@deliciousowl Honestly I don't think it has any effect at all right now, neither good nor bad. Thank you all for your answers; man that sucks, I thought most people reacted very well to preg, but this seems more common than I thought lol

@fucker Maybe what OP friend need is the military or prison, or a monks life. boomer perspective

@HoldenCox said in Recovering from Bulimia need advice: I got into peating a few years ago. As a college student I have been pretty on and off with it. I am beginning to purchase groceries and trying to live a healthier lifestyle and have since stopped vomiting so often. However, for a multiple years growing up I threw up multiple times a week, sometimes multiple times a day and I want to try and help repair my health. Obviously time will help heal my body but I was wondering if there are certain foods and/or supplements I should take to help maintain my health. I also plan to quit smoking soon since my throat is often sore and I am worried that combined with my past as a bulimic will result in a destroyed esophagus. Bulimia points to thiamine deficiency. Look into thiamine in general. Thiamine Deficiency in Adolescents with Eating Disorders: A Prospective Cohort Study

@basednigga2006 eat alot of eggs for DHT i had thin hair when i was hypothyroid that was my only symptom maybe ur just hypo

@Hando-Jin I do drink coffee. Many people have mentioned methylene blue, I think I will try it.

@Zofia said in RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: I forgot to mention I am currently taking Vitex and it's helped my PMS significantly. I was doing progesterone for a while but it became too tedious with RA hands. Honestly, I keep my PUFA very low, I have also been told it can take up to 4+ years to get rid of in the tissues. I eat all home-cooked meals, even if I have some PUFA it's less than 3-4g. How do you know what does of Niacinamide works for you? Currently, I'm at 500mg and feel good, mostly getting sugar from fruit or honey. I really like that explanation of CRP, makes complete sense. Yes, I've been thinking of seeing one but it's a hit or miss of course. So with the appropriate amount of thyroid, you were able to put the disease into remission? Thank you for all the reading! I'll be reading it all. I've also come across SIBO being treated with high-dose thiamene, up to 600mg. I've never taken Vitex myself so I have no personal experience with it. Some say it can be estrogenic. I do use a couple of blats of progesterone every night; one blat rubbed into my gums, the other blat mixed with equal parts coconut oil and done vaginally. The total of 2 blats equals about 40mg of progesterone (in vitamin E). I've been a lunatic avoiding pufa for 9 years. I don't eat out. My husband thinks I'm nuts. But it's better than being closed up in a facility for the incapacitated. Regarding the niacinamide: Ray Peat always recommended doses of 90mg for niacinamide. I took two doses of niacinamide each day, each 200mg for 7 years. But then, I decided to switch to 100mg 4Xday. After that one change, I lost about 35 pounds in about 8-10 weeks. I think it's because the more frequent smaller doses made my body work better. I was very surprised when I finally weighed myself because my clothes fit differently. "I really like that explanation of CRP, makes complete sense." I think that the whole RA thing is caused by inflammation. Inflammation is caused by poor oxidative metabolism. If you can correct what's interfering with the oxidative metabolism, the inflammation disappears and your body will heal itself. I think that it really is that straight forward. "Yes, I've been thinking of seeing one but it's a hit or miss of course. So with the appropriate amount of thyroid, you were able to put the disease into remission?" I don't know where you are. I'm in the U.S. Pharmacies here receive prescriptions from doctors, fill them, and the patients pick them up. If the situation is similar where you are, the pharmacists know which endos/doctors prescribe desiccated thyroid already. If NP Thyroid by Acella is available in your country, you could ask pharmacists near you which doctors are prescribing it (or Armour brand or other?). This research would shorten your doctor hunt quite a bit. Yes, the right dose of a good desiccated thyroid med (NP Thyroid by Acella) completely resolved my rheumatoid arthritis. Ray Peat wrote that this was common knowledge back in the olden golden days, before the medical industry mucked things up so badly. ARTHRITIS AND NATURAL HORMONES A very healthy 71 year-old man was under his house repairing the foundation, when a support slipped and let the house fall far enough to break some facial bones. During his recovery, he developed arthritis in his hands. It is fairly common for arthritis to appear shortly after an accident, a shock, or surgery, and Han Selye's famous work with rats shows that when stress exhausts the adrenal glands (so they are unable to produce normal amounts of cortisone and related steroid hormones), arthritis and other "degenerative" diseases are likely to develop. But when this man went to his doctor to "get something for his arthritis," he was annoyed that the doctor insisted on giving him a complete physical exam, and wouldn't give him a shot of cortisone. The examination showed low thyroid function, and the doctor prescribed a supplement of thyroid extract, explaining that arthritis is one of the many symptoms of hypothyroidism. The patient agreed to take the thyroid, but for several days he grumbled about the doctor 'fixing something that wasn't wrong' with him, and ignoring his arthritis. But in less than two weeks, the arthritis had entirely disappeared. He lived to be 89, without a recurrence of arthritis. (He died iatrogenically, while in good health.)"

@hootchy Minimum necessary are TSH, total cholesterol, prolactin, progesterone. Beneficial are PTH, heavy metals, mold, and bacteria. I think you should be able to get all of these through a doctor or the idealabs hair/nails testing kit.

sublingual b12 helps shorten the life of canker sores. never noticed acidic foods hurting, seems more like an immune issue

@CheesedToPeatYou he had a long bout with endurance sports which surely took a toll. I wonder if he's tuned into bioenergetics these days. He was always hacking around with new ideas, a real guinea pig. This is the shockwave therapy he's been promoting https://bengreenfieldlife.com/ben-recommends/other-products/gainswave/

@brad no worries man.. thanks so much I'm pretty jazzed about it

@Love_The_Blacks I'm serious take a dangerous amount (NMA)

6mg per day doubled my testosterone and tanked my estrogen after a month of use. It's very powerful hence why it's called a suicidal aromatase inhibitor. You could probably get away with much lower than that even.

@fashmaher you have to keep it for at least 5m, doesn’t matter if it’s digital or not.

Adrenaline tends to restrict blood flow to extremities, and shuts off cholinergic processes of the body like digestion, saliva excretion ect. Thyroid does not stimulate cholinergic or adrenergic directly, and should promote a healthy quieting and regulation of both sides of the autonomic nervous system. Thyroid should also decrease the temperature difference between the core and the extremities. However, there are circumstances where increasing the level of T3 in the blood will indirectly increase sympathetic nervous tone. For example, if someone has been in a hypothyroid state for a long time, they can have a chronically elevated level of adrenaline to compensate. And supplementing even extremely small amounts of T3 can suddenly sensitise their cells to the excess adrenaline in their system - and they can have an adrenergic response.

@aristotle sleep data looks good but i'll switch to daytime aspirin dosing

You have to essentially cook them again in order to break down the starch that has reformed. I'll put leftover potatoes in the air frier until crispy and heat up rice in a saucepan with butter and whatever else I'm eating it with.