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Bryce Callahan

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since Sep 17, 2025
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Howdy fellow trash pandas! My name is Bryce, a 36 year old California grown cidiot (city-ot?) in recovery. After a short stint trying to live in Oakland and SF, CA, I took 6 months off to go Wwoofing in Maui. There I slept soundly for what seemed like the first time ever, hanging in a hammock in the forest, no reception, just the sound of running water. I swore to myself I'd never sleep inside again, but harsher winters brought me back to reality and preparing for my first rocket mass heater build 13 years later! Playing music and singing brings me the most joy, along with observing and playing in nature and doing my best to learn to thrive with it. Before I moved to east Tennessee in 2018 to start a family and homestead with my former wife, I spent my winters teaching snowboarding and cross country skiing with my huskies. I love swimming in the freshest spring water I can find, cliff diving, and growing mushrooms. I drove truck over the road from '19-'22 and now drive locally part time. I started a small indoor mushroom farm a few years ago to have a year round food production project. I supply a few local restaurants and a local farmers market. I took the past year off chickens to focus on mushroom cultivation, but when I had them, I used all my spent mushroom substrate blocks mixed with dumpster gleaned food scraps to fuel the "chicken tractor on steroids" made popular by Billy Bond @permapasturesfarm. I still compost a ton, and enjoy encouraging others to do the same by providing my spent blocks to local gardeners.
I am still healing from a dislocated hip/femur and the spinal issues that caused, and have been diving into "alternative" healing modalities like German New Medicine which seems like the most empowering philosophy on the human body I've come across. I'm an avid reader, life long learner, and am excited to meet fellow nature and music lovers here in Appalachia.
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I've found re-establishing a natural circadian rhythm and correcting magnesium deficiency to work best. Dr. Jack Kruse is a retired brain surgeon who preaches that 80% of health is just waking up to watch the sun rise barefoot everyday,  getting as much sun exposure as possible, and avoiding all sources of non-native EMF. This means your kindle before bed, and as crazy as it may sound in the 21st century, replacing all the LEDs and CFLs in your house with incandescent bulbs, as these new energy efficient technologies produce a blue light spectrum similar to noon time sun. So if you're exposing yourself to noon time sun in the form of non-native EMF like screens and blue light, you're tricking your body into thinking it's high noon, when it's actually 8pm. This is the source of melatonin deficiency.  It can take your brain something like 4 hours to start producing natural melatonin after exposure to blue light, so the best cheat code I've found to get around the screens at night issue is blue light blocking glasses. There's a lot of untested brands out there, and I don't gain anything from promoting this, but BonCharge has 3rd party tested their lenses to block 100% of the blue light spectrum, and their red lenses instantly relax me when I put them on after sunset. Taking exogenous melatonin down-regulates your endogenous melatonin production, so overtime your body produces less of it, making dependency a risk.  I think it can be  through addressing  the light hygiene issue.

https://boncharge.com/collections/blue-light-blocking-glasses
https://youtu.be/T5TvHd7WnIE - Jack Kruse quickie on melatonin

As for the magnesium, I take magnesium breakthrough, which contains all 7 bio-available forms of magnesium. I used to experience painful leg cramps that would wake me in the middle of the night after a surgery, and this stopped it. I'd recommend getting a few bottles to start and following their recommended protocol to optimize your magnesium levels (unless you're 100% sure you're levels are good, worst case is loose stools if you overdo it.)

https://bioptimizers.com/magnesium-breakthrough?gl=646393f83f5d600d3b8b4567

Hope something in here is helpful. Sweet dreams!

-bryce



6 hours ago
DERP! I didn't actually watch the initial link you shared till now, but thanks for pointing that out. I've been off social media for over a year and missed William's new channel. He's blowing up, and for good reason! His dad Billy started the Permapastures channel and has been instrumental in Helene relief in the Asheville area, particularly in promoting the use of composting methods to neutralize toxins from the disaster. They are an awesome family, can't say enough good things about them. Glad you found him. Rot on!
1 week ago
Congrats on finally getting it hot! If you haven't come across Permapastures on yt yet, they have great tutorials on composting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R--vITA8Bc&list=PLaAkONMPbRReo4b_EBUazHHFd_BnzBaUY
One thing they don't touch on is using spent mushroom substrate. I've been using it in the chicken tractor on steroids for a couple years and it's amazing, very low maintenance if you don't have chickens, as it is 50% sawdust/50% soy hull, with a few oats in there. I have let piles sit for literally months without turning or watering, and it makes the loamiest soil. Of course, you can always add scraps to it for extra heat, you just may need to turn it more frequently. if you have a mushroom farm in your area, definitely reach out to them and offer to pick up their spent blocks, just soak the hell of them as you're breaking them up, and you may even get a few bonus mushrooms in the process. Hope this helps, mush <3!

-bryce
1 week ago