>Physical/body health at its peak >Mental health continues

>>8591524
See a psychologist.

>>8591524
Sudoku Puzzles 3x a day
Learn to read moonspeak runes
Admit yourself to a mental institution

>>8591524
Minimum of 1 hour per day doing math problems
Worship the elder gods
Admit yourself to a mental institution

>>8591524
Get enough Omega 3 into your diet
Ascend to the Ethereal Plane
Admit yourself to a mental institution

>>8591537
Does solving problems daily keep your mind healthy? Or is it just a meme?

>>8591524
>Physical/body health at its peak
It is not.

t.someone actually who dedicated two years on active training and learning and one who actually felt what peak of performance mean both mental and physical.
GET more sleep is the best advice I could give you,do one round of 6h and at least two one hour naps throughout the day.

>>8591549
Please answer this. I'm currently going through the most difficult time in my life due to declining brain power. Is it simply because I don't spend time using it intensively?

>>8591573
It does if your problem is age. If your problem is dementia/retard/drug addict/village idiot or mental illness then no

>>8591578
What do you mean age? I'm 21

>>8591748
I wonder if your deluded beliefs are a result of your intellect or whether you became a moron due to them.

Do more cocaine

>>8591573
>declining brain power
How do you measure it?

>>8591524
Go back to >leddit

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get out of groupthink

>>8591798
Well, just inability to focus. Haven't been able to read a book in like a month because mind keeps wandering off whenever I start and I have urges to do other things. Other than that, about 6 months ago I literally could not focus on even eating, that's how bad my brain was. I went cold-turkey on my cell phone and computer and all electronics for 2 weeks, and I felt like I was on 90%. But I don't want to be the faggot in the 21st century who can't use a computer.

So yeah.

>>8592690
have you tried giving yourself tech curfews?

>>8592700
Physically unable to keep away from the screen for >5 seconds.

>>8592700
>>8591551
>>8591527

don't listen to these brainlets

>>8593088

It isn't the phone that makes you stupid it's your discipline

a phone allows you to never let your brain idle. That's good. Pick something to learn about and read about it on the internet.

when you work out you get stronger
when you practice playing the harmonica you get better
when you study for the test you do better
when you watch cuck porn and orbit stacey you get better at watching cuck porn and orbiting stacey

just force yourself to do something productive

if you want to feel smart then that thing is probably math

>>8593389
Thank you friend.

vitamin d

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>>8591524
These are common nutritional causes:

>cutting diet i.e. eating at a calorie deficit
>deficiency of trace elements or vitamins
>omega 6 to omega 3 ratio is unbalanced (usually not enough omega 3)
>impaired digestion due to dysbacteriosis (check bristol stool chart)

>>8594287
I did get all my bloodwork done, and every single vitamin level is at normal. However, I have been constipated since like 2 years, which is when my focus issues began happening.

>>8594911
Are you doing a low carb diet?

All these vitamins and nutrients and shit I can't keep up my diet sucks.
How do you nerds do it, takes so long to shop for groceries with enough variety to get all this and cook different things.

>>8594935
>get some rice
>get some chickin
>try to eat different veggies every day
>supplement appropriate for your lifestyle

And you're done.

>>8594935
An apple and a banana every day, eat peas and beans with everything, eat fish once per week or take omega3 pills, eat loads of parboiled/whole-grain rice. Generally stir fry vegetable dishes are good and easy and make the vegetables taste better.

>>8594926
I don't think so. I'm not sure. I eat French Toast, some form of chicken or beef, and a banana or two almost everyday. Other meals vary, but they're of the sort that can be easily made like frozen pizzas, omelettes, etc.

Is that low-carb?

>>8595101
If less than 30% of your diet is carbs (rice, pasta, potatoes, legumes, etc.) then you are doing a low carb diet.

It's only incidentally important though. It sounds like you are not eating enough resistant starches and dietary fibers. And that usually happens in low-carb diets, that's why I am asking.

Resistant starches and dietary fiber are indigestible, but they feed your gut bacteria which on the other hand helps you digest food better and give you proper stool consistency. Fibers are also increasing your stool sizes and they pick up fluids on the way out, which makes your stool softer in general.
So in other words: You need more fibers and resistant starches to fix your fucked up digestion.

My favorite fiber rich foods are:
>peas
>beans
>artichokes
>avocados
>berries
>brussel sprouds
>turnips

High resistant starch foods:
>lentils (best ones, seriously eat a lot of lentils)
>oats (also great)
>cooked and cooled rice (cold for at least a few hours)
>cooked and cooled potatoes (cold for at least a few hours)

It might be a good idea to take 1 table spoon of potato starch in cold water every day for at least a month, you should see great improvements in terms of stool consistency. Make sure you don't heat the mix or the resistant starches will be transformed into regular starch, which misses the point.

>>8595138
Oh and generally whole grain bread/rice/pasta are all high in fiber. So switching to whole grain products can already improve your fiber intake without having to change much in your diet.

>>8595156
Ok, I do take fiber supplements which were recommended by my doc, so I'm good on the fiber side. I can't figure out what's wrong with my digestion, but I've been put on a month-long laxative regimen, so let's see how that goes.

Other than that, is there any possibility that digestion issues somehow correlate to shitty brain power?

>>8595157
Yeah shitty digestion can lead to all sorts of problems. Most common are tiredness during the day, tiredness after eating, general fatigue, bad skin, bad breath, bad body odor. List is endless.

>I do take fiber supplements which were recommended by my doc
I see your doc had the same idea. Definitely try eating more resistant starches then.

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>>8593389

Not OP but fuck I really hate to do this. But I have to ask here instead of making a new thread. If I could get a response from you or anybody else then its ok.

So I caught up myself on this autism loop.

For the last 6 - ish months I've been trying really hard to get to studying. Prior to that time the idea of sitting down for 10 minutes to learn something was impossible to me, didn't even cross my mind. Even ''learning by myself'' something seemed impossible. If the school didn't taught me or the teacher didn't teach it properly then I was doomed.

Then I picked some things that I told myself ''Man it would be so fucking good if I could learn a lot on these subjects because I've always been interested on them'', etc. And I started doing it. 50 minutes a day to each subject.

It's had its up and downs. Some brief periods of doing nothing due to procrastination or some small amounts of depression. But the loop is still going.

Whenever I think of these things there's so much I would like to do but it just never stops. The desire to do '''more'' comes at me at every hour and the idea of not doing ''enough'' haunts me. Likewise, the reality often hits and tells me that I am probably doing too much and will never get to anything (whatever it is).

However, the thought of not doing it, or even considering to stop kind of takes away any sense my life had. As for the last 6 months this plan has been my plan and nothing else.

I wanted to learn math, so started with calculus and an introductory proofs book. Electronics, so started learning circuits. Programming and I always wanted to learn a new language, so started with something.

Most of the days I am always on this loop. I just don't know if I am doing it correctly, honestly.

>>8595188

that's basically it. if you just stick with it you'll be as good as anyone

>>8591524
Focus on your mental health too lol. Figure out what's making you feel worse

>>8595237

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ANON?!

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>>8591524
You literally can't have both.

>>8595793

> 50 minutes a day to each subject

that's good, but you shouldn't limit yourself if you want to do more.

also you have to control your procrastination. When you are procrastinating procrastinate with something vaguely constructive if you can.

If you just immerse yourself in a subject it makes you absorb it more just through contact

for example, instead of watching netflix/playing videogames/whatever, listen to the podcast "The Amp Hour" or watch mikeselectricstuff on youtube.

being bored / wasting time is your enemy. Just be doing something and don't give yourself a max amount of time to study.

>be godel
>mental capacity reaching critical mass
>physical health approaching negative infinity

dont do it anon

>>8595814
stfu

Hump

>>8595188
I started doing this too, anon. Went through a histology book in 3 days. Who knew being productive felt so satisfying.

>>8591593
Unless it's a medical issue, 21 is still on the upward.

>>8591549
>>8591573
it helps, but it's hard to say how much because different studies can have pretty different numbers

>>8593389
>never allowing your brain to rest
>good

>>8597102

it's not gonna hurt you. Don't be such a nu-male

>>8597279
No. Even excessive studying everyday could be harmful.

>>8597292

You're full of shit

>>8597297
>what is neuron stress

>>8597310

Something that's bullshit

Occam's razor would suggest you're focusing more on exercise than maintaining your mental health. Occams Knife would suggest you're bullshitting with armchair psychology.

>>8597325
Okay now I know you've been trolling. Have fun studying 16 hours straight every day thinking nothing could go wrong.

>>8597335

See you in hell

>>8597331
How do you maintain mental health?

You put "x" amount of nutrients into your stomach and while your brain is starving for glucose and nutrients, you're straining your physical muscles and depriving your brain of what it needs to be intelligent.

You can have body muscle or brain muscle, but not both. Or body fat and brain fat, which accounts for about 2/3 of population (drunk on ketose...fructose, GMO fructose from GMO corn; no wonder the masses are severely brain-damaged).

>>8597497

Mental health in what way?

>>8594287
I started taking fish oil and I've never felt better in my life mentally. I should have been taking this shit for a long time now.

>>8597506
prove that you won't have both

>>8597697
Really? What differences do you notice? Which brand/dosage do you take? And how long did it take for the benefits to appear?

>>8597576
Ability to concentrate/focus, and to calculate quickly in your head.

BTW I have a question, how important is your philosophy compared to your brain's computation speed/power, let's say like for a CS or physics student?