Posts made by Jennifer

@Insomniac, you’re welcome.

My go-tos are white chocolate covered dates, fruit leather, freeze-dried fruit, pickled cucumbers and cheese crisps (baked cheese), but there’s also potato and masa chips fried in coconut oil or tallow, pork rinds and jerky.

@Insomniac, you can add some cocoa powder to tint it. I buy a mineral sunscreen from Suntribe and they offer it in original white and a tinted version called mud tint that contains cocoa powder.

@Androbolic, do you know what your temp and pulse rate average first thing in the morning and 20–30 minutes after you eat? Having rid yourself of serious depression and anxiety, it sounds like you improved your thyroid function, but given your lack of joy and poor energy levels, assuming your life overall is good and your food/caloric intake is adequate for your body’s needs, your thyroid may still need some improving.

@Androbolic, does it feel like adrenaline? Despite overheating, do you ever have cold extremities (feet, hands, nose and ears) and/or an urgency to pee, especially during the night?

@leon-damjanov, it sounds like you run on stress hormones to compensate for poor thyroid function. Adrenaline raises temps and lowers TSH, giving the false impression that thyroid function is good. The biggest give away to me are cold extremities. Adrenaline cuts off circulation to extremities to keep vital organs warm when thyroid function is poor. The stress of darkness and fasting at night may be triggering adrenaline, causing your temp to be normal in the morning, while eating throughout the day lowers adrenaline, resulting in lower temps and revealing what your actual thyroid function is. Regarding weight, I’m thin, consume a lot of calories for my size and activity level, and have a history of running on adrenaline due to a weak thyroid. Ray Peat talked about people like us whose hypothyroidism often goes untreated because we aren’t overweight.

Good luck, @risingfire. I’m still working my way up to an optimal thyroid dose but once I do, I’ll be sure to try progesterone transdermally.

Great suggestion, @risingfire. Thank you.

@sneedful said in Cold seasons - adjustments in nutrition:

sometime i eat like half a box of chocolates

Jeanne Calment would be proud of you.

The foods I consume don’t change, only how I consume them and the amount I consume. Living in a cold, mountainous region, I find I require more calories in winter, and instead of consuming most of my food raw like I do in summer, I consume most of it cooked so, for example, my diet is fruit-based and I consume more of my fruit as warm cider and warm compôtes. These foods make me so warm, I shovel snow in a t-shirt and flip flops.

Hi @Aniciete! It’s nice to see you here. I haven’t had dairy since mid August, only because I stopped craving all forms except for raw milk and due to family obligations, I haven’t had time to make weekly trips to the farm, however, I’ll be able to starting next month. In the meantime, I’ve been averaging 4 eggs daily, mainly in the form of Cantonese-style omelettes (eggs, mung bean sprouts, onions, garlic, coconut aminos and salt) and the rest of my diet is predominantly fruit, mainly spiced cider (Fuji apples with cinnamon and vanilla bean) and ripe bananas in the form of flourless banana crêpes (bananas, eggs, vanilla bean and salt) and nice cream (bananas, coconut water and coconut cream)—I average 8 XL bananas daily. A typical day of eating for me is banana crêpes and cider for breakfast, an omelette, black mulberry juice and nice cream for lunch and for dinner, spaghetti squash fritters topped with avocado, a pickle, cider and nice cream. I feel good, but lately I’ve been craving milk with hot dogs and beef teriyaki so I’m looking forward to reintroducing them next month.

You’re welcome, @Serotoninskeptic.

@risingfire said in Saturee Body Cream + Red Light for stretch marks:

@Jennifer I was just thinking about something. So let's say we were to adhere to Ray's advice and eat only milk, eggs and oysters for a few days. We were missing one important element - highly elevated progesterone from pregnancy. Now as a male, I don't like taking progesterone because it seems to have negative effects on my body but considering if we took progesterone with the suggested diet it might remove the stretch marks. I'm going to give it a shot next week.

I think it’s worth a shot. I used Progest-E with the above diet, but my body responds poorly to progesterone supplementation when not supplementing thyroid so that may have been a factor.

@Serotoninskeptic said in Saturee Body Cream + Red Light for stretch marks:

@Jennifer I have a couple on my back from teenage years that dissapeared almost completely as i grew up

Interesting. I grew fast as a child, but only developed stretch marks after my thyroid crashed in my 20s. I just went to take a picture of them for reference and the few I had on my right side are gone now and the couple I still have on my left side I struggled to find. They don’t even show up in the pics. The only thing I can think of that changed since I inspected them last (this past August) is my diet. It’s still fruit-based, but I’ve been having a lot more savory fruits like avocados, black olives, heirloom tomatoes and pickled cucumbers, some veggies—mung bean sprouts and tender greens, mainly iceberg lettuce—and animal protein coming strictly from eggs.

@Serotoninskeptic, yeah, not for some of us. My diet was dairy, shellfish, eggs and collagen—I had a bowl of gelatinous broth daily—and yet the stretch marks remained. In fairness, they weren’t colored but going by Ray’s account of his cousin’s stretch marks, it sounds like hers disappeared completely.

@Serotoninskeptic, yeah, it seems likely. I’ve read that it’s common to get stretch marks with a large increase and decrease in weight, especially when it happens quickly. I was weight restored within 2-3 months of changing my diet and I noticed the stretch marks not long after.

@Serotoninskeptic, how long have you been at your current weight? I developed the stretch marks after I was weight restored, and was weight restored for at least 7 years and on thyroid a couple of years before they faded. That’s why I think time may be involved. And just a warning since you’re a man and some might find it too feminine for their liking—the monoï oil smells of gardenias.

@Serotoninskeptic said in Saturee Body Cream + Red Light for stretch marks:

Hi im looking for advice for fading stretch marks. Ive had great experience in the past using coconut oil/cocoa butter and vitamin e oil and red light. Some more stretch marks have recently appeared though around my biceps I think from building muscle too fast. I thought saturee cream would be good for stretch marks since it has coconut oil/vitamin e/naringenin/niacinamide. Anyone ever try this?

I suspect thyroid and time help, since the thyroid is the main gland involved in skin/connective tissue health. I’ve been using monoï oil (Tahitian gardenias macerated in coconut oil with added vitamin E) as my after shower body oil and consuming naringenin and B3 rich foods for years now, but it wasn’t until I had been on thyroid for a couple of years that the few stretch marks I developed on my hips when I was severely underweight faded. They’re barely visible now.

The molestation I experienced began around age 5 and went on for years. I remember in great detail what happened, what I was thinking while it was happening, but it doesn’t carry with it the energetic weight it used to. I feel nothing now when I think of it and the one who abused me. I’m not angry, resentful, distrustful of all people. I am, however, more aware of the read I get on people, sensing their energy, and I trust my instincts. I can share in detail an example if anyone thinks it would be beneficial to the discussion, but I’ve avoided being assaulted as an adult many times because I don’t write my feelings/intuition off as an unwarranted side-effect of being abused, something that happens far too often because of common beliefs, and assumptions made, about women who have suffered abuse. Jokes about women with “daddy issues” comes to mind.

My family life was and still is challenging, but that’s life. There will always be challenges in relationships, however, the difference now is how I respond to them. Now I’m honest about my feelings—for better or worse, I don’t hold back—and I’m able to let harmful relationships go. I thought for sure that I was going to take my “shameful” secret with me to my grave and would forever fear my words, associating them with death because I grew up with a mother who was suicidal and understandably she was easily triggered, but my filter broke when my spine collapsed in my late 20s and my truth came out. The physical pain of the disease and subsequent injury were unimaginable, but I know it happened for me, and for those I have helped because of it.

You’re welcome, @Mossy.