@foxgelb What do you mean by intolerant? Gut issues? High phosphorous and tryptophan content of muscle meat is likely the culprit. Eat more gelatinous cuts of meat and broths. Increase dairy intake. Decrease ground meat intake for now.

@DavidPS great, thanks. so boiling the mushrooms removes the bads while keeping the benefits

@retard said in Bromocriptine + Cyproheptadine for Lifelong GI Dysfunction:

creatine

https://www.reddit.com/r/Microbiome/comments/ter7j2/creatine_seems_to_do_wonders_for_the_gut_leaky_gut/

@gg12 said in EFA defficiency protects against EMF:

Although this could be coincidence. I finally am starting to get my emotions back and being able to connect with people again its nice.

That's terrifying. I've heard of the zombification and used to know people who took different things for bipolar, schizophrenia, and depression. It makes me pretty angry how many normal people are treated like dollar signs because their lives are stressful and their genes are not 100% helping them, nor their doctors or insurance. Recovery is possible though; all of the gas-lighting involved is sickening.

@winters

Not sure but I'm guessing it would be because nearly all other minerals or metal minerals can be deficient and cause problems.

I think what is difficult is to interpret cravings. Trying to limit and remove seed oil / pufa I've noticed I don't actually crave those things as much. Like, I'm not eating fried chicken or fried stuff much anymore. I like Chinese but really limit stuff like this and don't crave it so much.

However I ate some good dark chocolate and couldn't get enough of it... I think you may be onto something.

@Sunniva Also, these things are very specific, mk4 is not the same molecule as mk2, so even if it is approved he might still be able to continue selling Kuinone (plus mk2 supplements are very popular)

I was of the assumption that ashwagandha increased nitric oxide and potentially cortisol?

@ilnyarienàfaire On dreams, I think Kilgore is right. I typically have a lot of dreams and feel unrested from them. I almost always oversleep because I am so fatigued from my dreams that I feel too groggy to get up and just go back into the dreams, if that makes sense?

I've noticed that when I do sleep and don't have dreams (or at least don't conciously process I've had them) I feel A LOT more rested when I wake up and waking is a lot easier. I wish I could give advice as to how to dream less but this is my current biggest problem for myself also.

@Serotoninskeptic
how many grams in a bathtub?

Are there any safer options?

@benrickert said in Swollen legs from sitting:

Can they be two different things?

Yes, but there is a tight interconnection.
And if I were you, I'll get informed on how to balance a higher level with sodium.
Don't believe what you're going to read about excess salt.
Here is some useful info, on my forum.

Understanding how sodium works – Importance of sodium in cellular exchanges
https://mirzoune-ciboulette.forumactif.org/t1362-comprendre-le-fonctionnement-du-sodium?highlight=sodium (In French; translator needed)
Extract:
“Salt can help lower inflammation, increase womb healing, metabolize better and therefore fuel well, help you sleep, improve muscle function, and have a positive effect on your blood pressure. »
Kate DEERING.

Sodium and Potassium Balance – Compensation by the body (In French)
https://mirzoune-ciboulette.forumactif.org/t1068-equilibre-sodium-et-potassium-compensation-par-lorganisme?highlight=sodium
Key ideas
• The pH of the cellular environment is decisive for proper enzymatic functioning. The body will therefore regulate this pH carefully. If it is overwhelmed, a host of pathologies could make their bed, sometimes in a delayed manner...
• The body will seek to compensate with different buffer systems.
• To correct the terrain, potassium is the key nutrient. But every time you ingest excess salt, by considering your potassium reserves, you will disrupt this balance.
• The metabolism will correct the situation with an H+ ion to maintain the correct gradient: An H+ ion will replace a K+ ion. In doing so, the pH is modified and moves towards acidosis.
• The movements of water across cell membranes follow the movements of sodium, which themselves are only possible if a sodium ion is exchanged for a potassium ion (K+) or a hydrogen ion (H+) for reasons of electro-neutrality. Thus, the distribution of water in the body is a function of these ion exchanges.

Salt – Against the grain! What to do in case of water retention? (In French)
https://mirzoune-ciboulette.forumactif.org/t599-sel-a-contre-courant-que-faire-en-cas-de-retention-deau?highlight=sodium
Quote:

“One of the things that happen when there isn’t enough sodium in the diet is that more aldosterone is synthesized.

Aldosterone causes less sodium to be lost in the urine and sweat, but it achieves that at the expense of the increased loss of potassium, magnesium, and probably calcium. The loss of potassium leads to vasoconstriction, which contributes to heart and kidney failure and high blood pressure. The loss of magnesium contributes to vasoconstriction, inflammation, and bone loss. Magnesium deficiency is extremely common, but a little extra salt in the diet makes it easier to retain the magnesium in our foods."
By Ray Peat, PhD. Salt, energy, metabolic rate, and longevity 2007.

try massaging, foam rolling, stretching, moving around different parts of your body to see if you can find a knotted tight spot that may be referring pain.

just pay yourself for the type of imaging you think you should get anyways. you can probably find somewhere to pay for an ultrasound too. maybe there's some pregnancy clinic or something you can pay cash at

@stimulantayran

How are your labs? It may not be a guarantee, but high DHEA correlates to high estrogens, thought I can't say for sure with DHEA-S

@Insomniac ha well my doctor lowered my dosage, I think superhuman wasn't the right word to use with them lol. I definitely don't feel superhuman now.

What do you mean the psychological impact of TRT? Can you speak more about that?

Here's my results so not sure if 61.2 is dangerously high or what

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@northeastar7

I know of tons of people who got pelvic floor issues after covid

this is like my fourth or fifth time on this forum saying something is caused by covid and I think people might think im obsessed but im really not. but it's noteworthy to see all these similar issues start for many people around the same time.

anyways.

I would recommend figuring out if you can safely take methylene blue in decent doses. you say you get a UTI every year, MB is good for that and maybe will help

you probably can do exercises too for your pelvic floor issues

I like the visual display of results for hypertension.

Sauna Bathing and Incident Hypertension: A Prospective Cohort Study (2017)

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I had a small patch of psoriasis on the front of my scalp and it went away within a few weeks of getting my vitamin D up to around 60ng/mL and never came back, except for one time where I was very stressed and sick, and my vitamin D also happened to be low - even then I could just see that it was about to be little inflamed, no skin flaking like it used to. Went away in a day again, so that was just an extreme low point.

To this day it's the part of my scalp most affected by hairloss and the hardest to rehabilitate, interestingly. I think it's related to the poor blood flow; that spot is probably the worst and when I have a stiff neck there is a nerve that has a bit of pain that leads straight to that spot. The poor blood flow and stress signals from the pinched nerve likely compounded the inflammation. It's been gone for about almost 5 years now.