Personal Log - Digestion, energy, vitality

Androsclerozat

@yerrag well said and I agree.
What paid search engine are you using and are the results more accurate than Google?

yerrag

I use an app called Docsearch+ from the Google Play Store. I get all the text-based PDF files of works of Ray Peat, which so far only includes newsletters and books. I put them together in one folder in my phone, and tell the app to search from that file folder.

GreekDemiGod

@Androsclerozat Because of poor digestion. But as long as I eat enough carbs with the protein, I'm fine with the higher protein daily amount.

GreekDemiGod

@yerrag said in Personal Log - Digestion, energy, vitality:

OP, I admire your effort, but if may opine, I would like to suggest a different approach. Reading Ray and picking his brain from reading his writings is a lot better than picking the brains of our collective here, most of whom are just as likely to give his own opinion than facts, and most are just as unversed in his writings and ideas. I'm sorry if I assume as much, but it may help all of us if we really make a serious effort to read his newsletters and books with the aim to understand and internalize them. In addition to using some good resources from members here.

Thanks for the answer. That's a good point.
Where would you suggest to start? I barely even read his articles. I mostly read the forum, and listened to GE streams or other interviews or radio shows with Ray.

sneedful

@GreekDemiGod do the normie microbiome stuff to raise bifido and lactobacilli maybe

Androsclerozat

@GreekDemiGod
If I would be in your place I would live as naturally as possible

Don't drink tap water
Wear clothes till you feel all warm
Go in nature

If trying this works, then your environment is not optimal.

Androsclerozat

@GreekDemiGod I say environment because I moved to Netherlands for work and I tell you, without any changes in diet, I am constipated all the time. It's very hard to identify what's the cause of it. I don't know if it's salt with ferrocyanide, the tap water that I use for rice (they say it's as one of the best in the world), the physical work or something in the air. All of this, except the salt I used in my country.

Androsclerozat

@yerrag that's good

LucH

@GreekDemiGod said in Personal Log - Digestion, energy, vitality:

I've also took a B1, B6, B12 complex for a month. It improved some neurological symptoms that I've had

Good choice for controlling / balancing high level of homocysteine. However …
Excerpt 1:
Under normal circumstances, the body itself can maintain the level of homocysteine at a suitable level. This requires several nutrients, such as folic acid (B9 folate), vitamin B12, vitamin B6, trimethylglycine (TMG 2 x 500 mg), serine and glycine.
https://therapeutesmagazine.com/methionine-et-glycine-nefaste-de-manger-de-viande/

When taking B1 on the long term, B2 (riboflavin) is needed.

There is interaction between B1 B2 B3 B8 B5 and magnesium in Krebs cycle.
With high dose B1 we use / we exhaust riboflavin needed for homeostasis. Riboflavin insufficiency may exert some of its effects by reducing the metabolism of other B vitamins, including folate and vitamin B-6. No need to take it every day.
Excerpt 2
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) is the precursor of FAD, the cofactor of methyl tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR enzyme). MTHFR catalyzes the formation of 5-methyl-tetrahydrofolate, which acts as a methyl donor for homocysteine remethylation.
Excerpt 3
Homocysteine is a metabolite of methionine, and once formed, it can be metabolized by trans-sulfuration through a vitamin B6-dependent pathway or by remethylated methionine in a folate- and vitamin B12-dependent reaction. Genetic abnormalities or inadequate supply of these vitamin cofactors can increase plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) concentrations.
Sources:

B2 Riboflavine and health
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, June 2003 https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/77.6.1352
B2 et homocystéine
Effect of Riboflavin Status on the Homocysteine-lowering Effect of Folate in Relation to the MTHFR (C677T) Genotype
http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/49/2/295

yerrag

@GreekDemiGod said in Personal Log - Digestion, energy, vitality:

@yerrag said in Personal Log - Digestion, energy, vitality:

OP, I admire your effort, but if may opine, I would like to suggest a different approach. Reading Ray and picking his brain from reading his writings is a lot better than picking the brains of our collective here, most of whom are just as likely to give his own opinion than facts, and most are just as unversed in his writings and ideas. I'm sorry if I assume as much, but it may help all of us if we really make a serious effort to read his newsletters and books with the aim to understand and internalize them. In addition to using some good resources from members here.

Thanks for the answer. That's a good point.
Where would you suggest to start? I barely even read his articles. I mostly read the forum, and listened to GE streams or other interviews or radio shows with Ray.

It is easy to be overwhelmed as there is no syllabus or course design that we are used to in universities. Since our ailments cannot wait for each of us to attain a mastery of Peatology, it is far easier though hardly ideal to use our own individual health and sickness to guide our search for what material to read. Otherwise, it's hard to get enough motivated to read each newsletter as if you were pursuing a PhD.

Use a keyword search of his writings, as I described earlier to bring up his writings on that subject, and focus on that subject. Since the body is interrelated, it would still be hard to be lost, as even if you tried to specialize on an area, you can't help but avoid being drawn into the larger web of relationships that make the body work coherently and cohesively.

It would be a matter of time and a matter of course that you will find yourself connecting the dots, and form conceptual relationships, particularly on causes and effects, whiçh is the backbone of problem solving.