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No Fluoride x 4 years + No Dentist x 6 Years = Perfect Teeth

by on 20. Jan, 2012 in Independent Thinking, Lifestyle Design

Until 48 hours ago, I had not seen a dentist for any reason in over 6 years. I have completely avoided fluoride toothpaste for about 4 years, and have avoided water containing fluoride as often as possible during that same span of time.

According to the dentist, I do not have a single cavity.

I drink coffee almost every day for going on two and a half years now.

My teeth are significantly whiter than average.

Apparently my gums are lightly inflamed. According to the scale presented at the dentist’s office, I am dead center average with this.

A regular cleaning should “fix” this, but I question whether the inflammation actually means anything.

I’ve taken about 5,000 IU of Vitamin D3 every day for over 2 years. I started taking a daily supplement of Vitamin K2 about  2 months ago. I continue to eat plenty of grass fed dairy, especially butter.

I brush once daily. Rarely twice. I always use fluoride free toothpaste with a bit of baking soda sprinkled on. I floss…

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The Paleo Solution to Body Odor and Deodorant

by on 13. Jan, 2012 in Lifestyle Design

Many that consider themselves “paleo” are not just looking for answers in the field of nutrition and exercise, but are looking for valid alternatives to conventional wisdom in other areas of life as well. Sleep, posture, cold plunges, and sunlight come to mind, but what about general hygiene?

Admittedly, this (a natural deodorant that works perfectly) is something I’ve struggled on and off with for a long time. This is probably due to not caring very much. I shower at least once, and often twice a day. I scrub my entire body with a natural soap — free of weird shit I can’t pronounce — and that’s good enough for me. My thinking has always been if it’s not good enough for people around me, too bad.

At the same time, I have occasionally picked up a “natural” deodorant. The ones that work, if only for short time, eventually irritate my arm pits. Most don’t work at all. Scented, unscented, etc.

Of course, I’ve…

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All New The21Convention.com + Epic Underrated Speech

by on 23. Dec, 2011 in Lifestyle Design, The 21 Convention

The21Convention.com has been modified previously by Jonas Sandstrom, to the version most viewers are familiar with today. The website (link) recently got a massive face lift however by Jakob at JBS Webdesign. I really do mean massive to — it looks like a totally new website, yet remains structurally almost 100% the same.

If it’s not obvious, the new color scheme was largely adapted from MarksDailyApple.com. It’s not an exact replica however, given that the type of content Mark releases is primarily text, and the content released on The21Convention.com is almost exclusively video.

All in all, I am ultra happy with the changes, and I think virtually everyone else will be as well, at the very least because the site is now 100x easier on the eyes.

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In related news, plenty of new videos have released on T21C. Per the picture, I found James Marshall’s speech especially awesome. One of the best on male/female relationships, being…

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Video | An Introduction to Self Defense + First Time Firearm Selection

Video | An Introduction to Self Defense + First Time Firearm Selection

by on 02. Dec, 2011 in Lifestyle Design

 
So far as I am aware, this is the single, best, comprehensive, video introduction to self defense and first time firearm selection on the internet. Everyone can learn something from it. Only more so if you live in the US or Switzerland and have the ability to privately own a firearm.

Here’s a picture of my new gun by the way. Similar to my old carry gun, but significantly thinner (I believe one of if not the thinnest 9mm handgun in the world), lighter, and to put it bluntly, a hell of a lot better build. If my old handgun was made out of plastic this one is made out of granite.

Florida made to! =)

BTW, here is the flashlight Bravo used in the video and that I now own and carry as consistently as my handgun itself.

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The First 100K 21 Convention Video

The First 100K 21 Convention Video

by on 31. Oct, 2011 in Lifestyle Design, The 21 Convention

I just got word that the newly released speech from The 21 Convention 2011 of London England, “Becoming the Gorilla” by Brad Branson, is going to be going out to some big distribution channels. Big big. Meaning, I suspect very strongly that this will be the first 100,000 view 21 Convention video, within 12 months of release. Perhaps even less time.

The video so far has done well. 2,600 views in 5 days. Not bad. But even so, the view rate should be skyrocketing very soon, and from there, going sky high. It should surpass even the great Doug McGuff 21 Convention video, which is scheduled to hit 50,000+ within 12 months of release — which will also soon be ranking #1 on Youtube for “paleo diet” searches.

Awesome? Yes, very awesome.

In any case, Brad’s speech is pretty bad ass. Check it out by clicking the picture. Thumb it up if you want to see it continue…

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This Uncollege Guy is Pretty Good

by on 29. Oct, 2011 in Lifestyle Design

 
Good video. Simple, nothing new to TDLers, but a comprehensive refresh and a good speaker for his age.

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College Dropouts to Save America

College Dropouts to Save America

by on 27. Oct, 2011 in Lifestyle Design, Wealth

Found this neat article in the New York times. Here’s a quote.

If I were betting on the engines of future job creation, I wouldn’t put my money on college students cramming for tests and writing papers with properly formatted M.L.A.-style citations in order to bolster their résumés for careers in traditional professions and middle-management jobs in large corporate and government bureaucracies.

I’d put my money on the kids who are dropping out of college to start new businesses. If we want to get out of the jobs mess we’re in, we should hope that more will follow in their footsteps.

I mention this because it’s eerily reminiscent of my own life. As many of you know, I dropped out of college Spring 2010 when I failed “how to start a business”, for the second semester, in a row. Adding insult to injury, I had started a business from nothing at age 17, currently ran it at the time, continue to run it years later,…

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Cracking the Code to Online Game

Cracking the Code to Online Game

by on 21. Oct, 2011 in Lifestyle Design, The 21 Convention

New T21C speech release — Tuesday, Thursdays, and sometimes Wednesdays — on online game for men. Meaning, how to meet women via online dating sites. It’s pretty bad ass, and the speaker is even more bad ass, fresh off of delivering a speech the previous day on tactical self-defense and the ins and outs of picking your first handgun.

Watch the speech here ad free or watch it on Youtube (Bravo Pua) to support T21C by watching ads. You can also download the video or Mp3 version for only a few dollars (check the descriptions at either link). This is awesome if you want to watch it offline or listen to it on your Ipod/Cell phone.

If you want to support the speech in other ways you can “like” it on Youtube and favorite it if it is one of your favorite videos.

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On a personal note, my good friend Liam Banks has had some pretty…

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The Relationship Talk That Changed My Life

The Relationship Talk That Changed My Life

by on 17. Oct, 2011 in Lifestyle Design, The 21 Convention

As I type this I’m at my girlfriend’s house. Simple as that fact may be, I’m almost speechless, because it is the ultimate testimony to the efficacy of Sock’s speech (link) on interpersonal relationships, and it is a profoundly personal one.

I briefly showed this speech to my girlfriend, and I don’t even think she believes me — that if it were not for this speech, I would not be dating her right now. It really was that pivotal.

But was it the primary cause?

No, the prime mover for manifesting the relationship, qua my own life, was me. This does not undermine the fact however, that the single biggest key to unlocking what I had already built in my own character, was this speech, it’s speaker, and his ideas.

His psychology pertaining to committed, long term, intimate relationships.

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I know this may come as a shock to many of you, and I would like to verify by reviewing his work before stating this more concretely, but this speech…

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Component Parts of a Committed Intimate Relationship – an Effect on Testosterone Levels?

Component Parts of a Committed Intimate Relationship – an Effect on Testosterone Levels?

by on 08. Oct, 2011 in Independent Thinking, Lifestyle Design

I recently came across a study (link) that concluded,

“The study, led by Northwestern University researchers, followed a large group of men in their 20s and found testosterone levels fell after they found partners and became fathers.”

I found this bizarre because personal experience thus far has demonstrated the diametric opposite effect, so far as I can discern.

In fact since I’ve had a girlfriend, my facial hair has not only “thickened” and become darker, I have new hair growing in places where there was none previously, and faster/longer where there was almost none previously. Specifically hair on my cheek bones, and in between my chest and (former) bottom neck hair line.

That’s right, at this rate, there soon won’t be a clean skin gap between my neck hair and chest hair – it will all be one big mesh of hair.

Excellent.

I’ve also been killing it in the gym. And while it’s difficult to attribute that entirely to higher T levels, it’s equally difficult to ignore entirely…

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