@Zofia said in RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS:
I forgot to mention I am currently taking Vitex and it's helped my PMS significantly. I was doing progesterone for a while but it became too tedious with RA hands.
Honestly, I keep my PUFA very low, I have also been told it can take up to 4+ years to get rid of in the tissues. I eat all home-cooked meals, even if I have some PUFA it's less than 3-4g. How do you know what does of Niacinamide works for you? Currently, I'm at 500mg and feel good, mostly getting sugar from fruit or honey.
I really like that explanation of CRP, makes complete sense.
Yes, I've been thinking of seeing one but it's a hit or miss of course. So with the appropriate amount of thyroid, you were able to put the disease into remission?
Thank you for all the reading! I'll be reading it all. I've also come across SIBO being treated with high-dose thiamene, up to 600mg.
I've never taken Vitex myself so I have no personal experience with it. Some say it can be estrogenic. I do use a couple of blats of progesterone every night; one blat rubbed into my gums, the other blat mixed with equal parts coconut oil and done vaginally. The total of 2 blats equals about 40mg of progesterone (in vitamin E).
I've been a lunatic avoiding pufa for 9 years. I don't eat out. My husband thinks I'm nuts. But it's better than being closed up in a facility for the incapacitated.
Regarding the niacinamide: Ray Peat always recommended doses of 90mg for niacinamide. I took two doses of niacinamide each day, each 200mg for 7 years. But then, I decided to switch to 100mg 4Xday. After that one change, I lost about 35 pounds in about 8-10 weeks. I think it's because the more frequent smaller doses made my body work better. I was very surprised when I finally weighed myself because my clothes fit differently.
"I really like that explanation of CRP, makes complete sense."
I think that the whole RA thing is caused by inflammation. Inflammation is caused by poor oxidative metabolism. If you can correct what's interfering with the oxidative metabolism, the inflammation disappears and your body will heal itself. I think that it really is that straight forward.
"Yes, I've been thinking of seeing one but it's a hit or miss of course. So with the appropriate amount of thyroid, you were able to put the disease into remission?"
I don't know where you are. I'm in the U.S. Pharmacies here receive prescriptions from doctors, fill them, and the patients pick them up. If the situation is similar where you are, the pharmacists know which endos/doctors prescribe desiccated thyroid already. If NP Thyroid by Acella is available in your country, you could ask pharmacists near you which doctors are prescribing it (or Armour brand or other?). This research would shorten your doctor hunt quite a bit.
Yes, the right dose of a good desiccated thyroid med (NP Thyroid by Acella) completely resolved my rheumatoid arthritis. Ray Peat wrote that this was common knowledge back in the olden golden days, before the medical industry mucked things up so badly.
ARTHRITIS AND NATURAL HORMONES
A very healthy 71 year-old man was under his house repairing the foundation, when a support slipped and let the house fall far enough to break some facial bones. During his recovery, he developed arthritis in his hands. It is fairly common for arthritis to appear shortly after an accident, a shock, or surgery, and Han Selye's famous work with rats shows that when stress exhausts the adrenal glands (so they are unable to produce normal amounts of cortisone and related steroid hormones), arthritis and other "degenerative" diseases are likely to develop.
But when this man went to his doctor to "get something for his arthritis," he was annoyed that the doctor insisted on giving him a complete physical exam, and wouldn't give him a shot of cortisone. The examination showed low thyroid function, and the doctor prescribed a supplement of thyroid extract, explaining that arthritis is one of the many symptoms of hypothyroidism. The patient agreed to take the thyroid, but for several days he grumbled about the doctor 'fixing something that wasn't wrong' with him, and ignoring his arthritis. But in less than two weeks, the arthritis had entirely disappeared. He lived to be 89, without a recurrence of arthritis. (He died iatrogenically, while in good health.)"