http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/26/sex-good-heart-say-scientists-man/
Highest levels of homocysteine found in men having sex less than once a month, and lowest levels found in men having it at least twice a week. Homocysteine having a strong relationship to heart disease and vascular risks (stroke,etc.).
This is interesting.
Makes me wonder of oxytocin's and cortisol's relationship with homocysteine? I'm not sure how sexual activity would affect homocysteine levels directly, but I could see it affecting those two factors (or associated receptors & neurochemicals) which may in turn affect homocysteine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18827476
Serum homocysteine levels correlate positively with cortisol (r = 0.36, p <0.01) and age (r = 0.49, p < 0.001), and negatively with ascorbate (r = -0.30, p < 0.05) and folate (r = -0.31, p < 0.05). A negative correlation between serum levels of cortisol and ascorbate (r = -0.30, p < 0.05) was also observed.
So vitamin C and folate (Abundant in fruits and vegetables) lowers homocysteine and cortisol, interesting. There is already a known strong association between high fruit intake and stroke prevention. A moderate association with high vegetable intake. I suspect there's an interaction between oxytocin->cortisol->homocysteine, possibly explaining the relationship between frequency of sexual activity and homocysteine.
(I guarantee I'm getting more than enough vitamin C and folate with peanut butter and bananas; each banana is 17% vit C, 5% folate, 8% magnesium, each serving of peanut butter is 9% folate and 12% magnesium. With 12 servings of bananas a day and 8 servings of peanut butter a day, I'm getting 204% vitamin C, 142% folate and 192% magnesium, about 100% dv of protein.)
But, I think there might be a direct relationship between oxytocin->homocysteine.
I think there might be a more important neurochemical/receptor associated with sex. Because, hypothetically, bonding could occur without sex, thus oxytocin levels could be high, thus negating homocysteine assuming there's a relationship between the two, suggesting that either there's a particularly strong association between oxytocin and homocysteine with frequent sex (Significantly higher levels of oxytocin) or some other neurochemical / receptors I'm not accounting for.
So, again, I don't see anything wrong with lust.
Update: Finished concreting up the rest of the fence posts this morning. Just have the back gate hole to get going, then cement it, then t-posts (Should take one entire evening), then applying the fencing (Should take another evening) and then the gates (Maybe another evening), then minor security upgrades (Shed, RV), and I should be pretty much good to go.
I don't work during the day because it's way too freaking hot in my bee suit. If I don't wear my bee suit, I get relentlessly attacked by mosquitos and midges.
And, I'm seeing relatively significant weekly improvements in my savings balances with my tight expenditure controls. Yep, so this is good habit to have.
-No going out to eat
-Delay durable good purchases as much as possible (Until strictly necessary)
-Minimize durable goods purchases (Ideally, none)
But after predicting expenses and the expected minimum cash position for the week, I'm not really building savings that fast. Yep, I definitely need to find a full-time work replacement for this income, ideally something in my field. This used to be a fairly profitable business, but it's been trending a little bit too close to living expenses in the last month or so, so I'm not building savings. And, I would need to build savings to afford generators when they go down to make this business viable longterm, so this business is essentially a dead-end with an expected lifespan of another 2-4 months(Until the current generator dies). If I were hooked to the grid, it wouldn't necessarily be a dead end because I would have scalable cost-effective power thus boosting profits and not limiting expansion capabilities. I just totally did not expect a generator with a 2 year commercial warranty to die in 6 months. On the bright side, I may find a more positive future finding work here. Though hard to anticipate all the benefits, maybe there'll be more personal, professional, financial and romantic opportunities.
It's an OK side business, but currently not a good source of bread-and-butter income in the context of my power capabilities/costs.
And solar isn't going to work; straight to the point, it would cost $5000 minimum to implement to satisfy my power requirements. And, I don't have that kind of money right now, just not happening. Further, the cloud cover is 50% during the colder months, so solar is only partially usable during the colder 5 months or so since the cloudy days tend to cluster. If I were operating in the deserts around phoenix/yuma/mexifornia, where the sunlight percentage is 90% during the summer and winter months, I could practically power my business year round off of solar, but I would still need a $5000 investment.
