If you want to put on muscle, you worry about two nutrients. You make sure you’re getting a lot of protein and you take your essential fatty acids like Udo’s oil and fish oil. Most guys who want to gain muscle don’t think of anything else.

About 2 years ago I watched this fascinating video on nutrition and then bought the book: Minding My Mitochondria 2nd Edition: How I overcame secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and got out of my wheelchair.

(I realize a woman is speaking in this video. Who says we are not inclusive?)

The speaker is big on beef liver and in her book she suggests we all eat it once a week.

Now the editor-in-chief of T-Mag, TC Luoma, has joined the party:

Look at this comparison between the Vitamin C content of 100 grams of apple, 100 grams of carrots, 100 grams of red meat, and 100 grams of beef liver.

The apple has 7.0 grams of Vitamin C, the carrots have 6.0 grams, the red meat has 0 grams, and the beef liver has 27.0 grams.

Let’s do the same thing with Vitamin B12.

The apple has no measurable B12 and neither do the carrots. The red meat has 1.84 mcg., but the beef liver has 111.3 mcg.

It’s no contest.

And it’s not much different when you look at other nutrients like phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, Vitamins A, D, and E, thiamin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, folic acid, biotin, and Vitamin B6 – beef liver beats them all almost every time.

(Victor Pride at Bold & Determined is also big on beef liver. I’ll write more in my forthcoming review of his book, Body of a Spartan.)

A cow’s liver, just like your own liver, detoxifies the cow’s body. This means you want to eat the highest quality beef liver available. Ideally you’d eat grass-fed beef liver.

You can also order liver pills:

• Nature’s Life Beef Liver, Defatted & Dessicated, 1500 Mg, 100 Tablets,
• Universal Uni-Liver Tablets, 500-Count Bottles

Liver doesn’t taste nearly as bad as you’d think. Pan fry it coconut, add some some onions, and enjoy. Eat liver once a week. Or pop some liver pills.

Either way, organ meat should become part of your diet.

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“Back when we were in college,” my friend noted, “You didn’t really see a lot of girls who weighed 140 pounds. Most were around 110 and then you had the fat girls.”

We had been discussing the change in body shape of women on the West Coast. Girls aren’t necessarily fat, but you see a lot of 5s who would be 7s (and 8s when done up for the clubs) if they lost 20 or 30 pounds.

L.A. women had been praised in songs such as Bob Seger’s Hollywood Nights, David Lee Roth’s “California Girls,” and even The Doors’ “L.A. Woman.”

Los Angeles was the city of angels and when guys complained about the decline in quality of American women, I couldn’t relate. As Horace Greely said in 1865, “Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.”

My philosophy has always been to change yourself or change your environment. I grew up in an oppressive, depressing shit hole area. I could either have become a loser and accepted my environment or I could have moved. I left and never looked back.

I only leave home when a loved one is about to die. I tell my family that I’ll put them up in a hotel and buy tickets, but I’m not coming home to visit. It’s been four years since I’ve returned to that demoralizing, depressing place.

Now we aren’t even safe in the West Coast. The same things guys in the rest of the country have complained about have come to California.

Going out isn’t even fun anymore. It’s cool to hang out with your friends, but meeting women is a rat race. Even a top-tier guy is going to have a woman give him a smug look on her face that says, “Impress me.”

Impress her…Why?

As has been taught in every economics course since the beginning of time, “Incentives matter.” What’s the incentive? American women?

• They spit on the sidewalk.
• They spend hours watching reality television.
• They are loud and behave like black women you used to only see on World Star Hip Hip.
• They eat a poor quality diet and give off an almost sick odor caused by processed foods leaving their skin pores.
• They insist that men offer “intelligent conversation,” but they don’t even read anything other than US Weekly.
• They have nannys and house keepers, as they can’t keep a home or raise a child.
• They can’t cook.
• They can’t handle their liquor. It’s impossible to just go out and have a good time with a girl, as a meltdown is going to happen. A man must count his girl’s drinks and constantly be prepared to cut her off rather than just relax and have a good time.

What the fuck is happening to the United States of America?

What is even the point of going out anymore. Cock blocking has reached epic proportions. Until you have the girl in the cab, you’re never safe.

Now feminists might claim that girlfriends are looking out for one another. They are simply trying to prevent their friends from getting taken advantage of. Does that defense of cock blocking and playing mother hen hold water?

Think about it, men. What percentage of your  friends are inveterate players who want to simply use a girl and forget about her? 5%? 10%?

Most guys want to make a connection with a girl. Most men want to meet a decent girl to spend some time with. Many men (probably most men) actually want to meet The One to settle down with.

Some recent studies have shown that modern American men are highly interested in marriage, and that on average, men want to get married more than women do.

So it doesn’t make sense for girls to cock block and mother hen to protect them from dangerous wolves?

No, the mother hens and cock blockers share one thing in common. They are not just a few pounds overweight. They are fat.

As a man, the only way to consistently get laid is to make nice with revolting women who lack the self-discipline to stop eating.

Is it worth it?

That overlong introduction leads use to Roosh’s latest book, Why Can’t I Use a Smiley Face? (available here).

The title itself is a give-a-way to the problems facing American men.

Why can’t a guy just send a fucking text message to a girl without having to play games? Why can’t he say, “Fun meeting you, let’s hang out later. ”

I use emoticons when talking to my guy friends and no one mistakes me for a softie, beta, or closeted homosexual.

Yet using (or not using) a smiley face could completely end any chance at ever seeing a girl again. You have to be on your A-game at all times. (Again, why? See the list, above.)

Smiley Face is actually my favorite Roosh book. I’ve read it as, “Roosh grows up.” That may sound condensing at first, but it’s not. Consider his development, which is the same one many of us had. We were all once dorks. The difference is some of us go through that phase to become something better.

Like most American men, he thought that going to college, getting a degree, getting a good job, and being a solid guy was enough to meet women. If you read his own blog, you get the sense that he’s a nice guy. He would have been the kind of guy that we would have wanted our sisters to date.

Yet his vision of the world conflicted with his results. Women didn’t want to date men like him. He was outraged and angry at them.

But being angry at the world or being angry at women is sort of childish. If you’re born into the jungle, you can’t be angry at venomous snakes and rabid bats. That’s just your environment. Learn it, master yourself, and then master your environment.

If you don’t like the situation, change it or leave. None of us are going to single-handled change the U.S. Most “smart money” has an exist strategy. The U.S. is still a good place to earn some money, but it’s basically becoming a fucking dump.

(Think about this for a minute. How many of you ever heard someone say, “U.S.A.: Love it or leave it!” When you tell a mother fucker you’re about to leave, they look at little afraid. “Why not stay? You should try improving things rather than cut and run?!” Even die-hard patriots realize this place is becoming a fucking dump and the love-it-or-leave-it bravado is dying out.)

So he stopped complaining about his station in life, he found a way to earn money without having to kiss the ass of fat women in HR, and he went out into the world.

He came back for a visit and realized that the old cliche – “It’s a great place to visit but not a great place to live” – doesn’t even apply.

It will be fun to see Roosh’s later works.

You can tell from his postings on the forum and his Twitter that he’s a changed man. Some have complained that he is losing his “aw, schucks,” appeal.

He is trying to transition from everyman to overman and it will be interesting to see what happens.

Read more: Why Can’t I Use a Smiley Face?

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My post about making money online created immense controversy. The consensus from people who no doubt go on Internet message forums to tell everyone that they are alpha males was surprisingly beta, “It can’t be done!”

I think a lot of guys need a new mirror. Some of you are seeing alpha images when the reality is less flattering.

These three groups of people are all living exclusive off of online income. If you say you can’t make money online, you are admitting that these are your superiors. While you cry about being broke, these people are making it happen.

Who’s the alpha – a bunch of pussies who cry about being broke or these people?

Raw Megan

Banana Boy

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If you think your game is tight, then you have clearly not heard of one man – Internet mob boss, Hunter Moore.

Hunter Moore is a DJ whose fame grew when he created the Internet revenge site, “Is Anyone Up?” “Is Anyone Up?” allowed users to upload images of girls who had sexted them, although the site took a diabolical twist.

Unlike other revenge sites, Is Anyone Up? Linked to the exes’ Facebook pages.

Most men would view Moore’s life as being over. Surely no woman would ever get involved with such a scumbag degenerate.

Hunter Moore’s reward for creating a website that ruined lives was a concubine of groupies. Girls would regularly send him nude pictures and offer him sex.

Hunter Moore became king of the Internet.

DJ Kalin Tyler (whom we interviewed at Danger & Play) had an interesting discussion with Hunter Moore.

The Interview examines Moore’s business strategy, his groupies, and his hustler’s mindset:

HM: I have been doing business since I was a little kid. To me, business is just natural. If I had went to school I would probably be a super fucking genius in business. People think I’m just an idiot for Tweeting and getting girls naked, but little do they know that I am creating this huge fucking empire. I really don’t sleep, all I do is hustle all day long. When people actually sit back and realize what I am doing, they will be like “Holy shit…” I hope people take me more serious on that level, but it is sort of a blessing that they don’t. I would rather them think that I am fucking retarded because…well…I am going to take over the world.

If you want to know what living the life really means, check it out.

Don’t miss: Rave Game; also check out DJ Kalin Tyler’s music at SoundCloud.

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Sometimes you’re about to write a post. Then you Google something and discover/remember that someone has already written it. (It’s common in the blogging world to just re-word/rip off the other person’s writing. That’s not how we do things here. So…)

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It’s not hard to predict his fate, although he likely had no regrets and would say that dwelling in a cubicle is a worse cause of death. Here’s more from The Atlantic, “The Precipitous World of Dan Osman.”

Also check out: Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger.

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There’s a picture of myself standing next to four AK-47s. In addition to several thousand rounds of ammunition, I had silver bullion and other survival supplies. I was prepared for the end of Western Civilization.

What a dope.

I sold my silver bullion to some morons at $40 an ounce and am planning on a way to return to storage to sell my assault rifles off at a 400% profit. (If you’re curios, a MAK-90 went for $250 when I was kid. Now they are going for upwards of $1,300.)

Then again I was a teenager who had no perspective on life. When you’ve only lived a relatively few number of days, a catastrophe seems imminent.

When JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon was asked by his daughter, “What’s an economic crisis,” he told her, “It’s something that happens every 5-10 years.” As a 50-year old man, he had perspective.

Yet my mid-20s self freaked out. I was convinced the world was going to end. Hundreds of blogs and newspaper reporters fed my fear.

What an idiot.

The West keeps on moving on. Companies went public, minting thousands of brand new millionaires. If you had dollar cost averaged yourself into the market during the “second Great Depression,” you’d have made a handsome profit.

Unless an asteroid or something hits, doomsday isn’t coming. America will keep moving forward. Time and money wait on no man.

We are driven by narcissism to believe we live in unique times. Yet each decade had some catastrophe.

During the 50′s the Cold War Began. People built bomb shelters, preparing for a nuclear bomb to destroy the world.

The 1960s had a Civil Rights crisis. People expected a race war.

The 1970s saw tens of thousands of young men sent to Vietnam to be slaughtered. In 1973 America had a major fuel shortage.

The 1980s gave us stagflation and double-digit mortgage rates along with record level downsizing.

Yet in 2013 people are living in fear again. Have we learned nothing from prior decades?

The world hasn’t ended and it’s not going to end.

We are not special enough to be The Generation to See the World End. A belief that the world is going to end right quick like is based on a childish lack of perspective or as an admission of defeat.

Like a man who kills a woman, saying, “If I can’t have her, no one will,” far to many men say, “If I can’t success, no one can!”

People are indeed succeeding. Right now some teenager is building the next big company. Some middle-aged man is rebuilding himself after a costly and devastating divorce. Cancer patients are returning to good health, ready to start over.

Avoid any site that emphasized doomsday scenarios. Doomsday bloggers are men who simply can’t admit they have failed, and because they live in denial of their failures, they will always be losers.

Don’t miss: The Key to Male Sanity.

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“Here’s the goal, and whatever it takes to get there, I will do!”

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