@bluebloodmed no! It's been there continuously on and off. Asked ray about it and he said if correcting vitamin d3, thyroid, pregnenolone doesn't work (none of this necessarily means taking those) then surgery isn't stupid

@SexyPizza I think just PG and VitE would work for most things. Maybe if your vitamin E oil is too thick you could add some oleic acid to thin it out, but other then that you should be good. Or you could try oleic acid (OA) + PG + Limonene. But I generally don't see the need of adding two lipid-based solvents together. That's just my 2 cents, I'm very far from an expert in this regard. @brightside seems far more knowledgeable in this area. He seems to be well versed in making emulsions, which would enhance the penetration of lipid-based solutions even more than free base. Which ever way you decide, these solutions will be extremely "nonvolatile." So you're looking at something that will have a more slow, but continuous, absorption rate. Which I think is probably good, especially for people who only want to dose one time per day. The only downside is it will take a while to dry on skin. So I would give application site at least 30 minutes of air time to dry before putting on a shirt or pants. And if you're pressed for time and can't wait that long, you could always gently wrap the application site in plastic wrap before putting clothes on over it.

that said, there are things that Duhigg calls keystone habits. I think a keystone habit can change everything else, kind of starts basic and then filters through your entire life. I'll use an example. Someone who avoids dairy because the bros say "you shouldn't eat the milk of another animal." So you introduce a bit of cheese into your diet. That cascades through your life and choices you make are changed. You begin not believing them about, say, carbs... In a relationship that has stagnated, often just kissing a lot and passionately can become the keystone habit that brings passion and interest back into the relationship. So one thing can have profound effects in this way -- by being a catalyst that lets you change other stuff.

@Kvirion im doing near enough everything in the second link, even spoken to hans n he said my diet n lifestyle is good for T, he just thinks its a possible sibo

@fd Which of those diets made you gain 5-10 lbs? If it did so, why did you stop with that diet? If none of the diets made you gain weight, it could be possible you are hyperthyroid. Otherwise, one of them would at least work. If you weren't hypothyroid, you would be metabolizing sugar well and what you eat would be utilized in building structure, among other things. Unless the energy is wasted or used up in being hyperthyroid. If you were hypothyroid and not metabolizing sugar well, then a keto or carnivore diet would allow you to not to build fat as metabolizing fat is easier to do than metabolizing sugar, given efficient sugar metabolism is like doing a very complicated routine in gymnastics and many of us fail to do it well. And a carnivore diet means your muscle and protein stores simply convert to sugar when needed, so there is no chance for blood sugar to spike to high levels where a lot of insulin secreted by rhe pancreas would cause the liver to convert blood sugar to fat. Keto and carni would allow to build structure and gain some weight, however flawed those approaches are. But you aren't. What have you done by way of testing to ascertain you aren't hyperthyroid (much less hypothyroid? Are you hypothyroid, euthyroid , or hyperthyroid? This is not an easy question to answer, as most doctor s, even endocrinologists, get it wrong by miseducation by the Flexner Report- gamed medical system. It's important you get this question answered satisfactorily. Or you're just throwing darts blindfolded. OTOH, as you had briefly mentioned, you may also want to look if there is something wrong with how well your gut absorbs nutrients. Assuming your nutrition is free from making you deficient in macros, vitamins, and minerals. Add: Toxins and infection and trauma arw faxtora to consider as well.

@bones said in B12 Issues Digestion/ IBS: No never tried any Calcium supplements yet, It may be worth giving it a try. At least it was a game-changer for me (together with a carrot salad) Look for a pure form, without additives... what exactly does it mean to follow Ray's nutritional advice? In short try these recommendations: https://youtu.be/oGEbaCiih5o and other Danny's videos. Or this https://biochemnordic.com/ray-peat-diet-thyroid/ Complex answer: is worth reading resources like this https://bioenergetic.forum/post/4 But the key to Ray's idea is to "Percive. Think. Act". i.e. continuously observe and adapt your diet and lifestyle... And you can always ask us here.

@CO3 Pop Cola.

As someone who has a very sensitive gut, I find that when all else fails just a raw, skinned carrot taken along with salt, dissolved in soda or juice, creates the lest disturbance, and usually results in helping digestion and promotes elimination. The oils (coconut or olive) and vinegar can be a gamble, in terms of gut distress. I don't doubt that they're doing their job, they just can create too much trouble.

@xkraltr Anyone tried miswak? It's a twig you can scrape against your teeth. Great shit, I snap toothpicks in half to rub the blunt ends & get a similar effect

@CO3 Kindly elaborate. Which conditions would make it worthwhile? I feel quite good as it is.

Some breathing methods are rlly powerfull

Traditionally Africans (like all groups) had good microbiome because their diets contain fewer or no processed foods. However, now that they have been sold progress, along with “democracy” and liquid oils, they are in equally poor state as Westerners. Mass poisoning with vaccines and other drugs is probably contributing to food allergies as observed in Western countries. Milk containing vaccines cause milk allergies, EoE, autism and type 1 diabetes Evidence that food proteins in vaccines cause the development of food allergies and its implications for vaccine policy Dr Peat talking about the low incidence of bowel and liver cancer in Africans “Dennis Burkett, who sort of started the fiber fad about 30 years ago, when he discovered that Africans didn't have a very high incidence of bowel and liver cancer and that they tended to have three bowel movements per day, where Americans are more likely to have one or fewer.” Ray Peat Lactose digestion depends on the presence of the enzyme lactase-phlorizin hydrolase; if milk is not incorporated into the diet the enzyme is not made by the body. Once milk consumption is introduced it can take weeks for the enzyme to be produced – meanwhile symptoms of lactose intolerance will be present until that time. Not all Africans are lactose intolerance (Africa is a continent not a country) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence High frequencies of lactase persistence are also found in some places in Sub-Saharan Africa and in the Middle East. But the most common situation is intermediate to low lactase persistence: intermediate (11 to 32%) in Central Asia,[7] low (<=5%) in Native Americans, East Asians, most Chinese populations[2] and some African populations.[3][4][7] In Africa, the distribution of lactase persistence is "patchy":[8][9][3] high variations of frequency are observed in neighbouring populations, for example between Beja and Nilotes from Sudan.[10] This makes the study of lactase persistence distribution more difficult.[4] High percentages of lactase persistence phenotype are found in traditionally pastoralist populations like Fulani and Bedouins.[3][11] Lactase persistence is prevalent in Nguni and certain other pastoralist populations of South Africa as a result of the dairy they consume in their diet. Lactase persistence amongst Nguni people is, however, less common than in Northern European populations because traditionally, their consumption of dairy came primarily in the form of amasi (known as Maas in Afrikaans), which is lower in lactose than fresh, raw milk as a result of the fermentation process it goes through.[12][13][11][14][15][16][17][18][19] Dr Peat’s article on milk

@CO3 if you have 2 people who eat soluble fiber, and 1 of them is constipated and the other isn't then bacteria overgrowth will only happen for the guy whos constipated, the one who isn't constipated from the souble fiber doesn't have bacteria overgrowth because hes having bowel movements One cannot say souble fiber = bacteria overgrowth, it depends if they're constipated or not

@mostlylurking I think it's a lot harder to become vitamin A toxic than many believe, but this is only true if you're eating enough calories with the various nutrients that one needs. I mean, I've eaten liver for 2 weeks straight before my body no longer craved it. Maybe 2 oz. a day. This is after going an extended period w/o having it for a fast. I just now started to feel fully satiated, so I'm back to 4 oz. serving per week (I technically eat a "bite" per day). Anyway, no signs of toxicity because I was low on Vit A and B vitamins. If I pushed it now, since I've been satiated then I would probably see negative effects sooner rather than later.

It's almost impossible to know if this might be useful without a considerably detailed description of your current behavior. So this is just a shot in the dark, to give you something to think about. The tonicity of gastric contents can have a lot to do with the rate at which it moves through the various stages of digestion. And that's going to be intricately linked with the body's existing fluid dynamics to "normalise" anything there that's "too much" or "too little" of the state it needs to be in to digest "normally", and consumption of anything less tonic than the food that's being digested. https://www.google.com/search?q="Gastroparesis"+"hypertonic" Stethoscope's are dirt cheap and the circulatory isn't the only thing that can be heard. So you could buy one and do some structured self experiments. Listen for slow contractions of the fundus of the stomach and faster contraction waves in the the antrum over the course of several hours. Vary preexisting fluid balance, anything you're adding on top of digesting food, note the changes and find the patterns. I haven't done this for a while but found it utterly fascinating when I was in to it. It was like I could behave in a way that would paralyse the process, a way that would speed it up far too much, and a way that resembled a happy medium. And around that, my whole sense of wellbeing could change.

@Orindere ground beef, eggs, milk, oj, apple juice, sometimes liver and shrimp, sardines, collagen, kefir, chicken sometimes, honey, and sometimes potatoes I have tried a host of mineral supplements, its hard to tell if they help.

I’d say it’s the same or a bit more intense than the smart meters most of us have on our homes now. Discovered we have one on the wall outside my bedroom. I was horrified. I will be installing an aluminium box around it.