Posts made by GreekDemiGod

What's the peatiest TRT protocol out there for those who failed to raise their Testosterone levels naturally?

T(what form of T?) + DHT?

You may know that I had a thread on the old forum titled "A wish for more energy". I'm no longer active there, and I was banned again, so I want this thread to be a continuation of that one.

Lately, I've been focusing on probiotics and making homemade kefir with the purpose of diversifying my intestinal flora.

I've been taking LactoBif complex from California Gold and L Reuteri from Biogaia for about 3 weeks. Initially, I didn't notice much until recently.
For the last couple of days, I had well-formed stools daily, which didn't happen in years. This is a sign of reduced intestinal inflammation.
I'm currently not using any laxatives or anything like that and I'm having multiple BM per day. This is big.
I think it's most likely the Lacto Bif having a positive effect. I will keep taking it for a couple of months.

I've also started using red light for stress reduction and sleep. It does seem to stimulate digestion when applied on the lower back.
I've also took a B1, B6, B12 complex for a month. It improved some neurological symptoms that I've had.

@Creuset You want to reduce the risk in normal population, who is not mindful of PUFA intake and will never be. People need to be given solutions that work without changing their nutrition or lifestyle much.

I just got out of the ICU, I'm still in the hospital and getting lots of blood thinners and anti coagulants, honestly, I'm very scared of the future, when I get home or start to work again, bit is not the reason I came here.

I have 1m 70cm, 86kg, strong build but definitely have a dad belly. Since I was a kid I have a very high cholesterol, when it was discovered (10 years old) it was about 800, and I was not a normal kid, my case was even used in a conference to show that body fat is not exactly equal to low cholesterol.

I have a history of heart disease in my father's side, my grandpa had a heart attack at 52 and my father had a defective valve on the aorta, he died in the surgery about 15 years ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/16eocc8/im_27_and_just_had_a_heart_attack/

@Creuset said in Why are Statins bad if your cholesterol puts you in the range of CVD risk:

@Nabokov said in Why are Statins bad if your cholesterol puts you in the range of CVD risk:

Ray wrote about the false link between cholesterol and heart disease, but I just came across this study which conclusively links pravastatin to a lowered cardiovascular rate and the data and design look sound. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26864092/

There are many studies on the apparent efficacy of statins, this one isn't particularly special, but it does seem to prove that they work, which Ray disputed. Does anyone have a better understanding of cholesterol, CVD, and statins?

The main problem is oxidized cholesterol, particularly oxLDL (oxidized by PUFA or other oxidative and inflammatory things).

There are people that are genetically predisposed to have high LDL and high cholesterol, yet they don't get a higher rate of cardiovascular diseases: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512433.2018.1519391

Some studies show that statins can be anti-inflammatory and anti-microbial aside from their anti-cholesterol effect, so this might be why some studies find that it lowers CVD:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd1901
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4447369/

Explain familial hypercholesterolemia and people who have this condition getting heart attacks in their 30s and 40s if not treated with lipid lowering drugs.

@Truth No idea. I didn't post any confrontative posts lately at all. I just expressed that I'm no longer on Low VA, made some posts questioning Low VA as the one and only true way.

Yeah, I've also been banned for a second time now.

Someone on RPF is putting his 2 year old child on a low VA diet.

@brad How do you hook the bulbs to electricity?

@HyperTorless2 said in Why am I getting more handsome?:

Upregulating thyroid and constant adequate carbs fix stress state and chronic inflammation ; the infmaous "dark circles" under the eyes seem to be a marker of this. Most vegans have horrible dark circles; mines are gone after a few months of peating.

But vegans still generally consume a high-carb diet, which should be good for thyroid function.

@annis what effects did you have from consuming it?

@CO3 Potatoes and rice are better starch sources.
Have you tried polenta?

@eugene said in Craziest Delusions from the Normieosphere?:

I can't believe that this wikipedia actually exists. I still get a chuckle when I read the "Possible explanations" tabs on why saturated fats still lead to coronary heart disease despite the evidence pointing overwhelmingly in the opposite direction. Associated is this inverse article where serious biologists try to explain how Israelis have a high incidence of coronary heart disease despite their low saturated fat diets. I genuinely believe that these articles were composed by Peatists to slander normie researchers. It's almost comical how it gets meekly surmised as wine intake, healthy lifestyle and "animal fats" by serious researchers, instead of their premise being wrong.

Evidence pointing in the opposite direction? You’re joking?
It’s not good to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.
Ever heard of Familial hypercholesterolemia?

@Mulloch94 do you take it with something else? Don’t you get low estrogen symptoms from that many drops?
I could only use 1-2 drops.

@Creuset can you expand on how he helped with digestive health?

@PissBoy I think he means his skeletal frame is under-developed.
It’s good to have youthful skin and hair, but its not that great to have a skinny frame.

Yes, 21 is young. I started in my mid-late 20s and reaping results. Gained some muscle, my facial hair got thicker.
If you start at 21, you will see improvements by the time you are 25.
First thing is you gotta start lifting weights if you haven’t already. Gaining muscle will give you the best return on investment.

Get on high-dose K2 also.

Also remember that at your age, most girls are more attracted to older guys, in the 25-33 range. By the time you will be 25+, you will have more appeal to girls in their early 20s, that’s just the way it is.

@CO3 If you do fine with having no starch, good for you. But most folks who are somewhat physically active, they have to eat starch.
Also, if not living in a warm climate year round, starch becomes a necessity.

@CO3 you are not improving nothing by quitting starch. You are however, symptom managing. That I can agree.
But there is no healing taking place by not eating starch for a prolonged period. It did nothing for me, at least.

No starch is just another variation of the Carnivore diet, except you’re still eating carbs. But you’re still playing the game of avoidance, if elimination.

Starch may be inferior to fruit, however one should be able to tolerate starch.

I’m currently working on increasing the diversity of my gut microbiome in order to handle veggies and starch. I think if one can’t tolerate starch at all, he should not eliminate it, but instead work on the gut flora.

It takes years to deplete VA from your body. Virtually no one on the modern world is deficient or will come even close to ever being deficient.

@Verdad said in Whats the deal with "Vitamin" A?:

I've been taking about 90,000 units when I also supplement things that lower cortisol and increase androgens. If i don't take the vitamin A when i supplement these things i pretty reliably break out in acne.

I have not had any problems. According to the anti-vitamin A crowd I am just storing this in the liver and eventually it is going to get overloaded or something and dump into my body and kill me.

I'm very skeptical and I trust people like @haidut then the cultists of the anti-vitamin A movement

You are going to crash. Read youngsinatra posts on the old forum. He took VA for months, up to a year or so, felt amazing for a while. Then he crashed.