Posts made by Androsclerozat

@forty said in Why Biotin deficiencies are considered "rare"?:

I've been wondering this for a few months now lol. If you actually track your biotin intake you're probably deficient unless you eat 3 eggs or liver every day. Cooking egg whites makes it much less effective at binding to biotin, although precisely how much I'm not sure.

One thing to note is that coffee, and presumably espresso even more so (since its nutrients are about 1.274x more concentrated than coffee), has very significant amounts of biotin that aren't included in most food databases: https://plaza.umin.ac.jp/~e-jabs/2/2.109.pdf but I'm not sure how to calculate exactly how much biotin is in a given amount of coffee; the paper is quite confusing. If someone could work out the numbers that would be excellent.

"''Biotin content table', based on the combination of published data in Japan and foreign countries. Of these, the biotin contents of some foods such as peanuts, red peppers, liver (cattle, swine, and chicken), kidney (cattle), eggs (yolk), instant coffee, baker's yeast (dried), and royaljelly were over 50 µg/100g per food."

edit: this page claims 88.4 mcg per 100g instant coffee: https://wholefoodcatalog.info/nutrient/vitamin_b7(biotin)/foods/high/

Interesting. It still hard to get the RDA 30mcg knowing that not everyday you eat liver, milk doesn't have any and one coffee contains around 3g of instant coffee, maybe the espresso has more, but still. Eggs inhibit biotin absorption.
It's weird how nobody talks about biotin. It seems that mainstream sees it as a vitamin only for nails and hair growth.

@LucH i want to know the mechanism behind it. Not X opinion without arguments.

@LucH i want to know the mechanism behind it. Not X opinion without arguments.

@LucH doesn't make sense. Did you know that RDA is 30mcg? Who eats liver everyday?

I don't understand why. It's pretty hard to get 100% RDA of biotin, and eggs have avidin that inhibit absorbtion of b7.

@fucker said in No sex drive, Long refractory period and ED:

@Androsclerozat I guess it depends what you consider a "lot of starches", but I dont think I eat so much of them in general. I have tried a lot of diets in the span of time since I developed this problem and nothing has helped with this particular issue

Erections while fasting, IDK because I don't fast. Should I try?

You could try.
By a lot of starches I mean morning and evening meals with starches, over 200g a day.
Some people are more sensitive. My friend can eat only one meal a day, more than that makes him anhedonic. In my case, only once every few days it's optimal.

@Milk-Destroyer I know that I am against starches but I eat a meal every 3 days to keep good sleep quality. I get tired of sugar sometimes.
My diet consists of milk 1.5% fat 2-3 liters, ground beef 150g and sugar 300g or maple syrup. Sometimes I add dark chocolate without soy lecithin 50g or orange juice fresh 500ml. If I skip the meat, I drink more milk.

Above I was talking about starch persorption, but it's safe if you keep lots of bowels movements and not exaggerating in meal portions. It's pretty hard to digest them perfectly tho. Sugar will always be superior.

@GreekDemiGod If you tick all boxes for hypothyroidism then what symptoms were drastically improved?

@dan-dominic
experimentation
There is always a spectrum of vividness in life
Even a small portion of starch can disturb it, but I understand that one small meal every 3 days is fine
The more I ate starches the less vivid life was and the less I cared to see my friend
I tried high sugar low starch diet and I was still not interested in watching people's reactions and if I was to play a basketball match, I would get competitive, while on sugar I would be carefree.
Starch drives status and ego
You must feel hyped/content over nothing

@Ray-Peat-Fanboy yeah that's because sugar boosts metabolism
Peat said that starch granules remain undigested, perforate intestinal walls and goes into the brain creating inflammation.
Life is different without starches, more emotions and life seems more vivid

@chosroes try being warm all day by wearing clothes
What cured my bowel movements was actually high temperature
Thyroid helps

@fucker have you been on SSRI?
Are you eating lots of starches?
Dopamine is primary cause of erections
Starches kill dopamine by increasing gut bacteria
Do you have erections while fasting?

@Ray-Peat-Fanboy I did this diet for a month and I had good bowel movements but man I felt so bored and unmotivated
Never coming back
Starch kills spice of life

@AndrewPeatMatrix do you feel good? Sleep well? If yes then you are right

@AndrewPeatMatrix difference is that one feels good when eating and the other barely survives because of wasting

@AndrewPeatMatrix yeah but it depends how much. I work 8,h + 2h on my phone and I don't feel unmotivated. It all depends on what you eat. Meat will make me stoic, milk the opposite.

@haidut
That much aspirin can irritate the gut.
Would mildronate work as good or even better than aspirin?

@CO3 I found the issue. Once in a while I eat mushrooms but I cook them only for half an hour and it requires at least 2 hours of boiling.
The endotoxin and bloating that this created increased the intensity of nightmares.
Now I stopped them and I don't have them anymore.
Maybe also the high amount of copper does something I don't know. I was eating 500,g a day.

@mycenaefive0 when I started taking thyroid I was drinking only milk 3-4 l a day and I had 3 bowel movements a day. When run out of thyroid I started getting constipated with one small bowel movement a day.
Now I don't take thyroid but I bought some, it's on the way, and Right now digestion is fine only if I eat also some good dark chocolate with milk.
Maybe your issue is thyroid and temperature. Wear heavier clothes, it makes a huge difference. If I have cold hands all day I become constipated too.

@CO3 probably.