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  @Mauritio Seems to be an affordable experiment to try: a kg costs only 90 dollars

  https://enzymes.bio/product/papain-200000-u-g-food-grade-biological-enzyme/

• 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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  @ThinPicking @LucH @yerrag Thank you all for your thoughts!

• Not Medical Advice

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  @LucyJ said in Is this estrogen?:

  @Jennifer Yes 1 grain. Resting pulse in am 60pbm, temp 36 degrees Celsius. Feet usually cold.

  I increased my dose half a grain the other day and my pulse got lower??

  I think I do need more but keep being told I have to increase calories first? what are your thoughts on this?

  Okay, so definitely still hypo. Cold feet are due to adrenaline, which is compensating for your under-active thyroid, cutting off circulation to your extremities to keep your vital organs warm, and waking at 3 am is a sign you’re still dealing with hypoglycemia, basically, what dapose said—your liver glycogen is being used up during the night while you’re in a fasted state, causing cortisol, the wake-up hormone, to be released to break down your own tissues to raise your blood sugar—which is likely why increasing your thyroid dose lowered your pulse—it lowered adrenaline. It should rebound after some time on the higher dose, assuming your energy requirements are being met.

  Is it your doctor and/or nutritionist who keep telling you you need to increase your calories before increasing your thyroid dose? Roughly how many calories are you averaging daily? Some people find that their caloric needs increase when supplementing thyroid, while some such as Ray and myself find they decrease—Ray went from needing 8,000 to 4,500, and I went from needing upwards of 3,500 to roughly 2,500–2,700 depending on my cycle, which is far more appropriate for my size and activity level. I was averaging at least 1,000 more calories than my brother who is twice my size.

  With that said, if a hypothyroid person is in an energy deficit due to insufficient calories, their under-active thyroid is likely due to that and supplementation won’t help unless the increase in appetite that can come with supplementing thyroid is honored. I’ve known many people with a history of dieting/food rules/eating disorders/painful digestion who were afraid to honor their appetite and required professional help to overcome it before supplementing. In some cases, overcoming their fear and essentially refeeding was enough to improve their thyroid function, making supplementation unnecessary.

• Products

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  @Ismail there are no sides from this dht topical product that I experienced in normal use. It is really good for injuries, bug bites, etc.

• The Kitchen

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

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  @Tarzan17 rice (parboiled type, holds up to cooking better, doesn't get gummy like white jasmine rice, better texture than basmati, has more nutrients due to the way the grain is steamed in the husk before removing the husk, probably digests better than brown whole grain rice), relatively lean meat, and vegetable (cooked greens, steamed brocollli, cooked green aka French beans, raw cabbage, raw cucumber with skin on, even raw diced onion), and a little bit of raw pineapple for enzymes, plus a bit of eggshell calcium to balance the ca:p ratio and some gelatin/collagen peptides to balance aminos, is basically the perfect meal for me and I'm hungry again in 3 hours which to me is a sign that it is digesting/assimilating well. if I eat something like wheat pancakes or pizza im not hungry for many hours after and actually dont feel as optimal later on even if immediate post meal I feel good, this is a sign to me digestion of this type of food is too slow.

  note the returning hunger after parboiled rice is not the same as the ravenous hunger I sometimes get after eating jasmine rice, the latter which feels like a blood sugar rebound effect. the former just feels like a hunger that is ready for more nutrition assimilation.

  10-15 min after the meal, some carbonated water goes down really well.

  I also take 75mcg of biotin with each non-egg non-liver protein meal. I learned from one of Chris master johns articles/videos that biotin needs go up with protein consumption.

  selection of protein for certain nutrients like pink tuna for the special selenium aminos (selenoneine), beef for carnosine, chicken for anserine, squid for copper, chicken livers for biotin hit, etc) makes a difference too. If I go without tuna for a bit, the first time back I feel a super saiyyan 9000 power up.

• The Gym

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

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  searching for a dnp source after the govermental crackdown on many labs