@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.

@Blue-Granite you're welcome. I'm happy to try to clarify.

@TexugoDoMel Thank you

@Hypergenic have you tried avoiding dairy, finding a diet which doesn't upset your intestines, adding thyroid and or progesterone, and then trying dairy in small quantities of various forms?

@rayp-flava good enough for me gonna send it on all this thanks brah

@grimdarkkk maybe in menopausal women, but I've never seen or heard any hormonal changes from gelatin/collagen in men. theoretically glycine is supposed to increase DHT and like 30% of collagen/gelatin is glycine, afaik

@periander345 I got the help of a competent endocrinologist to optimized my dose of prescription NP Thyroid by Acella, which is a desiccated thyroid supplement available in the U.S for the treatment of hypothyroidism. I started with 90mg (1.5 grains) of the med with this new endo because this was the dose of Armour desiccated thyroid that I had been taking for over 20 years. The NP Thyroid worked a whole lot better than the Armour and my rheumatoid arthritis inflammation resolved within the first week. The medication was increased about every 6-8 weeks, after full thyroid panels were taken (blood testing) to verify my status. The reason why the medication is titrated up this way is because hypothyroid people tend to run on adrenaline instead of thyroid hormones. The body acclimates to the availability of the supplemented thyroid med and begins to rely on it instead of adrenaline. So the level of adrenaline goes down. Which makes you feel pretty lousy. But then the doctor increases the dose of thyroid med which makes you feel great again. For a few weeks. Then you repeat the blood testing, evaluation, and increase in medication. After 9 months of this process, my endo announced that my blood tests showed that I was taking my optimized dose. I remained on that dose for 5 years. I get evaluated by the endo every 6 months. He lowered my dose end of 2020 because my body changed and my dose became too high, making me hyperthyroid. I now take 135mg of NP Thyroid per day. The status of the thyroid hormones is very important and should be evaluated by blood testing (full thyroid panel) on a regular basis to verify that you are not taking too much because that can cause hyperthyroidism. Hyperthyroidism causes health problems, including thiamine deficiency, which has very similar symptoms as hypothyroidism. It can get really confusing if you are a "do it yourselfer" and are just relying on how you feel.

I commented in another post on the importance of choline in preventing/reversing fatty liver, maybe it can help. Chris Masterjohn has a post commenting on it: "Fatty Liver: Why Choline Matters More Than Sugar, Alcohol, or Fat" "Neither fat nor sugar nor booze are the master criminals here. Rather, these mischeivous dudes are just the lackeys of the head honcho, choline deficiency. That's right, folks, it's the disappearance of liver and egg yolks from the American diet that takes most of the blame. Dietary fat, whether saturated or unsaturated, and anything that the liver likes to turn into fat, like fructose and ethanol, will promote the accumulation of fat as long as we don't get enough choline. Once that fat accumulates, the critical factor igniting an inflammatory fire to this fat is the consumption of too much PUFA (seed oils)." If I'm not mistaken, a deficiency of choline (phosphatidylcholine) hinders the production of VLDL, so triglycerides accumulate in the liver. [image: 1707758229308-ac3fc800-efda-4823-8def-80b7a29bed3f-image.png] [image: 1707758236837-279b3a27-110d-47a1-92f8-9b059a0a7c2b-image.png] [image: 1707758243453-db3aa9fd-16c7-4e87-8717-08e3c3264984-image.png]

@thyroidchor27 Hi, "Prolactin inhibitors in conjuction with it and regular gooning can make people less neurotic." is that Reich who thinks that, or is that you?