@Mossy, oh, good! I’m glad the potatoes turned out better this time. I agree that they’re the best tasting. Your TCM doctor sounds like the naturopath I was under the care of when my spine collapsed. I spent my life savings to end up disabled. The health perspective that helped me the most? Ice cream heals all wounds. More specifically, that health is a byproduct of love, not suffering for the cause. I think love is the most healing of all but due to the fear brought on by “experts,” I spent years trying to heal by following diets I hated, taking supplements I hated, doing therapies I hated, and ending up sicker than ever, sicker than people who took no interest in health. Seriously, I was the unhealthiest “healthy” person I knew. Now I eat all the foods I care for and none of the ones I don’t, and I’m doing what doctors were so sure I would never do again and then some. Do all things in love. No, I don’t think yolk size can be faked, nor a thick, strong shell or firm, cloudy egg white—cloudy because a fresh egg retains more CO2, which clouds the albumen—but I think any eggs are better than no eggs at all, even the bottom of the barrel eggs, given their nutrient density. Same with canned tuna. I agree that it’s not as good as fresh tuna, but I actually prefer it for tuna salad, maybe because I grew up on it, and like you said it’s faster and cheaper, and overall a quality protein that’s shelf-stable so even if I can’t get to the store, I have food. Plus, my thyroid loves it. Speaking of quality protein, since you like Greek yogurt, have you ever had the brand Nounós? I treated myself this week to a container of the classic plain and WOW is it delicious! It’s not like any Greek yogurt I’ve had before. It’s more like cream cheese: https://www.nounoscreamery.com/ LOL No, that’s a fair question. Three eggs a day is Peaty enough, but I eat upwards of 6, no less than 4, and even though the eggs are pastured, I have no doubt that the hens are fed supplemental feed rich in PUFA as it’s standard practice in the US, a factor that kept Ray from eating more than one a day while living in the States—he said he would only eat more while living in Mexico. However, I feel fantastic on eggs, and meat and dairy, and overall, getting a bulk of my calories now from quality protein. Regarding the lichen-derived D3, it gave me hives so I switched back to the lanolin-derived. Nope, no small pets. We had a cat, Maltese and a Lab/Husky mix and the coyotes didn’t start coming in the yard until after they passed away. Now coyote pups wander into the yard every spring/summer. I don’t blame them. Our yard is covered in moss so it’s like rolling around on shag carpet. It feels good under the tootsies while grounding. Regarding mayo, I had the same challenges as you when making it—I mostly used Carrington Farms’ liquid coconut oil—and because my dad doesn’t eat a lot of it, it would go bad, but I recently came across an olive oil mayo by the brand Graza while at the supermarket and it got the dad approval so I’ve been buying it ever since: https://www.graza.co/products/original-mayo Hehe…his sidekick. I think the Pittie’s reaction is the funniest part of the video but yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s AI. It seems like most things I see online now are.

@Mauritio said: @crumblingcookie any new insights ? Yes. Hesperitin seems good and yielding more energy throughout the day in a calm, non-exciting manner through its mitochondria-boosting MoA. Have been taking c. 500mg twice daily. I've been wondering, though, whether the second dose may already be too much (for me in my condition). Still curious about how hesperitin fares in healthier folks in comparison with hesperidin from bergamot extract. Naringin/GSE. Some drops on the tongue quickly made the tongue look rosier and fresher each time. Maybe a good thing before going out and french kissing. Disodium EDTA. Had started with 100mg, then went to 250mg, then 500mg and ultimately 750mg on an empty stomach once daily. Caveat: Really strong chelator of Ca in practice; soon my feet started aching all day as if I had been on a 10miles hike the day before. I suspect decalcification of the foot bones. It still lasted after stopping Na2-EDTA. Distinct improvements each time after supplementing calcium but tbh I can still feel it a month later. Nystatin. IMO 2.5M units (five tablets) four times daily is plenty and there's no use of doing any more like the 5M QID I did. The pharmacy tablets are probably fine. If there's no positive effect from 2-2.5M QID I suggest to look for a different cause. Beyond that, fluconazole for three weeks appears to be a reasonable diagnostic trial or probatory treatment wrt harbouring suspicions of a fungal infection which cannot (yet) be ascertained in other ways, as per Satish Rao MD's proceedings. Although when in suspicion of any extramucosal/extraintestinal fungal involvement I'd escalatate that to 400mg pd instead of a mere 100mg. On the plus side, I really seem to be quite free from any Candida and intestinal biofilm. On the downside, all miseries perdure and it's come to light to actually be Cryptococcus disseminated to the brain and cerebrospinal fluid. With the utter dysfunctioning of GI mechanism sort of a last link in the chain of progressive systemic impairments; a final nail in the coffin by general immune exhaustion or centrally-mediated nervous deregulation (reminiscent of that 1930s study where they cut the CNS connection to the ENS). Ah, fun(!) times. What a curveball. Finally explains the headaches beyond all bearing and other things. Doing 700mg pd fluconazole rn while the public health services are passing the buck between factual denial and each other's possible responsibilities and my hopes and expectations in them being severely muted. In addition, the clinical guidelines handed about are piss-poor and in stark divergence with what's actually known.

@wester130 I've taken it with K2 and no issues there. I usually have 3 drops of Tuinone with a small bowl of mushrooms/olive oil/vinegar/salt in between meals, used as one would use carrot salad.

@CrumblingCookie Oh yeah, youre right. Thanks for pointing that out. I still find it interesting. Antrodia camphorata The fungus I mentioned, is available as a supplement .

@ChroncStresChris if you're aromatizing at a high rate, TRT will make it worse

@ZackVegas you got me, i didn't think of that

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Useful info (In French) for general purpose. Translator needed: Métabolisme sous-performant (énergie). Décryptage. Comment réagir? Incapacité cellulaire à utiliser l'énergie https://mirzoune-ciboulette.forumactif.org/t2222-metabolisme-sous-performant-decryptage-comment-reagir#30950 Translation: Underperforming metabolism (energy). An analysis. How to respond? Cellular inability to use energy.

@BearWithMe, do you think your protein and/or glucose metabolism may be poor and if so, could your thyroid need some support—I see your pulse is a little low? I ask because in my late 20s I too was unable to gain weight, while averaging well over 3,000 calories a day and I’m tiny. I’m normally 45 kg, but my weight plummeted—I was 30 kg at my lowest—and I had to stop mountain climbing due to my spine collapsing and having to learn how to walk again. Thankfully, I got a new doctor who put me on an ancestral diet that pretty much saved my life. I averaged 4 liters of raw milk, some cheese, eggs and meat (mainly scallops) daily and within 2 or so months I had regained 7 kg of mostly muscle (shown via a DEXA scan), but it wasn’t until I convinced my doctor years later to prescribe me standardized NDT (WP Thyroid) that I no longer needed crazy amounts of protein to not only maintain the weight I gained, but gain back the remaining weight I hadn’t, and I’m now able to maintain the 45 kg on 2,500 calories on sedentary days and roughly 4,000 on days I mountain climb. Some quotes from Ray that may be of interest: Thyroid Gland Recovery and Function Post Supplementation "Contrary to popular ideas about thyroid, the gland will resume its functioning after stopping the use of a supplement even if it has been suppressed, and sometimes taking thyroid will increase the glands function to normal. Taking thyroid will sometimes help thin people gain weight, by improving protein metabolism, and it often helps people to sleep more soundly." Ray Peat https://raypeatexplained.com/ray-peat-on-metabolism/ "In my teens and twenties, I needed about 8000 calories per day when I was physically active, about 4000 to 5000 when I was sedentary, but after I took thyroid, I needed only about half as many calories. Thyroid is the basic regulator of blood glucose, and it causes it to be fully oxidized for energy, so that it produces ATP efficiently, on relatively few calories. If blood glucose falls, because it's being used very quickly, the body responds with stress hormones, including glucagon, adrenalin, and cortisol." Ray Peat

@user1 To some degree, yes. The Orsense device measures hemoglobin via light sensors. When I have donated blood over the past 2 years, they have used this device to measure hemoglobin- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkeD7ybugHk I don't know if you could tell much difference with the naked eye. Plus, if you see blood outside the body, it's going to be reacting with oxygen and clotting, both things that would make it darker and thicker. Also, while people with higher iron levels tend to have higher hemoglobin, it's a very rough guideline. People with certain types of anemias can even have high iron levels. And for most people, you can raise hemoglobin levels with a B complex. During de-ironing, I actually got hemoglobin to go up while ferritin was going down by using a B Complex and/or an iron free multivitamin with the same B Vitamins.

Good question. Terrain makes more sense. only a strong healthy man can survive in a sea of germs, and a weak sick man will likely soon perish no matter how many germs he picks off.

@Hearthfire said: I think you get more silica/extract overall with ... What about the size of the silicon molecule to reach the cell, as if any " bio extract" from water, vegetable or bread could reach the target / the cell, at the same level !? No matter the state of your metabolism (> 55 yrs)

@sunsunsun said: apparently detection of viruses in ill people isnt really proof that this is causing the illness This is obviously true. You can observe all sorts of things on a sick person that probably have no effect on them being sick, like dandruff. Many sick people have dandruff, but is dandruff the cause of the illness? Even just sticking with microbes, it's obviously true. Both sick and healthy people have a gut biome, which is made up of several strains of bacteria, numbering into the trillions of individual cells. In any so called "viral" disease, the presence of trillions of bacteria in the gut are overlooked as a factor. Truthfully, even other "viruses" are neglected to be tested. As an example, when people were tested for the "Novel Corona Virus," they neglected to test for all the previous "Corona Viruses," as well as other "common cold and flu viruses." If you ran tests for 20 different "viruses" that are thought to cause cold and flu symptoms (and therefore, "Covid Symptoms" because there is a 100% overlap), and 7 came back positive, how could you claim that any single "virus" was responsible for the symptoms? It's actually worse than that, because EVERY "virus detection" test is actually a surrogate test. There is no way to directly test for ANY virus, not for the general public or in scientific studies. If there is no way to directly detect any virus, then how can you possibly create a remotely accurate surrogate test? Simply stated, there isn't, and in the case of Covid, the hundreds of millions of "asymptomatic patients" prove that. some people say covid isnt real, there's that tanksnowgood guy on rpf who constantly goes on about how there no such thing. when I got wuflu (I assume thats what it was) I got obscenely ill for 2 weeks and also experienced the weird sewage smell stuff and various other similar weird symptoms a lot of people describe. The claim that "covid isn't real" is really a claim that the alleged "Novel Corona Virus," aka SARS-Cov2 doesn't exist. Obviously, the symptoms people got when they got so called Covid are real. Things like coughing and fever can be easily observed in the real world. But the symptoms don't prove the cause. If you read the "Covid Isolation Reports," you can see that in truth, they never "isolated" anything. They took a sample from a sick person, along with all the potential other microbes, added to it a mixture of monkey kidney cells (aka, Vero cells), some antibiotics, some digestive enzymes like trypsin, Fetal Bovine serum, and cultured it in a medium that didn't provide adequate nutrients for cell survival. Then, when the cells showed signs of dying or breaking apart, they claimed that it was the result of an alleged "virus," and dismissed concepts like cell starvation, or the cell being poisoned by the antibiotics, or being ripped apart from the digestive enzymes. Since these "isolation tests" are the ONLY proof of a virus, the conclusion a lot of people have drawn is that SARS-Cov2 (and likely all other viruses) don't actually exist.

@engineer said: Therefore, what I'm wondering about is a strategy to ease the switch from FAO to glucose oxidation. Hi, your analyze if fine but it won't do the job whenever you stress. I can develop if needed (adrenalin => cortisol => no glycolysis allowed). Of, course your body must be accustomed to lipolysis and ketosis. It takes time (progressively improved). If you don't manage this staple very well, your brain is going to slow carburation down. When going out of a real fast (3-4 days), the return must be very progressive with carbs. It seems you've got problems too to manage insulin spike, if I decode well. It won't function well if ....

Ray was asked the difference in effect between using T and using DHT: https://lowtoxinforum.com/threads/ray-peat-email-advice-depository.1035/post-669099 Q: What is the major difference in impact between testosterone and dht? Assuming all the foundational stuff is sorted first (-thyroid good, calcium intake, etc.) Peat: Stress and inflammation increase the risk that testosterone will turn to estrogen.

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