if its too acidic i add 1 gram of baking soda and some sugar (food grade aluminium free), the bicarb reacts with the acid to clear some (dont need a lot) and gives a little salt to balance the water, but yeh probably not the best if a sweet brand is available or vs eating ripe oranges

I’d vote stop all your supplements except D&K. Keep B complex if you’re sure it’s well formulated and no bad “additional ingredients. And cut the coconut oil. Not cuz it’s bad but you have coconut oil on your body you’re trying to loose. 1000mg of Mag is displacing calcium and you aren’t eating that much Cal. Good luck that’s my two cents. And walk more!

@Insomniac pregnenolone needs to be used with a lecithin carriera to work for topical use.

@sneedful https://longestlevers.com/fat-loss/honey-diet.html

@NokiaDrift I'm so happy to see you're trying the glucose protocol. I was going to suggest it but then finished reading your post and saw that you're already giving it a go. I'm in my 4th month, but being a tad older than you I expect it could take me quite a bit longer to be 100%. You have overcome so much and are on the right track! Carry on and do keep everyone posted!

@Jakeandpace same, niacinamide and thiamine are kings.

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in Ideas for getting more CO2 into your everyday routine: Control pause gets worse within 10 or 15 minutes of eating anything, especially protein, and especially foods you aren’t tolerant of. The CP diminishes for 3 or so hours. I have heard it has to do with ions soaked up in the process of creating hydrochloric acid for stomach digestive stage, and these ions are then picked back up into the body. I doubt this is the best explanation but it kind of explains why meat lowers CP more than eating fruit does. It does not explain the food intolerance part. As far as the Ray Peat diet (whatever that is) resulting in weight gain I find that when I limited sugar consumption and consumed more starch, I was able to easily lose body fat. That is the way most of the thin world eats. Thanks @Ecstatic_Hamster i missed this earlier! Iv always noticed an initial lessening of symptoms immediately after eating i think from the pleasure of it, then followed by a worsening of symptoms about 30mins later as energy is taken for digestion. Interesting to see how this patches in with cp!

@samson Thats good. Im the same way. I think 3 or more a day that require little or no wiping is optimal

I realize this is an old thread by an inactive poster but a few comments for those who may be considering something similar. 1lb of muscle meat, 2 cups of slow digesting milk, rice, questionable vegetable fibers and starch? That's an aweful lot of food and mixing for most folks going to bed just a few hours later, all while trying to lose mid-section fat. Maybe the original poster keeps unique hours but I can't think of many folks who would need that much and that sort of energy at that time.

@Sugarnotsnow really never worked for me maybe i could try it mixed with dermarolling/stamping that would be more interesting

Have you had additional gout flareups since this time, or do you believe you've found a permanent solution for them? I never suffered gout until I began Peating, but I suspect it's because I didn't consistently incorporate the fiber sources Ray recommends (raw carrots/boiled mushrooms/bamboo shoots) into my diet. This may have left me unable to properly flush endotoxins, and resulted in my gout flare up. Anyway, I'm in the middle of my second flare up now, and committed to incorporating more fiber in my diet going forward, but I'm still looking for help dealing with the immediate debilitating pain.

@xpat NAC helps as it thins the mucus and makes it less sticky and much more easily expelled or coughed out. As NAC increases the sulfhydryl bonds that make up GSH (or reduced glutathione), and when the GSH/GSSG ratio increases, the mucus becomes thinner and there is less resistance to the mucus being expelled or expectorated.

@Androsclerozat I just lost a lot of weight really quick and it fealt cleansing. I haven't done it again though because its was very stressful. Im sure I'll do it eventually though

Mike Fave (Brother of the Fraternal bioenergeos) did a well researched interview where he basically roasted it, yet went in with an open mind in his research. https://rss.com/podcasts/health-and-harmony/1482022/ For what it's worth, when I tried it for hair loss, both topically and internally, I most likely screwed up my liver -- and taking spoonful's of coconut oil would not do the same.

@Snow I’m not opposed, I’ll look into it. My concern with oil or wax based is not that it won’t absorb necessarily (possibly a problem with wax), but more so that it won’t maintain moistness adequately… idk feeling things out here

IIRC Ray listed Zinc Oxide as the safest for protecting against UV. Some companies sell a balm, usually cocoa/shea butter and beeswax mixed with Zinc Oxide. I actually bought such a balm last summer and used it a few times but in the end didn't see the point because my skin wasn't even burning without it anyway.

@PeaterDinklage How much protein are you getting? Also, are you eating enough calories? Your diet may be oversimplified. I reduced my diet to milk and orange juice to try and lose weight earlier this year, and I ended up not getting enough calories in general but also robbing myself of key nutrients. Off that now and feel good, and I eat a wide variety of low pufa foods.

@LucH Thanks for sharing. I actually look at the opposing actions of M1 and M2 macrophages with a grain of salt. The use of M1 and M2 macrophages to explain away the harm in using PUFAs by the notion of omega-6 being contributory to the M1 inflammatory response, and omega-3 being conducive to an anti-inflammatory response, thus bringing about a healthy balancing of the immune response- is downright mendacity by medical researchers. Thanks to Ray Peat we don't buy that medical narrative. I hope tou understand how much I question their once again. using M1 and M2 to explain the benefits of baking soda in treating the inflammatory response involved in arthritis. Add: Pre-Peat I took omega-3 to balance inflammatory effects of omega-6, which together formed the heart healthy core of the AHA, which was very influential in causing their factotum CSPI to lead a heart-healthy crusade against beef tallow as used then by McDonald's to deepfry French fries. Back then, Udo Erasmus was very popular with his book "Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill." That book led in establishing the mainstream discourse that PUFAd are good because of the anti and pro-inflammatory tandem duality or omega 3 together with omega 6.