Posts made by Ecstatic_Hamster

@raytreats I think CBD and better yet, CBDA can help a great deal. It isn’t necessarily Bioenergetic but it works quite well for many people.

Nutricost is what I am using now, and it’s great. No odor at all.

My progress so far: I’m up to 30g X 4. Gained a few pounds which I’ll try to lose today and tomorrow, that has more to do with other factors I think. My temps are not really any different. I no longer have any stomach issue when I take my glucose.

I went on a fast walk up and down hills and when I returned my temps were really low, indicating a hypoglycemic episode. I’m sleeping well as usual.

I am feeling better than I usually do right now so far, fewer endotoxin symptoms, so that could be a good sign.

I’m just going to continue and see what happens.

My theory as to why this works:

I think this forces the body into sugar burning mode.

The lipolysis retreats. Ultimately you retrain your body to becoming a young sugar burner, which has many benefits in terms of raising CO2 levels and free radicals (protecting against cancer).

I think Dr. Stephens’ brain theory is sorta wrong, but they do call dementia type 3 diabetes. I think this dextrose works because without the fructose, it can efficiently stop excessive lipolysis and kickstart oxphos.

@Mossy said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in Your top daily supplement? If you had to pick just 1:

The best supplementing regimen for magnesium I have found, and it's also the cheapest, is to mix magnesium carbonate with apple cider vinegar. I use about 1300 milligrams of magnesium carbonate with about 40 milliliters of apple cider vinegar, which largely neutralizes it but leaves it a bit acid. Then I mix it with water and drink it.

This has been extremely helpful because the magnesium seems to work very well in this state and I never get any bowel problems. It does stop constipation but seems to be a very easily metabolized form and the apple cider vinegar forming the acetate seems to be very good for my gut.

Excellent timing. I had just made a note to myself to try magnesium carbonate, per one of Peat's articles. I will try this as my magnesium source, along with D3, K2, and Calcium. I've just started calcium acetate, using calcium carbonate in vinegar. I thought it worth asking if you know of a reason why I couldn't just add the magnesium carbonate to the mix of calcium carbonate and vinegar?

Yes you should either use magnesium carbonate or calcium carbonate with ACV. But you only can use the proper amount to neutralize the ACV. In my experience, taking carbonates cause me to get heartburn, but taking it with ACV is perfect as no digestive issues at all. I lean to making it slightly acidic and not slightly alkaline.

The best supplementing regimen for magnesium I have found, and it's also the cheapest, is to mix magnesium carbonate with apple cider vinegar. I use about 1300 milligrams of magnesium carbonate with about 40 milliliters of apple cider vinegar, which largely neutralizes it but leaves it a bit acid. Then I mix it with water and drink it.

This has been extremely helpful because the magnesium seems to work very well in this state and I never get any bowel problems. It does stop constipation but seems to be a very easily metabolized form and the apple cider vinegar forming the acetate seems to be very good for my gut.

Small amounts of T3 have been shown to increase levels of SHBG.

T3 may increase effects of LH and FSH. Maybe even lowering the levels of these hormones, but increasing their effects.

Therefore increasing production of testosterone.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12020-017-1487-y
Hypothyroidism and thyrotoxicosis produce adverse effects in male reproduction by unknown mechanisms. We investigated whether triiodothyronine (T3) modulates luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) synthesis/secretion, by inducing different thyroid states. In hypothyroidism, the content of Lhb and Fshb mRNAs was increased, while their association to ribosomes and the protein content were reduced and the serum LH and FSH concentrations were augmented and decreased, respectively. Thyrotoxicosis reduced Lhb mRNA and LH serum concentration, and increased Lhb mRNA translational rate. The Fshb mRNA content and its association to ribosomes were also increased, whereas FSH serum concentrations were comparable to euthyroid levels. Acute T3 treatment decreased the total content of Lhb and Fshb mRNAs, and increased their association to ribosomes, as well as the LHB and FSHB contents in secretory granules. This study shows that T3 acts on gonadotrophs, resulting in direct effects on LH and FSH synthesis/secretion of male rats, suggesting that some reproductive disorders observed in men may be associated with thyroid hormone imbalances.

Yeah, that is super good to hear.

What I found in my second or really third day is that my stomach doesn't bother me nearly as much and I'm actually consuming more than I was yesterday.

So I'm doing about 25 grams at a time, starting with morning coffee, then later in the morning, then around lunchtime, and then in the afternoon.

And I'm just going to keep doing this.

I am working to feel more healthy in the fall and the wintertime and perhaps be more headache-free.

So those are my goals here.

I'm not sure if I'm meeting the goals, but we'll see.

@evan-hinkle you may want to consider low dose naltrexone for tinnitus. Has helped a lot of folks. It has revolutionized my allergies (they are gone for the first time in my whole life) and made my gut (not my stomach) almost problem-free.

@S-Holmes thank you!!!

I'm experiencing stomach upset with all this glucose. I did 25g X 4 yesterday. Any advice?

@Kilgore Normal TRT often is 25 or 50mg in a gel, or 100 - 300mg as an esterified injected testosterone.

@S-Holmes said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in Glucose loading cures everything?:

@S-Holmes thank you for your report. Look forward to any updates you have time for.

YVW. One thing to note...the progression has not been linear. I've had many weeks of two steps forward and one step back. I have to look back at my list of improvements often so I don't get discouraged. I have long suspected I have cancer (another story) so glucose has been a leap of somewhat educated or at least well studied faith, since EVERYONE knows that "sugar feeds cancer." 🤨 And if not for Dr Peat, whom I have followed for nearly 20 years, I would never have given glucose a second look.

Right. I always tell people recovery is like a stock chart. It goes up. It goes down and goes up and goes down, but hopefully the trend is more up and down.

@S-Holmes thank you for your report. Look forward to any updates you have time for.

@S-Holmes thanks!!

Control pause gets worse within 10 or 15 minutes of eating anything, especially protein, and especially foods you aren’t tolerant of. The CP diminishes for 3 or so hours. I have heard it has to do with ions soaked up in the process of creating hydrochloric acid for stomach digestive stage, and these ions are then picked back up into the body. I doubt this is the best explanation but it kind of explains why meat lowers CP more than eating fruit does.

It does not explain the food intolerance part.

As far as the Ray Peat diet (whatever that is) resulting in weight gain I find that when I limited sugar consumption and consumed more starch, I was able to easily lose body fat. That is the way most of the thin world eats.

around 900 to 1000 typically, before supplementing. I haven't taken it since I started taking small amounts of T and DHT.

@Sugarnotsnow said in Best form of testosterone?:

@Ecstatic_Hamster is the DHT nescesary for the cycle or would just T + preg have the same or similar benefit

it's not necessary to take DHT but I think it helps prevent aromatization and makes the T work much better.

@Sugarnotsnow simple. Use pregnenolone. That prevents testes shrinkage 100%.

@Kilgore

@Kilgore said in 6+ cups of coffee a day cuts suicide risk by 80%.:

@Ecstatic_Hamster said in 6+ cups of coffee a day cuts suicide risk by 80%.:

I can drink only about 3 cups of very strong coffee daily. After that it starts affecting my sleep quality.

I have read that if coffee impacts your sleep quality it is a sign of a glycogen depleted liver.

Not sure about this. I can easily sleep with coffee, no problem. But sleep quality seems universally affected.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389945702000151
Methods: In the first part of the study, six volunteers drank either decaffeinated or regular coffee in a double-blind fashion on one day, and the alternate beverage 7 days later. Sleep parameters were assessed by actigraphy. In the second part of the study, the subjects again drank either decaffeinated or regular coffee, and they then collected urine every 3 h for quantitation of 6-sulphoxymelatonin (6-SMT), the main metabolite of melatonin in the urine.

Results: We found that drinking regular caffeinated coffee, compared to decaffeinated coffee, caused a decrease in the total amount of sleep and quality of sleep, and an increase in the length of time of sleep induction. Caffeinated coffee caused a decrease in 6-SMT excretion throughout the following night.

Conclusions: The results of our study confirm the widely held belief that coffee consumption interferes with sleep quantity and quality. In addition, we found that the consumption of caffeine decreases 6-SMT excretion. Individuals who suffer from sleep abnormalities should avoid caffeinated coffee during the evening hours.

Also habitual coffee drinking shrinks pineal gland over lifetime

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-abstract/41/10/zsy127/5053876?redirectedFrom=fulltext
We found that smaller VPP was associated with higher cumulative lifetime coffee consumption. Participants who consumed more than 60 cup-years of coffee had VPPs that were smaller by about 20% than individuals who consumed less than 60 cup-years of coffee. The VPP mediated the association between lifetime coffee consumption and sleep efficiency and quality.

Conclusions
Our findings suggest that high lifetime coffee consumption may reduce VPP, and that this reduction in VPP may impair the quality of sleep in late life.

it can be a good idea to take Saccharomyces Boulardii if you are getting any diarrhea from doxy.

I take zero. I agree with Dr. Peat's assessment. I would use potassium iodide in gram quantities for something healthwise, but not interested in normally taking iodine on a regular basis.