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I'm Richard Nikoley. Free The Animal began in 2003 and as of 2022, I've written and published 5,000 posts. I write what I wish...from health, diet, and food; to travel and lifestyle; to politics, social antagonism, expat-living...location and time independent—while you sleep—income. I celebrate the audacity and hubris to live by your own exclusive authority and take your own chances.

Free the Animal really means to free yourself to reach your ideal potential in all areas of your life, learn from mistakes and successes, and move on.

Fasten your seat belts. There's no chance you won't encounter turbulence.

I’m Helping A Rural Single-Mom Family In Thailand

By Richard Nikoley | May 22, 2022

I will make this short. I've begun a GoFundMe campaign and yes, I know what they did to the Canadian truckers. It's no fault of these two girls, their mom, aunt, cousin, or grandmother who all live under the same roof. Nonetheless, GoFundMe is just the best platform for this. It's simple charity. Many of you know a lot more to the story and obviously, for something like this, I...

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I’m Helping A Rural Single-Mom Family In Thailand

By Richard Nikoley | May 22, 2022

My Interview With Ex-American Sean Ring

By Richard Nikoley | May 18, 2022

Most people understand what the term expat means. It's someone who lives outside of their country of citizenship, typically by choice; i.e., not particularly applicable to military or corporate employees stationed in another country. As military, I lived in Japan...

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My Swollen Labia Minora Face

By Richard Nikoley | May 16, 2022

Yesterday was one of about 4 Big Buddha days per year in Thailand. I dunno. It's not quite like Christmas in the west; perhaps it's more like lower-keyed Easter. Thais will make a trip to a temple, always gifts in...

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A Fresh Look At All Cause Mortality Lately

By Richard Nikoley | May 15, 2022

I've annotated this chart below I grow weary of both reading about Covid and vaccines, and posting about them. Still, when something a bit novel comes along, I find it worthy to unpack it. What I'm going to do here...

There Is No Junk Food

By Richard Nikoley | May 13, 2022

I typically have 2-3 posts in draft these days. Sometimes it's because ideas come in on top of each other so I want to at least write a few sentences or paragraphs to get started and not forget. Some of...

Elon’s Golden Helmet

By Richard Nikoley | May 11, 2022

There's a phrase an old friend of mine used over 30 years ago to signify what we might call bulletproof today...now reduced to the name of a silly coffee drink that makes a meaningless distinction between butter and cream. What...

Trying To Zero In On T For Men

By Richard Nikoley | May 10, 2022

Admittedly, this hasn't been the greatest blazing post-series I've done. It's curious to me why it hasn't been. Perhaps it's because I find so much of the bro-science wanting. There's only a single post to the series so far since...

Featured: Current and Active Blog Post Series

Permanent Crisis Is The New Normal — Prosper Anyway #1

By Richard Nikoley | August 2, 2021

Introduction Where do you go from here since failure, default, or succumbing to the 18-month-long assault—and counting—on the whole planetary civilization is not an option? It sucks for very many; I well know, and I haven’t gotten through this unscathed myself. One of my businesses is luxury condo vacation-rentals in Cabo San Lucas and I’ve…

Natural Immunity, Gut Biome, and its Importance in COVID-19 #1 — Introduction

By Richard Nikoley | September 3, 2021

Back about 6 years ago in the midst of the gut biome craze, I had already been in collaboration with Tim Steele on tons of posts on Resistant Starch. Thousands of comments amongst the posts. Tim came up with the idea of further collaborating on a book and he went right to work, doing the…

What Caused My 40% Testosterone Increase?

By Richard Nikoley | November 27, 2021

The Sexual Mind Trying To Zero In On T For Men The bottom line is that while I can’t be certain, I have some reasonable ideas that I consider chicken-or-egg scenarios. …In December of 2019 I completed the sale of my house in California and almost everything else. During the moving process I saw that…

International Living By Geoarbitrage

By Richard Nikoley | February 25, 2022

I kick off a series of posts amongst my other ongoing series that’s of deep interest to me and I hope, to many others who’ve always maybe wondered or dreamed about living in a country other than the one they live in by the accident of birth. People often say, “I’m an American,” or, “I’m…

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