@Pulastye Difficult to say, many factors at play. 2mg daily, just to give a ballpark figure.

@thyroidchor27 Mainly just chilled out similar to cyproheptadine. It makes your gut feel indestructible as well, I would check out haiduts post on it. I think he was taking up to like 16 or 32mg at one point.

Ok so the latest update is that her gallbladder is fine - they did a CT scan and her gallbladder, liver etc all looked wonderful which is wild considering the surgeon was about to take it out lol So now they're leaning heavily towards SIBO and she's going to take a test next week to see if it is in fact that, who knows if it will be. One of the frustrating things is the way the medical system works, you have to wait to take the test, then take the test, then get the results before taking any action, and she's been in tremendous pain from this. I figure there are things she can do in the meantime that won't necessarily hurt to see if it provides some relief. She said papaya enzymes are one of the few things that seem work, which makes me think its a stomach acid thing. I suggested she take some activated charcoal and see what happens. I passed along all of the advice in this thread so she can start incorporating that as well, thank you again!

@Regina Perfect, thank you!

@CO3 swishing around baking soda in the mouth can give some relief

@Regina Cheers for that, worth a try

@snack_log Aspirin and fruit juice, that said I don't believe either of those things are physiologically helpful, but otherwise a good spa experience certainly can be!

@Sophocles Great work! Keep it up! and Thank you for sharing these.

@deliciousowl things about it is, only one metabolite is measured on a D test. It's a steroid with multiple metabolites with varying degrees of solubility. Until you look for every other metabolite in both blood and organs, you cannot really conclude yourself to be having an actual deficiency. If you really believe you need E, I would rather just stick with olive oil. Ray wrote about the benefits of oleic acid too.

@Orkneyman_ around a pint of water at dinner and half a pint in the morning with creatine. Orange juice is around 300-500ml a day when I have it

@voldtzeig per day. I've noticed a mood-lifting effect. Feel a little "lighter". Nothing crazy.

@notmcas pregnenolone converts to allopregnenalone

Iron overload is one of the main "Peaty" causes of disease. Under stress (oxygen deficiency) a high iron concentration in blood and organs results in the iron producing more reactive electrons. This is bad! Similarly to PUFA, the degradation happens over many years and suddenly manifests as a functional disease, at which point you will go to a hospital and get something to treat that problem. To lower iron eat less meat and replace calories in your diet with milk/cheese. I think you can also do a blood donation to instantly drop your iron levels and people who donate blood tend to be healthier overall. Look: Cancer incidence and Heart health . The healthful effects are attributed to the iron- and other toxic heavy metal reducing effect of phlebotomy. When eating meat, drink coffee with lots of milk. Coffee inhibits iron absorption. U can also take copper or eat copper-rich foods. Copper turns ferrous iron (stressed) into ferric iron (passive). Copper retention is also managed by stress. Read: https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/iron-dangers.shtml NB: "Normal ranges" are BS, i.e. Peat wanted everyone to have a TSH as close to 0 as possible and his recommended maximum was at where our 'normal' starts.

@narasusmaxxing said in Abnormally large strand of eyebrow hair: Few weeks ago I noticed there is one string of hair on my right eyebrow which is extremely long in contrast to the rest of the eyebrow hairs. Just one. Did not have this until about a month ago. Do any of you have such a thing, is it the peating? Aging (and other big things) can increase androgen sensivity in the tissue"s So you will grow more hair as you age! (On the scalp the opposite, idk why) So old people have brushy eyebrows and ear hair because they are more sensivity to androgens

@Ray-Peat-Fanboy this was the basis of my peat intervention. While I would sometimes crave higher fat, eating more meat to deliver it was unpleasant. Since adding a daily egg nog consisting of 2 cups whole milk and 6 egg yolks, and 1 cup of cane sugar, temps up, libido up, feel more calm. This does represent a good portion of total daily calorie intake.