Where do I begin?

@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 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.

yerrag

@psi I take AC only when endotoxin induces diarrhea occurs. Very infrequently.

yerrag

Endotoxin come from dead bacteria. Could happen when you take VCO. Just depends on context.

psi

@yerrag great to know. I thought the polysaccharide part came from starch. I also had blood in my shit which went away only when I did sugar and milk. Perfect golden turds. Not entirely sure what caused the blood, probably PUFA made me sensitive to starch. Or acidity regulators added to store bought bread.

yerrag

@psi

The polysaccharide is the material of the car ass of gram-negative bacteria. It has little to do with the sugar we ingest, starch or non-starch.

The intake of too much soluble fibers, whether in starch or in fruits create a water-abaorptive medium that when not quickly transited out the fecal route, encourages microorganisms to proliferate and multiply. These microbes continually die as their life span has limits, as well as engage other microbes in a never-ending battle for dominance, and the endotoxins are what's left of the gram-negative microbes.