Noticeable info to help damping unbalance microbiome Iodine exerts antioxidative, antimicrobial, immunomodulatory, and molecular regulatory effects. Iodine alters the proportion of pathogenic and beneficial bacteria to restore the gut microbiome and reduce insulin resistance, obesity, and metabolic syndrome parameters. Iodine also reduces inflammation by lowering oxidative and endoplasmic reticulum stress caused by free radicals such as reactive oxygen species (ROS). The mineral acts on type 2 deiodinase (D2) receptors that convert T4 to biologically active T3 to improve weight management and adaptive thermogenesis. (1) Iodine also interacts with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) receptors to enhance adipocyte differentiation, fatty acid uptake, and glucose metabolism … Source: The correlation between iodine and metabolism: a review. 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2024.1346452 Reference 1: Thyroid hormone signaling: The type II (D2) deiodinase catalyzes T4-to-T3 conversion Role of the type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase (D2) in the control of thyroid hormone signaling 10.1016/j.bbagen.2012.08.019 Comment (LucH): Mind the way you use iodine supplement. Slow progression (staples) to avoid Wolff-Chaikoff effect. Info on why and how to manage with iodine (we need 2 kinds: Molecular iodine (I₂) and iodide potassium (IK). https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/3962/iodine-as-a-game-changer/6 Excerpt: *) Which kind iodine is used and where? The thyroid and skin use almost only KI type iodides, or potassium iodide, the form of supplementation found for example in iodized table salt. But the breast, prostate, ovary and brain need molecular iodine type I2. The kidney, spleen, liver, blood, salivary glands, intestines and muscles necessarily all have a joint contribution in both forms (56). The fight against cancer, probably also (57). And all these organs are abandoned to their sad deiodized fate... Woman breast needs more than what is allowed through food, even when eating fish twice a week and drinking half a liter milk. And by the way – for men aged > 65, prostate requires I2 too. Breast and prostate need I2. But the average iodine intake will not be high enough to reach another organ than the thyroid…

update: feeling much better now. I did a lab 3 days ago and my WBC’s were normal, but i read that in 30% of cases of very early appendicitis WBC can remain normal. i didnt have any rebound tenderness or respond to rosvings sign, but i did feel a 3/10 sharp pain when i did the heel drop test and it was tender to the touch. i had 20 amoxicillin 500mg laying around so ive been taking one every 8 hours for the past 3 days. I went on a liquid diet fast with nothing but carbs for the first 2 days. lemon+honey juice, lots of coconut water and some coke. reintroducted fats+protein yesterday by drinking 2 quarts of goat milk had a good bowel movement this morning after some coffee and the pain is 95% gone. Weird, i coulda swore i had appendicitis, my symptoms were: extremely tender stomach for a few days (particularly tender under the ribcage/xiphoid process), light fever & sweats, trouble keeping down any food (vomited once), and then one morning all the tenderness travelled to the appendix area which felt like a pinching sensation in the area when dropping my heels or running/jumping. i guess i had early appendicitis and the fasting and antibiotic cured it or maybe it was a pulled muscle. idk. will be doing another WBC test after my course of antibiotics is finished.

@winters2 no but ive heard of plenty of people who have It does track changes, how accurately idk, but I have seen people posting showing the device measures mineral levels showing a difference before and after supplementing etc

@DG Pretty sure you can start with small glasses regularly and increase it. I know others with this but I think it's age and decreased dairy consumption together leading people away from dairy and milk especially. I used to gag a bit when I had stopped drinking milk but ave gone back to quart - 1/2 gallon in a day sometimes.

@DakotaWorrell said in Can’t Seem to Lose Weight: Weight fluctuates within the same 2-3 pound range. Just when I think I’m making progress I go back up one or two pounds and it seems like I’ve plateaued. It’s also lent so I’ve given up beef and alcohol. Not eating beef is probably not helping here but there’s clearly something bigger wrong and I’m tired of not making any progress. Maybe I need to give it more time. I'm not sure. I believe somewhat that water retention accounts for a lot of extra weight, so it isn't always fat but water that is lost. Water retention is a concept in German new medicine and tcm, has to do with hanging on to pain/trauma, stress etc. I think this may be part of it. I think Lent is added stress and fasting can be metaphorical for different active efforts instead of passive/wasting/denial. Have you tried: coconut oil; carrots; potatoes; gelatin? Considered quitting supplements?

@ThinPicking Update:: I have been eating salt much more liberally yesterday and today. I've been trying to push to as much as I can comfortably eat. And I will say, so far it does seem promising. Metabolism is good, hunger is up, energy stable, and gut is not reacting as badly as normal. I'm hoping I can increase the effects over the next few days as I scale up more salt. I'm gonna try salting meats as well as I think that will make it much easier to get a higher intake and I don't eat much meat now anyways. Thanks for the tip, it's been helpful.

@GRay take it as a supplement. Peat would say it was ok to take 1 mcg of cytomel every hour

@PaleFacePierre said in Bilateral grade IV varicocele with thrombosed right side: @vojdanin Mine went from being constantly painful to basically gone by maintaining frequent bowel movements (cascara and carrot salad), not sitting for too long each day, and doing pelvic floor stretches. I have also heard that topical magnesium has been shown to help. Thank you very much. By topical magnesium you mean "magnesium oil", magnesium chloride? Can you share some source on that, please?

@Parrhesia the structure of this lol , 6 carbonyl groups all next to each other, looks special [image: 1743880879235-940fe897-a912-4f8b-a430-dace768323f7-image.png]

@gg12, some potential gut irritants include: • Fiber • Raw starch and any other poorly digested food, including eating and drinking too quickly • Unripe fruit and even ripe fruit grown under harsh conditions as they produce defense chemicals/allergens • Unrefined/unpurified salt and sugars, including honey, contain potential allergens • Additives such as cultures, enzymes, gums, citric acid, ascorbic acid, propylene glycol and polysorbate 80 • Supplements may contain potentially allergenic byproducts from the manufacturing process •Stress, including stressful thoughts, can affect gut permeability per Ray

Hi @Luke, appreciate your recommendations! Now that I think about she never mentioned eating liver and will probably introduce that in her diet once a week. As far as oysters go I have a problem finding them near me, even canned ones, (I live in north italy) and will probably just stick to liver. She mentioned niacinamide for her skin, but evidently didn't help too much, I bought her tallow, but I believe the problem lies deeper in the digestive system. She also said her thyroid exam came in great, but I'll have to check on the values because they are very different from what they were now. Will have to take a look at the perfect temperature and pulse for thyroid health. Yes, she eats fruits and honey for carbs and avoids complex carbs. Infact she probably already follows a type of low carb carnivore diet. I believe she should up the dose of easily digested carbs because she's eating lots of meat on the side.

@ThinPicking no I haven't. I salt food to taste but don't eat enough calories so probably worth trying more. I will give it a shit thank you

@peatyRD I didn't have COVID but I had bronchitis. But nevertheless I had symptoms after COVID which I believe would be common to long COVID such as chronic fatigue symptoms low RBC bordering on anemia lower spO2 hardness of breathing edema, expressed in ankles and belly, would be a sign I would watch out for as it would lead to heart failure in fact, over a 2 year period I've been to the ICU twice and the ER once and each time learned more about it in order to avoid recurrence I had to learn my own way without having to take the many drugs among which are hypertensive medication involving diuretics which would keep my lungs from being flooded with water from edema I realized that because of having low spO2 (chronically being in the low 80s for stretches daily) led to many of my red blood cells dying, and over many months, this led to an accumulation of dead red blood cells, too much that my lymphatic system was backed up in clearing them quickly as normally they would when not overwhelmed; I still have an enlarged lymph gland sticking out my left elbow as a cyst to remind me I still have dead rbc's backed up in my lymphs; so the continual slow clearing and release of dead rbc's is the source of free iron and carbon monoxide into my bloodstream, in which the lungs would be heavily affected, as carbon monoxide would impair my breathing as it attaches to hemoglobin; the free iron would also have its negative effects w/r to the creation of oxidative stress this analysis is however not something a doctor would tell me. this came out of my own way of making sense of Peat's writings on heme oxygenase enzyme and how it converts the even more toxic remnants of dead rbc's into the less toxic forms in free iron and carbon monoxide, which are still toxic in themselves only less even if I were right in my analysis, I still am experimenting on using different peaty substances and devices, and even substances outside peat's province but consistent with his thinking, but so far I am benefiting from my own therapy as I no longer sleep poorly and no longer suffer from fatigue, no longer have edema from having normal spO2 levels but still have white phlegm from my throat which indicates strong immune system activity in my lungs that thankfully is being cleared out instead of blocking my breathing as thick mucus I am however not out of the woods yet as I monitor my lung and heart health using an app on my old Samsung Galaxy S phone which has heart rate and oxygen saturation sensors. I find that on the times that correspond to the lung and liver and gallbladder on the TCM organ chart, my charts don't look good still and I'm still a work in progress.

@pabloag10 Any chance you could try with only T3 instead? Might be difficult to get from the doctor though.

@DavidPS Thank you! It's good to see him again after a long absence from YouTube.

I don't like any brand in the US. I squeeze my own. I don't think store bought packaged OJ tastes the same as fresh squeezed. It's like its another fruit. I miss the fresh squeezing machines that are everywhere in grocery stores in Europe. At least in my area there's no such thing.

@Oldboy069 I just looked again into the anticholinergic effect of tabacco and it seems like i got it wrong and its the other way around. Cholinergic Have to dig in this some more, low acetylcholin symptoms seems to correlate a lot with some of my symptoms... Would explain the burning (dry) eyes as well.

I’m not really in a sugar fueled state (hypoglycemia) and I’m trying to sleep but my heart races and I get hives. I can’t feel good no matter what. Not sure what I threw off