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emporas ◴[] No.45048633[source]
I have done this since forever. Put music on and doing breathwork. Some of the most imaginative ideas I have ever had, start to be generated by themselves 15 minutes in the breathwork.

I use a technique no else uses, and at the start I was trying to emulate fighters being hit in the stomach. It had occured to me that fighters have generally more triangular upper bodies than other types of athletes. It turns out, that organs in the belly aggregate fat around them, and being hit in the stomach discombobulates the fat particles. I found a more intelligent way to emulate that, and less dangerous.

Altered state of consciousness start after 10-15 minutes of breathwork, when I put saliva on my scalp to clean the testosterone from the hair. That one was inspired by cats. The male scalp excretes lots of testosterone which cannot be removed with just shampoo. This also fixes androgenetic alopecia (it does not get reversed, but stops happening). I get seriously dizzy when I do that, that's why I have given up on all mind altering substances including alcohol. Getting dizzy from exercise is so much better.

There are 2-3 more exercises I do complementary to that. The breath work also is not breath work, it is something similar.

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1. pava0 ◴[] No.45048930[source]
> The male scalp excretes lots of testosterone which cannot be removed with just shampoo

Yes it can?

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2. emporas ◴[] No.45049382[source]
No it can't. Saliva has enzymes in it, enzyme means: "in life"-alive. Shampoo substances are dead, or chemical combinations which were never alive.
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3. TheCapeGreek ◴[] No.45050175[source]
By that logic any cleaning detergent also can't remove blood, sweat, or other bodily excretions from any surface?
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4. sva_ ◴[] No.45050216[source]
Enzymes are pretty common in laundry detergents and probably also shampoos.
5. fuckaj ◴[] No.45050952{3}[source]
And also by the same logic, chemical reactions in general are impossible outside of life. E.g. a fire.
6. Cthulhu_ ◴[] No.45051024[source]
Enzymes are biological substances, but they aren't living organisms. Hence why they are in my dried powder detergent and the like.
7. astura ◴[] No.45051556[source]
The word "enzyme" comes from the Greek words "en-" (in) and "zymē" (leaven), coined by German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne in 1878 from the German word Enzym.
8. nomel ◴[] No.45053708[source]
A detergent probably can. On that will be labeled as shampoo, which is intentionally gentle, to not remove too much oil from your scalp (which causes excessive oily hair, since it's regulated with a feedback system by the sebaceous glands), maybe not.

Both of you should provide evidence.

9. BizarroLand ◴[] No.45053766[source]
I think you are confusing testosterone and DHT (dihydrotestosterone), which is a testosterone derivative and is not testosterone itself. Shampoos that contain anti-DHT chemicals like minoxidil can block DHT from attacking your hair follicles but don't eliminate it from the body.