddie. NOW HEAR ME OUT - obviously there's no universe where i want steve to die & this is ONLY IF someone 'had' to die. but i think it should've been steve. steve is a character that's been around since s1, who was - in fact - supposed to die in s1. we know him, we love him, but we've got to watch a life for him play out on screen before us. maybe not the best life. but still. he was canonically in a good place by the end of s4, for the most part. like generally seemed happy & all. he gave that whole speech to nancy that literally screamed a 'i'm about to die' speech. it would've been sad as fuck, but i think it would've been a better narrative. to watch a character we've gotten to know & have at least four or more so years with die. & it still would've given dustin the whole 'losing older brother type figure' situation. we'd get to watch the characters grieve someone we actually knew, not someone we only knew for nine (eight? idk i'm tired i forget how many s4 eps rn) episodes & most of the characters barely knew -. it would've been a lot more impactful & shown that the duffers weren't afraid to take risks & actually kill off their mains & show us no one was safe. & then eddie could've stepped into steve's role & wouldn't have lived such a short time & would've shown that the duffers could break out of their 'we're gonna kill off this character you just me this season' trope ...

[creepyfruit]

hiii so glad u had fun playing iwatex! im sending this from my main but my iwatex blog is dillypillars <3 what endings have you gotten so far and how do you feel about them?

Hi, I actually love your blog omg

I haven't had many runs in the game yet, rn I'm in the first year of my fourth, but here's the three runs I've done so far.

1st run:

Bestie: Cal

Romance: Tang

Ending: tangent's cure

Alignment: 80 Loyalty

Augment: Eagle Eyes

Like I already mentioned in a previous post tangent's cure traumatized me to the point were I haven't gotten over 30 hearts with my girl tang in any other play through. The whole ecocide that I help cause paired with the fact that Cal (who gets shot and killed in that ending) was my bestie and also all the regular first play through deaths (Tammy, Uncle Tonin, Kom, the old governor I forgot her name, both of Sol's parents, professor Hal) made me feel so horrible. Your home girl managed to eradicate a whole planet and half the cast in one play through 😍🤞.

The one thing I absolutely loved about this ending was the angst. Romancing Tangent and seeing that vision/dream in one of the later years with the planet bare of life and her crying and apologizing was so confusing but hurtful. And then I actually got the ending and omg my hearttt. Poor Tang crying while that lunatic Lum pulled her up on stage and praised and congratulated her broke me. But the icing on the cake is what came after, Sol following Tang after she run of stage. Honestly I might go back to that save to try the other dialogue options but the whole scene of Sol finding out she helped cause this and then the truth about how Lum was forcing them do it and finally Sol forgiving Tang and telling her she still loves her. Ouch

2nd run

Bestie: Nem

Romance: Marz

Ending: Standard Ending as a Novelist

Alignment: 100 rebellion

Augment: Calm Temperament

My second play through was much more uneventful and light-hearted. I still managed to somehow forget to save uncle Tonin and I couldn't save my parents but the fact that Tammy was alive and that I focused on all the yellow stats set me up for a peaceful run. I worked in places I hadn't touched before and therefore I got a lot of fun and cute little work events. My absolute favourite thing about this run (beside the Marz romance ofc) was the whole secret club thing. It was soooo cute and such a sweet reminder that, hey these are still a bunch of little kids. Also the art piece of them solving that mystery is so close to my heart simply because of how adorable Tang looks in it.

I was a bit disappointed that I couldn't stay with Marz in the end but it makes for a realistic story that's for sure (also Marz getting with Tang for a short while after the break up made me giggle, my ship has sailed) I also didn't mange to work at the bar enough so the twins didn't get their moment.

3rd run:

Bestie: Dys

Romance: Nem

Ending: Disabling the Array

Alignment: 80 rebellion

Augment: Super Strength

My latest play through was interesting to say the least. I managed to save my mom finally although I didn't have high enough empathy at the time my dad died (stupid shimmer I have no idea how to cure it yet) and our relationship went to shit. I really wanted to focus on explorations and meeting Sym and I achieved that. I actually thought that disabling the array was a great compromise and I would consider it the best ending if it didn't force me to become besties with Vace in the epilogue, minus points for nemmie breaking up with me as well. I don't like Sym but I still felt kinda bad for taking away his immortality but at the end of the day between submission to the stupid gardeners and constant glow attacks I'll take this ending without a doubt.

Yet another ending were I couldn't keep Dys at the colony because he, yet again, disappeared and was never seen again. I was pretty certain that he wouldn't like this path given how much he sympathises with the gardeners for reasons I still can't understand but it still sucked to see him go since him and Sol spent so much time as expedition buddies. I honestly wish the creators didn't push this ending as the "asshole military dude who wants to kill all the poor animals". Like no I just want to leave peacefully while admiring and coexisting with the planet's native flora and fauna without having the ai soldiers over my head trying to kill me very year.

[frances-kafka]

In this article by the late Mel Baggs, Baggs references something another person wrote. The link is to something that was taken down, but the quote is here:

The basic idea is that each and every person has their difference, and that it should be respected. Note the singular form, however. When they learn of my autism, which is usually the first major difference to come up in conversation, they seem to think “oh, so that’s her difference”. They then proceed to fill in my difference slot in their mental table, and everything is as it should be.

Or, so they think.

Then, a little while later, I happen to mention some other thing that makes me very different from most other people, and their belief system collides head-on with reality. Usually, it’s another one of my disabilities that triggers it. This is when they almost invariably go “…” for a while, only to finish with “you have that too?” In other words, “your difference slot is already filled, and you can’t have another one”. This is the weird collision I've had with reality since I have been het-passing.

People used to just assume I was a lesbian. When I was 10, adults thought I was going to turn out to be a lesbian. It was just assumed. Then people assumed I was because of my body language, voice, facial expressions, way I hold my body, ffs, even the way I sit is discourse now. That I "passed as straight" is literally indistinguishable from stuff related to autistic masking discourse because of the degree to which it involves standing a certain way, holding my face a certain way, doing different things with my hands, talking about different things, re-wording everything I say into different wording, and using my voice differently. I even had to prefer different friends. Also there was different construction in the 80s and 90s among straight people about what it meant to be gay or lesbian so it was heavily conflated with being gender non-conforming or even trans-adjacent in ways it isn't now. When I'm "straight passing" I just don't really pass as "normal." But when I'm "queer passing," people just chalk all my differences up to that. As long as I'm not actually among cis queer women, that is. In the beginning, it gave me the wrong impression about how accepted I would be, as LGBT, by LGBT people - ones who are other cis women, almost always are uncomfortable around me. Straight women actually were more accepting of me, conditionally. TERFy lesbians were the absolute worst because I violate a lot of stuff about what women are supposed to be, and I have to mask the hardest around people who have very gendered ideas about how to act. There is no way to mask without being gender-conforming. And being *cognitively* gender non-conforming - i.e., having thinking patterns/emotional makeup/communication preferences more commonly stereotypically associated with men, heaven help you if it's anything in the realm of politics/likes/dislikes/hobbies - is totally brushed aside. You're just not supposed to be like that. Not even sure that upper middle class straight men are supposed to be like that these days. Except in my case, it's not even about anything really visible given that I like plenty of stereotypical feminine things! It's just this invisible mark I've had all my life, somehow, that characterizes me as "not a normal girl." The thing is, the world didn't get actually more friendly toward odd women, it just got more enforcing of normie upper class white female norms across a broader range of people. So a lot of the places that used to be my escape, no longer are that.

And when I am read as het... I feel VERY odd, I am crawling out of my skin in discomfort... like I am an alien from another planet who's passing as an Earthling. I feel both invisible to LGBT people (who, prior to my passing het, constituted the majority of my friends), while masking really hard among het normies (I am NEVER more aware of this, than when I'm on a double date, for example, with my partner and a het couple where the other woman is a much more normie woman) and trying to observe normie het social rules (greet the wife first, don't talk to the husband longer than I talk to the wife, etc) that passing as gay gave me a pass on. And in passing as het, PEOPLE DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME. I'm completely ignored in ways I never used to be. I completely disappear behind my partner. We'll be in a room full of his queer friends who just don't even see me, which is painful for very complicated reasons, but nobody else really sees me either. And to straight people who are okay with queer people, my perceived queerness filled that "difference slot." It gave me a place where I was allowed to be different from them. I feel more autistic since passing straight. I don't like it. And something I'm really, really struggling with in my identity is the fact that I lost the one social cope I had. The one thing that made me more tolerated in some spaces. Now I just feel naked. Like I'm just visibly Weird as a het-passing person in ways I wasn't as a queer-passing person.

And the thing is, passing queer gave me no payoff whatsoever in my actual romantic relationships, because I was a gaycel, it was never going to get better. Other women read something "odd" in me so quickly that it's not even funny, and I have to work Very Very Hard just to interact. But at least when I was passing gay, there's a point at which they just... let me be. I could be their Lesbian Friend.

I had a social role in which my weirdness could fit.

Now I just feel like a fake and a phony in every single interaction I have and like everything in my world revolves around my perceived sexual identity that I can't even really perform that well. My partnership is okay when it's just me and him but when I get out into the world, I don't even feel like I inhabit my own skin, and don't even know who I am.

[everythingismadeofchaos]

GoT isn't a Dungeons & Dragons campaign because all of the characters aren't together in the same party at the beginning, or even near the beginning. It's some kind of giant board game that covers a whole continent where every player controls a Major Power, a nation or kingdom or confederation or something, but instead of just controlling the economy and a bunch of armies, they also have Characters that have special traits and can do special things. I haven't played games like this in a long time so there are probably other people who know a lot more about it, but I once played a Star Wars PC game called Rebellion in like 1997 or '98 that was a "take over the Galaxy" game; you had armies, probe droids, fighters, capital ships, infiltration teams, and an economy, but you also had a bunch of characters from the movies. You could send an infiltration team in to blow up the shield on a planet, and it would have a chance to do it, but if you sent it in with Han Solo and Chewbacca it had a much better chance. You could send Princess Leia on diplomatic missions or train her to use the Force. You had minor characters who made good generals or space commanders or diplomats or researchers or whatever.

I can't name one but there absolutely 100% has to be a board game like this where you have armies and a map like in Risk but also you have a deck of cards with the names of characters who have skill levels and personalities and stuff and you can use them for different stuff in the game. I am not a board game nerd and I just made this up off the top of my head, so it absolutely has to already exist (because that's kind of how my ideas work; if it's really good somebody has already thought of it).

I used to play a board game called Shadowlord when I was 10 or 11 or something, some time in the early '80s, that had a bunch of these characteristics, and I can tell you right now the art on the character cards was absolutely bananas and I love it to this day. It took place in a universe or a galaxy (I'm not 100% certain the creators of the game actually knew the difference), but there's no reason you couldn't modify the board art and the lore to make it take place in Westeros, or any made up place, for that matter.

I hate hate HATE all those 2edgy 4me theories about kids shows. Like Angelica dreaming up the rugrats, or the ed, edd, and eddy children being ghosts, or literally anything that takes a lighthearted and fun kids show and has to turn it into some tragic take of rape or murder or misinformed mental illness. So you know what? From now on I’m gonna do the exact opposite. Every cool grim-dark show is now because of a bunch of children. To get us started: Game of Thrones: A middle-school DnD campaign with the most angry, vindictive DM who has promised to kill everyone’s player characters (and their family) by the end.

[cymphalrythm]

So, I want to kinda use my first post to explain a couple things, such as the world I use when I write, called Beta (until I eventually find a better fucking name for it which will probably never happen), the main cast of my OCs, and a but about me as a writer at the end.

So, the main world I write in is Beta. Don't know why I gave it a name, does anyone else name their worlds? It's a sort of high fantasy/sci-fi setting. Both magic and technology exist and are incredibly advanced. The planet is divided into six continents, governed by seven kingdoms, one per continent, plus one under the sea. Each of the seven kingdoms is ruled by a being that is at the top of the world order, the apex of a particular race or skill, ranging from Demons to Gods, and everything in between. These rulers are known collectively as the Seven Demon Kings, due to the high concentration of demons in Beta, as well as their opposition to the idea of Gods being Supreme entities.

The Seven Demon Kings are pretty much the main cast, and do somewhat follow the clichés you'd expect, such as the seven sins. Where they differ in my mind, is that one; they aren't all demons, in fact, most of them aren't, and two; the "sins" are more like... titles, that dictate their job should their world come under attack, or should the Seven themselves have to act. Each of the Demon Kings has their own kingdom, with their own citizens, some natives to Beta, others beings brought from other worlds that have crumbled (this is my Canon reason for fan characters for different shows/games: the characters are survivors of iterations of the world where certain parts changed, like alternate timelines).

As for myself, I have been writing since the fourth grade, which was a good, what, 12 years now? (Man, now I feel old, and I'm only 22). My old characters are mostly relics now, but some have persisted. The world of my writing has remained more or less consistent, though as I've had more idea's for how different parts work, I've been able to make it more advanced. You would think I'd have posted some of my writing somewhere, but you'd be wrong. Close to 80% of the actual narrative has never been written down, because the story kinda just... goes? I never stop thinking about it, even if it's just an afterthought way in the back of my brain. I'm also a gay furry, which has definitely influenced how I imagine the characters to look, as well as the relationships I write. I don't know much about straight relationships or well, relationships in general, so the ones I do write usually play into some kinda ideal in my mind, regardless of how preposterous they are. I love writing, and used to write and draw all the time. Now I have to adult, which is gross. But yeah, that's me, and how I write.

[starr-fall-knight-rise]

I am actually curious: you have your stories happening approximately 2000 years in the future, yet the tech you describe is MAYBE 150 years later than what we have now. I'm just wondering if that's maybe due to a cataclysm of some kind in your world's past? It has got me wondering, because 2000 years in the future I could see us having tech that quite literally looks like magic to us 21st century boggles. Not criticism, merely my curiosity getting killed by my love of new sciency shtuff.

Um looking back on my entire answer I realize that I over-answered your question, and also gave a history lesson on what happened in the next 2000 years..... so um yeah that’s why the answer is so long and complicated. 

Ok, I am actually very glad that you asked this question because I have been getting some questions about it. 

Number one reason for there being no really special technology is that..... actually there totally is magic technology that war cannot even conceive of yet. They have warp cores that can fold space, and they have fusion engines on airplanes, and they have completely clean energy and prosthetic technology that is more cybernetic than prosthetic including limbs that can sense heat and pain, and the complete mechanical replacement of eyes, and probably other organs. They can definitely 3D print organs and they have shrunk MRI technology down to a handheld device. The ocean has been cleaned up and the atmosphere is safe. They have gravity generators, and weapons capable of destroying planets. They can create artificial atmospheres on places like the moon utilizing the gravity fields etc/ etc.  So as for the first point, their technology is very very advanced.

Second to address the 150 year thing is that I tend to disagree.  in the seventies they told us we would have flying cars and that isn’t even close to happening. I think people tend to underestimate the time it will take to innovate certain things. I know for a lot of us we have seen a huge explosion of technological advancement in our lives that makes the possibility seem so likely, but I would argue that the explosion wasn’t really that at all. If you think about it i phones haven't really changed since they have been sent out. Apple is just adding extra cameras but not really innovating the technology anymore/ And in reality, we have absolutely no clue how we would even start creating wormholes. I mean it is such a distant and strange possibility that we wouldn't even know where to start and most people think it probably inst even real 

My other point is that if we go about two thousand years in the past, we see that technological advancement didn’t really come as far in that time as we think it did. yeah they might see what we do as magic but it was just a logical progression of their technology. They had chariots so we made it out of metal and put an engine in it. I honestly don’t see us advancing any faster towards the true intergalactic age faster than they advanced into making a simple car.

I honestly think its not actually the technology that everyone has a problem with, but the context in which I place it. The true question here is why is the CULTURE so similar to ours. I mean lets be honest its just 2010s  two thousand years in the future, and I did that for a reason. Number one because I cannot conceive of how culture and language might evolve. Likely we wouldn’t be able to understand each other and the culture of the future would be so alien and strange that it would be like reading A Brave New World, the concept is interesting but its impossible to feel personally connected to the characters. I made the culture so much like it is now because I wanted a deep culture connection from the audience to the crew, while also making it easier on myself and others to understand them.

I can explain this in a couple of ways, and the big one is the internet. The internet is still around and contains all the information we have put on it since conceiving of the idea. We cant go back to year 1 AD and know what they were doing and thinking , but 2000 years in the future they have everything about us documented in videos and whatever else on the internet. I think cultural evolution slowed down because they had access to us. Language evolved and then recycled itself kind of like how we are seeing a resurgence of certain slang terms. The language doesn't evolve so grandly because the internet gave them access to materials in our time and to understand it and enjoy it they just didn’t move forward. IN fact the culture then became a culture of recycling where people just sort of go back, pick their favorite time period and live accordingly. Popular worldwide right then is the 2000s hence the use of our style, but if you walk down the streets of somewhere like LA you are going to see people dressed in Victorian era fashion or 80s or even greek. They don’t move forward culturally because they all became hipsters and decided to cycle it back.

One last point is that I think they focused on earth before they focused towards space simply because of WW III which nearly destroyed the planet with radiation. Scientists all across the world hand to band together to help and solve the problem of cleaning up radiation and they had to do it quickly. Once done the near death of the planet scared so many people that a few countries decided to join together. America being america refused, but the current political climate caused the second civil war thus ending the united states government as we know it.  Europe melded together to protect itself from Russia who sort of ate all the surrounding countries. The united states Joined Canada and allied with Europe. The Chinese continued their colonization efforts in Africa but more obviously this time. Australia stayed with Britain and Europe despite China also colonizing most everything around it. south america broke down but was pulled together by some sort of political leader who then allied with mexico and Cuba sort of turning the continents into countries . 

Then world war IV happened, and this time they had the technology to stop the issue of radiation, but that just meant some government decided its ok to kill more people since we won’t actually hurt the planet. billions died. That scared them into recreating the UN and the vast majority of countries decided to join, and if they didn’t their people rose up and pushed them out of power. All accept for Asia. 

After that they went back into space technology, created a base on the moon and colonized Mars which took another very long time which is actually making me question weather 2000 years is enough. Then  within the last hundred years of this story taking place the Pan-Asian war happened in an effort to bring them into the UN. Vir’s father fought in that war, and they eventually won with the help of the people on the inside who actually wanted to join making earth a unified front. After china joined their scientists were instrumental in helping to create the first warp core since now instead of innovating against each other we were innovating WITH each other

[raviniaraven]

Gonna write up a big post about my alien OCs bc I love them

Ok so I'm working on a story right now that I'm hopefully going to get into full book format. I got the idea for it back in April and I'll have to talk about that part of it in another post bc it's still being fleshed out, but the story is going to be called Repulsion, and it's about a space station crew that crash lands on an alien planet. About half of the book is the approach to the planet, and the second half revolves around the aliens.

I've been developing this alien race for a long time now. My icon rn is actually one of them (Carlyle! His story is set after the book by a couple centuries). It's located at the far edge of the solar system, but actually a little into another nearby system, so the orbit of our sun hits it a little but it's technically in the orbit of another closer body. You know how if something is hit by running water from both directions it gets kind of stuck in place instead of moving one way or the other? It's kind of in that sort of position, where it's pulled by one orbit, then caught by the other, then pulled back, over and over. So its orbit changes direction at pretty regular intervals, and it gets heat from the other system's sun. The day cycles last about 5 days, and are when it's facing the other system; it ends up with what I call Minnesota Weather--it can get up to 80°, but can also get down to -40°. Since it changes from one pull to another, the sun rises and sets in the same direction and changes which way it's going in a long parabola/oval. I don't know enough about space or physics to know if any of this is possible.

When the human characters get there, one of them is a massive Robert W Chambers fan and starts calling the planet Celephais, inspired by The King in Yellow. I still need to develop ideas for flora/fauna, but trees are massive (like redwood sized) and there's edible plants in the form of low shrubs and bushes. More on the trees later.

The inhabitants of Celephais are on average 8-9 feet tall, with 3 fingers on each hand and greyish shades of skin. Their design was based off of my Goddess OC, Mystere; I got this idea based on the whole "made in god's image" thing, where basically the species based in that image wasn't humans but instead this other partially-humanoid species. I have an OC named Carcosa (in the same time period as Carlyle) who is abnormally short, in this case meaning she's about 6 feet tall. Notably shorter than her peers, but still taller than a lot of humans.

Now for the fun part! For inhabitants of Celephais, sex is a life ending event. The idea of sex for entertainment like humans do isn't something they're familiar with, because of the way they reproduce. All of the aliens have the same reproductive setup; a penetrating phallus similar to a human penis, and a set of tentacle/suckers that protrude from their forearms and calves. The suckers are generally flat against their skin, and it's considered decent to wear gloves and tall boots to cover them. The reproductive cycle begins every 15 years (by our measurement), and starts with certain members of their society feeling a tingling/itching sensation on the back of their neck. Shortly after this starts, the Entrances open.

So I said I would talk more about the trees. These Entrances are basically natural doorways that open in the trees, containing sloped paths extending all the way to the planet's core. The chosen members of the society ("chosen by the planet" by the tingling feeling) feel compelled to descend into the sloping tunnels until they're all at the core. The core of Celephais can best be described as a Big Flesh Ball with a permeable skin around it; all of the chosen members latch onto the outside of the ball, with the tentacles providing extra support to hold them in place. This is where I have trouble explaining this idea to other people, bc what happens basically amounts to a bunch of aliens fucking the planet's core. I wish I could phrase that better. Once it's finished, the paths in the trees close and the area around the core contracts around everyone inside (I have this in my notes as "planet orgasm"... yeah). Everyone that was chosen dies at the core.

After this, the trees start to grow semi-transparent fruits. These fruits expand in size until they are about 4 feet around, and contain the next generation of the species. They grow to adult size inside of the trees, and live off of the nutrients the core takes from the dead chosen. Along with the nutrients and genetic information, this also transfers the ancestral memories of the chosen into all of the next generation. They don't have a hive mind, but sort of a genetic memory where anything that the past generation knew is compiled into the next generation's knowledge. When an adult emerges from the fruit, they are fully capable of communicating and taking care of themselves.

When the humans crash on the planet, they introduce the concept of recreational sex; one of the crew decides he wants some alien D, and the alien is genuinely surprised that it doesn't kill them afterwards. Through this, the human also gained the ancestral memories of the alien, implying that it's literally hardcoded into their DNA and any sharing of that DNA spreads the knowledge. The next time the trees open after the humans arrive on the planet, they discover that humans are genetically similar enough that they also feel the tingling sensation that summons to the core; one of the human crew descends, and the memories, knowledge, and genes of that human are mixed into the existing DNA.

At the starting point of my other story on Celephais, it's roughly a few centuries after this. The society has the amount of changes you'd expect after that amount of time, and there are obvious human influences (even though the remaining humans integrated enough into the alien society that a 100% human would be incredibly rare). The beings of Celephais were already decently advanced, so it's more an aesthetic change than an overhaul and there's still a lot of the original culture and style. The humans also introduced the idea of pronouns--they commonly use neutral terms or names prior to this. At the later point, they still predominantly use neutral, but are more likely to say "they/them". Carcosa is one of the few who uses "she/her", and her brother Yuggoth uses "he/him". The concept of familial relations was also brought from humanity; before the humans, everyone was just "from the tree", and some of them happened to live together. They adopt these terms in regards to the relationship they have with each other based on the incomplete human memory of what they mean; Carcosa refers to Yuggoth as her brother because of the way he treats her in their cohabitation, he acts in the traditional role of "older brother" as understood by a very small human sample size. It's complicated to think of how they would understand familial relations since not only is it not an existing part of their society, but the knowledge they have from humans is from a tiny, incomplete source, like they read a single book about humans and copied some of the ideas.

I'm typing this on my phone and trying to remember my notes the best that I can, but it's probably a little rambling and confusing. If it sounds interesting, please ask me questions! I love talking about my OCs!

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I'm kinda bad with coming up with questions buuuut I'll try to spam you with some!! favorite article of clothing? what about favorite pair of socks??

hello there! i’ll answer all your questions in here.

favourite article of clothing... good one. i’d have to say in regards to things i own: a black dress that’s covered in silver stars, a vintage pink nightdress, a leather miniskirt, american eagle jeans, a ‘sylar stole my brain’ t-shirt, and my trusty converse. as for things i like in theory... flared jeans, brightly coloured clothing, pop-button shirts, and overalls.

my favourite pair of socks are either some kitschy vampire-themed ones that say ‘BITE ME’ or a simple plain pair! i just wear whatever goes with my outfit.

if you could only listen to five bands/artists in 2019, who would you listen to? do you listen to certain music during certain times of the year??

oh, this is hard! okay, five bands or artists... greta van fleet, fall out boy, nine inch nails, motley crue, and debbie gibson. i think that covers most avenues of music, right? and i generally listen to more 80s music in summer than any other time of year! winter is reserved mostly for 70s and 90s music, because i think the 80s was just a very summery decade overall. a lot of blues music gets played in the summer as well since it’s so hot, so you just want to listen to something earthy and deep. i don’t listen to much christmas music around christmas, actually.

top three planets? constellations? any cool facts about space you know?

(i actually got so excited by this question i had to pause to walk around my bedroom ANYWAY)

my top three planets are venus, saturn, and mars. my top three constellations (i’m really bad at identifying them, btw) are orion, andromeda, and aquila. as for facts - the kepler space telescope has told us that the number of planets out there eclipse the number of stars, a planet named hd 189733b rains glass sideways and has winds of 7000kmph, and you can pass through kerr black holes and survive - but nobody knows what’s on the other side.

what are some of your favorite pickup lines? Do you know any super funny jokes??

my favourite pickup lines are silly ones: ‘if you were a potato, you’d be a sweet one’ or ‘there’s a big sale in my bedroom right now - clothes are 100% off.’ as for jokes, ‘make like a censor and get the fuck out of here!’

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A few of The Earth 's Many Powerful Anti-Aging Foods

Research studies have been concentrating a great offer in current years on determining which kinds of foods have one of the most considerable anti-aging characteristics. One element which has actually helped this process has actually been the invention of the ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbing Capacity) score for food products. This sophisticated-sounding name just suggests to the total antioxidant degrees for a specific food and also it 's unexposed potential to soak up the various complimentary radicals which are liable for so muc cell damage as well as premature aging. Certain foods that we eat which have actually been selected as having a really high antioxidant consist of such items as black beans, strawberries, sweet potatoes, irish potatoes, pomegranates, most leafy environment-friendly veggies, pumpkins, zuchini, squash, cherries, raspberries, blackberries and also lots of various other kinds of berries. One berry that definitely sticks out from the rest is the goji berry, undoubtedly where goji juice is made. It 's Latin name is Lycium Barbarum or simply Lycium. Goji berries are so remarkable since to their balanced polysaccharide account. In fact, Dr. Earl Mindell, R.Ph., M.H., Ph.D (among the globe 's leading nutritional expert) claims that the Goji Berry is just one of our most powerful anti-aging foods that we have available to us. He likewise states that scientific research has actually proven that numerous of our earth 's lengthiest living individuals injest regular everyday servings of this reasonably little fruit which could actually be the most powerful food of it 's kind. Goji berries as well as therefore goji juice come from the ' Rooftop of the World ', the hills of western China where water and air high quality is at it 's most beautiful. Dr. Mendell, that is not only one of the greatest account nutritionists on the entire world but also the writer of some fifty-odd books concerning health and wellness & nourishment such as ' The Vitamin Scriptures for the 21st Century ', ' The New Herb Scriptures ', as well as ' Peak Efficiency ' to call simply a couple of has actually stated that The role of goji berries and also juice in the human body has actually been medically examined with strong results. After gathering goji berry examples from throughout the globe, Dr. mendell as well as his clinical personnel have used a spectroscopic analysis, which is essentially a molecular fingerprinting strategy, to pick the first-rate as well as most nutritionally rich wolf berries that have the greatest absorption prices in individuals. Some people ask yourself what does it cost? Goji Juice they should ingest daily, and Dr. Mendell has asserted that in between one to 3 ounces each day is perfect for most folks. The good news is, there are no well-known negative effects from drinking excessive goji juice. It is just all-natural to intend to restore out bodies with healthy food. Goji berries and also of program it 's juice is merely among the most respected anti-aging foods that we have offered to us on the planet today. As Rodney Collin was estimated as stating from ' The Concept of Conscious Harmony ':. " A physique was provided to us by Nature at our birth. Somewhere exists the original Divine spark introduced from God as well as which refound, will certainly be his aware spirit. ". On top of that, an old proverb goes something like this: ' The happiest of individuals do not always have the best of every little thing but they just take advantage of everything that comes to them. The brightest future will always be based upon a neglected past and you will certainly not relocate onward until you let go of your past failures in addition to sufferings.

You can read more informations here anti aging lip treatment

welcome to the webinar everyone so in this webinar we're going to talk about anti-aging I want to teach you so great things if to actually reverse aging process is it possible I think it is I've been working with a lot of people over the years and I found that they do get younger as they get healthier so the goal is to make you younger every year that you age so that would be cool um so um I'm gonna just go to some slides right now um let me just share my screen here make sure you can see everything ok so so here's the thing when we talk about anti-aging you know if you do research on the internet you're going to see there's a lot of information about just skin creams taking vitamins looking good on the outside using different facial scrubs in that type of thing but there's a lot more to anti-aging than just a superficial putting a cream on your face try to get rid of wrinkles so we're going to talk about two things one is how to look youthful as you get older but we're also going to talk about you know the heart of anti aging which is to postpone your life to prevent dying in early age we're going to talk about that because it makes no sense to you know try to look young why you get cancer and dropped it a heart attack so I'm going to cover both things today and I wanted to mention that one of the things that really emphasized is to increase a health reserve to build up kind of a health insurance reserve and there is a test that can be measured to look at the internal health reserve and I have one of my patients that we just today we're evaluating we're looking at her health reserve and trying to build that up and I just want to kind of show you this little graph here you can see there's a there's this taller dial in a small dial the tall dial should be straight up and down and the small dial should be all the way to the right so if the small dial goes to the left that that's indication that the person is losing their their kind of their recovery��Reserve and I look at that as kind of like that the deeper health reserve this test just to keep it really simple without giving you a lot of big words is it's called heart rate variability it's a test that measures the data in between the heartbeats it measures how elastic the heart is it measures how the heartbeat varies from one beat to another and it's one of the best indicators of overall mortality from heart attacks so I don't use it for that but it will give a prediction on how healthy you are overall but also for the heart the reason I'm bringing this up is because it probably taken 10,000 of these graphs and there was only been one person that has ever had a perfect graph and he was 80 years old yeah and I'm like who is this guy he was walking down the street with his dog he falls in a hole hit knocks himself out he lays there for three hours knocked out unconscious wakes up his head's bleeding goes back home he has a stiff neck he sees me three days later his wounds are almost healed um he has a slight stiffness in his neck so he had a perfect perfect graph and I'm like who the heck is this guy so apparently when he was younger he took the Olympics in water polo and he's maintained his health ever since that so he could basically hold his breath three and a half minutes underwater at this point so out of all the things all the workouts all the sports events I would say that water polo is probably the most incredibly difficult I almost drowned right up through the sport in college with my roommate was into water polo he would just hold me underneath water until I let go of the ball he would anchor his foot into the drain pipe until I you know cooperated so it's an intense workout so in other words I'm trying to just let you know that it is possible to measure your health reserve and it is possible to improve it so let me go to the next slide here so I think we should probably start this whole webinar by isolating what are the top causes of death if you look it up this is ill they'll go ahead and tell young WebMD it's the heart disease cancer chronic respiratory accident stroke Alzheimer's diabetes influenza pneumonia nephritis that's kidney problems and then suicide so those are the top causes of death but they forgot to mention one big cause of death and that's probably the number one it is not probably it is the number one cause of death and that is conventional medicine now in the next slide you can look at the links because I'll send everyone needs a these PDF files but the point is that seven hundred seven hundred thousand people a year die of reactions to prescription drugs and necessary antibiotics unnecessary medical procedures hospitalizations so that actually ranks number one so I guess the therapy the best therapy is to avoid doctors if you want to live longer probably you know the question is how many people actually die the vitamins in 2010 not one person in 2004 there's three people who died of mega doses of vitamin D and vitamin E but I would in their synthetic and of course the one person died as a result of overdose with iron and fluoride but I don't consider fluoride a nutrient so there's been a huge push you know by certain people to pretty much make alternative care dangerous you know it's quackery it's scams but I personally think it's just a way to camouflage just like their own secrets or skeletons because the amount of medication Pumped in young children nowadays even psych drugs that are pushing and the soldiers there's 23 suicides every single day in the military and that's from the side effects and psychiatric medication so I wanted to just share a story by a client she told me today she can you tell us what happened you you basically went to the doctor and you wanted some help and you started to you had a whole list of problems because we're working with you but there's some other issues that you wanted to kind of evaluate can you just tell us a little bit about you walked in there and you saw the nurse and what what was the first thing that she said well um first I she asked me what I was there for so I said well I have a list of things and I had had some symptoms going on so I'd been keeping track of them and writing them all down and I started list listing them off to her and she looked at me like I was crazy and she said ma'am you're gonna need to pick the top two because she's not going to have time to to deal with all of those issues look I'm a little shocked like it's like when you go to a doctor you have a list of problems all those are connected yes suffer problems yes yes and that's what I tried to tell her I said no the doctors going to need to listen to me because these are all connected and I need her to to help me figure out what is going on so she left the room sort of hurriedly acting very like almost rude but when the doctor came in I did make her sit there and listen to me with every single one of my symptoms because they are all connected like you and I spoke today yeah and so so one of the things that what's lacking in in health care I mean look at this you got the top cause of death is over medicated patients unnecessary procedures with everything has become so specialized into um if you have a digestive problem you go to this doctor and er come problem you go over here but they're not looking at the whole picture I think even with you you had I think you had some history of panic attacks or something right yeah and they bet what do they what do they say about that um so I talked to her about that and told her that I have been having some panic attacks he basically said okay so here's a script for you to go to the psychiatrist and I didn't go to the psychiatrist and they said okay well here's some lorazepam or I don't remember what it was and you know um there wasn't any let's talk about why you're having panic attacks or what might be going on it was well here's this medicine go ahead and take it so it was very disheartening and frustrating yeah yeah I know it's um it's you want someone to listen to you to a by way to come up with some solutions um and then I think you eventually saw the doctor okay did he really what did he do did he say none okay so so as I went through my list of symptoms he she it was a woman she says okay so you're having um some panic attacks and and feeling like this so here's your referral to go to the see the psychiatrist and oh you're having hot flashes okay here's your referral to go to the gynecologist and oh you're having some joint pain here's your referral to oh in your hip and in your back so here's your referral to go get some x-rays done oh you're you're having constipation so take some fiber thing you know what I'm it just she was treating each one of the things as as a symptom as opposed to as opposed to looking at everything that was going on that's going on with me as a whole that there might be something happen um she just singled each of them out and sent me to other places and tried to treat each symptom individually yeah and that's why I wanted to do this webinar just to give you guys some real basic things I mean even one thing with you with your hip I did some muscle testing I found out I asked you a question I said do you cross your leg a lot on one side and yes you do yeah I mean you constitute and then that's the muscle that is weak because you keep crossing it and throws off the pelvis so um the some of these things are really really really um 'is obvious but the problem is those are the sometimes hardest to identify so I wanted to get through so I'm going to come back to that point but I want to just go through a couple things about the third leading cause of death since we're trying to live longer because I I kind of protest getting old I don't want to get old I know it's inevitable but I want to slow it down but it's important to kind of know what people die of that they're losing leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer is psychiatric medications I didn't even know that I looked that up and this is um in the cancer in USA and Europe over a half a million people die of either suicide or psychiatric medication that reactions to that I think that's why the drug companies are being sued by the billions so there's a lot of corruption going on with psychiatric drugs in the military all over the place and then you have this guy Stephen Barret Beret whatever his name is in quack watch which basically says he says most diseases have a little of nothing to do with diet it's not um and he goes into saying that it's most things are placebo you know don't take vitamins you know alternative practitioners oversimplify he says when they say that milling that's like rindy grain removes the B vitamins they don't bother to tell you the enrichment and back so you can see that here is a person who is very anti natural vitamins he's a psychiatrist which causes the third leading cause of death there's no it's just a joke so the philosophy that I wanted to teach you guys today is really going beyond the outside in and going the inside out working on the inside of your body if you want this the entire body to look youthful I think probably the one of the biggest in your seat industries out there is skincare and makeup and hair care and it's all just superficial you're just dealing with a layer of a very tiny layer on the outside of your body there is much better things to do to get the skin youthful prevent wrinkles and I'm going to cover what you need to do a better strategy would be to just really look at the quality of materials that you're putting in your mouth and your digesting I will say that certain parts of your body are replaced at different rates for example like your your skin cells sometimes you replace every four days the liver is replaced every three years so the red blood cells are replaced every four months the colon cells are replaced every three days so you're constantly replacing your cells and the question is what are you replacing them with I'm going to show you the best material to replace them with but there's one thing that doesn't rejuvenate or doesn't replace itself and that's the brain so once you kill off your brain cells you don't replace them they don't come back so what I want to do is I want to ask everyone who's on the webinar um a question what food and I'm going to just make this what is the food that gives us the highest nutrient value okay it's a category of foods and I want you to go ahead and I'm looking at your answers right now want you to take a well guess what category of food gives you the highest amount of nutrition out of all food categories I'm going to give you a second to answer that okay kale leafy greens vegetables kale veggies plants protein fats veggies protein okay well this is interesting because this is something that's kind of unknown um yeah berries no I always like that when you ask a column in I'll ask a question I'll say um okay does anyone know this and you know they're not going to know it so you just know that's not right so you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong so um what about you you have any idea what Leslie would what the highest nutrient food is on the planet that you can get all of your nutrition I should know this ah I'm thinking um I'm thinking yeah I don't know why but I could be wrong all right let me I mean I'm eating all the things on the side everybody's saying good stuff yeah oh sure the one that one thing I'm not sure what the one thing with me um okay so now I'm going to tell you um it is I thought I had slide on it but I don't organ meats oregon means up then yeah liver heart brains kidneys for it personally um I can't eat those foods I just I just can't eat them I think I was as a child that was forced to eat liver and I just can't eat it I don't know I have a hard time eating brains and kidneys but I'm just letting you know those foods I know a lot of them are toxic because of the animal feeds but I'm just telling you as far as the nutrients that are in those foods like it's it's really hard to find one food that has all the nutrients but there is one food that has all the and that would be the organ meats so if you like liver and you have an organic or free-range you know animal and you consume that it's not you will get a lot of nutrition especially like iron and there is one type of nutrient types of vitamin e treants that are better for looking young young than others and that would be the fat soluble vitamins and that would be like vitamin A D e K those vitamins yes they're in vegetables but they're actually in vegetables they're pre vitamins so in other words they have to convert into the active form and you have to have a good digestive system to consume that so you may if you're lucky convert about 5% of those true fats and vitamins to help division to the skin even vitamin A for your skin if you don't have vitamin A you actually dry out your skin you and you actually look older going on a low-fat diet is very very bad for anti-aging so let's go into some of the the foods or the nutrients that will help you stay younger or look younger the first thing I want to talk about is foods for college and support whisk collagen collagen is like the glue that holds the body together it's the UM it's in the joints it's in the skin if you lose collagen your skin gets thin and it sags and you get wrinkles and you look older so you can consume the collagen itself or bone broth or grass-fed animal products but you also need trace minerals to actually utilize that collagen you also need vitamin C to use the collagen so I wanted to show you something this is a grass-fed collagen that I got online Great Lakes gelatin I mean it's it's good if you have like a lot of joint problems arthritis and you don't consume a lot of animal products especially grass-fed that would be something you can try and but I found that most people are not really deficient in collagen it's not something that are not eating that's not why they're losing your collagen I'll get to the why but the point is that it's not a bad supplement to take but just by taking this doesn't is does not mean your skin's going to look youthful you need several things to to make that work um the big thing is trace minerals as trace minerals are not in the soils I've done seminars on trace minerals use a version I use trace minerals it's a plant-based it's not sea salt plant-based minerals have our fifty fifteen thousand times smaller than regular minerals so they it go in like a rocket ship so you need the minerals you also need the vitamin C complexes and I I wanted to show you a food that's very high in vitamin C but I want to first find out I'm going to ask you what foods are high in vitamin C what are the top three foods that are the highest in vitamin C let's see who can get that one right okay people are saying camu camu yeah that's a great citrus carrots broccoli kale spinach so you guys you you guys are doing pretty good on that one so I think you got that one down there the three foods at the highest in vitamin C which would be number one up ayah number two Kiwi and number three peppers now these are not from the grocery store these are from the farmers market these are freaking amazing peppers they're crunchy there's they're loaded with vitamin C and vitamin C you got to be careful about vitamin C because most of it is synthetic and I'm talking about ascorbic acid if you buy Ottoman C and it has over 100 milligrams of ascorbic acid it's just synthetic they make ascorbic acid from corn starch which has no vitamin C in sulfuric acid and you take this stuff you're not getting any / C complex it's not going to help your collagen if you do something like this you're going to get the complete complex because in the complete version of vitamin C you have enzymes a copper enzyme called tyrosinase you have the J factor the bioflavonoids the route ins all the different great complexes provided and C to help build collagen and organic copper it's a mineral in that thing and so it's and by the way a lot of the drought the vitamin C is stored in your adrenal glands so the dream glands are tired you won't have enough vitamin C to use that and the other thing is that when you take vitamin C in high dosages and synthetic versions it will create deficiencies of the other factors about and C causing spider veins and I'm going to talk more about this in the next seminar but Linus Pauling recommend large dose of vitamin C notice he has these spider veins around his nose that's a vitamin C deficiency because one of the side effects of scurvy is micro hemorrhaging of the capillary blood beds and so the scoop the bleeding gums the spongy gums that you have when you brush your teeth that's a vitamin C deficiency so and also fatigue is a vitamin C deficiency but also the arteries the arteries can in high-pressure areas have a micro hemorrhage hemorrhage and so the body puts a bandaid on it called cholesterol and calcium plaquing and that's what makes the clogged artery but the first thing that happens is the micro damaged hemorrhage from the vitamin-c complex deficiency so those are some vitamin C things that you can look at and especially for your skin I mean you need that collagen so now I'm going to go back to my slide if I can do a screen share let me see here okay so we have collagen bone broth if you took an org let's say some bones from and um let's a cow or something and it was grass-fed and you were to cook it over a day or two and make some bone broth and there's a great recipe that would not be a bad idea to drink that stuff it's really good for collagen especially if you want really strong nails and hair um I can actually if I can either use trace minerals to make hair stop falling out or sometimes collagen or the combination of both but because trace minerals also help the collagen form correctly so the combination is very very important especially for a hair loss so the most important thing to do is to make sure that your animal meats are grass-fed and I'm going to show you I use them like here's an example I do a lot of beef myself this is grass-fed um and the reason why I do grass-fed is because it has loaded with vitamin k2 if you've seen any of my videos you basically know about k2 it's going to be the next super vitamin it improves elasticity of the arteries it decreases blood pressure it gets calcium out of the joints it's quite amazing and of course we have the grass-fed Kerrygold butter that's vitamin K it's loaded with vitamin A and of course I'm showing all my food here um these are my eggs from the farmers market from a farmer that basically I have a video I'm going to put a video of this farmer because he has these cages in the grass field in the clover fields and they're like the human lawn mower they will eat all this grass and then he rotates them I mean talk about a pasture raised grass-fed chicken I mean those things are those eggs it's hard to even break the shell it's silt loaded with calcium so it's quite amazing um there's a couple questions I want to just go right to the questions um said the webinar keeps cutting out nope no worries I'm going to record this and I'll send you the link right when I get done what about fermented cabbage I love it I think that's a great idea and vitamin I mean cabbage is is really huge in vitamin C and it has a complete complex can spider veins be repaired by taking proper amounts of vitamin C well I wouldn't worry about the amounts I would worry about the type of vitamin C that you consume and yes it can be reversed if you have the whole complex just make sure you do not consume ascorbic acid um let's see what else grapefruit has some vitamin C but it's a bit too sweet if you're trying to lose weight I always have to talk about that because fruit tends to slow down weight loss okay good what what if you have autoimmune and can't do nitrates well then you can use the you know there's camu camu is a great vitamin c complex you can do that there's a lot of other things that you can do other than nitrates not a problem okay so there's three things for collagen support one is you need you possibly might need collagen you might need trace minerals and you you might need to support your your stomach because if your stomach has um if you have like acid reflux or you have bloating or burping and you don't have enough acid that could be the reason why you can't digest protein and collagen is your stomach has to be really really acid to to trigger those enzymes in the stomach to break down collagen so as you get older especially during menopause you lose your stomach acids so if I were trying to improve my collagen and I was female and I was menopausal the first thing I would do before anything is I would make sure that I correct on that digestive stomach pH so if I had like indigestion or s reflux or heartburn that means that I would have to add more acid to that stomach to correct it so the valve gets closed called betaine hydrochloride so if you're listening now and you have any digestive issues at all take some betaine hydrochloride maybe three with a meal get it from the help of store and then within a week or two watch what happens to your hair nails and skin it will improve because you'll start absorbing more of the collagen from the food you're already eating so we just have to look at those factors the next thing I want to talk about is very important and this is for those people that want to change the not just their health but the looking youthful and that would be the fat soluble vitamins and all the oils you don't want to go crazy you have to be able to digest them you need to have a good gallbladder to digest them but the point is that when people are pushing the low fat stuff that's when you start looking older you want to look at the shelf and get whole fat not low fat anything so if you're going to do some yogurt you know make sure it's whole fat of course you go watch out for the sugars and yogurt nowadays um so there's not a problem using the butter it's good for the skin because it contains vitamin A so the first item I'm going to talk about is vitamin A and that is in egg yolks grass-fed butter shrimp cheese sardines to nuts and fish it's in all the fatty stuff I'll show you something here um I'm going to show oh yeah cheese I'm from Wisconsin so I love cheese and of course Kerrygold here we go Kerry gold butter Kerry gold cheese this is my favorite cheese right here it's at BJ's in Costco now I can't believe it it's all grass-fed here's another grass-fed cheese from Trader Joe's I do a lot of cheese that has the vitamin K it has a vitamin A even even some vitamin D those are fat soluble vitamins that you need for your skin for your hair to prevent wrinkles so those are things that will really really help you and take them from the inside don't rub the butter on the outside of your skin that's not going to do it I used to crave butter as a kid I used to eat it of course I had no idea why now I know why I was deficient in vitamin A hmm so so vitamin A it's in these fattier type things that you were told to avoid mm-hmm so the other thing you can do is up coconut oil you can cook with it you can eat it fish oils the best fish oil that you can have is either krill or cod liver oil yes your grandmother was correct cod liver oil has a wonderful blend of vitamin A and vitamin D so don't I mean just I would start consuming just you don't need a lot of it you just need a little bit of it okay now let's talk about vitamin E why is vitamin E important you've heard vitamin E for scarring for skin health for sex hormones vitamin E is a precursor for hormones and it's stored in the pituitary when women go through menopause they don't use their ovaries very much anymore so they're not going to baby so what happens is that that dynamic that pituitary release every month is no longer it no longer has to work as hard so the vitamin E reserve tends to dry up in a lot of women and I find they end up with a vitamin E deficiency and they start getting unnecessary wrinkles so I fire you what I would do is I would don't be afraid to start consuming some of these fats but the foods that are highest in vitamin E are almonds other nuts sunflower seeds very high but they have to be raw sunflower seeds because when you cook them and you roast them you destroy the vitamin E because vitamin E is very sensitive to oxygen and heat okay fatty your fish like halibut salmon shrimp sardines lobster um and it's also in the leafy greens the spinach chard kale some eggs it's an avocado so it's an olives so those are just some some common things course vitamin D is the Sun fish oils eggs cheese um but other than that let's say you're not eating any officials or eggs or cheese because you're in a low-fat diet you don't get much Sun and you're going to low vitamin D levels vitamin D is necessary for the aging anti-aging process okay so what I'm going to do now is I just want to double check just to make sure that there's I'm answering any questions so someone says they love sardines cow's milk allergy well if you have if you're allergic to you know milk not a problem I've given you a list of other things you consume as well dandelion greens for vitamin A yeah well the the problem is the plant sources provide them an a they're all pre vitamin A so you're only going to absorb five percent and that is the challenge that we do if now I consume a lot of yes kale okay I eat kale I cut it chop it up my salad so that's loaded with vitamin pre vitamin A but it's C the cruciferous vegetables have other nutrients we'll get into that but the point is that you need to be eating them but you're not going to be getting the majority of your vitamin A from leafy greens because you only absorb 5% yeah I'm sorry okay let me just check these questions right here um you say BJ's has good caracal yes BJ's does carry the Kerrygold in bulk so yes tuna is is fine I know there's some problems with mercury um but I think there's certain time I'm actually going to do a video on tuna because there's certain types of tuna that are actually good and some tuna that it's not good I'm going to do a complete video because I don't want to get into a side thing on that right now fermented cod liver oil is the best and you can get that online you can get it from Amazon I do take that it's pretty good um I was given cod liver oil when I was a kid lasted until Easter yeah it's really good stuff um I found I sweat really bad with out my vitamin D interesting graying of the hair mostly after exercise well that's a stress see one of the things that we'll get into next is stress so I'll talk about that then can you get enough vitamin D from foods you need supplement that's a very good question I think you can maintain your body with just with vitamin k2 foods but if you have high blood pressure stiffness you have tartar on the teeth soft tissue calcium you have arthritis or types of joint problems then you're going to have to take extra and then once you get rid of that you can then maintain it after that so it is possible but not as a maintain maintaining thing okay now I'm going to show you something see if I can pop back over here now the accelerated aging of cortisol the hormone cortisol here's a new word that I want to teach you is called catabolism catabolism what does that mean catabolism catabolism is a breakdown of things it's something that breaks down in the body your body naturally uses the hormone cortisol to break down tissue but with the adrenal stress hormone being activated what happens is you get too much breakdown and not enough build up so you get this overall catabolic effect that means a breakdown effect on the on the muscles specifically your thigh muscles in the quad group so when you get up from a seated position or from a chair it might be difficult to mount this time to get up also the skin is very thin and almost paper like and I'll see that with people I'll look at their skin you can just see it's like very very very thin that's that's the problem of excessive cortisol with stress and you're losing your collagen you also have a disappearance of the elastic fibers and that's why your joints it's so brittle all the time as you age and that's just one of the effects of of course now I did a whole seminar on cortisol that was the last seminar I did and I talked about stress and if you did not see that webinar go ahead and watch it but I will give you some tips on stress right now because I would say one of the biggest things that ages people is stress specifically losses loss of a person loved one loss of a job loss of a marriage threat of loss financial threat of loss bad economy all that will add stress and so you do have to constantly work on reducing corners so there's a couple nutritional things that I recommend for cortisol I do recommend the adrenal day formula because it has a natural b1 and there that does not it's from nutritional use but it doesn't give you a yeast infection like some of the nutritional yeast out there and it's not synthetic like a lot of the nutritional yeast are enriched with synthetic so if you did um a that product and you take the that natural b1 with all the other things in it it'll tend to pull a lot of stress out your body you feel very very calm and chilled out so b1 is necessary to rid stress from your body and you'll feel a difference how do you know if you have a b1 deficiency there's a couple ways number one you feel a lot of nervous tension in your body you just like you can't relax you have a low tolerance to stress you have a Deema and swelling yes a demon swelling is that b1 deficiency many times as well you have nightmares where very vivid dreams so if you have any of those we know it's a it's a b1 deficiency and stress will cause that another thing you can do is get space go up for long walks because stress tends to inhibit your space and you get it's like you need to get outside and just get some space because that calms the adrenal gland down you're just a picture of how proteins and different things can break down fat can break down sugars can break down call it catabolism and just a breakdown okay we're shifting gears now to cancer control because one of the things that um which is a process is dying early from cancer I mean there are people all around me that are dropping dead with cancer patients patients relatives family members so it is a problem and there are things that we can do to reduce the risk of cancer and I want to talk about that um let's first define what cancer is cancer is a cell that is out of control it's it's duplicating at a very fast rate and the question is why there's a mechanism a machine in your body that is constantly keeping these extra cells that are radically growing out of proportion in check so there's a there's another word I'm going to teach you it's called apoptosis apoptosis and that that's basically controlled cell death your body is killing between 50 and 70 billion cells every single day which they need to do that because they need to clean out all these you know mutated cells the cells that we need to get rid of so we can replace with the new cells so for an average trial between the ages of 8 and 14 about 20 billion to 30 billion cells die a day so that's called apoptosis so now if we have if we're getting cancer we want apoptosis to work correctly to kill that cancer so apoptosis is a mechanism that's an important defense against cancer okay so that's the foundation I want to talk about so there's certain things that dis destroy this mechanism in block the your body's ability to kill off these cells and there's certain things that do it and this slide is out of order it's called endocrine disruptors so I want to just touch on this for a second what's an endocrine disruptor an endocrine disruptor is any chemical in the body pesticide herbicides fungicides insecticides heavy metals country-and-western just wanna see if you guys are awake that was a joke that was a dry sense of humor heavy metals country-western was a bad joke okay so endocrine disruptors are any chemicals in environment that alter your genes and cause disease there's these I have this book it's about three inches thick it's called the modern text toxicology's the basically the textbook of poisons okay the study of poisons and what poisons do with it to the body we are bathed in so many chemicals it's it's insane from walking out in the yard to our food to the air we're just bathed in all these chemicals I mean there's over four billion pounds of toxic chemicals releasing into our environment every single year that's 72 million pounds of recognized carcinogens which actually cause cancer so our bodies are constantly hit with these endocrine disruptors okay well guess what these endocrine disruptors mess up the normal process of your body controlling cancer so you may have known that already but I'm just refreshing your your mind I'm just touching right now I want to see if there's any questions real fast because oh yeah someone mentioned des diethylstilbestrol here's a there's a tongue twister diethylstilbestrol was used in the 50s from morning sickness I think over like millions of women were exposed to it and it caused problems not just in the offspring but in the third generation it it really destroyed our bodies and they did not test the long-term effects of that very very similarly to what they're doing now with the GMO foods so they made a lot of money and then now they banned it okay that's des so des is called endocrine disruptor destroys your how your hormones okay so now this really amazing car called the cytochrome p450 now I'm just this is another bad joke but it sounds like a car doesn't at p450 now a cytochrome p450 is an enzyme that has incredible capacities to turn those endocrine disrupters those poisons into harmless particles yeah so cytochrome p450 enzymes are these special enzymes in your liver and they're in different cells in your body that can break down thousands of chemicals toxins drugs and poisons and they basically just turn them into water-soluble particles that can go through the urine and it just so happens that the cruciferous vegetables increase your livers ability to make this enzyme that's really cool so here it is right here insecticides pesticides going to the liver and your liver if you're eating the right foods will basically dismantle those chemicals so your liver is like robust but if you have a fatty liver or it's a liver that's a bad liver from some type of virus or something then what's going to happen is that you're not going to get that breakdown how do you know if you have a fatty liver um a lot of people have it and they don't know it one of the biggest clues is your stomach being too big and that's causing visceral fat around the organs and especially the liver I sent five of my patients to the radiologist to get an ultrasound of the liver and they all have guts in five hundred a fatty liver so when you lose the capacity for liver you can't detoxify as well and you get a lot more toxicity and what do you have to do if you have that condition you have to basically start consuming a lot of cruciferous and avoid the junk you need to get the junk out of the trunk all right so if someone check the questions here dr. Berg isn't it more of a function of minerals actually being in the soil before you can assume that they're part of the plant in a plant or an animal that is eat it yes well that's why I really want to consume grass-fed animal products because our soils are so bad now that we need to and that you feed these animals corn and soy they're not getting a nutrition from that at all and it's all genetically modified so at least if it's grass it doesn't it's not genetically modified if you have a lot more nutrition in the grass especially like clover okay okay let's go back to the slides here okay at the liver very important with with your skin if you really work on your liver and you start consuming a lot more of these cruciferous vegetables your skin will start to change and you'll start looking better and better and better especially with acne and dry skin and youthful skin I mean the liver is really the hub of all the digestion of of your amino acids your proteins so we're going to talk about cruciferous for a second let me just fix the slide here cruciferous what does this moot word mean Chris crus which means cross it's basically certain plants that have these little crosses in them okay and here's some examples of cruciferous radishes Brussels sprouts kale cabbage bok choy and Swiss chard mustard greens arugula now I have some other vegetables in here too but I wanted just to mention the cruciferous family and this is this brings me to the next topic which is going to call um which is a different type of nutrient we talked about the fat soluble vitamins but we now we need to talk about the other nutrient that will not just help your skin and all that but it will help postpone your life cruciferous was studied by the World Health Organization and it was found to create some serious anti-aging effects and anti-cancer effects on your body each type of food is thoroughly tested to decrease the risk factors of many different types of cancer so one type of cruciferous will maybe handle like several type of cancers another one will handle a different other ones garlic is probably the top of the list that probably will that's like the most anti-cancer properties these are two different types of kale tumeric is a an amazing final nutrient it has phytonutrients I'm sorry turmeric is kind of a root that has phytonutrients so the category of nutrients that we want to talk about next is called phytonutrients plant chemicals these are different than vitamins and minerals and amino acids they basically are natural plant chemicals that have extra health factors or properties so they're there like they'll actually help with macular degeneration prostate cancer many disease states and so the question is why are not what why are we eating these foods I mean very few people consume these foods here's some good ones parsley cabbage and seek help seek help is great for minerals and iodine um but these are the foods that I consume on a regular basses if you don't consume them you need to start doing it for your liver and your skin will start to change as well even though these do not contain a lot of the fat soluble vitamins they do contain a lot of the phytonutrients which there are anti-cancer and again the GMO foods genetically modified foods are basically spreading all over the world right now and the two big ones are corn and soy and the animals that are consuming these are getting all sorts of inflammatory conditions and even the the pets that you have like even the dogs and the cats if you talk to a vet on these animals that come in with arthritis heart disease diabetes and inflammation in the gut it's because they're consuming GMO food when you just simply change the food not on GMO these things clear up but 90% of all the GMO corn and soy go to animal feeds that's pretty sad so in the grocery store that so-called natural chicken that you have from Purdue it's all GML unless it says organic it's GML now what does GMO GMO is genetically modified organisms and what they do is they they actually have them resistant to the herbicide called Roundup Ready and so you can spray more the Roundup Ready on these crops and so you bet they do that and it's around already the chemical name is called glyphosate and glyphosate is um pretty nasty stuff but of course they say it's safe so I think it might be okay um there's this French researcher by the way that was just a sarcasm um sometimes people don't get my dry humor I don't think they're safe but there's this French researcher who did studies animal studies and glyphosate and he found some serious problems with glyphosate and I'm on a semi I'm going to send you the link to it says that GMO and glyphosate causes tumors liver and any damage and rats within a week a smear campaign was mounted by the biotechnology industry with scientists primarily plant biologists and not toxicologists and they basically forced this study to be extracted from some of these journals so here the study comes out saying that GMO is bad and then it instantly was retracted not because they didn't find a cancer link but their reasoning was it was inconclusive because the type of rats used were prone to tumors so now here's the thing if they can do that you know that how they're so powerful they are so powerful so um I mean you can this is totally political so the point is that you know the GMO food is pretty bad if you look at from 1990 to 2012 you can see how many millions of pounds of glyphosate is being put or GMO plants are being created and you can see corns going up soybeans is going up wheat actually some of the wheat is genetically modified cotton uh certain vegetables and fruit rice grapes alfalfa pasture and hay other crops oh my gosh it's just kind of going up it's just crazy so what happens is these chemicals GMO foods herbicides they can mimic hormones and they go into your glands that die right the ovary and it can go into the breasts the uterus and cause cancer so if you take a look at like they always say that disease is so mysterious and it no one knows what causes this take a look at any of the toxicology books they will list all the diseases and tell you what pesticide or chemical causes this illness or this cancer and they don't really like you said Leslie they they do not connect the dots they don't Connect toxicology with cancer and natural things everything is like their own Island and so it's very obvious to me that all these things that are related to the toxins and we we don't actually we're not making the connection there of course we have psychiatrists like Stephen Barret without beret whatever his name is pushing out there that oh no that's fine just keep eating the stuff I was a released a video I was on sports talk live and I had a dietitian and her husband was an MD get on the air and give me a hard time about the whole water meth so you can watch it on my website but um it was ridiculous there's like oh yeah the tap water's fine it has minerals to keep drinking it everyone's dehydrated I'm like yeah okay alright so you just see the next slag here okay be the hormones like estrogen from the environment and all these endocrine disrupters act like estrogen in the environment they actually block the thyroid function so endocrine disrupters basically are chemicals that mimic estrogen and that's why females it way way too many cancers in the in the areas that they have receptors for estrogen which are breast uterus and even the thyroid african-american women have a lot more receptors for estrogen which gives them a different shape and that's one of the reasons why even African American women are getting more cancers than other cultures because of the estrogen so you really need to increase your cruciferous make sure you do consume things that are you know make sure they're organic hormone-free because it's going to create a problem sooner or later so I just wanted to put this slide up I had it created you can see if you go down the grocery store you see these incredible I delicious cookies and doughnuts and breads it's all the same ingredients I purchased corn syrup hydrogenated oils chemicals high-fructose corn syrup artificial flavoring it's all the same thing pretty sad so phytonutrients those are plant-based chemicals that have all these really amazing properties and all these different plant chemicals that do many things like even vitamin A for example vitamin A is not a single vitamin it's a whole bunch of complexes like there's over 600 parts of vitamin A so if you take a synthetic vitamin A you are not even getting close to what you should get that's what I'm very much against synthetics so cruciferous vegetables help protect the cells from DNA damage they help inactivate carcinogens they're antiviral antibacterial anti-inflammatory I mean they create all these wonderful benefits now I'm going to check check the questions here what do you think of wild yam well if you um have a problem with hot flashes with menopause I think that would be something you should take because that will it's a natural source of it's called phyto estrogens which are actually will help you there's some other ones to call the clover leaf that's actually very good as well um let's see okay how much difference will it take to take a cruciferous supplement um here's the thing it's always best to consume the food but it is hard to get that so what I'm going to show you is a the cruciferous product that a lot of you are already taking right now and of course you probably have not been taking because I've been out of it since March but I wanted to explain kind of a combination of ingredients that I'm not even I'm just but I'm not even showing this image here okay so you can see right here there's a product that I I created it's called the Creuset organic cruciferous food and it has organic beetroot Brussels sprouts collard green organic asparagus organic kale organic parsley and parsley is probably even has more vitamin of vitamins and kale and then we have organic red radish cabbage garlic and tamarick so those are all the things that I personally think are the the superfoods and I put them in in one combination was 250 tablets in this and this is something that is convenient if you don't have all the different variety of nutrients because it is hard to get all these nutrients so like it has all these these products in there has seek help because some people we go because oh my gosh is there's cruciferous it's going to cause a deficiency of iodine for my thyroid I'm gonna get a quarter no you're not I put the sea kelp in there so it's a really awesome product and and in these webinars I always get people at discount if you wanted to get some cruciferous um the bottle is 250 capsules and here's I have some good news and some bad news what do you want to hear at first the bad news or the good news let me see what you guys say there's a delay in this thing okay Leslie us you want the good news or the bad news um bad news look at good news okay good the good news is that I'm giving you a discount on this product $10 off and here's the coupon code and here's the link and the good news is that it's fun it's almost in News is not in yet it's in tomorrow morning's coming tomorrow morning so but the good news it's almost in and I've had people wait since March for this product because because here's the problem I ran into um it is almost impossible to find a local farmer or something United States that has the soils that I want to get these products unless you go to China or you go to some other country I don't I don't do that so it's taken us forever and so what will happen this is March March March April May June July August is it August or September September ok that's seven months I haven't had this product I'm getting it tomorrow morning it's coming tomorrow morning Percy so what happened is I would get it would have like one ingredient tested would be it would have too much lead in it and like I can't do that and next one I have like too much I don't know another mineral that we don't want in there that's toxic or something like that so we had the thoroughly test every single ingredient and make sure that it's all really really high quality from the exact farms that I wanted it from so it's finally done so the good news it's almost here the bad news is not quite here and so um there's some more bad news which I'm going to tell you right now the other bad news is that um the cost of this product went up severely so I have to increase it a little bit more so that going to be five dollars more but the good news is if you wanted to get the product at the lowest fee you can actually buy as many of these as you want with on this on this webinar so that's the good news so you don't have to pay the big raphy if you don't want so you can get some reserve if you want the only catch-22 is that I only want you to order this tomorrow morning not tonight because I do not want to sell you is product unless I am 100 percent sure it's available yeah even though I'm tracking I'm tracking the guy who's like pulling up in my offices I know what state he's in he's going to be showing it tomorrow but until it shows up I'm not going to take I'm not going to take the block off my website so no there was no one can really buy it until I actually have it in hand so if you wanted to check in early the morning in an infant actually everything works then it's in if it doesn't work then you know it's not in yet so I just want to let you know that I've been really behind the scenes trying to get this thing out for a long time so so the good news is I'll have it in tomorrow is a 99.99% chance and the bad news is it's a little bit more expensive but the good news is you don't have to pay that because I'm giving you a discount so anyway this is a good product to take for your liver it's the best anti-aging because it fortifies the inside of the body and it also protects against a lot of different types of conditions that people are at risk just from the pollution in the environment so so now what I want to do is I want to give you a link and a code coupon code you can just highlight that coupon code and just yeah just save it for tomorrow and you can go to my website and get a discount you get as many as you want I I will be increasing lean the prices already increase but if you use that discount which is going to be good for the next three days I know it says the offer ends in one hour but that's not true because I don't even have the product in so no worries on that okay now if you are watching this as a webinar replay just realize I already have it in okay because I'll have it in by tomorrow for sure um someone says can I piggyback on auto-ship order with my wheatgrass juice yes I think you could do that but you may want to call my office with that how long is to keep an offer for the next three days how long is the shelf-life the shelf-life is is good for a year but I think it's actually longer than that but we we tell people a year at the because we're being very conservative mm-hmm someone says don't go to commercial I'm not I'm not going to commercial don't worry I'm just good people asking me I'm giving them a discount um can you provide the price of the hoaxers food yeah the price was thirty thirty 4.95 now it's 39.95 but there's two hundred and fifty capsules in there um but the problem is that the the price trying to get these ingredients is off the charts even if you go look for a cruciferous product it's hard to find um all these cruciferous and you may find them like in like broccoli or something like that but it's only like 90 pills and it's probably it's going to be the same it's like thirty dollars it's the same thing so it's it is a good a good program with with the quantity that you're getting into quality as well if you shift candidate yes do they lose any vitamins when they are processed um well you're not going to lose that much with the processing but if you keep them in the heat they keep it open you may even want to keep in the fridge to have them last a lot longer what is the dosage how many pills per day it depends if you want to make maintenance dose I would take three but if you want to correct something you want to take six personally this is just my own opinion if I had cancer I would take 15 a day Wow I've had a lot of people that just take them for weight loss but that's just because it improves the the the fat release on the liver and it allows the liver to function better which is really connected to actually a thyroid being working better but so it doesn't actually burn fat by itself um what if you have a thyroid problem well we have seek help in there so you have the I then that's not going to be a problem is it safe to take if you're pregnant absolutely because there's there's nothing else but those ingredients can I give it to my toddler depends if he's like 1 or older just give them maybe one a day but of course if it's a baby you're not going to give him that unless he can swallow capsules yeah so so anyway I covered a lot of data a lot of information I'm going to send everyone a link to all these slides because I have a lot of references that you can see and I will send it out probably a little bit later on probably in the middle of a night you'll go go to you and that way you can see the webinar I mean all the slides and I'll send you the webinar replay too if you want that but I want you to apply some of the information that I shared tonight and I want to thank Leslie for being onto sharing her story of the wonderful example of trying to get some help of treating one person at our once condition and time so thank thank you very much next Tuesday we're going to do another seminar and this one's going to be on energy and it's going to be really awesome I'm going to cover the topic on insulin very heavily you need to what you need to see that if you have any insulin problems and even eat if you don't if you if you are fatigued you need to come to this webinar as well um so I'll show you some techniques as well I'm going to show you an acupressure technique that will literally increase your energy yeah so I'm demonstrate it right in my office right here and then you could do it on your friends and family just don't mention my name now I'm fine you can you can do that so I want to thank you guys for showing up tonight I and I will see you next and the next webinar so I'll send you a link on that too and I will have someone reply to a lot of your questions because some people are having specific questions about this and that so I'll try to answer those or go to my blog but I want to say thank you and have a great evening thanks Lesley we'll see you next time thank you you're welcome

[prettybrowneyedgirl]

So lame I do these when I'm bored 😂

“Wait, these are actually hella cute questions.” 1. Who was the last person you held hands with? It wasn't "holding hands" but I held it for a second lol but my step dads mom 
2. Are you outgoing or shy? Outgoing! 
3. Who are you looking forward to seeing? The people at this store for an interview. 
4. Are you easy to get along with? Yes! 
5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you? Yes! 
6. What kind of people are you attracted to? Not fuck boys. Caring, understanding, has values and a sense of humor (so Cody) 
7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now? Yes! 
8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind? Cody 😍 
9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable? No! 
10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with? Probably Cody 
11. What does the most recent text that you sent say? Mine! 
12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now? I'm not really sure! 
13. Do you like it when people play with your hair? Yes love that omg 
14. Do you believe in luck and miracles? Yes. 
15. What good thing happened this summer? It isn't summer yet 😭 
16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? Well I'd kiss Cody 7 million times! 
17. Do you think there is life on other planets? Sure lol 
18. Do you still talk to your first crush? No. 
19. Do you like bubble baths? Yes! 
20. Do you like your neighbors? Lol I guess so 
21. What are you bad habits? Repeatedly letting certain people's opinions get to me. 
22. Where would you like to travel? All over! 
23. Do you have trust issues? Not really anymore. 
24. Favorite part of your daily routine? Leaving the house 😂 
25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with? Lol I hate my face 
26. What do you do when you wake up? Go to the bathroom, brush my teeth and wash my face is a daily. Just depends what's going on that day what else I do. 
27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker? I'm okay with the way I am. 
28. Who are you most comfortable around? Cody! 
29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up? I don't acknowledge them 😂 but one has. My first 
30. Do you ever want to get married? Yes ❤️ 
31. If your hair long enough for a pony tail? Yes 
32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with? I wouldn't have a threesome. What's mine is mine and I'm not sharing or letting another girl see him! 
33. Spell your name with your chin. Don't wanna get makeup all over my phone lol 
34. Do you play sports? What sports? I used to play softball, volleyball and soccer. 
35. Would you rather live without TV or music?
I'm not sure lol 36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them? No. 
37. What do you say during awkward silences? I don't 😂 
38. Describe your dream girl/guy? Cody 
39. What are your favorite stores to shop in?
Sephora, Ulta, Victoria's Secret and bath and body works 40. What do you want to do after high school? I've been graduated for almost 5 years. 
41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance? I believe in second chances but it really depends what they did to blow the first. 
42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean? Tired or upset 
43. Do you smile at strangers? Yes. Working in retail does that to you lol 
44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean? Neither 
45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning? The fact I can't just stay in bed all day lol or work 
46. What are you paranoid about? Nothing really 
47. Have you ever been high? No 
48. Have you ever been drunk? Few times. 
49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about? No. 
50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore? Grayish white color 
51. Ever wished you were someone else? No. 
52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself? I'm not sure. 
53. Favourite makeup brand? Too faced or tarte 
54. Favourite store? Ulta, Sephora, Victoria's Secret and bath and body works 
55. Favourite blog? I dunno 
56. Favourite colour? Purple 
57. Favourite food? Orange chicken from Panda Express 😍 
58. Last thing you ate? Chicken and curly fries 
59. First thing you ate this morning? I haven't yet 
60. Ever won a competition? For what?
I don't know 61. Been suspended/expelled? For what? No. 
62. Been arrested? For what? No. 
63. Ever been in love? Yes! 
64. Tell us the story of your first kiss? Not really anything to tell lol 
65. Are you hungry right now? No 
66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends? I'm not that good of friends with anyone on here really lol 
67. Facebook or Twitter? Twitter 
68. Twitter or Tumblr? Twitter 
69. Are you watching tv right now? It's on but it's what my mom is watching so not really 
70. Names of your bestfriends? Cody 
71. Craving something? What? Not really craving anything 
72. What colour are your towels? Teal! 
72. How many pillows do you sleep with? Two 
73. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? No. 
74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have? I have a few that were given to me when I stayed in the hospital for a week when I was really sick. And I have my clarice & Rudolph I had to have when I saw them at schnucks last (2015) winter 😂😂😂 
75. Favourite animal? Dog! 
76. What colour is your underwear? Green 
77. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate anything. I don't really like vanilla flavored anything unless it's ice cream 
78. Favourite ice cream flavour? Cookie dough 
79. What colour shirt are you wearing? Pink 
80. What colour pants? Denim because jeans 
81. Favourite tv show? Catfish! 
82. Favourite movie? I'm not sure 
83. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2? Mean girls 
84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street? Mean girls lol I've never seen 21 jump street 
85. Favourite character from Mean Girls? I'm not really sure 
86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo? Dory of course 
87. First person you talked to today? Cody! 
88. Last person you talked to today? Today just started 
89. Name a person you hate? Don't really hate anyone! 
90. Name a person you love? Cody😌 
91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now? No one lol 
92. In a fight with someone? No 
93. How many sweatpants do you have? A whole drawer full 
94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have? A lot lol 
95. Last movie you watched? Finding dory 
96. Favourite actress? Not sure 
97. Favourite actor? Bradley cooper and will Ferrell 
98. Do you tan a lot? No 
99. Have any pets? 2 dogs & 4 cats between my dads and moms house 
100. How are you feeling? I'm okay! 
101. Do you type fast? Yes! 
102. Do you regret anything from your past? No 
103. Can you spell well? Yes 
104. Do you miss anyone from your past? Not really no 
105. Ever been to a bonfire party? Yes! 
106. Ever broken someone’s heart? I don't know lol 
107. Have you ever been on a horse? Yes when I was little 
108. What should you be doing? Not sure 
109. Is something irritating you right now? Nope 
110. Have you ever liked someone so much it hurt? No lol 
111. Do you have trust issues? No 
112. Who was the last person you cried in front of? My dad 
113. What was your childhood nickname? I dunno 
114. Have you ever been out of your province/state? Yes 
115. Do you play the Wii? Used to 
116. Are you listening to music right now? No. 
117. Do you like chicken noodle soup? Sometimes 
118. Do you like Chinese food? Yes! 
119. Favourite book? I'm not sure 
120. Are you afraid of the dark? No. 
121. Are you mean? No lol 
122. Is cheating ever okay? It's never okay 
123. Can you keep white shoes clean? Lol no 
124. Do you believe in love at first sight? Yes 
125. Do you believe in true love? Yes 
126. Are you currently bored? Yes 
127. What makes you happy? Cody, my pets, working with my favorite people. 
128. Would you change your name? I guess not lol 
129. What your zodiac sign? Capricorn 
130. Do you like subway? Yes! 
131. Your bestfriend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? The feeling is mutual 
132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? Cody 
133. Favourite lyrics right now? I'm not sure 
134. Can you count to one million? Sure lol 
135. Dumbest lie you ever told? I'm not sure lol I don't really lie 
136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed? Closed 
137. How tall are you? 5'5 
138. Curly or Straight hair? It's wavy mostly straight 
139. Brunette or Blonde? I'm a brunette 
140. Summer or Winter? Summer 
141. Night or Day? Night 
142. Favourite month? Summer months 
143. Are you a vegetarian? No 
144. Dark, milk or white chocolate? Milk 
145. Tea or Coffee? Neither 
146. Was today a good day? Today just started 
147. Mars or Snickers? Snickers 
148. What’s your favourite quote? Not sure 
149. Do you believe in ghosts? Sure lol 
150. Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line on that page? There isn't a book close to me