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• Literature Review

  Scientific papers, books, blog posts. Discussion of whatever you find interesting and notable.

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  @alfredoolivas said in Random, interesting studies:

  @Mauritio Well progesterone does the same; inhibits LH and FSH, and is therefore anti-androgenic. Unless peppermint oil is estrogenic, it may be a good proxy for progesterone.

  Peppermint actually increased LH /FSH, unlike Progesterone.

  I want to mention that the amount of menthol you get from tea is about ten times less than you get from the essential oil. and menthol seems to be the deciding metabolic factor here.
  menthol actually has antiprolactin effects as i posted above so i'm not sure if anti - testosterone effects would be seen with the essential oil which is mostly Menthol.

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• Ray Peat Resources

  Websites, newsletters, articles, podcasts, interviews, explainers, books, and other resources that relate to the work of Dr. Raymond Peat.

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  @secondkelping, my pleasure. 🙂 It could very well be your dose or even how you’re dosing it, i.e., dosing beyond a physiological amount of T3–more than 4 mcg per hour—or not taking it with food if you do? Do you feel a sense of calm and relaxation, even a need to nap, after a dose of thyroid? Along with a higher temp (including temp of extremities) and pulse rate, that’s usually a good indication that your dose is optimal, especially napping if stress hormones were compensating for poor thyroid function. The only other things I can think of as triggers are low blood sugar and allergenic and/or irritating foods, the latter circling back to lipopolysaccharides and serotonin.

• Not Medical Advice

  Do you have a question? You can post it here, but you will only receive unqualified personal opinions and NOT medical advice in any shape or form. If something seems like medical advice but it's posted in this category, it's actually a personal opinion.

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  @Mauritio Thank you very much for answering !

  No, I haven't tried it...I used to eat it a few years ago, "scrapped" by its length along with some coconut oil. I'll make me some again !

  I don't know what are this forum's (or yours, Mauritio) thoughts about iridology, but I just checked the diagram and both of my eyes have this brown shade both around my iris(es ?) f024393c-7cfe-4021-9a95-a2ced8203ece-il_fullxfull.4827429448_ab0g.jpg

  So carrot salad would help cleaning it up ? Anything else I should know besides Ray Peat's famous dish ?

• Products

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  @Alomongerpete I think ray used a in ear thermometer

• The Kitchen

  Recipes, food, meal prep, brands. Discuss them all here.

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  Welcome to to the wonderful world of pickled foods!

  That sandwich may be called the Reuben, difficult to resist but it's been years for myself. I'd have to make it homemade to have it again, substitute the dressing etc.

  Us gardeners love to pickle our leftover crop. The one thing i never figured out is what nutrients may be lost or negatively altered in the pickling process ... the Dehydroascorbic & Ascorbic acid and B-vitamins in peppers? The excellent Thiamine in garlic? The chemical reactions Sulphur may undergo in the jar?

  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9839908/

  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4075694/

  When used for cooking, it was noted that bell pepper prevented the oxidation of essential fatty acids
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  Interesting and useful to know if true.

  Also, different colored peppers bring different benefits, and they look nice in the jar that way too.

  Edit: freezing peppers:
  https://ift.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1978.tb02347.x
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  Apparently freezing peppers reduced it's Vit-C content just a little bit, the blanching process did not. I don't ever recall hearing of diketogulonic acid (DKGA)?

  List of vitamins and minerals:
  https://naturalfoodseries.com/chili-pepper-health-benefits/

• The Gym

  Discussing pistol squats, concentric exercise, resting, and other forms of strength training.

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  @Pooooop growth hormone is a stress hormone that promotes the liberation of fatty acids in the bloodstream. one of the main benefits of carb intake is lower growth hormone.