The benefits of smoking, if any, may be due to lowering endotoxin and estrogen
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Your timing is perfect! I'm back to having issues sleeping last night. I think it is serotonin buildup due to lungs becoming edematous, and when in bad shape for whatever reason the lungs lose its ability to deactivate serotonin.
I haven't tried using negative ion generators but I think it will help in an incrementally synergistic way, given the edematous condition. I've found using methylene blue, red light, breathing carbogen, vitamin d, eggshell calcium supplementation, magnesium carbonate - altogether help in minimizing the effect of carbon monoxide in causing edema in my lungs, which is the result of heme oxygenase breaking down dead red blood cells producing CO, biliverdin, and iron. I have an ongoing release of previously congested dead rbc's from my lymphatic system which sees no end until all the dead rbc's are flushed out of my system. I'm dealing with the after effects of heart failure which began with bronchitis that caused a mass killing of RBCs that overwhelmed my system. Normally RBCs die and get recycled and/or excreted in small manageable quantities, but in a larger scale the body can't manage it well enough. And I don't think our doctors are trained to handle such cases, which having a Peat viewpoint and approach helps us see through.
So far I've benefited from reading Ray's research and insights into heme oxygenase, and I have an approach to deal with the stressful conditions involving carbon monoxide and iron release by heme oxygenase. The healing and recovery process is slow, and for the next 3 months I imagine I have to be at rest as my breathing is strained and my blood pressure would remain high as a result of my phagocytes having to eat up iron and it's waste be excreted out fecally.
I'd appreciate very much your passing on what info you have on negative ion generators. If I end up buying one, it would just add to my toolbox of useful devices outside of the medical complex, which I haven't regreted acquiring.
Temporal thinking is the faculty that’s
engaged by an enriched environment, but it’s
wrong to call it “thinking,” because it’s simply
the way organisms exist... - Ray Peat Nov 2017 Newsletter -
@yerrag
Keep those bowel movements going! Nothing seems to make my breathing get more comfortably deeper than having a satisfying BM! I’ve been really liking aloe vera inner leaf juice in the morning and a half hour before dinner. And a 1/2 tsp of baking soda water right before bed! K2, and Pau D’arco capsules helps keep the motility motor running.
Don’t like the carbogen? I started looking at that last week. How long does a tank of co2 last if you use it as much as you do?
Thanks!
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I can never say enough good things about carbogen. Ray has spoken a lot about it, but he has not said enough about it but wrap it in an air of mystery when calls carbon dioxide a cardinal adsorbent, leaving me lost in its abstract meaninglessness, as if he was hoping that one of his readers would follow him up with a follow-up question. Just to test their interest in going down a deeper level by asking an intelligent question. But I wish I had asked him.
But I would only have to discover and appreciate carbogen empirically, as getting to use the first time I was struck by its unassuming power. And I am one not easily convinced when a few years ago molecular hydrogen was being promoted by George Steinbrenner in Pat Timpone's podcasts.
But I was saved from a very mysterious infection, which I think was of fungal parasitic origin, and fearing being lumped into just another COVID case in those bluepilled years by hospitals, I had no choice but to treat myself using it, and I healed from that infection.
Now I consider it a must as part of a wholistic treatment for chronic diseases ranging from hypothyroid to infections and cancer, from the mere fact that CO2 is the most important pH buffer in the body. And pH stability is a precondition for healing, without which we have to rely on pharma intervention for mere panaceas, in the form of disappearance of symptoms with the added inconvenience of slow dying from myriad side effects. Which is the main reason carbogen is banned or it made so scarce that having it as readily available as oxygen in tanks would result in a lot more healthy people less in need of expensive pharma intervention.
Temporal thinking is the faculty that’s
engaged by an enriched environment, but it’s
wrong to call it “thinking,” because it’s simply
the way organisms exist... - Ray Peat Nov 2017 Newsletter -
@dapose
A 5lb tank would last me 2 months of use using it at 8 hrs a day. It cost me only $4 to have it refilled in Manila at a CO2 factory thatosrly serves the needs of soda concentrate users at restaurants and beer on tapTemporal thinking is the faculty that’s
engaged by an enriched environment, but it’s
wrong to call it “thinking,” because it’s simply
the way organisms exist... - Ray Peat Nov 2017 Newsletter -
You use it 8 hours a day?! At 5% CO2? I gotta know more about the experience. Do you just feel super relaxed all day? Time dilation? What effects in short/long term do you notice?
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@RandomUser I only began to use 8hrs/day but it was to counteract carbon monoxide that is causing lungs to inflame and to get watery and edematous.
prior to this, at 2 hrs per day, got to alkalize my acidic ecf so I could make antimicrobial treatments using turpentine and essential oil (aromatherapy) more potent. As I prefer these over antibiotics.
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And can you be more specific on what the experience is like when using it that long?
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@yerrag said in The benefits of smoking, if any, may be due to lowering endotoxin and estrogen:
@dapose
A 5lb tank would last me 2 months of use using it at 8 hrs a day. It cost me only $4 to have it refilled in Manila at a CO2 factory thatosrly serves the needs of soda concentrate users at restaurants and beer on tapVery cool yerrag! Thanks for the all the great info! I pray you get some relief from all this edema! May your waters be coherent and your tissues be well! Ha!
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lot more studies about smoking
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001541/ - Improves cognition
https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/smoking.htm
https://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/william-whitby-smoking-is-good-for-you/
