"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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I am beginning to think i may have an iron deficiently. What supplements if any do you guys recommend, and how much should i take daily?
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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Since you're a guy, don't take iron supplements. Eat more red meat and green vegetables.
 

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yea, i looked at my whey mixture, im actually getting 94% iron intake. But i think now the problem was a lack of lysine. I don't think im getting enough.
 

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What's wrong with taking Iron supplements if you're Iron deficient?
And what does it have to do with being a guy?
Enlighten me, please.
 

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You have no way to excrete iron, once you take it, it's in you. Too much can cause multiple complications that put simply make you sick. I believe simon is alluding to menstruation which excretes about 0.5 mg/mL iron for females however we don't have such an option and iron can still be dangerous for them. Get what you need from red meat and greens as he said.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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Thanks,HBK. Forgot about Aunt Whatshernameorother. Glad we don't have to live with her.

lolz
Anyway,I figure one would be going back to the doc to get the bloodwork checked, and stop supplementing once the desired counts are there.
Meat and greens ftw. I likes me spinach.
 

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I had a severe iron deficiency as a kid, and my parents made me eat a lot of liver. I guess it worked, yeah?
 

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Yeah, but it turned you into a fvckin' Monster Squid!!!!

Watch out! Flee! Run away!!!
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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:eek: Monster Squid?? Where???
OMG! Oh noes!!!
 

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stop drinking sodas and tea if you think you have low iron. it sucks the iron right outta ya.
 

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It's SQUAD. Not squid.

Oh, and to the OP. If you drink distilled water, stop.
 

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Dude. Don't get defensive. It's just a joke FFS.
 

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High blood iron may also be a risk factor for CHD, which is why a lot of men should give blood as frequently as possible. Frequent exercise is also associated with a decrease in blood iron.
 

"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"

She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.

Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.

The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.

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WHY do you think you have deficiencies? I doubt you're deficient in lysine or iron.
 

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well I've been really getting back into training/working out this summer..its been 3 months now of heavy lifting. I also noticed this summer, right as i coming off a cold (which i did a high dosage of vitamin C to counteract, 1000mg) I noticed i had developed alopecia barbae, which is when your autoimmune system thinks hair folices are enemies, and destroys them; this has happened to a spot in my beard. I don't want it to spread.
I've done some research, and found out that the a cause of hairloss is a lack of certain essential vitamins and minerals: iron, lysine, B-1, and C. Now, my multivitamin, and C supplements take of the vitamin C, and also give me 90% daily value for my iron. B-1 is also included in the multivitamin. However I noticed, im not getting lysine from anywhere. This leads me to believe that a deficiency in this, may have triggered the auto immune system.
 

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Lysine is an amino acid that's in all meats. Do you eat any meat? Then you get enough. Heck you said you take whey; in my whey it's the 4th most abundant amino acid in the mix according to the bag.

If you go give blood they'll test it for appropriate iron levels.
 

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yea, im getting my blood looked at this thursday.. I'd **** myself if i let some stupid ass shiet take my gorgeous head of hair!!!!!!
 

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When i have to give blood, and for iron they tell me to eat raisins.. I dont think it does that much, like a cap would give you, but if you try to add them to your diet, it may help increase your iron levels.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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