@alfredoolivas agreed! You want to keep a steady flow of dhea and preg. Otherwise you can take it standalone assuming you're not taking an outrageous amount 10 times a day. Taking it for years, I never experienced suppression

@16characterstwas Heat intolerance, inability to sweat, dry skin, dry eyes, sometimes painful urination, and most importantly, lack of saliva. I'm almost never swallowing when I'm not eating. Sometimes the saliva production kicks in, and I'm thinking "wtf, do I really have to do this every minute?" I'm not used to swallow saliva at all. @crumblingcookie The cause of my ailments is not mold toxicity because my ailments started before the mold exposure. Mold was probably a contributing factor. My body was already weakened by long term starvation, and then I moved into an apartment with really extreme mold problems (over time, black mold covered almost every surface including metals). I've had multiple health and digestive issues before moving into the moldy apartment, but I was able to digest large amounts of fat. One possibility is that I've had some motility issue since early age, that caused poor digestion of carbohydrates. And then in my mid 20s, mold ruined my gallbladder. Or maybe it wasn't the mold, just a natural progression of my disease. Or something else entirely. I don't know. But the "Bile can serve as a reservoir for funghi" thread you sent me in March feels very relevant. These days I feel much better overall, with the help of @user1 I'm able to eat up to 3400 kcal a day consistently. Apparently I'm gaining muscle too, which is crazy. Actually I'm feeling the best I have felt in past 25 years. But the gallbladder issue persist. Fat still cause problems. Sorry for long comment, it is complicated

@engineer Reporting back on this: CrumblingCookie said: Topical application on the lower abdomen reportedly does not bring about these tense and stressful cardiovascular sensations. Lower abdomen application consistently caused the same. Only more delayedly after a few hours in comparison to the rather fast onset by application on the chest/thorax. Surprisingly, however, it showed that increasing thyroid hormones alleviated this dis-ease. Assumedly and in line with many thoughts before this the extra DHT administration spotlights basic metabolic insufficiencies. Wouldn't limit this to thyroid hormones at all but expand the need for them into a wider picture of metabolic disturbances (which supplemental thyroid hormones may or may not cover-up in part). I.e. no shortcut to better health but more like a possibly powerful booster to override adverse effects from other supps or habits when already in good metabolic health IMO.

@GRay sounds like you're not taking T3 by itself. Have you tried taking just 1 or 2 mcg T3 every hour or two throughout the day, and then the Armour (T4+T3) at bedtime? That is one of the things Ray Peat suggested. It might be that your body is having trouble converting T4 during the day while also providing the energy needed to function during waking hours. T3 usually works to provide the immediate energy needed during the day , while at night while sleeping more energy could be devoted to converting T4 to T3. When the body works more efficiently during the day, it is more able to rest at night.

@sunsunsun in case you don't already know, on the old rp forum Haidut said it can be a result of extreme hypothyroidism, over-training or over-excercising

@peatqqq maybe switch the Apple juice for orange juice if it appeals to you. Ray Peat used to caution about mold in (store bought) apple juice. And mold can cause or exacerbate all kinds of symptoms/conditions. I guess if you can juice the apples yourself you'd know that won't be a problem.

would preg/dhea and proviron be interesting?

@jakethesnake did you make sure to cook the mushrooms well?

Thats pretty much how I see it too. If a supplement already works in its regular form, I don't really see the need to make it nano.

@Samyo pretty sure malessezia uses fat too maybe try s. boulardii to outcompete other yeasts

@engineer have you seen this?: https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/rosacea-inflammation-aging.shtml Maybe tetracycline would help, or more simply, a raw carrot a day, or an overthecounter anti microbial like bismuth subsalicylate (kaopectate)

@lobotomize said: @Alsulaimani take pregnan its a neurosteroid and gaba a agonist . cycle it so to not kardashian yourself Was going to say that this a job for high quality pregnenolone. @alsulaimani , most of the pregnenolone on the market is reported to be impure junk that won't work as expected. One of the precious few products we can recommend with a degree of confidence is from Haidut's store. You may also want to try cycling thru a few magnesium forms till you find one that hits you the right way. For myself the Mag sulfate, bicarbonate, hydroxide and chloride forms make me care much less about negative comments from people, but there are limits. Small doses throughout the day work well for me. Calcium is calming for some so maybe take a tiny bit along with your Mag for proper mineral balance. Androsterone in low-mid doses makes me very outspoken, that may not be good in a retail environment. It does feel good though. Haidut's 11-keto-DHT product reminds me of a stronger pregnenolone and i can even feel it lowering the cortisol response of too much morning coffee on an empty stomach. But personally i'd start on Pregnenolone and Mag and test that protocol for a few weeks. Let us know how it works out.

I think it has to do with bile flow issues /cholestasis. IIRC a progesterone metabolite is implicated in pregnancy induced cholestasis. "Significantly less hepatic bile partitioned into the gallbladder in progesterone-treated than in control animals." https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1191632/ Ive had similar issues in the past when taking pregnenolone and progesterone. Id try some things that help with cholestasis like TUDCA, gentian or cascara.

@zaaku it only happens to me when I am not feeling optimal due to low vibration thoughts and/or not being well fed and rested. I notice it more likely in the morning before breakfast and/or suboptimal rest what you're describing happened to me to the extent I wouldn't even want to be on the same floor as them, contrasted to when I am feeling good and I am relaxed around them even when they're behaving annoyingly. secondly, you feeling bad around them feeds them feeling bad and more likely to continue. the truth it isnt even really about them it's about the person who is feeling uncomfortable as a result of the other person's presence. the best thing to do is use the opportunity when you feel bad around them to recognize it as contrast. for further information on this subject of effectively turning what felt bad before into something that feels good via contrast search Brian wither's videos on YouTube and lastly morphic field isnt concrete you vill feel bad but more like how some people feel bad around emf and some people dont even notice it and thrive nonetheless

@ZackVegas https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/why-arabs-lose-wars

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@engineer Fair, lol about the creatine

Replying to an old thread on off chance it might help someone. Have had tinnitus on and off for months. It was never fully gone in that time. I assumed it was caused by endotoxin (diet has been mixed at best lately) and/or higher than usual aspirin use. I took 250mg of niacinamide earlier and the tinnitus is now completely gone. It's a shock to not even hear it as a background hum, which shows me just how constant it's been these past months. Ray gave the advice years ago that niacinamide can treat it. Worth trying.

Yes, actually. At the beginning of the year, I had a scaly growth on my scalp. I went to a skin cancer clinic to get it checked out, and it was confirmed as a seborrheic keratosis. It was suggested to me by the doctor that it was best to leave it alone, or alternatively I could get electrocautery with the risk of a permanent bald spot. I was unsatisfied with those options so I did some Googling. The solution I found was diclofenac gel. It's an NSAID sold as a topical solution for muscle pains, arthritis, etc. The product I used is sold as "Voltaren Pain Relief Gel 12 Hourly" in Australia, which is 23.2mg/g diclofenac gel (or 2.32%). It's generally suggested to use a strength between 1% and 3% for seborrheic keratosis. I applied it every morning for about 6 weeks and it started to flake off after a few weeks, leaving brand new skin underneath. Completely gone. I'm pretty thrilled because I was told to live with it for the rest of my life. It cost me literally $12 to get rid of it. I hope it helps you too. -- Here's some literature to support it: Diclofenac gel may be a new treatment option for seborrheic keratosis: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4886602/ Comparative evaluation of topical diclofenac sodium versus topical ibuprofen in the treatment of seborrheic keratosis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33022801/ Novel Research Regarding Topical Use of Diclofenac in Dermatology—Non-Clinical and Clinical Data https://www.mdpi.com/2218-0532/93/3/34 Comparative study between Diclofenac 3% Cream and 17% Salicylic acid + 2.5% 5 fluorouracil cream in the treatment of Seborrheic Keratosis https://ijced.org/archive/volume/12/issue/1/article/26344/pdf