Dandruff or scalp irritation? Try BLOO.
@risingfire
What ratio progesterone to dht did you use? I find dht a bit adrenergic at times(I’ve had it raise blood pressure when taking too much). Progesterone would surely be the best complement (antagonizer of this effect) and I was thinking around a 1:5 dht:progesterone ratio but never really settled on one.
I think this study explains the blood pressure effect of supraphysiological dht.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2681414/
@Mauritio
Yep, I had repeatedly read Ray or others mentioning retinol as necessary for steroid synthesis, but I could never find the mechanism until recently.
Niacinamide can raise homocysteine too. There are other valid criticisms of niacin vs niacinamide, but this isn’t one of them.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27567458/
“The level of 3-h plasma nicotinamide, N1-methylnicotinamide, homocysteine, the urinary excretion of N1-methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide and pulse pressure (PP) in the NM group was 221%, 3972%, 61%, 1728% and 21.2% higher than that of the control group (P < 0.01, except homocysteine and PP P < 0.05), while the 3-h plasma betaine, normetanephrine and metanephrine level in the NM group was 24.4%, 9.4% and 11.7% lower (P < 0.05, except betaine P < 0.01), without significant difference in choline levels. Similar but less pronounced changes were observed in the NA group, with a lower level of 3-h plasma N1-methylnicotinamide (1.90 ± 0.20 μmol/l vs. 3.62 ± 0.27 μmol/l, P < 0.01) and homocysteine (12.85 ± 1.39 μmol/l vs. 18.08 ± 1.02 μmol/l, P < 0.05) but a higher level of betaine (27.44 ± 0.71 μmol/l vs. 23.52 ± 0.61 μmol/l, P < 0.05) than that of the NM group.”
@Verdad
Probably not immediately as he tries to disguise the fact that he bans dissenters. It will just make you an auto ban if you complain about the forum or any of his questionable choices.
Got banned before I could post this
https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC1165941&blobtype=pdf
“Earlier nutritional work had shown that vitamin A deficiency affects the reproductive processes of both male and female rats (Moore, 1957). Later sustained work by Grangaud and his colleagues (Grangaud et al., 1969) with whole living animals and with isolated enzyme systems from adrenals has produced extensive evidence showing that normal synthesis of steroid hormones in male and female rats is dependent on the Vitamin A nutritional status of the animals…..We have further investigated the effect of vitamin A deficiency on steroidogenesis in rat tissues and report here that even at the mild stage of the deficiency the activity of yet another enzyme, the cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme (cholesterolC(20)-C(22)desmolase), is significantly decreased in the ovaries and testes this becoming more pronounced with the progress of the deficiency”
Results:
Wasn’t sure how to add pictures, so I’ll summarize. Compared to the control group, the mild deficiency group had:
acute deficiency group had:
Mild deficiency group after 30 days of retinyl acetate supplementation had:
Just to clarify, cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme converts cholesterol to pregnenolone
Gentian violet is an old treatment used for thrush in babies and breastfeeding mothers. Supposedly particularly effective for thrush but the downsides include purple staining of the mouth/tongue for at least a few days and some concerns for safety were raised somewhat recently, but not sure how legitimate they are.
https://zero.sci-hub.st/4069/234469f8ed59d7f63c81faee58c9b3bc/faber1925.pdf?download=true