Where do I begin?

Please share some of your recommended reading material. Adjacent sources are welcome. How can I best optimize my metabolism? Thank you.

LucH

@rosy-fingered said in Where do I begin?:

Please share some of your recommended reading material

Hi,
Here is a starting point. Some points could asked a development when you search for details or other sources to justify / explain one point out of current standpoint.
*) “How to Heal Your Metabolism - Stop Blaming Aging for your Slowing Metabolism!”
Kate Deering .
This book is based on the work of Dr. Ray Peat, Dr. Gilbert Ling, Dr Albert Szent-Györgyi, Dr. Broda Barnes, Dr Constance Martin, Dr. Hans Selfe, Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, Dr Lita Lee, Chris Masterjohn, and Josh Rubin.
"How to cure your metabolism" will give you a completely different perspective on what food, supplements and exercise are really. Are they "healthy" for you, when and what intensity, and what are those who can harm you.
This book is based on Kate Deering's experience. Kate Deering is a physiologist (physical exercise), a personal trainer, a nutrition coach and for lifestyle, but is not a doctor.
Editor's note (LucH): it is reliable. Even if we do not have to agree on everything ... We must also put questions about our context ... As already specified, she is a fan of Ray Peat (RP), reread and confirmed by RP, but she has a "practical" approach, given her profile. It is therefore a very good book for the reader who needs a concrete scheme, a framework. If I caricature, it transposes the foundations / the theory defended by Ray Peat, and some others, in a practical approach. She puts the points on the I, with her sensitivity (coaching experience and her life-experience) and draws attention to the context. It is an interesting book to get to know the basics of body physiology and connection with food, in a given context (hypo or normal).
Note: I’ve a summary on my forum (In French; translator needed)
http://mirzoune-ciboulette.forumactif.org/t1347-comment-guerir-votre-metabolisme#15017
Comment guérir votre métabolisme

Thank you so much. I first developed a case of chronic pitting edema in my legs over ten years ago. I saw a handful of specialists yet none of them could produce a conclusive opinion. The edema is currently under control but I've been diagnosed with venous stasis. I assume the initial inflammation resulted from PUFA consumption during my early teen years. The naturopathist I saw believed it was a renal or lymphatic issue.

psi

@rosy-fingered instead of reading, set smaller concrete goals to change your environment where your diet is optimal, you're surrounded by friends, there are things to do and explore. Then do reading to learn the necessary info.

@psi
I've joined a volunteer organization and intend to visit the mountains/beaches once my foot heals. I don't have friends. Never have. I'm fairly antisocial (ScPD). Not that the diagnosis has much utility at this point. It's effectively useless to me.

psi

@rosy-fingered hmm, take a look at Broda Barnes and do the basal temperature test and test your muscle relaxation time. Then decide if it's worth taking desiccated thyroid. Ray often recommends progesterone, but it's only if you have estrogen excess. Vitamin E helps with PUFA already accumulated.

I bet your diagnosis is a reaction to the poisoned world. Or perhaps you have very high standards for humans. That's noble. But it's also important to accept other humans flaws to a degree. Necessary evil because it's very difficult to do anything of value by yourself

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@psi
@psi said in Where do I begin?:

test your muscle relaxation time

How? Where can I read up on this?

psi

@rosy-fingered https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BAPlv62-ZZI

@psi
Thanks.

@psi said in Where do I begin?:

I bet your diagnosis is a reaction to the poisoned world.

Most probably. I seem incapable of taking forward action in any direction.

@psi said in Where do I begin?:

Or perhaps you have very high standards for humans.

I should set higher standards for myself.

cs3000

@rosy-fingered while youre fixing hypothyroidism & metabolism you might do well with co2 leg baths, you just buy some baking soda and malic acid powder (found in apples), add at least 5g of both to a container big enough to cover your shins for every 1L of water, which combines & releases co2 bubbles.

the co2 goes into your skin increases blood flow and promotes vein formation & healing

20-30 minutes daily might help with improvement starting to show by 1 - 2 weeks

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.CIR.0000159329.40098.66

also
https://www.youtube.com/@RayPeatClips/videos
&
https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/4/ray-peat-resource-thread

@cs3000
Excellent! Thank you very much.

yerrag

@cs3000

Nice find on the baking soda malic acid thingy.

Funny using CO2 to activate a nitric oxide-cGMP progenitor cell though but hey. Why need NO when you have CO2 as a vasodilator already, right?

psi

@rosy-fingered

Most probably. I seem incapable of taking forward action in any direction.

Could be a side effect of low metabolism. I feel less lethargic and apathetic after further minimizing PUFA. Maybe it's just placebo though

@psi said in Where do I begin?:

Could be a side effect of low metabolism.

I'll be trying out coconut oil in the morning very soon.

psi

@rosy-fingered coconut oil gave me diarrhea if I ate more than 3 spoonfuls with nothing else.

I'd avoid pastry, because they're full of corn starch too. #1 PUFA source is fried chicken, #2 is cakes and similar deserts. Half life of PUFA in the body is 2 years, so why risk putting even a spoon a day in?

@psi said in Where do I begin?:

coconut oil gave me diarrhea if I ate more than 3 spoonfuls with nothing else.

I want to start out with a teaspoon of it and eventually ease myself into a full tablespoon.

yerrag

@psi said in Where do I begin?:

@rosy-fingered coconut oil gave me diarrhea if I ate more than 3 spoonfuls with nothing else.

I'd avoid pastry, because they're full of corn starch too. #1 PUFA source is fried chicken, #2 is cakes and similar deserts. Half life of PUFA in the body is 2 years, so why risk putting even a spoon a day in?

Probably at that much in one shot, some don't get absorbed through the small intestine and goes to the colon, and being anti-microbial, it kills microbes and the endotoxin it leaves behind renders the gut liquid contaminated enough for the gut walls to reject absorbing back into blood. More liquid in the gut is what amounts to diarrhea.

But I take diarrhea as a good sign when I take biofilm busters and/or antimicrobials.

I use activated charcoal to absorb the endotoxins and the diarrhea goes away.

psi

@yerrag is there endotoxin if I don't eat any starch? Main reason for me not eating coconut oil is lack of a convenient meal I can make with it.

Activated charcoal absorbs minerals too. I'd be cautious to use it frequently. I'm trying eating carrots, seems to work well.