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Mandarins. Better than Oranges. Very tasty when sweet and can eat a ton of it.

L-Glutamine taken in the morning on an empty stomach, combined with plenty of hydration (mineral water, salt) is improving the quality/ consistency/ size of my bowel movements a lot.
It’s only the second day of taking it, but signs seem very promising.

I was already quite regular, but the stool shape was bad and had incomplete evacuation. With the Glutamine, it’s much better.

I would rather listen to Paul Carter (lifteunbang on IG) than Mentzer advice, if you want to maximise muscle gains. He promotes high intensity, low/ optimal volume, who seems to get it right.
High volume is wrong, but Mentzer was wrong too. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

4-6 hard sets per muscle group, to failure, per workout, twice weekly frequently will maximise muscle gains.
That’s like doing 2 exercises per muscle group, in a workout.

On a chest and shoulders workout, you’re doing 4-6 sets for chest and 4-6 sets for shoulder. A total of 8-12 sets total for a workout. That’s perfectly sustainable.

4 workouts per week is optimal, maybe 5 if you really love training. 3 if you’re doing for general health and maintenance.

First time I took Dextrose (with salt as an intra workout), I had a migraine in the back of my head. Next day, I didn’t have negative effects, just slightly more energy perhaps.
Today, I felt quite sleepy after a dose. Bit got better in the afternoon.

Are these typical symptoms?

@Androsclerozat I reduced the agave syrup and stopped eating dried dates, and I no longer have cramps. That doesn’t solve all my problems of course, but my gut feels calmer.
So it looks like fruits with high fructose: glucose ratio can be problematic for me, in large quantities.

I’ve been tasting some raw vegan cake, marketed as sugar free, meaning they don’t use refined sugar or syrups at all, just whole natural ingredients, like dark chocolate, cocoa, fruits, nuts, coconut flakes, etc

And they feel so much tastier and healthier, I can’t explain why. Refined sugar just tastes dirty, in an unhealthy kind of way, like extra sweet.

My health is getting better, Novothyral has allowed time to (partially or more) tolerate and enjoy a wider variety of foods. I handle dairy better (hard cheese, kefir, overnight oats. Some veggies, like raw cucumber and tomatoes.
Been craving cucumbers a lot last couple of day, feels like a need for hydration/ electrolytes.

I also feel like I’m at a point where I can build my microbiome diversity due to improved food tolerances.

I now have relatively stable energy levels from day to day, I can function normally, stay focused on mental tasks at my job for a couple of hours per day. 2-4 bowel movements per day.

What I still struggle with is the permanent bloating, stuffed nose and low libido. I reckon that fixing that will be the last step towards healing. No matter how regular I am with my bowel movements. The bloating issue doesn’t budge. I think that it’s an issue of microbiome, fermentation in the intestine. Hopefully it will improve with time.

Increasing protein intake over 150g/ day seems to cause lower temps, cold feet, even on over 400g of carbs / day, so a 2:1, or close to 3:1 ratio.

I tried eating a 50:30:20 macro split of carbs/ fats/ protein, at 3000 calories, and I felt worse increasing protein.
I will try 60:25:15 next.

@alfredoolivas A temporary strategy for weight loss. I think just eating low to medium protein, or an Anabology style diet would be better instead.

A very nice benefit that I get from thyroid is improved blood sugar regulation. I do much better when in-between meals, I don’t get hungry that often, and if I do get it, I am still able to function great, and not see a crash in energy levels.

@Jonk I tried NDT once from Idealabs, I did ok on it, but the benefits were not that significant. Perhaps I should have increased the dose.
I’m now happy with Novotyral and see no reason to switch.

@Korven Not prescribed. I get it from a source in my country.

@albion said in Thyroid Log:

@GreekDemiGod Why not try 2:1 or 1:1 ratio T4/T3?

Too much of T3 even when combined with T4 gives me palpitations and chest discomfort.

Having consistently good temps and pulse in the winter on Novothyral. Brand/ product matters a lot.
I was getting inconsistent results when taking Levotiron from Turkish brand (abdi ibrahim).

Current doses: 2 daily doses of 50 mcg T4 and 15 mcg T3, totalling 100 mcg T4 and 30 mcg T3.

Note: NovothyraL has 100 mcg T4 and 20 mcg T3 in a pill. I split the pill by half and add 5 mcg T3.

@William-Shat said in What is you best advice to deepen voice:

@GreekDemiGod were the changes permanent? (From androsterone)

I’m inclined to say they weren’t. As my voice varied on the days I wasn’t taking it. But over a long enough timeline, optimising DHT, or at least avoiding DHT inhibitors, will cause permanent effects.

I had a noticeable deeper voice when taking Androsterone. Also smoking helps, but don’t recommend it.

I now seem to tolerate milk much better, which is fantastic. Before I could feel it giving me brain fog, dandruff/ dermatitis, but recently I started drinking milk again: goat milk and non-homogenized cow's milk and I feel pretty good from it.

I also realized how much the quality of the thyroid product matters. Before I was using Levotiron for T4, now I use Novothyral (100mcg T4 and 20 mcg T3 per pill), and I started feeling better in days.

Novothyral is so far the best thyroid product I could get my hands on (in Europe).

Does anyone know if Levotiron is a good T4 product?

He is in top physical shape, but facially he does seem to age at an accelerates rate. This is worrisome because he embodies a lot of Peat’s principles.
I still stand by the opinion that there’s a sweet spot with sun exposure above which you don’t want to go.

Blacks tend to age better facially than whites. They have thicker skin.

What could be the reason that causes one temple (left one) to recede faster than the other?