Johnny Belgium

A Plant Based Diet is not a Vegan Or Vegetarian Diet. On a Plant Based Diet you get most of your nutrients from plants but allow for a small amount of animal products. ❗️Don't get your nutrition advice from randos like me. Instead, for advice on eating Plants, check out this FREE website:  https://veganhealth.org/ DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING I WRITE.  I started writing this guide at the beginning of my journey. It's a mess, and I now know better. Especially when it comes to supplements. I now take a multivitamin that contains B12, D, Selenium, Iodine... and I take an Omega 3 algea supplement which Plant Eaters anecdotally need. I make sure there is always soup in the fridge that includes Beans or Lentils and Dark Leafy Greens. I still agree with a lot of this advice, but changed my mind on some of it. I advise you to read websites and books by qualified people like: Books: Vegan For Life, Nourish Subscribe to the newsletters of the websites: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health...

There is a lot of mind reading going on. People claiming to know the true motives of a person. I don't even know clearly what my own motives are, let alone other people. Speculating about motives is a big part of the news and of social media. "They are just stupid" "They are lying" "They don't know that they are lying" "What they really want is actually..." "They are a narcissist" "They have a cognitive bias" "They are evil" "They intend well" ... The field of psychology attempts to read minds. Their conclusions often seem true. But it's not an empirical measurement like measuring a volume or length. If I don't know my own motivation, how can a researcher? You can say: "people are pretty much the same" and base your mindreading on your own mind. But perhaps people have different ways of thinking. Maybe not everyone is skeptical. Perhaps people can be in denial or not able comprehen...

TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE !!! Had I been diagnosed before the LSD, it would have probably been with bipolar. My teenage years were marked by episodes of depression and what I now realize were mild psychotic symptoms. When I was 20, I had been in a mostly depressed phase for over 2 years. I was supposed to be studying. I stayed up watching news channels till a hole in the night. I watched TV till I was so tired I fell asleep. TV stopped me from being alone with my dark thoughts. Had I gone to bed at a normal time, I would be struggling to fall asleep with my thoughts. So I watched TV till I was dead tired, then woke up in the middle of the afternoon. Repeat cycle. For about 2 years until this story begins. I also had episodes which I now recognize as mania or psychosis. But I thought it was my rich and intense fantasy life. For instance: An attractive girl would catch my eye in the supermarket and I would have visions of us together. One thing, they were really intense. But they also kep...

  TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide. This is the story of my first acid trip. If you are going to try psychedelics, please read my harm reduction guide first so you don’t have a bad trip: https://johnnybelgium.blogspot.com/2022/09/johnny-belgiums-psychedelic-trip-guide.html Club 27 is a group of famous musicians that died when they were 27. Most of them died from drug use. That includes alcohol. I’m in a different club 27. My life began when I was 27 years old because of an LSD trip. My mother was a certified schizophrenic and never got the help she needed because she was too paranoid. My father had issues too. Long story short: I had a crappy childhood. I think I had a mood disorder before the acid cured me. I remember having panic attacks in kleuterklas (school ages 3 to 6). Sometimes I was really really angry without an apparent cause. I didn’t know how to talk to people. Like many boomers my parents thought children raised themselves and didn’t need to be parented and socialized. As a t...

The following Soup boosts your Iron and contains a Protein source. Click here for the updated supreme delux version of this post. INGREDIENTS: Spinach Paprikas Dried Lentils (soaked for 4 hours) or Dried Beans (soaked overnight) Onion or Soup Vegetables 1.5 Cubes of Vegetable Stock (contains salt) per Liter of Water Pepper, Vinegar and Olive Oil PREPARATION: Soak the Lentils for at least 4 hours. Soak Beans overnight. Throw away the water and rinse.  Chop it up. Doesn't have to be chopped thinly. Throw it all in a big pot. Add water till it's full. Boil on a low fire and stir a bit for at least 60 min. Blend it. And ready. Extra words: This soup is great for vegan Protein and Iron absorption. The Lentils or Beans are in this Soup to make it a complete meal with a Protein source, but as a bonus they are also a source of Iron. Dried Pulses are cheaper. You achieve better Iron absorption if you combine an Iron source (Spinach) with a Vitamin C source (Paprika) Plant Based sources ...