@pondfountain

Peat is mentioned thousands of times a day all over social media. Not like he's some kept secret that a few hundred people know about at this point. I mean, his ideas have spread so far that RFK Jr. is taking ideas he popularized and is going to ban seed oils through his role at the Department of Health, among many other things.

I would definitely credit 4chan with being a big key in what helped popularize him and his ideas though. It was the first place I heard about him, and it pissed me off to be honest. It was a discussion on fitness and nutrition and someone said fish oil was bad and cited Peat. I was mad because I was taking tons of fish oil because that's one of the things all the gym bros said to take. Didn't want to admit I had maybe been damaging my health and had wasted money on it.

I eventually came around.

@Mossy

Isn't that the best one though? based on the studies

@BearWithMe the gels on amazon are Diclofenac sodium 1%

@BearWithMe wtf? that's insane regrowth

@jamezb46

So would you recommend just ditching ubiquinol and use regular CoQ10? It is cheaper, which is nice.

I'm still taking Ubiquinol, at 300mg per day right now.

I can't say for sure yet if it has helped with any hair regrowth (why I'm taking it in the first place), because I do have regrowth that was happening before taking ubiquinol. I've been microneedling, using a regrowth shampoo, nizoral, and some other things. If it has helped it's not apparent yet, I'm guessing I need to be on it for at least a few months to notice a difference. The guy from that hairloss talk thread was on it for 4-5 months before he noticed it.

Just got some CoQ10 at Costco, 300 mg per pill. Going to try that when I run out of Ubiquinol. Or maybe I'll start taking one of both forms per day at different times, just to cover bases. That would be 400 mg.

As far as effects I HAVE noticed, I would say it has definitely helped with energy levels. Workouts feel a lot better lately. Not getting tired during the day.

@the_black_jew

Why? I thought it was well established ubiquinol was better.

@BearWithMe

Yeah, I did a little reading into it, it seems to be from oral pills at moderate to high doses.

Other NSAIDs people take have similar side effects, but millions of people take them every day without issue.

I think topical is probably safe.

@BeefEnjoyer

Being overweight is what is debilitating to health. It makes you more prone to infections and pretty much all other ailments. Heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer.

If your body is trying to fight something off and heal, and it's causing this debilitating salivation, then it's obviously not able to for some reason.

If you're not willing to make major changes to try to fix it, it must not be that debilitating.

@wester130

I did a bit more reading on the side effects, the crazy stuff like heart attacks seems it's related to people taking it in tablet form in fairly high doses, and it's because it raises your blood pressure.

I don't think rubbing the gel on topically would cause an issue, not anymore than nizoral/minoxidil and some of the other things people use topically. Since you can now buy the gel on freakin' Amazon without a prescription, I imagine it's very safe to use topically.

People take NSAIDs all the time that increase the risk of heart attack. Doesn't mean it will. If you're not healthy, by all means avoid it.