This is an interesting one and I’m going entirely off anecdotal evidence here: yes, you will be seeing David Hasselhoff posters and the like quite often throughout Germany. Me personally, I have yet to meet a single person who unironically likes his music or is a „fan“ (whatever that may mean to you) - and this holds true for the generation of my parents as well.
My working theory is that there’s some kind of reverse self-fulfilling prophecy at play here: It’s been imposed on Germans that “we love Hasselhoff” over and over again and at some point we just went with it, albeit it’s mostly and irony thing now.
Then again, I might be totally off and not realize that I’m looking at it from within a bubble of people not actually liking him.
I don’t know if there is a _current_ fanbase of The Hoff in Germany. But back then, Knight Rider and Baywatch were huge here and _I‘ve been looking for freedom_ was one of the most played songs. And then there is the Berlin Wall incident.
ah i see, well you cannot mix up his music and acting careers. his music career is usually perceived as funny and liking it as a bit ironic, that does not mean that his roles in knight rider and baywatch are not truly loved by many. Just play the opening scene of knight rider at a random party of 30 somethings and you will see the reaction.
I finally heard David Hasselhoff sing - he is pretty good! I’m surprised his singing career wasn’t bigger in the US. All we usually get is T&A + auto tune or suggestive lyrics + shock value, very few people with actual talent for singing.
Sometimes yes, for a boost. But I mostly don’t need it anymore since I started addressing my microbiome (butyrate, phages, L Reuteri DSM 17938) and added a highly bioavailable copper that directly increases ATP supply and kills pathogenic bacteria, among other things (from a company called MitoSynergy though I think they‘ll rebrand soon - in case you‘re from Europe, it’s sold under „Cu1“ by a brand called Global Healing). Infrared light or curcumin (a bioavailable one, like longvida) do help if I need to be extra smart, but I‘ve since become more cautious when it comes to pushing performance short-term. There‘s no free lunch. So I‘m looking at improving health and metabolism in general.
If the light doesn’t do anything, you might lack some basic building blocks for whatever photobiomodulation does (stimulating cytochrome-C-oxidase seems to be only one of the effects), like copper or other trace minerals (selenium, iodine, zinc), or B vitamins. Hard to say really, energy production in the body seems to be really complex from what I‘ve read. If you have lots of money to spend on health, you could get a hair tissue mineral analysis and an organic acids test, and see what‘s lacking. Former will probably be $100, latter could be 300-500.
