@PissBoy
Thank you very much for helping me figure this out!

Have you tried taking less?
Sounds weird but it's something Roddy talked about. Taking small (1/8 of a tablet) doses, but I dont recall if it was about pure T3, might work with T4 too.

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I found it odd how none of you seemed to find it odd that pufa became a campaign ticket in a heartbeat. This world is moving around you. Welcome to earth.

@eduardo-crispino Good calls, Live Kimchi contains Lactobacillus, and can compete with H. pylori in the stomach👍

@BeamsOfEnergy You could always check for a local licensed TCM practitioner.............Best of luck to you👌

@alfredoolivas

Why not? I find it fascinating. I have been researching in the health and nutrition sphere going on 25 years not for any other reason except i love it. And now what i found most fascinating, something i actually hypothesized and put into action, is back! So while you try to belittle me and question my integrity, im here because i want to help and learn.

I thought this place might be better than the fascist echo chamber that the ray peat forum became but people like you remind exactly why that place failed.

@lobotomize-me said in How simple are people?:

humans have reached and found out the lowest level we can in our universes materials which are the atoms we havnt found one thing which isnt composed out of protons ,electrons and neutrons(not including the stuff which makes up protons electrons and neutrons which we also have discovered)

All of us are conscious, so we can use that for our reasoning.

If everything is built up of individual particles, then, for there to be consciousness, that consciousness would be an attribute of each particle. But if that were true, how could the kind of consciousness we have come about? We have a larger but still unified consciousness than what can be expected of a single particle, and this consciousness appears to be in a way localized in our heads, with sensory experience coming from our body.

If placing the particles near each other combines their consciousness, then there's some kind of interaction happening outside the limits of the particles. In other words, the particles aren't the most fundamental layer of reality. If particles didn't combine consciousness in any way, then our kind of consciousness would not exist in a world only consisting of particles. If particles that touch each other transmit something from their consciousness to the other particle, then, again, there's something else than just those particles, some other moving factor. And what determines the confines of consciousness then? In other words, our consciousness can't be fully supported by a purely atomistic universe.

As of now, the only way I can make sense of consciousness is by imagining something non-material and without discrete parts (it reminds me of water or air, though those are material of course) which could be said to be everywhere and nowhere simultaneously (not literally). The human body then receives and modulates this "signal", which then results in the kind of consciousness we are familiar with.

After writing about consciousness, some more thoughts came up.

What determines the interactions of the particles? How could the particles form anything? What keeps them together? Why don't they just bounce off of each other, or even pass through each other? I'm not really into physics, but iirc, physicists use "fields" or "forces" to explain these. But what are they then? More particles? Then the same apply. Not particles? Then the universe isn't fundamentally based on particles.

@haidut

Would benfothiamine do the same job at a higher dosage?

Also you say for a period of 7-8 days. Any reason not to continue b1 supplements long term?

Currently i take benfothiamine for vagus nerve rejuvenation. I have considered switching to ttfd recently.

@haidut

How timely. 🙂

Hi Haidut, nice to see you here!

@wester130 The more developed muscles (and larger skulls) of males might make a simple explanation for it being a male problem. It also seems to have something to do with head shape... anecdotally. Smaller heads seem to have less of a problem with it.

As well as it seemingly affecting slouching desk workers much more than, for example, homeless men. As the half-serious joke goes.

@lobotomize-me said in Best Soccer player in history was hypothyroid:

he didn’t have the amount of practice we assume is required

I don't assume much practice is needed.

Total energy availability, energy allocation and efficiency are the more general terms. The details that are involved in these are things such as hormones and myelination. I don't know all the details involved.

As for what causes a specific configuration of those three, I don't know. But some things that are probably involved are genes, prenatal influences, life experiences, motivation, diet and the like.

I remember reading not long ago from The Master and His Emissary that people who are exceptionally good at what they do access more right brain functions when doing what they're good at compared to other people. I tried to search for the page to quote it here, but I couldn't find it. I did find this though:

"In fact, recent research from Gazzaniga's own lab shows it to be the more reliable and insightful partner, and another recent study collating the areas of damage associated with a drop in IQ following a stroke showed them to be almost entirely in the right hemisphere of the brain." (new expanded edition, p. xiv)

The book Return to the Brain of Eden also looks into the right hemisphere's involvement in sports in the chapter Drugs, the Brain, and Peak Experiences in the section Superman and Superwoman.

It didn't occur to me to mention this earlier, but structure is also involved. For example, some people's brains can be structured in unusual ways, which can lead to unusual abilities, disabilities or both at the same time.

But if we include structure perhaps efficiency doesn't need to be mentioned separately. Afaik, it's the change in structure which leads to improved or decreased efficiency.

--> Total energy availability, energy allocation and structure

@Samyo that pattern is caused by the galea

https://web.archive.org/web/20120101104329/http://www.worldhairloss.org/index.php/hairloss/page2-featuredcontributors/the_mechanics_of_male_pattern_baldness

@winters2 said in hypothyroid no matter what:

is this the only way to fix my hypothyroidism?

We have to occupy the place in the presence of heavy metals.
Heavy metals & antagonistic trace elements:
Cadmium --> Zinc
Lead --> Calcium, Molybdenum, Sulfur
Aluminum --> Magnesium, Calcium, Phosphorus, Fluorine
Mercury --> Sulfur + Selenium
Arsenic --> Selenium
Fluorine, chlorine, bromine --> I (+ Se) (for thyroid).

Antimony (Sb) is a close brother of arsenic (As), classified in group 15 of the periodic table. Nitrogen family.
Sb stands for "stibium", derived from a Latin word.
Antimony is a metalloid, meaning it exhibits properties of both metals and nonmetals.

What could help is to occupy the place.
A dislodger of the possible squatter(s) on the thyroid gland (thanks to Se and I).
=> What helps to eliminate heavy metals.
Glutathione peroxidase (GPx) has this ability for a good amount of Heavy metals (HM). Selenium and glutathione are needed for GPx. A thiol group has this ability (double-pronged forceps), as in garlic and broccoli.
Be careful not to go about it haphazardly. You need tweezers (thiol molecules) and avoid opening the brain barrier. No ALA (alpha lipoic acid) at the beginning of the process. Too soon and too strong (brain).
NB: Glutathione (GSH), containing a thiol group, plays a crucial role in detoxification, particularly in the liver, where it neutralizes toxins and aids in the elimination of metabolites. Need a special form if used as a means. Selenium is a precursor.
See Cutler protocol for suggestion for other anti-oxidants when detoxifying HM.
I repeat: Never detoxifying for a too long period (4-6 wk.), change the molecule, make staples with pause to reload energy and useful nutrients brought away by chelation.

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@eduardo-crispino said in Grant's rapid aging:

do you think maybe this vitamin A is poison thing is just people coping with weak metabolisms and slow functioning liver

too much meat and beans can weaken metabolism. Slow functioning liver can happen from lack of choline and from being sedentary.

like maybe the normal person just processes and gets rid of retinols that are in excess and thats it
and these guys dont

Staying away from retinol supplements should be enough. Restricting foods because they naturally have carotene or retinoids is silly. Though leacky gut can do a number on some people.

the guy on the left has a huge head, his brain must have lots of processing power

Oh yes, that fella has a big head , no doubts 🙂

I dont agree on your first point about any diet making people look sick and emaciated

saladino is the only person I recognize in your list

They are all stars in nutritionism and as they aged they didn't stopped being sellable or marketable. Go figure...

maybe that attitude is why you think Saladino appears aging

Honestly , there is nothing special about Saladino , some people give him a credit for pushing alegedly 'peaty' ideas ..

This is a decent thread with lots of good suggestions showing there’s more than one way to skin the proverbial cat.

I myself have used 16oz of skim milk sweetened with honey or dextrose all day with a “normal dinner” to lose weight in the past. It’s great for me because I don’t feel restricted at all, (since I get variety out of my dinner). Dinner might be oysters and jasmine rice, or beef and butternut squash, or a smoked cheeseburger, (that I fill with gelatin to offset the amino profile) and potatoes, homemade masa tacos, I got a crinkle cutter and a few times a year I even make homemade French fries in beef tallow, (this is not a staple).

As long as I stick to milk and honey/dextrose throughout the day, I can still lose weight at 3000-3200 cals eating whatever I want for dinner.