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@b1 yes but irish coffee moreso

Chris Masterjohn talked about how loading up on zinc doesn’t carry you but a couple days. And that having a more even dose daily is more effective. 2 oysters makes rda zinc

@thyroidchor27 and I believe urea can “detox” ammonia. Same with sodium benzoate found in the original glass version of Dr Pepper.

@short_hope I drink 1.5+ liters of whole milk, orange juice, grape juice, lots of coffee w/ milk (throughout the day), occasional coconut water, fizzy drinks with sucrose/glucose.

Fluid content in the foods we eat (whole fruit, etc.) is often not included as it should be (or not easy to quantify) when people think about their fluid intake.

I grew up with parents very interested in health food and maintaining good hydration. And I raised my children pushing frequent water consumption on them, which I now regret (before reading Ray Peat on 'salt to taste' and dangers of excess water intake). I think excessive worry about dehydration and excess water intake worked against my health objectives. I'm now feeling like good metabolic health has been finally achieved (last 5-8 years) after stopping water drinking. Of course still using water to cook soup/broth, boil potatoes, etc.

Anything that increases androgens and lowers stress hormones. In my experience when I have increased androgens using DHEA and Progesterone combined with Androsterone it greatly increased volume. Also try to refrain from ejaculating for a few days and you will notice a big difference.

Cistance I also found to be very powerful.

I read somewhere that 15 minutes of direct mid-day sunlight on a patch of fair skin will produce maximum vitamin D, more doesn't accomplish anything.

You can get hours of sun outside of tanning/burning hours though (10am-4pm during standard time, which is 11am-5pm during daylight savings time)

Haidut mentioned:
PUFA and Endotoxin (LPS) Inhibit Vitamin D and Thyroid Transport / Activity
Polyunsaturated but not saturated fatty acids were able to decrease the binding of thyroxine to TBG (thyroxine-binding globulin).
Arachidonic but not palmitic acid decreased the binding of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OHD3) to human DBP.
"...In non-thyroidal illness, however, high concentrations of FFA were probably responsible for most of the abnormal thyroxine-binding to TBG.”
FFA = Free fatty Acid.

@TexugoDoMel

cool studies. thanks

Sounds like gel can also be used to enhance absorption of co2 through bag bathing (where usually water does that in baths) , so can apply it somewhere to enhance a local area effect

{they used glycerin aka glycerol as part of the gel in one of the studies. which should be safe topically as endogenous compound}

Gel only: The CO2 paste was obtained from CO2Tech (Kobe, Japan) and contained 1,3‐butylene glycol, sodium hydrogen carbonate (bicarb), malic acid, sodium dihydrogen phosphate, alkyl‐modified carboxyvinyl polymer, and carboxyvinyl polymer

Because of its relatively high solubility, CO2 gas dissolves in the hydrogel. The dissolved CO2 then permeates the skin, moving down its concentration gradient when the maximum solubility in the hydrogel is reached. Our previous study showed that CO2 penetrated human tissue by this system {more than bag bathing without the gel?}

transcutaneous CO2 absorption-accelerating hydrogel, (Formulation: carbomer (0.65%), glycerin (5.00%), sodium hydroxide (0.18%), sodium alginate (0.15%), sodium dihydrogen phosphate (0.15%), methylparaben (0.10%), and deionized water (balance))

In this system, the CO2 hydrogel is applied to the skin to allow CO2 to dissolve and penetrate into the local tissue, which humidifies the skin without bathing, thereby forming a passage for CO2 to reach the local tissues. This system allows for the easy application of CO2 to any site of the body.

When we applied CO2 transcutaneously using this system, sweating and redness of the skin were noted. In addition, the blood flow to the fingers increased
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169585/

this one just using co2 in water for 10 mins daily gave nice results for restoring blood flow & vessels (but not systemic effect, local to limbs used on)
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.CIR.0000159329.40098.66
, amazing for just 10 minutes daily , 1g co2 per liter of water (get that from 2g bicarb + 2.5g citric acid)
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@Jakeandpace
I have experience of it normally but not in some small 1mg amount , it gives head rush and you can lock in

@b1 Probably. Get a blood test.

@b1 said in Can we bring Dr Peat back to life:

Is there a way?

I had a dream last night, in the dream, I accessed an alternate reality where there was an i.a. of Raymond, and the i.a. corresponded well enough to the original person that it seemed to be the same person, I flew to his location, I don't remember the rest

@b1 I don't think we have the kind of data we'd like to have (or think we have) to really know whether smoking untreated tobacco leaf (organic roll-your-own) is detrimental. The major confound is all the toxic crap most commercial tobacco is laced with. Even with those toxins, there were threads at RPF with "pro-tobacco-smoking points of view" posting studies about how difficult it was to give rodents, dogs and other animal models lung cancer by exposure to tobacco smoke.

I think many of us here have unusually well-attuned bullshit detectors (especially after seeing how "pushed", exaggerated and propagandized the industry-or government-promoted vaccine-mandate studies were pushed and conflicting information was suppressed). It's easy to see pro-tobacco-smoking studies as "industry propaganda" but I now think perhaps the same players, in some cases, control both sides.

We know that nicotine patches (without smoke) provide measurable pro-metabolic gains for IBS, preventing neuro-degeneration and dementia-causing illness. So by that measure, nicotine has a pretty substantial evidence base to support it.

Five years ago, I would have thought anyone saying a good word about smoking tobacco being healthy was industry-funded propaganda or bunk. Now I'm not so sure. I think a close look at the studies reveals something surprising: how difficult it is to find persuasive open-and-shut-case evidence for harms associated with smoking. I don't think there have been any RCTs (or ever could be due to ethics-committee rules) showing that smoking dried tobacco leaves with few or no additives causes lung problems, respiratory stress or anything else harmful.

I think the jury is out on this question more than we might have thought (those of us who once thought -- wrongly, I now believe -- that there is a conclusive evidence base showing that smoking tobacco is harmful). I think if you can afford very high-end roll-your-own tobacco with minimal additives, then smoking it may in fact be net beneficial. It's so expensive however that it's probably a bad idea for most people to consider starting. How would we know until we try (e.g. eating Peaty, being metabolically and scientifically attuned, and smoking high-end organic leaf tobacco) -- maybe it's worth considering for those can afford it. Yolo.

@b1 said in Boron supplements:

I cant find any borax supplements unless you mean the cleaning / slime making stuff

Indeed, to second @noseleather borax 'for cleaning' is good stuff. (modulo 'slime making' probably .lol)

Anecdotally, I add Borax powder to wash my linens (and light-colored clothes). This is my only 'supplement' with Borax. Idealabs hair tests showed a good load of boron. This was my only change in boron consumption. (I used to and I do eat quite a bit of raisins too.)

05/2024 -- Hair 05/2023 -- Hair

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@b1 I love the concept of it but unfortunately I felt nothing after like 2 months

@thyroidchor27
They are all separate. Should I be using a premixed substance ?