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High impact isn't great for overweight guys with bad knees. The worst part of exercise for me is that it feels like work. I don't mind exercise when I don't notice it happening. Getting 25,000 steps walking around Disney and Epcot was fine. Walking 25,000 steps....with no place to go, just so I am walking....is something I'll never do. Playing a sport...great. Going to the gym...ugh, hard to motivate myself to do it. Even when I feel better when I do, I still don't want to.

Most things can be turned into a habit. If you can do something 30 days in a row, eventually it stops feeling like work. That's a big "if," though. Swimming, etc is great for brain health, I merely was picking out a couple exercises that provided a wide variety of different brain health benefits.
 
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Exercise is my particular interest in this topic. I'm in direct contact with people involved in this research, one of whom lamented to me "exercise isn't patentable." I've read a couple times in the literature that if the benefits of exercise could be provided in a pill it would be by far the most prescribed pill ever. Our medicated society is in reality compensating for being a sedentary society.

That does not surprise me. Even going for a 30-minute jog can cure most of my funkiness upstairs in a given day. Headache? Feeling blue? Anxiety? A run outdoors in fresh air cures this stuff, at least temporarily, for me. Whatever fires off in my brain while exercising can get me out of a funk.


This combines cardiovascular, foot falls, balance (negotiating trail obstacles) and meditative benefits. Activities that involve the foot striking the ground increase blood flow. Running, hiking and dancing are superior to biking, swimming or skiing in this regards. The drawback is that foot fall activities increase the chance of joint pain, though a wise approach and plenty of antioxidants in your diet can mitigate this.

This is interesting. I swam for a while when I was having bad back problems and I noticed that I did not get the same runner's high/exercise buzz. I never gave it a second thought though.

Basketball is will be my favorite form of exercise as long as I'm still healthy enough to play. Sprinting, jumping, change-of-direction, some physical contact plus you throw in competition and it seems to be magic for your brain. You feel great after finishing playing as long as the knees or back don't ache to the heavens.
 
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Me too. An occasional bong hit is relaxing and puts your brain in a nice place.

It is great. There's a perfect spot where I barely feel anything intense but all the noise/nonsense going on in my head disappears and I'm completely relaxed. Feels like I just woke up after a great night's sleep on a Sunday morning.
 

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High impact isn't great for overweight guys with bad knees. The worst part of exercise for me is that it feels like work. I don't mind exercise when I don't notice it happening. Getting 25,000 steps walking around Disney and Epcot was fine. Walking 25,000 steps....with no place to go, just so I am walking....is something I'll never do. Playing a sport...great. Going to the gym...ugh, hard to motivate myself to do it. Even when I feel better when I do, I still don't want to.
If the exercise feels like a chore it has a negative affect on ones health.

Same with any of the generalized recommendations. If you’r not happy in the process the goal is less likely to be accomplished.
 

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Exercise is my particular interest in this topic. I'm in direct contact with people involved in this research, one of whom lamented to me "exercise isn't patentable." I've read a couple times in the literature that if the benefits of exercise could be provided in a pill it would be by far the most prescribed pill ever. Our medicated society is in reality compensating for being a sedentary society.

On the basis of what I've researched if I had to pick one exercise activity that is the best it would be high energy dancing. This combines cardiovascular, foot falls, balance and social benefits. For example, contra dancing 4-5 times a week should really keep your brain humming. Unfortunately, this is not practical for many, at least not at that frequency. It's not practical for me.

What I think might be the second best would be trail running. This combines cardiovascular, foot falls, balance (negotiating trail obstacles) and meditative benefits. Activities that involve the foot striking the ground increase blood flow. Running, hiking and dancing are superior to biking, swimming or skiing in this regards. The drawback is that foot fall activities increase the chance of joint pain, though a wise approach and plenty of antioxidants in your diet can mitigate this.
University of Georgia has expanded the work of other researchers on the benefits of baking soda.

Baking soda has been shown to be anti inflammatory. The U of G research determined baking soda shuts off overactive macrophages that attack the body. Apparently the bodies mesenchymal cells are involved in the process.
 
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Me too. An occasional bong hit is relaxing and puts your brain in a nice place. That some people still have a 1930's reefer madness mentality is strange considering all the info out there. It's just a plant.
I don't even need to use that much. I use .1 in a one hitter. I can't wait until its legalized so I can get well measured & evenly dosed edibles.
 
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University of Georgia has expanded the work of other researchers on the benefits of baking soda.

Baking soda has been shown to be anti inf
On it's own I would not be surprised. Baked goods and carbs are very bad for inflammation though
 

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On it's own I would not be surprised. Baked goods and carbs are very bad for inflammation though
Seems to be a promising treatment for rheumatoid arthritis among other inflammatory diseases.
 
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I don't even need to use that much. I use .1 in a one hitter. I can't wait until its legalized so I can get well measured & evenly dosed edibles.
I also find that just one hit is sufficient. When I was young I smoked a lot of joints, all day long. That's not a good idea and really an unecessary waste of money. I find Indica preferable. Sativa is like weed with 15 shots of esspresso. I live now in Amsterdam. It's nice to be able to just go to the store and buy it. Soon it will be legal in Connecticut. If you grow 4 or 5 plants in your yard you will have more than enough for a year.
 
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Seems to be a promising treatment for rheumatoid arthritis among other inflammatory diseases.
good natural remedy for inflammation is daily consumption of tumeric. There is an herb called devils claw that works well for rhuematoid arthritis. You take it for thirty days. I have heard good things from people who have used it and am planning to give it a try myself.
 
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Me too. An occasional bong hit is relaxing and puts your brain in a nice place. That some people still have a 1930's reefer madness mentality is strange considering all the info out there. It's just a plant.
Lmao who considers a bong rip “micro-dosing”

I get that you’re in Amsterdam or something but cmon man
 

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If the exercise feels like a chore it has a negative affect on ones health.

Same with any of the generalized recommendations. If you’r not happy in the process the goal is less likely to be accomplished.

While I understand the principle to which you are alluding, it probably does not apply to exercise. The body has an amazing ability to recuperate from occasional assaults of most kinds. Hence, you would have to exercise chronically, eat processed foods chronically, have chronic stress (which often happens in our society), etc., etc. to have an impact on health.

Yet if you got to the point where you exercised chronically you would, among other things, be fueling your body with the very hormones that mitigate the harmful impact of negative feelings, particularly negative feelings towards exercise as a chore. Different strokes for different folks, I did not mean to imply that everyone should dance or trail run, and there may be physical limitations that prevent someone from exercising regularly. It's kind of a Catch-22. If you could exercise so much that it would impact your health from the negative feelings of a chore, there would be too many beneficial hormones for that to happen.

On edit: I should add that you can, in fact, get too much exercise, or exercise unwisely. There are two hormones produced by exercise, adrenaline and cortisol, that are bad if produced in excess. Cortisol is particularly bad and happens to be the hormone produced by chronic stress as well.
 
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While I understand the principle to which you are alluding, it probably does not apply to exercise. The body has an amazing ability to recuperate from occasional assaults of most kinds. Hence, you would have to exercise chronically, eat processed foods chronically, have chronic stress (which often happens in our society), etc., etc. to have an impact on health.

Yet if you got to the point where you exercised chronically you would, among other things, be fueling your body with the very hormones that mitigate the harmful impact of negative feelings, particularly negative feelings towards exercise as a chore. Different strokes for different folks, I did not mean to imply that everyone should dance or trail run, and there may be physical limitations that prevent someone from exercising regularly. It's kind of a Catch-22. If you could exercise so much that it would impact your health from the negative feelings of a chore, there would be too many beneficial hormones for that to happen.

On edit: I should add that you can, in fact, get too much exercise, or exercise unwisely. There are two hormones produced by exercise, adrenaline and cortisol, that are bad if produced in excess. Cortisol is particularly bad and happens to be the hormone produced by chronic stress as well.
Cortisol keeps you from burning fat, too
 
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Taxed too

Have fun with that, already dealing with it here in CA

Gonna be great seeing a fair amount of Nutmeggers driving up to MA to get their fix while our broke-as-hell state misses out on millions in tax revenue.
 
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What's a slice cost?
Jesus now I feel like I’m old and been out the game for a while, have had a legitimate source for a couple years now and have no idea what a “slice” is

For a while I’ve been on 1g vape cartridges that have been $40. Those last me at least as long an eighth of flower used to, which I would get 45 plus/minus 5 (my previous connects were friends so they weren’t trying to get $60 from me). Definitely recommend that you go that method of administration if you can. But anyway suddenly my bill came out with an average of about $6 extra per cartridge

Edit and that seems somewhat congruent with the broader CA sales tax so you may be able to calculate what to expect wherever you are
 
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I don't even need to use that much. I use .1 in a one hitter. I can't wait until its legalized so I can get well measured & evenly dosed edibles.
Gov't will ruin it.
 
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Gonna be great seeing a fair amount of Nutmeggers driving up to MA to get their fix while our broke-as-hell state misses out on millions in tax revenue.
The state is idiotic not to legalize but I don't get why any weed smokers want to buy weed from the gov't.
 
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Jesus now I feel like I’m old and been out the game for a while, have had a legitimate source for a couple years now and have no idea what a “slice” is

For a while I’ve been on 1g vape cartridges that have been $40. Those last me at least as long an eighth of flower used to, which I would get 45 plus/minus 5 (my previous connects were friends so they weren’t trying to get $60 from me). Definitely recommend that you go that method of administration if you can. But anyway suddenly my bill came out with an average of about $6 extra per cartridge

Edit and that seems somewhat congruent with the broader CA sales tax so you may be able to calculate what to expect wherever you are
Lol a slice is an eigth. Like how there are eight slices of pizza in a whole pizza. You can usually get them for $35 here. They were $50 when I was in college
 
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Lol a slice is an eigth. Like how there are eight slices of pizza in a whole pizza. You can usually get them for $35 here. They were $50 when I was in college
I definitely wasn’t getting what your average college kid was getting (not that you were)
 
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As long as you can grow your own who cares?
Haven't heard anything about you being allowed to grow your own weed in CT., I highly doubt that is currently allowed or will be allowed.
 

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