Random, interesting studies

DavidPS

@Ena said in Random, interesting studies:

There is much fuss about baking soda, but does it matter whether the bicarbonate comes from one source or another? That is, can I skip adding the baking soda?

Yes, yes. Skip the baking soda. Short-term studies on healthy athletes using baking soda (NaHCO₃) do not address long-term health and longevity.

Dietary sodium is hoarded by our bodies and we tend to waste potassium. The ratio of sodium/potassium in our diet is important for blood pressure, insulin resistence, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease and other diseases that occur as we get older. Read the details in The High Blood Pressure Solution: A Scientifically Proven Program for Preventing Strokes and Heart Disease (pdf)

CrumblingCookie

@DavidPS
Interesting book!

In contrast, dry cows (those not producing milk) or beef steers are
equally healthy whether or not they are given supplemental salt,7 and the
same is true for other domestic animals.8 And although wild herbivores
such as deer have been reputed to travel great distances to go to natural salt
licks, it is difficult to substantiate this belief. For example, Dr. A. R. Patton
analyzed mud sent in by forest rangers from areas in the Montana Rockies
where wild animals congregate to lick the soil. The rangers called these
sites salt licks, but Dr. Patton did not find sodium in any of the mud
samples. What he did find, however, was iodine,9 an element needed to
make thyroid hormone.*

the total of the sodium plus the potassium inside the cell is constant:
Na + K = constant
The reasons for this have to do with the laws of physics and are outlined
in Chapter 4. Here’s the bottom line: It is impossible to lower sodium inside
the cell without replacing it with potassium. That’s why these two
substances are intimately linked in an inescapable balance. A low sodium
diet can’t possibly work unless it contains enough potassium to replace the
sodium inside the body’s cells.

Mossy

@CrumblingCookie said in Random, interesting studies:

I have scoured the interwebs and found that buying sodium bicarb supplements in excipient-free, stomach-acid-resistant HPMC+gellan or HPMC-pectin capsules can cost "as little" as the same quantity of empty enteric capsules for a capsule filler at home.

Great info. Thank you!

Ena

[bicarbonate of potassium or sodium]

Thanks @DavidPS and @CrumblingCookie.
I'll skip the baking soda from now on ...

Mauritio

@dapose said in Random, interesting studies:

I’m using Boswellia every night before bed with baking soda and glycine water. Most consistent vivid dreams I’ve had as an adult!
It’s a COX enzyme blocker, very good anti inflammatory for me.

Nice! Do you notice any hormonal or metabolic effects from it ?

CrumblingCookie

@mossy @ena
Enteric HPMC+gellan capsules work well for encapsulating bicarbonate.
The pectin coating of enteric HPMC+pectin capsules, however, reacts with (potassium) bicarbonate, discolours it and their purpose of reliable stomach-resistance fails. I've found that out myself. Don't use the capsules with pectin-coating.

dapose

@LucH Merci Beaucoup! This is very interesting strategy you and your AI has come up with! But how long to alternate between M1 and M2 states? Does a guy just skip baking soda every other day? Or more like load up for one week then stop for a week? Or should it be more intuitive like reading the weather or the environment, like if I eat out and get stay up too late, I should be in defense mode, and then if things are running smooth and I feel good and happy, I go into repair mode… ?
Does this M1/M2 thinking ably to aspirin as well?
Thanks again. Very interesting

dapose

@Mauritio said in Random, interesting studies:

@dapose said in Random, interesting studies:

I’m using Boswellia every night before bed with baking soda and glycine water. Most consistent vivid dreams I’ve had as an adult!
It’s a COX enzyme blocker, very good anti inflammatory for me.

Nice! Do you notice any hormonal or metabolic effects from it ?

Nothing too specific on hormonal or metabolic front. But I’ve gone on and off Boswellia a few times and it without a doubt makes dreams more vivid and way more memorable for me.

A side not… I recently started taking Gonadin by Idealabs (first time and for about a week) I read every single comment on the old RPF for Georgi’s thread and I saw your name pop up a few times in that thread. Did you like taking Gonadin? Are you still using it to any regularity? And specifically the newest version of it…
peace!

Mauritio

@dapose I started taking frankincense too. The range of benefits is just too wide to ignore.

I don't take Gonadin anymore. I think the old one was better and had some really interesting chemicals like Diosgenin or phytol in it.
The new one makes me robotic.

dapose

@Mauritio yeah it seemed from that long thread that everyone was liking phytol and had definite productive responses to it… couldn’t tell why that needed to be changed. I’ll see how the new one goes. I really like the taste of the passionflower extract azf.