u/JohnWalters34 — reddlx

How did this happen?

For reference, I’m 5’8/173cm which is bang average height (although I live in Canada) and it might be just below average but globally speaking, bang average.

My mom is 5’9 (175cm) and my dad is 5’11 (180cm) can someone PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW I ENDED
UP TO BE THIS HEIGHT?????

Now I understand that perspective matters, and that there are many men who would want to be the same height as I am, whereas I would like to be taller. But my question still remains, I just listed both my parents’ respective heights and I ended up shorter than both. Meanwhile my older brother is 5’11. So I really don’t know what happened, like although I’m ranting about height on this subreddit, I try not to think about it/internalize it too much in real life.

But knowing that I most likely should be taller will FOREVER fuck with me man, I just don’t understand smfh.

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u/JohnWalters34 — 3 days ago

▲ 5 r/uncircumcised_talk

Frenulum

So being uncircumcised, whenever I would retract my foreskin fully to where my glans is exposed, it would pull my glans a bit downwards. I remember thinking to myself, “what is this and why is this happening”. But I didn’t think too much of it to take action, after trying to find similar stories about what I was dealing with, it came to me that what was causing this was a ‘tight frenulum’.

My dumbass still never took action and visited a medical professional, one of the things I kept seeing as a method of dealing with a tight frenulum was to stretch the frenulum. Essentially to just tug on the frenulum, for some time and that it’ll loosen up. Fast forward some time after that, ONLY 2 times did I ever actually tug and pull on my frenulum and that was while gooning, and after that, my frenulum seems less rigid and less pronounced (lack of a better term and sometimes when I goon it doesn’t feel as thick as it was (not that it was like overly thick), but it feels thinner in a way (if that makes sense).

I just can’t seem to wrap my head around the fact that I only did this TWICE, and this happened. Looking at other people’s stories about frenulum stretching, they would talk about whole routines and doing it for months and months, while I literally just did it 2x.

I’m actually going to have to visit a urologist at this point because i honestly kind of miss my frenulum (it’s still intact and everything, I can still orgasm and stuff from it), but I kinda don’t like how it feels when I make contact, it feels as if it got thinner or something.

Also, before I stretched my frenulum, I had no trouble retracting my foreskin, but now, it is a bit easier, I’m assuming it’s because of my frenulum. But yeah, that’s my situation, if anyone could read this and perhaps deduce what I could have, I’d appreciate it. I want to have a nice, rigid frenulum smh. Can’t believe I screwed myself like this. If anyone has experienced similar, please share your story.

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u/JohnWalters34 — 11 days ago

▲ 9 r/Supplements+1 crossposts

In need of some help

I’d like for you guys on here to analyze my blood test results that I got done recently.

I’m 5’8, 23M, 285lbs, ethnically South Asian

I’ve noticed that for the past 5 years or just about so, my health has drastically declined in all regards. I’m 23M, been overweight/obese my entire life, have the classic ‘pear-shaped’ body, with high concentrations of fat tissue around my mid section, I also have high amounts of visceral fat as well as thigh fat and chest fat. I went from already obese to even more obese during these years. Some additional context, during this time, I started university. Started working my part-time warehouse job which I still work now.

My diet throughout my childhood and now has been pretty consistent, typically high carb but I would also eat a lot of protein with the carbs. I’d say moderate to low fat intake (especially nowadays) and my fiber intake is certainly very low which definitely contributes to my gut problems. I do have a pretty bad sweet tooth and I do consume a high amount of processed foods. I have a family history of Diabetes and I really don’t want to go down that path. I eat fruits sometimes and I eat veggies a bit more often than fruits I’d say to be honest.

I grew up insulin resistant and unfortunately did not truly grasp the effect it had on my body until maybe around 1-1.5yrs ago. I also resonate with certain Hypothyroid symptoms so I’d like to know if I’m also Hypothyroid. I also would like to know if I have any potential pituitary problems.

Symptoms I’ve had throughout this period of time, chronically tired/fatigued, low energy, very low/no libido, slight muscles weakness, brain fog, impaired metabolic function which worsened during this time, hair thinning, dark circles around my eyes, anxiety, depressed mood almost all the time, poor sleep, constipation, irregular bowel movements, inflammation, forgetful, I get sick very often (usually a blocked nose), somewhat dulled emotions.

I did have a stint back in June of 2025 where I started to do weekly prolonged fasting (3-4 days/week fasted) while working my warehouse job and I did find some success with that. I started at 300lbs and was able to get down to 255 by like mid October-ish, but then I fell off and gained pretty much all of it back. The reason why I haven’t done it so far is because my hormones are already in a pretty bad state and frequent fasts as long as these generally put the hormones in a tough position so I was a bit concerned about if I kept doing it, would I be risking the chance of permanently messing up my hormonal health.

The exercise that I do is typically my warehouse job, it involves lots of steps, lifting & raising, gripping, however I haven’t really noticed that it’s helped with losing weight (only when I work fasted does it help me lost weight). A big problem I have is that when I’m done a shift, I eat and I finish during the night. So I’ll eat and then go sleep.

I say all this because I’ve been having a REALLY hard time on figuring out what to do in regards with improving my health. I obviously know, I need to lose weight & gain muscle, I need to fix my hair, however formulating the plan to do so is what I’ve been struggling with because I want to try and get as much detail about what’s going on in my body and why is it doing the things that it’s doing. I’d like to receive your guys’ input on what I can do to start moving in the right direction because honestly I am frustrated.

If you guys can recommend supplements that I can take along the way while making lifestyle changes, I’d really appreciate it.

u/JohnWalters34 — 11 days ago

▲ 4 r/Supplements

Verdict?

So I’m new to supplements and I’d like to start taking some to help with improving my health. I’ve come across this supplement and I wanted to get some thoughts on it, whether it’s good to buy it or not.

Zinc is a heavily recommended supplement for a number of reasons, and coming across this supplement, it looks good as not only is it Zinc but Copper + Selenium. Although I don’t know too much about Zinc Picolinate, if anyone is down to maybe talk about the benefits of this specific form of Zinc feel free.

But do you guys find this worth it?

u/JohnWalters34 — 12 days ago