@MateLover87 said: I've since resumed iodine, but at a lower, more controlled frequency (2x/week) Thyroid and brain need 10-12 days (till 2 weeks) to adapt metabolism. Think of a dry sponge and water pouring onto its surface... Receptors needs to be progressively opened. When there is a virus: HD D3 5 000 UI x 2 for 2 days. Zinc 15 mg x 2 for 5 days. rice when there is diarrhea but with water evapored, not thrown away.

Funnily enough I've settled into the 1-2 times a week for vitamin E routine as well, just from going on how im feeling. Always nice to see research backing up "the feels."

@BearWithMe For start, try salted potato water. (They have to be without the skin, long cooked, for like an hour no problem and cut into small pieces). If you do it correctly, it will be rich in nutrients, easily digestible and will include alpha-keto-acids - these are incredibly special, they will look for “trashy” stuff in your body and turn it into proteins, Ray recommended them for people with problematic digestion to stabilise their organisms. As for liquids in general and cavity problems which you mentioned, first I reccomend drinking acidic drinks via a straw, secondly, wash teeth with baking soda and after every food use xynitol (but to not eat it, just leave it in your mouth for 2 minutes, than spit it all out - and only use it after sweet foods, your body will think that it is consuming sugar and xynitol is not sugar, so would raise your stress hormones). This will not solve all your problems but will at least give you some breathing room. I am not sure if it wasnt already mentioned, but you should try progest-e, pregnanelon and T3 (microdosing). Without hormonal intervention, your body will have problem stabilising itself, this should be your priority. Combined with the basics as of avoiding PUFAs and fiber (FYI pork and chicken fat are high in PUFAs thanks to their diet), it should set you on the right path.

@raypeatinger What ancils are you running with this

Hi, Ultrasil is bamboo silicon. As most plant silicon, the molecule has not the right size to enter the mitochondria. Only 30 % reach the membranes when the molecule has been stabilized. 30% of 6.300 = 189 mg from one liter. I’d rather say 3%, in the best case, here. Why: nothing has been said about the process. • Silica 63.750 mg • Silicic acid 6.300 mg => 1/10th • Elemental silicon 30.750 mg • Dry bamboo extract 75.000 mg Advise: You’ll get the same result with the first four leaves from a nettle infusion. It’s a question of molecule size and stability. I can develop if interested what you should pay attention to.

Excerpt from the book : Eating foods in the right order (p. 125) In 2015, Cornell University in the US demonstrated that if we eat the components of a meal—fiber (vegetables), protein and fat (meat), and starches and sugars—in that specific order, we reduce the overall glucose spike by 73% and the associated insulin spike by 48%. (144) This applies to everyone, whether diabetic or not. (145) NB: the way you deal with insulin spike at breakfast is going to impact the whole day.

@lobotomize said: according to the study nac can be used to recduce cystine No problem if you manage the dose and the interaction.

@TexugoDoMel kinda figured that was the case. I think Buddy still needs thyroid or some sort of intervention at this point too or he’ll never be a 120 year old Lean Balkan dairy farmer

Maybe it depends what it is for? A CT scan is really terrible. It has a lot more radiation than an X ray. I have an ascending aortic aneurysm. I get usually checked up with an echocardiogram. But a lot of people take yearly ct scans since it is more accurate in detecting growth. My cardiologist suggested to do a ct scan next time to make sure there is no growth. I don't really want to do it but then again an aortic aneurysm is a silent killer and I definitely want to stay alive for a bit more. Just my thoughts. When it comes to regular X rays I usually just decline them. Also at the dentist which is sometimes hard. I had to change dentists because my previous one didn't want to have me as a patient if I declined X rays.

I have been using structured water, and various forms of red light for about ten years now, and I was always so confused by the Peatsphere’s perspective that structured water was useless, (especially since my personal experience directly contradicted it). I get that Danny, Ray, and Georgie all said, “but stomach acid!” But this is such a limited perspective! First, it touches the lips, internal mouth, throat, (passes by the fricken thyroid!) before it hits the stomach. If this liquid is energized and has the ability to structure those things it comes in contact with, it’s clearly beneficial outside of ingestion. And this doesn’t even touch on topical applications, (soaking an elbow with tendinitis in a bowl of it for instance). Such an odd perspective from Ray, Georgie, and Danny, “no I’ve never tried it, but it can’t work, so meh…”

@AlphaZance said: Stoichiometric Limitation: One molecule of Vitamin E quenches one peroxyl radical before needing to be recycled by Vitamin C or Glutathione. It protects the surrounding bis-allylic motifs as long as active Vitamin E levels are maintained. Hi, Thanks for the post. I've been searching for additonal info, trying to connect the dots. (8 pages docx for an article on my forum). Here is a no-conventional aspect: There is a bidirectional save effect between AA and tocos. Translation of an excerpt: Bidirectional recycling: Once Vitamin E is regenerated (recycled by ascorbic acid), its membrane anchoring allows it to act as a shield; this not only exerts a sparing effect on the nearby ascorbic acid but also enables a bidirectional exchange. The precise mechanism of this reciprocal support remains a complex biochemical challenge, yet the outcome is clear: the two molecules protect and sustain each other amidst the oxidative storm.

I was experimenting with various solid foods recently (I was eating mostly liquid or blended food until now) and it made me realize that I'm not digesting my food at all. My stool is indistinguishable from the food I eat. My stool is a lump of bits of food with absolutely no change in size, shape, texture or color, and very little change in smell (sorry for TMI). What goes in leaves my body almost unchanged, undigested. That would explain the lack of weight gain I guess.

@haidut said: ... it may very well be helpful for cancer too. The reason to use B3 in this study was explained, in part, by its prior use for skin cancer prevention: "In a phase III randomized, placebo-controlled trial by Chen et al, [8] oral nicotinamide administered at 500 mg BD for 12 months was safe and effective in reducing the incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer and actinic keratoses in individuals who were at high risk. " [8] Chen AC, Martin AJ, Choy B, et al. A phase 3 randomised trial of nicotinamide for skin-cancer chemoprevention. N Engl J Med 2015; 373(17):1618–1626. doi: https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1506197

@haidut Interesting find -- thankss! Yet another reason to keep the glucose uptake high and to avoid metabolic stess. From this paper's concluding passages [bold-facing is mine]: "These results also have implications for therapeutic strategies that manipulate cyst(e)ine availability. Intracellular cysteine became toxic at concentrations of approximately 1–1.5 mM (Extended Data Fig. 4l), substantially above its normal systemic abundance. In fasting human plasma, free cysteine and cystine are present at approximately 10 µM and 80 µM, respectively, with total cyst(e)ine reaching ~250 µM (refs. 31,32). Thus, the toxic threshold is unlikely to be reached through bulk plasma exposure but may be approached in cells with unusually high cyst(e)ine uptake or impaired cysteine disposal. One such example would be cancers with constitutive NRF2 activation that accumulate cysteine beyond biosynthetic demand through upregulation of SLC7A11, promoting the formation of cysteine-derived conjugates that may serve as a detoxification route [33]. Cysteine or NAC has also been reported to induce cell death in glioblastoma and other cellular contexts, particularly during metabolic stress¹¹,³⁴. Our study suggests that, when this buffering capacity is exceeded, or under conditions of metabolic stress such as glucose limitation, excess cysteine becomes deleterious. Conversely, cystine supplementation can enhance tissue regeneration and stem-cell function in some settings.³⁵. Such findings are therefore likely to depend on the capacity of the receiving cells to metabolize or safely dispose of the resulting cysteine. Cysteine damages the mitochondrial electron transport chain via iron–sulfur protein loss, leading to cells relying more on glycolysis for ATP production and trying to uptake more glucose (Extended Data Fig. 4b). This would explain why glucose starvation is synthetically lethal with high cyst(e)ine as exemplified by disulfidptosis, although this death cannot be rescued by iron chelation [10]. Although this process shares features with ferroptosis, it occurs despite elevated GSH and suppressed lipid peroxidation, defining a distinct form of mitochondrial iron-dependent cell death (Extended Data Fig. 4m). Together, these results position thiol imbalance as a central metabolic vulnerability and underscore the importance of both limiting cysteine accumulation and promoting its safe disposal to maintain cellular homeostasis. "