 Big topic big question how to overcome depression now before we get on with the video I want to talk about one thing if you haven't already Make sure that you turn on your notification bell on YouTube Because YouTube is doing funky weird shit A lot of you have said you're not getting the notifications for my new videos I checked the stats, and it's about seven percent of my total audience So I implore you if you'd like to see my new videos on a daily basis Go ahead and click that little bell now on with the video. So Overcoming depression. I've had depression my entire life. I still have it today But today is much more manageable, and I know how to manage it. I know exactly why I have it However in the past I had chronic depression I mean severe chronic depression and I was self-medicating through drugs. You name it I've probably done the drug. I self-medicated through drinking. I did a lot of drinking and So it wasn't until 10 years ago that I slowly Started piecing the puzzles together to figure out how to deal with my depression And so what I've done over here is I have pulled together things that I currently do On a daily basis that helps me out. Now, what I'm sharing with you today is things that help me Maybe they can help you. What works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another person. It's very simple This is why there's no black and white answer for anything in life There's many different shades of grays and many different variables for everybody in their life And so without further ado, abu, I will tell you the five things that I currently do that has Tremendously, I mean has taken me from like fuck. I'm fucking depressed to like life kicks fucking ass number one I Fixed my diet So I used to eat like shit because I was partying four days a week drinking doing drugs and a 4 a.m. What's available Mickey D's like those dirty fries with the mayo and eating like four or five burgers and then street food Like hot dogs and like and then all the alcohol and not you know, you get your overweight you have energy issues anyhow, I I Switched my diet and I switched my diet to a paleo diet So currently what I eat is a cyclic low carb paleo diet. It's I'm not religious about it I still eat bread when I go out to beautiful restaurants, and I can't can't ignore that French biscuit or that garlic bread or even like fresh sour. I can't ignore that when I garlic butter Mmm, give me a break everything in moderation if you can control yourself, you know I'm saying So right now I do a cyclic low-car paleolithic diet and how that works out is quite simple On the days that I don't work out or train I don't have carbs and on the days that I do work out and train I have a shit ton of carbs rice and potatoes and different types of tubers I just wow I'm out that shit all the way down and For me when I started this type of diet, you know over a decade ago Within like I don't know like 30 days 40 days Shit like I noticed a difference right away. I noticed my energy levels were up I noticed that my sleep was better like I Didn't I didn't I didn't need like 20 cups of coffee. I didn't need to hit the snooze two three times I got up and so that was like the most significant thing that I changed in my life I went from the sad super sad shitty diet of street food and McDonald's and drinking to Eating more or less a really good healthy ancestral diet now. It's up to you to figure out what diet you want Well, the diets are different out there. I'm not here preaching paleo diets for everybody This will work for me might be vegan for you might be keto might be pescatarian might be whatever macro diet Whatever they call the macro nutrition diet. You got to figure it out man. You got to experiment. There's no gurus out there There's no Sign there's no single point of truth. There is no truth. You know, how can one thing be the only truth? That's rubbish man. So figure out experiment what works for you, but for me Switching my diet to the paleo diet was a plus number two Which boggles my mind a lot of people do not do it in 2019 is move your ass man, like Jesus Christ I Think no matter which camp you're in vegan or paleo or carnivore or whatever like doesn't matter what health camp you're in The one thing all of them agree upon is Exercise is beneficial, but yet people still don't exercise and for me when I look at exercise I'm not talking about just going to the gym. I'm talking about integrating into your lifestyle Swimming can be exercise dancing can be exercise rock climbing can be exercise mountain biking can be exercise Moving the human body is exercise martial arts is exercise So it's not just about you going to the gym and doing your deadlifts and bicep curls, whatever you want to do It can be anything that you want it to be as long as you're moving the body both mentally Physically which equals cardiovascular And so for me, it's like how do I integrate things that I love? You know, I love doing MMA so integrate MMA. I love walking. I walk to my office almost every day 3.1 kilometers right sometimes both ways so I get more than six kilometers a day of walking and so figure out What are some small baby steps that you can do to get exercise in your life start with walking? That's a great easy fucking step that you can do another easy step They can do if you have to take the elevator every day for living in condo take the fucking stairs There's your stair master right there. So incorporate exercise I can't tell you enough the benefits and releases endorphins increases your testosterone There's the health benefits are fucking unreal get your exercise in number three. I take omega-3 supplementation We need omega-3 to control inflammation. You need it for your neurons. It's good for hormones like the benefits of omega-3s are Exponential and so for me, I don't live near the Pacific. I don't live near the Atlantic I'm I'm near the great lake of the pollution of the great lakes. So for me to get fatty fish It's quite difficult. Everything's kind of shipped in so I like to supplement with my omega-3s I've noticed that when I'm off of them that I'm kind of slower with my mind And so I supplement with omega-3s figure out what brand is good for you figure out what you like to do Maybe you live near the Pacific you get some fresh ass a mega-3 salmon boom good for you even better than supplementation But mega-3 supplementation has greatly helped me out number four Nature walks, you know Japanese call this for a forest bathing Seldom do I see people to take their time to go into nature and this doesn't mean leaving the city? Do you mean parks are most major cities Toronto has a shit ton of parks New York has a shit ton of park shit If you're on the West Coast where I used to live in British Columbia or anywhere on the West Coast like California, etc Man, you guys are blessed blessed You know you're surrounded by nature So get your ass out there go on PubMed go on Google He much studies there are when it comes to nature for me It has really helped me to ground myself In fact a lot of times I do go grounding in nature when I'm doing the forest walk I walk barefoot. I have my shoes in my backpack Get that real Textile that the tangible touch with mother nature mother earth Gaia and so for me I Two three times a week man minimum I notice a massive difference when I don't do it like I'm more stressed a more strung up and I notice my thoughts are more chaotic when I don't get my nature walks and then finally number five which ties into my nature walks is Microdosing shrooms so psilocybin which is the active psychedelic compound when it comes which comes in shrooms I do that about I don't know every two weeks or every yeah roughly every two weeks. Maybe Maybe even last maybe like 10 days 11 days and I go on the nature walks with that. I don't have music I don't have my cell phone. It's me with My medicine teacher the magic mushrooms and mother nature Gaia and I just walk and For me, it's one of the most beneficial impactful things I've added in my repertoire when it comes to controlling my depression now These are things that I currently do that are easily sustainable for me. These can be much different for you I'm just telling you what has worked for me these five things Diet working out a mega three nature walks and micro dosing has tremendously helped me with control my depression I mean tremendously taking me from like ten out of ten of depression down to like one out of ten sometimes zero out of ten So I hope this helps you I hope this gives you some insights on things that you can possibly change in your life and like I said, there is no black and white answer everybody's different you've got to experiment to figure out what works for you and Document things and and figure out this works. That doesn't work and become your own scientist in life and Engineer the life to have success in life without proper engineering and blueprints and trial and error and having the oodaloop system You're not gonna have any success in life. So I hope you enjoyed this video. Leave a comment below I want to know what you've done in your life how to control your depression and Like share this video and I'll talk to you guys soon. Peace