To my knowledge, on The Convo Couch, they treated the guest with respect and as an informed source on the topic.

Yes. I’m also worried they’re getting fed dogwhistles or right-wing talking points from these people. Danny Haiphong used to be a journalist for Black Agenda Report which is very very left/socialist, and now he’s having alt-right content creators on. Although, to be fair, he was a correspondent with Jimmy Dore, so he was already questionable.

On The Convo Couch, they brought on a guy that’s a covid misinformation pusher, but they brought him on to talk about the Palestinian genocide and the lies Israel is saying. Danny Haiphong has brought on an alt-right channel/magazine called The Duran to talk about Russia, and also Israel.

Not at all what I was saying, but okay.

I’m guessing they think the guest has a better analysis than the media and isn’t endorsed by corporate backing.

I’ve never watched Real Time with Bill Maher. I was thinking more along the lines of if Democracy Now had Andrew Tate on to talk about the dangers of human trafficking. Questionable as in they are a covid denier or anti-trans views.

The long term is what I’m slightly concerned about.

Yes, that’s makes sense. When I get really happy or excited I’ll stim. When I drank the cordyceps tea, it was similar to being high, but my body and mind were calmer. Same effect with Tulsi tea. I know Tulsi tea has linalool in it. which is also in Marijuana. When I drink Tulsi or Cordyceps tea, it feels like my vision and brain are in a bubble, or I’m looking through a fishy eye lens if that makes sense. What I’m hoping, is that adaptogens just block certain receptors and aren’t really changing the brain at all.

Any lists?

Okay, so I did 3 rounds of the method. Then, I did buteyko breathing. I worked out, did my yoga and tai chi. I’m the calmest I’ve been in a long time. It could be from the tea mix I had, though. I haven’t had any paranoia at all. I drank a hibiscus tea mix, and hibiscus really helps with my paranoia/anxiety so that could be why I’m calm. I kinda want to try the method before bed, with buteyko afterwards, but it could be a gamble.

Apparently, Wim can influence his autonomic nervous system at will, or so he says. I think I know the real reason. Hear me out, when I do buteyko, it releases nitric oxide, which widens your blood vessels, and thickens the blood. Thicker blood means warmer body temperature. I could be way off, though.

I have tried meditating, and I meditate when I can. It hasn’t done a whole lot for my panic attacks. I think I have underlying trauma that has surfaced, which caused the panic attacks.

Yes and no. He’s had scientists do tests on him and it does activate different parts of your brain.

So far, my toolkit includes yoga, tai chi/Qigong, buteyko, hibiscus/chamomile tea, matcha tea, and ASMR. I’ve been working on a regimen or plan which incorporates all of them. I was using adaptogens, but that’s a diff story for another day.

I used to have panic attacks a lot, but when I started the buteyko method, they have dropped/stopped dramatically. Now I can think more clearly, and I’m a lot calmer. If it’s a scam, it’s a damn good one, cause it helps my anxiety a lot.