• Health: Prevention
• Health: Vegan Plant-Based Diet

TRACKING YOUR OWN PARAMETERS

• at home: checking FASTING blood sugar/glucose levels from time to time
• at home: checking blood pressure
• at home: controlling weight
• at home: ketone and pH(accidity) levels can be tested with home test strips
• frequent checkups with doctor and blood testing for basic parameters (including lipid profile [cholestedrol, tryglicerides] )

NOLE. Different multimeters are available for home use to measure: ketones, glucose, hemoglobin, cholesterol,uric acid:

• LipidoCare Meter for Total Cholesterol, HDL Cholesterol, Triglycerides & Glucose
• Multi Monitoring Meter 4 in1 Blood Glucose Cholesterol Uric Acid and Hemoglobin

BASIC PRINCIPLES

• eating fewer -> light/intermittent/periodic fasting -> autophagy (cell level cleansing). Fasting lowers inflamation by 1) not eating toxins 2) ketons are anti-inflamatory. metabolic flexibility (Dave Asprey) – changing of eating patterns from time to time to make body ready to get energy from any source available (sugar or ketons). Senescent cells are cells that stopped dividing consecuently slowing corresponding tissue renewal and ageing. One of the best-known ways to remove senescent cells is by stimulating autophagy, essentially a process where our cells digest themselves. By fasting, cells are encouraged to initiate the autophagy process (without adverse side effects) and clear out those unwanted senescent cells. Some dietary supplements also stimulate autophagy with other beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and nervous systems, which include resveratrol, curcumin, and spermidine. Because senescent cells spread inflammation at the systemic level through pro-oxidant and pro-inflammatory signals, foods rich in polyphenols, which exert antioxidant and antiinflammatory effects, have the promise to be utilized as “anti-senescence foods” in a nutraceutical approach to healthier aging.
• sleep -> growth hormone -> cell-level repair
• Hormesis enzimes + epigenetic clock & DNA metylation ( by dr. David Sinclair, dr. Kara Fitzgerald):
  • sirtuins (red wine/ resveratrol, etc.) -> DNA repair () -> aging reversal
  • glucose control -> AMPK enzime -> Metformin Type2 diabetis drug (also cancer-prevention) -> energy levels control
  • mTOR -> insulin/proteins sensing
• movement and physical stress (getting out of breath [80% max heart rate] -> growth hormone -> essential for repair mechanisms (as bone tissue repair, muscule mass maintenance etc.). Physical excercise (PE) attenuates the age-associated waning of maximal oxygen uptake (VO₂max), the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and functional weakening of various organ. PE curbs the age-related deterioration of the cellular housekeeping system such as the proteasome, autophagy, mitophagy, and DNA repair systems, which positively impact multiple organ functions. Muscule is about metabolic rate at rest (mTOR [muscle protein synthesis] is triggered by >2.5g Leucine, Leucine is key to longevity protein; 2.5g is in about 30 gram of high-quality/dense animal/vegan protein).
• gradual life-long transition in right direction… no self-shaming for failures

FOOD (recommendations)

• Mostly plant-based eating, including plant-based proteins (which are not sufficient by nature due to incomplete chains of amino-acids)
• Quality full-amino-chain animal proteins priority: 1) mostly sea fish 2) chicken several times a week 3) red meat – rare to offset b12
• Food reach in dietary fiber
• No juices at all (natural/artificial): only whole fruits in LIMITED daily amount: 2 fruits a day MAX
• Fresh Olive Oil in salads
• No cooked oils at all (from animal or plant). They change their structure at high temperatures
• No animal oils
• Almost 0 sweets and SWEETENERS… 1 cube of 70% and higher dark chocolate from time to time
• Cooked tomatoes (and other cancer prevention foods; resveratrol by Dr. William W. Li)
• Red wine every evening (sirtuins, resveratrol molecule, by dr. David Sinclair)
• Supplement: Fitosterols (drink/capsules)
• Supplement: supplements stimulating autophagy with other beneficial effects on the cardiovascular and nervous systems: resveratrol, curcumin, and spermidine.
  

FITNESS++

• Moving daily as much as possible: walks/jog (we need body working and impact on bones for regeneration). Walking during phone calls, standing work-place.
• Excersising several times a week to get out-of-breath. Interval training (with pulse peaks and drops) has more health benefits than long static effort
• Muscule strengts is essential
• Joints – stretching
• Contrast (Cold/Hot) showers for
• Breathing excercises (example: Wim Hof breathing method)
• Swimming
• Daily sunlight exposure (not burning)

SUPPLEMENTS

The most promising antioxidants currently in clinical trials for treating cognitive dysfunction in aging and AD include resveratrol (RESV) and curcumin (CUR). Both RESV and CUR are safe, well-tolerated and beneficial with minimal side effects.

• Resverathrol – increases muscle turnover, lipid metabolism, and accumulation of long-chain saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated free fatty acids, and produced beneficial alterations in gut microbiota; efficient for reducing blood pressure to normal levels; prevention of liver damage; improve memory performance;
• Curcumin – improves sustained attention; improves memory performance; enhances mood and reduces fatigue;

DRUGS

• Statins (source video, min 33-35)
  • high risk of Type2 Diabetis (due to harm done to cells’ insuline receptors and consecuent insuline resistance)
  • suppress cholesterol, tha tis vital for brain, which leads to gradual loss of memory and cognition over years
• Diabetis -> a cause of unqureable Alzgeimer desease

1. Go to Account -> History menu
2. switch to “Download Account History” tab
3. set start and end dates and CSV format and press download. Note: start date is better to be at the portfolio beginning. This is for the case if any SELL action was for the stock that was bought in previous years
4. use resulting .CSV file with the following script, created by me (the file path is hardcoded on this version): https://github.com/pageal/1099TaxScaner/blob/main/main.py SCRIPT NOTEs: 1) stocks are sold in First-In-First-Out order. Profits are calculated accordingly: SalePrice – BuyPrice in order from earliest bought stock to recently bought 2) for companies going public through SPAC the ticker name may change during the report period. For correct 1009 calculation .CSV file need to be fixed (before the script activation) by replacing the pre-SPAC ticker (and corresponding empty ticker-change line) with the FINAL ticker name of the company
5. import resulting CSV file, sort by ‘Date Sold’ filed and delete all the lines related to previous years (not the one you are interesd in)
6. Summarize ‘Total Gain/Loss’ column

– According to different criterias one can be defined as a trader OR an investor. This definition affects tax paid for profits. Described here in hebrew

CONCLUSIONS:
– be aware not just of resulting portfolio size BUT also of your formal profits (generated at sale points)
– it’s may be (in some cases) better to ballance/compensate/offset TAXABLE profits with losses before end of tax year (by selling with loss, and consequent buying back with current price if you still believe in the company in long term)
– be aware of amount of trading (and other characteristics of your activities) you do yearly and how this may be perceived by Israel tax authorities (investor/trader wise)
– do not forget to download your 1099 .CSV report every year

TAX REPORT FILLING EXAMPLE 2019

http://firstrade.com/

TOOLS

• charting tool: https://www.tradingview.com/
• https://www.lazyfa.com/ a tool for tickers’ fundamental analysis
• https://www.earningswhispers.com/ for analysis companies’ quarterly earning reports
• https://seekingalpha.com/ for per ticket research and news
• https://www.forexfactory.com/calendar – calendar of events that may affect trading
• another earnings reports’ calendar https://www.investing.com/earnings-calendar/
• IA-based Technical forecasting tool: https://walletinvestor.com/

This is a collection of tools from some youtuber: https://github.com/ckz8780/market-toolkit

The youtube channels I follow/ed:

• Yahoo Finance (live stream that can be accessed here)
• Game of Trades – preferred
• FXE Revolution
• Figuring Out Money

Info:

• Lots of useful info and interesting discussions in hebrew: https://www.hasolidit.com/

I am *** from the Amazon Selling Partner Support team. This case has been forwarded to me for further review. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

With reference to your email, I understand that your concern is regarding the star rating of the ASIN: **** on the detail page. Also, I understand that you wanted to know the reason for the ASIN having only one star rating even though the product has 67% of 5-star reviews.

Upon checking on this with the concerned department, I would like to bring to your kind notice that as per the recent update, the star rating on a product is not all average ratings but Amazon uses a machine learned algorithm to calculate the weighted star rating (Average Customer Rating on Retail website). Because of this, the product is currently having only one star rating even though it has 67% of 5-star reviews. Moreover, there are currently only 3 customer reviews on the ASIN: **** and as one of them is a negative review, it has an impact on the overall star rating of the product.

Also, I would like to let you know that the new system, a product’s star rating will be a weighted average. Please understand that we will test a number of factors to determine how to arrive at a weighting algorithm including recency of a review, whether or not it is verified, reviewer trustworthiness, review trustworthiness, recent helpfulness votes on a review. The new ratings system will also take into account one-tap ratings, which are ratings without a review. 

Reviews will be ranked using an algorithm similar to the rating algorithm to ensure that the most useful reviews are surfaced above others. 

We will also modify the layout of the reviews section on the detail page to provide more confidence. Prominent changes include a modified histogram, removal of “most recent reviews” panel, inclusion of trust line, and a streamlined design. 

Please understand that this will provide a star rating that is more representative of the current product. It will ensure that helpful reviews remain relevant and timely. Customers will be less likely to encounter dated reviews or campaigns/manipulations that undermine their confidence in Amazon reviews. 

Sellers and manufacturers will benefit from star ratings that adapt more quickly to product quality improvements, including resolution of counterfeit issues. Seller’s offers will be less susceptible to review manipulation from campaigns and competitors. This new system will allow us to place less weighting on suspicious reviews while maintaining a high bar for removing reviews. 

…

Today I got my first business purchase 

In relation to observation of our house all started from a desire to be sure all is fine there at home when we are abroad, which appeared to be not a case from time to time: flooding our neighbors etc. So we came up with affordable and good quality Home-Security IP Camera. But then our daughter started to get back from school alone and being at home (or sometimes with her school-friends). Of course the cell-phone she has is not always powered, or sometimes is on silence (as they are requested to switch to this mode at school) , or sometimes they just play with friends in so  noisy manner, that she doesn’t hear the ring. So we found that this camera’s two-way-audio feature allows to reinstate communication with your kid: look into the camera and call your kid by name when he comes to the room; then you can ask him to pay attention to his/her phone and switch to normal communication. 

How many times we weren’t able to use our smart devices at the middle or at the end our busy travel day. And this is not the case we would like to find ourselves: without communication, orientation or filming. So many times we were alert to use the battery carefully (and limit our usage of the devices) to let it last till the end of the day to be able to get home safely with GPS. To put an end to this story I started to use and then to sell low-cost portable Compact 7W Solar Charger for easy carrying and fast recharge. This allows you to fill your battery (either phone’s or power bank’s) wherever you are outside: while resting or on the go  (attaching it to your bag-pack). 

If you want to preserve some energy from sunny hours. You would like to have some power-bank with you. But not too heavy as you do not want to add significant weights to your bag-pack and get tired. You also do not want this to be expensive. So I came up with 2 products to be carried together with solar charger, but being detachable to put into your pocket or purse.:2500mAh Power-bank with LED torch , 6000mAh power-bank-torch  

“Please provide the following documents and confirm there is a valid credit card on file:

–Utility bill with name and address visible
–Business license, if applicable
–If you have active listings, include copies of invoices, receipts, contracts or delivery orders from your supplier issued in the last 90 days.

You can send files in .pdf, .png, or .gif format. These documents must be authentic and unaltered. You may remove pricing information, but the rest of the document must be visible. Please submit your documents by following this link (http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html).”

My answer

“Hi,

3 Days later

Amazon sends same request as before. Sign that my mail was nor received.

After I tried to reply to seller-performance@amazon.com, with request for clarification about where I should upload my documents, I got an immediate reply: “Thank you for writing, however this email alias is not functional. If you want to appeal for any issues, here’s a link to our Contact Us
page: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html …”

Then I decided to upload all the documents on my shared drives and to appeal using shareable links to those documents. To appeal, I used an Appeal option at “Performance notifications” page available through the triangular flag at Amazon logo or down the main page of the seller central.

 The Appeal’s text went same as the initial letter describing all the products, their shipment ID and the current status, but with the following intro: “The page you provided http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html is too generic. I uploaded all requested documents at two SHARED DRIVES for you, hope at least one of them will work: <Google Drive Shareable Link>, <Amazon Drive>” 

I sent also same content by e-mail, option for which I succeeded to find at their generic page. Chat was not available at US night and I also didn’t have too much time to hang on chat.

End of this Long Story

Several hours later, at the same day I got a message from Amazon with the subject: “Your Amazon.com selling privileges have been reinstated”. I checked “Performance Notifications” page and seen this: “We’ve received your appeal. Our Seller Performance team will review your appeal, and you should expect a reply by .”

Conclusion

Next time if I get privileges removal, I’ll use “Appeal” option immediately and will use my shared drives for heavy documents (as this allows to just put a link within mail’s/appeal’s text, without a need to attach those).
 

“Please provide the following documents and confirm there is a valid credit card on file:

—Utility bill with name and address visible
—Business license
–If you have active listings, include copies of invoices, receipts, contracts or delivery orders from your supplier issued in the last 90 days.

You can send files in .pdf, .png, or .gif format. These documents must be authentic and unaltered. You may remove pricing information, but the rest of the document must be visible. Please send the documents to seller-performance@amazon.com.”

My answer

Hi,

Reinstatement by Amazon

Hello,

We reviewed your account and the information you provided, and we have decided that you may sell on Amazon.com again.

If you have any funds in your account, they are now available.

To learn more about our policies, search for “Selling Policies” in Seller Central Help.

Sincerely,

Seller Performance Team
Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com