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I've heard a great effect of colostrum is also increased bone density. I've had some back acne -- I'll try it out!

Nice to encounter a a fellow french peater!

The next chapter of my story...

As I've alluded in previous posts, while the probiotic solution worked great, it is hard to see it as a long-term strategy. Using it as a one-time medicine for treating gut disorders seems ideal, but given that it's not long-lasted in the gut, it seems improper to use a very particular bacterial strain for a whole lifetime. Mike Fave and Jay Feldman do emphasis this point, and I trust these bioenergetic fellas.
The original gut problems were solved -- so I had to devise a way to stop depending on it for mood boosting.

The tannin question (TQ)

I've mostly forgot about the TQ -- either because I've internalized the avoidance of tannin-rich food (heavy red wine, IPA beers, black coffee, tinctures) or because it got better (it may be correlated to the RQ, or both. I still don't like tannin-rich food.

Probably correlated with GERD.

The reflux question (RQ)

The RQ has also become secondary to me, as it's mainly solved. I get some when I'm stressed out (happens rarely-- I'm a chill dude) or when I drink a lot but otherwise it's rarely consciously bothering me. I believe I still get a small amount of reflux in the morning, that I'm used to, and to me it is clearly linked to the overall kidney health debated later in this post.

According to Masterjohn, GERD can be linked to histamine intolerance. I've tested this theory and took some histamine clearance drug, but I haven't noticed a major change. In the end it may be related to methylation problems, ultimately related to some B vitamins, or copper or selenium deficiencies, which explains why peating may have greatly improved the issue.

Peating mostly solve GERD for me.

The mood question (MQ) : a lindy solution

The solution for mood boosting is a lindy, tested and frankly benign thing : taking caffeine. The studies on this topic are plentiful. Drinking cappuccinos, Coca-Cola and Red Bull have been efficient ways to uplift the mood at any time in the day. It's radically effective. I still limit myself to 2 per day as to not desensitize my body to the effect of caffeine.

The 'basal rate' of mood is, to me is purely depending on life situation, but it certainly can be cheated away by our metabolism -- but it's hard to make it a long-term solution. Caffeine is an easy fix.

The salt question (SQ) : trials and tribulations

A few months ago I had a violent episode of puking my guts out after a night of too heavy drinking -- for a whole day I couldn't eat or even drink anything and vomited every 3 hours. The next day the reflux were back and I definitely felt in a state of unbalanced hydration. I was suddenly very salt-focused and I found back my pre-Peat eating patterns -- almost exclusively salty food, lots of cheese (I am also french) and a disdain for fruits and sugary stuff. I also felt particularly "ancient": I had some trouble speaking, a slight dyslexia and some eye glare problems, which are all things I used to have more or less frequently before peating (BP).
I felt bloated and uneasy. I guess my mood was great though during this period though.

This last episode confirmed to me that the electrolyte question, the kidney question -- in one word the salt question-- the SQ -- is of upmost importance to me. I happen to have a slightly damaged kidney on one side (birth defect).
I've previously been reporting on the link between hormonal and kidney health, so it's no wonder a kidney imbalance can trigger all kind of problems. This is my main working theory.

While the reflux issue essentially normalized (I almost don't feel it), I still feel very heavily salt-focused and have been getting lower back pain in the morning, most likely due to kidney pain. In fact my appetite is so diminished that it's problematic -- I have no motivation to eat other than stopping stomach cramps. To be fair I have never had a strong appetite since my late teen and it has caused problems. While the starchier fruits (banana, apricot, sometimes apple) and berry fruits are okay (mulberry), I can't stand the other ones. Starches are a safe bet for me -- but I frankly don't eat anything yearningly, except maybe heavily salted food. I have been diagnosed with low potassium last year and should definitely get blood work done for kidneys and electrolytes -- I have been K-maxxing since then.

Funnily enough, drinking a few glasses/pints of alcohol seems to appease my kidney, and doesn't trigger reflux in the next morning (up until a certain amount). I definitely think alcohol is lindy and in fact protective in smaller doses (virtually all of the studies on alcohol says so, even the ones pretending to disprove its benevolent effects).

A key component of kidney health is a balanced K:Na ratio -- usually advised to be 2:1 to 3:1. Eating fruits and vegetables and sometimes drinking coconut water (careful though, as it is very K-rich) is a sure way of improving the ratio, as is supplementing in potassium citrate.

Apple cider vinegar in water and other citrate based-compounds are well tolerated by people with hurt kidneys, and probably helps (per Dr. Berg on YouTube). I have not noticed strong effects but have been very irregular in my use of ACV, so it's not really relevant.

I write these mainly for myself but I'm honored if you've made it thus far, thank you!

Hello everyone, let's talk about:

Apple cider vinegar

Adding 1 tbsp to a glass of water (preferably filtered or naturally sourced) appears to be an insane lindy trick.

Remember our ancestors mostly drank lightly alcoholic beverages (light beers or wine or posca) throughout the day, to rid of the parasites in untreated water.

According to Dr Eric Berg, ACV :

• helps break oxalate
• dissolves kidney stones (by breaking calcium compounds)
• helps retain potassium
• other little things

While I'm unsure about the mechanism, I trust Dr Eric Berg that it's a simple and easy way to make a change for the better regarding kidney health. See his channel for the whole case: https://youtube.com/@Drberg/search?query=apple vinegar

I am currently testing it to ease out kidney pain in the morning, and I believe it's working -- but I'll report more later. Intense summer heat has me being less optimally hydrated than usual.
I'm doing 1L of water with 1-2 tbsp of ACV.

Henlo @brad

Today I've noticed faulty notifications appearing on my profile, wrongly related to a thread I'm following.
While the based HEIGHTMAXXING - LOG thread of our autistic friend Kilgore received no recent replies, I got 4 notifications redirecting me, when clicked, to a completely unrelated thread I'm not following :

Just wanted to let you know.
Thanks for all the great stuff!

@Lovesickhs18 Regarding my last anecdote, I hadn't eaten potatoes, just added potassium chloride to my drink. It was 2 recommended doses (1/6th of a teaspoon x2).

There's definitely correlation to feeling good and not having foamy urine for me.
However, as of today, I'm unsure what it takes. I consume a lot of OJ and milk, knowingly both rich in potassium, but the results have been mixed. It's definitely improved, but results aren't consistent.

I'm still trying to figure this out. Will share any improvements!

Hello everyone,

It should be noted that renal deficiencies have a very strong correlation with gynecomastia.
I've had slight kidney dysfunction for all lf my life and started getting light gynecomastia at 18. Nothing alarming but it's there.

Hence everything that improves kidney function might improve gynecomastia.

@insufferable Very interesting article.
It should be noted that the !Kung San are the only hunter-gatherers who had prediabetic range of glucose tolerance. It is most likely due to their unreasonable consumption of the mongongo nuts (sometimes 80% of their diet), which contains 40% linoleic acid, especially as the glucose tolerance tests were conducted during the season where the mongongo fruits come ripe for consumption.
Surely the PUFA didn't help to ramp up testosterone.

@STH Very interesting question. Bumping.

@chudlord Great stuff thanks!

For those who can get it, a nice hack is tomato sauce or sea salt with truffle extracts. Makes it very easy to add a tiny bit of it everyday.

@brad Thanks!

@hwisdom Jesus that's an enormous amount lmao. I guess 200g/week is enough.

@annis Thank you, I missed that one.

@Brad If I'm not mistaken, default watching of the topics we create is usually the default in most forums. I think it should be here too, I think most people would agree with this. Thanks again for the amazing work!

@Mulloch94 Very interesting, thank you!

Personally, Peatism made my b*lls double in size and also my voice got deeper, most likely indicating a ramped up testosterone production. So it likely helped according to your study. Took some occasional K2, D3 and collagen too.

So I'd advise any with kidney problems to first get their caloric intake in check, at 3000 to 3500 kcal/day -- that seems to have done the trick for me at least.

Kidney-wise I seem to be doing better the more milk and orange/mandarin juice I drink really.

Might as well start with some interesting anecdote I posted in another thread.

Foamy urine and hypokaliemia

I think that quick heuristics like urine look or pH can be a great tool in a the self-experimenter's toolkit. Body temp, skin condition, urine, etc. should be an overall easy way to get a good picture of one's metabolism.

I've always had foamy urine, especially recently. Like, constant soap-like foam forming whenever I pee, at all time of the day.
I was born with a slightly impaired kidney and it seems that, in fact, I have had a slight hypokalemia for some time (maybe like a year), which is probably related. Just 2mg under the low reference range.
As you probably know, sodium and potassium basically works in tandem, the one helping to process the other. It's usually advised to get a 2:1 ratio of K to Na.

I realized I was craving salt a lot of the time, and had a tendency to heavily salt most everything. I also have almost no taste for sugary stuff, which is probably related. I've always been this way. Not peaty, lol.
According to Chris Moggerjohn[1] it'd also do good to limit fructose and sucrose intake, which is probably why I naturally avoid fruits in the first place.
Anyway I decided to try upping my potassium intake, through potassium chloride in water, some limited fruits, and milk, and, lo and behold, my urine stopped being foamy right away.

Potatoes are also rich in potassium, I should use them. Light beer is probably a good substitute to water as it's naturally rich in K, and generally low in Na.

It's been 2 days and no foamy urine at all so far. I'm of course not saying electrolyte imbalance is the only reason for a foamy urine, but it's a marker I've been tracking for some time, and the correlation is very clear to me now, so it might be a factor.

Will keep you posted.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmLtfFm_Jm4

Hello kidniggers,

This place is reserved for those of us whose kidneys are suffering, one way or another. As modernity strips us of our collective identity, we might as well embrass any possible substitute, including a new idea of ourselves through our pains and tribulations: yes, our defective kidneys is who we are! This is our thread, our stories!

Okay this is fucked up but yeah you get the idea.

Hello everyone,

I'd like to testify about my experience with foamy urine, and its meaning.

I think that quick heuristics like urine look or pH can be a great tool in a the self-experimenter's toolkit. Body temp, skin condition, urine, etc. should be an overall easy way to get a good picture of one's metabolism.

I've always had foamy urine, especially recently. Like, constant soap-like foam forming whenever I pee, at all time of the day.
I was born with a slightly deficient kidney and it seems that, in fact, I have had a slight hypokalemia for some time (maybe like a year), which is probably related. Just 2mg under the low reference range.
For those who don't know, sodium and potassium basically works in tandem, the one helping to process the other. It's usually advised to get a 2:1 ratio of K to Na.

I realized I was craving salt a lot of the time, and had a tendency to heavily salt most everything. I also have almost no taste for sugary stuff, which is probably related. I've always been this way. Not peaty, lol.
According to Chris Moggerjohn it'd also do good to limit fructose and sucrose intake, which is probably why I naturally avoid fruits in the first place.
Anyway I decided to try upping my potassium intake, through potassium chloride in water, some limited fruits, and milk, and, lo and behold, my urine stopped being foamy right away. Potatoes are also rich in potassium, I should use them.

It's been 2 days and no foamy urine at all so far. I'm of course not saying electrolyte imbalance is the only reason for a foamy urine, but it's a marker I've been tracking for some time, and the correlation is very clear to me now, so it might be a factor.

Will keep you posted.

Excellent Twitter thread by @chudlord on androsterone, confirming the apparent pheromones-like effect of this byproduct of testosterone: https://twitter.com/PunishedChudy/status/1787473517916619126

"Traditionally, truffles have been used as an effective sexual enhancer due to their constituent of androstenol as a steroidal pheromone [101, 102]. While truffle hunting, animals might recognize the odor of this chemical marker. Androstenol was also found in the underarm perspiration of men and urine of women and increased sexual attractiveness higher [11, 102]. The alcoholic extract of T. boudieri increased the levels of luteinizing hormone and testosterone significantly in rats and consequently possessed the aphrodisiac activity owing to its androgen enhancing properties [103]. However, Al-Damegh demonstrated that the androgenic property of truffles was more related to psychological effect because the flavonoids in truffles were present in the form of glycosides, which act as antagonists for male sex hormones [102]."
Potentials of truffles in nutritional and medicinal applications: a review [https://doi.org/10.1186%2Fs40694-020-00097-x]

Are you ready to trufflemaxx ?

@CO3 It's MF for motherfucker.

Great video by Mike as usual!

Dryness of lips, mouth and nose (especially in the corners of the mouth) is associated with riboflavin deficiency. Just a wild guess.

Are you eating organ meats ?
PS: never mind hadn't read your last line lol.

Too much liver certainly can be too much. How much are we talking about?