25 drops fit perfectly into a 00 gel cap, so that's what I used to do. I had to stop taking it though because my wife hated the way it made me smell (she said it was like "fake crab meat")

@CO3 ok great, thanks for the explanation. I know Danny often talks about heavy metals leeching out of bones, which is why he prefers oxtail. The oxtail soup I make is highly gelatinous but something in there doesn't sit quite right with my digestive system, maybe the histamines are an explanation

@CO3 can you elaborate on the timing of taking the broth off the heat after 1.5hrs and relation to histamine and preserving the AAs? I use a pressure cooker to make broth and often let it run for 4 hours.

I recently got a huge suite of blood tests done and one of the only things that came back out of range was Total Iron Binding Capacity. From what I'm reading, low TIBC along with otherwise normal levels of other iron biomarkers can indicate iron overload. Full results:

TIBC: 249 ug/dL (250-450)
UIBC: 164 ug/dL (111-343)
Iron: 85 ug/dL (39-169)
Iron Saturation: 34% (15-55)
Ferritin: 127 ng/mL (30-400)

My question is: how concerned should I be about this? Has anyone else dealt with iron overload?

I've had persistent gum bleeding/inflammation for years and I'm interested in this as well

@brad it may be the most unobtrusive ad I've ever seen

Following up here, this problem seems to be getting better. I started taking progesterone, so that may have something to do with it, though I don't know what the mechanism would be. The time I wake up has been getting later and later, now it's around 6AM instead of 3AM, and I have an easier time falling back asleep. @brad 's assessment was probably correct

looks great, please post more

@eric said in Are zyns Peaty?:

Georgi went into nicotine in detail in an old GE episode. The summary was that nicotine is a mixed bag and is ultimately not peaty. I'll try to find it.

found it (may be errors in transcript)

I wouldn't use nicotine long term. I think nicotine has some great advantages short term. It is an aromatase inhibitor. It's a monoaminoxidase type B inhibitor. So in other words, you will lower estrogen and may increase. It will decrease the degradation of dopamine, right? But it also releases free fatty acids, and it's pretty effective at that. And it has a potent pro-adrenergic effect. And it's also like basically acts as an agonist of the acetylcholine receptors. So this in the long run actually has really detrimental effects. And they outweigh the positive ones. And ironically actually, despite the fact that smoking cigarettes has other and more dangerous. So overall, cigarette is ironically like a stronger carcinogen. But systemically for the health is better in the sense that it has additional components there that mitigate somewhat the negative effects of nicotine. So, but if you only use nicotine, it's not a carcinogenic. But I think over time, it really targets the brain and the elevated free fatty acids. It basically raises your metabolism in a bad way. It mimics exhaustive exercise. You're going to get the same adrenergic slash cortisol response if you run for like, I don't know, five, six, ten miles.

From Generative Energy #05

they've usually got beef marrow bones in the frozen meat case, sometimes liver too