You’d better listen to the signals of your body and accept them. Perhaps temporally though the body has memory (immune system). Perhaps not yet too late if you are very cautious with dairy. Nothing to do with lactose intolerance. 50 % intolerant with gluten are intolerant to milk. Mimicry. We don’t need dairy to get the appropriate amount of calcium even if it’s easier or if you like it. E.g. broccoli is very rich in available calcium. You don’t need 1200 mg calcium. The amount 550 or 850 mg Ca depends on how you deal with the acid-base balance (Na, Ca, K, Mg versus Phosphorus and Sulfur). To help balancing you’ll probably need: bisglycinate magnesium phophocalcium (+ calcium citrate when there is oxalate in veggies) potassium bicarbonate. I track my balance with cronometer.com (I’ve changed the targets). I repeat: you can’t force the body to accept sth when the intestinal linen are fragile / irritated. The sooner you accept it (100 % or it won’t never heal completely), the quicker you can get / optimize the tightness of the brush border of the stomach. I can give a link if interested, if you accept the fact you won’t heal “over the next 2 weeks”! To optimize the motility, get inform on MMC (interprandial motility). But you’ll probably need to heal the integrity and the thickness of the stomach linen before adding fibbers (with glutamine). A last advice: If you wait too long, you’ll get problem with the microbiota and perhaps / probably with candidiasis. There, no glutamine advisable or you’ll feed the beast. Act before you suffer from SBO/ SIFO too much to tolerate what you can eat.

@Alice-J said in switched to brown rice, cut back granulated sugar, increased vegetable (even raw) intake: @Jennifer Dear Jennifer, I used to follow you on the RPF and often do here also.  I think I was meant to see this one of your latest posts tonight.  You so kindly and sensitively corresponded with me about four years ago when I reached out for help with anorexia and orthorexia. My user name on the RPF was Tilly-J, but that was all a long time ago.  Sadly and wearingly and deeply frustratingly I still struggle a  lot, but now only with the orthorexia part of my 'madness'. Potatoes have been calling me for some time, but I cannot find a way to easily and comfortably incorporate them into my current diet which is still high dairy (milk only) with eggs, white meat, fruit (many dates and bananas) and white rice.  I am very hesitant to ask, but would you be comfortable in sharing how you fit in your about 1 kilo of small potatoes, how you combine them with other foods (if you do), what your meals now look like etc.?  I feel very hesitant in asking. Of course I know that I will never heal until I have the courage to listen to, and follow, my body's own unique dietary requirements, but it can be so reassuring to see what others (whom one trusts) do, and notice that they thrive on their choices, as this post of yours makes so clear.  I am not thriving. The fears of orthorexia can be paralysing. I live with the insatiable hunger which can often arise, I think, when trying to refeed  oneself out of an eating disorder. Of course the message here is that my 2400 daily calories are still not enough. I do know that you have never experienced anorexia or orthorexia. It is precisely your courage to listen to, and act upon, your body's dietary needs and desires which has kept me following the many elegant, tempting and of course healing diets you have created for yourself over quite a number of years - following with so much longing to be free myself (even just a bit more free!) around food. I so much hope that I have not asked too personal a question and am sorry indeed if I have.  I remain a bit desperate.  Thank you for reading my message.  Most especially, I am so pleased for you that you are no longer experiencing the PTSD attacks associated with the passing of your Mum whom I remember you supported so soul-fully over many years. With my best wishes. Aww…Tilly. Yes, of course, I remember you. I’m saddened to learn that you’re still struggling. My heart goes out to you. ️ Thank you for your kind words. You’re correct that I have never experienced anorexia, but I grew up with a parent who had a history of eating disorders, in a society where restriction was, and sadly still is, glorified, and had painful digestive issues since birth so I’ve experienced anxiety surrounding food. I never would have believed the doctors, supposed experts and theories that guided my dietary choices in the past, over my own inner guidance, my own better judgment, had I not. I’m not a professional, but I feel strongly that eating disorders are an outlet for anxiety, that we channel our anxiety into something we feel we can control, in this case dietary habits, in an attempt to relieve it. I think if we have a pulse, even the healthiest of us will experience anxiety, so I don’t seek to eliminate it completely from my life but to channel it into healthier outlets—for me, that’s mainly hiking. After a series of tragedies, the last blow being the loss of my mum, my best friend, on the trail was the only place I felt like life hadn’t left me behind. It was the only place I felt like I was still an active participant, immersed in the world of nature, witnessing God, really, and not just some bystander. Anyhow, there’s a lot that can be said on the topic, but I don’t want to hijack the thread so if you want to join us in the Cooking with Jennifer thread that Mossy started, I just tagged you in a post where I listed my diet, for you :): https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/9142/cooking-with-jennifer/14

@Alice-J, I’m currently doing a local food challenge, with my diet varying slightly from week to week due to food availability, but below is a standard day of eating for me: Breakfast: Skyr with wild blueberry & strawberry compôte, two soft-boiled eggs and black raspberry tea sweetened with boreal honey Snack: Peppermint tea sweetened with wild raspberry honey Lunch: Seared sea scallops, half a kilo of Yukon creamer potatoes roasted in clarified butter, wildflower honey and salt, and spiced apple cider Snack: Skyr with prairie blossom honey Dinner: Sweet corn & roasted delicata squash chowder, a soft-boiled egg, half a kilo of roasted Yukon creamer potatoes, and spiced apple cider Before bed: Chamomile tea sweetened with mountain honey I hope this helps!

@gg12 fix your liver, then your gut it appears you are not storing glycogen well, thus the stressed state, insomnia, intense cravings for carbs - quite similar effects to ketogenic diets/excessive fasting. Caffeine has a half-life of 5-6h, thus coffee before 2pm shouldnt interfere tremendously with sleep onset unless dealing with insufficient metabolic adaption to it (u can think of coffee putting your metabolic engines on 110% overdrive). It certainly will do you harm in the long term especially due to it ramping up FFA, Cortisol and perhaps exacerbating gut issues. Haidut has many posts regarding why prolonged Lipolysis = very bad Usually one adapts to coffee intake within a week, make sure to always side it with milk (since lactose-intolerant, mayb try gelatin), sugar and a meal (Theanine and B3 can help too). I like Affogatos. Keep somehwat of a steady glucose intake/well balanced meals thereafter. If you still crash by the end of the week try tea and focus on gut & liver health first Also consider Caffeine and CYP1A2 detox pathway as this, high estrogen and/or taking drugs/supplements that bind to the CYP enzyme (e.g. aspirin, quinolone, or phytonutrients like curcumin or polyphenols) might be another factor of heightened caffeine sensitivity / liver issues

@cookielemons I was eating a shit ton of them, probably 0.5 kg every evening, but yeah, I agree they were not my only issue back then

it is a phytoestrogen

I have had the same issue with not just B vitamins but also any pro metabolic supplement like pyrucet. The trick is to both take the vitamins with lots of carbs and to also increase carb intake in the hours after, since your glucose oxidation will be ramped up and your blood sugar will plummet easier, leading to the fatigue you describe.

[image: 1772366763997-1ac12a19-d4a8-490a-a204-d2e0a9c799fd-image.png]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40628952/ https://bioenergetic.forum/topic/167/improving-eyesight

@engineer The surplus comes from grannies I think my dopamine/serotonin ratios and amounts itself aren't the issue, but rather dopamine tone/receptors are INHIBITED probably by higher serotonin/its receptor signaling Direct dopaminergic stuff like coffee/concentric exercise/carbs/protein/light don't improve the post-olanzapine anhedonia/other symptoms even 0.1% NO CHANGE at all So something is rewired, inhibiting brain centers related to pleasure/sense vividness Keep in mind I only got this AFTER olanzapine My nutrition/lifestyle was the same before The drug changed something and it isn't going away on its own so far

Another quick update. Just took a shower and removed a large quantity of earwax from my left ear. My left TMJ feels much better now, though not completely. I might go to an ENT in a month to get a professional ear cleaning. Even if you can hear, you could have earwax that is affecting TMJ symptoms.

They're all bad @engineer .

He's gone, obviously, and while amusing, I do think his point is valid to a degree and could have been made with more tact. I say this because I am coming off of high milk consumption, which had its pros and cons. The pros were that it enabled me to gain some much needed weight and strength back. And I think it strengthened my teeth. I wish I could get raw, but I can't. It's not available where I am. I went from 2-3l a day down to 500ml now. The con was that it messed up electrolyte balance, basically rendering both dietary and supplemental magnesium useless, which I needed more than calcium for another condition I've been dealing with. Probably the same for copper. Combined with D3, I believe it gave me hypercalcemia. Edit: Oh, and I was taking high dose K2, but I don't think it mattered. There was simply way too much calcium.

Soon to be replaced by the Open AI brain chip. Zog planted right in your gray matter.

Dihydromyricetin in the management of diabetes and its complications: a narrative review Managing diabetes mellitus (DM) and its long-term complications remains a major global health challenge. Dihydromyricetin (DHM), a natural flavonoid abundant in Ampelopsis grossedentata and Hovenia dulcis, has attracted increasing attention for its multi-target anti-diabetic properties. Growing evidence indicates that DHM improves glucose metabolism, alleviates oxidative stress and inflammation, regulates autophagy and cell death, and exerts beneficial effects in DM and a range of related complications, including diabetic nephropathy, cardiomyopathy, cognitive impairment, and wound healing impairment, and other related complications. Overall, this review provides an overview of preclinical research on DHM in DM and its main complications, emphasizing its therapeutic benefits and underlying molecular mechanisms.

@Luke said in Songs you like: @Jennifer said in Songs you like: @luke What luck! I forgot about football, but I did think of The Sopranos. I thought if it was featured in an episode I’d get a pass, but I checked and it wasn’t so I went for nostalgia, figuring you and I are close enough in age that you probably grew up hearing it, too. The song I posted on the previous page (Don't stop believin') is the most famous and last song featured in Sopranos. I have never watched that Johnny Depp movie from 500 miles song, though. Looks like fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPzU1Uz8ujw They chose a great song. It’s one of my favorites. I haven’t seen Benny & Joon either. It does look fun. The characters seem endearing.

@Korven ah hell nah isnt tanning salon same thing?

@Mauritio was it the pheromones or the thermogenic part that made you consider 11 keto T?

@engineer it really depends on what you ordered and what solvent you selected. Not all have options but some do. Which product are you referring to? Georgi will randomly swap out ingredients and or solvents on occasion. Not too often but enough times where I pay close attention to what he is selling “in stock” as an example I order his magnoil which is always a specific form of magnesium in dmso oil. But one time I got the product and I had to squeeze so hard my eyeballs were going to pop out of my head to get one drop. After a week of tripling my grip strength I looked it up and he was out of the normal for of magnesium and put the fill mag in a deferent solvent. I threw the dumb one away and waited for dmso to show up on the website. I’ve seen varying bottle types over the years too.

@John-Smithra I dealt with this while stuck living in a moldy house for two years. Along with the loud explosion noise I was also experiencing hypnic jerks where I would lurch forward involuntarily, or an arm or leg would whip into the air, as I attempted to drift off into sleep; this would violently jolt me awake. Sometimes they were accompanied by a flash of light in my vision. I would regularly go through 40-50 of those in a row or more, forced to stay awake for hours before my body became so exhausted that it was able to push over the threshold into sleep, for a short while at least. Needless to say it was torturous; once I got out of that house, my life and health got so much better.