@jens I drink so much liquid so I figured this could help me improve my metabolism. Luckily, a lot of the bleeding in the stool has stopped. Not all of it though, it has gone down I'd say 80%. I think the sodium bicarbonate I took helped accelerate healing

@izkrov Yeah that's Ray's take on it. It's important to understand the TRT community has very different views, and actually isn't that compatible with ours. We do "patch work" here to mix some of the ideas in the TRT community with bioenergetics. Standard TRT protocol is usually something like 120 up to 250 a week. Typically test cypionate. 4mgs won't raise blood levels which is what the TRT is purposed for. Of course this can cause issues. For one, test cypionate is a longer acting ester. Your levels won't mimic the diurnal rhythm. I don't think we've yet fully understood the implications of this. Most of the "bros" seems to think this is good, because longer esters mean more stabilized androgens at a higher level. But this could have serious adverse effects too. Like being at an increased risk of hyperestrogenicity, clots, stroke, and the like. It will have a prolonged suppression on the HPTA as well, lowering fertility (unless you take hCG, which has it's own set of risks) and eventually upstream hormones like P5, P4, and DHEA.

Pyrucet, aspirin, or vitamin E would all be good choices by lowering adrenaline and free fatty acids. Salt, calcium, and progesterone play facilitative roles as well. Optimizing thyroid and carbon dioxide will increase glucose oxidation. CO2 baths, cynoplus, vitamin B1, and serotonin antagonists. They all accomplish very similar things via different mechanisms. Optimize your androgens. To keep your androgens naturally high you need good thyroid function, vitamin D3, vitamin A, zinc, magnesium. Keep heavy metals chelated.

It might be worth reading about heavy metals, these can cause gut issues, not the case for everyone but just worth exploring. Look at our citrus pectin thread for how to do a 'poor mans' heavy metal test.

@the-MOUSE fwiw the doctor prescribed me cefixime trihydrate 400mg / day and azihromycin dihydrate 1000mg/day feels so shitty, it's making me so bloated and giving me a headache

Also just like to mention that I did do antibiotics as well and the acne came back worse after doing them and it messed up my digestion for a good while. I’d not recommend messing with your gut so heavily as people tend to do here unless you get the proper nutrition to make up for all the gut producing vitamins like B’s and K.

Sorry for your misfortune. You're not alone though, many dudes get gyno when the androgens start kicking in during high-school. I knew a couple I went to school with that were pretty much the same. Not sure how I escaped it, I was a fat ass kid. After the hormones kicked in on me I lost some weight, so I guess I didn't have the genetics for it. Unfortunately weight isn't the only thing I lost. RIP my hair line, lol. If I were you, I'd probably try a more gentle approach in the beginning. Like eating a bunch of cooked button mushrooms, and/or taking something like grape seed extract. Aromatase inhibitors can be rough. Hell I'm 30 and I won't even fuck with them. Anastrozole and letrozole can cause inflammation and autoimmune conditions. Exemestane is a suicidal AI, and can be pretty unforgiving if you take too much of it. There's some good OTC AI's you might could try. I love Inhibit-E. It's not that clean though, they put silicon and titanium dioxide in it. But it's the only one that I've found lowers E2 just enough without actually crashing it. Iron Legion's Virtus is very strong, and I wouldn't recommend it unless you're like on a TRT cycle or something. I've also herd good things about Black Lion Research's Letrone. Never tried it myself though. It has green tea extract in it, which made me shy away from it because that inhibits DHT. I've also heard some people getting good results with Sustain Alpha, but that has resveratrol in it, which is questionable to say the least. Because of all this, I still think Inhibit-E is the best OTC AI. It's got some naughty fillers in it, but none of it's actives are really suspect.

I would never do something like this, but could it work for like weight loss? Maybe. Pretty much all stimulants are cardiotoxic. meth, DMAA, adderall, coke, hell even caffeine in high enough dosages will all be a net negative for your health. You might could do a hack "fast" where you eat sugar in the morning and evening but keep it under 500 calories per day. Say, for example, drinking a Mexican cola in the morning and evening twelve hours apart from each other. Or fruit juice. How is this better than regular fasting? I don't know if it is, lol. But the theory is a little bit of sugar might keep the cortisol and glucagon to a minimum provided you got good liver function and can actually hold glycogen several hours (people with poor thyroid can't).

@bluebloodmed You might can absorb a sufficient quantity through your gums. Carrier oil is probably unnecessary, it's been awhile since I used Tocovit but I remember it being on the thinner side.

@DairyMilk said in Neighbors WiFi rattled me: @mostlylurking Thank you Always a bit reluctant to start a new supplement, but might have to consider thiamine after reading this. The psychosomatic arguement does not hold up, at least from my experience Your body's reaction to emf might be a clue that you might be deficient in thiamine for your needs. Stress uses thiamine up. The body requires thiamine for oxidative metabolism. It is really important. suggested reading: Hiding in Plain Sight: Modern Thiamine Deficiency also this one: Thiamine Saves

I have heard of heavy metal concerns with mms. Haven't looked into the validity of it though

@DavidPS agreed. My buddy was also disgusted with it but smoked some for his family and then ate some which got him sick. Interestingly a few months after he told me about alpha gal I had found something that could possibly cure him and he didn't want to try it - seems to be still disgusted with the thought of meat. Fascinating that we've eaten meat for millennia and all the sudden some are becoming allergic after a tick bite. Nothing to see here - move along!

wat I was just trying to help

@Santosh Hm I've never noticed this, although I do get allergic symptom if I drink a lot of generic brand milk. But I haven't noticed much different between local raw vs pasteurized. I wonder if skimming the raw milk would make much difference.

I've heard taking DHEA helped correct wisdom teeth (Actually I think it was Ray that said DHEA corrected his wisdom teeth)

@Kvirion Guess I learned my lesson lmao.

It can cut off blood flow to the front part of the brain, a lot like how wheat does. Scary stuff to read about man. Sometimes just the blood flow in the brain can make differences to how you think, more so than neurotransmitters

I had lifelong hypochondria, anxiety basically cured by fixing my gut. I can eat whatever I want now with no issues. Also having something in your life to work for, since becoming a father I feel like my resilience has increased tremendously and I am in a far different headspace to what I was years ago.