I feel like this is the spot to finally ask this question (not really JJ related)

[CTGRXB]

Just to go off on a different way, I will tell you my little story. For about the past year I was down, felt like everything was going bad, wasn't going to advance in my job, thought the relationship w girlfriend was going bad, one little depressive or anxiety causing thing would cause me to spiral, and not give a f about my job, my girlfriend, anything. I would go to class, roll around and that would take my mind away from things, but then it would just come crashing back when i entered the "real" world again."

Then I started having a problem sleeping, that started in late September/October, and I always had a caffeine sensitivity. Growing up we never had caffeine in my house because my mom would have bad reactions to it, heart palpitations/racing etc, so idk if its genetic or something w/ not drinking it in my youth and most of my teenage years. If I have just one little cup of coffee, like at a diner you get for breakfast, I'll be up until 1 or 2 in the morning, and if I'm crazy and have more I'll be up even later. Even if I have 20 oz soda I'll be up till 12 if not later, I normally try to be asleep by 11 bc i need at 7 hrs of sleep or im dead the next day.

So I cut out the caffeine but during this whole time since Sept/Oct I would have the craziest dreams and wake up every 1.5hrs, then wake up the next day so tired and be dead the next day. Which made everything worse. So then I was like I need to sleep, but I don't want ambien or anything prescribed, so i tried taking some melatonin, 3mg. Ever since I did that I sleep all night, dreams aren't crazy, just more real. But I noticed I wasn't tired anymore and that my mood changed overall, and that i was more positive, the stupid things that bothered me about life just rolled off my shoulder, less worried about things, and relationships w/ people in general have improved. Now it's only been about a month so who knows, and it might be a trick im playing on myself, but it has worked. Now i know w melantonin you take it a month or two then stop for a couple weeks, but I feel it has helped a lot.

So whats the point, idk, but i think good sleep matters (duh captain obvious). I think whatever changes you can make to improve your sleep and the quality of it will change how you deal with people on a regular basis. Before all of this if you ask most people they will tell you I'm fun guy, only met less than a handful of people I never got along w/ or really "dislike" so I wasn't a reformed jerk I think. I hope my experience helps and if you read this whole thing sorry for bad grammar/mispellings bc i don't feel like proof reading (I have to do so much of that at work that i just type and go when im out of the office) and sorry for prob a boring story of life that most people have had.

[Jesse Bell]

Just smoke it!

[BJ Searle]

Just to go off on a different way, I will tell you my little story. For about the past year I was down, felt like everything was going bad, wasn't going to advance in my job, thought the relationship w girlfriend was going bad, one little depressive or anxiety causing thing would cause me to spiral, and not give a f about my job, my girlfriend, anything. I would go to class, roll around and that would take my mind away from things, but then it would just come crashing back when i entered the "real" world again."

Then I started having a problem sleeping, that started in late September/October, and I always had a caffeine sensitivity. Growing up we never had caffeine in my house because my mom would have bad reactions to it, heart palpitations/racing etc, so idk if its genetic or something w/ not drinking it in my youth and most of my teenage years. If I have just one little cup of coffee, like at a diner you get for breakfast, I'll be up until 1 or 2 in the morning, and if I'm crazy and have more I'll be up even later. Even if I have 20 oz soda I'll be up till 12 if not later, I normally try to be asleep by 11 bc i need at 7 hrs of sleep or im dead the next day.

So I cut out the caffeine but during this whole time since Sept/Oct I would have the craziest dreams and wake up every 1.5hrs, then wake up the next day so tired and be dead the next day. Which made everything worse. So then I was like I need to sleep, but I don't want ambien or anything prescribed, so i tried taking some melatonin, 3mg. Ever since I did that I sleep all night, dreams aren't crazy, just more real. But I noticed I wasn't tired anymore and that my mood changed overall, and that i was more positive, the stupid things that bothered me about life just rolled off my shoulder, less worried about things, and relationships w/ people in general have improved. Now it's only been about a month so who knows, and it might be a trick im playing on myself, but it has worked. Now i know w melantonin you take it a month or two then stop for a couple weeks, but I feel it has helped a lot.

So whats the point, idk, but i think good sleep matters (duh captain obvious). I think whatever changes you can make to improve your sleep and the quality of it will change how you deal with people on a regular basis. Before all of this if you ask most people they will tell you I'm fun guy, only met less than a handful of people I never got along w/ or really "dislike" so I wasn't a reformed jerk I think. I hope my experience helps and if you read this whole thing sorry for bad grammar/mispellings bc i don't feel like proof reading (I have to do so much of that at work that i just type and go when im out of the office) and sorry for prob a boring story of life that most people have had.

Thanks man thats the kind of a shit I was looking for

[Kurzy]

Frig, you guys, I am disappointed. The Jiu Jitsu culture is saturated with smart, fit people who want what is best for their body. We eat good, exercise hard, avoid a million things that we know are bad for us, but then I hear about my brothers and sisters drinking energy drinks and my heart breaks.

That shit is poison. Soda is not fit for human consumption. Diet soda makes people FAT. Aspartame was designed originally for use as a bioweapon. Soda has brominated vegetable oil in it (Flame retardant). The acid that they add to soda pop is so caustic, the people who transport it have to have special training and need to wear hazmat suits to clean up any spills, and the danger signs on the containers of that acid is literally considered only one level down (in classification) from Nuclear waste. Every time you drink it, it depletes your skeletal structure of calcium.

Not only that, but every time you drink it, the chemicals mixed with the carbonation have an effect that (it seems) no one knows about:
It stops your body from being able to process calcium AT ALL, which, as a direct effect, shuts your immune system OFF COMPLETELY for up to 12 hours.
That is from drinking just 1 cup of pop.

So be warned: if you are sick, or have tumour, or a disease you are fighting, etc, and you drink a pop, you are literally shutting off your immune system for 12 hours and allowing that sickness to run rampant, unimpeded for up to 12 hours.

I am not trying to preach, I am only trying to maybe wake up even ONE person.

If it's energy you're short on, talk to me about Nutritional Cleansing. The program I use will have your bursting with energy within 4 days. The program also has an all natural energy shot that is all organic and plant based, and uses the naturally occuring caffeine from Green Tea extract. It was designed specifically for athletic performance.
The product line also has a melatonin spray that I use for helping myself sleep on the occasions where I get put on shift work and my circadian rhythm becomes all screwed up.
All natural.

But either way, do yourselves a favor and stay the heck away from pop, soda and those poisonous energy drinks!!