Posts made by Ecstatic_Hamster

@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.

If you want to look at this study, it is here
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4213948/?utm_source=blog&utm_campaign=rc_blogpost

Thanks @Sugarnotsnow for posting this.

I bet if people took aspirin and ascorbate and coffee, they would never kill themselves. It is such a great combination for dopamine and mood!

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

If I were going to, I would use T base, US sourced, from PPL, and I put 3mg of T and 1mg DHT (also from PPL) into vitamin E liquid from NOW, and put it in my belly button every morning. I know someone who does this and his T is high, libido excellent, erections excellent, he builds good muscle without working out, and he is lean enough for his age to be healthy and not too thin or too fat.

this protocol adds to his T, and doesn't take away or down-regulate natural production.

can you provide somewhere with a summary of glucose loading protocol and any supportive cites? I can't watch a 1 or 2 hour video generally. I am grateful for your help.

Some foods that you eat will lower your carbon dioxide levels.

Professor Buteyko used a control pause to determine how much carbon dioxide you're retaining in your body.

The control pause correlates well with a difficult test that can only be done in a hospital that measures carbon dioxide in arterial blood.

So I can tell with my control pause if foods are lowering my carbon dioxide levels.

Protein does lower it somewhat, but also foods that I don't tolerate well lower it quite a bit.

If you're not tolerant of a food, your control pause really drops, meaning your carbon dioxide levels drop when you consume that food.

Foods that are easiest on carbon dioxide levels or that support higher levels are anything with sugar and starch.

Protein generally burdens our carbon dioxide levels, and any food we don't tolerate well lowers carbon dioxide.

@secondkelping amazing. I have never experienced anything that stark in contrasts, but the world sometimes seems gray, doesn't it.

@Sugarnotsnow coolio, thanks

@Sugarnotsnow said in Ray Peat on his own personal coffee consumption:

@Ecstatic_Hamster Do you take thyroid? I remember him saying he needed less coffee aftwr supplementing with cynomel

yes I do. I haven't noticed that coffee helps lower my need for thyroid.

you have such amazing contributions here. It would be absolutely so helpful if you could kindly post the URL of your cite here. My apologies if you did but I can't find it.

Dr. Peat said that coffee consumption lowers cancer chances, really kicking in at 5 cups per day. My research shows it peaks at 4 cups per day, of course depending on how strong the cups are.

Either way, I don't fathom how he drank that much coffee. I drink 3 cups of very strong coffee every day. I found that although I can drink coffee and fall asleep anytime, the sleep quality is not nearly as high when I have drank coffee within maybe 6 or 8 hours of sleep.

thank you, very helpful. I wonder if the people promoting apple cider vinegar -- if this may work partially by helping jump start the Krebs Cycle from the extra acetate.

The best way is to have a lifestyle of raising CO2 in everything that you do and preventing loss of CO2. For example, taping your mouth at night if you're a mouth breather is a great help. When you're walking around, always nose breathe, nose breathe all the time. And when you're walking or exercising, build up air hunger so that you always want more air than you're actually getting.

These train the respiratory centers in the nervous system to get accustomed to a higher CO2 level all the time and will make you much healthier.

These are the principles that Professor Buteyko discovered and they are how I live my life and it has been a great advantage. I don't get winded when I go up hills. I have tremendous endurance even compared to people who are supposedly very fit and I can exercise without ever having to mouth breathe.

@Sunniva said in When is high LDL cholesterol not dangerous?:

Here is an LDL discussion between Saladino and Fave that might be helpful: Paul Saladino podcast: When You Should Worry About LDL Cholesterol with Mike Fave

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ll4OhTHq0

They talk about true risk for cardiovascular disease, primary versus secondary prevention, lipid lowering drugs, and share their thoughts on a recent podcast episode with Peter Attia.

*Produced by Mountain Valley Media

00:06:08 Blood markers & imaging techniques of metabolic function

00:14:38 Gene mutations

00:20:28 LDL & Plaque burden

00:27:23 Money in statins

00:31:38 Downsides of lowering LDL

01:21:23 The downsides of popular cholesterol lowering drugs

01:41:07 Should we fear heart attacks?

01:45:23 PCSK9 Inhibitors

01:52:43 Risk profile of Statins

01:53:02 Risk vs. reward of Ezetimibe

02:04:02 Primary vs. secondary prevention

Looks great. Watching. Thank you.

@wrl thank you!!

@Ellie I'm sorry. It's very hard to find because nobody dares to tell a pregnant woman anything in event she loses the baby and wants to sue. But progesterone is used for counteracting estrogen and holding onto the placenta and the baby.

Have you read this?
https://raypeat.com/articles/aging/eclampsia.shtml

Thank you — much appreciated. Very interesting find. Of course, we don’t know if people who are healthy and live longer are more grateful for their situation…or if it’s the gratitude that causes them to live longer.

I asked Dr. Peat about this once and he said that it's okay to wake at lower temps so long as your daytime temps reach 98.6 to 99 in the afternoon. He said that it is not uncommon for people to have lower sleeping temperatures and that seems reasonable to me.

I've taken as much as 180mcg of T3 daily. Nothing wrong with it if you build up over time and just do it for a short while. It is the Wilson protocol I was following. Some people need a high dose, nothing wrong with that. I've taken 180mcg of T4 and 45mcg of T3 daily for several years, lowering it somewhat when the weather is warm, but always pretty high.