@CrumblingCookie thanks for your response. I was thinking it might be fungal, but due to the fact, I have bangs and its not on my forehead and concentrated around my jaw, I am certain it’s hormonal. That’s why spironolactone , metformin, and inositol reduce it. I agree with mold I will look into that. I’m also looking into getting a gut microbiome and Dutch test. My partner also recommended taking iodine. I’ll give you feedback once I have more results. In the middle of my 30 day cleanse my cheek acne has reduced, but I still have some jaw acne so hopefully that’s a sign that it’s a combination of hormonal and gut so time will tell, thank you!

@sunsunsun i think so yes.

@sunsunsun Yeah but the point is that the spoons are inaccurate for the exact reason you mentioned XD as well as density etc

@mag-me chicken wings, shanks, chicarrones (refried in coconut oil)

Don't see why not. Pressure cooing is just just supposed to speed up the time something is cooked

@user1 Thanks - I intuitively like maple syrup (manganese source). I eat it quite often in milk, and it may be somewhat calming. I like it.

First post basically describes me, so thank you for this info!

@alfredoolivas agreed! You want to keep a steady flow of dhea and preg. Otherwise you can take it standalone assuming you're not taking an outrageous amount 10 times a day. Taking it for years, I never experienced suppression

@hcwilliams Funny you mention this. I just fried some in a pan last night, and then covered it with sage butter, and it was considerably better than without it. Sage butter takes roughly 5 minutes to make, and adds quite a bit of flavor. There are variations of sage butter recipes. Some are as simple as butter and sage, I used butter, sage, salt, and garlic power. If I had more time, I would've used minced garlic. P.S. Maybe most important of all, I soaked it in milk hours before cooking.

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@engineer Reporting back on this: CrumblingCookie said: Topical application on the lower abdomen reportedly does not bring about these tense and stressful cardiovascular sensations. Lower abdomen application consistently caused the same. Only more delayedly after a few hours in comparison to the rather fast onset by application on the chest/thorax. Surprisingly, however, it showed that increasing thyroid hormones alleviated this dis-ease. Assumedly and in line with many thoughts before this the extra DHT administration spotlights basic metabolic insufficiencies. Wouldn't limit this to thyroid hormones at all but expand the need for them into a wider picture of metabolic disturbances (which supplemental thyroid hormones may or may not cover-up in part). I.e. no shortcut to better health but more like a possibly powerful booster to override adverse effects from other supps or habits when already in good metabolic health IMO.

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He said he was going to get "hearing aids", he said he has "mild to moderate hearing loss".

@haidut I am wondering if it is really inflammation that is causing mitochondrial dysfunction and not the other way around. I have a large store of bacteria that I keep having to kill and each time there is a kill plenty of endotoxins are released and they are a major source of inflammation. And it suppresses mitochondrial activity to the point that even the conversion of cholesterol to pregnenolone and downstream prosuction of hormones and steroids are very much affected. To such effect that taking hormones like thyroid and pregnenolone and progesterone can hardly make a dent. I had to inhibit the nfkb inflammatory response using turmeric and black pepper in order to see my cholesterol level go down and my hormonal production go up. But it is hard to keep endotoxins low when there is a large colony of pathogenic microbes and in my case it is feom periodontal infection having translocated to my vascular and lymphatic system where it get more embedded over time especially as it gets protected by biofilms. One way I see out of this conundrum of killing pathogens by relying on our endogenous ROS from our own innate immune system and from use of pharma antibiotics or herbal antibacterials,, which all end up producing endotoxins; is to engage antibacterial peptides such as LL-37 in neutrophils and macrophages - to kill pathogens with the benefit of not leaving behind endotoxins that both inflame and cause oxidative stress. More sunshine to produce high levels of Vitamin D (50-80 ng/dl) together with plenty of butyric acid in the gut gives the body a high endogenous supply of LL-37 to achieve effective antimicrobial activity without endotoxic side effects.

@sunsunsun in case you don't already know, on the old rp forum Haidut said it can be a result of extreme hypothyroidism, over-training or over-excercising

@peatqqq maybe switch the Apple juice for orange juice if it appeals to you. Ray Peat used to caution about mold in (store bought) apple juice. And mold can cause or exacerbate all kinds of symptoms/conditions. I guess if you can juice the apples yourself you'd know that won't be a problem.

So then, Mitolipin to the rescue