/fit/ - Fitness, Health, Exercise, Dieting, etc

Everyone is going to die lad, that is the only certainty.

But in regards of your predicament, there is a chance to get some rehabilitation but is very unlikely fully recover from that.

>>139486

Are you a neuroscientist?

>>139487

Not exactly, I'm a medfag.

>>139488

THEN FIND ME SOME-KIND A CURE, A MAGIC SOLUTION, GENE THERAPY ANYTHING I DON'T CARE!!!

>>139489

The neuro-plasticity of the brain is quite amazing, of course in a child is more prevalent but that doesn't mean that you as an adult can't use it at least a little bit.

You would have to abandon any kind of drug or toxic that fucks up your brain also the "hygiene" of your habits should change (sleep in the night at least a good amount of hours).

Also you would have to start doing brain exercises such as memorization & solution of abstract problems.

>>139490

Is there any biological surgery today that can help humans increase their brainpower that I can afford If I'm rich enough to pay for it?

>>139490

Do you think that physical brain damage have a positive impact in most cases?

>>139491

No idea m8.

>>139492

physical brain damage have NO positive impact, unless if you are inflicting it in your enemies.

>>139497

Some people clam to have a super memory after a physical brain damage

>>139501

Some people claim that they see God after they hit their fucking head too.

>>139505

sad

>>139505

+1

>>139505

+1

>>139505

+3

You're fucked bud. Once you're an adult your nerve cells don't repair or replace themselves.

Progesterone is one hormone used for treatment in research:

Wright, David W., et al. ProTECT: a randomized clinical trial of progesterone for acute traumatic brain injury. Annals of emergency medicine 49.4 (2007): 391-402.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.07.932

>However, moderate traumatic brain injury survivors who received progesterone were more likely to have a moderate to good outcome than those randomized to placebo.

This is a large review discussing the neuroprotective effects of progesterone:

Stein, Donald G. Progesterone exerts neuroprotective effects after brain injury. Brain research reviews 57.2 (2008): 386-397.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresrev.2007.06.012

The full text with their many references can be found here:

http://sci-hub.nu/10.1016/j.brainresrev.2007.06.012

I suppose it would be important to find out if progesterone needs to be administered immediately after the injury or if it can be effective much later. I haven't dug out that distinction, but it is safe. Both men and women make progesterone, so short term high dose progesterone as a therapy seems reasonable. I don't think there is much cause for concern about "feminization" unless done indefinitely, and can be balanced out by supplementation of other steroids either at a later date or at the same time.

Spritzer, Mark D., and Liisa AM Galea. Testosterone and dihydrotestosterone, but not estradiol, enhance survival of new hippocampal neurons in adult male rats. Developmental neurobiology 67.10 (2007): 1321-1333.

https://doi.org/10.1002/dneu.20457

However, there is a report of dihydrotestosterone (the primary androgen) being not so great in brain injury:

Cheng, Jian, Nabil J. Alkayed, and Patricia D. Hurn. Deleterious effects of dihydrotestosterone on cerebral ischemic injury. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 27.9 (2007): 1553-1562.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1038/sj.jcbfm.9600457

Progesterone has a lot of research behind it on this topic but other gonadal steroids not so much. Because boys make a higher ratio of progesterone before puberty* and the brain grows more in childhood, the temporary increase of progesterone could be somewhat like a return to childhood, which is good because the brain grows more during that time.

*This is a rumored claim I have heard. I could not find a single definitive study as progesterone is not observed frequently in males, but progesterone also converts to downstream hormones such as testosterone (You might expect that to happen more frequently in men.) and women transition to pseudo-men with androgens fairly easily, so androgens could simply be administered later if "feminization" is a concern.

>>139545

>the temporary increase of progesterone could be somewhat like a return to childhood

And because the younger the age the less the distinction between sexes (Fetuses are female as a starting point and later acquire male traits if they are male.) progesterone probably fairly objectively will make you temporarily less masculine, but that's okay because the hormonal cascade of puberty which masculinizes can be reinitiated at any later date (There is no deadline.) and you have the genetic programming to do so.

>>139546

>Fetuses are female as a starting point and later acquire male traits if they are male

Not exactly, they have the XX & XY well differentiated from conception.

Now if you mean that the genital characteristic take time to develop then I agree with you.

>>139548

>Now if you mean that the genital characteristic

Yes, that's what I mean. It's more or less physiological. The chromosome distinction is always there.

>>139491

Surgery, no. Drugs, yes. Search nootropics.

>>139545

>Because boys make a higher ratio of progesterone before puberty

*Meaning more before puberty than after puberty—not a higher ratio than girls (that I know of).

Exercise creates the right environment to rewire the brain. It's neurologically good. Sports are the best of pure fitness and skill, superior for the brain than exercise alone.

Besides that, you have to start learning stuff if you want to be smart NOW and smart LATER.

The old trivium education, and a pol education will serve you well. History should also be studied.

Go is a great strategy game from China, you can play it online. I included an introductory book on it. I use online-go.com

Study the pure, principled subjects. Dry and THICC.

This may be a good thread to ask a related question in.

I've joined a local boxing club and have been practicing with fellow members/working out, and I think I'm ready to actually start sparring with some people. Trouble is, I'm not afraid of getting hit per se, but I am concerned about any brain-related complications that go along with getting hit in the head repeatedly. Of course, we will be wearing gloves/headgear, and I don't expect that we will be throwing full force punches. However, my brain is also very dear to me. Do you guys think I'm just being an overly worried pussy, or is it a better idea to stick with just the boxing related workouts?

>>139555

>overly worried pussy

Nope. This is a clear sacrifice of taking up any sport where you take blows to the head. One of the few things you can do is use a neck exercise machine so they can't rattle your brain quite as effectively. If you aren't going to be a professional or make money off this, why would you ever want to take blows to the head? It may sound boring, but if you just came to this sport for exercise, maybe a punching bag is what you want—not sparring.

>>139556

I don't ever see myself being a professional boxer, and obviously boxing isn't the martial art of choice for self defense either. At the same time, I've also never been in a fight in my life and feel like I should get some exposure to fighting. Of course, if I really wanted exposure to fighting, I think many people would tell me to try out MMA instead.

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I don't suggest looking at the entire thread and creating a fucking mountain sized backlog. Just put your nose down and start here. Trivium -> political philosophy. That's it.

"How do I read so fucking much shit jesus christ each book is already a mountain"

True. No solution. That's why you develop your ability to remember, communicate and conceptually/logically manipulate with the trivium. Otherwise you're bumbling and it's a logistical nightmare at best. Then you move onto the heavy political shit to test your might and give you a grasp of the world without meaningless facts. Other subjects are too pure or raw. You'd need to read 100 of those books for the big picture, and it's even denser shit to get through. Political philosophy is perfect. Reading The Description Logic Handbook or whatever the fuck is in my download folder is retarded. It excites me when I look at it but I would understand probably a quarter of it if I wanted to actually finish the book, and it would take a year to read if I wanted to understand all of it. I just don't have the reading background necessary to grapple with it. There's a point to be made for the contrary, however. If I stuck to soccer and other sports and did my workouts every day (the entire thing), I'd have all the energy and intelligence necessary to tackle the beast books as a young sprout. Instead I study and practice bio-esoteric shit. I'm not knocking what I do, but I fucking hate it because I can't apply it RIGHT NOW or even mentally manipulate it, it's just so twilight-zone shit and I need to keep my mind open enough to perform the neuromancy. My problem with school was similar, in that mentally manipulating the dry out of date shit only result in false confidence, busy-ness without productivity, and false ideology. Sound judgement requires making none where none can be made, and it's torturous. Like being hooked up to a car battery.

Focus on the simple aspects of self-improvement, nothing else. Only the simplest.

>>139555

Buffalo neck, and adapt your brain to making small repairs by tapping your head against shit. Front, back, sides. If you're knocking your head against stuff and you notice, even just for a moment and then forget, that you're a quarter of a second slower in processing or doing something, then you(r brain) will start to accommodate and adapt. It'll search for the most important networks and make redundancies, for instance. You'll start examining what's important to you. You'll get rid of unnecessary complexity and messiness. So you might become even smarter, more focused, diligent and virtuous.

>>139551

fake news

>>139535

I'm an adult.

>>139555

Just do wrestling instead. It's more bodacious and your head will be safe. Just watch for your neck and elbows.

>>139557

Get yourself checked out by a doctor first. He might want to do an MRI of your neck/brain stem to make sure there's no weak tissue or tearing.

i hav cum. My great /fitgh/ survice.

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=lqGY6Y9ZO0g&feature=youtu.be

for you lazy niggers out there: low stress endurance exercise results in survival of and differentiation of neurons. A protein that is created is the cause.

<2 scoops

This is the explanation for why Nate Diaz can get hit in the head 10x by McGregor and be vitamin k. He runs marathons and smokes weed (low stress).

>>139485

piracetam