The question that I have is "Is D-ribose right for you?" What are you trying to accomplish? Dr. Stephen Sinatra included D-ribose as one of the 4 components in his treatments. The Awesome Foursome: 4 Nutrients Needed For a Healthy Heart

@insufferable Yes I believe in some ways, it has stronger antiviral effects and different mechanisms outside the cell. Once transported, its immediately reduced to AA intracellularly.

Georgi is posting at https://x.com/haidut In addition, he has answered questions that are posted there.

@secondkelping Withe knowing little about the science (which is much much better than thinking you know if you keep reading garbage articles and research from mainstream sources ang pharma ghost writers and having that false confidence of medically scientific righteousness), you figured a way out of your situation by simply thinking like a cave man would using basic trial and error and keeping on acting on your observations, you got a lot lot closer to getting out of your previous poor state, towards a better state of digesting and assimilating starch. Congratulations! What you just did was you found a way to manage your body's poor absorption and metabolism of blood sugar by incorporating protein with starch. I think what you just did was that by mixing milk powder with the starch, you used a large amount of protein to accompany your starch intake. Because protein takes a longer time to digest and to assimilate, it also slowed down the speed at which the starch is converted into blood sugar going I to your blood stream. You turned a sudden flash flood of glucose into managed trickles of it that flows into your blood for s muxh longer duration. This ensures your glucose does not quickly run out. Also you keep the glucose your flooding and you don't reach high blood sugar levels, keeping insulin production at a minimum, this avoiding the conversion of blood sugar into fat by the liver. This further ensures you don't excessively convert blood sugar into fat, which can turn into low blood sugar or hypoglycemia, which is very stressful. You can also do a similar thing when you eat starch with a large portion of steak. You can eat brown rice with the steak instead of white, as the fiber in brown rice slows down the conversion of starch into glucose. As you are able to make blood sugar stable by tweaking your blend of macros, you're able to put yourself on a path of recovery into becoming closer to eventually becoming better tuned to produce energy from simple sugar in an optimal manner, via mitochondrial respiration. Taking supps like thyroid would help. Dealing with internal issues that rob energy would help direct energy towards healing from a low energy and hypothyroid state. Making sure you don't suffer from any deficiency further brings along your healing. And making your mind less polluted with wrong medical ideas that detracts from your healing also help, such as false notions that vitamin A is toxic but in reality anything in excess is not healthful.

@CrumblingCookie thank you! i just picked up some, and the Amoxicillan actually worked very well overnight, almost completely gone now!

@Butter-Girl said in Are Nuts In Their Natural State Used Differently By The Body Than Their Processed Oils?: Even though I don’t cook with any PUFA oils, I have always wondered about nuts in their natural state though. That’s why I had posted the topic. I wonder why squirrels eat these nuts all the time (or do they?). Would they live healthier and longer lives without these nuts? Or do their body can convert PUFA to SFA just like cows do? But I'm glad I don't eat nuts often. And I don't eat peanut butter not almond butter often, even though I like the taste. Still, they are far, far better eaten whole, as nuts or as butters, instead of being processed into cooking oils, where no vitamin E is present at all. And I believe the presence of vitamin E does a fair amount of countering the effects of PUFAs. Otherwise, prior to the use of seed oils for food, people would already be having problems of obesity and low metabolism in earlier times, in places where nuts are abundant. Speaking of squirrels, do these nuts become abundant only in autumn? If so, maybe the PuFAs in them serve the purpose of slowing their metabolism in time for winter, when they hibernate? Still, for me, I prefer eating some nuts, especially after they are soaked to a point where a bud comes out, to remove anti-nutrients that are toxins on our gut; than drinking milk substitutes and eating meat substitutes. I could be said to have a choice in choosing my poison, and the poison I chose is something I enjoy eating. And if it is indeed poison, I don't over-indulge in it.

@DavidPS thanks!

@tk I get it. When you’re ready to dive into if you’re a good candidate for progesterone supplementation, that product is sold by Ray’s wife, based off his patent.

I'm also ectomorph, 24M, and this summer I almost replaced my water consumption by milk and drinking 0,5/1L of raw goat milk (I mix it with strawberry syrup it is delicious) daily, I've gained 2kg easily just adding that. I'm also doing weight lifting 2-3 times a week. I can also advise you to eat 1 spoon of raw honey at the end of each meal to spike your insulin and activate your "weight stock". Btw, I think Ray Peat was also in the same situation but when he began to take thyroid he could gain weight or not losing weight while eating less. I thought I was in the same situation but I checked my temperature waking up with a mercure thermometer this whole summer and was always at 97,7 degrees Fahrenheit

Thought I should post a brief update since this thread has gotten some more attention lately: The symptoms I was dealing with have greatly improved with some diet and lifestyle changes. I've reduced my zinc supplementation to a more standard 15mg a day, but I still feel 120mg/day was beneficial as a short-term loading dose. I do get plenty of copper and manganese in my diet from regular shellfish consumption, and I've started using molasses as well. If anyone is interested, the current stack I'm running is a standard B-complex, 300mg thiamine HCL, 8000IU vitamin D, Thorne's vitamin K formula, 15mg zinc citrate, and T3/T4, progesterone, pregnenolone, and DHEA rarely as needed

Fatty liver affects the livers ability to store glycogen which is necessary for blood sugar regulation. Also an unhealthy liver can impede on gluconeogenesis. Kinda recipe for blood sugar instability. Just keep nourishing yourself well and I’d always have carbs within a balance meal. Maybe too much coffee here.

@brad Thank you!

@Imprtr11 purple panda

@happyhanneke I tried a mag glycine version and actually slept amazing for the first time in forever. Worth a shot even if it was just a fluke

@madmac unrelated but what has been your experience with taking DHT?