PaulC
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PaulC
@PaulConRO
IT engineer, love chess, hiking and shooting sports. 🇷🇴 NAFO proud member. I might not answer DMs.
Bucharest, Romania Katılım Nisan 2022
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@PaulConRO Nice! Hello neighbor. 🤝 That’s exactly how you do it—wild-caught and packed in brine, not swimming in cheap seed oils. I’ll definitely check that site out. Appreciate the hookup!
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Your "superfood" smoothie is slowly crystallizing inside your body. Spinach. Almonds. Beetroot. Chia. Cacao. The entire vegan superfood starter pack. All loaded with oxalates. And nobody told you.
Oxalates are salts of oxalic acid that plants produce to protect themselves from being eaten. Sound familiar? Lectins do the same thing. Plants are not trying to nourish you. They are trying to survive you.
Here's what oxalates actually do inside your body:
They bind to calcium and form insoluble crystals. Those crystals accumulate in your kidneys, joints, soft tissues, arteries. Some researchers find them in brain tissue. Your body has no mechanism to use them. They just build up. Silently. For years.
The kidney stone is not the problem. The kidney stone is just the moment the accumulation becomes impossible to ignore. Everything before that — the joint pain, the brain fog, the chronic fatigue, the inflammation that never resolves — that's the actual problem. Nobody connected it to the morning smoothie.
Who's most at risk:— Vegans and plant-based dieters — Anyone drinking spinach and beetroot powders daily — People taking high dose vitamin C supplements — Anyone with compromised gut microbiome — People with IBD or leaky gut
Symptoms of chronic oxalate overload:— Joint and muscle pain with no clear cause — "Sand" sensation in the eyes — Tingling, numbness, skin irritation — Brain fog and chronic fatigue — Kidney stones, frequent urination — Inflammation that doesn't respond to treatment
Your rheumatologist calls it arthritis. Your neurologist calls it unexplained neuropathy. Your gastroenterologist calls it IBS. None of them asked what you put in your morning smoothie.
The highest oxalate foods:Spinach, rhubarb, chard, almonds, cashews, peanuts, beetroot, sweet potato, cacao, dark chocolate, black tea, quinoa, buckwheat, chia.
The exact list reads like a Whole Foods shopping cart. The exact list reads like "foods that heal" on every wellness Instagram account you follow.
What actually works:Remove the high oxalate foods. Increase calcium from bioavailable animal sources — it binds oxalates in the gut before absorption. Don't megadose vitamin C. And if you want to eliminate the problem entirely — eat animal food.
Meat has zero oxalates. Eggs have zero oxalates. Fish has zero oxalates. They were never trying to defend themselves from being eaten.
Your joint pain isn't old age. Your brain fog isn't stress. Your kidney stones aren't genetic bad luck.
It's the almonds. It's the spinach. It's the superfood smoothie you've been drinking every morning for five years.
Not medical advice.

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@arny_dm Oh, I live in Romania, so we're neighbors :) I found a great site, I think it's based in Bulgaria, where I order canned wild salmon. It's high quality.
vilgain.com/vilgain-wild-s…
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Exactly! Chicken and turkey are fine, just don't make them your main fuel. But watch out for salmon—I did some digging and almost all of it is farmed. They eat 100% pellet feed, meaning zero Omega-3. You have to hunt down wild-caught to get the real benefits.
I actually moved from the US to Bulgaria temporarily and hit a wall with Omega-3s. Good beef here is scarce and way too expensive for me right now. But I found a solid workaround: canned cod liver in its own oil is pure Omega-3. I also buy fresh sprat and horse mackerel straight from the local fishermen, plus regular ground beef from the store. Ideally, I’d be running on 90% beef, but you make do with what you have!
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Sardines are a massive win. Perfect cheat code to fix that Omega-3 ratio. But honestly, the olive oil isn't saving the day here. True olive oil is roughly 75% Omega-9, 10-15% Omega-6, and less than 1% Omega-3. So it doesn't actually fix the deficit, it just adds even more Omega-6 to the pile. Plus, most store-bought olive oil is secretly cut with cheap seed oils anyway. The sardines are doing 100% of the heavy lifting to save this meal. I’d just ditch the oil and use grass-fed butter, ghee, or tallow to be completely bulletproof. But respect for adding the fish!
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Looks delicious, I enjoy it too. But watch out for the fat profile. Chicken is notoriously high in Omega-6 (linoleic acid). Wrecking your Omega-3 to Omega-6 ratio is a fast track to chronic inflammation and metabolic disease. If you’re going to eat chicken, you have to be 100% sure they aren't fed cheap soy and corn. They need to be truly pasture-raised, out in the sun, eating bugs and worms. Otherwise, the real superfoods are ruminant animals (like cows and sheep). Their multi-chambered stomachs filter out the garbage and create perfectly balanced fat.
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@MisterSpread Pai inca nu s-a format, poate nici nu se formeaza, il iau in considerare sa stiu unde pun TP daca se respinge din rezistenta aia.
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Day 44 — Timișoara, Romania 🇷🇴🚴
Made it to Timișoara.
After weeks of hills, climbing, wind, small villages, and long roads across Ukraine and Romania, finally seeing flat roads again felt unreal 😅
Today wasn’t about speed or sightseeing. It was about arriving, recovering, eating good food, hydrating, and giving my body a chance to rest after some tough riding days.
Crossing into Romania and reaching Timișoara feels like another important milestone on this journey around the world by bicycle.
The adventure continues in three days — but tonight it’s water from the mountains, Turkish food, and sleep 😂
#cyclingaroundtheworld #bicycletouring #timisoara #romania #worldbybike #adventurecycling #bikepacking #toutterrain

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@Lithuanian_MoD @RomaniaNATO @NATO_AIRCOM @NATO @LitdelNATO @kaitsemin @NFIURomania @LithuaniaMFA @romaniaineu Anytime!!
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@PaulConRO As someone who lives in Brasov, its nowhere near close as “dirt cheap”.
I’m not sure what she calls cheap?
Apartments, houses 150-200k on average mid-low end, a small 1 room studio 27mp is 300-350 eur-ish per month. The groceries prices are high, etc
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Waking up starving every morning isn't normal. It's your blood sugar crashing at 3am while you sleep. And the carbs you ate for dinner caused it.
Here's exactly what happens: You eat carbs at night. Blood sugar spikes. Insulin floods in to clean it up. Insulin stays elevated while you sleep — especially if you're insulin resistant. Elevated insulin blocks gluconeogenesis — your body's ability to make new glucose overnight. Blocks the liver from releasing glycogen properly. By 4-5am your brain is running on empty.
Emergency mode activates. Cortisol. Adrenaline. Panic signals.
You wake up with: — Ravenous hunger — Irritability — Anxiety — Weakness — Sometimes sweating or dizziness
And everyone told you this was normal. "Your body needs breakfast." No. Your body needs to fix what dinner broke.
Then you eat carbs for breakfast because that's what you're craving. Blood sugar spikes again. Insulin floods in again. Crashes again by 10am. Hungry again by 11am.
You've been running this loop every single day for years. Thinking you have no willpower. Thinking you're addicted to food. Thinking this is just how you are.
It's not you. It's reactive hypoglycemia. A biochemical trap nobody explained to you.
The exit: Eat animal fat and protein at dinner. No carbs. No spike. No crash. No 3am cortisol dump. Your body evolved to run on this.
Wake up calm, stable, actually not hungry. If you're not hungry in the morning — don't eat. Let your body learn to use its own fuel. That's metabolic flexibility. Most people lost it years ago.
When hunger does arrive — eggs, meat, butter. Real human food. Not oatmeal. Not fruit. Not the fake "heart-healthy breakfast" the food industry sold you.
You're not broken. You're just running on the wrong fuel. And the right fuel doesn't come in a cereal box.
Not medical advice.
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@MisterSpread Sau pur si simplu nu au inteles mare lucru din analiza tehnica. 90% habar nu au sa traseze corect structura pietei desi la prima vedere pare usor.
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@arny_dm @AruGanesh Today, there is almost no difference between eating fruit and eating a spoonful of sugar.
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@arny_dm @AruGanesh Not to mention that ancient fruits and vegetables were small, bitter, and had almost no carbs. Bananas and melons were small, tasteless, and full of seeds. Decades of selective breeding and genetic engineering turned them into the sweet, calorie-dense fruits we know today.
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@PaulConRO Incep să ma intreb daca crapă dobitocul ala sinistru de putin daca vom afla macar. Sau il tin imbalsam pentru pensie si războaie de agresiune.
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