@bluebloodmed I'm curious too. I haven't felt it personally but I haven't taken it daily.

@DonkeyDude White men do not get the dole.

@TheRealPeater Never an issue with me. Seek your minerals from food. Whole food. I was low on copper, but not too low. Still, my ceruloplasmin was on the low range of normal. Since it is widely known that it's hard to get the right amount of copper supplementation, Ray recommends getting it through food such as shrimp. But I didn't eat shrimps because I didn't like that they were farm-raised. So I went with a local crustacean that is made into a paste used for flavoring (bagoong is what it's known as in the Phils. and widely used. I ate that regularly with my cooked greens for a year (making sure I don't overdo it) and a year later, my ceruloplasmin serum levels improved to the high of normal. He also recommends a weekly serving of oyster for zinc (and vitamin A). And a weekly serving of liver , for vitamin A. I did just that, and I am much better for it. Eating whole foods just has a way of getting our intake of these minerals into body just right. But I only get away with doing this because I live in a place where I can easily obtain such foods fresh without breaking the bank. When I was in the US and living in a city, it was hard to meet my nutritional needs through whole foods, unless I splurge by going to Whole Foods. I had to rely on supplementation.

@DBL21 Imho, often overlooked is acid-base balance w/r to tissue calcification. Easy to test at home with pH test strips (cheap too) to measure urine and saliva pH. There's a method to the madness. If you have good to optimal sugar metabolism, you don't have to do much as acid-base balance is built into it. This way, calcium is well-regulated by potassium in the cell membrane, keeping calcium out of the cell as much as possible with only enough allowed in to allow muscles the calcium gradient (between inside and outside the cell) that enables contraction and relaxation of muscles. Apart from the metabolic factors (nutrition inputs, sun, oxygen, sleep), metabolism can be impaired by the presence of toxins and infections that left unresolved will cause energy to be directed towards continually fighting small fires where energy production is impaired, and the loss of energy will cause the body to compensate with more stress hormones. These stress hormones can help us in times of great stress, but a body always in stress mode becomes a body in survival mode. And a body in such a mode will very likely calcify because being chronically stressed will be expressed in poor acid-base balance, and calcium can easily accumulate in tissues and calcificarion and fibrosis will result.

Also sci hub to read papers unless it got nuked

@Mulloch94 I had slightly high cholesterol and TSH w/T4 reflex at 3.29 when I got bloodwork last. I guess I could do it but idk it weirds me out without a lot of background knowledge and the availability for tight testing intervals

@IkeIkeforever Gummy bears are a good idea if they are without artificial additives/preservatives. The grass-fed beef gelatin is the best. Bone broth is a viable alternative. And still, pork gelatin is better than nothing... BTW aminoacids like taurine and theanine also have calming properties.

Ray Peat has spoken about co2 being healing for everything including bones. Specifically it will accelerate carbonate formation. Ingesting baking soda. Bag breathing. Other co2 therapy. Breathing modalities. Anything prometabolic will tend to increase co2 too, like thyroid

@jens probably a simple misintepretation of the facts!

The focus on it is vastly disproportionate as opposed to very negative health factors - and nicotine in certain doses is likely quite healthy - but that doesn't negate the simple fact that inhaling smoke from burnt plant matter is obviously very unhealthy. Anyone that argues otherwise is not really being serious and for me it's a good litmus test for whether someone cares about truth. Been smoking since I was 15 btw

@Peatly @moonpiemantooth @Sunniva these are good suggestions and we will try them before resorting to more drastic measures.

Have you ever had a cholesterol panel? Usually includes live enzymes. Yellowing of skin could be issue with liver.

Update: After 1200mg charcoal and 50mg liquid chlorophyll daily for 5 days after my last post I was symptom free.

@aeblyve seems unreasonable

@Hussle1738 You just need to raise your energy level with what is good for you and it will happen eventually, doesn't have to be at all complicated

@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.