@Brandon Hmm. You can try! A tiny bit of olive oil to dissolve is best. Maybe try slathering a bit on a little zit or something. It's just the way I tried it! If you're gonna try orally I would suggest doing 2 corn kernel sized drops at once, rubbed into the gums. My idea is just that it would have a significant, palpable effect, which can help to make it a valuable tool once you understand it.

@AndrewPeatMatrix Turn off all notifications (e.g. vibrations, sounds) on your phone. Stop scrolling on social media and begin reading books instead. Don't watch internet videos.

Screen usage/culture is highly anti-social and neurologically dysfunctional, and that's saying nothing about EMF or blue light.

It also lends itself to hyperstimulating addictions like pornography, which will cause further brain decay on its own.

Dopamine is very important to keep elevated, but you should do it by resensitizing yourself to the elements (i.e. earth, water, air, fire), animals, people and so on - not by "digital culture" (Ray Peat's term) with its degenerative cyber simulacra of reality.

Probably worth noting as well that marijuana has very high levels of heavy metals, absorbs a lot of lead and cadmium from the soil it’s grown in, a high concentration of lead in the bloodstream is found significantly associated with an elevated risk of schizophrenia.

@the-MOUSE

I doubt you have too much stomach acid.

How could you have too much when your condition of being both low in CO2 and NaCl disposes you towards making less rather than too much stomach acid, being that your condition of metabolic acidosis deprives you of hydronium ions (being hydronium ions in blood would be transferred to the cell in exchange for the potassium ions inside cells, which explains why you are high in serum potassium - as that is how the body adapts to metabolic acidosis by trying to make the blood more alkaline with potassium ions brought in to blood by that exchange between hydronium and potassium ions.

You are also short on salt (as well as sodium and chloride) that you are low on chloride needed to make hydrochloric acid aka stomach acid.

Because you are low in CO2, your platelets cannot carry serotonin into your lungs, as CO2 is needed to enable platelets to carry serotonin to the lungs. It is in the lungs where most of your serotonin is deactivated. If serotonin is not being deactivated in your lungs nor carried by platelets, you have plenty of free serotonin which would end up also in your brain.

Taking cyproheptadine hasn't worked for me when I was having problems with my lungs when I had bronchitis. I couldn't sleep for days on end and I think the problem was simply too much serotonin messing my brain.

it works exceptionally well for studying and retention, it is essentially all i utilize as a full-time engineering student to ensure my time spent studying is productive.

i will drink coffee throughout the morning / early afternoon then i will use 50mg allithiamine when its time to start reading. if im still going after several hours i will take another dose.

i find it is important to have a steady supply of glucose during this block, i don't like snacking / grazing so what i will do is increase the frequency of my meals during this block, and maybe within this block a couple times i will have servings of fresh fruit. i believe it is essential to feed the b1 with adequate carbohydrates. my meals during this block are simply jasmine rice and lean meat cooked in coconut oil, fruits will either be citrus fruits or berries.

during this block i might eat a meal as frequently as once every hour or 1.5 hours just to ensure i have steady glucose. i will also use red light during this block as well for brief periods.

it is better than just coffee + sugar, absolutely. i can also attest to the fact that during this block and whenever i utilize this strategy, my gastric emptying rate is noticeably faster, which is another reason i suspect the b1 helps with cognition. the digestive benefits are not to be overlooked.

remember, you want to "feed" the b1 with proper carbohydrates, keep that in mind. don't do what people often do while studying and go in a stressed state neglecting eating, the improved retention from b1 will make up for the time spent eating or taking care of yourself. its the quality vs quantity that matters.

you don't need to go super high dose with allithiamine, i notice an improvement that lasts a few hours with just 50mg.

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@CO3 Salicylic acid, niacinamide

@voldtzeig Anytime!

@TheSir thanks Sir. Will look into it.

@the-MOUSE Blueprint cause s a terrible golf swing.

@yerrag these r my recent results btw maybe some more insight. can skip redundant info/tests https://imgur.com/gallery/jGT4wF9
https://bioenergetic.forum/post/9421

@1L said in Every way I know to grow taller and increase bone mineral density with explanations:

reread my post the homeostasis part is very important

Expand on that please.

u could have gave me some credit

I gave at the bottom I wrote how I got all this knowledge from posts on here and RPF. But I will maybe link the posts if Im bored later.

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@DG I'm not concerned how high my uric acid is as much as whether the uric acid is precipitating into crystals or not, causing arthriric ain in joints and gout.

My uric acid levels are on the high end of normal range. Yet I don't feel any arthritic pain. I believe it is because my good sugar metabolism produces a lot of CO2, and this helps with keeping my body in a state of good acid balance. In this state, uric acid hardly ever precipitates into crystals.

I'm not sure whether my uric acid levels are that high but I believe it's not so much that I'm producing a lot of it as I'm retaining a lot of it. When I check my urine for uric acid, it is very much lower than normal. They means I'm retaining a lot of uric acid.

As to why I'm retaining it, it may be that my body needs it more given that as much as I try to lower conditions of oxidative stress, I am not in that sweet spot where my body deals with a minimum of oxidative but on the contrary a lot of oxidative stress is ongoing. Causes range from lead toxicity still present to a high microbial load as indicated by wbc counts that speak of a high level of low-grade (no fever) infection.

Uric acid is part of the body's primary antioxidant system. It is protective. I would pay more attention to ensuring I have an optimal acid-base balance rather than lowering my uric acid levels. I have no arthritic pains whatsoever. No hour either. But go consult a doctor and you will be advised differently.

Usually people will do take the road well traveled, and stay within the safety in numbers. The majority is always right or always wrong? Conventional wisdom has it that majority is always right.

Land in a near tropical environment where fruit trees can thrive? Just spitballing…

have you tried progesterone and thianine? Have you noticed anything similar in regards to combatting the deleterious effects of lonely? I think most serotonin symptoms also occur in tandem with high glutamate and not enough GABA. Theanine as such decreases glutamate while also reducing serotonin in the brain. Amantadine another such thing, b6 (p5p) also another which reduces both glutamte and increases GABA. I dont think its coincidence that a compulsive urge for verbalisation also goes down on theanine , Foids also talk too much bcos estrogen probably reduces threshold for verbalisation (akka watching minimalist movie and "verbalising what u feel/ looking for metaphors etc", while serotonin keeps you stuck verbalising.

@RaypEagle

If thyroid were the sole limiting substance that keeps your blood sugar from being absorbed and metabolized optimally, which by that I mean you fully get into mitochondrial respiration, blood sugar would not go up as much and as high as it used to, and this would negate the need for the pancreas to secrete a large amount that it used to. This large amount of insulin signals the liver to convert blood sugar to triglycerides in order to lower blood sugar. But the amount of insulin secreted by the pancreas is not always perfectly calibrated to give a drop in blood sugar that keeps blood sugar from reaching too low a level, and your blood sugar may stay at a low level long enough to trigger hunger before blood sugar levels start going up (or not, as in your liver not having glycogen stores that gets converted to sugar by adrenalin).

Having T3 made available would get your blood sugar from dropping to the low levels that trigger hunger.

@peatyourmeat the blood data is for you to draw conclusions from, not for your doctor to interpret, doctors don't spend enough time per patient to really figure out what is wrong, doctors need to do research too for making proper diagnosis and with how the modern health system works that is just not possible

@dan-saintdominic Most of our emotional intuition is processed during sleep. Lack of sleep creates a sort of emotional chaos where you don't really know whether to be happy or sad which is better than total depression.

Also yeah, short-time stress can be good if you are really in a depressed state. Though long term you lose out, the damage caused by the stress is usually greater than the good you derive from having that momentanous energy.