@revenant 1.5L doesn't seem too much, especially if you don't drink water, but could try to go lower as a "therapeutic intervention".

Vitamine E et peroxydation des membranes
https://mirzoune-ciboulette.forumactif.org/t642-vitamine-e-et-peroxydation-des-membranes#5645

@PeatPioneer
I work outside everyday and I was looking for a sunscreen alternative for a while.
Diet is important and you have to build up your resistance to sunlight starting with the morning light.
I use idealabs solban on my face every morning if I have to work under the sun all day, last week I forgot it once and got a minor sunburn.

@LiamGraves said in Horrific Nausea from Seizure Medication:

A friend of mine was recently prescribed a medication called Keppra (Levetiracetam) to deal with seizures. As a result, she started experiencing mood swings, and more importantly, terrible nausea and headaches whenever eating anything, leading her to sometimes go days without eating, and almost never feeling hungry.

I recommended progesterone and thyroid, and that's done a lot to elevate her mood, but the nausea symptoms from food persist. Does anyone have any advice?

I typed the word "Levetiracetam" into the search bar at the Ray Peat forum and came up with these threads and posts:

Personally i would skim over it for useful ideas, a common theme seems to be Magnesium but the form is often important. Wishing your friend the best, and luck for you in your research.

@diamond BTW this thread may give you some additional insights... https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/2132/thyroxine-rt3-troubleshooting-what-worked-for-you/5

@HyperTorless Thanks man!

@diamond generally speaking you have to subtract one degree Fahrenheit to arrive at the core temperature. I don't think it's perfect so don't get too frustrated if your ear temperature seems too low from subtracting the degree.

@Solrig you're welcome.

@holyshineball I need to add a few things:

When someone has a thiamine deficiency/functional blockage, they cannot convert make ATP (cellular energy) via oxidative metabolism properly. Normally, the process of oxidative metabolism burns glucose in the presence of oxygen and the end product is carbon dioxide. Thiamine acts as a cofactor for several enzymes in the process. If Thiamine is not available, then the process is derailed and lactic acid is the end product instead of carbon dioxide.

Lactic acid build up is known as lactic acidosis, which is extremely painful. Thiamine supplementation is known to resolve (quickly) lactic acidosis. This is how thiamine supplementation resolves the pain.

As people age, their ability to absorb thiamine through the intestinal wall doesn't work as well as when they were younger. This is why older people are more likely to run into trouble with thiamine deficiency. Thiamine deficiency is implicated in many chronic diseases seen in old age, including all the dementias.

I hope you find this information helpful.

Here are additional links for your consideration:
https://www.mercuryfreekids.org/mercury101/2018/1/21/thiamine-saves

also:
https://awaken.com/2021/02/the-overlooked-vitamin-that-improves-autoimmune-disease-and-autonomic-dysfunction/

@Ismail said in Dealing with Fatigue:

@mostlylurking will def check it out, thank you as always, much appreciated 🙏 Have ordered some HCL version of thiamine, meant to arrive today.

Good deal! Continue researching thiamine, especially about things that deplete it/interfere with it such as: sugar, high carbs, coffee, black tea, sulfites, foods containing thiaminases. see here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/thiaminase

Lots of prescription drugs, including antibiotics, block thiamine function. Mine got blocked by Bactrim antibiotic. Things did not go back to normal after stopping the antibiotic and I got into real trouble; it took months to recover via high dose thiamine hcl.

@Mulloch94 Yes I did, even though it has been a long time since. It's not really a supplement, I agree. The weird thing is that I feel like I'm getting leaner now that I'm reducing my intake and upping salt. I don't force anything down my throat anymore, but I still consume 2800-3000 kcal a day I would think. I consumed 3400-3600 a few months ago. When I did, I felt like I overdid it a little bit. All the craze about eating more made me want to try eating more in combination with more thyroid. I'm about 6 ft (182 cm) and weigh 175 lbs (79.5 kg). I am active, I walk around 10.000-14.000 steps every day and do some moderate weight lifting. I still feel very warm all day and don't have cold fingers any more. The NDT might have supressed my own thyroid production, because I had cold fingers more often. It was winter time, but still. I had some muscle cramps when introducing high salt, but since I downed my ndt it went away... I really want to include some form of thyroid in my diet, like Ray suggested, but I'm just not sure on how to do it.

@Baron-Canis I don't think there's any way to tell how much hormone is actually in that product.

Also who knows what else is actually in that. I'd opt for something like Armour or Cynomel/Cynoplus that allows you to know exactly how much hormone you're administering.

I've had discomfort in my thyroid gland when coming off of thyroid medication.

Danny's article is very helpful.

@Polar334
Things to try:
Αn even smaller dose (can always work your way up)
Μαke sure it’s with a meal or snack
taking the it earlier in the day
Take some quality d3 and k2 at bedtime after last meal of the day
Make sure you’re getting enough protein and calcium. Some dairy, some eggs

@brad

and all posters that use both the app and a browser off your desktop pc-

the app lets you continue as another paragraph in the same post when you hit the "enter," so you can easily amass a long post, while, OTOH...

the browser treats the "enter" key as the end of a post, so the next character types begins a new post, so long posts don't happen (unless you want to write a very long paragraph devoid of a line break)

I was using my cellphone app when I exceeded the previously set character limit, but when I began using the chrome browser on my desktop PC to access the forum, I found myself writing many short posts instead of a single post that is very long.

But this doesn't seem to just be a browser on PC characteristic, when I use Telegram or Viber, the 'enter' key terminates a post and begins a new one as well.

@PeatPioneer said in Stopping teeth grinding in sleep:

I grind my teeth when I sleep and am not sure what is causing this. Dentist has given me a mouthguard to wear to stop teeth damage but its made of plastic and I would rather solve the issue at the core. Anyone have any idea on protocols to stop this?

Bruxism and TMJ are very closely related. I had both. It is related to thiamine deficiency. I resolved mine with high dose thiamine hcl.

see this article: https://www.objectivenutrients.com/insights/thiamine-ttfd-nerve-damage-trigeminal-neuralgia-hearing-loss/

@yeehawyinzer I wonder then if there is some other conversion going on, we dont know about, wrecking havock.

@ProboscisMaster stool thickener 😬

Seriously, increasing core temps and pulse rate, and topical progest-e and topical t3 and topical aspirin. Light massage that should feel good during and after, 15 mins a day.

This could take 6 months minimum before seeing results depending on how far gone you are / how good your metabolism is.

@nygerai said in I don't like eating:

An update on this: After supplementing thyroid for a little over a month now, this issue has been resolved! 🙂

Awesome! Wonderful that you ignored all the morons with their parasite gimmicks. I had much the same situation!