20-40g of protein with every meal.
Posts made by GreekDemiGod
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Protein intake and carb: protein ratio for maximal muscle gain?
I’ve been reading recently from bioenergetic sources and accounts on how protein is anti-thyroid, anti-metabolic (especially cysteine, methionine) and will lower the metabolism. Also how Broda Barnes noticed that protein “consumes” more thyroid hormone.
I do resistance training 3-4 times per week. I am 82 kg (180 lbs) and average around 100g of protein per day, but my recovery and strength suffers. I thought that was from being hypothyroid, but whenever I bump my protein intake to 130-150g, I gain more strength, recover better in the gym. What gives?
They say that 1.6g of protein per kg of bodyweight will maximise muscle gain.Would it be bad to bump up my protein intake regularly to 130-150g, considering I eat 300-450g of carbs/ day, so I get a carb: protein ratio of at least 2:1?
I want to mitigate the negative effects of high-ish protein intake.Is 130-150g of protein that much, harmful?
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RE: Personal Log - Digestion, energy, vitality
@bowser said in Personal Log - Digestion, energy, vitality:
@GreekDemiGod What does your diet look like? Are your pulse and temp going up? Digestion and motility are highly dependent on thyroid function
I’ve written in my other thread (Thyroid log).
Temps are great now.
Improving thyroid/ temps hasn’t brought me much digestive benefits to be honest.Walking indeed after meals helps a lot, but I don’t do that regularly.
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RE: Personal Log - Digestion, energy, vitality
Started tracking my daily bowel movements. It has been a full month where I’ve had at least 2 bowel movements daily.
I’m currently not taking any helpers, like laxatives(Cascara) or Magnesium, which I’ve taken in the past regularly.
The only helpers I take are coffee and some cigarettes (2-4 per day) that help in triggering a bowel movement.So I guess that’s progress.
The stool is not very well formed, so I would say there is some inflammation present.
I still get some dandruff, dermatitis when consuming starch/ wheat and A1 dairy regularly. -
Immune system support post chemotherapy?
My mother had surgery and underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer surger. She was able to fight through, but it seems like her immune system is weakened.
She finished with chemo a couple of months ago and now she is on Letrozole which is used post-chemo to suppress estrogen.
She started having side effects from Letrozole.I've been trying to convince her to at least take D3 and K2 for immune boost and bone density. But she doesn't want to because the doctors apparently told her that vitamins are not allowed during chemo, or after chemo also??
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RE: Thyroid Log
@A-Former-User said in Thyroid Log:
what do you eat ?
Carbs: honey, oranges, berries, dried raisins, rice, green beans, peas, sometimes bread or oats.
Protein: eggs, beef, goat or sheep cheese, tuna, white fish, lactose free milk
Fats: olive oil, coconut oil, butterI also eat some vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, and I’ll have a salad 2-3 times per week for microbiome diversity.
2 cups of coffee daily with honey and cream or coconut oil.
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RE: Thyroid Log
Very stable morning and evening temperatures.
Stable energy levels from one day to another.
Still not feeling as vibrant and energetic as I'd like, but I am definitely better. -
RE: Low waking temp on thyroid
T3 monotherapy should be used in very rare scenarios. I doubt you're a candidate. You folks should know this by now.
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RE: Starch is truly slave food
I think the best compromise is to work on gut health and microbiome so that one can decently handle some starch without much negative effects, and eat a 50% fruits, honey and 50% starch diet.
White rice and well cooked boiled white potatoes seem to be the safest starch choices, and are good at filling up muscle glycogen.
Maybe a no starch diet can work in warm/ tropical climates, but for us continental europeans, don’t think so.Is the below true?
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10) NOT ALL CARBS ARE EQUALYes, some carbs will enable you to build more muscle while others will cause you to store more fat and build less muscle
Fructose: found in fruit and table sugar is processed by the liver and can only be stored as liver glycogen or fat. Beyond ~30-50g you aren't really helping yourself.
Complex carbs like potatoes are ideal with simple carbs like white rice being more suited to preworkout energy and post workout glycogen refilling purposes.
“https://x.com/bowtiedum/status/1824948213490532373?s=46&t=a8gKZoLMKC0o1r60b5az-g
Note: The forum editor should really have a quote functionality and also ability to embed tweets.
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RE: Thyroid Log
Time for an update.
Currently doing 125 mcg T4 and 30-40 mcg T3 spread through the day. I have seem to reach a point of stability, where my morning and evening temps are consistently good. 36.4 - 36.6 C in the morning, 37 - 37.2 C in the evening. Pulse is also decent, 70-70 bpm on average.
Do I feel better on this dose of thyroid, and having a suppressed TSH? Yes, but the benefits are mild, not massive.
The main benefit I get now is having more stable energy levels. My level of fatigue has reduced by 20%, I'd say. Not yet to the level I should be if I were in a pristine state of health. I still feel mildly hypothyroid.
Brain fog is also mildly reduced.Still have some level of depression, anhedonia.
And sadly, my libido and Testosterone levels have not improved on thyroid.The conclusion is that while I do get a benefit from the correct thyroid dose, that one being higher energy levels, my root health issue is not the thyroid. But it is my digestion: intestinal microbiota, sluggish liver, low bile flow
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RE: Starch is truly slave food
Idk, I see plenty of starch eating people in my country enjoying a vibrant and healthy youth in their 20s and 30s, at least. Being energetic, euphoric, extroverted, lean, with clear skin, good looking with developed maxilla.
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RE: Personal Log - Digestion, energy, vitality
Bowel movements regularity is now better. And I’m no longer using Mag. Oxide or Cascara Sagrada as I ran out.
Coffee and cigarettes are useful in triggering a BM.
But my chronic bloating hasn’t much improved.
I’m at a loss on what to try next for digestion. -
RE: Your best country to live in?
There was an interesting thread on X recently and a "theory" was proposed that warm climates make people lazy and not willing to work and be motivated (think southern europeans, italians, turks, spanish..). And that the reason America has more economic power is the widespread use of AC. Colder temperature makes humans more motivated, more ambitious to get things done.
AC is not widespread in Europe. -
RE: moderate protein restriction can cure all ills
I'm not sure about this, from personal experience, protein intake is very important for body composition. If I eat high carb, moderate to high fat, and low protein, that tends to turn my physique into the skinny fat direction, which is a sign of metabolic dysfunction.
Low protein vegans are also prone to developing this kind of physique.
Higher protein people are more leaner and have more muscle mass. -
RE: Thyroid Log
Blood tests on 150 mcg T4 and 30-45 mcg T3.
TSH 0.012
Ft3 10.2 pmol/l (3.1 - 6.8 range)
Ft4 25.1 pmol/l (11.9 - 21.6 range)Apparently, I am currently hyper since switching to Novothyral. Much more potent.
I have yet to feel extraordinary, but last couple of days I felt better than my average.@RFC32 was still struggling this summer. Better since I switched to Novothyral.
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RE: Fixing my problems
“also think that the same arguments these low A people make for grant being close to zero can be made for people like Peat, Georgi and Danny Roddy. That argument would be 'how come people like these haven't had any problems while eating copious amounts of VA for years?' in their estimation Peat should have died long ago and Roddy and Georgi should have a myriad of autoimmune issues.
Yet they don't”Agree with most of your post, but this part specifically is not a strong argument.
Roddy is on thyroid hormones, so he is able to metabolise higher doses of VA.
Peat started increasing fiber close to his death, perhaps to make up for VA overload.
And Giorgi, probably not on thyroid, but you can’t be sure his liver is not accumulating VA.VA definitely accumulates in hypothyroid people.
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RE: Mike Fave and Jay Feldman debunk Grant Genereux's vitamin A is a toxin book
Grant has published a reaction post to those videos.
https://ggenereux.blog/2024/07/28/jay-feldmans-and-mike-faves-hit-piece-videos/
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RE: Baking Soda is Good
Is baking soda wise to take for someone who deals with low stomach acid?
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RE: Constipation Woes
@Lothric said in Constipation Woes:
Further update: back to square one. B1 only worked for about a day. Not sure what else to do. I’ve tried B1, 1g of Cascara Sagrada, magnesium and I’m on 1 grain of thyroid. I poop every two days, sometimes every three. I don’t feel bad or bloated which is odd. The only factor I can think of that has changed that may have caused this is I quit nicotine which I know can help move your bowls.
Magnesium Oxide is a gentle laxative/ stool softener, can be cycled with Cascara.
500-1000 daily mg doses are effective. Taken before bed, guarantees bowel movement the next day.
It doesn't solve the root cause, though. Just a bandaid. -
RE: I’ve got a problem with Danny Roddy.
@yerrag how do you define a good acid base balance? Should the urine and saliva ph be neutral?